TMP 2000

Greetings, TMP Class of 2000!

What a great time to be in Chicago. By the time this goes to print, we’ll know if the Cubs have broken their playoff drought. I hope you had a chance to catch a game this year. It may not happen again in our lifetime!

Thanks to everyone for the great updates. If you don’t receive a quarterly reminder from yours truly about submitting Class Notes, perhaps your alumni email forwarding address isn’t set up. To do this, go to www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/alumni to set this up. Notice that the URL has changed. While you are there, be sure to sign up for the TMP Class of 2000 listserv.

Joro Ayenew writes that he is still at Visibility, but due to business opportunities on the East Coast, he has moved to New York City. Joro expects to stay there at least through end of the year, but hopes to return to Chicago by 2005. Knowing Joro, he is probably running the local NYC chapter of Kellogg Alumni by now. Thanks for the update, Joro. We miss you back here in Chicago. You can reach him at Tewabe.Ayenew@Visibillity.com.

Jimmy Li dropped me a note from Chandler, Ariz., (near Phoenix). Jimmy writes: “I am the capital manager of Intel’s biggest manufacturing division and managing more than $1 Billion capital spends per year. After a long, hot year (118 degrees for a high) and stormy (monsoon) summer, my family and I are ready to enjoy the relatively warm fall and winter with fond memories of Disney Land and Universal Studios. The 3-D Shrek and Jurassic Park rides were spectacular. It was nice to have a good time with my family. I can be reached at jimmy.li@intel.com.”

After growing tired of the consulting travel grind with AT Kearney, Dan McDevitt has joined the supply chain group at RR Donnelley. His newfound time is being pleasantly spent on the baseball and football fields coaching his four boys. You can reach him at daniel.j.mcdevitt@rrd.com.

George Monical is working at Virgin Mobile in Sydney, Australia. Although his official title is “The Prophet,” George likens his role to a market strategy manager, responsible for turning the company toward profitability. George married Amy Dooley on Sept. 21, 2001, and had a son, Charles Vincent Monical, on May 10. George invites any Kellogg alums visiting Australia to look him up at george_monical@yahoo.co.uk. Thanks for the update, George. You have definitely traveled the farthest of any alum I’m aware of.

Scott Pape also has left the U.S. after accepting a tremendous opportunity to run the operations at U.S. Steel’s plant in Kosice, Slovakia. Scott, his wife, Janine, and son, John, 15 months, are doing fine, even with the hectic pace of selling a house and moving to Europe on three weeks’ notice, sight unseen!

TMP 2000 classmates (and friends) reconnected with GIM China classmates this spring at the Szechwan House in Chicago.

If any Kellogg alums just happen to be cruising around Slovakia, near the Hungarian and Ukrainian borders, be sure to stop in and say hello to the Papes. Scott can be reached at SCPape@uss.com. It’s not quite the same as cruising around Hong Kong harbor with the GIM China group, Scott, but it sounds like one amazing experience. Stay in touch, and go, Steelers.

On Aug. 31, Matt Par married Dr. Midori Takeyasu. The wedding took place at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Luke’s in Chicago, and the reception was at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Lincoln Park. Fellow Kellogg alums Varanda Handy ’00 and Rahul Garapaty ’01 were in attendance.

Matt has started up Chicagoland Pool Management Inc., which provides swimming pool management services for commercial pools such as those at country clubs and apartment and condominium complexes. The business hires, trains and manages lifeguard staff; provides pool equipment; supplies safety equipment, deck furniture and chemicals; handles seasonal openings and closings; and does construction and repair work. Matt can be reached at: Chicagoland Pool Management Inc., 2506 N. Clark St., Box 283, Chicago, IL 60614; phone/fax: 773.857.0226. matt@chicagolandpoolmanagement.com; www.chicagolandpoolmanagement.com

Kathryn Williams Spilotro and her husband, Daniel, welcomed their first child on April 23. Dominic Spilotro is amazing, and Katie and Daniel couldn’t be happier. Interested in seeing photos of Dominic? Email Katie at ktbbq@yahoo.com.

Michael Weiner reports that he is working at Citadel Investment Group in Chicago and currently has his hands full with son Max, 2, and daughter Lila, 9 months. You can reach Michael at mweiner@rocketmail.com.

Sari (Rosenfeld) Winick and husband Mark are proud to announce the birth of their son, Avi Elan Winick, on Aug. 27. He joins big brother Joshua, 2. In job news, Sari has been at Quaker three years and is now the brand manager of Cap’n Crunch cereal. This makes Sari (who, I just found out, is a close neighbor of mine in Lakeview) one of my new best friends, since I still love Crunch Berries (also in her portfolio).

Thanks again to everyone for the great updates. Keep them coming. Hope to see some of you at the TGIFs or at a Northwestern football game. Go, Cats!