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Kilhefner
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G.I. bill and studied commercial art and cartooning. He took a correspondence course at the Washington School of Art, and then he attended Glenwood Hall in Patterson, New Jersey.
While he was in school, Kilhefner worked at General Electric where he became involved in the labor movement. “They had a union there, the UAW (United Auto Workers), which published a newspaper. I did the cartooning. When I was a boy, I was always told that all unions and Democrats were bad. So at first I just wanted a vehicle for my work, but the more I found out about the labor movement, the more interested I became,” he said.
Kilhefner became so interested that he served six years as president of the local union. He was also invited to join the labor program at Rutgers University. “This was in the mid 1960’s and a lot of students throughout the nation were demonstrating and defacing their schools. I wasn’t against what they were doing, but it wasn’t for me. Going to Rutgers was like going to heaven. It had always been a dream of mine,” he said.
He spent three years at Rutgers. Then in 1968 Kilhefner received a call from the African-American Labor Center asking if he would be interested in going to Ethiopia. He was on the next flight to Africa. His
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