Phil Pellitteri is renowned as the Madison area?s ?bug expert,? having worked for 32 years as director of UW-Madison?s Insect Diagnostic Lab. But it could easily have gone another way. Pellitteri worked in his family?s Madison-area trash removal business throughout high school and college, and his father wanted him to take over that business. Even during his first two years as a student at UW-Madison, he was a biochemistry major intending to go to medical school. It was only after what he called a ?particularly rough semester? that he stumbled into what would become his calling.
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