Susu Trotter reporting.

Our 15th reunion was fun! Here are a few quick updates from the weekend: Eve Jelstrom (ejelsto@obius.jnj.com) flew in from Virginia/D.C. with her gorgeous infant son Hans Erik. (See proof of gorgeousness at Lucy Cimino's Web site listed below.) Lauren Fryefield was full of energy and happy with her busy life. She has been marketing personal jets — well, fractional aircraft ownership, to be precise — since our last reunion. Lauren (lfryefield@netjets.com) and her husband Andy are raising three children in New Jersey. If you're in the market for a personal jet, I'm sure Lauren will be delighted to help (and the rest of us will be thrown into some kind of career-path-inferiority-complex). I was able to coerce Karuna Subramanian Rawal (karunarawal@yahoo.com) into being my date for the Reunion picnic. Regardless, she had a great time and chatted with classmates about consulting and parenting in Chicago. Dave Arganbright, a railroad man through and through, continues his more than 15 years in the industry, currently with Amtrak (arganbd@amtrak.com). Neil Kaplan is still living the good life in Redondo Beach with children, a wife and Internet survivor CarsDirect (neil.kaplan@carsdirect.com). Sandy Haviland has the same great sense of humor and laid-back style. A few years back, he returned from Asia and hung out his own investment banking shingle in Connecticut. Entrepreneurship (shaviland@havilandco.com) seems to suit him happily. The always effervescent Ginna Zinke Martin was a complete delight, whipping out photos of her adorable 1-year-old boy, Sean, and husband Dennis and describing her work with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (ginna_zinkemartin@dfci.harvard.edu) in Boston. And another highlight of my weekend: We have a new class rep. With arm twisting so subtle I barley dislocated his shoulder, Charlie Frankel agreed to take over my spot as class rep. I'm excited about the energy and freshness Charlie will bring to our Class Notes. You may reach my hero at any of the addresses above.

Great to receive an update from Bill Loebbaka. Bill has just finished a five-year consulting assignment with a video game accessory and distribution company in Los Angeles. Since leaving Kellogg, Bill started his own turnaround firm, known as Horizon Advisors, which specializes in crisis management and turnaround assignments. Bill was brought in to serve on an interim basis for the company in LA and was asked to stay for a longer term. The company lost more than $12 million when Bill started the turnaround and when he left the company had an operating profit of more than $7 million. During that time, Bill was able to refocus the distribution arm of the company from commodity items to higher value-added items. The accessory brand of the company is known as Pelican Accessories and its sales grew from $9 million to more than $90 million in the five-year period. Bill now plans to spend some time at home since he has been commuting to L.A from Chicago for the past five years. Bill is looking forward to playing basketball with his 12-year-old son Matt and going to all of his daughter Samantha's dance recitals this summer. Bill added, "A little time with the wife Sue may also be nice." You can contact Bill at west93@mindspring.com.

Lucy Cimino (LucyCimino@clickmortar.com) was wonderful to send a written update after the reunion. Lucy returned to Chicago to join Click & Mortar a few years ago. She wrote: "It is hard to believe that we graduated 15 years ago. I have been back in Chicago for the last five years after a few years in New York. I had moved there to take the position of executive director of marketing strategy and business development for IBM and was responsible for launching a new business for IBM: 'e-business.' It was a very successful launch and everyone followed our lead in e-business. Deciding to come back to Chicago, I started working in consulting as a partner at Click & Mortar, marketing and strategy consulting for the 21st Century. I work with projects in the areas of marketing, strategy, new products, innovation, integration online-offline, growth issues, business planning and business development. I enjoy what I do, and use my prior experiences with Booz Allen & Hamilton, Univeler, J & J, Galileo Software and IBM. On the personal side, I have been enjoying Chicago. I keep my schedule pretty full with Shakespeare Theater, Goodman, Steppenwolf, CSO, ballets, United Center concerts, benefits, dancing, dinners, Ravinia, workouts, tennis and travel. I also lead a Kellogg Alumni Business Book Club and TGIFs. I just finished reading Blink and loved the book. I recharged the social programming of the Kellogg Alumni Club of Chicago in the last few years, leading the social and book committees. It has been a fun time!"

Lucy took some great photos at Reunion. She wrote: "This is the link to my pictures of Reunion. Feel free to check it out: topgrad.clickmortar.com/Reunion1990.html."

Sam Sheagren helped me with a brief update, reporting that he's "still working at Callaway Golf, on our trade-in program and also our Callaway Golf Preowned.com programs. Actually, I was back at Kellogg briefly to talk about these programs with Prof. Eric Anderson's channels classes, which was fun. Other than that, the kids are getting big and the California sun is shining." Sam can be reached at SamS@calaway.com.

Thanks so much to those who submitted updates — voluntarily or under duress — over the last five years. You've helped us all stay connected. The updates reveal quite different paths taken by our classmates. But all reflect the challenge of finding meaningful work and building rich personal lives. I've so appreciated the chance to learn about your paths and to help our class stay in touch. A great group of people, that class of 1990. Thank you!