For all of John Fry’s passion for F & M and Lancaster, he has been seriously lacking in compassion for the people of Lancaster.
Whatever the merits of what John Fry has accomplished, his dealings with the community have consistently been one-sided. Under John Fry, F & M’s idea of “public participation” has in every case been “here is what we are going to do, and here is how we are going to do it”.
Perhaps John Fry’s top-down management style of dealing with the school’s neighbors might play well in Philadelphia, but here in Lancaster it has created animosity and divisions that will take far too many years to heal.
