1992 — Full-Time

After 15 years with Weyerhaeuser (and Trus-Joist MacMillan), Scott Sherman joined Smurfit Stone Container Corp. as vice president of western operations. "Although my responsibilities will take me from the Rocky Mountains and the West, my family will continue to live in Thousand Oaks, Calif."

April Wright completed principal photography for her feature-length documentary on drive-in movie theaters called "Going Attractions: The Rise and Fall of the Drive-in as an American Icon."

Philip Goold writes: "Since graduation, I've worked for a couple of companies (Boise Cascade and then Franklin Covey). In 1996, we moved to Utah, and in 2001, I started my own manufacturers' representative business in the cosmetic surgery industry covering the Rocky Mountain states. I really enjoy the entrepreneurial aspects of the business and the fact that relationships are pivotal to success.

"As I turned 40, I wanted to do something to forestall feeling old. So my wife and I picked up running. We've completed a handful of marathons and triathlons and will run the 2007 Boston Marathon. During the training for our first marathon, we were incredibly surprised to learn we were going to have another baby despite 'being done' nine years ago! We now have four boys: 18 (a college freshman), 16, 12 and 3. So much for breaking any Mormon stereotypes! Last Thanksgiving, we organized a 5K to benefit the Utah Food Bank and LDS Humanitarian Aide and called it the Utah Human Race. It was a big success and we hope to have over 2,000 runners and raise $25K in 2007."

John Small is now vice president of marketing for eCycling Technologies and plans to go public soon, so if anyone needs to dispose of their old computers in an environmentally responsible way, they should give John a call.

Vinnie Desari told me that the highlight of last few months was a visit by the entire Kellogg Alumni Advisory Board to India. The team was led by Dean Jain, and the Alumni Club of India hosted the trip for them. Vinnie writes: "I think they had an eye-opening visit to India, but what was most surprising to us was that most of the board members had never been to India before. We'll send them a copy of the BRIC report!"

Mark Squires writes: "Knud Rissel and I recently spent a few days skiing together in St. Anton, Austria. We get together from time to time. Knud is working for EADS in the defense systems division. I'm still running the family shop — a group of 26 franchised auto dealerships in Northern England.

"Clay Locke and his family are still in London. Clay is a big wheel with Sapient Technology and his son William was just accepted to The Eton School. Look out, Harry Potter."

In Chicago, Rick Erwin rejoined Experian after his previously reported stint as a unicycle repairman. After running a couple of equity-sponsor-backed companies, Big Al Weggeman is now on the prowl for industrial acquisitions through a public company called Net Perceptions. Bill Sharpe writes: "After spending a few days recruiting at Kellogg last fall, I can confirm that 1.) the living conditions have improved vastly since 1992 Section 8 housing; and 2.) based upon the talent pool, if forced to re-apply to KSM, I'm confident I wouldn't be admitted. Oh, to be 26 again and in the comparatively stress-free academic environment."

Gerard 'Surfin Bean' Beenen tells me he's in the fourth year of his PhD program in organizational behavior at Carnegie Mellon and hopes to be in the academic job market in 2008. "I recently received a PhD fellowship award from the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC, the organization that administers the GMAT) for my dissertation research, which will focus on what makes MBA internships effective for students and employers."

Sean Conlin had a baby boy, MacLain, who's now a year old.

For the first time in 15 years, Nancy Bittner writes to us: "I am vice president of planning for PepsiCo's business solutions group, which is the IT shared-services division for all PepsiCo. I have been with PBSG for the past three years. My husband Tom and I live in Frisco, Texas, with our little boy Tommy (5). We would love to hear from anyone who visits the DFW area!"

Jim Winnett tells me that Tom Scarpello is now vice president of marketing at Tuttle-Click Automotive in southern California. He writes that he has also been in touch with Kristen Simmons, who enjoys her dual identity as mom and independent consultant. "On my end, things are great – the consulting firm, now in its fourth year, is continuing to grow. Only problem is that I've become a road warrior again — spent a lot of time lately in Madison, Wis., and Hartford, Conn."

Kevin Lee '92 trades design tips with Paul and Mickey Teutul following the Intel factory tour.
Though they live thousands of miles apart, Gary Dvorchak '92 and Julie (Yee) Carlucci '92 ran into each other in Millennium Park in December. Pictured are Gary with his two daughters, Alexandra (7) and Clarissa (5), and Julie with her daughter Isabella (5).
Bruce Guthrie '92 prepares son Griffin to face winter in Seattle.

Gary Dvorchak and Julie (Yee) Carlucci discovered that it is a small world. They ran into each other, 15 years after graduating, at the ice skating rink in downtown Chicago before Christmas, after their kids had made friends with each other while waiting for the Zamboni to do its thing. The odds for such a chance meeting were long indeed, considering Gary lives in Los Angeles!

Karl Kirwan is now an investment banker with Westminster Securities, a full-service brokerage on Wall Street.

Check out John Bagan's family's world tour at web.mac.com/baganworldtour. At the time of this writing, the wandering Bagans were somewhere in China, Mongolia or Upper Slobonia. In Tokyo, they recently spent a weekend with Ken Graves, who apparently is a big-time consultant there, speaks excellent Japanese and is a great tour guide. More impressive to me is that Ken looks like he's aged about three minutes since Kellogg.

Kevin Lee gave the Intel factory tour to Orange County Chopper father and son duo Paul and Mickey (in bunny suit) Teutul. Following the tour, the back-slapping three amigos knocked off a 12-pack of Pabst in the parking lot and headed into downtown Phoenix on a crazed chopper ride. Kevin has been missing ever since.

Stock-picker extraordinaire Steve Werber is a founding partner at Apis Capital Advisors in Old Greenwich, Conn. "We are bottom-up global stock pickers, launched April 2004. I keep in touch with Paul Meeks and Gary Dvorchak for investment ideas. At home (Riverside, Conn.), my wife, Caroline, and I are busy with our four boys, Steven (8), Nelson (7), Louis (5) and Hugh (2), coaching and getting schoolwork done.

Julia and Bruce Guthrie had a son, Griffin Meserve, in December. Bruce ran for the U.S. Senate as a Libertarian against the Iraq war and PATRIOT Act. He writes: "We live in Seattle and I'm getting certified to teach high school math and physics. It's all a dream come true for me."

News from the Riffman:

I write these notes from San Francisco, where I just visited tech stock maven Mark McKechnie. The McKech runs Twin Peaks Capital, a long-short hedge fund focused on tech growth stocks. The McKechnies recently moved to Marin County to get more space, and Mark's office will soon be there, too. Mark is always interested in talking to classmates, not to mention anyone interested in investing in his hedge fund.

I took over as managing partner of Cleantech Indices LLC and now create equity indices and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) following the cleantech sector. Our first ETF has a ticker of PZD, trades on the Amex and is marketed by Powershares. I will have several more ETFs and indices launched and licensed in the United States and abroad in the near future. We hope to bring billions of dollars in investment into the sector. As a 21-year veteran of the cleantech sector, this is all very exciting.

I have also dropped my consulting business in favor of Esco, an energy services company that focuses on delivering energy efficiency and distributed generation solutions to commercial, industrial and institutional buildings. Business was slow at first, but now we're swamped with so much business that I'm desperately trying to hire a few key partners, as my efforts to clone myself have failed miserably. I also desperately need to return to activities such as sleeping and eating.