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While most people are making lists of gifts to buy kith and kin this holiday season, three generous souls in Kennett Square, Pa., have been reviewing final plans for a brand-new after-school program, scheduled to open in January. John and Denise Wood, both 81, and Marshall Newton, 66, have been recruiting fellow retirees, along with high school and college students, to serve as volunteer instructors in a range of after-school activities--including computer sciences, drama, entrepreneurship, sewing, sculpture, chess and dance--for the greater Kennett community's middle school children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Give-Back Years | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...CHAIRS The recline of civilization began in 1928 when two cousins, Ed Shoemaker and Ed Knabusch, invented a comfortable wood-slat porch chair, choosing the name La-Z-Boy. They then decided to upholster the chair so it would sell year-round. La-Z-Boy Inc. had sales of more than $1 billion in fiscal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...attention to the situation. There was certainly no punitive intent, and we doubt highly that any of those "gonged" felt even slighted. Certainly a little levity drew attention to a situation that the House has been unable to effect. NATHANIEL W. BULLARD '00 DAVID W. FOSTER '00 COLIN H. WOOD '00 DAVID A. WHELAN...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: `Gong Show' Humorous Effort To Address Adams Crowds | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...human body turning into stone, wood or acutout, as well as broken fences, severed treesand faulty instruments all symbolize destruction.Yet Bak counters each with the representation ofresurrection and reconstruction through plantedroots: wise elders, stars, doves and triumphantpawns. He speaks to us about what the heart canwithstand, learn and still survive, "I speak aboutdestruction and reconstruction--the amazing humanspirit...

Author: By Nicole A. Lopez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Spirit of Samuel Bak | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...listen more closely to the voices from within its own family when moral issues are raised that clearly outweigh its traditional single-minded emphasis on maximizing investment returns. JEROME GROSSMAN '38, CHESTER HARTMAN '57, PH.D '67, VICTOR W. SIDEL M.D. '57, ROBERT PAUL WOLFF '53, PH.D. '57, PETER WOOD...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter to Harvard's Governing Boards | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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