Toi, +10!!
ZD, At the time that R’ Gifter learned in YU, there was nowhere else to learn in the US practically. He came from a background where he went to public school and had limudei kodesh after that. This was big progress in those days because there wasn’t anything else for someone his age.
AFTER he went to YU, he went to Telshe in Europe. It is there that his philosophies were further shaped, not simply from his YU days.