Welcome to the Unofficial Friends School History Website & A List of All Videos on the Site

Friends School Unofficial History Website

Katherine and Joe MacPhail’s parents gave us a chunk of money and let me choose how to use it.  I got their permission to use it to pay for professionally recorded videos of folks associated with CFS.  I moved forward and got Todd Tinkham, a local videographer, and Ahmed Selim, a CFS videographer, to make recordings for us.  All of the folks interviewed have given me permission to post the videos online.  I particularly want alums of CFS to be able to access our history through such sharing.

As a first step, on this website you can find some of the amazing videos we recorded.  Check them out.  Let me know if they work for you and what you get out of them.    punmasterhenry@gmail.com

I hope to be adding documents that I have in my possession.  Imagine being able to read comics written by students in the middle school during the 1970s!  Literary magazines from that time, too.

I hope to be adding sections of plays we did, too.

Any details about your life now and at CFS would be great to share!

With Zoom, came a lot of possibilities of recording visits, much more cheaply and easily (including allowing for folks to be recorded at a distance and not in the same space), so a lot of recordings have happened in the last few years.

Henry Walker, updated 1/23

Videos on the website (can be accessed via Search box, upper right on website):

Former/Current Staff Videos:

John Sharon, Assistant Head of CFS 3/23

PACE Grant at CFS, Caique Vidal

Music: Caique Vidal and Jonathan Henderson, 10/22

Early Childhood Education, Carmen Raynor and Paul Winterhoff, 9/22

Music at CFS, early 1980s + last 14 years (Busy Graham, Joanna Sisk-Purvis)

Don Wells retires from CFS, 1987: part 1 & 2

Head Teacher CFS: Renee Prillaman, Lisa Carboni, Lauren Brownlee

Christel Butchart on Voices for Change, Spectrum News

Birding: Jim Keighton, Norm Budnitz, Dan Kaplan  1/21

Connie Toverud: CFS and Kubler-Ross  6/20

Bill Chappell, CFS First Treasurer  6/20

Terry Pendergrast, Libby Pendergrast, Don Wells, Thomas Patterson  4/20

Heads of School: Mike Hanas, Don Wells, Karen Cumberbatch, John Baird 4/20

Annie Dwyer, John McGovern, Kathy Schenley, Michael Bonsignore  4/20

Dee Dudley-Mayfield and Joan Walker  4/20

Don Wells, Jim Henderson, Henry Walker  4/20

Charlie Layman, Carrie Huff, Willy Rotella  4/20

History of Sports at CFS: Mark Goodwillie, John Baird, John McGovern, Jonathan McGovern   4/20

Mike Hanas and Afghan Sister School 4/20

Thomas Patterson on Diversity  4/20

Former Student Videos:

Matthew Costello (recent graduate)

STEM V4, STEM V3, STEM V2, STEM V1 (excerpts)

Aidan Piontak, Tech and CFS

John Gordon, and Catherine, Beijing, China

Mike Iskandar, Time Travel Journeys 6/21

Josh Lozoff, a visit  5/21

The Sea and Nature: John Borden and Carole  5/21

The Theater: Eric Love and Amanda Malo  5/21

The Farm Today: David Henderson, Larry Bohs, Anna Shapley-Quinn  2/21

Jim Lauderdale and Time Wells, a visit  2/21

Nicholas Kitchen and Music 2021

Eric Garner, CFS Class of 1980

Dance: A Visiting 2020 (alums: Jessica Harris, Jasmine Powell, Tommy Noonan)

CFS Alums: Making a Difference  (Alena Graedon, Suzanne Richardson, Liam Hysjulien)

Creative Writing: Alena Graedon, Liam Hysjulien, Suzanne Richardson  11/20

Richard (Nguyen) Banh on his art  11/20

Richard Banh, now  11/20

Class of '79 and '80 CFS (Lisa Long Jackson, Michael Polgar, Rebecca Laszlo, Gretchen  Klopfer-Wing)

Bonnie Morris, video 6/20

Chuck Shaw, Howard Pratt, Chris Couch  4/20

Community Videos:

Dorothy Kitchen: Duke String School

Hilda and Bill Chappell, a Memorial Service of Remembrance  8/22

Upper School Dance, Center Building, 1987 (video of dancing)

Campus Early School, moving it into place

Staff Retreat 1987

Lower School Halloween Play, 1987

Winter Dance Concert, CFS Upper School, 2021

Dance at CFS (Dot Borden, Annie Dwyer, Myra Morris, Linda Belans, Maggie Bradley) 7/21

Peter and Martha Klopfer, Founding of CFS

Martha Klopfer on Spectrum News, A Voice for Change

Ariel's Way, an original musical by Jim Henderson (link to renting the video)

Jennifer Curtis and Diali Cissokho's Concert, CFS PAC 2021

1980s: Hattie Scott Warner, Thomas Patterson, David Smith, with students

Ellis Island Simulation 2001

Henry Walker, a cameo after CATS was over, 2020

CFS History Documenting:

Videos:

A Creek Runs Through It (video of early CFS history)

Don Wells on CFS early history

Don Wells on CFS

Founding of CFS: Peter and Martha Klopfer

Upper School End-of-year Trips (Dave Worden, Aliza Bridge, Matt Gouchoe-Hanas)

Kim and Allegra: Sports at CFS 12/22

Scanned Documents:

John Whittier-Ferguson: Make It New (words on CFS early history)

John Whittier Ferguson Talk, 1984 (on paper)

Bonnie Morris, Chuckle Magazine, 2 (print copy)

Literary Magazine 1972  (print copy)

Claxton Fuddles Comic: Robert Rubin/Ralph Kirshner (print copy)

Pencil's Flourish: Felicitas, Norm, Sunshine (print copy)

Mud Magazine: Ralph Kirshner (print copy)