Fr. William Hultberg had extensive military service with both the Navy and the Army. At the end of the Korean conflict he was drafted into the army as an enlisted man serving 18 months in Japan and was discharged in 1955. Ten years later he was commissioned a Navy Chaplin. He served with the Marines in Vietnam where he received the Bronze Star Medal with Combat V for Valor. 

He left active duty but subsequently went back with the US Army. As an Army Chaplin he received four Meritorious Service Medals for his work in developing and implementing drug and alcohol prevention programs. He completed his military career as an active reservist and retired in 1991 as a Lieutenant Colonel, completing 35 years of military service. 

In addition to bachelors and masters degrees, Father completed several programs focused on treating addictive diseases. He was a Certified Pastoral Alcoholism Counselor and worked for many years at Caron Treatment Center in Wernersville, PA. After he retired to the Priests’ residence at Salesianum, Fr. Bill kept working with recovering addicts and alcoholics and joined the Limen House Board of Trustees. Limen House is a Wilmington based residential treatment facility for recovering alcoholics and addicts. He was beloved in the recovering community. 

In 2015, Fr Bill received the Father Joseph C. Martin Award for his outstanding contributions to the addiction treatment and education fields. He was inducted into the Salesianum Hall of Fame in 2016 and passed away in 2019 at the age of 88.