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About CFS
Board of Trustees

GOVERNANCE
Cambridge Friends School is under the care of Friends Meeting at Cambridge and is governed by a 22-member Board of Trustees. The board establishes policies and and focuses on governance in a manner that is consistent with the mission of the school.

Board members are selected by a nominating committee and approved by the Corporation at the annual meeting, which is held on the second Thursday of April. The by-laws require that a majority of the board be members of the Religious Society of Friends. The daily operation of the school is the responsibility of the professional educators under the leadership of the head of school.

Joanne Brown, Assistant Clerk
Former reading/learning differences specialist
Alumni/ae parent

Lisa Campoli
Alumni/ae parent
Executive Vice President, Investment Sales,
Colliers Meredith & Grew, Inc.

Christina Chan
Parent
Theatre/public-speaking coach

Chris Curtis
Lawyer, Sullivan & Worcester
Parent
Member, Friends Meeting at Cambridge

Ghanda DiFiglia
Department administrator, Harvard Univ. (retired)
Writer, former teacher (special-needs students)
Member, Friends Meeting at Cambridge

Paul Dobler
Member, Friends Meeting at Cambridge

Katherine Fisher CFS '95
Assistant director, Beacon Hill Friends Meeting
Member, Beacon Hill Friends Meeting

Susan Flood CFS '71
Psychologist, Adolescent Consulation Services and Youth Advocacy Project

Hugh Gelch
President, Atlas Management Company LLC
Member, Wellesley Friends Meeting

 

Nicholas Herold
Health policy analyst and access advocate
Alumni/ae parent

Linda (Binnie) MacArthur
Member, Friends Meeting at Cambridge

Lindsay MacFarlane
Principal and Founder, CatRockHill
Member, Wellesley Friends Meeting

Don McNemar, Clerk
Teacher, International Studies, Bentley College
Former president, Guilford College

Susan Thomforde
Certified nurse midwife
Member, Fresh Pond Meeting

Anne Thompson
Euterpe B. Dukakis Professor Emerita of Classical
and Medieval Studies, Bates College,
Friends Meeting at Cambridge

Sandra Rojas
Grade five teacher, Cambridge Friends School

Art Sills, Treasurer
President, Sills Family Foundation
Alumni/ae parent

Peter Sommer, Ex Officio
Head of School

Peter Steven
Co-founder, DOME imaging systems, inc.
Parent and Alumni/ae parent

Ruth Stokes
Retired educator
Member, Friends Meeting at Cambridge

Laurie Tennant-Gadd
Art teacher, Cambridge Friends School

William Watson, Recording Clerk
Professor Emeritus, Modern European History, MIT
Member, Friends Meeting at Cambridge

*Deceased