Only yesterday we were feeling a twinge of guilt mixed with nostalgia when we threw out another piece of mail from the Office of Development of our alma mater, Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, asking for money – any amount we could scrape together – to aid its various colleges and the Promising Young Artists Scholarship Fund. Since we’d spent four of the best years of our young life there, we wished we could help other youngsters experience the same. Then, today, we were leafing through the paper and came across this:

Heiress donates to Philly art school

A Campbell’s Soup heiress has given a second gift of $25 million to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Philanthropist Dorrance H. Hamilton’s donation, announced this week, matches one she made in November and increases the university’s endowment to more than $75 million. The fund stood at only $17 million a year ago. Hamilton is the granddaughter of Campbell’s Soup founder John T. Dorrance. Her donations are the largest in the school’s 130-year history.

So we fished the school’s donation request out of the trash and tore it into pieces, in case it was found by a generous and gullible art patron whose eccentricity is rummaging through trash cans.