LAKE SENECA – He s a throwback.
The son of a career Army infantry officer, Albert James Jim Diehl III graduated high school in Germany; played Rugby and started jumping out of airplanes while a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy; and has set his muddy boots in 78 countries.
Recently retired and approaching his 69th birthday, two-thirds of Jim s 51 years in military and federal service were spent in and around the special operations environment and those ubiquitous three-letter agencies, where his jersey number was often called for the thorniest of missions.
And the decorated Marine is staying aboard – as a volunteer chaplain in a new program designed to offer spiritual succor to those serving in the intelligence field.
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College and university student loans became available in the late 1950s, and by 1990 half of all students were getting them. If you look at the cost of college in the 1960s and use a consumer price index of 3.8% from then until today, you find that the cost should be only 40% (for public schools) or 30% (for private ones) of whatâs actually being charged today.
How did this happen? With no oversight or regulation, colleges and universities seemingly saw a chance with the âguaranteeâ in the loans to lure students with promises of âgold in them thar hills.â And in turn, these college and universities could pad their bureaucracies and building programs.