contributions<\/a> still are being accepted.<\/p>\n\u201cThe school hadn\u2019t done anything like this before,\u201d said Dean Antman. \u201cI especially thank the departments who sponsored tables; we very much appreciate their support for our students in Bob\u2019s honor. The evening was full of good food, great music, and camaraderie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speakers included David Coleman, MD, Wade Professor and Chair of Medicine; Angela Jackson, MD, Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Medicine; and Witzburg\u2019s daughters, Anne-Marie Sklarwitz and Deborah Witzburg, all of whom delivered entertaining and moving tributes.<\/p>\n
\u201cBob, on behalf of generations of (Boston) City residents, and now generations of students, I want to thank you \u2013 for being the dedicated teacher and the astute clinician. You challenged your learners \u2013 us \u2013 through your own practice of the science and art of medicine, to dig deeper, work harder and aim higher. Thank you for walking the walk, and teaching us to do that, too. And thank you for asking, \u2018Is there anything that I can do to help?\u2019 and really meaning it. It is an honor to call you my friend,\u201d said Jackson.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thank you all very much for the gift of 45 years in the most noble of all professions, and I will never forget any one of you and the opportunities you have given me and the growth that I have had as a result of all of you and your work,\u201d Witzburg said. \u201cIf someone had asked me what is the greatest honor that someone could confer upon me as I leave this campus after 45 years, I think I would have said \u2018to make it easier for deserving students to join our profession in the future\u2019 and that’s what all of you have done. I thank all of you very much for what you have done for the scholarship program.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I have accomplished even a fraction of the things that have been attributed to me today, it is truly because I have spent my life trying to be the person who (my wife) Lorraine quite unaccountably thinks I am,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n
See the highlights below.<\/p>\n