Beverly Tatum Lecture at Abington Friends this Friday | Visiting Day at MMM

Moorestown Friends School E-News - September 24, 2008

Seeking Parental Help To Make New Jersey Day a Success!

Attention Parents:

We are looking for your help to celebrate our first-ever New Jersey Day (Tuesday, October 7) at MFS. Could you make a food item for students to enjoy with their lunches? We would like to have food items that are "New Jersey Fresh," e.g., blueberry muffins, cranberry cookies, peach cobbler, vegetable salad or soup. Upper School students from our Food Science and Nutrition courses will give small portions of the food items to any of our students in the dining hall during LS, MS and US lunch. Prepare two dozen cookies or one dozen muffins or eight cups of salad, and we will apportion and serve.

Parents able to prepare and donate food items should notify Barbara Kreider via e-mail at bkreider@mfriends.org or Sandra Karasin at Sjkarasin@aol.com. Items should be delivered to Room 17 (lower level of Middle/Upper School) on New Jersey Day.

If you are involved with food production in New Jersey (from cooking to manufacturing to transporting) and would be interested in providing a food kiosk at New Jersey Day, please contact Barbara Caldwell at bcaldwell@mfriends.org.

Thank you in advance for your generous donations!

Barbara Kreider, Ph.D.

Science Dept. Chair

Spelman College President To Speak About Living in a Multiracial World at AFS - Friday, Sept. 26

On Friday, September 26, 2008, author Beverly Tatum will visit Abington Friends School to present a lecture and discussion in Muller Auditorium at 7:00 p.m.

The current president of Spelman College, Tatum is a noted psychologist who writes about race, identity and privilege in a way that is compelling for people of all races as they navigate a multiracial world. Beverly Tatum’s books include Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation. For more than 20 years, Tatum has taught a signature course in the psychology of racism. She has also toured extensively, leading workshops on racial identity development and its impact in the classroom.

This is a free program and no advance registration is required.

Order Your MFS Yearbook Today!

Now is the time to order your 2009 MFS Yearbook! Pre-ordering is the only way to guarantee a copy of the book in June. Orders cannot be accepted after Monday, December 1. Please click here to order your book online, or call 866-287-3096 to place an order by phone. If you have any questions or for more information, please contact Debra Galler at dgaller@mfriends.org or at ext. 229.

Friends School Visiting Day at Moorestown Monthly Meeting: Sunday, Oct. 19

The Moorestown Monthly Meeting sends out a warm welcome to the children and families of Moorestown Friends School. We have an exciting program to welcome you to the greater Friends community and to help you learn a bit more about Quakerism.

Please join us at 9 a.m. when Miriam Feyerherm and Ken Henke will lead us in an exploration of Friends’ Testimonies through story telling. At 10 a.m., as story telling concludes, we will have a 45-minute Meeting for Worship. This is a wonderful opportunity to experience this practice with your children who participate in Meeting every week as part of their school activities. As is our practice, after the first 15 minutes of Worship, children are invited to withdraw from the Meeting room to attend First Day School classes in other parts of the building.  Any children wishing to remain for the full 45 minutes are more than welcome to do so. Following Worship, everyone will gather across the hall from the Meeting room in the D’Olier Room for refreshment and fellowship. We look forward to sharing this meaningful morning with you.

Mark Your Calendar!