Background
Schur, Walter Robert was born on June 17, 1914 in Webster, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Robert O. and Alma L. (Gatzke) Schur.
Schur, Walter Robert was born on June 17, 1914 in Webster, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Robert O. and Alma L. (Gatzke) Schur.
Student Valparaiso University, 1931-1934. Doctor of Medicine Middlesex University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1940.
Resident, Milford (Delaware) Memorial Hospital, 1940-1941, Grace Hospital.Cleve., 1942-1943. Intern Lutheran Hospital, Cleveland, 1941-1942. Private practice, Oxford, Massachusetts, since 1944.
Board directors, president Doctors Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts, Chairman of the Board, 1978-1987.
Board directors AdCare Hospital, 1987, Chairman, Board Of Directors, 1987-1991, Atlantic district Luth Church-Missouri Synod, 1978-1987, member, secretary education committee, missions committee, 1960-1977, member stewardship committee, youth committee, education committee, 1951-1957, chairman education committee Atlantic district, 1954-1957, member of commission on mission and ministry in church, named District Layman of Year, 1966, Chairman of Commission on ministry Atlantic district, 1970., board directors Lutheran Association Works of Mercy, Association Evangelical Lutheran Churches.
Board directors Valparaiso University, since 1969, secretary, since 1984. President, scholarship chairman Northeast district Lutheran Laymen"s League, 1946-1957. National Board of Governors National Lutheran Laymen"s League, 1957.
Vice chairman Lutheran Hour Oper.
Committee, 1958, chairman 1959-1961. New England board directors Association Evangelical Lutheran Churches, 1977-1987, trustee East Coast Synod, 1977-1987, member of national board directors, 1979-1988.
Member of council New England Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church American 1988-1994. Board directors, vice chairman French River Education Center, since 1985.
Member Oxford School Committee, 1961-1986, Massachusetts Commision on Christian Unity.
Associate charter member Park Ridge Center, 1986.
Member of council New England Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church American 1988-1994. Member Oxford School Committee, 1961-1986, Massachusetts Commision on Christian Unity. Fellow American Academy General Practice, American Academy Family Physicians (charter).
Member American Medical Association, Massachusetts Medical Society, Worcester District Medical Society, American Geriatrics Association, New England Ob-Gynecology
Society, Valparaiso U. Alumni Association (past president), Lutheran Academy for Scholarship (board directors 1977-1986), Concordia History Institute, New England Lutheran History Society (charter), International Platform Association, New England Huguenot Society, Rotary (past president).
Married Delta Jean Newman, June 17, 1944. Children: Paul, David, Jonathan, Ruth, Timothy, Peter, Stephen, Mary, Joel, Daniel, Rhoda.