June 7, 2022

Dear GSFS Community,
 
As you learned last month, Ed Marshall is planning to retire after nearly 30 years as the Head of Greene Street Friends School. We remain incredibly appreciative for his long-term support and leadership. 
 
We write today with an update regarding the search for the next Head of School.  
On Monday, June 6, the Board of Trustees met and approved the charge for the search committee, as well as the members and co-clerks of the committee. The search committee will be charged with engaging a search firm, evaluating candidates, including reviewing input and soliciting feedback from the greater community, recommending a slate of finalists to the board for final selection.

The search committee includes:
  • Chip Linehan, Trustee, board treasurer, and parent
  • Christina Young, Trustee and parent
  • Jane Ellis, Faculty
  • Jerome Maddox, Trustee and parent of an alum
  • Jerry Williams, Trustee and member of Green Street Meeting
  • Kia Wimmer, Trustee, Horizons board member and parent
  • Kim Kraemer, Faculty
  • Mary Mehala, Director of Finance and Operations
  • Rebecca Grant, Parent and member of Green Street Meeting
  • Sarah Clarke, Trustee, governance committee clerk, and parent of an alum
  • Sarah Katz, Parent
  • Tricia Ebarvia, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

I will also serve in an ex officio role providing support as needed.

Chip Linehan, Jerry Williams, and Sarah Clarke have agreed to serve as co-clerks.
The committee includes people with a diversity of roles, backgrounds, racial identities, and expertise to mirror the diversity of our school community.  

A search firm will also play an important role in helping the committee design a process that is inclusive, participatory, and includes multiple opportunities for input from you, the GSFS community. Look for those invitations in the coming months.

The committee will convene over the next few weeks and will move forward quickly to identify a search firm to advise us on this journey. 

As Jerry Williams wrote to me recently, “The strength of GSFS is not only its adherence to the fundamentals of Quaker values that have shaped it, but also its strong academic and social programs, emphasis on student-teacher learning, intentional growth, and centrality to the Germantown community. The search committee is invested in honoring GSFS’s past and present as it works to grow the school for the future.”

The search process will play an essential role in building a foundation for the future and in ensuring a quality GSFS education for each of its students for years to come. We are grateful to all of those who have agreed to serve. 

Sincerely yours,
Chris
Chris Mohr, Clerk
Board of Trustees