Victor E. Schulze, Jr., M.D.

He was born in John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas to Victor E. Schulze, M.D. and Esther Golden Schulze on April 1, 1929. After moving to El Campo, Texas, back to Galveston, then to Rochester, Minnesota, and Shiner, Texas, the family settled in San Angelo, Texas in 1934 where the deceased grew up and attended public schools, first Santa Rita and later Glenmore Elementary Schools. He attended San Angelo High School and was a member of the 1943 State Championship Bobcat football team. He graduated from Kentucky Military Institute where he was a senior class officer and a letterman on the football, track, and tennis teams. He entered The University of Texas in 1946 where he was a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity, graduating in 1950. He entered The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston that year and graduated with an M.D. degree in 1954. He did a Straight Medicine internship at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia following which he entered the United States Air Force where he was a Flight Surgeon for eight years, one year of which was spent at the Harvard School of Public Health earning a Master of Industrial Health degree. After his Air Force service, he returned to Atlanta to do a residency in Internal Medicine and a Cardiology Fellowship at Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University Hospital, following which he moved to San Angelo and entered into practice of Internal Medicine and Cardiology with his father and later with Dr. Preston Darby. While in San Angelo he was Chief of Staff at the Shannon Hospital and President of the Tom Green County Medical Society for a year as well as a Delegate to the Texas Medical Association. He also served on the Board of Trustees of St. Johns Hospital from 1973-1976 and the San Angelo School Board for seven years. In 1976 he left private practice to become Associate Professor of Medicine at Texas Tech University College of Medicine in Lubbock. After a year he moved to Temple, Texas where he joined the staff of the Veterans Administration Hospital and the faculty at the new Texas A & M University College of Medicine. He was in charge of the Internal Medicine teaching service at the V.A. and won several teaching awards before his retirement in 1993. Dr. Schulze was a two-time recipient of the Association of Former Students of Texas A & M University Distinguished Teaching Award. At that time, he was an Associate Chief of Staff for Education and acting Chief of the Medical Service at the V.A. and Professor of Medicine in the medical school. During his time in the Air Force and in practice and teaching he published articles in medical journals as well as a chapter on the Effects of Accelerative Forces in the Air Force Flight Surgeons’ Manual and a textbook on electrocardiography. He was made an alumni member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society by the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1987. He retired in 1993 and had lived in Temple since. He was certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine (Aerospace Medicine), the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the Subspecialty Board in Cardiovascular Disease. He was a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology as well as past president of the Texas Club of Internists, the Temple Library Board, and Emeritus Medicus (Temple retired physicians). He was an active member of Christ Episcopal Church and served as a lay Eucharist Minister. On July 19, 1952 he married Peggy Louise Dowd at Trinity Episcopal Church in Galveston, Texas and she remains his survivor. They have three children, Kim S. Davis, J.D., of Edmond, Oklahoma, Victor E. Schulze III, M.D. of San Angelo, Texas, and Jack Dowd Schulze of Austin, Texas; six grandchildren, seven great grandchildren and one very loyal dog named Harper. A memorial service will be held at Christ Episcopal Church on Saturday August 13, 2016 at 10:30 A.M. Inurnment in the Columbarium at the church immediately will follow the service. Scanio-Harper Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Online guestbook is available at www.scanioharperfuneralhome.com as well as www.harper-funeralhome.com.