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Message from Head of School Larry Weiss

Founders Day

Design Thinking Elevates Blue Pride

From the Archives

Family Fun in Prospect Park

Program at Brooklyn Historical Society; BFS at 150 Celebrations

Full Circle: Welcome Back, Seth Phillips ’81

The Lower School Math Challenge

150 Reasons to Celebrate BFS

Proﬁle: Lucinda Duncalfe ’81

Class Act

20 La Cage aux Folles BROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOL JOURNAL is published by the Advancement Office of Brooklyn Friends School for alumni, parents, grandparents, and friends. 375 Pearl Street • Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tel: 718.852.1029 • brooklynfriends.org Joan Martin, Editor

Guided by the Quaker belief that there is a Divine Light in everyone, Brooklyn Friends School cultivates an intellectually ambitious and diverse community that celebrates each individual’s gifts. We challenge our students to value and embrace difference as they develop critical thinking skills and apply their knowledge and intelligence both in and out of the classroom. In this rich learning environment, we inspire all members of our community to voice their convictions, to discover and pursue their passions, and to seek truth. Our graduates are compassionate, curious, and conﬁdent global citizens who let their lives speak in the spirit of leadership and service. COVER PHOTOS

The front cover, inside front cover, and back cover of this Journal feature a K-Grade 12 photograph taken on Nov. 1, 2017 at Brooklyn Borough Hall and an archive photo of the student body from the 1920’s. On the inside front cover and on this page are photos, respectively, of the Family Center at Brooklyn Friends faculty and the Preschool student body and faculty. The large K-12 photo was taken by longtime BFS Photography Teacher Gregg Martin.

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Greetings from a BFS learning community happily and fruitfully engaged in preparations for the full-scale celebration of our 150th year of continuous operation. As a longtime student and teacher of history, I find it particularly meaningful that many of us — students, faculty/staff, alumni, parents, and grandparents — are becoming increasingly aware of our institutional history. Amazing human-interest stories from the past are coming to vibrant and meaningful life through the research and development activities that are key components of our Sesquicentennial Celebration. It is very moving to enter the Pearl and Lawrence Street school buildings and see the vintage photographs of 19th and early 20th century students and teachers enlarged to poster size and prepared for exhibitions as well as publications. Viewing these windows into the past, I am prompted to think of what the earlier members of the BFS learning communities have in common with us in 2017, despite the significant changes in material culture and political/economic/social conditions that separate us in time. When we look at some of the materials that our dedicated and resourceful researchers — including current Upper School students — are unearthing from the archives, the astonishing and admirable continuities of the School’s classical liberal arts curriculum are significant. When one reads through the school catalogs from 1917 and 1942, for example, we see that both continuity and change are consistent factors in our evolution. Early on, BFS teachers and students combined the classical study of English, History, Math, Science, Latin, and French, with arts, crafts, woodworking, music, drama, outdoor and indoor physical training, and sports teams for boys and girls. Such a program is strikingly similar to the Brooklyn Friends School of today.

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The dual commitment to ttradit tradition r ttion n aand innovation was never stronger than it was duri during BFS’ early years on Pearl iing B Street in the 1970’s, when my o own wn relationship with BFS began as a part-time Historyy teacher in 1973. Under the teeeac leadership Head of Upper School ho ool Alberta Magzanian o and Head of School Stuart Smith, mi a classical BFS high m school curriculum required four years of English, History, and Mathematics as well as three years of Lab Science and World Languages (including Latin and Russian). It also welcomed electives in East Asian History, Contemporary China, The War in Vietnam, and a multidisciplinary English/History/Film course called “Face of War,” among many others. At the same time that the classical program was thriving, BFS initiated exceptionally innovative “Open Classroom” lower school programs and pathbreaking departmental middle school curricula, which established BFS’ progressive reputation. In the years that followed, a preschool and family center for toddlers was added to the program, and the school gained a strong and well-deserved reputation for excellence in early childhood education, the arts, and emerging technology. One of the most signiﬁcant, long-term innovations in recent years was the adoption of the Upper School International Baccalaureate (IB) program implemented by Head of School Michael Nill in 2007. The IB itself is recognized around the world as a synthesis of the classical liberal arts and an inter-disciplinary, multi-cultural methodology that encourages a unique level of depth and breadth in the examination of the classic disciplines at the secondary level. In preparing Upper School students for IB courses in eleventh and twelfth grade, the Upper School has initiated creative and successful curricular innovation in ninth and tenth grades. In recent years, for example, Upper School

Larry Weiss (center at top of photo) with his Upper School colleagues in a yearbook photograph from the 1970s.

teachers have offered history intensives to tenth graders — this year in Latin America, Islamic History, Genocide in the 20th Century, Modern African History, Modern Global Economics, International Relations, and Art History. The English Department as well offers “concentrated studies” to tenth graders in ten different courses that represent diverse literary genres and time periods. The Middle School and Upper School World Language Departments now offer Mandarin Chinese in addition to French and Spanish, as well as the classical mainstay, Latin, which has been taught continuously at BFS from at least the 1930’s. Our pursuit of a working synthesis of classical, progressive, and values-based Quaker education — committed to stimulating our students’ disciplined intellectual growth; creative expression and innovation; informed and dedicated work for inclusion, equity, and justice; and deep, personal understanding of non-violent conﬂict resolution — is central to BFS’ preparation for the next 150 years. As always, we welcome your support, participation and encouragement towards achieving such outcomes.

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Our Head of School made his own personal history on Oct. 22 by taking part in his 17th Marine Corps Marathon in Arlington, Virginia and Washington, DC.

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“ We chose puzzle pieces because they will all be diverse like the community at BFS and then they will all come together in a community like way. The pins provide a fun activity for the people at the event. The idea is to match up with the people who have the rest of the puzzle and discuss anything with them, most likely BFS.”

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The Brooklyn Friends School community is displaying pride and ownership in our 150 years thanks to three tenth grade students. In their ninth grade seminar last spring entitled “Design and Technology,” Kaley Block, Sage Gordon and Lila Liebeskind created a “BFS at 150” enamel pin that now adorns backpacks and lapels from our youngest students to our longest tenured teachers.

“ We used pages because all the people in the BFS community are like the pages in a book. We all have different stories, but we form something bigger than just our stories.”

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The students in Jean Kim’s “Design and Technology” class coordinated with the Office of Service Learning and Civic Engagement to identify community needs and apply the process of design thinking to address them. Many student groups worked with the school’s service learning partners; Kaley, Sage and Lila decided to look inward and address a need of the BFS community itself. One of the goals set forth by the BFS at 150 Steering Committee is to enhance school spirit (or as we call it, blue pride!) and Kaley, Sage and Lila tackled this goal head on with their work designing the pins.

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Design thinking is an iterative process focused on creative solution-based thinking instead of problem-based thinking. Students study the community need, create and present a solution, receive feedback, and make updates. Kaley, Sage and Lila presented three designs, working within the BFS brand guidelines, to the Advancement Office. The designs included puzzle pieces, book pages and the chosen design, a celebratory BFS at 150 banner.

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The BFS at 150 enamel pins were manufactured over the summer and presented to students, faculty, staff and parents at Founders’ Day, Sept. 8. Our community now proudly wears the pin. Kaley, Sage and Lila will take their place in BFS history as the enamel pin takes its place on the shelves of the BFS archives for friends 150 years down the road to ﬁnd.

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Our HISTORY Our TREASURE Our LEGACY by Karen Edelman

When Friends School of Brooklyn opened on September 9, 1867 with 17 students, it is unlikely that the administrators of the school thought ahead a century and a half to what the school would be like now. Did they realize that the catalog they put together for that ﬁrst year, listing all the students, the classes they would be taking, the teachers who would be teaching them (including their home addresses!) would be one of the most exciting ﬁnds 140 years later? Or that the photographs taken of the students playing on the playground, or participating in class in the “outdoor classrooms” would be featured prominently in our school publications during our Sesquicentennial year? Probably not, but they are — and here is the story of how we got here. 6

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About 10 years ago, Susan Price ’86, then Director of Alumni, began an earnest dive into the archives of Brooklyn Friends School. As an alumna herself — whose mother Aida Price had served in a leadership volunteer role at the school for many years — Susan had tremendous institutional knowledge, but also a keen interest in organizing the history of Brooklyn Friends. Over the previous 140 years, materials had been gathered and collected in haphazard ways. Susan began the arduous task of making sense of it all. Susan Price ’86

In 2012, BFS built a small home for the archives and Susan became the ﬁrst School Historian at BFS. She would spend countless hours sifting through the photos, plaques, catalogs and magazines, digitizing what could be digitized and starting to catalogue what she could. At this time she also started a blog — The Blue and Grey — which dove into the nitty gritty of various aspects of BFS history based on materials gathered in the archives. Susan continued with her tremendous archives work and writing her blog until she and her husband moved across the country and she stopped her “official” work at BFS in 2015. (Susan continues to serve on the Sesquicentennial Steering Committee from afar.) With the Sesquicentennial on the immediate horizon, work restarted in the archives in 2016. BFS parent and professional archivist, Katie Bednark has donated hours upon hours of her time and expertise to our little archives room. Thanks to her, photos are now fully sorted by time period, stored in appropriate archive storage. The papers of students and faculty, playbills from performances, catalogues and countless other materials are organized as a tremendous resource for the next 150 years.

Brooklyn Friends School 1889 schoolyard in 1889. While the school was co-educational from the beginning in 1867, girls and boys had separate places to play when outside. Another photo that was uncovered created much conversation among some of our alumni. This was a photo of a radio broadcast with a few names and “1930s” scratched on the back. Thanks to Niel Isbrandsten Rising ’43 (whose name was legible), she, along with her classmate Alice Ekeroth Rohr ’42 were able to accurately date the photo to Spring 1938 and identiﬁed more than a dozen of the children in the photo.

There are so many amazing ﬁnds from this project. • The “minute book” from the very ﬁrst “Mother’s Club” (which would eventually turn into the Parents and Teachers Association) from 1906 had handwritten notes taken by the members • The stack of letters written to an alum in the early 1900s by his classmates when he was home sick for several months.

BFS Radio Broadcast 1938

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• And the photos… so many photos! An exciting ﬁnd this summer was, what appears to be the oldest photo in our archives - a group of girls in their hats and coats in the

Digging through the archives and reconnecting with alumni has become a daily activity at BFS. The stories are never ending, so keep attuned to other publications and the website throughout the year to experience it with us. We are always looking to add to our archives. If you have any materials at home that you would like to share, please reach out to Lekeia Varlack Judge ’99, Director of Alumni at (718)852-1029 x208 or lvarlack@brooklynfriends.org. Winter 2017/18 BROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOL JOURNAL

BFS Celebrates 150 Years in a Park Celebrating its Own

SESQUICENTENNIAL On Saturday, October 21, some 250 members of the BFS community settled into a shady spot in Prospect Park’s beautiful Long Meadow and enjoyed a day of fun, games, and fellowship to celebrate our Sesquicentennial. It was a sunny, warm and beautiful fall day in the other Brooklyn institution (Prospect Park) famously celebrating its own 150th anniversary. Billed as “Family Fun Day,” parents, grandparents, faculty, friends and children enjoyed picnic lunches and played in ﬁeld games organized by the Physical Education Department. The day ended on a sweet note as students sang happy birthday to BFS and enjoyed two BFS at 150 cakes, courtesy of the Parents and Teachers (PAT) Association. 8

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150 YEARS OF LIGHT Experience the History of Brooklyn Friends School at the Brooklyn Historical Society When you’ve been around for 150 years there’s a lot to talk about. Join us on the evening of

January 29, 2018 at the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street, where we will present the culmination of two remarkable projects. All That Dwell in the Light is an oral history project conducted by Lily Edelman ’20 and Salma McLaughlin ’20. In the spring of 2017 the students conducted videotaped interviews of ﬁve alumni from the 1940s through the 1980s. Working in close conjunction with archivists and graphic specialists from the Brooklyn Historical Society, the students and members of the BFS Sesquisentennial Committee have created a multimedia museum-quality exhibition that we are proud to share with our school community and all of Brooklyn. The January 29 event also serves as the official book launch of 150 Years of Brooklyn Friends School — a comprehensive account of images, facts and fascinating stories from the BFS archives. Creating the book has been a two year-long labor of love for parents Helene Benedetti (design) and Melanie Rehak (writing and editing), BFS Special Events Manager Emily Cowles, Director of Advancement Karen Edelman, and members of the Sesquicentennial Committee. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the 150 Years of Light event.

BFS at 150 Gala and Alumni Weekend

A celebration of our legacy of light S AV E T H E D AT E S

Friday, May 11, 2018 Anniversary Gala at the Brooklyn Museum with special guest Ken Burns, acclaimed documentary filmmaker and historian

Saturday, May 12, 2018 Alumni Day Activities at Brooklyn Friends School

FORMAL INVITATION TO FOLLOW Learn more about supporting this milestone celebration, including leadership sponsor opportunities. Visit brooklynfriends.org/150gala or call Karen Edelman at 718-852-1029 x206

From left, sophomores Salma McLaughlin and Lily Edelman with oral history project guest Charles Rosenthal, a member of the Class of 1953

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FULL CIRCLE

, k c a B e Welcom

s p i l l i h P h t Se by Jeffrey Stanley

Quaker, alumnus, parent, and as of July 1, 2017, Assistant Head of School, Seth Phillips ’81 made the observation that he started Kindergarten at BFS one year shy of a half-century. “Besides my parents, my time at Brooklyn Friends School had the biggest influence on who I am today,” this BFS ‘lifer’ said. “It helped shape my values. It aided my decision to become an educator and my choice to work for the ‘greater good’ in public schools. When I became a principal, I aspired to give my students the same kind of education I received at BFS.” He concluded, “It is nice to come full circle. I look forward to working to make this school the best possible place for the children who are here now and the ones that are coming in the future. Seth’s longtime connection to the school is such that he is familiar with all of the facilities. “I started in Kindergarten in the Schermerhorn building. Then I went to second and third grade at the old Montague Street site,” he said. He missed one year when his family was on sabbatical, then returned to BFS in fifth grade at the Pearl Street building, where he now has a first floor office right across from Head of School Larry Weiss. There are even more associations between Seth and BFS. “I’ve been on the Horizons board for several years. My father was head of the board of trustees as a Quaker, so I had that connection too,” he said. Seth and his wife Emily are parents to three school-age children – daughter Claire, a junior and 10

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Owen, a sixth grader, both at BFS and another son, Jackson, who attends nearby Mary McDowell Friends School. But perhaps his fondest link to the school is his own time as a student here. In an interview during his first month on the job, Seth reminisced about his days as an Upper School student. “I’ve been a receptionist, I’ve run the elevators, and I’ve painted walls and ceilings. I was a student, but I did some real work. That was back when they let students do those things,” he quipped. His brothers Ian and Jason also graduated from BFS in 1978 and 1984, respectively. After graduation, Seth went on to Haverford College, the private liberal arts college founded by Orthodox Quakers in the 19th century. “I went in as a math-science person and left as a history major,” he said. “I became an educator by following the path of least resistance.” He elaborated: “I’d been a counselor at a Quaker summer camp where lots of BFS kids were in attendance —Camp Onus in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.” After graduating from Haverford, Seth went to Fordham University — where his father was a professor of social work — to earn an MS in Education. His first job as an educator was at PS 192 in Washington Heights, where he taught first and second grade for nine years. He later took a union job, training teachers in the Bronx at CS 47. He then taught at PS 27 in Red Hook for three years. “There were 250 to 400 students but it felt like far more. It was one of the toughest schools I worked in,” he recalled.

While teaching at PS 27, he also studied to obtain another advanced degree, a Certiﬁcate in Supervision, from City College of New York. Afterwards he became the assistant principal at PS 94 in Sunset Park. “There were 1400 kids in one building. It was so well-run that it felt small.” After three years, in 2003, Seth was appointed by now NYC Chancellor Carmen Farina as the principal at PS 8 in Brooklyn Heights, where he stayed — and the school thrived — for 14 years. “I was very happy there and felt very successful. We went from 260 to 900 kids. We grew about 300 percent,” he said with pride. “It was a wonderful place to work. It was nice to have an impact on something that would improve your own neighborhood. I can’t think of anything more meaningful.” PS 8 also held a personal appeal because he had grown up in the neighborhood. “I had gone to summer camp there,” he said Also, fellow BFS alum Chris Matus had gone to PS 8 through fourth grade before changing to BFS, and was the best man at Seth’s wedding. Seth also served as best man

at another former PS 8 student and BFS alum’s wedding. “Why now has he come to an independent school? “I always knew that I was more likely to come back to Quaker schools, so I wanted to get out of my comfort zone,” he recalled. “It was really good for me. BFS is like a bubble. Getting outside that bubble was an eye-opening experience.” Now he feels equipped to bring some of that experience back home. As Assistant Head of School, Seth is officially in charge of all non-instructional areas, from Athletics, Enrollment and Technology, to Advancement, Communications, Auxiliary Programs, health and school safety. “But at a place like this, those things overlap. I am very happy that I am not the Head, having been one for 14 years,” he said in mock exhaustion. “There is a wear and tear on you as the top person.” Will his own children keep the family tradition and pursue careers in education? “I’m trying to steer them away from that,” he joked. But his eldest was a counselor at Camp Onus this summer, where Seth worked as a teenager, and she took a leadership class at another camp recently, so who knows?

Math Challenges Focus on the Number 150 (as in Our 150th Year) by Joan Martin Each week for the past seven years or so, the Lower School Math Specialists — Jonathan Edmonds (K-1) and Kate Minear (2-4) choose a theme and create three different levels of math problems for Lower School students to try out. Jonathan and Kate decide on a variety of topics and types of problems and puzzles, sometimes connected to the season or school events, and other times challenges that they themselves just ﬁnd interesting and enjoyable. As excitement keeps growing over the BFS Sesquicentennial this year, Kate and Jonathan created not just three, but four Math Challenges during the week of October 16. Challenge Number 4 was intended for advanced math thinkers and adults. It’s deﬁnitely a challenge, but remember, for the Lower School, it’s effort that counts. BFS Journal readers, “Try it out,” as they say, and mail in your responses by Jan. 30 to the BFS Communications Office (375 Pearl Street — or e-mail jmartin@brooklynfriends.org). We will chose a winner at random and send you a beautiful BFS tote bag and mathematics-themed book.

Happy Sesquicentennial! Math Challenge for Lower School students - and Adults! Brooklyn Friends School has been open for 150 years! 150 can be written as the sum of eight consecutive prime numbers. Can you figure out which primes?

Other interesting 150 facts: 150 is a Harshad number, which means it is divisible by the sum of its digits. 150 is an abundant number, which means the sum of its proper divisors (factors not including itself) is greater than 150. The integer 12 is the first abundant number. Its proper divisors are 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 for a total of 16. The amount by which the sum exceeds the number is the abundance. The number 12 has an abundance of 4, for example. Can you figure out the abundance of 150?

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150 RE to Celebrate, Appreciate and by Joan Martin 1 Quaker Meeting for Worship 2 Fourth Grade Poetry Slam 3 Preschool 4s students having

then meeting with the actors to discuss the transition from page to stage.

soccer lessons with Edson Elcock ’03, Physical Education teacher, alumnus, and former collegiate and pro soccer player

Krishna” dance performance

4 Our student success in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, highlighted by numerous gold and silver keys for the New York region and two national medals in 2017 for Betsy Allen ’20 and Amanda Mai Becker ’18! 5 The fall 2017 student musical production of La Cage aux Folles, an all-time favorite Broadway show and ﬁlm that was presented by an effervescent, talented cast and crew of seventh-twelfth graders.

9 The Fifth Grade “Stories of Young 10 The ﬁve BFS faculty and staff members sharing their amazing musical talents with the community when they created the “BFS All Star Band” and performed at the Spring Gala at Hill Country — Kenneth Alston, Camille Fobbs, Jessica Jones, Tony Soll & Steve Wortman

11 Our amazing faculty and staff 12 Some 200 grandparents and special friends of our Preschool students, visiting BFS for a morning in spring 2017. Welcomed by our youngest children and their teachers, our guests experienced a (half) day in the life of the Preschool.

13 First graduating class of Horizons at BFS (summer 2016)

14 Visiting author series in the

6 The 2016 Girls Soccer League Playoff Champions (undefeated) and the team’s run-up to the 2017 Championship game 7 Two words: The Roof 8 After reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream in English class, eighth graders attending a special performance of the upper school production of the play (spring 2016), 12

exercise about the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment, and freedom of the press

BFS Libraries, most recently with Anastasia Higginbotham, Hena Khan, Colleen AF Venable, Kenneth C. Davis, Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

15 The 2017 Boys Varsity Basketball Playoff Champions

16 The faculty-student advisory program in Middle and Upper Schools 17 The 2017 Boys Volleyball League & Playoff Champions

18 Our Seventh Grade Constitution Works study and role-playing

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19 Dance Concert 2017, featuring over 100 student dancerchoreographers who celebrated the culture and dance of the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

20 Overnight trips for third graders to Clearpool Environmental Center and for fourth graders to Nature’s Classroom 21 BFS in England, and England in BFS — a group of alumni from the Class of 2017 traveled to Bristol, England, and participated in Sidcot Friends School Peace Festival. Sidcot Friends students will make a reciprocal visit to BFS in February 2018.

22 First Grade Post Office 23 Ten years of consecutive participation by BFS Upper Schoolers and their teachers in the New England Young Writers Conference at the Breadloaf Campus of Middlebury College in Vermont — the spring 2017 participants, chosen competitively from students across the United States, were Joy Freund ’18 and Isabel Ullman ’18, who were accompanied by English teacher Elizabeth Heck

ASONS Love Brooklyn Friends School 24 The second graders’ alphabet creations and the third graders’ connected shapes that they “choreograph” in their dance classes 25 The BFS Board of Trustees — eighteen dedicated volunteers who are entrusted with the ﬁduciary health and stewardship of the institution so that it is strong and vital for the next generation of students and families.

26 Middle School outdoor recess on Pearl Street in fall 2017 27 The 2016 Middle School Girls Volleyball League Champions (undefeated) and the 2017 team that posted an 11-1 record

28 Lower School Family Folk Dance 29 The PAT Winterfest, now in its 37th year — with basement-torooftop entertainment, food, crafts, shopping, and special presentations, along with the winter book fair in the BFS library

30 The Upper School Merit Scholars

31 The spring 2017 Afterschool Showcase in which kindergarten through grade ﬁve students from Filmmaking, Ballet, Cheryl’s Double Dutch, Afterschool Band, Capoeira, Nikki’s Jazz Jam, and Penciltopia Animation performed and demonstrated their work!

32 The ﬁnancial aid program 33 Ninth and tenth grade students

44 Kindergarten Spirit Week 45 The Middle School’s Halloween

partnering with students at Brooklyn International High School for a service-learning project in which they shared dances and created choreography together.

Costume Social and Dance Party

34 Third grade animal research projects 35 Three brand-new libraries for Pre/Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools

36 The more than 115 faculty

46 Faculty Marathoners Larry Weiss, Laurice Hwang, Jazelyn Montanez ’98 and Lydia Gonzalez. Larry and Lydia ran in the 2017 Marine Corps Marathon; Laurice and Jazelyn in the 2017 New York Marathon. Jazelyn also ﬁnished in the 2017 Chicago Marathon 47 Tenth Grade Community Issues Conference

and staff members who have been certiﬁed in CPR, First Aid, and AED

48 The new “Blue Blocks” up on the roof

37 Upper School Privilege Day 38 First grade letter writing campaign to NYC Council Member Stephen Levin petitioning to prohibit wild and exotic animals from performing in New York City

39 The Kindergarten-B Class’s L is for Love ebook/video, submitted to the 2017 Bridge Film Festival Champions

49 Upper School Halloween and Valentine candy-grams delivered by Student Council members

41 Fourth Grade Halloween Dance

50 Pearl the Panther, our Mascot

40 2017 Boys JV Basketball Playoff Performance, now in its 34th year

42 Seventh grade dancers choreographing a dance based on an oral history interview with a person living with HIV/AIDS conducted by 8th graders as part of their service learning 43 Third grade Haudenosaunee studies, food feast, museum, and dance performance Winter 2017/18 BROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOL JOURNAL

51 The 22 faculty and staff

61 The Family Center faculty

70 The hundreds of books read

members who have worked at Brooklyn Friends School for more than 20 years, including two, Manny Narvaez and Martin Moore, who have given more than 40 years of dedicated service to the school

and staff, who teach, nurture and guide our very youngest students in a stand-alone site at 189 Schermerhorn Street

and the thousands of dollars raised through the Lower School Horizons Reading Challenge

52 Upper School Student-Led

62 The Student Buddy Program in Pre, Lower, and Middle School

Activities and the endowment started by the families of the Class of 2017 to fund the program

55 Two new maker spaces at both Pearl and Lawrence Streets

56 The annual All-School Visual Arts Show, which represents the creativity, talent, and skill of all students, pre-grade 12 57 The award winning Upper School Model United Nations team 58 Ceramics at BFS — we have one of the best school studios in the region, the best teachers, and the best student artists!

Philadelphia, with a focus on history and Quaker heritage

63 Upper School International

74 Eighth grade spring trip to Cape Cod, with a focus on life science and oceanography

64 The Foote sisters, Donna and

75 The expert services provided by

Cheryl — at the helm of the Lawrence and Pearl Street lobbies, they’re the official greeters at BFS and braintrusts with deep knowledge about the school.

65 Affinity groups for students, faculty/staff, and parents 66 Lower School Math Challenges 67 The one-to-one personal

68 Our Latin program, Latin Baccalaureate Visual Arts Show

60 The Parent Affordability workshops, sponsored by the Enrollment and College Offices, which are open to families in all grades

73 The Preschool and Lower School Autumn Sing in the historic Brooklyn Monthly Meetinghouse prior to fall break

Baccalaureate student-produced showcases in music, theater, and dance

computer program for students in grades ﬁve through twelve and the hands-on use of technology beginning in Kindergarten

59 The annual International

professional development program, which has four days of in-service programming for all employees, as well as funding for conferences, workshops, and higher education

72 Seventh grade spring trip to

53 Preschool Friday Sing with Tony 54 Third Grade Lifebooks and how they set the foundation for outstanding student writing of personal narratives, prose, and poetry

71 The BFS faculty/staff

teachers, and the remarkable results our students achieve in the National Latin Exam — an average of 65 prizes and a perfect paper every year over the past ﬁve years

69 The Fifth Grade Egyptian Pharoah’s Funeral

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our registered school nurses, Alicia Christian, Diane Charlton, and Diane Krogman

76 Our spirited and often raucous School Sing that takes place before winter break, with sing-alongs and dancing representing diverse cultures and traditions 77 The PAT Black History Month Celebration 78 An exemplary college counseling program that is individualized and personal, focusing on the student’s journey, the best match, and a mission-aligned approach 79 The opportunity for students to learn Latin, Spanish, French, and Mandarin, with Spanish starting in Kindergarten

80 The Middle School’s annual spelling bee, organized by the English Department

81 Our woodworking program,

88 Fifth and sixth grade annual

93 The Preschool 4s intensive class

which began in the early 20th century and keeps going stronger every year

Soccer Jamboree in Brooklyn Bridge Park

studies of space travel/astronaut training, the universality of bread, and the lives of big cats

82 First grade Trick or Treat for

94 The “BFS at 150” section of the

Unicef, which the ﬁrst graders promote in all Lower School classes — around $1,000 is raised every year through these efforts, all to beneﬁt the children of the world.

school’s website, brooklynfriends. org/150, which features a timeline of events at the school parallel to world events — Did you know that our school’s first kindergarten class opened in the same year as the first Rose Bowl and the first movie theater, in 1902?

83 Our student literary magazines, Write Now, Scribe, and WordFlirt

84 Middle Schoolers’ hands-on participation in the Billion Oysters Project and A Day in the Life of the Hudson River Watershed research programs

85 MathCounts, Mathletes, the Brooklyn Math Bowl — organizations that give our mathematics students opportunities to compete with their peers from other schools and exercise their brains at the highest level

89 Young Womyn of Strength, a community conference sponsored by the BFS Office of Equity and Inclusion. In 2017, the ﬁfth consecutive conference, Michaela Angela Davis, renowned writer, editor, producer, and trendsetter, was the keynote speaker.

90 The Kindergarten studies of cottontail rabbits, zebras, cheetahs, and foxes

87 The BFS community-wide response to the devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico and coordinated efforts to support relief and rebuilding. Students raised $1,142 through bake sales to beneﬁt Teens4PR, and more than 37 cartons of supplies were collected for direct aid to children and families.

96 The social, emotional and mental health support provided by BFS psychological services professionals, Dr. Kamauru Johnson, Dr. Rachel Maldonado, Jeffrey Cox, LCSW, and Wanda Frankel, LCSW 97 The Pearl Street elevators, still personally operated after all these years, and our operators, Manny and Louise.

86 Fall work day in the Quaker Cemetery, which is located in — and predates— Prospect Park

95 Student scholarships and prizes funded by our alumni to honor faculty alumni Lucy G. Adams, Jack Ramey, Benjamin Burdsall, and Martin Norregaard

91 The 65-member, parent volunteer Brooklyn Friends Fund Committee, whose collective efforts resulted in 89 percent parent participation in the annual Brooklyn Friends Fund, with 100 percent participation in preschool 3s, kindergarten and ﬁrst grade. 92 Brooklyn Friends School Summer Camp, Summer Arts, and Jazz in June programs for children, pre-teens and teens and open to all in the community

98 Guest Dance Performances for the Lower School presented by the Red Hawk Dancers, Folklorico Mexicano and Folklore Urbano

99 The Second Grade Brooklyn Bridge study, which includes writing and performing an original play

100 Faculty Summer Curriculum Grants

101 Talks for parents with guest experts Joel Westheimer (citizenship and service learning) and Dr. Alan Schlechter, Dr. Adam Brown, and Dr. Jamie Howard (child and adolescent development)

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102 The Quaker Youth Leadership

110 BFS in Japan during the

Conference, hosted in 2017 by BFS and Mary McDowell Friends School

summer of 2017 — three students, Amanda Mai Becker, Joy Freund, Sean Wong, along with faculty Sidney Bridges and Jean Kim, toured the country and participated in an International Innovation Forum in Tokyo and a peace summit conference in Hiroshima

103 Banana Splits in the Lower School and Middle School — a school-based peer support group for children who have experienced divorce, separation, or the death of a parent

104 Diversity Education and Justice in the Curriculum, a New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS) workshop and conference for educators that was founded and presented by the BFS Office of Equity and Inclusion — Orinthia Swindell (Director) and Russell Marsh (Associate Director) — January 2017 at the Upper School, and returning in 2018

111 The 14 alumni who also teach

language students’ celebrating Día de Los Tres Reyes at the parade in Spanish Harlem and at the Museo del Barrio

108 The 15 faculty/staff who are also parents of BFS students 109 Afterschool music lessons, which supplement the instrumental and choral music program during the school day 16

119 A revival of “The Life,” once a printed student-run newspaper and now a new media production with video and podcast elements, still telling the story of life at BFS

112 The Panthers Supreme Dance Team

113 Upper School biology and forensic science students taking part in advanced labs at the Harlem DNA Lab, part of the famed Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

120 First-come, ﬁrst serve, an employee beneﬁt program started by the PAT — in which parents donate tickets to Broadway, cultural events, sports, museums, etc. to the BFS faculty/staff on a rotating basis 121 The BFS cafeterias and the delicious, nutritious meals our wonderful chefs prepare and serve every day, tickling thousands of taste buds a week!

and games for Lower and Middle School students

107 Middle School Spanish

118 Young Alumni Visiting Day in January

and work at BFS

105 Lunchtime chess instruction 106 The Bridge Film Festival, founded at BFS in 1999 and still the only Quaker-themed ﬁlm festival in the US and the world

celebration that takes place after the students have read and studied the Shakespeare tragedy

114 Indigenous Peoples Day celebration at BFS in coordination with Brooklyn Monthly Meeting’s Quaker Outreach and the Mohawk Nation

115 Coffee Hours — so many… where to begin? Starting in the preschool, continuing to the lower school and moving all the way up to middle and upper schools, these gatherings for parents cover a range of topics: the curriculum, child development, celebrating holidays, standardized testing, and health and wellness, among others.

116 Walking trips to the Brooklyn Borough Hall Farmers’ Market 117 The eighth grade’s “Romeo and Juliet” wedding ceremony and

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122 Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS), the service learning program in which all Upper School students participate

123 Our dedicated and hardworking maintenance staff

124 The PAT’s new Public Talks program — the ﬁrst event, in October 2017, was a movie and talk on Screenagers: How Much Screen Time Is Healthy? 125 The 2017-18 printed academic calendar, which is illustrated with

new Upper School Lawrence Street building

128 Gifts of song and music that take place twice a year during the Chorus, Orchestra and Jazz concerts performed by Middle and Upper school students. 129 The Upper School athletic pep rallies that take place in the lower gym every year (Our ears are still ringing!)

Religions class, in which students conduct interviews with people of different faiths from among the BFS community

145 Preschool afterschool classes in yoga, cooking, and drumming

136 The study and practice of Yoga

partnerships with Prep for Prep, Oliver Scholars, A Better Chance (ABC), Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, TEAK Fellowship, Breakthrough NY, Boys Club of NY, and Early Steps

as a physical education option in grades 9-12

137 Public Speaking class with Upper School Librarian Larry Williams

147 The Lower School art trading

138 The All-School Committees on Equity and Inclusion, Quaker Life, Guidance, and Health Services that represent collaborative efforts to shape the curriculum and school life at BFS

place every year when sixth graders study the history of ancient MiddleEastern civilizations

131 Greenie 1 and Greenie 2— our Preschool and Lower School science lab’s aeroponic garden towers that grow vegetables, greens, herbs and small ﬂowers

132 The Kindergarten study of the people and places of the 375 Pearl Street building, from the massive boiler in the cellar to the roof-top playground.

139 Preschool 3s Family Culture Shares 140 The Middle School’s annual Geography Bee, organized by the History Department

card project (for students in every grade) and the sharing/trading of cards that takes place at the ﬁnal assembly of the year

148 The 37 interscholastic (gr. 7-12) teams who represent BFS during the fall, winter, and spring seasons. 149 The Library’s Mock Newbery Awards event

150 Everyone who volunteers

141 Our Middle and Upper students’ regular trips to Brooklyn Academy of Music, Joyce Theater, Broadway and Off-Broadway to see, appreciate, and learn from theater and dance performances

142 The Preschool and Kindergarten Caregivers Appreciation Breakfast

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the New York Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side, The Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Battery Park, and other sites in NYC to enhance their history studies

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143 Eighth graders’ yearly visits to

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130 A real-life bazaar that takes

146 Our Admissions Outreach

127 The ﬁtness facility in the

134 Middle School Activity Period 135 The Upper School World

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126 The second grade Change-

133 The sixth grade annual visit to the Cloisters and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine

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vintage photographs of students from 1889 through the 21st century

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ALUMNA PROFILE

Lucinda Duncalfe ’81 by Jeffrey Stanley

Lucinda Duncalfe ’81, the 2017 recipient of the Brooklyn Friends School George Fox Award, started at BFS as a seventh grader. She had come from a different world academically than the one she encountered at Brooklyn Friends. “I had gone to a little school called Woodward, and it was tiny,” she said. “BFS was enormous to me. I thought it was overwhelming. I don’t remember this, but I’ve been told that for the ﬁrst week all I did was go to school and sit on a bench in the lobby. I was scared to death. It was a big move and a big change.” Lucinda’s mother, Marjory Duncalfe helped with the transition, counseling patience and a “let it be” approach that worked perfectly. Marjory was a fabled music teacher in the middle and upper schools, known for orchestrating ambitious student productions of Gilbert & Sullivan plays, among others. “One year I was in Once Upon a Mattress,” Lucinda recalled. But that was the beginning and the end of her career in the performing arts. “That was a great thing about the school,” she said. “You could try so many things.” And so she did — starting a basketball team, playing volleyball and softball, and running track. Lucinda had a ﬁercely independent — some might even say devilish — side as a student. Among her memories were the consequences of the skip day she took with a few senior friends, while she was still a junior, to spend the day at the beach. “We got horribly sunburned. When we came into school the next morning, Ms. Magzanian was waiting for us, but when she saw our pained expressions 18

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on beet red faces, she burst out laughing and told us that we had clearly suffered the consequences of our actions already.” Then there was the time she and classmate Martha Smith, whose father was Head of School Stuart Smith, decided to play a practical joke. Martha arranged for (Business Manager) Jim O’Brien to take her father out for the day. “We got the school secretary to let us into his office. We opened the door from his office out to the lobby, and carpeted the floor with paper cups stapled together in a honeycomb, each cup filled with water. Students, faculty, and staff helped us, and we spent hours covering his entire office floor. When Stuart arrived at school the next morning, he just walked right in, stomping on the cups, and sat down and started to work. Because he couldn’t shut the door, all the students got to see our masterwork as they filed into morning meeting.” This teenager with an active mind and even bigger imagination was a strong student, especially in mathematics, and upon graduation, she matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania with a basketball scholarship and a major in psychology. After college Lucinda returned to New York for a time, then was off to San Francisco for her first real job, “at a little startup.” She was in another big city but far from home. “I wanted to be back on the East Coast. I wanted to go back to school.” She applied to graduate programs in art history, psychology, and only one business school.

Accepted into the Wharton School of Business’s MBA program, Lucinda returned to the City of Brotherly Love. She admits that the decision was half-hearted at the time but “it turned out that I loved it.” She was especially drawn to entrepreneurial management. Fast-forward 30 years, and Lucinda has earned a place as a major mover and shaker in the tech world, going from strength to strength as a five-time CEO. [Women hold less than 5 % of these roles in the tech sector.] When asked about her career and achievements, Lucinda pointed to her work as the president, CEO and founder of TurnTide, a company that unveiled the world’s first anti-spam router, a piece of computer hardware designed to prevent spam. Symantec bought the business for $28 million in 2004, just six months after its founding. Another modest highlight that comes to mind was the culture she created as CEO at Destiny Software. “It was a really special place. Our clients were happy and trusted us deeply. We were doing great work with an underpinning of common values.” Since 2014, Lucinda has been President and CEO of Monetate, a venture capital-backed software company that powers personalization for the world’s best brands. An Eisenhower Fellow, she has attended the Aspen Institute and has served on a number of private company and not-for-profit boards. Despite her tremendous successes, Lucinda at first took her position as a woman in the tech sector in stride. “There’s a lot of talk about it now — women in technology. I didn’t think about it when it was happening. Being an early pioneer will, over time, feel deeply meaningful to me. I don’t wear that jersey comfortably yet.” Outside of work, it’s not a basketball jersey Lucinda wears but a gi, or karate uniform. She’s currently a 2nd degree black belt in Shotokan karate. “I’ve been doing it virtually forever,” she said. “It’s mind-body-spirit in the same way as yoga — except you hit people. I train every weekend with a shifting group. That’s been a really important aspect of my life and there’s a lot that I’ve learned there that I bring to everything else that I do.” She also enjoys cooking and spending time with her two daughters. “They are the real highlight of my life,” she said. Have they inherited her tech gene? “The older one is in college already and she wants to do computer science, which is more her dad’s aspect of it. My little one wants nothing to do with tech at all.” Today Lucinda lives in Fort Washington outside of Philadelphia. But, she concedes, “I still love being in New York City more than anything else. I feel like I’m home. Everyone else around me is hyper and I’m relaxed.”

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Every year, we encourage our alumni to make a gift to BFS in order to support our community operations and help provide the same outstanding educational opportunities to future generations. Reunions are always a wonderful time for alums to reconnect with friends, reﬂect on their experiences at BFS, and coordinate with classmates to preserve their legacy by giving in honor of their class year. Alumni Day 2017 was a groundbreaking year for BFS’ reunion giving. It all started with the Blue Pride Alumni Challenge, which was a friendly competition to track participation between reunion classes. A generous alumnus, Charles Rosenthal ’53 offered to match every reunion gift up to $20,000!

Even with those exciting incentives, the real reunion MVPs went to the Class of 1967, who were celebrating their 50th reunion. This dynamic class worked together to win the Blue Pride Alumni Challenge with a whopping 87% participation. Although it was a celebratory accomplishment, it’s important to note that the members of ’67 made their collective gift to honor the memory of their late classmate, Susan Fox. Susan Fox ’67

This impressive class effort shows that no matter how long ago our alums graduated from BFS, the spirit of stewardship lives on. We look forward to this year’s friendly competition and are excited about our ﬁrst Alumni Weekend 150th celebration this spring.

— Lekeia Varlack Judge

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