David A. Schulz ’54

Dave died Oct. 15, 2021.

He came to us from Southwest High School in St. Louis, where he was active in publications, dramatics, and glee club. He majored in geology, joined Terrace Club, The St. Paul’s Society, and the Outing Club, and played IAA football, hockey, basketball, and softball.

During his multifaceted career, Dave served in the Army, worked as a field geologist, was ordained as an Episcopal priest, earned a Ph.D. in sociology, taught sociology at the University of Delaware, was an amateur artist and woodcarver, practiced organic farming, facilitated a domestic-violence intervention group, and sent “radical” opinion pieces to the Delaware State News. He characterized himself as a “pago/Judaeo/Christian.”

For two decades he and his wife, Lieba, lived in Bowers Beach, Del., for which Dave wrote an oral history. Appreciating the beauty and fragility of its wetlands, a river estuary, and the Delaware Bay, they worked to support its protection. In 2004 he wrote, “We are becoming citizens of the Earth … We are increasingly concerned about our grandchildren’s future in a world more willing to risk war than peace.” In his final years at a retirement facility, he continued to provide the kind of social support to the community that had characterized so much of his earlier life.

Dave is survived by his wife of 27 years, Lieba; five children; and six grandchildren.