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Potomac School (McLean, Virginia)
The Potomac School is coeducational, college-preparatory independent day school located on a wooded 90-acre campus in McLean, Virginia, United States, three miles (5 km) from Washington, D.C. Average class size is 15-17 students. For the 2021-22 school year, Potomac enrolled 1,066 students in grades K-12. The school has four divisions – Lower School (K- 3), Middle School (4-6), Intermediate School (7-8), and Upper School (9-12) – each providing a balanced educational experience. History At the turn of the 20th century, DC residents Edith Draper Blair, Hetty Fairfax Harrison, and Ellen Warder Thoron traveled to New York City to research John Dewey’s teaching model and educational philosophy. The women’s interest in early childhood education as a joyful and enriching endeavor led them to found The Potomac School in 1904. The school’s original location was in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC. In 1906, Potomac relocated to 18th and M Streets NW; a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent School
An independent school is independent in its finances and governance. Also known as private schools, non-governmental, privately funded, or non-state schools, they are not administered by local, state or national governments. In British English, an independent school usually refers to a school which is endowed, i.e. held by a trust, charity, or foundation, while a private school is one that is privately owned. Independent schools are usually not dependent upon national or local government to finance their financial endowment. They typically have a board of governors who are elected independently of government and have a system of governance that ensures their independent operation. Children who attend such schools may be there because they (or their parents) are dissatisfied with government-funded schools (in UK state schools) in their area. They may be selected for their academic prowess, prowess in other fields, or sometimes their religious background. Private schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Ayer
Chris Ayer is a solo guitar artist. Ayer attended The Potomac School from kindergarten until twelfth grade. A graduate of Stanford University, where he studied philosophy and music, Ayer began playing the guitar and writing songs when he was 18 years old. While at Stanford, Ayer also sang with the Stanford Mendicants, an all-male a cappella group. Ayer released his first EP, ''Static'', in June 2003 (which sold over a thousand copies), a live album in 2004, an album of acoustic demos in 2005, and a self-produced EP entitled ''New Songs'', which received national airpla His first full-length album, ''This Is The Place'', was recorded in Nashville and produced by Jason Gantt (The Chieftains, Brooks & Dunn, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill). Ayer was a winner in the folk category in the 2006 John Lennon Songwriting Contest for his original song "Evaporate".http://www.jlsc.com/winners/2006b/lennon_awards.php John Lennon Songwriting Awards He performed two tours with MC Lars as a live gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta. The Falcons compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) NFC South, South division. The Falcons joined the NFL in 1965 as an expansion team, after the NFL offered then-owner Rankin Smith a franchise to keep him from joining the rival American Football League (AFL). In their 55 years of existence, the Falcons have compiled a record of 379–487–6 ( in the regular season and in the playoffs), winning division championships in 1980 Atlanta Falcons season, 1980, 1998 Atlanta Falcons season, 1998, 2004 Atlanta Falcons season, 2004, 2010 Atlanta Falcons season, 2010, 2012 Atlanta Falcons season, 2012, and 2016 Atlanta Falcons season, 2016. The Falcons have appeared in two Super Bowls, the first during the 1998 season in Super Bowl XXXIII, where they lost to the 1998 Denver Broncos season, Denver Broncos and the second 18 years later, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dwaune Jones
Dwaune Jones (born July 11, 1977) is a retired American football wide receiver who is currently the Assistant Director of College Scouting for the Atlanta Falcons. While Jones never played in a regular season NFL game, he spent time in training camp with the Cleveland Browns, the Seattle Seahawks and the Houston Texans. In 2001, he played for the Berlin Thunder of NFL Europe. During that season, he caught two long touchdown passes in World Bowl IX for the eventual champion Berlin Thunder. He played college football at the University of Richmond. Prior to taking his role with the Falcons, Jones had been a scout for the Baltimore Ravens and New Orleans Saints The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans. The Saints compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. Since 1975, the te .... References External links New Orleans Saints bio {{DEFAULTSORT:Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Meeker Jensen
Sarah Louise Meeker Jensen, FAIA, is an American architect, licensed general contractor, LEED-certified professional, healthcare planner, and founder of the firm Jensen Partners. Early life and education Sarah Louise Meeker was born in Washington, D.C. and graduated from the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia, Milton Academy, and Amherst College. Her parents were Leonard C. Meeker and Christine Halliday Meeker. Her father was an American lawyer and diplomat, who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Romania. Her brother Charles Meeker was the 34th Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina. She received her Masters of Architecture degree at the University of California, Los Angeles. She married Jay Jensen, a surgeon. Work Jensen began her career in the San Francisco office of MLTV/Turnbull Associates. She was recruited by the Office of the UCLA Campus Architect as Director of Campus Planning and served as Assistant Vice Chancellor at the University. She led the transformation of the UCL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Guggenheim
Philip Davis Guggenheim (born November 3, 1963) is an American writer, director and producer. His credits include '' NYPD Blue'', '' ER'', '' 24'', '' Alias'', '' The Shield'', ''Deadwood'', and the documentaries ''An Inconvenient Truth'', '' It Might Get Loud,'' ''The Road We've Traveled'', ''Waiting for "Superman", Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates'', and ''He Named Me Malala''. Since 2006, Guggenheim is the only filmmaker to release three different documentaries that were ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time (''An Inconvenient Truth'', ''It Might Get Loud'', and ''Waiting for "Superman"''). Early life Philip Davis Guggenheim was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Marion Davis (née Streett) and filmmaker Charles Guggenheim. His father was Jewish, whereas his mother was Episcopalian. He graduated from the Potomac School, Sidwell Friends School and Brown University. Career Guggenheim joined the HBO Western drama ''Deadwood'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organization For Security And Co-operation In Europe
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the world's largest regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization with observer status at the United Nations. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, promotion of human rights, freedom of the press, and free and fair elections. It employs around 3,460 people, mostly in its field operations but also in its secretariat in Vienna, Austria, and its institutions. It has its origins in the mid-1975 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) held in Helsinki, Finland. The OSCE is concerned with early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management, and post-conflict rehabilitation. Most of its 57 participating countries are in Europe, but there are a few members present in Asia and North America. The participating states cover much of the land area of the Northern Hemisphere. It was created during the Cold War era as a forum for discussion between the Western Bloc and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassador
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities, and fields of endeavor, such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy, whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambassador has the highest diplomatic rank. Countries may choose to maintain diplomatic relations at a lower level by appointing a chargé d'affa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Finley
Julie Finley (born c. 1937) was the United States Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). She was nominated by President George W. Bush. Education Finley is a 1952 graduate of the Potomac School and a 1955 graduate of Miss Porter's School. She then attended Vassar College, graduating with a B.A. degree. Career After graduation, Finley worked for several media organizations, including NBC's Office of Corporate Affairs, ABC News and the '' Washington Post''. She also worked for syndicated columnist Joseph Kraft. Finley has been active in Republican politics for many years and served the party in a number of capacities. She was the Washington, D.C., Republican Party Chairman from 1992 through 2000 and the D.C. Republican National Committeewoman from 2000 to 2004. Finley also served as National Finance Co-Chairman for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign for Washington, D.C., and as Co-Chairman of Team 100, the major fundraising arm for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasha DiGiulian
Sasha DiGiulian (born October 23, 1992) is a professional rock climber. She won the gold medal at the 2011 International Federation of Sport Climbing World Championships in Arco, Italy, for Female Overall, placed Silver in Bouldering and Bronze in Duel. Sasha won multi-year PanAmerican championships and is a three-time US National Champion. She has climbed over 30 First Female Ascents as well as over a dozen significant First Ascents, including "Rolihlahla" in South Africa, a Big Wall in Brazil in 2016 and The Misty Wall in Yosemite in 2017. In 2011 she redpointed multiple , onsighted two of and four of . In 2013 she was the first American woman to redpoint Era Vella 5.14d (9a), and established the First Female Ascent of Alpine Big Wall route, Bellavista, 5.14b (8c). In 2015, she became the first woman to free climb Magic Mushroom (7c+), one of the most difficult routes on the north face of the Eiger. In 2017 she did the first female ascent of Big Wall in Madagascar, Mora Mora ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Louise Davison
Alice Davison (born Washington, D.C., September 10, 1940, died Iowa City, Iowa, March 3, 2017) was an American linguist who specialized in the syntax of South Asian languages, in particular Hindustani. Early life and education Davison grew up in Washington, D.C. She graduated from the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia in 1955, and the Madeira School in McLean in 1958. She then went to Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1962. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1972, writing her dissertation on performative verbs''.'' Career After completing her PhD, Davison started her teaching career at The State University of New York at Stony Brook. She also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin. The majority of her academic career was spent at the University of Iowa where she held a faculty position in the Department of Linguistics from 1988 until she retired in 2016. Davison's primary areas of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The East (2013 Film)
''The East'' is a 2013 thriller film directed by Zal Batmanglij and starring Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, and Elliot Page. Writers Batmanglij and Marling spent two months in 2009 practicing freeganism and co-wrote a screenplay inspired by their experiences and drawing on thrillers from the 1970s. The American studio Fox Searchlight Pictures had bought rights to distribute Batmanglij's previous film ''Sound of My Voice'' and also collaborated with the director to produce ''The East''. With Ridley Scott as producer and Tony Scott as executive producer, Fox Searchlight contracted Scott Free Productions, headquartered in London, to produce the film. ''The East'' was filmed in two months in Shreveport, Louisiana at the end of 2011. The film premiered to strong reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on , 2013. It was released in theaters on , 2013. Plot Jane (Brit Marling), an operative for private intelligence firm Hiller Brood, is assigned by her boss, Sharon (Patricia Clar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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