People

Eric Buck

Vice President

Eric grew up in a community of naturalists and artists. In 1970, having found an inn for sale in St. George, Maine, his parents transplanted the family from the D.C. area. This marked a formative period in his life which included being an innkeeper’s son, teaching with the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School, banging nails, and messing about in boats large and small, coastwise and offshore. A subsequent stint in graduate school at UT Austin led to his career as an architect, first in Texas and later in Chicago. It was not until after he moved to Chicago that he discovered the entirely captivating world of rowing, first in sweep boats, then later in sculls. He and his partner Jay (an experienced rower in her own right) to thank for his introduction to skinny boats as she gave him learn-to-row lessons at the Chicago Rowing Foundation for his birthday some 10 years ago.Now having finally returned to Maine, living on the Megunticook River where it’s possible to row out the front door, it is time become more fully engaged with the local rowing community. Eric sees rowing as an all-embracing pursuit worthy of lifelong attention. He is only sorry he came to it so late.