Photo illustration by ProPublica; source image: Milton Hershey School, MHS 2018 IRS Form 990
Long ago, and to great fanfare, business tycoon Milton Hershey revealed that he had given away his world-famous chocolate company, a gift to the school for poor orphans that he had founded with his wife.
“Well, I have no children that is, no heirs,” he said in 1923. “So I decided to make the orphan boys of the United States my heirs.”
Hershey died in 1945, leaving a huge estate and a company that would grow to sell more than 250 million candy bars a year. His generosity, however, has created a dilemma for the Milton Hershey School that many charities would envy: too much money.
Honor veterans with prayer, gratitude, says military bishop
Bishop Joseph Coffey, a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in active chaplain service with the U.S. Navy, is an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Military Services for the USA, the largest archdiocese in the world. (Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA)
By Gina Christian • Posted May 28, 2021
As the nation marks Memorial Day, prayer and gratitude are two ways in which Catholics can best honor veterans, said a bishop and decorated military chaplain.
“You might want to go to Mass that day and pray for them,” said Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Coffey, Vicar for Veterans Affairs in the U.S.’s Archdiocese for the Military Services. “And if you see any veterans, thank them for their service.”
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Hershey died in 1945, leaving a huge estate and a company that would grow to sell more than 250 million candy bars a year. His generosity, however, has created a dilemma for the Milton Hershey School that many charities would envy: too much money.