Evermay on market for $49 million

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Vol. XVIII, No. 10
THE GEORGETOWN CURRENT
COLD, CLEAN AND GREEN
Evermay on market for $49 million
By ELIZABETH WIENER
Current Staff Writer
The Evermay Society and its founder, Harry Belin,
have apparently thrown in the towel.
Belin last week put the historic Evermay estate in
Georgetown up for sale, for $49 million, in the midst of a bitter zoning ■ SALE: Price
fight over non-permitted use of the tag for historic
grand private home at 1623 28th St. 28th St. estate
for paid galas, weddings and corpo- would set D.C.
record. Page 5.
rate events.
Belin, whose family has owned
the circa-1801 estate for three generations, declined to
comment on the sale or zoning battle.
In early September, the nonprofit Evermay Society
laid off employees and ceased hosting paid functions
under orders from the D.C. Office of the Attorney
General. On Sept. 9, Belin’s attorney abruptly moved to
See Zoning/Page 20
Bill Petros/The Current
Owner Harry Belin decided to sell the Georgetown
estate rather than continue a pitched zoning fight.
His family has owned Evermay since 1923.
Council calls for facilities-plan details
■ Schools: Fenty promises
$2.5 billion, eight-year effort
By JESSICA GOULD
Greenpeace and Ben & Jerry’s introduced the first ice cream
freezer using environmentally friendly technology in the
United States at a press conference on Monday at the
company’s Georgetown store. See story, page 19.
D.C. Council members sounded
a familiar refrain last week as they
grilled facilities director Allen Lew
on the specifics of Mayor Adrian
Fenty’s plan to modernize city
schools.
Fenty unveiled his school facilities blueprint last month. He called it
a “radical departure” from previous
plans and promised it would “dramatically change the face” of every
school within five years.
Phase 1 of improvements would
focus on classrooms, he said; Phase
2 would address “support components,” such as art and music classrooms, gymnasiums and locker
rooms; and Phase 3 would enhance
systems like plumbing, electricity
and technology. High schools,
meanwhile, would undergo more
holistic modernizations over the
course of two fiscal years each.
The entire overhaul is expected
to cost $2.5 billion over an eightyear period and is subject to council
approval.
“I am in complete agreement
with the overarching goal of the
plan,” Council Chairman Vincent
Gray said at Thursday’s hearing.
See Facilities/Page 25
Agency will reduce
Rock Creek sewage
Imbroglio continues over
fate of shelter at Franklin
■ Construction: Project will separate storm,
By KATIE PEARCE
sanitary sewers at four Northwest locations
By CAROL BUCKLEY
The agency in charge of sewer maintenance is moving ahead with plans to reduce the amount of sewage
dumped into Rock Creek. By separating sanitary and
storm sewers around four overflow spots in Northwest
D.C., officials at the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority
hope to eliminate pollution of the creek that is now
common during heavy rains.
The separation, scheduled to be completed in 2011,
is one of the first projects the agency has scheduled as
part of long-term plans to reduce D.C.’s impact on area
NEWS
Groups move forward
on plan to fund Square
37 appraisal. Page 5.
■ City offers former
school buildings to
charters. Page 3.
■
Q Street between 27th Street and the Q Street
Bridge is one of the sites picked by the D.C. Water
and Sewer Authority for the $10.1 million project.
waterways.
Currently, combined sewers — those that carry
both storm water and wastewater — serve approximately one-third of the District, primarily older develSee Sewers/Page 21
SPORTS
■ Maret football again
tops Sidwell Friends.
Page 13.
■ DCIAA soccer gets
back on schedule. Page
13.
Yesterday — four days after
workers removed the last beds from
the Franklin School shelter —
Mayor Adrian Fenty signed legislation requiring the city to demonstrate that it can meet the needs of its
homeless population as winter
approaches.
The D.C. Council passed the
emergency legislation Sept. 16. It
called for the mayor to keep
Franklin open as a 300-person shelter until he could “certify that no
fewer than 300 men have been
PA S S A G E S
■ Giant squids return to
National Museum of
Natural History. Page 15.
■ City hall collection
includes new artists.
Page 15 .
placed in permanent supportive
housing.” The bill, authored by
Council Chairman Vincent Gray,
also required Fenty to ensure that
“sufficient capacity continues to
exist for men in need of emergency
shelter.”
Sources told The Current that
Fenty had submitted the report and
certification by the end of the business day yesterday. The report was
unavailable by press time.
The downtown Franklin School
building, at 13th and K streets NW,
had operated as a shelter for homeless men since 2003. Though comSee Shelter/Page 31
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Calendar/32
Classifieds/44
District Digest/4
Exhibits/37
In Your Neighborhood/30
Opinion/10
Passages/15
Police Report/6
Real Estate/23
School Dispatches/16
Service Directory/38
Sports/13
Theater/36
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City vows to address Ward 4 park safety
By IAN THOMS
Some residents say Upshur and
Hamilton parks in Ward 4 are practically unusable because local gangs
congregate in them, intimidating
would-be park users and tainting
playground equipment and the
grounds with graffiti, drug paraphernalia and trash. On Monday
night, at a community meeting convened by Ward 4 Council member
Muriel Bowser, residents asked city
officials to do something so they
and their kids can enjoy their neighborhood parks.
“This is a playground for kids,”
advisory neighborhood commissioner Maggie Biscarr said of the
playground at Sharpe Health
School. The school — the site of
Monday’s meeting — abuts Upshur
Park, where many of the problems
originate, according to residents and
police.
“There are used condoms up
there. People are having sex under
the playground equipment,” Biscarr
said.
At Bowser’s behest, representatives of the Metropolitan Police
Department, D.C. Department of
Parks and Recreation and D.C.
Public Schools all promised to coordinate their efforts and make the
parks safer for families. Hamilton
Park is located at 1315 Hamilton St.,
and Upshur Park is at 4250 14th St.
The city officials said they will
consider placing lights at Upshur
Park, near the playground at Sharpe.
Police will increase their patrols.
D.C. Public Schools will see if
Sharpe’s security officer and custodial staff can pay increased attention
to the playground. And the parks
department will have a Spanishspeaking “roving leader” go to
Upshur Park and talk to the young
men who hang out there, many of
whom are Latino, according to the
police officers and the neighbors.
The parks department’s roving
leaders spend time in local schools
and at parks and recreation centers
throughout the city mentoring and
helping young people.
Officers from the Metropolitan
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said Upshur Park presents a particular challenge for them based on the
See Parks/Page 28
Mayor offers old school buildings to charters
By JESSICA GOULD
It’s difficult for Martha Cutts, the head of school at
Washington Latin Public Charter School, to disguise
her excitement when describing her wish list for a new
academic facility.
Right now, the charter school is split between two
campuses — one at Christ Church on Massachusetts
Avenue and the other at 16th and Decatur streets.
“We’re looking for a building that would house the
whole school, [would provide] good access to public
transportation and would be accessible to students
throughout the city,” she said.
She would also like a gym, a playground, good
parking and brighter lights, she said. Her words get
faster with each added amenity, and enthusiasm fills
her voice.
So when the Office of Property Management
released “a request for expressions of interest” for
some of the city’s closed public schools on July 11,
Cutts eagerly submitted a proposal.
Then, on Sept. 25, the Office of Property
Management withdrew its original request and
replaced it with another one. And for charter school
advocates, this latest invitation is cause for celebration.
The second solicitation — called a “request for
offers” — extended the offer only to charter schools.
The buildings available for reuse included Grimke
Elementary School at 1923 Vermont Ave. in Shaw and
Stevens Elementary School at 2425 N St. in the West
End.
Bill Rice, the spokesperson for the Office of
Property Management, said the July solicitation aimed
to “gauge the interest” in reusing the closed school
properties. “The next step is to refine the solicitation
process,” he said. “Since the District is federally obligated to give charter school entities the ‘right of first
offer,’ OPM issued the new request for offers to the
charter community.”
Cutts said “it’s unfortunate” that she’ll have to go
through the proposal process again, but she’s pleased
charter schools are getting some special consideration.
See Charter/Page 25
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Wednesday, Oct. 1
The D.C. Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development
will hold a meeting on the future of the West End Neighborhood Library site and
surrounding parcels on Square 37. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30
p.m. at the West End Neighborhood Library, 1101 24th St. NW.
■ The Ward 4 Democrats organization will hold its monthly meeting, which will
include a presentation by D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. The meeting will begin
at 7 p.m. at Emery Recreation Center, 5801 Georgia Ave. NW.
Saturday, Oct. 4
The National Park Service will mark the opening of the Georgetown Waterfront
Park with a brief ceremony, which will honor former Sen. Charles Percy, R-Ill., who
helped spearhead efforts to establish the park. The ceremony will begin at 11
a.m. in the park, which is located between Wisconsin Avenue and 34th Street NW.
Tuesday, Oct. 7
The Ward 3 Democratic Committee will hold a community meeting, which will
feature Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh. The meeting will be held from 7 to 9
p.m. at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, 4201 Albemarle St. NW.
■ The Palisades Citizens Association will hold its monthly meeting, which will feature guest speaker Linda Argo, director of the D.C. Department of Consumer and
Regulatory Affairs. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Palisades Recreation
Center, Sherier and Dana places NW.
Wednesday, Oct. 8
The Foggy Bottom/West End Business & Professional Association will hold a
business meeting, which will feature guest speaker Linda Argo, director of the D.C.
Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs. The meeting will begin at 2 p.m.
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release. The office, located in
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Evermay estate sale would break records
By CAROL BUCKLEY
For the second time in as many
months, an estate built in the early
years of the nation’s capital has been
listed for sale. The Evermay estate
can be had for $49 million, dwarfing
the $30 million requested for nearby
Halcyon House.
The 3.5-acre Evermay estate at
one point in its 216-year history
encompassed 150 acres, including
grounds that now belong to the
White House. Businessman Samuel
Davidson purchased the land in
1792 and built the main residence in
1801 with the help of Nicholas
King, Pierre L’Enfant’s architect.
That residence, a 2.5-story
Federal brick structure, has been
expanded over the years but maintains its essential early-American
character, said listing agents Susie
Maguire and Jeanne Livingston of
Long & Foster Real Estate Inc.
The estate is well-suited to modern living and appears cohesive
despite its long history, said the
agents. Inside, eight bedrooms, six
full bathrooms and five half-baths
largely maintain the original footprint of the house, as do the formal
rooms that include a ballroom, dining room and drawing room.
Outside, a gatehouse is original
to the estate, a circa-1945 studio
complements the style of the main
See Estate/Page 26
Affordable housing delay affects projects
By ELIZABETH WIENER
Continued delays in implementing the city’s longawaited inclusionary zoning program have forced at
least one developer to cancel plans for below-marketrate units because the project won’t be allowed extra
density to offset its cost.
The loss of affordable units comes in an ambitious
mixed-use project in the heart of the gentrifying U Street
corridor. Developer Robert Moore had planned — and
won approval — to add a 10th floor in return for reserving 15 percent of the building’s 200 to 270 units for lowand moderate-income families.
But now Moore, head of the firm Georgetown
Strategic Capital, is seeking approval for a revised plan
that would lop off the top floor and the 30 or more
below-market-rate units that would have gone with it.
Without an inclusionary zoning bonus, the 10th floor
won’t be allowed in the residential-retail project,
planned for the southwest corner of 14th and U streets
NW.
That revised plan appeared on the consent calendar
of the Historic Preservation Review Board last week. A
vote was delayed for unrelated reasons, and staffers say
the project will probably be approved next month.
“When granted conceptual approval in April, the
applicants anticipated the project would be subject to
the city’s Inclusionary Zoning policy, which provided ...
for additional height and density as part of a requirement
to provide affordable housing units,” a staff report on
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the item says.
But now, explained city preservation planner Steve
Callcott, “the developer eliminated the affordable units
because he couldn’t get the density bonus” that would
have offset their cost.
Inclusionary zoning is a program in place in more
than 200 jurisdictions nationwide, including neighboring Montgomery County. It requires builders of large
developments to include some below-market-rate units
in return for extra density or other benefits. It is seen as
a tool for creating affordable housing at what proponents say is no cost to either the government or builders.
After several years of lobbying by affordable housing advocates, the D.C. Zoning Commission approved
an inclusionary zoning policy for the District in May
2006, and the D.C. Council adopted an implementation
law that December.
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was delayed because the Office of the Deputy Mayor for
Planning and Economic Development had not issued
the needed regulations. Irate council members demanded that the office, headed by Neil Albert, produce regulations by April 4, 2008.
Albert missed that deadline by a week, issuing draft
regulations and a price schedule on April 11. But building and real estate lobbyists objected to some of the provisions, and the regulations were never finalized.
Albert’s spokesperson, Sean Madigan, wrote in an email Monday that his office has now “incorporated
comments collected over the summer into a second set
See Housing/Page 12
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This is a listing of reports taken
from Sept. 22 through 28 in
local police service areas.
PSA
PSA
201
201
■ CHEVY CHASE
Theft from auto ($250 plus)
■ 5300 block, Connecticut Ave.;
street; 7:15 p.m. Sept. 25.
PSA 202
■ FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS
PSA
202
TENLEYTOWN/ AU PARK
Robbery (gun)
■ River Road and Ellicott Street;
sidewalk; 2:15 a.m. Sept. 24.
Robbery (assault)
■ 3900 block, Chesapeake St.;
school; 11:40 a.m. Sept. 22.
■ 3900 block, Chesapeake St.;
school; 3:15 p.m. Sept. 24.
■ 3800 block, Nebraska Ave.;
sidewalk; 3:35 a.m. Sept. 28.
Burglary (attempt)
■ 4700 block, Yuma St.; residence; 6 p.m. Sept. 27.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.;
store; 12:57 p.m. Sept. 23.
Theft (below $250)
■ 4600 block, 43rd Place;
street; 2:34 a.m. Sept. 25.
■ Albemarle Street and
Wisconsin Avenue; sidewalk; 9
a.m. Sept. 25.
■ 42nd and Livingston streets;
parking lot; 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25.
Theft from auto (below $250)
parking lot; 8 p.m. Sept. 25.
parking lot; 8 p.m. Sept. 25.
PSA 203
PSA
203
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residence; 3 a.m. Sept. 26.
Theft (below $250)
■ 3200 block, Ellicott St.;
■ 4800 block, 36th St.; street;
7:30 p.m. Sept. 23.
1 a.m. Sept. 24.
■ Connecticut Avenue and
Upton Street; street; 8 a.m.
Sept. 25.
PSA 204
■ MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE
HEIGHTS/ CLEVELAND PARK
WOODLEY PARK / GLOVER
PSA
204
PARK / CATHEDRAL HEIGHTS
Robbery (fear)
■ Connecticut Avenue and
Woodley Road; street; 1:42
p.m. Sept. 23.
Stolen auto
■ 39th and Rodman streets;
sidewalk; 8 p.m. Sept. 23.
Stolen auto (attempt)
■ 2700 block, Porter St.;
Theft (below $250)
■ 3300 block, Connecticut
Ave.; office building; 5:40 p.m.
Sept. 22.
■ 4200 block, Cathedral Ave.;
residence; 2 a.m. Sept. 23.
■ Calvert Street and Tunlaw
Road; street; 9:45 a.m. Sept.
25.
■ 3000 block, Klingle Road;
street; 10 a.m. Sept. 24.
■ 3500 block, Macomb St.;
PSA 205
■ PALISADES
/ SPRING VALLEY
PSA
205
WESLEY HEIGHTS/ FOXHALL
Stolen auto
■ 1500 block, Elliot Place;
street; 9 p.m. Sept. 26.
■ 4400 block, Massachusetts
Ave.; parking lot; 5 p.m. Sept.
24.
PSA
PSA
206 206
■ GEORGETOWN / BURLEITH
Robbery (stealth)
■ 3100 block, M St.; unspecified premises; 1:28 p.m. Sept.
26.
Burglary
■ 37th and O streets; residence; 2 a.m. Sept. 25.
■ 3500 block, O St.; residence;
12:15 p.m. Sept. 28.
Stolen auto
■ M Street and Wisconsin
Avenue; street; 9 p.m. Sept.
24.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 3800 block, Reservoir Road;
hotel; 12:10 p.m. Sept. 25.
Theft (below $250)
■ 3100 block, M St.; restaurant; 2:45 p.m. Sept. 22.
store; noon Sept. 23.
■ 3200 block, M St.; store;
3:40 p.m. Sept. 23.
12:35 p.m. Sept. 24.
6:50 p.m. Sept. 26.
6:30 p.m. Sept. 27.
■ 2900 block, M St.; tavern; 2
a.m. Sept. 28.
Theft (bicycle)
■ 1200 block, Potomac St.;
office building; noon Sept. 23.
■ 1600 block, 35th St.; residence; 5:45 p.m. Sept. 26.
store; 10:30 a.m. Sept. 22.
PSA
PSA
207 207
■ FOGGY BOTTOM / WEST END
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 2100 block, H St.; store;
3:20 p.m. Sept. 22.
Theft (below $250)
■ 2200 block, F St.; hotel;
noon Sept. 25.
Theft (bicycle)
■ 2000 block, Pennsylvania
Ave.; street; 10:17 a.m. Sept.
23.
■ 2400 block, Pennsylvania
Ave.; sidewalk; 10 p.m. Sept.
24.
■ 2300 block, M St.; street;
6:45 p.m. Sept. 25.
■ 2000 block, Virginia Ave.;
■ 2100 block, F St.; parking
lot; 9:30 a.m. Sept. 22.
8 p.m. Sept. 23.
■ 25th and K streets; street;
2:30 p.m. Sept. 26.
PSA 208
■ SHERIDAN-KALORAMA
PSA
208
DUPONT CIRCLE
Homicide (gun)
■ 1400 block, U St.; alley;
4:30 p.m. Sept. 28.
Robbery (gun)
■ 1800 block, R St.; sidewalk;
2:51 a.m. Sept. 28.
Robbery (force and violence)
■ 1600 block, Corcoran St.;
alley; 1:40 a.m. Sept. 23.
Ave.; store; 3:19 p.m. Sept.
27.
Robbery (snatch)
■ 1400 block, U St.; store;
11:30 p.m. Sept. 24.
Robbery (attempt)
■ 1300 block, 17th St.; sidewalk; 11:24 p.m. Sept. 28.
Assault
■ 1500 block, P St.; sidewalk;
2:30 a.m. Sept. 27.
Burglary
■ 1400 block, 16th St.; office
building; 9:53 p.m. Sept. 23.
■ 1200 block, 18th St.; store;
8:10 p.m. Sept. 27.
Stolen auto
8:15 p.m. Sept. 26.
■ 2200 block, O St.; street;
6:30 p.m. Sept. 27.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 1100 block, 22nd St.;
unspecified premises; 6 p.m.
Sept. 22.
■ 1900 block, L St.; sidewalk;
4:30 p.m. Sept. 25.
Theft (below $250)
■ 1400 block, S St.; residence; 6 p.m. Sept. 22.
■ 1900 block, M St.; unspecified premises; 1:20 p.m. Sept.
25.
Ave.; store; 2:50 p.m. Sept.
27.
■ 2100 block, P St.; tavern;
10 p.m. Sept. 27.
Theft (bicycle)
■ 1600 block, Massachusetts
Ave.; sidewalk; 10 a.m. Sept.
26.
■ 17th Street and Rhode
Island Avenue; street; 11:45
p.m. Sept. 27.
■ 1700 block, Rhode Island
Ave.; parking lot; 8 a.m. Sept.
22.
■ 1500 block, Swann St.;
■ 1900 block, Sunderland
Place; street; 6:15 p.m. Sept.
22.
■ 2100 block, K St.; parking
lot; 9:15 a.m. Sept. 23.
■ 1400 block, Hopkins St.;
street; 11 a.m. Sept. 26.
■ 1700 block, Swann St.;
8 p.m. Sept. 26.
■ 1700 block, I St.; street; 11
p.m. Sept. 26.
■ 1400 block, T St.; residence; 8:30 p.m. Sept. 27.
■ 1800 block, 16th St.; parking lot; 10 p.m. Sept. 27.
■ 1600 block, K St.; street;
8:30 a.m. Sept. 28.
■ 2000 block, K St.; street;
12:30 p.m. Sept. 28.
PSA
PSA
303 303
■ ADAMS MORGAN
Robbery (gun)
■ Kalorama and Ontario roads;
■ 2400 block, 19th St.; sidewalk; 2:40 a.m. Sept. 28.
Robbery (force and violence)
■ 1800 block, Columbia Road;
sidewalk; 11:40 p.m. Sept.
25.
Robbery (fear)
sidewalk; 11:50 p.m. Sept.
27.
Robbery (pickpocket)
■ 1900 block, Kalorama Road;
sidewalk; 7:45 p.m. Sept. 22.
Robbery (attempt)
■ 2200 block, Old Morgan
School Place; sidewalk; 12:05
p.m. Sept. 25.
Assault (knife)
■ 1700 block, Harvard St.;
sidewalk; 1 a.m. Sept. 27.
Assault (other)
■ 2400 block, 18th St.; alley;
3:55 a.m. Sept. 28.
Theft ($250 plus)
unspecified premises; 4 p.m.
Sept. 24.
■ 2400 block, 16th St.; parking lot; 9 p.m. Sept. 25.
Theft (below $250)
■ 2400 block, 16th St.; residence; 7 a.m. Sept. 23.
medical facility; 4 p.m. Sept.
24.
■ 2700 block, Ontario Road;
store; 10 a.m. Sept. 27.
Ave.; street; 9:37 p.m. Sept.
24.
8:30 p.m. Sept. 26.
1 a.m. Sept. 27.
■ 2200 block, Champlain St.;
■ 2400 block, Ontario Road;
■ 1800 block, Belmont Road;
alley; 11:15 a.m. Sept. 28.
THE CURRENT
Crumbling apartment house to get new life
By ELIZABETH WIENER
The Keener firm bought the
vacant property at auction.
then the project ran out of money,
and the neighborhood was left with
a facade and parts of two walls ...
abandoned
and
dangerous,”
Brockett said.
“It looks like it could collapse,”
said architect Eric Colbert, who is
designing the restoration. He said
BUSINESS
The collapsing shell of an apartment house in Adams Morgan could
see new life under a plan the
Historic Preservation Review Board
approved last week. Keener Squire
Properties wants to restore the
facade and add two stories, much to
the relief of neighbors who have
seen the building at 2110 19th St. sit
open for several years.
According to city preservation
staffer Anne Brockett, a previous
developer began to work on the
building before the Washington
Heights Historic District was designated in 2006.
That developer got permits “to
add a fairly appalling mansard roof.
It would have looked like a gigantic
Burger King,” Brockett told the
board. The developer then removed
the roof, the rear wall, much of the
side walls and a berm in front, “but
his client, the Keener firm, bought
the property at auction and wants to
bring it back to life.
Brockett praised the plans. With
the berm removed, the entrance will
be at street level, and thus handicapaccessible. The two added stories
will “take their design cues from the
existing building,” she said. “We
quite like what’s proposed,” she
added, noting that surrounding
buildings are generally taller.
Keener’s plans also won praise
from Ann Hargrove of the
Kalorama Citizens Association, a
prime force behind creating the historic district. “That building has
been a hardship to the neighborhood,” she told the board. “We’re
very pleased about this design.”`
Hargrove noted her group is not
always thrilled about development
projects in the historic neighborhood. “But this is one that would
work. I’m pleased to be here to support this,” she said.
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Preservation board landmarks home of legendary Petworth restaurant
By ELIZABETH WIENER
The D.C. Historic Preservation Review
Board last week voted to bestow landmark
status on Billy Simpson’s House of Seafood
and Steak, a modest two-story restaurant at
3815 Georgia Ave. that stood center stage in
events small and large of the District’s black
community and its home rule and civil
rights struggles.
It’s clearly not the faux-Tudor facade of
the now-closed Petworth restaurant that
makes Simpson’s important, said Patsy
Fletcher of the city’s Office of Historic
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are often overlooked and deemed ineligible
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Simpson’s part in the development of
black political leadership in the District and
in the daily lives of residents who were
unwelcome in many white establishments
helps tell “the socially significant history of
this diverse community,” Fletcher said.
Simpson’s restaurant was “truly a legend,” said board member Joseph Taylor, an
architect who dined there as a student at
Howard University. “Architecturally, it
doesn’t make it. But as a place, it is important, and it’s important we give it this status.”
The two-story brick building, constructSee Simpson’s/Page 26
Groups pool money for Square 37 valuation
By CAROL BUCKLEY
Neighborhood groups concerned
about the city’s development
process for a parcel of land that currently houses the West End
Neighborhood Library and the
Metropolitan Police Department’s
Special Operations Division have
decided to pool resources to pay for
an independent appraisal of the
property.
The Foggy Bottom-West End
and Dupont Circle advisory neighborhood commissions agreed to
fund a valuation of Square 37, a
block of land located between 23rd
and 24th streets and north of L
Street.
“It makes sense to know what we
have before it’s sold,” Foggy
Bottom neighborhood commission
chair Asher Corson said last week
before the commission unanimously
approved the resolution. The
Dupont Circle commission also
unanimously supported the measure, agreeing to spend up to $5,000.
The Dupont Circle Citizens
Association has not reached a deci-
sion about helping fund the appraisal, said association president Joel
Lawson, who cited “increasingly
byzantine discussions” about the
valuation process. “We’d like to get
a firmer grasp on what role the
appraisal would play” in efforts to
establish the land’s value. Lawson
said his group should reach a decision within the month.
The city has redoubled efforts to
convince residents that the current
development process will not be a
repeat of last year’s, which involved
emergency legislation in the D.C.
Council that allowed the city to
negotiate a sale of the parcel to
developer Eastbanc Inc. Outraged
neighbors brought the deal to a halt.
Meetings hosted over the summer by the Office of the Deputy
Mayor for Planning and Economic
Development have solicited community comment in advance of an
October solicitation of development
bids.
But community leaders maintain
that an independent appraisal will
give residents a bargaining chip
when the city presents vetted proposals to them.
Dupont Circle commissioner
Mike Silverstein cited past experience with an independent appraisal
of another site. For the future home
of the Center for Strategic and
International Studies at 1616 Rhode
Island Ave., “we negotiated a much
larger amenities package” as a
planned-unit development after hiring an independent appraiser, said
Silverstein. Those amenities, he
said, included money for Stead
Park.
Although Square 37 is located
within the boundaries of the Foggy
Bottom-West End advisory neighborhood commission, Silverstein
said his commission wanted to support its neighbors in “spending
money to do due diligence. ...We
wanted to say to Asher [Corson] that
if you want to do this, we’ll put up
our money to help you.”
Sean Madigan, a spokesperson
for the deputy mayor’s office, said
the city’s market-based procedure is
a better way to determine value than
an independent appraisal.
“We think the best way to determine value is to see what kinds of
See Appraisal/Page 31
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By IAN THOMS
Seeking to ease neighborhood concerns,
Roadside Development last month floated the
idea of requesting city permission to expand
parking at its planned residential development
behind the Bank of America on Wisconsin
Avenue in Friendship Heights.
During initial presentations of the plans,
some residents had asked Roadside to provide
additional parking spaces for the 49-unit residential building at 5201 Wisconsin Ave., in
hopes of decreasing the number of tenants
parking on neighborhood streets. But
Roadside would need a zoning variance in
order to add to its planned 26 spaces without
massively reworking its overall plans.
Former Shaw
school gets
historic nod
To provide five additional spaces for tenants of the building, Roadside would have to
skip adding five planned “stacking,” or waiting, spaces for the bank’s drive-through teller
lane. Currently the bank has no stacking
spaces, but because Roadside is reconstructing the bank’s parking lot as part of its project,
it must add them. The project meets all other
See Roadside/Page 28
GW COMMUNITY CALENDAR
A selection of this month’s GW events–neighbors welcome!
Thursday, Oct. 2, 5–6:30 p.m.
Lecture: Kremlin Inc.: How Vladimir Putin Runs Russia
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
1957 E Street, NW
By ELIZABETH WIENER
Lecture by Clifford Gaddy, Brookings Institution senior
fellow, foreign policy, global economy and development.
RSVP to [email protected]. Free and open to the public.
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OCTOBER
The Asbury Dwellings building
has seen many lives — as McKinley
Manual Training School, then Shaw
Junior High School and now as senior housing. Last Thursday, the
familiar old building at the corner of
7th Street and Rhode Island Avenue
NW was nominated to be a national
landmark.
The Historic Preservation
Review Board voted unanimously
that the Romanesque Revival building, constructed between 1901 and
1911, also deserves local landmark
protections.
The elegant old building was the
work of a noted architect, Henry
Ives Cobbs, who was hired to help
deflect criticism that the city’s
school buildings all tended to be
“great red brick blocks,” according
to a report by city historian Kim
Williams. Cobbs’ four-story buffbrick building, with its arched windows and rounded corner entrance,
certainly broke that mold.
But the building’s checkered
social history is perhaps even more
interesting. According to Williams’
report, it was built specifically to
provide industrial education — a
new trend at the time, but only for
white students. (Armstrong Manual
Training School was built around
the same time for black students.) A
foundry shop added in 1917 on the
7th Street side still survives.
In 1928, McKinley moved to its
current site at 2nd and T streets NE.
Cobbs’ school building became
Robert Gould Shaw Junior High,
named for a Massachusetts colonel
who led the first regiment of black
soldiers to fight in the Civil War.
But as Williams’ report notes, the
junior high was overcrowded and
deteriorated from the beginning,
eventually becoming known as
“Shameful Shaw.” In the 1960s, the
neighborhood around it took its
name from the school.
Shaw was the city’s first junior
high for blacks, but it also “became
emblematic” of the inferior school
facilities that served the city’s
African-American
children.
Residents protested its condition,
said Williams, displaying a newspaper headline from 1957: “Moldy
See Shaw/Page 28
“We have enough parking under the existing zoning,” Roadside co-founder Armond
Spikell wrote in an e-mail to The Current last
week, referring to the number of spaces
required by zoning rules. “We proposed the
change only in response to the neighbors’
desire for us to provide more parking. And we
have not firmly decided to file for the variance.”
Saturday, Oct. 4, 8 p.m.
Reading and Book Signing: David Sedaris
Lisner Auditorium
730 21st Street, NW
David Sedaris, one of America’s top humor writers, will read
from his latest book When You Are Engulfed in Flames. The
reading will be followed by a question-and-answer session
and a book signing. Tickets available for $40-$45 at the
Lisner Box Office, TicketMaster Outlets, or PhoneCharge at
(301) 808-6900.
Monday, Oct. 6, 8 a.m.–2 p.m.
Symposium on Urban Sustainability:
How Washington Can Lead
Jack Morton Auditorium
Media and Public Affairs Building
805 21st Street, NW
GW and the D.C. Department of the Environment and
Office of Planning will convene a symposium to examine
the role of cities in addressing climate change and
sustainability. A number of well-known experts will be
featured, including GW President Steven Knapp; George
Hawkins, director of D.C. Department of the Environment;
and Mary Cheh, D.C. Councilmember and GW professor.
To RSVP, call (202) 994-7129 or e-mail [email protected].
For more information, visit http://sustainability.gwu.edu.
Free and open to the public.
$
Saturday, Oct. 18, 2–5 p.m.
Octoberfest
Mount Vernon Quad
2100 Foxhall Road, NW
The Mount Vernon Campus will celebrate Octoberfest with
an outdoor festival, complete with food, music, pumpkin
carving, arts and crafts, games, and tasty fall desserts. Free
and open to the public.
Sunday, Oct. 19, 1–4 p.m.
Sixth Annual Foggy Bottom & West End
Neighborhood Block Party
Eye Street Mall at the Foggy Bottom Metro
Between 23rd and 24th streets, NW
Tuesday, Oct. 7, 8 p.m.
Performance: Crosby & Nash
Lisner Auditorium
730 21st Street, NW
Longtime creative partners and Rock and Roll Hall of
Famers David Crosby and Graham Nash will perform.
Tickets available for $65 at the Lisner Box Office,
TicketMaster Outlets, or PhoneCharge at (301) 808-6900.
Oct. 8–Dec. 19
Exhibition: The Academic Tradition:
Teaching and Practice
Luther W. Brady Art Gallery
Media and Public Affairs Building
805 21st Street, NW
Gallery hours are Tuesday–Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Free and
open to the public.
For more information
on the GW community
calendar, please
contact Michael Akin
in the Office of
Community Relations at
(202) 994-9132
or visit us at
www.neighborhood.
gwu.edu
The region’s best contemporary dance troupe, Dana Tai Soon
Burgess & Co., performs at Lisner Auditorium Oct. 24–25.
Monday, Oct. 13, 8 p.m.
The Kalb Report: Play by Play with Bob Costas
National Press Club
National Press Building, 13th floor
14th and F streets, NW
Legendary journalist Marvin Kalb will discuss sports
journalism with NBC and HBO Sports Broadcaster Bob
Costas. The Kalb Report is produced by The George
Washington University, Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center,
and the National Press Club and underwritten by a grant
from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.
For free tickets, visit kalb.gwu.edu or call (202) 994-6463.
Seating is first come, first seated.
Last year, approximately 3,000 people attended this free
annual event that includes booths from local businesses,
restaurants, groups, and institutions. The block party is
brought to you by FRIENDS, a community group started
at the request of local neighbors to promote positive
dialogue between GW and its neighbors. Stop by for
food, music, and fun!
$
Friday–Saturday, Oct. 24–25, 8 p.m.
Performance: Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Company
Lisner Auditorium
730 21st Street, NW
The region’s best contemporary dance troupe, Dana Tai
Soon Burgess & Co., performs the work titled “Exploring the
Hyphen.” Burgess also is a GW associate professor of dance
and an alumnus. Tickets available at the Lisner Box Office,
TicketMaster Outlets, or PhoneCharge at (301) 808-6900.
Reaching GW’s Mount Vernon Campus
Free shuttle service is provided daily between the
Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon campuses.
Visit http://gwired.gwu.edu/mvcl for schedule
information, or call (202) 242-6673 Monday through
Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m
10 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2008
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THE GEORGETOWN
CURRENT
Davis Kennedy/Publisher & Editor
Chris Kain/Managing Editor
Due notice
On Saturday morning, Dupont Circle advisory neighborhood
commissioner Mike Silverstein had a plane to catch at 10:15 a.m.
out of Baltimore/Washington International Airport. But when he
tried to leave at 8:30 a.m., police officers initially prevented him
from exiting Sunderland Place. Then he faced traffic jams and blockades. He says he made his flight only because he had given himself
an extra hour.
The problem? He needed to leave while participants in the 17mile Bike DC ride were cycling along 20th Street. The event may
have boosted awareness of cycling, but it also showed glaring weaknesses in the District’s process for closing streets for special events.
First off, city officials directed Bike DC to refrain from contacting
advisory neighborhood commissions about the planned ride until
they had settled on a route with D.C. officials. As a result, many
commissions did not hear the plans until their September meetings,
minimizing the chance for organizers to respond to suggestions.
The organizers and the bureaucrats blame one another for the
delays in settling on a final route. But city officials should have let
organizers contact advisory neighborhood commissions prior to
agreement on a final route. In this case, earlier consultation might
have permitted schedule or route changes around the Washington
National Cathedral, where two schools were holding homecoming
events and a Greek festival was taking place nearby.
Such events should not blockade residents into their homes.
Members of affected commissions received assurances that police
officers would allow residents to pass with little delay: This was to
be a ride, not a race. But Mr. Silverstein had to argue for several
minutes before being allowed to pass. Even then, traffic jams and
blockades in the area added another 15 to 20 minutes to his trip.
The consultation process needs to become more communityfriendly. At the very least, neighborhood commissions should receive
notice of proposed routes two months in advance. When a
September event is planned, the commissions should get four
months’ notice since most do not meet in July or August.
City officials also need to ensure that such events are widely
known among residents, with fliers and signs posted on affected
streets at least 48 hours in advance. Officials also need to ensure that
the people on the ground adhere to commitments such as allowing
residents to leave their homes.
On the market
The three-acre Evermay estate is up for sale, listed for $49 million. Located at 1623 28th St., the home sits on a prime hillside setting at the eastern end of Georgetown. Diplomat F. Lammot Belin
bought the estate in 1923, becoming its fifth owner. The family’s
ownership has lasted three generations.
The potential sale — coming in the midst of a contentious zoning
fight — prompts legitimate questions about critics’ tactics.
Neighbors who have objected to the purported impact of the paid
galas, weddings and corporate events hosted at Evermay must consider whether they would prefer other potential uses.
The listing real estate agents report having drawn interest from
international buyers, but they did not specify whether any prospective purchasers were considering the site for embassy use. It is not a
stretch to imagine Evermay as an ambassador’s residence, home to
far more parties than it has hosted in years past — and without the
prospect for much D.C. oversight. Diplomatic use might also mean
losing some public street parking.
In the past, the city has nixed the paid functions at Evermay as
running counter to zoning regulations. Worst-case scenarios ought
not be used to permit future violations of city rules, but critics ought
to factor possible alternative uses when they consider whether they
should be willing to compromise.
THE CURRENT
Violence … fiscal and physical …
The week began on too many somber notes.
Two small children were found dead in a freezer
in suburban Maryland. They were foster children
who had come through the city’s foster system.
There was no indication city workers did anything
wrong in the case, but it was unspeakable violence
that was just being investigated as the week began.
On Sunday, about 150 men and women silently
marched in downtown
to protest the brutal
beating death of a gay
man who was attacked
as he walked to a gay
bar. It was only the latest report of anti-gay
violence.
“We walked through the neighborhood with candles,” said activist Peter Rosenstein. “The mood
was somber, and the feeling was, enough is
enough.”
Rosenstein said the marchers and GLOV (Gays
and Lesbians Opposed to Violence) are demanding
action from the mayor and council for more police
protection.
It’s an ugly reminder of anti-gay prejudice that
too many believe is mostly a thing of the past.
Council members Carol Schwartz, at-large, and
Jack Evans, Ward 2, attended the service. At-large
member Kwame Brown joined the walk. A statement was read from the mayor, but some people
wondered why our ubiquitous leader wasn’t there.
■ Is it just me? Or is anyone else startled when
TV anchors and reporters covering a horrendous
death scene (like the weekend helicopter crash)
breezily announce, “We are live at the scene”? It’s
jarring. It’s true, but people are dead. Couldn’t they
just say, “We’re at the scene?” Is it really necessary
to say “live”? It sounds like, “I’m alive and they’re
not.” But again, maybe it’s just me.
■ Fiscal calamity. Also as the week began, the
stock markets were tanking. And we thought the
week before was unnerving. The bailout plan was a
bust. We may be heading into a period of economic
uncertainty the likes of which none of us (baby
boomers and younger) have ever really experienced.
When the markets closed at 4 p.m. Monday, the
lone person banging the ceremonial gavel was a forlorn employee who was probably forced to do the
“honor.” Normally, a private company eagerly seeks
out the chance to perform that deed.
■ Fiscal calamity II. Both Maryland and Virginia
are suffering excruciating state-budget shortfalls,
billions of dollars that must be made up with spending cuts or tax increases. In the District, the downturn is not nearly as severe, but the mayor and
council must cut another $120 million from the
budget because of tax-collection shortfalls. The
mayor and council are promising that the cuts (and
maybe tax increases) will be done in early October.
■ ... and a brand-new car! Well, we don’t know
whether he’ll come home with a new car or not, but
just as we were on deadline we heard that D.C.
Council Chairman Vincent Gray was leaving town
to visit the international Paris Auto Show. The
Washington Area New Automobile Dealers
Association is paying for the trip. Turns out Gray
has gone before. Several council members were
grumbling that the chairman was leaving town
without any announcement about his trip just as the
council is deciding on
budget cuts.
And just to be accurate, in Paris they call it
the “Paris Motor
Show.”
Here’s what the official site says about it: “Held every other autumn at
the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. One of the
world’s oldest auto shows, the Automobile Club de
France held the first Paris Motor Show in 1898.
Manufacturers from all over the world showcase
their products and typically there are dozens of
world debuts. At the 2008 Paris Motor Show new
vehicles will be on display from Ferrari, Lexus,
Honda, Mitsubishi, Citroen, Peugeot, Maserati and
more.”
■ Election calamity? While the chairman is gone,
the D.C. Council will hold a hearing on Friday to
determine what went wrong in the Sept. 9 primary
election tabulations and how to prevent it from
occurring in the big November elections, when
turnout alone may swamp the city because of the
Obama-McCain race.
Special investigative committee chair Mary
Cheh, who represents Ward 3 on the council, says
the Board of Elections has a lot of explaining to do.
“They don’t have a plan, they didn’t have a plan,
and it was chaotic,” Cheh told NBC4 on Monday.
“It was a mess, and I think they should be embarrassed.”
WTOP political analyst Mark Plotkin was
blunter: “I think they’re going to have to replace
some people, people they have confidence in.”
Cheh said we’re too close to the November election to change horses now, but she promised to consider pushing for personnel actions after the balloting.
Plotkin and other journalists complained that
elections board chair Errol Arthur knows nothing
about elections, has been unreachable for questions
and has been ineffective since his appointment by
Mayor Adrian Fenty last spring. Arthur did not
return the Notebook’s call on Monday.
■ Fees going up. Effective today, the Department
of Motor Vehicles fee to inspect your car goes up
from $25 to $35. It’s the first increase since 2001.
But inspection stickers for new cars will be valid
for four years instead of two. A driver’s license will
be good for eight years instead of just five. That fee
is still $39.
Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.
TOM SHERWOOD’S
NOTEBOOK
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Be ready at the poll
for busy election
The polls will be crowded
Nov. 4, but voters can take steps
now that will speed things
along. First, confirm that you
are registered as an active voter
at the polling place for your current residence, which is where
you must vote (elderly or disabled excepted).
If you are unsure whether
you are still registered or don’t
know your polling place, you
can find this information on
dcboee.org or by calling 202727-2525. You can update your
name, address or party registration through the Web site or
print out a form to mail in.
Make any changes soon: The
deadline is Oct. 6. Mailed forms
must reach the D.C. Board of
Elections by Oct. 14. If you
have moved and have not updated your registration, you must
go to your new precinct and
vote by special ballot, which
involves more steps for both you
and the poll workers.
Second: Be prepared. Decide
in advance whether you want to
vote by paper ballot or use the
touch-screen machine. If unsure,
ask the demonstration clerk
about these options before entering the check-in line. State your
last name, first name and current
address for the check-in clerk.
(Only those who are voting for
the first time since registering
by mail must show identification.) Mark your paper ballot
carefully and properly — one
thin line between the two halves
of the arrow is all that’s needed.
Making too wide a mark or trying to erase will make your ballot unreadable, and you will
have to turn it in and start over.
Your neighbors — and especially your poll workers — will
appreciate your help.
Gail MacColl
Poll Captain, Precinct 50
THE CURRENT
Designation is right choice in Chevy Chase
VIEWPOINT
MARY ROWSE
H
ere’s a question for Chevy Chase homeowners
on the fence about whether to support the proposed historic district: Which would you rather
do, obtain another permit when making alterations to
your home, or watch a former neighbor’s trees and
house destroyed so a new owner can build a larger,
more protruding structure on the same lot?
In today’s world of teardowns and McMansions, a
neighborhood loses when character-defining properties
and mature trees are taken down, when bulldozers jar
our peace of mind and when out-of-scale construction
alters our sense of place.
Stable, urban, established, walkable neighborhoods
like Chevy Chase D.C. are highly desirable for developers to tie into because the infrastructure already
exists — an easily understood street grid; wide sidewalks; tree-lined streets and properties; interesting,
diverse architecture; well-built homes with porches,
bay windows and uniform setbacks; good transportation systems; a low-scale, neighborhood-serving commercial district; and established schools, libraries and
parks. Urban developers don’t have to spend money
for things that their suburban counterparts must fund.
It’s advantageous for a developer to pay a premium
for an urban lot, tear down a house and build a new
one. Particularly vulnerable are smaller homes on lots
that haven’t been built to their zoning capacity and corner lots, where zoning can permit a duplex or two
houses to replace one.
Choosing to support a historic district requires a
tradeoff. Yes, there will be a few more permits to
obtain if you want to make exterior changes to your
roof, windows or doors. But the Historic Preservation
Office, known for its efficiency and helpfulness, grants
90 percent of these permits within a day. Many of us
may actually never make these changes, or if we do,
we’ll make them once. What we get in exchange is the
assurance that our physical environment will be protected from out-of-scale new construction.
Our homes are probably the biggest investment any
of us will ever make. We know it’s important to take
care of them and make them attractive and livable. But
it’s just as important to protect their physical context
— the context that contributes significantly to their
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Foul play at meeting
on lights for ballfield
The Current’s Sept. 24 article on
the proposal to install lights at the
Chevy Chase Playground’s baseball field provided an excellent
summary of the Sept. 22 advisory
neighborhood commission meeting, but it failed to capture what for
many of the supporters of the lights
proposal was the appalling tone of
the evening.
The impression on anyone not
reading the meeting agenda would
have been that residents living near
the park were under siege from an
open-air drug market, or that runaway developers were building
high-rises across the street.
The reality is that they were discussing Little League baseball,
sponsored by Capitol City Little
value, the context that first persuaded us to move to
and invest in the neighborhood and the context that
will remain long after we’re gone.
Why wait for Chevy Chase to reach a tipping point,
with the fabric of our neighborhood forever altered by
teardowns and multimillion-dollar homes that loom
closer to sidewalks, tower over neighboring houses and
increase property taxes for everyone? Why not join the
city’s other 26 historically designated neighborhoods,
like Cleveland Park? Substantial new construction
occurs in historic districts, where homeowners annually obtain thousands of permits with little trouble.
A historic district will offer us a way to manage
new construction that respects our 100-year-old community and preserves its scale and architectural distinction. Historic districts help achieve compatibility
between the old and the new. Zoning regulations do
not do this. Creating a historic district is the only way
to prevent the demolition of properties built during our
neighborhood’s period of significance — 1907 to
1947.
Historic districts are good for business districts, too.
Preserving the small-town character of our commercial
district keeps rents lower than in areas with new construction, thus giving us a greater diversity of independent businesses to choose from. A historic district
will also help control the design and scale of any new
construction along the east side of Connecticut Avenue
from Livingston to Oliver streets, where all the buildings could be demolished in a historic district because
they were built after 1947.
A neighborhood wins when historic designation
helps revitalize businesses like the Avalon Theatre,
which used federal rehabilitation tax credits to improve
its facade. All commercial property owners in a historic district can take advantage of these tax credits to
improve their income-producing buildings, too.
Rehabilitated buildings will strengthen our commercial
district and its appeal to visitors and shoppers.
Creating a historic district is also smart financial
planning. In the ups and downs of the local economy
and the decline and rebirth of Washington, D.C., the
values of properties in historic districts have always
maintained or increased even in the worst of times.
For these and other reasons, historic designation is
the right choice for Chevy Chase D.C.
Mary Rowse is a member of Chevy Chase
Neighbors for a Historic District.
League, and played by 5- to 12year-old boys and girls under adult
supervision at all times, in a park
designed and maintained to serve
all the residents of the Chevy
Chase neighborhood, not just those
who happen to live right next door.
So the noise at issue is the
sound of children playing baseball,
or perhaps their parents cheering a
well-turned double play. Those
same parents, it was feared, might
park their cars nearby for a couple
of hours while they watch a game
or help out with practice.
But the roughly 25 residents
opposed to the lights were determined to press the claim that
because they chose to purchase
homes adjacent to the Chevy Chase
Playground, they hold veto power
over the use of the park.
There really wasn’t any
“debate” at the Sept. 22 meeting,
because the opponents were in no
mood for compromise. At perhaps
the low point of the evening, one
opponent turned to a girl wearing a
Capitol City shirt and said, “What
are you doing here? You don’t play
baseball.” Her father responded by
saying that, yes, in fact, the girl
does play for a Capitol City team.
The league will continue its
campaign for lights at Chevy Chase
Field, mostly because it has little
alternative if it wants to meet the
needs of the 400-plus families it
serves. And the league has made
clear, as noted in the article, that it
is willing to modify its lights proposal to address legitimate concerns of local residents. We can
only hope that neighborhood opponents begin to recognize that
beyond their focus on “my home”
and “my street” lies a broader community with a shared claim to
responsible use of scarce public
space. If so, the result will be
something we all can cheer about.
Bill Cordes
Softball Commissioner,
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Friday
Wilson (2-2)
vs. Sidwell (0-4), 7 p.m.
The Tigers will play their last nonconference
game against their Wisconsin Avenue neighbors, who have fallen on hard times. Sidwell
still is hunting for its first win as it hits the
midpoint of the season. Wilson will be a formidable obstacle, as earlier this season the
Tigers put down the same Maret team that
last week handled the Quakers 35-14.
Coolidge (3-1) vs. Anacostia (0-5), 7 p.m.
The Colts should be able to feast on
Anacostia in the last game before D.C.
Interscholastic Athletic Association West
Division play begins next week against archrival Theodore Roosevelt. Winless Anacostia
has given up more than 60 points in each of
the last two games and allowed at least 40
in two other outings.
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October 1, 2008 ■ Page 13
ATHLETICS IN NORTHWEST WASHINGTON
FOOTBALL FORECAST
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After delay, DCIAA soccer on schedule
By BORIS TSALYUK
Current Correspondent
The
defending
D.C.
Interscholastic
Athletic
Association champion Wilson
boys soccer team is ready to start
conference play against School
Without Walls this evening after a
two-week delay due to scheduling problems.
In a letter to conference coaches and administrators nearly two
weeks ago, the association’s
executive director, Troy Mathieu,
wrote that problems arose
because one team, Coolidge,
dropped out of competition and
two other schools were unsure
whether they would field teams.
Mathieu, who took over for
Allen Chin over the summer, did
not return phone messages this
week regarding the issue.
Nine teams are part of the final
league schedule, with Theodore
Roosevelt joining Walls and
Wilson from Northwest D.C. The
championship match remains
scheduled for Nov. 15. The Tigers
will face Bell Multicultural in a
likely title preview Oct. 8 and
Oct. 31.
Wilson head coach Kenny
Owens said he thinks the administrative change affected scheduling.
“I guess it was just a change in
command,” he said. “[Mathieu]
came in and nothing was set or
confirmed. It’s a new position,
and he basically changed a few
things.”
Wilson is 2-0-1 so far. Owens
said that while parents have
expressed concern and confusion
about when and where their children will be playing, the scheduling issues have not affected his
players greatly.
“Our kids are extremely
See Soccer/Page 14
Sister act
continues
for Cadets
Theodore Roosevelt (3-2)
vs. H.D. Woodson (0-4), 7 p.m.
Roosevelt originally was scheduled to visit
Eastern, which has yet to play due to lack of
players. Although Woodson is winless, the
Warriors have had a brutal schedule, twice
traveling to Ohio and twice to Pennsylvania.
The Rough Riders topped Cesar Chavez 48-0
in their last game.
■ WCAC volleyball:
Freshman starts for St. John’s
By KEVIN HILGERS
Saturday
Gonzaga (0-4, 0-1)
vs. Archbishop Carroll (1-3, 0-1), 2:30 p.m.
Gonzaga’s difficult season continued Sunday
when the Eagles fell to upstart Bishop
O’Connell 50-0 and failed to score for the
third-straight game. Archbishop Carroll
presents a golden opportunity for Gonzaga,
as it’s won only one Washington Catholic
Athletic Conference game the last three
years.
St. John’s (3-1, 1-0)
at Bishop O’Connell (4-0, 1-0), 2:30 p.m.
The Cadets will face undefeated Bishop
O’Connell, which is shaping up to be anything but the Washington Catholic Athletic
Conference cellar-dweller it has been in
recent years. St. John’s came back from a
14-point deficit to beat Bishop McNamara
27-14 last week as their defense returned
three turnovers for touchdowns.
Maret (3-1, 1-0)
vs. Potomac (2-2, 1-0), 3:30 p.m.
Potomac handed St. James its first league
loss with a 13-8 victory Friday, and the Frogs
have those same Saints next week. But
offensive trends appear to be in Maret’s
favor. The Panthers have put up fewer than
nine points per game, while the Frogs, coming off a win over Sidwell, are averaging 30.
St. Albans (2-2)
vs. Friendship Collegiate (2-3), 3:30 p.m.
The Bulldogs will face one of their toughest
opponents of the season in the Knights.
Although the Knights dropped three in a row
this season, the streak was bookended by
quality wins against D.C. Interscholastic
Athletic Association powers Dunbar and, on
Friday, Ballou. St. Albans ended a two-game
skid with a 50-14 demolition of Interstate
Athletic Conference foe Bullis.
Matt Petros/The Current
Maret’s Darien Hooker carries the ball for one of his four touchdowns against Sidwell on Saturday.
The Frogs scored 28 second-half points to win the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference game.
Maret adds to streak against Sidwell
■ MAC football:
Maret 35, Sidwell 14
By BORIS TSALYUK
The Maret football team
dominated the second half of
Saturday’s
Mid-Atlantic
Athletic Conference rivalry
game against Sidwell on the
way to a 35-14 win — the
Frogs’ third consecutive victory over the Quakers.
In an intensely fought contest with less-than-ideal conditions due to scattered rain at
Duke Ellington Field in
Burleith, Maret (3-1, 1-0)
jumped out to a 7-0 lead at
halftime but saved its explosion of big plays for the second
half.
“First half, we executed, we
just didn’t finish,” said Maret
coach Mike Engelberg. “Our
kids have confidence in themselves. They’re strong kids,
and they know what they’re
doing out there. They’re going
hard, and that goes a long
way.”
“It was a great win,” said
junior wide receiver and defensive back Sean Johnson. “We
came up fired up, hit them hard
and kept fighting.”
See Football/Page 14
It’s not every year that St.
John’s volleyball coach Bill
Pribac has enough trust in a
freshman to make her a starter.
This season he found an exception in Darian Dozier.
Dozier is the third in a line of
sisters with memorable careers
on the front row for the Lady
Cadets. Kristen, their all-time
kills leader, who graduated in
2006, plays for Ohio State
University. Jourdan, who graduated in 2005, plays for George
Mason University. Both were on
the
Washington
Catholic
Athletic Conference champion
squad four years ago.
Considering Darian Dozier
grew up around such fierce competition, Pribac became confident that she could step into a
prominent role early in her high
school career.
“I think she can handle it,”
Pribac said. “I think she’s been
around it enough. They don’t
show it a lot. The whole family’s
like that: They’re more competitive than what they appear to
be.”
The Lady Cadets needed
another heavy hitter this season
after the graduation of Shannon
Fitzpatrick, a first-team allWashington Catholic Athletic
Conference selection who now
plays for St. Mary’s College.
Dozier joined an otherwise
experienced starting lineup,
See St. John’s/Page 14
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Darian Dozier serves for St. John’s in its match
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FOOTBALL
From Page 13
Senior quarterback Walter
Albee threw for 341 yards and
five touchdowns, including four
to senior Darien Hooker.
“All I did was run down the
field and catch it,” said Hooker,
who as a defensive back also
nabbed one of Maret’s four interceptions. “Without the play of the
[offensive] line, none of that
would’ve been possible.”
Albee also stressed the importance of an impressive showing
by the front line and said the
team’s conditioning habits were
instrumental to the win.
“We blocked pretty well, we
ran good routes and they gave me
time to throw the ball,” he said.
“We have to be in good shape to
be able to play a full game, so
playing opposite senior Christine Gallart and next
to junior middle hitter Maya Louis. St. John’s runs
a two-setter offense, with seniors Tiara Adams and
Michelle Klontz passing for the kill.
The new lineup has performed well. St. John’s is
8-2 in league play as it enters the back half of its
conference schedule, starting today at first-place
Good Counsel.
“I think she fits in pretty well,” Klontz said of
Dozier. “I think she’s a very solid player.”
Gallart and Louis have accounted for most of the
Lady Cadets’ kills this season, but their new teammate has come up big on the serve. Dozier rarely
errs there, with a 98 percent serve percentage,
Pribac said.
But that’s not to say she doesn’t have an aggressive side. That’s something she learned from her
older sisters, who were also outside hitters.
“Whenever we’re losing I get really mad, so I
just kind of try and stuff the ball in someone’s
face,” Dozier said. “I think I get that from Kristen a
lot.”
It’s a matter of chance that Dozier is even playing volleyball. She used to focus most of her attention on basketball. As her sisters devoted more time
to the other court sport, the youngest Dozier tagged
along.
“I really didn’t even know the sport at first,”
Dozier said. “They kind of got me into it. I started
going to clinics with them, and they taught me a lot.
They are a big role in my life and also in my sport.”
But because she got started at an even younger
age than her sisters, Pribac said she plays at a higher level than they did at this point.
“She started when her sisters started to play, so I
think that’s where she may be a little more
advanced than where Jourdan and Kristen were
when they first got to St. John’s,” Pribac said. “It’s
really helped out. She’s going to be an incredible
player by the time she gets done playing for us.”
that’s probably the biggest thing
with having guys that play both
ways.”
Edmund Opong-Wadee, a junior who normally plays fullback
but lined up at right guard following an injury to regular starter
junior Teddy Echeverria, praised
the team’s effort.
“It’s hard — we had to put our
hearts into it,” he said. “We wanted to win three years in a row, so
we had to do what we needed to
do to get there.”
Maret’s defense forced seven
turnovers, including three fumbles along with the interceptions.
“We came up, played well in
the trenches,” said Maret senior
linebacker Brian Pourciau. “We
forced fumbles and made interceptions. They really couldn’t do
anything against us.”
Sidwell coach John Simon,
now in his 13th year with the
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responsive,” he said. “They want to learn and they
want to win. I’ve just tried to keep a positive attitude.”
“We’re well on our way,” he added. “It’s difficult
with missing games, but our guys are ready.”
Owens said he has kept his players focused on the
task in front of them, rather than on circumstances they
can’t dictate.
Quakers (0-4, 0-2), said he
believes his team will come out of
its current slump eventually. Two
years removed from their last
league banner, the Quakers can at
best break even in conference
play after the most recent loss.
“Just a couple of plays turned
the game around,” he said. “My
kids played with a lot of sportsmanship. I thought we played
really hard, and we’re struggling
a little bit, but we’ll come out of
it.”
Added senior wide receiver
Jamar Chichester: “There were
definitely some situations early
on where we had some defensive
stops. If we can do those things
consistently, we can win some
games.”
Sidwell will play at Wilson on
Friday night, while Maret will
host Potomac in another league
contest Saturday afternoon.
“There are life lessons in that,” he said. “You can’t
complain and whine about that. We just have to move
forward and look at our next obstacle.”
The former Wilson and Georgetown University
standout compared the off-field situation to a game
scenario: “You make a mistake in the game — hey,
next play, don’t focus on the past,” Owens said. “The
next play is the most important play. The boys are buying into it, and I think we’re going to be successful.
We’re focused and our goal is to win the championship.”
The People and Places of Northwest Washington
Art in the heart of D.C.
By JENNIFER GIRDISH
W
hen Lou Stovall first
met his future wife Di
Bagley, he couldn’t have
known that, one day, their art
would be hanging next to each
other in D.C.’s city hall. In fact,
when the two met at a cocktail
party in the mid-1960s, Washington
didn’t even have a mayor.
Now, Lou Stovall’s two
silkscreen prints “Blue Magic” and
“Magenta” hang next to Di Bagley
Stovall’s hyper-realist portraits
“Exotic Flower #12” and “Exotic
Flower #9,” on the bottom floor of
the John A. Wilson Building —
home to the mayor’s office and
D.C. Council. They are one of
three married couples whose art
adorns the Wilson Building’s walls.
In 2006, the D.C. Commission
on the Arts and Humanities established “HeART of D.C. — the City
Hall Art Collection,” under the
curatorial direction of Sondra
Arkin. The collection is a celebration of the city, its art and, most
important, its citizens, Arkin said.
Twenty percent of the collection’s artists were born in the
District, and 100 percent of them
live in the metropolitan area. Arkin
called the collection a rotating
lending library of original artwork
that D.C. employees can enjoy at
their workplace.
And now those employees have
a few more pieces to enjoy. On
Sept. 23, the already sizable collection grew to 203 with the acquisition of 28 new works by 17 artists.
The new pieces — a mixture of
photographs, prints and paintings
— represent some well-established
artists, including a few who recently died.
Among them is the late Kevin
McDonald, who lost a battle with
cancer in 2006. “Little House on
the Tract,” a watercolor print
infused with tea and coffee, depicts
a suburban house from his childhood. It now hangs on the Wilson
Building’s third floor.
“He would be really proud and
happy to be included in this most
important collection in this of all
towns,” said his wife Robin.
“While Kevin hated to be pigeonholed as a regional artist, he reveled in this city.”
For some of the artists, meanwhile, being included in the Wilson
Building collection marks a new
step in their evolving careers.
Kevin Kepple recreates impressions of his southwestern
Pennsylvania childhood in his D.C.
studio. His painting “Little
Conemaugh,” a mixture of glue,
ink and birch panel, hangs on the
Wilson Building’s first floor. “They
are great artists; to be in the same
collection, it’s an honor,” Kepple
said.
All told, the exhibit is worth
more than $750,000, according to
Giant squid returns
to the Smithsonian
By LINDA LOMBARDI
G
iant squids have returned to the
Smithsonian — and Clyde Roper is
one of many glad to see them.
The previous specimen, deteriorating and
lacking tentacles, was removed in 2005
before construction began on the National
Museum of Natural History’s new Sant
Oceans Hall, which opened on Sept. 27. The
squid’s absence caused a bit of a commotion
for Roper.
“People were really upset — I got calls,
e-mails. The guards would come and say, ‘I
brought my kid here to see it,’” said Roper,
zoologist emeritus at the museum. “The
exhibits people said that it was the most-visited object in the museum, second only to the
Hope Diamond.”
Roper had nothing to do with the squid’s
removal, but the popularity of the giant animal can be traced right back to him. It was
his quest to film the creatures in their natural
Sondra Arkin is curator of “HeART of D.C. — the City Hall Art Collection,” which has 28 new works.
Arkin, but she stressed that she got
a lot of good deals and didn’t pay
nearly the full value. The art is
bought directly from the artist at a
discount.
The collection fills a great need
in the city, Arkin said. “There’s a
group of artists in Washington who
for years have tried to establish a
city museum of Washington art,”
she said. “We have all these museums in town, but no one really
focuses on the artists in
Washington.”
Stovall agreed. “This is one of
the best ideas ever in the city
administration,” he said. “Instead
of giving artists money in terms of
grants, to buy their art and put it up
makes much more sense. The city
ends up with the art, and the artists
get money.”
It’s good for D.C. officials and
their staff members, too, Arkin
said. Before the city hall exhibit
opened in 2006, the walls were
completely bare. “It was pretty dismal,” she said. “I went to photo-
graph the building and I couldn’t
distinguish one hallway from the
other.” She told a story about a
woman who worked on the first
floor of the Wilson Building for
years and didn’t have a reason to
go to the third floor — until now.
And you don’t have to work
there to enjoy the art. The John A.
Wilson Building, at 1350
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, is open to
the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
and offers exhibition tours every
other month.
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watching your other favorite team
By AVIVA KEMPNER
“enemy” fans sporting Phillies or Mets shirts
in the stands. As a great many locals are
from nearby cities, it’s no surprise to see a
lot of enthusiasts cheering for the opposing
h, the joy of the September pennant
teams. The camaraderie
race in
is infectious, and people
Washington!
are actually polite.
Washingtonians can
Instead of lamenting the
feel the rush of potential
fact that our home team
victory — even when the
didn’t make it to the
Nationals, our local
postseason, it’s fun to
team, is not in the race.
attend those crucial
Many people sitting in
Photo by Charlie Gruet the stadium are loyal
games that decide who
For details on the two new giant squids on fans of nearby teams batwill be in the playoffs
display in the Smithsonian, The Current
and reap the benefits. It
tling it out for one of the
Bill Petros/The Current is especially joyful when
top slots in the East
turned to expert Clyde Roper.
you have another
Division. The fellowship Aviva Kempner
habitat that made them maybe not exactly a
favorite team playing in
between fans adds an
household word, but at least not just a mythi- extra layer of electricity to the games, and
your hometown.
cal monster anymore.
Unless it’s the Mets. During the past two
the teams also feel the love.
Roper didn’t always want to be a worldseasons, the Nationals have been the spoiler
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Many students said they love
our new science program about
monster storms. Sixth-grader
Emma Belanger said, “I think it’s
really fun, and I’m excited for all
the experiments and labs we’re
going to do. It’s interesting to hear
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The fifth- through eighthgraders have Mrs. Crowley as our
science teacher, and we are studying the National Geographic
Society’s Jason Project, named for
the mythological Greek explorer. In
the past, we have learned about
Mars, the wetlands and the rain forest. Now we are studying monster
storms.
Mrs. Crowley is excited, too.
“Storms are more serious now
because of the rise in temperature.
Students need to know about their
environment,” she said. As a child,
Mrs. Crowley remembers snowstorms and hurricanes.
“The Jason Project is very intellectually stimulating,” said David,
an eighth-grader.
“The equipment the argonauts
use is really interesting,” said John,
a seventh-grader.
“I like to learn about all the
strong wind power,” said Chris, a
fifth-grader.
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Every year Beauvoir School
raises money for Bright Beginnings
by doing a walkathon on St. Albans
School’s track. We walk at least a
mile to support Bright Beginnings,
a school that helps homeless families. After that, we go up onto the
playground and eat hot dogs, hamburgers, veggie burgers or chicken.
The third grade has a bake sale
with cookies, brownies, cupcakes,
lemon squares and lots of other
baked goods. People come up to
the table to buy things, usually for
50 cents.
This year, Beauvoir did the
walkathon on Sunday, Sept. 21,
which was sunny and warm, a perfect day for the walkathon.
Everybody came with their parents,
pets, brothers and sisters and other
family members. We were also celebrating Beauvoir’s 75th birthday.
To celebrate, the school gave us
green bandanas and bubbles.
People put their bandanas around
their heads or their dogs’ heads and
blew bubbles everywhere.
The Friday before the
walkathon, we had Spirit Day. We
wore green and white, the school
colors. Each grade did its own
cheer, and the teachers waved
green and white pompoms.
— Sarah Brodnax, third-grader
Blessed Sacrament School
Our school band is directed by
Mrs. Tifford, who is in her third
Chris Albert is seeking to build an instumental-music program.
School without instruments
prepares to change its tune
By AILEA SNELLER
A
new teacher at School
Without Walls is looking to add instrumentalmusic classes to the school’s
previous vocal offerings. And to
do so, he must solicit a symphony of instruments.
Chris Albert has taught
music for five years, most
recently at the now-closed
M.M. Washington Career High
School. When he joined Walls,
he attempted to transfer some of
M.M. Washington’s instruments, but a shipping company
lost them en route. Albert was
able to recover a couple of
instruments by searching the
company’s storage warehouse
himself, but the rest appear to
be gone for good, he said.
Help came in the form of the
Home and School Association,
a parent-teacher fundraising
group at Walls. Association officer Terry Lynch read Albert’s
year at Blessed Sacrament. Our
Beginner Band is for fourth-graders
and other students who are new to
an instrument. After a semester or
two, you move up to Advanced
Band. The band includes brass, percussion and woodwinds. The
Advanced Band will compete in
the Archdiocese band competition.
Our Buddy Program is a way
for younger children to have a role
model and the older children to
have responsibility during activities
throughout the year.
Last week, the sixth-graders met
for the first time with their new
buddies from the kindergarten. The
sixth-graders read stories to their
buddies as a way of getting to
know them. It was a new experience for the sixth-graders because
instrument wish list, realized
how expensive it would be to
buy all the instruments new and
decided to send out requests via
community listservs. The school
is asking for donations of a
euphonium, a timpani set, a
vibraphone and about 20 other
pieces.
The need for an instrument
drive became clear as Albert’s
hopes for Walls coalesced. He
has ambitious plans for developing the instrumental music
offerings, adding a jazz band, a
string orchestra, a symphony
orchestra, a concert band, a guitar ensemble and various other
small ensembles, “depending on
the instruments we get,” he
said. In years past, the school
has had only vocal music programs.
Walls “has always been a
high-achieving academic
school,” said Lynch, but its arts
programs have “areas for
improvement.”
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it was the first time for them to
have younger buddies.
The other buddy pairings are
seventh-graders with first-graders,
and eighth-graders with secondgraders.
For just the third year, the third-,
fourth- and fifth-graders have been
placed in buddy groups with one or
more students from the third, fourth
and fifth grades in each group.
— Fred Kardos, fifth-grader, and
Vincent Kardos, sixth-grader
British School
of Washington
Our class is now split so the
same students are not always
together. Also, instead of having
just French, we now have Spanish
and Latin, too.
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In our new topic called “The
Active Planet,” we are learning
about volcanoes and earthquakes.
We have made colorful collages
and diagrams of volcanoes. Our
“entry point” was to have an earthquake with Year 2. (It was only
pretend!) Their topic is toys, so
they brought their favorite toys
with them. Edinburgh was the
relief center, and St. Louis was the
entertainment center.
In Year 4, I have enjoyed making different friends like Anna,
John, Sebastian and Hussein, who
come from different places from all
over the world.
Anna comes from North
Carolina, Sebastian comes from
Argentina, John comes from
Ireland, and Hussein comes from
Egypt. There are a lot of new
teachers. The new music teacher is
Mr. McCall, and our Spanish
teacher is Mrs. Anderson. Our
Latin teacher is Mr. Reid.
— Isabel Crompton, Year 4
(third grade)
Deal Middle School
Deal celebrated its annual Spirit
Week. Monday’s Crazy Hair Day
showed many hairdos with spray
paint. Some students chose to wear
hats instead of crazy hair.
Tuesday was Shadow Day. We
wore all black, even our fingernails! Wednesday was Twin Day.
We talked to friends so we could
wear the same clothes. Thursday
was Sports Day, and people wore
their favorite sports teams’ shirts.
Some wore their soccer teams’
shirts. Friday was Deal Spirit Day.
We wore everything related to
Deal. Kids wore Viking hats and Tshirts. Ms. Kim wore a Viking hat,
too.
We are now using some of the
new parts of the school — the
gym, the cafeteria and some classrooms. The new rooms are really
bright with all the windows.
— Lily Cortez, eighth-grader
been banned for a week or so.
— Jonah Kildon, Toby
Shapinsky and Emma WalshAlker, fifth-graders
Georgetown Day School
Last week, the lower school had
two Curriculum Nights. These
nights provide parents with an
opportunity to come to school at
night and see what their child will
learn throughout the school year.
Curriculum Night is different from
individual parent-teacher conferences in that parents are not at
school to talk with teachers about
their own children, but instead to
get a broader overview. One
Curriculum Night was for the prekindergarten through second grade,
and the other for the third through
fifth grades.
Also last week, the lower school
had an assembly to celebrate
Hispanic Heritage Month. Two of
our school’s parents, Rossana
O’Hop and Mauricio FragaRosenfeld, talked about their
Hispanic heritage and discussed
their personal stories. Mrs. O’Hop
talked about moving to the United
States from Chile as a little girl,
and Mr. Fraga-Rosenfeld explained
how he came to a new country and
started a business. Both talks
emphasized what an important role
their Hispanic heritage plays in
their lives.
— Samantha Shapiro,
fourth-grader
Janney Elementary
In Mrs. Carpousis’ class of ‘09,
parents at back-to-school night may
have had more fun than they did
when they were in sixth grade
themselves way back in the 1960s
and 1970s. That was because we
created and showed our own slide
production, and because the kids in
our class got to give our parents
homework! It was another of many
great ideas that our 6C class has
come up with.
Larry and I created and produced the slide show, called
“Janney Elementary.” Our show
will also be shown to families who
visit our class on the Open House
morning.
Here are some of our assignments for parents: Read for 10
minutes with your child. Write a
short narrative — or moment —
about when you were in sixth
grade. Complete the Math Box
(division, addition and multiplication). Analyze the Persuasive
Graph. Name the four major
storms we tracked in September
‘08.
Here are some of what we
asked our parents to do for extra
credit: Fix me spaghetti. Write a
poem about me. Take me to Six
Flags. Walk the dog. Make me
clam chowder. Throw me a surprise party. Take me out to dinner.
Play “Guitar Hero III” with me.
The work was due on Sept. 26.
Many parents turned their completed assignments in on time. Most of
our parents asked for an extension.
When our parents turn in their
homework, they get a Janney Paw
Print. And, if they don’t ... it may
show on their “report card.”
Larry said, “I went to sleep, and
when I woke up, my Dad tried to
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Jewish Primary Day School
Eaton Elementary
The fifth-graders are learning
about geography and maps in
social studies, reading about slaves
and the Underground Railroad in
language arts, and doing an experiment involving how many pennies
will fit in a floating “lifeboat”
before it sinks.
In math, the fifth-graders are
learning how to add with various
methods.
Girls on the Run and Girls on
Track, running programs for girls
in third through sixth grade, have
started. At each meet, the girls train
for a big 5K race at the end of the
program.
Forms have gone out for the
Walk for the Homeless activity.
The money raised will go to people
around D.C. without homes. And
the first class that returns all its
forms will get a pizza party.
Flag football, the only form of
football allowed at our school, has
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Wed., Nov. 19 at 7:00 pm
Tue., Dec. 16 at 9:30 am
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tell me he had already read it to me
when I was asleep. ... My parents
ended up doing their homework,
but first they tried to sweet-talk me
out of it.”
— Lucas Lytel, sixth-grader
Key Elementary
All of the students are having a
great time at Fillmore Arts Center.
We are getting to know our teach-
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new classes, such as calligraphy
and My Eco-Friendly Architectural
Community. There are also some
fantastic features. Just a few of
them are skylights, three new
ceramic kilns, 11 new Apple computers for digital arts, an awesome
dance studio and a lot of space.
— Caroline Kubzansky,
fourth-grader
Lab School of Washington
We will not have to lug back-
packs and binders full of papers
around our junior high, thanks to a
program made by Google.
The program is called Google
Docs. It’s like Microsoft Word, but
it is on the Internet, so it does not
take up any space on your computer, and the great thing is that you
can access it on any computer in
the world. The junior high has
made its own page for Google
Docs. The page is dragonwork.org,
and all the kids in the junior high
have their own accounts on this
site. English, reading and computer
lab have all of their homework on
it.
It’s really great for those kids
who forget papers at home. You
can share a document with anyone
on the Dragonwork system. So if
your teacher is sick, she still can
check your homework. Another
great thing for teachers is that they
can get to all of their kids’ work,
and they don’t have to take home
any paperwork either.
— Justin Fox, eighth-grader
Lafayette Elementary
A new market called Broad
Branch Market just opened. It is
across the street from our school,
and students often go there after
school to get snacks. It has food,
household goods and dinner and
lunch fixings. It also has an icecream counter, lots of candy, slush
puppies and milkshakes. It’s a convenient resource for families in the
neighborhood.
“It’s fun and has lots of good
things,” said sixth-grader Alexa
Menjivar.
Her classmate Oriana Carletto
agrees, as do most students at
Lafayette. The Lafayette community has been without a neighborhood
store since the old Broad Branch
Market closed a few years ago.
— Liana Moore-Butler and
Claire Parker, sixth-graders
Maret School
We got homework on the first
day of school. It was pretty simple.
Soon after, we got our assignment
books, and our homework got more
and more challenging.
Every Monday, we have a
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spelling paper home and write the
misspelled words to practice. We
study these words throughout the
week for Friday, when we have our
second spelling review of the same
words. The words get more and
more tricky.
We are given math sheets most
of the time. The majority of the
class enjoys the sheets. Most of the
time we have math sheets that are
related to what we do in our math
journals. To us, it’s a fun way to
learn.
We have green homework folders that we take home and return
our homework in. After we turn in
our homework, our teacher returns
it, and we put it in our binders,
which is a change for us as thirdgraders. This is the first year we
have desks and binders to organize
our work.
— Kendall Matsumoto and
Anjali Poe, third-graders
National Cathedral School
After eight years at National
Cathedral School, I should definitely know my way around the hallways. But upon arrival in early
September, I found myself turned
around. The math classrooms had
moved from Hearst Hall to
Woodley North across the street,
switching with the language classrooms, and the library was in
Whitby Gym. Also, the English
classrooms were two floors up
from where they used to be, having
switched with the social science
rooms.
The moving of the classrooms is
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Ben and Jerry unveil new ‘green’ freeze
By KEVIN HILGERS
B
en Cohen and Jerry Greenfield have put sustainably harvested rain-forest nuts in their ice
cream and traveled the country in a partially
solar-powered bus. On Monday in Georgetown, the ice
cream gurus with a social conscience unveiled their
latest earth-friendly development: freezers that will
reduce the company’s greenhouse gas emissions.
New freezers at Ben & Jerry’s use hydrocarbons as
a refrigerant instead of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
Hydrocarbons are an environmental upgrade over
HFCs, a greenhouse gas that has been the most common type of refrigerant in the United States since the
early 1990s. The new freezers also are 10 percent more
energy efficient than traditional ones.
“What it shows is that a company can be responsible in terms of the environment, it can be proactive in
terms of solving problems in our society, and it can
make money at the same time,” Cohen said Monday.
Ben & Jerry’s will be using the freezers in select
stores as part of a two-year trial run, as the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency has not yet
approved hydrocarbon freezers.
Each unit contains about three cigarette lighters’
worth of the flammable refrigerant, which has raised
safety concerns, but 300 million units have been used
safely around the world. Underwriters Laboratories, a
product safety organization, approved the Ben &
Jerry’s units, allowing the company to move forward.
“Anybody who has a 20-pound cylinder of propane
on their grill on their wooden deck at home that operates a foot and a half from an open flame knows that
systems can be engineered safely to operate with
propane,” said Pete Gosselin, a Ben & Jerry’s engineer.
The company acquired 50 units for its stores for the
trial and hopes to get 2,000 more. The first batch of
freezers will operate in 20 locations, including 14 in
the D.C. area.
Ben & Jerry’s chief executive officer Walt Freese
said the trial will be key to getting a green light for the
freezers from the U.S. government. Other corporations
are on board with the concept, too: Coca-Cola,
McDonald’s and PepsiCo are among companies that
have joined Greenpeace in its “Refrigerants,
Naturally!” initiative.
“That’s why this test is important,” said Freese. “It
can be commercialized very quickly if we get
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D.C.institution brings its rugs to the Palisades
T
he store, like the rugs it
sells, is colorful. Nazarian
Brothers Inc. has been a
D.C. institution since 1920, when
George and Jack Nazarian got a
special permit to open a commercial property on a residential part of
P Street in Georgetown. Since then,
the shop has hopscotched around
the city, relocating to Wisconsin
Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue
before testing out Bethesda.
Last month, it rolled out its rugs
in the Palisades.
Elsie Nazarian, George’s daughter, who became president of the
company in 1970, moved the store
from Bethesda back to D.C.
because the city is “my turf,” she
said. The store, which covers two
floors containing 900 square feet
each, opened its doors at 4820
McArthur Blvd. on Sept. 1.
“This showroom is much smaller than anything we’ve ever had,”
said Nazarian, a D.C. native.
“Gradually we’ve been getting
smaller, and that’s been by pattern.
That’s how I wanted it.”
Her goal is simple: to maintain
“the reputation of Nazarian
Brothers as a family business that
has worked diligently to maintain
respect and satisfaction among its
clientele and peers.”
“It’s rather emotional to let go
of many of these hand-woven
works of art,” she added.
Those rugs include antiques,
Orientals, Persians and silks. They
come from all over the world:
Armenia, China, Egypt, India, Iran,
Pakistan, Tibet and Turkey. The
store has “everything you can think
of that comes from the Middle East
and Near East,” Nazarian said.
She has thousands of rugs, “but
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the jewels are the little rugs, beautiful pieces that can be used in so
many different ways,” she said.
“They’re paintings — they’re better than paintings.”
Prices vary with size. Antique
rugs are among the most expensive, while a 9-foot-by-12-foot,
used Persian piece in perfect condition costs less than $3,000,
Nazarian said.
She recommends that people
steer clear of trends when buying
rugs.
“What you want to do is really
stick to the classics and forget
about the fads,” she said. “Oriental
rugs are not in right now. This is
the time to buy. It’s like the stock
market: It goes up, it comes down.
However, people who have invested in rugs are still enjoying those
rugs. They haven’t lost them, like
the market. I just say, ‘Go with
your eye. Buy as nice a rug as you
can afford, and live with it for the
rest of your life and pass it on to
the next generation. Don’t go with
fads.’”
Nazarian had nothing but passion when the store’s board elected
her president of the company
almost 40 years ago. “I’d never had
any business experience in my
life,” said Nazarian, who had
worked as an elementary school
teacher. “My dad had died in ‘68,
and the management went south.
There was no one to take over but
me, and so I went in, and I think
that [within my first] three years,
we did a fantastic job. I have all
kinds of letters from all my clien-
tele. ... It encouraged me to go on.”
Nazarian’s father and uncle
incorporated the store, originally
called Nazarian Brothers Co., in
1953. They sold the Georgetown
space and built a massive facility
farther north on Wisconsin Avenue.
It included a showroom, storage
space, a rug-cleaning plant and
offices.
Nazarian’s father bought his
brother out in 1964, but her uncle
retained a 50 percent share in the
building. Her cousins wanted to
sell it to get their share of the
money after their father died.
Nazarian held them off until 1986,
when she agreed to sell. She relocated the showroom to
Massachusetts Avenue, where
American University’s Washington
College of Law is now.
She built a new, secure storage
warehouse and rug-cleaning facility in Hyattsville the same year.
The company also does rug
restoration.
“I’m very proud of the services
we provide,” said Nazarian, who
oversees a staff of five, three of
whom have worked for the company for more than 30 years. “We’re
on our third generation of clients,
which means more to me than anything because I’m very passionate
about this business. I love the people I deal with.”
And she loves rugs. “I love the
rugs because they fulfill me aesthetically, especially after you’ve
had a long, hard week. How can
you get upset when you’re surrounded by beautiful works of art?”
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postpone a prolonged zoning case
that could have legalized the operation.
Belin’s letter to the Board of
Zoning Adjustment, seeking a postponement until next January, said
only that the society was “reviewing
a number of important matters
which may or may not have a bearing on the substance of this case.”
The postponement means the tony
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estate can’t host revenue-raising
events for the foreseeable future.
The roots of the Evermay saga
go way back. A Georgetown merchant built Evermay on high ground
overlooking Oak Hill Cemetery and
what is now Rock Creek Park
around the start of the 19th century.
Belin said the mansion was a place
where educated people of the day
gathered to discuss culture and politics.
Diplomat F. Lammot Belin,
Harry’s grandfather, purchased the
three-acre estate in 1923. It is one of
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the few intact historic estates in the
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In the late 1990s, Belin, who
now lives in Potomac, formed the
Evermay Society as a “forum for
learning, fostering dialogue and
meeting community needs.” The
society’s Web site generally refers to
the property as a “wedding venue,”
with a long list of rules and fees for
renting the facility.
At earlier zoning hearings,
neighbors who supported Belin’s
activities wore “Forever Evermay”
buttons and testified about evenings
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spent at charitable and educational
events at the estate.
Ray Kukulski is a Georgetown
resident who thinks neighbors
opposed to Belin will come to regret
getting what they wanted. “As a
matter of right, it could be turned
into a school,” said Kukulski. “And
they think it’s noisy now!”
But some neighbors in that quiet
corner of Georgetown were upset by
the constant parties, corporate
events and occasional motorcades
when President Bush came for
Republican Party events or
fundraisers, with Secret Service
officers shutting down adjacent
streets.
Neighbors complained and
twice, in 2003 and again last fall,
city zoning authorities told Belin he
needed a special zoning exception
to hold commercial activities in a
private house in a residential zone.
But the events continued, until
neighbors got the city Department
of Consumer and Regulatory
Affairs, and then the Office of the
Attorney General, involved.
“As far as we’re concerned, it’s
an illegal use of their house,” regulatory department spokesperson
Mike Rupert told The Current.
“They were packing people in there
but needed a [zoning] exception to
hold those events.”
Neighbors, in the zoning hearing, also questioned the legitimacy
of a nonprofit whose main purpose,
they said, seemed to be to generate
revenue to maintain what is still
legally a private home. Belin and his
attorney disputed the claims, and it
was not clear, as the hearings
dragged on, whether that issue
would play a role in the board’s
decision.
By September, with the zoning
case unresolved, Evermay stopped
booking paid events. “No more
commercial events will be allowed
at Evermay until the owner is able to
secure the proper certificate of occupancy,” Leslie Kershaw, spokesper-
son for the city attorney general,
wrote in an e-mail to The Current.
“Without a certificate of occupancy,
it is unlawful to use the property for
non-residential purposes.”
The attorney general had
authorized previously arranged
events to continue last spring and,
after negotiation, also allowed
three weddings in August and
early September to avoid disappointing the brides and grooms
with prior plans for elaborate ceremonies at the estate. But in an
unusual arrangement, the city
required that fees for those ceremonies be paid not to Evermay but
to specified charities.
In a March 28 letter to Belin’s
attorney, attorney general Peter
Nickles wrote that “this office has
decided not to seek judicial relief
against a particular wedding taking
place if the $18,000 that would have
otherwise been paid to the Evermay
Society for use of the ... estate is
instead donated to the following
three organizations,” listing the
Georgetown Ministry Center,
Miriam’s Kitchen and the
Georgetown advisory neighborhood
commission’s grant program.
One of the brides was the daughter of Washington Post reporter
Walter Pincus. Pincus, in a telephone interview, said the Aug. 2
wedding had been arranged last fall,
and that the couple didn’t learn until
spring that Belin “couldn’t go
through with the wedding. We were
both upset and angry,” Pincus said.
But the various couples got
together and appealed to Nickles’
office to let the weddings go on,
helping to choose which charities
would benefit.
His daughter’s wedding “came
off beautifully,” Pincus said. “It
actually rained till 5:25 p.m.,” then
stopped just in time for the 5:30 ceremony. “They were married under a
rainbow,” Pincus said.
Staff writer Carol Buckley contributed to this article.
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oped portions of the city. When the
weather is dry, combined sewers
funnel their cargo to the Blue
Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant
in Southwest, which in turn
deposits the treated water into the
Potomac River.
During wet weather, however, if
the sewer cannot contain the extra
storm water, the mixture of storm
water and wastewater is directed
through overflow points into Rock
Creek and the Potomac and
Anacostia rivers.
The four areas that will see construction crews working to separate
the sewers are Pennsylvania
Avenue near the intersection with
Rock Creek Parkway; Kalorama
Road and Tracy Place; Q Street
from 27th Street to the Q Street
Bridge; and Connecticut Avenue
near Calvert Street.
Representatives from the water
and sewer agency are making
arrangements to speak to advisory
neighborhood commissions in
affected areas to explain the separation process and schedule.
Project manager Barry Lucas was
scheduled to speak Tuesday night
at the Georgetown meeting, and
the agency is trying to get on the
agendas for the three other construction zones, said spokesperson
Pamela Mooring.
The schedule for all four projects is similar, said David
McLaughlin, acting director of
engineering and technical services
for the agency. Construction bids
will go out soon, and the agency
will choose a single contractor for
all four sites by March.
Construction should start by
November and wind up by June
2011, Mooring said.
That contractor will determine
the details of the schedule, but
McLaughlin said the agency is
committed to “work closely with
residents” to make the months of
construction as painless as possible.
“We’re looking not to shut
down the street,” said Lucas, who
added that some activities, such as
connecting water mains to apartment buildings, will require closing portions of streets.
While the streets are torn up for
sewer separation, the agency is
also looking to replace water
mains and valves.
The sewer separation efforts,
which also include a project in
Anacostia, are a small portion of a
massive effort to reduce pollutants
that the city dumps into waterways
by 2025. In all, the separation will
eliminate only five of the city’s 53
overflow points — the few sites
identified as areas that “loaned
themselves” to separation, said
McLaughlin.
But to separate combined sewers throughout the city would
require “40 years and several billion dollars,” he said.
McLaughlin claimed that the
agency’s solution, part of the longterm plan developed after a 2003
lawsuit by environmental group
Friends of the Earth, will cost
about half as much. Four massive
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project manager Barry Lucas
underground storage tunnels will
hold overflowing water during
storms until the treatment facility
is able to process it.
The $2 billion required for that
project, however, has yet to
appear, as The Washington Post
reported last week.
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The Rock Creek separation
project will cost $10.1 million and
is fully funded in the agency’s
budget, said Mooring.
Kenneth Pantuck of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
said in an interview that though
the Rock Creek separations are a
“minuscule” portion of the overall
project, they are “important to that
segment of Rock Creek.”
But the sewer separations will
not solve the creek’s main problem. The fast-moving Rock Creek
does not suffer a fraction of the
effects of sewer overflows that the
sluggish Anacostia River does, but
fecal coliform bacteria levels in
the creek are high.
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even after sewer separation.
According to a 2006 document
prepared by Pantuck, sources of
bacteria — including the District’s
storm-water system as well as
sources upstream in Maryland —
will continue to prevent the creek
from meeting water quality standards after separation.
But the separation will have an
aesthetic impact, Pantuck argued
in his report. By eliminating the
flow of raw sewage into the creek,
there will be a reduction in the
“discharge of solids and floatables,” thereby improving the
appeal of the area for recreational
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A Look at the Market in Northwest Washington
Builder braves slowdown in opening luxurious Metropole
T
he case of bad timing that
has haunted the Metropole
luxury condominium building since its groundbreaking
ON THE MARKET
CAROL BUCKLEY
popped up again at Thursday’s
opening party for the year-overdue
development. Among a well-heeled
crowd that months ago likely
would not have batted an eye at the
high prices were distinct grumblings about markets, bailouts, and
— words dreaded by any luxury
builder — whether or not the place
was worth the money.
But developer Scott Pannick
was confident in his ability to sell
— at full price —the remaining 30
of the $70 million Logan Circle
building’s 90 units. “I’ve learned
something from every building I’ve
done,” said Pannick, whose
Metropolis Development Co. has
built four other condo projects in
D.C. “I’m really happy with the
way this one turned out,” he said,
adding that he has sold an additional four units during the past two
weeks.
Such optimism was encouraged
by party elements that recalled
1940s glamour and sunnier economic forecasts. Cigarette girls
offered sweets instead of smokes,
champagne flowed as freely in the
model units as at the bar set up in
the lobby, and searchlights outside
struck a note of bravura in belttightening times. The postwar subtext? Don’t worry; flush periods
always follow lean.
The architecture of Metropole,
at 15th and P streets across from
the Whole Foods store, is as optimistic and generous as its opening
fete would suggest. Rather than
squeeze every drop of floor space
out of each level, architects from
RTKL recognized the importance
of vertical volume even in small
urban condos. A model unit with
less than 900 square feet of living
space, therefore, nevertheless features a ceiling that soars nearly 20
feet.
While some visitors to that unit
looked up, or out through the wall
of windows, others paced the small
living area, trying to imagine how
to fit existing furniture in the space.
Still others milled around the sleek
kitchen outfitted in cabinetry from
the Canadian firm Cecconi Simone
(“I thought about Italian, but the
supply lines were difficult,” said
Pannick) and countertops made of
F O R
CaesarStone, a compressed quartz
that offers the benefits of granite as
well as a cachet that ubiquitous
granite just can’t muster anymore.
The lighting is discreet but wellplanned in the kitchen area, defining it as a special part of the room
and warmly spotlighting the group
gathered there.
The surfaces in a Metropole unit
are varied: Metal ductwork visually
links ground-floor spaces; wood
floors are a blond and blank canvas; tension wire marches up the
metal staircase to the second floor,
where large-scale Italian porcelain
tiles line the bathroom, which
includes a huge shower. In some
units, the shower shares a frostedglass wall with the adjacent bedroom — a feature that, along with
gigantic closets, drew the most
admiration from Thursday’s visitors.
One surface is optional: raw
concrete slabs form ceilings and
add a definite industrial touch to
the units. A skim coating of plaster,
said Pannick, is offered to buyers
who don’t want bare concrete.
Though the building offers a
range of floor plans (almost all
units have two levels), each of the
model units that were open
Thursday showed an unusual com-
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High ceilings are the standard at
Metropole.
mitment to open space. The second-level bedroom in a one-bedroom unit has only a half-wall to
separate it from the living area
below. Another bedroom in a twobedroom unit is almost entirely
open along one wall to the floor
below. Great for light and air —
and early risers — but some condo
shoppers will want more privacy.
Public spaces are not neglected
here. Grasscloth lines hallways that
are punctuated by marble plinths at
each doorway. Carved unit numbers are a rough contrast to the polished surface that, with its implication of stability and permanence, is
surely an appeal to the transient
D.C. buyer hoping to put down
roots.
Pannick has made the groundlevel retail spots another carrot to
dangle before prospective buyers.
Purchasers receive a complimentary one-year membership to the
25,000-square-foot VIDA Fitness
gym. A parking spot in the building’s garage is also included, as is
concierge service and two guest
suites available to residents to
house out-of-town guests.
Prices at Metropole start at
$400,000 for a studio and climb to
$2.3 million for penthouses. For
more information, contact the sales
office at 202-667-3776.
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Staged to Sell
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THE CURRENT
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STADIUM
From Page 15
in the Mets’ pennant hopes. Last year I saw
one of the last Nats-Mets games when the
Nats dashed the hope of local fans in Shea
Stadium. This year, I didn’t have to travel as
far. When we had four games against the
Mets in September, it was easy to spot the
team’s anxious fans on the subway as they
made their way to Nationals Park.
David Curtin, a musician, wore his Mets
shirt and arrived early, as I did, to see the
teams practice. He had adjusted his musical
performances to attend three out of the four
games, and he pointed out that it’s “not as
bad being a Mets fan in D.C. [as] being one
in Philly.”
Because of baseball’s version of musical
chairs, one can also take the opportunity to
observe how our former players — now on
the Mets — and our newer players — from
the Mets — try to impress their erstwhile
owners.
Ryan Church, who used to play for the
Nats, commented on how great it feels when
there are “Mets fans everywhere” rooting for
them. He admitted part of him still wants his
old friends, like Ryan Zimmerman, to hit
well. “Even in a pennant race!” I remarked
with surprise.
There are always journalists at the
Washington games, and a hot pennant race
only enhances this fourth-estate phenomena.
I recently saw Joe Klein, the author and
Time magazine columnist, on the practice
field, beaming with joy about his favorite
team being so close to the playoffs. He
proudly claimed Mets general manager
Omar Minaya as a friend and appeared highly optimistic. Recalling the Mets’ demise at
the end of the season last year, Klein confidently boasted that this year the Mets had a
“different team and would make the playoffs.”
“Got to be hopeful about something,” he
added after we discussed politics.
Minaya, meanwhile, was well aware of
the Mets’ fan base beyond Shea Stadium. He
claimed that the Mets had the second-highest-fan base in the country, beyond even the
Red Sox. “They come out in droves in
Florida, where there is a large displaced
New York population,” he said.
When I professed that I would be conflicted if the Red Sox (my favorite American
League team) went up against the Mets,
Minaya replied, “Just hope that you have
that conflict.”
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Lerner, who noted the huge presence of
Mets and Phillies fans late in the season.
“Our fans will travel well, too,” Lerner said.
At these games, Phillies fans, wishing for
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only ones who know for sure
where to find them. The second
expedition, in 1999, filmed by
From Page 15
Discovery, used a one-person subrenowned expert on giant squid.
mersible vehicle.
Living on the coast in Rye, N.H.,
In both cases, Roper said, they
he always loved
got “unbelievthe sea, and
ably spectacular
beginning at age
video footage.
14 he put himNew Zealand
self through
colleagues were
school as a lobblown away by
ster fisherman.
what was off
But in college,
their shores that
Photo by Charlie Gruet they’d never
he was a philosSquid expert Clyde Roper
ophy major —
seen before.”
until one sumThere was
mer day when he was out on the
one small problem, however: The
lobster boat with his brother.
fabulous footage did not include
“In the lobster traps, all kinds of any giant squid.
other things came in,” said Roper.
“I was disappointed, sure, but
“[My brother] would get so
was it totally unexpected? No,”
annoyed when I would stop and
said Roper. “It’s a big ocean out
look through them. Finally he said, there.”
‘You know there is such a thing as
In fact, said Roper, the ocean
marine biology?’”
contains perhaps 95 percent of the
He hadn’t, but he changed his
total living space on the planet, and
major that fall. Despite having
much of it remains a mystery. But
taken “zero science” classes up to
it’s one that the two new giantthat point, he managed to graduate
squid specimens in Oceans Hall
on time. His master’s and doctoral
bring a little bit closer to home.
squid research didn’t focus on the
The 24-foot-long female is the
giants, because there were no real
largest on display in the United
collections to study — just scatStates. Beauty might never have
tered, poor specimens here and
been more in the eye of the beholdthere.
er, but to Roper they’re “beautiful
“It was not the sort of thing you specimens, with the full tentacles,
build a career on,” he said.
which is rare.”
Roper came to the Smithsonian
Recently, Japanese scientists,
for his first job in 1966, and the
adopting Roper’s idea of using
first giant-squid specimen didn’t
sperm whales to lead them to
arrive there until 1980. When a col- squids, captured the first still pholeague at Harvard called to say that tos, as well as the first film, of a
one had washed ashore in Plum
live giant squid lured up to the surIsland, Mass., Roper rushed up to
face. But to this day, no human has
see it. Later, when the Harvard
ever seen one in its natural habitat,
museum couldn’t keep the specias was Roper’s goal.
men — they were afraid the large
“We don’t know,” said Roper.
case needed to house it would be
“Are they luminescent? Can you
too heavy for the floors of the hisimagine if you could see a giant
toric building — he drove it back
squid catching its prey, trying to
to Washington in a coffin, the only
escape from a sperm whale, its
box he could find that was big
mating behavior ... ?”
enough to house it.
There’s much left to learn.
His first expedition, from 1996
Would he try again? “I sort of
to 1997, involved attaching
promised my family I’m not doing
National Geographic’s Crittercam
that again. That’s for younger peowith giant suction cups to sperm
ple,” Roper said. “But if someone
whales — the main predators of
came along with a check, I’d be
giant squid, and, Roper said, the
out there tomorrow.”

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