Richard Dobbyn
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Richard Dobbyn

Biographies & Memoirs
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Dick, aka Rick, grew up in Boston and Providence. He was educated by the St. Joseph nuns, the Christian brothers and the Jesuit priests. He graduated from Boston College with a BS in accounting. He was in the ROTC program at BC and received a commission as an Army officer in the Military Police. He served in Vietnam and stateside and escaped with an honorable discharge. Despite a weakness in mathematics, Dick earned a CPA while working for Price Waterhouse (PWC) in Boston. The stories in his memoir are from this rowdy and chaotic period in his life. The academic knowledge from BC, the leadership experience from the Army and the hands-on accounting skills at PWC all contributed to a 35-year career in financial management. Along the way, he was a drummer, a video gamer, and loved to mess around with boats. He worked for several international manufacturing companies and retired as the chief financial officer of a manufacturer in Sarasota Florida. Dick and his wife Dee wished to retire in a four-season climate near the ocean, without freezing to death in the winter. They chose the Southport area in North Carolina. They currently live in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Dick claims he has at many times dabbled in writing down the experiences of his early years, but never got very far. A screenplay professor he met on an airplane encouraged Dick take his course at UNC Wilmington. He did with the belief that it would be an easy way to learn how to tell his stories. Although helpful, the strict regimen required by writing a screenplay was too much for this newbie writer. He decided to pen his stories in a narrative style, and he claims that this will be his last book.
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