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Mark Ryan McGinly graduatedfrom Madison High School andBucknell University. Just 26years old, he was killed in hisoffice at the World Trade Centeron Sept. 11, 2001.

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By Donna Manz

The Connection

Mark Ryan McGinly, a son of Vienna,was just 26 years old on Sept. 11,2001, working in New York City atCarr Futures as an industrial metals

trader. He was on the 92nd floor of the North Towerof the World Trade Center when the first plane hit.Those below the 92nd floor wereable to escape; those on the 92ndfloor and above were not. Thestairways were blocked by fallingdry wall from the 92nd floor andabove.

“On 9/11, I was in Chicago onbusiness and a friend of mine fromConnecticut called to tell me hisson in London was on the phonewith Mark when the first plane hitand everything went dead on thephone,” recalled Mark’s father, BillMcGinly. “So, we knew for sureMark was in the building. Therewere no calls from Mark but oth-ers in the office did make callsout.”

The Carr Futures office occupiedabout 80 percent of the 92nd floorand the plane slammed into theside of the building that Mark’soffice occupied. The final calls hiscolleagues made came from theiroffices on the east side of the of-fice, the furthest offices from theimpact.

Bill McGinly will be at GroundZero in New York City for the 10th anniversary pro-gram, as he has for every anniversary. He’s readnames of the victims of the World Trade Center at-tack. He and his wife Patty wear wristbands of ster-ling silver inscribed with Mark’s name. The brace-lets were made by a New York jeweler who donatedthree bracelets to the family of each victim who diedat Ground Zero. McGinly says he is not a jewelryperson, but that bracelet he will never take off.

Patty will not make the trip to New York for thesame reason she will not talk to reporters aboutMark’s death.

“Mark was just a fun-loving individual,” said BillMcGinly. “He had great balance in his life. He likedto have fun but he was serious about work.

“I was always amazed at how many friends he hadand how close they were. He’d make friends in anyenvironment, anywhere he went.

“I asked him once how it was he had so manyfriends. I remember him telling me, ‘Dad, if you wantto have friends, you’ve got to be a friend.’”

Brian Cramp, best friends with Mark for 12 years,will join Bill McGinly and son Sean at the World TradeCenter this year. Cramp was in Colorado Springs ona business trip when his wife called him on Sept. 11and told him to turn on the television. When Crampcouldn’t reach Mark by phone, he turned around and

drove 26 hours across the coun-try, straight to the McGinly home.

“Mark was a class act,” saidCramp. “He was a good friend, hecared about his friends.

“There isn’t a day that goes bythat I don’t think of Mark. He wasa true son, brother, friend and heroto many,” said Cramp.

MARK WAS THE MIDDLECHILD of Bill and Patty’s threesons. Drew, three years youngerthan Mark, graduated from thenaval academy in 2000 and be-came a carrier-qualified flier oneyear from Mark’s death on Sept.11, 2002. Sean, the oldest childand a Los Angeles filmmaker, paidhomage to his brother — and 31other brothers — with his HBOdocumentary, “Brothers Lost.”

In the first six months after MarkMcGinly’s death in the WorldTrade Center attack, spontaneousdonations in the memory ofMcGinly amounted to $85,000.And that was before Mark’s fam-

ily had formulated a manner in which to keep Mark’sname and memory alive. In spring of 2002, friendsof the McGinlys put together a golf tournament atWestwood Country Club to raise funds for “26 For-ever,” the Mark Ryan McGinly Memorial Scholarship.The tournament was followed by a dinner and liveand silent auctions.

Remembering 9/11

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Vienna father mourns sonMark Ryan McGinly whodied at World Trade Centeron Sept. 11, 2001.

A Son ‘26 Forever’

SUNDAY/SEPT. 11Great Falls Freedom Memorial Committee Annual 9/11 Ceremony.

7 p.m. Great Falls Village Green, 768 Walker Road, Great Falls.Remembering especially the six citizens of Great Falls who died whenFlight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Choir membersfrom Christ the King Lutheran Church, Great Falls United MethodistChurch, and St. Francis Episcopal Church will join to pay tribute in song tothose who died. Open to all. In case of rain, the ceremony will be held atthe Great Falls United Methodist Church. [email protected].

9/11 Remembrance Ceremony. 9:45 a.m. On the grounds of the FreemanHouse, 131 Church St, N.E., Vienna. With speaker Colonel David A. Lapan,USMC. Sponsored by American Legion Post 180 in cooperation with theTown of Vienna. 703-938-9535.

9/11 Memorial Service. 11 a.m. Antioch Christian Church Sanctuary, 1860Beulah Road, Vienna. The public is invited to a service of remembranceand hope. Each guest will receive a special edition book titled “NeverForget.” www.antiochdoc.org.

Reston Association Tribute to Reston Victims and Servicemen. 1p.m. Freedom Grove near Brown’s Chapel, Reston. Remembering andhonoring all those who died in the events of 9-11. In tribute to thememories of four Reston residents, Norma Cruz Khan and Leonard Taylorwho were aboard American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into thePentagon, Marine Lance Corporal Tavon L. Hubbard of the CommandElement, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, and Army Staff Sgt. Nathaniel J.Nyren of the 1st Battalion, 8th Calvary Division, four stones will be placedat Freedom Grove. Following the ceremony, there will be a musical tributein the small pavilion at Brown’s Chapel. Presentation of the Colors, livemusic and more. www.reston.org.

Film Screening and 9-11 Commemorative Program. 2 p.m.Sponsored by Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center at The Stacy C. SherwoodCommunity Center, 3740 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax. To commemorate the10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the UnitedStates, local broadcast journalist Mike Walter will show and discuss hisdocumentary film, Breaking News Breaking Down, examining the reactionsand reflections of journalists. Free. 703-385-8414.

The 10th Anniversary Patriot Day Ceremony. 7-8 p.m. VeteransAmphitheater at Fairfax City Hall, 10455 Armstrong St., Fairfax. 703-385-7850.

Tenth Annual AARP-Wiygul Classic Car Show. 10 a.m. DowntownHerndon at the intersection of Lynn and Station Streets. There will be a 9-11 Remembrance Ceremony as part of the Classic Car Show. Car showhours are 7 a.m.-3 p.m. www.aarpdulles.org/_mgxroot/carshow2011/WebRegisForm.pdf.

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Mark Ryan McGinly gradu-ated from Madison HighSchool and Bucknell Uni-versity. Just 26 years old,he was killed in his officeat the World Trade Centeron Sept. 11, 2001.


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By Donna Manz

The Connection

Dr. Doug Arendt of Vienna, a captain inthe U.S. Navy, was driving to his officeat the Armed Forces Institute of Pathol-ogy on the Walter Reed campus the

morning of Sept. 11, 2001. He was thinking of themorning conference meeting at which the staff pa-thologists discussed pathology reports of the previ-ous day. He was also thinking that it was a beautiful,sunny September day.

Once inside his windowed office, Arendt, an oraland maxillofacial pathologist and forensic patholo-gist, looked out on the trees, imagining them turn-ing colors. His mind went back to the morning meet-ing. Then the news came. A plane had hit one of theTwin Towers in New York. A small commuter plane,he thought. All of a sudden, the news reported itwas an airliner. Then, a second airliner struck theother tower. Staff at the institute found a television.As they watched, sirens began wailing in the back-ground. The Pentagon, too, had been hit.

“All of a sudden, word came from downstairs fromthe director that we may be under attack,” Arendtsaid.

“My feelings were confusion, disbelief, fear. What’sgoing on, I thought.

“Then, I began to think ‘we’re going to have a bigidentification mission.’”

As the day wore on, more information started fil-tering in. Everyone on campus was restricted to itunder high security. “We weren’t going home. Wehad to be ready to be mobilized. We knew we’d havea big forensic mission at the port mortuary.” A coreteam of different specialists, based through theArmed Forces Medical Examiner System at themilitary’s port mortuary at Dover Air Force Base, heldthe charge to provide identification services for mili-tary mishaps. Arendt was a member of that cadre.

ARENDT AND HIS COLLEAGUES were not partof the recovery team at the Pentagon. Under ordi-nary circumstances, the team would have been a partof the recovery process. Instead, the teams had to beready to go for receipt of the remains and process-ing.

“We knew we’d be mobilizing the team and thatthe team would be expanded,” said Arendt. His rolewas to be in charge of two of the teams which, basi-cally, were the comparison and antemortem teams.Because many civilians from the striking aircraft wereinvolved, the teams needed medical records fromphysicians outside the military system. Up to Sept.11, comparisons at Dover were made manually. Thatchanged on Sept. 12.

Honoring Victims, By NameVienna ForensicPathologist recalls workafter Pentagon attack.

Dr. Doug Arendt, oral and maxillofacial pathologist andforensic pathologist, in his Vienna office.

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Excerpts from http://pentagonmemorial.org/learn/911-pentagon:

“Sept. 11, 2001 was awarm, sunny day in Washington, D.C.That morning, five hijackers passedthrough security at Dulles InternationalAirport at approximately 7:35 a.m. Theyboarded American Airlines Flight 77 bound forLos Angeles. At 8:20 a.m., Flight 77 departedDulles International Airport 10 minutes de-layed. When the plane took off, it had 64 peopleon board: a crew of six plus 58 passengers, in-cluding the five hijackers with their weapons.

“The last routine radio communication withAmerican Airlines Flight 77 occurred at 8:51a.m. It seems likely that between 8:51 and 8:54

a.m. over eastern Kentucky, the hijackers madetheir move and took over the plane.

“Immediately following the takeover, Flight77 made an unauthorized turn to thesouth. At 9 a.m., the plane turned east-ward from a point near the junction ofWest Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky.

“Tracking Flight 77 would not have beeneasy, even if controllers had been able to iden-tify which plane to follow. Its transponder, atransmitter that broadcasts the course, speed,and altitude of the airplane, was turned off at8:56 a.m. For air traffic controllers, the lack ofa transponder signal meant they could not findthe Boeing 757 until it crossed the path of aground-based radar.

“At 9:33 a.m., Flight 77 turned south and

headed for the Pentagon. Ronald Reagan Wash-ington National Airport tower passed to theSecret Service Operations Center in Washing-ton, D.C. the alarming word that ‘an aircraft iscoming at you and not talking with us.’ Aminute later, the plane turned south belowAlexandria, circled back to the northeast, andflew toward Washington again.

“At 9:37:46 a.m., American Airlines Flight77 crashed into the Pentagon.

“The Pentagon’s on-site firehouse respondedimmediately to the crash. Firefighters fromnearby Reagan National Airport and ArlingtonCounty Fire Department arrived within min-utes.

“One-hundred-and-eighty-four lives werelost at the Pentagon that day.”

Remembering Local People Who Died on 9-11

Editorial

The following list of people wholived in Connection Newspaperscoverage area and died in the Sept. 112001 terrorist attacks, is compiledfrom multiple sources, including newsreports, and is likely not complete.The Pentagon Memorial website offersphotos and biographies of most peoplewho died at the Pentagon. http://pentagonmemorial.org/explore/biographies

Spc. Craig Amundson, 28, Fort Belvior,employed by U.S. Army, died inPentagon

Lt. Col. Canfield D. Boone, 54, Clifton,employed by U.S. Army, died inPentagon

Charles Burlingame, 51, Herndon,employed by AmericanAirlines, diedon AA Flight 77

Rosa Maria Chapa, 64, Springfield,employed by Defense IntelligenceAgency, died in Pentagon

Eddie A. Dillard, Alexandria, employedby Philip Morris, died on AA Flight 77

Capt. Robert Edward Dolan, 43,Alexandria, employed by U.S. Navy,died in Pentagon

Charles A. Droz III, 52, Springfield,employed by EM Solutions Inc., diedon AA Flight 77

Gerald P. Fisher, 57, Potomac, Md.,employed by Booz Allen Hamilton,died in Pentagon

1st Lt. (Ret.) Richard P. Gabriel Sr., 54,

Great Falls, employed by StratinConsulting, died on AA Flight 77

Diane M. Hale-McKinzy, 38, Alexandria,employed by U.S. Army, died inPentagon

Stanley R. Hall, 68, Centreville,employed by Raytheon, died on AAFlight 77

Brady K. Howell, 26, Arlington,employed by U.S. Navy, died inPentagon

Lt. Col. Stephen Neil Hyland Jr., 45,Burke, employed by U.S. Army, diedin Pentagon

Bryan C. Jack, 48, Alexandria, employedby Department of Defense, died onAA Flight 77

Steven D. Jacoby, 43, Alexandria,employed by Metrocall, died on AAFlight 77

Ann Judge, 49, Great Falls, employed byNational Geographic Society, died onAA Flight 77

Norma Cruz Khan, 45, Reston,Plumbing-Heating-CoolingContractors Assn., died on AA Flight77

Terence M. Lynch, 49, Alexandria,employed by Booz Allen Hamilton,died in Pentagon

Ada L. Mason-Acker, 50, Springfield,employed by U.S. Army, died inPentagon

Lt. Gen. Timothy J. Maude, 53, FortMyer, employed by U.S. Army, diedin Pentagon

Mark McGinly, 26, Vienna, employed by

Local People Who Died in Sept. 11, 2001 Terrorist AttacksMichael L. Selves, 53, Fairfax, employed

by U.S. Army, died in PentagonDiane M. Simmons, Great Falls, died on

AA Flight 77George W. Simmons, Great Falls, retired

from Xerox, died on AA Flight 77Lt. Col. Gary F. Smith, 55, Alexandria,

retired U.S. Army, died in PentagonNorma Lang Steuerle, 54, Alexandria,

died on AA Flight 77Lt. Col. Kip P. Taylor, 38, McLean,

employed by U.S. Army, died inPentagon

Leonard E. Taylor, 44, Reston, employedby XonTech Inc., died on AA Flight77

Sandra C. Taylor, 50, Alexandria,employed by U.S. Army, died inPentagon

Sandra D. Teague, 31, Fairfax, employedby Georgetown University Hospital,died on AA Flight 77

Karl W. Teepe, 57, Centreville, employedby Defense Information Agency, diedin Pentagon

Meta L. Waller, 60, Alexandria,employed by U.S. Army, died inPentagon

Ernest M. Willcher, 62, North Potomac,Md., employed by Booz-AllenHa.m.ilton Inc. died in Pentagon

Maj. Dwayne Williams, 40, Lorton,employed by U.S. Army, died inPentagon

Vicki C. Yancey, 43, Springfield,employed by Vredenburg Co., diedon AA Flight 77.

Carr Futures, died in World TradeCenter

Patricia E. Mickley, 41, Springfield,employed by Department of Defense,died in Pentagon

Khang Ngoc Nguyen, 41, Fairfax,employed by Navy contractor, died inPentagon

Barbara K. Olson, 45, Great Falls,attorney, died on AA Flight 77

Maj. Clifford L. Patterson Jr., 33,Alexandria, employed by U.S. Army,died in Pentagon

Capt. Jack D. Punches, 51, Clifton,retired from U.S. Navy, died inPentagon

Lisa J. Raines, 42, Great Falls, employedby Genzyme Corp., died on AA Flight77

Todd H. Reuben, 40, Potomac, Md.,attorney, died on AA Flight 77

Charles E. Sabin, 54, Burke, employedby Department of Defense, died inPentagon

Marjorie C. Salamone, 53, Springfield,employed by U.S. Army, died inPentagon

Cmdr. Robert Allan Schlegel, 38,Alexandria, employed by U.S. Navy,died in Pentagon

Mark E. Schurmeier, 44, McLean,employed by Federal Home LoanMortgage Corp., died in World TradeCenter

Janice M. Scott, 46, Springfield,employed by U.S. Army, died inPentagon

How has your world changed since 9/11?Viewpoints — Donna Manz

Cindy Stewart, Vienna“I am more anxious about big

crowds and using mass transporta-tion. However, I find myself moreconscious of the preciousness of life— of the ordinary and soothing rou-tines that comprise each day. I alsovalue in a deeper way the connectionto family and friends and the bless-ings bestowed upon me.”

Diane Abel, Vienna“I was in New York watching the fi-

nals at the U.S. Open on Sept. 10 witha good friend. We took the train homeon Sept. 10. The next day I was clean-ing, watching TV, and saw the planegoing into the Twin Towers. I went backto the U.S. Open again last year but Ijust can’t go this year, it being the 10thanniversary of 9/11. I wouldn’t say it’sscary but it’s a feeling.”

Brian Cramp, Vienna-raised“September 11th affected me on a

very personal level. I lost my long-timefriend Mark Ryan McGinly. Mark was onthe 92nd floor of the North Tower of theWorld Trade Center. What I’ve learnedsince Sept. 11 is to not take life forgranted. Each and every day I tell myfamily and friends how much I love andmiss them.”

Ingrid Knowlton, Reston“The security, all the security, ev-

erywhere. For me, it’s being preparedfor an attack the best you can, andstressing the importance of it to yourchildren without frightening them.You have to be prepared the best youcan but you can’t stop living yourlife.”

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Teaching the Loveof LearningHigh schools’ principals reflect onchallenges, priorities this year.

Dr. John Banbury, Principal,Oakton High School

“This school year, Oakton High Schoolwill emphasize real-world and interdiscipli-nary connections to foster a greater senseof purpose for our students. This goal willrequire a cultural shift for the entirecommunity of Oakton High School: wemust focus on the ultimate goal of learningrather than grades as ends in themselves.

On the evenings of March 20-22, we willhost an Exhibition of Learning wherein students will showcasetheir work to our community. We invite you to join us for thisopen house in support of our focus on relevant, twenty-firstcentury education. Look for more details to come.”

Mark Merrell, Principal,James Madison High School

“With any new school year the challengeis to get the year off to a positive start andto help with the transition of new studentsinto the school. With physical spacelimited, and the student population hover-ing around 2,000 we continue to face thechallenges of large classes and the inabilityto place students in some classes due to ourspace limitations.

Our single most important priority is to continue to provide achallenging curriculum for our students and to seek to maximizetheir achievement in all courses. We continue to seek andprovide new opportunities for students by offering new coursessuch as AP Economics, Chinese, and Oceanography.

We are excited about the start of school, and based on myconversations with students and staff the past few weeks theyare excited and enthusiastic about the start of the new year aswell.”

Jay W. Pearson, Principal, George C.Marshall High School

“Marshall enters a new school year withtwo significant changes. Over the summer,work started on the building expansion andrenovation project. Students, parents, andstaff will see a change in their routineswith the addition of 26 trailers behind thebuilding and the relocation of some staffmembers to new locations around thebuilding. Everyone will need to be flexible,

adaptable, and patient as the project moves forward.A second change for the coming school year is a new bell

schedule. After eight years with Lunch and Learn, populationgrowth and the renovation necessitated a change. Students nowhave four 45-minute Learn periods each week and a separate30-minute lunch each day.

Our teacher collaboration is now held on Wednesday, notFriday. Change is never easy. However, I am confident students,parents, and staff will adjust as we remain focused on highlevels of achievement for all of our students.”

By Alex McVeigh

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As the 2011-12 school year begins, 177,629students are projected to attend the 194Fairfax County Public Schools. This repre-

sents an increase of 2,696 from Fiscal Year 2011,leading to a requirement of 629.9 new positions.FCPS is the largest school system in Virginia andthe 11th largest in the country.

According to a Feb. 26 Fairfax County SchoolBoard report, Virginia ranks seventh in the coun-try in per capita income, but 38th in state supportfor K-12 education. Since Fiscal Year 2009, statesupport has been reduced by almost $1 billion,from $5.6 billion to $4.8 in Fiscal Year 2012.

Despite these numbers, Superintendent Dr. JackDale says this year FCPS was able to give employ-ees a 1 percent cost-of-living salary increase aftera two-year salary freeze.

The county’s Capital Improvement Program forFY2012-2016 kicks off this year, and the new plancalls for acceleration of their renovation schedule,because of the closing of Pimmit Hills AlternativeHigh School and Clifton Elementary schools, aswell as lower construction costs. According toFCPS, they have saved $31 million in capital im-provements over the past three years, and Dale saidhe expects that trend to continue.

“We’re fortunate we got the votes from theBoard of Supervisors to continue with the CIP,”he said. “With the economy down, we’ve gottensome very low bid prices which allows us to domore projects.”

THIS YEAR is the first school year where all 138elementary schools will be offering full day kin-dergarten. Before this year there were 36 schools,mostly in the Dranesville district that did not offerfull day kindergarten.

Dale called the countywide full day kindergar-ten “a great accomplishment that will benefit theentire system.”

Since students aren’t being split over morningand afternoon kindergarten, new staff was hiredat many of the schools, 152.2 positions overall.According to FCPS’s FY2012 budget, the total costfor implementation is $8.2 million. But the imple-mentation also saved around $900,000 with theelimination of the no-longer-needed kindergartenSchool Age Child Care program as well as the sav-

ings of eliminating half-day bus runs.Ann Malekzadeh, whose daughters attend Colvin

Run Elementary School in Great Falls, was a vocalproponent of full day kindergarten.

“We’re very excited the school board found a wayto make sure we all have full day kindergarten,”she said. “A lot of kids are excited they’ll be able tobe in school with their older siblings all day long,and my daughter is excited about being able toactually eat in the cafeteria, which kindergartnerscouldn’t do when they were split.”

Several community groups still have issues towork on in future years, and many of them saythose issues will be key in this November’s schoolboard elections.

FAIRGRADE, part of the Fairfax Education Coali-tion (FEC), is still working to fight the phasing outof upper-level, high school honors courses for En-glish and Social Studies. This year, FCPS will givehigh schoolers a chance to take World Studies andEnglish classes online. These courses are calledhonors courses.

“We’re offering these classes as a scaled-backoption for students, so they don’t have to take anAP exam or attend classroom courses,” Dale said.“For those who take it, the online courses will al-low them to customize their opportunities.”

Catherine Lorenze of the FEC and FAIRGRADE,says these new online options do not solve the prob-lem.

“I think it’s a very last-minute solution that hadzero input from the school board,” she said. “We’reasking for honors versions of these classes, not ‘APLight.’“

Start Later for Excellence in Education Proposal(SLEEP) hopes to make school start times later,saying that early start times are causing high schoolstudents to suffer from sleep deprivation. PhyllisPayne of SLEEP says that early hours are interrupt-ing natural sleep patterns and school with earlierstart times show higher car crash rates for 16-18year olds than ones with later times.

“I don’t think the school board will truly addressthis problem this year, but hope administrators dosomething immediately to help the students wholiterally can’t function with the status quo,” shesaid. “Some students who are dropping out, fre-quently tardy or absent and/or suffering from de-pression or other illnesses need relief sooner ratherthan later.”

Fairfax CountyPublic Schoolsis projected tohave 177,629students thisyear, a 2,696increase overlast year,which willrequire 629.9new positions.

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By Alex McVeigh

The Connection

A silver sculpture featur-ing two circles and twotriangles bisecting eachother is a familiar sight

about a half-mile south from theintersection of Braddock Road andLittle River Turnpike. It’s the logofor Thomas Jefferson High Schoolfor Science and Technology. Whilethe sculpture itself might catchdrivers’ eyes, it’s the work beingdone in the school that has the at-tention of educators from aroundthe country.

Thomas Jefferson has beennamed the best public school in thenation for the past four years byU.S. News and World Report.Founded in 1985, the school’spopulation is made up of six localjurisdictions. Eighty percent of theschool’s approximately 1,850 stu-dents come from Fairfax County,with Loudoun, Fauquier, Arlingtonand Prince William counties andthe cities of Fairfax and FallsChurch making up the remainder.

“We offer a unique curriculumtailored to emphasize science, tech-nology, engineering and math(STEM),” said Principal EvanGlazer. “We pull in students fromacross the region because we offera curriculum no other school can.Say there are two students inHerndon who are interested in ro-botics. They wouldn’t have a placeto study that locally, but here wecan take them in with other stu-dents from around the area whoalso might be interested.”

THE SCHOOL has 13 differentlabs within its walls, with applica-tions as diverse as the students’interests. One lab could easily bemistaken for an auto body shop,with car parts strewn about. It’s theschool’s Energy Systems lab.

Just down the hall, the Ocean-ography and Geophysical Systemslab is abuzz with aquariums andterrariums containing a host ofanimals and plants to study. Fur-ther down, in the Biotechnologyand Life Sciences lab, thousands ofdollars of genetic imaging equip-ment is there to satisfy studentswith questions about the buildingblocks of life.

at Thomas Jefferson. For example,freshmen spend their early time atTJ in a Biology, English and Tech-nology course that helps them forma multidisciplinary approach.

“With Biology, they learn how todo the research, the Technologyteaches them about the instrumen-tation needed to collect and ana-lyze information. The English partteaches them to communicatewhat they find, to the right audi-ence, in a coherent way,” Glazersaid. “And it’s great socially, thesefreshman who are coming from allover get to spend three-eighths oftheir schedule with the same 70 to80 person group.”

This combining of the disciplineshas proven successful for many ofTJ’s alumni. A.J. Smith, whograduated in 2009, is currently

studying Computer Science andMusic Composition/Film Score atNew York University.

“At Thomas Jefferson, I was ableto really create a connection be-tween music and technology, twothings I love,” he said. “I alsolearned to love the theater whileat TJ, learning to step outside my-self and take over somebody else’smind for a bit.”

Smith is well on his way, he re-cently won a talent competitionusing a blend of computer-pro-grammed music and his own sing-ing and playing.

GLAZER SAYS the school is alsodedicated to working with otherFairfax County Public Schools withtheir outreach efforts, and studentsconstantly travel off-campus to

work with other schools, such asDogwood Elementary School inReston, Centre Ridge ElementarySchool in Centreville, Garfield El-ementary School in Springfield andmore.

“As a regional school, we’re notonly educating the 1,850 studentswho attend school here, we wantto provide outreach that inspiresthe community,” Glazer said.“People don’t come to ThomasJefferson as a destination, but toinspire the communities they comefrom with a love of STEM.”

Every year the school has a “OneQuestion” that students, faculty andstaff try to answer with their workthroughout the year. This year’squestion, “How can we, the TJ com-munity, take action to help preparestudents to confront difficult moraland ethical decisions, both now andin the future?” was submitted bysenior Andrew Martin.

“I’m inspired every single day bythe students and the teachers here,they’re constantly on the cuttingedge of whatever they’re workingon,” Glazer said.

This year’s $252.7 million schoolbond referendum that will be onthe ballots for the Nov. 8 electionincludes $84.6 million for a reno-vation of Thomas Jefferson.

“Our building is way past due forimprovements and our communityis very excited and grateful at theprospect of being able to attendclasses and work in a school thatis up-to-date and designed for ourunique needs,” said DeniseBunting, president of the ThomasJefferson PTSA.

More information on ThomasJefferson High School for Scienceand Technology can be found atwww.tjhsst.edu.

“The mindset we have here isn’tjust to help students pass theirtests, but to get them excited aboutthe joy of investigation and discov-ery, the critical aspects of learning,”Glazer said.

In addition to normal sources offunding, the Thomas JeffersonPartnership Fund helps fund pro-grams at the school through dona-tions, corporate partnerships andcapital campaigns.

Other technology organizationsand companies have taken noticeof the aptitude of Thomas Jeffersonstudents. The Siemens Foundation,a nonprofit which provides STEMeducation grants and scholarship,named two members of TJ’s Classof 2011 with their annual Ad-vanced Placement Award, and notfor the first time.

“Thomas Jefferson is an exampleof a school that is really workingand educating its students, we al-most always have an [AdvancedPlacement award] winner fromthere every year,” said JenniferHarper-Taylor, president of the Si-emens Foundation. “It’s a phenom-enal platform for moving studentsforward and immersing them inpartnerships with top research labsand organizations.”

While the school’s name featuresthe term “science and technology,”the humanities also have a place

Named best public school in thecountry for the past four years,Thomas Jefferson offers studentschance to expand their boundaries.

School on Cutting EdgeStudents fromThomasJefferson HighSchool ofScience andTechnologyperform anexperimentduring aFairfax CountyPublic Schoolsummercourse onBiotechnology.

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❖ Chris Avellone, Class of 1989Attended college at William and Mary, joined

video game developer Interplay in 1995. Hasworked on such games as “Star Wars: Knights ofthe Old Republic II,” “Neverwinter Nights 2,” “Al-pha Protocol” and as senior designer on 2010’s“Fallout: New Vegas.”

❖ Ehren Kruger, Class of 1990Attended college at New York University, has

written screenplays for “Arlington Road,” “Scream3,” “Reindeer Games,” “Transformers: Revenge ofthe Fallen,” and “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.”Was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for BestScreenplay for “The Ring.”

❖ Jose Llana, Class of 1994Attended the Manhattan School of Music and has

played Lun Tha in “The King and I,” Angel in “Rent”and Chip Tolentino in “The 25th Annual PutnamCounty Spelling Bee.” He also appeared in the

Notable TJ Alumni movie “Hitch” and on television’s “Sex and theCity.” His debut solo album “Jose” is a bestseller inhis native Philippines.

❖ Anthony Myint, Class of 1995Attended Carleton College and founded Mission

Street Food, Mission Chinese Food, Mission Burgerand Commonwealth restaurants. He was listed inFood Magazine’s “Top 40 Under 40” thinkers in thefood world and the “Charitable Chef of the Year,”by San Franscisco Weekly. Has also written a cook-book with his wife, “Mission Street Food: Recipesand Ideas from an Improbable Restaurant.”

❖ Sandra Beasley, Class of 1998Attended the University of Virginia for under-

graduate, American University for postgraduatework. Author of poetry books “Theories of Falling,”“I Was the Jukebox,” and the memoir “Don’t Killthe Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life.” In2009, she received the Barnard Women Poets Prize,and the Friends of Poetry prize.

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By Jean Card

The Connection

How does a relatively shy person askfriends and family, let alone completestrangers, to donate their hard-earneddollars? We are all asked many times

over to give to worthy causes. How do you ask peopleto make your cause their priority? I’m trying to fig-ure that out right now.

In February, I was diagnosed with AcutePromyelocytic Leukemia (APL). It was quite a ride,but today I am in remission with fantastic prospectsfor a “normal” future. I am incredibly lucky.

It started with a lot of unexplained bruising …actually two matching bruises on the back of myhands. A couple of weeks later, my partner Stuartpointed out a massive bruise thatcovered my entire lower back; soon a Monday morning I went infor a routine blood test.

That evening, I received a phonecall from the advice nurse. Afterwhat seemed like a million ques-tions, she had me go to the emer-gency room, with the following ad-monishments: I was not to drivemyself, I was not to use anythingsharp and I was under no circum-stances to fall down. I had almostno platelets, the type of blood cellsthat clot, and so was at risk of se-vere, potentially life-threateningbleeding.

I was sent home that night withan appointment for a bone mar-row biopsy in the morning. Every-thing seemed to go fine with thebiopsy; we stopped for some lunchand by the time I got home, I wasgushing blood from my biopsy site.While I was in the process of call-ing to find out what to do, the triage nurse from theoncology practice called to say they were booking aroom for me in the hospital for transfusions. Myplatelets had dropped even more and I had abso-lutely no immunity to anything (my kind of leuke-mia features white blood cells that do not matureproperly to provide natural protection to infection).I would probably be home that evening, she said,but pack a bag, just in case it ends up being over-night. One day shy of four weeks later, I left the hos-pital.

When I left the hospital, because I was immuno-compromised I saw very few people, beyond my fam-ily; I saw friends a couple of times when I had con-firmed my counts were good and they definitely felthealthy; had to limit what I ate (nothing fresh anduncooked); and avoided a lot of places, especiallycrowds. I was home from work for almost six months.

I am incredibly lucky. I responded to all treatmentsas expected and tolerated much of the chemotherapywith relatively mild side effects — at least as far asanything I have to compare it to. But there are many,many families still looking for their luck: the discov-ery that will make treatment easier, or more effec-

tive, or less scary.In the case of APL, it turns out a form of super-

charged vitamin A is the miracle drug. My motherand I have had more than one conversation abouthow it’s possible for someone to figure that out. Whocomes up with an idea like that? Who keeps comingup with the ideas to try this or that, in this or thatcombo, for this or that duration?

And it seemed like I had the most bizarre, specificchemotherapy treatment (it appears all cancers havetheir own bizarre, specific treatments … I didn’t knowthat before). Four days of one medication intrave-nously, every other day. A month later, four days, ina row, of the same medication, at half the dose; thena month later, three days, in a row, of a differentmedication. And finally a month later, two days, in arow, of the original medication at the original dose.All the while, still taking my super-charged vitaminA.

And now I have an equally bi-zarre, specific maintenance rou-tine. For four 90-day cycles I willtake nine pills (five in the morn-ing, four in the evening, with food)for the first 15 days. For all 90 daysI will take another medication oncea day (four pills, on an empty stom-ach) and once a week I will takeanother medication (12 pills, be-cause it only comes in a small dos-age, also on an empty stomach).Who figures this out so that I canhave the best prospects for a leu-kemia-free future?

I guess I don’t really care who, Ijust care that someone does. I carethat they have money to fund re-search. I care that amazing ideaskeep happening. I care thatmiracles keep coming our way.

So, here I am, asking for yourhard-earned dollars: My team, TheAPL Dumpling Gang (named aftera favorite childhood movie), will

be walking in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’sannual Light The Night walk at Reston Town Centeron Oct. 1.

I hope you’ll support my “gang.” I know we all getlots of requests for a variety of causes to support …so no pressure to make this particular one your pri-ority. But, if you are looking for a place to put that$5, $10, or $25 donation, please send it our way.

Or, just as important as finding new miracles, shareone you already have at no cost: donate blood orplatelets. I always knew it mattered, but until I waswatching bag after bag going into my body, helpingsave my life, I didn’t really know. Visit http://www.redcrossblood.org/gcp or www.inova.org andclick Get Involved and then Blood Donor Services.

Learn more about the event or The APL DumplingGang at www.lightthenight.org, click on Donate, andsearch Jean Card or APL Dumpling Gang.

And if you’d like to know more about my personaladventures with leukemia, e-mail me [email protected].

Jean Card is production manager at ConnectionNewspapers. She lives in McLean.

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Who Makes CancerResearch Possible?An invitation to get involved.

Stuart Moll and Jean Card."Stuart cut his waist-lengthhair to support me, while Itook the opportunity toplay around as my hairthinned dramatically dur-ing chemotherapy treat-ment for leukemia. Happily,all the gray went first, andhas yet to come back."

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Children Serve Lemonade for Flood VictimsSeveral Vienna children set up a lemonade stand Sunday, Sept. 4, togenerate donations for Hurricane Irene flood victims. “The kids havewanted to set up a lemonade stand for a while, and they decided theywanted to help people impacted by the recent hurricane,” said momSandra Williams. Alina and Bennett Williams (center) set up the freelemonade stand in Cedar Pond, and handed out drinks to thirsty neigh-bors, including Wolfi Gottshalk (left) and Tatiana Spengler (right).“We made the lemonade ourselves. Everyone liked it,” said BennettWilliams, 5, who enters kindergarten at Oakton Elementary School onSept. 6. The young entrepreneurs served generous neighbors and otherchildren for several hours.

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Taxicab Racers. 7:30 p.m.Jammin’ Java, 227 Maple Ave. E.,Vienna. www.jamminjava.com.

The Brothers Cazimero withBrother Noland. 8 p.m. Wolf TrapFoundation for the Performing Arts,1624 Trap Road, Vienna. Hawaiianchants, dances, and songs.Accompanied by the men of HalauNa Kamalei and the ladies of theRoyal Dance Company performinghula dances. $38 in-house, $22 lawn.www.wolftrap.org.

THURSDAY/SEPT. 8Murphy’s Kids, Future and Teddy

and the Purple Funk. 8 p.m.Jammin’ Java, 227 Maple Ave. E.,Vienna. www.jamminjava.com.

“A Funny Thing Happened On theWay to the Forum.” 8 p.m. JamesLee Community Center, 2855-AAnnandale Road, Falls Church.Musical comedy about mistakenidentity and young love. $6-$15.703-615-6626 or [email protected].

Vienna Arts Society MonthlyMeeting. 7:30 p.m. Vienna ArtCenter, 115 Pleasant St., NW,Vienna. With a demonstration of stilllife oil painting by Jill Banks. Freeand open to the public. 703-319-3971 www.ViennaArtsSociety.org.

Judy Collins with Shawn Mullins.8 p.m. Wolf Trap Foundation for thePerforming Arts, 1624 Trap Road,

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“On the Half Shell,” pen and ink by Teresa Ahmad. Therewill be an Awards Reception on Saturday, Sept. 10 from 6-8 p.m. at the Vienna Art Center, 115 Pleasant St. N.W. inVienna, for “Square It!,” a display of original art judgedby Lynn Goldstein. The exhibit will be on display throughOct. 1. Show hours are Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.703-319-3971 or www.ViennaArtsSociety.org.

Vienna. Traditional andcontemporary folk, cabaret, showtunes and more. $40 in-house, $22lawn. www.wolftrap.org.

Ongoing Book Sale. 10 a.m. City ofFairfax Regional Library, 10360North St., Fairfax. Adjacent to theinformation desk on first floor. 703-

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Banjo Man. 10:30 a.m. Jammin’ Java,227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna.www.jamminjava.com.

We Were Kings CD Release andDance Party, Big Hurry andBreaking Borders. 8 p.m. Jammin’Java, 227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna.www.jamminjava.com.

“A Funny Thing Happened On theWay to the Forum.” 8 p.m. JamesLee Community Center, 2855-AAnnandale Road, Falls Church.Musical comedy about mistakenidentity and young love. $6-$15.703-615-6626 or [email protected].

“Don’t Dress for Dinner, orPajamas for Six.” 8 p.m. 1stStage, 1524 Spring Hill Road inTyson’s Corner. A farce by MarcCamoletti about mistaken identityand infidelities with more twists thana corkscrew. Tickets $25.www.1ststagetysons.org/jeeves or703-854-1856.

Koi and Bonsai Show. 12-4 p.m.Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, 9750Meadowlark Gardens Court, Vienna.Koi displays, judging, informational

Moss at 7 p.m., River CityExtension and Mokey Dorris at10 p.m. Jammin’ Java, 227 MapleAve. E., Vienna.www.jamminjava.com.

“A Funny Thing Happened On theWay to the Forum.” 3 p.m. and 8p.m. James Lee Community Center,2855-A Annandale Road, FallsChurch. Musical comedy aboutmistaken identity and young love.$6-$15. 703-615-6626 [email protected].

“Don’t Dress for Dinner, orPajamas for Six.” 2 p.m. and 8p.m. 1st Stage, 1524 Spring HillRoad in Tyson’s Corner. A farce byMarc Camoletti about mistakenidentity and infidelities with moretwists than a corkscrew. Tickets $25.www.1ststagetysons.org/jeeves or703-854-1856.

Ferns for Beginners. 10 a.m.Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, 9750Meadowlark Gardens Court, Vienna.Tour Meadowlark’s fern collectionand learn about their life cycles,propagation, and identification. Freewith paid admission. Reserve at 703-255-3631 ext. 0.

Koi and Bonsai Show. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, 9750Meadowlark Gardens Court, Vienna.

Koi displays, judging, informationalseminars, pond and koi vendors.Bonsai will also be on display. Freeand open to the public. 703-255-3631.

Sing-A-Long Sound of Music. 7 p.m.Wolf Trap Foundation for thePerforming Arts, 1624 Trap Road,Vienna. A screening of the classicJulie Andrews musical, completewith subtitles so that the audiencecan sing along. Tickets from $15-$38.www.wolftrap.org.

Neighborhood Plant Clinic. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Oakton Library, 10304Lynnhaven Place, Oakton. TheFairfax County Master GardenersAssiciation gives tips and strategies.Cosponsored by the VirginiaCooperative Extension Service. 703-242-4020.

Ongoing Book Sale. 10 a.m. City ofFairfax Regional Library, 10360North St., Fairfax. Adjacent to theinformation desk on first floor. 703-293-6227.

Working Moms of McLean, FallsChurch and Arlington. 11 a.m.Dolley Madison Library, 1244 OakRidge Ave., McLean. Working momsget together to meet new moms andinteract with our children. 703-356-0770.

seminars, pond and koi vendors.Bonsai will also be on display. Freeand open to the public. 703-255-3631.

Eddie from Ohio with MartinSexton. 8 p.m. Wolf TrapFoundation for the Performing Arts,1624 Trap Road, Vienna. From folkto alternative to 1940s jazz. $35 in-house, $25 lawn, www.wolftrap.org.

Ongoing Book Sale. 10 a.m. City ofFairfax Regional Library, 10360North St., Fairfax. Adjacent to theinformation desk on first floor. 703-293-6227.

Pokemon League. 3 p.m. PatrickHenry Library, 101 Maple Ave. East,Vienna. Learn and play. Age 5-18.703-938-0405.

SATURDAY/SEPT. 10Virginia Indian Festival and

Showcase for Native Arts.10a.m.-4 p.m. Riverbend Park, 8700Potomac Hills St., Great Falls.Members of seven native tribespresent a cultural demonstration ofthe arts and their ancient way of life.Tribal dancing, rhythmic drumming,pottery, crafts, food, hands-onactivities and more. Use choppingtools to help build a dug-out canoe,

hit the mark at the archery range orthrow spears with the atlatl.Admission $5.www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/riverbend/ or 703-759-9018.

Championship Boxing. GeorgeMason University Patriot Center,4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax. JimmyLange to fight Raul Muñoz for WBUtitle. Tickets $35-$500, available atwww.ticketmaster.com and 703-573-SEAT.

James Madison High SchoolMarching Band Tag Day. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Instrumentalists, drum lineand color guard members will walkthrough neighborhoods in theMadison school district handing outTags with details about this year’scompetitions and concerts. Moneyraised on Tag Day helps pay forcompetition and travel fees,instruments, uniforms and more.Contributions can be mailed toJames Madison High School BandParents, 2500 James Madison Drive,Vienna Va. 22181.www.jmhsband.org.

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By Rich Sanders

The Connection

The Madison versus Oakton Highfootball rivalry took on a newlook this past Friday night, Sept.2 as the two Vienna-area oppo-

nents met in the annual Outback Bowl gameto open up the new season.

Both teams, which have known good suc-cess over the years in their respective dis-tricts — Madison in the Liberty, Oakton inthe Concorde — feature new head coachesthis season. Jason Rowley, a longtimeOakton assistant under former head coachJoe Thompson, is now at the helm of theCougars’ program. At Madison, former as-sistant Lenny Schultz has taken over theWarhawks’ program following the off-sea-son departure of Gordon Lieb, now the headcoach at Paul VI High in Fairfax.

Both Schultz, a 1983 Madison Highgraduate, and Rowley, a 1994 Oaktongraduate, are naturally looking to put theirmarks on their respective programs.

In Friday’s opener, Oakton overcame anearly deficit and went on to defeat the vis-iting Warhawks, 55-17, to retain possessionof the Outback trophy.

“It was an exciting night for the entireOakton High School community,” saidRowley, a former Oakton offensive linemanand linebacker who played under Bob Herbfor two years and Pete Bendorf for one. “Joe[Thompson] was here a long time and didan excellent job. I was with him his entiretenure. Now there is a sense that this issomething new. It was great to see the stu-dent body out there [on Friday]. It was anexciting night of football all around.”

Both teams played with heart, passion,and energy to give fans a preview of whatlies ahead.

THE BEGINNING of the game reflectedeverything the Madison coaches and play-ers have worked for over the summer. Onthe third play of the game, Madison juniorrunning back Jacob Hall broke to the out-

side and sprinted down the sideline for a56-yard touchdown to begin the scoring.Then in a bold move, Coach Schultz calledfor an onsides kick that Mo Salarkia recov-ered for Madison in Oakton territory. Whenthe ensuing drive stalled, Nick Dorka addeda 44-yard field goal to give the Warhawksan early 10-0 lead and put Oakton on itsheels.

Oakton, however came back strong withtwo first-quarter scores of its own — thefirst on a 15-yard scoring pass from seniorquarterback Tuck Masker to senior receiverStephen Lambrides, and the latter the re-sult of an electric 76-yard punt return byjunior Andy Boone. On the key specialteams play, Boone utilized outstandingblocks from teammates Brian Burns andJack Hollingsworth in helping him get tothe end zone. Burns followed the score withhis second point after touchdown kick andOakton led 14-10.

“I think Andy Boone’s punt return for atouchdown set the momentum for us,” saidRowley. “He took a chance. The ball hit theground; he went back and scooped it up.Our players stayed with [the return], wegot good blocking and Andy stayed in thelane.”

Madison regained the lead, 17-14, in thesecond quarter on a four-yard scoring runby Hall. But the Cougars scored consecu-tive touchdowns — the first coming on a24-yard scoring run by junior running backMike Wandey, and the second score on a23-yard pass play from Masker to seniorreceiver Ryan Santoro — as Oakton built a27-17 halftime lead.

Thereafter, it was all Oakton in the sec-ond half as the Cougars scored two touch-downs in both the third and fourth quar-ters. Oakton got second half scoring runsfrom Wandey (7 yards out) and junior KyleDowner (5 and 70 yard runs). The Cougarsalso scored a defensive touchdown as a re-sult of a 48-yard interception return by se-nior linebacker C.J. Reimann.

“Their [physical] size just caught up tous,” said Schultz, of Madison’s difficult sec-

ond half. “They are a bigger and better teamthan us right now. But we’ll get there.Oakton is an experienced team with a good,young coach.”

Both Wandey (175 rushing yards) andDowner (112) had big rushing games forOakton. Madison, with junior quarterbackDan Powers running the offense, also hadsuccess on the ground behind Hall (75yards), Nick Hoy (64) and Grant Hofmann(41).

“Madison certainly took the game to usearly,” said Rowley. “They had a good gameplan and got up 10-0. But we never pan-icked. All things considered, I thought wecame out and played a solid football game.We didn’t play as well as we could play butwe played hard.”

COACH ROWLEY said the Oakton-Madi-son rivalry is a friendly one.

“The town of Vienna really loves the ri-valry,” he said. “It’s a friendly rivalry. For usat Oakton, we certainly root for Madisonevery other week of the season. My wife’s ateacher at Madison.”

Schultz, the Madison coach, said theWarhawks have shown good improvementover the course of training camp and on intothe start of the season.

“We keep getting better every day,” hesaid. “I’m proud of the way we fought [inthe Oakton game].”

Schultz, who was a fullback/defensiveend for Madison teams that won consecu-tive Great Falls District titles in the early1980s, loved the experience of his first gameas Madison’s head coach on Friday.

“It was awesome and it’s a great feelingto have a big part in what your kids aredoing,” he said. “I want to put my stamp onthings.”

Schultz said Mark Gjormand, the footballteam’s associate head coach, has been a tre-mendous influence and support to him thisfall. Gjormand is Madison’s baseball coachin the spring and has led the Warhawks tovast success over the years on the diamond.

“He’s built a top-ranked program in base-ball and we want the same thing in foot-ball,” said Schultz. “We’re working to getthere.”

Madison will play its home opener thisFriday night against visiting Woodson.Oakton, meanwhile, will host South Countythis Friday.

Vienna Football Rivalry Has New Look This SeasonBoth Madison andOakton have newhead coaches.

Oakton quarterback Tuck Masker threw two touchdown passes in theCougars’ season opening win over Madison Sept. 2.

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NoVa West Lacrosse is acceptingregistrations for the 2011 IndoorLacrosse League, which opens playOct. 7. The league is acceptingboth team and individual registra-tions but space is limited. Registerat http://www.novawestlax.com/register. The league is held indoorsat the Purcellville Sports Pavilion.

The Herndon High girls’ fieldhockey team will host its 16th An-nual Herndon Invitational FieldHockey Tournament Friday, Sept. 9

and Saturday, Sept. 10. Fridayevening’s game action will run from5 to 10 p.m., while Saturday’s gameswill begin at 9 a.m. and run through-out the day with final games set tostart at 3:30 p.m. There will be eightteams competing: Marshall; Stone-wall Jackson (Manassas); Tabb High(Bay Rivers District); Yorktown; hostHerndon, under the direction ofhead coach Phyllis Rojko Pearce;Lake Braddock; Osbourn Park(Manassas); and Wakefield. Thetournament format will be pool play

leading up to a championship roundbracket. The cost to attend the tour-nament is $5 for one day and $9 fora two-day pass. Proceeds from thetournament will go towards theHerndon Field Hockey program. Formore information on the tourna-ment, go to https://s i t e s . g o o g l e . c o m / s i t e /herndonfhtournament.

The annual Parker Monroe Invi-tational high school cross countryevent will take place on Saturday,

Sept. 10 at Burke Lake Park. Therewill be both girls’ and boys’ racesthroughout the morning/early af-ternoon. Most of the teamsthroughout the Northern Regionwill be on hand for the Invita-tional, which is the official kickoffmeet of the fall season.

Potomac Inline Hockey inChantilly has opened youth leagueregistration for the fall season thatstarts on Sept. 8. Registration canbe done online at

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“It was an exciting nightfor the entire OaktonHigh School community.”

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The fundraiser golf tournament was lastheld in 2006, and over the five years it washeld, the tournament and accompanyingevents raised $550,000. Recipients of thescholarship were those applicants whoepitomized the character and attributes ofMark. A good student who never told hisfriends he was in the National Honor Soci-ety. A good athlete who captained his sportsteams in high school and college. Crampwas on the selection committee.

Recipients were like Mark, said his father.“It’s for the kids struggling away every day,making a contribution to their school. Theamazing part is that Mark was only 5’9”,5’10”, and he played basketball.”

“The scholarship was a good thing to dofor a best friend,” said Cramp. “It was a wayto perpetuate how he lived his life. I under-stand what the McGinly’s are goingthrough.”

In 2011, the McGinly scholarship gave out$50,000 to graduating seniors going on tohigher education.

“We stopped because it was really toughon us,” said Bill McGinly. “It was too muchto maintain, the emotional part of it was.”

Mark McGinly played youth sports inVienna, in high school and in college. Heplayed on Madison’s championship golfteams in 1990 and 1992, and captained theteam in 1993. He played golf at Bucknell

University all four years and was captain ofthe team in 1997.

ALTHOUGH THE “26 FOREVER” me-morial scholarship is being closed out, MarkMcGinly’s legacy lives through a McGinlyfamily-sponsored endowment at BucknellUniversity where Mark graduated, and atMadison High School. Madison’s golf teamsponsors an annual golf tournament inMark’s name that benefits the athletics de-partment at the school.

At Westwood Country Club in Vienna, inthe patch where the flags stand, a plaque isinscribed in memory of Mark McGinly, theteen who played on the club’s junior team.Whenever Cramp is in Vienna, he tries tostop by the memorial at Westwood.

Living in New York City, Mark didn’t havea special girl but did have a lot of girls whowere special, his father said. Mark’s oldfriends tell Bill McGinly when they arestumped about something to do, they fre-quently ask, “what would Mark do.”

Bill McGinly noted that Mark’s friendshave built lives, started families, all thethings that Mark never lived to do. Crampis married with two young children and theraw pain of losing a best friend in a terror-ist attack has colored Cramp’s world.

“Each and every day I tell my family andfriends how much I love and miss them. Ijust wish I had one last opportunity to sayit to Mark.”

accepted 192 deceased from the Pentagonattack. Of those, 126 were identified fromthe Pentagon, and 60 of the 62 AmericanAirlines passengers were identified. Thehijackers were identified. The two passen-gers not identified were children.

Arendt takes no credit away from firstresponders who risk their lives, but, hewants people to understand the critical roleof players in mass fatality identification.“Port Mortuary people are the forgottenpeople,” said Arendt. “Mass fatality identi-fication is hard on them and their families.They deserve so much credit for what theydo, and, usually, these people aren’t usu-ally recognized for what they do.” He calledhimself just one of hundreds of people, anetwork of dedicated specialists, doing theirjobs to identify victims. “The specialists dowhatever is humanly possible to give clo-sure to families, to give them confidencethey are burying their loved one.

“They feel guilty if they can’t make anID.”

SINCE THE DAY on Sept. 12, 2001 thatArendt found unused space at the port mor-tuary and turned it into a computer center,the Dover Tri Service Port Mortuary hasembraced technology. “They took a lot ofthe lessons we learned at 9/11 and they’vebuilt a state-of-the-art facility at Dover since.I’m proud I was a part of that movement to

help them move in that direction.”One difference between the Pentagon

mission and others Arendt had participatedin was that the Pentagon disaster was morepersonalized. “Other missions, you fly in,do your job and then leave.

“But, living here you see the photos andthe bios every day, maybe you know theirfamilies, and you’re on a mission to iden-tify their remains. You couldn’t disassoci-ate yourself. Seeing the pictures and theremains, it was more like it was one of yourown loved ones.”

When Arendt retired from the U.S. Navyin 2008, he set up his oral and maxillofa-cial pathology laboratory on Church Streetin Vienna, not far from his home. Althoughhe focuses primarily on oral pathology inhis clinical medical laboratory, he has, onoccasion, been called in by prosecutors inVirginia to do forensic work in criminal in-vestigations.

Throughout his naval career, Arendt wascalled upon time and time again to performforensic analysis of remains. The pieces ofhis personal history are greater than thesum of its parts.

“All I saw makes me constantly lecture mychildren, ‘find something in every day that’sgood. Eat dessert first. Life is so short, un-predictable. It’s special, it’s worth beingalive. Don’t waste your life. Grab at some-thing every day.’”

By the evening of Sept.11, the team wasmobilized. Arendt knew he needed 21stcentury technology — computers, program-mers and imaging equipment — to facili-tate the identification process.

“In my mind, I knew what I wanted todo,” said Arendt. “I was thinking, ‘how amI going to do what I want to do withoutknowing if we would have the neededequipment and manpower?’”

Arendt came home to Vienna briefly onSept. 11 and left early in the morning ofSept. 12 for Dover Air Force Base, gearingup for the arrival of bodies. Before he leftthe Institute on the day of the attack, Arendthad contacted a network of medical spe-cialists and computer architects. SchickTechnologies donated computer X-ray sen-sors and provided training to the Dover spe-cialists. The initial teams trained a secondset of teams to relieve the first.

As Arendt drove up to Dover Air ForceBase, he was stunned by the security there.“For the first time in my life, there was ahalf-track with a machine gun pointing atme when I drove up.” The pathologist cap-tured that pivotal moment in a photograph.

Every day until the identification processwas closed, Arendt drove from Vienna tothe Dover Tri Service Port Mortuary at 4:30in the morning. He arrived home at 9 p.m.

At the Port Mortuary, the forensic team

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Bill McGinly reminisced about theshort life of his son Mark Ryan,killed in the terrorist attack on theWorld Trade Center on Sept. 11.Bill wears a sterling silver brace-let, created and donated by a NewYork City jeweler, inscribed withMark’s name. His wife, Patty, wearsone, as well.

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My parents. Why? Aside from all the obvi-ous reasons; the trigger, most recently, wasthe television coverage of the Little LeagueWorld Series on ESPN in August and seeingthe parents in the grandstands watching theirchildren play baseball. Not that any of theteams I played on ever made it to a Regional-type Championship, but I had my share ofsuccess – as a poised, right-handed, non-power pitcher. I made All-Star teams andpitched for City Championships on and offthroughout my “wonder years.” And my par-ents accommodated that pursuit: planningmeals early or late, depending; being drivento and from (and/or making the necessarypick-up, delivery and return-home arrange-ments); providing the required hardware(bats, balls, gloves, spikes, hats, uniforms,etc.) and most importantly, having a fatherwho, whenever possible, was happiest beingmy primary practice partner: playing catch bythe side of the house or hitting me groundersand fly balls while I stood up against thebackstop at my Junior High School.

My father loved to watch me play base-ball. (My mother was “too nervous aboutwatching me,” she always said, and rarelyattended – which I certainly understood.) Myfather more than made up for her absence,however. Whenever his work scheduleallowed, there he was, front and center in thegrandstands, encouraging me from a distancewhen I was pitching, and up close and per-sonal between innings when I wasn’t, whenhe would come over to the team’s bench totalk with me – and offer more encourage-ment. Everybody knew Barry Lourie: thecoaches, my teammates, even some of myopponents, and maybe a few of the umpires.(However, he never crossed the line; he was-n’t one of “those” parents.) If I was pitching,my father was sitting in the stands. I couldalways count on him being there.

Watching the Little League World Seriesthese past few weeks evoked memories of awell-spent youth, centered around baseball.There was success and failure, the pursuit ofa common goal, the melding together andcamaraderie of a team, and most importantly,the involvement of my parents, especially myfather. And 45 years later, baseball remainsone of the most important aspects of my life.Throw in a cancer diagnosis and deceasedparents – for a little context, and you see thepast and your present priorities clearer thanyou ever have.

The “Baseball, Ray ... .” speech byTerrance Mann (James Earl Jones) spoken inthe movie, “Field of Dreams” sums up theemotion and connection of baseball betweenthe generations far better than I ever could.Suffice is to say: It mattered to my father, itmatters to me (if I had children, no doubt itwould matter to them), and the longer I sur-vive a terminal diagnosis/prognosis (stage IVlung cancer), the more I remember – andsavor – the moments that matter to me. A sig-nificant portion of these moments includedbaseball and/or my father, all of which camerushing back to me while watching the kids –and parents, at the 2011 Little League WorldSeries.

If I saw my father sitting/standing on thegrandstands watching me pitch once, I musthave seen him there 100 times – literally,from my age nine through 18; every springbeginning with Little League, through HighSchool and during the summers as well onmiscellaneous Babe Ruth League teams.

I was there. He was there. We were there.No wonder I miss him.

Kenny Lourie is an Advertising Representative forThe Almanac & The Connection Newspapers.

By KENNETH B. LOURIE

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