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Friends Seminary and New York Quarterly Meeting Redefine and Reaffirm Their Longstanding Relationship
Friends,
The New York Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends reached an historic decision on December 6, 2015 to approve the separate incorporation of Friends Seminary. I couldn't be any more excited for our School and the Quarterly Meeting. This is a great new chapter in the School’s 230-year history! Please view The Wall Street Journal story here or view a copy of the story below.
Although most Friends' schools have in recent generations separately incorporated, Friends Seminary and its adjoining meeting, the Fifteenth Street Monthly Meeting, have been so closely entwined that arriving at separate incorporation through this process took many years. Friends Seminary is the last Quaker school of its size and complexity to take this step, according to the Friends Council on Education.
We will remain a school deeply rooted in Quaker testimonies just as we have for the last 230 years, and we will continue to work closely with the Quarter and Monthly Meeting for Quaker guidance. This agreement will allow the School’s board and administration to chart its course over the next century. It is appropriate that this moment comes in Friends Seminary's 230th year. Here's to an even better future!
With thanks to all,
Bo Lauder
Principal
Principal
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Friends Seminary — the oldest continuously operated, coeducational school in NYC — serves college-bound day students in Kindergarten-Grade 12.
