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Teaching, and going to rabbinical school might not seem like the most glamorous path for an Ivy League graduate to take, but Rabbi Judd K. Levingston '86 says that going to Harvard has helped him tremendously in his career...
...Parents and faculty extend me a certain degree of credibility," Levingston said. "They figured even if I didn't know everything, they knew I would know where to turn...
...Levingston, who concentrated in History and Science, began teaching immediately after graduating from Harvard at an independent school in Baltimore, where he says some people reacted strongly to his educational background...
...When I was first introduced, along with one guy from Princeton and one from Yale, there were gasps in the audience, kids seemed impressed," Levingston says. "The kids aspired to go to these places...
...claimed to be a medical doctor and, in the gullible towns of upstate New York and farther west, promised to cure any cancer for $25. Eventually, "Doc" Rockefeller (who made a habit of impregnating the servant girl at home) became a bigamist and started a separate family as "Doctor Levingston"--the name that appears on his tombstone. All his life, Big Bill loved money, and when he had it, he tied the bills in bundles with twine and stacked them in a dresser drawer like cordwood. It was from his charlatan/shaman father that the boy John acquired the knowledge that...