Ideas

There's always time, until there isn't

Since Tuesday's column about taking my son to college for the first time, many people - more than I ever imagined, more than at any time in nearly 30 years of columns - wrote to commiserate about the passage of time, children growing up and going their own way, and how hard that can be on parents. In the midst of reading dozens of these emotional e-mails, I came across two stories of parent-child separation turned tragically permanent - one about a mother who lost her son, the other about a son who lost his mother.

Frederick N. Rasmussen

A pioneer in teaching Russian to high schoolers

October 12, 2008

Earlier this week, I wrote about the death of Joseph Glus, 84, a longtime Charles Village resident who was hired as the first Russian-language teacher by Baltimore County's public schools in 1959.