In last Sunday's Wenatchee World newspaper, there was an article about the high school College Mentor Program.
The article featured me and used this photo! Last June, I took three students I previously mentored for a hike on Icicle Gorge trail.
Since 2006, I have been a volunteer college mentor, helping first generation, low income students write essays for college and scholarship applications. It thrills me to send kids to college.
I teach students writing and organizational skills, and the importance of doing work before the deadline.
In the 6th grade for a science fair at school.
Yes. Radio, television, newspaper, and magazines.
I've been on TV, radio, newspapers and magazines.
Not anytime recently, but I was a bit of an activist a few years back.
Turns out it doesn't make a living.
Pretty cool. I was Jan of 2006 0r 2007 when I was interviewing a homeless person during the point in time survey which is done annually and done across the country, but not sure it is annually or every few years, as I recall some were national counts. I wasn't thrilled about it, but the guy I was interviewing wanted to be in the paper.
No, however my mother and I were interviewed when Ronald Clark O'Bryan was about to be executed in Huntsville, Texas.
For those not familiar with the case, he was convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy on Halloween 1974 with potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Sticks.
Yes, I regularly write articles for newspapers and various magazines.
Good for you. For eight years, I wrote a column in Wenatchee Business Journal. The deadline came up fast!
Yes. My son and I were interviewed after the start of Bush II Iraqi war, when we painted a sheet with peace sign and No War. Got egged. Misquoted, on purpose, by the larger county paper. Wouldn't talk to them again. Got interviewed by a smaller town paper and the larger paper paid to reprint that one, too.
With Citizens for Peace, we stood holding anti-war and peace signs at a busy intersection, during the lead up to the Iraq War.
"Fu-king traitors!" guys in trucks yelled, throwing beer cans and bottles at us.
@LiterateHiker i know. Now most of those idiots agree with what you were saying. I got more press by being a vet against the War, a stupid war.
Sounds much like my Clemente Project where we mentor people of any age to ready themselves for collegiate performance. ....Greek classic comedy&tragedy is easier than Shakespeare
Not bragging here, but in the late seventies I was featured on a CBS network show called "The Body Human". Shockingly, I qualified. That got me into several local and regional newspapers. Despite all that publicity, nobody ever showed up to sign me to a movie contract and my dreams of taking the Paul Newman role in the "Exodus" remake were shattered. My wife at the time (Long gone) said I should expect more like Alfred E Newman roles. I settled for Randy Newman and dabbled in song writing, but without much talent. Phyllis Newman was never really an option.
Many times. Radio and tv interviews too. Now adays i do little that is noticable
I was in a few newspapers for high school baseball. Still have them here somewhere.
I was on TV once. I was in a parade that was converted by the news that evening.
I was featured in a couple of them as a kid because of a rare birth defect. Looking back and reading them now, I actually find them to be rather offensive.
Several times. Most of them were about programs I had started or state and national recognition for such programs.One editorial sided with me in a conflict that a regional teachers' union rep started, trying to block a program (incidentally, that program also later won awards).
Well done !
Yes for me, over the years quite a few, regarding my work with animals, and theatre/music stuff.
Thank you!
Front page of the Lynchburg paper in '88. The AP picked it up. 15 minutes and no more.
Does TV count? I got on the news in San Francisco because I saw a guy fall to his death at SFO.
@slayerlam
Of course TV counts. I've been on TV and radio. Over the years, featured in newspapers and magazines for my community service.
The first time I was on TV, I got hives and had to wear a turtleneck in July. I was only 22.
No, but my second rescue dog, 11 lbs., headlined a story about the raid on the hoarder home he was in, with 39 other dogs. They used his pic because he was on the top tier of cages & relatively clean....the ones on the bottom had drowned in filth.