1997

	Arvind Jain and his wife, Alpana, and son, Akash
	Kristin Dykema and Vladimir Barbieri were married in the mountains above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
	Cathy and Jeff Hess, with Andrew Jeffrey
	Karl and Ashley (O'Neill) Kleiderer, with baby Nicholas
	Nikki Tarlton Cole with her son, Joshua Stone Cole.
	Brian Tobey with son Conner Jack Tobey, born in May. Brian married Alison Overall in 2001.

Erik Zimmer left Abbott and joined Deltagen Inc. as director of business development where he is helping to start their European subsidiary. He now has two kids, a girl and a boy. Erik and his family miss the U.S. somewhat, but are adapting well to France, and have renewed contact with other European alumni, such as Emmanuel Mercier, now in London working for Gillette.

Rose Joseph Heathcote and her husband are proud parents. "We are thrilled to announce the birth of Hannah Rose Heathcote, May 7. Hannah Rose is welcomed by big sister Cassandra and big brother George." Rose continues to work at IBM as a business unit executive and her husband, George, is a chiropractor in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The family lives in Solon, Ohio.

Nikki Tarlton Cole is managing her own consulting business and running the ice cream franchise (MaggieMoo's) with her husband, Ron. They welcomed a handsome baby boy, Joshua Stone Cole, into the world on Feb. 6. They are having a ball with him. They saw Sandy Alston at Tyson Corner mall in North Virginia and she thought he was adorable as well. Kellye Tisdale Wicker, who lives nearby, and Danni Duchatalier Boucree have visited the Cole's new home in Gaithersburg, Md. Nikki recently visited with Carolyn and Ivey Webb and their soon-to-be one-year-old, Nyah, on a recent business trip to Chicago.They are all managing business and expanding family lives.

Dan Teree is enjoying life with his wife Katherine in San Francisco. He continues to head the "TicketWeb" division of Ticketmaster as vice president and COO. He and Carolyn Neck (a.k.a., the mysterious Aussie exchange student from fall 1996), recently enjoyed an evening of famous bar band watching (NRBQ) in San Francisco (and yes...they even got some free tickets!).

Arvind Jain and his wife, Alpana, welcomed a brand new member into the family on March 9. Akash Jain arrived kicking and screaming, weighing in at 8 pounds, 6 ounces. And 21 inches. Although he is a good bit bigger and very friendly by now. Along with the big change on the family front, Arvind has also decided to take a hiatus from the start-up world and return to a large public company. Arvind is now product manager in a newly formed product group at BEA Systems.

Mirabel Gombe met up with Keith Rakow and Stephen Julien for dinner when Keith came to Atlanta on a business trip this May. Mike Murray '98 and Chantal Andriamilhamina and Carsten also came to Atlanta to visit - Mirabel met up with them and had a lovely time exploring the city with them. Mirabel attended a "bag party" hosted by Vimla Gupta in Atlanta on May 31. Vimla has a Web site for her business that sells specialty handbags. Expected among attendees will be Shawn Cooper who made sure to send the invitation to all her friends. What a great sport!

Wendy (Menzies) and her husband Pete Senger are the proud parents of Jessica Irene, born March 4. Jessica was 6 pounds, 5 ounces and 18 inches at birth and has brought new meaning to the words "all-nighter." The Sengers live in the western suburbs of Chicago. For the third or fourth Kellogg World in a row, Michael Teh is leading an international life of leisure. On the work front, he's decided to cancel out the rock star option (for zero talent reasons) and has narrowed his choices to movie star, yoga instructor or both. He was briefly tempted to join a talent management roll-up in Australia, but decided to go traveling again instead. No wives or children to report (that he's aware of).

Scott Turtel has moved to Portland from Japan. Scott, Erin and their two boys (Nate four-and-a-half and Matthew 18 months) are decompressing from the expat life and adjusting well to life in the states, but long for some good sushi and Japanese hospitality. On the work front, Scott, still with Intel, is now starting up Intel's latest development fab.

Jeff and Eloise Patterson welcomed their third child, Henry Lloyd Patterson in March 2002. Henry, Amelia (3.5) and Jamie (2) are keeping Eloise plenty busy at home while Jeff continues to work for Columbia Capital in Alexandria, Va.

On April 20, Kristin Dykema and Vladimir Barbieri were married in the mountains above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Vlad and Kristin met in their very first Kellogg group and would like to thank Professor Dranove for his arbitrary group selection! Joining them for the three day wedding party were fellow Kelloggians, Eduardo Capocchi and Roxana Velarde, Luis Giolo and Mariana Postel, Rich Debrot and his wife Caroline, Erik Dykema (TMP '95) and Evie Black Dykema (TMP '96). And Lincoln Singleton '98 was the master of ceremonies! After a honeymoon in Itacare, Brazil, they are now living in Coral Gables, Fla.

Emmanuel Mercier and his wife, Muriel, moved from Boston to London in
February. Emmanuel is now working on the Duracell business as European business manager, and was still involved in the FIFA World Cup until the end of June. They are enjoying their new life in the U.K. and had the opportunity to see Pierre Cherki, and his wife Deborah, as well as Alex Emery and his wife, Veronica, and would like to catch up with other Kellogg folks living in the area. You may contact Emmanuel via e-mail at emmanuel_mercier@gillette.com (office) or mmmercier@ blueyonder.co.uk (home).

John Owens and wife Laura have expanded the family and now have three monsters (John's words), Jack (5), Paul (3), and Elena (1). John is now loving his job in Wilmington, Del., as an assistant vice president of marketing for ING Direct, the retail banking arm of Dutch financial giant ING Group.

Emma Buis Michaux was born to Rick Michaux and his wife, Melissa, on May 12. Rick is president of Corrigo Inc., an enterprise software company in Redwood City, Calif., where classmate David Popler is the executive vice president of operations.

Barbee (Bartolome) Chuidian proudly announces the expansion of her rapidly growing family! Her second child, Jaime Sebastian, turned one in May; joining his two year old brother, Enrique Tomas, in causing mayhem in their Hong Kong home! Barbee shares, "having two kids under two was truly a handful but worth every bit of trouble! Now that they are both officially "toddlers", their home is a permanent playgroup. For those visiting Hong Kong with children, feel free to drop the kids off at their home to play while you enjoy the city!"

Joe Urban is still growing his new company - Corvalence - and has started production of the office supplies he designed. All of the products connect to the fabric walls in cubicles. He's been spending his days (and nights) designing and fabricating machinery to manufacture the first product: Clip'nz. This means that he's usually covered in grease and dust by the end of the day - a far cry from the high-tech world. Burt Lampl has been helping him in writing the business plan and David Popler, Franco Cirelli and Michael Hilberman have been providing continual moral support and business advice. Look for the products in office supply stores towards the end of the year.

The company's Web site is corvalence.com.

Patty Caplan is still doing hospital project management for Freed & Associates in the Bay Area and with hubbie Jonathan of PDI/Dreamworks, raising her pistol-packing daughter Emma (3).

Karl and Ashley (O'Neill) Kleiderer proudly welcomed baby Nicholas into the world on Sept. 7. After a rough start, he is doing great and growing faster than ever. He loved meeting all the new people at the reunion and would love to see anybody passing through Chicago (of course mom and dad would too)! Ashley is staying at home with Nick after her company went out of business and Karl is still trading for William Blair. Ashley taught herself some rudimentary HTML while Nick napped and put together a great little family Web site at
home.earthlink.net/ ~kenyadog. She welcomes all comments/advice from our techie classmates! They recently attended the wedding of Jennifer Schlein
and Matt Podhajsky in St. Louis. In attendance were Janet (Gardner) Long and husband, Justin Long, and Shelley (Smith) Young and husband, James Young, who are all doing great!

Cathy and Jeff Hess are delighted to announce the birth of their baby boy, Andrew Jeffrey, on May 3 - the evening of our five-year Kellogg reunion! He arrived nine weeks early and was also welcomed by big sister Julia (15 months). Cathy and Jeff continue to live in Toronto where Cathy is a consultant at Monitor Company and Jeff is at Cadillac Fairview developing real estate in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver.

Brian Tobey reports that he continues working in management consulting as a principal in AT Kearney's San Francisco office. Brian married Alison Overall in Carmel this past Labor Day with a number of the Class of '97 present (Chris Drews, Mark Crandon, Cliff Wylie, Debra Bernstein, Sadhana and Jerry Joliet, Curt Bagnal, Lance Donenburg, Brian Rudie, Gloria Maroti, Teri Gordon, Rob Taylor, Al Miller, Mike Peck, Ed Snyder) and Lisa Morrell '95 It's been an amazing ride ever since: they bought a new home in November, picked up a puppy in December, and on May 16, added Conner Jack Tobey to the family.
Jon and Rita Belmonte are still enjoying life in Southern California. Their daughter, Hana, is more than 15 months old and going strong. Both Jon and Rita have taken to the triathlon course this summer. Jon recently completed the California Half Ironman. He is proud to announce that he finished between 40 and 90 minutes behind Kristi Anderson, Barbara McCollister, and Tamara (Neuhausel) Bohlig, all of whom also did the race. Rita is currently gearing up for her first outing, the San Diego International Triathlon, which takes place at
the end of June. (Word has it that all this activity has prompted Jon Wilk to trade in his Laz-E-Boy chair and Pop Tarts for a spin bike and Powerbars... we'll see!) On the professional level, Jon's company (The Active Network) had a big winter/spring, completing a key acquisition and showing very strong year-over-year growth for online registration and direct marketing services. Rita is providing marketing consulting services on a few different technology projects, including an interesting new Web site that looks to launch later this
year.