Class Note 1990
Straight to the news: An enthusiastic report received from Gwen Pointer, now the director of corporate sponsorship and new business development for the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). BAM is America’s oldest performing arts center located in the heart of one of the world’s creative capitals, Brooklyn. Her job is to tell BAM’s story as a “home for adventurous artists, audiences and ideas with world-renowned programming in theater, film, music, dance, opera and literature.”
Rob Adams sends along a “Howzit” from Cape Town, South Africa. Rob joined Tommy Clark ’92 in helping to run Grassroot Soccer, a nonprofit working on youth development all over Africa with a primary focus on behavior change around HIV and AIDS.
John Stouffer lives in Manhattan Beach, California, and works as director of PR for Fuel TV, a cable television network and part of Fox Sports Media Group. The network was rebranded to cover the Ultimate Fighting Championship, so he’s learning the difference between a “rear naked choke” and a “superman punch.” John is also recently engaged to Stacey Broadwell and will be married in March in the L.A. area. He sees classmates Marc Fogelson and George Becker at least once a year for a good snowboard/ski adventure.
Sunil K. “Peter” Pasi and Hallie Lewis celebrated the birth of their daughter Sara Kamla Pasi on December 18. Peter reports that mother and baby are happy and healthy, not least due to the fact that their pediatrician is a Dartmouth ’95 named Alison Pease
Kyle Blood will be featured in the March issue of House Beautiful for the “Bath of the Month.” He designed a Moroccan bathroom for a client on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
William Boulware writes in that he has relocated to Chicago and is moving on from corporate law. He has taken the reins of a not-for-profit, the Preston Bradley Center, assumed an adjunct professor position at Chicago-Kent College of Law and is coaching freshman girls volleyball with Powerhouse Sports Academy.
Sean Callan married Elizabeth Simmons on August 25, 2012, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In attendance were classmates Paul Haffner and wife Karri, Rob Harris and Tom Erwin. Sean and his wife are both practicing attorneys in Cincinnati; Paul is a licensed attorney who works at Great American Insurance Co.; Rob is a successful attorney and partner at Waller in Nashville, Tennessee; Tom is working as an executive recruiter and manufacturer’s rep in Cincinnati.
Ute Bowman Utley took a group of high school students to Princeton Model Congress in D.C. and met up with former basketball teammates Jen Lowry, Allison Greene, Nancy Fitz ’89 and Tara Burke Vold ’93. Jen is living in Baltimore with her husband, Pete, and her precocious (and tall) daughter Bryn. Allison is working at the Pentagon and living nearby with her ultra-fit husband, Rob. The group hopes to gather in Hanover this March for their annual basketball reunion.
In December Ute’s Champlain Valley Union, Vermont, team scrimmaged Northfield Mt. Herman (coached by Nicole Hagar ’91) in Hanover. Karen Heinzmann witnessed the match. Karen teaches French at Thetford (Vermont) Academy. Afterward they watched Dartmouth play the University of Hartford and toured the new Leede Arena basketball suite.
Jack Lunch, publisher of The Sheet in Mammoth Lakes, California, reports that his daughter Margaux was born on March 11, 2012. His newspaper will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2013. Chris Farrens and Gary Katz are heading Jack’s way for the Martin Luther King Day holiday, “Mammoth has the most snow of anyplace in the country right now so who needs fiscal cliffs when you can jump off snowy ones instead?”
Over to cousin Rob.
—Walter Palmer, 87 South St., Rockport, MA 01966; palmerwalter@mac.com; Rob Crawford, 47 Black Oak Road, Weston, MA 02493; robertlcrawford @yahoo.com
