Quaker Schools - period ended 11.1.2006

Quaker Schools/San Francisco Friends School/Levi’s site to become school/Examiner.com/San Francisco/CA/USA/1-Nov-06//The century-old former Levi Strauss & Co. factory is slated to open as The City’s only Quaker school in the fall of 2008. The ...

Quaker Schools/Religious Diversity/Sidwell Friends School/Initiative aims to nurture Jewish life at private schools/Washington Jewish Week/Washington/DC/USA/26-Oct-06//... As one example, Ellis Turner, associate head of Sidwell Friends School in Bethesda and the District, said that a Jewish culture club had been in existence at the Quaker institution for a number of years, noting the group's sukkah was still up in the back of the building. Turner said he could not comment on TCI because he was not yet familiar with the group. ...

Quaker Schools/Public Schools/United Nations/Earlham College/High school club a model of diplomacy/Indian Hill Journal/Indian Hill/OH/USA/27-Oct-06//... Columbus in December for a mock United Nations General Assembly meeting, where it drafts a mock resolution; and a second to Earlam College, a Quaker school in ...

Quaker Schools/Public Schools//Get The Government Out Of Private Life/Evening Bulletin/Philadelphia/PA/USA/31-Oct-06//... Quaker-run schools in Pennsylvania, for example, have little tolerance for behavior that many schools accept as just boys being boys. ...

Quaker Schools/Prep School/Abington Friends School/He aims to educate 'whole child'/Arizona Daily Star/Tucson/AZ/USA/27-Oct-06//... Bedrick came here from Philadelphia, where he was head of school at the Abington Friends School, a Quaker college-preparatory school. ...

Quaker Schools/Pennsylvania//School notes/Arizona Daily Star/Phoenix/AZ/USA/19-Oct-06//... After almost a year without a permanent headmaster, the school hired Barry Bedrick.
Previously, Bedrick worked at a Quaker school in Pennsylvania.. ...

Quaker Schools/Peace Activities/Wilmington College/Jones, T. Canby/Christian Scholar to Speak at Union November 6 and 7/Union College News/Barbourville/KY`/USA/30-Oct-06//... Following his Quaker pacifist convictions, Jones spent two and a half years of World War II in a Civilian Service labor camp as a conscientious objector. ...

Quaker Schools/Liberal/Solid Academics/Lox, Stock and Barrel/PW-Philadelphia Weekly/Philadelphia/PA/USA/31-Oct-06//..All the Jewish kids at my Quaker high school were there because, aside from the solid academics, Quaker values of pacifism and advocacy for the underdog fit in with our parents'—and synagogues'—political values. When I went to Oberlin and met Miri Navasky, the daughter of Nation founder Victor Navasky, it was like meeting a celebrity. ….

Quaker Schools/Integrity/Honesty/Haverford College/Culture of trust will stymie dishonesty/Yale Daily News/New Haven/CT/USA/25-Oct-06//... Yale, as a larger university, cannot imitate perfectly the culture of a smaller Quaker-founded liberal arts college, but the lesson that high expectations ...

Quaker Schools/Governance/Swarthmore College/Time to censure Student Council/The Phoenix Online/Swarthmore/PA/USA/26-Oct-06//... GWU is one example that sticks in my mind — student government plays a legitimized and active role in campus life. Sadly, that is not the case at Swarthmore.

.....At a school where Quaker values ensure real student involvement in every aspect of management, including membership on committees like the College Judiciary Committee, it is painfully inconsistent to have a Student Council as poorly regarded and as poorly involved as ours. ...

Quaker Schools/Friends School of Ramallah/Even Palestinian-Americans are being turned back at the border/Ha'aretz/Tel Aviv/Israel/M.E./18-Oct-06//... Ju'beh said that in 1901, the first Palestinian from Ramallah, a Christian man named Ouda Dabini, emigrated to the U.S. About fifty years earlier, the first waves of Christian emigration to South America from Bethlehem and Beit Jala had begun. Dabini met stonemasons from Bethlehem, the Talhami family, who came to Ramallah to build the Friends School (a Quaker institution). After hearing wondrous stories of the great success of emigrants from that town, he decided to emigrate. Two or three years later, a wave of emigration from Ramallah began. It later spread to include El Bireh and neighboring villages, and many Muslims as well as Christians. . ...

Quaker Schools/Friends School in Detroit/Woman returns to her roots with Strawberry Festival/Ann Arbor News/Ann Arbor/MI/USA/22-Oct-06//... as a consultant with Wayne State University's Attic Theatre group, Bodnar served as business manager for nine years at the Friends School, a Quaker school in ...

Quaker Schools/Equality/Swarthmore College/Time to hunker down/The Phoenix Online/Swarthmore/PA/USA/26-Oct-06//... Would I fit in at Swarthmore? Would it be too intense? Was I justified in choosing a Quaker college over a fancy university? It ...

Quaker Schools/Earlham College//Mills family gets Earlham recognition/Crawfordsville Journal Review/Crawfordsville/IN/USA/18-Oct-06//... the Quarkers.". Earlham is a national liberal arts college founded by the religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1847. Morris ...

Quaker Schools/Connecticut Friends School/Dansereau, Mark/Toscanos, Kim/Quaker School in Wilton Plans to Buy Theater Site/New York Times/New York/NY/USA/22-Oct-06//... But now there is a plan to build a Quaker school on the site, a proposal that would turn the theater into a school performance center and preserve much of the …...“This is our best avenue for a first-class campus and a place that will ultimately speak to the ethos of the school, echoing our commitment to theater, performing arts and the habitat,” said Mark Dansereau, co-head of the Wilton school, which would move to the theater property....

Quaker Schools/Christ-Centered/George Fox University/Brandt, Barbara/George Fox president to retire next summer/OregonLive.com/Portland/OR/USA/24-Oct-06//... The university was founded by Quaker pioneers in 1891 and later named for the 17th century Quaker leader and father of the contemporary Friends Church. ...

Quaker Schools/Bootham School//School invests in improvements/Yorkshire Post Today/York/England/UK/25-Oct-06//The co-educational Quaker school in York has already built new accommodation for its three to 11-year-olds and purchased a new boarding house for its sixth ...

Quaker Schools/Boarding School//The Artistic Life/New Yorker/New York/NY/USA/30-Oct-06//... She started drinking, early and excessively; dropped out of high school in Virginia; went north to a Quaker boarding school; and graduated from Washington and Lee with a degree in psychology. After college, she moved to a tumbledown plantation, where she grows squash and peas. “I can’t get away from the country,” she said recently, but admitted that she sometimes tills her plot in what she calls her “miniskirt boots.”

The house where Jessie lives is fifteen minutes from where she was raised, in Lexington, Virginia. For a while, she was set on training to be an ob-gyn, but she started painting seriously (with the encouragement of Cy Twombly, a family friend), and, more recently, her collaboration with Prince has been consuming. “There, on a white leather banquette, was Jessie, with her legs curled up,” Prince, who is fifty-three, said, recalling their first meeting, in New York. “She reached out, and I think I kissed her hand.” The next day, Jessie went to his studio and posed nude, on a pedestal, as a whirling dervish. At the end of the afternoon, Prince officially accepted her as his muse. ...

Quaker Schools///ManiFest is their brainchild/The Register-Guard/Eugene/OR/USA/30-Oct-06//... For Mani's mother, Miya Shimada, coping with her son's death means teaching yoga, meditation, Buddhist studies and her native Japanese at the Quaker-influenced Eugene alternative high school, Wellsprings Friends School, that her son attended. Miya Shimada was hired the spring after Mani's death when the school needed to replace its Japanese teacher. ...