Burke All Heart News, Page 3 Classified, Page 24 Classified, ❖ Real Estate, Page 15 Real Estate, A participant in ❖ the 5 mile run portion of the 2nd Annual Corbin’s Fun Run crosses the Sports, Page 18 ❖ finish line. Faith, Page 16 ❖ Camps & Schools, Page 14 Camps & Schools, ❖ Health, Page 7 ScholarlyScholarly Requested in home 7-25-08 Time sensitive material. TravelsTravels Attention Postmaster: /The Connection News,News, PagePage 33 U.S. Postage PRSRT STD PERMIT #322 Easton, MD Science PAID Sam Funt Of Teaching News, Page 3 Photo by Photo www.connectionnewspapers.com www.ConnectionNewspapers.comJuly 24-30, 2008 Volume XXII, Number 30 Burke Connection ❖ July 24-31, 2008 ❖ 1 from the premium kitchen appliance brand that has been used in Europe for over 70 years. Beltway to Springfield I-95 I-95 south to Exit We’re APPLIANCE CONNECTION 158-B, Right at 2nd Here PWC light Crossing Place; THE Place To Buy Appliances Showroom located CrossingPkwy. 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By Ciara Richards ribbon and a heart- The Connection shaped lollipop. mix of more than 200 runners and walkers of all ages arrived Ato par-ticipate in Corbin’s Fun Run held on Saturday, July 18 at Burke Lake Park. The CMG Heart Founda- tion held the event in memory of Corbin Marc Grabb and sought to raise money for by Photo the fight against Congenital Heart Defects (CHD), the condition that claimed Corbin’s life at 23 months on July 29, 2006. Sam Funt According to the American Heart Asso- ciation, CHD is the No. 1 birth defect in the U.S. It is a structural problem of the heart that affects one in 100 newborns. Corbin’s /The Connection condition was diagnosed while his mother, Terri Grabb, was in her 20th week of preg- nancy. An ultrasound revealed a defect with his heart and a specialist confirmed that he had a type of CHD known as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. This essentially meant that only half of his heart functioned prop- tion, a heart transplant or an experimental days old, Corbin had his first open heart they discovered his heart was not provid- erly. surgery that could save his life. Opting for surgery. While he was released from the ing his body with enough oxygen and that the surgery, the Grabbs chose a hospital at hospital weeks later, he needed a feeding he had developed a blood disorder. This led TRAVIS AND TERRI Grabb were given the University of Michigan and traveled tube and was on five different medications. to four more surgeries and at six months of several choices, including a late-term abor- there to prepare for Corbin’s birth. At three Some time later, he became very ill when See Running, Page 5 Resident Wins Fulbright Award Creating Interest in Science FCEDA president late economic growth in To help improve teaching skills through spends month in Micronesia and Vieques, an is- Knowles Science Teaching Foundation. Scotland studying land off the coast of Puerto By Steve Hibbard graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Uni- economic woes. Rico. The Connection versity of South Carolina in 2007 where Gordon’s an- she majored in chemistry. By Derek B. Johnson swer apparently ristine Schleibaum, 23, of Burke This fall, she will be teaching high The Connection left an impres- KCentre, was awarded a $150,000 school chemistry (honors and general) sion. A year and fellowship for five years from the at Cosby High School near Richmond. wo years ago, a man approached a half later, that Knowles Science Teaching Foundation TBurke resident Gerald Gordon with man, Lord Rob- (KSTF) to teach high-school science. SHE FIRST became interested in chem- a question: there was a community ert MacLennan Gerald Gordon The goal of the fellowship is to nur- istry when her high school teacher at in the North Highlands of Scotland that was and North High- spent four weeks in ture, support and encourage people who Robinson Secondary explained that a about to suffer a devastating loss to its em- land College Scotland as a want to pursue teaching careers in sci- door was actually composed of millions ployment base. How could that community submitted an ap- Fulbright specialist. ence and math. of atoms. recover and rebuild its economy in the af- plication to the “My goal would be that my students “I realized it was my first ‘ah-ha’ rev- termath of that loss? Fulbright foundation in London to grant understand scientific phenomena on a elation,” Schleibaum said. “When we Gordon, president and CEO of the Fairfax Gordon a Fulbright award from the senior deep level and that they also question talked about carbon that day in class … County Economic Development Authority, scholars program. Six months after that, he the world around them,” said that’s when I realized I wanted to share had a history of working with foreign na- was on a plane to the North Highlands, Schleibaum. “I want to open my students’ this information with people.” tions’ economies. He had been in Poland where he has spent the last three weeks eyes about the world around them.” An honors student all through high shortly after the collapse of the Soviet working with Scotland’s local and national Last month, Schleibaum earned a school, especially in math and science, Union, helping to transform that country’s governments to plan for the region’s eco- master’s degree in education from Schleibaum said she would come home economy from a socialist system to a capi- nomic future. Nearing the end days of his Stanford University with a 4.0 GPA. She See Improving, Page 7 talist system. He had also worked to stimu- See Going, Page 10 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Burke Connection ❖ July 24-31, 2008 ❖ 3 Week in Burke People Pamplin Award Winner Patrick Murphy of Burke is the recipient of the 2008 Pamplin Leader Award at Lake Braddock Secondary School. The Pamplin Leader is a one-year, $1,000 tuition scholarship to Virginia Tech. Donated Photo It is presented annually to a top student from each public high After 36 school in Virginia. It was established by Robert B. Pamplin, Sr years, Will- (VT, class of ’33) and Robert B. Pamplin , Jr, to acknowledge stu- iam Hudson dents with a record of outstanding academic achievement that is steps down balanced with a commitment to community service and leader- as music ship experience. director of the Fairfax First-Place Honors Symphony Cabin Samuels of Burke was part of a team of six undergradu- Orchestra. ate aerospace engineering students from Virginia Tech who earned first place honors with their entry of Stingrae in the 2008 NASA Aircraft Design Competition, sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate’s Fundamental Aeronautics Program. The students’ entry into the competition was part of a two-se- mester senior aircraft design course for graduating seniors. Four- teen teams and two individual students from colleges and uni- versities worldwide submitted designs. The contest asked students to create a future subsonic transport aircraft that could carry up to 50,000 pounds, operate on runways between 1,500 and 3,000 feet and cruise at speeds between 595 and 625 mph, about the average speed of airliners today. The competition also stressed Getting To Know … that concept planes should use alternative fuels and be quieter and more environmentally friendly than today’s commercial fleet. Family The judges graded the designs on criteria including creativity and William Hudson retires I have one sister who lives in Chesapeake and some imagination, feasibility and cost analysis, and comprehensive dis- nieces. Most of my relatives are down south in Vir- cussion of design concept. as music director of ginia and North Carolina. the Fairfax Symphony Background I Love This Time of Year I was born in Newport News and lived there until By Marge Killmon Orchestra. I was 17, when I left for school in Philadelphia. I Annandale have degrees from Yale, the University of Pennsylva- By Rebecca Koenig nia and Philadelphia Conservatory. I love this time of year The Connection When the curtains stand Are there any hidden treasures in the com- Almost straight out aestro William Hudson has recently munity that you think more people should And the sun shines retired from his position as music know about? Brightly most every day. Mdirector of the Fairfax Symphony I think to some extent the Fairfax Symphony Or- Orchestra, after serving in that capac- chestra is a hidden treasure because many don’t know I love this time of year ity for 36 years. Under his direction, the Fairfax Sym- the quality of the group until they hear it. When school is almost out phony Orchestra matured from an amateur commu- And giggles are heard nity group into one of the premier musical ensembles Do you have any community concerns? Indoors and all about.