EMP-24

Dave Cole, our token Canadian, is still alive and well in Toronto. Despite being a banker in the real estate industry, Dave is gainfully employed with RBC Capital Markets, the same company that sponsored him back in 1990. I wonder how many of us can say that these days. The Canadian banks have fared very well through the credit crisis, due in part from great training at Kellogg. Soon to be an empty nester with his second and third child in university, life will be very different for Dave. He says hi to the whole class and to look him up if you are travelling through Toronto.

Peg and Tony Paoni spend October to June at their home in Scottsdale, Ariz., and July to September at their townhouse in Wheaton. They spend as much time as they can with their two sons and their five grandchildren plus play lots of golf. Tony teaches a few days a year at Kellogg in their Executive Education Programs, and serves as a member of a board of directors of a public company and two private companies. He still remembers vividly the two years we spent in EMP-24. He writes that he knows it is difficult to get together but would love to find a way to see as many EMP-24 classmates as possible. Perhaps step one would be to exchange e-mail addresses. Contact him at ajpaoni@yahoo.com or ajpaoni@kellogg.northwestern.edu.

Jeannie Thompson moved back to Boulder, Colo., over six years ago, continuing to work for the firm in Denver with which she'd been employed in Chicago. For the last several years, she has directed her "professional" energies to serving as a volunteer with her undergrad alma mater, the University of Colorado. She is in her first year of a two-year term as chair of the board of directors of the University of Colorado Foundation and is active on the boards of the College of Music and the Graduate School, among others. She was awarded an Alumni Recognition Award in 2007, and she and husband Jack became major donors to the university. Over the last several years, she has been a member of three key search committees for the university and the foundation, including the presidential search committee which named President Bruce Benson and committees that produced the chancellor of the Boulder campus and the foundation's president/CEO. Her son, daughter-in-law and two young grandchildren live nearby, which is a a wonderful situation. Please contact her at jeant@earthlink.net.

Ann McLaughlin writes that her husband of 15 years, Tom Bechet, died in April 2008 from severe complications of a bone marrow transplant. Ann and her daughter Leigh (14) are brokenhearted yet carry Tom's love with them each day. Ann has been working at DuPage Children's Museum for nearly four years, as director of finance and administration. Leigh will be a high school freshman in the fall.