After 23 years, eight months, and twenty-two days working at MFS, the Business Office’s Administrative Assistant Rose Frola will be retiring.
As the Administrative Assistant to the Director of Finance and Operations, Frola’s job is to support the director, the bookkeeper, the comptroller, and the HR representative. She is also involved with the front desk, maintenance, and custodians.
Having worked at MFS for over two decades, Frola is ready to retire and shared that she has three main goals for her retirement. First, she wants to write a book for her family: “I’ve lived through the sixties, I was a hippie back then, and I’ve been through a lot of different changes in society, so I have lots of different experiences.”
Additionally, Frola is interested in volunteering with children in cancer hospitals. “My husband was dying of cancer years ago, and I noticed that the kids never had visitors. I talked with the nurses about that, and they said parents are working two or three jobs just to keep them in the hospital for the treatments. So, they can’t get here to visit.”
Finally, Frola wants to “clean up the streets. There is a lot of trash on the sides of the highways, and I want to go trash picking.”
Initially, Frola began volunteering at the school because her child attended MFS. She helped with costume design and preparation for the Upper School and Middle School plays. This eventually led to Frola’s being hired as an administrative assistant in 1999.
She said that she will miss “the people and the kids” most at MFS. “While I was here, I worked on costumes for the school plays, and I got to know those classes.” Given Frola’s position, she didn’t get to meet a lot of students. However, “While I was working on the plays I got to meet a lot of kids and that was great,” she commented.
Frola went on to say that out of every aspect of MFS, she is most grateful to have experienced Meeting for Worship. She said that Meeting for Worship has been “powerful in [her] life.”
After giving back to the MFS community with her work volunteering and as an administrative assistant, Frola is eager to continue to give back to the wider community as she prepares for retirement.
