FROM LEFT: Leitzel Schoen, Neil Blumenthal ’98, Maggie Doyne, Oliver Rothschild ’98 and Bo Lauder
Peace Week FEBRUARY 6 Neil Blumenthal ’98, founder of Warby Parker and former director of VisionSpring, and Oliver Rothschild ’98, founder of Generation Rwanda and Kepler, spoke in the Meetinghouse as part of the annual Peace Week Lecture. Maggie Doyne, founder and director of the Kopila Valley Children’s Home, School and Women’s Center in Nepal, spoke about how she built an orphanage during her gap year and eventually founded an international nonprofit. She also spoke with Upper and Middle School Students in a separate event.
Homecoming On December 20, scores of alumni returned to Friends for various Homecoming activities. Schuyler Allen-Kalb ‘86, Paul Testa ’87, Jennifer Usdan McBride ’91, Akaash Mehta ’01, Tamara Leacock ’05, Jeffrey Manian ’05, Maya Chase ’07 and Ariel Cruz ’09 offered career advice to students in student-organized networking seminars. Later in the day, more than 20 members of the classes of 2011— 2013 shared lessons from their college experiences with seniors. In the evening, more than 30 alumni returned to play in the annual Alumni Basketball Game. Thanks to all alumni who participated for helping make Homecoming a great success! To see photos from the networking and college panels, go to http://www.friendsseminaryphotos.com/Alumni/Homecoming-2013.
Hands On DECEMBER 9 to DECEMBER 16 As part of Computer Science Education Week, Lower School students learned to program games, Middle School students studied basic Javascript and Upper School students discussed career paths with computer programming professionals. | JANUARY 15 to FEBRUARY 15 Students Emma Higgins ’16, Kira Felsenfeld ’15, Brigitte Seeley-Messick ’14 and Ben Wong ’16 worked with Sustainability Coordinator Antonia Daly and Building Supervisor Gordon Hulse to encourage the Friends community to conserve energy as part of the Green Cup Energy Challenge. The team helped Friends rank 12th in the regional competition and presented its findings to Upper School students on February 28.
To Come Please be sure to watch for the next issue of NFF for information about a transformational architectural project that we are planning. spr in g 20 1 4 | 7