Doris Schneider was born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia and spent most of her youth in Vienna, Austria. Born November 18, 1926. Thanks to her father Steve Schanzer, she shipped to France with her brother Charlie and then, from Marsailles to Australia, during World War II. She then stayed 9 years, before joining her father in the USA. She married Herb Schneider, an EE at BTL, in 1953 and had two children, Tom in 1955 and Linda in 1956. As a very steady skier, Doris qualified and joined the Ski Patrol in NY and later in Colorado, and her contributions to the country's ski safety effort was recognized by the appointment as a National Ski Patroler. She stayed in the Patrol as an active member for 30 years ...
Her wide interests reflected on her children, her effort to extend her education in NJ and Colorado, her art, from clothes designer to jewelry, from painting to physical structures, animals, steel, clay tea cups and a tea kettle, and very recently peg boards with internally colored Oxygen lines, she had used for years, to create CONNECTIONS.. While back East, she joined the American Youth Hostels, and became a Mountain and River trip Leader. This activity naturally led us to appreciate the ski patrols.
She created Design Sphere, a jewelry design and execution service, most of it done by herself, first in Niwot, then West Boulder, and finally in the Boulderado. She retired from this effort at the end of 1990 when her husband retired. They moved to FMM in January of 1996, where Doris continued to work on Art projects, and served for four years as co-chair of the "Trinkets and Treasures" fund raising effort, which permitted her to work with well over a hundred residents and staff, raising significant funds for Residents' security and a chance to get really acquainted by working together.
In retirement, Doris was fortunately able to travel, back to Australia, to New Zealand, Canada, England, France, Austria, Germany, Norway, Italy, and all the way to Turkey, Greece, Russia and Siberia, and China a number of times. Other trips were on a Russian ice breaker to within 70 miles of the North Pole, to the islands visited by Darwin in the Galapagos, and to Alaska.
Her contributions in many fields of endeavor will long be remembered.
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