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Current vocation - Manage an investment consulting practice. Current title - Sr V.P. Wealth Management. Outside interests include golf, tennis and music and travel. I currently Serve on the Board of Directors of Ars Viva. Ars Viva is an Orchestra that performs at the North Shore Center for performing arts in Skokie. I am also president of our church choir. I was honored to perform a solo at Saint Peters (Vatican) in Rome during our choir's tour of Italy in 2008. Our oldest son is currently studying environmental chemestry in Sicily (Mt. Etna) as part of his junior semester abroad at Bates College. Our youngest son is a freshman at Bates College in Lewiston Me. He is studying economics. My wife Michele is a former educator having received her masters degrees from the Univ. of Il. and Northwestern Univ.. She was a department chairman at Carl Sandburg in Orland Pk and Maine West in Des Plaines.

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