Laya Bubshait, Contributor • April 15, 2024
Middle School French teacher Narjis Benjelloun draws on positive experiences with her own kids, and negative ones in the rigid French school system, to inform her teaching.
Asuman Smith, Contributor • April 13, 2024
At the annual Friends School Coffee House, new student-formed band Leech took the stage and rocked the show in their debut performance.
Advice columnists give their best takes on this month’s dilemmas, submitted anonymously by Friends School students.
Erika Alamo, Contributor • April 3, 2024
Despite Friends School's commitment to student and staff diversity, so far only a small number of folks in the community identify as Latinx.
Mason Cost, Contributor • January 27, 2024
Icy? Filtered? Magic 'pregame water'? A Quill reporter tackles the question: Which is the best, and why?
Matthew Weisman, Contributor • January 16, 2024
With bravery, humor, and tales from his decades on the front lines of American protest, Quaker activist George Lakey held an audience of Friends Upper Schoolers rapt - and gave them hope.
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Ulysses Brockman, Contributor • March 5, 2024
Rasha El-Haggan, our new Assistant Head of School for Academics, has a serious mandate. But she tackles it with a sense of fun - and style.
Alexandra Dineen, Contributor • February 25, 2024
The History teacher and 12th grade dean is now an institution at Friends. But he, and Athletic Director Kara Carlin, met as teens while attending our rival school.
Erika Alamo, Contributor • January 29, 2024
English teacher Christine Saudek has a knack for making students feel like family - sometimes literally. In her hardest time, they helped give her strength.
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Sam Butz, Contributor • March 6, 2024
The Friends team is gearing up for its season opener on Thursday, March 21, which will be a home game against Jemicy.
Alana Finn, Contributor • March 5, 2024
Each winter, two teammates and I trade our Friends uniforms for club ones - and learn new skills and ways to mentor our FSB teammates in the fall.
As Ravens fans lick their wounds following a near miss in the AFC Championship game, the Chiefs and 49ers prepare to face off Sunday, in what Quill sports writers say could be a game for the ages.
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Middle School
Laya Bubshait, Contributor • March 28, 2024
Following the "100 Nights" Dinner, senior Kylie Ingerman reflects on 12th grade drawing to a close, and which friendships she may carry with her.
Ejaz Ibrahim, Contributor • March 8, 2024
At the semi-formal dance, students' eyes widened as history teacher and senior grade dean Josh Carlin took the dance floor - and made it his own.
Kayla Hanks, Contributor • March 6, 2024
Rotten cheese? "Sweet poop?" A Quill podcaster searches for the source of the powerful stench in the math/science building last week.
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Asuman Smith, Contributor • April 13, 2024
At the annual Friends School Coffee House, new student-formed band Leech took the stage and rocked the show in their debut performance.
Mitchell Jackson, Contributor • March 27, 2024
Harking back to real moments in US history when the government has experimented on Black communities, the sci-fi film is a great romp - and one I'm still thinking about months later.
Mai Bolster, Contributor • March 8, 2024
A spot booth's-eye view of the ambitious Moana Jr. production - which included 60 student actors, the largest Middle School cast in memory - from the perspective of its first-time stage manager.
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