Kirk Schueler

Added pictures. Daughter, Mary Grace, married June 2018. Second picture, from left to right is son, Rick, who was wedding singer; daughter, Christy, who was Maid oh Honor; myself; daughter Grace, the beautiful bride; her husband, Cameron; my ex-wife Linda; my son, John, a Groomsman! I have MBA and PhD from U of Michigan and enjoyed 28 year career in pharmaceuticals. Lived in Illinois, Ohio, Connecticut, New Jersey, Ontario, Quebec, Kansas, South Carolina, Texas, and Florida. Took early retirement during merger process and went back to U of Michigan for PhD. Taught at George Washington University in DC. Taught both undergraduate (Marketing, Sales/Sales Management, Advertising) and MBA (Nature of Markets, Marketing Decisions) courses. Taught at University of South Florida at Sarasota/Manatee campus and in the Fall 2017 at St Petersburg campus and at Keiser University in Sarasota. Variety of other roles. Now fully retired and moved overseas. Lived in Portugal from November 2023 to June 2024. Moved to the beautiful island of Koh Samui, Thailand in July, 2024. Feel free to reach out if ever planning a visit to Samui :-)

Many good memories. I still view debate at Aquinas as one of most valuable experiences in my life and ACOSA was another highlight. Was one of the least successful "daters" in high school. Nice guys finish last ;-) Had real difficulty getting courage to ask someone to Prom and other dances and either too late (Katie), or acceptance only as last resort (name withheld but if read, probably know who you are). Some other memories include debate trips including debating both sides of the same topic, getting penalized for arrogance when pointed out that opponent misquoted source, having a team mate puke in my car. Many car memories, I was a very aggressive driver including getting to Prarie du Chien in about a half hour and scaring the poop out of Tim Fell among others! Running for office memories include posting lots of punny, "clever", and inspiring? signs and posters, getting into one-upmanship with Dave Skover and Joaquin, and getting into trouble for criticizing faculty advisor. My athletic highlights were setting school record for three mile run (only run once and only person to finish), beating a varsity cross country runner when I was JV (it was a downhill finish, I sucked at uphill finishes and he was hungover) and making Senior basketball team for school games (as intramural player) sprained my ankle in warmups and got in game for long enough to make a long basket and get fouled). Lots of fun with Mike Zein, including wearing orange raincoats for warmups in intramural games.