John N. Walsh III, a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, is an emeritus member of the University at Buffalo Council and the University at Buffalo Foundation and community volunteer. Alison and Roger Des Forges’ children and my wife Connie’s and my children attended the same Montessori school: a public school significantly launched by Alison’s efforts. We have remained lifelong friends and neighbors. As an interviewer for Yale undergraduate admissions, the Buffalo Urban League, and certain of UB’s scholarship applicants, I am thrilled at the legacy of Alison’s work funding opportunity in the lives of our community scholarship recipients.