Describe your career path:
Stumbled out of a checkered career at Middlebury College, and had decided to continue what was then "compulsory" Reserve Officer Training Corps(can you imagine?). Choices were a little limited in '68, you know? Went to and was Graced to Live through the tour in
SE Asia. Went to Grad school @ St Michael's and got a job running a drinking driver program then a thirteen bed detox center. Second best job I ever had.
Spent most of my career as Outpatient Director for a huge Mental Health Center, for my tenure of 40 years. Simultaneously, I joined the Vermont National Guard, for spite and the money--we got Army pay for a time, while still receiving civilian salaries.. I found myself useful as the only Psychologist in the Guard. So, I stuck around. this sticking around was extremely serendipitous, as I was still around as an old man when all of our people went on deployments..like 3500 the last big one. I got a chance to go to forts all over the Country and meet solders planes, and stay with them during their theoretical "adjustment period" at distant locations before coming back to Vermont trying to fit back in, and contemplating additional deployments. I was born for this job--I knew everyone, and their grandfathers sons and grandsons, and I was old and a Veteran so I had a natural opportunity for access to having what I like to call "exchanges of significance." (It's on my business card). So I consider myself the luckiest man alive to have served until age 67 in that role. It did take me out on some fronts , however, so I do a lot of soul-restoration work and healing of my beaten-up body these days. It is odd... to be the Patient. Now, what? I believe in the Angels of revelation, and I try to open myself daily to "more being reveled." All of you experiencewith this is welcome if you care to writeor talk about this at the reunion. I may be doing exacxtly what I will be doing, with my 12th-stepand Mercy work. We will see, will we not.