Oak Lane Day School
| Oak Lane Day School | |
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| Location | |
| 137 Stenton Avenue, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania | |
| Information | |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1916 |
| Closed | 2010 |
| Grades | Prekindergarten – 6th grade |
| Enrollment | 100 students |
Oak Lane Day School, located in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, was an independent school founded in 1916 which served preschool and elementary-aged children, which also operated an eight-week children's camp program in the summer. The school's stated mission was to honor each child's individuality in a setting that fostered intellectual, creative, academic and personal growth. Oak Lane placed an emphasis on art and art history, music, and drama. Also included in its academic curriculum were language arts (reading and writing), math, physical education, science and social studies. From 1965 until closure in June 2010, the school's 30-acre (12 ha) country-like campus included a stream, pond, woods, meadows, specimen trees and animal life of all kind which supported environmental studies.
Francis Marion Garver, 1916–1921
Francis Mitchell Froelicher, 1921–1927
William Burnlee Curry, 1927–1931
Arthur Seybold, 1931–1934
Dr. Joseph S. Butterweck, 1934–1937
George Harvey Ivins, 1937–1943
J. Conrad Seegers, 1943–1944
Dr. N. Eldred Bingham, 1944–1945
John H. Niemeyer, 1945–1956
Lynn E. Brown, Jr., 1956–1957
Ruth Dolton Tomlinson, 1957–1958
Marion Sacks, 1958–1960
Mae Spang, 1960–1964
Frederic W. Locke, 1964–1967
Dr. Douglas Cameron MacDonald, 1967–1969
Richard Tyre, 1969–1970
Miriam Niebuhr, 1970–1986
Karen M. Johnson, 1986–1991
Betsy Berger, 1991–1992
Peter F. Baily '64, 1992–1999
Karl Welsh, 1999–2009
Martha Platt, 2009-2010
Originally known as Oak Lane Country Day School, Oak Lane was established in 1916 and for 44 years was located in Cheltenham Township just north of Philadelphia on Oak Lane Road (not to be confused with a nearby but discontiguous Philadelphia street named Oak Lane). The school’s founders used the model of the Progressive Education Movement to support a religiously, racially and economically diverse student population. Oak Lane's first head of school was Francis Marion Garver who later became director of the elementary division of the School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. The first chairman of Oak Lane's board of trustees was Dr. Morris Jastrow, Jr., the great scholar of Middle East languages and librarian of the University of Pennsylvania. Other trustees included members of prominent Philadelphia families in the early 1900s: Milton Sloss; Jay F. Schamberg, M.D.; Jerome J. Rothschild; Maurice Fleisher; Samuel Simeon Fels; Albert M. Greenfield; Lessing J. Rosenwald; Joseph Snellenburg; Alice Fleisher Liveright; and Judge Horace Stern.
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