EMP-63

Russell Haworth is pleased to announce the birth of Harrison George Haworth on May 27. Coming in at 7.9 pounds and 20.5 inches, Harrison will be the tall lanky classy type like his proud father. His wife Betsy and the baby are doing well.

As mentioned in the last Kellogg World, Russell and family will be moving to Hong Kong in October. Stop by and drop your gift off in person. Suggestions that Harrison simply go by the last name spelled as it sounds, Hayworth, were met with the same derision as all the prior times it has been spelled this way.

The Del Gallo family: Jon, Paul EMP-63, Heather and Marc at the hospital with baby Maggie
Hiru and Sumit Mathur EMP-63 in Singapore
Kevin McShane EMP-63 and his wife Kate at a wedding
Gustavo Coronel EMP-63 and his family at the Taj Mahal
Alfonso Cantalapiedra EMP-63 and Marco Alfonso, in Caribbean waters
Roger Gregory, Brian Tilley, and Kevin O’Shaughnessey, all EMP-63, in Colorado
Gal Maller, Dan Skinner, both EMP-63, and wife Debra and Ido Cohen in Beit Shean, an ancient Roman city near the Sea of Galilee
Dan Skinner EMP-63 and family on a whitewater rafting trip on the Salmon River
Mikenzie Steffens-Sari and Ann Marie Peluso, both EMP-63, enjoyed visiting with each other in Charlotte, N.C.
Eishen Takahashi EMP-63 and family
Charles Thompson and Clem Johnson, both EMP-63, with two fish they bought and stood on the back of a boat with in Cabo San Lucas.
Marc Womack EMP-63 with wife Jennifer and kids Chloe, Trenton, Turner

Charles Thompson and his wife Kim had a baby boy! "Wells" Alexander Thompson was born at seven pounds, 12 ounces and 21 inches May 23. Mother and baby are doing well.

Mikenzie Steffens Sari and her husband Deniz are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Noah Steffens Sari. Noah was born June 14, at seven pounds, seven ounces and 21 inches. Mother, son and father are all doing great.

Ann-Marie Peluso visited Mikenzie Steffens-Sari, husband Deniz and baby Noah Sari in Charlotte in August. Mikenzie and Deniz were fantastic hosts while Ann-Marie enjoyed her time playing with Mikenzie, Noah and the dogs. While visiting, Mikenzie, Ann-Marie, Jason Allen, Chris Bernauer and Jon Pace, EMP-64 had dinner at a lovely Italian restaurant in Charlotte called Il Posto. Ann-Marie's primary role while there was to watch after Mikenzie's jealous dogs.

Paul Del Gallo and his wife Heather were pleased to announce the birth of Margaret Ava Del Gallo on Aug. 2 coming in at eight pounds, 14 ounces and 20 inches long. Maggie is the first girl in the house so Paul and his two sons are getting used to a change in color scheme and calling her "little pinky".

Rhonda and Russell Cravey were busy this summer participating in the Jack Russell Terrier Rescue Network. They foster one to two dogs at a time and work with the network to help get the dogs adopted. Russell says it has been a lot of fun and very rewarding. … Russell has tried to create a sled dog team from the bunch, but this isn't getting anywhere productive.

The Craveys also again spent the Fourth of July on Catalina Island and stopped off in Vegas on the way home. Rhonda actually took some cash OUT of Vegas and Russell, true to his "trickle down" economic values... he left some cash there.

Clem Johnson, Jim Lott and Tricia Lott got together in late July for dinner and drinks in D.C. at Blue Duck Tavern. Clem spent the majority of the evening discussing the importance of "peak" experiences in everyone's life. Peak experiences for that evening included much red wine being consumed by everyone except the designated driver: Jim Lott. Fun was had by all. Jim is currently paying off the bill from the evening by working the opening shift at Dunkin' Donuts.

Paul Del Gallo and Ken Sandifer caught front row at the R.E.M concert at the Tweeter Center near Boston. Ken is the biggest fan and purchased the front row center tickets on the theory "it had to happen." Just as enjoyable as the concert was going to YouTube the next day and viewing clips people had taken of the concert. This included shots of the front row center filled with lots of young, smart looking folks, including Ken, and this one bald fat dude who did not at all "match the scenery." A great time was had by all.

Rodney Mayers found that after more than eight wonderful years in Atlanta, the tornado that formed over his house and went on to hit downtown Atlanta earlier this year just about did Rodney in, to which he stood up and boldly declared…"We're moving." To his great good fortune and after a year of putting Porter's Five Forces, Shaolin Temple 36 Chambers and the 75 habits of reasonably successful people, he churned out a strategy that resulted in his company's purchase of a startup in the Bay Area called Adify Corporation. In a rare moment of synchronicity, his company said, "You're moving" which allowed him to look prescient and other worldly wise to his young family. (Yes, Rodney knows that wears off in three years when his first child hits 13). Rodney now lives in San Mateo, Calif., and is the general manager of Adify Media, the media sales arm of Adify Corporation. He has traded tornadoes for earthquakes. He is quietly waiting for the big one, which they say is due about October 22. Isn't he lucky? Wiener Mondesir and James Park appearing all over Kellogg World for visiting places outside of the state is completely unrelated. Completely.

Hiru and Sumit Mather attended a wedding in Bali this summer. While on vacation, they visited Bali, Singapore and Guam. There were a few awkward moments when Sumit would point out how much he knows about Singapore's technology tracking of people from our network economy class. It got more awkward when he was told, "We know, we have used our technology to read your mind and knew you were going to say that."

Paul Del Gallo and James Park caught up in New York for breakfast and a brainstorming. Neither Paul nor James live in New York. Neither Paul nor James caught up with the seven EMP-63 alumni in New York. Neither Paul nor James got a high pass in operations management. Those seven alumni have subsequently sent notes to Paul and James thanking them for taking care of themselves for a change.

Kevin McShane had an active summer with the kids (Jack, Nora, Peter and Kevin Jr.) out of school. He also met with the EMP-63 Chicago supper club in July. He and his wife Kate attended a family wedding in August. During the wedding Kevin provided his famous coach impressions and pulled a hamstring again showing off "how he used to get them" and limped home to sit in his recliner and wear his favorite Notre Dame shirt.

In July, Wiener Mondesier came to Chicago to visit family and had lunch with Ann-Marie Peluso and Rafiq Mohammadi at RL Restaurant on Michigan Avenue. This continues the long standing tradition of the Chicago EMP-63 supper club. Suggestions of going to the Wiener Circle, you know, for old time's sake and just because it would be funny with Wiener there, were categorically rejected.

Pradeep Nair also has spent little time at home this summer. He has been busy travelling to Asia, Europe and within U.S. for work. The Nair family spent their summer at the Jersey shore. All this travel was in response to being asked the question, "how can we miss you if you won't go away for a while?"

Kevin O'Shaughnessey hosted Brian Tilley and Roger Gregory in Colorado in January and they skied with Kevin on some rockin pow' in Steamboat. They also all spent Fourth of July up in Steamboat together too. This is at least Kevin's view. In reality, Brian and Roger continue to go on vacation and Kevin happened to be there. On a related note, Kevin has been working quite a bit in Orlando, Fla., and the O'Shaughnesseys rented a small home in Florida for the summer. Not as many came to visit, but they are hopeful.

In August, Kevin, Roger and Brian met in Washington D.C., to celebrate Hans Van Wees's marriage. Hans met his new wife Karen at Kevin and Cristina O'Shaughnessey's wedding while EMP-63 Kellogg classes were still in session. Kevin and Christina's thoughts of "had we known…"

Rosemary McGuillicutty has opened a new business. Coming off her restaurant and financial services successes, she has decided to enter into the exciting field of energy. Enthused by the idea of "off shore" drilling, Rosemary has begun setting taps in the sidewalks of New York. "Drill, baby, drill." She has answered pending charges with a claim of it was for the good of the nation. To date, she has been unable to find any oil or a winning team.

James Park was traveling in India in August and caught up with Hari Vallurupalli. James spent time in the CEO Clubs of India network. Hari, who is co-president of the clubs has passed word on that, "I came all the way over here, he just followed me."

Ann-Marie Peluso has been keeping an active social schedule since her return to Chicago and has been making up for lost time with Kellogg friends. In addition to the lunch with Wiener and Rafiq, the EMP-63 supper club met in July in Greektown when James Park was in town. Ann-Marie Peluso, Rafiq Mohammadi, Maureen Floeter, Seiji Shinosaki, Peter Granat, Kevin McShane, Sujit Bakre and James Park were all in attendance and celebrated a birthday toast with Maureen.

In July, Ann-Marie, Craig and Kim Jude attended a wine tasting party/1985 Super Bowl Bears party where the Super Bowl shuffle was sung loud and proud. Ann-Marie also won the (toy) field kicker game prize for the longest field goal and happily took home two match box race cars as her prize. In September, Ann-Marie also visited the Judes for a gourmet cooking fest. They made paella and of course, sampled several wines to accompany the meal.

In August, Ann-Marie had dinner with Safak Guven at the Clubhouse Restaurant in Oak Brook, Ill., while Safak was in town for a convention. Also – during a visit to Ravinia in late August, Ann-Marie reminisced over the Year Two Live-in Week trip to Ravinia to see the Gypsy Kings – and once again had many people on the shuttle yelling "We love Wiener!" In September, Ann Marie opened her "where's Waldo" board on the Internet. This allows you to move a small social butterfly with a click of a mouse all over the map of the world. The butterfly flies to where a classmate was, buys shoes, drinks wine and then flies back home.

Ron Razmi visited Roger Gregory and his family in Houston in February. Then, Roger came up to New York for a New York Yankees weekend and they went to the games and partied there for a weekend. While this is all a really touching story, in reality, Ronnie had Roger's wallet. They went to see the Yankees play in their last season at Yankee Stadium. Roger tried to bury an Astros uniform in the stadium, but chickened out.

While the Abdo family was in Egypt for two months, Abdo Abdo basically moved in with Ronnie on the weekends and enjoyed the summer New York style. This involved all the tradition which brought grace and dignity to EMP-63. Please see The New York Post Page 3 for an update.

Russell Haworth, Anand Subramanian, Abdo Abdo and Ron Razmi continued the New York EMP-63 tradition of meeting for cocktails at the famous rooftop 230 in Chelsea in May. This, of course, is now being viewed by the new rules for rooftop 230, in which only two EMP-63 alumni allowed on the roof at a time. And Anand counts as two alumni. He starts things.

Nikolaj Sjoqvist reports that in July, Nikolaj and family moved from Houston to Atlanta in order to fulfill his obligations to McKinsey. The Sjoqvist family is actually happy to be there now - the weather's great and it's a pleasant place to live, but for now their hearts still belong to Texas. Nikolaj finally managed to secure a (mostly) local project, which has been great. The funny highlight of his last engagement in Beverly Hills, Calif., was meeting someone with butt-implants. "Only in L.A.!" [As a reader's note: This update has been translated exactly as it was written. I could not make it funnier.] 

Dan Skinner traveled to Israel, where he spent one week sight-seeing and another week on business. He saw Ido and Gal Maller, both of whom are doing great, and Dan narrowly missed getting together with Michael Baron and Taghrid Lahham. "The Israelis are wonderfully entrepreneurial people, and there are many start-up companies in the high-tech sector. Gal and Ido are also wonderful hosts," Dan writes. This is one of several trips Dan has made to Israel, which is remarkable, because they keep asking him to "take his time coming back".

Geetha and Anand Subramanian camped in for a Chicago summer weekend romp in August. Anand caught up with Clem at a Cubs game and over ribs at Twin Anchors. The Cubs lost one of the few games they have this year, thanks to tic tac reaching over and grabbing one that was "almost out of there." He was asked to return home and attend games there.

Eishin Takahashi said that the Takahashi family moved to a new house in March. The offer was submitted while Eishin was on a business trip and Eishin had no chance to take a look at the house. This shows a true trust relationship between Beth and Eishin…or her lack of faith in his home taste. On the return trip to Portland, Ore., from New Zealand in March, Eishin got together with James Park in Seoul. This continues the ongoing adventures of James chasing people all over the globe to catch up.

As for Eishin's work, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority of the New Zealand government provided a grant to Zmag's customer because Zmag's molten aluminum stirring technology helps its customers reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emission. This was a big step because EECA is going to further introduce Zmag to companies in New Zealand and Australia.

Eishin will make a new mileage record this year. So far, about 150,000 miles. Amazingly, some of this was in an airplane, although he still loves to clock in the miles on his magnetically powered environmentally friendly Zmag paddle boat. Boy, that thing makes you rethink going to New Zealand. After returning to Portland from Japan, he went to Germany and Italy in September. He has no time to enjoy his new house.

Charles Thompson, Clem Johnson and their wives Kim and Catherine vacationed in Cabo San Lucas in August. While a great time was had in the sun with golfing, shopping and just relaxing, the most amazing choice was on the last day. They chose to buy two fish and stand on the back of a boat.

In July, Marc Womack's family had their first European vacation. They spent five days in Paris and visited the Louvre, Musee d'Orsay, Military History Museum, Sacre Coeur and the Eiffel Tower. They then spent four days in London where they saw the Tower of London, Big Ben and many other sights. The kids had a lot of fun and enjoyed their first taste of European culture. The kids also spent a fair amount of time explaining to Marc what was inside the Louvre, Musee d'Orsay and Sacre Coeur. They then begged him to stop doing that silly Pepé Le Pew Bugs Bunny imitation. And ordering a "Three Musketeers Bar" at dinner also was just embarrassing.

This summer Matt, Maddison and Ellen Siebenborn-Forsyth headed west to Yellowstone with Matt's dad. Maddison learned how to say buffalo and elk...and kept everyone entertained with her constant banter and tricks...like taking on and off her shoes. Not quite the same as a week on the beach with nothing to do but read a novel and sip fruity drinks...but family fun all the same. What was a little less impressive was Ellen taking her shoes on and off, saying "elk" and asking everyone to clap.  

Gustavo Coronel and his family spent 10 great days in beautiful India for summer vacation. They visited Delhi, Jaipur, Idaipur and Agra. "India is going through a deep economy and cultural change and this is the time for feeling that transformation," Gustavo writes. India responded with, "You should talk. We see a few gray hairs there, and let's not kid each other, you're not working out as much as you used to."

Alfonso Cantalapiedra's son Marco Alfonso Cantalapiedra had a very hectic quarter. He traveled to Puerto Rico twice, first to meet the relatives and get his first taste (literally) of the Caribbean Sea. The second time was to get baptized. His father's request to dress him in a KISS outfit with full make up was denied in favor of more traditional clothes. When asked to summarize his trips and meeting all those friends and relatives, Marco Alfonso simply said "I've seen a million faces, and I rocked them all!" A tear rolled down Alfonso's face.

In the first installment of "Where in the World is Alfonso?," he traveled (on a steel horse he rides) to Brazil (Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais, Riberao Preto and Porto Allegre) Chile (Santiago and Concepcion), Colombia (Cartagena and Bogota), Mexico (Mexico City, Monterrey and Puebla), Chicago, New York and Las Vegas in 45 days. Bring it on James and Eishin! 

Capitalizing on the Kellogg network, Alfonso has met with Kellogg alumns in Chile and Mexico who have contributed immensely in his efforts to understand the educational landscape in the regions. Classmate Polo Quintano made the introduction to the Chilean alums and promptly moved to England.