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Sunday - March 15, 2015


Principal's Letter


MESSAGE FROM MAMADOU


Announcements


UPPER SCHOOL COMMUNITY SERVICE NEWSLETTER
SEEKING AUCTION NIGHT VOLUNTEERS
GOING TO NEW ORLEANS FOR SPRING BREAK?


Events


ALL-COMMUNITY MEETING FOR WORSHIP, TODAY, MARCH 15, 10:30 a.m.
JOHN FISHER ZEIDMAN '79 MEMORIAL LECTURE
GAMETIME! RETURNS AFTER SPRING BREAK
AUCTION INVITATIONS HAVE ARRIVED: RSVP ONLINE TODAY!
REGISTER TODAY FOR OUT & ABOUT WITH FACULTY AND FRIENDS!
TENNIS ROUND ROBIN


Other


QUAKER QUOTES AND QUESTIONS


News Around the School


US NEWS


Principal's Letter


MESSAGE FROM MAMADOU
Friends,
Spring seems to have finally arrived! As I look out my window at the bright blue sky and shining sun, I see students outside enjoying the warm spring day. The warmer weather could not have come a moment too soon!
Earlier this week, The Female Empowerment Club (FEM) invited award-winning television journalist Claire Shipman, mother of SFS students Hugo Carney ’18 and Della Carney ’23, to speak about her recent book, The Confidence Code: The Art and Science of Self-Assurance---and What Women Need to Know (April, 2014). Co-written with journalist and graduated Sidwell Friends parent Katty Kay (mother of Felix Mallaby-Kay '12), The Confidence Code offers practical information for women on the important role confidence plays in women’s careers. Claire’s presentation to the Upper School was highly informative and dynamic, clearly piquing student interest in this important topic.
This past Wednesday, the Upper School was given a sneak preview of the musical, Merrily We Roll Along. As I write, our cast and crew are engaged in final rehearsals for this weekend’s performances. It is sure to be a phenomenal production. I hope you are able to see the show!
I wish you all a wonderful spring break!
With warm regards,
Mamadou Guèye
Principal
Important Dates:
March 17, 7:45-8:45 a.m.: 10th Grade Parent Conversation with Administration, Choral Room
March 20: Third quarter report cards posted online
March 20-27: Spring Break
April 11, 8:00-11:00 p.m.: BSU Go-Go, Athletics Center
April 21: Founder’s Day
April 22, 7:45-9:00 a.m.: 11th Grade Parents Q&A with College Admissions Reps, Choral Room
April 27-May 1: Senior Exam Week
May 1: Last day of classes for seniors
May 1-29: Senior Project Period
May 1, 7:30 p.m.: Choral Concert
May 4-15: AP Exam Weeks
May 15-17: Upper School Play
May 22, 8:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m.: Prom, Four Seasons
May 27: Reading Day
May 28-June 3: Semester Exams
June 2-3, 10:45 a.m.-3:00 p.m.: MBS Book Buyback, Crane Room
June 4: Last Day of School
June 5: Upper School Graduation


Announcements


UPPER SCHOOL COMMUNITY SERVICE NEWSLETTER
The March edition of the Upper School Community Service Newsletter is now available on the SFS website. Please go to the Upper School's community service webpage. You will find the newsletter halfway down in the middle of the page. This newsletter highlights upcoming and recent community service events taking place at the Upper School. Please read this month’s publication if you would like to learn more, and/or get involved in the community service program at the Upper School.

SEEKING AUCTION NIGHT VOLUNTEERS
Auction "night of" volunteers needed on Saturday, April 18, 2015, 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 e-mail and a question-and-answer session that evening). If you are willing and available to help for the duration of the Silent and Live Auctions, then we'll help you have a fun Auction experience! Contact Bart Hipple at 301-699-8373 or barthipple@comcast.net.

GOING TO NEW ORLEANS FOR SPRING BREAK?
The Upper School Chamber Chorus and Jazz Ensemble 2 will be performing in New Orleans on March 26 and 28. If you will be in the area, please come hear them. Check the Arts web page for more information.


Events


ALL-COMMUNITY MEETING FOR WORSHIP, TODAY, MARCH 15, 10:30 a.m.

All-Community Meeting for Worship for families, employees, alumni, and friends is today, March 15, at 10:30 a.m. In the Robert L. Smith Meeting Room. We welcome all members of our community including families, faculty and staff, alumni, and parents of alumni to these Meetings, which occur several times each year. Refreshments will be offered at the rise of Meeting.

JOHN FISHER ZEIDMAN '79 MEMORIAL LECTURE
Join us for the 33rd Annual John Fisher Zeidman ’79 Memorial Lecture. This year’s lecturer is Evan Osnos, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a fellow at the Brookings Institution. Based in Washington, D.C., Osnos writes about foreign affairs and politics. He is the author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China, which won the 2014 National Book Award. The lecture is on Wednesday, March 18, at 8:00 p.m. in the Robert L. Smith Meeting Room. Kindly RSVP to events@sidwell.edu.

GAMETIME! RETURNS AFTER SPRING BREAK
GAMETIME! GAMES
Wednesday, April 8: Softball vs NCS at 4:15 p.m.
Wednesday, April 15: Boys’ and girls’ track & field at 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 21: Boys’ lacrosse vs. GDS at 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 25: Girls’ crew—Charlie Butt Regatta at Georgetown Waterfront
Thursday, April 30: Boys’ tennis vs. Episcopal at 4:15 p.m. AND baseball vs. GDS at 4:15 p.m.
Tuesday, May 5: Girls’ lacrosse vs. GDS at 4:00 p.m.
Look for more info in the newsletter and on the athletics web page after spring break.

AUCTION INVITATIONS HAVE ARRIVED: RSVP ONLINE TODAY!
Check your mailbox. Your Auction invitation is waiting! This year’s event, “Celebrate DC!,” will take place on Saturday, April 18, at 6:00 p.m. in the Athletic Center. Highlights of this year’s event include a special taste of DC during the Silent Auction, the premiere of the 2015 Fund-a-Scholar Video during the Live Auction, student performances by a cappella groups Passing Notes and Consensual Sound, US Jazz Ensemble and the US Chamber Chorus, and post-Live Auction entertainment by local jazz band Cheek to Cheek . Tickets are now on sale! Purchase your ticket today! There are a limited number of tickets available. Please RSVP no later than April 3. For questions, please contact Jessie Jacobson, director of special events, at 202-537-8442 or jacobsonj@sidwell.edu.

REGISTER TODAY FOR OUT & ABOUT WITH FACULTY AND FRIENDS!
Please join us for our upcoming Out & About with Faculty and Friends discussions. Tickets are $40 per person or $75 per couple, and all net proceeds benefit student scholarships at Sidwell Friends. Space is limited, so please register online today (http://www.sidwell.edu/support_sfs/events-for-student-scholarship/book-club/index.aspx). Light refreshments will be served.
“Revolution Radio: African Protest Music from Soweto to Dakar" with Shields Sundberg
Tuesday, April 28, from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Hill and Dale Records in Georgetown
· “Lincoln’s Last Speech” with Ashish Patwardhan and Steve Steinbach
Wednesday, May 13, from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldier’s Home

TENNIS ROUND ROBIN
The SFS Tennis Round Robin is coming! This year’s event will celebrate the continued growth of our 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 Sunday, May 17, from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center. Please stay tuned for more information coming soon! If you have questions or would like to participate, please reach out to co-chairs Eleni Rossides ’85 at erossides@wtef.org or Raina Fishbane at raina.fishbane@verizon.net.


Other


QUAKER QUOTES AND QUESTIONS
QUAKER QUOTES AND QUESTIONS
Quaker quotes alternate with questions about Quakerism in this newsletter feature. To ask questions about Quaker history or practice or what-have-you—anything you may have wondered about but weren’t sure whom to ask—e-mail our Sidwell Friends Quaker Life Committees’ authors at quakerquestions@sidwell.edu!
TODAY’S QUESTION: Before encountering Quakerism first-hand here at Sidwell Friends School, I had always assumed that Quakers were a Protestant Christian sect. How accurate is this? Can you explain how Quakerism relates to other faiths and traditions?
Today, people from a very wide range of faith traditions practice Quakerism. Since Quakerism began in the mid-1600s as one faction in the movement to reform the Church of England, it was inherently Christian in its origins and self-perception—except that what distinguished Quakerism in this process was its intense focus on the teachings of Christ rather than worship of Christ. A central Quaker interpretation of those teachings, buttressed by personal experience, including George Fox’s original Pendle Hill revelation, was that divinity is accessible to us all—that the divine, whether called God or Jesus Christ or Truth or the Light or some other name, speaks or shines within every single human being. That insight had profound consequences within Quakerism, since each person was recognized as having that access to the divine; no sense of the Bible as the singular vessel of all truth, but rather as a revered and interesting history of revelation and understanding; and a lively discernment of Truth, or of God’s will (or, at the very least, how we ought to lead our personal lives), that was both continuing and perpetually evolving.


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Calendar


Sun, Mar 15th

All Community Meeting for Worship

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


US Musical - "Merrily We Roll Along"

AC Theater
2:30pm - 4:30pm

Visit this Link


Mon, Mar 16th

PA Arts Committee

Library Board Room
7:00pm - 9:00pm


Tue, Mar 17th

10th Gr. Parent Conversation with US Administration

US Choral Music Room
7:45am - 8:45am


Wed, Mar 18th

PA US Steering Comm. Mtg

Rusch Team Rm
8:00am - 9:30am


33rd Annual Zeidman Lecture

Robert L. Smith Mtg Rm
8:00pm - 9:00pm


Thu, Mar 19th

US Arts Guild

Caplin Theater
7:00pm - 9:30pm


Fri, Mar 20th

First Day of Spring Break/Potential school make-up day


Spring Break


3/27/2015


Thu, Mar 26th

Chamber Chorus & Jazz Ensemble 2 in New Orleans

Old US Mint


Sat, Mar 28th

Chamber Chorus & Jazz Ensemble 2 in New Orleans

NOCCA


Mon, Mar 30th

School Reopens


Thu, Apr 2nd

PA Executive Steering Committee Mtg

Rusch Team Rm
8:30am - 9:30am


More


Athletics


Mon, Mar 16th

Lacrosse - Girls Varsity vs. Mercersburg Academy


4:15pm


Softball - Varsity vs. Calverton


4:30pm


Tue, Mar 17th

Baseball - Varsity at Maret School


4:00pm


Tennis - Boys Varsity vs. Landon


4:00pm


Baseball - Junior Varsity vs. Maret School


4:15pm


Softball - Varsity at Holy Child


4:15pm


Wed, Mar 18th

Track & Field - Boys Varsity at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


3:30pm


Track & Field - Girls Varsity - St. Stephen's & St. Agnes Meet


3:30pm


Tennis - Boys Varsity vs. Bullis


4:15pm


Tennis - Boys Junior Varsity at Bullis


4:15pm


Thu, Mar 19th

Tennis - Boys Junior Varsity vs. St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


4:15pm


Lacrosse - Boys Varsity vs. Bishop Ireton


4:30pm


Fri, Mar 20th

Softball - Varsity - March 20 - 24: Disney Wide World of Sports


3/24/2015


Baseball - Varsity - March 20 - 25: Disney Wide World of Sports


3/25/2015


Tue, Mar 31st

Lacrosse - Girls Varsity at Wilson H.S.


4:00pm


Baseball - Varsity at Potomac School


4:30pm


Baseball - Junior Varsity vs. Potomac School


4:30pm


Softball - Varsity at Episcopal High School


4:30pm


Tennis - Boys Varsity vs. St. James School


4:30pm


Lacrosse - Boys Varsity - Eleanor Roosevelt


4:30pm


Wed, Apr 1st

Track & Field - Girls Varsity - SFS Meet


4:00pm


Track & Field - Boys Varsity - SFS Meet


4:00pm


Tennis - Boys Varsity vs. St. Albans


4:15pm


Tennis - Boys Junior Varsity vs. St. Albans


4:15pm


Thu, Apr 2nd

Baseball - 7/8 A vs. St. Albans


2:30pm


Tennis - Boys Varsity vs. Wilson H.S.


4:00pm


Lacrosse - Girls Varsity vs. Maret School


4:15pm


Tennis - Boys Junior Varsity at Episcopal High School


4:15pm


Baseball - Varsity at St. Andrew's School


4:30pm


Baseball - Junior Varsity vs. Bullis


4:30pm


Softball - Varsity at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


4:30pm


Softball - Junior Varsity vs. St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


4:30pm


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