Ken Krause (far left) with St. V-M classmates Leo Walter III, Jim Bennett, Jim Roetzel, Paul Longville

St. V-M Class reunion for Ken Krause

Ken Krause, former BJ sports editor who lives on Mystic Street in Medford, Massachussetts, had a class reunion Saturday, April 18 at the 29^th annual Showcase, the biggest annual fundraiser for St. Vincent-St. Mary, in the school’s LeBron James Arena.

Ken is in the photo with fellow V-M Class of 1976 members Leo Walter III, Jim Bennett and Paul Longville. He also had a reunion with other 1976 grads Bernie Rochford, Al Graf, Ken McDonald and Tim Walsh.

Leo Walter lives in Akron. 1981 University of Akron graduate Jim Roetzel lives in Cuyahoga Falls.

Paul Longville has been P&L Safety owner in Brecksville since 2009, providing safety consulting and training services to clients in manufacturing facilities, mining, heavy industrial and municipal. Previously, Longville for 13 years was manager of safety & quality in the in the steel industry and 16 years in the transportation, primarily in audit and capital budgeting management positions.

Ken Krause, one of seven siblings, is married to former BJ reporter Maura McEnaney, who 

works for Fidelity Investments, headquartered in Boston. Maura is the author of “Willard Garvey: An Epic Life.” Garvey built homes in the USA, South America and Asia for people with low incomes, is owner-operator of the “world’s largest” grain elevator, is the “largest private landowner in Nevada” and builder of Kansas’s tallest building—the Epic Center with its slanted copper roof.

Maura knew the Garvey family through friends and, after a half-decade of research and other prep work, put the book together. 

Syracuse graduate Maura’s more than three decades as a business writer and editor include being on the BJ team that won a Pulitzer Gold Medal for its “A Question of Color” about race relations in the Akron area. She left the BJ for Boston in 2000 and later worked for Bloomberg News.

Ken and Maura wound up in Medford because Maura has a lot of family in the Boston area.