Class Notes
Stuart Hall for Boys, Continued
Stuart Hall for Boys Alumni Breakfast Dr. Peter Weber SHB’74 When Peter Weber sat in class at Stuart Hall for Boys in the 1970s, staring out the window as planes took off from Crissy Field, he had no idea he would become a neurosurgeon, or that his work to understand epilepsy and other brain disorders would be featured on 60 Minutes. “I was you,” he told graduating eighth graders on June 7 (including his son, Jack). “I looked just like you when I was at this point in school.” But he had some guiding principles to help him mature as he moved on from Stuart Hall, and he shared them with the class: 1. Be brave. 2. Don’t be afraid to stand up for yourself. 3. Of all the things that matter in life, money is not one of them. But friends do matter. 4. Everyone you meet has something to teach you. 5. Keep your good friends. “The future isn’t something you should worry about, because you are the future,” he said. “The future will be made by you. It’s not up to our generation. It’s up to yours.”
Class of
Stuart Hall alumni at graduation.
Stuart Hall High School Class of 2004
Whatever happened to the first class of Stuart Hall High School? Read the box at the right.
Class of
1995
Daniel Compean graduated from New York University and speaks Mandarin.
Sean Howse, who has his MBA in international management, is currently finishing a surgical internship in Tennessee and will then head to New York for his residency in Emergency Medicine.
Class of
1996
Jonathan Dreyfus is working at Zynga in San Francisco (http://www.zynga.com/). Danyaal Farooqui is working for Citigroup.
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Ben Groeger ’05’01 graduated from Boston College and is living in Los Angeles with classmate Ian MacPherson. Ben is very connected with his Stuart Hall High School classmates. John Orofino was recently working on a business with a few classmates making burlap denim jeans. He is now working with Mrs. McDaniel’s husband.
sister Maria Su B’99 with his llivan ‘01’97.
Mike Sullivan ran his first full marathon in October 2009, received his private pilot’s license in December 2008 and his commission as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy after completing Naval Officers Candidate School in Newport, RI, in March 2010, graduating as valedictorian of his Surface Warfare Officer School class. He is stationed on a destroyer in San Diego.
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Jordon Kivelstadt was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle in May for his company Free Flow, which helps restaurants serve wine-on-tap by producing a fleet of plastic kegs. According to the Chronicle, Free Flow hopes to have 75 taps in each of its 10 markets by the end of the year. To read the article, visit www.SFgate.com and search “Kivelstadt.” Mike Sullivan SH
Class of
2005
Ryan Carroll ’05’01 recently graduated from Boston University, and gives a lot of credit to Stuart Hall Latin teacher Ellie Pollak for his love of Classics.
Thomas Owen ’05’01 graduated from UC Berkeley where he served on Student Council. He says he will, no doubt, go into politics.
David Thompson just graduated from Cal Poly and is beginning Hastings Law School in the fall. He recently told his father: “If I have a son, live in San Francisco, and have the resources, he is going to Stuart Hall High School.” Mike Seramin graduated from Sonoma State University and is currently living in Marin County, working at Abbey Party Rents in Daly City. Mike still enjoys playing baseball.