Something told me I would find him in Trevor Loudon’s reseacrh on KEYWIKI:
http://keywiki.org/index.php/John_McKnight
Catalyst for “change”
John McKnight arranged the dinner meeting when Monsignor Jack Egan met Gordon Sherman of Midas Mufflers.
Jack was “so bushed”—his phrase—he didn’t know whom he was supposed to be meeting. “I was tired. I just wanted to get out of there and get home.” Then John McKnight, beckoned him across the nearly empty dining room. “Well, what is it you want of me?” Father Egan abruptly and uncharacteristically challenged the president of Midas Muffler when he was introduced. Gordon Sherman told Jack Egan he was the fourteenth person he’d talked to about putting a quarter of a million where it would do the most good for the people of the city. “Jack’s mind immediately cleared. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars! He had an immediate graphic vision of the Lawndale community organized, his people taught to take charge of their own lives, the very vision that had taken him that day to rouse the young Jesuit seminarians”. He told Sherman how much he’d like to see Lawndale organized the way Woodlawn was, the work directed by Saul Alinsky. Now Sherman came to attention. “Do you know Saul Alinsky?” Sherman asked eagerly. “He’s a dear friend of mine,” Jack said.
Jack Egan intended that Alinsky should flesh out Jack Egan’s aspirations for the people of Lawndale. He never dreamed that Alinsky would flesh out his own dreams, persuading Gordon Sherman that putting his quarter million in a training institute for community organizers was more desirable than funding a community organization in Lawndale. Egan’s sop was the promise—never fulfilled—that he would get the first four black organizers. Initially furious, Jack “felt betrayed, I felt double-crossed.” Egan soon forgave Alinsky because he loved the man. He even brought himself to suggest later that, “I knew Saul was right . . . because Alinsky had no black organizers to put in Lawndale. And that was 1969—months after King’s death.”[2]
There ya go! The repulsive snake pit of ‘organizers.’
As a Catholic, I’m so beyond infuriated that the Church was and has gotten sucked in and bamboozled by this stinking ‘social justice’ meme I could vomit. It is NOT for the seedy and despicable vote buying networks like ACORN or the unions or fergodssake the govt to dictate or legislate or “organize” charity and outreach to the under privileged and struggling class for their evil goals. Righteous charity springs forth from good souls and individual hearts whose agenda is exclusively the giving for giving’s sake.
Gordon Sherman. Now there’s a name out of the past. A sugar daddy to the Left in the 1960’s, early 70’s, along with Stewart Mott (GM heir), one of the Stern’s, old communist sympathizer Cyrus Eaton, CPUSA sympathizer Ed Lamb, the Field Foundation of the old Soviet spy Frederick Field, and the D.J. Bernstein Foundation.
Sherman was so left that he was ousted as the head of Midas Mufflers in an internal coup, and faded into obscurity.
However, he gave the Left a lot of money and did a lot of damage to the U.S.
I suspect he funded, in part, the old Socialist Scholars Conferences of the 60’s or similar affairs. Google his name and see what pops up.