Subject: FW: Sidwell announcement of VP @ graduation
From: "Smith, Michele" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:04:26 +0000

Hunter and Kathleen – please see the email below and let me know by Thursday if you have any objections, questions or comments.  Thanks

From: Allen, Elizabeth M.
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 1:57 PM
To: Reed, Bruce N.; Hoffman, Alan L.; Murray, Shailagh; Ryan, Evan; Williams, Tonya; Hire, Elisabeth; Hornbrook, Alex; Bolduc, Chad; Smith, Michele; Hogan, Cynthia C.; Kimball, Astri B.
Cc: Trotter, Kingsley; Barkoff, Kendra
Subject: Sidwell announcement of VP @ graduation

Team – Sidwell would like to send the below message to their school community this week (in an email to student families), confirming that the VP will speak at their Senior Class graduation in June.

We did an operational kick-off call with Sidwell last week – they will NOT announce the VP’s participation publicly (although we expect the news to leak to the local community once the below internal announcement is sent out) and the event will be CLOSED PRESS (Sidwell does not allow press on campus).

Note that both President Clinton and VP Gore have spoken at Sidwell’s senior graduations, under the same “personal capacity,” and those events remained closed press as well.

I don’t think any notifications are necessary for this but including Evan and Tonya FYSA.
Let me know if anyone has questions or concerns about the timing/language of the announcement below – otherwise, I’ll give Sidwell the green light for internal announcement by end-of-week.

Thanks,
Liz

From: Ellis Turner [mailto:[email-masked]]<mailto:[mailto:[email-masked]]>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 1:06 PM
To: Allen, Elizabeth M.
Subject: FW: Text of Announcement

A word was left out of the previously sent text. Please use this instead.  Many thanks.

We are very pleased to announce that this year’s Commencement speaker will be Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.,  grandfather of Senior Naomi Biden. We are grateful to the Vice President for accepting our invitation  to address the Sidwell Friends community on what promises to  be a day of joyful celebration for the  family and friends of the Class of 2012.

Ellis Turner |Associate Head of School |Sidwell Friends School |202.537.8108 |www.sidwell.edu