FACES IN THE CLUB Senior member James Pittman has been named future president of the Million Dollar Round Table, an international association of financial professionals with over 38,000 members from 74 countries. Pittman, the first Oregonian ever named to the group’s executive board, starts his four-year term in September 2018. Pittman is president of Insurance Consulting Services, a company he founded in 2000 after a decades-long insurance career. Pittman’s appointment as MDRT president is the culmination of both years in the business, and an extensive history of working on executive boards and with nonprofits. He is the past President of The Estate Planning Council of Portland, The Portland Chapter of CLU and ChFC, The OHSF Foundation Advisory Board, and he has served on the planned giving committees of The Oregon Ballet Theatre and Loaves and Fishes. Pittman lives in Portland, and has been married to his wife Karon since 1970. They have three grown children, Cameron, Morgan and Regan. The Pittmans enjoy skiing, running, traveling and spending time at MAC. To submit information for Faces in the Club, contact Communications Manager Tony Roberts at 503-517-7220 or troberts@themac.com.
Erin Larner
Goutham Sundaram
Darby Rosette
Matthew Sipowicz
MAC tennis players dominated at state championships this year, with six junior members winning individual or doubles titles at various levels. Jesuit standout senior Erin Larner tied a state record, winning her fourth consecutive 6A state title. Larner’s
victory in the state title match capped a perfect career – four undefeated seasons to go along with her state championships. She beat MAC member Cam Kincaid in the final. Larner will play at Northwestern University next year.
Lincoln senior Goutham Sundaram, a 2012 scholar athlete, capped his high school career with a third consecutive singles title. Sundaram won an exciting three-set match, dropping the first set and winning the second in a tiebreaker before easily wrapping up the title with a 6-1 victory. Larner and Sundaram were also the reigning male and female high school tennis players of the year. Darby Rosette was another fouryear standout at Jesuit, winning the girls doubles
title in May to close out here senior year. She is playing tennis at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., this fall. It was a great day for MAC members who play for the Oregon Episcopal Academy boys team, which captured the 4/3/2/1A state team title. OES junior Matthew Sipowicz won his second consecutive title, defeating his own teammate in the final. Sipowicz also helped the OES Aardvarks to a state title in soccer last fall, scoring the game-winning goal in the championship game and earning player August 2014
Josh Yaun
Kevin Haugh of the match honors. OES also got a boys doubles championship from MAC members Josh Yaun and Kevin Haugh, who also beat OES teammates in the final.
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