David Netto '92

PROFESSION: Furniture designer, New York City, Founder of David Netto Design and the Netto Collection for babies.

SLC DON: Gilberto Perez, film studies faculty member. "Even if he was really busy, he never seemed in a hurry. He always had time when it came to the students."

FIRST GIFT TO SLC: "Whatever it was, it should have been more."

MOST RECENT GIFT: $10,000 in 2005, divided among the Fund for Sarah Lawrence, then Child Development Institute and the Early Childhood Center where he taught as a student.

ALSO SUPPORTS: Washington Square Park in New York City, Museum of Natural History.

MOST RECENT BOOK REAL: A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket

STATEMENT: "The College showed great patience with me and the travails of growing up that I experienced during those years. Sarah Lawrence parented me, and rather than forcing me to fit into a mold, it celebrated my individuality. It would never occur to me not to give back. I hope to give more in coming years.