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From Your Sr Class Reps - January 2019
**Sr. Parent Potluck - Save the Date Feb. 22**
** Sr. Celebration - SIGN UP **
** Sr Yearbook Ads - Feb 1**
** Next to New Drop Offs - *Jan 28 *

** and more **

Happy New Year v2! This is an updated edition of the January email sent
yesterday. See the new info in Sr Celebration and Next to New. Happy Snow
Day all!

1. *Sr Class Parent Pot Luck - Friday, February 22, 2019 at 7:30...in
Bethesda **Save the Date!*

This is the all-call potluck where we host each other. Time to break out
your reliable artichoke dip recipe, cranberry-sprinkled-pear
cube-kale-quinoa salad, or cheat-and-heat entree Sign ups and details to
follow!

2. *SFS Senior Celebration 2019 – Calling all Senior Parents – Sign-ups
are live!*

The traditional Senior Celebration is an evening for seniors, put on by and
featuring parents of seniors. The event includes a reception followed by a
variety show in which parents aim to both delight and embarrass the
kids. It's up to all of us to plan this beloved evening for parents and
seniors. We want all senior parents to participate. There are opportunities
to participate from planning the invitations to organizing the food and
decorations to creating elements of the show itself. *All skill sets are
needed,* and we encourage all of you to get involved! Don't miss the
opportunity to help make this an awesome, fun and memorable celebration for
the entire class of 2019! The joy of this event comes in all class parents
working together as a team on everything from swag to skit writing and
performing. It's an opportunity to work together with friends and make new
friends before our children graduate. And traditionally, at some point, *all
the parents take the stage**! *Please click on this link to Sign-Up Genius
to volunteer https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0F4FA8AA28A57-sfssenior

The "don't miss" Senior Celebration will take place on Saturday, June
1, from 6–9 p.m., at the Kogod Arts Center. The evening begins with a
reception, followed by parent performances. We need your help for all parts
of the event. Please sign up to be part of this special Sidwell tradition.
Feel free to sign up for multiple roles. We especially encourage all
parents to participate on the creative team. A creative planning
meeting for those signed up to be on this team will be held in a few weeks
where more specific tasks will be divided up.

Senior Celebration Chairs:

Anne Conlee Mazlish (aconlish@aol.com)

Elise Goldstein (ekggoldstein@gmail.com)

Katy Harvey (kharvey@nps-dc.org)

Sunita Iyer (ssiyer@aol.com

3. *Year Book Recognition Ads for Seniors - Due February 1st!*
Put your love for your students into words and pictures! Yearbook
recognition ads fir graduating seniors are a great way for parents,
families and friends to commemorate student achievements and important
milestones. The SFS Yearbook Staff offers half h ($325), quarter ($175),
and eighth ($75) page ad sizes and all are printed in full color. Your ad
order must be received by *February 1, 2019. *Please be aware that space
is limited to one year book recognition ad per graduating senior. To
design and pay for your personalized year book ad, please follow the
directions below.

If you have any questions, please contract one of the yearbook editors:
Elizabeth Irvin at eirvin19@sidwell.edu or Sara Jewel at
sjewel19@sidwell.edu. Thank you!

Go to; www.yearbookordercenter.com
Enter Order #4154 then click continue
Follow the online directions

4. *Next to New - Donation Day - January 28, 2019 !! and Sign Ups*

Taking advantage of a long winter break to start the year with closets
organized? You are invited to drop off new and almost new items, at the
Lower School (from 8-9am) or the Wannan Gym on the Wisconsin Avenue campus
(from 8-10am). We are looking for items you think someone else in our
community might want to purchase at our sale in October – from gently used
children’s books, toys and games, to clean clothing and shoes (no holes
please), accessories, housewares and art, up-to-date electronics, sports
equipment and more. We also welcome any sturdy paper shopping bags you may
have accumulated in the past month. We hope many of you will also sign up
to help us receive and sort through donated items: you can sign up here
<https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0f4fa4ae2da20-2019>! Our next drop-off
date will be January 28 and after that on Saturday April 6. Questions:
check our website
<https://www.sidwell.edu/support-us/fund-a-scholar/next-to-new>, email us
at next2new@sidwell.edu or call Kathi Webb at 202-537-8109.

*5. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service & Learning, Monday January
21 2019 – Racial Disparities in Health Care*
All are invited to honor the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. at
the fourth annual *Sidwell Friends MLK Day of Service and Learning on
Monday, January 21st, 2019, 8:30am-12pm*. Breakfast will be offered at 8:30
a.m. outside the Robert L. Smith Meeting Room. In the spirit of shared
service and learning, we will gather in the meeting room at 9:00 a.m. for a
query-based discussion to explore this year’s theme, *Racial Disparities in
Health Care. * The discussion will be followed by service activities in the
upper school dining room to benefit members of the local community
(activities available for our youngest students as well as our
grandparents). Concurrently we will have the opportunity for smaller group
discussions in the upper school library during coffee and conversation with
our speakers and community partners. At 11:30 a.m. we will return to the
meeting room for a short period of reflection. More details are shared
below and to help the planners we ask that you sign up here
<https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0E48AFA822A64-rsvp> if you plan to
participate and/or donate items for the service projects. Donated supplies
may be delivered to boxes outside the libraries in all three divisions and
we also have on-line options
<https://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/2MUJEXHP8487P/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_gm__wl>
for
those of you who are not on campus. If you plan to bring supplies on Monday
the 21st please feel free to do so just let us know that when you signup.
Questions: email parents@sidwell.edu.

*PLEASE RSVP and sign up for service events and donation drives:*
*https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0E48AFA822A64-rsvp
<https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0E48AFA822A64-rsvp>*

Sponsored by the *SFS Parents Association and led by Parents of Black
Students committee, in collaboration with Parents of Asian Students,
Parents of Latino Students, Arts, Quaker Life, Community Service and
Equity, Justice and Community committees.*

*Other Upcoming Dates:*

•* January 10-18: *Exams
•* January 21:* MLK Day Holiday; Day of Servic


Your 12th-grade reps:

Margaret Paulsen - mpaulsentx@gmail.com
Caroline Springer - carolinespringer@aol.com
Gretchen Sierra-Zorita - peterhutt@msn.com
Carrington Tarr - cctarr@gmail.co