RICHARD Schooley
for Deputy Mayor
ABOUT RICHARD
Born in Ottawa, Richard moved to Perth during high school when his father’s insurance business brought their family here. Richard graduated from PDCI while serving as co-president of Student Council. It was on student council that
he met his wife, Karen. They moved to Toronto
for four years, where Richard worked as a property, casualty insurance underwrite and Karen obtained her RN while training at TGH.
When they moved back to Perth, Richard joined
Glenn Crain’s growing insurance brokerage at 49 Gore East. Five years later, Crain & Schooley Insurance Brokers Ltd was formed and moved to 81 Gore. That same year they opened a first Branch Office in Carleton Place. At retirement,
the firm operated from five offices with a staff
of over sixty. In all, Richard spent 47 years in business on Gore Street.
Together, Karen and Richard raised three children — all Stewart School and PDCI graduates.
Today, their adult children along with their six wonderful grandchildren live within 20 minutes of them — Karen and Richard feel truly blessed.
Two of their children are the third generation
of Schooley’s managing an insurance
business in Perth.
Richard is a graduate Fellow of the Insurance Institute of Canada (FCIP); a graduate member
of the Canadian Insurance and Risk Management Society (CRM) and a past Territorial Director for the Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario.
For five decades, Richard dedicated his life to consistent change management in business strategies. In order for Perth to progress we need Richard’s expertise and strategies for success
to guarantee our growth into the future.