Scattergood Friends School Mission

Through a strongacademic program, a cooperative work program, and community life based

on Quaker values,Scattergood Friends School prepares students with recognition of self worth,

sense of globalcitizenship, growing spiritual awareness, commitment to life-long learning,

ability to liveconstructively in a community, and skills to attain future academic andvocational

success.

SCATTERGOOD FRIENDSSCHOOL COMMITTEE

28 July 2009

Present: George Bergus, Debbie Galusha, Frank Griffith, LucyHansen, Phil Henderson, Andrea Jilovec, Callie Marsh, Mike Resman, SylviaSanford, Dan Schlitt, Dan Treadway, Doyle Wilson, Bob Winchell

Absent: Sharon Haworth, Russ Leckband, Charity Muñoz, AllanWinder, Bob Yeats

Staff Present: Margie Figgins, Bob Gutwein, Glenn Singer,Ginny Winsor, Steve Wolf-Camplin, Nicole Wolf-Camplin

The Clerk openedthe meeting with a period of silent worship. She read the following selection:

What makes a good school?  To me it seems clear that a good schoolis one that is constantly engaged in self-examination, in improving itself, inbecoming wiser in its ability to both teach and inspire.  It’s a school that is intent on turningout good people who will help make a better world. It’s a school where ideas and ideals are in everydaycirculation, the coinage of ordinary transactions.

RobertLawrence Smith, A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons in Simplicity,Service, and Common Sense, 138-139.

The cost of thegifts for Jan Luchini came to $23.43 for each of our 17 members, or whateverpeople feel they can give. Contributions may be made to Sylvia Sanford.

We approve theminutes of meetings held 9 May 2009 (with two minor changes), 17 May 2009, 5June 2009, 15 July 2009.

We approveallocating the remainder of the bequest from Arthur Evans to purchase andinstall the well tanks in the Main Building.

We approve boththe Farm Report and the Head’s Report for the Yearly Meeting.

We approve thedecision to request that the Yearly Meeting contribute $40,000 to the Schoolfor the coming year.

We give finalapproval to the proposed changes to the SFSC Rules and Guidelines, regardingthe Head Evaluation and the Human Resource’s Sub-Committee’s job description.

We heard a reportfrom Lucy Hansen about the Human Resources Committee. We discussed the timingof the Head Evaluation and the signing of the note of agreement with the Head.

We approve theClerk’s report to the IYM (C) sessions about the search committee for a newHead.

The Strategic Planhas stimulated considerable discussion. It will be the topic for our Decemberretreat. Phil Henderson (convener), George Bergus, Allan Winder (subject to hisapproval), and Glenn Singer will be the Retreat Planning Committee.

We approvechanging the Advancement Sub-Committee into two sub-committees—Development andAdmissions/Enrollment. The recording clerk will email this change to memberswithin ten days.

The clerk shareda draft of a manual she wrote to be used for searches for a Head of School. Shebased her suggestions on The Art of Hiring Leaders: A Guide for NonprofitOrganizations, by Barbara Gilvar.

The dates for ourmeetings for the school year 2009-2010 will be

October 10

December 12

January 23

March 6

May 15

July 27

David Abazs willmake a one-hour presentation on sustainability for the October meeting. TheDecember meeting will be a retreat, probably beginning on Friday.

We commit to beactively engaged in the school in the following areas as way opens:

                        a)Sub-committees

b)Fund-raising

c)Promotion

d)Friends-in-residence

We thank the staff for their thorough and timely reports. Weappreciate their hard work.

Nicole Wolf-Camplin expressed appreciation for the work ofthe SFSC.

We reflected onour work over the last year, and are satisfied that we have been energized andactive. We hope we can be still more engaged in bringing our dreams for theschool to fruition.

The clerk closedthe meeting with a brief period of silent worship. We look forward to meetingagain on 10 October 2009.

Callie Marsh,recording clerk