Mission Statement

Scattergood FriendsSchool challenges students with a college-preparatory curriculum, farmexperience, a

shared work program, andcommunity living in the spirit of Quaker faith.

Scattergood Friends School Committee

Approved Minutes

22 January 2011

Present: Claire Cumbie-Drake, Ruth Dawson, DebbieGalusha (clerk), Lucy Hansen, Phil Henderson, Megan Knight, Russ Leckband,Lorene Ludy, Callie Marsh, Sylvia Sanford, Dan Schlitt, Bob Winchell, AllanWinder

Absent: George Bergus, FrankGriffith, Steve Tamari, Doyle Wilson

Faculty Present: Christine Ashley, Matt Brown, MargieFiggins, Dana Foster, Bob Gutwein, Shelly Hughes, Nicole Wolf-Camplin

Guest: Bob Yeats, from the SFS Foundation Trustees

Theclerk opened the meeting at the appointed time with a period of quiet worship.She then read the following:

A Friends school hopes to offer a community that cares deeplyabout what kind of persons its members, young and old, are becoming, what goalsand motives are effective in their lives, what their response is to the highcalling of being human. They hope to be communities of those who have, not onlytechniques and knowledge, but also a vivid relationship to reality, a hungerfor worship, a passion for truth, and the experience of growth in the Light.

FriendsCouncil on Education

We welcomed BobYeats, the representative from the Foundation Trustees. It was good to see himagain.

Theclerk announced that Keith Shahan of ISACS who was scheduled to be with ustoday, had to postpone his visit until our May meeting.

TheSchool Committee congratulated Debbie Galusha upon her receiving her ED.Ddegree in December. We admire her tenacity and hard work.

Minute:We approve the minutes of our Conference Call meeting on 21 December 2010, andthe minutes of our last meeting on 6 November 2010, with the correction of twotypographical errors.

Minute: Weapprove changing the mission statement, removing the words ‘its,’ ‘relevant,’and ‘academic’ to read as follows:

ScattergoodFriends School challenges students with a college-preparatory curriculum, farmexperience, a shared work program, and community living in the spirit of Quakerfaith.

Minute:We approve instituting an English Language Learners (ELL)/international studentfee of $1800/year.

Minute:We approve the financial report as recommended by the Consultation &Finance Committee.

Christine shared with us a change in policy for theuse of the Berquist House. Guests will be asked to make a donation to theschool. Suggestions for such donations will be posted in each guest room.School Committee members, as well as other guests, are welcome to donatesomething for the costs the school incurs for such services.

Wereviewed the appointments of School Committee members to faculty committeesworking on the self-study for the ISAACS accreditation.

Local communication—Ruth Dawson

Advancement& Alumni—Steve Tamari

Farm—DanSchlitt

Equity& Justice—Bob Winchell

Personnel—RussLeckband

Business& Finance—Claire Cumbie-Drake

Administration—DebbieGalusha

Governance—LoreneLudy

Facilities—SylviaSanford

Thead hoc committee on the strategic plan suggests that the School Committee takeresponsibility for writing the preamble of the long-range plan. The staff isresponsible for the section of the Goals and Actions to accomplish the goals.The School Committee will include a section on the strategic plan after thepreamble. The committee’s goal is to finish its work for the March meeting.

ClaireCumbie-Drake has agreed to act for Christine as counsel, but not as her legal representative.

AllanWinder and Lorene Ludy will work with a committee of staff members, convened byDana Foster, to plan the State of the School meeting with staff during ourmeeting on 5 March 2011.

Theninth grade Global Issues class shared their Power Point presentation on thequality of life at Scattergood. We enjoyed the show, and were much impressed bythe data they had collected and interpreted. We thank them.

Weappreciate the good work of the staff, as evidenced in their thorough andhelpful reports. We heard good reports from the Head of the School and the Deanof Students, as well as from the Academic, Admissions, Consultation &Finance, Development, Farm, and Facilities Sub-committees.

Wemoved into a closed meeting.

Callie Marsh, recording clerk