Scattergood Friends School Mission

Through a strong academic program, a cooperative workprogram, and community based on Quaker values, Scattergood Friends Schoolprepares students with recognition of self worth, sense of global citizenship,growing spiritual awareness, commitment to life-long learning, ability to liveconstructively in a community, and skills to attain future academic andvocational success.

Approved Minutes

Open Meeting

Scattergood FriendsSchool Committee

15 May 2010

Present: GeorgeBergus, Ruth Dawson, Debbie Galusha (clerk), Frank Griffith, Lucy Hansen, PhilHenderson, Russ Leckband, Lorene Ludy, Callie Marsh, Sylvia Sanford, DanSchlitt, Steve Tamari, Doyle Wilson, Allan Winder, Bob Winchell

Absent: Dan Treadway

Staff present: Margie Figgins, Joey Giffin-Hunter, GinnyWinsor, Steve Wolf-Camplin

Guests: Christine Ashley, Head of School, effective 1 July2010; Jennie Schmidt

The clerk opened the meeting with a time of quiet worship.She then read the following quotation:

Should not we Quaker educators seek to educate ourstudents

to live a life of inner certainty and authority thatcomes from

the development and transformation of the self froman end

into means for goodness?  By encouraging a youthto be

educable and reflectively open to the inward word, todevelop

an unassailable personal and ethical integrity, tofind his [sic]

identity within a community of value, could we notbetter

prepare our students to live lives of intensepassion,

religious devotion, and corporate commitment?

Douglas Heath

Why a Friends School?

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 164

We welcomed Christine Ashley and introduced ourselves toher.

• We approve the minutes of the meetings for April 3, 18, and 22, 2010.
• Dan Treadway is resigning from his membership on the School Committee after many years of service. We appreciate his good work and dedication to the School. The recording clerk will write him a thank you note. Dan Schlitt will take over Dan Treadway’s responsibility for our website, for which we thank him.

• We listened to reports from the Academic, Admissions/Enrollment, Development, Facilities, Farm Committees with much interest and appreciation.

• Jennie Schmidt reported on the results of the ISACS survey. She reminded us that the survey is an 18-month process. We appreciate Jenny’s expertise and willingness to work with us in this area.

Ginny Winsorreported that all the graduating seniors have been accepted at accreditedfour-year colleges, thus maintaining our requirement for accreditation from thestate of Iowa.

• We approve the financial reports as presented.

We reviewed theproposed Strategic Plan. Suggestions were heard by the Strategic PlanningSubcommittee, and the revised version will be considered for approval at thenext meeting.

• Ruth Dawson,* Debbie Galusha, Sylvia Sanford and Steve Tamari will continue work on the mission statement, which they will present to us for the July meeting.

The Head will askthe staff their preferences for dates to share discussion on the state of theSchool. We will establish a regular date on the School Committee calendar forthis event.

· Wethank Ginny Winsor for her year with us as Interim Head. She has risen to manychallenges, for which we are grateful.

The clerk closedthe meeting with a period of quiet worship. We will meet again on 27 July 2010at 9 a.m. at Scattergood Friends School.

Callie Marsh,recording clerk

* denotesconvener of the committee

Coming events:

            30May 2010 – Scattergood Friends School Graduation

           12 June2010 – Bob Winchell and T.C. Rush will be married at Bear Creek Meeting at 4p.m. All are invited. There will be a reception in Des Moines at 6 p.m.

            27July 2010 – Scattergood Friends School Committee meeting

            27July 2010 - 1 August 2010 – Iowa Yearly Meeting annual sessions

            18September 2010 – Scattergood Friends School Committee meeting