Bob Schmidt
My wife Gerrie and I joined Friends in the City in 2009. We have been residents of Center City since 2007, the year we moved here from New York. I am a proud native of the great state of New Jersey, and studied journalism and broadcast communications at the American University in Washington, DC. My career in broadcasting, mostly in news, spanned 46 years with stops in Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. For 34 of those years I was a network radio news correspondent, first at NBC and later for the bulk of my career at ABC. I produced and anchored hourly news broadcasts and on occasion reported from the field. I covered numerous disasters, presidential campaigns, Desert Shield and Desert Storm (from Jordan,Saudi Arabia and Kuwait), and in 2003 I was embedded with the 3rd Infantry to cover Operation Iraqi Freedom, which culminated in the US invasion of Iraq. Since my retirement, I have been an active volunteer with the American Red Cross, serving as a disaster responder, shelter supervisor and instructor. Gerrie and I have been married for 55 years, have a son and daughter, and 3 wonderful grandchildren.