Sidwell Friends School
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Sidwell Friends School is a Quaker private school located in Washington, DC and Bethesda, Maryland. It 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 inner light). It is considered to be one of the most prestigious private schools in the Washington, DC area and the US. The students in the upper school attend Quaker meetings for worship weekly. Over 30% of the graduating class attend Ivy League institutions. Image:USmain.jpg
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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
- 20% of the student body receive some form of financial assistance
- The School employs 145 teachers and 98 administrative and support staff
- Tuitions for the 2005-2006 school year are $23,545 (prekindergarten-grade 4) and $24,545 (grades 5-12).
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Campuses
- 15-acre (61,000 m²) Wisconsin Avenue campus in the Tenleytown section of Northwest Washington
- Earl G. Harrison Jr. Upper School Building
- Middle School (Zavitz) Building
- 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, eight tennis courts, and a six-lane track.
- 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 are undergoing major renovations throughout the 2005-2006 school year.
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Distinguished Alumni
Notable alumni of Sidwell Friends include:
- Anne Applebaum ('82), journalist and author
- Ann Brashares ('85), author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series of books
- Oteil Burbridge (?), bassist for the Allman Brothers Band
- Setsuko Chichibu ('28), princess of Japan
- John Deutch (?), CIA Director, MIT professor
- Robert Carter Cook ('16 or '17), director of the American Eugenics Society[1]
- Diana Lady Dougan ('60), Assistant Secretary of State (1982-1988) and author of Arab and Muslim Countries: Profiles in Translation
- Margaret Edson ('79), Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Wit
- Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. ('69), Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman
- Dan Froomkin ('81), journalist and Washington Post columnist
- Doug Gansler, Maryland State's Attorney (1999—)
- Ana Gasteyer ('85), actress
- Charlie Gibson, host of ABC's Good Morning America
- Walter Gilbert ('49?), Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
- James K Glassman ('65), editorialist, syndicated columnist, and author
- Campbell McGrath ('80), poet and winner of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award"
- Hanna Holborn Gray ('47 or '48), historian and President of Yale University and later the University of Chicago
- William Henry Harrison ('14 or '15), Republican Representative from Wyoming (note: this was President William Henry Harrison's great-great-grandson)
- John Katzenbach ('68), author
- Henry Masur ('64), doctor who described the first cases of AIDS
- Bill Nye ('73), television personality and scientist
- Eliza Orlins ('01), a contestant on the reality television show Survivor: Vanuatu.
- Susan Shreve, professor, author and novelist
- Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky, Soviet ambassador to the United Nations
The following notable people attended Sidwell but did not graduate:
- George A. Akerlof, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
- Charles Lindbergh, (attended 1913-1915)
- John Dos Passos, (attended 1902-1903)
- 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:
- Chelsea Clinton ('97), daughter of Bill Clinton
- Albert Gore III ('01), son of Al Gore
- H.R. Haldeman's son?
- Allan Hoover? ('25?), son of Herbert Hoover
- Tricia Nixon Cox ('64) and Julie Nixon ('66, left in 1961), daughters of Richard Nixon
- Dawn Rather ('76), daughter of and Daniel M. Rather ('78), son of Dan Rather
- Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr. ('04?), son of Theodore Roosevelt
- Valerie Rumsfeld, Donald Rumsfeld's daughter
- Nadav Savio ('88), son of Mario Savio
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