Dr. Stanley F. Schmidt

He graduated from Berkeley in the month he turned twenty-one and the month he turned twenty-two he was teaching full-time at El Cerrito High School in the Bay Area. He taught there for two and a half years picking up his master's in math from Cal while teaching full-time. Then he taught every math course offered at City College of San Francisco until January 1980.

At the age of 36, he went back to Cal (after a 15-year break) and took four courses (15 units)--all in departments that he have never taken a course in before. Then he moved to an A-frame outside of Santa Rosa, California, waiting to see what God would like him to do with the second half of his life.

The minister at his church asked if he would like to preach on Sunday morning sometimes. Over the years he has preached at various churches: Methodist, Unitarian, Presbyterian, and others. Each of his sermons was handed out in printed form at the end of the service, and at last count he has about twenty-eight sermons in print.

He created and produced the television series Stan Now Considers All Things which ran for five years. It began as a weekly half-hour program and later expanded to a full hour. Each program consisted of three- to six-minute segments devoted to the overall theme of what it means to be well-educated. Each segment was centered on one of sixteen areas including English, history, science, the Bible, sociology, poetry, economics, philosophy, and health.