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TMP 1997

  Andy Sandquist with his wife, Megan, and son, Callan Andrew
 
Andy Sandquist with his wife, Megan, and son, Callan Andrew
   
  John Coyle in Phoenix at Christmastime wth wife Shannon and daughter Katelina
 
John Coyle in Phoenix at Christmastime wth wife Shannon and daughter Katelina
   
  Glenn Trout with son Owen Cole Trout
 
Glenn Trout with son Owen Cole Trout, born in February.
   
  Heidy Jameel with Oliver
 
Oliver Lear Pollasky was born in October to Heidy Jameel and her husband, Mark Pollasky.
   
  Roger Shubert and Elaine Virant, with their daughter, Anita Virant Shubert
 
Roger Shubert and Elaine Virant, with their daughter, Anita Virant Shubert, born in December
   
  Todd Ziegenfus '96 with Taylor Ming-Zhu Ziegenfus
 
Renee Tsai Ziegenfus, had a daughter, Taylor Ming-Zhu Ziegenfus, pictured here resting on her dad, Todd Ziegenfus '96
   
The TMP class of 1997 has been experiencing lots of ch-ch-changes: David McGranahan and his wife, Leslie, relocated to London in 2000. Their son Jack was born there on April 24, 2001. David and Leslie "very much enjoy living in London and plan on remaining here for a few years."

Ed Keating is still at Edgar Online in Connecticut, where he is a vice president of marketing. He and his wife celebrated the birth of their son, Graham Keating, last March 11.

Andy Sandquist and his wife, Megan Kelly Sandquist, had their first child, Callan Andrew Sandquist, on Aug. 18.

Lynne Haywood started a new job last September as the director of process improvement for Advocate Health Centers, a medical group with 20 clinics in Chicago, and she's having fun with her new job. She also got married to Jeff Skrentny on Sept. 22, in the mountains of Colorado. "We were amazingly lucky that it was a beautiful sunny and warm day, and that our family and friends could make the trip in spite of the terrorist attacks only a week and a half earlier."

John Reid is also still a principal at DiamondCluster. He marvels, "Even in this damaged economy, I've been able to hang on at the firm I joined when I graduated from Kellogg." His wife Paula gave birth to beautiful twin girls on Sept. 25. Sydney Nicole was born first, followed by her sister, Courtney Renee. All are doing well in St. Louis, and John couldn't be prouder. "We've really been blessed."

Heidy Jameel and her husband Mark Pollasky welcomed the birth of their first son, Oliver Lear Pollasky, on Oct. 25. "Parenthood is unbelievable and we're loving every minute of it!" Heidy continues to balance a full-time career with her new role as a mom. Heidy made the jump from financial services to the world of IT back in 2000 when she founded hub information technology, an IT services company. Heidy and Mark relocated to Sydney Australia in 1997.

John Coyle is working as a principal at DiamondCluster. In the great "Where were you when" story contributions, John has a winner: "I was consulting for Enron the last three years and was on the trading floor when the Dynegy bailout fell through and trading stopped! Moments later the stock dropped into the spare change range and then the whole place just stopped working! Papers were flying, loud music started up, and then later on they rolled out the kegs. It was an 'end of the world' party." John and his wife Shannon are still living in Phoenix and their daughter, Katelina, is now a year old.

Garrick Nielsen and his wife, Maureen, had a baby boy, Garrick Lee Nielsen Jr., on Nov. 9. Garrick Jr. joins sister, Elaine (2). All are doing well.

Elizabeth Sears got married on Nov. 10 to Douglas Smith. She reports, "Married life is great!" Liz and Douglas are living in D.C.

TMP supercouple Roger Shubert and Elaine Virant are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Anita Virant Shubert on Dec. 27. "We are adjusting to parenthood quite well so far. We missed Santa by a few days but Anita came in time to ring in the New Year!" On the work front, Elaine recently returned to CNA Insurance and Roger continues as a senior strategist with closerlook, a boutique e-business strategy and marketing firm.

Paul Schmerold left SGI at the end of December and just accepted a new business development manager position at PTC, where he targets the healthcare and consumer packaged goods verticals. PTC is a product development and enterprise software company. Paul and his wife, Amy, also just celebrated their 10th anniversary and recently enjoyed trips to Africa, Europe and Jamaica.

Gary Kaufman and his wife became the proud parents of Jacob "Jake" Forrest Kaufman on December 30; Jake came 9 weeks early. Despite his relatively small stature, Jake has apparently been born with an aptitude for football prognostication: Jake would like everyone to know that he accurately picked the Patriots in the Super Bowl (his mom's Boston affiliation might have influenced that). Gary changed jobs in December, joining Sarvega Inc., as vice president-finance and controller. Sarvega makes XML switching hardware.

Renée Tsai Ziegenfus and her husband Todd Ziegenfus '96 had a daughter, Taylor Ming-Zhu Ziegenfus, on Jan. 3. "Mommy and Daddy were planning to go to the National Championship Rose Bowl game that afternoon, but Taylor had other plans and surprised her parents two weeks early!"

Glenn Trout and his wife Annie had a baby boy, Owen Cole Trout, on Feb. 7. "Just one hour after we arrived at Evanston Hospital. Yikes!" Glenn and Annie already had a daughter, Eloise. Glenn has the perfect family, even if he's "only slightly above average."

Jay Mages and his wife Marilyn proudly announce the birth of Elana Rachel, born March 19. "She enjoys eating, sleeping, gurgling and the color purple (go Cats!). Future plans for Elana include walking, talking and being part of the Kellogg graduating class of 2030."

Jay Woffington recently sold Adternity Inc., the advergaming company he founded, to Bridge Worldwide. After the acquisition, Jay became partner in the combined firm, one of P&G's largest relationship marketing agencies. Jay was honored by Advertising Age as one of the Top 100 marketers of 2001 along with the likes of Michael Dell.

Vladimir Resnick has started a new job as an assistant vice president of business development for Household. Since his last update, he has moved to a new house in Morton Grove, where the family life with Sarah (5), Benjamin (3), Julie (2) and Yelena is "keeping him busy and fulfilled."

Rob Lynch (robert.lynch@guidant.com) has returned to Chicago to work for Guidant Corporation, training in Chicago to be an area account manager in the Cardiac Rhythm Management Division. Rob will be selling implantable pacemakers and defibrillators for heart patients. "Prior to this, as many alums can relate to, I was pursuing the dream of the dot-com boom - and then bust - in the Bay Area. What a great experience, but it is good to be back to good ol' Chicago!" Rob and his wife also had their second child on June 29, 2001. "Big Benjamin Robert Lynch weighed in at 11 pounds, 4 ounces, and my wife is still swearing off a third child to this day!"

Tim Moriarty recently joined the Revere Group, a technology and business consultancy based in Deerfield, Ill., as a business development client manager. In his new role at Revere, Tim "will be helping companies strategically identify and implement solutions that cut through the hype of the "New Economy" and actually realize the potential that it offers." Tim and his wife, Lee, still live in the Palos Heights area, where they are kept busy with the activities of their children John (13), Jennifer (11), and Patrick (9), and where Lee is active as a board member of the Pediatric Oncology Treasure
Chest Foundation. Tim and Lee strongly encourage any other Kellogg alumni living in the southwest suburbs to contact them.

And in the "Things aren't changing, but they're still pretty great" category Lisa Christian-Mount reports, "Things are going really well, both work-wise and on the homefront. Greg (also TMP 97) and I have been married more than three years now, which is hard to believe. We made it back to South America last year, which we've been wanting to do since our GIM class trip. We went to Brazil and Peru, including a week in the Amazon jungle. It was amazing."

Kim Anderson and her husband, Tom, celebrated their 10-year wedding anniversary in May with a trip back to France/England where they
honeymooned. This time, they brought along their 2- and 4-year olds. "While they weren't as interested in some of the things we did last time, we had a great time."

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