Competition entry To whom it may concern, I am writing in response to your ‘Heroes and heroines at work’ announcement. I would like to nominate a professor of my University in Madrid. He has done a really great job during his professional life in the city for the last twenty years, but what he did last year goes much further from that. His name is Perico Palotes and everyone knows him in the campus. Perico is the typical motivating professor, always with a smile in his face inculcating students with the best moral principles in our future profession. It happened one cloudy day of October that a group of students were sitting on a bench in a hidden side of the campus park. Suddenly, one of them started feeling ill and fell down. Professor Palotes saw what happened from the window of his office and ran at top speed. An ambulance drove the student, who had suffered a kidney failure, to the hospital, where the professor was waiting in the operating room to donate one of his kidneys to him. I am not nominating professor Palotes because of his heroic action, not even because of his amazing skills as a professor at the University. What I find more admirable from him is that he takes advantage of his situation to inculcate humane values to a lot of young people. Perico showed us that there is still hope for the human race. I hope you will agree that Perico Palotes deserves to be included in your series of profiles. Yours faithfully, ---