November 19, 2004

When Administrators Marry

By JENNIFER JACOBSON

Balancing high-pressure jobs and family life calls for some closed-door negotiations

On an October afternoon, the race to pick up Peter Cronin's kids is on.

The director of development at Washington and Lee University must collect his daughter, Erin, 9, and son, James, 5, from an after-school program that will charge him a dollar for every minute that the children stay after 6 p.m.

Mr. Cronin and two commuting buddies from work are zipping along on the 50-mile drive from

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