“Organizing for the Common Good”
Karl Hilgert
Speaker – Karl Hilgert
Karl Hilgert attended The College of Wooster in Ohio and continued his education at the Eden Seminary and the St. Louis School of Social Work. He has taught at Yale Divinity School and Southern Connecticut State University and has supervised student interns in community colleges and in undergraduate and graduate schools in St Louis, New Haven, Sacramento, Santa Rosa and Claremont. He has been director of a homeless shelter, a disability advocacy agency, a town welfare department, a seven-college community service consortium and has served as a community organizer in St. Louis, Cleveland, New Haven and Sacramento. He has served as a baseball umpire for 42 years, a basketball referee for 25 years and Santa Claus for 21 years (and counting). He is the founder of the Claremont Homeless Advocacy Program (CHAP).
Introduction: Donna Bernard
Fellowship: Anne Sonner
Greeters: Pat Kelly, Art Parker