Tom: I can legitimately say I followed Kent "from before the very start." We were both students at the University of Minnesota at the same time. He was in the vet school and I was in business, so our paths didn't cross.

I've met Kent many times and we mainly swap stories about those days, what it was like to be in college during all that turmoil, which makes today's turmoil seem like child's play.

Really sorry to hear this news.