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Get Lowdown on Local Marshall Plan -- Squared!
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Jewish Exponent
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March 2, 2006
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- Friedman, Sally
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Friedman, Sally
Jewish Exponent
03-02-2006
Talk about entrepreneurship ... when David Marshall was 19 years old and a
junior at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, he was not just
learning business principles. He was living them.
Marshall, whose late father was a salesman for a mortgage company, had been
watching the migration patterns of the New York metropolitan region housing
boom, and he saw Rockland County as the next area poised to explode. When
he couldn't convince his father to start his own mortgage company to
capitalize on Rockland County, Marshall accepted his father's challenge to
do it himself -- at 19.
"I walked into a bank and told them I wanted to start the first ...