TMP 2000

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Greetings TMP Class of 2000! By the time you read this, let's hope the Cubbies are still in first place and that the sun is shining brightly in Chicago or where ever you might be!

Thanks again to everyone for the great updates. If you don't receive a quarterly reminder from yours truly about submitting Class Notes, perhaps your alumni email forwarding address isn't properly set up. To do this, go to alumni.kellogg.northwestern.edu. While you are there, be sure to sign up for the TMP Class of 2000 listserv.

On with the updates ...

Calling all 1998 GIM China classmates! Remember Frogger on the streets of Beijing? Staying out until 4 a.m. then hiking the Great Wall (or laying down by it), the Shanghai Stock Exchange embarrassment, karaoke and "tearing it up" in Hong Kong, lazy susans and 100-year-old eggs? Oh, and of course, those papers and presentations ("A" for over-achievement goes to the marketing team).

Well, Amy (Shields) Johnson and Lisa Appleby TMP 1999 are planning a six-year reunion sometime this summer in Chicago's Chinatown. (After six years they figured you can all eat Chinese food again.) So, stay tuned to the listserve (family, friends and kids are welcome). The following folk are missing, so if you know where they are hiding, please rat them out to us: Andy (Zinger) Dutschmann, Shane (GE Tailor) Goodwin, Steve (Ni Hao!) Radke, Mark (Cheapa Cheapa!) Verschuur and Greg (Beanie Baby) Ward.

If you ARE them, please send your email address and contact information to Amy at als4@comcast.net or Lisa at lappleb@aol.com.

As many of you know, each year I host a charity golf outing to benefit a small orphanage in the Baja Peninsula of Mexico. The third annual outing was June 5 at Old Orchard Country Club. We've raised more than $20,000 in our first two years and hoped to raise even more this year! I want to personally thank TMP 2000's Rodelo Maglente for getting involved in the event and the cause. Rodelo's company, Applied Nature Inc., has generously become a platinum sponsor of the outing for the second year. Thank you, Rodelo, for taking the time to make a difference in the lives of these underprivileged children. Reach Rodelo at r.maglente@appliednature.com. Interested in hearing more about the orphanage or charity golf outing? Contact Darin Prado at dap2@rcn.com.

Kristin and Jim McPhail TMP '00 with daughters Madeline and Zoe and son Connor James at Connor's christening

Here is the latest news from Jim McPhail and his family since graduation: In November 2002, Jim, wife Kristin and daughters Madeline and Zoe relocated with Home Depot from Chicago to Seattle. Last November, they were blessed with the birth of a son, Connor James. In addition, in February of this year, Jim was fortunate enough to be promoted to senior director of real estate for Home Depot's western division, heading up all of HD's strategic real estate portfolio issues for the western United States. Jim writes, "The last four years have been crazy, but we have been incredibly blessed and wouldn't change things for the world." Congratulations, Jim! You can reach Jim at jmcphail2000@kellogg.northwestern.edu.

Mark Panley reports that he and his wife had their second baby, Ryan Patrick Panley, last fall. Mark also started working for SAP at the beginning of the year, performing value engineering (i.e. helping customers with supply-chain business cases and rationalizing the strategic side of the software technology). The Panleys are still living in Columbus, Ohio, and somehow managing to put up with all the Buckeye fans. (As a Notre Dame/Northwestern fan, I can relate to your plight, Mark!) Good luck catching up on that sleep now, Mark! You can reach Mark at mpanley@yahoo.com.

Stefanie Schodrof and husband Michael Schodrof TMP 1999 are happy to announce the Oct. 15 birth of baby boy No. 2, Cooper Ryan Schodrof! (Big brother Andrew Johnson Schodrof was born in September 2001.) They are now living in La Grange, Ill., and both are working in institutional equity sales: Stefanie at First Analysis and Michael at Citigroup-Salomon Smith Barney. You can reach Stefanie at SSchodrof@FirstAnalysis.com.

This quarter's "Kellogg hero award" goes to Andy Young, who the Army mobilized in January and who has been serving at Fort Sheridan, Ill. Andy supports ongoing operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and the Horn of Africa. To quote Andy, "It is an honor to serve with the people who help secure our freedom and make it possible for us to enjoy the lives we lead." It's an honor to have you in our class, Andy. We are proud of you and thank you. Andy can be reached at ayoung2112@yahoo.com.

Thanks again to everyone for the great updates. Keep them coming! Hope to see more of you at the TGIF's! ---Darin