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Mt. Vernon $719,900 9200 Forest Haven One of the Most Admired Homes in All of Mt PRSRT STD U.S. Postage PAID Alexandria, VA Permit #482 25 Cents Attention Postmaster: Time-sensitive material. Requested in home 6/6/08 Vol. XIX, No. 23 Mount Vernon’s Hometown Newspaper • A Connection Paper June 5, 2008 BRAC Deadline In Jeopardy DeWitt Hospital to bring state-of-the-art medical services. By Chuck Hagee during a public information meet- deadline of Sept. 15, 2011, accord- Gazette ing highlighting construction of ing to Col. Michael Rossi, director, the new DeWitt Community Hos- Ft. Belvoir Integration Office, who ocating the final 6,300 pital and other BRAC projects. heads up the engineering compo- personnel coming to Reconstructing the General Ser- nent of BRAC for Fort Belvoir. LFort Belvoir as a result vices Administration (GSA) ware- Plus, the decision as to where of the 2005 Base Re- houses in Springfield to house the those personnel will be located has alignment and Closure Report Washington Headquarters Ser- now been pushed back from June (BRAC) took a new and unex- vices (personnel) cannot be com- to September, at the earliest, Rossi pected twist last Wednesday night pleted by the BRAC mandated further noted. How such a change Photos by Photos Chuck Hagee /Gazette Col. Brian Lauritzen, commander, Ft. Belvoir, fields a question from the public attending the information session on BRAC progress highlighting the construction of the new DeWitt Community Hospital. in the timetable will be handled that the Engineering Proving was not addressed. The BRAC en- Grounds would be limited to con- A large crowd of interested citizens gathered at Riverside Elementary School to hear abling legislation mandates a Sept. taining only the National about the construction of the new DeWitt Community Hospital on Ft. Belvoir and 15, 2011 completion deadline. other developments taking place as a result of BRAC. “When the decision was made See New, Page 4 nsorcel Another Piece Of The BRAC Puzzle Arts ❖ Entertainment ❖ Leisure looming tsunami of traffic through County Parkway at the EPG. The present There are two countywide programs by Aresidential neighborhoods adjacent lack of highway funds has put Phases three which communities can petition the county to Fort Belvoir’s Engineering Prov- and four of the roadway on hold. to slow traffic through neighborhoods — ing Grounds brought about a rare bi-parti- Although Phases one and two of the con- “Traffic Calming” and “Cut-Through.” How- Fairy san Board Matter at Monday’s Fairfax struction have been agreed to by the Fed- ever, both, due to the elongated process to County Board of Supervisors meeting. It was eral Highway Administration and Virginia implement either, takes approximately a Dance jointly sponsored by Democrats Mount Department of Transportation “the lack of year before any traffic calming mechanism Vernon District Supervisor Gerald Hyland funding will not permit the full extension can begin to be put in place, according to and Lee District Supervisor Jeffrey McKay to be completed at this time,” the supervi- the three Supervisors. in conjunction with Republican Springfield sors noted in their joint appeal. District Supervisor Pat Herrity. “The phased construction has led to con- REQUIREMENTS CALL for the County to Triggering the proposal to waive certain cerns by adjacent residential communities run traffic speed and volume counts, fol- The School of requirements for a community or neighbor- about cut through traffic generated by the lowed by collection of signatures from 75 Swans brings Shakespeare’s hood to request the installation of traffic need to access the Parkway without the percent of the residents in the impacted play to life. End Note, Page 8 calming devices was the possible delay in complete set of ramps and ingress/egress Mount Vernon Gazette ❖ June 5-11, 2008 ❖ 1E construction of the final link of the Fairfax points,” they stated. See Another, Page 4 Mount Vernon Gazette ❖ June 5-11, 2008 ❖ 1 2 ❖ Mount Vernon Gazette ❖ June 5-11, 2008 Community Six Area Students Receive Chamber Scholarships FCPS Superintendent Jack Dale outlines County’s education goals. By Chuck Hagee brick wall when the emphasis Gazette shifted in public education to an overemphasis on accountability ostering creativity and with the “No Child Left Behind” helping students realize program. That’s when teaching the Ftheir passion in pursuing art of creativity began to suffer,” their life’s work are two he told the Chamber audience. of the primary challenges that face “Our schools are the core of the any school system — not putting community and we don’t want by Photo an over emphasis only on account- anything to diminish that fact,” he ability. That was the message de- said. To make the point Dale out- livered by Fairfax County Public lined the three primary goals of Chuck Hagee Schools Superintendent Jack Dale the Fairfax County Public Schools to the Mount Vernon-Lee Cham- Board: ber of Commerce. As the featured speaker during the Chamber’s annual Education “One of the great /Gazette Partnership Luncheon at the Mount Vernon Country Club Tues- challenges is helping day, Dale discussed the “Chal- lenge Index” that evaluates the students develop Recipients of the 2008 Mount Vernon-Lee Chamber of Commerce high school $2,000 various techniques employed by their creativity.” scholarship awards, from left, Santos T. Chopin, Bryant HS; Kelly Batchelder, Edison the school district to entice stu- HS; Lindsey Christensen, Hayfield Secondary School; Edwin Rivera, MountVernon HS; dents to excel, not only in their —FCPS Superintendent Kerrianne Beyer, West Potomac HS; and Caroline Grady, Thomas Jefferson HS; are studies but also in their individual Jack Dale flanked by Mount Vernon District Fairfax County School Board member Dan Storck lives. (left) and Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Jack Dale after receiving “One of the great challenges is * Develop the primary skills such their scholastic stipends. helping students develop their cre- as mathematics, languages, skills ativity. There has always been a in technology, and a solid knowl- sponsibility for their actions. public schools. Fairfax County’s $2,000 scholarship awards by debate as to whether creativity can edge in the other basics of educa- * Engender the incentive in stu- high schools rank in the top three Chamber President Katy Fike to six be taught or whether it is in-born. tion. dents to give back to the commu- percent nationwide, Dale empha- high school seniors. This year’s I believe it is teachable,” Dale said. * Develop essential life skills to nity as they proceed through life. sized. recipients and their schools were: “We were making great progress aid students as they travel life’s “These goals drive all our deci- Highlight of the luncheon was Santos T. Chopin, Bryant HS; Kelly along that path of teaching and path such as a sound work ethic, sions at the Board level,” said Dale the presentation of the Chamber’s fostering creative, then we hit a financial literacy, and taking re- who oversees the County’s 200 2008 Education Partnership See Scholarships, Page 6 Mt.Vernon Honors Fourth Book Prize Recipient ginia, so George Washington and the Vir- University of ginia aristocracy always loomed large in my Pittsburgh historian mind. It’s where I first came to understand issues of race and class and I’ve been work- named. ing on them ever since,” he said in accept- ing the award. Presented to the author at a black-tie din- arcus Rediker, author of “The ner attended by some 200 luminaries from MSlave Ship: A Human History,” the worlds of book publishing, politics, jour- was awarded the fourth annual nalism, and academia, the prize includes, George Washington Book Prize, honoring in addition to the monetary reward, a the most important new book about medal. It is one of the largest history awards America’s founding era, during ceremonies in the nation. at Mount Vernon Estate May 29. For his Complete with fireworks and candlelight work in this bicentennial year of the aboli- tours of Washington’s Mansion, the event tion of slavery in America Rediker was also celebrated the works of two other fi- awarded $50,000. nalists: Woody Holton, author of “Unruly A prize-winning author, who chairs the Americans and the Origins of the Constitu- University of Pittsburgh’s history depart- tion,” and Jon Latimer, author of “1812: War ment, Rediker was honored for his defini- with America.” tive and painfully evocative account of the The books were selected by a three-per- floating prisons that carried an estimated son jury of American historians, including 12.4 million African across the so-called Chairman Robert L. Middlekauff, University “Middle Passage” of the Atlantic to help Marcus Redikerr, winner of the fourth annual George Washington Book of California, Berkeley; Elizabeth A. Fenn, build the newly established America. Prize. Duke University; and Andrew Jackson “One of the things I wanted to do in this O’Shanghnessy, director, Monticello’s Inter- book was to make our understanding of the capacity to live with injustice depends to “The George Washington Book Prize is a national Center for Jefferson Studies and slave trade concrete — hence my subtitle, some extent on making it abstract,” said tremendous honor, and a surprise. I grew “a human history” — because I think our Rediker. up in the South, went to high school in Vir- See Recipient, Page 6 Mount Vernon Gazette ❖ June 5-11, 2008 ❖ 3 News New State-of-the-Art Hospital Planned From Page 1 from that site to the main Post. The prox- The other is imity of the rail line was unacceptable in the new $747 Geospatial Intelligence Agency’s the context of heightened force protection million 8,500 personnel, the GSA site could requirements for military bases following DeWitt Com- not be readied by the BRAC deadline,” the 9/11 attacks.
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