Merilyn Krafthefer
5 Oak Brook Club Drive
Oak Brook, IL
Phone: 630.832.8991
Fax: 630.832.8535
Email: [email protected] Kerry
[email protected] Mayilyn
880 McKenzie Station
Lisle, IL 60532
Phone: 603.493.0153
Email: [email protected]
4937 Oakwood Drive
Downers Grove, IL 60151
Phone: 630.960.4942
Fax: 630.960.0156
Email: [email protected]
Scott received a BS in Architecture from the University of Illinois and a Masters of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California. Scott is President of Oakwood Development Corporation, a company he founded in 2000. He builds single family residences and commercial office buildings. Visit his company website at www.oakwooddevelopers.com
Scott and Kristina have 1 child
Troy Conrad Krafthefer (b. 2/8/94)
They also have 1 dog--Clifford (Named after the Clifford The Big Red Dog-even though he's a small white Maltese)
621 Independence Avenue
Westmont, IL 60559
Phone: 6.30.455.5822
Email: [email protected]
Juli is a graphic designer with Man Marketing. Stephen is Systems Estimator with Johnson Controls.
Stephen and Juli have 2 children
Alec Matthew Steinkraus (b. 4/8/96)
Shane Kerry Steinkraus (b. 2/9/99)
5454 N. Glenwood
Chicago, IL 60604
Phone: 773.769.1739
Email: [email protected]
Kevin received a BS in Physics from the University of Illinois and a MS in Computer Science from the University of Chicago. Kevin is a network developer for Classified Ventures, a division of the Chicago Tribune. Lisa is a pre-school teacher.
Kevin and Lisa have one dog--Kepler (after Johan Kepler)
Over the past twenty-five years, she has been an active member of the Junior Women's league of Naperville (IL), Infant Welfare of Oak Brook, (ILI), Oak Brook Women's Club, Assistance League, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Women's Guild, Walker Art Museum Docent Guild, International Toastmasters (Netherlands), American Women's Club of London and the Chelsea Women's Club.
She had a large ceramic studio at one time, but has since funneled her creative energies into shopping, collecting giraffes and watching three grandsons. Her giraffe collection exceeds 300 pieces and range in size from one inch to over six feet tall. She spends a lot of time recently practicing Reiki. It's alternative healing method from the orient that is gaining in popularity. Ask her about it.
Kerry spent his married life working and traveling most of the time. He took engineering classes at the Illinois Institute of Technology, but never got a degree.
He worked for:
The Atomic Energy Commission (Argonne National Laboratory) as a draftsman.
Strombecker Tootsietoy - a toy company - as design engineer, designing slot cars.
Nuclear Chicago - A radiological instrumentation manfacturing company - as a design engineer.
Molex - A connector manufacturer - joined in 1968. At the time 200 employees - $6M in sales. Spent 21 years with Molex, starting as an engineer designing connectors. Received 9 US and 40 International Patents. Became VP of Engineering; Marketing; Sales and eventually a Division President. Left Molex in 1989 - was pretty burned out. The company had grown to $800M in sales.
Progress Casting Group - An aluminum casting company in Plymouth, Minnesota - President.
Berg Electronics - (another connector company) Senior Vice President - Europe
Marilyn and Kerry moved to 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands in January of 1994. The company had manufacturing plants in The Netherlands and France. While in Europe, Kerry led the negotiations to buy Ericsson Telecom's connector business in Katrineholm, Sweden, bought a cable assembly business in Scotland and started a new plant in Ireland (Fermoy north of Cork) Marilyn and Kerry moved to London, England in July, 1996. He became Executive Vice President of Berg, January, 1997. They transferred to Berg's Corporage headquarters in Clayton, Missouri in October, 1997. Berg was sold to a French company, Framstone Connectory International, in 1998. Kerry became President of the Electronics Division. He left FCI in June, 1999.
He is presently unemployed (according to Marilyn) or semi-retired (according to Kerry). Either way, he is doing some management consulting while he contemplates the future.