Subject: SFS Wednesday Letter
From: "SFS US Wednesday Letter" <[email-masked]>
To: "R. Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:00:00 -0500

Wednesday - January 19, 2011

		

		

		 

					

								From the School
                                
                                From the Admissions Office
The re-enrollment process for the 2011-12 academic year will begin on February 1, 2011 and once again will be online through the parent portal of the Sidwell website.  The contract and deposit will be due on or before February 21, 2011.   An email will be sent to all parents with instructions in late January.  Please call 202-537-8111 with any questions .The Variety Show is Next Week -- Get Your Tickets Now!
You&rsquo;ll feel warm in January as talented alumni who have become professional performing artists return to entertain us for the benefit of student financial aid. You and your children will enjoy a relaxing evening enjoying the show and socializing, as your children get the subtle but powerful message that this is what can happen if you practice! It&rsquo;s no wonder this show sells out!
The Ninth Annual Variety Show is Saturday, January 29, 2010, at 8 p.m. in the Kogod Arts Center. It will be followed by a reception with the performers. SFS student tickets are just $10. Adults are $35 (2 for $60); teachers and young alums ('00-'10) are $25. Purchase an extra ticket and donate it for a teacher! Be a sponsor! All proceeds go to Dollars for Scholars in support of financial aid. To order tickets click here.
Full list of performers -- Read More 75 For 75 Fair Share Challenge Is A Huge Success
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 75 for 75 Fair Share Challenge! As of December 31, 2010 parent participation in the Fair Share Fund reached 82 percent surpassing the 75 percent goal. With this success, you have ensured that the Fund will receive $75,000 from our challengers. Never before has participation had this big of an impact for Fair Share. Thank you!
 
The extraordinary accomplishment of this challenge helps us on our way to our goal of 95 percent parent participation in the Fair Share Fund by the end of the school year.Items Needed for the Auction
Events For Student Scholarships -- please consider making a tax-deductible donation. The Co-Chairs Mimi Reisner, Elissa Rubin, and Beth Wilkinson are asking each of you for your help. Do you have any special ideas, talents or connections that you could donate or help us to arrange? If so, please contact [email-masked].  Gift certificates to dine at your favorite restaurant; Vacation homes or other special getaways; Tickets to sporting or cultural events; Special wines and spirits; Pampering connections for spas and beauty/health services; Your culinary expertise; Toys and electronics; Any extra American Express points, Thank You rewards or airline frequent flier miles that we can use to buy items or plane tickets. Donation deadline is January 31, 2010. Donate today!!.ArtRageous
Do YOU know what January 30, 2011 is? It&rsquo;s that ARTRAGEOUS day when everyone you know at SFS will join together in our annual community-wide celebration of the ARTS from 1-4 pm at the Middle School campus. Mellow out with the US Jazz Band, snap to the beat of those CoSo a cappella guys, enjoy stunning visual art of lower, middle, and upper school students, be inspired by solo, duet, and group vocal and instrumental performers of all ages, get ready to be wowed by spirited dancers, and rock the afternoon away with our newest cool band of 3rd graders. Bring out the artist in YOU &ndash; enter a Zen Zone to create of and about BLUE, sculpt and paint in workshops led by professional artists and teachers, make a masterpiece with blue tape, build art to eat, and much more! And how about another clue for that Grande Finale &ndash; while baseball fans have to wait until early April for that opening PITCH, SFS&rsquo;s wonderful ArtRageous &lsquo;11 team of faculty and administrators will throw you a PITCH on January 30 you&rsquo;ll want to catch. . . and throw back!

								PA Announcements
                                
                                Valentine's Dance
The Valentine's Dance will take place on Saturday, February 5 from 8:30pm-11:00pm in the Dining Room. We need parents to work alongside students to decorate for the dance on Friday, February 4 at 2:30pm. Also, five parent volunteers are needed to help pour water and monitor the two classrooms which serve as coat rooms. If you are able to volunteer, please contact Jamie Baldinger.10th Grade Peer Group
The second parent peer group meeting for 10th grade is Tuesday January 25th at 7:30 p.m. in the Upper School Crane Room.
Please join us for these wonderful opportunities to join with other parents in your grade and talk about non-academic issues of relevance to our children's well being. Peer groups are facilitated by parents in the grade and topics are determined by the parents in attendance that night. The peer group also provides a great chance to build relationships with the other parents in the grade.
We hope you will join us. If you have any questions, please contact Raina Fishbane or Jeanine Hull, the Upper School Community Health Initiative co-clerks.A Call for Performers
Parents, do you ever hear your child and his/her friends belting out a popular song behind closed doors? Or is there perhaps a rock band that blasts forth in your basement? Do you ever hear singing coming from the shower? fFloor boards creaking from the dance maneuvers upstairs? Please, get the word to those kids having fun in an artistic way that ArtRageous would like to hear from them. We still have room at the Middle School and plenty of equipment at the ready to support any kind of act. So, come find your audience and email Maude Fish. She'll get back to you.ArtRageous Needs Volunteers! 
Friends, Parents, Patrons, lend us your love of all things Art! ArtRageous (Sunday, Jan 30) promises to bring out the artist or art lover in you if you'll help us bring out the RAGE in ART! This SCHOOL-WIDE day of COMMUNITY and ART is fabulously fun, and it CANNOT happen without YOU! We are excited by a new venue this year - the beautiful Middle School - and it's going to be exhilarating to celebrate the arts in ways old and NEW in the cool Black Box Theatre, the professionally designed Art Studios, the inspiring Instrumental and Choral Classrooms - BUT WE NEED YOU. Set up (morning), Clean up (4-5:30), Assisting Art Stops and other events (1-4) - we've got a place only YOUR SHOES will dance in! To reserve your place in making this happen, please contact Sarah Blake, and THANK YOU! 

							
								Other News 
                                
                                Auction Time !
Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 16, 2011 for the All Hands on Deck themed benefit auction at the Andrew Mellon Auditorium. All auction proceeds go directly to student financial aid. This will be a fabulous event you won&rsquo;t want to miss!Newsletter Basics
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									 Calendar

									

												
												
	Tue, Jan 18th 
		
				LS Faculty In-Service Day - No School, LS Only 

				

				

		
				PA Executive Committee Meeting 
				
				Athletic Center Meeting Room
				7:45am - 9:00am

				

		
				US Musical Rehearsal 
				
				AC Theater
				6:00pm - 9:00pm

				

		
				11th Grade Parent Peer Group Meeting 
				
				US Crane Room
				7:30pm - 9:30pm

				

	Wed, Jan 19th 
		
				PA All School Committees Meeting 
				
				Athletic Center Meeting Room
				8:00am - 9:00am

				

		
				US Musical Rehearsal 
				
				AC Theater
				6:00pm - 9:00pm

				

		
				PA Arts Committee Meeting 
				
				US Library Board Room
				7:45pm - 10:00pm

				

	Thu, Jan 20th 
		
				New Orleans Workcamp meeting 
				
				Zartman Drawing Room
				5:45pm - 7:45pm

				

		
				US Musical Rehearsal 
				
				AC Music Room
				6:00pm - 9:00pm

				

		
				11th Graders & parents College Counseling Kickoff Meeting 
				
				AC Theater
				7:00pm - 9:00pm

				

	Sat, Jan 22nd 
		
				SAT 
				
				Off Campus 

				

				
		
				Tips on Trips and Camps Annual Fair 
				
				US Dining Room
				12:00pm - 4:30pm

				

		
				GLSBT Dance 
				
				AC Theater
				8:30pm - 11:00pm

				

	Sun, Jan 23rd 
		
				11th Grade Family Community Service Project at MLK Library 
				
				Off-Campus
				8:00am

				

		
				Model UN 
				
				AC Theater
				8:00am - 10:00am

				

	Mon, Jan 24th 
		
				US Musical Rehearsal 
				
				AC Theater
				6:00pm - 9:00pm

				

		
				All School PA & Quaker Life Committees host an evening with Susan Goldman 
				
				MS Drama Studio
				7:00pm - 9:00pm

				

	Tue, Jan 25th 
		
				US Musical Rehearsal 
				
				AC Theater
				6:00pm - 9:00pm

				

		
				10th Grade Parent Peer Group Meeting 
				
				US Crane Room
				7:30pm - 9:30pm

				

	Wed, Jan 26th 
		
				US Musical Rehearsal 
				
				AC Theater
				6:00pm - 9:00pm

				

	Thu, Jan 27th 
		
				US Musical Rehearsal 
				
				AC Theater
				6:00pm - 9:00pm

				

	Sat, Jan 29th 
		
				Variety Show 
				
				AC Theater
				8:00pm

				

	Sun, Jan 30th 
		
				Artrageous 
				
				MS, MS Drama Studio, MS Foyer
				1:00pm - 4:00pm

				

		
				US Musical Rehearsal 
				
				AC Theater
				1:00pm - 5:00pm

				

	Mon, Jan 31st 
		
				US Dance Ensemble Rehearsal 
				
				AC Theater
				3:30pm - 6:00pm

				

		
				US Musical Rehearsal 
				
				AC Theater
				6:00pm - 9:00pm

				

	Tue, Feb 1st 
		
				US Dance Ensemble Rehearsal 
				
				AC Theater
				2:45pm - 4:45pm

				

		
				US Musical Rehearsal 
				
				AC Theater
				6:00pm - 9:00pm

				

		
				12th Grade Parent Peer Group Meeting 
				
				US Crane Room
				7:30pm - 9:30pm

				

	Wed, Feb 2nd 
		
				PA Executive Committee Meeting 
				
				US Crane Room
				8:00am - 9:00am

				

		
				Vision Warrior with Scot Anthony Robinson 
				
				AC Theater
				8:30am - 10:45am

				

		
				US Dance Ensemble Rehearsal 
				
				AC Theater
				3:30pm - 6:00pm

				

		
				US Musical Rehearsal 
				
				AC Theater
				6:00pm - 9:00pm

				

		
				Vision Warrior Parent Workshop 
				
				MS Drama Studio
				7:00pm - 9:00pm

				

	Thu, Feb 3rd 
		
				9th Grade Parent Coffee with Ms Grebski/ Ms. Lazarus 
				
				US Dining Room
				7:30am - 8:30am

				

		
				US Dance Ensemble Rehearsal 
				
				AC Theater
				3:30pm - 6:00pm

				

		
				US Musical Rehearsal 
				
				AC Theater
				6:00pm - 9:00pm

				

	Fri, Feb 4th 
		
				BSU Rehearsal 
				
				AC Music Room
				6:00pm - 9:00pm

				

	Sat, Feb 5th 
		
				BSU Rehearsal 
				
				AC Music Room
				1:00pm - 3:00pm

				

		
				US Valentine's Dance 
				
				US Dining Room
				8:30pm - 11:00pm

				

	Sun, Feb 6th 
		
				US Dance Ensemble Rehearsal (tech) 
				
				AC Theater
				1:00pm - 5:00pm

				

		
				US Musical Rehearsal 
				
				AC Music Room
				1:00pm - 5:00pm

				

		
				BSU Rehearsal 
				
				AC Music Room
				5:00pm - 8:00pm

				

	Mon, Feb 7th 
		
				US Dance Ensemble Rehearsal (tech) 
				
				AC Theater
				3:30pm - 6:30pm

				

		
				All-School PA Community Health Initiative Conversation with Tom Farquhar 
				
				LS Meeting Room
				7:00pm - 9:00pm

				

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									Athletics

									

                                                
												
	Wed, Jan 19th 
		
				Basketball - Boys 7/8 A at Mater Dei 

				2:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys 7/8 B vs. Mater Dei 

				2:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys 7/8 C at Mater Dei 

				2:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls 7/8 A vs. Maret School 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls 7/8 B at Maret School 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. Flint Hill 

				4:15pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Freshman at Flint Hill 

				4:30pm

				

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

				4:30pm

				

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

				4:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Varsity vs. Flint Hill 

				6:00pm

				

		
				Wrestling - Varsity vs. St. James School 

				6:00pm

				

	Thu, Jan 20th 
		
				Basketball - Girls 7/8 C at Georgetown Day 

				2:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys 7/8 C vs. Georgetown Day 

				2:30pm

				

		
				Wrestling - 7/8 vs. Potomac School 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Swimming - Boys 7/8 at Stone Ridge School 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Swimming - Girls 7/8 at Stone Ridge School 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys 7/8 A at Potomac School 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys 7/8 B vs. Potomac School 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity - Thurgood Marshall HS 

				4:00pm

				

	Fri, Jan 21st 
		
				Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity at Maret School 

				4:15pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity at Madeira 

				4:15pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Varsity at Maret School 

				5:45pm

				

	Sat, Jan 22nd 
		
				Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity at Potomac School 

				12:00pm

				

		
				Wrestling - Varsity vs. Episcopal, Georgetown Prep & Good Counsel 

				12:00pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Varsity at Potomac School 

				3:30pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity at St. Albans 

				5:30pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. National Cathedral School 

				5:30pm

				

	Mon, Jan 24th 
		
				Swimming - Boys 7/8 at St. Albans 

				2:30pm

				

		
				Swimming - Girls 7/8 vs. National Cathedral School 

				2:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls 7/8 C at National Cathedral School 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity - Dunbar HS 

				4:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Varsity - Dunbar HS 

				6:15pm

				

	Tue, Jan 25th 
		
				Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. St. Andrew's School 

				4:15pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity at Holy Child 

				4:15pm

				

		
				Wrestling - Varsity at Potomac School 

				4:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Freshman at Field School 

				4:30pm

				

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

				6:00pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Varsity at Holy Child 

				6:00pm

				

	Wed, Jan 26th 
		
				Basketball - Girls 7/8 C at Holton-Arms 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls 7/8 A at Holton-Arms 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls 7/8 B vs. Holton-Arms 

				3:00pm

				

	Thu, Jan 27th 
		
				Basketball - Boys 7/8 A vs. St. Andrew's School 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys 7/8 B at St. Andrew's School 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. ISL 500 Free 

				5:00pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. ISL Diving 

				5:00pm

				

	Fri, Jan 28th 
		
				Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity vs. Madeira 

				4:15pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. ISL Finals 

				5:15pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Varsity vs. Madeira 

				6:00pm

				

	Sat, Jan 29th 
		
				Swimming - Boys 7/8 vs. Middle School Championships 

				8:30am

				

		
				Swimming - Girls 7/8 vs. Middle School Championships 

				8:30am

				

		
				Wrestling - Varsity vs. MAC Tournament 

				10:30am

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. Maret School 

				12:00pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Varsity at Sandy Spring 

				1:00pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Varsity vs. Maret School 

				1:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Freshman at Landon 

				4:00pm

				

	Tue, Feb 1st 
		
				Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity vs. Episcopal High School 

				4:00pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity at St. James School 

				5:00pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Varsity at St. James School 

				5:00pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Varsity vs. Episcopal High School 

				5:45pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity vs. Potomac & Edmund Burke 

				7:15pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. Potomac & Edmund Burke 

				7:15pm

				

	Wed, Feb 2nd 
		
				Wrestling - 7/8 vs. Mater Dei 

				2:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys 7/8 A at Flint Hill 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys 7/8 B vs. Flint Hill 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys 7/8 C at Flint Hill 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Varsity vs. Takoma Academy 

				5:00pm

				

	Thu, Feb 3rd 
		
				Basketball - Boys 7/8 C vs. Landon 

				2:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls 7/8 A vs. Stone Ridge School 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls 7/8 B at Stone Ridge School 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity vs. WMPSSDL Championships 

				3:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity at The Heights 

				4:15pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Freshman at Baltimore Friends 

				4:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Varsity at The Heights 

				6:00pm

				

	Fri, Feb 4th 
		
				Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. Georgetown Day 

				4:15pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Varsity vs. St. Stephen's & St. Agnes 

				4:15pm

				

		
				Wrestling - Varsity - John Paul the Great & Benedictine 

				4:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Varsity vs. Georgetown Day 

				6:00pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity vs. St. Stephen's & St. Agnes 

				6:00pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. WMPSSDL Championships 

				6:00pm

				

	Sat, Feb 5th 
		
				Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity vs. WMPSSDL Finals 

				5:00pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity - WMPSSDL Finals 

				5:00pm

				

	Mon, Feb 7th 
		
				Wrestling - 7/8 at Landon 

				2:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys 7/8 A at Landon 

				2:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys 7/8 B vs. Landon 

				2:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity vs. Georgetown Day 

				4:15pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Varsity vs. Georgetown Day 

				5:45pm

				

	Tue, Feb 8th 
		
				Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. Potomac School 

				4:15pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Varsity vs. Potomac School 

				6:00pm

				

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