Class of 2013

Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

The Student Life Record Group consists of records related to Nightingale students that evidence student life at the school outside of classroom academics. Included are yearbooks, student publications, athletics records, admissions department records, college advising records, records of student clubs and committees, student governance records, diversity and community life, records regarding the brief boarding school at Nightingale, and records of student support/counseling offerings.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Traditionally, a group photograph of students in the same class year is taken annually and each class photograph for that year is published in the school yearbook. The Class Photographs series includes some of those original photographs, along with other photographs where most or all students in a class are together. Occasionally, photographs will include students from two class years, pictured together.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The General Student Work and Projects series includes representative essays, poetry, artwork, academic presentation programs, and compilations of student-created content. These consist of several cookbooks created by a grade-level or classroom of students, handmade science books, literary magazines created by Lower School classrooms, and scrapbooks of class trips and memories. Informal and formal publications of poetry are included, notably the 1995 and 1997 publications of "Poems for Life,"...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Traditionally, a group photograph of students in the same class year is taken annually and each class photograph for that year is published in the school yearbook. The Class Photographs series includes some of those original photographs, along with other photographs where most or all students in a class are together. Occasionally, photographs will include students from two class years, pictured together.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Commencement Records include commencement ceremony invitations, programs, scripts, and transcriptions of speeches given. Each year, a commencement guest speaker is invited to deliver words of wisdom and inspiration to the graduating senior students; correspondence with prospective guest speakers and the speaker's biographical information and or curriculum vitae may be in this record series. Also of note are sheet music and lyrics for a Nightingale commencement song. Invitations include the...

Scope and Contents

Includes commencement program; list of faculty and staff leaving and new hires; invitation to senior class dinner; senior questions for ten-year letters; contract for Kerry Washington commencement speaking engagement; photocopies of Herff Jones invoices and order forms for commencement diplomas and covers.

Scope and Contents

Includes agendas and remarks of Dorothy Hutcheson for Convocation assemblies. Also includes some sheet music for songs sung at the assemblies, student remarks of Cleo Long '07, Liz Niemiec '00, Chris Henderson '04, and Alex Field '02, and notification of Zahra Ruffin '13 as a semifinalist in the National Achievement Scholarship Program.

Scope and Contents

Consists mostly of Dorothy Hutcheson's remarks made at Moving Up assemblies/ceremonies for Class VIII. Some years also include ceremony programs. Student remarks made at the ceremonies from Marina Reza '09, Arielle Farkas '09, Whitney Lane '06, Hadley Nagel '09, Christine Henderson '04, and April Gentile-Miserandino '01.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Uniforms have been part of the Nightingale-Bamford School since students voted to wear uniforms in 1929. This series includes photographs of students trying on new uniforms, modeling uniforms from the archives, shopping a uniform exchange, and students in Ghana wearing donated Nightingale uniforms. Documents consist of forms for ordering uniforms, a flier advertising a uniform exchange, and press releases describing newly designed uniforms. Finally, uniform pieces dating from the 1940s to...