GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL

'Georgetown Day School' is an independent, PreK-12 school in Washington, DC. It is familiarly called "GDS," or less frequently "Georgetown Day;" the high school is sometimes abbreviated GDHS. GDS was founded in 1945 as the first integrated school in the District. The lower and middle schools (grades pre-kindergarten to eight) are located in the Palisades neighborhood, while the high school is located several miles away in Tenleytown. The school enrolls approximately 1000 students in any given year and graduates about 120 seniors each year. GDS is known for a strong emphasis on the arts and its historical success in high school policy debate and quizbowl. (It was the #1 school in the nation at debate in 2006.) Because it believes that students and teachers are partners in education, everyone at the school — students, faculty, and administrators — goes by first names. The current head of school is Peter M. Branch.

Contents

Running

Famous & Noteworthy Graduates

Famous & Noteworthy Parents

External links

Running

Georgetown Day School's Varsity Track coach, Anthony Belber, was named in May 2006 the top boy's track coach in the area by ''The Washington Post'' after leading the team to consecutive victories at the spring Track & Field MAC Championships. Anthony Belber also coaches Varsity Cross Country in the fall. He led this team to consecutive victories at the Cross Country MAC Championships as well. In addition to coaching running year round, Belber is a third grade teacher at the school.

Famous & Noteworthy Graduates

★ Sam Endicott, guitarist and vocalist for The Bravery

★ Bovice Jackson, first professional African American cage fighter

★ Brian Baker, musician in Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, and Bad Religion

★ Suzanne Berne, novelist

★ Max Blumenthal, blogger and journalist

★ Jeff Borkin, television writer

★ Sean Fine, Oscar-winning filmmaker

★ Ruben Fleischer, television producer

★ Franklin Foer, ''The New Republic'' editor

★ Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist

★ Joshua Foer, freelance journalist

★ Marc Ganzglass, sculptor

★ Andrew Sean Greer, author

★ Chris Hepler, television writer

★ Tessa Horst, winner of

★ Brian Kraft, musician and photographer

★ Judy Kuhn, actress

★ Daniel F. Levin, composer, lyricist, writer

★ Judith Martin, (''Miss Manners'')

★ Sam Means, 2006 Emmy winner for writing on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show"

★ Guy Picciotto, guitarist and vocalist for Fugazi

★ Michael Portnoy, multimedia artist, musician, actor

★ Lyle Preslar, guitarist for Minor Threat

★ Jamin Raskin, law professor and author

★ Alice Randall, author (''The Wind Done Gone'')

★ Matt Safer, bassist for The Rapture

★ Melissa Sagemiller, actress, recently in "The Guardian" with Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner

★ Dina Sansing, celebrity journalist

★ Raphael Talisman, photojournalist

★ Kyle Marcus, known doll collector

★ Mark Thompson, TV personality/meteorologist

★ Ross Weingarten, journalist, party liaison, confirmed hummus lover

★ Olivia Wilde, "The Black Donnelly's" actress (attended through 8th grade)

★ Laurin Wittig, author

Famous & Noteworthy Parents

★ Sandy Berger, National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton

★ Sidney Blumenthal, Clinton White House counsellor

★ Art Buchwald, humorist

★ Len Downie, Washington Post editor

★ Jamie Gangel, ''Today Show'' correspondent

★ Dan Glickman, former Secretary of Agriculture and President of the MPAA

★ Phil Gramm, U.S. Senator from Texas

★ Jane Harman, Congresswoman from California

★ Seymour M. Hersh, Journalist, Pulitzer-Prize winner

★ Eric Holder, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia

★ Robert F. Kennedy Jr., environmental lawyer, son of Robert Kennedy, former Senator from New York

★ Charles Krauthammer, conservative columnist

★ Saul Landau, commentator on Pacifica and Institute for Policy Studies affiliate

★ Mary Landrieu, U.S. Senator from Louisiana

★ Ted Lerner, Washington Nationals owner

★ Joe Lockhart, White House press secretary during Bill Clinton's second term from 1998-2000

★ Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court justice

★ Walter Mondale, Senator from Minnesota and Vice-President of The United States

★ Greg Munford, Lead singer of "Incense and Peppermints" by Strawberry Alarm Clock

★ Edith Nash, poet and educator

★ Philleo Nash, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

★ Norman Ornstein, pundit at the American Enterprise Institute

★ Jack Quinn, White House Counsel from 1995-1996

★ Marcus Raskin, author and co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies

★ Laurie Robinson, former U.S. Assistant Attorney General to Janet Reno

★ Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States

★ Daniel Silva, author

★ Larry Summers, former President of Harvard University and former Treasury Secretary

★ Tom Toles, Washington Post political cartoonist

★ Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, now president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

★ Alexander Vershbow, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, former U.S Ambassador to Russia and NATO

★ Judith Viorst, children's book writer and poet

★ Juan Williams, journalist

★ Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator from Oregon

External links

★ Georgetown Day School