The cold of winter led to a shift indoors for sports with separate girls’ and boys’ basketball teams.  Some great athletes played at Friends School Mullica Hill, but the sports programs were about opportunity for anyone interested in playing and being part of a team.  Parent Chris Brown remembered how a few years earlier the School’s basketball program had helped his son, William Vega-Brown,...

The busy Fall also included sports, such as soccer and field hockey as well as the School’s special take on holidays such as Halloween and Thanksgiving.  Everyone enjoyed the fun and crazy costumes of Halloween and were excited to see what Teacher Glenn would be wearing this year. Studying and learning about people in the rest of the world has long been a part of the curriculum at the School,...

One of the great highlights of the Fall in 2006, as it had been since the 1970s, was the Fall Festival (originally called the Fall Village Fair).  Thanks to volunteering parents and staff, the Festival that year was again full of games, vendors, returning alumni, community visitors, and children playing.  Patti Sanderson, a teacher and a parent of alumni, remembered that “it was a community...