{"id":11005,"date":"2024-07-29T10:19:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T15:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.feedthehungrysma.org\/?page_id=11005"},"modified":"2024-07-29T10:28:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T15:28:34","slug":"tony-and-shirley-adlerbert-defining-the-mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sanmiguelsinhambre.org\/es\/tony-and-shirley-adlerbert-defining-the-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony and Shirley Adlerbert: Defining the Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"11005\" class=\"elementor elementor-11005\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c26f186 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c26f186\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6d3994b\" data-id=\"6d3994b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-394dae3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"394dae3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>The following was written in 2012, for a collection of stories published in 2014 upon the 30<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Feed the Hungry San Miguel. <\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b96b872 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b96b872\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f83cbad\" data-id=\"f83cbad\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79ce194 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"79ce194\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Tony and Shirley Adlerbert: Defining the Mission<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d0d3755 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d0d3755\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Dianne Walta Hart Interview <br \/>2011 \u2013 2012<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-aba192d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"aba192d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4801183\" data-id=\"4801183\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a12637a elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a12637a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.feedthehungrysma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Adlerberts-by-Katherine-Fisher.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-11010\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.feedthehungrysma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Adlerberts-by-Katherine-Fisher.png 400w, https:\/\/www.feedthehungrysma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Adlerberts-by-Katherine-Fisher-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/www.feedthehungrysma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Adlerberts-by-Katherine-Fisher-18x12.png 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2fd54ec\" data-id=\"2fd54ec\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36f8c01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"36f8c01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Many people were involved in the development and growth of Feed the Hungry San Miguel, but many of the stories go back to Tony and Shirley Adlerbert. Whenever I\u2019ve told people that I\u2019m doing a history of Feed the Hungry, the inevitable question is: \u201cHave you talked with Tony Adlerbert?\u201d That question is quickly followed by, \u201cAnd don\u2019t forget Shirley!\u201d<\/p><p>By Tony\u2019s own description, when he first encountered Feed the Hungry in 1996, \u201cThere was no business plan and when volunteers got tired or burned out, they\u2019d say, \u2018I quit,\u2019 and then that would shut down what they were doing.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9dfd3ec elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9dfd3ec\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e0dbd3e\" data-id=\"e0dbd3e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b9fa907 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b9fa907\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Tony and Shirley bought a house in San Miguel de Allende in 1991, but it wasn\u2019t until 1995 that Tony moved full time to the city, and not until 1996 that Shirley joined him. Tony had an office on Tener\u00edas and did real estate investing. That\u2019s where he was when Olivia Mu\u00f1\u00edz Rodr\u00edguez and Joe Minton went to see Tony to ask if he could help. \u201cIt was a natural fit. I had been on the board of a Vermont school and accustomed to building business models and plans \u2013 had done it all my adult life. I knew that if Feed the Hungry wasn\u2019t run like a business, it would fail.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b9ac0fd\" data-id=\"b9ac0fd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a1fb1d0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a1fb1d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>\u201cWorking with Feed the Hungry opened up my heart to giving a lot more. It changed the way we live and see things.\u201d<\/em><br \/><em>&#8211; Shirley Adlerbert<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7c40a19 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7c40a19\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-890599d\" data-id=\"890599d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7331c09 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7331c09\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>With the cooperation of Herb White, who was still serving as president of Feed the Hungry, and with the Vestry\u2019s official request to Tony, they put together a plan to raise money. Since San Miguel was a community of artists, Tony asked a local artist and a St. Paul\u2019s parishioner, I.J. Kuehn, to put together a Christmas appeal. She came up with \u201cOpen Your Heart to Feed the Hungry.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cThen we needed a clear mission statement, needed to follow that statement, and to stay focused.\u201d In the February, 1996, in files that were signed by C. Anthony Adlerbert, there is the first statement: The mission of the St. Paul\u2019s Feed Program shall be to provide one balanced meal per day, five days a week on regular school days throughout the regular school year, to nutritionally deprived children of elementary and pre-school age in San Miguel de Allende, Gto., Mexico.<\/p><p>Next, Tony began to separate Feed the Hungry from St. Paul\u2019s Church. \u201cFeed the Hungry had to have greater appeal to people outside of St. Paul\u2019s \u2013 to Catholics, Jews, and non-denominational people \u2013 to be able to make it.\u201d<\/p><p>Meanwhile, Shirley arrived. She had been the head of human relations at an Atlanta manufacturing company and had thought she\u2019d work with the elderly once she moved to San Miguel. As chance would have it, her arrival coincided with Alice Foster Minton\u2019s leaving her position with Feed the Hungry. Tony asked Shirley to take over.<\/p><p>Once Shirley made the commitment, the Adlerberts were at it full time. Shirley said, \u201cI met Olivia, I loved the children, and I never left. Olivia and I were joined at the hip from then on.\u201d At that time, Olivia didn\u2019t drive a car, so Shirley drove her to the kitchens twice a week. It was a successful partnership. \u201cI taught Olivia about business and she taught me about the Mexican culture.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cWe\u2019d drive to rural areas to interview women who had applied to be cooks. If their own kitchen wasn\u2019t clean, we wouldn\u2019t hire them. Sometimes we climbed over hedges and ran through fields with pigs around. Occasionally it would occur to me, \u2018If the corporate world could see me now!\u2019 Olivia and I would spend two days a week in the car, another day and a half doing bookkeeping. The payroll was done with cash in envelopes. The rest of the time was spent packing up the food and then delivering it, sometimes with the food on our backs. Once we were terrified by river water coming over the windshield of the car.\u201d Shirley took a deep breath. \u201cAnd the worst part was that we had to go back the same way we arrived.\u201d<\/p><p>Feed the Hungry has always relied on a bodega \u2013 a storage area for food \u2013 but the early one was \u201ca rat-infested place by the railroad tracks.\u201d Fortunately, the Adlerberts had become acquainted with Arthur and Carol Kornhaber of Ojai, California. After Tony helped them build their house on the corner of Las Moras and Cinco de Mayo, the Kornhabers became so fond of Feed the Hungry that they eventually donated their house to the organization. This generous donation in the late \u201890s allowed Feed the Hungry to finally store the food in a clean location. To improve the situation even more, the Adlerberts bought the property next door and donated that building to Feed the Hungry as well.<\/p><p>Feed the Hungry began to experience a rapid growth and was creating two to three kitchens a year. Tony was doing everything possible to \u201cget recognition, to network, to create Christmas and holiday appeals, to have auctions, raffles, and to sell cookbooks, everything for our company.\u201d<\/p><p>Back in the VCR days, one of the San Miguel supporters was Gene Crane, who had been a radio announcer with CBS in Philadelphia. \u201cGene did a fund raising video with his terrific voice. We gave it to prospective donors. A big hit.\u201d<\/p><p>A touching experience happened in 2001. Tony gave a speech at a cabaret fundraiser that Judy Marzulli put on at the old Jacaranda (now the Hotel Matilda). Tony proudly announced that Feed the Hungry was building its twelfth kitchen at La Cuadrilla. After the cabaret performance, Horst Tutepastell approached him and asked if he and his wife Stephanie could pay for that kitchen. \u201cNo, no, we already have a donor,\u201d Tony said. \u201cWell,\u201d Horst said, \u201cthe number 12 is important to us because that\u2019s how old our daughter was when she died.\u201d The switch was made, Horst and Stephanie adopted Kitchen Number 12 at La Cuadrilla, and Horst went on to serve several years as a Trustee of Feed the Hungry.<\/p><p>Tony went out of his way to meet interested parties. \u201cI was the first to meet Mike and Peter Chadwick. I remember taking them around and dropping them off in the Jard\u00edn. They said they\u2019d be in touch and handed me $500 in cash. That was the beginning of their sponsorship of our kitchen at Los Ricos de Abajo and a long good relationship.\u201d Tony and Shirley remember fondly Carol and Gene Francis who asked that no one in their family give each other Christmas presents and instead pool their money. Their combined Christmas funds built the Alcocer kitchen.<\/p><p>Forever the businessman and always looking at the bottom line, Tony met an executive from a soda pop company. After listening to Feed the Hungry\u2019s mission and goals, the man said, \u201cI can get you a lot of money.\u201d Tony, never shy, said, \u201c$200,000?\u201d The man confidently answered, \u201cSure can.\u201d It wasn\u2019t long before the catch became obvious: the company\u2019s logo on top of every Feed the Hungry kitchen tinaco. \u201cCan\u2019t do it,\u201d Tony said. \u201cThat would contradict everything we stand for. Adios.\u201d<\/p><p>The Adlerberts did accept help from Kimberly Clarke, however, through one of the company\u2019s Mexican executives. One day, good to the company\u2019s word, a huge tractor\/trailer pulled up in front of Feed the Hungry\u2019s Las Moras office for the Adlerberts and Olivia to unload. Toilet paper, soap dispensers (but no additional soap), and paper towel dispensers (but no additional paper towels) filled the truck, and as the Adlerberts unloaded the items, they quickly realized they\u2019d have to give many items away. There was no spot in the budget for the soap for the dispensers or for the paper towels.<\/p><p>But Tony had other ways of making money, or so he thought. He and Shirley had been invited to Coral Gables, Florida, by someone who said, \u201cI have all these friends with tons of money.\u201d So the Adlerberts and Josee and Eduardo Cvercko made the trip and attended a gala event at a huge house in a gated community. They had not realized that it was someone\u2019s birthday celebration. As the cocktail time ended and just before the meal was to begin, the host grabbed Tony\u2019s hand and introduced him by saying, \u201cTony wants to talk about Feed the Hungry.\u201d The second the introduction stopped, a woman yelled, \u201cI\u2019m hungry. When are we gonna eat?\u201d And that was it. People moved to the dinner tables. Shirley said, \u201cWe didn\u2019t make a dime.\u201d Tony added, \u201cNot spit.\u201d<\/p><p>Not to be defeated, however, they drove to York, Maine, hoping to expand Feed the Hungry\u2019s family of donors. Tony had accepted an invitation to speak at St. George\u2019s Episcopal Church. While talking about one of the many benefits of Feed the Hungry, he said, \u201cOne of the wonderful things we do is hire women who have never worked before.\u201d It wasn\u2019t long before he realized that he should have said: \u201cwomen who haven\u2019t been paid to work before\u201d but the moment was gone. The women in the congregation didn\u2019t wait long to let him know what he had said wrong.<\/p><p>As Tony had predicted, Feed the Hungry did make contact with people from other religions. An English-speaking couple, parishioners at Las Monjas, approached Feed the Hungry to see if the \u201ccompany\u201d could help the nuns feed street people. The deal took a year to negotiate due to the nuns being cloistered, but eventually an agreement was struck: the nuns would re-do their kitchen, Feed the Hungry would provide the food, and the nuns would feed people from their door on Calle Quebrada in the Centro. When the Adlerberts, Cverckos, and Armand and Stephanie Cimino entered the convent, they were the first lay people given admission in 46 years. The nuns sang songs, played the guitar for them, and promised to pray for the six of them every day. (The Adlerberts hope they\u2019re keeping their promise!) Postscript: As the years passed, the nuns stopped feeding the indigent from their kitchen, and as a result, Feed the Hungry no longer supplies food.<\/p><p>The Adlerberts remember going with Father Michael Long to visit the Casa Hogar Don Bosco at Mexiquito, an orphanage for boys. When they asked the Mother Superior where she received her food, she said, \u201cWe beg for it at the markets. We ask for the food that is so spoiled that it won\u2019t sell.\u201d Stunned, Tony and Father Long promised her that they\u2019d never have to beg again. They made good on their promise. Although initially there was no kitchen, the Cverckos provided the funds to build one, and from then on, Feed the Hungry provided the food. The nuns would beg no more.<\/p><p>In the late \u201890s, Tony went to visit the Emiliano Zapata school. He thought to himself that it definitely looked like a school that could use Feed the Hungry\u2019s help. Then he noticed two little girls with their pants down defecating outside the school. He started to walk into what he now calls the \u201cpooping fields\u201d and saw human feces everywhere. It was as if animals had been in a pen and no one had ever cleaned it. He knew that if Feed the Hungry opened a kitchen there, the bathroom situation would have to be corrected. The budget, however, presented a small problem: no money for a septic system and bathroom. He contacted a small private group, the Temple Foundation, and with their help, the Emiliano Zapata school had a bathroom.<\/p><p>Shirley is proud of starting the cooks\u2019 luncheon. \u201cThese ladies cook all year long. Can we do something for them?\u201d she asked, and with that, the luncheons started. The first one was at Bugambilia restaurant and all the cooks were presented with gifts. \u201cThey were not accustomed to having anyone else cook for them. So we arranged for that to happen. They were asked to stand up, to give their name, their village, and how many children they had, and how many they fed. I remember that at the first luncheon, one cook was so nervous that she mumbled, but the next year, she jumped out of her seat and spoke with confidence. Those are good memories.\u201d<\/p><p>Many incidences stand out in Shirley\u2019s years with Feed the Hungry. \u201cSome mothers told Olivia and me that they wanted to talk with us at the school. Not knowing what the mothers wanted to say, we were worried. It turned out that the mothers asked us to come so that they could tell us that they were so happy with what Feed the Hungry was doing for their children. It happened more than once. It keeps you going. When mothers and teachers tell you that, you just don\u2019t walk away.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cThere is no way to imagine the experience of working in a Feed the Hungry kitchen in a rancho. When you hand the children a plate or a cup\u2026.\u201d Shirley\u2019s voice broke. \u201cAll I can say is that working with Feed the Hungry opened up my heart to giving a lot more. It changed the way we live and see things.\u201d She looked at Tony. \u201cIt brought us back to earth.\u201d <br \/>#<\/p><p>Shirley observed, \u201cEverything has a life.\u201d She gradually became more of an \u201cin-house\u201d volunteer doing accounting, payroll, annual reports, and thank-yous.\u201d Deanna Hamersley started driving Olivia and Barbara Hoyler volunteered to write the thank-you letters.<\/p><p>The Adlerberts eventually felt that Feed the Hungry was \u201ctoo much Tony and Shirley, too much of us.\u201d In 2004 they were able to \u201cpull back\u201d on their participation.<\/p><p>Feed the Hungry\u2019s rapid growth continued. Computers came into the daily workings of Feed the Hungry and volunteers streamlined the bodega and food delivery operation. Room was made for professional advancement for the cooks, and salaries improved. With the support of the Chadwick family, an English program began at the Los Ricos de Abajo school that has expanded and now includes an expanded teaching program, scholarships, a library, and a Learning Center.<\/p><p>When the Adlerberts said they were \u201cpulling back\u201d on their participation, that didn\u2019t mean they quit. Shirley was on the cookbook committee and still plays a large role in all the events. Tony is on the executive committee of the Board of Trustees. \u201cThey won\u2019t let me go,\u201d he said with a laugh. Then, with more seriousness, he added, \u201cFeed the Hungry is like a child. So much love and affection and degree of satisfaction. I\u2019ll be there until I\u2019m no longer here.\u201d<\/p><p>Shirley summed up the Adlerbert experience: \u201cWe were in on the ground floor of Feed the Hungry, involved emotionally and physically. We filled the envelopes for people to be paid and handed them to them, we knew all the cooks, and had a real feel for everyone we worked with, including the children. There was a little boy in San Crist\u00f3bal who tugged on my leg, eyes big with wonderment, and asked, \u2018Are you going to feed us every day?\u2019\u201d<\/p><p>Her answer: Yes, we are. Every day that you come to school, and I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll be in school more often than before.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-42e5eaf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"42e5eaf\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c34b72f\" data-id=\"c34b72f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8474eee elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8474eee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Postscript:<\/strong><\/p><p>For decades, the Adlerberts contributed their time and their energy to ensure the continued success of the program. Tony served as president and executive director from 1994 to 2000 and then as a member of the advisory board. In recognition of Tony and Shirley\u2019s vision and generosity, Feed the Hungry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=04Ab5u-BwXs\">renamed its operations center<\/a> Adlerbert Headquarters in 2021. 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