In 2017, Beth Reaves confided to the Board that she had been approached by another school with an offer that she could not turn down, the Headship of a school in Washington D.C. that was especially designed to educate African American girls. With mixed emotions, the Board bade her best wishes. In addition to the Costa Rica trip and the “Building Greatness” campaign, Beth had helped oversee the...

Part of reestablishing the Costa Rica trip was fundraising so that all 8th graders, regardless of their financial situation, could afford to go on the trip. Beth included the trip into a wide array of campus improvements that need donor support and called the program, “Building Greatness.” This was the first major gift campaign for campus construction since the building of the Hanshi Deshbandhu...

One of Beth Reaves’s initiatives was to reinstate an earlier tradition of international field trips. Beth recalled that “Friends School has always been very big on out of classroom experiences for students, allowing them to have time outside off campus to really experience the outdoors and just take in all that the world has to offer. So here I was thinking that it would be great for our 8th...