Schuff, LeRoy E.

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Schuff (b.1932) served in the Marine Corps from 1950 to 1967.

While in Korea, he made the landing at Inchon, was wounded by sniper fire, and was deployed to Korea after his recovery. He was deployed to Vietnam in 1965 and was medically discharged in 1967. In 1969, he earned a bachelor's degree in industrial education and a Master's degree in audiovisual communications from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Schuff became the director of media services at Fox Valley Technical College (Appleton, Wisconsin) until 1984 and worked as a training and development consultant at Kimberly Clark Corp. until retirement in 1994. Married in 1952, he and his wife, Darline, raised three children and currently reside in Neenah (Wisconsin). Schuff was elected as commander of the Department of Wisconsin Military Order of the Purple Heart in 2005.

From the description of Oral history interview with LeRoy E. Schuff, [videorecording], 2005. (Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center). WorldCat record id: 695406042

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