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Pam Snite Kerr is on the board of directors for The Alumnae of Northwestern University (nualumnae.org), a volunteer group that has offered continuing education courses to the community for more than 40 years. Pam will be proctoring "A Taste of Kellogg III" and would love to have classmates stop by and say hi. Individual lectures can be attended on a "per diem" basis when space is available.

Andrew Duncan Kerr is the newly elected chairman of the board at the Illinois St. Andrew Society, the oldest nonprofit in Illinois. The nonprofit sponsors the Scottish Home in North Riverside, Ill., the Highland Games in June, the Kilted Classic golf outing in the fall, the Feast of the Haggis in late November and a Robert Burns Supper in January. Anyone who is Scottish by birth, marriage or inclination (that means they like scotch, golf, curling or bagpipe music) is most welcome. Go to chicago-scots.org for more information.

Myron S. Karasik joined Lindora in July as CFO after a stint as partner in Tatum LLC for five years (they were recently acquired by Spherion). Lindora manages a set of medically directed obesity/weight treatment clinics in Southern California, has been in business almost 40 years, and is looking to expand its presence into the national arena on the front lines of the war against the waist. The company has specialty programs for childhood obesity (now a hot topic due to the First Lady) and Type II diabetes.

Myron and his wife Miriyam are still living in Cathedral City. Their daughter Ruth works in Chicago, has her own fashion line (dept728.com) and periodically appears on Oprah and other venues. She is planning to eventually move to the LA area. Myron and Miriam’s son Jacob is teaching high school in Navaho, N.M., under contract with Teach for America and hopes to continue graduate education thereafter.

Following career stops at Motorola, Qualcomm and Ericsson, James D. Edson joined San Diego-based mobile video optimization start-up Ortiva Wireless Inc. as senior vice president of worldwide sales and business development. Jim and his wife Jewel enjoy a 180-degree ocean view from their hillside home in Solana Beach.

Alan Eachus has been retired from the world of full-time industrial chemistry for some time now, but is still doing technical writing and speaking, often on aspects of green chemistry and lubricants. Six grandchildren manage to occupy part of his time as well.

Guillermo Sottil is alive and well.

Richard A. Davidson just had his third anniversary with Aircell LLC, the startup provider of Wi-Fi Internet access on commercial airliners. The company has 10 carriers signed up, essentially all major U.S. airlines, and more than 700 airplanes are now equipped with its Gogo Inflight system. Rich hopes all of his fellow Kellogg alumni get the chance to fly and use this system to surf the Internet or send e-mails while up in the air. Speaking of which, in the George Clooney movie "Up in the Air," Aircell’s logo showed up in one of the scenes, thanks to American Airlines’ purchase of its placement in this film. Rich manages the design of the equipment inside the cabin and the testing program for the FAA certification of passenger Wi-Fi usage.

Bruce Harville started a new job as an internal consultant at the University of Wisconsin after prior careers in public accounting, IT management and external consulting. The position is part-time so he’s also planning to do some independent consulting in Madison. Bruce has three kids — Emily teaches epidemiology at Tulane, Ben is in law school at Arizona, and Grant is working on a doctorate in orchestral conducting at UW — and two grandsons, Charlie and James. Bruce is divorced and on the board of a statewide group promoting equal rights for gays and lesbians (and, no, that’s not a non sequitur). He hasn’t made a ton of money but he’s always had interesting jobs and worked with a lot of good people. Bruce is in no hurry to retire but he does occasionally update a blog where he lists things he intends to do when he gets there (harvillequarters.blogspot.com). He hopes all his classmates are doing well and he enjoys reading their updates.