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Tuesday - November 16, 2010

From the School

This Week's Query
How can we respect all religions while practicing our own?Notes from Sally
Booklets describing the Minimester trip options were distributed to 7th and 8th graders on Friday. There is a meeting for any parents who are interested in hearing more details on Wednesday night at 7:30 PM in the Drama Studio. Applications are due next Tuesday, November 23rd.
All Middle School parents are invited to join us for Meeting for Worship Thursday morning from 8:10 – 8:40 in the Athletic Center. Members of the MS Quaker Life Committee will linger after Meeting for Worship to answer any questions parents may have about Quakerism or Meeting for Worship.
The Lost and Found box is getting very full! We will clean it out before winter break. Please take a look when you’re in the building and remind your child to track down lost items!
I would like to clarify the policy about use of the school email for students. All middle school students have an email account provided by the school. These accounts should only be used for school business such as communicating with teachers or connecting with other students for school related matters. Students should not be using their Sidwell email accounts for personal use or to send out mass emails. It is important for both network security and storage capacity that these rules be followed. Thank you so much.
Thanks so much to everyone who returned their forms and contributions for the Miniwalk for the Homeless! With the forms and the bake sale on Friday, we raised almost $7000 for our partner organizations: Martha’s Table, Bethesda Cares, Transitional Housing, and Samaritan Inns. Great job, everyone!
We are still counting Unicef money. If there are any more orange boxes around your house, please send them in by the end of the week.
Congratulations to our own Nurse Jasmin Whitfield who has just received her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree from Chicago’s Rush University College of Nursing!
Instrumental Music Notes
5/6 Orchestra – Concert Band – Wednesday rehearsal period – Room 101
7/8 Orchestra – Concert Band – Wednesday rehearsal period – Room 101
7/8 Orchestra – Full Orchestra – Monday December 6 3:30-5:30 – Arts Center TheatreChorus Rehearsals this Week
Wednesday, November 17th
NO AM Boys Ensemble
Girls Ensemble during Rehearsal Period Girls Ensemble 3:30-4:30pm (note times)
Thursday, November 18th
NO AM Girls Ensemble
Looking ahead: Monday, November 22nd
Girls Ensemble 3:30-5:30pmSally Foster Gift Wrap and Gifts
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.
7th 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 MoreFrom the Financial Aid Office
Financial aid information will be mailed on December 1 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.Host Families Needed for International 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, flowerj@sidwell.edu (202) 537-8181 for more information if your family is interested in hosting one of these students.

PA Announcements

Venue Change -- PA Arts Committee
That Outrageous PA Arts Committee is at it again! In the thick of organizing ArtRageous 2011 (January 30), we meet this coming Thursday, November 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 at boylanr@georgetown.edu. 8th Grade Hangout
The first 8th grade hangout will take place on Friday Nov 19th from 3:30-5pm in the Wannan gym. The first trimester will have just ended, Thanksgiving is around the corner, come and chill with your friends while enjoying pizza and ping-pong! Parents: please come and help chaperone. Send Abby Nolan (Mcganneynolan@aol.com) and Laura Hannah (LHANNAH@washingtoninstitute.org) an email if you can join forces--the last MS hangouts are drawing near so enjoy watching your children socialize!Fruit Flies
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

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Calendar

Tue, Nov 16th

7th Grade Conservations with Jack

US Dining Room
7:45am

Wed, Nov 17th

MS Minimester Trips Meeting

MS Drama Studio
7:30pm - 9:00pm

Thu, Nov 18th

MS MFW

Athletics Center
8:10am - 8:40am

Fri, Nov 19th

8th Grade Hang Out

Wannan Gym
3:30pm - 5:00pm

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

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