EMP-31

[Due to an oversight, EMP-31 notes for the spring issue of Kellogg World were omitted, and are included here along with the latest class update. Kellogg World apologizes for the error.]

Spring Class Notes
We are pleased as punch to report that Larry Silman is now the sales director for EDS. He is working and living (and loving it) back in downtown Chicago.
Also on the move is Lee Esler, who has joined Spencer Stuart in Atlanta. It was a hard decision for him to leave Egon Zehnder International, but clearly a great opportunity for him to work with what many consider the world's premier executive search and human capital consulting firm. Thus, if you too are in the mood for a change, or need to satisfy an itch, feel free to contact him at
lesler@spencerstuart.com.

Who'd a thunk it? Congratulations to Lori Craven, who left Lucent after sooo many years. Lori now works at Tekelec, as the vice president and general manager for the network services division. She has been extremely busy changing jobs, companies and moving her family to the Research Triangle Park area in North Carolina. She can now be reached at lori.craven@tekelec.com.

Mike Collins and Tim Koch recently hooked up for a pint or two and a stogie at Nevins, after visiting with Erica Kantor at a weekend EMP orientation session. Erica looked great, in fact better than ever, and is doing very well, as is the program which again was ranked the No. 1 Executive MBA program in the world!

Jay Crookston reports he received a postcard from Mike Keefe and Bob Levand vacationing together at Sybaris Beach. Bob apparently has continued his four-times-a-week workouts (he really looked buff sitting pool-side in his Speedo. Man, what biceps!), but Michael appears really to be enjoying that expense account of his. Jay also reports that he ran into Todd Ryne in Glen Ellyn, Ill. Fortunately no one was injured.

The handsome, bespectacled mug of Robert Feder was prominently printed in a recent edition of the Chicago Sun-Times, which highlighted his early start in the mid-70s as a member of the first class at the famed Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. There he and other select, promising students from around the world trained at the Karyn Kupcinet International Science School. As we all know, today Rob is a successful eye surgeon at Northwestern Memorial hospital.

As you can tell, we only had a few, albeit important bits of news to report. Here's hoping next issue we'll have much more to print! Let me hear ya!

Summer Class Notes
Bright and beautiful Lori Craven wrote that things are going well in her new assignment (as mentioned above) and that "living through quarter-end at a smaller company makes you really live the experience." She continued, "We bought a house and will be moving in early summer (ending her cross-continent commute). It is about a mile from a big lake. Who knows? And living down here may even mean that I have to learn to play golf."

We've finally been able to hook up with the affable (though loooong lost) Mark Rohde. We learn from Mark that he was with the Stone Container spin-off for newsprint in the mid-90s (Stone-Consolidated) as their operational finance guy and also head of U.S. finance (they were a Canadian firm). After a big merger with Abitibi-Price in 1997 Mark moved to the White Plains, N.Y., office to handle the revenue accounting and U.S. finance. Then late in 1999, he worked out an exit strategy, which actually stretched well into 2000. He was hoping to return to Chicago to work for Roger Stone's new company, BoxUSA, but the CFO job slipped to a good friend who took his place when he went into the newsprint division in '92, so Mark didn't feel to bad. He then was approached by the New York Daily News about being controller for their operation, and took the job. However, that was located in Jersey City (right across the river from the World Trade Center) and that would have been like commuting from Crystal Lake, Ill., to Gary, Ind. So, in the meantime, he called a company Stone had spun off in 1988 that made plastic bags and managed to land a CFO job for them - Trinity Packaging Corp. Good things come to those who wait! On a personal note, congratulations to Mark and his daughter on her recent graduation from high school. Mark can be reached at mark.rohde@snet.net.

In other news, word has it that the avuncular Ed Wolf is still doing well at Tribune, he is doing work in circulation strategy for all of the Tribune properties (and has access to Cubs tickets). The gifted Jay Pensler graciously offered his advice to me how to best treat my daughter's boyfriend's medical condition. The generous Donnita Meredith left the ad agency to head up an eleemosynary - remember Professor Lavengood? - children's group in the Cabrini Green area affiliated with the Moody Bible Institute. Larry Venturelli got tired of soup and nuts at Campbell Soup in New Jersey and - get this -
landed the dream job as head of planning for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines in Miami!

Health nut Lynn Monika (just completed a marathon in Alaska) informs us that Mike Mulika continues to work hard to ensure Openwave's success in the future,working on the future adults of the world!

Father Mike Collins and I hooked up for dinner again, this time with our lovely brides, at Chief O'Neils on the Northwest side of Chicago.If you're ever in the area, it's worth the trip.

Reminder: the new Kellogg Alumni Club of Chicago has a fairly new leadership team which consists of several talented people, with lots of ideas (and action)to propel the club back to its place of prominence, and in its mission as being a diverse resource for you - yes, you are automatically a member! (P.S. There are no longer any dues.) At this point the best thing you can do to help them, help you, is to provide them with your current contact information, and you'll then receive their newsletter via email which will prove to be a truly valuable resource for you. They can assist you in career development, professional development, technical development or just to participate in the vast array of their social and community service activities, including the Supercroc exhibit at the Field Museum which my family enjoyed earlier this year. Supercroc was a huge dinosaur who dined on "Sue," a.k.a. T-Rex! Please contact Christine Feary at director@kacc.org.

Thanks! As always, Go Cats and take good care!