For civic-minded leader, helping the homeless was a matter of heart
Published on: Local 10
By: Andrea Torres
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Miami- Alvah Herman Chapman Jr. was sitting at his apartment near Miami’s Grove Isle.
The World War II veteran and former Knight-Ridder chairman had retired. But he was a busy man on a mission. In his breast pocket, close to his heart, he kept a piece of paper. There were numbers written on it. That was how he kept track of the progress a couple of homeless shelters in Miami-Dade were making.
Helping the homeless was an idea that he had a year before Hurricane Andrew devastated neighborhoods in Miami-Dade. He had finished a religious workshop that he said intensified his sense of compassion. And while driving, he said he knew he had to help the homeless who were leaving under the bridge.