New Member - Bruce Hasher

     I have been retired for 17 years.  My career had a big change soon after it started.  In high school I was very good at math and physics.  It was the Sputnik era and there was a huge focus on science education.  I got a physics scholarship to Northwestern (class of 1964) and stayed there for graduate school.  But by the time I was in line for a Ph.D. there were so many physics grad students and so few jobs for them that I made a big change. 

     I had been very active in church work and youth group leadership and my pastor steered me to a job with Lutheran Child and Family Services working in residential care with junior high age boys with serious emotional disturbances.  In my off hours I got a more relevant degree in Counseling Psychology from George Williams College.

     But I had decided that I was more cut out for social service administration than direct client work so I got a degree in Management and became the Human Services Administrator for Downers Grove Township where I developed and coordinated youth and family and senior citizen services for the Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Westmont, Darien, and Burr Ridge area for over 30 years until my retirement.  I was also very involved in several county and state-wide human service networks and organizations and my church. 

     Now that I'm at Wesley Willows I want to find some opportunities to be involved in things and help where I can, like at the satellite Rotary group.  But after my busy career and community involvement, I am more than ready to slow down to a much more relaxed pace for this stage of my life.