Norman A. Schuele III

Norman Andrew Schuele, III, known as 'Sandy, of Scituate, MA, passed away on August 11, 2025 in hospice care, due to complications of lymphoma. He was born August 18, 1949, in White Plains, NY. His childhood upbringing was in Princeton, NJ, and is where he lived for thirty-seven years. Attending Princeton High School, class of 1967, his ability to conceptualize mathematical relationships was noteworthy. He was selected to be taught Fortran, an imperative programming language, at the Forestal Research Center. Subsequently, he used Princeton University's Computer Center to formulate a computer program which he dubbed 'Date Mate'. This program was used to raise funds for the hospital at the annual Princeton Hospital Fete. An American Field Service exchange student, among the first four students ever sent to Paraguay by AFS, he attended and taught English at the Collegio Nacional in Concepcion. Returning from Paraguay, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs requested that based on this experience he deliver a presentation. Sandy, and several other of his like-minded classmates at PHS, successfully promoted for both a golf team and an ice hockey team be added to the Athletic Dept.'s sports' program.
He matriculated with the Class of 1971 at St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY. During his freshman year the Admissions Office asked him if he would act the role as an incoming freshman in the promotional film being filmed on campus starring Kirk Douglas. At night he tutored math on the Akwesasne Indian Reservation, home to the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe. Sandy attended McKendree College in Lebanon, IL, for one semester and Skidmore College during a Winter Term, graduating from St. Lawrence with a BA degree and honors, majoring in Sociology.
Previous to embarking on a career in banking and finance in NYC, he was employed by S T Peterson and Co., Monmouth JCT., an Industrial General Contractor, having been hired by the Pres. of the NJ Building Contractors' Association who met regularly with the Nixon Administration which had imposed wage and price controls bracketing union contracts. This influenced his outlook on the overall economy and business in general. Weekends, whenever Carnegie Lake was frozen, Sandy's other job was to skate its entire length to safeguard skaters from thin ice. This timeframe was before lifebuoys had been installed on the lake's banks, and before to skate Carnegie's length became restricted.
Though growing up in what was a small town, when he started commuting to Lower Manhattan, he soon realized his aspiration to succeed in such an environment would be wholly determined by what he could do solely for others. A prerequisite for Sandy to be hired by Bank of New York, 48 Wall Street, in its Treasurer's Department was that he attend NYU's Leonard Stern School of Business. As the next 28 years unfolded, Sandy was an asset manager, classified as a 'major trader' by the CFTC which monitored his positions if they reached a certain threshold, was a bond salesman, and quoted in periodicals such as the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. The US Justice Dept. once relied upon him as a resource regarding market manipulation in the US Treasury Bond Market. Eventually, he became a trusted adviser for several Central Banks pertaining to the inherent risk to their US Dollar Reserves. He also was asked to speak about the underpinnings of the Capital Markets that are not so apparent.
Sandy believed the benefit of his career was meeting people from cultures and lifestyles who shared with him their differing perspectives. Having had a private dinner with Herschel Walker in 1982, the evening before Herschel was awarded the Heisman Trophy, he found particularly gratifying since Sandy's fraternal grandfather had been Cleveland's quarterback in 1919 and 1920. He appreciated Muhammad Ali's perspective on life, reflected by his dedication alone, and enjoyed sitting at ringside. An unexpected personal invitation from SAMA to travel to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia after Ramadan, resulted from this mutual respect. The opportunity to play golf at Springdale Golf Club with a high ranking CCP official traveling from Beijing, - though Sandy no longer was a member of the club where Harry Kinnell taught him golf, nor did he reside any longer in Princeton, - further fostered his understanding of another cultural background foreign to his.
Over Sandy's career he worked at eighteen different financial institutions. When he was 52 years old, he closed this revolving door by opening an office on Fifth Avenue in mid-town Manhattan. Shortly thereafter he moved his office to Lebanon, NH.
Sandy felt that working was meant to be a means to an end. He chose what that end was, with no illusion, and enjoyed living life by being rooted to a community and being able to surround himself with those dear to him.
He had served on Princeton Borough's Zoning Board of Adjustment, had been a former member of Springdale Golf Club and a former member of The Bedens Brook Club.
Sandy's dear sister, Caitlin Ward Schuele, predeceased him. Mary Ellen Sable, an older sibling, and her husband, Edwin E. Sable, reside in Topeka, Kansas. First cousins live in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, Buffalo, NY, Phoenix, Arizona and Camarillo, California.
Services will be private in Cornish, NH.