Class Note 2002
Issue
September-October 2021
Hello, ’02s!
Brian Mann was named the director of athletics at William & Mary. Mann will be responsible for the daily operations of the athletics department and its approximately 500 student-athletes and 120 coaches and staff. He will oversee a departmental budget of nearly $30 million and the university’s 23 Division I varsity sports. Brian most recently was the senior associate athletics director at University of California, Berkeley, and previously worked in the athletics departments at Rice University and Dartmouth. His 5,912 career passing yards as quarterback for Dartmouth are third on the Big Green’s all-time list. Brian and his wife, Hilary, have a 10-week-old son, Russell, who will join him soon in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Lauren Fontein is one of the founders of the Artist Tree (theartisttree.com), a new cannabis retail and art-focused California cannabis brand. Their stores are unique, because each is a hybrid of a high-end retail boutique and an art gallery featuring rotating exhibits from local artists. They opened their first store in West Hollywood in November 2019 and two additional L.A. stores in April. They’ll be opening one of California’s first smoking lounges and entertainment venues this coming fall in West Hollywood. They also have additional stores opening in other California cities later this year. One of the upcoming locations, in El Sobrante, is also co-owned by a fellow Dartmouth grad, Adam Han ’03.
I hope you all are well and keep sending in your updates!
—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com
Brian Mann was named the director of athletics at William & Mary. Mann will be responsible for the daily operations of the athletics department and its approximately 500 student-athletes and 120 coaches and staff. He will oversee a departmental budget of nearly $30 million and the university’s 23 Division I varsity sports. Brian most recently was the senior associate athletics director at University of California, Berkeley, and previously worked in the athletics departments at Rice University and Dartmouth. His 5,912 career passing yards as quarterback for Dartmouth are third on the Big Green’s all-time list. Brian and his wife, Hilary, have a 10-week-old son, Russell, who will join him soon in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Lauren Fontein is one of the founders of the Artist Tree (theartisttree.com), a new cannabis retail and art-focused California cannabis brand. Their stores are unique, because each is a hybrid of a high-end retail boutique and an art gallery featuring rotating exhibits from local artists. They opened their first store in West Hollywood in November 2019 and two additional L.A. stores in April. They’ll be opening one of California’s first smoking lounges and entertainment venues this coming fall in West Hollywood. They also have additional stores opening in other California cities later this year. One of the upcoming locations, in El Sobrante, is also co-owned by a fellow Dartmouth grad, Adam Han ’03.
I hope you all are well and keep sending in your updates!
—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com