His vast Rolodex of tipsters included former business school classmates, fellow hedge fund traders and technology industry executives whose origins, like his, were from the Indian subcontinent.
"Williams was a big adjustment — a lot of classmates had trust funds that kicked in at 21.
In memory of Sadako, and the victims of Hiroshima, her classmates launched a campaign to fund the Children's Peace Monument, where visitors can fold their own colourful cranes and add them to the memorial.
Sometimes, it feels a little silly to keep chasing that dream when our former classmates have already started retirement funds.
Of the nearly 40 classmates intending to start search funds after graduation, all but one was male.
"I had a friend say she couldn't believe how many of our class was in the fund," says Cynthia Arenson, a classmate and childhood friend of Mrs. Madoff.
Ms Chen, who has never married, also never forgot the kindness of her brother's teacher and classmates, who had tried to raise funds for him.
Keeley Small Cap Value Fund tops our chart in 2008, pulling ahead of its fellow Honor Roll classmate out of Chicago, the Bruce Fund.
A tape of his 1983 appearance at the fund-raiser was shared among classmates like underground comedy, and it was introduced to a new generation last year when the school used it for a fund-raising video.
After graduation, he moved to Shenzhen with two classmates; they worked out of an apartment, funded by his university scholarship.
Although they might have some endowments set up by patrons, the bulk of the funds required for this undertaking would come from classmates.
