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Wellness Lunches Support Student Mental Health

Hannah Sieg February 18, 2020

Group wellness lunches provide a check-in on students’ mental health and general well-being. Students from each grade are required to attend wellness lunches, and lunches are divided into smaller groups...

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Esports at Friends Select

Peter Ryan February 12, 2020

Inquiries for the addition of niche sports teams at Friends Select are nothing new: students have asked to start sailing, golf, and squash teams in the last five years. Now, Alex Ginsberg ‘22 has another...

AACE Presents Art for Charity Concert

AACE Presents Art for Charity Concert

Taorong (Tony) Lian January 16, 2020

AACE, Arts and Action for Charity of Education, is a club devoted to fighting educational disparities with student action. In February of 2019, the Friends Select Music Club, which preceded AACE, hosted...

The History of the Holiday Sing

The History of the Holiday Sing

Peter Ryan December 20, 2019

Though all Friends Select students spend their school day in the same building, upper, middle, and lower school students do not interact on a regular basis. It is a rare event when all three divisions...

Herb Kerns: Math Teacher. Basketball Coach. Dad. Legend.

Herb Kerns: Math Teacher. Basketball Coach. Dad. Legend.

Mia Cohen and Margot Schneider December 13, 2019

Herb has had many roles in the community over his career at FSS. Although he especially loves teaching precalculus and discrete math, he has taught every math class between grades 7-12 except for abstract...

Proud and Unapologetic, Seniors Share their Unique Experiences with Tattoos

Proud and Unapologetic, Seniors Share their Unique Experiences with Tattoos

Zoe Tzanis December 12, 2019

“What are you going to get?” Yannick’s father asked him as they pulled into the parking lot of a Cuban tattoo parlor. He racked his brain. What should he say? What did he feel comfortable having...

MFW: FSS vs. Mickleton's

MFW: FSS vs. Mickleton’s

Arley Johnson December 9, 2019

This infographic compares Meeting for Worship in the upper school at Friends Select to Meeting for Worship at Mickleton.  It was created in Adobe Photoshop.

FSS Style: How Does it Compare?

FSS Style: How Does it Compare?

Max Rayborn December 9, 2019

This infographic compares fashion views within the Friends Select community to those most commonly held across the web. The data was gathered through discussions with students, analyzing yearly sales...

Making Change: Student Government Update

Making Change: Student Government Update

Peter Ryan and Lulu Nonemaker November 25, 2019

Now that freshman elections are finished and the Friends Select Student Government has a full body, student representatives are eager to incite change and progress in the school community. There are...

Ralph Recounts Important Math Memories

Ralph Recounts Important Math Memories

Zoe Tzanis November 20, 2019

Ralph Reinwald is more than just your average math teacher, with interests spanning from linguistics to literature to complex calculus. Ralph is an untapped resource, a member of the community who is full...