F CUS Friends’ Central School
Volume XXXVI Issue III
In This Issue.... Page 2: Q/A with Kristen O’Dore Page 3: Powerhouse 2010 Review Page 4: Senior Sibling Preview Page 6: Boys’ and Girls’ Basketball Preview Page 6: Phoenix in the Phast Lane
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November 2010 Edition
Peter Seidel’s Milkboy Art Show By Alex Flick ‘12
As studens, we are often so caught up with our own lives that we forget our teachers have their own life goals, separate from our education. But as many of us know, Mr. Seidel, our creative art teacher, is an accomplished artist as well. His recent exhibition, at Milkboy Coffee on Lancaster Ave. in Ardmore, has attracted the eyes of many visitors, all very interested in his work. This is Mr. Seidel’s second show at Milk Boy. His first show, during April of 2008, was so popular that the owner asked him back. His show featured work done mostly in the last “Bubble Soap #2” -- “It is a composition of four carefully arranged bottles of colored bubble year and a half. His soap. Each bottle contains its own figure eight shaped, built-in bubble wand attached to paintings explore the lids. The surfaces of each clear bottle also possess many raised hemispherical dimples to prevent dropping it with slippery hands. The bottles are overlapped in such a manner still life, focusing on that the back lighting coming through the colored fluids creates unexpected new colors and transparent color and
the visual imagery of light when it’s seen through colored plastic or water. He’s been interested in this subject for almost 15 years. Mr. Seidel has received positive feedback from visitors, and of course he says he feels great about it. Although he also said that he would be happy with any reaction, positive or negative. In the future, Mr. Seidel hopes to have more exhibits. But he does not know where or when these will be. However, I hope that when they do happen, we manage to take time out of our schedule to support his work. Check out the photos of his paintings on the FCS website.
shapes. That is my main interest in the subject.” - Peter Seidel
What’s Cooking? Behind the Scenes of the Cafeteria
dining hall is what to serve each day. The staff goes through a 4 week menu cycle, always By Julia Lynn ‘14 including Friends’ Central favorites such as When you hear “move on down to dino-nuggets, chicken pot pie and pizza. Pizza Kathy”, and “I can take someone down here”, day has become a consistent Wednesday you think of the Friends’ Central dining hall, routine in the dining hall. Chris Rosenbaum’s but there is a lot more to the dining hall than idea behind a Wednesday pizza day instead those famous lines. While speaking with Chris a Friday pizza day, is that most people tend to Rosenbaum, the dining hall manager, I eat pizza on Fridays as an “easy dinner.” learned about future plans for the dining hall, Making pizza day a Wednesday assures that FCS food favorites and basically what goes you don’t have pizza twice in a on behind the scenes. day and serves as a good “middle of the week In the kitchen, there are a lot of break” for the staff. This is one of the most decisions to be made relating to vegetarian popular traditions in the dining hall. dishes and healthy food choices. Chris and Chris is always trying to improve the the staff have been trying to serve healthier variety of food in the dining hall, so he shared choices by ordering favorites from Panera some possible long term ideas with me. He Bread, a local chain restaurant. The dining has found that the students like it when they hall also never serves two fried foods in one get to prepare the food themselves, such as day, not only because of their limited fryers making their own waffles and cutting their and oven space, but also for health reasons. own bagels. Chris’s idea is to create a make Their policy is “if we would not serve it to our your own salad and make your own sandwich children, we would not serve it to the school.” station. He feels that the stations would be Another decision that is made in the very successful because students could pick
what they want themselves, which makes it more likely there is something that appeals to them. Chris isn’t promising anything, but is still trying to make his ideas happen over the course of the next year at Friends’ Central. Chris spoke very highly about the dining hall and its staff. “We think about quality and taste in everything we do here,” he said.