Friends Seminary

Student Spotlight 🔆 For Eli ’26 and Ian ’26, service has become one way to understand what community means in practice.

As seniors and leaders of the Upper School Student Service Committee, both students have spent the past three years helping classmates find meaningful ways to take part in service. At Friends, Upper School students complete service hours as part of their Upper School experience, and the committee helps make sure students have regular, accessible opportunities to contribute throughout the year. The Committee is responsible for organizing drives, setting up letter-writing events, choosing nonprofits, counting donations, and finding moments in the school year when students might be ready to give their time or attention.

This year, Eli and Ian helped the Committee become more visible in the daily life of the Upper School. Through grade representatives, students brought forward ideas from their classmates and helped shape service projects that reflected student interest, current events, and community needs.

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Friends was pleased to welcome Upper School visual arts students from The Clinton School to Leading: The James Turrell Skyspace last Thursday.

During their visit, students learned more about James Turrell’s work, his use of light as a medium, and the Quaker traditions of silence and reflection that inform the experience of the Skyspace. The visit invited students to slow down, look closely, and consider how light, color, and perception shift over time.