Robert C. Pingpank
Miscellaneous

Newspaper Clippings

• "Announce Thrift Essay Winners" (Waterbury Republican-American, 1951)
• "Trinity ROTC Names Officers" (Hartford Courant, 1958)
• "R.O.T.C." Thomaston Express (Sept. 11, 1958)
• "Thomaston" (Hartford Courant, 1958)
• Appointment to Thomaston High School Faculty (1959)
• "Education Assn. Names Officers, Six Committees" (Hartford Courant, 1960)
• "Teachers Study Plan For Merit Pay System" (Hartford Courant, 1961)
• "Symposium Scheduled at High School" (Hartford Courant, 1961)
• "Thomaston High Student Council Holds Assembly" (Hartford Courant, 1961)
• "Tenure Given To Teachers by School Board" (Hartford Courant, 1962)
• "Two New Teachers Are Hired" (Hartford Courant, 1962)
• "Mathematics Workshop Is Planned for Parents" (Hartford Courant, 1963)
• "50 Signed For School Workshop" (Hartford Courant, 1963)
• "Yaffe Recommends New Heads" (Hartford Courant, 1967)
• "Final Arrangements Completed for Festival" (Hartford Courant, 1967)
• "High School Teacher Selected For Award" (Hartford Courant, 1973)
• "Officers, Appointments Names by Association" (Hartford Courant, 1970)
• "Board To Mull Report On Teaching Approach" (Hartford Courant, 1973)
• "School Board To Get Reports" (Hartford Courant, 1974)
• "Educators Celebrate 25 Years of Teaching" (Thomaston Express, 1986)
• “Church Opens Its Arms to Gay” (Palm Beach Post, 2002)
• “We Are Not An ‘Issue’ ...” (The Net, 2003)
• “BBC Visits Palm Beach Integrity .....” (Independent Community News, 2004)
• “After 49 ½ Years .....” (Sun Sentinel, 2005)
• “Memories, Celebration Mingle ....” (Palm Beach Post, 2005)
• “Integrity Fellowship ...” (Sun Sentinel, 2005)
• SouthFlorida Blade (Jan. 9, 2009)
• "Compass Inc. Supporters ...." (Palm Beach Daily News, 2009)
• Richard Nolan, Robert Pingpank (New York Times, June 7, 2009)

Supportive Letters

• From a carbon copy by Michael Kita, a junior administrator, when RCP decided to leave Cheshire Academy at the end of the school year (1967). [A bizarre, new Head Master, with no experience in education and later fired by the trustees, resulted in many faculty members resigning. As it turned out - so much for the better - RCP returned to Thomaston High School as Head of the Mathematics Department and remained until his 1994 retirement.]
• From Superintendent of Schools, Thomaston High School (1969)
• Thomaston High School (1983)
• From Principal, Thomaston High School (1986)
• From Principal, Thomaston High School (1990)
• From Math Dept. Head, Mattatuck Community College , CT (1990)
• From the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop (1995)
• Trinity College Dean Frank G. Kirkpatrick (2005)
• South Florida Blade "Gay Couple, Palm Beach Post Deserve Praise" (Sept. 20, 2007)
• from Bishop Robinson (May, 2009)

Links

• Parade Photos (IntegrityPalmBeach.org, 2005)
• Eucharistic Minister, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Lake Worth, FL
• Rotary Club of Thomaston, CT (date uncertain)
• Marriage Application (March, 2009)
• PFLAG/Hartford Newsletter (May/June 2009)

R.O.T.C.

• R.O.T.C. Summer 1958
• Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps Appointment (1958)
• Summer Training Program Completion (1958)
• Marksmanship Certificate

Odds and Ends

• Admissions Letter To Trinity College
• Scholarship Award, Trinity College (when annual tuition was $650.00)
• Teacher's Initial Contract (1959)
• Thomaston High School Yearbook Dedication (1965)
• Notice (partial), Thomaston High School (1994)
• Citation At Retirement (1994)
• ACLU Annual Report [see page 18] (2006)
• Love Makes A Family (June 2009)
• Census 2010
• From the Trinity College website (August 2010)

Acknowledgements