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It has been great to hear from so many classmates. Remember, you don¹t need to add a member to your family or receive a promotion to send us a note. Your classmates want to hear about you.

Becky Morgan Rogers married Bob Rogers back in April in Charlottesville, Va. Lucy Chan Carlson was in attendance at Becky¹s intimate family wedding. Becky is now working at Fannie Mae on an ad hoc project basis and reports that she is very happy. Congratulations!

Joan Bolz Cleary is enjoying her second career as homemaker. She is keeping herself busy volunteering at the school that Allison (8) and Paul (5) attend in the San Francisco Bay Area. Joan writes: ³You should see me give my elementary school level presentation on how the Del Monte tomatoes go from the farms to the factories to the cans to the supermarkets. (Lots of vroom-vroom truck noises and descriptions of squashed tomatoes!) Both kids are playing soccer this fall and I¹m coaching Paul¹s Œbunch ball¹ team. My husband Jeff and I will travel to Bali this fall for a rejuvenating sojourn.² Joan says to call when you are in the Bay Area 650.685.4850. Joancleary@aol.com

It sounds like Hank Miller has also had a busy few years. After leaving K2 Inc. two years ago, he went to work at Harry Miller Company, the company his grandfather founded in 1910. Hank is now president of the company, which manufactures industrial textiles for military and industrial needs. Hank lives in the suburbs of Boston with his wife, Melinda, and three kids Larson (5), Max (3) and Nathalie (4 months). He is still playing squash and hoping one day to beat Pete Roche and Tim Denney! Hmiller@harrymiller.com.

Dr. Steven DeKrey volunteers for great causes! He just completed serving four years as president of the Hong Kong Kellogg Alumni Club and he has moved on to working with the American Chamber of commerce Education Committee and Rotary International. He¹ll be in Minnesota for a white Christmas with his daughters. sjdekrey@ust.hk

An e-mail from Greg Merkley reads: ³We¹ve just passed another milestone<\m>we have a child in college. What¹s worse, we¹ll have another one in college next year. Add to that braces on the younger two, piano lessons, college visits, applications and SAT/ACT tests and you have a mid-life budget crunch in the making. My company Travel, Technology & Magic is involved in some serious discussions with potential strategic partners, so our situation could be changing soon. The entrepreneurial life continues to be educational, if not predictable.² Greg, please send us the details when you can. greg@positivespace.com

Michael Mandala¹s church, Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Hollywood, Calif., was just awarded a $55,000 grant from the Getty foundation to produce a plan for the preservation of the unique and historical features of the church and school, and also for the modernization of the facilities in use today. Congratulations, Mike! mandalasj@yahoo.com

Chris and Susan O¹Malley Ritchie have Jim MacCaulay to thank for their wonderful life in Minnesota. Chris says that Jim talked them into trying Minneapolis 16 years ago and they have been there ever since. Last summer Chris left Carlson¹s travel group for Dain Rauscher, a regional investment bank headquartered in Minneapolis. Chris¹s background included a six-year stint at First Bank (now US Bank). He is pleased to now be serving as managing director of the private client group at Dain Rauscher. Chris coaches his daughter Caitlin¹s basketball games. Susan enjoys obtaining the inside scoop on her son Mike¹s classes in a part-time administrative position at his school.

Ben Weiner writes that he is continually challenged at Jaguar. He was promoted a year ago to national franchise development manager. Jaguar is going through rapid growth and his responsibility is ensuring that they have the retail capacity to deliver on all the growth. Ben¹s e-mail is MWeiner95@aol.com.

Mary Madick has taken on some new challenges recently. She writes, ³I¹m busily renovating a 75-year-old house in the suburbs of Pittsburgh and working on combining the blended family made up of my two kids Maggie (10) and Eddie (6) as well as my fiancé Rodger¹s 13-year-old son, Grant. I¹m keeping my hand in the financial services side of things by helping in the prep work for taking Rodger¹s company public. Look for us soon on an exchange near you.² Good luck with all of the new ventures, Mary!

When you send out your holiday letters, drop a copy to one of us so that we can pass along your news. If you have a family photo we would love to print that, too. Please just make sure that there is at least one alum in the photo. Best wishes in the new year.