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Portraits of Young Friends: Emmitt Sklar ’17

“I’m having a lot of fun during my senior year.  It feels like the culmination of many years of work in academics, sports, and extracurriculars, and it’s a nice feeling to see it come to fruition.” Emmitt Sklar ’17 , a lifer who entered the BFS Preschool at age 3, isn’t letting sentimentality get him down […]

Portraits of Young Friends: Miles Nabritt ’17

    Student Senate President Miles Nabritt ’17  is used to being in the spotlight and he doesn’t mind telling you he’ll miss it.  “Senior year is enjoyable because it’s the final year and I’ve been going been going here for seven years,” he said.  “Quite recently I’ve been going through all the memories of my time here.” […]

Diplomacy and Debate in the Upper School

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 […]

Simulating a World in Crisis

  On May 13th, some 40 BFS students, parents and faculty paid $10 each to gather in the Upper School cafeteria for the first BFS Model UN fundraising dinner.  The appropriately named International Night featured a pot luck dinner prepared by the fifteen current Model UN students and their families. The evening was organized by […]

The Young Music Men and Women of BFS

                              Violinist Claudius A. Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. – Plato   Francisco V. entered the BFS eighth grade on an academic scholarship last year. His passions […]