Meet Our Team & Student Tour Guides

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The Admissions Staff at GFS is here to answer your questions about the school and facilitate the application process. Please do not hesitate to call or email us with your questions and comments.


Director of Admissions and Financial Aid:
Laura Sharpless Myran 
Assistant Directors: Bernadette Geller, Lynne Tucker, Fred Brown, Shira Hammarhead
Assistant to the Director: Nancy Burrows
Admissions Administrative Assistant: Mia Gannon
Testing: Susan Scirica
Director of Informational Technology, Blue Book: Bob Miller/Jean Costello

Every day at GFS, our Upper School Admissions Tour Guides provide visitors with tours of campus and their perspectives of life at GFS. Featured at right is our first in a series of profiles in which the guides include their thoughts about GFS for prospective students. If you're a student considering GFS, and you'd like to hear more from a current GFS student, please ask our Admissions Office.
  • Bari Gilbert, Class of  '12

    Bari Gilbert

    I’m Bari Gilbert and I have been at Germantown Friends School since first grade. Though it was twelve years ago, I still remember GFS being the only school I wanted to attend.

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  • Khari Goosby, Class of '13

    Khari Goosby

    I’m Khari Goosby and I have been at GFS since the 6th grade. Originally, when I began the search for the school I was going to attend beyond 5th grade, I didn't consider GFS.

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Admissions Office

Phone: 215-951-2345
Fax: 215-951-2370
Email: admissions@gfsnet.org Germantown Friends School
31 W. Coulter Street
Philadelphia, PA 19144