At the end of April Chris Pfaff caught up with his brother, Jamie ’77, and their good friend but no relation, Bruce Pfaff ’76, to play golf in Scotland. Jamie and Bruce played on the Dartmouth golf team together, and Bruce is a member at Royal Dornoch. The trio started there and worked their way down to St. Andrews playing many courses. Jamie and Bruce played 13 rounds in nine days, while Chris played six rounds in five days. Chris noted that not all of his scores were good, but he did manage to play six rounds with the same ball, something he had never done before. Chris’s wife, Sara, their daughter, Elsa, and his sister-in-law met Chris in Edinburgh after five days of glorious travel on the Royal Scotsman luxury train. Chris and Sara are private wealth advisors and members of a nine-member wealth management team at the Union Bank of Switzerland group in Chicago. Chris earned an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and Sara earned an M.B.A. from Xavier University. They met in 1982 when they both worked for an IBM spin-off called Service Bureau Co., which provided time-sharing access to high-end software. They married in 1987 and have two children, Elsa, who now works for UBS in New York City as a member of its family advisory and philanthropy group, and Fritz, a freelance video and film producer in Detroit who loves the urban pioneering and renaissance occurring there now. Outside of work, Chris and Sara spend nearly three months a year in Montana fly fishing, hiking, skiing, and golfing.

At the end of April Celia and I attended the biennial Menuhin Competition in Geneva, Switzerland. The competition is often referred to as the Olympics of the violin, with more than 40 of the best violinists between the ages of 10 and 21 years from all over the world competing in two age groups during a 10-day period. We heard the concert with the four senior finalists and the closing gala concert featuring the junior and senior winners with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from London under the baton of Julian Rachlin. At the end of the Geneva events the Menuhin Foundation announced that Richmond, Virginia, will be the site of the next competition in May 2020, only the second time the competition will take place in the United States since beginning in 1983. If you enjoy the violin and wonderful music, come and visit us in Richmond for the competition! Please don’t hesitate to contact me for tickets and additional information.

Remember to mark your calendars for our upcoming 45th reunion from Thursday, June 13, through Sunday, June 16, 2019.

Be safe and send news.

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