Saturday, June 20, 2009

For Sam

My gift to Investigative Reporters and Editors honors Dr. Samuel C. Hughes, who died Jan. 20, 2008, in San Francisco, Calif., after a distinguished career devoted especially to the care of mothers and children worldwide, and those living with HIV.

In an essay, NBC science and health correspondent Robert Bazell said later that spring: "Whatever the list of requirements to be good doctor might include, Sam embodied most of them: intelligence, charm, curiosity, compassion, and decisiveness, to name a few."

Sam inspired my donation with his generosity and his joie de vivre, over and over again. Thank you, Sam!

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