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“I am absolutely thrilled to join the Board,” says Anthony Grumbine (’00), an award-winning architect whom the ���ϲ����� Board of Governors elected to its ranks in October. “Ever since my family moved back to California, we have become a part of the College’s community and get to see firsthand the great effect that tutors, their families, and their students have on the world. It is wonderful to be a part of the group that helps make this community a reality.”

A senior principal at , an internationally acclaimed architectural firm with over 30 active projects across the U.S., Mr. Grumbine manages the company’s Santa Barbara office. Under his direction, the firm has also done work for the College, including the design of the Pope St. John Paul II Athletic Center on the California campus and the renovation of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel in New England, for which Mr. Grumbine and his colleagues won the 2022 Bulfinch Award from the Institute for Classical Architecture and Art.

Mr. Grumbine first became interested in architecture while on a trip through Arizona with a friend’s family in the seventh grade. During their travels, the family stopped at the Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona, a church built into a sheer canyon face. “It was my first real experience noticing architecture in this incredible, dramatic way,” he recalls. “I turned to my friend’s mother and said, ‘This is what I want to do when I grow up.’”

A few years later, Mr. Grumbine enrolled at ���ϲ�����, where he met his wife, Anne-Marie (Ferri ’00). After spending two years on the California campus, the young couple decided to get married and transferred to schools in Canada, where they lived near Mrs. Grumbine’s family and welcomed their first four children. During that time, Mr. Grumbine pursued degrees in art history and architecture at Carleton University in Ottawa. They next moved to South Bend, Indiana, and the University of Notre Dame. There, Mr. Grumbine earned a master’s degree in architecture, studying under Duncan Stroik, the architect of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel. Today, the Grumbines have eight children, two of whom are TAC graduates: Joseph (CA’22) and Andrew (CA’24).

“My wife and I love the program at the College and are really impressed with how it has helped form our sons,” Mr. Grumbine says. “It has given them such a great foundation and has provided them the ability to think freely and logically about things, which is a skill I see becoming more and more scarce in the world. This education is incredible and has prepared them for whatever careers or vocations they are called to.”

Apart from his myriad architectural projects, Mr. Grumbine sits on multiple non-profit boards. Most notably, he has served as chairman for the City of Santa Barbara’s Historic Landmarks Commission for nearly 10 years, assisting the city in keeping a cohesive design fitting with the historical downtown area. “I volunteer for the city to better the built environment, to bring beauty to the streetscape and landscape, and to keep beautiful places beautiful within the public realm. As an architect, it’s important to me to serve my local community in any way I can.”

As he joins the Board of Governors, Mr. Grumbine hopes to lend his years of experience in architecture, fundraising, and management to the College. “Having been involved with several boards, I have had the opportunity to see how someone with my kind of background and skill set can help guide an organization achieve its mission in built form, and get people excited about the vision,” he says. “Having gone to the College myself, and getting to see my children go all the way through the program, I think I have a good handle on the College’s mission, and I want to support it in every way possible.”