Corporate History

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#FF3333" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="045005a0ddubsl.png"> <div> <B>CORPORATE HISTORY</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#BFBF00" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Contact: </B><A HREF="mailto:jimbowman@ameritech.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:jimbowman@ameritech.net"><U><B>Jim Bowman, Writer</B></U></A><B> </B><B>             </B></div> <div> <B>  </B><A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Winston Strawn"><U><B>Winston & Strawn</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>  </B><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="William Blair Company"><U><B>William Blair & Company</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Florsheim Shoe"><U><B>Florsheim Shoe</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://midwestwriters.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://midwestwriters.com"><U><B>Midwest Writers Assn.</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>-------------------------</B></div> <div> <I><B>Other web site:</B></I></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.blithe-spirit.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.blithe-spirit.com/"><U><B>Blithe Spirit</B></U></A><B> (largely literary)</B></div> <div> <I><B>Blogs:</B></I></div> <div> <A HREF="http://blithespirit.wordpress.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://blithespirit.wordpress.com/"><U><B>Blithe Spirit, the Blog</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.wjinc.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=149" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.wjinc.com/main.asp?SectionID="><U><B>Oak Park Items</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Jim Bowman, Writer</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Jim Bowman, former </B><I><B>Chicago Tribune</B></I><B> columnist and former </B><I><B>Chicago Daily News</B></I><B> reporter, writes business history.  </B><B>Most recently he collaborated with retired banker </B><B>C. Paul Johnson in </B><I><B>Good Guys Finish First: Reflections of a CEO and  How to Start a De Novo Community Bank</B></I><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>His work includes book-length histories of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, CFS Continental, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, and Safety-Kleen.  For each he dug into archives and outside documents and interviewed people from chairman to shipping clerk about what makes a company or institution unique.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>He is available to do the same for your company in book, article, brochure, or however you want to memorialize your company, inspire employees, or stimulate business.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Books</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>:</B></FONT></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="__good_guys"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>     * </B><A HREF="http://xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=23881" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay"><U><I><B>Good Guys Finish First: Reflections of a CEO and How To Start a De Novo Community Bank</B></I></U></A><B>,</B><B> by C. Paul Johnson with Jim Bowman (editor), 2004 – available </B><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1413458017/qid=1119890856/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-6269242-5954549" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1"><U><B>at Amazon.com</B></U></A><B> and elsewhere on the Internet</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     * </B><A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Winston Strawn"><U><B>Winston & Strawn: The First 150 Years</B></U></A><A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Winston Strawn"><U><B>,</B></U></A><B> privately distributed history of a Chicago law firm, 2004; Bowman was a researcher and writer for this project.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     * </B><I><B>Reach Out . . .  The Story of Motorola and its People</B></I><B>, by Harry Mark Petrakis, 2003; Bowman was an editor.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     * </B><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="William Blair Company"><U><B>History of William Blair & Company</B></U></A><B>, Chicago, investment banking firm, completed 2000, unpublished</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     * </B><A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Florsheim Shoe"><U><I><B>Florsheim the Brand: 100 Years and Counting</B></I></U></A><B>, Florsheim Shoe Co., Chicago, 1996.  Production was halted when company was sold. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>      * </B><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/002-5193995-5947263?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=%22Waste+Not+.+.+.%22%3A+The+Safety-Kleen+Story&Go.x=10&Go.y=12&Go=Go" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/002-"><U><I><B>"Waste Not . . .": The Safety-Kleen Story</B></I></U></A><B>, J.G. Ferguson Publishing Co., Chicago, 1989</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     * </B><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1556520166/qid=1119891948/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-6269242-5954549?v=glance&s=books&n=507846" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det"><U><I><B>Good Medicine: The First 150 Years of Rush-Presbyterian- St. Luke's Medical Center</B></I></U></A><B>, Chicago Review Press, Chicago, 1987</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     * </B><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0914091999/qid=1119892111/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-6269242-5954549?v=glance&s=books" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det"><U><I><B>More Than a Coffee Company: The Story of CFS Continental</B></I></U></A><B>, Chicago Review Press, Chicago, 1986</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     * </B><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Booz-Allen-Hamilton-Seventy-1914-1984/dp/B0006EFG4U/ref=sr_1_1/002-5193995-5947263?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184077437&sr=1-1" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.amazon.com/Booz-Allen-Hamilto"><U><I><B>Booz, Allen & Hamilton: Seventy Years of Client Service, 1914-1984</B></I></U></A><B>, New York, 1984</B></div> <div> <B>==================================================================================</B></div> <div> <B>Other:</B></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#66334C" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=12108" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdi"><U><I><B>Priests at Work:</B></I></U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#808080" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=12108" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdi"><U> </U></A></FONT><A HREF="http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=12108" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdi"><U><I>Catholic Pastors Tell How They Apply Church Law in Difficult Cases</I></U></A><A HREF="http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=12108" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdi"><U>,</U></A> by Jim Bowman.   $18.69 in paper.  (Formerly <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Bending-Rules-American-Priests-Catholics/dp/0824513606/ref=sr_1_2/002-5193995-5947263?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184077596&sr=1-2" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.amazon.com/Bending-Rules-Amer"><U><I>Bending the Rules: What American Priests Tell American Catholics</I></U></A>)</div> <div> <I><B>--------------------------------------</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>For Blithe Spirit, the Blog -- incorporating Chicago Newspapers, The Churches, and Blithely, Blithely -- hit </B><A HREF="http://blithespirit.wordpress.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://blithespirit.wordpress.com/"><U><B>here</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>For Oak Park Items, hit </B><A HREF="http://www.wjinc.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=149" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.wjinc.com/main.asp?SectionID="><U><B>here</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" "><U><B>Recent </B></U></A></FONT><A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" "><U><I><B>Wednesday Journal</B></I></U></A><I><B> </B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" "><U><B>columns . . . .</B></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>.  . . . done monthly since January, 2004, for </B><I><B>Wednesday Journal of Oak Park & River Forest </B></I><B>(Illinois)</B><B>.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>See also </B><A HREF="http://www.blithe-spirit.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.blithe-spirit.com/"><U><B>Blithe Spirit web site</B></U></A><B>, a largely literary offering.  </B><B> </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Other blogs, now mainly storage areas for past commentary:</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://blithe-spirit.blogspot.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://blithe-spirit.blogspot.com/"><U><B>Blithely, Blithely</B></U></A><B> -- Mostly conservative commentary, with special attention to literature</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://chicagonewspapers.blogspot.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://chicagonewspapers.blogspot.com/"><U><B>Chicago Newspapers</B></U></A><B> -- Ongoing critique</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://spirit-breathing.blogspot.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://spirit-breathing.blogspot.com/"><U><B>The Churches</B></U></A><B> -- Religion in the news</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1982-85. For the </B><I><B>Tribune</B></I><B> Sunday </B><I><B>Magazine,</B></I><B> Bowman wrote </B><B>"The Way We Were," a  column on Chicago history using Tribune clips and Chicago Historical Society (now History Museum), Newberry Library, and Art Institute of Chicago files.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1968-78. He was a reporter for the </B><I><B>Chicago Daily News</B></I><B>, which went out of business in March, 1978</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Member, past president, </B><A HREF="http://www.midlandauthors.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.midlandauthors.com/"><U><B>Society of Midland Authors</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Member, webmaster, </B><A HREF="http://www.midwestwriters.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.midwestwriters.com/"><U><B>Midwest Writers Association</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B> <a href="http://www.freewebsubmission.com"><b> FreeWebSubmission.com</b></a>  </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>