washingtonpost.com - Bob LeveyBob LeveyFor Growing Youths, Treasures in the Trash- April 23, 2005 Michael Shirley doesn't scavenge anymore. At 55, he has had a 32-year career as a graphic designer, high school art teacher and camp director. But he well remembers "a Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn-type childhood" in Northeast Washington. He spent a lot of it at, and in, the Kenilworth Dump.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53152-2004Sep1.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/l... Children's Campaign Shows Signs of Life- April 23, 2005 We're pounding down the stretch in our 2003-04 fundraising campaign on behalf of Children's Hospital.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8634-2004Jan11.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/l... A Fond Farewell: Part Three- April 23, 2005 It was always about you readers.Thank you, thank you for being as loyal as you've been, as numerous as you've been and as cheerful as you've been. Without your calls, letters and e-mails, this column would have been dust within weeks. You have been a treasure.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40371-2004Jan22.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... For Children's, an End-of-Year Push- April 23, 2005 Farewell, 2003. You've been the usual mixture: tumultuous and tender, heroic and horrifying.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43179-2003Dec30.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... A Fond Farewell: Part Two- April 23, 2005 I fell in love with newspapers as a boy on the New York subway.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37031-2004Jan21.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... Time to Park That Smelly Old Hairpiece- April 23, 2005 Her husband is a professional, "with a very visible job dealing with a lot of people," a reader writes. "He wears a hairpiece and has for years."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63749-2004Jan7.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/l... A Fond Farewell: Part One- April 23, 2005 Now for the tough part: Saying goodbye.In today's column, tomorrow's and Friday's, I say farewell to a profession, a newspaper, a job and a readership that I adore.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33797-2004Jan21.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... What if Orphan Days Were Service Days- April 23, 2005 We just began 2004, and already we've been smacked by an Orphan Day.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48394-2004Jan1.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/l... Children's Campaign: Failure -- and Success- April 23, 2005 No to the goal. But yes to a record.We closed with a rush, but we had too much ground to make up. So our 2003-04 fundraising campaign on behalf of Children's Hospital fell short of our ambitious goal by about 10 percent.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30710-2004Jan20.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... Children's Solves the Mystery of Kent- April 23, 2005 Children's Hospital is well known as the place where seriously ill patients go. Last month, one of the most challenging cases of the year puzzled doctors at Children's. But the patient has begun to turn the corner. My assistant on this year's Children's fundraising campaign, Alex MacCallum , reports:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40026-2003Dec29.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... |