VIP? MIP!

In an earlier blog today I mentioned that last night's VIP/Media party seemed bereft of any VIPs (with the exception of the unforgettable Mel Greenberg). However, I did speak an MIP, a "Most Impressive Person"...whose last name, even better, is in fact Person.

Tom Person. Tom's niece, Ann Marie, is an old pal of mine. She used to be the women's hoops sports info director at UConn. Now she works in a similar capacity for the Atlantic 10 conference. Anyway, Ann Marie, her dad and her uncle were hanging out and we got to talking about Tom Person's hobby. He collects children.

Tom and his wife, who live near Albany, have one biological child. But, over the years they have welcomed, at their own expense, 59 foster children into their 5-bedroom home. Most of them teens or 12 year-olds. The kids few adult couples want to adopt. Officially, Tom and his wife have adopted 19 children, most of them minorities and inner-city kids.

So, there you have it: Tom Person, my official "Most Impressive Person" of the Women's Final Four."