"Joseph Thomas "Tom" West III" was the protagonist of the Pulitzer Prize winning non-fiction book The Soul of a New Machine. West worked for Data General/Data General Corporation as a hardware engineer and vice president, retiring as Chief Technologist in 1998. West died at the age of 71 in his Westport, Massachusetts home of an apparent heart attack. He is survived by two daughters, one of whom is Jessamyn West (librarian)/Jessamyn West.

His nephew, Christopher Schwarz, is a former editor of Popular Woodworking magazine, author of The Anarchist Toolchest, and co-founder of Lost Art Press.

More Tom West on Wikipedia.

I've said it several times; we had nothing to lose. I'm playing all freshmen and sophomores and with Russell (a senior high school lacrosse All American) there, they had to be favored. We're going to be strong from at least the next couple of years.

He's a kid who lives and breathes lacrosse. As a sophomore, he brings everybody up with him.

We've made a strong lineup of products even stronger. We're building on the tenets of the XPS brand by providing powerful products with great features and competitive financing alternatives.

We switched to a zone and they didn't do so well with it. They killed our man-to-man early in the game. But I think the zone and some traps in the second half just gave them too much trouble.