As usual, the Class of '95 has been busy. If you want more details than what appears below, send a note to me at rberg@ixl.com. I have an expanded version of the newsletter called Word of Mouse as well as more than 400 e-mail addresses or our classmates. On the personal front, I have survived three staff reductions at iXL and got promoted to client partner in the retail strategy group. Ben Berg is headed into 3rd grade this fall, Sam, his four-year-old brother will start pre-K. I'm writing this in San Diego as my wife Ann prepares for her first marathon.

Jan (Peterson) McDougal and Steve Peterson had a baby in San Francisco. Their son Kevin (2) now has a baby brother who tipped the scales on April 30. Aileen Sebastian is still living in Colorado. Bruce Boren joined a bunch of 4Q's to play golf in April, this year in Las Vegas. Attendees included Paul Posoli, Mike McGill, Gary Dastin, Geoff Dybas, John Sabey, Alejandro Gonzalez, Chris Snyder, Rob Feingold, Rob Metzger and Bruce Boren.

On the West Coast, Dave Mathias lets us know that "this update is a little late." He had the good fortune to marry a wonderful woman, Devara Rodriguez, on July 22, 2000. It was a beautiful sunny California day with Dan Kelly playing the roles of Best Man and Chief Prankster as well as the following Kellogg alums attending: (Pictures were withheld to protect the innocent!) Ben Chou, Beverly '96 and Eric Cox, Eric '96 and Beth Daliere, Todd '94 and Christine Dow, Jackie and Alexx Dungey, Dan Hillenbrand, Dan Kelly, Amy Lehr, Mark Medema, Dave Mitchell, Nicole Neuefeind, Todd Reichmann, Seth Ruthen, Rebecca Swarr, Hedi and Skip Wipson, Pete '96 and Julie Wheelan, and Philip Yau. After the wedding, Devara and Dave bounced around Europe on their honeymoon. Paris, Prague, Luxembourg, Brugge...but one of their favorite stops was the days spent in Brussels with another classmate Sophie and Philip Laval and their kids Cloe and Emma. "Once we settled back into the career grind, Dave joined eLogic Corporation in Los Angeles in November," they report. "eLogic is a Web site ASP specializing in hosted information solutions geared toward companies with loads of content to be presented and managed. Swing by and say hello if you are traveling through L.A."

Nick Palmer says that he has added another budding future member of the Kellogg Australian Club with the arrival of Matthew Edward on Feb. 19. So far he is doing everything right and importantly sleeping through the night already. William is happy to have a new brother and Nick is getting used to asking "how are the kids?" from across the country in Perth where he continues to be stuck working.

Jose Prado just completed his first year as vice president, strategic planning and development for the Broadcast Video Group in Miami. He is enjoying life in staying in touch with Kellogg grads. No wedding, new home or new baby, "big news" announcements from me at this time, he says. OK, he does admit to having a girlfriend. James Pitts and I recently had lunch together in Atlanta before he started to work as an associate with Jones Lang Lasalle in Atlanta in April. James is now working with William Lampley '94 in Tenant Representation. His son Jake turned two in April. He has also been hanging out with Alvin Thompson and his wife Zana and his little girl, Rhea, who was born May 8.

Patrick Meynial and his family have moved again but he is still living in Chile. Andrew Buss started his own consulting company and the independent consulting is apparently going well as he now has a team of 8 on the ground (including Sarath Ravipati '96). Betsy Berns has been busy. She had a new baby girl on March 4. Her name is Hunter Ariana and she's just 14 months younger than her sister Drew. She is "having a blast with our baby girls and are happy to say we know almost every Sesame Street song ever written." She is coming out with a new book this summer. It will be called Win, Place & Show: An Introduction to the Thrill of Thoroughbred Racing. The Daily Racing Form is publishing it and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) will be helping market the book. Look for details on her Web site (www.femalefan.com).

All I can say about Liz Wald is that this girl can travel. I have been getting missives from her on a regular basis as she has been racking up the frequent hiking miles. According to her, "Since returning from Chile I have been able to catch up with friends and family in N.Y., D.C. and Ore. and spent two great weeks skiing inColorado. The biggest adventure of all, however, was the 11-day trek in the Himalayan range in Bhutan that my friend Jen and I completed. In a word, it was incredible!"

John Martin has left soliloquy.com, but is looking to stay in the New York area as he tries something new. He went back to Evanston for alumni weekend. Apparently, Dean Wilson talked to every GMA president since Dean Jacobs started and 25 returned for the weekend. Further proof that Kellogg is a lifelong thing. Mark Medema recently joined KIPP, a nonprofit organization that is rolling out its successful charter school model nationally. KIPP has two grade 5-8 public charter schools in Houston and New York. These schools have shown outstanding improvements for disadvantaged children. The next step is to open three schools this summer and up to 50 in the next couple years. Not to worry, Mark won't be teaching. He gets to work on the "operations" side of the business. He lives in San Fran. Julie Wheelan got the short end of the stick when MarchFirst went under. I received a note from her saying that they were going to take her computer in 30 minutes. Luckily we have a forwarding address.

Ken Ewell is still with Mainspring in Manhattan. He is with a strategy consultancy that started with a focus on Internet issues, and is now expanding into a more comprehensive set of eBusiness Strategy solutions. He was promoted to vice president, and will focus on growing the communications sub-vertical. He now gets more specific and quantitative objectives to go with my general sense of stress! He and his wife Lisa and child Lindsay (5) are all doing great. Vincent Grimaldi has had a busy year hopping between European cities. He is now back "home" to launch a new hedge fund with partner George Szele. You can call him if you want to crash in New York for a weekend. Claudio Ludovisi says that "things are going really well here in L.A." He is still at Warner Bros, in the consumer products group. To celebrate the AOL union he got to go to Rock in Rio, the largest concert in the world, 200 thousand people a day for eight days! Performers included Sting, REM, Red Hot Chili Peppers and awesome Brazilian acts.

In December, Brenda Jacroux started at Primus Knowledge Solutions as a senior manager for technology partnerships in business development. Her husband, Richard, is at ImageX.com and is leading the implementation of their Oracle project (ugh!). Their daughter, Eva, recently had her one-year birthday party! She's very busy "talking" to anyone who's around and crawling all over the place. Carissa Ganelli launched a new company after she and Andrew and I were on vacation in Peru and Ecuador. The name of the firm is CompetEmail which monitors your competitors' e-mail marketing efforts. CompetEmail provides you with competitive intelligence that assists you in proactively developing your direct e-mail marketing strategy.

Erin (O'Malia) Gehan, Bob, and daughter Bridget are living in Morris Township N.J. She is running Bayer's Kid's Vitamins business now (Flintstones and One-A-Day Kids), and also running around after Bridget. She'll be turning one in March and time really has flown by. Kelly Adams has been working in NYC for a division of GuinessUDV for about a year now. She has been busy as senior brand manager on Johnnie Walker Scotch Whisky. She recently launched a new "Keep Walking" campaign and keepwalking.com, where we have established the Keep Walking Fund. Her firm is awarding up to $500,000 in grants to help people "pursue their dreams." It's a great opportunity to get some seed funding to start a business, but we are also funding non-business dreams. Last year they even funded an expedition to the North Pole!

Jane Hunter and her husband Mark are the parents of a baby boy named Hugh Joseph Walsh, born on Nov. 20. As you can imagine, they are completely in love with him. After her maternity leave, she returned to be the marketing director on J&B Whisky. Charlotte Cudlip Bartol was in London visiting for a week and got together with Nick Palmer when he was in town for his grandmother's 90th birthday. It was great to see both of them. Nick and Liz have an adorable boy (age 4) named Will.

Margaret Godfrey is continuing to direct the Strategic Consulting group for Giant Step in Chicago. Giant Step is a small firm that makes CRM and user-experience focused Web sites for large companies like GM, Proctor & Gamble and Lexis-Nexis. She has been here for a year-and-a-half and they have already more than doubled the strategy group, despite the dot-com market slump. Kelley Rich still at SC Johnson and heading up their e-Commerce initiatives (B2C focused). Her husband Kris took a job at Motorola in corporate strategy a little less than a year ago and gave up the consulting lifestyle (yea!). The whole family really enjoys having him home.

Melissa and Lars Hem remain in the Boston area working the same jobs. She is working part time at Gillette three days per week and really enjoys the work/family balance. Lars is still at Stonebridge Associates, a small investment bank. Their daughter Jessica just turned two. It is a wonderful age but she is a handful. Lisa Morrell recently left her position as vice president of marketing for a division of Royal Bank of Canada. She had been there for two years, through an IPO and acquisition. She has started up the marketing function for a start-up company headed by the husband of one of my Kellogg friends, Sheila Samii (now Matuscak), in Chicago. Matthew Reeves reports in from Japan where after 2 1/2 years with Trek Japan, he has accepted a position with Burton Corporation (Snowboards and related products as well as the Gravis footwear brand) as a corporate vice president and head of their Japanese operations. He reports directly to the president in the U.S. and will also become a member of the company's global executive committee. The change does, however, require a move from Kobe to Tokyo. Ouch!

Avery Schmeisser has big news as she bought a house in Darien, Conn. About time. "Have guest room should anyone be coming this way and need a place to crash." She's right on the Metro North train line from the Big Apple and still trying to get people to drink the good stuff -- Sauza Tequila. Bruce Boren has moved back to Mexico City. He "just could not stay away from the active volcano!" He is now running corporate development for SKY Global Networks here. They are a DTH satellite TV provider (JV between News Corp., Televisa and Liberty Media). Ed Brady and his wife Holly had a baby boy, Alexander John, their first, in London, where they have been living for over a year. He was a big one at 9 pounds 7 ounces! Axex is already looking forward to joining a play group with Jane (Hunter) Walsh's new son, Hugh, who lives nearby!

Todd Reichmann wants to make sure that everybody knows that he has posted all of his old "Bad Attitude Corner" columns from The Merger on his Web site (along with photos) at www.toddreichmann.com. Rick Kuzyk reports that he and Jane Wachowich now have three kids: Elizabeth (7), Jack (4), Eva (3). They are enjoying all that kids hat age entail. They moved to an old (for Calgary) home, built in 1913 with real character, to which they have added a kitchen with real functionality, and bought a small place in the Rocky Mountains to get away to on weekends. In 1997, he and partner and I started MiniBulk, a company that procures and sells flexible intermediate bulk containers (big woven plastic bags that hold about a ton of dry, flowable stuff). In 2000, MiniBulk was recognized as one of Canada's 50 hottest start-ups, and we continue our growth with expansion into the U.S." He's always happy to hear from classmates and looks forward to some of you visiting him in Calgary "I'm always on the lookout for opportunities, capital sources and great people to work with."

Simon Rankin has moved over to London with to work in Morgan Stanley's Canary Wharf office. Seth Ruthen wants to let us know that after five years in California, he has moved to NY to open PIMCO's NY office. He is living on the Upper-West side and is enjoying being there. Carolyn Olsen is enjoying life in San Francisco. She is the vice president of marketing at a company called iSaySo in SF. iSaySo sells a very unique employee benefit to companies. They are looking for beta clients! Scott Martin is still in Chicago where the past winter reminded him of 1994: Cold, cold, cold. So cold it froze his eyelashes together. He enjoyed duck hunting season with his new dog, Missi, a choc lab.

Luk Lau writes: "My wife Winnie and I announce the birth of our baby girl Joanna on Feb. 20. Winnie is busy taking care of Joanna at home while Luk is busy at Chase's Cards business."

Fred Lancia was named vice president of sales of SpectraSwitch, a Santa Rosa-based designer and manufacturer of optical switching and signal conditioning components. Liam O'Neill was promoted to a director position at Merrill Lynch. He is in charge of the index products business as it relates to their corporate and institutional client group. After four years at McKinsey & Co., Derek Holley had had enough of solving other people's problems, and wanted to solve some of his own. So he joined Jim Franke, another McKinsey alumni, to found eTelecare International. eTelecare International, (www.etelecare.com), provides customer service and sales to U.S. companies from the Philippines. eTelecare has over 500 employees, and expects to have three call centers and 1500 employees by year's end. He may be contacted by mail at: 602 E. Huntington Drive, Suite H, Monrovia, CA 91016. His telephone number is 626.256.7570. Send him e-mail at derek. holley@etelecare.com.