Upper School Diplomats Head to Model UN Conference

A large Tandem Friends delegation left on Thursday morning to attend the Model United Nations Conference being held February 6-9 in Baltimore, MD. Hosted by Johns Hopkins University and held at the Baltimore Convention Center, the event attracts high school students from all over the region. Students participate in mock international relations by serving on 31 different committees and playing the part of whatever diplomatic role they are given. With not much time to prepare, each school's delegation must research specific areas of interest to their diplomatic positions to prepare reports and arguments to present at the Model UN committee meetings, councils and courts. According to their website, "Delegates will often find that easy solutions can be elusive and will come to appreciate that only difficult compromises and extensive diplomacy will engender progress." In addition to the stressful work of world peace, students get to enjoy other activitities with delegates from other schools, including a dance, dinners, and a culture show. The keynote speaker is Eliot Cohen, Dean of the Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

 

This year’s Tandem delegates, chaperoned by teachers Melissa Winder, Susan Brodie and Alex Siragy, include freshman Max Frazee; sophomores Harper Tidwell and Caroline Baylin; juniors Sophie Farr, Sophie Stevenson, Anna Kalnite, Rosalind Werner-Winslow, Leah Gunnoe, Olivia Bowers, Suraya Whynott, Austin Chinn, Granger Brown, Julian Macalister, Nate Winter, Kemp Reisky, Daisy Schult, and Julia Davis; and seniors Elise Van der Loo, Lauren Shotwell, Mei Ling Tharp, Phiala Deal, Olivia Bullock, Kate Hynes, and Lewis Summers.