Anonymous
Post 10/25/2016 16:24     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
I would think that Sidwell families, being very socially conscious and liberal minded would take offense not only at the history of racism and anti-semitism at Chevy Chase, but also at the use of chemicals that pollute the environment to maintain grass used exclusively for a pastime that excludes certain groups. I would think they would also take offense at the waste of money used by wealthy people to belong to this club that doesn't allow blacks as members (with the exception of a handful) but an overwhelming number of employees are black.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2016 13:52     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
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Anonymous wrote:So I find it interesting that all the Sidwell people speaking so negatively against country clubs, when the Godfather of all parents at Sidwell, President Obama, has played golf at Columbia Country Club multiple times (just last weekend in fact) and is rumored to be interested in joining. A little ironic isn't it?


A doctrinaire Liberal at Columbia CC amongst all those right of center Catholics?

Could Obama possibly be that tone-deaf?


Stop stereotyping. He played with a Jewish member.


If something is 90% true. it's true enough.


Columbia has a sizeable, long-standing Jewish membership.


Untrue. You can count on one hand the number of Jewish members.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2016 08:19     Subject: Re:Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
Anonymous wrote:There are at least 6-7 families that I know of who are Members at Chevy from my DC's SFS grade alone.


That is surprising. I don't know of any families at Sidwell that belong. Many feel it goes against the Quaker values of the school. I heard of two Sidwell families that applied a couple of years ago but I heard both were blackballed and they did happen to both be Jewish. Not saying that is why but it was a turn off for a few other families considering to apply so they did not follow through with applying.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2016 11:47     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
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Anonymous wrote:So I find it interesting that all the Sidwell people speaking so negatively against country clubs, when the Godfather of all parents at Sidwell, President Obama, has played golf at Columbia Country Club multiple times (just last weekend in fact) and is rumored to be interested in joining. A little ironic isn't it?


A doctrinaire Liberal at Columbia CC amongst all those right of center Catholics?

Could Obama possibly be that tone-deaf?


Stop stereotyping. He played with a Jewish member.


If something is 90% true. it's true enough.


Columbia has a sizeable, long-standing Jewish membership.


It does? What about congressional? I already know Chevy does not.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2016 11:14     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
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Anonymous wrote:So I find it interesting that all the Sidwell people speaking so negatively against country clubs, when the Godfather of all parents at Sidwell, President Obama, has played golf at Columbia Country Club multiple times (just last weekend in fact) and is rumored to be interested in joining. A little ironic isn't it?


A doctrinaire Liberal at Columbia CC amongst all those right of center Catholics?

Could Obama possibly be that tone-deaf?


Stop stereotyping. He played with a Jewish member.


If something is 90% true. it's true enough.


Columbia has a sizeable, long-standing Jewish membership.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2016 11:11     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
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Anonymous wrote:I know many families who have kids at Sidwell and none of them belong to the Chevy Chase Club. The families who I know belong to CCC have kids who attend NCS/St. A's and Landon.


Not surprising NCS open house yesterday felt like the Republican National Convention. Felt very unwelcomed there as a colored folk. I spoke to other colored folk and same feeling. Definitely not GDS or Sidwell. Ugh. Not applying there. Even DD said it feels like a meeting of Donald Trump supporters.




Please. Susan Rice is an NCS graduate. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala sent her kids there. The list goes on. Yes, the Cathedral Schools probably seem more traditional then SFS, but do not doubt that they are equal in their desire and ability to promote diversity.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2016 11:05     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
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Anonymous wrote:I am from what would be considered an old money DC family. I graduated from sidwell in the mid 90s and can count on one hand the number of people who belonged to any country club. It is really disgusting what the school has become.


I always thought I would want my kids to go there, but I heard it had changed so we didn't apply. We don't want the country club set.



Same here (I'm pp). It used to be an interesting place. Now it's full of social climbing wannabes.


Can't speak for Sidwell, but as a legacy & member the club but whose family has NEVER made the "country club" set a priority, I appreciate the diversity at the Cathedral schools. My kids are in the lower school at NCS & STA (and they previously went to beauvoir), One recent trend which I find refreshing and the opposite of "social climbing," NOT ONE of ds & dd's classmates are enrolled in the "invitation only" Mrs. Simpson's, but instead opted for the all-inclusive Capital Cotillion. I know I chose Cotillion over Mrs. Simpson's. From what I've heard the stonewalling of Mrs. Simpson's is quite new. Even a few years back, there would be a handful of students in each grade who attended to Mrs. Simpson's... in this year's 4th grade there are none (ZERO) Cathedral students at Mrs. Simpsons. We felt uncomfortable with the idea of sending dc to a dancing school where not all of his/her classmates were welcome. Take that social climbers!


I went to NCS and graduated in the late nineties. My best friend, from another school, belonged to Chevy and was very active. I lived nearby and spent a lot of time there. I can think of only three families between my class and other grades who belonged to Chevy. It was not like half, a third, a quarter, or even a tenth of the class belonged to Chevy. There were maybe two Columbia families, a Kenwood family, and that is about it. Noone really talked about it. Not sure what the percentages are now, but I think the general consensus is that DC is a very different place now than it was when we were in school. In my grade, three kids got new cars on the 16th birthdays, and none were luxury vehicles. Most kids did not have their own car and just drove their parents' cars. There is a lot more money and parents seem more eager to show it.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2016 19:05     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
Hope all the moneyed Trumpkins are enjoying their election season, too!
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2016 18:42     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
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Anonymous wrote:So I find it interesting that all the Sidwell people speaking so negatively against country clubs, when the Godfather of all parents at Sidwell, President Obama, has played golf at Columbia Country Club multiple times (just last weekend in fact) and is rumored to be interested in joining. A little ironic isn't it?


A doctrinaire Liberal at Columbia CC amongst all those right of center Catholics?

Could Obama possibly be that tone-deaf?


Are you serious?? A soon to be Former President is supposed to care about the supposed political affiliations of members of a country club, please! If he likes the course he'll join and him and his buddies will have a fine experience regardless.


They might not let him in. That is if Trump is correct in reporting that Bill Clinton couldn't get into clubs in NY. They don't need the disruption and they don't like his politics.

And Obama may, in fact, be that tone deaf.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2016 17:15     Subject: Re:Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
Same with Maret. Lots of families with weekend houses (e.g., Eastern Shore, Annapolis and Western Shore, and VA countryside), but I can't think of anyone who has ever mentioned going on weekends to a local country club, including Chevy. Oh wait, I recall someone who had a bar mitzvah at Woodmont a few years back so maybe they were members.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2016 15:51     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
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Anonymous wrote:So I find it interesting that all the Sidwell people speaking so negatively against country clubs, when the Godfather of all parents at Sidwell, President Obama, has played golf at Columbia Country Club multiple times (just last weekend in fact) and is rumored to be interested in joining. A little ironic isn't it?


A doctrinaire Liberal at Columbia CC amongst all those right of center Catholics?

Could Obama possibly be that tone-deaf?


Are you serious?? A soon to be Former President is supposed to care about the supposed political affiliations of members of a country club, please! If he likes the course he'll join and him and his buddies will have a fine experience regardless.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2016 08:01     Subject: Re:Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
Anonymous wrote:None of the Sidwell families I know belong to Chevy.


I agree. I do not know any Sidwell families that belong either.
Anonymous
Post 11/19/2015 21:42     Subject: Re:Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
There are at least 6-7 families that I know of who are Members at Chevy from my DC's SFS grade alone.
Anonymous
Post 11/19/2015 14:10     Subject: Re:Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
CCC = chevy chase club or columbia country club??

Columbia is more Gonzaga families living in Chevy Chase families, mixed in with Prep and Landon families.

Chevy is more STA families mixed in with Landon and Prep families. Very rare to see Gonzaga families at Chevy Chase Club.
Anonymous
Post 11/19/2015 13:25     Subject: Do many Sidwell families belong to the Chevy Chase Club?
CCC is predominately Catholic but, particularly with the newest generation, could hardly be described as homogenously conservative. And there are more than a few Sidwell parents who are happy at both Sidwell and CCC.