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Wednesday - November 17, 2010


From the School

From Lee Palmer
This fall has passed more quickly than I could ever imagine. This is a very busy time right now, but I hope we will all have a Thanksgiving break next week that is filled with joy, renewal, and reflection.
Peace,
LeeFrom Academic Dean Mamadou Gueye
The Upper School has a homework policy that encourages teachers to require no more than 45 minutes, on average, of homework per subject per night. Certain nights will exceed and other nights will be below this average, but this is the goal for time spent on homework for each class each night. Students who regularly exceed this average (despite studying with a minimum of distractions) should speak with their teachers and advisors for guidance. Department heads and Academic Dean Gueye are also available for assistance at any time. The School's goal is to provide a strong academic structure that will still allow students to lead balanced, healthy lives.On Stage this Weekend !
The Real Inspector HoundThe Real Inspector Hound, by Tom Stoppard
Friday, November 19, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 2:30 pm
There's a chill in the air. . . and perhaps a chill reaching out for you from behind your chair! Chills meet laughs in this fall's upper school play, THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND, by Tom Stoppard. Rave reviews greeted this masterpiece of farce when it was revived in London. Feuding theater critics Moon and Birdboot, the first a pompous and vindictive second stringer and the second a fusty philanderer, are swept into the "whodunnit" they are viewing. As mists rise about isolated Muldoon Manor in this hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie type melodramas, the critics become dangerously implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman. Sidwell's cast and crew are directed by Ed Crow.
Sidwell Friends School, Kogod Center for the Arts, Mary Ellen Caplin Theater
3825 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016
Tickets: $8/adults, $3/non-SFS students, FREE for SFS students
Reservations: 537-8141, ext. 2 or boxoffice@sidwell.edu Read More7th annual Anindya Dehejia '78 Fellows Program Memorial Lecture
Sidwell Friends invites the school community to attend the 7th annual Anindya Dehejia ’78 Fellows Program Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 3:45 pm in The Robert and Arlene Kogod Center for the Arts. A reception will follow.
This year’s speaker is Dr. Eric Chivian, Founder and Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chivian is the senior editor and author, with Dr. Aaron Bernstein, of Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity, published in June 2008 by Oxford University Press. He also runs Pairidaeza Farm, an orchard in central Massachusetts.
Please RSVP to DehejiaLecture@sidwell.edu or 202-537-8439 by Friday November 19.
Read MoreHost Families Needed for International Exchange Students
SFS is seeking families to host the 11th grade boy from Shanghai, Yifei Zhao, and the 10th grade boy from Ramallah, Aziz Shehadeh, for the second semester beginning in January. We hope to find two families from the Upper School who could each host for the whole second semester, but we welcome interest from families with students in Middle School, and from families who would prefer to host for shorter periods, whether two-three months or just an occasional weekend. Please contact John Flower, Director of Chinese Studies and Global Programs, 202-537-8181 for more information if your family is interested in hosting one of these students. Read MoreFreshman Pie Bake by the Numbers
This is the final week to get those donations into school! Please send in very much needed donations now
Freshman Pie Bake, by the numbers, as of 11/15/10 (these numbers count items already committed, but not necessarily brought into school yet.)

54 = number of 12 ounce cans of evaporated milk still needed
20 =number of 29 ounce cans of plain, UNSPICED pumpkin still needed (you can use two smaller ones to add up to the 29 ounce amount)
3 =number of 5-pound bags of sugar still needed
190 =number of fresh apples needed
0 = drivers needed to pick up apples at Butler's
3 = drivers needed to drop off baked pies
11/21/10 = date of pie bake in cafeteria
12pm to 2pm = time of pie bake

Please bring donations to Mr. David Connell's office, room 222, in the upper school. Start labeling those tools for making pies that you might already possess, like dry measuring cups, measuring spoons, apple peelers, rolling pins, cutting boards, paring knives, spatulas, large spoons, and/or maybe hand mixers. Questions? Contact Tina Sandri at 301-587-9779.Mark Watson Eager Foundation Summer Grant
Mark Watson Eager '74 Summer Challenge Award InformationMark Eager ’74 appreciated and enjoyed the demands of the outside world. He lived a physically rigorous and healthy lifestyle. After he died of melanoma in 1985, his parents established the Mark Watson Eager ’74 Award to encourage students to engage in physically challenging activities and explore the outdoor world. The recipient of this award receives the opportunity to develop new skills and test themselves in a physically demanding outdoor environment. The Mark Watson Eager Foundation awards a scholarship to one 11th grade student each summer. The grant covers a portion of tuition and travel costs for an excursion lasting three to four weeks. The student must select the program he or she wishes to participate in, which must include a rigorous physical challenge. No past outdoor experience is necessary. Essays and applications for summer 2011 are due by Friday, January 21, 2011 to Lee Palmer, Upper School Principal. The program is open to juniors. Additional information about the application process is attached. Read MoreFinancial Aid News
Financial aid information will be mailed on December 1, 2010 to families currently receiving aid. If you are not currently receiving financial aid, but want to apply for the 2011-2012 school year, please call (202) 537-2402 to be added to the financial aid mailing list.
Wrapping Paper and more
Stock Up Now for the Holidays!
Sally Foster is a school-wide sale that includes quality gift-wrap and delicious gourmet chocolates among many other great gift items available through a convenient online catalogue. 50% of all sales go directly to student financial aid. All orders may be placed now through January 31, 2011 at www.sallyfoster.com. When prompted at check-out, enter the SFS account code 505552 so that 50% of the proceeds are properly recorded to our school.Please Participate in the Fair Share Fund
The Fair Share Fund (the Annual Fund for parents) is well underway for the 2010-2011 school year. To the many parents who have already contributed to this vital effort - thank you! Your gift helps support the students, the teachers, and the programs that make Sidwell Friends the strong school it is.
Please help us reach our goal of 95% family participation in the Fair Share Fund, by making your gift before Thanksgiving. Visit www.sidwell.edu/support today, to give online. Thank you!
For questions, please contact Leslie Hutchens, Director of Annual Funds, at 202-537-8147.


PA Announcements

ArtRageous Planning
Venue Change! That outrageous PA Arts Committee is at it again! In the thick of organizing ArtRageous 2011 (Jan 30), we meet this coming Thursday, Nov 18, for potluck and planning at 7:30 pm at home of Xilunnasi and Mauricio Escanero, 2600 Tilden Place, NW. All interested are invited. Questions? Please contact Rebecca Boylan.Order Fruit ... Support US Activities
THERE’S STILL TIME to take part in the “Fruit Flies” citrus sale—and partake of delicious fruit that was on the tree in Florida orchards just hours earlier. Profits from the sale will give a lift to PA-supported student activities at the Upper School.

Please consider a carton of oranges, grapefruit, or tangelos, as an old-fashioned treat for family, friends, and colleagues.

Order online through Friday, November 19th. Fresh-picked fruit will be delivered directly to the Upper School for you to pick up Saturday, December 11th. There’s also a mail option for sending gifts out of town.

You may also donate fruit to Martha’s Table or S.O.M.E. Write in your request in the NOTES section of the payment page, and our FRUIT FLY volunteers will deliver your gift directly to the agency.

Click here to order! Read More


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Calendar


Tue, Nov 16th

US Fall Play Rehearsal (Tech)

AC Theater
3:30pm - 9:30pm


12th Grade Parents Peer Group Meeting

US Crane Room
7:30pm - 9:00pm


Wed, Nov 17th

US Fall Play Rehearsal (Tech)

AC Theater
3:30pm - 9:30pm


Thu, Nov 18th

11th Grade Parent Coffee with Ms. Grebski

US Dining Room
7:30am - 8:30am


US Fall Play Rehearsal (Dress)

AC Theater
3:30pm - 10:00pm


Volleyball Banquet

US Dining Room
6:00pm - 7:30pm


Fri, Nov 19th

Football Dinner

US Dining Room
6:00pm - 9:00pm


US Performance of "The Real Inspector Hound" by Tom Stoppard

Arts Center Theater
8:00pm


Sat, Nov 20th

US Performance of "The Real Inspector Hound" by Tom Stoppard

Arts Center Theater
8:00pm


Sun, Nov 21st

9th Grade Thanksgiving Piebake

US Dining Room
12:00pm - 2:00pm


US Performance of "The Real Inspector Hound" by Tom Stoppard

AC Theater
2:30pm


Wed, Nov 24th

Thanksgiving Break begins - No School


Mon, Nov 29th

All School Community Service Holiday Gift Drive


School Reopens


Tue, Nov 30th

All School Community Service Holiday Gift Drive


Kidpower Tutoring Program

US Dining Room
4:00pm - 6:00pm


Wed, Dec 1st

All School Community Service Holiday Gift Drive


Thu, Dec 2nd

All School Community Service Holiday Gift Drive


Hanukkah


ISMAW Math Meet for US at SFS

Upper School


Fri, Dec 3rd

All School Community Service Holiday Gift Drive


Middle School Faculty In Service Day, No School for MS


SFS Basketball Tournament

New Athletics Center


Sun, Dec 5th

SFS Basketball Tournament

New Athletics Center


Mon, Dec 6th

All School Community Service Holiday Gift Drive


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Athletics


Fri, Nov 19th

Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity vs. Landon


4:30pm


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity at Holton-Arms


4:30pm


Sat, Nov 20th

Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity at Pope John Paul The Great HS


9:00am


Basketball - Boys Varsity at Pope John Paul The Great HS


9:00am


Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity at National Cathedral School


10:00am


Basketball - Girls Varsity at National Cathedral School


12:00pm


Tue, Nov 23rd

Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity - Friendly


4:45pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity vs. Baltimore Friends


5:00pm


Basketball - Boys Varsity - Friendly


6:30pm


Mon, Nov 29th

Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity at Landon


4:15pm


Basketball - Boys Varsity at Landon


6:00pm


Tue, Nov 30th

Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity vs. Potomac School


7:30pm


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. Holy Child


7:30pm


Wed, Dec 1st

Wrestling - Varsity vs. Landon


4:30pm


Fri, Dec 3rd

Basketball - Girls Varsity - SFS Invitational


5:00pm


Basketball - Boys Varsity - SFS Invitational


6:45pm


Sat, Dec 4th

Wrestling - Varsity vs. Model, St. Anselms & Hyde


10:00am


Basketball - Boys Varsity - SFS Invitational


2:30pm


Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity vs. WMPSSDL Relays


4:00pm


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. WMPSSDL Relays


4:00pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity - SFS Invitational


4:15pm


Sun, Dec 5th

Basketball - Boys Varsity - SFS Invitational


1:00pm


Tue, Dec 7th

Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity vs. Bullis


4:15pm


Basketball - Boys Freshman - Canberra Grammer School (Australia)


4:30pm


Wrestling - Varsity vs. St. Albans


5:00pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity vs. Bullis


6:00pm


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