Walter at Duke Law graduation in 1972, shortly before joining the superb law firm Blackwell, Walker & Gray (then the largest in Florida) and a year before entering Harvard Business School after flipping a coin to decide whether he would enter Stanford B School or Harvard B School, having miraculously been accepted by both. He had learned he was accepted to Stanford from the dynamic Stanford Dean Bob Williams, who had completed Walter’s application the Saturday morning of the latter’s Stanford visit. Following a discussion with a kind associate dean, Walter was asked to stop by to say hello to Dean Williams, who concluded the chat by relating, “Oh, incidentally, you have just been accepted to Stanford!” As it was the third time Walter had been accepted to Stanford (undergrad & law, prior), he was on the fence between those two fine schools, whose cultures could not have been more divergent.