Pulse
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BY ALISON BAILIN BATZ / PHOTOS BY MARK MORGAN
A HEART FOR ART
Robert Girvin’s passions take him from across the globe to the movies There are people with passions. And then there are people with passions. Local business leader Robert Girvin is certainly the latter. “Though I grew up in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania – ultimate ‘small town America’ with a population of about 3,000 – I fell in
love with the arts at an early age,” says Girvin, who would regularly head to the “big city” of Allentown about an hour away to see independent films not available in his area. The summer before college, in fact, he and his friends picked up the New York Times summer movie review and circled
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