2002 — Full-Time

There was so much catching up at Reunion that only a few have news to share. But it is all very exciting! Thanks for sharing!

Chris Jones '02 and Amanda Lovett-Jones with son Taeus and daughter Cypress enjoying a California sunset.
Bharat Kakar '02 and his bride, Sheetal, at their traditional Indian wedding ceremony
Big smiles must run in the family: Darika (Soponawat) Kriengsuntikul '02 with son Natanont.
Ian Lacy '02 with his bride, Stacey Ng, in Hong Kong.
Megan Marine and Jay Marine, both '02, with Kate and Sarah in the hospital after Sarah was born.
Kim and Andrew McCollum '02 with daughter Natalie Kristine.
Proud big brother Logan and parents Mike and Kathleen McConnell '02 welcome Caiden Michael to the world.
Erica (Post) Rabb '02 with son Alec.

Erica (Post) Rabb writes: "Alec Drew Rabb was born on April 28. I worked throughout the month of May to finish out the Oracle fiscal year as I have been working in CRM sales since Oracle's acquisition of Siebel. I took the summer off to bond with Alec and am thoroughly enjoying the time with him. Heading back to work in the fall but will be working from home with a nanny coming during the day to watch the baby."

Linda (Eder) DiGati shares great news, too: "We had a daughter, Gabriella Marie DiGati, on May 17."

Andrew McCollum shares with us: "I'm happy to announce that Kim and I welcomed our first child, Natalie Kristine McCollum, on May 22. Mom and daughter are very healthy and happy. Like all new parents, we're enjoying the sleepless nights and the occasional moments that make it all worthwhile. We're still in Boston, where Kim is a high school teacher and I work for Chatham Partners, a research and consulting firm."

On July 5, Mike and Kathleen O'Connell had a little boy named Caiden Michael. "He's doing great — he was born three weeks early and definitely surprised us, but all is well. He weighed 6 pounds, 3 ounces and he joins his big brother Logan (2)."

Megan (Ainsworth) and Jay Marine are proud to announce the arrival of Sarah Elizabeth, born on June 5. Big sister Kate is very into her new role and loves to "help" with the baby as much as she can. The Marines are enjoying life in Seattle; Jay is still with Amazon.com and Megan with Starbucks, and they have fun seeing other Kellogg alums and their growing families.

July 9 was a big day for Reed Krider and Sara Wegmann. That's when they had another little girl, whom they named Olivia. Congrats to all these expanding families!

Ed and Ashley Stubbins have left Newport Beach, Calif., and moved to San Francisco. Ed has taken a new position as director of alternative strategies for Symphony Asset Management. Symphony is a multi-strategy hedge fund, and he is responsible for strategic business development and client relations in the U.S. and Asia. Ashley has taken a marketing position with Del Monte and is working in their tomato business unit. They invite any of their Kellogg classmates to visit and stay in their extra bedroom in the city.

In the middle of the hectic times running his own company in Paris for the past two years, Marc Verhaeren found the time to get married. He and Berengere-Gabrielle, although both Belgians, got married in France in the castle of Chambord on Aug. 11. Kellogg attendees included: Savina and Carsten Boekhorst, Belinda Shi, Jenny and Chip Sterret, Irene Rizzi '03 and Arnaud Beernaert '03.

On March 1 in Hong Kong, Stacey Ng and Ian Lacy got married. Ian is still working in Hong Kong for Citibank in their consumer products group. That is also where he and Stacey met. Ian notes: "Obviously we spend too much time in the office!"

Chris Jones is loving life in L.A. He's enjoying his job at Boost Mobile and his family: Amanda, Taeus and Cypress. Ronnie Frankowski continues to be a staple at the Jones house, which the whole family loves!

Kathleen Weaver recently was accepted into the Broad Residency Program, a management development program that places talented early-career executives into full-time paid positions at the top levels of urban school systems.

It is never too late to share news with Kellogg World. Darika (Soponawat) Kriengsuntikul catches us up on the past few years of her life: "I am now an associate director of PwC Thailand. I failed to share the news of my wedding, which took place in 2005 and now I have a son, Natanont (1)."

It isn't too late to share your news, either. We all love hearing great news whether it happened two days ago or two years ago. Look forward to hearing from you all soon!