Tom Broughton writes: "I sold out a little bank holding company in the 1990s and worked for the buyer until they tired of me and me of them. I started my last de novo bank, ServisFirst Bank in 2005, with offices in Birmingham, Montgomery, and Huntsville, Ala. We are a business bank, and we are a refugee camp for bankers from the big banks. Assets of $750 million today, and plan to stay private as long as possible.

"I am single and have three great daughters who call me regularly for money. I enjoy spending time on weekends at my lake house and a condo in Destin, Fla., and I bird hunt for a hobby."

George Fotiades writes: "I have no idea where to begin! I left Cardinal Health as COO about a year ago, after spending nearly 10 years there, 30 years in the world of public company career-dom. Today I work for Diamond Castle, a $2 billion private equity fund, as chairman for healthcare investments. I also serve as chairman of a Blackstone portfolio company: Catalent Pharma Solutions, which they purchased from Cardinal Health.

"I have served on the board of Prologis for the last six years with former Kellogg Dean Don Jacobs. It has been a true honor being involved with Don on this great board. I am also on the board of Alberto Culver. In short, I am staying busy."

Keiichi Ishizuka writes: "After graduation in 1977, I returned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. I retired from Mitsubishi in 2001, and now I am enjoying free life. My regular activities are: exercise two to three half-days a week at the fitness club, play contract bridge one day a week, cook on weekends for my family (I have spent five years at a cooking school), walk and hike once a month with university classmates, play golf once a month with colleagues from Mitsubishi, and read books every day mainly about world history. Thanks to these activities I am leading an enjoyable life. I will send you the news when some remarkable changes happen to me. It is unusually hot this summer here in Yokohama. I hope you survived the summer."

Keiichi Ishizuka '77
Randy Fluharty '77
Kathleen Johnson Browning '77 (center) with daughters Eileen and Grace

Kathleen Johnson Browning writes: "Having worked for Exxon International for eight years after graduation, I married a man with four children and then had two more. As the nannies came and went, I eventually left the corporate world and entered the world of volunteers and nonprofits, school boards and steering committees as a community supporter and civic leader.

"Now as most of those children are well on their way, I have focused on a small non-profit, the Nomadic Kenyan Children's Educational Fund. It provides scholarships for needy, capable youngsters in the remotest parts of Kenya to attend high school, which is not funded by the government. We receive hundreds of applications each year and those who are accepted are incredibly grateful. If anyone would like to know more about this organization or might be involved in similar work, please go to nkcef.org. My husband, Paul Browning, is still with ExxonMobil."

Jim D'Itri writes: "I have been to Kellogg only once since graduating to show my younger son Northwestern as a college option (he opted for Bucknell instead). Since graduating, I spent 12 years with Andersen Consulting, focusing on the healthcare industry, working in their Chicago, St. Louis and Minneapolis offices. I left Andersen in '89 (well before Enron) to become the lead for First Consulting Group's Ohio Valley region, based initially in Cleveland and later in Pittsburgh (where my wife and I grew up). I have been with FCG ever since and now am the longest-tenured FCG employee and a vice president in their IT strategic advisory services group working with hospitals.

"I live in Pittsburgh with my wife of 28 years (and my girlfriend while I was at Northwestern). We have four children. Vince (26), lives in Boston and works for MEDITECH; Jim Jr. (23) lives in San Diego and is a lieutenant in the U.S. Marines; Beth (22) is a kindergarten teacher living in Orlando; Christen (20) is a junior at Susquehanna University in central Pennsylvania. Vince, Jim and Beth are all Bucknell grads."

Dave Hamel writes: "Good to hear from so many of my fellow Kellogians. Lots going on here. Was finally able to get my daughter a pony she likes. Am writing a travel book that I hope to have published this spring: Best Places to Stay Near Outlet Malls. Would love to reconnect."

Randy Fluharty writes: "I enjoyed all the news from our class. Having just gotten married 13 days before our classes started (I was a four-quarter student), I wasn't the most social person in our class, choosing to spend most of what little free time we had with my bride. Now 31 years later, Beth and I are still married and have been empty-nested for about the last eight of those years, our son taking the unexpected but interesting route of wood carver/glass blower/homesteader and our daughter getting a masters in costume technology.

"After a couple of years in the pet foods division of Quaker Oats, I headed back to North Carolina and spent the next 10 years at Sara Lee, working for L'eggs (the introduction of Just My Size being my claim to fame), Bali, and then a stint at Aris-Isotoner in NYC as vice president, marketing. I left Sara Lee to return to my hometown of Asheville, N.C., and become the vice president of marketing for Biltmore Estate, the largest house in America, situated on 8,000 acres and generating about 1 million visitors a year. I was at Biltmore for 16 years, taking on various responsibilities and loving the tourism industry. But after 16 years I had had enough and needed something different. I found it again in Asheville, taking the vice president, marketing job at Plasticard Locktech International, the nation's largest hotel keycard manufacturer. We have contracts with most of the hotel chains, so I get to keep my hand in tourism."

Rajiv Rai writes: "After graduating from Kellogg, I returned to India and joined the family-owned steel manufacturing business. Got married to Rupal in 1980 and have two children, Ritesh (25) and Ritika (23). Both did their undergraduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Ritesh now heads the steel business. We also diversified into a BPO business in a joint venture with Schawk, a Chicago-based prepress and premedia company which specializes in packaging design for Kellogg's, P&G, Unilever, Gen Food, Pepsi, Coca Cola, etc. Ritesh is now busy setting up a large half-million-ton Greenfield Integrated Steel Plant, which will manufacture 'SBQ' steel used in the auto and engineering industry. This plant would go into production by December 2008. Ritika has gone back to CMU to pursue an MBA degree at the Tepper School of Business. We are now looking forward to our children's marriages. I keep visiting Chicago and would like to meet up with alumni from our class in Chicago or Pittsburgh. I can be contacted at rajiv@rkkrgroup.com. My company's Web site is rkkrgroup.com."