In "Junior Achievement" class, we volunteers always emphasize to the high school students,
" You shouldn't feel guilty about making money and when you make lots of money, you should share it with the less fortunate ones."
It is so nice to see that Americans of Indian origin are now joining the ranks of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Mellon, Bell, Gates and others.
"The man who dies rich dies disgraced."
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
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Indian doc gives US varsity $18.5 mn![]()
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK![]() [ SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2005 12:44:26 AM ]
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WASHINGTON: An Indian emigre has donated $ 18.5 million to put a modest American university on the international map, making him one of the largest known contributors from the Indian-American community for any single cause.
Tampa Bay cardiologist Kiran Patel's largesse is also the single biggest donation to the University of South Florida. The bonanza will eventually help USF raise $ 62.5 million with matching state grants and other contributions. The money will go towards building the Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions, a school for researchers to study issues such as global hunger and international trade. USF is hosting a one day meeting today (Thursday) with the, officials, faculty and scholars to discuss the donation. "I'm excited and anxious...excited because it is a major committment...anxious because unlike a Kennedy Institute or Baker Institute we do not have a brand name and we have to work hard to establish our reputation," Patel told TNN in an interview over the phone as he drove to the USF campus for the meeting. Patel, who was born in Zambia, studied medicine in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, where he met his!
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wife Pallavi, also a physician. The couple has built a $ 1 billion health care business in Florida and... |
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