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From Montreal we heard that Jill and Matt O'Toole had a baby girl on the Fouth of July, Charlotte Lourdes, who was eight pounds, 21inches. Her brothers, Ryan and Garrett, are enjoying the land of hockey and speaking more and more French.

This past winter Jim Glasgow dissolved the AIMS food broker consulting practice (industry consolidation took its toll) and started a consulting firm: Executive Abilities, Inc. The focus of EAI is on improving management performance and results, which includes working with groups as well as coaching executives on an individual basis. His first major client is Spherion. He works with the senior executives of their clients. It is fun and interesting and allows him to better use his skills and resources in an area of business that he's passionate about. Jim's also doing some interesting work with Unext.com's Cardean University on the development of the faculty and providing assessment on some course rubrics and process. Cardean is 100 percent Internet-based and derives the content for the MBA level courses from its academic partners: Stanford, Columbia, Carnegie-Mellon, University of Chicago and The London School of Economics. Just to demonstrate his lack of bias, Jim occasionally teaches in the blackboard environment for Loyola's Executive Education Program. Linda and Jim added their sixth grandchild to the roster. His name is Christopher James Harris, and he and his parents live in the Philadelphia area.

Back on the job front: Joe Soltykiewicz was promoted to senior manager at Lucent Technologies with responsibility for the Switching Systems Supply Network Solutions corporate center.

Colleen O'Connor has been promoted to vice president and treasurer of Duhossois Industries, Inc. Duchossois Industries is a privately held firm headquartered in Elmhurst, Ill., with interests in access control devices, home convenience products, rail transportation equipment, defense products and thoroughbred horseracing venues.