It was late September of 1967 and Hainer Hall, the freshman men's dorm at Eastern Baptist College was bursting at the seams with incoming students. Two of the young men matriculating there were from nearby high schools, but they had never previously met. Both were just 18 years old but Bob had already been baking and decorating cakes for 2 years. They soon became close friends, joining the same fraternity and being elected to class offices.
Different career paths emerged for them: education and social work but upon graduation they shared an apartment in Conshohocken with another classmate. As time went on they followed their career track and cake baking and decorating was still Bob's favored avocation even baking the wedding cake for a very warm evening wedding in July 1975.
Over the years the friendship grew and their culinary pursuits took them literally all over the world: India, Italy, Japan, France, Korea and Australia just to name a few. And just last weekend they traveled together to deliver another wedding cake and also to celebrate a new accomplishment: cake sculpturing. It was a special groom's cake of Taz, the Tasmanian Devil.
And this week there will be another culinary pursuit as the two fraternity brothers explore the Crescent City. Doesn't that take the cake?
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