Dear Rabbi Lamm, On the occasion of your retirement from your duties as President and Dean of Yeshiva University I wish you “gezunt,” strength and fortitude as you go forward into the next chapter of your extraordinary career. I believe that I was in the first class that you taught at Yeshiva. It was in Teacher’s Institute in 1955 and it was a class in Jewish philosophy. You were a young man, a newly minted PhD. and I was a novice teenager in my first year of studies. You were so erudite, self-assured, and polished – I was so impressed. The next decades saw you rise to the helm of our Yeshiva. You literally saved the University from financial ruin and you salvaged “Torah U’Mada” learning for the future generations of scholars to be. There is no way that the modern orthodox community can adequately thank you. Rest assured that this is your legacy forever. Why? Because we, your talmidim, say so. Best wishes and blessings for the New Year, a year of health, creativity and peace, from myself, my wife Aileen and from the entire Konovitch family, of the yeshiva, and graduates of the University schools. Rabbi Barry J. Konovitch