As I've told many undergraduates, Columbia offers the greatest liberal arts education. The Core Curriculum provides the opportunity to broaden oneself intellectually and to become a well-rounded person. It's the last chance to do so, in my opinion, as I consider graduate school to be vocational training. As a premed, I had to take many required science courses, which limited my time for liberal arts courses. The few I took were wonderful, and I wish I had been able to take more. I had the good fortune to attend class with the great Moses Hadas. David Denby '65's New Yorker articles on Homer piqued my interest, and I returned to Columbia when I retired from medicine, earning an M.A. in Jewish studies in 2000. I am the proud possessor of two Columbia degrees in two centuries and two millennia. I attend Dean's Day and the John Jay Colloquium, where I've had the opportunity to revisit the Core Curriculum at a leisurely pace. One of my proudest achievements was the endowing of a scholarship in my mother's memory in 1989. I was fortunate enough to be able to earn my tuition working summers, impossible for today's students. Helping them to obtain this great College education is a great personal reward.