Blythe McGarvie ’78 recently joined the Harvard Business School faculty. “I love the opportunity to teach and to serve on several corporate boards,” she says, while continuing her research on decision-making and financial accountability
	After 17 years in real estate, Joan Culwell ’78 owns her own company, where she is also a broker. Her clients recently voted her among the top 7 percent of Denver realtors
	Philippe Coffre ’78, Chevalier dans l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur (Knight in the National Order from the Legion of Honour), wearing an original Legion of Honour from the First Empire, specifically created by Napoléon Bonaparte

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In 2012, Blythe McGarvie joined the faculty of Harvard Business School to teach financial reporting and control to first year MBAs. "Teaching 93 students the first semester proved to be rewarding and a learning experience. I am continuing my research on decision-making and financial accountability. I love the opportunity to teach and to serve on several corporate boards. So, in addition to living in Chicago and Williamsburg, Va., I now call Boston home."

The State of Illinois issued John Norton his license as a certified public accountant in December 2012.

Joan Culwell has been in real estate the last 17 years, and now owns her own company, where she is also a broker. Her clients honored her by naming her among the top 7 percent of Denver realtors for overall client satisfaction. Joan writes: "I LOVE real estate and don't ever plan to retire. It is always fun and exciting, and NEVER boring. On the personal side, I am having a lot of fun being a 'virtual reality' grandmother to my great-nieces and nephews. All is well in Colorado!"

Iris (Newman) Stone has worked for Bank of America for 24 of the 30 years she has lived in the San Francisco Bay. She and her husband Patrick have been married for 29 years. They have no kids and love to travel and entertain. They invite anyone visiting the Bay Area to look them up.

Pat Aiken has taken a few twists and turns. From Kellogg, he went to a Fortune 500 company —British Petroleum. "I learned a lot, created some real value," he says, "and after 16 years there was a change in management. Then I went to a start-up company, STERIS Corporation, and saw firsthand the difference between a big company and a small company." After a few years with STERIS, he returned to a larger company, Avery Dennison, and worked there until his retirement in 2010. Since then, Pat has been consulting, traveling via the Northwestern Alumni Association to places like Rome, and learning a bit about the real world.

Barry Berlin has been practicing wealth management since graduation, and for the last 12 years as head of Atlantic Trust's Atlanta office. With a wife and two teenagers, and many civic obligations, Barry hasn't been able to keep up with classmates, but he would welcome visitors in Atlanta.

Pete Tenney and his wife Denise are still in Brazil after more than 32 years. Their kids are all grown up: Rebecca is a doctoral candidate in gene therapy at the University of Pennsylvania, João Pedro is in tax consulting with an economics degree from the Rio de Janeiro State University, and Thomas wants to go into meteorology after he finishes high school. Since leaving Coty, Brazil, in 2005, Pete has been alternating between teaching finance, accounting and English, professional translating work, and controllership and corporate finance consulting. He continues to be active in his church, with missions work in northeastern Brazil, and trombone and choir.

Robert (Robb) C. Knuepfer and his family were honored as Metropolitan Family Services' "Family of the Year" for their many contributions to MFS and Metropolitan's DuPage Center. Robert became involved with Metropolitan Family Services in the 1990s, and as a member of the DuPage Community Center Board, he served on MFS's development committee, in addition to serving as president of its board of directors from 2004-2005.

Charles L. Colman worked at S.C. Johnson in Racine for 15 years before buying his own company. Charles managed The Colman Group for the 18 years following, and sold it to private equity in 2012. "It's been quite a ride," he says. Now retired, he continues on a few boards, and has started to do some consulting. He and his wife Dianna have a daughter, Susan, who is now 30.

Michael Lehman has been at M&T Bank in Buffalo for 12 years, the last three as manager of online and mobile banking products. He is busy with new product development and ongoing mergers and acquisitions. He has enjoyed working with another Kellogg graduate, Lisa Meneau '79, who recently retired from M&T. He hasn't been back to Northwestern for ten years, but he stays in touch through the university e-news. He wishes his classmates all the best!

W. Curt Hunter currently is dean emeritus and professor of finance at Iowa's Tippie College of Business, having retired from the University of Iowa in 2012. He consults with hedge funds and serves as president of Beta Gamma Sigma and the International Business Honor Society, as well as sitting on the boards of the Xerox Corporation, Nuveen Investments Mutual Funds, Wellmark Inc. and the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business. Curt and his wife split their time between Chicago, San Francisco and Davidson, N.C.

Don Oppenheimer lives in the Boston area, where he has worked as a management consultant for 20 years and as a chief information officer for another 15. He currently is an associate dean and the CIO at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He writes: "I have been happily married to another Northwestern graduate (School of Communications) for over 32 years and have two sons, ages 28 and 24." Their oldest is in his second year at Harvard Business School, and their youngest is a strategy consultant at Deloitte.

After graduation, Willi Forster returned to Switzerland, where for the following 12 years he held various positions in industry with several companies. Together with four colleagues, he then ran a management consulting firm in Zurich, Switzerland, for the next 20 years. "During that time," he writes, "I remembered my old hobby from age 17, and renewed my pilot's license." After receiving his license, he trained further to obtain instructor certification. Now, he has scaled back his consulting workload and made instructing beginning pilots "almost a full time job." He has "great fun" teaching flying "to young people, and sometimes not so young, helping them along the way to a profession in aviation."

Mark Nishan has been working with Alvarez and Marsal as a contract consultant since retiring from the U.S. Treasury Department in 2009. He also teaches leadership and management courses at the Treasury Executive Institute. Recently, he joined the board of a local community bank and began consulting part-time with the SEC in their College of Leadership.

Mike French moved to Richmond, Va., last August to take a position as chief marketing officer at Altria, and expanded his role as chief marketing and innovation officer. Mike's oldest son Brian finished law school at Georgetown this spring. His other son, Matthew, married a couple of years ago, and works in suburban Atlanta along with his wife. Youngest son Sean is in junior college in California.

Dan Horton retired from S.C. Johnson as chief administrative officer in 2011 after a 33-year career that included stops in Germany, England and Switzerland. After six weeks of retirement, he assumed the role as dean of the School of Business for Alverno College in Milwaukee. The role he enjoys most, however, is being a guest at tea parties hosted by his three granddaughters.

Philippe Mondan is directeur associé at Kea & Partners in Paris. He writes: "Time goes on, we are getting older and it feels good remembering Kellogg!"

After 11 years as co-founder of strategic marketing agency High Beam Marketing, Mark Bair accepted an offer last April to join T. Hasegawa USA as president and CEO for the Americas. T. Hasegawa Co. Ltd. is a 110-year-old company headquartered in Tokyo that creates, manufactures and sells flavors and fragrances to food, beverage and CPG companies. Mark writes: "Linda and I became empty-nesters this fall, as oldest daughter Devon is a senior at Northwestern and our younger daughter Brooke a first year student at University of British Columbia in Vancouver. I visited with classmate friends Frank Uribie '80 and Colin and Jana Kresock '78 last year in Palm Desert for Frank's wife's milestone birthday. I invite friends and classmates who are in LA to reconnect."

Two years ago, Justin Zubrod retired from running Booz & Company's North America transport practice and set up his own advisory firm in transportation. The firm does management consulting, due diligence and expert witness. Justin is a member of several private company boards and chair of the Northwestern Transportation Center Business Advisory Council. He lives with his wife of 38 years in Winnetka, and has two boys. One son works at Northern Trust, and the other is a junior starting pitcher at Miami of Ohio.

Lee Eisenstaedt moved back to Chicago after a 28-year absence. He is a founding partner of L. Harris Partners, a consulting firm that helps CPA firms serve, retain and grow their clients. Their other core services are international tax and business, audit and tax process improvement, and owner exit/succession planning. Lee focuses on client loyalty, strategic planning and internal operations. They have offices in Chicago and Minneapolis, and their key differentiator is their recent, relevant, hands-on experience.

Things are great for Skip Newman. In December 2012, he and his wife Rhonda hosted their oldest daughter Pam's wedding to a very nice young man. Their younger daughter Debbie just began her career at Deloitte as an advisor. Skip left the ABN AMRO organization in 2008. Since then, he's been doing consulting work while looking for a full-time CFO/COO position in the investment management industry.

Fred Keikhaefer and his wife Carol, a grad of the NU Medical School, have moved to Castle Rock, Colo. He has resigned as president of Mercury Racing and opened a design consultancy called K.Lab Design Works. His successor at Mercury Racing is another alumnus, Erik Christiansen '07.

Charlie Seton has been teaching private photography students how to use cameras, organize photos on their computers, and make online books and calendars. He was in Evanston in Fall 2011 to participate in a weeklong reunion and to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Amazingrace coffeehouse. For the occasion, he dug into his archive of 10,000 photos, taken while he was the house photographer from 1973-1978, and self-published a book with about 200 of the best shots. You can contact him at charlie@charlesseton.com.

Dominique Mathieu is enjoying an enriching experience as a senior member of the recently created Enterprise Transformation consulting team at Tata Consultancy Services. "Our family is growing by leaps and bounds," he says, "with our two sons marrying beautiful daughters-in-law: two weddings in two years. Nancy and I became grandparents of adorable Maya last summer." After four years in Montréal, they have settled back in the Boston area.

Since leaving a 24-year career at Kohl's in 2006, Dick Seesel has been active as a retail consultant. His business, Retailing In Focus, has shifted its emphasis from retailers and suppliers to the investment industry, where his niche is helping equity managers "read a store." He also teaches an undergraduate business course in retail management at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, which makes him appreciate more than ever the quality of the faculty at Kellogg. Now that he and his wife Shelly are empty-nesters, they are doing more traveling, and Dick has been spending time doing volunteer work.

Rhonda Salins has been employed since 1979 as a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley and its predecessor firm, Smith Barney. In 2011, she earned the designation of Certified Divorce Financial Analyst from the Institute of Divorce Financial Analysts. She also is a board member of the Cancer Wellness Center in Northbrook and is involved with other charitable organizations. She and her husband celebrated their 30th anniversary last year with a trip to Paris, and they have three wonderful children who live in Chicago.

Bill Finley has been working as the chief investment officer for Morley Financial Services, an affiliate of the Principal Financial Group. He travels between his house in Chicago and Portland, Ore.

Wendy Marek Summers and Mike Summers are doing well. They reside in Lakewood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland where mike was elected to a four-year term as mayor. This presents a great challenge, but he is enjoying it immensely. After 63 years of family ownership, he sold Summers Rubber Company to a private equity firm in New York. Wendy will stay on for the transition year. Their three 20-something children are scattered around the globe.

Since 1992, Julie Tye has been the president and CEO of The Cradle, a child welfare organization founded 90 years ago. Their core business is infant adoption, but they also are the country's leader in online adoption education and support. The Public/Nonprofit program at Kellogg uses three business cases based on The Cradle, and the Social Enterprise program uses one based on their online learning product. She and her husband Fred have two children. Their son Fred will graduate from Northwestern in June and will be joining KPMG's consulting practice. Their daughter Alison is a high school junior and part-time circus aerialist!

Karen Lloyd is still the accountant and practice administrator of her husband James' neurosurgery practice in Brookfield, Wisc. After graduation, she worked for Navistar for five years in both corporate and manufacturing plant accounting, followed by ASEA Industrial Systems for another five years. She has managed the accounting and administrative side of James' practice since 1986. Karen writes: "The field of medicine is changing so rapidly, and it is quite an effort to keep up with state-of-the-art surgical procedures and administrative requirements as an independent practice facing outside pressures to join large hospital-based practices and health systems." Their son Evan is in his third year of a PhD in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, and their daughter Emma is studying political science at Santa Clara University. Karen and James still live in Elm Grove, Wisc., in their first and only house.

As a professor and searcher, Philippe Coffre travels with Sylvie to many research conferences all over the world—India, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Brazil, Hungaria and Australia. One of Sylvie's daughters married a Mauritian businessman, so Mauritian Island is a new destination. Philippe and Sylvie spend their remaining time taking care of their properties, which require constant attention and presence "on the field." Christina Hewes Corsons left Kepner-Tregoe Inc. in Princeton, N.J., as a partner after 15 years of management and strategic planning consulting. Early retirement was forced by emergency open-heart surgery in 2001, which left her unable to withstand the rigors of travel and high stress projects. In 2004, she moved to Albuquerque, N.M., to be near family and enjoy a warmer, sunnier climate. She took up golf and volunteer work, and met her husband, Dr. John D. Corson, an internationally renowned vascular surgeon who is now deputy chief of staff at the VA Hospital in Albuquerque. She writes: "Needless to say, my golf has improved each year, as we live on a golf course here and golf on vacations. I am enjoying life immensely."

Peter Thompson is on the faculty of the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He teaches MBA courses in management and compensation, and human resources, having studied mostly accounting and finance at Kellogg. Currently, he is working on several research projects in employee ownership.

For more than 10 years, Jane Fercho Ludlow has served as an independent inspector of elections for annual stockholder meetings. She enjoys the travel and meetings during annual meeting season, and the freedom the rest of the year. "I lost my husband, Tom Ludlow, to cancer in 2011," she writes, "so [I] am trying to refocus my energy on my future and all that it entails. My son and daughter are grown and live in New York City and Wilmington, Del., respectively, so I get to see them frequently and we have a lot of fun. My son sings with the University Glee Club of New York City, and performed in Carnegie Hall in January. That was exciting!"

Bill Eggbeer just celebrated his 10th anniversary with BDC Advisors, where as managing director he provides strategic consulting services to the health care provider and payer sectors. He also serves on the board of Five Talents, an international micro-economic development NGO affiliated with the Anglican Communion. He and his wife, Linda, live near Annapolis, Md., and enjoy spending time on their sailboat, Chance. They also appreciate having three grown sons, a daughter-in-law and two granddaughters living nearby.

Bill Hughes recently retired from global defense contractor BAE Systems. He and his wife Kathy live in Arlington, Va., and are full-time child minders for their three toddler grandchildren, who also live in their neighborhood. Last July, they embarked on a three-week RV tour of national parks in the Western region, and in early September visited Ireland. Bill is presently signed on as a USGA volunteer for the 2013 U.S. Open in Philadelphia.

Peter Davis is still doing management consulting work for performance-challenged companies. In 2012, he started a business called CaringShare.com. He is happily married with six grown kids, five of whom live in Minnesota, and three grandsons.

For the past 10 years, Casey Nolan has served as managing director at Navigant Consulting Inc. Before Navigant, he spent more than 24 years at Ernst & Young. Casey leads the Healthcare Strategy practice with his office based in Washington, D.C., and lives in Tampa, Fla.

After graduating from Kellogg, Jeff Stiegler pursued a career in product development in the fast food industry. Ten years later, he determined that the corporate life was not for him, and founded a small IT support firm. The firm later transformed into a software development company, and now sells three software products nationally to the group home and foster care industries. He currently lives in Paso Robles, Calif., with his son.

"Time flies like an arrow," writes Minoru Tsukada. Minoru is now president of Hitachi Research Institute, the think-tank organization for all Hitachi group companies. As chairman of the Hitachi Center for Technology and International Affairs at the Fletcher School, he visits the Boston area at least once a year.