Henry A. Schade - Early Life and Education

Early Life and Education

He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He attended Central High School. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy by the US Congressman from the Fourth District of Minnesota in 1919.

He was called "Packy II" at first, after a more athletic student who had attended six years earlier at the Academy. His own athletic talents led his classmates to drop the "II" later.

He was on the Plebe and Junior Varsity crew teams.

In 1923, Schade graduated from the Naval Academy with distinction, seventh in his class of 414. On He was commissioned Ensign in the United States Navy and ordered to the battleship USS California (BB-44). There Schade became Communication Watch Officer.

In May 1925, Schade started postgraduate work in Naval Architecture at the Naval Academy's Postgraduate School, Annapolis, Maryland. In 1926, he attended the Construction Corps. He continued his education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received his Master of Science degree in Naval Architecture in June 1928. Schade's Masters thesis entitled Deformation and Stresses in Pipe Bends was published later that same year by MIT's Department of Naval Construction.