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Sunday - January 25, 2015


Principal's Letter


MESSAGE FROM MAMADOU


Announcements


2015/16 REENROLLMENT
INCLEMENT WEATHER COMMUNICATIONS
ADVERTISE IN THE 2015 AUCTION CATALOG
REGISTER TODAY FOR OUT & ABOUT WITH FACULTY AND FRIENDS!
"CELEBRATE DC" AUCTION DONATION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 1
SLEEPING BAGS, COLD-WEATHER GEAR NEEDED


Events


REGISTER TODAY FOR OUT & ABOUT WITH FACULTY AND FRIENDS!
SFS@WIZARDS: LOGISTICS INFO FOR TICKET HOLDERS!


Other


QUAKER QUOTES
THE PARENTS ASSOCIATION NEEDS YOU!


News Around the School


LS NEWS


Principal's Letter


MESSAGE FROM MAMADOU
Friends,
Upper School students began second semester this week, with many students beginning new arts classes and seniors beginning new semester courses in English and history. There has been great energy in the building, with students eagerly jumping back into their classwork after the exam period.
The GLSBT (Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Bisexual, Transgender) Club held its annual dance, “The Stage Rave,” on Friday evening, to great success. Students in the club have also prepared a thoughtful program for next week called Love Week. During Love Week, the students will host a series of lunchtime presentations and activities that explore a range of GLSBT issues.
We have many other school events on the horizon-- various sporting events, the Winter Dance Ensemble Performance, and the Black Student Union (BSU) Show, to name a few. I look forward to seeing many of you at these upcoming events.
With warm regards,
Mamadou Guèye
Principal
Important Dates:
January 27: Last day to add a new second semester class
January 30: First semester grades posted on Educator Online
January 30: Arts Guild
February 4: Last day to drop a second semester class
February 6, 7:00 p.m.: Dance Ensemble Winter Performance
February 13, 7:00 p.m.: Black Student Union (BSU) Show
February 14, 8:30-10:30 p.m.: Valentine’s Dance
February 18, 7:00 p.m.: US Parent Curriculum Night, RLS Meeting Room
February 20: Last day to request Pass/Fail for second semester class or drop class with WP/WF
February 25: 2015/16 course selections open


Announcements


2015/16 REENROLLMENT
The reenrollment processing period for 2015/16 will be from February 2 to February 20. The link to your child’s online contract will be available on the Parent Portal beginning on the 2nd. Please contact Valerie Foster in the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid with any questions at 202-537-8111.

INCLEMENT WEATHER COMMUNICATIONS
As a reminder to the community, the School communicates delays and closings due to inclement weather in the following ways:
Parents will receive an e-mail and a text message to the cell phone numbers on file with the School, while alternate contacts will receive a notice via e-mail only.
In addition, you can check the website homepage (sidwell.edu) for the current status.
A recorded message can also be accessed through the main phone number: 202-537-8100.
Please note that the Athletic Hotline is no longer in use.

ADVERTISE IN THE 2015 AUCTION CATALOG
Interested in showcasing your business or organization in the Sidwell Friends Auction catalog? Advertisements help defray the costs of producing the Auction, and will be seen by more than 8,000 alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and friends of the School. To learn more about advertising opportunities, please view the Advertising Agreement. The deadline for ad copy is this Friday, January 30. For questions, please contact Jessie Jacobson, director of special events, at jacobsonj@sidwell.edu or 202-537-8442. Thank you for your support!

REGISTER TODAY FOR OUT & ABOUT WITH FACULTY AND FRIENDS!
Please join us for the first Out & About with Faculty and Friends discussion of the year: Revolution Radio: African Protest Music from Soweto to Dakar with Shields Sundberg on Tuesday, February 17, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at Hill and Dale Record Store in Georgetown. Shields will explore the culture of protest music in South Africa in the 1970s as well as the birth of African hip-hop. Light refreshments will be served. Tickets are $40 per person or $75 per couple, and all net proceeds benefit student scholarships at Sidwell Friends. Spacing is limited--register online today. To learn more about the other faculty-led discussions taking place this spring, please view the 2015 schedule. Many thanks for your support!

"CELEBRATE DC" AUCTION DONATION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 1
This is a friendly reminder that the Auction donation deadline is February 1, one week from today. We hope you will consider making a donation whether it be an experience, gift certificate, tangible item, or event underwriting. Please view our wish list for inspiration, and keep in mind that we welcome your donation ideas as well! Donations can be made online by clicking here. Please contact Jessie Jacobson, director of special events, at jacobsonj@sidwell.edu with any questions. Please remember that 100% of the net auction proceeds benefit financial aid at Sidwell Friends School. Thank you for your support!

SLEEPING BAGS, COLD-WEATHER GEAR NEEDED
Martha's Table is trying to buy 300 sleeping bags as well as other cold-weather gear to distribute to the homeless in this very cold weather. Here's a link to help:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1AKO3LU4VC6RZ/ref=cm_sw_su_w
Thank you!


Events


REGISTER TODAY FOR OUT & ABOUT WITH FACULTY AND FRIENDS!
Please join us for the first Out & About with Faculty and Friends discussion of the year: Revolution Radio: African Protest Music from Soweto to Dakar with Shields Sundberg on Tuesday, February 17, 2015, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at Hill and Dale Record Store in Georgetown. Shields will explore the culture of protest music in South Africa in the 1970s as well as the birth of African hip-hop. Light refreshments will be served. Tickets are $40 per person or $75 per couple, and all net proceeds benefit student scholarships at Sidwell Friends. Spacing is limited, so register online today.
To learn more about the other faculty-led discussions taking place this spring, please view the 2015 schedule. Many thanks for your support!

SFS@WIZARDS: LOGISTICS INFO FOR TICKET HOLDERS!
Please read carefully:
ENTRY: Eager fans, doors will open for us from 5:15-5:45 p.m., and we will be able to go down near the court to watch player warm-ups. Please enter through the 6th Street entrance, which is right past the Greene Turtle on the corner of 6th and F. If you arrive after 5:45 p.m., you will have to use the main entrance (which opens at 6:00 p.m.) on F Street, and you will not be able to attend the player warm-up segment of the evening. Please plan accordingly.
WATCH WARM-UPS: Plan to be in the very first rows of the lower level seating bowl to watch players warm up between 5:15 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. This is where you will realize just how big and quick these guys are! Once warm-ups are over, you’ll be free to explore the Verizon Center as you head to your ticketed seats for the game.
T-SHIRTS: Look for Athletics Committee parents in blue Wizards T-shirts and SFS baseball caps at a table near the 6th Street entrance or, for people arriving later, in Section 400. We will have 400 shirts and appreciate that many of you provided us with size information. With a group this large, we can’t guarantee you’ll get the size you requested, but there will be a shirt for everyone, and since we’re all sitting together, perhaps you can trade to get a better fit. The smallest size offered is a youth medium.
FAN TUNNEL: We can accommodate 50 fans in the Wizards tunnel and 50 in the Nets tunnel to high-five the players as they come onto the court for the game (approximately 6:30 p.m.). The Athletics Committee will allocate those slots to students on a first-come basis at the Verizon Center. We will hand out paper wristbands they will need to wear so that they can get into the tunnel when called. Please remember that the tunnel will be crowded, your student will be with other students (not with a parent), and so we feel the tunnel will not be the best place for smaller children. There will be other years for them!
SEATING: We have most of the tickets in sections 424 and 425 and some in adjacent sections. However, WE DO NOT HAVE ALL THE TICKETS IN THESE SECTIONS. To avoid confusion and be respectful of others, please sit in the seat for which you are ticketed.
SPIRIT: As stated before, all 400 of us attending this game represent Sidwell Friends and will be a very public face for our School. Please wear your SFS and Wizards gear proudly and show your spirit appropriately. The guidelines in the Handbook for Parents and Students apply.


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QUAKER QUOTES
"We will be able to emerge from the bleak and desolate midnight of man's inhumanity to man into the bright and glittering daybreak of freedom and justice. This is what stands ahead. We've made progress, and it is great progress that we must make if we are to fulfill the dreams of our democracy, the dreams of Christianity, the dreams of the great religions of the world...let us continue, my friends, going on and on toward that great city where all men 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.'"
---From Martin Luther King Jr.'s address to the annual gathering of Quakers, summer 1958.
?For the full address:
http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/friends-journal-quaker-weekly
?Quaker quotes are intended to deepen the understanding and appreciation of Quakerism in the SFS community.?

THE PARENTS ASSOCIATION NEEDS YOU!
We are Seeking Volunteers to Fill Upper School Positions for Next Year:
If you enjoy community building and would like to make a contribution to the School and your child's class, please volunteer as a vice-clerk, grade representative, or at-large rep. We are looking to fill positions in all grades in the Upper School.
If you are interested in serving, would like to suggest someone else, or simply would like more information, please e-mail Anne Hefter, US nominating clerk, at hefterach@aol.com; Shelley Schonberger, US co-vice-clerk, at s.schonberger@comcast.net; and Norma Scogin, US co-vice-clerk, at normascogin@gmail.com.
Thank you! It feels great to get involved at SFS.


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Calendar


Sun, Jan 25th

Artrageous 2015! The Nature of Art

RLS Mtg Rm, Choral Music Rm, AC Foyer, AC classrooms
1:00pm - 4:00pm


Fri, Jan 30th

US Arts Guild

Robert L. Smith Mtg Rm
7:00pm - 10:00pm


Sat, Jan 31st

BSU Show Rehearsal

AC Theater
12:00pm - 6:00pm


12th Grade Parent Potluck

Off-Campus (Edgemoor Club)
7:00pm - 9:00pm


Sun, Feb 1st

BSU Show Rehearsal

AC Theater
12:00pm - 4:00pm


Thu, Feb 5th

PA Executive Steering Committee Mtg

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


Fri, Feb 6th

GAMETIME! Dance Ensemble

AC Theater
7:00pm


US Dance Ensemble Winter Performance

AC Theater
7:00pm - 9:00pm


Sat, Feb 7th

BSU Show Rehearsal

AC Theater
12:00pm - 6:00pm


SFS Night at the Wizards

off campus - Verizon Center
7:00pm - 9:30pm


Sun, Feb 8th

BSU Show Rehearsal

AC Theater
12:00pm - 6:00pm


Mon, Feb 9th

BSU Show Rehearsal

AC Theater
6:00pm - 9:00pm


Until it Hurts - Mark Hyman Gathering with Parents

Robert L. Smith Meeting Room, K-19
7:30pm - 9:00pm


Tue, Feb 10th

BSU Show Rehearsal

AC Theater
6:00pm - 9:00pm


Thu, Feb 12th

Meet the Head of School - US Parents

Robert L. Smith Meeting Room
7:00pm - 8:30pm


PA Arts Committee Mtg

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


Fri, Feb 13th

BSU Show

AC Theater
7:00pm - 9:00pm


Sat, Feb 14th

US Valentine's Dance

US Dining Rm
8:30pm - 10:30pm


More


Athletics


Mon, Jan 26th

Wrestling - 7/8 vs. Mater Dei


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 A vs. Mater Dei


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 B at Mater Dei


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 C vs. Landon


2:30pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 C vs. Bullis


2:45pm


Tue, Jan 27th

Basketball - Boys Freshman vs. Wilson H.S.


4:00pm


Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity at Potomac School


4:15pm


Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. Flint Hill


4:15pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity at Potomac School


5:45pm


Basketball - Boys Varsity vs. Flint Hill


6:00pm


Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity vs. Quad Meet


7:30pm


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. Quad Meet


7:30pm


Wed, Jan 28th

Basketball - Girls 7/8 A vs. Flint Hill


2:45pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 B at Flint Hill


2:45pm


Wrestling - Varsity - Baltimore Friends Tri


4:30pm


Thu, Jan 29th

Basketball - Girls 7/8 B vs. Georgetown Day


2:30pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 C vs. Georgetown Day


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 C vs. Georgetown Day


2:30pm


Swimming - Boys 7/8 at St. Albans


2:30pm


Swimming - Girls 7/8 vs. National Cathedral School


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 A vs. Sheridan School


3:15pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity vs. Sandy Spring


4:30pm


Basketball - Boys Freshman at Field School


4:30pm


Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity vs. WMPSSDL Diving


5:00pm


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. WMPSSDL Diving


5:00pm


Basketball - Boys Varsity at Potomac School


6:15pm


Fri, Jan 30th

Indoor Track - P.E. Class (Coed) vs. Episcopal High School Open


Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity vs. Episcopal High School


4:30pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity vs. Episcopal High School


6:00pm


Sat, Jan 31st

Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity - WMPSSDL Championships @ Fairland


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity - WMPSSDL Championships @ Fairland


Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. Landon


12:00pm


Mon, Feb 2nd

Wrestling - 7/8 at St. Albans


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 A at Landon


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 B vs. Landon


2:30pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 A at Bullis


2:45pm


Tue, Feb 3rd

Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity at Georgetown Day


4:00pm


Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity vs. Maret School


4:15pm


Basketball - Boys Varsity at Georgetown Day


5:45pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity vs. Maret School


5:45pm


Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity vs. Tri Meet with Bullis & Flint Hill


7:30pm


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. Tri Meet with Bullis & Flint Hill


7:30pm


Wed, Feb 4th

Wrestling - 7/8 at Maret School


2:45pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 A at Maret School


2:45pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 B vs. Maret School


2:45pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 A at Maret School


2:45pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 B vs. Maret School


2:45pm


Basketball - Boys Freshman vs. Field School


4:30pm


Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity - Metros - Diving Only


4:30pm


Thu, Feb 5th

Basketball - Boys 7/8 A at Georgetown Day


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 B vs. Georgetown Day


2:30pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 A at St. Andrew's School


2:45pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 B vs. St. Andrew's School


2:45pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 C vs. Bullis


2:45pm


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity - Metros - Diving Only


4:30pm


Fri, Feb 6th

Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. St. Andrew's School


4:00pm


Basketball - Boys Freshman vs. Takoma Academy


4:00pm


Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity at Episcopal High School


4:15pm


Wrestling - Varsity at JP Great


4:30pm


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity - Metros (500 & 400 Relay Trials)


5:30pm


Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity - Metros (500 & 400 Relay Trials)


5:30pm
2/7/2015


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


5:45pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity at Episcopal High School


5:45pm


Sat, Feb 7th

Indoor Track - P.E. Class (Coed) vs. Georgetown Prep Private & Independent Schools Invitational


Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity - Metros - Swimming Trials


8:15am


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity - Metros - Swimming Trials


8:15am


Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity at Stone Ridge School


12:00pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity at Stone Ridge School


2:00pm


Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity - Metros - Swimming Finals


5:30pm


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity - Metros - Swimming Finals


5:30pm


Mon, Feb 9th

Wrestling - 7/8 at Potomac School


2:45pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 B vs. Potomac School


2:45pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 A vs. Potomac School


2:45pm


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


2:45pm


Tue, Feb 10th

Indoor Track - P.E. Class (Coed) vs. Georgetown Preparatory Run & Gun


Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. Potomac School


4:15pm


Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity at Madeira


4:15pm


Basketball - Boys Freshman vs. Flint Hill


4:30pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity at Madeira


5:45pm


Basketball - Boys Varsity vs. Potomac School


6:00pm


Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity vs. Meet vs. GDS & Potomac


7:30pm


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. Meet vs. GDS & Potomac


7:30pm


Wed, Feb 11th

Basketball - Boys 7/8 A vs. St. Albans


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 B at St. Albans


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 C at St. Albans


2:30pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 B at Sheridan School


3:15pm


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. National Cathedral School


4:00pm


Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity vs. St. Albans


4:00pm


Thu, Feb 12th

Basketball - Girls 7/8 B vs. Georgetown Day


2:30pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 C vs. Georgetown Day


2:30pm


Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity at Flint Hill


4:30pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity at Flint Hill


4:30pm


Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. JP Great


5:00pm


Basketball - Boys Freshman vs. JP Great


5:00pm


Basketball - Boys Varsity vs. JP Great


6:45pm


Fri, Feb 13th

Wrestling - Varsity - St. Alban's Tournament


2/14/2015


Basketball - Boys Freshman at Episcopal High School


4:30pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity at Sandy Spring


4:30pm


Sat, Feb 14th

Basketball - Boys Varsity at St. Andrew's School


2:00pm


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