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It appears like any other school campus with people milling around outside a café talking and smiling.
While walking toward the café, a man comes up and extends his hand. “Welcome to TERI,” he says with a big smile.
That does not happen often on a typical school campus.
“That was Chris,” Cheryl Kilmer said later. “He’s been with us since we rescued him from an institution 42 years ago. We fondly call him ‘the mad greeter.’ When he first arrived, he had a problem with aggression. But, no more. He totally changed.”
Kilmer co-founded TERI (Training, Education, Resource and Innovation) in 1980 as a residential alternative to institutionalizing persons with special needs and has served as its CEO for the past 44 years.
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