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About MFS
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Head of School
During his tenure at MFS, Mr. Van Meter has driven a Strategic Planning process in collaboration with the entire MFS community. The plan continues to serve as a guiding document for the MFS community emphasizing twin pillars of academic rigor and spiritual and ethical growth. A number of exciting physical changes to the campus have also occurred since his arrival as Head of School, highlighted by a new Field House and Arts Center which opened in 2003. In 2008, the school purchased the former Greenleaf Retirement facility on Main Street, a property contiguous to the current MFS campus near the Field House and Tennis Courts. Prior to becoming Head of School at Moorestown Friends, Mr. Van Meter served as Headmaster of Darrow School in New York from 1994-2001. He was Director of Advancement at George School in Pennsylvania from 1989-1994 and in the 1980s, he held the following positions: Director of Marketing for Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers in Maine, Executive Director of the Appalachian Trail Conference in West Virginia, and teacher at The Mountain School in Vermont. In the 1970s, he worked as the Executive Director of the Green Mountain Club in Vermont and spent three seasons as a Vermont state forest ranger in Camel’s Hump State Park. He also worked for the University of Vermont and U.S. Forest Service. An accomplished writer and avid outdoorsman, Mr. Van Meter teaches an original course in regional studies for MFS Upper School students. He has recently penned columns that have appeared in the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Boston Globe. A native of Moorestown, he is a life-long member of Moorestown Friends (Quaker) Meeting. He attended MFS from prekindergarten through his senior year. Mr. Van Meter has an M.B.A. from Dartmouth (Amos Tuck School), a B.A. in history from Hamilton College, and an A.A.S. in Woodworking and Furniture Design from Rochester Institute of Technology’s School for American Crafts. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Former MFS Heads of School*: Elmer Barrett, 1920-1925 Chester Reagan, 1925-1955 Merrill Hiatt, 1955-1969 Alexander MacColl, 1969-1986 Gardiner Bridge, 1986-1987 (interim) Clint Wilkins, 1987-1990 Alan Craig, 1990-2001 Laurence Van Meter, 2001-present * In 1920, after a 91 year separation, the two Friends Schools in Moorestown reunited.
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Laurence (Larry) Van Meter, MFS class of 1968, became Head of School in 2001. He is passionate about education, the natural world, and woodworking, and these diverse interests are reflected in his work experience.
110 E. Main Street Moorestown, NJ 08057-2949 Phone: (856) 235-2900 |
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