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MFS News June 5, 2008 SIXTY-NINE TO GRADUATE FROM MOORESTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL ON JUNE 7
Moorestown Friends School (MFS) will hold Commencement for the 69 members of the 2008 graduating class on Saturday June 7, at 7 p.m. at the school. Commencement speakers will be faculty member and Haddonfield resident Paul Shallers, who teaches Middle School and Upper School English, and students Lauren Hawkins (Franklinville) and Dan Gurrieri (Medford). Commencement speakers are selected by members of the senior class. MFS does not compute class rankings or designate valedictorians/salutatorians. Traditionally one male and one female student are selected along with a teacher, and it is considered an honor to be chosen. This year’s seniors will attend colleges and universities including Brown University, Bryn Mawr College, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Georgetown University, Haverford College, New York University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, Swarthmore College, Syracuse University, and Yale University. Click here for the complete list of destination colleges and universities for the Class of 2008. The Moorestown Friends’ Commencement ceremony includes a number of significant traditions. Graduates have worn white dresses and formal men’s attire in lieu of caps and gowns since at least the early 1900s. (MFS was founded in 1785.) Quaker secondary schools traditionally do not use robes, which are an outgrowth of clerical garb. Another tradition is that the Head of School reads the diploma of one of the “originals” – students who have attended MFS since kindergarten. Eleven members of the Class of 2008 are “originals.” The graduation ceremony is scheduled to be held outside, with seniors exiting from the front of the Upper School and walking around the driveway known as “the Oval” to the group seating area. In case of inclement weather, commencement will be held in the Field House.
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