Thank you Carsten.  I had run across that and did finally get a version of that to do it, modifying a snippet from:

http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbracolibrary/getprevalueasstring

Here's what my current version looks like:

@{
  var myValues = Model.FIELD;
  foreach(var id in myValues.Split(',')) {
    var myStringValue = umbraco.library.GetPreValueAsString(Convert.ToInt32(id));
    <li>@myStringValue </li>
  }
}

 As a dufus, I learn best (although slowly) by doing first, learning after.  I can see that this is working but I'm pretty sure there's no reason to have a foreach in there, since I only need to show the one value.  I'm working on simplifying that now.

Thanks again.

There, that's got it, for any other dufus following along:

@{ var myStringValue = umbraco.library.GetPreValueAsString(Convert.ToInt32(Model.FIELD));
<p>@myStringValue</p>
}

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