Class of ’95 alums enjoyed the dolce vita at a villa in Tuscany.

1995

To the class of '95: I apologize for missing the deadline last time for Kellogg World. Here is the latest news from our class (note the repeated use of the word BABY!).

First, some news from the Bergs. Ben Berg is going to be 10 in August. Repeat, Ben Berg is going to be 10 in August. Since he was two weeks old when I started at Kellogg, that means that it was 10 years ago this spring that we all began to receive the "big envelope" in our mailboxes from Kellogg. Wow.

Michigan State University's Eli Broad College of Business has just appointed Mark Schroder to receive one of two new endowed professorships established by the late Philip J. May. Schroder, who received his PhD in Finance from Kellogg in 1995, has been an associate professor in the Broad School Finance Department since 1998.

Helen and Chris Joseph ’95 hosted a mini Kellogg reunion at their home in the San Francisco Bay Area. Present were, from left, Kian Meftah ’95, Aileen Sebastian ’95 (with Rachel Koeiman), Nerville Koeiman ’95 (with Justin Koeiman), Megan Joseph, Helen Joseph (with Samantha Joseph), Chris Joseph ’95, Lily Chang ’95 (with Amanda Lee) and Frank Lee ’95 (with Annabelle Lee).

Helen and Chris Joseph hosted a party at their home in Los Altos in the San Francisco Bay Area for Nerville Koeiman and wife Aileen Sebastian, who were both en route from their home in Denver to Malaysia on vacation with their two kids. Also in attendance were Kian Meftah, Lily Chang and her husband Frank Lee and their kids. As typical when Kelloggians get together, it was a night of partying and catching up on things, although the women threatened to leave early for a movie, leaving the kids with the guys. Here is some news on what everyone is doing: Chris Joseph directs marketing at BetaSphere in Palo Alto, Calif., and has two daughters, Megan, 7, and Samantha, 3. Nerville Koeiman does business analysis for Qwest in Denver, while Aileen Sebastian is on a hiatus from work to care for her new baby Rachel and son Justin, 3. Kian Meftah is in program management at Solectron in Fremont, Calif. Frank Lee is in venture capital with Vertex Management in Menlo Park, Calif. Lily Chang does finance consulting to firms. Frank and Lily have two daughters, Amanda, 2, and Annabelle, 5 months.

Martha Golub is now a full-time mommy with baby Zoe, who was born in January 2002. She left Digitas, where she was the vice president of marketing. Now she is doing some contracting work in the Boston area, where she lives with her husband Todd and her daughter.

Elyse Spector Kalmans went on maternity leave from Enron just before things collapsed and added a second daughter to her family, Kendall Paula. Her first daughter's name is Aerin Lynn, and she supports her mom, as Elyse has started a public relations and community relations firm in Houston. Both daughters enjoy the flexibility it gives their mom.

Amy Lehr married Todd Schriber (who I used to work with at PwC). Amy writes, "Since I gave up singledom, my career and the warm weather of the West Coast — all for the love of one man — moved to crazy NYC, got married, followed closely by taking my husband's name, which none of you can spell correctly: S-H-R-I-B-E-R — no "c" and no "ei" please — I figured I would hit it home with changing my email address as well. You can now find me at amyshriber@yahoo.com.

From the last note I received from Cynthia Brumback, it appeared she was doing some marketing consulting, enjoying her new puppy and looking for a business to buy. She says that it's one of those times that she wishes she had been more diligent in negotiations class!

Linda Plate ’95 and new husband Tim Guy on their wedding day.

Linda Plate got married and created a mini-Kellogg '95 reunion. She and her new husband Tim Guy were joined by the following alums in Waitsfield, Vt., on a snowy fall day: Jane Hunter and husband Mark Walsh, Charlotte Cudlip and husband Perry Bartol, Laura Fitch and husband Jon Matson, Molly and Randy Grudzinski, Kristen and John Clevenger, Nicole Timan and husband Mark O'Rourke, Dan Hillenbrand, Mark Medema, Jon Honney, Betsy Brown and Kristina and Ken Hedley. Linda and Tim met at Kristina and Ken's wedding in Jackson Hole, Wyo., four years earlier. Tim and Ken went to Dartmouth together, and Linda and Kristina previously worked together at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Following a honeymoon to Belize and Guatemala, Tim and Linda settled in Boston, where Linda is currently working at Boston Medical Center as director of nursing operations. Her new email is linda.guy@bmc.org.

Nick Palmer is now at nickpalmer@bigpond.com, and he wrote the following last fall: "I finally left BCG a few months ago, after spending the last year and a half commuting to West Australia. I took a sabbatical to Europe, where I fulfilled a long held — if somewhat oddball — dream of trekking across the Pyrenees (which divides France and Spain) from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. It was an 850 km., two-month solo hike and a really terrific experience, made all the better by the decision to do it for charity. I raised almost $30,000 for the Starlight Children's Foundation from friends and colleagues, including a number of generous donations from our Kellogg classmates, which was great. After the trek, my wife Liz and sons joined me for a month vacation together in France and Italy. Unfortunately, the job offer I had accepted prior to leaving, running a large part of a U.S. bank's Australian businesses, commencing upon my return, was retracted at the last minute. Ouch! So now I'm enjoying a longer break than planned, which is great from the family perspective, but not so good for the bank balance. So if anyone hears of anything ... !"

Philippe Laval wound down PowerLaunch, the company that he cofounded, and after careful consideration, has decided to take a new direction in his career. He is joining ADT Europe as controller Europe. He is looking forward to hearing from you soon. In the meantime, he trusts that if you have security needs for your home or your business you will consider ADT as a prime option.

	The newest addition to the Pirotta family is Annabella Grace, shown with mother Linda (Lin) Pirotta ’95.

Last July, Linda (Lin) Pirotta became a ommy for a second time with the arrival of Annabella Grace. At the time, things were a bit busy around the Pirrotta household juggling a newborn and a 2-year-old toddler.

Last summer, Jules "signing at the Key on a Tuesday night" Veloria moved on from Arula Systems and is now with Focaltron Corp. Focaltron is a privately held company in the golf industry that developed a product called GolfAchiever. It's a high-tech golf swing analyzer that measures and calculates significant ball flight and swing data. He is responsible for identifying and developing new business opportunities and strategic partnerships with golf equipment manufacturers, and in new sectors such as the video game, hotel and leisure industries.

Simon Rankin is still hanging out in London as a vice president with Morgan Stanley. His workday goes as follows: before 4 p.m. grinds out work, 4 p.m. goes to gym, 5:30 p.m. sits with New York boss for some unknown reason, 6 p.m. grinds out some more work, 8:30 p.m. goes out for dinner with New York boss for some unknown reason, later stumbles home drunk. The next day, does it all over again ...

Dave Melian has very significant news to report. He wrote the following: "I got some calls from some friends telling me the alumni site had me listed as 'deceased.' I also had an asterisk next to my name on one of the donor publications indicating I had passed. I contacted the alumni office and proved to them I was indeed alive, and they corrected the problem, but I would like to inform others who may have seen the news. 'David Melian would like to inform everyone that the reports of his death on the alumni Web site were greatly exaggerated. He is alive and well in NYC.'" (Wow, that's kind of hard to beat. When I fired off a note to him saying, "I thought you were dead," he replied with the following: "I must admit that some mornings it's difficult to get out of bed, but the thermometer still reads 98.6. Glad I'm around to clear this up. -Dave")

Sajal Kohli (a fellow CIM week alum) is doing well as a partner with McKinsey in Chicago. He and his wife Rohini became parents for the first time with the arrival of Sehar (which means "early morning/dawn").

Last spring, Fran Brasfield changed her last name to Langewisch when she married Bob in her hometown of Tupelo, Miss. Many Kellogg friends joined them down South, and they are now living in Wilmette. She is an assistant dean at Kellogg, who offers the following report: "Work has been busy with Dean Wilson's retirement, the summer quarter with the one-year students (formerly known as 4Qs), and helping coordinate CIM Week.

Todd Dorrien is a daddy. (Have you noticed a theme in this update? -RB) He and Sue are the proud new parents of Mia Margaret Dorrien. She arrived on June 10, right before Father's Day and during the World Cup. Her Dad was very happy to have an excuse to be awake at 4 a.m. and not have to go to work the next day! She especially enjoyed watching the U.S. beat Mexico, although she almost got dropped on the floor when we scored. Sue and Todd are having a great time with Mia in their new house in Kensington, Md., (just outside D.C.). So far they have managed to avoid the minivan/SUV to go along with the baby and the house in the burbs. Instead they bought a new Civic Hybrid (gas/electric) to keep the air clean for their kid. He definitely recommends buying one for anyone looking at a new car, as it is very slick.

Claudio Ludovisi signs in from Warner Bros as a new vice president of domestic corporate marketing. He has a marketing coordination job across theatrical, home video, consumer products and television on specific ("nonfamily") projects. He also "mines" new potential revenue streams for the studio. For example, last summer he worked on a NASCAR/IMAX 3-D project and got to spend the weekend at the Richmond Monte Carlo 400 raceway. He was even driven around the track before the race! (For you car fans out there, this is a BLAST!). Finally, he is working to develop more cross-company coordination ethnic marketing, especially for the U.S. Hispanic market. On the personal front, he sold his apartment in Brentwood and was trying to find a place closer to Burbank (ideally in the Hollywood Hills), but the market is so high right now that he was having trouble finding anything decent.

For those of you in the home improvement market, check out the latest from Dave Gordon. Last summer, he was promoted to president and CEO of Armstrong Cabinet Products (NSYE: ACK), from his position as vice president, marketing, for Armstrong Cabinet Products. Go visit him on the Web at www.armstrong.com. He is still in Dallas hangin' with David Fry and Paul Marshal all the time.

Kai Chung left Bain, and has moved to Seattle to "settle down," so to speak.

In Atlanta, James Pitts and I have been able to have lunch together a couple of times. Here is some more news from him: James is now the father of two boys, as Erik Malcolm turned 1 last October. James writes, "Erik's brother, Jake, is 3 years old, and they are the lights of my life. I'm working in commercial real estate with Jones Lang LaSalle in Atlanta and loving it. Emmit Horne stopped in and played golf with several alums including Susan '96 and William Lampley '94, and Judy Pitchford '91. Ken Ewell was burning up in San Antonio on an assignment last summer. He now has the proper respect for my home state. I see Alvin Thompson now and then. He's wrapped around the finger of a certain little girl of his. It's a sight to behold."

Mark Lamps and his wife Anne adopted a baby from Colombia last year. They flew to Bogot· last July, and received Christopher Mateo (10 months) on July 30. Anne flew back with Christopher on Aug. 28. With son Joseph, 5, and daughter Maria, 2, they now have a busy house. "I also learned a lesson in perspective with this, as on July 29, I also received a promotion. It took me going through about three congratulatory voicemails before I realized people were congratulating me on the promotion and not on our new son! Also, we moved from Milwaukee to Cleveland in March, so this is a busy year for us."

Tracy Heilman continues to do well in Maine. She sends in the following notes: "Ray and I spent the month of August in Maine — with me working and he playing golf and doing home improvement projects (doesn't seem quite fair!). It was nice to get out of the city for a few weeks — life is totally different out there! Subimo continues to occupy most of my time, but I've also managed to do a lot of running. I've been having a good summer running-wise, and have actually been doing really well in a couple of local races. Kind of fun for a former nonathlete/klutzy kid! I was lucky enough to see Dina Colman and Dave Luczynski, and Michael, Miss Mackenzie and Claire Celeste Carnes back in June when they came for a visit. I had a barbecue for them and the rest of our Dinner Club (Per Torgersen, Ted Pfeiffer, Bob and Fran Langewisch, Beth Houle and David Pope, and Cristina Alcocer), which was great fun.

News from Frankfurt comes in via Frank Wetterkamp. He says that there is "not much news from my side, at least nothing on my private life (still single, no kids ...). Jobwise, I am still with PwC in the transaction services group. After I had worked on financial due diligence jobs for the first few years with the firm, I have started a couple of months ago to dedicate 100 percent of my time to run and grow the so-called post-deal services group here. I am a senior manager. I work with/for a partner who is officially in charge. We post merger integration work, as well as things like implementation of new reporting and controlling structures, operational improvement jobs (after acquisitions) and other similar things."

Eddie Escobar wrote the longest update, but I had to edit it down to the following: "Lucia, kids and I are doing great in Guatemala. We are raising three great kids, Daniel, Marcela and Carina. We share our home with two maids, Esperanza and Dominga. We also 'enjoy' two labs, Archi and Perdita, as well as Max the canary. Daniel, 6, loves animals, Bo (karate stick), Nintendo, computer games, drawing stories and reading books. He starts first grade this year and is actively involved in sports as a swimmer, soccer player and martial artist (orange belt). Marcela, 4, loves princess stories, painting and doing handcrafts. She still goes to preschool and is actively involved in ballet and swimming. She is daddy's princess. Carina, 1, is starting to walk and talk. She is still ma-ma's boss! Lucia is currently working only part time on special projects, but is actively involved in her family business affairs.She is the director of various boards, Cuscatlan Bank of Guatemala and La Fragua (holding company of Paiz Stores). She is also general manager of Benetton stores in Guatemala. The rest of her day is dedicated to the kids and their activities. We both share some social service at Juannio, an annual Latin-American art auction to benefit mentally disabled kids. As for me, I'm still an entrepreneur and am currently focusing on Nabla — the construction group of regional companies serving Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and recently, Nicaragua. I've shared this business since 1992 with two other Kelloggians, Ricardo Erales '97 and Jorge Rodriguez '00. I serve as president for the Guatemalan Neurological Institute (ING). Academically, I was just named dean of my former school of engineering at Rafael Landivar University and will be responsible for almost 2,500 students. I guess I will be asking for guidance from Dean Jain. As for other Kelloggians, we frequently see on business and family meetings, Fernando Del Cid '97, who just started a new REIT fund equivalent in Guatemala under the name of URBANA.

Ricardo Erales '97, Jorge Rodriguez '00 and I are building the largest mall in the Central America region in the city of San Salvador. We often meet at social events with Willy Castillo '95 who is involved in negotiating trade agreements for Guatemala, but more frequently, when we both visit friends abroad. I cross paths through business with Miguel Fernandez '99 once in a while. Today we are having lunch with Gabriel Biguria '96, who is visiting Guatemala to start his first entrepreneurial venture here at home after working abroad in Mexico and the United States.

Dena Dodd Perry and her family are doing well. She took a few years off to stay home with her two sons, 2 and 4, who have now started Montessori preschool. She now has some free time for other challenging endeavors so she started a marketing services firm, Phoenix Marketing Group Inc., to provide marketing and analysis services for underserved municipalities. She recently completed her first project for the ICSC conference in Las Vegas.

Jill Luciani and I reached out to each other last September, since it was the one year anniversary of the two of us meeting on the morning of Sept. 11 in Boston. She reports she attended a lovely baby shower/brunch for Lisa Johnson in SF. She's still at Clorox working on guerilla/nontraditional marketing for several brands.

Jon Passman changed his email to jpassman1995@kellogg.northwestern.edu (and, by the way, it would help if all of you did this. It makes it easier to keep up with the updates for Kellogg World — R.B.). In April 2002, Pam and Jon and their two sons, Abe (3.5 years old) and Jordan (23 months) moved to Minneapolis to be closer to family. As part of the move, they both began to look for new opportunities. Ultimately, Pam transferred within GE from GE Medical to GE Capital Fleet Services. She is a master black belt (manages all six sigma initiatives for the operations group in her business). Jon is still working for the merchant bank (Ascent Partners), focused on mergers and acquisitions for information technology companies and a $50 million venture fund he worked for in Milwaukee, but is continuing to look for a new opportunity in the Twin Cities. Jon reports, "We are very pleased to be here. We bought a great house in Minnetonka (western suburb) and are settling in for the long haul, i.e. no plans to move again."

Kelly Rich says, "not much news from the Rich family," but the following has happened in their household: "Nathan started kindergarten this fall, we are putting an addition on our house (It's so much fun living without a kitchen for months! — Not!), and Kris and I are celebrating our 10th anniversary with a three-week trip to Australia in October."

Brad Frank is a daddy. (See, I told you there is a theme — RB) Brad and Deborah Frank welcomed Gavin Samuel Frank into the world May 12.

As of last September, Liz Wald reported the following: "I am still enjoying my unemployed status! My latest endeavor was a coast-to-coast bike ride this past June to raise money for myotonic muscular dystrophy, a disease that afflicts members of my family. As I huffed and puffed up five-mile climbs to 8,000-foot passes out West or churned up short, steep 1,000-foot climbs in upstate New York, I found myself anxiously looking for the 'right lane ends' sign that would mark the top of the hill and the end of the slow-moving vehicle lane! My 30-day journey across the United States took me through 10 states, had me sleeping in 15 high schools, 13 colleges and two lodges. By the time I made it to Fenway Park in Boston, I had pedaled 1,568 miles, or about half the total distance from west to east. We raised about $200,000 for the cause, and I had an incredible time seeing the country at 15 m.p.h. Now it is back to reality and I am kicking in the job search in New York and continuing to see classmates who live but blocks away."

	Dave Mathias ’95 is the new father of little David George, born in August.

Dave Mathias is a daddy. On Aug. 30, he welcomed David George into his family — five weeks early! "The little stinker wanted to make sure he made it for the opening weekend of NFL games," Dave says.

Julie Imig is back from Eastern Europe. (I was lucky because I got to sit next to her at the five-year reunion class dinner at the Allen Center, hours before she boarded a plane back to Poland.) She has moved to Boulder, Colo., and says, "It's very nice to be in the U.S. for a while. I'm continuing with my consulting practice to venture capital-funded companies here and enjoying my family and the mountains."

Andrew Tong sends the Italian report this time. A mini-reunion was held last summer when Andrew, Jim Beckemeyer, Lawrence Chan, Richard Chino, Al Falcione, Nicole Neuefeind, Seth Ruthen, Kurt Scherer '92, Michelle Quinones and three others banded together for a week of "La Dolce Vita" at a villa in the Tuscan countryside outside of Sienna. The group spent the week soaking in the culture, food and wine in the local towns, as well as lounging around hilltop villa soaking in the Tuscan sun.

Gianfranco Ferrari married Claudia CÛrdova in Madrid last September. Among the attendants were Kelly Adams, Josè Prado, Javier Beeck, Mario Mijares, Bernardo Cisneros, Pablo Ibarreche (who became Gerardo's brother-in-law because he is married to Claudia's sister), Ricardo Phillips, Gianfranco Ferrari and Max Chion '96, as well as wives and significant others. After a week of touring Madrid exclusively by night and having Gerardo as tour guide, the wedding was held in a Madrid cathedral, and the party at a wonderful palace near Madrid. We all remembered the Latin parties and had a lot of fun. After the wedding, Gerardo and Claudia went to Tahiti for the honeymoon and the rest of the gang went to Barcelona and the Costa Brava to relax after a "stressing" week in Madrid.

Mark Ball ’95 is a new father. Tonashe Samuel Ball was born in September.

Mark Ball became a daddy. He and wife Patience had a son, Tonashe Samuel Ball, on Sept. 28. He is tall and skinny like his dad. Tonashe (pronounced toh-NAH-shay) means "we have seen the Lord" in Shona, Patience's local dialect in Zimbabwe. Check out the pictures at his new Web site: www.tonashe.com. (Yes, he already has his own Web site. I just couldn't resist. It's a new day.)

From "The House of Todd," Todd Duthie left Participate.com well over a year ago (and spent time getting engaged, married, did some travel and some independent consulting). He then moved to Seattle because the air is cooler and his wife's job is there.

Peter Urbanc writes with the happy news that his wife Diana gave birth to the couple's first child, Michael Anton Urbanc, on Dec. 8. Michael weighed in at 6 lbs., 3 oz., "small but healthy," Peter writes.

Beth Houle, director of the Oak Brook, Ill.-based Women's Opportunity Fund, recently visited Trust Bank clients inLima, Peru. The Women's Opportunity Fund provided start-up funding to the Peru program. In the next two months, Houle and her organization plan to raise $1 million for a microfinance bank in the Philippines, which will offer clients a safe place to save, as well as use savings to make loans to poor women.

Lastly, from the Bergs: My youngest son, Sam, will turn 6 in May. Ann continues to run races and volunteer her butt off. I'm enjoying the nontraveling consulting work with North Highland and got to hook up with Dan Loflin on a project. He left McKinsey for Trigo, (a software company) and he is pursuing a client that I'm working at in Atlanta. A small world, this Kellogg class of '95.