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Register Now for the BFX Music School at BFS
黑料专区 offers students the opportunity to discover, develop, and deepen their love of music. The BFX Music School allows students aged kindergarten and up, to...
Alum Profile: Dr. Jonathan Pincus ’52
Dr. Jonathan Pincus 鈥�52 is Chief of Neurology at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Washington, D.C., and a professor of neurology at Georgetown... Read More
Alum Profile: Dr. Martha Bridge Denckla ’54
Martha Bridge Denckla 鈥�54 is an MD and the director of the Developmental Cognitive Neurology (DCN) Department at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, a part of... Read More
Alum Profile: Peter Trachtenberg ’70
Author of the critically acclaimed The Book of Calamities, Peter Trachtenberg began writing seriously at BFS and never stopped. Peter Trachtenberg '70,... Read More
Alumni Profile: Camilla Church Greene ’60
An anti-racism public school reformer speaks frankly about being聽BFS' first African-American K-12 student, and of a lifetime spent bucking... Read More
Alumni Profile: Stephen Wermiel ’68
He started out writing about the Supreme Court for BFS' former student newspaper The Life.聽 It spawned a decades-long career covering the court聽up... Read More
Alumni Profile: Dr. Lawrence Madlock ’66
Class of 1966 alumnus Lawrence Madlock, MD, went to segregated schools in Memphis, Tennessee, and entered BFS as a junior in 1964 "under some strange... Read More
Alumni Profile: Jill Kneerim ’56
Boston literary agent Jill Kneerim continues launching the careers of heavy-hitting journalists, novelists, poets, scholars and short story writers who... Read More
Ready for Flight 鈥� Commencement and the Class of 2015
A strong sense of purpose, the importance of staying true to oneself, and the value of asking the right questions characterized commencement exercises for... Read More
Middle School Head Glen Pinder: BFS by Way of Philly, Morehouse, Kuwait and ...
New Middle School Head Glen Pinder grew up in Willow Grove, PA, a suburb two miles north of Philadelphia.聽 One can't live that close to William Penn's... Read More
Still Your Grandparents’ Library (with an accent on high tech)
Despite fast and furious 21st century changes, the school聽library聽remains a repository of knowledge, a retreat for those seeking solitude, and a... Read More
Physics Leads the Way: MakerBot 3-D Printing
In the Upper School, Physics Teacher Travis Merritt has joined the 3-D printing exploration with infectious enthusiasm聽 Travis Merritt鈥檚... Read More
Hour of Code: Inspirational, Engaging, Authentic
The Middle School continues integrating technology into the curriculum in ingenious new ways, among them taking part in the global 鈥淗our of Code鈥�... Read More