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Germantown Friends School was founded in 1845 by Germantown Monthly Meeting. The school was founded in response to a request from the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Until the early 20th century, Germantown Friends was a "select" school, meaning that only the children of Quaker parents were admitted. Germantown Monthly Meeting was an Orthodox ...
Germantown Academy, informally known as GA and originally known as the Union School, is the oldest nonsectarian day school in the United States. The school was founded on December 6, 1759, by a group of prominent Germantown citizens in the Green Tree Tavern on the Germantown Road. [ 1 ]
Pages in category "Germantown Friends School alumni" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Friends' School, Saffron Walden, England, (known as Walden School in 2016–17) the oldest Friends School, was founded in 1702, under the care of Britain Yearly Meeting which indirectly appointed the school's Board of Governors through the Friends' School Saffron Walden General Meeting [19] The school closed at the end of the summer term, 2017.
Settlement in the Germantown area began, at the invitation of William Penn, in 1683 by Nederlanders and Germans under the leadership of Francis Daniel Pastorius fleeing religious persecution. [2] [4] [5] Colonial Germantown was a leader in religious thought, printing, and education. Important dates in Germantown's early history include: [6]
The Concord School (1775), 6308 Germantown Avenue. Barron House [35] Boxwood, 156 W. School House Lane, 1897-98 [36] Concord School House; The Francis Strawbridge House, Wissahickon Avenue, Germantown [37] The Germantown Boys' Club, 23 W. Penn Street, 1898-1909 [38] Germantown High School, 5901-13 and 5915-41 Germantown Avenue [39] Gilbert ...
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Formerly Headmaster of Germantown Friends School, Calder was selected to serve as the NYSAIS Executive Director beginning on July 1, 1986, and served until June 2007. At the Board of Trustees meeting on April 16, 1987, Frederick Calder announced that the NYSAIS office would be moved to the campus of the Emma Willard School in Troy because "this ...