As discussed in the last post, a group of Trustees and staff from Woodbury Friends School created the Friends School of Gloucester County based on a vision of a multi-campus school with locations in Woodbury and in Mullica Hill (and perhaps more locations in the future). During the 1969-1970 academic year, most grades continued to meet in Woodbury but some completely new grades began at Mullica Hill, including a 9th grade and a three-year old program. Under the leadership of Mary Clare Wohlford and Doris Green, the Mullica Hill campus enrolled a total of 74 students in this first year. According to Stanton Langworthy’s A History of The Friends School, 1969-1994, “Quaker concerns for freedom, love and respect for humanness” as well as “integrity, harmony, equality, simplicity and self-discipline” were central to the School’s mission, which included a “rigorous” academic curriculum emphasizing “individualized instruction.”
This historical entry is part of a series chronicling the history of Friends School Mullica Hill on the occasion of the School’s 50th anniversary. The entries begin with the first arrival of Quakers in the region and continue all the way to the present under the leadership of the School’s ninth Head, Matt Bradley.
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