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Alumni Club of Chicago (KACC)

Members of the Kellogg Alumni Club of Chicago have been busy preparing for summer with community and social events that got them out working and playing with fellow alums. KACC members came out to help with clean-up activities for the 14th Annual Chicago River Day. Kellogg alums helped by picking up trash along the river's banks in Highland Park, Ill. KACC members also played tennis and supported a great cause by participating in the 2006 Chicago Charity Tennis Clinic, which benefitted the Carol Gollob Foundation for Breast Cancer Research. This was the 15th year that Kellogg alums have participated in the event, where more than 40 tennis pros provide instruction to more than 100 participants. Several alums also had a beautiful day to refine their golf games for the summer at the KACC North/Northwest-sponsored golf outing at White Deer Run Golf Course in Vernon Hills, Ill.

In May, KACC sponsored a breakfast discussion with the Kellogg School's first-ever Beacon Capital Partners Executive in Residence, Opportunity International CEO Chris Crane. Crane's organization is a nonprofit microlender serving poverty-stricken entrepreneurs around the world.

KACC was honored to have its past president, John S. Tomaszewski '98, receive a 2005-2006 Kellogg Alumni Service Award from the Kellogg Alumni Advisory Board. This award recognizes the efforts of graduates who have promoted the Kellogg School throughout the world, shown their commitment to the continued progress of the school and the Kellogg community and demonstrated their intention to maintain a lifelong friendship with Kellogg. John served as the president of the Kellogg Alumni Club of Chicago from 2001 through 2005 and worked tirelessly to increase club membership, strengthen links with Kellogg faculty and establish chapters in Chicago's suburbs. He has spearheaded many initiatives, including the Northwestern New Business Incubator, which assists small startups through alumni counseling, and served on the steering committee for the Kellogg Leadership Forum. He has also lectured for the past four years to Kellogg Executive MBA Program classes on Chinese marketing techniques. In addition to all of the energy John has dedicated to Kellogg over the years, he also co-founded NaviAsia Consulting Group Inc., a highly successful company that provides strategic sourcing and supply chain management to small and medium-sized companies interested in China as a supply base. The KACC congratulates John for this much-deserved recognition and thanks him for everything he has done to promote and strengthen our club.