1999

Betsy and Brett Olson are proud to announce the birth of their son, Brooks William, born in London on Oct. 16.

Gary Krieger and Tracie Ledsky Krieger TMP ‘00 celebrated the first birthday of their daughter Charlotte Ellen last October. Gary, Tracie and Charlotte took a trip to Yosemite last year as well. Gary actually led the KOA trip in ‘98 to Yosemite, so now instead of leading Kellogg students, he gets to go on adventures with his family!

The Kriegers are living in the Bay area, where they see Michael and Winnie Carpenter quite a bit. They have also celebrated the arrival of Adam Blackman with Stacy Sukov Blackman and her husband Uri. Tracie is now a stay-at-home mom after leaving her job of five years at Cosmopolitan magazine. She says, “Motherhood is the best!”

Susan Morrow Bell and husband Sam were joined by their son Solomon in October. He was welcomed home by their overly energetic dog, and the family is happy to report the two are getting along very well. All are enjoying life in Seattle. Susan will return to work soon ─ sad to leave Solly during the days ─ but very happy in product management for Precor, where she continues to oversee the commercial line of fitness equipment.

Daniel J. Williams has joined Bank of America’s private bank in New York, where he is responsible for managing the financial needs of high-net-worth individuals, families and small institutions. Dan and his wife Kristen enjoy living and working in New York, and recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary. Dan also serves as president of the Kellogg Alumni Club of New York and as a board member of the Marquette Club of New York.

Jamie Witt and wife Jill will be getting ready to celebrate the second birthday of their beautiful baby daughter, Lauren Elizabeth, in June.

Caty Supper and Matt Fortuin ‘00 were married Nov. 1 in Chatham, Mass. Kelloggians from the class of ‘99 attending included Nicole Ginsburg Small, Kelly McClenahan Alpert, Pam Skonicki, Dee Binning Muir, Krista Edlund Gallagher, Annika Lane, Peter Jarman, Brett Huff, Matt Ottmer, Charlie Schewe, Brent Burns and Erin Gershon. Also in attendance were Eric Brown ‘00, Pat Brubaker ‘00, Dan Cohen ‘00, Derek and Pam Gerow ‘97, Peter Krawiec ‘00, Roland Jarquio ‘00, Adam Koopersmith ‘00, Greg Myers ‘00, Emily Gellady Rakowski ‘00, Zach ‘00 and Barb Taylor.

Eric Ranta and Euni Kown ‘00 married at Treasure Island, Calif., on Nov. 29. An impressive Class of 2000 turnout included Veena Rau, Bill Nowakowski, Allison Don, Ky Vu, Emily Gellady, Sara Rutstein, Liz Oh, Dora Lee and Ben Huang. Other 2000 grads in attendance included Michelle Arnau and Jon Cho, who got in a dance fever/”Zoolander”-esque dance-off, and John Rakowski, who threw in the worm! Class of ‘99ers at the celebration included Molly and Stanton McComb, Brad Sills, Paul Midura and Brent Burns. Life for Eric and Euni has regained normalcy. They now share a condo with their dog Moxie right across the street from Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco.

Nicha and Paul Ark recently celebrated their second wedding anniversary, as well as their first year of living in the same country! In the four and a half years they’ve known each other, they’ve only been in the same country about one-third of the time, but have finally settled down in Bangkok. Paul is on his fourth (!) post-Kellogg job. He is currently an associate director with Imprimis Limited, a boutique investment bank focused on Southeast Asia. Nicha and Paul also spent the end of the summer vacationing in the United States, visiting friends and family in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sonoma, Las Vegas, and enjoying a Berkeley football game.

Laney and Juan Altamar recently welcomed their second son, Noah Sebastian, although a little earlier (19 days!) than planned. Juan writes: “Noah was born Jan. 9 at 1:24 p.m., weighing in at 7 pounds, 6 ounces, and measuring 20 inches. Fortunately, all went well considering the speed at which he came ─ 25 minutes from start to finish! Let’s put it this way, Laney was giving a presentation at work and finally left the office at 12:15 (do the math). Needless to say, things were not entirely in order at work, home, etc.!

“Most importantly though, everyone is happy and healthy. Noah has been extremely kind to us, in terms of both sleep and disposition, and his brother Nico could not have adjusted to the new member of the family any better. Perhaps only Lollie (our English bulldog) remains confused about how wonderful this change has been and doesn’t share in our excitement for what the future holds.”

Joyce Yao and Tony Cullen had a baby girl Jan. 22 named Summer Yao Cullen.