David Hobart Hunter

Princeton '64, Harvard Law School '67. When I graduated from law school I lost my student deferment. Because of my opposition to the war in Vietnam (I was an anti-war activist), I refused induction into the Army. After 33 years as a civil rights lawyer in Washington DC, with 25 years at the Department of Justice (Civil Rights Division, Voting Section) I became a full time student for the ministry in 2000, graduating from Wesley Theological Seminary in 2003. From 2006 to 2011, my wife, Kerry Mueller, and I were co-ministers of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fayetteville, Arkansas. We retired at the end of June 2011 and in September moved to Berwyn, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. In September 2012 we began serving as the co-consulting ministers for the Unitarian Universalists of Gettysburg, PA. We retired again in June 2017. At the end of August we moved to White Horse Village, a continuing care retirement community in suburban Philadelphia. Then in November Kerry and I became the part-time ministers for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Pottstown, about 50 minutes from home. We each preached for them once a month and retired, once again, at the end of June 2022 For two years I was the treasurer for the UU Retired Ministers & Partners Assn and before that the vice president of the local chapter of the UU Ministers Assn, and I sing the in Wayne Oratorio Society. In June 2019, I led the memorial service for the 55th reunion of the Princeton University Class of 1964. I continue to do occasional guest preaching and will conduct a wedding in October. At White Horse Village I serve on the Spiritual Life Committee and am now preparing to lead a hymn sing on September 4 (after preaching that morning -- via Zoom -- for a small congregation in Illinois.
On February 13, 2023, I begin 9 weeks of radiation therapy for prostate cancer. I have four guest preaching engagements coming up this spring, plus leading a hymn sing here at White Horse Village. The Wayne Oratorio Society will perform masses by Beethoven and Will Todd on April 22 and 23 (same text, different music).
In October 2023, at the Main Line Unitarian Church, where Kerry and I are members and where we were married in 1980, I led an adult education class I called "Death and Beyond." I will be repeating it in February.
The radiation, according to my urologist, appears to have been successful and I no longer need to worry about the prostate cancer.
In the spring I will probably be giving a lecture, either here at White Horse Village or at church (or possibly both) on "how we elect the President -- and How We Should Elect the President"
The Princeton University Class of 1964 will have its 60th reunion in late May. I will again lead the class memorial service.