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Teachers Awarded Grants

Three Alexandria teachers are among 19 from around the area selected for a six-week independent study program in the humanities this summer funded with $2,500 grants from Alexandria, Arlington and Montgomery county school systems and the private Fairfax County Public School Education Foundation. The program is being administered by the Council for Basic Education, a nonprofit group that supports humanities in education.

Participants from Alexandria included: Nancy R. Donley, a T.C. Williams High School English teacher, who will study the Black Death plague in Northern Italy; Celia M. Ochs, Lyles-Crouch Elementary School teacher, who will study the life and works of Martin Luther King Jr.; and Emily R. Rothberg, T.C. history teacher, who will study the black middle class in three cities.

The teachers were selected for their teaching achievements and their study plan. Each $2,500 grant includes $200 for the teachers to buy books relevant to their studies for their school's library.

Violinist Captures Honor

Chung-Hoon Peter Chun, a violinist and 1989 graduate of T.C. Williams High School, placed third in the 1989 Performing Arts Association of Alexandria/Macklin-Hansen Solo Competition.

Competing against string students in grade 9 through 12 from around Northern Virginia, Chun, who studies under Eric deWaardt, captured the honor and a $50 cash award for his performance from memory of Brahms Sonata No. 1 in F Minor.

The three top winners, including Chun, were featured in a recital with piano accompaniment in early June at the Lyceum. Lorraine Reilly, a 1989 T.C. graduate who plays the violin, won an honorable mention.

Lawyer Aids the Needy

Leonard S. Rubenstein, an Alexandria lawyer, has been awarded a distinguished service award for his work on behalf of the mentally disabled and homeless. The award was made by the State Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Service Board. Board member Lois Van Valkenburgh, also from Alexandria, presented the award at the board's meeting in Alexandria last week.

Rubenstein is the legal director of the Mental Health Law Project in the District, a group that works on issues involving the rights of persons nationwide with mental disabilities. The work includes litigation, policy analysis, writings and advice to other lawyers involved in mental health law issues. Rubenstein has written extensively on these issues. He is also co-founder and a board member of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless and a former member of the Alexandria Community Mental Health Clinic's governing board.

Music Scholarships Awarded

Three local young musicians won scholarships to a one-week music camp this summer, thanks to a program established 19 years ago in memory of a T.C. Williams High School student who loved music and music camp.

Amy Alfieri, a rising 10th grader from George Washington Junior High School who plays the violin, Teresa Haggerty, a rising junior at T.C. Williams who also plays the violin, and Jennifer Stowe, a rising ninth grader at Francis C. Hammond Junior High School who plays the cello, were named the 1989 Barwick Scholarship winners.

Chosen for their talent and ability as well as involvement in their school music program, the three attended the Virginia Music Camp at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va.

Three scholarships a year have been provided since 1970 by William and Joyce Barwick, who started the tradition in memory of their daughter, Kathy, who died of leukemia in 1969. Kathy Barwick had played in the T.C. Williams orchestra and attended the Virginia Music Camp.

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