Meet the HSP Team
Karole Kettering – Founder/Executive Director
CEO and Board Chair, inspiration and primary daily manager of the Project. She has extensive experience with community activities, and has served as a board member for DuPage Clean and Beautiful; as Commissioner on the Wheaton Environmental Commission; and as Chair of the Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Beautification Committee. Karole has been a member of the National Speakers Bureau. She has twice received awards as “The Citizen of the Week” from WBBM-Chicago and a Certification of Recognition for outstanding volunteer contributions from Governor James Thompson of the State of Illinois and the DuPage County Department of Human Resources. In 1995, she was named “Citizen of the Year” by the Wheaton Kiwanis, and in 1996 was acknowledged by Chicago’s WMAQ TV as "Someone You Should Know" for her work with the Humanitarian Service Project. The West Chicago City Council named January 22, 2000 “Karole Kettering Day” in recognition of her community service. In 2009, the Wheaton Rotary Club honored Karole with its “Four-Way Test Person of the Year.” Karole is also currently a member of the Board of Directors of National Van Lines in Broadview, Illinois.
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for a history of HSP as told by Karole.
Floyd Kettering, Treasurer/CFO/Co-Founder
BSEE-Purdue ‘63, MSIA-Purdue ‘66, CPA-Illinois ‘68. Floyd’s career experience includes systems engineering and quality control on the Apollo moon mission guidance systems; auditing and management consulting with Coopers & Lybrand (now part of Price Waterhouse Coopers); and thirty-seven years experience in many phases of the non-profit industry, including accounting and finance. Floyd is responsible for all accounting and finance functions for HSP as well as being an advisor for all operating systems.
Kristin Maxwell – Assistant Director
Kristin graduated from The College of Saint Rose in 1991 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art. Kristin’s career experience includes managing the daily warehousing operations for Ryder Integrated logistics and Eastman Kodak Company for the Midwest distribution facility. Kristin was responsible to maintain inventory integrity, SOX compliance and internal / external audit processes. Kristin is working with the Executive director and Treasurer to manage the day to day operations within the programs serviced through HSP: Senior Citizen Project, Children’s Birthday Project, Christmas Offering, Feed the Kids and School Supply Project. Through relationship building with new and existing sponsor groups such as clubs, schools, churches and private donors she is working with the HSP team on increasing the people serviced within the program.
Tierney Hogan – Senior Citizen Coordinator
Tierney graduated from Loyola University Chicago where she received Bachelor degrees in Anthropology and Environmental Studies. Tierney coordinates all aspects of the Senior Citizen Project from enrolling seniors, to ordering the fresh produce included in the deliveries, to handling the logistics of the monthly packing and delivering, including enrolling and coordinating volunteer packers and drivers. She also oversees the Secret Pal and Year-Round Monthly Meals programs, assists with the Feed the Kids and Christmas Offering programs, and contributes to the Christmas mailing, HSP newsletters and press releases, and monitors funding.
Alex Gordy - Database Administrator
In August of 2010, Alex embarked on a new journey when he was invited to the offices of the Humanitarian Service Project.
Alex:
“I get asked often, what do you do at your job?
The best way I can describe it is, imagine you are Santa, and being Santa, you need to, for example, look up all the children in the suburbs of Chicago. So, you, Mr/Mrs. Santa, access a system which lists everything you are looking for, children’s birthdays, their yearly wishes, their dreams… and all this information must be up-to-date and correct. Now someone had to have designed this system, and that someone has to maintain it up-to-date, keeping it accessible & quick, while implementing new solutions as the list of children grows bigger to help make your life as Santa a little easier. That person would be me.”
Having graduated from Aurora University in ’08 with a Computer Science degree, Alex became a member of the HSP staff.
Bridget Dooley - Administrative Assistant
Bridget graduated from Marquette University in 1995 with a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education. Bridgette spent 16 years teaching, with 14 years teaching all subjects to 4th grade students at St. Scholastica in Woodridge IL. Bridget is responsible to support the Executive Director, Project Coordinators, interns, visitors, and volunteers in the day to day operations of the center. Bridget manages the speaking engagements within the community as well as the Library program. In an effort to develop relationships between the community and HSP, educating and acquiring funding from new and existing donors and corporations.
Jan Thompson – Part-time Toy Room Supervisor
Jan is the staff creative who is in charge of seeing that the birthday gifts the poverty-level children receive in the
Children’s Birthday Project
are first quality, age- and gender-appropriate, and are wrapped by our volunteers with the utmost of care and love. She guides HSP volunteers to perform according to her high standards, managing the large book and toy area with her skillful eye, making sure that everything is extremely organized. Jan is responsible for quality control, ensuring that each item is as near perfect as possible before leaving our center.
HSP Interns – click here.
