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Meet the Bluegrass Musician Who's Now a N.J. College Prez

David Haney's first visit to northwest New Jersey was more than three decades ago and, he acknowledges, in a distinctly different less formal capacity. It was August of 1982 and Haney, a former street musician, was playing in a band called Joe Val and the New England Bluegrass Boys. Nearly 35 years later, Haney is back in one of New Jersey's rural areas again, this time as the president of Centenary University, a private college of about 2,100 students in Hackettstown.
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