The story of Friends School Mullica Hill includes many exceptional people but few as iconic as Hanshi Deshbandhu. Somehow fate brought Hanshi, a woman with an extraordinary life that includes meeting Gandhi twice while growing up in India, to center her career at this small pre-kindergarten through eighth grade school. Quakers, whose values infuse the […]

https://youtu.be/EoagI1uO_q4 In the video, students of all ages gave their unscripted responses to the question, “What does it mean to be a Quaker school?” This video was produced for the Coffee and Conversation series discussion “Quakerism 101,” delivered by Head of School Matthew Bradley last week. From the students’ perspective some clear themes emerge: peace, […]

by Teacher Peter Manzelmann Can you feel it?  They are beginning their crawl!  Just a few miles to our west and south, something simply amazing is beginning to unfurl.  Knowing that they are coming makes me almost hear them making their way along the bottom of the Delaware River! The “they” are horseshoe crabs.  We […]