Ray Holtorf
has been quite a busy guy. He is the Chair of the 5th District of the
Reform Party of Iowa and is running against Congressman Tom Latham for t1he
office of the 5th District U.S. Representative in Iowa. His top
priority is promoting Iowa’s agricultural products and increasing value-added
manufacturing in his native state. For more insight into Ray’s campaign, you
can go to his Web site at www.holtorf.com/Ray. While he’s working his way up
the political scene, Ray serves as director of human resources for Woodruff
Construction of Ames and Fort Dodge. Charlotte Gerstein got married last
August in Berkeley. She and her husband live in Berkeley, and Charlotte is a
reference librarian in the Benecia Public Library. Sam and Leslie Zales
welcomed Grace Lila on April 27. “Gracie's been unbelievably great in the
first weeks of life,” said Sam, “and I don't know how she is so low-key with
a father like me. I'm just hoping she has Leslie's looks.” Annelie Chapman
received a Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Awards at UCLA for her
outstanding work in Slavic Languages and Literatures. In her dissertation,
Annelie examined how the language in recent Polish and Russian commercial
advertisements may be manipulated to target male and female consumers. As a
teacher, Annelie applies instructional technology and draws upon her previous
experience as co-founder of a software company to develop Internet-based
assignments that supplement the first-year Russian language curriculum at UCLA.
Outside of academics, Annelie is a competitive cyclist and will race in regional
as well as national cup events. Shep Kopp and his wife, Lisa Ryan
(’87), are the proud parents of Lily Kopp born May 26, 1999. The Kopps live in
Venice, California. Quentin Kopp (’49) is one grandpa, and the other is John
Ryan (’58). Shep’s a criminal defense lawyer with Geragos & Geragos of
downtown L.A. Lisa is a successful photographic artist. Mike Tonneson
became vice president of business development at eFax.com earlier in the year.
He came from Tavolo.com and before that Dove Consulting. Bill Furlong
jumped ship at Microsoft, where he was most recently product unit manager for
MSN eShop, to become CEO of Mountain Travel·Sobek
in El Cerrito, California, a leading provider of adventure trips. Jeffrey
(Jones) Morrison proposed to his sweetheart during a fly-fishing trip. The
wedding is set for October 7 in Norwalk, CT. Both are teachers at Green Farms
Academy. Mae Drake and John Hueston are at it again; they
announced the birth of Kinsdale Drake Hueston in March. Kinsdale joins Tara (13)
and Ryan (7). The baby was named after a town by the ocean in the south of
Ireland (County Cork) where they learned of the good fortune. Shane Swift
wrote to say that Annabelle Jane joined Severn James (3) in June 1999. Shane is
vice president for strategy & sales at Material.Net.com, a Denver-based firm
that is changing B2B raw materials procurement especially in the metals
industry. Ken Loftus is stationed in Okinawa as head of optometry in the
U.S. Naval Hospital. His family includes wife Melissa, daughter Helena (2). The
Loftus family looks forward to two more years there. Mike Ackerman
answered my call for the same-company-for-the-longest-time question. Mike joined
Morgan Stanley on June 16, 1986 and has been there ever since. He has served in
the IT department in various locations (NYC, L.A., London and Hong Kong). He
currently heads the IT department in Asia. Also, Mike and his wife Sara welcomed
their first child Rachel Emma on April 11 in Hong Kong. Anyone beat that?
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