Class Note 1981
Getting a recent note from Steve Kroll was like a ray of sunshine. He has moved to Boca Raton, Florida! Well, actually his job lawyering for Cancer Treatment Centers of America has relocated there. The rest of his life hasn’t quite caught up yet. He is flying back most weekends to Winnetka, Illinois, where his daughter is a high school senior and his wife hangs out with Rob Oldfield’s better half while Steve is away. And he is keeping in touch with classmates: “My wife and I are attending the wedding of Alice and Shep Burr’s oldest daughter in Washington, D.C. And Ben Knox played with me in our golf club’s annual member-guest event. We both played poorly.” [Note to self: Don’t accept any future golf invitations from Steve.] “Ben is enjoying life in the Tri-Cities area of Tennessee, where he maintains an active orthopedics practice and lives with his wife and two daughters on the sixth fairway of a really great golf course in the mountains.”
Guess who came to our class’s recent joint mini-reunion with the ’79s and ’80s at Homecoming? Yes! Vince Pollard! What a rare treat it was to see him and knock back a couple of bourbon and ciders together. Vince was in the midst of a Northeast college tour with Liam, No. 2 of the three sons he and Shika have raised in Indianapolis.
I actually got to see 25 classmates at that Homecoming mini-reunion. Kudos to Cathy McGrath ’80 and Bill Mitchell ’79, who did more than their share [translation: more than my share] in pulling it off.
I met three classmates for the first time. One was Chris Andrews, who lives on the New Hampshire coast and was kind enough to answer all my questions about the engineering profession.
Another was Arthur Hutton. He lives in New York and runs a commercial real estate appraisal business. Note to Lisa Fritz Burditt: Arthur’s kids are only 12 and 10. [Lisa, who is cloistered in Princeton with four teenage boys, felt certain that no other ’81s had younger kids than her 12-year-old.] Anyway, Arthur stopped by the mini-reunion tent with his buddy since freshman year, Ray Woolson, the two having been arrested by the sight of the class tent sporting the new ’81 banner designed by Gail Chen. Ray came all the way from Roanoke, Virginia, for a Homecoming family reunion with his parents and siblings, including his dad, Raymond ’55, and brother Tyler ’85.
And the third was Annabelle Brainard Canning, who is already my new best friend. Annabelle has just volunteered to host a mini-reunion in Philadelphia this year with her husband, Doug ’79.
And let’s all give a big ’81 rouse for Danielle Dyer, who just received the Alumni Award for longstanding meritorious service to the College on a magical night surrounded by family and friends. Danielle recounts, “We had a great crowd of ’81s there: Julie Koeninger, Jenny Toolin McAuliffe, Karen Calby, Dave Edelson, Lynne and Bobby Gaudet; it was so much fun!”
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Robert Goldbloom
, 324 Warburton Ave., Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706; (914) 231-5117; robertgoldbloom@gmail.com;
Brian Cusack
, 26 Ocean Ave., Marblehead, MA 01945; (617) 710-7228; briancusack13@gmail.com
