The wedding of Mark Holmstrom '97 and Jennifer McLennan included Kelloggians Andy Carlson '97, Steve Carlson '97 and Josh Holmstrom '02.

1997

Tamara (Gharakhanian) Gaffney has been promoted to director of product managment at NetRatings Inc.

A news flash from Washington, D.C.: Andrew Maner has been appointed chief of staff for U.S. Customs Commissioner Robert C. Bonner. Andrew previously headed the U.S. Customs Office of Trade Relations.

Kristi Anderson, Barbara McCollister and Tami Neuhausel Bohlig completed Ironman Canada (2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike, 26.2-mile run) in August along with 2000 other participants. Todd Tracey, Sadhana Dixit Joliet, Jerry Joliet and Brian Bohlig ’96 were there to cheer them on. They all finished with smiles on their faces. They’re not sure if that meant they were having fun or if they were just happy to be finished!

	Bill Ling and baby Jeremy Liu say "hi" from Beijing.
	Barbara McCollister, Kristi Anderson and Tami (Neuhausel) Bohling rejoice after completing the Ironman Canada in August.
	Ed Lhee with son, Kaden Eric.

Ryuji Kaneko moved from Japan to a Cincinnati suburb in northern Kentucky in late May to become vice president of corporate development of Aristech Acrylics LLC. His wife, Mari, and children (Machi, age 11, and Junpei, age 8) joined him in early August after their school ended in Japan. Give him a call or email him if you have an opportunity to visit the area. He is looking forward to meeting up with or hearing from everyone again. Ryuji’s work number is 859.372.3520 and email address is Kaneko@aristechacrylics.com.

In a busy summer, Steve Olszewski married Lisa Sunwoo (whom he met at McKinsey) in an outdoor ceremony in West Chester, Pa., on July 6. Shortly thereafter, he left McKinsey in Houston to join Capital One Services in Richmond, Va.

Bouake Fofana writes to say that he recently joined the National Road Management Authority of the Ivory Coast (West Africa), as general manager. “The political unrest having eased, I am moving my family back from Minnesota this summer,” he notes.

After five years of apartment-dwelling in San Francisco, Sharon Foote has taken the big Bay Area plunge into home ownership. So, instead of spending Sundays looking for homes, now she is working on furnishing and decorating the new pad. By the time this goes to print, Sharon will have attended the weddings of two other Kelloggians: Ellen Taschioglou in early October and Mike Hilberman in late October. Last fall, Sharon took a trip to the land of Oz with her old roomie, Monica Gessner, and visited prior Kellogg exchange student Russell Hoore. For those interested, Russell has learned how to fly a helicopter (or “chopper,” as he puts it), and would love to take guests out for a ride. On the work front, Sharon has been with the same (sort of) company ever since graduation: Price Waterhouse/ PricewaterhouseCoopers/PwC Consulting/(almost)Monday/IBM. Ah, the joy of industry consolidation!

Matt Daniel and his wife, Nadia, purchased a house in Philadelphia at 820 N. Woodstock St., near the art museum and Schuylkill River. Please give them a call if you are ever passing through the City of Brotherly Love at 215.765.7111.

David Henry was recently promoted to senior vice president at the commercial real estate company, Jones Lang LaSalle (formerly LaSalle Partners). He has also continued to slowly add residential property to the “Imani Real Estate Company” — the company whose business plan Ike Kawanabe, Kevin Pate, Patricia Schneider, Sean Krauss, Dave Garcia and he developed in Professor Merkin’s entrepreneurism class.Edward Lhee and his wife, Maerry, gave birth to their son Kaden Eric Lhee on May 31.

Along with his wife, Amy, and first son, Connor (now 2 1/2-years-old), Addison Snell is thrilled to announce the arrival of a new baby boy! Casey Joseph Snell was born Aug. 8 at 10:20 p.m., weighing 7 pounds 15 ounces and measuring 20 inches long. Addison is still in his supercomputing marketing role at SGI and was lucky to be able to spend three weeks off with the newly expanded family. The Snells are happily settling into their new home at 490 Roosevelt Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.

Thirteen men from the class of '97 celebrate their fifth annual reunion, held in Nantucket this year. Pictured from left to right, Scott Davis, Sal Saglimbeni, Dan Katan, Scott Morrow, Grant Gund, Kevin Pate, Karl Kleiderer, Steve Marshall, Luke Lincoln, Kurt Weinsheimer, Chris Avery, Alex Moorhead and Matt Daniel.

Anne Raveret married Jim Obsitnik on July 6 at Grace Episcopal Church in St. Helena, Calif., with the reception at Meadowood, Napa Valley. Several Kellogg ’97 friends and their spouses/significant others were there to help celebrate the occasion including Brenda (Brown) Boime and her husband Eric, Scott Gerber, Tim and Jana (Pompadur) Kierstead, Burt Lampl and wife, Trina, Julie Kim and Jenn Rand. Other Kellogg guests included Alex Brown ’94, Elizabeth Duff ’96, Tom McCleary ’96 and his wife, Jill, Tom Midura ’96 and his wife, Janna, Scott and Sally Pofcher ’94, and Heather McAndrews Scuddeboom ’96 and her husband, Raoul. Anne and Jim spent four weeks honeymooning in French Polynesia, Wyoming and Montana, and are living in San Francisco. On the career side of things, Anne has made a long-anticipated career switch into elementary school education. She will be teaching second grade at Reed School in Tiburon, Calif., starting this fall.

On July 6, on the maritime shores of the Atlantic, friends and family of Jennifer McLennan and Mark Holmstrom gathered to celebrate their union of love and friendship. Kelloggians in attendance included Jon and Rita (Ryu) Belmonte, Adam Bergstein, Andy Carlson, Shephali Patel ’96, Steve Carlson, Josh Holmstrom ’02, Beth (Weber) Hoffman and Kevin Hoffman, Peter Jarman ’00, Darren Louis and wife, Kimberly, Mike Stone, Kurt Weinsheimer, Jonathan Wilk and wife, Tracie. Mark works with Deloitte Consulting (since summer associate at Kellogg, possibly a class record?) as a senior manager. Jen and Mark live in San Francisco and would love to hear from you.

Scott Morrow writes that a group of 13 guys from Kellogg class of ’97 get together once a year to catch up. They’ve been doing this for the past five years and attendance has been close to 100 percent. This is impressive given that many of the people are married with children! The first year was in Canada at Alex Moorhead’s lake cabin. Year two was at Sal Saglimbeni’s beach house in Santa Cruz. Year three was at Scott Davis’ lake house in North Carolina. Year four was in Lake Tahoe. And year five (this year) was at Grant Gund’s place in Nantucket.

Peter Walter and wife, Lyle, recently celebrated two notable occasions … the one-year mark of their move to Thailand, as well as the arrival of their second son, Alec Martin Walter, who was born July 25 in Bangkok. Mother and baby are doing well, and older brother, Nathan, is keeping busy at preschool. Peter is still working with A.T. Kearney, now as acting country manager for A.T. Kearney Thailand. As always, they are eager for visitors, so if you’re in the neighborhood, please get in touch at peter.walter@atkearney.com.

Jennifer Schlein married Matt Podhajsky on May 18 at The University Club in St. Louis. Kellogg friends in attendance were Karl and Ashley (O’Neill) Kleiderer, Janet (Gardner) Long and husband, Justin, Shelley (Smith) Young and husband, James, Sue Klose ’96, John Rountree ’96, Kristie Roehr TMP ’02 and Laura Hollister ’00. Jen and Matt ate and drank their way through Tuscany for their honeymoon before heading off to a new state, new house and new jobs. After nearly five years at Kraft, Jen is now at Hershey Foods, where she is an associate brand manager on Reese’s Pieces and all of the Hershey’s Bites items. Matt is an assistant product manager with Graco Children’s Products. They live in Palmyra, Pa., and would love to hear from folks who are in the area. Jen’s email is jpodhajsky@hersheys.com.

Nico Ortiz’s son, Porter, is getting ready to celebrate his third birthday, and his other baby, Turtle Mountain Brewing Company, will be celebrating it’s fourth birthday. Plans are already under way to open up another Turtle Mountain in Sandia Park, a small community at the base of Sandia Peak Ski Area in Albuquerque. He is still at the same post-graduation job, and still loves what he does for a living. How could you not love owning a brewery?

Donald Evans and his wife Jill have a son, William, who was born May 2. Donald and his wife met through Charlotte Vere while he was studying abroad in London. They reside in Los Angeles where Donald is currently working for Walt Disney Studios in international film marketing and promotions.

Five-year-old Isabelle Bouhadana and her 3-year-old brother, Jules, are proud to report that their dad, Michael Bouhadana, and mom, Alicia, are alive and well and living in Pepper Pike, Ohio, an eastern suburb of Cleveland for the past three years. Dad is at Eaton Corp. as director of corporate development and really enjoys leading acquisition and divestiture activities at Eaton. Isabelle says she was very happy to visit her birthplace in Evanston. She says she was there in May to attend her dad’s five-year reunion where she had fun meeting her mom and dad’s friends and had lots of ice cream.

All is well across the pond for Marty Caverly. Last year he sold Centric Telecom, and is now working for a new private equity real estate fund sponsored by Tishman Speyer. And there is a new family member, a baby boy. Grant Patterson joined the Caverly clan Friday, Sept. 13, (that is a lucky number in Asia, right?) at 1:30 in the afternoon, weighing in at 9 pounds 7.7 ounces. He joins Bray and Gillian.

After a seemingly interminable product development cycle, Gloria Maroti happily reports the launch of Wine Spectator’s new online venture, winespectatorschool.com. “I just wanted to wait out the dotcom bust. No, really.” Online wine tasting? “Seems to be working: less than three weeks after launch, wine lovers from Hong Kong to Guadalajara and Nebraska to Seville are learning the finer points of wine appreciation (as well as sales and service for trade members). Equally important, people around the world are connecting with family and friends as they share the tutored tastings included in the course materials. Homework was never this much fun.” Mark Smith, currently in London with Lehman, is her first student from Kellogg. You can connect with Gloria at gloriamaroti@ hotmail.com.
In August, Gloria met up with Lisa Mroz, who is doing org change management on a contract basis for Chevron. They spent a sunny week sailing around Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. And the first week in October, she’ll combine Ellen Taschioglou’s wedding in San Francisco (Ellen has survived multiple rounds of layoffs at Schwab) with photographing the harvest in Napa Valley and dinner with Millie Fu (Gong), who has made it through four years of reorgs at Netscape and is about to take a hard-earned, six-week sabbatical that will include a trip to Shanghai and finally hanging some pictures in the house she and Winston Fu purchased more than a year ago.

Apparently one graduate degree was not enough for Katie Brick. In September she began a Masters in Divinity program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. “A lot of the Div people get excited when they see I already have an MBA,” she writes. “I’ve got a lot to learn both theologically and on a personal faith-journey level. And if I get a special line in to the Vatican, I’ll let you know.”

Florence Halley, wife of Frederic Halley, had a baby named Theodore born in Paris on July 5.

Mark Crandon and Melissa Beauchamp were married Sept. 1 in Santa Cruz. Recent homeowners, Brian James and his fiancee, Susan Anderson, took a weekend away from their house remodeling to attend the wedding and were joined by a rash of fellow graduates, including Stan Baginskis and his recent fiancee, Debbie Wolter; Joe Urban and his recent fiancee, Carye Campbell; Allyson and Brian Tobey and their new baby, Conner; Audrey and Curt Bagnall; Richard Murphy; Paul Fichter; Cliff Wylie; Sadhana (Dixit) Joliet and Jerry Joliet; Chris Drews; and Laurie and Mike Peck. Go class of ’97! The weather in Santa Cruz was perfect and everyone had a fabulous time. Contact Mark for photos, as he and Melissa were unavailable in Italy to send one in. Mark is still working at his startup, Kasenna, and Brian is still with his unstructured data management startup, Stratify.

A baby girl, Chloe Louise, was born to Candace (Parks) Chow and husband, Dan, on Aug. 5.