![]() ![]() A man perhaps in his twenties came out and said he wanted to shake the hand of every Shriner in that bus. At the truck stop, I had one of those defining moments, curiously. You know, the stuff guys generally do as teenagers, and living up to the mission of putting some of the boy back into the man. It was bitter cold, and we drove through town acting like, well, Shriners, with the top down, yelling what we thought were zingers to pedestrians, and generally lowering the property values. Salt Lake City guys get their bus weighed. Some Shrines get drunk and bring in the strippers. Patrick's day, about a dozen of us fez-wearing loud-mouths (all perfectly sober, I might add) drove to the suburbs to get their 1939 Yellowstone tour bus weighed at the local truck stop. Something slightly less than the Masonic ideal.Īfter the Shrine parade in Salt Lake City on St. I actually had a man try to sell me on Shrine membership by saying, "You can drink all night for five bucks, and besides, we un-f***-up the crippled kids!" Not all men join the Shrine out of the altruism of helping crippled kids. They are looking for the secret society that has the strippers and the hookers and the county sheriff guarding the door who sees they get home okay. There is no wonder that a certain percentage of men who join the Shrine have specifically come looking for the Shrine they've heard about. Lest anyone forget George Carlin's punctuating 1976 punch line, "Drink up, Shriners." Or 1960's "Bye Bye Birdie's" musical number in which a group of Shriners think a young lady straying into their dinner is the stripper for the evening. And while some of us can sit in the parlor and tsk over it being antithetical to the tenets of Freemasonry (which it is), the Babbitry of the past, combined with the Shrine's post-WWII excesses, has been institutionalized by both the Shrine and the public's perception. Shriners, strippers and hookers have been keeping each other company for over a century. On the one hand, for anyone to say they are shocked - shocked! - to discover Shriners having anything to do with prostitutes is intellectually disingenuous. I'll leave you to discover the BTs blog entries on your own for the details, but there are at least two major investigations going on concerning the group involving prostitution and violation of the federal Mann Act. The Jesters are an invitation-only group within Shrinedom whose motto is "mirth is king," and is considered by some to be an inner circle within the organization. has been much "who-shot-john" going on over at The Burning Taper for the last few weeks over the reporting of scandals involving the Shrine's Royal Order of Jesters. The family would like to thank the Doctors, Nurses and Staff at Soin Medical Center for his care. A celebration of life will be held August 5th at the Dock Food and Spirits. In lieu of flowers, the family would like donations to be made in his name to the Clark County SPCA or the PuPs program in Springfield. Doc will be missed by many in the community. Doc is preceded in death by his father and mother. Doc is survived by his wife of 48 years, Patricia "Patty" (Scaife) Schumann his sister and brother-in-law, Candice Schumann Tobey and Carl Payne Tobey of San Antonio, TX two sons & daughters-in-law, Richard Jeffrey "Jeff" Schumann and his wife, Lori (Castin) Schumann, Ryan Scaife Schumann, and his wife Kelly (Smith) Schumann four grandchildren, Emma, Jackson, Roscoe and Alexandra two nephews, Richard Payne Tobey (Jan) from San Antonio, TX, and John Schumann Tobey several cousins and beloved friends. He was also a member of the Antioch Shrine and Royal Order of Jesters Court 10. Doc was a brother in the Yellow Spring Masonic Lodge 421. He was a member of the Village of Enon Council and served as a Mad River Township Trustee for many years. Doc dedicated a good portion of his life to his civic duty. Along with his passion for the beach later in life Doc was a staple at Sugar Hollow on Norris Lake. Always passionate about the ocean and food, Doc and Patty opened up the Dock Food and Spirits in 1994 in his childhood home. Always an entrepreneur, he started a local suntan, video and frozen yogurt shop, Katch-A-Ray. He went on to live his dream of being a veterinarian and opened Enon Veterinary Hospital in 1974, with his wife Patty. In 1974, he graduated from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Doc graduated from Greenon High School in 1961 and attended Wilmington College, where he graduated in 1965. He attended Culver Military Academy summer program in Indiana, where he was in the cavalry. Doc was an avid equestrian, riding horses in western pleasure shows. ![]() ![]() He was born September 9th, 1943, to Bernice Louise (Cox) Schumann and Richard Jackson "Dick" Schumann. Richard James "Doc" Schumann passed away peacefully February 5th, 2021.
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