2002

Hello, Class of 2002! Our featured news item this issue is "those who have been with the same company since graduation" (by request). Here's a sample of these seemingly satisfied classmates who are going on year five with their employers:

David Werner has been with Novo Nordisk, the leader in diabetes treatment, since graduation. He took a new position in October as diabetes marketing director for the region of Europe. He and the family will move from Copenhagen, Denmark to Zurich, Switzerland.

	Devin Gallagher '02 and wife Kathleen.

Evan Houtrides is still on his first employer. It's a highly specialized communications consulting firm called The Kingstree Group. Evan shares that "the most significant benefit of the job is the remarkable network it is allowing me to build."

	Neal Freeland '02 with wife Julia, son Zack and daughter Amelia.

Although her career has included a relocation from New York to Miami, Debbie Koyama is still with Kraft. She works for its Latin America division and gets to make frequent trips to Latin America.

Thank you to those who indulged our request for these great updates. We also appreciate all of the other great news coming in:

Brooke Brandes writes, "I could have been one of the 'same employer since graduation' crowd — almost. But alas, I left JP Morgan in June. My husband Phil and I moved back to New York from Dallas. I was selected for the Broad Residency in Urban Education and joined the chancellor's office of the New York City Department of Education in July. We are so happy to be back and I am excited about the potential of my a new career faced with the challenges of reforming public education."

Megan and Charlie Wyman '02 with baby Charlotte.
Santos Garza '02 enjoys his new home of Houston with his sons.
Nicole Gilmore '02 with husband Hise Gibson.

Charlie Wyman switched jobs in July 2005 and now works for a start-up investment bank called Savvian in San Francisco. He is a generalist focusing on M&A and private placements for growth firms, predominantly in technology, healthcare and business services. He and his wife, Megan, had their first child, Charlotte, in June 2005. Charlie also writes that they recently attended the wedding of Jeff Bechtel and Charity Tucker, where they ran into a bunch of Kellogg alums!

In August 2005, Santos Garza, relocated with his wife and sons — Montse, Santiago and Mauricio — to Houston. Santos left Alpek in Monterrey, Mexico, and is now working for Wood Mackenzie, an energy research and consulting company, in its gas and power consulting practice for the Americas. They just bought a house on the outskirts of Houston.

Nicole Gilmore shares: "We recently returned from Germany, where we spent three glorious years. Now we are living in Monterey, Calif., and will be here for two years while Hise [Gibson - Nicole's husband] completes his master's degree in operations research. We are enjoying our beautiful daughter, Madeline Grace Gibson, who had her first birthday on Aug. 22. I also celebrated my birthday recently, and Hise threw me a wonderful surprise party with 25 of my friends. He even enlisted the help of his classmates to assist in the secret operation. Everyone was in on the party but me. Cindy Carey also joined the festivities to participate in the fun. It was a fabulous girls' night out.

While a couple of classmates have returned to the United States, a couple others have made international moves:

Bernadette and Phil Arrata have moved to Calgary. He is still with McKinsey, and chose to be one of the first settlers in their newest office. So far he has met up with Andrew Quarles and Nancy Blair '97. They hope to meet other Kelloggians in Calgary very soon.

Adriana McGrath has moved to Paris where she is still working for Corbin Capital Partners while enjoying all things French. Lisa Jackson isn't far away with her recent move to Brussels to work for Philips while enjoying all things Belgian.

Joanna Schwartz (fiancie of Wiktor), Wiktor Namysl '02, Sylwia Raczynska '02, Glen Osmond '02, Susanne Grottstein and Holger Grottstein '02 enjoy a brunch the day after Sylwia and Glen's wedding.

Living the great life in beautiful San Diego, Aaron Levine is still working at SkinMedica, launching and managing prescription medicines for a start-up dermatological pharmaceutical company, and he's also teaching intro marketing at Cal State University (hopefully Prof. Julie Hennessey would be proud of how she inspired him!). He and Annie just returned from a great two-week trip in Argentina, where they visited Iguazu Falls (huge, dramatic waterfalls), attended an indigenous ceremony to give offerings to the Pachamama, or Earth Mother, near the Bolivian border, and rented an apartment in Buenos Aires for a week.

Amy Walter writes: "I married Chuck Szymanski on June 10 at my parents' house in the Berkshires, followed by a wonderful honeymoon in Turkey (FYI, the "Sz" is pronounced the same way as in Matt Sznewajs's last name). Chuck and I are enjoying life in Washington, D.C., where I've been since Kellogg. I'm still working as a consultant to education nonprofits and school districts; I was formerly with a small education consultancy and now work for a large social research and consulting firm. Earlier this year, I was on a project with Chicago Public Schools that had me back in Chicago quite a bit, so that was great fun. In short, life is good!"

Congratulations to Sarah Zehr who was recently promoted to assistant dean and director of engineering career services at University of Illinois. Not only is it a significant promotion, it also involves a switch from the College of Business to the College of Engineering. In her new position, she will be assisting engineering students (undergraduate and graduate) and alums to find jobs.

Glen Osmond and Sylwia Raczynska married on July 8 in Gdansk, Poland, Sylwia's hometown. Fellow 4Qers Holger Grottstein and Wiktor Namysl attended the wedding and reception, Unfortunately, Dan Campbell had to urgently return home from Poland due to family reasons and he was really missed!

Sylwia Raczynska and Glen Osmond (both '02) at their beautiful wedding in Poland.

Glen and Sylwia currently live in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and work for Middle East Strategy Advisors, a management consultancy where Glen is the managing partner. In three years Glen and his partner managed to build from scratch a 30-professional company, advising clients in oil and gas and real estate and tourism businesses. Per Lederman, another fellow 4Q, joined them at MESA for half of a year before he went to work in his family business. As Sylwia puts it: "As you can see, the 4Qers tend to stick together!"

Arnaud Melin '02, Bastien, Ines and Florence all look at newest family member Amaury with joy.

Evan Houtrides '02 with son Demetrios.
Erik Seidel '02 and family introduce Tyler John as the newest Bears fan living in Packer country.
Proud mom Katie Arnold '02 with daughter Maeve Louise Norton.
Big sister Macy Layne Byars (3), Mark Byars '02, Nicki Byars, and Spencer Mitchell Byars (2 months).
Jim Fields '02, wife Kiley and son Huck immediately after daughter Langley's birth.
Dana and Jon Lewis '02, with big sister Ava and little sister Tessa celebrating Tessa's birthday.
Eric and Michelle (Beels) Lorge '02 with son, Tyler.
Brian Ericson '04 and Mary Anne McConnel '02 sharing a wedding kiss.

Kim and Erik Seidel are happy to announce the birth of their third child, Tyler John, born on May 16. Kaylee (5) and Zach (2) are excited to have another little one around the house to play with. Everyone is enjoying living in Wisconsin where Erik looks for new ways to market toilet paper as the brand manager of SCOTT Tissue.

Evan Norton and Katie Arnold are thrilled to welcome a new addition to the Arnold-Norton household. Maeve Louise Norton arrived on June 7. Maeve has received a warm welcome from the Kellogg crew in the Bay Area and she has already made a trip to Chicago to visit the Kellogg campus. Katie writes: "We couldn't be more happy to have little Maeve in our lives — she is truly our best product launch ever!

Florence and Arnaud Melin welcomed baby No. 3, Amaury, on June 11 in Minneapolis. "He is doing great and sleeps well at nights — for the time being at least! At 19 inches and 6 lbs., 5 oz., he is a small but healthy baby." Bastien (4) and Ines (2) are very proud of their new little brother.

Mark Byars and family — wife Nicki and big sister Macy Layne (3) — are happy to announce the newest addition to their family: Spencer Mitchell Byars, born June 22.

Jim Fields, wife Kiley and son Huck welcomed their newborn daughter Langley into the world on June 30.

Michelle (Beels) Lorge and husband Eric welcomed the birth of their first child, William "Tyler" Lorge, on July 15. Tyler made his grand entrance on a steamy Chicago summer day with temperatures reaching 100! Tyler is keeping both mom and dad busy and already eating them out of house and home.

Dana, big sister Ava and Jon Lewis welcomed Tessa to the world on July 22. She weighed 7 lbs., 4 oz. "We're still in Boston, getting reacquainted with the nightlife from our window as we try to rock the little one back to sleep."

Kathleen and Devin Gallagher married on St. Patrick's Day (March 17) in Rockleigh, N.J. It was a fitting date considering they are both Irish and most of Kathleen's relatives still live in Ireland. It was a genuine Irish celebration in America. Ten people from the Class of '02 attended, including: Blake McWherter, Cassidy Shield, Matt and Natalie Schaefer, Rich Brest, Dan Shedivy, Mike Doheny, Ross Collins, Dave Walker and John Hartke. Devin notes, "Hartke showed the most interest in learning the intricacies of the Irish culture."

Mary Anne McConnel and Brian Ericson '04 were married in Asheville, N.C., on April 23. They celebrated getting hitched with an Appalachian hoedown at a working cattle ranch, complete with cowboy attire, roping lessons and genuine clog dancers (it's a North Carolina thing). Their ceremony took place on the grounds of the Biltmore Estate (one of the Vanderbilts' humble abodes). Kellogg classmates Linsey Simpson, Eric Autio, Ashley Stubbins, Dave Rostan '04, Stephanie Chan '04, Lane Armey '04, Theo Brito '04, Josh Hutto '04, Jon '04 and Kamber '06 Briones, Matt Posner '04, Sarah Butterfass '04, Christian Weber '04 and Brian Oxley '04 all joined in the festivities. Mary Anne and Brian live in Atlanta where Mary Anne works for the American Cancer Society as executive director of the Hope Lodge program.

Thank you all for submitting such great news! Have a great winter. We'll be back in the spring issue so keep your news coming.