Friends School Mullica Hill | Mullica Hill, New Jersey

We are an independent Quaker school empowering our students with a joyful, holistic, values-based education to last a lifetime. Through the Quaker guiding testimonies of Community, Peace, Simplicity, Integrity, Equality, and Stewardship, we support all to achieve their full potential and share their natural gifts with the world.

To nourish the development of the whole child, our curriculum includes musical, artistic, and physical education, along with classes in technology, science, and Spanish from Pre-K through 8th grade.

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50th Timeline: 1982 – The Opening of the Noel-Baker Building

Feb 28, 2020

In the last entry, we discussed the creation of the Middle School under the leadership of Alex Horsley and Hanshi Deshbandhu. While this was one of the most important and long-lasting of his achievements, Horsley himself said that the greatest accomplishment during his tenure was the “construction of the Noel-Baker Building.” Board Clerk Dorothy Kramme and Margaret Priest coordinated the...

50th Timeline: Spring 1982 – Creating the Middle School

Feb 21, 2020

In the last entry we discussed the appointment of a new Head of School, Alex Horsley. One of his early initiatives was to task Hanshi Deshbandhu with the creation of a separate Middle School. Up to this point in time, students had either been in the Lower School (up to 6th grade) or in the Upper School (7th to 12th grades). Horsley and Deshbandhu recognized that the challenges of the “middle”...

50th Timeline: 1981 – Alex Horsley Becomes Third Head of School

Feb 14, 2020

After a long search for a new Head of School, the Board chose English-born Quaker, Alex Horsley. This was the beginning of a truly new era for the School. Many of the founders had departed in one fashion or another, and the School’s enrollment had been declining steadily. The new Head of School had to find a way to increase enrollment and turn things around. In a message at the end of his...