`A' in Generosity.

• Position: Kidney donation by teacher to student - Brief Article

All that most students want from their teacher is a decent grade. North Carolina eighth-grader Michael Evans is getting something more from Jane Smith, his science teacher at R. Max Abbott Middle School in Fayetteville: a new kidney.

Diagnosed with renal disease at just 16 months, Evans has survived the past year thanks only to lengthy dialysis treatments that mechanically filter wastes from his blood. When Smith, 42, learned that doctors hadn't found a suitable kidney donor from among his relatives, "I instantly knew that this was something I could do," she says, "that...