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The Sonoran News of Carefree, Arizona, featured the text of an address given by Robert W. Bergstrom, ’47, in August to the members of the Union League Club of Chicago, where he expanded on his March World War II magazine article. Bergstrom, a World War II veteran and Chicago native, lives in Carefree, where he works as an attorney.
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Lon Kight, ’54, writes that he would be "delighted to hear from any surviving members of the illustrious tenth group."
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Fred P. Seymour Jr., ’57, continues to work as a consulting engineer to the printing and publishing industries. He recently moved his home and office to Northfield, Illinois, after living in Winnetka, Illinois, for 36 years. "I was rewarded in September with my first grandchildren—twins, a boy and a girl!" writes Seymour.
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H. Verne Loeppert, ’59, has retired as chief executive officer of the CDV Corporation of Rockford, Illinois, but remains on the board of directors of CDV, Alliance Bancorp, and his son’s professional engineering business, Loeppert & Associates Inc. He says he’s eagerly watching for news of classmates.
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Allen H. Shiner, ’71, writes: "It’s almost 29 years since graduation and 27 years since the establishment of Shiner & Associates, acoustical consulting engineers."
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In December Joseph P. Schwan, ’72, retired as the executive vice president and chief operating officer of Standard Register. Headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, the firm delivers document management systems, products, and services to health care, financial, and general business markets.
Eugene Weissman, ’72, teaches live and long-distance classes as adjunct professor of issues in research and development management at Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology.
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Harry Hough, ’78, has published Purchasing Fundamentals for Today’s Buyers, a guide to learning and applying established purchasing techniques. While broad in scope and predominantly targeting new and relatively inexperienced buyers, the book also includes new practices and procedures for the experienced buyer.
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Harry Hixson, ’78, and his wife, Teresa, are the proud parents of twins, Harry III and Claire-Marie, born January 26.
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"The year 1999 was a significant business year for me," writes Robert M. Alvenson, ’79. He sold one of his entrepreneurial ventures, the Silicon Valley–based Teledex Corporation, and started a new venture in north Alabama called the Lakes at Pecan Acres, a two-million-square-foot upscale residential development. "GSB alumni are welcome!" he writes.
Jean Fischer, ’79, reports that since retiring to Boulder, Colorado, she and her husband, Bob, are managing their investment portfolio and hiking, skiing, snowshoeing, attending concerts and plays, and doing volunteer work.
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Attorney Alfred M. Butzbaugh, ’83, is currently serving as president of the State Bar of Michigan. Butzbaugh has been instrumental in creating award-winning programs for the Bar.(back to top)
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Danley B. Wolfe, ’85, is director of the Asian headquarters of Chem Systems East Asia Limited, an IBM company. Based in Bangkok, Wolfe is responsible for ASEAN, northeast Asia, and greater China. The firm provides management and technology consulting services.
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Harry Feely, ’87, has been named senior special projects manager in the student financial assistance enterprise of the federal government. This enterprise, chartered by Congress in 1998, delivers $80 billion in student aid, directly and through the private sector. Feely’s work includes information technology architecture, development and demonstration, strategic planning, and contract management.
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Pete Pheffer, ’88, helped break ground recently in Indiana for the new building housing Standard Management Corporation. He is executive vice president and chief financial officer for the firm. He writes: "Drop by the North Meridian Corner in April 2001 and visit the impressive architectural structure designed specifically for SMC’s new culture of rapid growth and diversity."
In March the Oak Brook (Illinois) Area Association of Commerce and Industry named Bill Wentz, ’88, smallbusiness leader of the year. The award recognizes the contributions that Wentz and his law firm, Fewkes Wentz & Strayer, have made in assisting privately held businesses to grow and in promoting economic development. Over the past decade, the firm has assisted some 250 companies or business owners by providing practical legal advice. Wentz is also the coordinator of the GSB’s Entrepreneurial Roundtable, a monthly symposium for GSB alumni featuring CEOs of notable Chicago-area companies. For more information on the roundtable, call the alumni office at 773.702.7727.
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Glenn Alexander, ’89, is semiretired in Tucson, Arizona, and is executive director of the National Association of State Park Directors. He invites XP-58 alumni visiting Tucson to contact him.
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Maggie Coil, ’90, is one of the founders of HRVillage.com, the "HR super-portal" for human resources professionals and others who need quick access to human resources information. The company "soft-launched" its Web site February 1, with the first round of advertisements and trade shows beginning March 1. "The difference between this site and other HR portals is that we are HR professionals building a site for HR professionals. Between the founders and the senior advisory board, we have 600 years of experience in the profession. Also, neutrality is key to our position. We have nothing to sell and are not pushing any products, company, or service over another. Come visit us at www.hrvillage.com," Coil writes.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield United of Wisconsin has promoted Gail Hanson, ’90, to the position of chief financial officer of the company and its publicly traded affiliate United Wisconsin Services Inc.
Kraft Foods Inc. recently promoted Kurt Schmidt, ’90, to area director. Starting in January, he’s the head of Kraft Foods Australia/New Zealand. Schmidt lives in Port Melbourne, Australia.
As vice president–finance and controller of Humana Inc. in Louisville, Kentucky, Bryan Shaul, ’90, is responsible for financial reporting, investor relations, mergers and acquisitions, treasury, tax, and risk management.
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Paul D. Murray, ’91, is senior vice president, investments, at Mesirow Financial. He and his wife, Dawn, greeted their new son, Austin, December 1. "Along with our five-year-old daughter, Taylor," he writes, "we now have the complete ‘government-mandated’ family of four."
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Jim Miller, ’93, is president of Investigative Services Agency Inc. in Chicago and Orland Park, Illinois. In addition to private investigations, countermeasures (debugging), background checks, and security staffing, the firm has a training academy that offers bimonthly classes in executive protection, use of force and control techniques, and psychological communication and observation skills. Miller’s firm also provides research to support business valuations. He and Lester Blair, ’93, are creating a joint venture to provide corporate intelligence and research of publicly traded securities throughout the United States. Read more about Blair in the 1993 class notes.
Steve Moore, ’93, has joined Ernst & Young L.L.P. as a partner, heading its Gulf Coast mergers and acquisitions practice in Houston.
Antonis Theodorou, ’93, president of Chicago-area technology development, licensing, and consulting firm Aristo-Technics Inc., has been awarded a new U.S. patent. The patent, the third awarded to Theodorou within the last 21 months, is for a system of premanufactured framing profiles and interchangeable adapters with built-in and concealed connectivity. "The core of the idea is to quickly create framing structures with the least amount of skill or tools using these standardized, modular planks," he writes. "Such structures may include railings, fencing, decking, furniture, gazebos, skylights, and even complete wall units, roof structures, and buildings."
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John W. Rutledge, ’94, founded Oxford Capital Partners Inc., an opportunistic private equity investment company headquartered in Chicago, during his second year at the GSB. In January, the firm launched Black Point Venture Partners V, which specializes in making relatively early-stage equity investments in "new economy" companies and in select venture capital funds focusing in that area. In his free time, "I enjoy doing some of the more extreme forms of recreation," writes Rutledge. "I just got home from some great ‘back country’ helicopter skiing outside of Sun Valley, Idaho." In 1999, he completed the Chicago and Lake Geneva Triathlons and went scuba diving in Australia, sky diving in New Zealand, trekking through the "golden triangle" in northern Thailand, and traveling to the North Pole.
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Michael Pisarcik, ’97, has managed the postmerger integration process involving Nalco, Calgon (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), and Aquazur (Paris). The process has involved 10,000 employees in 30 entities within three global corporations. Pisarcik, whose position is manager, integration, for Nalco Chemical Company, writes: "I regularly reference the class work and study group activities from XP-66. All disciplines play a role in the integration process, and experience gained in XP-66 continues to be most valuable. One of my priorities is to regularly review the playing field from ‘the balcony.’ While being immersed in so much detail, making this short trip is sometimes a challenge in itself."
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Ioanna Crawford, A.B. ’71, M.B.A. ’98, has started Forward Alliance, a company that provides executive, entrepreneurial, and personal success coaching. "Coaching is an interactive process," she explains, "which helps clients become more skilled at choosing what they want, staying on track with their vision, and realizing fulfillment and balance in their lives."
Steve Czech, ’98, and his family returned to Chicago in January from Los Angeles. Czech left California to establish a leveraged financial group in the Chicago office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
Prabhat Kumar, ’98, reports that he has moved on to a new career. He is now vice president, IP business services, at Chello Broadband in the Netherlands.
A classmate reports that Melinda Large, ’98, recently relocated to Bentonville, Arkansas, and is happy in her new job as manager of Wal-Mart field training.
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Rodney Altman, ’99, is leaving Chicago and his work as assistant director of the emergency department at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Illinois. On June 1 he became an investment manager in the Boston office of Techno Venture Management (www.tvmvc. com), a venture capital firm with headquarters in Munich. "I will be responsible for finding and doing the due diligence for potential investments in medical device, e-health, health care services, and biotechnology companies. Additional responsibilities over time will include assistance to portfolio companies," he writes. "Don’t hesitate to send me appropriate business plans or give my contact information to entrepreneurs. In time, I may be able to introduce many of you to entrepreneurs at the start-up companies in TVM’s portfolio." Altman can be reached at raltman2@gsbalum.uchicago.edu.
Pam Cough, ’99, has moved to Minneapolis to work as director of human resources shared services for Pentair Inc. Besides changing her job and address, she reports, she has also changed her name—she was married on January 22 to Bruce Petty.
Melvin Renowden, ’99, writes: "I started up an Internet company (what’s new, you may ask) called Centric Web Inc. The idea behind it is to help small- and medium-sized companies to get started on e-commerce, by either designing and hosting an information Web site or focusing fully on a business-to-business or business-to-consumer Web site. Centric Web also specializes in Internet marketing in order to promote the newly designed Web site so it can be found on the Internet. Our portfolio comprises many different customers; examples can be found at www.centricweb.com."
Mark Rudd, ’99, has been promoted to principal, regulatory services, at Northern Indiana Public Service Company.
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After 10 years at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Hofheim, Germany, David W. Hart recently moved to Brussels, Belgium, where he is news editor for the Wall Street Journal Europe. "I’m hoping to coordinate a joint venture with the Handelsblatt," writes Hart.
John Mutch, ’97, has bee
n named chief executive officer of HNC Software Inc., a San Diego–based provider of predictive software solutions for the financial, insurance, telecommunications, and e-commerce industries.(back to top)
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José Luis Bobes, ’98, has joined Chicago GSB as director of the Executive M.B.A. Program Europe. (See "Alumnus to Lead European Program".)
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