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F YOU’RE LIKE MOST MOAA MEMBERS, you spent your first career serving your nation — and perhaps a second career supporting your family. Now you have the time and opportunity to indulge yourself by pursuing other vocations you’ve always dreamed of. Col. David G. Hansen, USA-Ret., Ph.D., is a case in
point. Now a lecturer and writer, Hansen started out in the National Guard after high school. His 30-year mili- tary career included stints of active duty in Vietnam and Europe before he switched his focus to academics; he attended the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., and
later became a professor there. Hansen’s retirement in 1990 led him to pursue biblical studies and archaeology, in which he received a doctorate from The Pennsylvania State University in 2000. In 2007, Hansen’s first book, In Their Sandals: How His Followers Saw Jesus (Xulon Press), was published; since then he has coauthored two more.
For Mary Blue Magruder, her sec-
ond career was about following what she loved. After working at a bank and a consulting firm in New York, she landed a job at the Earthwatch Institute in Massachusetts coordi- nating the organization’s volunteer outreach program. “I dug mammoths in South Dako-
ta and even helped excavate a tyran- nosaurus rex in Montana,” she says. The outreach program wasn’t enough for Magruder’s curiosity, so she attended lectures at the Har- vard Museum of Natural History.
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She began working there part-time, which led to a full-time job as direc- tor of communications. “Loving the product makes the
job a delight,” she says, “and I still get to attend the lectures but with- out the commute. Walking through changing exhibits keeps me seeing and learning new things each day.” Creativity is the watchword for
many embarking on a new profes- sion, including artist Mike Beeman. For him, it was natural — after earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art, Beeman became an
art instructor and eventually an elementary school principal. “But even as a principal, I still found time to paint,” he says. It was no surprise Beeman
turned his full attention to art after retirement. He says his artistic pur- suits have improved his life in many ways. “I believe working in the arts helps me appreciate all aspects of life and share that vision with oth- ers,” he says. A layoff at IBM alerted Beth
Lamie to her knack for history. After 40 years as an IT specialist,
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