masters degree in speech pathology. Last month, he opened

masters degree in speech pathology. Last month, he opened an office in Sursum Corda School in Washington, providing clients with something rarely found in private Enterprise—services with fees based on an individual’s ability to pay.

When Sid retired from government in 1972. he and Margaret passed on the typical Florida condominium. To the dismay of friends who saw their decision as foolhardy nonsense, they sold their home and property in McLean, their furniture, household goods—everything they’d accumulated over years of raising a family“We had decided that we didn’t want to be prisoners of what we owned. It wasn’t easy but when we finished, we’d reduced our belongings to two suitcases each. Then we took off on a freighter to Western Australia.” Gottlieb said.

From Australia, they went to Africa and India where Sid stayed for six months to manage the administration of a missionary hospital. “The idea was to let things happen to us and in the process, decide what to do with the rest of our lives.” he recalled. “We had a daughter and her family in Santa Cruz. She said ‘One of the things you can do is be grandparents.' So we came back and spent five years there.”

People Over Test Tubes

It was during this stint in California that Sid decided to return to school. He chose speech therapy for a second career. “Once I was a very severe stutterer,” he explained. **I felt I had a certain empathy with that kind of trouble. And my PhD 'was in chemistry. I wanted to work with people rather than test tubes, one on one in a helping sense." Apprehension gave way to enjoyment from the very outset of his enrollment in San Jose State in 1975. “It was a big school with some 20.000 students and only about a half dozen of them were in my age group. I never met any of the others.” he added with a wide smile.

least twice as many years as his fellow students. Gottlieb had no difficulty matching the pace of college life. “It