1991

Travel & Leisure magazine has awarded Classic Journeys, a company founded by Edward Piegza, as one of the world's best tour operators and safari outfitters. Results of the 2004 Reader's Survey, in which Piegza's company is lauded, are published in the August issue. Classic Journeys operates small group and custom tours in over 40 regions around the world, including North America, Europe, the South Pacific and Latin America. The company focuses on three principal types of soft-adventure travel: cultural walking adventures, culinary tours and classic family journeys. Edward and his family, which includes wife Susan and two sons, live in La Jolla, Calif.

Heather Collins wrote: "I never reply to these pleas, but this time I will because ... I don't know why, I just will. My husband, Gregg, and I have a wonderful daughter, Lauren, who just turned 4. She amazes us (of course!) by doing things like juxtaposing fake-o baby talk with perfectly proper usage of the subjunctive tense. How proud am I? I just took a job at ConAgra Foods as director of consumer insights on new products after 10 great years at Kraft. (Never thought I'd be anywhere that long.) I'm working in Irvine, Calif., and living in Laguna Niguel, which is gorgeous. Mom's a couple hours north and brother and family are right in Irvine, so my wish to be closer to family (insane, though we all are) has at last come true. If I can just get my sister out here... Not much else. I love my work. I love my life. I feel so incredibly lucky."

	Victoria Burwell ’91 with new husband Carl Zytowski on their wedding day

Victoria Burwell married Carl Zytowski on May 30 at Benaroya Symphony Hall in Seattle. Classmates Lauren Rabin and Jean Peterson attended the wedding. The happy couple met a couple years ago mountain biking in Moab, Utah. Victoria and her new husband honeymooned by hiking New Zealand. Victoria works for Washington Mutual in marketing.Husband Carl is a fine woodworker at Heartwood Inc.

Lisa Mueller Greene writes: "After reading all the updates in the last Kellogg World, I decided it was high time to write in as well. It is hard to believe, but my husband, Tim, and I have beenlivingand working in Columbus, Ohio, for five years now. We have two daughters, Alison, 6, and Jackie, 4, and enjoy the relatively comfortable lifestyle of the Midwest (if not the weather).

"Professionally, I continue to work full time, heading up the lawns marketing department at the Scotts Co. Being an 'expert' on lawn care can make for unusual cocktail conversation, as the Sankeys can attest. Wesaw Laura and Kevin Sankey and family at a recent Dartmouth mini-gathering on Long Island this summer. (Tim and Kevin were fraternity brothersat Dartmouth.)

"We also see Casey and Bernadette Minton fairly regularly, as they live just a few miles from us. Funny thing, wehave found that despite our central Ohio roots, the Mintons know more about Columbus than we do. They have been a great help over the last few years as we resettled here."

Kenneth Getz sends news of his whereabouts: "Since 1992 my wife and I have been living in southern Massachusetts with our children: Ellyn, 13, David, 11, and Julia, 7. Last March, I completed the sale of my second company, CenterWatch. Since then, I founded a nonprofit organization called CISCRP (www.ciscrp.org), focusing on raising public awareness and national pride in clinical research conducted around the world. I also teach and conduct economic and organizational research on the drug development industry at the MIT Sloan School of Management and at the Tufts Medical Center, where I hold positions as a senior research fellow. In my spare time, I'm enjoying my time with my family and evaluating other entrepreneurial businesses to launch.

"I keep in touch with James Jampel, his wife, Sandy, and their three children. James is doing well running an MLP fund that he created and launched this year."

Ed Harycki, harycki@hotmail.com, writes: "It has been an interesting year and a half for Randi and I (and little Joshua). We returned to the States, having spent the last six years in the United Kingdom. We originally transferred there, as I was doing investment banking for Barclays Capital, and through a strange twist of events, ended up starting the first independent credit card company in the U.K., Accucard. It was the typical VC-backed, high pressure/exciting/ crazy hours situation that you would expect, and we successfully sold the business last year to one of the top banks in the U.K. I managed to take some time off to take a film directing course at the London Film School. To add to the excitement, our first boy arrived two months early while we were skiing in Switzerland. So we ended up living in Geneva for a few months (only one of us was skiing!). Things have calmed down a bit and we have relocated to Philadelphia, where I have taken a job heading up business lending for MBNA. While in the U.K., I managed to keep in touch with Dennis Roche and Jody Bhagat and hope to catch up with others now that we are back in the States."

Jeff Veis writes: "After eight roller coasteryears at Sun Microsystems, I have taken the leap to join a Silicon Valley startup as VP of marketing and business development. The company, ActiveGrid Inc.,is based in San Francisco just three blocks from SBC Park --- goGiants! We just received our initial round of VC funding, so I'll be getting a paycheck at least for awhile. The company is a Linux play to, as our tagline says, 'Rewrite the Economics of Transactional Computing.' Billy Gates, watch out." Jeffis still residing in Saratoga, Calif., with his wife, Anne, andtheir kids Jeremy, 10, Jennifer, 6, and Jonathan, 2.

Bernie Weninger provides this update: "I have been living in London since graduating from Kellogg. I am married with two kids (Nicolas, 7, and Soraya, 5). I worked in investment banking until two years ago (Bankers Trust, Morgan Stanley, UBS) as a banker covering German insurers. Then wanted to do something different and took on a turn-around of a default swap brokerage. Turned it around, creating the world's first online default swap-trading platform. It is a huge success. Once accomplished, the brokerage business bores me to death as such. So I am going back to banking in January and have been taking the summer and the rest of the year off.

"For those who remember, I am still an avid pilot. I spent the summer with the family in Austria, where I flew corporate charter on a Lear Jet 45. A lot of interesting flights deep into Siberia and Central Asia. My kids are now confused as to what daddy really does. One day I am in a pilot's uniform, the next day in a suit and tie."

Don Grimes continues working for Brown-Forman Corp. in Louisville, Ky., his original employer after Kellogg. He's currently VP, director of corporate planning and analysis, with responsibility for investor relations, forecasting, planning, brand business analysis and corporate strategy. He and his wife, Mary, have two children, Blaine, 2, and Claire, 8 months old. He says he is looking forward to the next Kellogg class reunion.

Larry Sloan was elected president of his trade association, the Adhesive and Sealant Council (Bethesda, Md.). His term begins in January. Any questions pertaining to proper glue selection are welcome.

Bob Van Orden has been with Scientific-Atlanta for the last 11 years. He has this to say: "Three months ago I moved over to the international side of our digital set-top business as VP in charge of engineering and product management. I have been to Tokyo twice (I am an expert now regarding the Tokyo metro) and Munich (I need to further my expertise regarding Bavarian beer gardens). I have three children --- girls ages 9 and 6, and a boy, 2. We are getting close to our last experience with potty training. My wife, Ingrid, is still practicing pediatrics. Between a job with international travel and a full family life, I have not seen any Kellogg grads in quite some time."

Larry Langbort resides in San Diego with wife Gina and three children, Chris, 11, Courtney, 4, and Lauren, 1. He operates a small business that specializes in providing computer and audiovisual-related equipment and services for trade shows, conferences and corporate events, www.madcomputing.com. Classmates are encouraged to contact him if they are ever in San Diego.

John Mankus and family welcomed Sophia Anne on Sept. 29, 2003, at San Javier Hospital in Guadalajara. John writes: "She has dual citizenship --- Mexican and American --- so now we can own beachfront property in Punta Mita. Brittany turns 6 this week and is fluent in Spanish. Hanna is 4, also speaks Spanish, and is growing fast. Joanie has a good group of friends who enjoy getting together for brunch and sharing the good, bad and ugly of the expat life. Our company, Corporate Properties of the Americas, (www.cpamericas.com) raised $250 million from a major U.S. state pension fund in late 2002, and we continue to be the fastest-growing industrial property company in Mexico. Our portfolio now exceeds 8 million square feet. Our acquisitions program has caught up to and is surpassing our development efforts, which will accelerate our growth even more. An example of our work is developing more than 1.5 million square feet of industrial facilities for lease to suppliers of the Ford Motor Co. assembly plant in Hermosillo, Sonora. At that plant, Ford will assemble the Fusion, the 2005 replacement for the Taurus/Sable line. Some of our tenants will include Collins & Aikman, Magna and Delphi.

"We're looking forward to the day when we return to Colorado, and we recently strengthened our roots there by purchasing a to-be-built log cabin on the Eagle River in Minturn, between Vail and Beaver Creek. That is certainly something to look forward to and eases the pain of some of the challenges of living in Mexico. Saw Carrie and Jeff Watkins in Atlanta a few months ago, and they are doing very well. Carrie has a successful and growing dental practice and Jeff manages the business. They recently caused quite a stir in their neighborhood when they installed a Venetian-sized swimming pool in their backyard.

"Also spent an evening with Kathleen and Jeff Illes in Highland Park. They have two young boys named Justin and Luke. Jeff recently joined Sears to turn around the automotive care business. Jeff's neighbor is Jamie Dimon (the CEO of Bank One, I believe) so he's in the high-rent district. I think Rich Chenitz and his wife, Patty, are in Minneapolis with kids Jacob (who's already a green belt in karate) and Isabel. Rich is still SVP of global business development for GE Capital's fleet leasing group. While the golf season up there is way too short for Rich, he spends plenty of time on various annual trips to warmer climates to keep his handicap in the low teens.

"And the last time I spoke with Jill Albrinck, she was gazing out the window of her upper-level office at Chiquita Brands in her hometown of Cincinnati. Seems that Lincoln Park finally lost its charm for Jill."

Paul Fingersh has an 18-month-old daughter, Ilana, and reports that the real estate investment and banking business is fine. He writes: "Heard from George Frey, who is a hotshot with AMEX in Vienna and working, pointlessly, on his golf game. Wondering what Bob Weil is up to."

Andre Crump writes: "If you go to Evite, at www.evite.com/PhotoAlbum/pid/noheaders?i=mwp322oh61b, you can snatch a picture of Stephanie Green Crump and me at my birthday party May 6 in San Francisco. You can also see Sancha Huang Norris (her husband is also a Kellogg alum.). Our twin girls, Chandler and Anise, just turned 4 this year. Dave Mager has his own consulting firm, Straightline Associates. I've published a few books that have done well and am also a marketing consultant. I teach marketing at Anaheim University. Most of my students are in Tokyo, either Japanese or expats."