Name: Richard "Dick" Keenan, CAI, AARE

Year Inducted: 2000

Hometown: Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Business Name: Keenan Auction Company

Business Location: South Portland, Maine

Auctioneer Since: 1972

Specialty: real estate, equipment

Most Expensive Item Sold: Condominiums in Steamboat Springs, Colo., for $24 million.

Most Unusual Item Sold: Three Lockheed Super Constellation Starliners.

Inspiration: He wanted to start his own business and saw auction as a great opportunity.

Something Others Might Not Know: Owned eight ski shops.

Auction Mishaps: During an equipment auction, a customer got in the bucket of a truck and went up to test it out before the truck came up for bid. He couldn't operate the bucket back down. The fire department had to come to get him out.

Family: Wife, Sandy. His sons and daughter and many family members work with him in the auction company.