William T. Cunningham
Organization founder
1930 – 1997
Who was William T. Cunningham?
Father William T. Cunningham, a Detroit native, began studies for priesthood in 1943 at Sacred Heart Seminary. Cunningham was a parish priest for five years, then in 1961 joined the faculty of Sacred Heart Seminary as an English professor. He was a columnist and book review editor of the Michigan Catholic. In 1968 Cunningham and Eleanor Josaitis co-founded Focus: HOPE, a non-profit civil and human rights organization, intended to help to resolve discrimination and injustice and to build a harmonious community. Cunningham died of cancer in 1997. In 2005, members from the Church of the Madonna and its music director, William S. Harrison, honored Cunningham's legacy with the Fr. William T. Cunningham Memorial Choir, which has won both national and international choral competitions.
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