Fast Facts
Ron's middle name
What is Joseph?
Ron's parents' names
What are Arthur Schultz and Fleuryne B. Larose?
These are the three sports that Ron has ever played on a team.
What are baseball, football, and hockey?
Fun fact:
Vern was Ron's athletic director and he helped coach football, so, Ron had to play for his brother (and call him Mr. Schultz).
This is Ron's college job (not counting being a member of the US Navy Reserves).
What is the cleaner of the donut glazing machine at his college bakery?
Fun Fact:
For a while this caused Ron to be sick of glazed donuts.
This is the Air Force Base where Ron's family moved to after leaving Tripoli, Libya.
What is Malmstrom AFB in Montana?
Fun Fact:
At this missile base, Ron was commander of weather units.
Ron's favorite color
Ron's favorite kind of pie
What is either banana creme or pumpkin pie?
Nearby this Minnesotan lake is where Ron moved to as a very young child.
This is the grad school that Ron attended for meteorology.
What is the University of Oklahoma?
This man was Ron's business partner in McAllen, TX, helping him develop properties, invest in real estate, and install 3 pools.
Who is Dale Peterson?
Fun Fact:
After 5 or so years in McAllen Ron finally was asked to join the Air Force Reserves, and this he did. He was told he was going to be a civil engineering officer, but instead they made him chief of security in Harlegon, Texas.
Ron's anniversary (month day, year)
What is September 4, 1965?
Ron's favorite sport
What is hockey?
This is the city of the college where Ron met his future wife.
What is St. Cloud, Minnesota?
This is the name of the Doberman which Ron had.
What is Rambo?
Fun Fact:
This kind dog was a good guard dog but a big baby, and after all the kids left the house, he was donated to a neighbor with special needs.
This is the year and rank when Ron retired from the Air Force.
What is 1992 at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel?
Fun Fact:
Ron skipped certain requirements to become a Lieutenant Colonel because he filled a vacant spot as commander of the weather unit at Ellington. He was forced to retire at 28 years or else find a new job, just as the previous commander was.
Ron's birthday (month day, year)
What is May 5, 1940?
This snowy city is the location of Ron's birthplace.
What is St. Paul, Minnesota?
This is the name of Ron's childhood dog, a Chesapeake lab.
What is Ginger?
Fun fact:
Ron was a mutt race champion of St. Paul, using fire hoses to harness Ginger to a sled as Ron rode his way to victory.
This was the name of Ron's Samoyed.
What is King?
Fun Fact:
King was a stray dog that wandered up to the Schultz's window on Easter, and when no owner could be found Ron took the dog in.
This is the company and division for which Ron worked to produce atmospheric gasses used in oil drilling processes (it was renamed Praxair to avoid scandal from an explosion, but now it has returned to its former name).
What is Union Carbide, Linde Division?
The number of Ron's first cousins
What is 9?
TRUE/FALSE
Ron needed glasses while he was growing up?
FALSE
Ron's mother said he squinted too much and so took him to a doctor to get him glasses, even though, admittedly, the doctor said he didn't need glasses. Though Ron wore glasses occasionally, he did not need them, and to this day only needs readers.
After shoveling snow for money, this was Ron's second paying job.
What is a golf range worker?
Fun Fact: The man for whom Ron shoveled snow owned the golf range (and a bowling alley), and so he helped Ron get this job which lasted 2-3 years.
This is the name of the gunnery range near Wheelus AFB in Libya.
What is El Uotia?
Fun Fact:
The Seven Day War in 1967 caused an evacuation causing Cindy to not be born in Libya and Linda to have to sleep in a chest of drawers.
This is the last time Ron slept in a tent.
What is Ron's NATO mission to Greece?