H.Jerold Schumacher


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Accomplishments

  • West Point graduate
  • Retired the US Army as Three-Star General
  • Two years as Military Attaché to the US Embassy in Moscow
  • Three separate tours at the Pentagon: 60's (Captain), 70's (Lt. Colonel) and 80's (Brigadier General)
  • 1981 Assumed command of the White House Communications Agency
  • He reported to the WH the day President Reagan was shot
  • One of his duties at the WH is Air Force One scheduling
  • 1982 Promoted by the President to Commanding General, head of the US Army Signal Corp, US Army Signal Center, Fort Gordon, Georgia
  • Fort Gordon has an average post population of 37,000 personnel

Memories

My first memory of RUHS was on the first day of my freshman year. I was sitting on the front lawn trying to look as inconspicuous as possible when Lloyd Waller came up to me and said, "You're Jerry Schumacher; I knew your dad — I hope you do as well here as he did." I did my best with a lot of help from a mother who was a widow by the time I was 12 and joined the RUHS administrative office to help pay the bills and keep an eye on me. My other memories are of coach Striff who taught me to run; a mechanical drawing teacher named Monson who taught me to draw; a social science teacher named Snyder who taught me to think; and a guidance consular named Morris who taught me how to select my courses and my future. Finally, the help of my classmates, many who had been with me since entering the Hermosa school system as my father had done in 1916. West Point gave me a creed of "Duty, Honor, Country." Redondo gave me the foundation to adapt that creed.

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