Sidwell Friends School Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Sidwell Friends School is a Quaker private school located in Washington, DC and Bethesda, Maryland. It was founded in 1883 by Thomas Sidwell.Distinguished alumni of Sidwell Friends include:
- William Henry Harrison (representative) ('14 or '15), Republican Representative from Wyoming (note: this was President William Henry Harrison's great-great-grandson)
- Robert Carter Cook ('16 or '17), director of the American Eugenics Society[1]
- Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky, Soviet ambassador to the United Nations
- Hanna Holborn Gray ('47 or '48), historian and President of Yale University and later the University of Chicago
- Walter Gilbert ('49?), Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
- Charlie Gibson, host of ABC's Good Morning America
- Bill Nye the Science Guy, television personality and scientist
- Margaret Edson '79, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Wit
- Anne Applebaum '82, journalist and author
- Ana Gasteyer '85, actress
- Charles Lindbergh
- Nancy Reagan, First Lady (only went to elementary school at Sidwell)
- George A. Akerlof, Nobel Prize winner in Economics
- Theodore Roosevelt's son
- Allan Hoover? '25?, son of Herbert Hoover
- Valerie Rumsfeld, Donald Rumsfeld's daughter
- H.R. Haldeman's son?
- Tricia and Julie Nixon ('66?), daughters of Richard Nixon
- Dawn Rather, Dan Rather's daughter
- Chelsea Clinton '97, daughter of Bill Clinton
- Al Gore III '01, son of Al Gore
External links
Sidwell website
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