Touching Story

Laura is attending a "Charactor Education" conference right now and told me this story last night that was told at the conference. It's a neat story. Keep in mind that this story took place a very long time ago. (year unknown)

There was a farming family that had one child. This child was accepted into Harvard. Two weeks before he was suppose to leave for Harvard he was killed in a plowing accident. His parents decided they wanted to donate something to the school in his honor. So, they went to Harvard to meet with the President of the school. Both his Mother and Father showed up to meet with the President in what appeared to be homemade clothing. His parents waited 4 hours to meet with the President. Finally after 4 hours, the President of the school decided that he could not put them off any more and called them in. His parents told the President that they wanted to donate something to the school in honor of their son. The President asked if they had something in mind. His Father said they were thinking of donating money to build a building. The President kind of laughed at them and asked, "Do you realize how much money it would cost to build a building here?" His Father said, "no, how much would it cost." The President said to him "About $2 million dollars." His Father said, "oh, ok. Thank you very much" and they walked out of the Presidents office.

You see, this couple, even though it did not appear as if they had money, they infact had a lot of money. They decided that since it would only cost $2 million to build one building, they would build a bunch of buildings and create their own school in honor of their son. And they would name the school after their son. Their sons name was Stanford.