June 1, 2007

SEVENTY-FOUR STUDENTS TO GRADUATE
FROM MOORESTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL ON JUNE 9

 

Moorestown Friends School (MFS) will hold Commencement for the 74 members of the Class of 2007 on Saturday, June 9, at 7 p.m. at the school.

The graduation ceremony is scheduled to be held outside, with seniors exiting from the front of the Upper School and walking around the driveway known as “the Oval” to the group seating area. In case of inclement weather, commencement will be held in the MFS Field House.

 

Speakers have been selected by members of the senior class. They are faculty member Priscilla Taylor-Williams, the Chester Reagan Chair of Quaker Studies, and students Nathan Paul (Mount Laurel) and Ann Stouffer (Haddonfield).  MFS does not compute class rankings or designate valedictorians/salutatorians. Traditionally one male and one female student are selected along with a teacher.

This year’s seniors will attend colleges and universities including American University, Bates College, Boston College, Brown University, Georgetown University, Guilford College, Howard University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University, Oberlin College, Smith College, the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina and the University of Pennsylvania. 

The Moorestown Friends’ Commencement ceremony includes a number of significant traditions. Graduates have worn white dresses and formal men’s attire in lieu of caps and gowns since at least the early 1900s. Quaker secondary schools traditionally do not use robes, which are an outgrowth of clerical garb. Another tradition is that the Head of School reads the diploma of one of the “originals” – students who have attended MFS since kindergarten. Eleven members of the Class of 2007 are originals.

Moorestown Friends School is a day school founded by the Religious Society of Friends (also known as Quakers) in 1785. Today the school enrolls 725 students from Preschool through Grade 12. Moorestown Friends School is a community dedicated to the pursuit of educational excellence for a diverse student body within an academically rigorous and balanced program emphasizing personal, ethical and spiritual growth.

 

 

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