Calling all Falcons back to the nest! Alumni Weekend will take place from April 28-30, with reunions and other special events throughout the weekend.
Select News
On Saturday, April 29, at 2:30 p.m., join us for the third installment of Friends Select’s new Transformation Talk speaker series, “Strategic Partnerships: Crafting a 21st-Century Education.”
Friends Select’s Spring Fair on Saturday, April 29, from 12:30-3:30 p.m., will feature games, music, arts, free refreshments, and perhaps most importantly, a celebration of our community.
FOX29's Good Day Philadelphia recently interviewed Bill Salvatore, deputy commissioner of Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, regarding lifeguard training that is taking place in Friends Select's pool.
Two years ago, Toni Graves Williamson, Friends Select School’s director of equity and inclusion, was asked to write an adaptation of Robin DiAngelo’s New York Times bestseller White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism for young adults.
In its seventh year, the Friends Select School Wellness Program is essential in providing support, strategies, and resources pertaining to mental health issues for students, families, and employees.
Alumni Stories
Civil rights activist, orator, writer, and Friends Select alumna Anna Elizabeth Dickinson is now recognized with a Pennsylvania state historical marker near the southeast corner of Broad and Arch Streets. The commemoration of her work and connection to Philadelphia are a result of the combined efforts of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), Friends Select, and Amy Cohen ’82.
Two Friends Select alumni, Jack Gontowski and Phil Sieg, shared their on-the-job experiences in engineering-focused co-ops.
In a Virtual Speaker Series event last February, Andrea Kremer ’76 and Michael Harris ’88 spoke to Friends Select students, employees, and families about COVID-19’s impact on the world of professional sports.
“I can remember studying college material as early as junior year, so a lot of the advanced curriculum I experienced at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was familiar to me from high school,” said Imon Rahaman ’16, on how his Friends Select education prepared him for the intensity of MIT’s bioengineering program.
AuxeticBreath, by Hyejun Youn ’14, was exhibited this past February at the 15th annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI), a convention addressing issues of human-computer interaction, novel tools and technologies, interactive art, and user experience.