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Preserving Freedom and Honoring Family
Libertas: As you noted, you sponsored the Dos Vistas Acre at the Reagan Ranch to forever preserve the exceptional and quintessentially American legacy of your father, Rudi Schlute. Can you share more of his story? —————–———–———————— Schulte: At a very young age, Rudi recognized America was the land of –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––—— opportunity, and he came here as soon Interview By Bryant Conger, Development Officer as he was able to. As a boy he loved reading stories about the Wild West, cowboys, and Indians, and that magic pulled him across the enry and Dundie Atlantic as well. Schulte are great friends In 1954, when he was and supporters of 21-years-old, he brought my Young America’s Foundation mother—who was pregnant at and recently sponsored the the time—and me—then one Dos Vistas Acre at the Reagan year old—on the long journey by Ranch. We are thankful for the boat to the United States. opportunity to interview this My father had been the generous couple and share their youngest master watch maker in story—and the story of Henry’s Germany, and when he arrived father, Rudi Schulte—with in the United States, he began Young America’s Foundation’s making a living by repairing supporters, friends, students, watches for $40 per week. Later, and alumni. he worked in the aerospace industry and became involved Libertas: Your sponsorship Foundation supporters Dundie and Henry Schulte meet with in Chuck Yeager’s project in the of the Dos Vistas acre of best-selling author Michelle Malkin following her address at breaking of the sound barrier, but the Reagan Ranch was an the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California. he saw even greater opportunity. important commitment that Risking much, Rudi quit his steady that America was his country, going so kicked off the 100th anniversary year of job to help his neighbor develop and far as to never buy a foreign car and Ronald Reagan’s birth. Why did you create small medical devices. After a doing all he could to buy American. step forward with your leadership gift to while, doctors inquired if he could make Because of the connection with Young America’s Foundation? some prototype products. Rudi’s designs the Reagan Ranch, my father’s strong —————–———–———————— became widely successful, and his new conservative values, and his love of the Schulte: Dundie and I have been career took off. He eventually employed land, Dundie and I felt it would be a active supporters of Young America’s more than 400 people making medical great tribute to my father to place his Foundation for nearly five years. We devices including the hydrocephalus name on an acre of the Ranch while, at strongly feel your mission is necessary to shunt, catheters, heart valves, breast the same time, supporting a cause we keep America great. care deeply about: fighting liberalism and implants, and the Jackson Pratt—a device My father, Rudi Schulte, owned used worldwide today. supporting self-reliance and freedom. the property adjacent to the Reagan He neither expected nor wanted to I, too, had the opportunity to shake Ranch and had met the President several the President’s hand and think he was the get something for nothing. He worked times. They shared the same philosophy hard, and because of that work he was best leader this country has ever had. We even though my father was a German rewarded—but not without giving back. immigrant. Rudi had always felt strongly need to keep his principles alive.
An Interview with Dos Vistas Acre Sponsors Henry and Dundie Schulte
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About Henry and Dundie Schulte Henry and Dundie Schulte have lived in Santa Barbara for more than 50 years and have been married for 37 of those. They have two daughters, Amber and Marya, and two grandchildren, Daxton and Daylon. Dundie is a retired school bus driver and enjoys quilting and spending time with the grandkids. Henry manages their 2,000 acre avocado ranch and enjoys golf, surfing, and photography.
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