A TCU contingent traveled to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in March to confer a dietetics degree upon student Robbyn Kindle, the 33-year-old student who garnered campus support in February after it was learned that she needed $150,000 before she could be placed on an organ-donor waiting list. Within days, the campus raised almost $80,000, with Dallas businessman Mark Bunting contributing the remainder.

In April, Kindle underwent a successful 12-hour operation that replaced her pancreas, liver, kidney and lower bowels. Nutrition and Dietetics Prof. Evelyn Roberts reported that Kindle was calm before surgery, remembering a dream she had had several nights before.

“There was a person standing by my left shoulder,” Kindle said. “I think it’s my Guardian Angel.”