1981

Bob Segal writes that he has not gone too far from Kellogg over the past 24 years. He works diagonally across the street from the Sears Tower as a partner with Frank Lynn & Associates. FL&A is a channel marketing consulting firm based in Chicago. Bob feels like he is still in Professor Lou Sterns's channel class, but now he has to write and teach the case, not just solve it. Clients include Motorola, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, but Bob works for non-tech companies as well. He is thankful for the proliferation of e-mail, NetMeeting, geographically dispersed client teams, etc., since his travel time has decreased dramatically. He continually runs into Kellogg grads (including several at FL&A) at conferences and Kellogg recruiting interviews, but rarely anyone from the Class of '81.  He's been at FL&A for 21 years.

Bob lives in the heart of Lincoln Park with his wife Joan and their 85-lb. Gordon setter, Kelsey. They love the beat of the city, jogging along the lakefront, playing tennis in Oz Park or at the Diversey Harbor courts and going to all the restaurants and shops in the Halsted/Armitage area.

Bob says to drop him a line if you're coming down to the Loop and want to reminisce or talk about channels.

After graduation and throughout the 1980s, David Hoover did executive work in community and nonprofit hospitals. In the 1990's, he practiced business law with a large firm that served hospitals, physicians and managed care organizations. He has been back on the hospital end of things since 2001. He writes: "Greetings to my friends from the class of '81, especially Chris Kane, Liz Kerr and Jim Bizarro. Let me know if you're still around."