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    Edward L. Kelly, Prince William County’s Superintendent of Schools, has been named a member of the founding board of directors for the Belmont Bay Science Center Foundation, Inc.  Kelly joins ten other leaders from government, education, and industry in accepting an invitation to serve on the Foundation board from Walter R. T. Witschey, Director of the Science Museum of Virginia.

    “I am honored that I have been invited to become a member of the board and proudly accept this invitation,” said Kelly.  “I look forward to participating as an active member and contributing in any way I can.  This wonderful facility will be a welcome addition to our community and will enhance the instruction of the school division’s science curriculum.”

    The Belmont Bay Science Center Foundation has been formed to support the planned Belmont Bay Science Center, a division of the Science Museum of Virginia.  The Center will occupy a new built-to-purpose building, approximately 170,000 square feet in size, on a five-acre tract in Belmont Bay Town Center, which is located off Route One in Woodbridge.  Jack Parry, deputy director of the Science Museum of Virginia, will oversee the new science center.  Current plans call for the facility to be occupied in late 2007.

    Other members of the board include Board of County Supervisors Chairman Sean T. Connaughton, George Mason University President Alan G. Merten, Micron Technology Manager Richard Belden, Belmont Bay Town Center developer Preston Caruthers, Troutman Sanders LLP attorney David S. Cohn, American Type Culture Collection President and CEO Ray Cypess, McGuire Woods LLP partner and former Virginia Secretary of Education        James W. Dyke, Jr., Dominion Virginia Power External Affairs Manager Deborah Tompkins Johnson, retired IBM executive Robert O. Satterfield, and Northern Virginia Community College President Robert G. Templin, Jr.
 

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