1995

Rep: Mark Lamps
Tel: 763.843.9173

Brent Harrison was thrilled to return to Evanston after seven years since his last visit and connect with Ken Ewell and John Aiello as part of their advisory work on the new Kellogg Alumni Network. Brent also was able to visit with Fran Brasfield in her office at Kellogg as well as a very emotional visit to Will Humphrey in Rush Hospital a few days after his bone marrow transplant. Will is battling blood cancer. Please send him positive messages of love and support at caringbridge.org/visit/willhumphrey. Brent adds, "I want to thank Rick Berg and Julie Wheelan, who are both cancer survivors and have been fantastic sources of advice and perspective for Will."

After 16 years at General Mills, Mike Paul decided to hang his own shingle and started Vision Quest Innovation, an innovation and new products consultancy (visionquestinnovation.com) based in the Twin Cities. He's looking to restart the annual '95 Ski Trip Reunion – so drop him a note if you're interested in getting on the mailing list. Contact him at mike@vq-i.com. Speaking of reunions, many of the '95 alums living in the Twin Cities gathered with their families at Brad Frank's home for a potluck dinner this fall. The guest list included Mike, Joe Cardwell, Catherine (Lindeman) Gunsbury, and Skip Wipson.

Liz Crystal joined Lane Bryant as senior vice president and chief marketing officer. She will develop and lead the brand positioning, marketing, and advertising strategies for the Lane Bryant and Cacique brands.

From Yuri Salnikoff: "The big news in our family is that Nicholas, our oldest, just started Taft this year. Time flies! Zander is in sixth grade and Katie in third. Vicki's private contemporary art consulting business at lovefineartinc.com continues to grow as her clients continue to do well. She loves that they see her work as an alternative form of investment. I'm a VP and Managing Director at R/GA, a top digital advertising/marketing business. I'm gladly spending a lot more time in New York after opening R/GA London, Singapore and Sao Paulo. I'm also involved with my kids school as a board member at the Dutchess Day School. Give me a shout if you're in the Big Apple at yuri.salnikoff@gmail.com Go Kellogg!"

Fran Brasfield Langewisch is excited to share that she, along with her husband and daughter, traveled to China to adopt their second child, a son, in March.

From Jordan Glazier: "I'm excited to share that we have a new baby boy, Bodie Alexander Glazier, who was born in early November. Bodie joins the family as No. 3. Our twins, Chase and Saige (5), are thrilled about their new baby brother. We live in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., outside San Diego, where I'm the CEO of Eventful (eventful.com)."

A group of 95ers got together at the home of Erica Rutkin Keswin to celebrate the birthdays of Liz Wald and Leigh Lanier. Included in the festivities were Carrie Leonard, Erica Rutkin, John Martin (who traveled in from Chicago for the occasion) and Jane Bieneman.

From Tamara Weber: "After taking a five year hiatus from Hallmark Cards to be home with our kids, Grace and John Peter, I have returned to work full-time as an internal strategic planning consultant for Hallmark. John Weber and I are adapting to our dual-income, dual-kids life in Kansas City. Having a great nanny has been a sanity-saver!"

From Jackie Harris Hochberg: We had our third baby last summer. Jackson Harris Hochberg was born on June 20 and joined big brothers Harrison (8) and Alexander (6). We are living in New York City (although I have completely brainwashed the boys to still be Bulls fans!)."

Lisa Forthofer LaVine is enjoying life in the Chicago suburbs (Naperville). She recently went to the second annual Kellogg Purple Tie event where she was wildly disappointed to find none of her classmates present. '95 Chicagoans, we MUST represent next year! The evening was a blast. Mark your calendars for January 2013.

Classmate Jeff Hyman started new company, Retrofit, which is a new kind of online weight loss program for business professionals. You get your own private team of experts and meet with them weekly via Skype videoconference. Kellogg alumni receive 20% off when they sign up. Check it out at retrofitme.com.

Rainbow Coalition members Linda Lin Pirrotta, Diane Kitayama Sankey, Christine Langer Dow, Dena Dodd Perry, Julie Smith Wheelan, Elizabeth Baron Daliere and Betsy Berns Korn met up last fall in San Francisco for an action packed weekend. Highlights of the weekend included, but were not limited to, a Tennessee Valley hike, missing spa appointments, Private Eye Pirrotta (yes, with the help of modern technology Linda can provide a current update within minutes about anyone from your past -- which did include a few former classmates) and being mistaken for young single 30-somethings by visiting 20-something Australians. Christine sent them into retreat after announcing we were all mothers and a tad older than 31! Next trip planned is to Australia and will include missing members Lisa Morrell and Julie Simon Stangl.

Rainbow Coalition members Linda Lin Pirrotta, Diane Kitayama Sankey, Christine Langer Dow, Dena Dodd Perry, Julie Smith Wheelan, Elizabeth Baron Daliere, and Betsy Berns Korn, all '95 met up last fall in San Francisco for an action packed weekend