Quaker Schools - period ended 10.1.2006

Quaker Schools/Service/Westtown/*/Why I volunteer/USA Weekend/New York/NY/USA/15-Sep-06//... When I was in the eighth grade, a man named John Hoffman from the Albert G. Oliver Program came to my school. After talking with me, he asked if I had ever considered going to boarding school. I always believed that's where you went if you were bad or if your family didn't love you. But sure enough, one year later, I was packing my stuff and heading to Westtown, a Quaker boarding school in southeastern Pennsylvania. Westtown wasn't exactly where you'd expect to find someone like me, but as it turned out, I spent some of the best years of my life there and learned not what to think but how to think.. ...

Quaker Schools/International Conflict/Ramallah Friends School/Ajloumy, Joyce/Palestinians Hit Out as Israel Tightens visa controls/Financial Times/London/England/UK/15-Sep-06//…In the meantime, uncertainty and worry are affecting thousands, such as Joyce Ajloumy, director of the Friends' School in Ramallah, owned by US Quakers. Six of the
school's teachers are US citizens and the school has delayed hiring any more foreign passport holders.

"Coming here to teach is becoming very problematic because of the threat to entry," says Ms Ajloumy, herself a US citizen.

"In the last year, some of our staff only got two-week visas, forcing them to leave early, which is disrupting and distressing to the staff and pupils." ….

Quaker Schools/Scattergood Friends School/Scattergood, Amy/Holiday menu of discovery/Los Angeles Times/Los Angeles/CA/USA/19-Sep-06//... to uphold. And I wasn't familiar with any of them: I grew up in Tornado Alley, in a Quaker boarding school in northern Iowa. But ...

Quaker Schools/Quaker History/Thomson, Charles/Saturday's Harriton Fair: Day off from modern times for old .../Ardmore Main Line Times/Ardmore/PA/USA/28-Sep-06//... In 1774, through marriage to Harrison's daughter Hannah, it came into the hands of Charles Thomson, a scholar and leader of Philadelphia's Quaker schools, who ...

Quaker Schools/Protest///This much I know/The Observer/London/England/UK/1-Oct-06//... I liked the Quakers when I met them during the Greenham Common protests. My most influential headmistress was a Quaker. I didn't know what the hell that meant, but I knew I liked her. When I was searching for a sort of spiritual home later in my life, it felt like a natural fit. ...

Seminary/Wedding//Amanda Peet Gets Married/People Magazine/New York/NY/USA/1-Oct-06//... The bride and groom exchanged vows in a ceremony held at the actress's alma mater, Friends Seminary, a Quaker school founded in 1786. ...

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Quaker Schools/Friends School of Atlanta/Pop quiz! Guess who’s getting sent to the principal’s office?/TheStorygroup.com/Decatur/GA/USA/21-Sep-06//…Although the new school year is now underway, it is not too late for students and their parents to consider the Friends School of Atlanta (FSA). The admissions process is ongoing, and a number of special opportunities to learn about the school’s academic program, its staff and students are coming up.

Representatives from the school will be on hand at the following community events to provide information and answer questions: The 2006 Oakhurst Arts & Music Festival on Saturday, October 14, the Candler Park FallFest on Sunday, October 15, and Avondale Estates’ AutumnFest on Saturday, October 21.

In addition, the public is invited to join the FSA community for Quaker Education Night on Wednesday, October 25 at the school, at 121 Sams Street in Decatur. The program will include a discussion on how “privilege,” both subtle and overt, impacts our schools and our society. The time is 7:00 p.m. For more information, call 404-373-8746.

Friends School of Atlanta serves students in grades pre-K-8. Its mission is to provide a challenging academic program in a diverse environment, drawing on the Quaker values of truth, simplicity, community, equality, and peace. ….

Quaker Schools/Environment/Green Buildings/Sidwell Friends/New Environmentally Friendly School Opens In Northwest DC/NBC 4.com/Washington/DC/USA/26-Sep-06//Sidwell Friends has taken a tenant of its Quaker faith, to be stewards of the Earth, and created a school that treads lightly on our planet. ...

Quaker Schools/Consensus/Violence//The I’m-Not-Ugly American/New York Times/New York/NY/USA/2-Sep-06//... I went so far as to veto one of my teenage son’s T-shirt choices, an item from his array of Quaker-school stuff, of all things. ...

Quaker Schools/Connecticut Friends School/Schemp, Woody/Dansereau, Mark/Quaker meeting house began on D-Day/Wilton Villager/Wilton/CT/USA/29-Sep-06//... in the Wilton Meeting House on New Canaan Road date back to the 1700s, the century after English Dissenter George Fox established the Quaker ideals still ...

Quaker Schools/Bootham///Head girl Lauren follows in dad’s footsteps/York Press/York/England/UK/25-Sep-06//... WHEN Lauren Ashby was appointed head girl at York's Bootham School, she was maintaining a family tradition.

For her father, Alan, was head boy at the same school more than 30 years ago.

Today, the father and daughter spoke of the differences between their two spells at the Quaker independent school as Head Reeve, as the position is known at the school. ...