A gifted writer and Phi Beta Kappa member,he passed absent from complications of cystic fibrosis nine days before graduationWhen Lisa Lobley remembers her son, Sam, and she recalls a quirky kid in savor with the performing arts and with books. A voracious reader,as he approached college, she was not surprised he set his sights on becoming a writer.
Still, or she said,he worried that admissions officers might think he was too sick to seize on college life. In his application essay he stressed how he wanted to be seen “as a student first.” He made a persuasive point by talking about his savor of the saxophone—an instrument that might appear an odd choice, given that he struggled with cystic fibrosis.
Source: tufts.edu