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This has been a great summer for many of our classmates who had interesting career news to share including some promotions. Mary Sheehan was promoted to chief operating officer from senior vice president of clinical services at Pallative Care Center and Hospice of the North Shore. Kim Reome was promoted to vice president of The Kenrich Group LLC. J.T. Weis is now general manager of Valeo Transmission. J.T. and his family have returned to the U.S. and are living in East Grand Rapids, Mich. J.T. says, "The France odyssey was fantastic, but it's great to be back!"

Steve Auburn has a new position as vice president and general counsel of Pliant Corporation in Schaumburg, Ill., and Don Versen is now a practice manager supporting the manageability services business with Sun Microsystems.

Augustin Mason has moved back to Chicago with Motorola after living in San Antonio and Farmington, Mich. for the past three years. He has joined the radio systems division in Schaumburg as the director of quality. Augustin and his division have been very active in the Hurricane Katrina support efforts by delivering vital communications equipment and support to our public-safety and homeland security customers in the areas devastated by the hurricane.

Greg Swanberg has recently moved to Alexandria, Va. to take a position as vice president, engineering and consulting with EMCOR. Greg says his new company has a wide variety of engineers and architects on staff and that he is "fully utilizing his Kellogg education" in his new position. Greg and Joan are empty nesters now and this move has brought them only two hours away from their "weekend" home in Charlottesville, Va.

Marlon McClinton has joined the entrepreneurial ranks by starting Utilivate Technologies, LLC where he is the president and CEO. Good luck, Marlon, on your new venture!

Polly MacIsaac is staying busy with her consulting work and sends word that she has recently begun work on an interesting new assignment with a brand-new children's entertainment group that is developing TV programming that will build reading readiness skills in kids ages 3 to 6. The group just received a Department of Education "Ready to Learn" grant to fund TV development and secured a spot on PBS starting in January 2007. Polly will be helping them develop the commercial side of this program starting with toy licensing.

Bo Kemper has been very supportive and has stayed involved with Kellogg in many ways since our graduation. He is active on the Kellogg Alumni Advisory Board, serving on the executive committee and chairing the awards committee. Bo is interested in supporting global educational initiatives and recently offered to assist a new student, Father Jamels James EMP-65, who is creating leadership schools for children in India and is attending Kellogg to gain business skills that will help him in his efforts. Huge thanks to Bo for staying involved and helping Kellogg in so many ways!