Life Long Teacher and Student

• He attended Tolman High School in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and graduated in 1957.
• Subsequently, Hal went to Brown University, class of 1961, where he might be described as not the typical Ivy Leaguer, being a bodybuilder and going to Brown on his Triumph motorcycle.
• Hal joined Air Force R.O.T.C. and entered into marriage while at Brown, where his wife pinned on his rank when he became a commissioned officer.
• After graduating from Brown with a bachelor’s degree in Russian Studies, he entered the Air Force as a transport navigator.
• After flying thousands of hours, he was made an instructor, teaching courses on navigation and weather.
• In 1967, when he left active duty, he began to teach 9th-grade math at Woonsocket Junior High School until 1976.
• During this time period, he had to take educational courses at the University of Rhode Island Extension, Bryant College, and Providence College to obtain his Provisional Teacher’s Certificate.

At the same time, he was teaching, he flew a C-124 cargo aircraft with a reserve outfit, 731st ATS, in Bedford, MA, before he started his full-time coin business.

Even then, he always remained the Educator while in business, helping Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts earn merit badges in coin and stamp collecting.

In 1984, Hal incorporated a not-for-profit corporation, The Money School of Boston, Inc., to hold presentations to give information versus advice on financial investments.

The first speaker who was on this program was my friend Loren Dunton, the founder of the National Center for Financial Education and the International Association for Financial Planners, as the College for Financial Planners. Loren was known as the father of Financial Planning.

Another guest lecturer was Richard Band, the editor of Personal Finance, the largest financial newsletter in the U.S. at that time.

Other lectures were John Dessauer, lecturer, author of Investor’s World, and expert on off shore mutual funds, Jim Kneafsey, author of the Cambridge Hook, on charting commodities, a lecturer and expert on block currencies, other experts on gold mining shares and banking, Fred Newcomb, President of the No Load Mutual Fund Association, Alex Bove, an author and attorney who drew up trusts, and speakers from virtually every area of finances, including one on hard money assets given by him.

While to doing a one-night stand at C.I.C.’s State Street Bank lecture platform, He offered these same lecturers the opportunity to speak to a larger audience by appearing on his one-hour radio talk show on WKTP, Natick, Massachusetts, called ‘The Money School’.

Note: The Rhode Island Education Department was more than fair by giving me credit for my worldly travel experience towards certification.

The Woonsocket, Rhode Island, School Department was also more than fair in allowing me to go on active duty at times during the school year.