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Mrs. Obama makes good on a promise JoAnne Allen (Front Row Washington)
Students kept a running tally of their community service hours in letters apprising her of their Submitted at 5/16/2010 7:26:19 PM progress, Obama said. “Well, I am a woman of my “Dear Mrs. Obama, we’re at word,” first lady Michelle 19,000 hours. Dear Mrs. Obama said Sunday, making Obama, we’re at 46,000 hours. good on a promise as she spoke Dear Mrs. Obama, we’ve at at the George Washington 73,958 hours. Yes, I got every University graduation minute of detail,” she said “And ceremony. soon enough, I realized, ‘Uh-oh, In September, Obama issued a I better start working on that challenge to the GWU class of commencement speech.’ ” 2010 – promising that if Obama issued another students performed 100,000 challenge in her remarks, this hours of community service 3,300 hours on the first day of time asking the graduates to during the school year, she the challenge I’d probably have “Keep going; Keep giving; w o u l d s p e a k a t t h e i r picked a higher number,” Keep engaging” and to be c o m m e n c e m e n t c e r e m o n y . O b a m a s a i d d u r i n g t h e America’s face to the world. Students at the university a few ceremony on the National Mall. “I’m just asking you to keep blocks from the White House She applauded the students who being you, to keep doing what more than met the challenge and held up their end of the bargain you’re doing. Just take it Obama kept her word. in many ways — from holding global.” The Washington Post said that food drives, to visiting with P h o t o C r e d i t “by the time the first lady took elderly veterans and even REUTERS/Richard Clement the stage, the count was up to running their own medical (First lady Michelle Obama 163,980 hours of service.” center in an under-served speaks at George Washington “I will say that if I had known neighborhood on the other side University commencement that you’d complete more than of town. ceremony 5/16/2010)
Famous Designers You Probably Haven't Heard Of, But Should: Robin and Lucienne Day Alissa Walker (Fast Company)
plastic, and plywood, and designed their own textile Submitted at 5/17/2010 9:31:45 AM patterns. Their Polypropylene As if your design dance card stacking chair, designed in wasn't already full, there's a film 1963, is said to be the bestdebuting tomorrow that should selling chair in the world. be on your radar, or at the very The couple worked together for least, its stars should be. an amazing 70 years: Lucienne Contemporary Days: Robin and died earlier this year, but Lucienne Day Design the UK, is Robin is still alive and will soon a documentary featuring the t u r n 9 5 . T h e f i l m d e b u t s British design duo whose tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. at abstract, modernist design National Geographic Museum's helped transform and uplift a G r o s v e n o r A u d i t o r i u m i n post-World War II Britian. Washington, DC. Lucienne's With their focus on furniture textile work is also featured in and textiles, the couple appears the Textile Museum's exhibition to be like a British Charles and Art by the Yard: Women Design Ray Eames--they even designed Mid-Century Britain, which also similar-looking molded-plastic opens tomorrow in DC. chairs. Like the Eameses, they [ Contemporary Days] also experimented with steel,