![]() ![]() Over the years, the School added land, buildings, playing fields, science labs, gymnasiums, and a theater. Shipley graduates were going to colleges beyond Bryn Mawr-to the other traditional women’s colleges as well as coeducational schools. ![]() Half of the Upper School students were boarders from all over the country, as well as Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The School was and is concerned with character development.īy 1950 the School was enrolling some 340 students, one third of whom were in Pre-School through Grade Seven. In their first catalogue, the Shipley sisters stated that it would “be their aim to fit to enter college with a mind trained to habits of scientific study and a character qualified, in as far as possible, to receive the highest culture.” That mission, rephrased for successive generations, has remained. In the fall of 1894, when the School opened with six students and nine faculty members, a philosophy of education was established that would guide the School for over a hundred years, up to the present time. Their establishment was to be far more than a finishing school. The Shipleys, strong-minded and well-educated Quaker ladies, believed firmly in what was then a controversial idea-education for women. ![]() Shipley was founded in 1894 by three sisters, Hannah, Elizabeth, and Katharine Shipley, to prepare students for Bryn Mawr College. ![]()
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