50th Timeline: 1971 – First Summer School Opens
A previous post discussed Trustees and others working hard to overcome the early challenges of finding funds to found and start the new school. Despite accomplishing so much, finances continued to be desperately tight in the early 1970s. The Board, parents, and administrators employed a wide variety of approaches to raise more money. In 1971, a summer school opened for the first time. Such a...
Friends School Announces New Board of Trustees Member
Friends School Mullica Hill, a pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade independent Quaker school in Mullica Hill, is pleased to announce the appointment of Sydney Burns ’06 to its Board of Trustees. Sydney is an Associate Attorney in the Domestic Relations department at Prince Lobel Tye, LLP, a Boston, Massachusetts law firm. As a 2006 Friends School Mullica Hill graduate, and a 2010 graduate of...
50th Timeline: June 1971 – Jonathan Knisely Wins the 44th Scripps National Spelling Bee
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 School student and had moved to Mullica Hill with his class, won the 44th Scripps...
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