On November 6, during a Meeting for Announcements, Hassan Wilson, Friends Seminary’s Dean of Faculty, announced that Friends’ schedule committee would start the process of deeply analyzing the current...
This November, Friends buzzed with excitement as the community welcomed its first-ever exchange students from Barcelona. For three weeks, six tenth graders from Colegio Sant Ignasi—a prestigious Jesuit...
The new Dean of Faculty of Friends Seminary, Trupti Patel, has been making many changes to the school. This is Patel’s 30th year teaching, and she has taught as a third, fourth, and sixth grade homeroom...
This year we are welcoming four new teachers into the Friends High School: Alycia Thompson, Jared Fortunato, Patrick Cahill, and Kevin Donnelly. Many of you have likely passed these new teachers in the...
David Lieber, Co-Athletic Director at Friends, has decided to step down as Head Boys Varsity Basketball Coach after thirty-three years.
Lieber started coaching at Friends when he was 28 years old. He...
As most people know by now, ChatGPT is an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) writing assistant which quickly gained millions of users after its launch in November 2022. ChatGPT can help users with anything...
Athletics is a major part of Friends Seminary spirit, and around 57 percent of students in the Upper School have played on sports teams this year. Before the pandemic, most teams had their own trips during...
On the morning of February 6, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep, home to thousands of Syrian refugees, with strength so great that another magnitude 7.5 earthquake...
ConocoPhillips, the only energy company with oil drilling operations in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, has been drilling for oil in Alaska for years. Significantly larger than its two current projects...
On January 22, many Asian cultures celebrated the Lunar New Year. Unlike on the Western calendar, Lunar New Year falls on the first new moon of the lunar calendar and ends on the first full moon. In Chinese...
This midterms cycle, Democrats defied historical precedent and expectations, outperforming across the country. Typically, the opposite party of the incumbent president will take back at least one of the...
According to NPR, four times a week on average in New York City, an electric scooter or bicycle explodes while charging, sometimes causing major fires. Recently, there have been major explosions in apartment...
