Moorestown Friends School E-News - May 14, 2010
Red Sock Run Photos | Spring Sports Gear Up for Postseason | Sports in the News
PRE-ORDER TODAY - Doing Well and Doing Good: MFS at 225 (Class of 2010 certificate offer ends soon!)
Cum Laude/Honors Dinner | Fifth Grade Teacher Selected for NAIS Program | New Faces for 2010-11
Head Lice Alert | Fox Tracks
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Red Sock Run 2010
Spring Sports Prepare for Friends League and State Playoff Action
Attention Parents: Please be sure to submit your RSVP forms for Varsity Night to the Athletics Office.
Four MFS spring sports teams will compete in NJSIAA playoff action beginning tomorrow at 11 a.m. when the girls lacrosse team, the #10 seed in South Group I, travels to #7 seed Kent Place School (directions) in Summit, NJ. On Tues., May 18, boys lacrosse (#9 seed in Non-Public South) will travel to Sparta to face #8 seed Pope John XXIII (directions). The baseball team, seeded #7, travels to Vineland to face #2 seed Sacred Heart on May 25. The boys tennis team has earned the top seed in the Non-Public B South playoffs and will face the winner of Gloucester Catholic and Ranney School at MFS on Thurs., May 20.
Looking at the Friends Schools League playoff picture, boys lacrosse has earned the #3 seed and will travel to #2 seed Academy of the New Church on Monday. Boys tennis qualified for the FSL playoffs as the #4 seed and travels to top-seeded Friends Central on Tuesday. The girls lacrosse team has clinched a playoff berth with seedings yet to be determined.
The golf team concludes its season on Tuesday with the Friends League Championships to be held at Huntingdon Valley Country Club.
MFS Sports in the News
Small Foxes Have Heart
Burlington County Times - Thursday, May 13
The boys lacrosse team's 8-7 victory over Group IV school Rancocas Valley was big news on the area sports scene, including this front-page article in the BCT sports section.
Moorestown Friends tennis star uses his head
Philadelphia Inquirer - Sunday, May 9
Senior Eric Maertin was profiled by Phil Anatasia.
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Memory Milestone:
"I’m particularly grateful to have attended MFS during the late 60s, early 70s, a turbulent, convention-challenging, and exhilarating time in our social history. Having been raised in a Republican household with very conservative values, exposure to the core pacifistic beliefs of the Quakers and the liberalism of my teachers was a real culture shock. I remember dinner table conversations when I’d relay virulently anti-war statements heard in school to my apoplectic father. While part of the motivation was a teenager’s pleasure in goading a parent, it also reflected a growing awareness that wildly divergent viewpoints among people I respected was okay. It didn’t mean that they were good or bad people or good or bad Americans. They just looked at the world from different perspectives. Hearing these different voices forced me to sift through facts and the opinions of others and formulate my own opinions and beliefs. It helped me to become an independent thinker who, hopefully, is able to view the world in a more tolerant, less judgmental way. All of this is evident only in hindsight and many years later, which just goes to show that the lessons learned at MFS continue long after the fact."
—Carol Henry ’71
Doing Well and Doing
Good: MFS at 225, the 128-page hardback book detailing
the school’s early beginnings, growth, leadership changes,
and rise to becoming one of the premier independent schools
in the country, is now available for sale via pre-order. Take
advantage of the pre-order
discount of $38.50 available through June 30,
2010. After this date, the price increases to $48.50. |
The Founders
Edition, available for $78.50 ($88.50 after
June 30), features the book inserted into a handsome slipcase
with a student or family name foil-stamped on the case.
SPECIAL OFFER: Parents or
family members of the Class of 2010 wishing to pre-order the
book for a graduation gift will receive a special certificate
to give to their graduate on June 12. To take advantage of this offer, books must be purchased by Tuesday, June 1.
For more information, contact Director of
Marketing and Communications Mike
Schlotterbeck via e-mail or by phone at (856) 914-4434. |
*Click here to purchase Doing Well and Doing Good: MFS at 225*
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Cum Laude/Honors Dinner Honors Academic Achievement
A number of Upper School students were honored last night for their academic achievement at the Cum Laude/Honors Banquet. The students and guests heard remarks from keynote speaker David Baiada '95. Baiada is part of the management team at Bayada Nurses. Specifically, he manages the Skilled Visit Practice, which serves 50,000 clients a year. When he was in the Upper School at MFS, Baiada was inducted into the Cum Laude Society as a junior and the National Spanish Honor Society as a sophomore.
Cum Laude Society
 Fourteen students were inducted into the Cum Laude Society, a national honor society for academically challenging independent schools.
The inductees include seniors Emma Baiada, Robert Engel, Clara Fischer, Eric Maertin, Kathryn Schlechtweg, Arianne Taormina and Tej Trivedi. Juniors selected for the honor are Peter Barna, Alleanna Harris, Isaias Muñoz, Samantha Saludades, Darshak Thosani, Brian White and David White.
Named to the Cum Laude Society last year were current seniors Alison Barton, Alissa Beckett, Monica Chelius, Phillip Dorsey, Keyanah Freeland, Jacob Montgomery and Heather Moore.
Students are selected for membership based on their cumulative record of academic excellence in all subject areas. No more than 20 percent of a school’s senior class may be selected, with no more than 10 percent chosen during their junior year. Moorestown Friends School received its Cum Laude charter in 1962. |
Honors Program
 In addition, ten MFS seniors were honored for completion of the MFS Honors Program. The program is a two-year sequence of curricular requirements, including completing various AP courses and undertaking a capstone project. Students are selected based upon their academic record, intellectual curiosity, motivation, self-discipline, organization, an ability to work independently and strong teacher recommendations. This year’s class of the MFS Honors Program are Alison Barton, Monica Chelius, Philip Dorsey, Robert Engel, Clara Fischer, Samantha Kay, Jacob Montgomery, Kathryn Schlechtweg, Arianne Taormina and Tej Trivedi.
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World Languages Honor Societies
 Two students were inducted into world language honor societies. Named to the French Honor Society was senior Jacob Montgomery. Named to the Spanish Honor Society was junior Mary Elizabeth Boccolini. The French and Spanish Honor Societies recognize superior achievement in world languages at the intermediate or advanced level and superior academic achievement in a student’s total program. The organizations, with chapters at MFS since 1989, are designed to promote interest in the study of French and Spanish language and culture. The Société Honoraire de Français and the Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica are national organizations with chapters throughout the United States.
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Fifth Grade Teacher Selected for NAIS Teachers of the Future Program
 Fifth Grade Teacher Kathy Cook has
been selected for the Teachers
of the Future program of the National Association of Independent
Schools (NAIS). NAIS has chosen 20 innovative teachers
from over 200 nominations to contribute to an online community
for independent school teachers. Each of the 20 teachers selected
will be expected to: lead an NAIS online educational discussion
forum throughout the 2010-11 school year; create and post a demonstration
teaching unit video to be posted on NAIS's online independent
school community; and post the demonstration teaching unit video
on, and contribute to the NAIS on iTunes U website. In addition,
each of the 20 Teachers of the Future 2010-2011 has received
a scholarship invitation to attend a two day Apple
Summer Learning Institute. This is the second teacher to
be selected from MFS in three years. Arts Department Chair Brian
Howard was selected for the program in 2008-09. |
New Faces: Batastini, Greenberg and Taylor To Join MFS in 2010-11
MFS is pleased to announced the hiring of three employees for the 2010-11 school year:
Susan Batastini, Coordinator of Educational/Psychological Services
This new position focuses primarily on providing support for teachers and parents on learning and behavioral issues and on interface with Child Study Teams and other outside support providers. Susan has a B.S. in Psychology from Clarion University (PA) and a M.A. in Psychology from Rowan University. She has completed the School Psychology Certification program at Millersville University and holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Learning Technology from Drexel University. Her experience includes teaching in the Education Department at Drexel, serving as a School Psychologist in Moorestown Public Schools and serving as the Supervisor for Counseling and Psychological Services for Catapult Learning in Philadelphia.
Jacob (Jake) Greenberg, MS/US History teacher and grade 7 advisor
Jake, a graduate of Northeastern University with a B.A. in Political Science, is completing his Master of Arts in Teaching at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He is a graduate of Wilmington Friends School. A fluent Spanish speaker he has led service trips to Costa Rica and also worked at the Sheridan School in Washington D.C. as an Associate Teacher and Assistant Director of Auxiliary Programs. He student taught in both middle and upper school settings in Portland as part of his master’s program.
Kelly Taylor, Upper School Math Teacher
Kelly is currently teaching high school math at Haddon Township High School and completing the New Pathways to Teaching in New Jersey which leads to certification. She is a graduate of The College of New Jersey with a B.A. in mathematics. At Haddon Township she teaches regular and accelerated geometry. She has also worked for The Tutoring Club in Cherry Hill. She is a resident of Cherry Hill.
Head Lice Alert
A few cases of head lice have been identified in Lower School. The attached information has been sent to every Lower School family. We ask that Middle and Upper School families also review this information and check your child closely for signs and symptoms of head lice. Early identification of lice and prompt treatment can successfully prevent the spread of lice to others. Thank you!
--Edie Anderson and Sheryl Gofman, School Nurses
What's Happening at MFS...
Saturday, May 15
- MFS Hosts New Jersey Science Olympiad, Grades 4, 5, & 6, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
- Science Varsity Night, 6 - 9 p.m., DHC
Monday, May 17
- Grade 8 Grandparents Day, 8:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
(Grandparents gather in Field House Commons)
- Lower School Arts & Literature Week (May 17-21)
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| Yesterday a bottle cap mural created by third and fourth graders was unveiled in Stokes Hall to welcome visitors to next week's Lower School Art Show. |
Wednesday, May 19
- Grades 5 & 6 Sports Afternoon, 1 - 3 p.m.
- Grade 2 Violin Recital, 7 p.m., Meeting House
Thursday, May 20
Grade 3 & 4 Spring Concert, 7 p.m., Auditorium
Friday, May 21
- Preschool/Prekindergarten Grandparents Day, 8:45 - 10:30 a.m., Dining Hall/Commons
- Middle School Dance, 7:30 - 10 p.m., DHC.
Wednesday, May 26
Varsity Sports Awards, 6 p.m., Merion Caterers, Cinnaminson
Attention Parents: Please be sure to submit your RSVP forms for Varsity Night to the Athletics Office.
View the complete MFS calendar
Fox Tracks
- Seventh grader Pilar Martinez is cast in the feature film Standing Ovation which will open in theaters nationwide on July 16. She plays the character Blaze, part of a teenage music group auditioning for a national music video contest.
- First grader Richard Chichester is performing in the show Big River, produced by Bridge Players Theater Company of Burlington. Shows are running during the month of May.
Submit all notable out-of-classroom highlights for Fox Tracks to news@mfriends.org.
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