I have been a member of the Walker society for many years; my first will, at age twenty-one, included a bequest to Woodberry Forest.  I wanted to thank Woodberry in some small way for the education I received and for the life lessons I learned.  As we move into a stage of our lives where estate planning is becoming more and more important, I urge you to consider making an estate plan if you have not already done so.  Providing for the ongoing security of our families is a goal that I know all of us share, which is why creating an estate plan, however basic, is so important.  In doing so it is easy to name Woodberry Forest as a beneficiary, either through a simple bequest or by naming the school as a partial beneficiary of an IRA or life insurance policy.  If you already have an estate plan in place, it is very simple to add Woodberry as a beneficiary.  In either case, your generosity towards Woodberry, in any amount, will help to ensure future generations of Woodberry boys the same chance to benefit from the Woodberry experience as much as we did.