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MIDDLE SCHOOL TUESDAY LETTER

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FROM THE SCHOOL
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This Week's Query
How can I rekindle a friendship after a fight?


Notes from Sally


Assembly: Phil Wiggins and Mark Puryear, Blues Musicians


8th grade parents - I look forward to seeing you tomorrow at
Conversations with Sally - 7:45 AM in the dining room.


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. Here are the
projects that students and faculty will be doing:


5th grade: Create "thoughtful treasures" for the Children's Inn at
NIH

6th grade: Create health kits for patients living with AIDS

Team Sky: Package books, make blankets, create toiletry bags for
clients at A Wider Circle

Team Sea: Make casseroles, chop vegetables, make sandwiches for
Martha's Table

Team Land: Plan and lead activities for the kids at St. Coletta's
School


Instrumental Music Notes
Jazz/Rock Band Monday 3:45-5:00


5/6 Concert BandWednesday rehearsal period


7/8 String EnsembleWednesday rehearsal period


Mulan Pit BandWednesday and Thursday 3:45-5:00


Mulan Sound EffectsThursday 3:45 - 5:00


5/6 String Ensemble Violin II, III Friday DEAR


Choral Rehearsals this Week
Wednesday, February 27th


Boys Ensemble 7:25

Girls Ensemble during Rehearsal Period


Events for Student Scholarships
SEEKING GOLF AND TENNIS TOURNAMENT VOLUNTEERS!


Save-the-date for the 2013 Golf and Tennis Tournament at Kenwood
Country Club on May 13, 2013. For the first time, we will be
combining these two wonderful fundraisers! Interested in volunteering
for either the golf or tennis committee? We would love your help. We
need volunteers to help recruit players and sponsors, as well as to
help the day of the event. Please contact the Events for Student
Scholarships office at 202-537-8110 or events@sidwell.edu for more
information.


SEEKING NIGHT-OF AUCTION VOLUNTEERS


We are looking for volunteers for the night of the auction -
Saturday, April 27, 2013, from 5:00-11:30 PM. This is a great
opportunity! People on the "night-of" committee enjoy an evening at
the Auction and help this great cause of raising money for financial
aid. Duties include: monitoring Silent Auction tables, closing
sections, collecting and organizing items, handing out invoices, and
disbursing items. No experience required, no meetings beforehand
(we'll send instructions by email and provide training at the start
of the evening). You just need to be ready, willing and available for
the duration of the event - and you'll have a fun auction experience!
Contact Bart Hipple at 301 699 8373 or barthipple@comcast.net. If you
are interested in helping with event set-up between 9:00 and 11:00
AM. on auction day, please contact Jessie Jacobson at
events@sidwell.edu


PA ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Community Service Corner
Middle School Food Collection


Starting this week and running through Minimester, the MS will be
collecting food for the Helping Hands Minimester to deliver to area
food banks. Please consider going through your pantry or picking up
an extra can at the store to contribute to our efforts in assisting
the children and adults who are hungry in our very own community.


February 28 Middle School Service Day


Thank you so much to those who brought in personal care items for
Team Sky to package this Thursday, then donate to the clients at A
Wider Circle. You will most certainly make someone smile! This
collection is on-going, and you can drop your items in the basket in
the MS office.


Talk to Your Kids About Hanging Out


March 1 at the 5th grade Hangout, students will be decorating pillow
cases for residents at the Children's Inn at NIH. Visit their
website:www.childrensinn.org/.


Questions? Contact MS Community Service Co-Clerks, Sara Jane Harris
sjrharris@me.com or Felice Roggen at Froggen@mac.com


OTHER NEWS
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Quaker Reading Group
The LS Quaker Life Committee invites the SFS community to join us on
Wednesday, March 13 (LS Meeting House, 7:00-9:00 PM) for a reading
group exploring the Quaker testimony of peace and nonviolence.


The peace testimony is much more than a repudiation of war and
violence. To many Quakers, it represents a quest to live one's life
intentionally and recognize and embrace the power of love. As Martin
Luther King, Jr. explained, "Peace is not merely a distant goal that
we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."


We will open our discussion on peace with chapter six of Robert
Lawrence Smith's A Quaker Book of Wisdom and then broaden our
conversation by looking at the ideas espoused by Martin Luther King,
Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi. Topics into which we might delve include
identifying the many ways we work toward peace in our own hearts,
homes, school, work, and larger world on a daily basis; and sharing
with and demonstrating to our children these actions so that they can
absorb the lessons of peace.


To download PDF files of the select readings, please visit the QLC
page in the Parents' Portal:
http://www.sidwell.edu/parents/parents-association/committees/quaker-life-committee/2012-quaker-reading-groups/index.aspx.


Community Meeting for Worship
All Sidwell Friends Community Meeting for Worship


Please join us for an All-Community Meeting for Worship in the new
Robert L. Smith Meeting Room on the Wisconsin Avenue campus. Sidwell
Friends invites parents, alumni, past parents, students, and
employees to gather for silence and quiet reflection.


Sunday, March 10, 2013

10:30 a.m.

Robert L. Smith Meeting Room


Quaker Quotes
In June of 1958 Martin Luther King, Jr addressed a gathering of
Quakers and said:


"All of us are desirous of living the well-adjusted life. I know I
am, and we must be concerned about living a well-adjusted life in
order to avoid neurotic and schizophrenic personalities. But I say to
you... that there are certain things within our social order to which
I am proud to be maladjusted, and I call upon you to be maladjusted
to all of these things. I never intend to become adjusted to
segregation and discrimination. I never intend to adjust myself to
the viciousness of mob rule. I never intend to adjust myself to
economic conditions which take necessities from the masses to give
luxuries to the classes. I never intend to adjust myself to the
madness of militarism and the self-defeating effects of physical
violence...let us continue, my friends, going on and on toward that
great city where all men will live together as brothers in respected
dignity and worth of all human personality. This will be a great day,
a day, figuratively speaking, when the "morning stars will sing
together, and the sons of God will shout for joy."


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