How classy!

Greensburg had no idea who Mi Hyun Kim was until her amazing act of generosity to help the community.

With so much bad behavior, run-ins with the law and generally boorish activities in the sports world anymore, it is too bad some of the truly admirable actions by athletes tend to slip through the cracks.

How many of us had heard much about a young South Korean named Mi Hyun Kim before this week? Avid golf fans, certainly. But even a lot of inveterate sports fans had no idea who she is. We all certainly should be aware now, however.

Mi Hyun Kim has announced she will donate $100,000 of her winnings from a recent championship golf event in Broken Arrow, Okla., to benefit Kansans affected by the recent deadly tornado, most notably in devastated Greensburg. The donation to the United Way Greensburg Disaster Fund amounts to nearly half the $210,000 Kim won in a playoff in Broken Arrow.

Talk about hands across the border, or in this case an ocean and a continent!

The generosity of this young woman should remind us that while sports fosters too many unsettling events and unsavory figures anymore, there still are a lot of people in the field who contribute greatly to our society.

Few individuals from other nations – in athletics or otherwise – have ever been so thoughtful and generous as Mi Hyun Kim has been to ailing Greensburg. She is class personified.

The world cries out for more men and women who, like Kim, are ladies and gentlemen even when nobody is looking or asking for something.