Comments on: One of Abe Pollin’s ‘Adopted’ Kids Looks Back on His Philanthropy

By: Cheap Seats Daily: No Justice, or No Job, at Redskins Park? - City Desk - Washington City Paper

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:46:21 +0000

[...] Tiffany Alston, one of the fifth graders from Seat Pleasant Elementary that Abe Pollin "adopted" and mentored through the years, spoke at his memorial service yesterday. [...]

By: Washington Wizards Owner Abe Pollin Dead at 85 » RightFielders Women in Sports

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:37:43 +0000

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By: Our Morning Roundup: The Busiest Travel Day of the Year Edition - City Desk - Washington City Paper

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:32:12 +0000

[...] Good morning, readers. Sad news: Abe Pollin has died. [...]

By: Truth About It » First Impressions of Abe Pollin; Wes Unseld: “He was a Washingtonian”

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:19:36 +0000

[...] {Dave McKenna -- DC City Paper} The original class of 55 “adoptees” from Seat Pleasant Elementary eventually went up to 59, after four kids transferred to the school and Pollin and Cohen said, “Let ‘em in!” According to the I Have a Dream Foundation, which monitored Pollin’s gift, 49 of those kids graduated from high school, and 39 went to a trade school or college on the owner’s dime. As of 2007, 17 had received at least one college degree. [...]

By: Abe Pollin, Wizards Owner, Passes Away

Abe Pollin, Wizards Owner, Passes Away — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:19:38 +0000

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