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| Peter Dalton was instrumental in founding the Habitat for Humanity chapter, a still-flourishing student organization at St. Lawrence, and since graduating he has converted that involvement into a career. As an affiliate support manager, he is as an internal consultant to independent, volunteer-driven Habitat affiliates in the Northeast U.S. (Delaware to Maine). “My role is to give advice on organizational issues, represent HFHI, and encourage affiliates to increase their ability to eliminate substandard housing in their service areas,” he explains. Previously, Dalton had been Habitat’s Northeast Resource Development Manager, training affiliates on how to do fundraising and developing funding partnerships that benefited multiple affiliates. His current job, he says, is “my first that is not exclusively fundraising. “Habitat for Humanity was a major part of my St. Lawrence experience,” says Dalton, who grew up in Massena, N.Y., about 35 miles from campus, and came to St. Lawrence as an Augsbury Scholar. In addition to helping found the campus chapter with the assistance of the University chaplain and others, he served as chapter president and worked with the local affiliate. “The best part of my Habitat experience was meeting my wife, Jen, who also volunteered with the group,” he adds. “I was also involved with other service clubs, student government, as a student representative for a Board of Trustees committee, in a local tutoring program, and in intramural sports.”
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Name: Peter Dalton ’94