Talk:Georgetown Day School

Disambiguation needed
I just added a notable alumna to the list - Jennifer Miller, class of '98, freelance journalist and author of Inheriting the Holy Land - and found that her name links to an article about a completely different Jennifer Miller. I'm not sure how to fix it so that either (a) there is an article about the GDS Jennifer Miller and a disambiguation page to prevent confusion, or (b) the GDS Jennifer Miller's name appears in red type in the list. Can somebody fix this? Info. on the GDS Jennifer Miller available at 76.116.244.166 (talk) 23:49, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure it's Ian MacKaye who went to GDS, but perhaps a bigger Fugazi fan can confirm.

Thanks, 130.58.226.213. -- Remes 23:15, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Nope, he went to Wilson HS.80.83.135.90 14:35, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Charles Larson famous?
I'm not sure that I really think that the chair of the lit department at AU really counts as "famous." I'm not deleting it now, but maybe we can get some discussion here? 24.211.135.202 03:35, 17 April 2006 (UTC)


 * It's been almost a month since the above question was asked. I'm removing Charles Larson. 151.200.25.233 19:20, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Olivia Wilde
This article claimes that G.D.S. is Olivia Wilde's alma mater. Wilde's article says she went to Phillips Academy. If she went to G.D.S. but didn't graduate, she shouldn't be in a list called "famous graduates" without at least a caveat. Please explain. Thanks. 71.77.12.236 02:36, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

She did both apparently. GDS goes from K-12. A quick googling says she went there through 8th grade. Whether that makes her a graduate or not, I will leave up to others. Swegner 03:52, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm changing the article to make this explicit. No reason a reader of Wikipedia should have to google someone to figure out what we're talking about. 71.77.12.236 03:53, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

first integrated "school?"
It’s a bit disingenuous to say that GDS was the first integrated school in 1945. At that time the school was little more than what we would call a small charter school today. It was the historic 1949 decision of Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle to integrate of all Catholic schools and churches in the Archdiocese of Washington. that broke the racial divide in Washington -- and perhaps influenced the future of desegregation in the United States. All five years before the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.205.26.5 (talk) 23:01, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Unsourced notable alumni
I've removed the people below because the only sources I could find seemed like they had even odds of having gotten the info from Wikipedia (where no credible citations exist). Charliegillespie (talk) 18:00, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Whitney Sudler-Smith, American director, socialite, and television personality
 * Juliet Eilperin, White House Bureau Chief at the ''Washington Post

Map shows old location
The address is correct but the map doesn't reflect it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.36.248.13 (talk) 12:34, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Fixed! Notathrowawayf (talk) 17:43, 23 June 2023 (UTC)