11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. | 50th Reunion Luncheon*
*exclusive to the Class of 1976
Join classmates on campus for lunch with students from the Farming for Families Club and Alex McCoy ‘04 and Kyla Starks from the Center for Ethical Leadership to learn how funds like the Kathy Ozer Fund supports the life of the School. Enjoy a viewing of the garden beds on campus.

1-2 p.m. | 50th Reunion Conversation with Upper School Principal, Robbie Gross*
*exclusive to the Class of 1976
Enjoy a robust conversation with Upper School Principal and education historian, Robbie Gross. Robbie brings the Archives to life to lead a discussion about what it was like during your time at Sidwell, both on campus and around the nation.

1:05-2:40 p.m. | “Open Door Classes”
Get a feel for what classes are like these days. A brief description of what will be offered during each class will be provided ahead of time. Registration will be capped to limit disruptions to classes. 

2:45-3 p.m. | The Running of the Seniors
Witness a new Sidwell tradition as Seniors run through the halls on their last day of classes before heading off to work on senior projects.

4-5:15 p.m. | Tour of the New Upper School
Join us for a hard hat tour of the new Upper School as it nears its completion. Tours are limited to adults only and have a limited capacity due to safety regulations.

5-5:45 p.m. | Student-Led Tour of Current Campus
Join fellow alumni for a tour of campus led by current students. Please note that this tour does not include the New Upper School.

6-7 p.m. | Opening Meeting for Worship and Conversation with Head of School Bryan Garman
Begin Reunion Weekend by remembering the ties that bind - our shared Quaker values. We will use this time to hold those that have passed in the Light. 

This event will flow into a conversation with Bryan Garman on Quakerism, history, and the School today.

7-8:30 p.m. | Reunion Cook Out!
Kickoff Reunion weekend with a Sidwell Cook Out! Lawn games and classic cook out fare provided, as well as beer and wine. Wear your Sidwell friends gear with pride!

9-10:30 a.m. | Breakfast Club: Student Activities and Clubs Through the Years 
Join fellow alumni, retired and former faculty and staff, and current students over breakfast to reminisce and connect over your shared extra curricular activities during your time at Sidwell. There will be tables for Athletics, the Performing Arts, STEM, and Journalism. Current students from the Horizon, the Robotics Club, Arts Guild, the Leadership Academy and more will join us!

10:30-11:30 a.m. | On Campus All-Community Service Project
Join fellow alumni, both in Reunion years and from the DC community, for an on campus service project organized in partnership with the Center for Ethical Leadership.

11:30-12:45 p.m. | Tour of the New Upper School 
Join us for a hard hat tour of the new Upper School as it nears its completion. Tours are limited to adults only and have a limited capacity due to safety regulations.

3:45-5 p.m. | Tour of the New Upper School 
Join us for a hard hat tour of the new Upper School as it nears its completion. Tours are limited to adults only and have a limited capacity due to safety regulations.

4:30-5:15 p.m. | Student-Led Tour of Current Campus
Join fellow alumni for a tour of campus led by current students. Please note that this tour does not include the New Upper School.

5:30-7:30 p.m. | Distinguished Alumni Award Presentation and Meeting for Worship in Robert L. Smith Meeting Room
Celebratory toast to follow

7:30-10 p.m. | Celebration Dinner
Close out Reunion Weekend with an unforgettable evening of food, fellowship, and dancing with District Groove under the tent.

11 a.m.

Join Bethesda Friends for a Meeting for Worship on the Lower School Campus and connect with the local Quaker community. To learn more about Bethesda Friends, including information around child care, please visit their website.

Michele Thoren Bond ‘71 began her State Department career in a student intern program, two days after graduating from Sidwell Friends, and worked nearly every summer through college and grad school, joining the Foreign Service in 1977.  In 1974, barely out of her teens, she served on State’s emergency task force during the Cyprus crisis, helping to locate and protect American citizens in harm’s way.  Good preparation for a lifelong career responsible for crisis management and public advocacy for U.S. citizens overseas and their family members in the U.S.  Ambassador Bond retired as Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs in 2017.  Her overseas assignments included Guatemala, Belgrade, Stockholm, Prague, Moscow, Consul General in Amsterdam, and Ambassador to the Kingdom of Lesotho.   She received the 2015 Thomas Jefferson Award for outstanding service to American citizens overseas from American Citizens Abroad, and the State Department’s 2010 Mary Ryan Award for Outstanding Public Service.

Michele was the official face of U.S. adoptions during her tour at Embassy Moscow, meeting with court and orphanage officials, and appearing on Russian TV and radio, to counter skepticism and false information about foreign adoptions.  In 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton assigned her to lead an interagency initiative to accelerate the departure of hundreds of orphans whose adoptions by American families were nearly complete when the earthquake struck.  In 2015, she spearheaded a successful international effort to resolve a two-year suspension of adoptions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which had stranded several hundred children legally adopted by American and other foreign families.   

An elected member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Washington Institute for Foreign Affairs (WIFA), Michele is a former president of the Board of the International Student House of Washington DC, a residence for international and U.S. graduate students.  She is an honors graduate of Wellesley College and earned master’s degrees at Georgetown University and the National War College.  Her late husband, Clifford G. Bond, served as Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina.   She has four children and seven grandchildren.

Mark grew up in Northwest DC. Following his five years at Sidwell Friends, he attended MIT in Boston and thereafter attended Washington University/St. Louis for a degree in Medicine (MD) and a doctorate (PhD) in Pharmacology & Neuroscience.

Mark married a classmate (Lenore Nii, MD) in 1986, and went to Johns Hopkins Baltimore to complete medical residencies in Neurology & Anesthesiology, and thereafter to complete Fellowships in Neuroanesthesiology & Neuroscience Critical Care. His wife practiced pediatrics in the Annapolis area during this period, and they had two daughters, Kara & Erin.

He was on the Faculty at Hopkins from 1991-1996, whereupon he took a position in 1996 to develop and head a Neuroscience Institute in Honolulu Hawaii (Queen’s Medical Center). After the successful creation and organization of an independent Neuroscience clinical and research environment, he was recruited back to Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1999 to become Chief of Neuro Critical Care ICU & the Division of Neuroanesthesiology.

As a clinical/research professor, his academic areas of interest include work on epilepsy, head trauma, pharmacology, and neurophysiology as it pertains particularly to critically ill patients.

He has travelled extensively as part of my medical work, especially to Europe - Belgium, UK, France, Spain, Poland, Germany, as well as to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Canada, and India. He is Deputy Editor-In-Chief of the highly recognized medical journal, Critical Care. He has also performed medical missions overseas to provide care for several heads-of-state and other dignitaries.

Today, he remains at Johns Hopkins, and he and his wife continue to reside in the Annapolis area. They have three grandchildren, and their daughters reside with their families in California & Montana to where they now frequently travel to be with them. His hobbies include travel, cycling, hiking, and collecting antique maps and US coins/currency.

Trish Peyser Perlmutter is a civil rights lawyer, who is all about making the legal system fairer and holding institutions accountable. She's currently the Associate Director for Policy, Outreach, and Community Relations at the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights. She leads efforts to fight bias and discrimination, teaching community members about their rights, while informing housing providers, employers, and other entities about their legal duties.

Previously, Trish was Policy Counsel at Partners in New Jersey. There, she successfully advanced new laws to protect survivors of domestic and sexual violence, wrote policy reports, litigated appeals, and championed reforms to the family and criminal court systems. Before that, she taught at Seton Hall University’s Law School, where she conducted impact litigation, including successfully challenged N.J.’s practice of punishing and isolating mentally ill prisoners, resulting in resulting in a sweeping overhaul of mental health care, disciplinary practices, and use of force in a multi-million-dollar settlement.

Trish began her legal career clerking for U.S, district judge, H. Lee Sarokin. She then practiced law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and represented the first person to be sentenced death under the federal drug “kingpin” statute, ultimately leading to his receiving a presidential commutation.

Trish is a proud alum of Sidwell Friends, where the saying “Let Your Life Speak” has always inspired her to work to repair our broken world, even in some small way. Sidwell gave her an outstanding education, but more importantly, it showed her how to find purpose and fulfillment through helping others. Her parents, Margie and Ted Peyser (Sidwell class of 1946), were wonderful role models who embodied love, kindness, and integrity, reinforcing the values she learned at Sidwell in their home. Trish lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with Tom, her husband, and they are proud parents of Brian, Julia, and Elana Perlmutter.

Elizabeth Wilkins is the president and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank, student network, and society of likeminded changemakers dedicated to creating an economy and a democracy where prosperity and power are shared. Elizabeth formerly served as chief of staff to the chair and director of the Office of Policy and Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, where she led the effort to ban noncompete clauses in labor contracts. Before joining the FTC, Elizabeth was senior advisor to the White House chief of staff and served on the Biden-Harris transition team. 

Elizabeth spent five years serving her hometown in several senior leadership roles at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, including senior counsel for policy and chief of staff. Elizabeth previously served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Elena Kagan of the US Supreme Court and to then-Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Before law school, Elizabeth was a policy advisor in the White House Domestic Policy Council on urban policy and economic mobility. She began her career as a political organizer for SEIU 32BJ in New York City raising wages and building power for building service workers. Elizabeth holds a BA from Yale University and a JD from Yale Law School.