Even dying can be fun, if you have a sense of humor about what to do with your estate:
Thanks to David Hildebrand '62, Carleton has a slush fund that's worth its salt. Hildebrand, a statistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania who died in 1999, had a lively sense of humor and a generous nature, which was the impetus for the David K. Hildebrand Endowed Fund for Ice and Snow Removal—a slush fund, literally. His family and friends, who created the fund, say that he was fond of wordplay and often composed limericks to include on his statistics exams.
If I'm ever rich enough to consider such a thing, I'm going to saddle Macalester (and maybe Carleton) with some sort of ridiculous endowment fund like this. Perhaps a nordic-ski grooming fund, with reports due to the stewardship office within five days of the end of any snowstorm with accumulations greater than 8 inches. Yeah, that's it.