The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Award-Winning Medical Inventor Discovers the Simple Joy of Giving

By Nicole Lewis

Dayton, Md.

A chance meeting 35 years ago at a local YMCA helped lead last year to one of the biggest pledges — $30-million — ever recorded at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Back in the early 1970s, a $50 tennis membership to the Silver Spring, Md., YMCA was about all that Robert E....

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