“We’re gonna need a bigger tent.” The celebration for Upper School Principal Mamadou Guèye’s retirement started out so big and with such a huge response, that Sidwell Friends had to put up the largest tent ever erected in the garden behind Zartman House. It was a fitting metaphor for the larger-than-life personality, whom Head of School Bryan Garman called an “immediate legend” who could “hold all the joys and the sorrows of the community at the same time.” For his part, Guèye told the more than 300 attendees that though his normal motto was “gratitude, generosity, and goodwill; tonight, it is gratitude, gratitude, and gratitude.”

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