About

This site's contributing organization is the Pilgrim-History Club. This site's title is A Patriot's History of Pilgrim High School.¹ This site's publisher is the Pilgrim-History Club. This site was created using Google Sites. MLA 8th edition, APA 7th edition, and Chicago Author-Date 17th edition-format citations of this site, excluding the URL, are provided below this text. Email pilgrimhistoryclub@gmail.com to ask questions or make remarks about this site or the Pilgrim-History Club.

We are the Pilgrim-History Club. The Pilgrim-History Club is a student-run club founded in May 2025 at Pilgrim High School. Only students enrolled at Pilgrim are club members. Regarding the club's leadership positions, there is a student director, who may be one or two students depending on the year, and a faculty advisor. Under the "Pilgrim-History Club Student-Members" heading, below the next paragraph, is a list of the club's current student-members, but no particular members take credit for any of this site's provisions. 

To join the Pilgrim-History Club, either (1) email pilgrimhistoryclub@gmail.com to inform us that you want to join, or (2) attend a Pilgrim-History Club meeting no later than when the meeting starts to inform us that you want to join. Should you email to inform us that you want to join, expect a speedy response that informs you of when, where, and for how long the next club meeting is, at which we'll be expecting to welcome you. The Pilgrim-History Club usually meets every Wednesday from 2:00-2:45 p.m. in either Pilgrim's library or room 605.

• Daniel Bagian
• Autumn Cardarelli
• Harry Castillo Solares
• Lucas Falandys
• Jane Fontaine
• Sophie Gendreau
• Emma Handfield
• Violet Konicki
• Andres Maldonado
• William McColl
• Cole Menning
• Isabella Monroe
• Gianna Santilli
• Sean Skinnard
• Lily Smiley

1. Preservation

Our first goal is to ensure that the provisions of the media in Pilgrim High School's current/old building that document Pilgrim's history or contemporary developments, which will become part of its history, are not lost when Pilgrim's current building is demolished after its new building is built. These media include the yearbooks in the library of Pilgrim's current building, championship banners in the gymnasium of Pilgrim's current building, and showcases throughout Pilgrim's current building. This preservation idea was that of the Pilgrim-History Club's faculty advisor, Mr. Michael Costello, who teaches social studies at Pilgrim, and it was primarily upon this idea that the Pilgrim-History Club was founded.

2. Convenience

Our second goal is for one to be able to find as much as possible about Pilgrim's history in only one place, that place being this site. We have scoured the many different places in which information about Pilgrim's history could be found so that one who is curious about Pilgrim's history does not have to.

3. Pride

Our third goal is to foster school pride, mainly due to a lack thereof. That is, the Pilgrim-History Club member writing this has heard too many times, from other students who attend Pilgrim, "I hate Pilgrim kids," and "I hate the teachers here." After hearing these comments, the first thing that came to mind for the Pilgrim-History Club member writing this was, Well, if you hate Pilgrim kids or teachers, you'd probably hate the kids or teachers at any suburban public high school in Rhode Island. But more importantly, the Pilgrim-History Club member writing this sought to rectify those other Pilgrim students' lack of school pride by constructing a site that preserves the history that all Pilgrim students, teachers, and student-support workers share, a common characteristic over which they can bond.