- In 1867, setting the school up with its very first "commodious apartments" cost $942.52, about $15,000 in today's money;
- The earliest known student newspaper at BFS was published in 1912 and was titled The Squealer. That title so offended faculty and pupils, it was soon renamed The Junior Outlook;
- In 1918, BFS parents and faculty founded a free kindergarten for the larger community in Brooklyn and called it the Little Friends Kindergarten;
- The first May Day Celebration was held in 1928 and a highlight was "a great thrill... evidenced by Tom Wilkinson, who rode a real horse on this occasion." [Editor's Note: Tom Wilkinson '36 followed his great passion and went on to become a real cowboy "Out West."]
I think Seventy-Five Years of Brooklyn Friends School is a fun read, what can I say?
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