2013 Art of Teaching April 3 Lower School teacher Courtney Retzler presented the 2013 Art of Teaching Lecture in the Library. In her talk, The Wonder of Metamorphosis: Monarch Butterflies and the Minds of Children, she discussed her curriculum which is based on the life cycle, metamorphosis and migration of the Monarch butterfly.
Legal Lessons April 24 Michael Bachrach ’92 visited Charlie Blank’s Law class to share his experience with capital defense cases. May 1 Heidi Reavis ’77, a partner at Reavis Parent Lehrer LLP, also visited Charlie's class to talk to students about discrimination in the workplace and employment law. She also lead a workshop for administrators earlier in the year. May 6 Peter Nichols ’74, an entertainment lawyer visiting from Los Angeles, took time to meet with students and offer advice about careers in the entertainment industry. May 21 Melissa Crane ’82, who was elected to the New York City Civil Court in November 2012, visited Charlie's class to talk about how she became a judge and her work on the bench.
Wylie Dufresne ’88 (center) with his former teachers Ben Frisch (left) and Faculty Emeritus Charlie Blank (right).
Demonstrated May 9 Wylie Dufresne ’88, chef and owner of WD-50 on the Lower East Side and Alder in the East Village gave a hands-on demonstration of his chemistry-derived cooking methods to an audience of Upper School students and faculty in the School's new cafeteria. The audience then enjoyed a poached egg with an edible man-made shell created with an immersion circulator, balloons and a vacuum pressurizer. May 17 Paul Allersmeyer ’55 and Susan Allersmeyer Foster ’63 visited Judy Adams Anderson’s ’66 kindergarten classroom for balloon-designing fun.
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Heidi Reavis ’77
surprise celebration marking their remaining 60 days as students at Friends. A group of alumni spanning five decades welcomed them to the alumni community and shared red velvet cupcakes baked by Indira Wiegand ’89. April 20 Alumni and their families joined Upper School students for a day of service.
March 4 Author Susan Sachs Goldman visited the Friends library to read from her book, Friends in Deed: The Story of Quaker Social Reform in America. Susan, who is a parent of Sidwell Friends alumni, spoke to an audience of both Friends Seminary and Sidwell Friends community members.
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