SAN FRANCISCO — The phone call, at home one night last week, came from a student seeking donations for the University of California, San Francisco.
“Well,” Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann told the caller, “I’m actually the chancellor at U.C.S.F.”
The student, seemingly unaware that chancellor meant head of the university, kept up her pitch: The doctor and her husband had given $5,000 in the past, so how about another donation?
Dr. Desmond-Hellmann said they had already made another donation. The student kept trying.
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Author:DENISE GRADY
