William Penn Charter School - Class Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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the School a charter. Thus the William Penn Charter School has the distinction of having been chartered on October 25, 1701, the same day that Philadelphia was chartered. By the terms of the Charter, the School was still under the joint care of the Meeting and the Corporation. This plan having proved unsatisfactory, Penn, then in England, determined to place the management of the School upon a broad and independent basis under the sole con- trol of a self-perpetuating body of fifteen persons. The Charters of 1708 and 1711, slightly amending the first, were the re- sult, and, under the last Charter, the school has been conducted up to the present. Among those who were prominent in the management of the School during the colonial period were James Logan, secre- tary to Vlilliam Penn, Robert Proud, his- torian of Pennsylvaniag Charles Thomson, Secretary to the Continental Congress, and Anthony Benezet, the philanthropist. Charles Brockden Brown, the first Ameri- can novelist, was a pupil at the close of the Revolutiong and John Griscom, one of the American pioneers in the study of chemistry, attended the School in the last decade of the eighteenth century. Beginning in 1689 in downtown Phil- adelphia, the School was moved to 8 South Twelfth Street at the time of the reorgani- zation in 1874. Fifty years later, after the sale of the city property and with the help of generous contributions from Overseers and Alumni, the School moved again, this time to the present site, Pinehurst, a tract of twenty acres which had been re- ceived by gift in 1903 from the executors of the estate of the late Clementine Cope. Here the School began its two hundred thirty-sixth year on Ninth Month 23, 1925. By moving to Pinehurst, the School real- ized the ambition which had been ex- pressed by Richard M. Jones, the Head- master from 1918-1935 who brought na- tional reputation to the School. The William Penn Charter School is proud of its heritage and it is truly a fitting memorial to the greatness of William Penn. The School will continue its suc- cessful education of young men through the noble principles and ideals of the Soci- ety of Friends. QPortions of the above were taken from Historical Sketch., Many boys have entered searching for it, and many men have departed having found it.

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