Rich Ganz has joined Joe at Baxter Healthcare Corp. as president of Renal North America! His new contact information is 1620 Waukegan Rd., McGaw Park, IL 60085-6730. Phone: 847.473.6878 and e-mail: richard_ganz@baxter.com. His new home address is: 5443 Belmont Court, Libertyville, IL 60048. Phone: 847.680.2005 and e-mail: ganzr@attglobal.net. He gets extra money for watching Randazzo.

Izzy Raz has moved too: 852 Timber Hill Rd., Highland Park, IL 60035. Phone: 847.432.5046. He has taken a position as global marketing manager for the Cardiovascular Ultrasound unit of GE Medical Systems. He will be jetting around the globe as well as to the corporate headquarters in Milwaukee. Hey der, ho der.

Michele Moore has made senior vice president at Bank One, Middle Market, effective May 15. Is that a bank? Just kidding, Michele! Congratulations.

Randy Brumm has joined LaSalle Bank as senior vice president of Trust Business Systems Support; 135 S. LaSalle St., Chicago IL 60603. Phone: 312.904.4723 and e-mail: randel.brumm@abnamro.com. He will be eating lunch with Chris often, so I can recruit him to the building across the street!

Hey Matella: what's your new e-mail address? We may get to see Jason at the golf outing this year, as he is giving Arvia the summer off.

Jeff Barker is having fun in Boston, but is tiring of the MIT folks asking if Kellogg is a cereal. Send them back to their labs Jeff. I bet they couldn't chug a FIDO beer!

Rich Daly sends nice e-mails. Thanks Rich.

Mike Warden has gone back to the future. IBM just bought his company. Mike LOVED IBM, and can't wait to be back with Big Blue. (Hope that helps, Mike.)

Kar Hensel continues her goal to beat Efrem in the "employed by the most companies" category. She has joined Tillinghast-Tower Perrin as a senior consultant. In her powerhouse position, she can tell her old companies what they are doing wrong and get paid a lot to do it. Congrats, Karin!

Troy, where are you? Please send information on how to contact you.

John Mitchell, where are you? Please send your contact information to me too! Dr. Montaverde, see comment above. Vance, do you ever get back to Chicago? We miss you here.

Remember, all our out-of-staters, if you're shooting through Chicago and can spare an evening, we'll plan an event around you. Ray, now officially bionic from the last knee surgery, is considering roles to revive the Steve Austin character on TV.