Friends' Central School (FCS) is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) school located in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, a section of Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. With more than 1000 students ranging from pre-kindergarten to grade 12, Friends' Central School is one of the largest Friends schools in the Delaware Valley. "Friends' Central," as the school is casually referred to, was founded in 1845 in Philadelphia, near the current location of the United States Mint. The school contains three divisions: a lower school for grades pre-K through 4th, a middle school for grades 5th through 8th and an upper school for grades 9th through 12th. While the middle and upper school share the same campus, the lower school is on a separate site in Wynnewood. Friends' Central is well known for the quality of its education and its highly liberal and active community. “Quaker” redirects here. ... Wynnewood is a city located in Garvin County, Oklahoma. ... Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... Lower Merion Township is a township located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and part of the Pennsylvania Main Line. ... Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... The Delaware Valley is the name of the metropolitan area centered on the city of Philadelphia in the United States. ... 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... For other uses, see Philadelphia (disambiguation) and Philly. ... Seal of the U.S. Mint The United States Mint primarily produces circulating coinage for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce. ...

History

Friends' Central was founded in 1845 as an upper school for the Quaker primary schools in Philadelphia, serving only grades 7 through 12 it was located at 4th and Cherry Streets. In 1857, the school moved to 15th and Race Streets. It remained at the Race Street campus (modern day site of Friends' Center) until 1925, when it moved to its campus on City Avenue, formerly the Wister-Morris Estate. The main administrative building of the school is still the main house of the estate. In 1988, due to continuing growth in the size of the school community, Friends' Central purchased the Montgomery School's property and relocated the lower school to that campus, where it still is today. Friends' Central continues to expand by renovating its buildings and building new, more modern buildings (i.e., Fannie Cox Center and Shimada Athletic Center) while still keeping some of the older ones such as the Wood Building, constructed as a house in 1862.

All students are required to attend weekly Meeting for Worship on Wednesdays for 40 minutes, regardless of personal religion. The community convenes in one central room in silence and individuals stand when "moved to speak" to express a thought to the community, though only once per meeting. This creates an atmosphere of tolerance and equality, where students must listen to the voices of others. Students are also required to perform service outside of the school, for a set of mandatory hours. In the middle and upper school, students are required to take two religious courses: in the middle school it is taught in the 5th and 7th grade and covers on the history and faith of Quakerism, and the one taught in the upper school is one based on Quakerism, while the other one based on the Bible. However, both are taught from a non-religious perspective. In these classes students are taught the history of the Society of Friends, and the central philosophies of Quakerism. These philosophies are still the foundation of the school's close-knit small community and liberal and open-minded education. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Notable alumni

• Hilda Doolittle (Class of 1903) - Noted poet and novelist.
• Cynthia Shallcross Calhoun (Class of 1919) - Former President of the Pennsylvania Resources Council
• James Wolfenden - United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Charlotte McAleer Kohler (Class of 1931) - Former First Lady of Wisconsin, wife of Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., who was also President of the Kohler Company.
• Jane Wooster Scott (Class of 1947) - Renowned American folk artist
• Gardner C. Hendrie (Class of 1950) - Designer of "microNova," the first commercial single chip, 16-bit microprocessor. Special Limited Partner, Sigma Partners - a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
• Sylvia Hill Williams (Class of 1953) - former director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art
• Alexander L. Fetter (Class of 1954) - Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Materials (LAM), Stanford University
• Elizabeth Osborne (Class of 1954) - Renowned artist
• Stephen A. Cozen (Class of 1957) - Founder and Chairman of Cozen O'Connor, a Philadelphia-based law firm with 21 offices throughout the United States and offices in London and Toronto.
• Richard B. Klein (Class of 1957) - Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania
• Brian De Palma (Class of 1958) - Movie Director
• K. Barry Sharpless (Class of 1959) - 2001 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Maude Southwell Wahlman (Class of 1959) - Dorothy and Dale Thompson/Missouri Endowed Professor of Global Arts, University of Missouri-Kansas City
• A. Carter Pottash (Class of 1966) - Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York University and a Distinguished Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association
• Stacey (Goldsborough) Snider (Class of 1978) - CEO, Dreamworks
• Douglas G. Baird (Class of 1971) - Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago. Former Dean of the Law School from 1994-1999.
• Barry L. Zubrow (Class of 1971) - Former Chief Administrative Officer of Goldman Sachs
• Sonya Sklaroff (Class of 1988) - Artist
• Andy Greenwald (Class of 1995) - Author
• Emil Steiner (Class of 1997) - Author
• Zach Leibowitz (Class of 1997) - ESPN Personality
• Hakim Warrick (Class of 2001) - NBA Player (Memphis Grizzlies), former NCAA Player (Syracuse University, member of 2003 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship team).

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See also

• List of Friends Schools

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External links

• Official website for Friends' Central School