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Richard Robert Schultz
Sept. 16, 1922 — Nov. 22, 2016
Richard “Dick” Schultz
was born to mother Frances
Mattson, the daughter of im-
migrant Swedes, and father
Richard Samuel Schultz, a ref-
ugee farmer from the Ukraine.
He grew up in the Depression,
spending every summer in
Gearhart, caddying at the golf
course for 35 cents a round
plus a 10 cent tip, and roaming
the woods, dunes, and beaches
barefoot with his .22 rifle, his
dog Fritz, and his buddies Gene
and Boyd Poppino. The three
were amazed at the Clatsop
open graves at the Neacoxie,
which they considered a sacred
place.
He learned how to golf
on the Gearhart Golf Course
by playing holes 15 to 17 at
twilight, over and over until
dark. The family stayed first
in a Habicost cabin, then at the
Habicost house, a converted
wing of the old Gearhart Ho-
tel that was salvaged after the
burn. His dog, Fritz, died and
still lies buried at the Habicost
fence line at the Ridge Path.
He attended Washington High
School in Portland where he
met the love of his life, Jeanne
Briggs, and they were insepara-
ble for the next 78 years, 71 in
marriage.
The day after Pearl Har-
bor, his sophomore year in the
Theta Chi house at the Univer-
sity of Oregon, he enlisted in
the Navy, where he trained to
fly PBY Catalinas in subma-
rine warfare against German
U-boats along the Gulf and east
coasts, and was a noted stunt
flyer, irritating his superiors,
in the skies over Florida and
Georgia.
After earning his wings,
he and Jeanne were married
in Portland. He requested a
transfer to the South Pacific,
where he longed to fly the lean
Grummond TBF Avenger, but
as the war wound down he was
assigned to teach instrument
navigation in Pensacola until
the Japanese surrender.
Dick and Jeanne returned
to Oregon and bought a house
on the Gearhart beach front for
$3,750, lived there one winter
with sand blowing through
the walls, keeping warm by
driftwood fires with their dog,
Amber. Deciding they could
not live on beach air and razor
clams, they moved to Eugene
where he earned a master’s
degree in American literature
at the University of Oregon,
spending summers as the golf
pro in Gearhart.
The year 1947 was a high-
light of his golfing career, when
he beat long-standing champ
Richard Schultz
Ralph Dichter at the Gearhart
Golf Course Club Champion-
ship, at the second hole of a
sudden death playoff, which
Dichter double-bogeyed. After
earning his degree, Dick taught
high school English in Bend for
several years, renting a differ-
ent house each year and vacat-
ing it for the summer holiday in
Gearhart, where he continued
to work as the golf pro.
Weary of teaching high
school, because “the orders
don’t come from the bottom
up,” Dick moved back to Port-
land where he took a desk job
at ESCO and then Hyster, tak-
ing the “daddy train” on sum-
mer weekends into Gearhart,
where he was a regular at the
Sandtrap and Gearhart Hotel,
and befriended many Gearhart
regulars, including the actor
Johnny Sheffield of Tarzan
fame, and screenwriter Beau
Stone from whom he made a
small fortune in golfing and
chess bets.
He golfed, dug clams,
hooked salmon, and with
Jeanne, socialized with Roy
and June Maden, Pat and Tom
Livesley, Brian and Sheila
Taylor, Jon Blissett, Ray and
Jeanne Weston, Harry McCall,
Dave and Emmadine MacDon-
ald, and many others, and was
a generous regular at the black-
jack table at the Fireman’s Ball.
He soon tired of pushing
papers and returned to U of O
to enter a doctoral program in
classical Greek, but his advisor
died halfway through, so he fin-
ished with a second master’s in
Greek drama. He then went on
to be the first lecturer in clas-
sics at Portland State Univer-
sity, teaching Shakespeare and
American literature on the side.
A bibliophile collector of
first editions, his immense
knowledge of literature in-
spired that sharp and wicked
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wit that endeared him to many,
unless they were on the wrong
end of it.
Dick never lost the con-
nection to Gearhart, where he
claimed to have spent the best
times of his life. In the early
1970s he grieved to see the
Gearhart Hotel razed, but man-
aged to salvage a “Driftwood
Lounge” sign for his den, and
channeled his anger to win the
Gearhart Grandfathers’ Golf
Tournament, matching the
Gearhart course record on the
back nine.
In the 1990s he was instru-
mental in stopping the Sahhalie
condominium development at
the Neacoxie estuary in Seaside
by testifying on the desecration
of the Indian grave sites there
that he knew from childhood.
He was a life-long athlete,
a gymnast in high school and
college, and completed two
Seaside marathons in his 50s.
He was in retirement for 30
years, traveling throughout the
U.S. and Europe. He died two
months after his 94th birthday,
and six months after his 71st
wedding anniversary, while
enjoying a life of leisure on the
Croatian Adriatic coast with
Jeanne and two of his children,
Stewart and Julie, who are resi-
dent in Croatia.
Dick will be remembered as
a brash, freewheeling, and ir-
reverent member of the Great-
est Generation, a lover and
promoter of classical literature
and ideas, a natural golfer with
nerves of steel, a friend and
protector of old Gearhart, and
a devoted father and husband
who was convinced each of his
children was destined for great-
ness.
He is survived by his wife
Jeanne; brother Bill; chil-
dren Julie, Stewart, and Todd;
grandchildren Rick, Erin,
Adrienne, Henry and Anne-
gret; step-grandchildren Jenni-
fer and Matthew; and several
great-grandchildren, nieces and
nephews. His eldest son Rick,
volunteer Gearhart fireman,
classified ad manager at The
Daily Astorian and champion
golfer, preceded him in death.
Holiday
favorites
showcased
at Festival
of Trees
By Katherine Lacaze
For EO Media Group
For Veronica Russell,
Providence Seaside Hos-
pital Foundation’s devel-
opment specialist, “Christ-
mas is about kids.”
To create an especial-
ly enchanting experience
for children at this year’s
Festival of Trees commu-
nity open house, the Dec.
3 event will feature a new
Candy Cane Lane, with
expanded activities and
offerings for young attend-
ees.
An actress portraying
Disney’s Princess Belle
will sing and read stories
on the mezzanine at the
Seaside Civic and Con-
vention Center, where
the event will take place.
The Sugar Plum Fairy, in-
spired by “The Nutcrack-
er” ballet, will oversee
the making of Christmas
magic wands. Children
also will get to decorate
cookies, get their picture
taken with Santa Claus,
have their faces painted,
work on craft projects and
create and wrap handmade
ornaments to give to loved
ones.
During a conference
Russell attended — tar-
geted for designers and
organizers of various Fes-
tival of Trees events — she
was inspired to bolster the
experience for children
and add a touch of Disney
magic, as other organiza-
tions and communities had
done.
“My vision for Candy
Cane Lane is that people
will come, families will
come, to see the trees and
see Santa and catch a good
case of holiday spirit at the
open house,” Russell said.
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