Subject: SFS MS Thursday Letter 3-12-13
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:30:42 -0400

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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 we make good decisions when our peers aren't?

Notes from Sally
No assembly this week.  8th grade students will hear about Upper 
School curriculum on Friday afternoon.

Parents are warmly invited to join us for Meeting for Worship on 
Thursday morning from 8:10 - 8:40 in the Meeting Room.

Please note:  the Hoops for Hunger event advertised in last week's 
Tuesday Letter was postponed and will be held this Friday evening 
from 5-7.

Please plan to stop by the Rubenstein Gallery when you are on campus 
and see the Middle School art show!  It will be up until mid- April.

Next Monday will be a regular class day.  Minimester begins on 
Tuesday morning.  All students involved in local Minimester programs 
should be receiving a permission slip and daily itinerary; please be 
sure to return permission slips to the project leader. Unless noted 
on the itinerary, students will begin and end their school day at the 
regular time.  The Shuttle Bus and Aftercare will operate normally 
next week.  Absences should be reported to Julia Porter in the office 
and to one of the project leaders if possible. Please note any 
suggestions for dress and things to bring for the week; this is a 
good week to pay attention to the weather and dress accordingly since 
many students will be spending significant time outdoors.  A small 
daypack and a water bottle are probably standard equipment for all 
local programs!

Last call for items for the food drive. Helping Hands Minimester will 
be delivering items to the Capital Area Food Bank next week!

We will be cleaning out the Lost and Found boxes over break and 
donating unclaimed items.  Please encourage your son or daughter to 
track down things that may be missing.

St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School has invited our 7th and 8th grade 
students to their St. Patrick's Dance. The dance will take place this 
Friday, March 15, from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. at the St. Patrick's Gym 
located at 4700 Whitehaven Parkway, NW. The admission price is $5.00 
and a canned food to support the CAFB. Appropriate casual dress is 
recommended.

The National Building Museum on F Street has just opened a Green 
Schools exhibit, and we are proud that the Middle School building is 
included!  The exhibit is open until next January.

Congratulations to the Sidwell Friends Math Counts Team, which won 
the overall team competition and swept all top six individual places 
at the State Math Counts competition on Saturday against an array of 
the area's best private and public schools. (This is the first time 
in DC Math Counts history that one school has swept all of the top 
six spots at the State Competition.)  8th graders Amal Mattoo (1st 
place), Luke Oh (2nd place), Alan Zhang (3rd place), and 7th grader 
Kevin Jiang (4th place) will be forming the team that represents the 
District of Columbia at the National Math Counts competition in 
Washington, DC in May.  8th graders Jason Souvaliotis (5th place) and 
Jordan Chernof (6th place) will be alternates in case a team member 
cannot attend the national competition.  8th grader Casey Dorfman and 
6th grader Mitchell Jubeir also competed at the State competition and 
fared quite well. These mathletes should take great pride in their 
phenomenal accomplishment!

Congratulations, seventh grader Isabel Kirsch! After winning our 
middle school bee and taking a written test, she qualified to 
represent Sidwell Friends at the state level of the National 
Geographic Bee. She will compete on Friday, April 5, 2013 here in 
Washington for a chance to go on to the national bee. Good luck, 
Isabel!

Math Counts
Congratulations to 8th graders Alan Zhang, Amal Mattoo, Casey Dorfman 
and Harry Weinstein, our newest Mathematicians of the Month.  All of 
them correctly solved the middle school wide January/February Math 
Challenge.  Check out their ingenious solutions on the Math Bulletin 
Board on the 5/6 Hallway or the Math Counts Bulletin Board right 
outside Mr. C's room.  The final Math Challenge of the school year 
will be posted in April.

(Note:  Math Counts will continue to meet on Thursdays in Mr. C's 
room from 3:30-4:30.  It is open to all 6th, 7th and 8th graders.)

Instrumental Music Notes 

Jazz/Rock Band Monday 3:45-5:00

Mulan Pit Band Wednesday 3:45-5:00 and Thursday 3:45-5:30

Mulan Sound Effects Thursday 3:45-5:30

5/6 String Ensemble Wednesday rehearsal period

7/8 Concert Band Wednesday rehearsal period

5/6 Violin II, III Friday DEAR Period

5/6 Concert Band Friday 2:50-3:30

Choral Rehearsals this Week

7/8 Choral Rehearsals Week of March 11th

Wednesday, March 13th

Boys Ensemble  7:25

Girls Ensemble during Rehearsal Period

US Musical: The Secret Garden

Download US Synop_of_GARDEN.pdf
http://www.sidwell.edu/data/files/news/MSNewsletterFromtheSchoolNews/US_Synop_of_GARDEN.pdf

Download US Musical Poster.pdf
http://www.sidwell.edu/data/files/news/MSNewsletterFromtheSchoolNews/US_Musical_Poster1.pdf
Tickets are going fast for the US Musical: The Secret Garden!  This show is 
suitable for all ages. Reservations can be made by email or phone: 
[email-masked] or 202-537-2400. 

Adults: $8, non-SFS students: $4; SFS students: FREE

15 March 2013 at 8:00 pm 

16 March 2013 at 8:00 pm 

17 March 2013 at 2:30 pm

Sidwell Friends School Kogod Center for the Arts Mary Ellen Caplin 
Theater

3825 Wisconsin Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20016

Seating is ASSIGNED

Winter Speaker Series
The SFS Graduated Parents invite you to the 8th Annual Winter Speaker 
Series.

Same sex marriage: From where we have come to where we are going

Thursday, March 14, 2013

7:00 p.m. Reception

7:30 p.m. Panel discussion

Robert L. Smith Meeting Room

This will be a conversation about the two upcoming Supreme Court 
cases that will be argued on March 26 and 27: Hollingsworth v. Perry, 
dealing with California's ban on gay marriage, and United States v. 
Windsor, dealing with the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Our 
speakers will include Adam Liptak, Esq., Supreme Court correspondent 
for the New York Times and author of The New York Times "Sidebar" 
column 2007 and Paul Smith, Esq, chair of the Appellate and Supreme 
Court Practice Group of Jenner & Block. Mr. Smith has argued 14 
Supreme Court cases, including the landmark gay rights case, Lawrence 
v. Texas in 2003.

Please RSVP by March 13, 2013 to 
[email-masked]@sidwell.edu>

Events for Student Scholarships
Auction Item Drop-Off Deadline

Many thanks to all of our generous donors to our upcoming auction. We 
kindly ask that all tangible donations be dropped off in the lower 
level of Zartman House in the Special Events hallway by March 22, 
2013. If special wines or perishable items need an extension closer 
to the auction date, please contact 
[email-masked]@sidwell.edu>. Thank you.

Seeking Golf Committee Volunteers

We are gearing up for the 2013 Tennis and Golf Tournament and need 
your help! We are seeking golf committee members to help with 
securing players, sponsors and promoting this important fundraiser. 
If you are interested in joining the Golf Committee, please contact 
[email-masked]@sidwell.edu>.

PA ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Community Service Corner
Annual Middle School Food Collection

How can we help hungry families and kids in our area? Contribute to 
the Middle School Winter Food Collection! All items must be in by 
Monday, March 18 for Miss Nick and her Helping Hands Minimester crew 
to organize and deliver during Minimester week. Drop off tables are 
located in the first floor hallway across from the office.

Family Service Project at Mary's Center

On March 17 the Upper School is sponsoring a Family Service Project 
at Mary's Center, and all are welcome to attend! Please contact 
Leslie Rose at [email-masked] for more information.

Questions? Contact MS Community Service Co-Clerks, Sara Jane Harris 
[email-masked] or Felice Roggen [email-masked]

Spring Speakers

Download Spring Speakers_AS-1.docx
http://www.sidwell.edu/data/files/news/MSNewsletterPAAnnouncements/Spring_Speakers_AS1.docx
April's Abundance of Parent Events

A confluence of prior planning, new needs and new opportunities has 
led the scheduling of SFS visits by three terrific speakers. The 
Parents Association, Principals and Counselors recognize that this is 
an abundance of riches in the month of April. We thought we would 
announce them together to both encourage you to take advantage of all 
of them and to let you know that when opportunities arise to take 
advantage of high quality experts we move - even if it results in a 
little jamming on the calendar.

OTHER NEWS
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Announcements from Bethesda Friends Meeting
On Sunday, April 7th, Joyce Ajlouny , Director of Ramallah Friends 
School will speak at Bethesda Friends Meeting, on "Life at Ramallah 
Friends School in the West Bank Today." The 12:30 p.m. forum is 
sponsored by the Peace and Social Justice committee. Those unable to 
attend can still hear Joyce talk about RFS on Sunday, April 21st at 
1:15 p.m. at Sandy Spring Friends Meeting , 17715 Meeting House Road, 
Sandy Spring, MD 20860.

Mary's Center Family Service Project
Wall and Mural Painting!

Join us for the second Family Service Project of the year. On March 
17th from 10 - 2 Bring the family, all school age kids are welcome, 
to help paint Mary's Center. Mary's Center in Adam's Morgan, founded 
by Sidwell Friends parent Maria Gomez provides heath care, social 
services and literacy services to over 30,000 people who would not 
otherwise have access. It serves people from 110 countries. It is 
located at 2333 Ontario Rd in Adams Morgan. There is plenty of 
parking. Behrends Builders will be helping with distributing supplies 
and overseeing the task at hand. Its a great opportunity to do 
something fun as a family and give back to the community.

[http://presence.mail.aol.com/mailsig/?sn=leslirose] please rsvp to 
Leslie Rose at [email-masked]@aol.com> , Community 
Service Co-Clerk with Maria Gomez

Community Meeting for Worship
Parents of Middle School students are invited to attend Meeting for 
Worship with their child on Thursday, March 14, 8:10 - 8:40 a.m., in 
the Smith Meeting House. For Quakers, wisdom begins in silence. This 
is a wonderful way for parents to experience Meeting, take part in 
your child's education, and demonstrate the value of silent worship.

Quaker Quotes
"In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and 
wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations 
reciprocal." Lucretia Mott, 1840s

"During the years before the Civil War, Lucretia Mott had become 
almost as active in the women's rights movement as in the abolition 
of slaves. In 1848 the first Women's Rights Convention was held in 
Seneca Falls, NY and here again Lucretia was the lioness of the 
occasion. Women were accused of wanting to dress like men and make 
men rock the cradle. But somehow Lucretia, the leading spirit in all 
these meetings, did not fit their descriptions, with her 'winning 
womanly figure and the Quaker garb and meekly folded kerchief'.

Nor was she lacking in domesticity...in her letters we read:....'this 
morning I have ironed four dozen pieces, made soft custards, attended 
to stewing blackberries, and potted some Dutch herring, besides doing 
all the dusting, and receiving several callers. I was tired when our 
family of thirteen gathered at dinner...our family party Seventh-day 
was pleasant, I worked like a beaver that morning, so as to be ready 
to sit down with them early; did all my sweeping and dusting, raking 
the grass plot etc, made milk biscuit, a plum pudding and a lemon 
pudding....I was pleased to hear of thy interest in the abolition of 
capital punishment...." Caroline Nicholson Jacob, Builders of the 
Quaker Road

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