After failing to get into Harvard Business School in 1950, a desperate Warren Buffett applied to Columbia, writing directly to then-professor David L. Dodd.

Buffett was accepted, and Dodd was so impressed by him that he invested in Buffett’s company. Nearly 60 years later, Dodd’s daughter, Barbara Dodd Anderson, has decided to give a large portion of the profits to George School, a Quaker high school in Bucks County, Pa.