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Five Stars for Chicago!

Five Stars for Chicago!

Peter Ryan, Staff Writer April 24, 2019

In Friends Select's 2019 Spring musical, the cast of Chicago transported the opening night audience to the roaring 1920's with ease using hand fans, double breasted suits, and flapper dresses. Closing...

Pending Podcast Episode I: The College Process

Pending Podcast Episode I: The College Process

April 17, 2019

College Process Final (temp) from Friends Select School on Vimeo. Hi, and welcome to the first episode of Pending Podcast: the podcast where people who aren’t experts discuss things we have experience...

Students stand in Love Park during the rally. Photo by Ashley Ryan

Students Across the City (And Globe) Strike to Protest Climate Change

Ashley Ryan April 6, 2019

On March 15, 2019, millions of students around the world walked out of school to protest inaction by political leaders on climate change. Started in Sweden last August by a 15-year-old girl as a one-person...

FSS student government during a meeting

Behind the Curtain of Student Government

Muqi Guo, Staff Writer April 4, 2019

Every Monday, you see a group of students cramming into the lunchroom by the coffee corner, hijacking chairs across the floor and closing the door, as if a secret meeting is being convened. They are not...

Faces of BSU

Faces of BSU

Angelica Scotto, Staff Writer April 4, 2019

For this piece, I have chosen to photograph different people in the Black Student Union to show how people in the club behave out in the halls and around their friends. In this series, I have chosen photographs...

Friends Select Student sleeps in class while trying to finish work.

Why School Start Times Should Be Later!

Carlos Eckert, Staff Writer April 2, 2019

        It’s 5:59 in the morning, the sun is beginning to rise, and you are in a deep sleep. The night before you got home at 9:00 from work and started your homework while you ate spaghetti. Upon...

Toni Graves Williamson

Director of Equity and Inclusion: Toni Graves Williamson

Angelica Scotto, Staff Writer March 22, 2019

For the 2018-2019 school year, Friends Select School established a new position, Director of Equity and Inclusion, and hired Toni Graves Williamson to fill the new role. During the 2017-18 academic...

Student Concern over School Strike for Climate

Peter Ryan, Staff Writer March 19, 2019

At 12:00pm on Friday, March 15, a sizable portion of Friends Select School’s upper school community walked out of our front door with no plans to return until the Monday morning. Of course, that was...

An example of art done on the iPad by Kitty Holder ('19).

New Tech in Art Department

Maxwell Vlam, Staff Writer March 14, 2019

The art department at Friends Select is introducing new technology to its classes. This year, the art department received 8 sets of iPads and Apple Pens. Kitty Holder ('19) and many other students are...

Athletic Director and softball coach Bill Klose after softball practice

‘Change in Vision’ Leads Friends Select Sports to Newfound Heights

Peter Ryan, Staff Writer March 13, 2019
“I’m not sure if it was more a ‘revitalization’ than a ‘change in vision.’ When we started out, I wanted to do things differently than they had been done. We are a school that has so many wonderful things, and then there were athletics. I wanted athletics to be one of those wonderful things.”
1972 FSS Yearbook by Victor Pan 2019'

Where are the Falcons in the world?

Yiming ( Victor ) Pan, Reporter. Editor. March 6, 2019

Where are the Falcons in the world? Founded in 1833, Friends Select School has fostered the development and growth of countless students for almost two hundred years. Generation after generation,...

Filmmaking Class Rolling at FSS

Allura Tarrant, Contributor February 26, 2019

The first project Logan, Dean, Chloe and I were assigned in Filmmaking class was to make documentaries on one another. This project was designed to teach us how to set exposure on the cameras, use various...