It's been a busy start to the new year down here in North Carolina, with a new job for me, lots of sick days for my daughters, a big conference I put together and all the other activities that are part of being a husband and father, homeowner and neighbor, ...

Joe Cimperman's quoted in this article about Wal Mart possibly wanting to open a store in Cleveland: Wal-Mart also negotiated with Rysar Properties to become part of a downtown shopping center near Interstate 90, but owner Ken Lurie said this week that the 20-acre site will be anchored by another store. Cleveland ...

Crystal Doherty writes in an email: It has been a busy summer for me. Recently, I took a job with McDougal Littel. They are a 6-12 publisher. (A sister company to Houghton Mifflin) Lots of new product to learn and people to work with! I have ...

More Mike Thomas writing, from his article 'Just me and the car' in the Chicago Sun-Times of July 15, 2004: Prior to last Thursday, when I zoomed around steeply banked asphalt in a modified 600-horsepower stock car, I had pulled nearly 5Gs in a Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet and negotiated quick ...

Classmate [b]Mike Thomas[/b] wrote a dynamite article about radio host Howard Stern for the Chicago Sun-Times, where Mike is an entertainment reporter. Nicely done, Mike.

Hi, What a great idea. I hope people start using it, It would be nice to connect with classmates that I have lost touch with. Here in sunny Detroit I am keeping busy as the Senior Multimedia Developer at OmniMedia Group (www.omnimediagrp.com). We do all things multimedia- kiosks, CD-ROMS, ...

I talked with Mike Thomas yesterday. Mike's living in Chicago and writing entertainment features for the Chicago Sun-Times. He and his wife, Sandy, have a 9-month-old daughter, named Grace. Also, Elmer Abbo should be arriving back in Chicago this month, to take up his new role as assistant professor of medicine ...