08/20/2026
Stern Center legend and former board member Sean Plasse shares his own story
This is how it starts...
Imagine you’re eight years old in a classroom of fourteen other kids, given an audiobook of Charlotte’s Web on CD and told there will be a final exam. You put your headphones on, and your copy is the one someone scratched with steel wool — mercilessly. How long could you sit with that, listening to nothing but noise, before the panic sets in? That was every school day for me.
Read the rest of Sean's story here: https://sterncenter.org/my-stern-center-story-sean-plasse/