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THE
REVEREND HAROLD G. HULTGREN
“The
harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few: Pray ye therefore
the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth laborers into his
harvest.” (St. Luke 10:2) There are easier way of life than the life of
a minister or priest, and professions which are more remunerative, but no work
is more personally rewarding or more fundamentally essential to the well-being
of a community. The Reverend Harold G.
Hultgren, Rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Parish in Alhambra, has chosen the
better part.
Born
on October 2, 1920, in New York City, his father’s birthplace, Harold George
Hultgren is the son of the late George Louis and Augusta Hulda
Hultgren who is living in Alhambra and is active in
church work. Father Hultgren attended P.
S. No. 118 Grade School in Queens, L. I., N. Y., until 1934, graduated from
Stuyvesant High School in New York City in 1938, and graduated Magna Cum Laude
from Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1942 with a Bachelor of Arts
degree. He continued his studies at
Nashotah House Seminary in Nashotah, Wisconsin, graduating as a Bachelor of
Divinity in 1944, pursued graduate studies during the following year at the
General Theological Seminary in New York City and from 1946 to 1948 studied
church history at the Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
His
ordination as a deacon by Right Reverend the Bishop of Long Island, James P.
DeWolfe, took place at the parish of St. Alban the Martyr in St. Albans, New
York, on January 1, 1944. On October 18
of the same year, Harold G. Hultgren was ordained a priest at the Cathedral of
the Incarnation in Garden City, Long Island, also by Right Reverend the Bishop
of Long Island, James P. DeWolfe. For
the next two years Father Hultgren served as the priest-in-charge of St. James
Parish in Long Beach on Long Island, and of St. Andrew Mission, Oceanside, Long Island. He next
served in Boston, Massachusetts, as curate in the Church of the Advent from
1946 to 1948. His last five years before
coming to Holy Trinity parish in Alhambra, on November, 19, 1953, were spent on
Long Island as the priest-in-charge of Trinity Church in Astoria.
A
vital member of the community, Father Hultgren is the 1962 president and a
charter member and director of the Alhambra Family Guidance Center. Concerned with the problem of maintaining
good mental health, he is active in the Alhambra Mental Health Association,
serving as its president in 1958-1960.
His is on the board of directors of the United Fund of Alhambra and was
on its budget committee from 1959 until 1961, and was an advisor to the Youth
Coordinating Council from 1958 to 1959.
He holds a life membership in the Alhambra Community Hospital, has been
on the board of directors of the Episcopal Home for the Aged in Alhambra since
1953, and is a member of the Alhambra Friends of the Library. For eight years Father Hultgren has been a
member of Kiwanis; in January of 1960 he received the Civitan Club’s Citizen of
the Month award. In New York City he
became a member of Astoria Masonic Lodge Number 963, and is presently a member
of Alhambra High-Twelve Club. Affiliated
with Pi Gamma Mu, national social science honor society since 1942, in 1940 he
had been elected a member of Beta Beta Beta, national honorary biological fraternity. Father Hultgren is a member of the
Alhambra-San Gabriel Ministerial Association and of the Department of Christian
Education, Diocese of Los Angeles.
At
St. James Parish in Long Beach, Long Island, on April 21, 1945, Father Hultgren
was married to Elaine Patricia Riley.
Mrs. Hultgren is active in the church, a member of the Auxiliary, and a
volunteer worker at the Alhambra Community Hospital. The Hultgren’s are
the parents of four sons: Timothy Edward
attends Alhambra High School where he plays in the band, is treasurer of the
Latin Club, and is on the Honor Roll; Peter Frederick, Paul William, and
Gregory Stephen are all students at the Emmaus First Lutheran School in
Alhambra.
Father
Hultgren’s hobbies are photography and his work.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Historical Volume & Reference
Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park, Rosemead, San Gabriel & Temple
City, by Robert P. Studer, Pages 473-474,
Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California.
1962.
© 2013 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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