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1994
ANATH SRINIVAS BHOGARAJU and his wife, Purnima, recently moved
back to Chicago after three years in New York. “We look forward
to renewing our friendship with GSB classmates,” he writes. Bhogaraju
is now working with First Boston’s Health Care Corporate Finance
Group.
TEVEN BLUMENFIELD and his wife, Cheryll, moved to New Jersey,
where their daughter, Cella Houston Blumenfield, was born on April
28. Cella weighed eight pounds, nine ounces and was 20 inches
in length.
BERNARD J. FORD was promoted to partner at Ernst & Young L.L.P.
in Chicago. He is a dispute resolution and litigation services
partner, focused on health care fraud and abuse investigations
conducted on behalf of providers and insurers under investigation.
He lives in Chicago with his wife, Kate, and their children, Brendan,
Patrick, and Maura.
DANIEL M. KAUFMAN married Julie Ehrensberger on June 7. The couple
is currently building a home in Lake in the Hills, Illinois.
PATRICK P. LAW recently joined the international treasury division
of Chase Manhattan Bank’s Hong Kong Branch as vice president,
where he helps manage the Asian currencies investment portfolio.
W. J. DAFYDD SILCOCK reports that he has joined Ernst & Young
Consulting in Dallas as a manager in the People AdvantEdge practice,
serving the financial services clients. He is enjoying the climate
and welcomes old and new GSB chums to contact him at (214) 665-9265
(work) or (972) 267-7423 (home).
CHRISTOPHER SZTAM writes that he recently attended the wedding
of DENNIS BIANUCCI. Plenty of GSBers were in attendance, including
STEVE and JULIE (ESTES) PLANK, BEAU and SUZANNE (FOWLER) DAMON,
STEVE and SUSAN (POARCH) SMITH, and GREG and SARAH GUENTHER.
MARK LEWIS USHER was promoted to senior manager in the logistics
strategy practice of Andersen Consulting’s Los Angeles office
in September. He and his wife, Alison, had their second child,
Natalie Mae, on June 24.
1995
ELIZABETH HARE ABATTISTA was promoted to associate partner at
Andersen Consulting. She is based in Northbrook, Illinois, at
Andersen Consulting Technology Park.
MARK FRANK writes that he is now vice president in the department
of EVA education at Stern Stewart & Co. in New York City. He wields
his new, custom-made pool cue (not so well) at Amsterdam Billiards
Club.
ELISABETH GINDERSKE and CHRISTOPHER DONOHOE, ’93, were married
in Bond Chapel in October. Ginderske is an associate investment
banker at Merrill Lynch & Co. Donohoe is a vice president of the
financial institutions group at J.P. Morgan & Co. The couple now
lives in New York.
TAKANORI "TIM" HIBI announces the birth of his third child. Matthew,
born on August 4, joins sister, Lina, and brother, Eugene. This
former LEAD facilitator now keeps busy on weekends babysitting.
Weekdays, Hibi still works for NOF Corporation. All GSBers are
invited to visit him in his new house if they are in the area
of Tsukuba, 30 miles north of Tokyo. Hibi can be e-mailed at BZQ07170@niftyserve.or.jp.
ANDREA KAY HORMAN recently became vice president of marketing
for Shaker Investments in Cleveland, Ohio. Horman is also enjoying
being a trustee of the Cleveland Opera and the Cleveland School
of the Arts as well as being “a new Tribe fan.”
JOHN W. MILLER recently published Windy City Kitchens, a collection
of recipes from Chicago’s favorite restaurants. It is now on sale
at Marshall Fields, Williams-Sonoma, and Chicago-area bookstores
and boutiques.
PUNEET PANDIT is now with Ernst & Young in Chicago as a manager
in the management consulting group. He is stationed in Bombay,
India, to help launch a consulting practice in India. He writes:
“My specific roles range from helping to launch strategic advisory
services in India to serving as a resource coordinator for Indian
operation. If need be, I may be staffed on an assignment for an
Indian client.”
VIKRAM SAWHNEY was promoted to manager at the New York office
of A.T. Kearney in June. He joined the firm’s financial institutions
group in 1995 as an associate. In October he married Sonali Dhall.
He writes that he would love to hear from fellow grads, who can
contact him at vikram_sawhney@atkearney.com. or at (212) 350-3186.
KEVIN P. SMITH married Shelitta Scott Smith, A.M. ’95 (SSA), on
April 15. Smith is working as an advanced product analyst for
Ford Motor Company in Detroit.
BENOIT TAS writes: “I am an active member of the University of
Chicago Alumni in Belgium, and I really feel Chicago is my second
home ever since starting my M.B.A. in the fall of 1993. Since
graduation, I’ve been back five times already. I guess there are
some good things about the traveling schedule of a consultant.”
Tas joined the European consumer goods practice of Arthur D. Little
in May 1995 and is living in Brussels. “I was promoted to manager
after one year, and I’ve worked on some 15 projects since, mainly
related to marketing and sales, innovation and strategy and organization,”
he writes.
ANGELIQUE TOBER reports that John (Jaddy) DePoy and Marian Singer
were married on August 15 at Viansa Winery in Sonoma County, California.
“Several GSB alumni were in attendance,” she writes, “but despite
the significant GSB representation, business discussions were
kept to a minimum. The focus on this day was on the DePoy-Singer
merger!”
1996
FABRIZO CORRADINI became the proud father of a little boy, Nicola,
in February Corradini and his family are living happily in Milan,
Italy, where every waking, non-working moment is absorbed by Nicola.
JOHN GARDNER joined Nokia, Inc. as an investment analyst and new
business development manager. He is responsible for financial
analysis and portfolio company management for Nokia’s strategic
and venture capital investments in North and South America. He
and his wife, Kathy, live in Chicago.
DAVID GOULD writes: “After y’all left Hyde Park, I finished up
my master’s degree in Latin American studies and began to work
in arctic Minneapolis, trading fixed income for Cargil.” Gould
reports that in late spring, he “flew to New York and proposed
to my honey, Ruthie Stebbins. She’ll soon be ditching the Big
Apple for the Mini-Apple.”
GUNNAR JOHNSON was promoted to manager from senior consultant
at Deloitte & Touche L.L.P. in Minneapolis.
HO NGUYEN writes: “I moved from Brandywine Asset Management in
Thornton, Pennsylvania to the Fuji Bank in New York City in early
June. My friend Kazuo Nishimura helped me land this job–he sits
right next to me!”
ELLEN ROSTAND writes that she is now an account executive for
Fleishman-Hillard Communications in St. Louis.
STEVE TAE and his wife, HYO-SHIN, announce the birth of their
son, Christian Jin-wong Tae, on August 17. The newborn weighed
in at seven pounds, six ounces, and both mother and child are
doing fine. The family lives in Evanston, Illinois.
MICHAEL TRZUPEK and his wife, Karmen, relocated in June from Chicago
to Beaverton, Oregon, a suburb of Portland. He is working in a
finance position at Intel, and his wife is at Oregon Health Sciences
University, where she is doing genetic research.
DWIGHT A. WILLIAMS and KATHY R. WILKERSON, ’97, were married on
May 31 in Chicago with several GSB alums in attendance. The couple
honeymooned in Ixtapa, Mexico. Cathy is vice president and research
analyst for First Chicago Venture Capital, and Dwight is a senior
consultant in the financial services/insurance consulting practice
at KPMG Peat Marwick L.L.P. in Chicago. They currently live in
the South Loop.
1997
ARIF AHMED writes that he joined DAVE RICKARD and ANDY REICHGUT
on a West Coast golf trip last summer, traveling from San Francisco
to Vancouver and hitting many different golf courses along the
way. Scores ranged from the high 70’s (Andy) to the 100’s (Arif).
Arif also reports two summer weddings: ADAM SPEILMAN married MAUREEN
SWEENEY on July 11 in Bond Chapel on the university campus, and
Dave Rickard married Faith Bugel on August 9 in Ridgewood, New
Jersey.
JASON BATTAGLIA fulfilled his lifelong dream of taking Italian
lessons in Italy by spending a month in Florence. Jason put away
the books after lunch and took a job in the San Lorenzo leather
goods markets, hawking suede, oily calfskin, and other leather
jackets to fashion hungry tourists. “I almost didn't come back,”
Jason says, “and I can’t listen to Italian music (“That's Amore”
or “Volare” by Dean Martin) any more because I get too sentimental.”
Jason also spent two weeks wandering around Turkey, reporting
that “Cappodoccia, with its fairy chimneys, was one of the most
fascinating sites I’ve ever seen.” He’s enjoying work as a manager
of marketing research at Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical division,
Ortho-McNeil. Life in Hoboken, New Jersey (“home of Frank Sinatra”)
is treating him well, especially that homemade mozzarella at Vito’s
Deli.
ANITA BATHIJA reports that she thoroughly enjoyed her 10 weeks
of travel through India and southeast Asia with JOHN BUCHBINDER
and ANDREW DINSMORE. Highlights included the Taj Majal, hiking
through the hill tribes in northern Thailand, running into GSB
students at every street corner in Hong Kong, and staying with
RICHARD COGHLAN and his wife in the Philippines. For the latter
half of her trip, Bathija ventured down under with LORI SLACK
and ANTHONY WOOLFE. This adventure included scuba diving with
sharks and eels, mountain climbing, and rappelling hundreds of
feet underground in caves in New Zealand. After their exhausting
adventures, they rested in Fiji and Hawaii before returning to
the United States. Bathija is now settled in New York where she
is working for the Boston Consulting Group.
OLIVIA BAUMAN writes that she is finishing a four-month assignment
in Tokyo. She was consulting for Credit Suisse First Boston on
a back office software implementation for their listed derivatives
operation. Baumann is president of Baumann and Associates, a firm
she began to “pay the bills as I was going through school.” She
is now planning to return to the United States and work in consulting
in Chicago or New York.
DAVID MICHAEL CARTERbumped into classmate Cynthia Farnsworth at
a wedding on Chebeague Island, Maine. David and his wife, Laura,
live nearby in Yarmouth. He is an associate with the shareholder
activist Lens Fund in Portland, Maine. He reports that he frequently
is in touch with classmates Rich Scheurman and John Zang and was
puzzled to see Peter Sullivan pictured alongside such upstanding
characters as John Joliet and Deputy Dean Robin Hogarth in the
last issue of GSB Chicago.
After two years in Chicago, AMY CHIANG is happy to be back in
New York, though Booz-Allen seems to think she should be in San
Francisco instead. Although she is living with ANDY SONG, the
two have rarely seen each other since she ventured to the other
coast.
CALVIN CHUNG and his wife, Cecilia, had their second child, Lauren
Kayla Chung, on September 27. Chung is enjoying life as an equity
analyst in St. Petersburg, Florida, and in particular enjoys having
two children, a dog, and a rising stock market.
After graduation, RICHARD COGHLAN was finally able to join his
wife, Sang-me, in the Philippines, where he now works for the
Asian Finance Investment Co. The couple are already settled into
their new Manila home, where they entertain often. Their weekends
are dominated by golf, and they sometimes play two rounds a day.
Coghlan reports: “This is clearly the life! If it weren’t for
the pollution and traffic, I would be ecstatic. As it is, I’m
pretty damn happy.”
CINDY M. CREMER and her husband, Andy, announce the birth of Hannah
Catherine, born July 27. Cremer is presently working in health
care customer business development for Proctor & Gamble in Chicago.
ANDREW DINSMORE traveled the world and spread the gospel of open
markets, spending a glorious but very hot time with fellow GSBers
John Buchbinder and Anita Bathija. He swam with the sharks in
Indonesia and Australia and drove through the spectacular scenery
of New Zealand. However, after three months of “retirement training,”
it was back to reality at A.T. Kearney in New York City.
CHET DOMINICK is now working in Chicago, but recently found time
to visit New York and get acquainted with the old gang. The only
one missing from the bunch was LARRY TAYLOR, who is working for
Exxon in Dallas.
ARMAN FALSAFI writes that he is manager of systems integration
for MCI Systemhouse in Chicago.
CYNTHIA FARNSWORTH biked through Portugal, Spain, France, Italy,
and Switzerland with HYO JUNG LEE. “Yes, I biked down the Matterhorn,
over the Seine, and through the Pyrenees,” she reports. True,
I was on a Harley, but what a bike.”
KATHY FELTON writes that she had a wonderful summer spending time
with her brothers in Egypt. Other exciting news: her sister recently
got married back in the United States and her husband just became
an official “Dr.” She is settled in San Francisco with Deloitte
& Touche Consulting and has been assigned a two-month project
in Salt Lake City.
GIULIO FENU is now senior inventory management consultant at Caterpillar
Logistics Services. He and his wife and their four children will
be moving back to Europe where Fenu says he hopes to be active
in the GSB alumni club in Belgium. Formerly he was a systems analyst
with Eli Lilly.
MIKE FERTMAN, back in the states after his summer adventures in
South America, writes that the class of ’97 has established “a
small beachhead in Cleveland.” He and Mustafa Chagall, Ann Goebel,
and Patrick Hallinan are all working for Booz, Allen & Hamilton
in Cleveland; Cecilia Rettig is with McKinsey and Mike Weiner
is there working for Nestle. Fertman reports that “Cleveland’s
culture and social scene is amazing. For anyone who’d like to
visit us, call me at 216-WEB-BETA (932-2382), or e-mail me at
mfertma@gsbalum.uchicago.edu.”
TIM FREY and SHOBA SATYENDRA recently announced their engagement.
The couple is living in Cambridge.
SOO HONG writes that she spent the summer traveling through Denmark,
Norway, and Sweden with MARK TROMBLEY as well as through Spain
and Portugal on her own. “I ate smoked moose, went parasailing,
saw street performers who juggled in their underwear, missed my
connecting train from Porto to Madrid–which led to my binge of
consuming tons of sangria, vino verde and port wine”. She has
started at Booz Allen along with Amy Chiang, Mike Doherty, Emily
Lo, and Pat Hallinan.
MARCIA HUNT reports that she is now working on Minute Rice at
Kraft and “learning more information about rice than I ever thought
possible.” She writes: “One of the many great things about Minute
is that even I can’t ruin it!” Hunt now lives in Chicago’s Bucktown
neighborhood and recently saw the Stones with Jay Linney. In her
free time, she is enjoying recreational reading.
DIANE IVANOVICH reports that after a marathon series of good-byes
to her fellow graduates at Chicago bars, she was off to Washington,
D.C. Her hopes of meeting her idol, Alan Greenspan, were dashed.
Then she returned to her familial homeland, Croatia, and spent
part of her summer island hopping. (Croatia has more than 1,000
islands). The next hop took her to Kenya and Tanzania for a safari
with Anne Goebel. “The trip was adventuresome. We were charged
by an elephant, I almost got bit by a lion, and Anne almost got
thrown out of a curio shop for too much bargaining,” she writes.
All too soon, Citibank shipped her off to London to begin training.
Summer was over, but the excitement wasn’t; like an enterprising
journalist, she was the first to report Princess Diana’s accident
to family and friends. Ivanovich was staying two blocks from the
Kensington Palace and reports that she placed flowers at the Palace
gate. She also saw the casket when it was driven by. “Too close
and too eerie,” she writes.
TOM KECK and his wife, Nettie, spent the summer in a home they
rented in Italy, where they played host to numerous GSB guests.
Keck is now living in New Jersey and working for McKinsey & Co.
Molly and JEFF KELLER began their summer by getting married in
Crystal Lake, Michigan. The happy twosome then gallivanted around
the globe enjoying a 10-week honeymoon that includes stops in
Cape Town, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Kenya. “Our journey
has been spectacular,” Keller reports.
STEVE KLIMKOWSKI has been promoted from vice president to senior
vice president at ABN AMRO Chicago Corporation. In this position,
he is in charge of fixed income for ABN AMRO Chicago Corporate
Asset Management, where he serves as chairman of the Fixed Income
Committee. He lives in Hinsdale, Illinois, with his wife and their
three children.
ROBBIE LAMBRIX reports the Thursday Night Drinking Club lives
on. In October, many ’97 grads flew in from around the country
to celebrate Marcia Hunt’s birthday. On the same weekend, Matt
Sanderson ran the Chicago Marathon in three hours and five minutes
to qualify for the Boston Marathon.
CINDY LESTER reported that she and JAY RUDMAN are happily living
together in Chicago after a busy summer in Alaska, Israel, Jordan,
and on the U.S. “wedding circuit.” Their highlights included white
water rafting and seeing elk and whales in Alaska; visiting the
site of “Indiana Jones and the Lost Crusade” in Petra, Jordan;
and attending the weddings of Russ Riben and Andrew White. They
are getting married next Labor Day weekend.
MARINO LINARDON writes that he and Jennifer spent their summer
vacation in northern Italy. “We had a wonderful time visiting
family and touring. The highlight of the trip was the beautiful
coastal city of Trieste.” In early August, Lindaron began working
at Smith Barney as an associate in the financial institutions
group. He says that the acquisition of Salomon Brothers has added
a lot of excitement around the office.
ALISTAR LING reports that his summer highlight was a safari in
Africa. Several weeks and hundreds of photos later, he claims
the trip was unlike anything he has ever experienced. Ling is
now working in equity derivatives for Morgan Stanley in New York,
but he plans to move to Hong Kong in December.
VICTORIA MAILIN ecstatically reports that she recently climbed
Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. She traveled four days up the 20,000+
foot mountain, where the temperatures reached as low as 20 degrees
below zero. She claims her seven-week trip to Africa was an “unbelievable,
storybook” experience. Not to be outdone by some of her classmates
in terms of total travel time this summer, Victoria also traveled
throughout Europe for more than a month. She hit her favorite
spot, the Greek Islands, as well as Poland, Hungary, Austria,
and Germany. Back to “reality” as of late October, she has started
working at Andersen Consulting in Chicago.
BRIAN MARCUS and JONATHON ZANG spent their summers traveling to
Israel and the Sinai Desert.
ERIC MARK had an enjoyable but short vacation in Portugal and
Switzerland. With coconspirators ANDY SONG and LARRY TAYLOR, Eric
had fun in Belgium for a few days before his companions went biking
in France and Switzerland. After a short training stint in New
York, Mark is settled in London with Morgan Stanley, where he
is challenged to the point that he barely has time to look for,
or even think about, an apartment.
LAURA MCKUIN reports that she and Jason “Jake” Puryear spent time
this summer in Gilwice, Poland, building houses for Habitat for
Humanity. She traveled around Budapest with Christy Alkidas, Carrie
Goles, Matt Sanderson, and Jay Linney. Also this summer, she and
Betty Lin took a 350-mile bicycle trip in Southern Utah. McKuin
is now living with Cathy Carroll in Dallas and working for Bain.
Recently she attended a “mini GSB reunion” in Dallas, a gathering
hosted by Stacey True.
RAY MERK, after marrying in Brazil early this year, is happy to
report that his wife, Adriana, is now in the United States. “We
waited for five months while the American Embassy in Brazil processed
her papers and finally gave her a visa to come here,” Merk reports.
“She arrived in late June and we soon took off on a tour of America.
We drove cross-country from Washington, D.C. to Las Vegas and
back, stopping off at a few different places along the way. We
hit Nashville (yee-haw), Memphis (home of “the king”), New Orleans
(Nawlins), Dallas (didn’t see JR), Grand Canyon (yodelay-hee-hoo),
and finally Las Vegas (the town Nicholas Cage can’t get out of).
It was great! I won 5,000 nickels in the slots in Las Vegas (sounds
better than $250).” Merk recently joined Mobil in Washington,
D.C., and is working hard to get a grip on this huge industry.
DAVE MILLER spent the summer traveling through Australia with
Jon Zapp and Linda Bott and New Zealand with Joe and Michelle
Antonio. Scuba diving with Zapp on the Great Barrier Reef was
the highlight, he writes. Miller has since moved to Baltimore
and works at First Annapolis Consulting.
BRUCE NORLAND reports that he had a busy summer traveling around
the globe. He and Mirium will be moving to Skopje, Macedonia,
where he will be running a venture capital fund that will make
investments in Macedonia, Croatia, Bulgaria, and other areas.
In November, MAKI OGIWARA was married in London to her longtime
fiance, who patiently waited while she completed her two years
in Chicago.
TAKASHI OYAGI writes that he married Sharlene last December. He
is now working at the Credit and Market Management Department
of the Bank of Japan. In between projects, Takashi has found time
to tour Japan, where he is learning the tofu diet of the Buddhist
priests.
ARPAN PATEL reports that he spent the summer with Gina Cocking,
cycling through southwest France and then continuing on to Italy
and Austria, running into various GSB people along the way. Things
are getting busy at work for him these days, but there are lots
of friends from school to help him maintain his sanity.
MARY E. PODBORNY married Daniel Lovell on September 27. The couple
spent their honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, before returning
to their home in Chicago. Podbourny is information technology
auditor for Amoco Corporation.
JOE POPOLO announced that he and his wife, Chris, had a baby girl,
Katherine, on September 29.
After his West Coast golf trip with DAVE RICKARD and ARIF AHMED,
ANDY REICHGUT and his wife, Laura, went to Europe. The couple
is now living in New Jersey (near Exit 155) and Reichgut has started
work at Reckitt & Colman.
GEORGE S. RIG VI, writes: “My wife, Karen, and I are proud to
announce the birth of our daughter, Kerstin Lorelei Rieg, born
July 5 and weighing five pounds and eleven ounces. Kerstin is
the granddaughter of George S. Rieg Jr., ’49.”
MARK RUDAJEV and his wife, Laura, spent the fall in New York where
Mark was in training with Morgan Stanley. In November, the couple
moved to London.
SCOTT RUDY spent the summer relaxing on the beach in Hawaii before
heading to the Big Apple, where he will be training for several
months. Rudy’s final destination is Zurich, Switzerland, where
he will be working for Union Bank of Switzerland.
FRANSICO SALONIA RUZO sacrificed his summer to begin working immediately
after graduation. While many of his classmates were traveling
around the world, Francisco began his work at J.P. Morgan . He
says he is settled in at work and at home, and his social life
has never been better!
GISELE SCHEINKMAN is working for Credit Agricole-Indosuez in her
homeland, Brazil. Though she is living in San Paulo, Gisele can
be found on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro each weekend. Scheinkman
says guests are welcome, preferably on the weekend.
ANDY SCMELTZ'S summer highlight was his marriage to Dayna Bandman
in Bedford, New York, on July 13. Fellow GSBers Rich Hansen and
Sophia Sakhleh were on hand to celebrate the memorable occasion.
A romantic honeymoon to secluded areas of the Pacific Northwest
and Canadian Rockies followed. Schmeltz now lives in Wilmette,
Illinois, and is working at Abbott Laboratories.
JEFF SELTZER spent his summer becoming a master chef at Cordon
Bleu in France. He later traveled to Asia with his sister and
was held up for several days in customs when he tried to reenter
the United States.
PHILLIP SEXAUER married Katherine Rafa on October 10. Sexauer
is manager for real estate and financial analysis at FMC Corporation
in Chicago.
BRIAN STORY reports that after graduation, he and Amy moved to
a new two-bedroom apartment in Lincoln Park and have been making
up for lost time by hosting dinner parties and taking weekend
trips to Michigan. After two months of training at the Renaissance
Center in downtown Detroit and the regional office in Naperville,
Storey started his first round of a marketing rotation with General
Motors. The round is in sales, and Storey has already begun acting
as a district sales manager for Central Illinois for Pontiac-GM.
GM issued Storey a brand new Pontiac Firebird which he is happily
driving around the heartland.
ELLEN KOONMEN SUBRAMANIAM and RAM SUBRAMANIAM report that they
spent July in the Bay Area. While visiting with friends from college,
they almost got their ear drums blown off at a heavy metal concert
in a bar while standing in front of the speakers. After their
California adventures, the Subramaniams moved to New York, where
they checked out the tourist spots before settling in and starting
work. It’s a good thing they enjoyed their vacation, because on
his first day of work, Ram was on a flight to Germany for a three-day
whirlwind trip. What a way to get back to the working world!
MIEN-LIN JUSTINA TAN married PATRICK TAN in Singapore on August
2. ALLISTAR LING and YUKO MITSUZUKA attended the wedding.
COLLEEN WARDLE recently became engaged to Kirk Ferguson, her steady
in New York. The couple is living in a huge apartment in Soho
and having a wonderful time.
DEBROAH WEINSWIG writes that she is working at Morgan Stanley
in equity research. “Do you remember all of the stuff that we
learned in school about DCF’s? I’ve actually published an article
on what a great tool they are and how the investment community
uses multiple-based analysis when performing valuations.”
CATHY R. WILKERSON and DWIGHT A. WILLIAMS, ’96, were married on
May 31 in Chicago with several GSB alums in attendance. The couple
honeymooned in Ixtapa, Mexico. Cathy is vice president and research
analyst for First Chicago Venture Capital, and Dwight is a senior
consultant in the financial services/insurance consulting practice
at KPMG Peat Marwick L.L.P. in Chicago. They currently live in
the South Loop.
MICHAEL WEINER moved to Cleveland to work for Nestle as the marketing
assistant for Contadina refrigerated pasta and sauces. He and
MIKE FERTMAN have been hanging out in Coventry Village, the Bucktown
of Cleveland, and in the Flats, which is like “the cheesy part
of Lincoln Avenue.” He’s learning to appreciate the Indians and
the Cavaliers, whose tickets can actually be bought by the public
at face value. He’s been to the Jake and the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall
of Fame, and has rollerbladed in a few of the city’s many parks.
When not in Cleveland, Weiner has seen lots of GSB friends in
both Chicago and New York, and he was finally on the other side
of GSB recruiting recently. He looks forward to seeing everyone
in their new homes as he makes field visits to supermarkets around
the nation.
LOUISA WOODenjoyed the summer traveling through Europe, where
DAVE LYNCH led the group deep into Spanish culture with his Spanish
skills. It seems that many other new graduates had the same plans,
because Wood ran into Sean McLauglin and Jill Pick practicing
their Spanish in Barcelona, Emily Lo supporting the economy of
the Italian fashion designers in Italy, Rich Hansen roaming the
Florentine streets, and Jason Kofman eating his way through Sienna.
Marcia Hunt joined the fun for a weeks of wine and champagne tasting
in the Burgundy region of France. Wood is now in San Francisco
with fellow grads Marianne Llewellyn, Robbie Lambrix, Eric Westmore,
Dave Scott, Aneysha Pearce, and Tim Brennan. “It’s too bad that
corporate life does not lend itself to the Thursday Night Drinking
Club, considering all the new watering holes to explore in the
city,” she writes.
ANTHONY WOOLF reports that he managed to do a little traveling
this summer with fellow GSBers before beginning his job at ZS
Associates in Chicago. He cut a swath through Vietnam, then proceeded
through the opium dens of northern Thailand, then saw ’roos and
vineyards (as well as KATE MACINTOSH) in Sydney before heading
to New Zealand, Fiji, and Hawaii.
MARCUS YODER reports that he had a wild saunter through Europe
with ZHEYNA MEYLIKHOVA, Mimi Baker, and Mimi's boyfriend, Jim.
Highlights included sunsets at Paradise Beach in Mykonos and Fira
on the island of Santorini, seeing old friends in Koblenz, Germany,
and, of course, Prague. He capped off his summer by jumping out
of airplane 13,000 feet above the ground, an experience he highly
recommends. Yoder is with Price Waterhouse Consulting in Chicago.
ALEX ZYNGIER spent the summer on a global tour which included
Lebanon, southeast Asia, and his native Brazil with his girlfriend,
Stacia. Zyngier has now settled in Chicago where he is working
for McKinsey & Co.
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