Elizabeth Fletcher Cronan ’81

Lisa Cronan died peacefully Oct. 16, 2013, at her home in Winchester, Mass., after an illness due to breast cancer.

Lisa grew up in Locust Valley, N.Y., and attended Milton Academy. At Princeton she majored in architecture and was a member of the Campus Club. Her roommates and close friends at Princeton included Catherine Mueller Boyer, Heather Potter, Beth Nelson, and Jan Devereux. She moved to Boston shortly after graduating, and lived in Winchester for more than 25 years.

Lisa was a talented architect who loved poetry and travel. In her quiet and principled way, Lisa changed the lives of hundreds of children around the world. As a foster parent, she opened her home to 16 infants over the course of 15 years. She also helped to found an orphanage in Tanzania, which provides a loving home and a bright future for children in need. Most of all, she constantly inspired her own children, and everyone who knew her, with her sense of adventure, her compassion, and her strength.

She is survived by her husband of 30 years, Todd Cronan ’80, and her children, Jessie ’07, Nina ’08, Louisa ’10, and Quinn, a senior at Middlebury College. The class extends profound sympathy to them all.