Spring 2006 - Ramallah Friends Schools
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FRIENDS NEWS “b½dH« —U³š√<br />
A <strong>Friends</strong> School Parent and Community Newsletter, <strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2006</strong><br />
نشرة أخبار لأهالي و أصدقاء مدرسة الفرندز، ربيع ٢٠٠٦<br />
Two Events Marking Significant Transitions<br />
At The <strong>Friends</strong> <strong>Schools</strong><br />
After much hard work from our teachers, workers and staff,<br />
and after many lessons learnt, challenges transcended, and<br />
numerous meetings and debates held, the school year has<br />
ended. I take the opportunity to thank all our staff – teachers,<br />
administrators and workers alike, for their efforts that made<br />
this year a successful one.<br />
The school also bid farewell to its dear 12 th graders – all 82<br />
of them who joined a most special centennial graduation<br />
ceremony; so profound, it brought tears to many eyes in the<br />
audience. The ceremony’s keynote address was delivered by<br />
Dr. Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi -- herself a graduate of the Class<br />
of 1964.<br />
Major changes in one's environment can be unsettling at<br />
any stage in life. But for young adolescents who ended<br />
their elementary school years, the thought of leaving their<br />
childhood school and moving to the middle level school can<br />
evoke much anxiety.<br />
Our Sixth Graders shined on the 6 th of June and their<br />
‘graduation’ ceremony was most special with parents’ and<br />
teachers’ pride evident on faces everywhere. They shared<br />
mixed feelings during the ceremony as they know they<br />
will miss their school where, for many, they’ve spent the<br />
past 8 years of their childhood but will also know that the<br />
FBS challenges are waiting ahead. FBS will certainly be<br />
a different experience for them on many fronts: a different<br />
campus where they are the youngest class in school, more<br />
homework and teachers who treat them as young adolescents.<br />
I wish our future 7 th graders all the best in their middle and<br />
high school experiences to come.<br />
Graduates of <strong>2006</strong><br />
Dr. Ashrawi re-iterated the irrefutable impact the <strong>Friends</strong><br />
education has had on her personally and on all its graduates<br />
throughout the past 100 years. The Class of <strong>2006</strong> valedictorians<br />
eloquently expressed their feelings and gratitude to their<br />
families and school with very powerful speeches that caught<br />
the attention of all.<br />
photo by skip schiel<br />
Ceremony audience<br />
6th Graders...on to FBS<br />
During commencement, the Annual Citizenship Award was<br />
initiated in recognition of the 100 th graduating class. The award<br />
will be granted annually to the student who demonstrates the<br />
qualities beyond academic achievement that are in harmony<br />
with the school’s values of respect, community service and<br />
leadership. Continued on page # 4<br />
PAGE1
FBS News<br />
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FGS News<br />
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<strong>Friends</strong> School Centennial Graduation<br />
Zuhdi Hashweh, class of 1929<br />
Photo by skip schiel<br />
Continued from page # 1<br />
The commencement ended with a most moving ceremony<br />
commemorating the beginning of the 2 nd centennial era of graduates.<br />
A passing of the torch service involving 10 of our Alumni, each<br />
representing a decade, was most touching. Our graduate of 1929,<br />
Mr. Zuhdi Hashweh, lead the procession of 10 Alumni onto the stage,<br />
each lighting their candle from our 1 st centennial torch. The light<br />
was then passed to our <strong>2006</strong> graduates who in turn passed it on to<br />
our Principals, future graduate (our 11 th grader Jamal Bajali), FUM<br />
Interim Secretary General (Sylvia Graves) and Citizenship award<br />
recipient (Zaki Saadeh). Together and with much anticipation,<br />
they lit up the <strong>Friends</strong> School Second Centennial torch receiving<br />
the warm applause of the audience. The ceremony ended with the<br />
singing of the school song and later a reception which included a<br />
cake listing the names of all our 82 graduates was held. One hundred<br />
balloons were finally released into the skies – each representing<br />
one graduation class at FBS -- starting in 1906 and ending in <strong>2006</strong>.<br />
It was certainly an afternoon that brought much pride to all and that<br />
I’m certain will be remembered by many for years to come!<br />
Joyce Ajlouny-RFS Director<br />
Photo by skip schiel<br />
Alumni each representing a previous decades<br />
Photo by skip schiel<br />
The lighting up o f the<br />
2nd centennial torch<br />
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tion<br />
<strong>Friends</strong> School Centennial Graduation<br />
Photo by skip schiel<br />
Photo by skip schiel<br />
Cutting the Cake - Dr. Ashrawi<br />
Photo by skip schiel<br />
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More FBS News<br />
Even though the year is coming to a close that is not to say<br />
that the excitement at the <strong>Friends</strong> School is “closing” as well!<br />
There are still lots of things happening on campus. .<br />
Congratulations to Khalil Hussary and Marina Tucktuck!<br />
It is now official that these students are the recipients of<br />
two individual scholarships for an year-long exchange<br />
program at Quakers schools in the U.S. Next year Khalil<br />
will be attending Westtown School and Marina will be<br />
at the George School, both in Pennsylvania. We are so<br />
excited and proud of you! Good job!<br />
The season has come for college acceptances to start<br />
pouring in, and . . . they have! A short list of a few<br />
of the colleges and universities that our students<br />
will be attending next year . . . Harvard University,<br />
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),<br />
Stanford University, Cornell University, Emory<br />
University, University of Texas, University of<br />
Illinois-Champagne, Occidental College, Earlham<br />
College, Guilford College, Butler University,<br />
University of Tampa, Bern University-Switzerland,<br />
American University of Beirut, American University<br />
of Cairo, the American University of London and<br />
more! Congratulations seniors! We are sure that<br />
these are only the beginnings of a long list of<br />
successes!<br />
Welcome home to Yazan Nahhas, Yasmine Khoury, Yousef<br />
Alem and Amer Saadeh! During the last week of April these<br />
four students traveled to New York to represent the School and<br />
their work at the Brooklyn Film Festival. They were part of a<br />
joint documentary project with the Brooklyn <strong>Friends</strong> School,<br />
titled “Two Students, Two <strong>Schools</strong>.” Their film came second<br />
in the festival and has been placed for showing in two other<br />
competitions! Great job and thank you to all of our friends<br />
associated with the Mary Williams Fund. If it weren’t for you,<br />
it would not have been possible.<br />
John Hishmeh– School Counselor<br />
FBS Students at the Brooklyn Film Festival<br />
FBS Students with their teacher<br />
End of school staff lunch<br />
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More FGS News<br />
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<strong>Friends</strong> <strong>Friends</strong><br />
Special Thanks<br />
to the American Federation of <strong>Ramallah</strong> for<br />
their generous donation and support to the<br />
Special Needs program of our school<br />
Delegation visit of American Federation of<br />
<strong>Ramallah</strong>, including President Michael Muffareh<br />
Important Dates for Your Diary<br />
June 27 Makeup exams at 9.00<br />
August 17– 19 Selling uniforms at FBS and<br />
FGS 8:00—1:00<br />
August 28<br />
First day of school<br />
Aug.28-Sept. 12 First tuition payment due<br />
Sept. 23<br />
First day of Ramadan,<br />
(Special time schedule)<br />
October 21 PSAT exams for 11<br />
grade student<br />
October 24–27 Eid Al fitr holiday<br />
PAGE 8<br />
Maestro Daniel Barenboim<br />
rehearsing the <strong>Friends</strong> School<br />
and Nazareth students at FBS<br />
this April<br />
P l e a s e v i s i t o u r n e w w e b s i t e<br />
w w w . p a l f r i e n d s . o r g