Dale Schrumpf M.S. ’73, MBA ’80, May 5, 2014. Dale Schrumpf was born March 3, 1935, in Perryville, Mo., the first of three children.  He attended Missouri School of Mines and then moved to California to work as an engineer, after serving in the Army briefly.  He worked at Sylvania and GE when the microwave was first in development.  He worked at Lockheed Missiles and Space as an engineer in two different time periods, including work on the Space Station.  In between he worked at Quantic Enterprises, where he attained several patents.  He received a Master of Science degree and an MBA from Santa Clara University.  He also had a passion for sales and entrepreneurship.  For many years he traveled the Bay Area with his son, placing Christian books in grocery stores.  He started many of his own businesses, including Satellite Solutions, one of the first distributors of DISH Network systems in the Bay Area.  In his retirement, he enjoyed merchandising and product demonstration jobs, feeding his love of interacting with people.  After moving to Texas, he was able to return to his love of fishing.