Duane Schroeder ’58
Waverly, Iowa
Schroeder owns the second-longest tenure among the country’s sports information directors with 42 years of service as Wartburg’s SID. He joined the college’s public relations office in 1958, when former public relations director Norm Fintel offered him a full-time job the day after he graduated. He became one of the people on the ground floor of CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) when former Luther SID Warren Berg called him in 1959.
Schroeder was awarded the Warren Berg award in 1998 and will return to the CoSIDA convention next summer to receive the association’s Lifetime Achievement award. He was part of nearly 400 football games and more than 1,500 basketball and baseball games in his sports information career. He served as a student sportswriter, managing editor, sports editor, and business manager for the Wartburg Trumpet from 1954 to 1958 and was a part-time statistician in the Wartburg public relations office as well.