Barrett Green '97 and son Carter on a kayak in Galveston Bay
	The Class of '97's Winston Fu and Millie Gong with son Remy calling the shots
	Patricio Hernandez '97 with wife Alejandra and daughter Paulina

1997

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for all of the great updates you sent in for this edition. It's great to hear from so many of you. I'll start with my update. My husband Eric and I just had our second son, Leo Maxwell, on Jan. 24 (older brother Sam is 2). I am back at Oracle again (for the third time) in product marketing, working from home. And my family and I will be moving to San Diego this fall, but still spending summers in Minneapolis. I hope we can catch up with those of you in Southern California when we get there!

Jeff and Carrie Barner welcomed daughter Abigail (Abby) Grace Barner to the world on Jan. 12. Luke, born in November 2003, has adjusted well to his new role as big brother. Carrie continues to enjoy working part time for Darden Restaurants in Orlando, Fla.

After more than seven years at Frito-Lay, Kevin Pate has joined imc², a top 10 interactive marketing company (imc2.com), as vice president of consumer products. He is responsible for building the relationship with existing clients and developing new business across all consumer products categories. Kevin and family, Shelley, Kellen and Kieper, will remain in Dallas.

Dave Holloman recently moved jobs, accepting a position at Capgemini as the Americas consumer products leader. The opportunity is a great one — to lead an industry group and the firm's presence in this industry. He reports that so far it has been a lot of fun. He and his family remain in Glenview, Ill., and really enjoy it.

Winston Fu and Millie Gong celebrated their son's (Remy) first birthday in February. They say, "Our friends were right — the first year was the toughest." They still don't get out much, but they are now much happier and less sleep-deprived. Millie took some time off to catch up on sleep and care for Remy, but she is now back consulting part-time with Live-Ops, a startup that enables virtual call centers. Winston is still working at U.S. Venture Partners. He travels to China once in while and even had dinner with Yehan Koo during one of his trips to Shanghai. Birdie Chang '98 and Roman Reznicek have visited them a couple of times since they moved from Berkeley to Boulder last year. Winston also had an Ed Snyder sighting a couple of weeks ago, but only by email.

On Feb. 2, Lance Donenberg and wife Angie welcomed a baby brother Jack for sisters Lea and Gabi. Lance got his son — and now they are done.

Alex Magin, her husband Jon, boys Phillip (6) and Logan (4), and dog Bruno (2), have moved to Del Mar in Sunny San Diego! They are loving life in California and ask that everyone please look them up when in the area. Alex is still with Motorola; Jon is the global distributor for Pepperball nonlethal weapons.

Tom Nientimp and wife Elizabeth welcomed a little girl, Avery Ann Nientimp, into the world on Nov. 15. He writes that it is "by far the greatest thing he has ever experienced and it keeps getting better every day."

John Ganz finished his second year at Northwestern University School of Law in May and will spend summer 2005 in San Diego, working at Luce, Forward — San Diego's largest and oldest law firm. This past year he was a member of one of Northwestern's two mock trial teams and was selected for the school's Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. The journal will publish in fall 2005 an article John wrote about the constitutional issues surrounding law enforcement use of GPS vehicle tracking devices. John recently visited with classmates Ken Jones and Melinda Graham in Chicago. Contact him on his alumni email.

Patricio Hernandez and wife Alejandra welcomed their first baby last summer. Her name is Paulina and she is a precious little girl now. They are currently living in Miami and Patricio is working on his own, researching the U.S. Hispanic market and providing consulting services in that area.

Alex Mitchell and wife Kelley welcomed a son last August, giving the Mitchells "two pair." His name is Evan Thomas, and he was born on Aug. 10. Alex's job in sales has gone well through the acquisition of BroadJump by Motiva and Motiva's subsequent IPO. Although the family lives in Austin, Texas, Natalie (now 8) loves to point out that she is from Evanston.

Lara and Grant Gund welcomed their third child, Kelsey Laidlaw, into the world on Oct. 1. The family recently moved to Weston, Mass. (about 10 minutes from where they were previously living). Grant and his brother Zack '00 started a private-equity firm, Coppermine Capital, and will move into new office space in September.

Frederic Halley and Ariane Gorin '00 are still living in Paris. They had the pleasure of welcoming their son Nicolas in March 2004. Frederic is still running the high-tech consulting firm he created four years ago (Tioga Venture). He says, "The contingent of Kellogg '97 shrunk when David Vely moved to Dubai last year."

Corrado Giaquinto was appointed head of Colgate Palmolive's new product group for Eastern Europe division and moved with his family to a new home in Moscow. They easily adjusted from champagne sipping to vodka shots. He happily reports surviving his first six months of extensive travel, escaping a jealous husband in Azerbajan (unhappy about Corrado's consumer testing on his wife's showering habits), a Tupolev flight with blocked windows in Uzbekistan, a people uprising in Kirgystan, Moscow driving and a party with the Romanian team.

Abby Scott and John McWeeny welcomed twins Molly and Graham to the world on July 28, 2004. They are living in San Francisco and both are continuing in their careers: John as the owner of Metrorent and Abby as the career services director at Haas. Peter and Katy Turner Keim and Peter McWeeny '01 are Godparents.

Barrett Green is finally getting some time to go fishing with 6-year-old son Carter on a kayak in Galveston Bay (Carter caught small hammerhead shark). Barrett is now vice president of commercial analytics for Entergy Corp., after leading the Entergy deal team in the sale of Gulf South Pipeline to Loews and Entergy Koch Trading to Merrill Lynch (combined asset value over $2 billion) in 2004.

Ingrid (Morris) Ensing taught at the University of Texas Business School last year while finishing her PhD at Duke. She and her husband Mike Ensing '96 moved to Seattle last fall when Mike accepted a position with Microsoft as the chief of staff to the CFO. They quickly became a "Microsoft family" when Ingrid joined their leadership development group, then went out on maternity leave in January after the birth of their daughter Caren Swift Ensing.

Winnie Wong and husband moved from New York to Toronto a while ago and have been enjoying life with their two little ones. Hannah is 2 and Noah is 7 months old — so life is busy but great! Winnie is currently on maternity leave from Microsoft (in Canada, maternity leave is one year!), so she's enjoying being a mom. She hopes everyone is doing well. Reach her at winniewong714@hotmail.com.

Jerry and Sadhana (Dixit) Joliet moved from the Bay Area to Southport, Conn., two years ago. They are having a great time with their two boys, Jay (3 ½) and Alex (20 months). Sadhana is at a software startup in Stamford, and Jerry is at Diageo (leading alcoholic beverages company), which is nice because they get lots of free booze! They're very happy in Connecticut, although they miss all of their dear Kellogg friends from San Francisco.

Sal Saglimbeni married Bronwyn Wormell in Santa Cruz, Calif., on Aug. 7 and is finally catching up on his Kellogg World update. Many Kellogg friends joined them for the occasion. Led by Sal's brothers/best men, Phil '00 and Nino, they were toasted by all at the wedding with a traditional Sicilian salute (fingers together held up in the air) with one hand and a drink in the other. Naturally, they honeymooned in Sicily, Italy, and have now settled in the Willow Glen neighborhood of San Jose, Calif.

Actor Michael Teh is still based in NYC, though he recently ran some reconnaissance in LA during the TV pilot season. Shelter, encouragement and friendship were provided by the lovely and very pregnant Julie Kim. A fun rendezvous with the then-doubly-pregnant Leo Griffin '98 and some other Kelloggians was accomplished. Michael is currently represented by Innovative Artists (TV) and Ford (print) in New York, but is planning a move to Los Angeles after the summer to give acting a proper crack. He is therefore very keen for and would be greatly appreciative of your help, advice, and/or employment from your agent, actor, producer, manager, director friends out there (or in New York) for legit or commercial acting or print work! (michaelteh2001@yahoo.com, 917.361.0619).

Fritz Jordan recently moved to Austin, Texas. He is now director of strategy, emerging markets, for the Wireless Mobile and Systems Group of Freescale Semiconductor. Reach him at fritz.jordan@freescale.com or by phone at 512.944.3603 (mobile) or 512.895.3603 (work).