FloridaSouth
Saludos
de Miami! After hosting three faculty speakers during the
first half
of 2003, we took the summer off with the exception
of a Cubs-Marlin game and our monthly dinners. Before Hector
Galindo ’94 traded the peninsula for the isthmus (translation:
he moved to Panama), he established a Yahoo newsgroup for
us named KACSF. Sign up to integrate yourself in the South
Florida Kellogg community.
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Pubbing in the Miami Design District:
(L to R) Rodrigo Ocampo ’87, Diane Gómez ’03, Jose
Prado ’95, Dennis Wellert ’98, Kristin Barbieri ’97,
Patricio Hernandez ’97, Vladimir Barbieri ’97,
Rodolfo Novarini ’03, Claudine Coto ’03,
Willy Kotas ’86 and Julio Torres ’94 |
In September
we held an organizational meeting at Picadilly Garden
in the heart of Miami’s Design District. Willy
Kotas chronicled the recent history of the KACSF as well
as the joint events the club has held with the local Northwestern
University Club and 17 other associated clubs that make up
the MBA Federation of South Florida. The 11 participating
Kellogg alums (including recent graduated arrivals Claudine
Coto ’03, Diane Gómez ’03 and Rodolfo
Novarini ’03) brainstormed on the future organization
of our club as well as future events.
The
KACSF continues to plan monthly “Not Necessarily
Networking” dinners with Northwestern and University
of Chicago alumni. The purpose of these events is to meet
and interact with Chicagoland friends at varying locations
throughout South Florida. In recent months we have experienced
Thai, Asturian, Italian and Brazilian cuisine, all within
our tropical confines. These dinners take place the second
Tuesday of every month. The
National Society of Hispanic MBAs held its 14th Annual
National
Conference and Career Expo Nov. 6-8 at the Greater
Ft. Lauderdale Broward County Convention Center. Kellogg’s
Hispanic Business Student Association (www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/student/club/hispanic)
hosted its second-annual networking happy hour Nov. 7 at
the Bimini Boat Yard. Northwestern University Professor of
Law Larry Marshall, legal director of the Center on Wrongful
Convictions, spoke Nov. 11 on “The Innocence Revolution.” As
part of his work with the university’s legal clinic,
Marshall represents criminal defendants in courts of appeals
throughout the country and before the U.S. Supreme Court.
He has received numerous awards from bar associations and
community groups for his various pro bono activities. His
talk was sponsored by the Northwestern University Club of
South Florida. The KACSF is also working to bring in a faculty
speaker from Evanston.
One
final note: Jose Prado ’95 is coming out of “event
planning retirement” and has volunteered to plan our
holiday get-together. Don’t miss this party!
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