USMA Class of 1955.
John Lawrence Schick was born at Reveille at Fort Riley, Kansas, the son of then Captain Lawrence E. Schick, USMA Class of 1920, a Cavalry officer whose 43 year military career saw 26 of those years served at West Point. After graduation from Highland Falls High School, he spent a year at Braden’s Preparatory School in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York and a year at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, where he joined a fraternity. In 1951, he joined the Corps with the Class of 1955. During summer leave at home in Quarters 65 in the Lusk area of West Point, he met Ellen Herte, the girl next door in Quarters 63. They were married in the Cadet Chapel during June Week, 1955. His military career began with the Basic Armor Officer Course at Fort Knox in Kentucky and graduation from Airborne and Ranger schools. His assignments included patrolling the Fulda Gap with the 14th Cavalry Regiment in Germany; defending a sector of the 38th Parallel in Korea; a combat tour in Vietnam; battalion command at Fort Knox and staff assignments with Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, NATO and Commander In Chief, Pacific Command. He earned a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech and then became an instructor in his father’s former department of Earth, Space & Graphic Sciences. He was accepted as the professor of Military Science at the Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California. He enjoyed membership in the Rotary, the Athenaeum and other college and civic institutions. In 1983, he retired in Hawaii. They returned to the Mainland in 1990 and settled in San Diego, where both his mother and father were raised and where he spent his early teen years during World War II, while his father was overseas in the Pacific theater. In May 2003, he was diagnosed with terminal metastatic melanoma and fought the disease for 18 months.
Source: United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
John Lawrence Schick was born at Reveille at Fort Riley, Kansas, the son of then Captain Lawrence E. Schick, USMA Class of 1920, a Cavalry officer whose 43 year military career saw 26 of those years served at West Point. After graduation from Highland Falls High School, he spent a year at Braden’s Preparatory School in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York and a year at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, where he joined a fraternity. In 1951, he joined the Corps with the Class of 1955. During summer leave at home in Quarters 65 in the Lusk area of West Point, he met Ellen Herte, the girl next door in Quarters 63. They were married in the Cadet Chapel during June Week, 1955. His military career began with the Basic Armor Officer Course at Fort Knox in Kentucky and graduation from Airborne and Ranger schools. His assignments included patrolling the Fulda Gap with the 14th Cavalry Regiment in Germany; defending a sector of the 38th Parallel in Korea; a combat tour in Vietnam; battalion command at Fort Knox and staff assignments with Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, NATO and Commander In Chief, Pacific Command. He earned a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech and then became an instructor in his father’s former department of Earth, Space & Graphic Sciences. He was accepted as the professor of Military Science at the Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California. He enjoyed membership in the Rotary, the Athenaeum and other college and civic institutions. In 1983, he retired in Hawaii. They returned to the Mainland in 1990 and settled in San Diego, where both his mother and father were raised and where he spent his early teen years during World War II, while his father was overseas in the Pacific theater. In May 2003, he was diagnosed with terminal metastatic melanoma and fought the disease for 18 months.
Source: United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
USMA Class of 1955.
John Lawrence Schick was born at Reveille at Fort Riley, Kansas, the son of then Captain Lawrence E. Schick, USMA Class of 1920, a Cavalry officer whose 43 year military career saw 26 of those years served at West Point. After graduation from Highland Falls High School, he spent a year at Braden’s Preparatory School in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York and a year at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, where he joined a fraternity. In 1951, he joined the Corps with the Class of 1955. During summer leave at home in Quarters 65 in the Lusk area of West Point, he met Ellen Herte, the girl next door in Quarters 63. They were married in the Cadet Chapel during June Week, 1955. His military career began with the Basic Armor Officer Course at Fort Knox in Kentucky and graduation from Airborne and Ranger schools. His assignments included patrolling the Fulda Gap with the 14th Cavalry Regiment in Germany; defending a sector of the 38th Parallel in Korea; a combat tour in Vietnam; battalion command at Fort Knox and staff assignments with Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, NATO and Commander In Chief, Pacific Command. He earned a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech and then became an instructor in his father’s former department of Earth, Space & Graphic Sciences. He was accepted as the professor of Military Science at the Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California. He enjoyed membership in the Rotary, the Athenaeum and other college and civic institutions. In 1983, he retired in Hawaii. They returned to the Mainland in 1990 and settled in San Diego, where both his mother and father were raised and where he spent his early teen years during World War II, while his father was overseas in the Pacific theater. In May 2003, he was diagnosed with terminal metastatic melanoma and fought the disease for 18 months.
Source: United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
John Lawrence Schick was born at Reveille at Fort Riley, Kansas, the son of then Captain Lawrence E. Schick, USMA Class of 1920, a Cavalry officer whose 43 year military career saw 26 of those years served at West Point. After graduation from Highland Falls High School, he spent a year at Braden’s Preparatory School in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York and a year at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, where he joined a fraternity. In 1951, he joined the Corps with the Class of 1955. During summer leave at home in Quarters 65 in the Lusk area of West Point, he met Ellen Herte, the girl next door in Quarters 63. They were married in the Cadet Chapel during June Week, 1955. His military career began with the Basic Armor Officer Course at Fort Knox in Kentucky and graduation from Airborne and Ranger schools. His assignments included patrolling the Fulda Gap with the 14th Cavalry Regiment in Germany; defending a sector of the 38th Parallel in Korea; a combat tour in Vietnam; battalion command at Fort Knox and staff assignments with Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, NATO and Commander In Chief, Pacific Command. He earned a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech and then became an instructor in his father’s former department of Earth, Space & Graphic Sciences. He was accepted as the professor of Military Science at the Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California. He enjoyed membership in the Rotary, the Athenaeum and other college and civic institutions. In 1983, he retired in Hawaii. They returned to the Mainland in 1990 and settled in San Diego, where both his mother and father were raised and where he spent his early teen years during World War II, while his father was overseas in the Pacific theater. In May 2003, he was diagnosed with terminal metastatic melanoma and fought the disease for 18 months.
Source: United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
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