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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...

All Classes Shine in Dominant Girls Basketball Victory

All Classes Shine in Dominant Girls Basketball Victory

Peter Ryan, Staff Writer February 20, 2019

In one of their most dominant wins of the season, the Friends Select Falcons’ Girls Basketball team defeated the Charter High School of Architecture and Design 61-36. The early portion of the game was...

FSS in Harlem!

A Trip to Harlem

Alloyah Abobi, Staff Writer February 7, 2019

On November 19, 2018, the African American History class taught by Malik Mubashir and the Protest Literature class taught by Chris Singler, Director of Upper School, took what many students might call...

Nadir Khan at his post.

Meet Nadir, Our Food Truck Friend

Lexi Ling, Graphic Designer, Staff Writer January 25, 2019

“I love the kids, [laughs] and they love me too.” Nadir Khan chatted with me while preparing my favorite sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich. You might not have been his customer, but you have definitely...