1990
This is the last column that I'll be writing before we elect a new secretary or co-secretaries at reunion, and I feel like a car running out of gas. Yes folks, the mail has been running realllllllyyyyy thin! Brian Sweeney was prompted to write me when he suddenly began to receive the Alumni Magazine after a five-year lull. He lives in San Antonio with his wife, Loretta Lee, and two-year-old Brian III. Brian the elder says that he and Loretta met at Tufts med school, although she grew up ten minutes away from his childhood home in San Diego.
Right now he's a gastroenterologist and completing a fellowship with two military hospitals in the city. Since we graduated nine years ago, Brian has been on a slow, tortured quest to get back to the left coast. He invites people to contact him at .
Another wayward correspondent, PeterPasi, sent me a long e-mail to catch us all up on his life since 1990. I loved his opening lines: "OK, OK, so it took me nine years to write. But I want to just once see my name in bold in the DAM. Nothing so glamorous as cinema, mind you, but I'll paste in a little about what I'm doing and where I'm working. I'm sure the rest of the '90s will find this absolutely riveting."
Peter is the creative director at a Washington, D.C., area direct response marketing agency. The Lukens Cook Co. specializes in fundraising for non-profits, political advocacy organizations, political candidates, and associations. He lives in Rosslyn, Va., just a short walk over the Key Bridge to Georgetown. Among his earlier jobs was marketing manager of Trout Unlimited, where he oversaw acquisition, renewal, and fundraising programs and developed marketing programs within and beyond the fly-fishing industry.
So, I asked him, "What's the biggest fish you've ever caught, Peter?" His response? "It's the experience that matters, Jeanhee, not the size." But seriously, after "landing" the job at Trout Unlimited, Peter "caught" a MAXI award, a big kahuna of an honor "in recognition of outstanding achievement in direct marketing."
This was due him after creating the most successful fundraising package in Trout Unlimited's 40-year history. Ironically, I received news from one of our classmates in cinema that very same week. Annie Sundberg was part of the Dartmouth cadre that produced In MyCorner, an intimate and explosive portrait of what it means for young men to come of age within the world of a Bronx community boxing gym.
The documentary is to air on Father's Day on PBS's acclaimed POV series. The film was entered in the SXSW Film Festival, and critics give it thumbs up. Other Dartmouth alums who worked on the film include Ricki Stern '87, producer and director; William Rexer '86, co-producer and cinematographer; and Chris Robinson '87, who assisted in post-production.
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10th Year Reunion June 18-20, 1999
