Bill McLean

Feeling the Churn

PAIGE NEWHOUSE WAS CONFUSED. She also felt tired after sleeping for 16 to 17 hours, when she should have felt wide awake. Ten years ago, after returning home to Lake Forest from a trip to the East Coast, she realized she had left her phone and luggage at the airport. “My husband ( Jack) said

Ultra Goal-Setter

TWO YEARS AGO, Erich Loacker’s knee-jerk reaction to his wife’s seemingly audacious goal came from his mouth. He laughed. The exchange took place in their Lake Forest kitchen. “My husband thought I was kidding,” Courtney Loacker says. She was not. Loacker—a 1996 Lake Forest High School graduate and mother of son Corbet, 11, and daughter

Corps Values

It’d be easy to start a full-page magazine piece about retired Marine Corps aviator Jim King with vivid descriptions of one of his 215 Vietnam War missions from 1969 to 1970. It’s November, after all, the month featuring Veterans Day. But Jim King, the topic, is No. 101 on King’s List of 100 Favorite Topics.

Making the Grade

When William Yates’ grades slipped his freshman year at Kenwood Academy in Chicago, his parents made him quit basketball. Yates’ grades rocketed after the subtraction of the extracurricular activity. And, his immediate reaction to the abrupt benching by Mom and Dad? “Relief,” says Yates, now the Northwestern University-educated Dr. William Yates, who transitioned seamlessly from

Proactive

The youngster who threw hay on her home ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains and ran tight spirals in a Powder Puff high school football game in California, now enjoys riding swiftly on the trails. Linda Imonti, managing principal of KPMG’s Chicago office, grips an ATV’s handlebars and attacks the tough terrain of trails in

Big Cat’s Wildcat

THE LAST THING former Chicago Bears offensive tackle James “Big Cat” Williams wanted to be along a high school football sideline last fall was a distraction. That’s akin to Paul Bunyan wanting to appear inconspicuous in a sandbox. You see, Williams stood 6-foot-7 and weighed more than 300 pounds when he created countless acres of

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