Thoru introduced the guest speaker for the night, The Honorable Louis W. Sullivan, MD.  We were then treated to an amazing extemporaneous talk which covered autobiographical details of Dr Sullivan’s amazing family, achievements and his detailed observations of the times he has lived through.  It is a significant challenge to summarize Dr Sullivan’s talk which was fascinating, provocative, challenging and inspiring. Dr. Sullivan commenced with his description of his childhood, raised by his father who was an undertaker and his mother who was a teacher during the heights of segregation. He described wonderful highlights of his education from his schooling in Atlanta through his graduation from Morehouse College to his time in Boston University Medical School.  He humbly and self-deprecatingly described his tremendous personal and national scale successes and challenges – his appointment as the secretary of HHS under President George H. W. Bush, his management of food and drug safety and his tremendous influence on food labeling and  his leadership in teaching the nation about the dangers of smoking, among many other remarkable and unique contributions to society. He paid great respect to his mentors, Drs. Inglefinger and Keiffer at Cornell and Dr. Griffin at Morehouse and discussed his key role in the founding of Morehouse Medical College, and all with great balance and good humor. Finally, he discussed the challenges of our time, the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, childhood obesity amongst many other important health related matters.  All in all, it was a highly memorable event, which culminated in Dr. Sullivan’s memories of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  An outstanding evening!