Jack Hill: Still giving to Berdoo
Below is a little story about Jack Hill's fundraiser for the library. Hill is a Berdoo native, class of 1943 SB HIgh grad and former San Bernardino Library Board member after whom the Feldheym Library's literacy room is named.
Hill raised nearly $3,000 for the library with a recent fundraiser.
SAN BERNARDINO — For most of his 83-years, the library has enjoyed a special place in Jack Hill’s heart.
Powerful as a concept, the library to Hill is a sanctuary, a university of knowledge open and free to all.
Specifically, the local library has meant the same, but more concrete, more vivid.
As a boy in the 1920s and 1930s, Hill made his pilgrimmage to the San Bernardino library, then near the corner of Third Street and Arrowhead Avenue.
Today, he’s giving back, the only way he can.
Through his catering company, Mr. Hill’s Catering, Hill helped raise nearly $3,000 for the San Bernardino Public Library by raffling tickets for a dinner for 10, compliments of the company.
The random drawing was conducted at the Chamber of Commerce on Dec. 11, with a handful of library staffers watching.
The winner was Mabel Biddinger, an 89-year-old San Bernardino resident and the mother of Chamber of Commerce President/CEO Judi Penman.
“This is my way to help something that I have always believed deeply in,” Hill said of the fundraiser. “This makes me feel good.”
The raffle resulted in people buying 287 tickets for total proceeds of $2,805, said Library Director Ophelia Roop.
Jack Hill is the man!