After attending Burke’s recent graduation ceremony, I came across the commencement address that Jeff Bezos gave this Spring at Princeton. Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon. When he started work on Amazon, most people didn’t know what the Internet was. Even the people who were aware of the Internet thought that he was [...]
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Choices Choices
Posted in Community, Education on July 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Happy Fourth From Burke.Word!
Posted in Community, History on July 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Annual Fourth of July Palisades Parade demonstrates that independence has less to do with where you are than where you’re going and how you travel there! Lot’s more Independence Day photos at BurkePix.
LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition
Posted in Art, Community, Education, History, Musings on July 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This summer the featured exhibition at the National Building Museum is, LEGOs!! [...]
Teen Talk Buster – Decoding your teens language.
Posted in Community, Musings on July 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Edmundification Learns the Meaning of Jmawesome
Posted in Community on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Burke.Word loves words. So, it was with great interest that Burke.Word listened to the Graduation speech of Jmaw Moses (’10), who rose to define for gathered friends and family the meaning, application and etymology of a powerful, new word that has been added permanently to the Burke lexicon. Take a look at his Edmundification below, [...]
Summer in the City…
Posted in Art, Community, Performing Arts on June 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Isn’t complete without the invasion of FRINGE. What’s FRINGE? well it’s a worldwide performing arts festival that happens in 24 states and 60 countries throughout the year. (see the full list of festivals in the US HERE) Fringe Festivals feature new, innovate work by both established theatre artists and folks just starting out. There are [...]
Kick, Click, and SCORE!
Posted in Community, Community Service, Education, Uncategorized on June 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today, the executive director of DC SCORES is begining a fundraising campaign by juggling a soccer ball NON STOP from 7am-7pm until they reach their goal of 130,000. DC SCORES is an after school program for 700 students at 23 DC public and public charter elementary and middle schools. featuring teamwork, leadership, and commitment carried [...]
Burke Board Sings Hello Goodbye
Posted in Community on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday night was the annual end of year Burke Board of Trustees get-together. The event is always a happy, though somewhat bittersweet, one, as the Board bids a fond farewell and thanks to hard working departing members – but also gets to say “welcome” to new (unsuspecting) Trustees. This year Eva H. and Nathan Z. [...]
Ed(mund)ification – James Angarola’s Sideburns Talk to Burke.Word Out of Both Sides of His Mouth
Posted in Community, tagged Community on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Burke.Word first met James Angarola (Burke ’10) along with Ms. Burke.Word 15 or so years ago. We were watching the Burke.Word kidlets at Lincoln Park on Capitol Hill, when we first spied James and his 2 year-old twin, John, dressed in matching red liederhosen-like shorts with big white buttons, running around the park like they [...]
Food, Wine & Song
Posted in Community, tagged Community, EBPA on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Well, in candor, there actually wasn’t much in the way of singing. But the Parent Association’s end of year party this week did, as always, have good food & drink. There was also a lot of thank yous, hugs and warmth for many of the parents and staff who volunteered to help throughout the year. [...]
A Constellation of Stars
Posted in Community, tagged Community, EBPA, Education on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The stars were in alignment on Sunday for the Graduation of the Class of 2010. In the time between the processional and the recessional, the graduates, staff and the audience: Found out the full meaning of the word “Jmawesome” Heard Emma and Jesse list the ‘best’ first lines of every graduation speech made since the [...]
2010 Dance Contest….
Posted in Community, Uncategorized on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To see all the photos go to the Media Gallery on our website.
An Assembly of Notables
Posted in Community, tagged Community on June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The King of France would rely upon his Assembly of Notables at various key times during the 16th through 18th Centuries for consultation and advice on some of the most important matters of state. Its members were selected by the King for their zeal, devotion and fidelity to France. Yesterday marked the last official school [...]
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