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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...

Image courtesy of FSS Flickr.

Metamorphoses: A Groundbreaking Friends Select Production

Annie Rupertus and Zoe Tzanis December 13, 2019

On November 15th, Friends Select’s incredible thespians performed Metamorphoses, a collection of ancient myths written by Ovid and adapted by Mary Zimmerman almost 2,000 years later.  Although both...

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...

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Jack the Ripper and The Zodiac Killer: How the Media Made Them Famous

Dean Wang December 11, 2019

In 1888, Jack the Ripper sent half of a kidney preserved in wine to the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee and claimed to have eaten the other half. Jack the Ripper was the epitome of the grim reaper during...

This infographic shows the stats of the Friends Select Varsity Basketball Team during the 2018-2019 season. The infographic also shows the coach, starting five, and sixth man during the season. The infographic was designed in Adobe Photoshop using free use images and images and photographs that 11th grader, Aaron Li, took during the season last year.

Boys Basketball Scrimmages vs. String Theory Yield Mixed Results

Annie Rupertus December 10, 2019

November 26th marked the first home games of the season for both Friends Select’s boys basketball teams. Junior varsity and varsity played back-to-back, and though the JV game ended in a disappointing...

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...

Purpose of New Varsity Letters

Purpose of New Varsity Letters

Zoe Tzanis December 5, 2019

Recently, athletic director Bill Klose distributed varsity letters to student-athletes. While on the surface, these are only floppy pieces of brown and gold felt, they have an indescribable sentimental...

Music: From the Students

Music: From the Students

Adam Powley December 4, 2019

This infographic portrays the variety of music tastes and preferences among Friends Select upper school students. A survey was sent out to grades 9-12, 44 of whom responded, in order to get the information...

Photograph Courtesy of Bobo Boom

Review: MAGDALENE by FKA twigs

While not as strong as some of her earlier work, MAGDALENE is a gorgeous album that lives up to FKA twigs’ high standards.
Matt D’Annunzio December 4, 2019

FKA twigs is making music for the future. Since the beginning of her career, her music has always felt one step ahead. FKA twigs doesn’t fit into one genre: she combines pop, electronic music, and many...

SCECE Release III: Malik's Work as Private Investigator

SCECE Release III: Malik’s Work as Private Investigator

Xaxa Smith December 4, 2019

On Friday, October 29th, SCECE held its first Lunchtime Teacher Exploration with Malik Mubashshir, the Upper School Religious Studies & History teacher. Lunchtime Teacher Explorations are a newly-launched...

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The Complicated History of Thanksgiving

Peter Ryan December 1, 2019

It is common knowledge that the first “Thanksgiving” was a harvest celebration meal shared by English pilgrim settlers and indigenous people native to modern Massachusetts. However, this story has...