2001

Our 5-year reunion is just around the corner! You can check out the weekend schedule and the latest RSVP list on the Kellogg Web site. Can't wait to see you all there!

Births:

Margarita and William Chang are very pleased to announce the birth of their son Michael Alexander Chang. He was born May 9, 2005, and was 21 inches long and weighed 7 pounds, 5.8 ounces. Big sister Nikki is delighted to have him around and loves to help with the diapers and the toys.

Kim and Rob Day were very happy to welcome a new addition to their family, Siena Grace Day, on Dec. 19.

	Todd Wincup '01, Tammy Wincup, and Grant Wincup enjoy the birth of their new daughter/sister, Reid Elizabeth Wincup, on Dec. 13.
	William Chang '01 with wife Margarita, daughter Nikki and new son Michael
	James Kim and Amy Choi vacationing in Puerto Vallarta
	Brigit and Paul Rutten had a baby daughter named Louise Maria Josephine on Oct. 10.
	Chris and Monisha (Kaplan) Lozier welcomed a daughter, Anna, into the family on May 12.

Michelle Marx is pleased to announce the birth of her third child, Camryn Rose, born Nov. 26. She joins older sister Kelsey (4) and brother Quintin II (2). In addition to adjusting to life with three small children, the Marx family is also adjusting to life in the suburbs. As of last January, they have relocated to Lake Forest, Ill.

Toni and Chris Millner welcomed twins Mary Reed ("Reed") and Sean Griffin ("Griff") on Oct. 24. Everybody is doing great!

Brigit and Paul Rutten had a baby daughter named Louise Maria Josephine on Oct. 10. Louise weighed only 3 pounds, 12 ounces when she was born, and Brigit had a quite difficult time. However, both are now in excellent health.

Randy and Katie White are celebrating the birth of their third son, Duncan Stewart White. He was born in September 2005. He is doing well and is loved by his parents and his two big brothers. They can't wait to introduce him to everyone at the reunion!

Additional News:

Jean-Francois Dieudonne left Sainsbury's in April 2005 and moved to Melbourne Australia with his then-fiancée Melanie. He has also changed careers (once again) from retail to fund management and joined JF Capital Partners in May 2005 (a JV with JP Morgan Asset Management) in Melbourne, Australia. Life is great "down under" and the lifestyle is surprisingly similar to Europe. Jean-Francois and Melanie were married on Dec. 9 in St. Killda, Melbourne.

James Kim left Coherent last year and founded Opinmind, a blog search engine. Opinmind scours the web for blogs and collects the opinions of bloggers on every subject imaginable. Every day, bloggers visit Opinmind to connect with people with similar interests while executives frequent Opinmind to track candid consumer sentiment on their brands, products and services.

After several years at brand strategy firm prophet, Teaque Lenahan has merged his entrepreneurialism, consulting experience and creative side in his new role at 25-person innovation consulting firm Gravity Tank, based in Chicago. Gravity Tank, a 5-year-old firm, combines business analysis with creative product design for clients like Unilever, Samsung and Goodyear. Teaque loves the opportunity to work with talented designers and business analysts on new ways to approach design challenges and create innovative products and brands. He and wife Amy have enjoyed launching Amy's interior design business, design-i-interiors.com, which is doing well and growing. They are also the proud parents of an adorable wheaten terrier puppy named Sally Belmont.

Class of 2001 families got together for a BBQ outing at a suburban park in Tokyo Nov. 12. Rear row from left: Tadashi Matsushita '01, Masato Takahashi '01 holding daughter Haruka, Reiko and Shuntaro Shimizu '01, Yoko Mase '01, Kiyoyuki Itoh, Andy '01 and Sarah Tseng with son Catcher, Junichiro Yaguchi '01. Middle row from left: Masato's daughter Sayaka sleeping in the stroller, Tadashi's newborn son Ibuki, hiding in the stroller, next to wife Yoshiko holding son Sota, Junichiro's wife Nagisa holding son Taiyo. Front row: Shuntaro's sons Yamato (left) and Asuka (right).

Remembering Vinicio M. Urdaneta

Unfortunately, our friend Vinicio passed away on Oct. 24. His death was a huge loss to all of us. He was extremely generous, intelligent and kind, the best and dearest friend. In the case of Vinicio, no adjectives are enough to describe the positive impact he had on others. Without exaggeration or clichés, he was an outstanding person. He established strong rapport and true friendships with people from all over the world, was extremely empathic and would stand by people both in good and difficult times. Vinicio represented Kellogg values. He was a natural leader and key driver of many of the activities we shared at Kellogg, from the Peruvian booth at "Tastes of Kellogg" to the Brazil GIM trip, from the Latin Masses to LAHiMA activities. He had a special characteristic of bringing a unique balance of enthusiasm, humor and creativity, and at the same time, calm, depth and inclusiveness. For us, his friends, he was simply the best. 

Vinicio was part of a united Catholic family, from whom he learned love and respect for others, values he shared with everyone. Smart and talented, always a good student at school and university, able to tackle the more difficult courses at Kellogg, a wonderful piano and guitar player and outstanding at sports. He was well admired for excelling at almost everything he tried.

Unfortunately, in early 2000 he was diagnosed with hydrocephaly, an abnormal condition in which excess fluid builds up in the brain, causing pressure and potentially damaging the brain. Vinicio had to go through various brain surgeries in the last five years and only his inner strength and optimism and the support from family and friends drove him to continue with his life as usual. Despite the headaches and the obvious uneasiness this ordeal caused, he graduated from Kellogg in June 2001 and started working with McKinsey & Co. in Latin America.

Regrettably, the damage fiercely intensified and in Lima in January 2005, Vinicio lost consciousness and stayed under intensive care at a hospital for a number of months until he passed away in October. We were all, of course, shocked with the bad news.  

Dear Vinicio, we recognize that you were going through enormous suffering and so, we can only wish you are at peace now. But be sure that your friendship, your charisma and your ability to untap the best of everyone are still alive inside us and always will be.

Your friends,

Matilde Ramirez '01, Sandra Holme '02, Francisco Osores '00

Kellogg Alumni Club of Colombia: Front row from left: Ruben Velasquez '01, Mereke Carrizosa, Carlos Angulo '94, Armando Gomez '99, Luisa Merchan, Enrique Carrizosa '03. Back row, from left: Julio Torres '94, Piedad Cuevas '01, Mauricio Estrada