The 1970s were a period of ups and downs for the Friends School of Gloucester County (not yet called Friends School Mullica Hill).  One of the highs came early in the decade when one of their students won the 44th Scripps National Spelling Bee!  On June 10, Jonathan Knisely, who had begun at Woodbury Friends […]

The great drama of the summer of 1970 discussed in the last post left the Board, the staff, and parent volunteers exhausted but also exultant as they opened School that Fall.  On September 13th, Friends School Mullica Hill opened its first year as a truly independent school.  There were 289 enrolled students from 3-year old […]

The decision to separate from Woodbury described in the last post led to an explosion of activity in the summer of 1970.  Charles Francis Adams, descendant of two Presidents and the ambassador to Great Britain during the 1860s, wrote that during the Civil War he did every day something that would have been, before the […]