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I have been in love with Lilly Ottenheimer since I first met her 27 years ago, and I know that I am but one of a multitude. It is that kind of experience that arrives in a moment, and a rapport is struck, and a level of communication and communion felt, and there is instant comfortableness, easy openness and a feeling of warmth — a feeling that has rekindled in me on each occasion I have greeted Lilly and she has greeted me during all those years. Yesterday morning we met in the lobby of the Spa, and we kissed each other, and her kiss, as always, was warm and alive, and she was at ease and so very present. This is the quality of Lilly that is her essence and around which her academic achievements and her clinical studies have clustered to give her loving colleagues and friends this opportunity to celebrate her being honored as she receives today the William V. Silverberg Award.
The facts of her history are complex and at times stark, as they must be for one who was born in Germany and fled the Nazis in 1939. In the current issue of the Forum, Marv Drellich has written a beautiful article about Lilly and has faithfully and tenderly chronicled the course of her life. From a young girl fascinated with literature and philosophy, likely influenced by those same interests of her father, she decided early on a career in medicine and was the only girl in her high-school class to go on to the study of medicine.
After graduation she studied obstetrics and during that time met and fell in love with Julius Ottenheimer, a prominent cardiologist.