with Friends in 1991 as "Ayton School," and closed in 1997 Newington Academy for Girls, Stoke Newington, then just north of London; founded in 1824 by William Allen Stramongate School, Kendal, Westmorland (as it was then), operated 1698–1932 Wennington School, England, closed 1975 Wigton School, Brookfield, Wigton, England, closed 1984 Friends' School, Saffron Walden, England, (known as Walden School in 2016–17) the oldest Friends School, was founded in 1702, under the care of Britain Yearly Meeting which indirectly appointed the school's Board of Governors through the Friends' School Saffron Walden General Meeting The school closed at the end of the summer term, 2017. Other institutions Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, adult study centre for United Kingdom Quakers Friends' Schools' Council, group established to support Quakers in education. United States Abbreviations: CYM: Central Yearly Meeting of Friends EFCI: Evangelical Friends Church International FGC: Friends General Conference FUM: Friends United Meeting NEYM: New England Yearly Meeting PYM: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Higher education Barclay College, Haviland, Kansas, associated with Friends Church, "an evangelical Friends school which accepts and embraces persons with evangelical Christian beliefs from a variety of denomination backgrounds" Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, founded as a Quaker institution, now non-denominational Cornell University, founded by Friends, now non-denominational Duke University, the founding organization, the Union Institute Society was a group of Methodists and Quakers. Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, affiliated with Western Yearly Meeting (FUM) Earlham School of Religion, Richmond, Indiana, associated with FUM, but has relations with all branches of the Society of Friends Friends University, Wichita, Kansas, founded as a Quaker institution, now non-denominational with "an amicable but independent relationship with the Society of Friends" (EFCI) George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, affiliated with Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends (EFCI) Global College, founded as Friends World College by New York Yearly Meeting (Friends General Conference), now part of Long Island University and unaffiliated with Friends Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina, founded as a Quaker college; draws on Quaker traditions, but has no formal affiliation Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania; founded by members of the PYM, became part of the Orthodox PYM after the Hicksite-Orthodox schism; remains rooted in Friends tradition and grounded in Quaker practice, but without formal affiliation Houston Graduate School of Theology, Houston, Texas, "identifies with the Quaker movement," grounded in Evangelical Friends theology and practice Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, founded by a Quaker and most early trustees were Quaker,