With sadness, I share the news that Cyndy Dillion passed away earlier this year. Cyndy was a terrific person and wonderful classmate. Our Kellogg family sends its sympathy to Cyndy's family and many friends.

After 18 years with A.T. Kearney, Justin Zubrod has rejoined Booz Allen Hamilton as lead partner for its transportation practice. Justin worked at Booz for almost six years after graduating from Kellogg, and then worked at United Airlines for two years before joining ATK.

Charles Colman writes: "After leaving Northwestern University, I worked for 15 years with SC Johnson Wax in Racine, Wis., in consumer package goods marketing. My time with SCJ included three years as commercial director, running the consumer part of SCJ's Brazilian operation, and learning Portuguese in the process. I left SCJ in 1992 and purchased San Jamar (AKA, The Colman Group, Inc.), a company in Elkhorn, Wis., that designs, develops and markets products for the food service, paper and janitorial markets. Our focus is light food service equipment, food safety tools and dispensers for washrooms (see sanjamar.com). Being out of the big company program has been both challenging and rewarding. It has also allowed me to move permanently to Lake Geneva. My wife Dianna and I celebrated our 25th anniversary on Labor Day weekend. We met during our first few weeks at SCJ and have been, and remain, extremely happy together. In fact, we are planning for our next 25 years. We have a 22-year-old daughter who has recently moved to Evanston. She wants to be a writer of fantasy novels. May her dreams come true, as ours have."

David Edman lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife, Eileen, and three daughters. He continues to seek out better ways to deliver and finance healthcare services, and in 2003 joined Risk Management Partners LLC for that purpose. David advises employers, unions, business alliances and chambers regarding their healthcare cost and benefit issues. He can be reached via his Web site at rmpllc.biz.

Blythe McGarvie published a new book titled, Fit In, Stand Out: Mastering the FISO Factor (McGraw Hill). The book draws upon McGarvie's experience as a pioneering CFO (one of only 10 female CFOs in the Fortune 500 in 1995), as well as her board governance service with such firms as Accenture, Pepsi Bottling Group and Wawa, among others. She is currently president and founder of LIF Group, an international consultancy offering strategic and financial advice. The book's thesis explores "a mandatory, though seemingly contradictory, lesson: in order to be a successful leader, you must excel at both fitting in and standing out." The book presents McGarvie's program to enable readers to better balance the skills required for both of these tactics.