Peter Scholtes

SCHOLTES, Peter Raymond. b. Evanston, Ilinois 20 November 1938; d. Madison, Wisconsin, 1 July 2009. Scholtes attended Roman Catholic elementary and high schools, and studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood at Quigley and St. Mary of the Lake-Mundelein Seminary. Ordained in 1965, he served in an inter-racial parish, St. Brendan’s, in Chicago’s south side, and quickly became involved in the civil rights movement. Leaving the priesthood he studied adult education and organizational development at Boston University and worked in the public sector in Lynn, Massachusetts, and Madison, Wisconsin. More recently Scholtes developed his own consulting business, which specialized in team leadership,...