Margo St. James

October, 1974

"We're In The recycling business. We take human beings that society has thrown out and get them back into shape." So says John Maher, president of San Francisco's Delancey Street Foundation, a community of alcoholics, ex-addicts, thieves and prostitutes--an eclectic mix of those who've roamed hard through the nether lands. Maher has undergone a pretty thorough recycling himself. Born on New York's Lower East Side, he took up the twin professions of felony and drug addiction at an early...