Armstrong-Holmes has confirmed the club have been in negotiations with a group of local businessmen since September.

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One classmate, now a mortgage underwriter, said Mr. Holmes didn't appear to have many friends in high school and was known among her group as quiet and intelligent.

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Shortly after the first-year tests were completed, the classmate said, a neuroscience administrator took the group to drinks at a nearby bar, the Cedar Creek Pub, to tell them that Mr. Holmes had dropped out of the program.

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