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Tuesday - March 4, 2014


From the School

THIS WEEK'S QUERY
How can I spend time with my friends while not forgetting my family?
NOTES FROM SALLY
Reminder: No school this Friday (pre-planned). As I write on Monday – yet another snow day – I know that we will have days to make up. An announcement about those arrangements will be coming soon from the Head of School’s office.
On Thursday the Middle School will have an all-school service activity for the morning. Grade levels in 5/6 and teams in 7/8 will have a speaker, have Meeting for Worship, and then be involved in service projects for the remainder of the morning.
7th and 8th grade students have been invited to two dances at nearby schools. This Friday (March 7th) there is a dance at St. Patrick’s in the gym from 7:00 – 9:30. The admission price is $5.00 and a canned food item. Appropriate casual dress is recommended. Next Friday (March 14th) there is one at Sheridan School in the gym from 7:00 – 9:00. Admission is $5.00, and students are invited to dress in red and blue. Bring student IDs to each event.
Free event open to all this Saturday: a STEM fair giving students the opportunity to play with science. Check out this link.
COMMUNITY MEETING FOR WORSHIP
Please join other parents, faculty, staff, alumni and friends for our third Community Meeting for Worship in the Robert L. Smith Meeting Room, this coming Sunday, March 9, at 10:30am. Light refreshments will be served at the rise of Meeting.


PA Announcements

PARENTS ASSOCIATION ATHLETICS SURVEY DATA
We are pleased to report that the fully tabulated results of the “Physical Education and Athletics at Sidwell Friends School” survey from this past November has been published on the Athletics Committee webpage in the parent portal. The webpage can be accessed via this link; then click on the survey (a PDF) on the right hand side of the page. These are the same results, in the same format, that have already been distributed to the Athletics Task Force and the Administration.
We look forward to your continued support as we work together towards our shared goal of an optimized Sidwell Friends Athletics experience.
The Parents Association Athletics Committee
PARENTS OF LATINO STUDENTS SUMMER READING PROGRAM
Please join the Parents Association's Parents of Latino Students (PLaS) for a program dedicated to developing age appropriate summer reading lists of U.S. Latino and International Latino writers. Come with your favorite book(s) and share with the group. The effort will be led by award-winning playwright and parent Miriam Gonzales. All parents from each division are welcome. Wednesday, March 5, 2014, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm, Robert L. Smith Meeting Room, refreshments/light fare will be served. For additional information please contact Co-clerks, Lisa Fuentes, Veronica Valencia-Sarukhan, Cristina Faz and Gonzalo Paz.
FAMILY SERVICE OPPORTUNITY
The Community Service Committee is sponsoring a family service opportunity at A Wider Circle in Silver Spring, Maryland. Please join us on Saturday, March 8, 2014, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
A Wider Circle provides basic need items to families transitioning out of shelters or simply living without life’s necessities. AWC furnishes the homes of more than 1,000 children and adults
every single month, all free of charge. A Wider Circle is buzzing with activity on Saturdays, with families picking up their basic needs and donors dropping things off. Volunteers help sort through clothing and other donated items, organize and display household goods, and assist families shopping for clothing and items needed to furnish their new homes.

To RSVP or with questions, please email Matt Fraidin.
LINEN DRIVE - ONGOING UNTIL SPRING BREAK
Got old bed linens, towels, comforters or blankets that you’re ready to toss? Please send them to Middle School ASAP with your nearest and dearest. Usable bed linens, blankets and comforters will find an immediate home at A Wider Circle. Shabby fleece blankets and towels will head to our furry friends at Washington Animal Rescue League. Our “Paws and Claws” Minimester group can use even badly tattered blankets in March to make toys for the cuties in cages. Collection bins are inside the M.S. lobby and in the 5th grade hallway. Contact Susanne Saunders or Lauren Lamb if you have questions. For more information about the Washington Animal Rescue League please see this link.
TOILETRY COLLECTION
During the upcoming March 6th Middle School Service Day, 7th and 8th graders will sort toiletries to benefit A Wider Circle. There is a toiletry collection bin in the Middle School Lobby; please donate travel size items such as soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, lotion and deodorant.
FOOD DRIVE
SFS Food Drive Shopping List.docxOur winter food drive is underway. Please help us collect food to send to The Capital Area Food Bank with our Helping Hands Minimester! A suggested shopping list is attached. For more information on the Capital Area Food Bank please see this link.
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Other News

THE MS USED BOOK FAIR IS COMING!
We need your help! Please send in “gently” used paperbacks and hardcover children’s (any age) books for our sale. All proceeds will be donated to a Washington, DC literacy organization. Your book donations may be dropped off at the Middle School Library or left at the Library door during non-Library hours. The MS Used Book Fair will be held at the Middle School on April 20 and April 22-25. Thanks for your support.
AUCTION INVITATIONS HAVE ARRIVED - RSVP ONLINE TODAY!
Check your mailbox. Your auction invitation is waiting! This year’s event, “Around the World Together,” will take place on Saturday, April 5, 2014, at 6:00 p.m. in the Athletic Center. Highlights of this year’s event include a special international tasting during the Silent Auction, the return of Auctioneer Patrick O’Neill, and special performances by the US Jazz Ensemble, US Chamber Chorus and Beatles Tribute Band, Britishmania. You don’t want to miss it. Tickets are now on sale! Purchase your ticket today! There are a limited number of tickets available. Please RSVP no later than March 21, 2014. For questions, please contact Jessie Jacobson, Director of Special Events at 202-537-8442 or via email.
SEEKING AUCTION NIGHT VOLUNTEERS
Auction "Night-of" volunteers needed on Saturday, April 5, 2014 from 4:00 – 11:00 p.m. This is a great opportunity! People on the "night-of" committee enjoy an evening at the Auction and help this great cause; raising money for financial aid. Duties include hosting Silent Auction tables and helping with bidding procedures in both the Silent and Live Auctions. No experience required, no meetings beforehand (instructions by email and a brief question and answer session that evening). You just need to be ready for a fun Auction experience, and be willing and available to help for the duration of the event! Contact Bart Hipple at 301-699-8373 or via email.
SFS TENNIS TOURNAMENT ON MAY 17, 2014
The SFS Tennis Tournament is back! This year’s tournament will build upon the excitement surrounding the growth of our new tennis program and gather SFS tennis enthusiasts of all ages and skill sets for a day of matches and fun. Please save the date for the SFS Tennis Tournament to take place on Saturday, May 17 from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center. If you have questions or would like to participate, please reach out to co-chairs Eleni Rossides ’85 at or Raina Fishbane.
QUAKER QUOTE
George Fox was the father of Women's Rights insisting in opposition to all the world, even of some of his own disciples, on the right of women to preach, to hold separate business meetings, and to control their property without interference from their husbands, as exemplified in his own case, when he was called into court on matters connected with his wife’s property, her daughter's husband 'told the judges,' says George Fox 'that I had engaged never to meddle with my wife's estate received from Judge Fell, her first husband. The judges would hardly believe that any man would do so; whereupon he showed them the writing under my hand and seal, at which they wondered.'
From this little seed sown by one man has grown the emancipation of the sex, until now we see women voting by hundreds of thousands in England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Utah, and Idaho.
It will be said I am writing a eulogy on George Fox and the Quakers. Not so. George Fox was not infallible, and the Quakers have their faults and plenty of them, but they have also their virtues." Mary J. Tabor, 1907
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Calendar


Tue, Mar 4th

8th Grade Conversation With Sally

Rosenberg Theater
7:45am - 9:00am


5th Gr. Parent Peer Group Mtg

MS Library
7:30pm - 8:30pm


Wed, Mar 5th

LS Conference Half Day


Parents of Latino students All-School program

Robert L. Smith Meeting Room
7:00pm - 9:00pm


Thu, Mar 6th

LS Conference Half Day


PA Executive Committee


Fri, Mar 7th

No Classes - US & MS Report Writing and LS Conference Day


Sat, Mar 8th

All-School Family Service Project

A Wider Circle
9:30am - 11:30am


Sun, Mar 9th

All-School Meeting for Worship

Robert L. Smith Meeting for Worship
10:30am - 12:00pm


Wed, Mar 12th

MS New Parent Reception

MS Library
7:00pm - 8:30pm


Fri, Mar 14th

US Musical, "Urinetown"

AC Theater
8:00pm

Visit this Link


Sat, Mar 15th

US Musical, "Urinetown"

AC Theater
8:00pm

Visit this Link


Sun, Mar 16th

SFS Family Service Project #2


10:00am - 1:00pm


US Musical, "Urinetown"

AC Theater
2:30pm

Visit this Link


Fri, Mar 21st

Spring Vacation Begins


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Athletics


Tue, Mar 4th

Lacrosse - Boys Varsity - Bishop Ireton Scrimmage


4:00pm


Thu, Mar 6th

Softball - Varsity - GDS Scrimmage


4:15pm


Lacrosse - Boys Varsity - Walter Johnson Scrimmage


4:15pm


Lacrosse - Girls Varsity vs. School Without Walls


4:30pm


Sat, Mar 8th

Baseball - Junior Varsity - Blair


10:00am


Baseball - Varsity - Blair


1:00pm


Mon, Mar 10th

Baseball - Junior Varsity vs. Riverdale Baptist


4:30pm


Baseball - Varsity at Riverdale Baptist


6:00pm - 1:00pm


Tue, Mar 11th

Lacrosse - Boys Varsity at Bishop O'Connell


4:00pm


Lacrosse - Girls Varsity vs. St. Mary's Ryken


4:15pm


Baseball - Varsity vs. Pallotti HS


4:30pm


Baseball - Junior Varsity at Pallotti HS


4:30pm


Lacrosse - Girls Junior Varsity vs. St. Mary's Ryken


5:30pm


Wed, Mar 12th

Softball - Varsity vs. Baltimore Friends


4:30pm


Thu, Mar 13th

Lacrosse - Boys Varsity - Middleburg Academy


4:00pm


Baseball - Varsity vs. Gonzaga High School


4:30pm


Baseball - Junior Varsity at Gonzaga High School


4:30pm


Fri, Mar 14th

Tennis - Boys Varsity - Hotchkins


3:30pm


Lacrosse - Girls Junior Varsity vs. Wilson H.S.


4:00pm


Lacrosse - Girls Varsity at Calverton


5:00pm


Softball - Varsity - Thomas Jefferson


6:30pm


Sat, Mar 15th

Baseball - Varsity at St. John's College High School


1:00pm


Baseball - Junior Varsity vs. St. John's College High School


1:00pm


Lacrosse - Boys Varsity vs. DC Classic vs. St. Albans


3:00pm


Tue, Mar 18th

Lacrosse - Boys Varsity vs. JP Great


4:00pm


Softball - Varsity at Georgetown Day


4:00pm


Baseball - Varsity vs. St. Andrew's School


4:15pm


Tennis - Boys Junior Varsity vs. Bullis


4:30pm


Tennis - Boys Varsity at Bullis


4:30pm


Wed, Mar 19th

Tennis - Boys Junior Varsity vs. Wilson H.S.


4:00pm


Lacrosse - Girls Varsity vs. Bishop McNamara


5:00pm


Thu, Mar 20th

Softball - Varsity at Stone Ridge School


4:15pm


Softball - Junior Varsity vs. Stone Ridge School


4:15pm


Lacrosse - Boys Varsity at Pallotti HS


6:00pm


Sat, Mar 22nd

Lacrosse - Boys Varsity at Baltimore Friends


11:00am


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