Thumbs up to Dallas financier Harold Simmons for donating $41 million to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in early December. The gift is the largest ever for Texas higher education or medical research. The low-profile Simmons (see “Dallas’s Other Billionaire,’’ November) will dole the money out over twenty years. Of the total amount, $24 million will be used for cancer research, $5 million for a new cancer research building, and $12 million for arthritis research (Simmons suffers from the disease). This kind of civic-minded giving ensures a high-quality future for Dallas’s medical community.
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