Tenneco Automotive has appointed H. William Haser vice president and chief information officer.

1983

20 Year Reunion
Class of ’83: Reunion Weekend is May 2 to 4! Help plan Reunion Weekend. Contact Hwashing Heyworth at h-heyworth@kellogg. northwestern.edu or 847.467. 6386.

Here’s the latest from our class, in its 20th reunion year!

Col. Bruce Palmatier says he and wife, Dorrie, retired from the Army on Sept. 30 after 29 years of service. “We’re buying a house, settling in Oxford, Conn., and looking forward to starting a second career,” Bruce writes.

Lee Perlstein Schiller works in real estate for Coldwell Banker and has two kids, ages 7 and 11.

After a 57-week unpaid sabbatical, Stephen Heller reports that in February he joined the Regional Manufacturing Training Collaborative in Chicago as its executive director. RMTC is a work force development intermediary organization, doing policy development and providing sectoral training to small manufacturing firms in northeastern Illinois. RMTC is located at the Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University Chicago.

Bob Boll and his wife, Cindy, are pleased to announce their daughter, Julie, began attending Northwestern University this fall. Julie is a recent graduate of Wheaton-Warrenville High School and is enrolled in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. The Bolls, who reside in nearby Wheaton, Ill., are looking forward to many visits to the NU campus.

Rick Kiley writes to say that he and his bride of six years, Liz King ’86, live in Oak Park, Ill., just west of the Loop. “We are having the time of our lives raising a 1 1/2-year-old daughter.

“During 2000, I was inspired by an Allen Center program on e-commerce and joined an Internet business-to-business company to lead a new division. After raising $75 million and having 180 employees, the last was auctioned earlier this summer.

“Last winter I taught an MBA class at Roosevelt University here in Chicago and had Jeff Johnson, Mark Fuller and Bob Froetscher as guest speakers. I now know what blows to the ego we delivered to professors when we said the best part of the class were the outside speakers. Recently I’m consulting and searching for a company to acquire in Wisconsin.”

John J. Riley III writes, “I miss the excitement of entrepreneurship, but our Swiss parent company (Disetronic Medical Systems) is good to work for. I run their disposables manufacturing operation using the infrastructure from the company they bought from me. Our medical devices are sold worldwide. Beth and I have 22 years of marriage and three good kids, all teenagers. The oldest, who is 18, deferred his admission to the University of Colorado so that he can ski race full time for a season. He lives in Maine and races and trains mostly in the East, but also in Europe and out West. While he chases dreams, our days are spent chasing the other two to school and back, at Brewster Academy and at Portsmouth Christian Academy. We go to soccer games and science fairs, basketball games, concerts and parent’s meetings. Our Kellogg ‘most-frequently-seen-but-never-often-enough’ list has Mike Schield (and wife and kids) and Carol Ann Clem (and husband and kids) at the top.”

Judy Maloney checked in to say, “From 1992 to 1999, I was CEO of Park Transit Displays Inc., a transit advertising company that contracted with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority and sold and posted the advertising on the trains and buses in Boston.

“I am now one of 35 people leading communication courses for Landmark Education Corp. (www.landmarkeducation.com) that cause a profound transformation for people and organizations, as well as make a huge difference in the quality of people’s lives. I lead groups of 40 to 900 people throughout North America — and even Europe — and am responsible for a year-long program called Team, Management Leadership. My forever expanding family is thriving — we just celebrated a Maloney family reunion with 30 people for 10 days at our cottage in Wisconsin and a Rappaport family gathering for my Dad’s 75th in Boston. I am blessed. Thanks to Kellogg for all the creative thinking and worldliness you brought to my life.”

Wayne Rasmussen writes to say that he and his family are doing well. “I have been working with Affiliated Computer Services, an outsourcing company, for two years. I have moved from accounting to operations as I have taken responsibility for managing the finance and accounting operations for a restaurant customer. We have just recently moved to Dallas.

“The family is growing and doing well. We now have two in college, both going to BYU. The other four have made a good transition to the Dallas area and seem to be enjoying it.”

Mark Mitten is a principal at McKinsey & Co. after his company, called Envision, was acquired. He leads the North American marketing practice, as well as the North American branding practice, specializing in media, technology and retail clients.

Eric C. “Rick” Johnson writes to say he has been elected chief financial officer. In addition to assuming the position of CFO, he also will continue as vice president and treasurer, and as a member of The Hillman Co.’s board of directors.

Lake Forest, Ill.-based Tenneco Automotive has appointed H. William Haser vice president and chief information officer. He will be responsible for the company’s information technology operations.

Please keep those notes coming!

Scott