MFS WordsWorth

As the new editor-in-chief of MFS WordsWorth, I thought it only fitting that I continue the tradition of my late (read: graduated) predecessor, Ed Gelernt, in writing a monthly editorial column. While I can hardly hope to recreate the unique gifts that Gelernt brought to “Ed Said”—notably, his uniquely fieryRead More

It is the job of a news reporter, in most aspects of his or her work, to try as strenuously as possible to remain both impartial and dispassionate; as an ideal, we strive to report the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Though news events may beRead More

Dr. Martin Luther King once said, “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.” In today’s America, one would be hard-pressed to find a man more admired than Dr. King, inarguably oneRead More

Moorestown Friends School seems to get awfully quiet this time of year. “Quiet” is one word few people would use to describe the bustling high school, which thrums with focused, often chaotic, energy every day, from before the first bell rings in the morning to hours after the same bellRead More