Recently a real estate professional checked in at the registration desk of an industry conference and the concierge asked, “Mr. Burdick, are you Josh or Glenn?” It was Glenn Burdick at the desk,Josh’s father. Glenn co-founded Corporate Portfolio Analytics nearly a decade ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company advises major occupiers of real estate on the strategic management of their owned and leased real estate portfolios. Josh, the other Burdick attending the conference, has worked as a project manager in neighborhood revitalization with the Urban Land Conservancy in Denver and has enjoyed skiing in the Rocky Mountains since graduating from Grinnell College three years ago. Josh will be off to Wharton this fall to pursue an M.B.A. Glenn and his wife, Carol, now live in a condominium community in Winchester, Massachusetts, after selling the house where they had lived the past 25 years. Glenn hopes that the freedom from lawn mowing and leaf raking will give him an opportunity to improve his golf game and to spend more time at the family home on Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine. Carol retired in the spring from a 20-year teaching career working with special needs, middle school students and is looking forward to recharging her life battery and engaging in volunteer activities.


Drew Lawrence is a serious contender for the class honor of having the youngest children. Drew and his wife, Janet, have three athletic children, daughter Riker (14), a ninth-grader and softball player; daughter Mary Morgan (12), a seventh-grader and volleyball player; and son Jimmy (11), a sixth-grader and baseball player. Drew notes that outside of work his life is consumed with sports practices and games. Drew attended law school at George Washington University and has lived in northern Virginia ever since. He and Janet, a surgical tech at Fair Oaks Hospital in Fairfax, live in Fairfax Station with two dogs and three cats in addition to the children. Drew is a solo practitioner with a focus largely on landlord-tenant, real estate and collections law.


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—Rick Sample, Retreat Farm, 1137 Manakin Road, Manakin Sabot, VA 23103; samplejr@msn.com