Family Man

Hal has a passion for teaching and helping others, especially America’s youth. When his son became a Cub Scout with Cumberland Hill Pack 2 in Rhode Island, Hal used his patience and business savvy to help Cub Scouts to learn about coins and stamps and eventually they earned merit badges. Some of these scouts became serious collectors. For decades, young scouts would come to Cumberland Coin to learn about coins and stamps and to get their paperwork signed off. Hal always smiled when some young scout would ask the price of a common Buffalo nickel while he was in the middle of a business transaction. Vince McCrave from Cumberland Hill Pack 2 gave Cumberland and Hal an award for helping young scouts achieve their goals.

Hal is a junkman’s son, the third son of four sons to immigrant parents from Romania and the Ukraine who came to America to escape oppression and in search of the American Dream. Hal’s childhood, family values and work ethic were instilled into him and his brothers as described in the early chapters of Pie-rats, Those Who Plunder You in Bankruptcy. Hal tried to lay the framework of individual rights, fair play and traditional values for his two children by supporting them in their activities such as the Cub Scouts, public school events and religious activities. Hopefully Hal’s four grandchildren and others will benefit from these same family values.