Our say: Editor's notebook

GENEROUS GIFT -- Of all the success stories coming out of Anne Arundel Medical Center, it's hard to top the ones from its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, whose dedicated doctors and staff have cared for nearly 2,800 infants in 10 years.

At the facility's 10th anniversary party - enlivened by children whose lives were saved in the unit - hospital President Martin Doordan announced a $1 million donation to the NICU from Suzanne and Albert Lord.

Mr. Lord is chairman of the SMC Corp. and Mrs. Lord has been a volunteering member of the hospital auxiliary for more than five years. The donation - made in memory of Mrs. Lord's late...