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5 Year Reunion
Reunion Weekend is May 2 to 4! Help plan Reunion Weekend. Contact Hwashing Heyworth at 847.467.6386 or h-heyworth@kellogg.northwestern.edu.

We heard from an old friend. Dick Sturm reports that after graduation from Kellogg he took a new job directing the occupational medicine program at Highland Park Hospital. He was thrilled with the new job and the unit became profitable for the first time in its 10-year history within 18 months of his arrival. However, with hospital mergers and declining margins, the program has reorganized completely twice. Now he is medical director of employee health at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, the organization that purchased Highland Park Hospital. The net result is a sort of “jagged” lateral move from where he started out, and a completely different type of medical function.

And speaking of auditing … Sue Leandri reports that after months of negotiations between Andersen and PwC, she was successful in selling her business at Andersen, Global Best Practices, to PwC. Sue will continue to lead GBP at PwC and has been able to bring her entire team, the business and product with her. A bad story ends well.

Ian Heller is on the move again. He has recently taken the job of vice president, marketing for Corporate Express, a large office supplies distributor based in Colorado. Ian grew up in Colorado and his wife is from Montana so they viewed this as a totally unexpected and probably unique opportunity to go “home.” He moved at the end of August to meet up with his wife, Penny, and his boys.

Steve Calk’s Chicago Bancorp has been named the largest privately held mortgage bank in Chicago and the 121st largest nationally. He has been asked and has accepted an invitation to join the Windy City chapter of the Young Presidents Organization.

Sightings: While we haven’t heard from Jeff Vender in a while, his better half, Bobbi Vender ,was recently seen on WGN’s morning news program as one of the organizers of the American Craft exhibition in Evanston.

Bumpings: Mike O’Dell bumped into Rey Leon — not in the Chicago area — but in Puerto Rico. Rey reports that, “After our wonderful EMP experience I got the opportunity to change to the Fenwal Division, which takes care of all blood transfusion-related products and now am the vice president of manufacturing. The travel stayed the same or even increased, but to different places. I still travel a bit to the Carribbean, Europe, Mexico and the USA.” Good to hear from you, Rey.

Trends: So often people tell me I’m “fashionable,” cutting edge, trendy. (If you’re not laughing or at least smirking now, you should be.) This fall, fearing that we might not have enough news for this edition of Kellogg World, I took matters into my own hands and ran into an infected mosquito. I hope that I am EMP’s one and only West Nile virus victim — but now I’m immune so somebody else will have to provide the news next time.

Missing: Still would like to confirm email addresses for these folks. If you hear from them, please update my list by sending their addresses to me at patricialambrecht@yahoo.com: Phil Higgins, Tom Hajduch, Craig Kost, Peter Guletsky, Tim Timmons, John Carusiello, Mike Goolden, Larry Kosinski and Kelley White.