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Sidwell Friends School
Eluceat Omnibus Lux (Latin: "Let the light shine out from all")
Location
Bethesda, Maryland and Washington, D.C., United States
Information
Type	Private school
Established	1883
Head of school	Tom Farquhar
Faculty	248
Enrollment	1,097
Information	(202) 537-8100
Publications	Horizon (the legitimate newspaper) The Oat (the satirical newspaper) Quarterly (the art magazine)
Website	Sidwell Friends School (SFS)

Sidwell Friends School is a Quaker private school located in Bethesda, Maryland and Washington, D.C., offering pre-kindergarten through secondary school classes. Founded in 1883 by Thomas Sidwell, its motto is "Eluceat omnibus lux" (Let the light shine out from all), alluding to the Quaker concept of inner light. All Sidwell Friends students attend Quaker meeting for worship weekly.

The school's admissions process is merit-based. As documented on the school's website, it gives preference in admissions decisions to members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), but otherwise does not discriminate on the basis of religion. The school has accepted vouchers under the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.

Both of President Barack Obama's daughters, Sasha and Malia, attend Sidwell. Vice President Joe Biden's grandchildren also attend the school.^[1] Previously, President Theodore Roosevelt's son Archibald, Richard Nixon's daughter Tricia, Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea, and Vice President Al Gore's son, Albert Gore III, all graduated from Sidwell Friends.

History [link]

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.

Sidwell adopted its dress code in 1955. At the urging of the students, it dropped its dress code in the 1970s.

Since 2005, the Wisconsin Avenue campus has seen the completion of the LEED-certified Middle School; a new indoor athletic facility; underground parking garage; and two turf fields. A new Quaker Meeting House facility is located in the newly-renovated Arts Center.

Thomas B. Farquhar is the Head of School as of the 2010-2011 school year, after the retirement of former Head of School Bruce Stewart at the end of the 2008-2009 school year.^[2]

Academics [link]

The Sidwell Friends Upper School has a particularly strong English Department. In 2005, Sidwell's AP English Exam scores were the highest in the nation for all medium-sized schools (300–799 students in grades 10–12) offering the AP English exam.^[3] Sidwell does not 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 mathematics, three years of history, two years of one foreign language, two years of science, and two years of art. In addition to this, all freshmen must take a one-semester Freshman Studies course.^[4]

Sidwell has one of the region's strongest Chinese studies programs, with classes in Mandarin beginning in Lower 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 a member school of School Year Abroad.

Sidwell does not release a list of its graduates' college destinations. However, it does release a list to the parents of its current seniors, of the top 25 most attended institutions (in no particular order) over the last 5 years. The most recent list had such schools listed as Yale, Harvard, The University of Notre Dame, Penn, Brown University, Cornell University, Columbia, Northwestern, Chicago, Washington University in St. Louis, Middlebury, Duke, Wesleyan, Michigan, George Washington, and Tufts.

Athletics [link]

Sidwell's sports teams are known as the Quakers; their colors are maroon and gray. 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, Boys and Girls 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 is an excellent complement to the school's academic mission and has produced many athletes who have gone on to excel academically and athletically at the collegiate level.

Boys' Cross Country[link]

Sidwell has a strong tradition in Boys' Cross Country, including winning four consecutive conference championships under Head Coach Bill Wooden from 2006–2009, and producing the area's top runner, 2010 All-Met Athlete of the Year John McGowan,^[5] in 2010.

Boys' soccer [link]

Over the past 3 years, the Sidwell Friends Boys Soccer program has become one of the preeminent programs in the entire Washington, DC metro area. 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. The 2008 team continued their recent success by winning the third consecutive MAC title, and their 4th in 5 years, with an undefeated 16-0-1 record for the season. Again, the Quakers finished the season ranked #3 in the area by the Washington Post and #36 nationally by ESPNRise.com. The 2009 squad began the season ranked #22 in the country by ESPN.^[6] In October 2009 the squad achieved a prestigious #1 Washington Post ranking. They also ended up ranked #47 in the country. Sidwell soccer alums have suited up at a number of top schools, including Maryland, Stanford, GW, Yale, Brown, Wesleyan University, Middlebury College, Washington University in St. Louis, Amherst College, Princeton University, and Williams College.

Football [link]

Sidwell Friends has a century-long tradition of playing football, and currently plays in the Mid-Athletic Conference (MAC). Over the years, many Sidwell football players have gone on to play collegiate football at the Division I, I-AA (now FCS), and Division III level, including at Stanford, Wake Forest, Tulane, Navy, Indiana, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Georgetown.

Wrestling [link]

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, a competition among all DC private schools that compete in wrestling, in 2007 and 2008. In February 2008, the Boys Varsity Wrestling Team claimed their 7th "banner" (conference championship) 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. In January 2009, the Sidwell Wrestling team had an impressive showing at the MAC wrestling tournament—having 7 MAC champions and winning the tournament by over 80 points. In January 2011, Sidwell Wrestling broke the M.A.C record for most consecutive championships, previously held by Sidwell Football, by winning their seventh.

Boys' basketball [link]

Sidwell Friends School Varsity Boys' Basketball is currently coached by Sidwell alumnus Eric Singletary '93, who played in college at Rice University and professionally in Germany and Portugal. Singletary, now in his third year, led the Quakers to a share of the conference championship in the 2009-10 and 2010-2011 seasons. Other recent program highlights include Sidwell's first outright conference championship in Boys' Basketball in the 2006-07 season, with a 14-0 conference record.

Girls' basketball [link]

The Sidwell Friends girls' varsity basketball program has a long winning tradition, with numerous conference titles as well as local and national rankings. Head Coach Anne Renninger, a pioneering player at the University of Maryland and one of the youngest Division I college coaches ever (at George Washington University), has led the Quakers to over 400 victories. Over a two-year stretch from 1997–1999, the Sidwell girls' basketball team lost only two games, while winning back-to-back conference championships and achieving both Washington Post Top 10 and USA Today rankings. Former Sidwell girls basketball players have gone on to play for schools such as Duke, NC State, Wake Forest, Stanford, Tennessee, Harvard, Penn, George Washington and William & Mary.

Boys' baseball [link]

The Sidwell Friends men's baseball team has been one of the top squads in the MAC in recent years. With a conference championship in 2006, and 3rd place finishes in 2007, 2009, and 2010, the Quakers finished 2nd in the league in 2011. The Quakers also won the 2011 Washington, DC city title with a victory over Woodrow Wilson High School in the Congressional Bank Classic at Nationals Park.

Current profile [link]

• For the 2009-2010 school year, 1,109 students (560 boys and 549 girls) are enrolled.^[7]
• 40% of the student body belong to ethnic minorities.^[7]
• 23% of the student body receives some form of financial assistance.^[7]
• The school employs 145 teachers and 103 administrative and support staff.^[7]
• Tuition for the 2010-2011 school year is $31,069 (prekindergarten-grade 4) and $32,069 (grades 5-12).^[8]
• The school does not release 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 does not rank its students, as this conflicts with the Quaker Testimony of Equality.^{[citation needed]}

Campuses [link]

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
• Middle School building with LEED platinum certification,^[9] designed by architect KieranTimberlake Associates and landscape design by Andropogon Associates. The wood-clad building was designed around a sustainable use of water and energy, exemplified by a constructed wetland in the center of the campus, part of a wastewater recycling system. On the interior, the building uses thermal chimneys and louvers that admit diffuse light to limit the need for artificial light and thermal control. Lastly, the building contains a centralized mechanical plant that uses less energy than normal, much of which is produced by photovoltaic banks on the roof. The materials used and the environmental technology are referenced architecturally and made accessible to students, either physically, or by explanatory signs, as an educational feature.
• Kogod Center for the Arts
• Richard Walter Goldman Memorial Library
• Zartman House (administration building)
• Sensner Building (Fox Den Cafe and school store)
• Wannan and Kenworthy Gymnasiums
• Three athletic fields, five tennis courts, and a six-lane track.
• Parking facility with faculty, student, guest and alumni parking (2 floors, 200+ parking spaces), as well as offices for security, IT and maintenance

The Lower School campus can be found at 5100 Edgemoor Lane, Bethesda, Montgomery County, 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, a gymnasium, and two playgrounds

Both campuses underwent major renovations throughout the 2005-2006 school year, and construction and renovation of the athletic facilities is still ongoing.

Notable alumni [link]

Notable alumni of Sidwell Friends include:

• Anne Applebaum (1982), journalist and author
• Jon Bernthal (1995), actor
• Ann Brashares (1985), author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series of books
• Oteil Burbridge (1982), bassist for the Allman Brothers Band
• Setsuko Chichibu (1928), Princess of Japan
• Chelsea Clinton (1997), daughter of President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton^[10]
• Tricia Nixon Cox (1964) daughter of President Richard Nixon^[11]
• John Dickerson (1987), journalist, political commentator, and writer.
• David W. Dennis (1929), Indiana congressman
• John Deutch (1956), CIA Director, MIT professor
• Margaret Edson (1979), Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Wit
• Dan Froomkin (1981), journalist and Huffington Post columnist
• Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. (1969), Federal Reserve Board Former Vice Chairman
• Ana Gasteyer (1985), actress
• Doug Gansler (1981), State's Attorney for Montgomery County, Maryland (1999—2007), Attorney General of the State of Maryland, (2007- )
• Charles Gibson (1961), ABC World News Tonight anchor, former host of ABC's Good Morning America^[10]
• Walter Gilbert (1949), Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
• Paul Goldstein (1994), professional tennis player, 4-time NCAA Champion and All-American at Stanford, 2-time USTA 18 & Under national champion.
• James K Glassman (1965), editorialist, syndicated columnist, and author
• Hanna Holborn Gray (1947 or 1948), historian and Provost of Yale University and later the President of University of Chicago
• Davis Guggenheim (1982), film director An Inconvenient Truth among others
• William Henry Harrison (1914 or 1915), Republican Representative from Wyoming and great-great-grandson of President William Henry Harrison
• Tony Horwitz (1976), journalist and author
• Clara Jeffery (1985), Editor of Mother Jones magazine
• Sonya Clark (1985), artist
• Thomas Kail (1995), director
• John Katzenbach (1968), author
• Philip S. Khoury (1967), Ford International Professor of History & Associate Provost, MIT
• Jair Lynch (1989), Gymnast, 1996 Olympic Silver Medalist in parallel bars
• Campbell McGrath (1980), poet and winner of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award"
• Daniel Mudd (1976), former CEO of Fannie Mae
• Jeffrey Mumford (1973), composer
• Robert Newmyer (1974), film producer
• Bill Nye (1973), television personality and scientist^[10]
• Archibald Roosevelt (1912?), son of Theodore Roosevelt
• Scott Sanders (1986) Director of Black Dynamite
• Ben Shenkman (1986), actor
• Susan Shreve (1957), professor, author and novelist
• Ed Tapscott (1971), former Washington Wizards Interim Head Coach
• Baratunde Thurston (1995), comedian
• Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky, Soviet ambassador to the United Nations
• Alexandra Tydings (1989), actress
• Robert Watson, computer scientist
• Robin Weigert (1987), actress
• William Zantzinger, subject of a Bob Dylan song^[12]

The following notable people attended Sidwell but graduated elsewhere:

• George A. Akerlof, Nobel Prize winner for Economics & current Faculty member at University of California, Berkeley
• Kara Lawson (1999, 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 (1999, left in 1996) NBA player for the San Antonio Spurs and star at the University of Virginia, 31st pick of the 2002 NBA Draft.
• Julie Nixon Eisenhower (1966, left in 1961), daughter of Richard Nixon^[11]
• John Dos Passos, (attended 1902-1903)
• Root Boy Slim
• Nancy Reagan, former First Lady (attended the elementary school 1925-1928)
• Gore Vidal (1943, left in 1936)

Notable parents [link]

Notable parents of past and present Sidwell Friends students include:

• Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, 44th President of the United States and First Lady of the United States
• Theodore Roosevelt, 29th President of the United States
• Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States
• Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
• Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States
• Rodney E. Slater, 13th US Secretary of Transportation
• Douglas Gansler, Attorney General of Maryland
• Hunter Biden, Son of Vice President of the United States Joe Biden and former chair of AMTRAK Board of Directors
• David Gregory, Host of Meet the Press on NBC
• Debra L. Lee, President and Chief Executive Officer of Black Entertainment Television
• Robert L. Johnson, Co-Founder of Black Entertainment Television and former owner of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats
• Sheila Johnson, Co-Founder of Black Entertainment Television and owner of the WNBA's Washington Mystics
• Doreen Gentzler, Evening news anchor at WRC-TV
• Seth Goldman (businessman), Founder of Honest Tea
• Merrick Garland, Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Federal Judge
• Seth Waxman, 41st Solicitor General of the United States
• Bob Woodward, Washington Post investigative reporter who broke the Watergate Scandal
• Wanya Morris, Member of the R&B group Boyz II Men
• Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
• David A. Vise, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
• Judy Woodruff, former host of Inside Politics on CNN
• Al Hunt, Executive Washington editor for Bloomberg News
• Charlie Sheen actor
• Christopher Hitchens, author, essayist, and journalist
• Jane Mayer, investigative journalist for The New Yorker
• Vali Nasr
• Adam Liptak, New York Times Supreme Court correspondent

References [link]

Patti Solis Doyle

External links [link]

• Sidwell Friends School
• Sidwell Friends School first K-12 to receive LEED Platinum

Friends schools are institutions that provide an education based on the beliefs and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). This article is a list of schools currently or historically associated with the Society of Friends, regardless of their current degree of affiliation.

Friends schools vary greatly, both in their interpretation of Quaker principles and in how they relate to formal organizations that make up the Society of Friends. Most Friends schools are similar in their mission however: to provide an academically sound education while also instilling values of community, spirituality, responsibility and stewardship in their students.^[1]

Some institutions founded by Friends were never formally "Quaker Schools." Some historically Friends institutions are no longer formally associated with the Society of Friends. Those that continue to call themselves "Quaker schools" may have formal oversight from a Friends yearly or monthly meetings (often called coming "under care of" a meeting), and others are governed by members of the Society of Friends and/or adhere to aspects of Quaker practice.

Because of the wide range of Friends, the branch (or branches) of Quakerism with which the school affiliates are included, and where applicable the Yearly, Quarterly or Monthly Meeting under whose care or governance the school is held is shown.

Australia[link]

• The Friends' School, Hobart, in Hobart, Tasmania: PreK-12th grade, founded by Quakers and governed by Quaker principles. The majority of the school governors are appointed by Australia Yearly Meeting, mostly from the Tasmania Regional Meeting; the Hobart local meeting house is on school grounds.

Belize[link]

• Friends Boys School, Belize City, supported by Friends United Meeting ^[2]

Bolivia[link]

Bolivian Friends have established several schools, which are supported from the United States by the Bolivian Quaker Education Fund.

Canada[link]

• Pickering College, Newmarket, Ontario, PreK-12th grade, founded as a Quaker School, "not a Quaker school today".^[3]

defunct- Argenta Friends School, Argenta, B.C

Costa Rica[link]

• Monteverde Friends School, Monteverde, PreK-12th grade, under care of Monteverde Monthly Meeting (Friends General Conference).

El Salvador[link]

• Instituto Teológico de los Amigos de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador, a ministerial training institute under the care of Iglesia de los Amigos en El Salvador.

Great Britain[link]

For Northern Ireland, see Ireland below

Secondary Schools[link]

• Ackworth School, England. "founded in 1779 by John Fothergill on behalf of The Religious Society of Friends... the School Committee is still accountable to this body."^[4]
• Bootham School, York, England. Majority of School Committee is appointed by Quakers in Yorkshire, formerly Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting.^[5]
• Breckenbrough School, England. Residential school for boys with behavioral and emotional conditions. A "registered charitable trust school with a Quaker... trusteeship."^[6]
• Leighton Park School, Reading, England. Independent Quaker boarding and day school. Founded in 1890 in part to replace Grove House School in Tottenham, London.
• The Mount School, York, England, independent Friends school for girls, founded by Yorkshire Quakers.
• Friends School Saffron Walden, England, the oldest Friends School, founded 1702, under the care of Britain Yearly Meeting which indirectly appoints the school's Board of Governors through the Friends School Saffron Walden General Meeting (FSSWGM).^[7]
• Sibford School, England, independent Friends school
• Sidcot School, England. "The School’s... Governing Body, is largely appointed by representatives from Quaker meetings in the South West of England."^[8]

Non-Friends Schools with Friends Connections

• St Christopher School, England, founded by Theosophists and never under care of the Society of Friends, but operated 1925-1980 by the Harris family, who were Quakers.^[9]

Defunct Friends Schools

• Great Ayton Friends' School, England, founded as a school for students whose parents had been disowned by Friends meetings for "marrying out" of meeting, became a general Friends school after 1854, became formally disassociated with Friends in 1991 as "Ayton School," and closed in 1997.
• Newington Academy for Girls, Stoke Newington, then just north of London. Founded in 1824 by William Allen.
• Wennington School, England (closed 1975)
• Wigton School, Brookfield, Wigton, England (closed 1984)^[10]

Other institutions[link]

• Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, adult study centre for United Kingdom Quakers.

Honduras[link]

• Instituto Biblico Jorge Fox, San Marcos Ocotepeque, Honduras, a ministerial training institute under the care of Junta Annual Amigos de Honduras.

Ireland (including Northern Ireland)[link]

• Drogheda Grammar School, Drogheda, Co. Meath (Louth), trustees are mostly members of the Society of Friends, not formally under care of a meeting
• Friends' School Lisburn, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, founded 1750, majority of trustees represent Ulster Quarterly Meeting.^[11]
• Newtown Junior School,
• Newtown School, Waterford, Ireland
• Rathgar Junior School

Jamaica[link]

• Happy Grove High School, Hectors River, founded by Quakers, now operated by the Jamaican government.^[12]

Japan[link]

• Friends School (Japan), Tokyo, Japan, founded by Quaker missionaries, now independent of specific meeting care, but run on Friends principles.

Kenya[link]

All Quaker schools and yearly meetings in Kenya are affiliated with Friends United Meeting. Note that the Friends World Committee for Consultation website counts, but does not name, many more Kenyan Friends schools than are listed here,

• Friends' School, Kamusinga, Kenya
• Friends' School, Kigama, Kenya
• Friends' Primary School, Mudete, Kenya
• Chavakali High School, Kenya
• Friends Theological College, Kaimoisi, Kenya,^[13]
• Friends University Kamoisi Kaimosi, Kenya,^[14]

Lebanon[link]

• Brummana High School (BHS) in Brummana, Lebanon was founded by Theophilus Waldmeier and Cybil & Eli Jones in 1873. It remains in the Friends tradition, managed by British Quakers, serving a wide area of the Middle East.

Palestinian West Bank[link]

• Ramallah Friends Schools, West Bank

United States[link]

Abbreviations:

• EFCI: Evangelical Friends Church International
• FGC: Friends General Conference
• FUM: Friends United Meeting
• NEYM: New England Yearly Meeting
• PYM: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

Higher Education[link]

• Barclay College, Haviland, Kansas. Associated with Friends Church, but does not specify an affiliation.
• Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution, now non-denominational.
• Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. Affiliated with Western Yearly Meeting (FUM).
• Earlham School of Religion, Richmond, Indiana. Associated with FUM, but has relations with all branches of the Society of Friends.
• Friends University, Wichita, Kansas. Founded as a Quaker institution, now non-denominational with "an amicable but independent relationship with the Society of Friends" (EFCI).^[15]
• George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon. Affiliated with Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends (EFCI).
• Global College. Founded as Friends World College by New York Yearly Meeting (Friends General Conference), now part of Long Island University and unaffiliated with Friends.
• Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina. Founded as a Quaker college. College draws on Quaker traditions, but no formal affiliation.
• Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania. Founded by members of the PYM, became part of the Orthodox PYM after the Hicksite-Orthodox schism. Remains rooted in Friends tradition and grounded in Quaker practice, but without formal affiliation.
• Houston Graduate School of Theology, Houston, Texas. "identifies with the Quaker movement," grounded in Evangelical Friends theology and practice.^[16]
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland was founded by a Quaker and most early trustees were Quaker,^[17] but was always officially non-denominational.
• Malone University, Canton, Ohio. Sponsored by Evangelical Friends Church - Eastern Region (EFCI).^[18]
• Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, California. Graduate school of education based around a children's school founded by Quakers. Strong Friends influence but no formal affiliation.
• Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded by Hicksite PYM, now independent.
• Whittier College, Whittier, California. Founded by Quakers, now secular and independent with "an appreciation for Quaker values."^[19]
• William Penn University, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Founded by Quakers, no formal affiliation. "The university is firmly rooted in its Christian heritage with certain characteristics distinctive to Quakers, but welcomes faculty, staff and students from all faiths."^[20]
• Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio. Founded by Quakers, associated with Wilmington Yearly Meeting (FUM).

Secondary (High) Schools[link]

"Independent Quaker schools" are operated using Quaker principles and often include a majority of Quakers among trustees, but are not formally under care of a meeting.

• Abington Friends School, Abington, Pennsylvania, grades preK-12, under care of Abington Monthly Meeting, PYM (FGC).
• Alexandria Friends School, Alexandria, Virginia, grades 9-12, Independent Quaker school.
• Brooklyn Friends School, Brooklyn, New York, grades preK-12, Independent Quaker school.
• Carolina Friends School, Durham, North Carolina, grades preK-12, Independent Quaker school.^[21]
• Delaware Valley Friends School, Paoli, Pennsylvania, specializing in students with learning differences, grades 7-12, under the care of Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting, PYM (FGC).^[22]
• Friends Academy, Locust Valley, New York, Independent PreK-12 Quaker School.
• Friends Bible Training School, Kotzebue, Alaska, supported by Alaska Yearly Meeting (EFCI).^[23]
• Friends' Central School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grades preK-12, Independent Quaker School.
• Friends Meeting School, Ijamsville, Frederick County, Maryland, grades preK-12 (grades 9-12 beginning fall 2009), Independent Quaker school
• Friends School of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, grades preK-12, now Independent, but maintains historic ties to Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Stony Run, Baltimore Yearly Meeting (FGC).
• Friends Select School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grades preK-12, under care of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (Race Street) and the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Arch Street), both PYM (FGC).
• Friends Seminary, New York, New York, grades K-12, under care of New York Quarterly Meeting, New York Yearly Meeting (FGC).
• George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania, grades 9-12, Independent; board is self-perpetuating by approval of PYM (FGC).
• Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grades preK-12, under care of Germantown Monthly Meeting, PYM (FGC).
• Greenleaf Friends Academy, Greenleaf, Idaho, grades K-12, Independent, but affiliated with Northwest Yearly Meeting (EFCI).^[24]
• Lincoln School, Providence, Rhode Island, Girls grades PreK-12, Independent Quaker school.
• Mary McDowell Friends School, Brooklyn, New York, specializing in students with learning differences, age 5-18. Formally known as Mary McDowell Center for Learning.
• The Meeting School, Rindge, New Hampshire, grades 9-12, Independent Quaker school.
• Moorestown Friends School, Moorestown, New Jersey, grades PreK-12, Independent, affiliated with Moorestown Monthly Meeting, PYM (FGC).
• Moses Brown School, Providence, Rhode Island, grades preK-12, under care of NEYM (FGC/FUM).
• New Garden Friends School, Greensboro, North Carolina, grades preK-12, Independent Quaker school.
• Oakwood Friends School, Poughkeepsie, New York, Independent grade 6-12 Quaker school.
• Olney Friends School, Barnesville, Ohio, grades 9-12, Independent Quaker school formerly under the care of Ohio Yearly Meeting (FUM).^[25]
• Portland Friends School, Portland, Oregon, grades preK-12.
• Sandy Spring Friends School, Sandy Spring, Maryland, preK-12, under the care of Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting, Baltimore Yearly Meeting (FGC).
• Scattergood Friends School, West Branch, Iowa, grades 9-12, owned and operated by Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative Friends)
• Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC, grades preK-12, Independent Quaker school
• Tandem Friends School, Charlottesville, Virginia, grades 5-12, Independent Quaker school.
• Thornton Friends School, Silver Spring, Maryland, grades 6-12, Independent Quaker school.
• Virginia Beach Friends School, Virginia Beach, Virginia, grades preK-12, Independent Quaker school.
• Wellsprings Friends School, Eugene, Oregon, grades 9-12, Independent Quaker school, Northern Pacific Yearly Meeting.
• Westtown School, Westtown, Pennsylvania, PreK-12 Independent Quaker School associated with PYM (FGC).
• William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, First Quaker school in the world. Grades preK-12, not formally under care of a meeting, but governed by Quaker principles. Board of Overseers is largely Quaker.
• Wilmington Friends School, Wilmington, Delaware, grades preK-12, independent but affiliated with Wilmington Monthly Meeting, PYM (FGC).
• Woolman Semester, Nevada City, California, one-semester program open to grades 11-13. Formerly John Woolman School.

Lower & Middle Schools[link]

Note: This section lists schools with grades only below 9th grade. Schools including high school grades are listed above.

• Buckingham Friends School, Lahaska, Pennsylvania, grades K-8, under care of Buckingham Monthly Meeting, PYM (FGC).^[26]
• Cambridge Friends School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, grades preK-8, under care of Friends Meeting at Cambridge, NEYM (FGC/FUM).^[27]
• Chappaqua Friends Nursery School, Chappaqua, New York, PreK
• Concord Friends Nursery School, Concordville, Pennsylvania, PreK
• Connecticut Friends School, Wilton, Connecticut, grades K-8, under care of Wilton Friends Meeting, NEYM (FGC/FUM).^[28]
• Fairville Friends School, Mendenhall, Chester County, Pennsylvania, PreK
• Frankford Friends School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grades K-7, under the care of Frankford Monthly Meeting, PYM (FGC).
• Friends Academy of Westampton, formerly Rancocas Friends Academy, Westampton Township, New Jersey, grades preK-8, Independent Quaker School
• Friends Community School, College Park, Maryland, grades K-8
• Friends School of Atlanta, Decatur, Georgia, grades K-8
• Friends School of Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, grades K-4, Independent Quaker school.
• Friends School in Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, grades preK-8
• Friends School Haverford, Haverford, Pennsylvania, grades preK-6
• Friends School of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, grades K-8, Independent Quaker School.^[29]
• Friends School Mullica Hill, Mullica Hill, New Jersey
• Friends School of Portland, Portland, Maine
• Friends Western School, Pasadena, California, grades preK-5 (through 6th grade in 2009-10)
• Friends School of Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, grades preK-8
• George Fox Friends School, Cochranville, Pennsylvania, grades PreK-6
• Goshen Friends School, East Goshen, West Chester Area, Pennsylvania, grades preK-5
• Greene Street Friend School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grades preK-8
• Green Mountain Friends School, Burlington, Vermont, ages 5–14 years old
• Greenwood Friends School, Millville, Pennsylvania, grades preK-8
• Gwynnedd Friends Pre-School & Kindergarten, Lower Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania, grades preK-K
• Haddonfield Friends School, Haddonfield, New Jersey grades preK-8, Independent Quaker school.
• Harford Friends School, Street, Maryland, grades 6-8
• Helen Gander Friends Nursery School, Wilton, Connecticut, grade preK
• High Point Friends School, High Point, North Carolina, grades preK-8
• Lansdowne Friends School, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, grades preK-6
• London Grove Friends Nursery School, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, Kindergarten
• Media-Providence Friends School, Media, Pennsylvania, grades preK-8
• Newtown Friends School, Newtown, Pennsylvania, grades K-8
• Oak Lane Day Care, Westtown, Pennsylvania, grade preK
• Orchard Friends School, Riverton, New Jersey, specializing in students with learning differences, grades K-8
• Pacific Ackworth Friends School, Temple City, California
• Pacific Friends School, Temple City, California, preschool
• Plymouth Meeting Friends School, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, grades K-6
• Princeton Friends School, Princeton, New Jersey, grades preK-8, under care of Princeton Monthly Friends Meeting, PYM (FGC)
• The Quaker School at Horsham, Horsham, Pennsylvania, grades 1-8
• Rancocas Friends School, Rancocas, Burlington County, New Jersey, grades PreK-K, under care of Rancocas Monthly Meeting, PYM (FGC).^[30]
• Richmond Friends School, Richmond, Indiana, grades K-6
• Ridgewood Friends Neighborhood Nursery School, Ridgewood, New Jersey, preschool^[31]
• San Francisco Friends School, San Francisco, California, grades K-8
• Scarsdale Friends Nursery School, Scarsdale, New York, preschool
• School for Friends, Washington, DC, preschool
• State College Friends School, State College, Pennsylvania, grades K-8
• Stratford Friends School, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, grades K-8^[32]
• Swarthmore Friends Nursery School, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, preschool
• United Friends School, Quakertown, Pennsylvania, grades preK-8
• West Chester Friends School, West Chester, Pennsylvania, grades preK-5.^[33]
• Westbury Friends School, Westbury, New York, grades preK-5.^[34]
• Westfield Friends School
• Whittier Friends School, Whittier, California, grades K-6.
• Wichita Friends School, Wichita, Kansas, grades preK-6, Independent Quaker School, affiliated with EFCI.^[35][36]

Study Centers[link]

• John Woolman College, Brattleboro, Vermont
• Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation, Wallingford, Pennsylvania
• Woolman Hill Quaker Center, Deerfield, Massachusetts

Zimbabwe[link]

• Hlekweni Friends Rural Service is a training center outside Bulawayo. Affiliated with Central and Southern Africa Yearly Meeting.^[37]

References[link]

1. ^ http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/articles/10
2. ^ Friends United Meeting page
3. ^ "Pickering College: Quakerism". Pickering College. http://www.pickeringcollege.on.ca/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=320. Retrieved 2008-09-30. 
4. ^ http://www.ackworthschool.com/pages/about.php Ackworth School: Ethos and Mission
5. ^ Bootham School Governance page
6. ^ Breckenbrough School site
7. ^ http://www.friends.org.uk/school/governors/governors.htm
8. ^ http://www.sidcot.org.uk/about/foundation.html
9. ^ "About St Christopher"
10. ^ Wigton Old Scholars Association, including a brief history of the school
11. ^ Lisburn School History page
12. ^ Happy Grove Alumni Association history page
13. ^ Friends Theological College site
14. ^ Klamath Falls Friends Church page on FU Kamoisi
15. ^ from the Friends University History page
16. ^ HGST statement of faith
17. ^ Founded by Friends, Scarecrow Press summary
18. ^ EFC-ER outreach page
19. ^ "Values and Traditions". Whittier College. http://www.whittier.edu/About/MissionValuesAndHistory/ValuesAndTraditions/default.aspx. Retrieved 2008-09-30. 
20. ^ "Quaker Heritage". William Penn University. Archived from the original on 2008-05-04. http://web.archive.org/web/20080504022945/http://www.wmpenn.edu/AboutPenn/QuakerHeritage/tabid/86/Default.aspx. Retrieved 2008-10-07. 
21. ^ Carolina Friends School site
22. ^ DVFS web site
23. ^ Alaska Yearly Meeting site
24. ^ NW Yearly meeting reference to Greenleaf
25. ^ Olney School history
26. ^ Buckingham Friends School page about Buckingham Friends Meeting
27. ^ Cambridge Friends School fast facts
28. ^ CT Friends School history
29. ^ http://www.fsmn.org Friends School of Minnesota
30. ^ Rancocas meeting site
31. ^ Ridgewood Friends School site
32. ^ Stratford Friends School site
33. ^ West Chester Friends School
34. ^ Westbury Friends School
35. ^ EFC-MAYM affiliates
36. ^ Wichita Friends School site
37. ^ Samathonga Primary School site on Quaker.org

External links[link]

• A list of Quaker-originated colleges and universities
• Another list of Friends' schools
• Friends Council on Education (includes school finder)
• List of Friends Schools in the U.K. and bibliographical sources for their study (including schools now closed)

Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben speaking at Rochester Institute of Technology
Born	William Ernest McKibben 1960 Palo Alto, California
Occupation	Environment activist and writer
Genres	Global warming, alternative energy, risks associated with human genetic engineering
Spouse(s)	Sue Halpern
Children	Sophie McKibben (b. 1993)
www.billmckibben.com

William Ernest "Bill" McKibben (born 1960)^[1] is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College.^[2] In 2010, the Boston Globe called him "probably the nation's leading environmentalist" ^[3] and Time magazine described him as "the world's best green journalist."^[4]

In 2009, he led the organization of 350.org, which organized what Foreign Policy magazine called "the largest ever global coordinated rally of any kind," with 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. The magazine named him to its inaugural list^[5] of the 100 most important global thinkers, and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential men of 2009.^[6] In 2010, McKibben and 350.org conceived the 10/10/10 Global Work Party, which convened more than 7,000 events^[7] in 188 countries^[8] as he had told a large gathering at Warren Wilson College shortly before the event. In December 2010, 350.org coordinated a planet-scale art project, with many of the 20 works visible from satellites.^[9] In 2011 and 2012 he led the massive environmental fight against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project ^[10] and spent three days in jail in Washington D.C. as leader of one of the largest civil disobedience actions in America for decades. ^[11]. Two weeks later he was inducted into the literature section of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. ^[12]

Early life[link]

McKibben grew up in suburban Lexington, Massachusetts, where he attended Lexington High School. As an undergraduate at Harvard University, he was president of The Harvard Crimson newspaper. Immediately after college he joined The New Yorker as a staff writer and wrote much of the Talk of the Town column from 1982 to early 1987. He quit the magazine when its longtime editor William Shawn was forced out of his job, and soon moved to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.

Writing[link]

McKibben is a frequent contributor to various publications including The New York Times; The Atlantic; Harper's; Orion magazine; Mother Jones; The American Prospect; The New York Review of Books;Granta; National Geographic; Rolling Stone and Outside. He is also a board member at and contributor to Grist Magazine.

His first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 by Random House after being serialized in The New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book about climate change intended for a general audience, and has been printed in more than 20 languages. Several editions have come out in the United States, including an updated version published in 2006.

His next book, The Age of Missing Information, was published in 1992. It is an account of an experiment in which McKibben collected everything that came across the 100 channels of cable TV on the Fairfax, Virginia, system (at the time among the nation's largest) for a single day. He spent a year watching the 2,400 hours of videotape, and then compared it to a day spent on the mountaintop near his home. This book has been widely used in colleges and high schools and was reissued in a new edition in 2006.

Subsequent books include Hope, Human and Wild, about Curitiba, Brazil and Kerala, India, which he cites as examples of people living more lightly on the earth; The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation, which is about the Book of Job and the environment; Maybe One, about human population; Long Distance: A Year of Living Strenuously, about a year spent training for endurance events at an elite level; and Enough, about what he sees as the existential dangers of genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Speaking about Long Distance at the Cambridge Forum, McKibben cited the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Csikszentmihalyi's idea of "flow" relative to feelings he, McKibben, had had — "taking a break from saving the world", he joked — as he immersed in cross-country skiing competitions.^[13]

Wandering Home is about a long solo hiking trip from his current home in the mountains east of Lake Champlain in Ripton, Vermont, back to his longtime neighborhood of the Adirondacks. His book, Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, published in March 2007, was a national bestseller. It addresses what the author sees as shortcomings of the growth economy and envisions a transition to more local-scale enterprise.

In the fall of 2007 he published, with the other members of his Step It Up team, Fight Global Warming Now, a handbook for activists trying to organize their local communities. In 2008 came The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life, a collection of essays spanning his career. Also in 2008, the Library of America published "American Earth," an anthology of American environmental writing since Thoreau edited by McKibben.

In 2010 he published another national bestseller, Eaarth:Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, an account of the rapid onset of climate change. It was excerpted in Scientific American.^[14]

Environmental campaigns[link]

Step It Up[link]

Step It Up 2007 was a nationwide environmental campaign started by McKibben to demand action on global warming by the U.S. Congress.

In late summer 2006 he helped lead a five-day walk across Vermont to call for action on global warming that some newspaper accounts called the largest demonstration to date in America about climate change. Beginning in January 2007, he founded Step It Up 2007, which organized rallies in hundreds of American cities and towns on April 14, 2007 to demand that Congress enact curbs on carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050. The campaign quickly won widespread support from a wide variety of environmental, student, and religious groups.

In August 2007 McKibben announced Step It Up 2, to take place November 3, 2007. In addition to the 80% by 2050 slogan from the first campaign, the second adds "10% [reduction of emissions] in three years ("Hit the Ground Running"), a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants, and a Green Jobs Corps to help fix homes and businesses so those targets can be met" (called "Green Jobs Now, and No New Coal").^[15]

350.org[link]

In the wake of Step It Up's achievements, the same team announced a new campaign in March 2008 called 350.org. The organizing effort, aimed at the entire globe, drew its name from climate scientist James E. Hansen's contention earlier that winter that any atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO₂) above 350 parts per million was unsafe. "If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO₂ will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm, but likely less than that." Hansen et al. stated in the Abstract to their paper.^[16]

350.org, which has offices and organizers in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, attempted to spread that 350 number in advance of international climate meetings in December 2009 in Copenhagen. It was widely covered in the media.^[17] On Oct. 24, 2009, it coordinated more than 5,200 demonstrations in 181 countries, and was widely lauded for its creative use of internet tools, with the website Critical Mass declaring that it was "one of the strongest examples of social media optimization the world has ever seen."^[18]

Subsequently the organization continued its work, with the Global Work Party on 10/10/10 (10 October 2010).

Keystone XL[link]

McKibben is the lead environmentalist against the proposed Canadian-U.S. Keystone XL pipeline project.^[19] He is active on projects having environmentally negative impacts around the world. In comparing the proposed Via Verde gas pipeline project to the Keystone XL oil pipeline project, McKibben said, "Around the world, the fossil-fuel industry is carrying out its last desperate attempt to avoid the arrival of renewable energy and to ensure the existence of its dirty fuels. They seem to be using their standard strategy in Puerto Rico as well: to act quickly and with a minimum amount of review before the opposition has time to organize and bring out the truth."^[20]

Awards[link]

McKibben has been awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship (1993) and a Lyndhurst Fellowship. He won a Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction writing in 2000. In 2010, Utne Reader magazine listed McKibben as one of the "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World."^[21] He has honorary degrees from Marlboro College, Colgate University, the State University of New York, Sterling College, Green Mountain College, Unity College, and Lebanon Valley College. In 2010 he won the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship for his work with 350.org^[22]

Personal life[link]

McKibben currently resides in Vermont with his wife, writer Sue Halpern. Their only child, a daughter named Sophie, was born in 1993 in Glens Falls, New York. He is a Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, where he also directs the Middlebury Fellowships in Environmental Journalism.^[23] McKibben is also a fellow at the Post Carbon Institute. McKibben is active in the Methodist Church, and his writing is sometimes spiritual in nature.^{[citation needed][clarification needed]}

Bibliography[link]

Books[link]

• The End of Nature (1989) ISBN 0-385-41604-0
• The Age of Missing Information (1992) ISBN 0-394-58933-5, challenges Marshall McLuhan's "global village" ideal and claims the standardization of life in electronic media is that of image and not substance, resulting in a loss of meaningful content in society
• Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (1995) ISBN 0-316-56064-2
• Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single Child Families (1998) ISBN 0-684-85281-0
• Hundred Dollar Holiday (1998) ISBN 0-684-85595-X
• Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously (2001) ISBN 0-452-28270-5
• Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003) ISBN 0-8050-7096-6
• Wandering Home (2005) ISBN 0-609-61073-2
• The Comforting Whirlwind : God, Job, and the Scale of Creation (2005) ISBN 1-56101-234-3
• Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (2007) ISBN 0-8050-7626-3
  • Reviewed in Tim Flannery, "We're Living on Corn!" The New York Review of Books 54/11 (28 June 2007) : 26-28
• Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community (2007)
• The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life (2008)
• American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (edited) (2008)
• Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010) ISBN 978-0-8050-9056-7
• The Global Warming Reader (OR Books, 2011) ISBN 978-1-935928-36-2

Articles[link]

• Breaking the Growth Habit in Scientific American April 2010
• McKibben, Bill (7 January 1985). "The Talk of the Town: An American Dilemma". The New Yorker 60 (47): 21.  Renaming of Sixth Avenue in Manhattan as 'Avenue of the Americas'.
• McKibben, Bill (14 January 1985). "The Talk of the Town: Notes and Comment". The New Yorker 60 (48): 23.  Friend whose prior military rank was inadvertently promoted by Geraldine Ferraro.
• McKibben, Bill (14 January 1985). "The Talk of the Town: Flowers". The New Yorker 60 (48): 28.  Textile designers Leslie Tillett and Brian Goodin.
• McKibben, Bill (28 January 1985). "The Talk of the Town: Up Front". The New Yorker 60 (50): 22–23.  Rolls Royce grille designer Tony Kent.

See also[link]

• Individual and political action on climate change

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Bill McKibben's Official Website
• Bill McKibben on "Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet" - video by Democracy Now!
• MNN.com review of 'Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet'
• Sept 1, 2010 appearance on David Letterman Show
• McKibben: Climate Talks Weakened by U.S., Major Polluters - video report by Democracy Now!
• Can China Go Green? No other country is investing so heavily in clean energy. But no other country burns as much coal to fuel its economy June 2011 National Geographic
• Bill McKibben on Charlie Rose
• Keystone: How Bill McKibben Turned a Pipeline into an Environmental Rallying Point March 5, 2012