Peter Boonstra
Honor Code SignatorySigned 10 Mar 2023 | 824 contributions | 25 thank-yous | 561 connections
Peter Andrew Boonstra was the first of two children of Bert Boonstra and Jane Dorothy Boonstra-Horzelenberg. His parents had emigrated to North America in the 1950's but returned to The Netherlands after meeting at Calvin College, MI and getting married. Peter's family moved from Dordrecht to Den Haag and finally settled in Wassenaar, South Holland (a suburb of Den Haag). Peter attended the American School of The Hague for 12 years, where his parents were teachers. In 1981, Peter moved to the US to attend Tufts University in Medford, MA, USA. In 1986, Peter married Karen Jackson, originally of Marion, Massachusetts. They had three children: Alexander (1991), Jackson (1994), and Sonia (born 1997 in Moscow, Russia. adopted 1998).
Peter and Karen divorced in 2006. Peter remarried in 2019, to Tamira (Tami) Lyn Drakulic, of Chico, CA, USA.
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