The School Committee is handed a bombshell announcement: the search committee has selected a non-Quaker to be head of the school. Three months into Burton Fowler’s new term, the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and the Quaker school plunges into the midst of war. Treading a path that tries to be…

Mia Adams, Grade 10 at Germantown Friends School, shares reflections from her school’s Martin Luther King Day of Service For 26 years, GFS has celebrated and honored the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with an annual Day of Service. Held virtually for the second year in a row, this…

The annual Germantown Community Basketball Tournament, hosted by Germantown Friends School (GFS) last weekend and now in its 31st year, brings together students and neighbors through a shared love of basketball and athletics. But instead of treating spectators to a traditional halftime show between championship games, the break in competition…

By Lindsay Roberts, Early Childhood teacher and member of the Early Childhood Diversity Committee at Germantown Friends School Published by NBC’s Parent Toolkit in December 2019 At school or at home, adults can provide a framework for young children to embrace different perspectives and diverse cultures, reducing bias and fostering…

Nationally recognized, GFS is now on the cutting-edge of progressive education in the early 1930s with an array of Upper School electives to in-depth, year-long studies in the lower grades. Theater productions are found throughout the school, including a wooden, two-story, student-built Trojan Horse. …

It’s the 1920s, and athletics continue to expand, with GFS dominating the soccer season. Tensions with the Meeting grow as the school plans to enlarge both its student body and its campus footprint. New pricing means that tuition for seniors is now $300 and Kindergartners $100 — but they get…

by Rachel Reynolds, Middle School English Teacher, Germantown Friends School If adolescence is marked by a quality of unknowing — of curiosity and uncertainty, a sense that anything might be possible — then to be an adolescent during the COVID-19 pandemic has been to experience this sensation writ large. Thrown…

GFS Fourth Grade Students Create iPhone App to Address Real-World Problems with VineyardAppCamp Isabel Schmidt ’16, Assistant Director of Summer Day Camp Programs When we think of mobile applications, we often think of utility and functionality — we aren’t usually brought to tears. However, dry eyes were not an option…

Stanley Yarnall, one of the most influential figures in GFS history, takes the lead. The school is now bursting at the seams; a bigger school, Yarnall says, means a greater Quaker influence. In some areas, GFS adheres to Quaker tenets such as girls prohibited from wearing jewelry. But the school…