telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) (11/16/89)
On the first official day of the phone network's 708 area code, an official '708 baby' was born into the world. Hilary Lynn Osiecki, weighing 7 pounds, 9.5 ounces was born at 12:03 AM Saturday, November 11 at Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL. She was the first baby born in the Land of 708. Illinois Bell, in a stunt to publicize the new suburban Chicago area code, promptly dubbed Hilary the '708 Baby' and later in the day presented her rather perplexed parents, Linda and James Osiecki, a check for exactly $708. "It's not bad," said James Osiecki, a carpenter in Glenview, IL. "The baby will have something to look forward to. When other kids say their father is a millionaire, she can say, 'I'm the 708 Baby.' " The Osieckis said they will put the money toward Hilary's education -- but I have a better suggestion: use it to pay the outrageous phone bills we get now-a-days since IBT went with totally measured service a couple years ago :) See you tomorrow! Patrick Townson