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Northshore October 2025
  Tim Collins     Inspired by a devoted stepdad, Tim Collins, president of Ipswich’s EBSCO Publishing, turned an ingenious idea for indexing magazine content into one of the world’s most widely used research services. By Meg Quinn-DeBoer // photographs by Sean Litchfield   In 1984, Tim  Collins was a driven Topsfield 18-year-old armed with two essentials for success: an entrepreneurial spirit and a new stepfather with a clever idea.   Collins was in high school when his father Larry passed away at age 43. Gerald Seaman became his stepfather about two years later. "Jerry
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