Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Appleton Post-Crescent: Your Fox Cities News Source - 'Way of life' leads to millions raised

Appleton Post-Crescent: Your Fox Cities News Source - 'Way of life' leads to millions raised: "Way of life' leads to millions raised

Founder of U.S. Oil Open honored for philanthropy

By Kara Patterson
Post-Crescent staff writer

When Bill Schmidt of U.S. Oil Co. Inc. recruits sponsors for the company's signature golf outing and fundraiser, he isn't asking of them anything that he wouldn't take on himself.

Schmidt, the company's chairman emeritus, founded the U.S. Oil Open in 1986 as a member of the company's executive team with the expectation that U.S. Oil would cover all event-related and administrative costs."

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