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Saturday, November 5 - Alumni Association Meeting, 9:30 a.m. - MFS Moriuchi Room

Saturday, November 12 - Admissions Open House (tell a friend!), 10 a.m. rsvp

Thursday, November 17 - New York City Alumni Gathering, 6 - 8 p.m.- Cornell Club

Saturday, November 26 - Alumni Soccer Game, 10 a.m.

The Cornell Club of NYC
6 E. 44th Street
New York, NY
Thursday, November 17
6 – 8 p.m.
Please join us for a reunion of New York alumni and friends at the Cornell Club of New York City. There will be an update with Head of School, Larry Van Meter ’68, and we will also be joined by Associate Head of School, Barbara Caldwell.

Click here, to register online.

If you would like additional information, please email Matt Nierenberg, Director of Parent & Alumni Programs or by phone at (856) 914-4416.

By now, you hopefully have received the Alumni Connection Survey in the mail. It has been about four years since Moorestown Friends updated its contact information for our alums.  We invite you to complete the short survey so we can keep our records fresh.  The survey can also be filled out and submitted on the MFS website by clicking here.

Keeping your information current with us assures that you will continue to receive our magazine, Among Friends, be in the loop for alumni games, class reunion plans and regional networking opportunities, and receive (if you wish) news via alumni e-blasts from the school.  We also invite you to join us on LinkedIn and Facebook, to have an even better pulse on your classmates and teachers.

We are transitioning from our paper “No Frills Alumni Directory,” which we will no longer be publishing, to a password-protected on-line alumni community, which we hope to go live with by the end of 2012.  This has been a long time coming, but we want to be thoughtful about designing the best possible portal to serve all our constituents. Thank you for taking the time to update your information.

Top: Alum Brenda (Ugandan Invisible Children volunteer), Invisible Children volunteer Carlos Adan, junior Nate Riggins, Invisible Children volunteer Tim Fleming, senior Nick Jensen. Bottom: Sixth Grader Sujin Kim, with LS/MS Quaker Education teacher Lynne Brick, presents Tim Fleming with a check for $624 raised for Invisible Children at the recent Middle School Service Fair.

Yesterday Moorestown Friends School hosted representatives from the Invisible Children organization. Invisible Children, founded in 2005 as a charitable organization, uses film, creativity and social action to attempt to end the use of child soldiers in Ugandan Joseph Kony’s rebel war and restore communities affected by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in central Africa to peace and prosperity.

Volunteers or “roadies” visited MFS where they screened a film about the founding of Invisible Children, the specific work they undertake in central Africa and the challenges still faced today. The film specifically focused on one of the “night commuters” – children who were forced to leave their villages for the city at night in order to avoid abduction by the LRA.

Afterwards, one of the “roadies,” Brenda, a Ugandan woman, who at home serves as a mentor for 28 girls by helping them develop leadership and life skills, addressed the Upper School students. She told her story of living in fear of the LRA and how this war has devastated many families and communities in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The visit by Invisible Children was a result of the efforts of junior Nate Riggins who became involved in the issue after studying about child soldiers in the course Exploring International Humanitarian Law last year. The course is taught by Chester Reagan Chair for Quaker and Religious Studies Priscilla Taylor-Williams. Read more...

Legendary poet/writer and activist Maya Angelou attended ‘The African Continuum: Celebrating Diversity, Recognizing Contributions of People of African Descent’ exhibit in the Visitors Lobby of the United Nations’ North East Gallery in New York City on October 17. Partially concealed in the photo is Nathan Williams '87, standing 5th from right, whose work is featured in the exhibit.

Two collages created by Nathan Williams '87 are on display as part of a multimedia exhibition by artists and photographers representing the African diaspora that opened in the North East Gallery of the Visitors Lobby at United Nations Headquarters on October 19. Titled “The African Continuum:  Celebrating Diversity, Recognizing Contributions of People of African Descent”, the exhibition celebrates their contributions to global civilization and aims at fostering greater awareness about the challenges they face.

United Nations Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon and High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay attended the formal launch. Author and poet Maya Angelou recorded her poem “A Brave and Startling Truth” for the occasion. 

Seated (l to r): Julia Rudolph (Eulalie Mackecknie), Larissa Morgan (Marian Paroo). Standing: Brett Eiffes (Mrs. Paroo), Joe Antonakakis (Harold Hill), Noah Rubenstein (Mayor Shinn).

Tickets are on sale for the Moorestown Friends fall musical - The Music Man. Set in Iowa, the story revolves around Professor Harold Hill (played by senior Joe Antonakakis), a glib travelling salesman who descends upon the town of River City. He offers to save River City from youth corruption by organizing a boy’s band with himself as the leader. His convinces the naïve townspeople of the need for the band for which they must purchase instruments and uniforms, with the hopes of his getting the cash and skipping town before the first performance. Marian Paroo (played by junior Larissa Morgan), the prim librarian and piano teacher, sees through him, but when Professor Hill helps her younger brother overcome his fears of social interactions due to his lisp, she falls in love with him. Harold, in turn falls in love with Marian, and risks being caught in his scheme in order to win her over.

Tickets are available at the Stokes Hall Reception Desk between 7:45 a.m. and
4:15 p.m.

Showtimes
Friday, November 18, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 19, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 20, 2:00 p.m.

Tickets
All seats are reserved. No refunds or exchanges. Tickets are sold first come/first served.
Adults/Seniors: $12 - Students/children: $10

It's been a successful fall season for Foxes athletic teams. This week has been very busy with playoff action.

Field Hockey: Coach Danielle Dayton's squad downed Westtown 1-0 Monday in the Friends Schools League semifinals. They earn the right to face top-seeded Shipley today at 2 p.m. for the league championship! They fell to Haddon Heights Tuesday in a NJSIAA second round playoff game.
Girls Soccer: Coach Keith Harman's side fell on Tuesday in the Friends League semifinals to Germantown Friends, 2-0. They are seeded third in the NJSIAA Non-Public B South playoff tournament and host Mater Dei today at 2 p.m. in a second round contest.
Boys Soccer: Coach Mike Schlotterbeck's squad is seeded seventh in the NJSIAA Non-Public B South tournament and downed Mater Dei, 3-1 Tuesday in a first round matchup. They now face second-seeded Trenton Catholic on Friday at 2 p.m.
Boys and Girls Cross Country: Coaches Rich Lampe and Sarah Slack's teams run in their NJSIAA sectional meet on Saturday at Delsea. Both teams ran well at the Friends Schools League Championship Meet. Senior Carolyn Chelius finished 4th overall in the girls race and senior Stephen Dwyer finished 8th in the boys race.
Girls Tennis: Both MFS doubles teams made it all the way to the finals of the Burlington County Open. Both teams fell in the finals after great runs through the tournament. The MFS first doubles team was Samantha Chen and Lauren Carney and the second doubles team was Lauren Joffe and Claire Langlotz. The team also made it to the NJSIAA Non-Public B final, falling 3-2 to Ranney in the finals.