A true and heart warming story

Ignacy J. Paderewski

This is a true story. It happened in 1892 at Stanford University.

An 18-year-old student was desperate to pay his tuition fees. He was an orphan, and since he had run out of options on where to get money, he came up with a bright idea. He and a fellow student made a decision to host a musical concert on campus to raise cash for their fees. They reached out to the great pianist Ignacy J. Paderewski. The pianist’s Manager asked for a guaranteed sum of $2000 for the piano recital. A deal was struck and the boys started to work to make the concert a hit. The important day arrived.

But sadly, they’d not managed to sell enough tickets. The total collection was only $1600. Sadly, they went to the pianist, Paderewski and explained their predicament. They gave him the whole $1600, and a check for the balance $400. They promised to honour the check at the soonest attainable. “No,” announced Paderewski. “This isn’t acceptable.” He ripped up the check, returned the $1600 and said to the 2 boys:”Here’s the $1600. Please subtract whatever costs you have sustained. Keep the cash you need for your fees. And just give me whatever is left”.

The boys were shocked, and thanked him profusely. It had been a tiny act of kindness. Nevertheless it obviously marked out Paderewski as a great human. Why should he help 2 people he didn’t even know? We all come across eventualities like these in our lives. And many of us only think “If I assist them, what would happen to me?” The really good folks think, “If I do not provide help to them, what will happen to them?” They do not do it expecting something in turn. They do it because they feel it’s the proper thing to do.

Paderewski later went on to become the Prime Minister of Poland. He was a great leader, but sadly when World War II commenced, Poland was devastated. There were more than 1.5 million people starving in his country, and no money to feed them. Paderewski didn’t know where to get help. He reached out to the US Food and Relief Administration for help. The head there had been a person called Herbert Hoover who later went on to become the US President. Hoover agreed to help and swiftly shipped tons of foodgrains to feed the starving Polish folk.

Herbert Hoover

A calamity was averted and Paderewski was relieved. He made a decision to go across to meet Hoover and personally thank him. When Paderewski started to thank Hoover for his noble gesture, Hoover speedily interjected and claimed, “You should not be thanking me Mr. Prime Minister. You may not remember this, but a few years gone, you helped 2 young scholars go through varsity. I was one of them”.

That has always been the way that I’ve viewed this issue. Nothing delights me more than seeing the ones I’d helped succeed. I get a strange kind of vicarious satisfaction. I remember going back to my alma mater and donating $20,000 in the early eighties to help set up a computer lab on a totally anonymous basis. Many have succeeded in life through my help and some have gone on to disappoint me. However, I’ve always forgiven and blamed myself for expecting too much.

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