The last issue’s profile of architect Keith Moskow inspired us to contact classmates who have chosen careers in architecture and related professions. Susan Grant has been a licensed architect for 28 years. She ran her own architecture firm in Chicago for more than a decade, focusing on retail, restaurant, and custom residential design. Currently, she is working with a nonprofit that finances the development of affordable housing across the country. The organization has raised and invested more than $1.2 billion during the last four years to help address the dearth of affordable housing, including a project in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Fred Cuda followed a more circuitous path to construction. After working as a geologist in the oil and gas industry and an entrepreneur running a salmon ranching and farming business in Oregon, Fred moved back to Connecticut 30 years ago to join his family’s businesses—the Blake Group—which distributes water and thermal energy solutions throughout New England and New York. As the president of the Blake Group, Fred writes, “We supplied and now service Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s high-efficiency boiler room equipment, which provides the hospital with steam and heat.” More recently the Blake Group supplied the high-efficiency replacement boiler room equipment for Dartmouth’s 7 Lebanon Street.

Igor Sikorsky ultimately chose to forego a career in architecture and landed in a place he loves: the middle of the North Maine woods, where he owns and runs the Bradford Camps, a traditional sporting lodge with a few dozen hundred-year-old log cabins. Igor’s knowledge of architecture guides his sensitive choices for renovating and maintaining the buildings for the enjoyment of Bradford’s guests. One of Igor’s favorite buildings at Dartmouth is the Hop. While he describes its design as “a reach” for its time, he appreciates the cultural hub it provides to the Dartmouth community. His other favorite? Gamma Delta! He likens it to an indestructible tank with a neighborly design. After receiving her master’s in architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago, D’Andre “Dee” Willis spent her formative years working for Stanley Tigerman and Nagle, Hartray. For the last 20 or so years she has worked at HGA, first in Milwaukee and then for the past five years in D.C., where she started a new higher-ed, arts, and cultural practice for the architecture firm. Dee’s experience rowing Dartmouth women’s crew informed her boathouse designs at Cornell, the University of Minnesota, and Washington College. This year Dee opened her own firm. Her projects focus on the performing and visual arts as well as community organizations. She is currently working with the Folger Shakespeare Library in D.C. to manage a project, designed by Kieran Timberlake, to add exhibition galleries to the historic building. Unrelated to architecture but equally interesting, Episode 6 of the Sports Business Classroom web show features Bleacher Report/Fox News writer Ric Bucher sharing his thoughts about NBA players’ concerns about the bubble environment in Orlando, Florida; the financial impact of the Covid-19-shortened season on professional basketball; and player free agency.

—Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com; Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com