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Tuesday - April 22, 2014


From the School

This Week's Query
How can peer pressure help integrity?
Notes from Sally
This week’s assembly is the Middle School performance of Dear Edwina, which will be held at 9:30 on Friday morning. Parents are welcome to attend shows on Thursday or Friday morning or Friday evening or Saturday afternoon, which are the public shows.
Founders Day is today! Students will be outside for a gathering, for lunch, and for activities from 10:15 – 1:00. Today at Founder’s Day, Mrs. Clarkson’s sixth grade class will hold a kiosk to raise awareness about Fashion Revolution Day. If you miss the kiosk, you can still participate on Thursday by wearing your clothes inside out. One year ago, on April 24th, 2013, the Rana Plaza Factory in Bangladesh collapsed and killed 1,133 people. This year, on April 24th, Fashion Revolution Day is a day to remember all the people who died in the Rana Plaza collapse as well as other factory disasters in the supply chain of our clothes. We will do this by raising awareness and being grateful toward the people who made our clothes. On April 24th, join Mrs. Clarkson’s sixth grade homeroom by wearing your shirt inside out to ask the question “Who made my clothes?” and post a picture of your tag and #insideout on www.theor.org/FRD. Be part of the revolution!
Our thanks to Nicole Lang and the MS PA Diversity Committee for sponsoring the wonderful evening with Michele Norris last week. It was great to see a good crowd! Next up: Representative John Lewis on May 6th. You will find details for that evening elsewhere in the newsletter.
We are beginning our series of spring Transition Meetings. Parents of all sixth grade students are encouraged to attend an information session about 7th grade on Wednesday evening, May 7th in the Middle School Drama Studio. Parents of newly enrolled students will also be there, and a light supper will be served before the meeting, beginning at 6:45. Please come meet the new parents in the grade. A meeting will be held for parents of new sixth grade students on May 15th, but that is intended only for new families, not for current 5th grade parents. We would like to have some current 5th grade families for the dinner that evening – look for an invitation from the Welcome Committee to join in.
As we begin to add details to the calendar for the 2014-15 school year, I would welcome your suggestions for assembly performers or for speakers. Please send your ideas my way!
Math Meet Success!!
Congratulations to 7th graders Nathan Shapiro, OIiver Bass, Mitchell Jubeir, David Hacker, Arjun Sethi-Olowin and 8th grader Kevin Jiang, all of whom had perfect scores at the Math Meet held at Georgetown Day School for middle school students from 12 independents schools in the DC area. With these performances, Sidwell Friends achieved the maximum possible score and tied for first place.
Congratulations to 6th graders Etan Basser, Ethan Isaacson, Alex Sundberg, and Ben Steel, 7th graders Arjun Sethi-Olowin, Mitchell Jubeir, Ariana Warden, Nathan Shapiro, and Stephen Forrester, and 8th graders Jack Blazes, Ella Stark, Isabel Kirsh, Sarah Broadnax, Billy Hefter, and Nate Freishtat, all of whom were among the top 30 scorers in the combined DC and Maryland region on the Maryland Math League contest that students took in February. Arjun tied for first in the entire DC Maryland region with a perfect score on the contest, and Etan tied for 2nd place in the entire region.
Special Guest Speaker: Representative John Lewis
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 in the RLS QMH: 7:15-7:30 refreshments; 7:30-8:30 remarks.
Representative John Lewis is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th Congressional District, serving since 1987, and is the Dean of the Georgia Congressional Delegation. He is the only living "Big Six" leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. He was instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. Congressman John Lewis chaired the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), playing a key role in the struggle to end legalized racial discrimination and segregation.
Please join the MS PA Diversity Committee in welcoming representative John Lewis to Sidwell Friends for his presentation about his life as a young activist, the importance of political engagement, and his conviction that today’s young people can transform a society. Students are welcome to attend.
Events for Student Scholarships
SFS TENNIS EVENT ON MAY 17 – REGISTER TODAY!
All families are invited to join us for the Sidwell Friends Tennis Event, taking place on Saturday, May 17 from 3:30 to 7:00 p.m. at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center (home of the CitiOpen). This will be an afternoon of tennis and fun with community members of all ages and skill sets. Even if you are not a tennis player, come enjoy the food, drinks and fun! Adult tickets cost $50 and student tickets cost $30. Sponsorship opportunities are also available and all proceeds benefit student financial aid. Click here to register today! Please find the event schedule below. If you have any questions, please contact Jessie Jacobson, Director of Special Events at jacobsonj@sidwell.edu or 202-537-8442.

Tennis Event Schedule
3:30 p.m. Registration
4:00 p.m. Clinic and Warm Up Drills
5:00 p.m. Games
6:00 p.m. Round Robin Matches
Reception to follow

AUCTION ITEM PICK-UP & AVAILABLE PARTIES
Do you still need to pick up your auction prizes? Please visit the Office of Institutional Advancement, located on the lower level of Zartman House on main campus on weekdays between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. All tangible prizes and certificates will be available for pickup through the end of the school year. If you purchased tickets to our Parties and More, you will receive a message from the party cost in the coming weeks and no certificate is needed. Interested in signing up for a party or two? Please view Parties with available spaces to purchase. To reserve your space today, please contact Jessie Jacobson, Director of Special Events at jacobsonj@sidwell.edu or 202-537-8442. Thanks for your support!


PA Announcements

Middle School Used Book Fair Ends Friday
SFS families can buy great books at reasonable prices at the MS Used Book Fair, April 23 through April 25. Book Fair Hours: Wednesday: 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Thursday: 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Friday: 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. All proceeds will be used to purchase new books for the Middle School Library. Leftover books will be donated to charitable organizations needing books for children.
A FEW VOLUNTEER SLOTS STILL REMAIN! Volunteers are needed to help set up, sell, and take down the Book Fair. To sign up and see when your child's class will visit the book fair, visit http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E044FAFA87-middle
We’ll see you at the Fair!
6th Grade Parent Peer Group Meeting on Friday, May 2nd at Lower School
Calling all 6th grade parents, calling all 6th grade parents! Mark Friday, May 2nd on your calendars for the 6th grade parent peer group meeting to be held from 8:00 to 9:00 pm at the Lower School Meeting House. The time and date coincides with the annual 6th grade party which will also be held at the Lower School that evening. So, drop off your child at the party, and join your fellow parents for a candid, non-judgmental conversation about issues impacting your child . . . technology, dating, social pressures -- you pick the topics. The session will be facilitated by two trained 6th grade parent volunteers. The discussion is confidential and stays within the meeting room. So, come and take advantage of this opportunity to open the lines of communication with your fellow parents.
Questions? Please email Dipa Mehta at dipamehta@comcast.net, Co-Clerk, Quality of Community Life


Other News

Interested in High School Rowing??
The SFS Girls' Rowing Team will participate in its home regatta this Saturday, April 26 at Thompson's Boat House in Georgetown. This is a great opportunity for middle school girls who might be interested in high school rowing to come out and see the team in action. Races begin at 9:00 a.m. Please contact the team presidents, Monica Dolin and MaryAnn Nash, for more details about Saturday's event or general information about the team.
Quaker Quotes
"At a workcamp in Germany, surrounded by the ruins of war, I asked a French workcamper why he had come. His answer amazed me: 'To be among hopeful people!' But it was true. We were working together, and for others, in love; and we were experiencing the truth that faith, hope, and love do abide, but the greatest of these is love, because love creates hope!" David S Richie
David Shoemaker Richie, born in 1908, led Quaker workcamps which were introduced in 1934 by the American Friends Service Committee and were 'intended predominantly as an educational instrument, the camp enabled young men and women of privileged groups to buy, with hard physical labor, their ticket into troubled communities where they could learn at first hand about the problems and the people concerned.' from Memories and Meditations of a Workcamper."
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Calendar


Tue, Apr 22nd

Founders Day


Thu, Apr 24th

US Spring Art Exhibition Reception

Rubenstein Gallery
4:30pm - 6:00pm


Fri, Apr 25th

6th Grade PA-Sponsored Event

Courtyard outside Athletic Center & Wetlands
2:00pm - 3:45pm


MS Musical

AC Theater
7:30pm - 9:00pm


Sat, Apr 26th

MS Musical

AC Theater
1:00pm - 4:00pm


Wed, Apr 30th

Rising 5th Grade Transition Meeting

MS Drama Studio
7:30pm


Thu, May 1st

PA Executive Committee Meeting

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


Fri, May 2nd

US Choral Concert

Robert L. Smith Meeting Rm
7:30pm


6th Grade Party at Lower School

LS Multipurpose Rm
7:30pm - 9:30pm


6th Gr. Parent Peer Group Mtg

LS Quaker Mtg House
8:00pm - 9:00pm


Sat, May 3rd

Reunion Weekend Event

Athletic Center
7:00am - 5:00pm


SFS Family Service Project #3


10:00am - 1:00pm


Sun, May 4th

US Instrumental Concert

AC Theater
2:30pm


Mon, May 5th

MS PA Steering Committee Meeting

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


Tue, May 6th

PA Speaker Event - Rep. John Lewis

Robert L. Smith Meeting Rm
7:15pm - 8:30pm


Wed, May 7th

Rising 7th Grade Transition Meeting

MS Drama Studio
6:45pm


Sat, May 10th

5th grade Parent Potluck

Off-campus
7:00pm - 9:00pm


Mon, May 12th

All-School PA Meeting

Robert L. Smith Mtg Rm
7:00pm - 9:00pm


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Athletics


Mon, Apr 21st

Baseball - 7/8 B vs. St. Albans


2:30pm


Lacrosse - Boys 7/8 A at Bullis


2:45pm - 2:24pm


Lacrosse - Girls 7/8 A at Potomac School


2:45pm


Lacrosse - Girls 7/8 B vs. Potomac School


2:45pm


Softball - 7/8 A at Potomac School


2:45pm


Softball - 7/8 B vs. Potomac School


2:45pm


Tennis - Boys Junior Varsity at Landon


4:15pm


Baseball - Varsity vs. St. Andrew's School


4:30pm


Tue, Apr 22nd

Tennis - Boys Varsity vs. Georgetown Day


4:00pm


Lacrosse - Girls Varsity at Episcopal High School


4:15pm


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


4:15pm


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


4:15pm


Lacrosse - Boys Varsity vs. St. Andrew's School


4:30pm


Lacrosse - Girls Junior Varsity at Episcopal High School


5:30pm


Wed, Apr 23rd

Track & Field - Boys Varsity - SFS Invitational at Sidwell Friends School


Track & Field - Girls Varsity - SFS Invitational at Sidwell Friends School


Softball - 7/8 A vs. St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


2:45pm


Thu, Apr 24th

Track & Field - Boys Varsity vs. Penn Relays at The Univeristy of Pennsylvania


4/26/2014


Track & Field - Girls Varsity vs. Penn Relays at The University of Pennsylvania


4/26/2014


Lacrosse - Boys 7/8 A vs. Landon


2:30pm


Baseball - 7/8 A at Landon


2:30pm


Baseball - 7/8 B vs. Landon


2:30pm


Tennis - Boys 7/8 - A Team Home vs. Landon


2:30pm


Tennis - Boys 7/8 - B Team Away vs. Landon


2:30pm


Track & Field - Boys 7/8 at Potomac School


2:45pm


Track & Field - Girls 7/8 at Potomac School


2:45pm


Lacrosse - Girls 7/8 B vs. Potomac School


2:45pm


Lacrosse - Girls Varsity vs. Sandy Spring


4:15pm


Softball - Varsity at National Cathedral School


4:15pm


Lacrosse - Boys Junior Varsity vs. Flint Hill


4:30pm


Baseball - Varsity vs. St. James School


4:30pm


Tennis - Boys Junior Varsity at Flint Hill


4:30pm


Tennis - Boys Varsity vs. Flint Hill


4:30pm


Baseball - Junior Varsity at St. James School


4:45pm


Lacrosse - Girls Junior Varsity vs. Foxcroft


5:30pm


Fri, Apr 25th

Baseball - Junior Varsity vs. Georgetown Day


5:00pm


Sat, Apr 26th

Crew - Girls vs. Charlie Butt Regatta


Tennis - Boys Varsity - NEMA Invitational


Track & Field - Boys Varsity vs. Viking Invitational at Walt Whitman HS


Track & Field - Girls Varsity vs. Viking Invitational at Walt Whitman HS


Lacrosse - Girls Junior Varsity at Madeira


9:30am


Lacrosse - Boys Varsity at Flint Hill


1:00pm


Softball - Varsity at St. James School


1:00pm


Softball - Varsity at St. James School


3:00pm


Sun, Apr 27th

Tennis - Boys Varsity - NEMA Invitational


Mon, Apr 28th

Baseball - 7/8 B vs. Georgetown Day


2:30pm


Tennis - Boys 7/8 at Potomac School


2:45pm


Softball - Junior Varsity vs. National Cathedral School


4:15pm


Softball - Varsity vs. Flint Hill


4:15pm


Lacrosse - Girls Junior Varsity at Bullis - NOTE: Moved from 4/17


4:15pm


Lacrosse - Boys Junior Varsity vs. Dematha


4:30pm


Lacrosse - Girls Varsity - BCC


4:30pm


Softball - Varsity - Falls Church


6:00pm


Tue, Apr 29th

Softball - Junior Varsity at Bullis


4:15pm


Baseball - Varsity at Potomac School


4:30pm


Baseball - Junior Varsity vs. Potomac School


4:30pm


Wed, Apr 30th

Lacrosse - Boys 7/8 A vs. Maret School


2:45pm


Lacrosse - Girls 7/8 A at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


2:45pm


Softball - 7/8 B at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


2:45pm


Baseball - 7/8 A vs. Maret School


2:45pm


Tennis - Boys 7/8 vs. Maret School


2:45pm


Baseball - 7/8 B at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


2:45pm


Lacrosse - Girls Junior Varsity vs. Georgetown Visitation


4:00pm


Softball - Varsity vs. Maret School


4:15pm


Tennis - Boys Varsity vs. Maret School


4:15pm


Lacrosse - Girls Varsity at Maret School


4:30pm


Lacrosse - Boys Varsity - BCC


6:00pm


Thu, May 1st

Lacrosse - Boys 7/8 A at Landon


2:30pm


Lacrosse - Girls 7/8 B vs. Bullis


2:45pm


Lacrosse - Girls 7/8 A at Holy Child


2:45pm


Softball - 7/8 A vs. Holy Child


2:45pm


Track & Field - Boys 7/8 - SFS Meet


2:45pm


Track & Field - Girls 7/8 - SFS Meet


2:45pm


Softball - Varsity vs. Holton-Arms


4:15pm


Softball - Junior Varsity at Holton-Arms


4:15pm


Fri, May 2nd

Track & Field - Boys Varsity vs. Draper at St. Stephen & St. Agnes


5/3/2014


Track & Field - Girls Varsity vs. Draper at St. Stephen & St. Agnes


5/3/2014


Baseball - Varsity vs. Georgetown Day


4:00pm


Lacrosse - Boys Varsity vs. Maret School


4:15pm


Lacrosse - Girls Varsity vs. Madeira


4:15pm


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


4:15pm


Tennis - Boys Varsity at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


4:15pm


Lacrosse - Girls Junior Varsity vs. Madeira


5:30pm


Sat, May 3rd

Crew - Girls vs. Ted Phoenix Regatta Freshman and Novice Boats Only


Lacrosse - Boys Varsity vs. Wilson H.S.


11:00am


Baseball - Junior Varsity vs. St. Albans


11:00am


Mon, May 5th

Lacrosse - Boys 7/8 A vs. St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


2:45pm


Softball - Junior Varsity vs. Madeira


4:00pm


Tue, May 6th

Lacrosse - Boys Varsity vs. MAC Championships


Tennis - Boys Varsity - MAC Tournament


Softball - Varsity at Madeira


4:00pm


Baseball - Varsity at Flint Hill


4:30pm


Baseball - Junior Varsity vs. Flint Hill


4:30pm


Wed, May 7th

Baseball - 7/8 B vs. Maret School


2:45pm


Tennis - Boys 7/8 at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


2:45pm


Lacrosse - Girls Varsity vs. Wilson H.S.


4:30pm


Softball - Varsity - Falls Church


6:00pm


Thu, May 8th

Lacrosse - Boys Varsity vs. MAC Championships


Tennis - Boys Varsity - MAC Tournament


Softball - 7/8 B vs. Georgetown Day


2:30pm


Baseball - 7/8 A vs. Georgetown Day


2:30pm


Lacrosse - Girls 7/8 A at National Cathedral School


2:45pm


Lacrosse - Girls 7/8 B vs. National Cathedral School


2:45pm


Track & Field - Boys 7/8 at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


2:45pm


Track & Field - Girls 7/8 at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


2:45pm


Baseball - Varsity vs. Maret School


4:30pm


Fri, May 9th

Track & Field - Girls Varsity vs. ISL Championship at Holton Arms School


5/10/2014


Track & Field - Boys Varsity vs. MAC Championship at Holton Arms School


5/10/2014


Softball - Varsity vs. ISL Championships


5:30pm


Sat, May 10th

Tennis - Boys Varsity - MAC Tournament


Crew - Girls vs. VASRA Championship Regatta


Softball - Varsity - ISL Championships


10:00am


Baseball - Varsity vs. MAC Championships


10:00am


Lacrosse - Girls Varsity vs. ISL Championships


3:00pm


Sun, May 11th

Lacrosse - Boys Varsity vs. MAC Championships


Lacrosse - Girls Varsity vs. ISL Championships


1:00pm


Softball - Varsity vs. ISL Championships


1:00pm


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