Don Burt '77, President of CFS Alumni Association, Visits School

CFS History Month guest speaker Don Burt '77 spoke to the community on April 14 about his experiences attending CFS from 1975-77, including time spent in the milk squad and then the print shop. Burt, a former member of the CFS Board of Directors and current president of the CFS Alumni Association spoke gratefully about how he and his friends got turned around by the school, but he did acknowledge a bit of a troublemaking streak during his tenure.
For example, fed up with milk squad detail (which involved rising at 4:35 a.m. daily, no matter the season), Burt got a note from an allergist at Lankenau Hospital excusing him from the duty. "Dr. Shreiner slammed his hand on the desk and sent me to the print shop," Burt remembers. The print shop made a lasting impression on Burt, who ended up attending the Rochester Institute of Technology and working for many years in the graphic design and printing industry before moving over to IT.
The students asked many questions about cottage life back then, and Burt revealed that the food was so awful in his day, that he and some friends set up a ham and cheese sandwich stand (unauthorized by the school). Despite his gripes about the food and the labor and the accommodations back in the day, Burt said that he came to the realization that so many before him, and so many after him, have also come to. "It's those four words you will likely utter yourself someday: CFS saved my life."
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