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 children to 12th graders.  Tuition ranged from $475 in Pre-Kindergarten...

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 war, the most important act of his year.  This may have been what it felt like...

The year of two campuses described in the last post ended sourly for some.  Tensions between those working on expanding the School and those in Woodbury Monthly Meeting developed during the year and led to a dramatic meeting of the Friends School Corporation and the Woodbury Friends School Committee on May 3, 1970.  At that difficult Meeting, it was agreed that the relationship could not...