Charles "Bill" William Schick

He leaves behind his loving wife, Doris, with whom he was married for 58 years, and his three daughters: Elizabeth (married to Keith Miller) of Des Moines, IA, Susan (married to Robert Wright) of Milton, MA, and Jennifer (married to Jeffrey Burak) of Boulder, CO. He also leaves four grandchildren (Austin and Julia Wright, and Nathan and Noah Burak). His parents, Harris Reeves Schick and Alma Shirk Schick, as well as his brother, Alan, predeceased him.

He was born on September 3, 1931, in Lancaster, PA, and graduated from McCaskey High School in 1949. He attended Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, PA, graduating with an A.B. degree in economics, in 1953, and then the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned an M.B.A. degree in 1954.

While in college, Bill performed financial work for his fraternity that was helpful in paying sundry expenses at that time. During his high school and college years he also worked in the summers for Armstrong Cork, located near his home. After obtaining his M.B.A., he joined the New York office of Price Waterhouse (PW), but soon after he was drafted into the U.S. Army and worked for two years in a finance section near Salt Lake City, UT. He rose to Private First Class. Just prior to the end of active service, he received a direct Commission as Finance Corps 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve. After being discharged from the army, in 1956, he rejoined PW in New York.

While working at PW, he had audit responsibilities for important clients in many different industries in and around the New York City area. His most notable assignment was carrying out the senior manager responsibilities for IBM in Armonk, NY for a number of years. This assignment was one of PW’s most important clients and Bill worked diligently in carrying out those important responsibilities.

In 1970, Bill left PW and joined United Aircraft (now United Technologies Corporation or UTC) in Hartford, CT. In 1975 he was assigned to carry out an international role in Brussels, Belgium, where he and his family lived for two years. When Bill returned to UTC in Hartford in 1977 he had responsibilities for various areas, including taxation and government cost accounting that required numerous business trips to South America and Washington, DC. When he retired from UTC in 1990 he was Vice President in charge of Corporate Taxation and Vice President in charge of Government Cost Accounting for UTC.

During his high school years, Bill excelled as a pole-vaulter in interscholastic events. Bill always had a keen interest in photography and made spare change taking pictures of high school sporting events. He developed his own photographs beginning in those years, and as an adult, he made certain he had his own dark room in his home – even in their vacation home in VT.

Bill very much enjoyed cross country skiing or snow shoeing with his family in VT during the many years they had a vacation home in Mt. Snow, VT.

When he turned 40 years old he started to play and enthusiastically enjoyed playing golf at Glastonbury Hill Country Club and Farmington County Club. He and his wife, Doris, played many rounds of golf together in CT and in VT. They also enjoyed watched professional golf tournaments together on TV. Additionally, they were both enthusiastic viewers of the UConn women’s basketball team. Bill enjoyed listening to classical music and reading nonfiction books, many of them about the Civil War – they were a natural interest for him, as he grew up not far from Gettysburg, PA.

Bill was a long-time member of South Glastonbury Congregational Church. After retiring from UTC, he very much enjoyed attending the men’s breakfasts and was actively involved in maintaining the church finances.

From 1936 to 1945, Bill and his family spent the summers at a cottage in Mount Gretna, PA, a religious and cultural lakeside community with its roots in the Chautauqua movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He had wonderful memories of those summers, and after he had his own children, he and his young family continued the tradition. When his children had children, 3 generations of Schicks made more wonderful Mount Gretna memories.

We love you, Dad, and miss you terribly.