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Sidwell Friends School is a K-12 Quaker private school located in Washington, D.C. and Bethesda, Maryland in the United States.
   Sidwell was founded in 1883 by Thomas Sidwell. Its motto is "Eluceat Omnibus Lux," ("Let the light shine out from all"; it can also be translated as "by all," and alludes to the Quaker concept of inner light). All Sidwell Friends students attend Quaker meetings for worship weekly. Many members of each graduating class attend Ivy League institutions.
   Before moving to Wisconsin Avenue, Sidwell's campus was on I Street in downtown Washington. The Wisconsin Avenue property was first used for athletic fields while the campus was still downtown, with students shuttling between the two sites by streetcar.
   For many years, Sidwell was the only co-educational school in its athletic league, the Interstate Athletic Conference (IAC). Today, Sidwell's male sports teams compete in the MAC, while the female teams compete in the ISL.
   Sidwell dropped its dress code in the 1970s.
   The Wisconsin Avenue campus recently saw the completion of a new parking deck and sports field, and the construction on the Middle School has been completed. The Middle school building obtained a LEED Platinum certification from the United States Green Building Council. (External Link

) The environmentally sound Middle School building spearheads Sidwell's effort to instill environmental stewardship among its students. The Sidwell community also cherishes Quaker values, diversity, and academic excellence.
The Sidwell Friends Upper School has a particularly strong English Department. In 2005, Sidwell's AP English Exam scores were the highest of all "Medium-sized" schools (300–799 students in grades 10–12)offering the AP English exam.(External Link

) Sidwell doesn't offer an AP English course.
All students must acquire at least 19 credits before graduating. Students are required to take four years of English, three years of Math, three years of History, two years of one language, two years of Science, and one year of art. In addition to this, all freshmen must take the semester long "Freshman Studies" course. (External Link

) Sidwell has one of the region's strongest Chinese studies programs, with classes in Mandarin beginning in Middle School and extensive Chinese history courses offered in the Upper School. Every year the Sidwell Friends Upper School is host to two Chinese exchange students. Sidwell is also a member school of School Year Abroad.
The school's admissions process is merit-based and highly competitive. As documented on the school's website, it gives preference in admissions decisions to members of the Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers"), but otherwise doesn't discriminate on the basis of religion.

Athletics

Sidwell's sports team are known as the Quakers; their colors are gray and maroon. The Quakers compete in the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference for boys' sports (after previously competing in the Interstate Athletic Conference (IAC) until 1999) and the Independent School League (ISL) for girls' sports. Sidwell offers teams in Volleyball, Golf, Cross Country, Football, Field Hockey, Girls and Boys Soccer, Boys and Girls Basketball, Swimming, Wrestling, Boys and Girls Tennis, Baseball, Boys and Girls Lacrosse, Boys and Girls Track, and Softball.
Sidwell's athletic program has strengthened over the years, with many teams winning city, regional and national accolades. Sidwell has also won the MAC Director's Cup (for overall excellence in Boys sports) for the past 7 years.

Boys' Soccer

In fall, 2006, the boys' varsity soccer team compiled a 19-2 record and was recognized as #9 in the Washington Post Top Ten soccer schools in the metropolitan area. The 2007 Boys Varsity Soccer team again won the MAC Boys' Soccer championship and achieved a second consecutive Washington Post Top Ten ranking, reaching #3 in the final poll with a 20-2 record.

Wrestling

The wrestling program at Sidwell has also been a success, taking 10th place in the national prep tournament in 2003, and winning the DC Classic, comprised of all DC private schools that compete in Wrestling, in 2007 and 2008. In February of 2008, the Boys Varsity Wrestling Team claimed their 7th banner in 9 years of participating in the MAC. It was also their 4th straight banner. They established clear dominance, winning the tournament by over 100 points, and boasted 8 MAC champions and one additional All-MAC selection.

Boys' Basketball

The 2006-2007 Varsity Boys' Basketball team also enjoyed measurable success, winning the school's first ever outright conference championship in Boys' Basketball, as well as completing the most successful conference season in MAC Boys' Basketball history with a 14-0 conference record.

Current profile

2004-2005 school year: 1,091 students (563 boys and 528 girls) are enrolled
38% of the student body belong to ethnic minorities
21% of the student body receives some form of financial assistance
The School employs 145 teachers and 98 administrative and support staff.
Tuitions for the 2007-2008 school year are $26,790 (prekindergarten-grade 4) and $27,790 (grades 5-12).

The school never releases its SAT average scores or college admission list. However, the school releases to the most recent alumni class a list of which institutions each recently graduated student is attending.

The school doesn't rank its students, as that conflicts with the Quaker Testimony of Equality.

Campuses

The Middle and Upper School campus is located at 3825 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20016-2907

15-acre (61,000 m²) Wisconsin Avenue campus in the Tenleytown section of Northwest Washington

Earl G. Harrison Jr. Upper School Building

A new environmentally-friendly Middle School building with LEED platinum status

Kogod Center for the Arts

Richard Walter Goldman Memorial Library

Zartman House (administration building)

Sensner Building (maintenance services and school store)

Wannan and Kenworthy Gymnasiums

Three athletic fields, five tennis courts, and a six-lane track.

Parking facility with ample faculty, student, guest and alumni parking (200+ parking spaces), as well as buildings for security, IT and maintenance.

Head of school: Bruce T. Stewart The Lower School campus can be found at 5100 Edgemoor Lane, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814-2306

5-acre (20,000 m²) Edgemoor Lane campus in Bethesda (formerly Longfellow School for Boys; opened for the 1963–64 school year)

Manor House (classrooms, administration, and Clark Library)

Groome Building (classrooms and multi-purpose room)

Science, Art, and Music (SAM) Building

The Bethesda Friends Meeting House

Athletic fields and play areas. Both campuses underwent major renovations throughout the 2005-2006 school year.

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of Sidwell Friends include:

Anne Applebaum ('82), journalist and author

Jon Bernthal ('95), actor

Setsuko Chichibu ('28), Princess of Japan

Jair Lynch

('89), gymnast, 1996 Olympic Games silver medalist.

Robert Carter Cook ('16 or '17), director of the American Eugenics Society (External Link

)

Ann Brashares ('85), author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series of books

Oteil Burbridge ('82), bassist for the Allman Brothers Band

John Dickerson ('87), journalist, political commentator, and writer.

Diana Lady Dougan

('60), Chairwoman of the Cyber Century Forum and senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and author of Arab and Muslim Countries: Profiles in Translation

John Deutch ('56), CIA Director, MIT professor

Margaret Edson ('79), Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Wit

Dan Froomkin ('81), journalist and Washington Post columnist

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. ('69), Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman

Ana Gasteyer ('85), actress

Doug Gansler ('81), State's Attorney for Montgomery County, Maryland (1999—2007), Attorney General of the State of Maryland, (2007- )

Charlie Gibson, ABC World News Tonight anchor, former host of ABC's Good Morning America.

Walter Gilbert ('49), Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry

Paul Goldstein ('94), professional tennis player, 4-time NCAA Champion and All-American at Stanford, 2-time USTA 18 & Under national champion.

James K Glassman ('65), editorialist, syndicated columnist, and author

Michael Govan, museum director

Hanna Holborn Gray ('47 or '48), historian and Provost of Yale University and later the President of University of Chicago

William Henry Harrison ('14 or '15), Republican Representative from Wyoming (note: this was President William Henry Harrison's great-great-grandson)

Gregory E. Jackson('69), Associate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia

Clara Jeffery ('85), Editor of Mother Jones magazine

John Katzenbach ('68), author

Philip S. Khoury ('67), Ford International Professor of History & Associate Provost, MIT

Henry Masur

('64), doctor who described the first cases of AIDS

Campbell McGrath ('80), poet and winner of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award"

Daniel Mudd ('76), CEO of Fannie Mae

Bill Nye ('73), television personality and scientist

Jerome Nichols ('00), professional football player, Green Bay Packers, NFL Europe sacks leader ('06) (External Link

)

Rhonda Lee Righter, Professor, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley

Susan Shreve, professor, author and novelist

Andrew Szanton ('81), author, memoir collaborator

Ed Tapscott ('71), former American University head men's basketball coach, former New York Knicks general manager and former Charlotte Bobcats president.

Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky, Soviet ambassador to the United Nations

Robin Weigert ('87), actress The following notable people attended Sidwell but didn't graduate:

George A. Akerlof, Nobel Prize winner for Economics & current Faculty member at University of California, Berkeley

Kara Lawson ('99, left in 1996) WNBA player and star at the University of Tennessee, 5th pick of the 2003 WNBA Draft.

Charles Lindbergh, (attended 1913-1915)

Roger Mason, Jr. ('99, left in 1996) NBA player for the Washington Wizards and star at the University of Virginia, 31st pick of the 2002 NBA Draft.

John Dos Passos, (attended 1902-1903)

Root Boy Slim

Nancy Reagan, former First Lady (attended the elementary school 1925-1928)

Gore Vidal ('43, left in 1936) In addition, the following children of famous people have attended Sidwell:

Joel Brinkley ('71), son of, and Alexis Brinkley ('88), daughter of David Brinkley

Chelsea Clinton ('97), daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton

Quinn Coleman ('07), son of, and Ava Coleman ('11), daughter of, the CEO of Black Entertainment Television Debra Lee

Albert Gore III ('01), son of Al Gore

Caroline Hadley ('07), daughter of National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley

H.R. Haldeman's son

Antonia Blue-Hitchens ('11), daughter of Christopher Hitchens

Allan Hoover? ('25?), son of Herbert Hoover

Benee Morris ('12), daughter of Boyz II Men singer Wanya Morris.

Matthew Kim ('12), son of Montgomery County, Maryland Judge Brian Kim

Robert Cornelius "Neil" Mitchell ('79), son of Redskin star Bobby Mitchell

Jonathan Mudd ('79), son of TV journalist Roger Mudd

Tricia Nixon Cox ('64) and Julie Nixon ('66, left in 1961), daughters of Richard Nixon

Emily Powell ('84), daughter of Jimmy Carter spokesman and top aide Jody Powell

Dawn Rather ('76), daughter of, and Daniel M. Rather ('78), son of Dan Rather

Archibald Roosevelt ('12?), son of Theodore Roosevelt

Valerie Rumsfeld, Donald Rumsfeld's daughter

Nadav Savio ('88), son of activist Mario Savio

Max Graham ('16,) Wynne Graham ('12) and Cole Graham ('12), children of speechwriter Lissa Muscatine

Noah Museles ('13), son of Executive Vice President, CLO, and General Counsel of Capital Source Steven Museles

Carson Miller ('13), daughter of NBC News Anchor Doreen Gentzler

Sam Gansler ('13), son of Doug Gansler(see above under Notable Alumni)

Brent Bubes ('13), son of Ronald Bubes, founder and CEO of Linens of the Week

Annie Hills ('13), daughter of Stephen Hills, head and general manager of the Washington PostFurther Information

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