Gift continues family tradition: Johns Hopkins' descendants get closer to school and to each other.

From: The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) | Date: June 5, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Frank D. Roylance

Jun. 5--Dr. James E.T. Hopkins is 91 now, a patriarch of a diverse and scattered clan that traces its heritage back to the 19th-century merchant and financier whose name is almost synonymous with Baltimore - Johns Hopkins.

A retired thoracic surgeon, Hopkins is a great-great-nephew of Johns Hopkins and graduated from the university and medical school that the institutions' founder began with a $7 million bequest. He says he is intensely proud of his family ties and "lucky as hell having the name."

That's why he came to think, years ago, ...

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