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Kings Park High School Names Ma and O’Connor Top of Class BY LEAH CHIAPPINO LCHIAPPINO@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Kings Park High School graduating seniors Celina Ma and Taryn O’Connor have earned the title of valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively. With the coronavirus, Ma and O’Connor have had to make the best of celebrating the conclusion of their senior year of high school in the face of a pandemic. Ma says that she has found positivity through the darkness. “Losing my senior year to the COVID-19 pandemic was heartbreaking and disappointing, to say the least,” she said. “But through adversity, comes growth. While we have all experienced a great loss, I think the Class of 2020 has also gained a new resilience and strength that will serve us well for the rest of our lives.” O’Connor added that while the restrictions have been disappointing, she has hope for the future. “I was definitely disappointed over losing the end of my senior year due to COVID-19, she said. “I found it difficult to transition to online classes, as I find that I work best in a classroom environment. I was also looking forward to all the events for the seniors that

Celina Ma and Taryn O’Connor have been named valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively. Photos from Kings Park High School

happen in the final months, whether it be prom or the Senior Countdown on the field. However, I’m happy that the school is trying to arrange an in-person graduation ceremony, and I’m hopeful that restrictions will eventually loosen so that the class can get to graduate together.” Ma earned a final grade point average of 108.42 and will attend Duke University in

the fall to study in their pre-med program. Well on her way to a career in medicine, Ma has conducted biochemical research at Peter Tonge’s laboratory at Stony Brook University on the “development of novel, boron-based bivalent inhibitors against Staphylococcus aureus” over the past few summers. “It really opened my eyes to what the

science research field was like, and I learned so much during those 10 weeks,” she said. “It was also super fun being able to get hands-on doing different chemical reactions and laboratory procedures.” She has won multiple awards for her research. Ma is also a National AP Scholar and a National Merit Scholar. She is the captain of the varsity tennis team and is a co-president of Independent Science Research, Model UN and Science Olympiad, as well as the vice president of Mock Trial. She volunteered as the entertainment chair of the Kings Park Relay for Life and at her local food pantry. A dedicated piano player, she was an all-state qualifier, playing as both a soloist and an accompanist. Despite all of these accomplishments, Ma said her favorite high school memory has simply been relaxing with her friends during junior prom. “[It] was a rollercoaster of a day,” she said. “I had two AP exams back to back, going from 7:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. I was super stressed after I finished because I was already late to prom pictures and still had to get ready, but I think the anxiety of the day ended up making the fun of the night all the more memorable. I made a fashionably late entrance to prom pictures and had a blast dancing with KINGS PARK CONTINUED ON A4

Fortmeyer and Capece Are Hauppauge’s Top 2 in Class of 2020 BY LEAH CHIAPPINO LCHIAPPINO@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Hauppauge High School has named Caroline Fortmeyer and Devin Capece as its valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively. The graduates have had to finish their senior year and celebrate their achievements in the midst of a pandemic. Yet, Fortmeyer said that the situation has taught her resilience and perspective. “Although it was very unfortunate to have my prom canceled and graduation delayed, this entire experience has transformed my life in ways that are far more important than these events,” she said. “The COVID-19 pandemic has yielded lessons of resiliency, innovation and gratitude for our entire society.” Capece added that he chose to look at the positive aspect of having online classes, such as the fact his family grew closer together. “We can’t change the fact that COVID-19 has forced us to distance ourselves from others and that all of the senior moments that we had been looking forward to were suddenly stripped away, but we can control whether we allow it to destroy our spirit,” he said. “I am hopeful that this crisis will display the resilience of our

generation and teach us to find value and hope in a dire situation. … I am grateful that this period has provided all of us with the time to reflect upon what is truly important.” Fortmeyer earned a final grade point average of 102.61. She is headed to Northeastern University in the fall where she will major in business. The valedictorian said that she is uncertain about what her specific career path will look like, but that she hopes to work with people in a math-oriented field. At Hauppauge, she was National Honor Society class president and was a member of the Mock Trial club and the chamber choir. The choir took her to competitions in New Jersey, Virginia and Florida and allowed her to perform at various community events. She said the choir’s trip to Disney last year as her favorite high school memory. “It was truly an unforgettable experience,” she said. Having lived in Hauppauge her entire life, she said the community is one of the things she will miss the most when she goes away to college. “I am grateful to have grown up in such a supportive community,” she said. “In fact, some of my earliest memories involve attending school events with my brothers. It always amazes me how our community is so united

Caroline Fortmeyer and Devin Capece have been named valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively. Photos from Hauppauge High School

especially during the most difficult of times, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic.” Fortmeyer credited both the support of her family and the education she received as factors leading to her success. “I cannot express sufficient gratitude

to my parents for their tireless support and advice, which has been invaluable to me,” she said. “I thank them for their patience, love and for teaching me the most important life lessons. I would also like to thank all of my HAUPPAUGE CONTINUED ON A4

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University

Bernstein to Remain at SBU for 2020-21 Academic Year

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As the 2019-2020 school year comes to a close, Stony Brook University’s recent interim president is returning to familiar territory. Michael Bernstein will remain at SBU, even though his last day as interim president was June 30. On July 1 he returned to his former position as provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs. Last August, Bernstein took on the role of interim president after the departure of former president, Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr. Bernstein said he decided to stay after a request from new university president, Maurie McInnis, who was appointed in March, and added that a search for his replacement may take up to a year. He plans to move to California in the future. “I’m in a position, I think, to help Maurie as she transitions in as the new president,” he said. “Obviously, we’re very much challenged with planning through this COVID emergency and figuring out how we’re going to manage the fall semester, not to mention the whole academic year.” While the pandemic got in the way of working on some SBU goals such as strategic revisioning, strengthening a few of the business practices and revitalization of the computer system, he’s confident that McInnis, with whom he has been in constant contact since her appointment, will be prepared to take on the challenges once the 2020 fall semester can begin. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, which required colleges and universities to switch to online learning and hold events virtually since March, Bernstein said he enjoyed his time as interim president overall. “I was surrounded by a superb senior leadership team,” he said. “We were getting a lot

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done in terms of managing university affairs.” Bernstein said he realized the importance of taking precautions early on once the number of COVID-19 cases started rising in the U.S. “My sense was that we were in the midst of an emerging crisis that was going to accelerate pretty quickly and pretty dramatically,” he said. “We made a decision to shut down and start canceling major campus events pretty quickly.” He said that the campus nearly closed earlier than it did but the school had to wait for directions from the State University of New York administration to coordinate with the broader school network. Bernstein said the last major event at the campus was the 2020 gala held at the Staller Center March 7. “I had said at that point that we will have no more major campus events, and we were a little early when we made that decision,” he said. While he received some pushback, he’s glad he made the decision. “I think within a couple of weeks people were circling back to me saying, ‘That was the right decision, thank you for making it as quickly as you did.’ I think it became clear to people that we had to shut everything down.” He added that shortly after the university cut back on public events, students were asked to head home, and spring break was extended to two weeks so the university could prepare for online learning. He said at the last in-person university council meeting, it was realized they were all in the midst of a critical moment in their careers and that everyone would be defined by what decisions were made. While he said it was a challenging time, he remained positive. “There’s the old saying, ‘Calm seas and blue skies do not make good sea captains,’” he said. “You’re not in a leadership position to work when things are calm. When things are calm and fine, you don’t need leaders.”

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Continued from A3 my friends all night.” In line with her favorite memory, she advises next year’s seniors to “make the most of every moment. After the stress of applying to college is over, enjoy your final days of being a high schooler, and don’t forget to thank all the teachers/faculty you’re leaving behind.” Ma credits those around her for helping her achieve her success. “There are so many people who have helped me get to where I am today,” she said. “I’d like to thank my family first and foremost, my friends, my teachers and administration for their endless support. I couldn’t have done it without them.” O’Connor finished high school with a final GPA of 106.59 and will attend Harvard University in the fall where she is set to study applied mathematics. A daughter of Irish immigrants, her family settled in Kings Park a few years before she was born. O’Connor said she loved growing up in Kings Park’s tight-knit community. “Throughout my time in Kings Park, I have spent a lot of time with friends, and have made many memories along the way, whether it be from walking on the beach or getting a

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Continued from A3 teachers, for their commitment and dedication has been so impactful. Since the day I began kindergarten, I have felt welcomed and supported by every teacher that has entered my life. I am beyond grateful to have learned from such knowledgeable teachers and people of admirable character.” Capece finished his senior year with a 102.18 GPA. He is set to attend Purdue University to study chemical engineering. He is unsure what he would like to do as a career but is certain that he wants to use his education to help solve societal problems he is passionate about. The salutatorian was involved in a number of honor societies, was a varsity tennis player and played the saxophone with the advanced jazz band. He was president of the ethics and debate club, secretary of the robotics team, and competed in the Model United Nations competition. He also volunteered with Vincentian Leadership Institute to go on various community service trips throughout New York City and was a Eucharistic minister and outreach volunteer at Christ the King

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slice of pizza,” she said. “In school, I made invaluable connections with my teachers that I will never forget.” The salutatorian cited the school’s annual Relay for Life event as her favorite high school memory. “Each year, it was a fun-filled day with friends, whether it be at my team’s tent, on the field, or walking around the track,” she said. “Plus, the event sheds light on the importance of supporting the fight against cancer, and I believe that it is a great way to get the community together.” O’Connor was also the captain of the Math Team and Trivia Team, the copresident of Model UN and Independent Science Research, the vice president of Science Olympiad, the treasurer of the Mock Trial team and a member of the Relay for Life committee. She was a member of the National Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society and ran in the cross country, winter track and spring track teams. When asked to give advice for next year’s seniors, O’Connor stressed the importance of setting goals and sticking to them. She added her teachers and parents have helped her to do so in her own life. “Their guidance ultimately helped me to achieve the goals that I set for myself,” she said.

Parish. Capece also worked with Long Island Cares to organize food drives. Capece said his favorite high school memory was hanging out with friends and ordering pizzas late at night at the hotel during the trip to the Festivals of Music in Virginia Beach he took his sophomore year. One of four boys, Capece credits his closeknit family for his success. ”Both my parents are the most giving people in the world, and represent love at its core,” he said. “Of course, no family is perfect, but it’s the imperfections that make it perfect. My parents have always taught us positive values, most notably selflessness and doing good for others, but have also made us aware that nothing good ever happens without hard work.” Specifically, he thanked his mother for helping him navigate the college search. She “helped me to figure out which schools were best to apply to, and she became a database of college information,” he said. “I am truly thankful that she has put so much effort into my life, and that she enjoys doing so.” Capece also thanked the high school band director, Andrew Monsen, and credits him for making his experience in the music department so enjoyable.

Smithtown High School East’s and Smithown High School West’s honor speakers for the Class of 2020 could not be reached before the deadline for the July 2 edition. Both will be featured in a future issue of The Times of Smithtown.

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Education

Louis Viglietta Named One of Commack’s Academic Leaders

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Viglietta is preparing to attend Princeton ptain of University at the end of the summer and , the cowill major in chemical and biological dependent engineering. Once he attends college, he said sident of he will miss the Commack community. the Mock “I’m excited, but there will actually be Relay for things I will miss about Commack,” he said, er of the adding that he and his friends have already Spanish discussed how they will visit each other. s country, The academic leader said that at a young . age his father, Peter, a software engineer, ext year’s taught him chemistry, and he continued ortance of to focus on the subject in high school. He She added said his interest in biology developed over ed her to the years watching his mother, Anna Marie, battling a mild case of cerebral palsy. elped me He was 4 years old when he moved myself,” to Commack from Wantagh and attended Rolling Hills Primary School and Sawmill

Intermediate before starting high school. Viglietta said he has appreciated his education in the district and was lucky to have supportive teachers, including his math teachers and chemistry teacher Stephanie O’Brien. In addition to his studies, during his time in Commack, Viglietta was involved in the Simons Summer Research Program at Stony Brook University, performed as principal flute player with the ICA Wind Ensemble, was treasurer for the class executive board and Science Honor Society and president of the Quizbowl club. During his high school career, he won second place in the Toshiba/ NSTA ExploraVision contest and is a Rensselaer Medal scholarship winner. Viglietta said he enjoyed being on the class board as treasurer, dealing with financial decisions, organizing big events and the senior gift, as well as working with the advisers and his classmates. He added that he also gained a lot of positive experience as president of the Quizbowl, a competition team he joined in ninth grade. Viglietta said the Simons Research Program provided great experience in the biochemical

and bioresearch fields, allowing him to work in a Stony Brook Medicine lab and research pathways that cause some of the side effects of chemotherapy, and hear from some of the faculty members about their research. Regarding this year’s school shutdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic, Viglietta said he found the online learning experience interesting but manageable. With prom canceled and graduation tentatively scheduled for August, Viglietta said he was able to adjust, but all of his friends are dealing with it differently. “When I started to think about it, it was the little things that won’t get rescheduled — the goodbyes to teachers and friends, the yearbook signings — all those smaller events that don’t have a setting to take place anymore,” he said. For his fellow students, he said his best advice is to keep at it and persevere even when times are tough. “Even though this class had the year chopped off a bit, there still have been great milestones and things to look forward to,” he said. “Just keep looking ahead, and you’ll get through it.”

Louis Viglietta will attend Princeton University. Photo from Viglietta

Kimberly Liao Shares Academic Leader Honor with Viglietta BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM With a 104.46 weighted grade point average, Kimberly Liao shares the honor of Commack High School academic leader with Louis Viglietta. Liao will be attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology later this year with a combined biology and chemistry major. Her father, Xiangmin Liao, is a chemist, so she said going into that field was always in the back of her mind. Her mother, Xia Zhou, works in the public health sector. Through the student’s years in the Commack School District, she has been involved in the Regeneron Science Talent Search and was named one of its top 300 scholars for 2020. She also has been class president from her sophomore year through senior year and was a member of the tennis team. In 2015, while in eighth grade, she won the Suffolk County girls tennis title and became an all-state qualifier, and repeated the feat a year later. She said sometimes balancing schoolwork with other activities can be stressful. “But, I think that all-around prioritizing

and knowing when to take a break and when to step back and what needs to be done in that moment of time helps,” she said. While she was born in Kansas and lived in Minnesota when she was younger, Liao said she has spent all her school years in the Commack district. She attended Indian Hollow Primary School and Burr Intermediate before attending Commack High. Among her favorite classes, she said, was chemistry and she enjoyed conducting science research and being hands-on in biology. She said while the state mandate requiring schools to close due to the coronavirus was difficult to get used to, she found the workload to be less and tried her best to find things to do to fill her free time. She would go to the tennis courts with her mother, catch up on sleep, and cook and bake a lot. Liao also finished research for a scientific paper that was recently edited, and she hopes it will be published in ACS Omega, a peerreviewed scientific journal. As she looks back at high school, she said she is grateful for her teachers, especially club advisers Holly Bellisari and Michael Jeziorski, research teacher Jeanette Collette and chemistry teacher Stephanie O’Brien. As far as Liao’s future, she said she’s not

100 percent set on a career path yet, but it’s something she looks forward to discovering as she’s thinking of possibly working in some way in the health devices field. While she’s at college, she said she’ll miss spending time with her family, and her dad said he wants to come up to watch all her tennis matches. She’ll also miss Commack. “I’ll miss having this great community that I’ve grown to love and has supported me during this journey,” she said. “That will be very hard to let go.” This year she was part of the prom planning committee. She said that during the first two weeks of quarantine it was hard to grasp that milestone events would be canceled, but overall she was more troubled by the smaller everyday events than the bigger milestones. “I was more upset about the little things like seeing my teachers every day, gossiping with my friends,” she said. When it comes to advice for younger Commack students, which includes her brother Edward, she said it’s important to find something that they enjoy and really pursue it. “Take some chances, because you never know what’s going to happen,” she said.

Kimberly Liao will attend MIT. Photo from Liao

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Editorial Letters to the Editor The Kids Are (Not) All Right We Must Enforce a Quarantine It was the winter of 2007 to 2008 when the financial crisis hit. Years of excessive risky loans by banks (and others) and a downturn in the subprime lending market resulted in several years of economic hurt. Many lost their jobs and homes. Some say we truly have never recovered. For the young people graduating high school or college just over a decade ago, it was walking blind toward a cliff’s edge. They went through school with certain expectations, but the jobs once promised to be there upon graduation were gone. In the following years, young people took what was available, much of the time it was low-paying service industry jobs without a real hope of promotion. A new kind of employment, something people started to call the “gig economy,” was born. People worked freelance without a chance for receiving health insurance through an employer or have any kind of job security. Now we face a new impending time of economic peril, and there are many thousands of young people graduating this year from high school or college on Long Island. We as parents and residents need to ask ourselves, “What will we do for them to make sure they can make it out there in a time of wild unpredictability and economic inhospitability?” Research indicates that people who graduate in a time of economic tension can remain in worse straits than their peers for over a decade. A 2019 study in the Journal of Labor Economics showed the pay and employment rate for people who graduated during the Great Recession have remained relatively low, even after several years. Millennials, the youngest of whom are 24 while the oldest are nearing 40, hold just 3 percent of America’s wealth compared to 21 percent that the baby boomer generation held at around the same age, according to a 2019 U.S. Federal Reserve report. This is a pivotal time for young people entering the job market, as not only is this when they can start to accrue wealth and build up savings, but it’s a means to start grinding away at what can be tens of thousands of dollars in student loans. Without early starts to their careers, young people will end up running in place, making enough to live but not enough to build their credit or finances (though on Long Island it’s rare they will be able to afford the rent to even the smallest apartment). It’s time as a nation we seriously have to consider governmental action to save the future for our graduates. Yes, that includes student loan forgiveness programs, as there is potentially no worse idea than saddling a young person — who likely never even signed a check before — with thousands upon thousands in debt to either private firms or the U.S. government. Even more people will be looking to college as a way to build their job prospects, so it’s time we look at additional subsidies for college. We should also start thinking of handing out incentives to companies willing to hire people fresh out of school. An unregulated financial sector helped cause the 2008 economic collapse. Now with the pandemic, more research has shown if the government, both state and federal, had responded to the crisis with lockdowns sooner, we could have saved more lives and potentially restarted our economy faster and smoother. What’s done is done, but the fact is young people had no part in causing this economic downturn. Let’s have us as parents and neighbors think about how we can still help young people get ahead in life, for the sake of their entire generation.

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“If we didn’t test, we wouldn’t have cases. We have cases because we test.” These are the words of a madman. These are the words spoken by an ignorant narcissist during a global pandemic. These are the words spoken by the president of the United States. This man who refuses to concede to the facts stated by his own Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, who won’t wear a mask because he thinks it will make him look “weak,” who continues to plan rallies that have been categorized as “superspreaders,” is the leader of the United States. Every time this man opens his mouth, he downplays the severity of the situation our country is in. He decries the words of infectious disease experts and encourages Americans to ignore the warnings necessitated by the spread of COVID-19 to wear masks and socially distance. Thankfully, not all governors

are like Republicans Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis or Doug Ducey, who opened up their respective states of Texas, Florida and Arizona and watched their numbers soar under the influence of their devotion to Trump. And now the people in the Sun Belt and the southwest are feeling the vice-like grip of this horrific virus. The red states that sat back and watched the blue states (chiefly New York and the Tri-state area) nearly drown in viral contamination are now choking on their blind devotion to Trump. Yes, this may come off as insensitive, but lest we not forget the treatment New York received from the federal government during our peak. And now as the Northeast has a strong foothold on our numbers with our remarkable progress, we must enforce a quarantine on those entering from states that have seen surges. Had we been led from the start as an interconnected society,

rather than 50 separate nations, perhaps we would all be coming out on the other side. Unfortunately, though, under the leadership of Donald Trump (R), a viral pandemic was politicized and became a catalyst for greater division in our country. Rather than banding together, regardless of political affiliation, we are further apart than ever thanks to the words of Trump. Fortunately, though, through the darkness we can see the light at the end of a long tunnel — Election Day. It is imperative that we elect a leader who possesses the qualities necessary to usher us out of this dark time while reuniting us as Americans. We can no longer be governed by obtuse rhetoric and egocentric rambling. We cannot afford to ignore reality. Wear a mask! Stefanie Werner East Setauket

Results Should Cause Deep Concerns There is a valuable lesson to be learned from the cataclysmic events that have befallen this nation in the past few months. The declared emergencies have endowed our governors and mayors with extraordinary unilateral powers, which they have exercised to produce results that should cause deep concern for all of us. Here in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has singlehandedly brought about the unnecessary deaths of thousands of elderly coronavirus patients by compelling them to reside and perish in nursing homes that were not equipped to treat them. Across the country, in Seattle, Charleston, Portland and Washington, D.C., among many other cities, packs of anarchists have been allowed to run wild, wantonly destroying property that does not belong to them, while members of the local police forces stand by and watch them, sometimes refusing even to respond to 911 calls from beleaguered citizen taxpayers whose property and lives are being destroyed as they watch helplessly with tears in their eyes. From the lowlife hoodlums with their cans

of spray paint and gasoline and their armloads of bricks and hammers, we should not be surprised. But for the disgraceful politicians who enable this grossly antisocial behavior to get started, watch it build to a flaming crescendo, and take no steps to contain it, there is no excuse. The mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkan (D), aided and abetted by Washington’s governor, Jay Inslee (D), has allowed, and even encouraged, local anarchists to occupy an area of six square blocks in the middle of Seattle, first known as CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone), later renamed as CHOP (Capitol Hill Organized Protest). Not surprisingly, before long two men within CHAZ (or CHOP) were shot. When the police arrived, they engaged in negotiations with the occupiers, who graciously permitted the officers to remove the two men, of whom one was badly wounded and the other was dead. Unfortunately, the largesse of the CHOP masters did not extend to allowing the police to investigate, and it appears to be unlikely

that the assailants will be apprehended or even identified. The outrage in Seattle is not unique. All across the country, statues are being spray painted, mutilated, set on fire, toppled, and thrown into rivers, by vandals who do not own them, observed by police who do not deter them. At the very least, these statues have substantial monetary value, and are the property of the municipalities in which they stood. If, by a rational and legal process, such as a referendum, it is decided that the citizens would like to have a statue replaced, this should be done in a civilized manner. Instead, we have many of our elected “leaders,” virtually all of whom are Democrats with a capital “D,” choosing to ignore the oath of office to which they solemnly swore and failing to uphold the laws they are required to enforce. Let us hope that the voters remember which is the party that protects their interest, and which is the party that does not. George Altemose Setauket

Things We Can Do Against Ticks Having had encounters with ticks in the past, I understood very well Leah Dunaief’s June 25 editorial entitled “Beastly Bedfellows.” Readers may be interested to

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Opinion

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merica was reluctant to enter both World Wars and yet we won them both, at a tremendous cost to previous generations. Today, as we continue to battle through the coronavirus, I’d like to think we will persevere. We don’t need political spin. We have plenty of that from both sides. We need a sense of optimism, of shared purpose and of a keen belief that we will prevail through hard work D. None and a readiness to of the above innovate and adapt. We see so many BY DANIEL DUNAIEF horriﬁc headlines about the number of people who test positive and who are threatening the capacity of health care systems

in Florida and Texas, among others. Even as we do everything we can to protect our health and the safety of our friends and family, we need to believe in ourselves and in our ability to work together. Defeating the virus takes more than ignoring it or claiming victory for political expediency. Whoever wins this presidential election in this incredibly challenging year will have enormous work to do. Even a vaccine that is tested and produced in mass quantities by the early part of next year, which seems spectacularly optimistic but is still possible, doesn’t automatically put us back on the path to the world of 2019. After all, the ﬂu vaccine doesn’t eradicate the illness. It comes back with a vengeance some years. Some people who receive the shot still get sick, oftentimes with less severe symptoms. We need to recognize that the world has changed. We’ve had time to process it and to adjust, even if we’re sick of the new rules. We need to use all the space we have to turn what

seems like a nuisance and an inconvenience into a modern triumph. The country can and should rethink everything from ways to attend sporting events to the specific needs of the home office. Maybe sports stadiums should remove seats, put picnic tables in front of patrons and make the game-time experience for fans look different because, for the foreseeable future, it will be. Yes, I know, that will cost an incredible amount of money, but it would also give patrons a chance to enjoy their own space, instead of hoping for a time machine that brings us back to an era when we gave strangers a high five when our team scored. Maybe waiters and waitresses can provide virtual personalized service, connecting through online services that deliver, via conveyor belt beneath those tables, contactless food to guests. We need to renovate our homes to enjoy the new reality. Maybe we need virtual artwork we can add to our walls, that helps expand our small rooms and that changes at the flick of a

switch. Maybe we also can ﬁgure out ways to create virtual assembly lines, where workers provide their part of a mechanized process from a distance, in a basement, workspace, or outside in their enclosed yards. It may not be as efﬁcient, because someone might have to transport those parts, but those driving opportunities also create jobs for people who become a part of a new, virtual factory. We may want to go back to the way things were, but we need to recognize the realities, and the opportunities, that come from moving forward. Moving on will require us to develop new ideas, create new jobs, and believe in ourselves. We have survived and thrived through challenges before, by pulling together, by innovating, and by tapping into the combination of ingenuity and hard work. People are prepared to put in the effort to earn their own version of the American Dream. We need innovations, new businesses, and inspirations that reignite the economy, while protecting our health.

Happy Birthday to the United States of America!

! say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, O say, does that star-spangled Between banner yet wave O’er the land you and me of the free and the BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF home of the brave? Yes, that is the first stanza of our national anthem, the star-spangled banner. It has been my experience, at ballgames and other public

gatherings (remember those?) where the anthem has played, that many Americans do not know all the words. In fact, not a lot of the words. In truth, not any of the words beyond the ﬁrst two sentences. Confess: that’s you or your spouse or your children. Now there is always a story behind every creation. In honor of our nation’s upcoming birthday, I thought I would tell you some of the controversial story and remind you of the words of at least the ﬁrst and last of the four stanzas written by Francis Scott Key. So who was Francis Scott Key and how did he come to write these words? Key was a good-looking, rich American lawyer, author and amateur poet who was from Frederick, Maryland. Born August 1, 1779, three years after the start of the Revolutionary War, he lived to be 63, dying at the beginning of 1843. He was married to Mary (“Polly”) Tayloe Lloyd and they had eleven children. Incidentally, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a distant relative. We remember that we learned of Key viewing the attack by the British on Fort McHenry from a ship outside Baltimore during the brief War of 1812, and how he

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could not tell, through the dark night, if the fort had fallen to the enemy. But at dawn, when he saw the flag still flying, he was inspired to write the poem in 1814 that was to become our national song. His friends called him “Frank,” which often blended with Key to come out “Frankie.” He had a high profile, having been part of Andrew Jackson’s Kitchen Cabinet, the unofficial advisers who were so influential. He defended a young Sam Houston in court on the latter’s trial over beating up an Ohio congressman. He was U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and he prosecuted the would-be assassin of President Jackson, who by the way was a Southern slaveholder. Key, as a youth, had almost become an Episcopal priest, helped found two seminaries and wrote about poetry’s influence on religion. He also had a complicated and contradictory relationship with slavery. He personally owned six slaves, though he allegedly opposed the practice and eventually set them all free. Yet he did not do so for the many slaves his wife inherited and who worked the farm that provided much of the family’s income. He represented

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slaves for free in court who were trying to win their freedom, yet he was bitterly opposed to the abolitionist movement, and as U.S. district attorney, challenged its efforts. He strongly supported the colonization of former slaves in Africa, helping to found the colony of Liberia. It is no surprise, then, that in the recent rush to tear down statues, his was toppled on Friday, June 19, in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Today we have come to recognize that the imperfect Key is inseparably linked with slavery and pride in our nation. O thus be it ever when free men shall stand Between their lov’d homes and the war’s desolation! Bless’d with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: “In God is our trust!” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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