Schultz, Clarence

Biography

Dr. Clarence Schultz (1924–2012) was born in Temple, Texas. After graduating from Temple High School in 1941, Schultz went on to study at Temple Junior College. He enlisted in the naval V-12 officer training program in December 1942 and actively served with the U.S. Navy until 1946. Schultz then received both his BS (1948) and MA (1949) in history from Southwest Texas State Teachers College. After his graduation from SWTSTC, Schultz taught on campus until he received a fellowship to The University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD in sociology from UT in 1970.

Schultz served as chairman of the social science department at Lee College in Baytown from 1953–1965. He joined Southwest Texas State College's sociology department in 1965, and served as the first chairman of the newly formed Department of Sociology and Anthropology from 1971–1976. He was selected as a Piper Professor in 1976. He also served as acting dean of the School of Liberal Arts from 1977–1978. 

Schultz retired in 1990 and was named Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus in 1998. Along with winning assorted teaching awards such as the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching (1985), Schultz wrote a number of books and articles, including Deviant Children and Their Families.

Texas 150 Oral History

Dr. Schultz shares his memories of coming to Southwest Texas State Teachers College as an undergraduate student in the post-World War II era. Along with describing married student housing and the college's home economics program, he talks about the City of San Marcos and its businesses. He explains the class registration process and how he came to work in the university's Department of Economics and Sociology in 1965. Schultz outlines how the Department of Sociology has evolved throughout the decades. He spends time reflecting on the university's presidents, the university's past as a teacher's college, Sewell Park's water pageants, assorted student societies, the men's faculty club, and certain faculty members like Prof. Green, Dr. James Taylor, and Dr. John Flowers.