Name: Robert H. Glass, CAI

Year Inducted: 2000

Hometown: Estero, Fla.

Birthday: July 5, 1934

Business Name: Robert H. Glass Auctioneers

Business Location: Sterling, Conn.

Auctioneer Since: 1970

Specialty: estate, antique, charity

Most Expensive Item Sold: An abandoned water tower for $360,000. The purchaser turned it into a house.

Most Unusual Item Sold: Full-size bronze sculpture "Spring," by Austrian artist Carl Bitter in the 1970s for $9,000.

Inspiration: Went to auctions and thought he could do a great job conducting them.

Something Others Might Not Know: He taught a fly-tying class in a camp called Barret's Town in Ireland. It is a camp for children with cancer from all over the world.

Auction Mishaps: During an auction, a woman approached him and calmly said that her husband had just died under the tree. She said she would quietly call the ambulance and not interupt the auction. The ambulance came and the auction kept going.

Family: Wife, Barbara. Been married for 50 years. Three sons, three daughters and 16 grandchildren.