I am sharing this news with an extremely heavy heart.\u00a0 CLASI\u2019s CFO, Keith Criddell, died suddenly on Nov. 20 at age 53. \u00a0It was a horrible shock and has hit us all very hard.\u00a0 Perhaps it is the dissonance of his death\u2014he seemed so healthy, so young, fit, and strong.\u00a0 Perhaps it is the human tragedy of it all.\u00a0 He passed on the morning of his mother\u2019s funeral, and leaves behind his wife, Belinda, and son, Keith Jr. (\u201cKJ\u201d).\u00a0 KJ is a sophomore in college and it quickly becomes obvious to all who meet him that he is a fine young man, of whom his father was extremely proud. \u00a0That apple did not fall far from that tree.<\/p>\n
Keith had been with CLASI since August of 2007.\u00a0 He came to CLASI at a very difficult time (soon after the death of a longtime Financial Director) and then circumstances beyond his control made the job even more difficult.\u00a0 As the U.S. economy collapsed and our IOLTA funding dropped precipitously, Keith navigated us back from the abyss and helped us stabilize our finances.<\/p>\n
Keith was a solid man, both inside and out.\u00a0 He was calm under pressure, understood the nature of the work we do, and supported the importance of our mission.\u00a0 He expertly balanced twenty different grants (federal, state, and miscellaneous others) and smoothed out the cash flow challenges we frequently faced.<\/p>\n
The loss to CLASI and his colleagues is significant and tangible.\u00a0 The gravity of his loss to Belinda and KJ is overwhelming and impossible to fathom.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am sharing this news with an extremely heavy heart.\u00a0 CLASI\u2019s CFO, Keith Criddell, died suddenly on Nov. 20 at age 53. \u00a0It was a horrible shock and has hit us all very hard.\u00a0 Perhaps it is the dissonance of his death\u2014he seemed so healthy, so young, fit, and strong.\u00a0 Perhaps it is the human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clasi-updates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n