Spotlight on Sooner Rotarian Barbara Schindler

 Barbara Schindler has been a Sooner Rotarian for 4 years.  She has served on the  International Committee and as the GSE coordinator.  Vanessa Schroeder, Rotary exchange student, stayed in the Schindler household while in Norman.  Barbara is a retired educator.  She supervised student teachers and taught  classes at OU, was Social Studies Supervisor in OKC and taught U.S. History in Norman.  She is married to Charles and  her children are Marian, Susan and Neal.  The family usually has 2 dogs at a time and right now they have a lab  mix and a malamute mix, both 5 years old.

Barbara enjoys sailing, pilates, playing bridge and going to  the gym. She also likes to volunteer, read and write.  One book she recently found interesting is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  She also enjoyed Island Beneath the Sea by  Isabella Allende.  She enjoys watching  the Amazing Race on television.  She  recently enjoyed the action-packed movie “Planet of the Apes”.

The farthest place Barbara has visited from her home is  Japan.  She has also visited Norway, Costa Rica, Argentina, Western Europe, Mexico, Canada, Belize, Guatemala, and  Columbia.  Other exotic places include  New York and Boston!  She states that if  she could live elsewhere, it would be a place that is cool in the summer!  She would love to travel to Turkey, Morroco  and Peru.

Barbara belongs to the Theatre Guild Board and is a docent  at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.  She  is a Deacon at the Presbyterian Church.  She  is also on the Public Arts Board and belongs to a Spanish group.

Someone Barbara truly admires is Hilary Clinton because she  is smart, articulate, and vocalizes Barbara’s beliefs. 

In high school, Barbara participated in Student Council and  Thespians.  Some of the things she is  working on this year is Spanish, sailing and her bridge skills.

If Barbara could have a wish, she would wish for education for women around the world.  She knows  that this would directly cause world peace to be achieved.

Barbara believes her participation in Rotary will directly  make a difference in someone’s life.  I  know it does in ours!