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City Council At Large
Councilmen
John
Schultz
John
J. Schultz is a life long resident of Atlantic City. He was
born
and raised on Drexel Avenue in the Inlet Section of town.
An
entrepreneur, John has been involved in a number of local businesses
since 1969. He continues to invest in Atlantic City and
develop new
ideas. John recently purchased the Professional Arts
Building, located
at 1616 Pacific Avenue and is restoring the historic property to its
original grandeur. The building will house the newly formed
Schultz-Hill Foundation, a charitable organization whose mission is to
promote and support Education, History and the Arts in South Jersey.
John has always been deeply concerned about Atlantic City. For many
years, he stayed in the background of civic affairs, maintaining a
supportive role by forming the Center City Civic Association in the mid
1970's. The group concerned itself with issues facing
Atlantic
City’s Third Ward.
In 1990, John founded the Metropolitan Business & Citizens
Association (MBCA), which focuses on issues which impact area
businesses, citizens and neighborhoods, and awards scholarships to
local students. The MBCA has provided over $300,000 to area charities
and non-profit groups. John continues to serve as President
and
Chairman of this dedicated organization.
In November 2005, John was elected Councilmember-at-Large of the City
of Atlantic City. He is currently serving his third term as
Councilmember, having been elected in 1994 and re-elected in 1998.
As a Councilmember, John constantly works to move Atlantic City
forward. He has always maintained that, “We must make
Atlantic
City’s diversity of people its greatest asset. Only by
working
together can we challenge the problems facing us and overcome
them.”
Councilman Schultz currently serves on the Atlantic City Planning Board
and is Chairman of the City of Atlantic City’s Planning
&
Development Committee.
He donates his time and talent to many local charities. He
was a
founder of the Atlantic City Special Improvement District (SID), and
currently serves as Co-Chair. He also serves on the Stockton
Foundation Board; is a founding Board Member of the South Jersey AIDS
Alliance; Board Member of the Martin S. Wilson, Jr. Center for the
Arts; Member of Moose Lodge #216; Board Member of the Boys and Girls
Club of Atlantic City; former Board Member of the Atlantic City
Education Foundation; 101 Women Plus Inc; Lifetime Member of the
Atlantic City Arts Center and Historical Museum; Member of the Noyes
Museum of Art; Member of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation; a Trustee of
the Columbus Day Committee; longtime Member of the Chelsea Neighborhood
Association; and a lifetime member of the 200 Club of Atlantic and Cape
May Counties. He was a past Board Member of the Greater Atlantic City
Chamber of Commerce; Atlantic City Tomorrow and Family Services of
Atlantic County.
John supports numerous church, community and civic organizations by
donating his tent for use at various functions and by providing
financial support and resources. He provided books to the Atlantic City
Townhouse Library and was the proud sponsor of the School House Stomp
Steppers Youth Drill Team. John also donated his time and resources to
the Miss Atlantic City Pageant, PBA and PAL, Community Policing
Program, Bungalow Park Civic Association, Atlantic County Crime
Stoppers, American Red Cross, Atlantic City Dolphins Football Team,
Horizon Youth Program, Atlantic City Chapter of Links, Inc., Local 54,
Covenant House and numerous churches and youth athletic and educational
programs in Atlantic City.
John continues to make a difference in the lives of others and works
diligently to make Atlantic City a shining example of community spirit
and pride. He truly believes in and loves Atlantic City and encourages
citizens to become involved – and more importantly remain
involved in all facets of the community.
Civic & Charitable Involvement by John J. Schultz,
Councilmember-at-Large
American Red Cross
Gilda’s Club
Caring, Inc.
Schultz-Hill Foundation
Atlantic City Beach Patrol
Chief Arthur Brown, Jr. Memorial Scholarship
Our Lady Star of the Sea Church
Columbus Day Committee
New Hope Baptist Church
Pop Lloyd Committee
Stockton Education Foundation
Jeffries Towers Tenants’ Association
Zonta Club of Atlantic City
Atlantic City Dance Theater
NAACP
Atlantic City Retired Policemen’s Association
Price Memorial AME Zion Church
Atlantic City Firefighters’ Association
Atlantic City Jaycees
Atlantic City Lions Club
Miss Atlantic City Pageant
Buddy Ball Sports League
Mexican American Unity Council
Mary Help of Christians of St. Michael’s Church
St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church
Institute for Human Development
Atlantic City Youthbuild
Atlantic City Chapter of Links, Inc.
Kiwanis Club of Atlantic City
St. James AME Church
South Jersey AIDS Alliance
Pioneer Club/Local 54
101 Women Plus
Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City
Friends of ACHS Crew
St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church
Yates Memorial Scholarship
Holy Spirit Building Fund
American Red Cross
Insulin Support Fund Diabetes Telethon
New York Avenue Church of God
Northside Business & Professional Women’s Club
Ralph P. Greene Tribute
Police 200 Club
Conference of Christians and Jews
Jethro Memorial Presbyterian Church
Westminister Evangelistic Church
Salvation Army
Shiloh Baptist Church
Martin S. Wilson Center for the Arts
Children’s Cultural Arts Foundation
Rahab Court Masonic Temple #15
Historic Church of the Ascension
Inlet Towers Tenants’ Association
Friendship Outreach Ministries
Shore Terrace Tenants’ Association
Jean Webster’s Food Kitchen
Union Baptist Temple
Hospitalers Sisters of Mercy
Ocean Marathon Swim
Greater Exodus Baptist Church
Chelsea Neighborhood Association
Police Athletic League (PAL)
Atlantic City Elks Building Fund
Vest-a-Cop
Stanley Holmes Village Work Team
Prince Hall Lodge #27
Philippine American Association
Atlantic Symphony Orchestra
Atlantic Human Resources Foster Grandparents Program
National Sorority Phi Delta Kappa Iota Chapter
School House Stomp Steppers
Atlantic City Education Foundation
RNS Cancer & Heart Fund
National MS Society
Eugene
Robinson
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Brother
Gene”, as he is called in the community is a man of varied
roles: Minister of the Gospel at Second Baptist Church, under the
Pastor, Reverend Collins A. Days, Sr., a Councilman-at-Large in
Atlantic City, a dancer, a singer on two choirs, and a published poet
of over 2,000 poems.
Gene is a member of the Atlantic Human Resources Anti-Poverty Board and
was selected by former Governor Richard Cody to be a member of the New
Jersey State Martin Luther King Commemorative Commission in September
2005. He was appointed Area Coordinator for the Black
Leadership
Summit.
Gene’s proudest legislative accomplishment was the unanimous
passing of Resolution #735 on September 20, 2006, supporting proposed
New Jersey Assembly Bill #2067 for Casino Floor “Smoke
Free” workplaces.
Gene has worked with urban youth for over 20 years, having run three
North Jersey youth centers, served as an Atlantic City NAACP Council
Advisor for nine years and was a Boys & Girls Club Trustee over
5
years in Atlantic City. Presently, he works with or helps
support
seven different youth programs, including Rites of Passage and the
Stanley Holmes Village Work Team.
The son of a public school teacher and a college professor, Gene has
been connected with Education for over 30 years. A bachelor
and
masters awardee from Rutgers College and Rutgers University,
respectively, Gene taught two years at Pleasantville High School, six
years full-time at Rutgers University, a year adjunct at both the
Bloomfield College and Atlantic Cape Community College, and three years
adjunct at the Richard Stockton College. His subject matter
has
included African-American History, U.S. History, Modern World History
and Crime and Law.
Gene has worked with labor for over 20 years, having been Executive
Vice-President for ACFSME 2302 (1987-1989), and a business agent for
Local 54 (1983-1984).
Overall, Gene has been performing Civil Rights work for over 45 years,
in over 200 groups and attending over 2,000 meetings, half in Atlantic
City, over the last 27 years, and the rest in South and North
Jersey. At a young age, he integrated the Baltimore Little
League
and the Baltimore School System. Later, in May 1960, Gene
would
be among 11 black and white students to form a student NAACP Chapter, a
“first” at a majority white campus in the Northeast.
In the spring of 1968, he helped revitalize the Rutgers NAACP
Chapter. In addition, he was the only black Rutgers
“News
Maker of the Year” (’67-’68), since its
origin in the
30’s, and was selected chairman at the 1968 Mock Democratic
Convention covered by ABC TV. Also, in 1968, Gene was
selected a
semi-finalist in the National Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellowship
Contest. He has been a member or officer of five NAACP
branches,
including having served as a newsletter editor (1985-1986) and an
executive board member of the Atlantic City Branch for 10 years,
1992-2002.
In Atlantic City, Gene has headed the Ethnic Betterment Council
(1983-1984), the Jim’s Men Club for Mayor James L. Usry
(1985-1986), the Atlantic County Rainbow Coalition (1987-1989), the
multi-racial, multi-ethnic, 32 group Congress of Community
Organizations (1987-1989), which pushed CRDA’s start and
Northeast Inlet new housing. And, as a member of 101 Women
Plus
(1998-2000), Gene was its only male president.
Gene also was elected twice to the Atlantic City Board of Education,
1989-1991 and 1995-1998, and played a key role in the development of
the new $83 million Atlantic City High School, the biggest and best in
America at that time.
Gene is the grandfather of Mia (4 years old); his daughter, Jackie, is
completing her Ph.D. thesis in New York City in Religious History,
while teaching at Temple University, with her husband, David
Waldstreicher, was named by Time Magazine in 2005, as one of the top
American Colonial era historians for his
“groundbreaking”
biography of Benjamin Franklin “Runaway America”.
Councilman Robinson has been featured in Jet Magazine (1954), on 60
Minutes TV show (1969) and in Look Magazine (1970), and was the first
black Rutgers Eagleton Institute Fellow (1967-1968). Most of
all,
Gene is saved and believes, “The glory belongs to God, only
the
mistakes are mine”.
George
Tibbitt
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