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Reunion Weekend Evaluation
Please take a moment to complete
a Reunion
Weekend Evaluation
form. Thank you! Completed forms can be emailed to
alumni@sidwell.edu, faxed to (202)
537-8448, or mailed to:
Alumni Office, Sidwell Friends
School
2835 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington DC 20016
Click here to download an Evaluation Form.
Alumni News: Letter from Ginger Fay
Director of Alumni Relations
Dear Friends,
It is with very mixed emotions that I
write to share the news that I will be stepping down as Alumni Director at
the end of June. I am launching my own college counseling and consulting
business and look forward to this adventure as it will allow me to return
to something I love -- working with students -- as well as the opportunity
to spend more time with our one-year-old daughter, Charlotte.
The three years I have spent at SFS
have been the perfect combination of rewards and challenges and I have
learned more than I could have ever imagined about Quaker education,
fund-raising and alumni programming. You have been my best teachers and I
am grateful to have been able to work with such a remarkably talented
group of alumni. You truly let your lives speak. I am particularly
indebted to Cindy Meyer Truitt '73
and John Shakow '87
for their inspired and dynamic leadership of the Alumni Association.
Assistant Head of School Patricia King
Jackson has assembled a Search Committee to help identify my replacement
and we need your help. Please send your suggestions for candidates or
self-nominations to
gfay@sidwell.edu.
We would be especially pleased
for a member of the alumni body to serve in this important leadership role
at Sidwell Friends. The other Search Committee members are Dean of
Students Rebecca Zug, Assistant Director of Admissions Shelly Jeffery '68,
Annual Funds Director Leslie Hutchens and Alumni President John Shakow
'87. I serve as ex-officio to the committee and would be happy to field
your questions by phone and email. A detailed job description is
available
online.
Recent Alumni Events
Click here
to view pictures of
our May 2006 events
Above: Alumni Lacrosse Game,
May 21, 2006
Alumni Spotlight: June 2006
Jerome
Nichols '00
Several weeks ago, Robynn
Scott-Clayton '00 contacted the Alumni Office with news about her
classmate, Jerome Nichols '00. Jerome has been playing in the NFL
Europe League for the Frankfurt Galaxy. Robynn wanted to encourage her
classmates and Sidwell friends to vote for Jerome, and help him make the All
NFL-Europe League Team at the Defensive Tackle Position. The Alumni Office
jumped into action and shared her message with the Classes of 1999-2003, as
well as the Athletic Department at SFS.
The good news came on Thursday,
May 25: Jerome made the NFL-Europe All League Team! The Frankfurt Galaxy
finished second during the regular season, so he and the team are playing in
the World Bowl. Then, Jerome will head to Wisconsin to start practicing with
the Green Bay Packers. In an recent email, Jerome wrote, "Please pass along
my gratitude to the rest of the Sidwell community. I'll be sure to keep you
posted throughout training camp." We wish him the very best!
Julie Silard
Kantor '87
Julie Silard Kantor '87
is executive director of The National Foundation for Teaching
Entrepreneurship, as well as the recipient of NFTE's 2005 Leadership Award
and a former NFTE Executive of the Year.
The National Foundation for
Teaching Entrepreneurship, or NFTE (pronounced "nifty"), is at the forefront
of teaching small-business start-up skills to at-risk youth, helping young
people from low-income communities to build life skills and unlock their
entrepreneurial creativity.
Julie has just come out with a
new book, I Said Yes! : Real Life Stories of Students, Teachers and
Leaders; Saying YES! To Youth Entrepreneurship in America's Schools.
I Said "Yes"! is Julie's
first-person account of the transformative power that NFTE's mission of
teaching entrepreneurship has brought to so many young lives--including her
own--over the past 14 years. It is both the story of Julie's path into youth
development and teaching, and of the many troubled youths who overcame
significant obstacles to make their lives productive and meaningful. To
learn more, go to the official website at
www.isaidyes.org
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Alumni Community Service Day
(Los Angeles, 2005)
Office of Development and
Alumni Relations Links:
Alumni
Events Calendar 2005-06
Featuring events in DC, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San
Francisco, and Seattle.
Features of
the Virtual Alumni Lounge:
Register
for the Online Community.
Check out
talented Sidwell
writers.
Retired/Former Employees pages.
SFS School Store Online
View the
Class of 1987 DVD.
Consider this
space a virtual Alumni Lounge, Development Center and Events Office. With a few clicks of
a mouse, you can
submit a Class Note,
make a gift to our Annual
Fund campaign, find out what's going on campus or see what our regional Alumni Clubs are doing. So start your tour, and let us know what you think.
Learn about
SFS authors by visiting our
Alumni Authors
page.
Zachary Scholz '97
Zachary Scholz '97
has been quite busy working on his MFA Fine Art Thesis Exhibition at
California College of the Arts (May 2006) and several other exhibitions as
well!
In his artist's statement, Zachary writes, "I interact with material
hoping to surprise myself. Somewhere in this process of becoming,
something new is born, growing from the dense point where meaning and
material are intertwined."
Alumni in the San
Francisco Bay area can check out his work at the following exhibitions:
WORKS AROUND PROCESS
Tuesday May 30th - Wednesday June 21st
Opening Reception: Thursday June 1st 6-9pm
At: PLAySPACE Gallery,
California College of The Arts, San Francisco Campus - 1111 8th Street
(directions
http://www.cca.edu/about/directions.php )
NEW CALIFORNIA
MASTERS
Tuesday June 13th - Saturday July 8th
Opening Reception: Friday June 16th 7-9pm
At: Works / San Jose - 30 North 3rd Street
San Jose, California 95112
(more at
http://www.workssanjose.org/calendar.shtml )
Alumni around the
world can see his work at
http://sites.cca.edu/gradexhibition/scholz/05.html
Are you an alumnus/a who is doing
something of interest, in the DC metro area or elsewhere? Email
alumni@sidwell.edu and ask us to mention
you in the next issue of "On the Horizon...", our monthly
e-newsletter! Email
alumni@sidwell.edu to sign up for the newsletter.
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