A REMARKABLE WOMAN

               SECRETARY GIVES MILLIONS FOR CANCER RESEARCH


Earlier this month a single woman aged 100 years and seven months died
in Los Angeles county where she lived almost her entire life.  Goldyne
Savad, one of the brightest and prettiest of her family was the only one
born in the United States after her parents and six siblings emigrated
from the Ukraine in 1907.  Though she was a very gifted student there
was no money for college.  Her loftiest job description was secretary.
She is now buried next to her beloved mother, Bessie, in East Los
Angeles where she grew up.

Although lacking in fame or flourish, she was a force of nature.  What
she lacked in name recognition she more that made up in drive and
determination.  Fiercely independent, she worked every day of her life
at a modest paying job at the Janss Corporation from whom she probably
never received any kind of bonus.  She supported her mother and herself
and saved money from her meager paychecks. And she invested.  Carefully.
Wisely.  Studiously.  She made a fortune as a autodidact in the stock
market with quality equities and bonds.

During her lifetime, she gave millions for cancer research.  She endowed
a genetic therapy project and in her will she provided additional funds
for the Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy at Hadassah Hospital in
Jerusalem and will contribute to a new hospital being built there.
Locally the Cedars Sinai Medical Center and the City of Hope Medical
Center in Duarte, California will benefit from a large donation.  How did
it come to pass that this unmarried secretary without any inherited
wealth came to make these multimillion dollar gifts to charity and
medical research? Who can say for sure?  As her surviving nephews, we
can suggest that she was committed to giving.  As a Jew she embraced
Tzedakah:  Giving to others.  Generously.  Totally.  Quietly.  No
trumpets.

Although now physically gone, her life, thoughtfulness, and generosity
will provide hope for perhaps millions of people facing cancer:  Jew,
Moslem, Christian, Bahai, Hindu, white, black, yellow, red and brown who
will never know her name but who will benefit from the of what one woman
can do.  And did.

Lawrence M. Rosen, MD

Martin J. Rosen

Los Angeles, California