Aloha, I've worked on it and got it to work. I appreciate davidrw tone, after all I'm just humbly trying to learn. Mahalo for everyones patience! Joseph W. Guillaume 
#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw

use strict;

use CGI qw(:standard);

print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

print '<body bgcolor="cccccc">';
#####################################

my $employee=param('employee_name');

my $certification=param('certification');

my $month=param('month');

my @month="";

my $day=param('day');

my $year=param('year');

my $key="";

my $i="";

my $t="";

my @data="";

my $items;

my $lines;

my $number;

my @mon = qw (January Feburary March April May June July August Septem
+ber October November December);
#####################################
#            Read File                #
#####################################

print "Employees name is <b> $employee </b><p\/><hr><p\/>";

open(JOE, "<Files/$employee.txt");

@data = <JOE>;

close (JOE);

#####################################
#            Print File                #
#####################################

$lines=scalar@data/4;

for ($i=1; $i<=$lines; $i++) {
    
    $certification = shift(@data);
    
print "Certification is $certification on ";

    $number = shift (@data);
    
    $month = $mon [$number-1];
    
print "$month";

    $day = shift (@data);
    
print "  $day";

    $year = shift(@data);
    
print " $year";
    
print "<p\/><HR>";    

}

#####################################

print '<div align="center"><table width="120" border="1" cellspacing="
+2" cellpadding="0"><tr><td align="center">To go Back</td></tr><tr><td
+ align="center"><a href="http://hawaiicivilmarriage.com/FFD/">Click H
+ere</a></td></tr></table><p></p></div>';


print '</body';
#####################################
exit;

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