Subject: SFS MS Tuesday Letter 2/25/2013
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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:30:00 -0500

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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 [email-masked] 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 [email-masked]. 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 
[email-masked]

 

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 
[email-masked] or Felice Roggen at [email-masked]

 

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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