Fall/Winter 2010 - Pingry School

New Faculty
and Staff
Carter Marsh
Abbott joins
Pingry to teach
World History
9 and 10 and
coach girls’
lacrosse. She
earned an A.B.
in history cum laude from Princeton
University (where she captained
the lacrosse team, was a member
of a national championship team,
and was a two-time first-team
All-American) and an Ed.M. from
Harvard’s Graduate School of
Education. Ms. Abbott previously
taught and coached at Suffield
Academy in Connecticut and is an
assistant coach for U.S. Lacrosse’s
U-19 Women’s National Team. Her
sister Ashley Marsh Pertsemlidis
graduated from Pingry in 1989.
The Alumni
Office has
welcomed
Brooke Alper
as Associate
Director of
Alumni
Relations and
Annual Giving. She previously worked
in ticket sales for the New Jersey Nets
and for the past five years with the
New Jersey Devils. Ms. Alper received
her B.A. from Syracuse University and
helps raise money for the American
Heart Association.
In the Middle
School, Nicole
Angioletti
joins the math
faculty and will
be teaching
Algebra I to students
in Grade
6 and Form II and coaching girls’ tennis.
Ms. Angioletti, who previously
taught at Theodore Schor Middle
School in Piscataway, New Jersey,
earned a B.S. in architectural studies
and an M.B.A. from Philadelphia
University, where she also served as
an operations management tutor.
Drama teacher
Jane Asch
P ’04, whose
sets and costume
and makeup
design have
been integral
to Pingry’s
drama performances for six years,
has moved into a full-time position
as Theater Production Designer and
Manager, and she is teaching Art
Fundamentals. Before coming to
Pingry, Ms. Asch worked professionally
in New York City as a scenic artist
and stage designer. She earned her
bachelor’s degree cum laude in drama
from Washington University in St.
Louis and her master’s in studio art
from New York University.
Amy (Gibson)
Cooperman ’90
has joined
the College
Counseling and
Upper School
offices part-time.
She earned her
B.A. from Hamilton College, with a
double major in English and sociology,
and has spent her career in advertising
and marketing, most recently having
been a senior brand manager at L’Oreal.
Also joining the
Middle School,
to teach History
7, is Katherine
Dlesk. Ms.
Dlesk earned
her B.A. in history
at Yale
University, where she captained the
track and field team and was a member
of Proof of the Pudding, a student-run
a cappella singing group.
Prior to Pingry, she taught at The
Village School in Houston, Texas.
Returning to the United States from
a year teaching English at Fenyang
High School in China, Frank Dolce
is teaching Level I and II Mandarin
Chinese. Mr.
Dolce graduated
from Carleton
College with a
bachelor’s in
psychology and
a language certificate
for mastery
of Chinese language. He is also
coaching Middle School boys’ soccer
and JV basketball.
Brad Fechter ’05,
who served as an
assistant coach
with the boys’
soccer team in
the fall of 2009,
has returned to
Pingry as the
new permanent substitute at the
Martinsville Campus. Mr. Fechter
spent the past year working in sales
and marketing and as a field technician
with Enviroscapes, an environmental
restoration firm based in
Monmouth Junction. He earned his
bachelor’s degree in psychology from
Princeton University, where he was a
member of the men’s soccer team. In
addition to his permanent substitute
and coaching duties, Mr. Fechter is
helping lead the peer leadership program.
In the athletics
department,
Meredith
Finkelstein,
who joined
Pingry in the
spring of 2010
as an assistant
girls’ lacrosse coach, is a new
Assistant Director of Athletics. She
earned a B.S. in family studies and a
B.A. in sociology from the University
of Maryland at College Park, where
she won four national championships
as a member of the women’s lacrosse
team and captained the team during
her senior year. Previously, Ms.
Finkelstein worked for seven years at
The Division of Youth and Family
Services in Newark, New Jersey.
Three of her siblings are Pingry
alumni—Tom Egan ’89, Jen (Egan)
Jonsson ’90, and Carey Egan ’92.
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