From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Paul Dormer  wrote:   
   >In article <10bee70$1vm$1@reader2.panix.com>, kfl@KeithLynch.net (Keith F.   
   >Lynch) wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> My understanding is that colleges repeatedly beg their alumni for   
   >> donations.  High schools don't.   
   >   
   >Probably the same in the UK.  Never heard anything from my secondary   
   >school, but plenty from Leeds University.   
      
   I went to two high schools inside the US, one private and one public, and   
   one private high school outside of the US.  My parents moved around a lot.   
   The US private school hunted me down and is asking for money, the other   
   two have not.   
      
   I went to one college for both undergraduate and graduate work, although   
   I did some additional graduate work at another college.  Both colleges have   
   tracked me down and are begging for money.   
      
   When I was an undergraduate, nearly every penny I earned went to the   
   institution.  I survived off of cheap food and off of scamming free   
   food.  They took everything I owned and I have no intention of ever   
   giving them any more.  But I'm willing to donate money to their student   
   short term loan fund (which helped me immensely when I could not come up   
   with tuition in time for many quarters) and I am willing to donate money   
   to an endowed chair in my old department.  But I want to make sure not a   
   penny of my money ever goes to the football program.   
   --scott   
      
      
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