UPDATE (1/30/17) The team continued their winning ways at the Ivy League Model UN Conference at U Penn, with the following commendations: BEST DELEGATE to EMMITT SKLAR representing Helmut von Gerlach in the Ad Hoc Committee. This committee was the most elite in the conference. It was open by invitation only. The scenario was that […]
Breaking ground for the new BFS Upper School: Trustees Brad Mulder ’83 and Lara Holliday, and US Head Bob Bowman What a great moment in the history of our school! We often think of history as something that happened long ago, but we actually make history every day of our lives. Some moments are particularly impactful, […]
Meeting for Worship is such an important element of the Brooklyn Friends School experience that it is difficult to imagine that it did not exist in its present form at Brooklyn Friends School until October 30, 1941. We can thank Douglas G. Grafflin and S. Archibald Smith, two former BFS Heads of School, for introducing the […]
Some may remember that we published an article about the 1931 Football Team in 2006, honoring the 75th anniversary of their incredible feat, A Perfect Season – The Football Team of 1931. I recently discovered that there had once been a plaque at BFS honoring the acclaimed football team of that 1931-1932 school year. The […]
