Phil Claiborne

I moved to Wilmette and attended NTW my Jr. and Sr. years. Born in Highland Park, grew up in northwestern IL, A.K.A. "downstate." Played football & basketball (JV). My advisor was Wally Gart. (I would run into him in Whitefish Bay, WI where his daughter's family lives. His grandson is slightly younger than my son). I Worked summers at Homer's Ice Cream on Green Bay Rd., Wilmette. Attended University of Kansas 2 yrs. NROTC. Finished my BSBA at Roosevelt University downtown Chicago while working full-time in Marketing Research in Evanston. Married Annette when I was 35, she was 32. We had our 1st & only child when I was 38. I work in the Lincoln Park neighborhood in Chicago. I'm a commuter. I am on Facebook.

"You smell that? You smell that? That's Borden's Mystik Tape plant, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of Mystik tape in the morning. ...That smell, ya know, that Mystik tape smell. The football field, the whole field; smelled like, ...victory."