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Advance Friends Select: Part II

Advance Friends Select: Part II

Yiming (Victor) Pan January 16, 2019

“Learning does not begin at 8 a.m and end at 3 p.m. At Friends Select, education is a series of revelatory moments and a sustained flow of self-discovery,” said Michael Gary, Head of Friends Select...

The Return of "The Falcon"

The Return of “The Falcon”

Isaac Wasserman January 16, 2019

It’s been over a decade since the students of Friends Select last published an issue of their student-run newspaper, but if you’re reading this, I’m sure you know that The Falcon is back. Friends...

New Members of Our Community, Part II

New Members of Our Community, Part II

Yiming (Victor) Pan, Staff Writer January 16, 2019

This year, Friends Select welcomes Heidi Hutchison to its community. Here she is:

New Members of Our Community, Part I

New Members of Our Community, Part I

Yiming (Victor) Pan, staff writer January 15, 2019

This year, Friends Select welcomes Toni Graves Williamson to its community. Here she is:

New Holocaust Memorial in Center City

New Holocaust Memorial in Center City

Rachel Soloff January 8, 2019

In 1964, a Holocaust survivor named Nathan Rapoport created the statue Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs, the first public monument honoring the Holocaust in North America. The statue sat for decades...

FSS Students Attend MARD Conference

FSS Students Attend MARD Conference

Matin Yaqubi and Angelica Scotto November 30, 2018

The seventh annual Mid-Atlantic Region Diversity Conference (MARD) was held at Perkiomen School on November 3rd, 2018 with the theme of “Hear Me, See Me.” The conference was organized by the faculty...

Clubs that Change the World: Black Student Union

Clubs that Change the World: Black Student Union

Rachel Soloff November 27, 2018

In 1969, a group of students proposed the idea of a Black Student League to the Board of Trustees, and they were turned down. However, the students did not rest until Friends Select had a Black Student...

Advance Friends Select: Part One

Advance Friends Select: Part One

The Advance Friends Select strategic plan will inaugurate a new era of FSS
Yiming (Victor) Pan November 25, 2018

The Advance Friends Select (a.k.a Advance 2021) strategic plan is a set of goals for the school to gradually achieve a new level of excellence in one to five years through refining the holistic teaching...

A memorial to commemorate 5 of the 11 victims of the tragedy.

Upper School Students Collaborate with Faculty to Organize Vigil in Wake of Recent National Hate Crimes

Adrian Altieri November 15, 2018

Upper School students and co-presidents of the Jewish Student Union, Rachel Soloff and Alex Shapiro, worked with teachers Fred Kogan, Natalie Mayer, and Heather Fortune to organize a lunchtime vigil and...