In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, George School will offer a series of three assembly programs. Assembly Coordinator Judy Bartella explained that the series will encourage students to think about what racial segregation really meant fifty years ago and come to their own conclusions about the success with which such segregation has been eliminated in the United States. "We like to expose our kids to that kind of a controversial question," Judy said.

On Friday, January 14, Kassem Lucas, a lawyer with Pepper Hamilton LLP and a 1990 graduate of George School, will offer a historical and legal perspective on the events that eventually led up to the dismantling of racial segregation in the United States, beginning with the aftermath of the Civil War.

The second assembly program, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, January 17, will address the history of school integration in the United States and at George School following Brown v. Board of Education. "Looking at something like that from our history fifty years ago gives our students, who live today in a very multicultural George School, an understanding that things were not always the way they are today," Judy said. George School students will perform a skit and monologues about how they experience diversity at George School in 2005 and their wishes for the future of diversity at George School.

The third assembly program, which will occur at the end of January on a date to be announced, will address the current state of desegregation in the United States. 

About George School 
George School, founded in 1893 by members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), teaches that each person shares a responsibility for helping to make the world a better place. The student body is diverse, representing twenty states and thirty foreign countries and a variety of ethnic, racial, religious, academic, and economic backgrounds. Each year more than $4 million in need-based financial aid is provided to eligible students.