1940
Sigmund
2020
Sigmund Albert Schildcrout
December 17, 1940 — August 15, 2020
Sigmund Albert Schildcrout, PhD, MBA, 79, of Mount Pleasant, SC died August 15, 2020.
Born in the Bronx, New York, Sig is the eldest of Benjamin and Sylvia (Bass) Schildcrout's three children (Michael and Alice). His family's small apartment on East Tremont and Bronx Park Avenue was the center of festivities for extended family in the New York City area. He graduated from New York's High School of Music & Art in 1957, where he played the viola, though his true passion was handball. After graduating from the City College of New York in the early 1960s, he received a M.S. from the University of Maryland, before earning a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic University in 1966.
Sig began his career as a pharmaceutical engineer with Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, Indiana in April 1967. He stayed with Eli Lilly until his retirement in April 2001. It was in Indianapolis that he and Terry Schildcrout raised their four children. While in his 50s, he earned an M.B.A. from Butler University for no other purpose than to learn, attending night classes for seven consecutive years.
Upon relocating to Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina in 2005, he pursued numerous volunteer activities in support of the local community, which he felt had so welcomed him. Among them, he served the under-served as a tax preparer at the local public library, and engaged in efforts with the Jewish Community Relations Counsel to improve relations between Jewish and African-American communities in the Charleston area.
A man of many hats and metaphors, Sig was a lifetime learner who modeled an engaged life in retirement: reading voraciously, enthusiastically participating in lectures, playing in bridge tournaments and tutoring friends, and zestfully dancing in exercise classes and at family and community events. He maintained a healthy lifestyle by exercising daily (often more frequently), nurturing new friendships, and provoking intellectual discourse via letters to editors and club activities. He was that neighbor who said it was no trouble to mow your yard since he already had his mower out. Above all else, he was a devoted father who treasured his relationships with his children and his 3 Yorkshire Terriers.
He is survived by his daughter Jenifer, his sons Jonathan (Colleen Mallea), Jeremy (Jessica Lipschultz) and Jordan (Elba); granddaughters Alexia, Sylvie and Sabina; brother Michael; sister Alice (Tom) Lloyd; niece Rebecca Lloyd; nephew Ben Lloyd.
Contributions in his memory may be made to Chabad of Charleston and the Low Country or the Yaschik Jewish Studies Center at the College of Charleston.
Graveside funeral services were held at Mt. Pleasant Memorial Gardens on Monday, August 17, 2020. Arrangements are being made by J. Henry Stuhr, Inc. Mount Pleasant.
Please join the family via ZOOM for Shiva in Sig's memory, hosted by Temple Israel in Minneapolis at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, August 20, 2020.
https://templeisrael.zoom.us/j/92762023462?pwd=OENaYXhTaHhvdFY2Qmo5VTlxaFUyUT09
Meeting ID: 927 6202 3462
Password: 508976
Born in the Bronx, New York, Sig is the eldest of Benjamin and Sylvia (Bass) Schildcrout's three children (Michael and Alice). His family's small apartment on East Tremont and Bronx Park Avenue was the center of festivities for extended family in the New York City area. He graduated from New York's High School of Music & Art in 1957, where he played the viola, though his true passion was handball. After graduating from the City College of New York in the early 1960s, he received a M.S. from the University of Maryland, before earning a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic University in 1966.
Sig began his career as a pharmaceutical engineer with Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, Indiana in April 1967. He stayed with Eli Lilly until his retirement in April 2001. It was in Indianapolis that he and Terry Schildcrout raised their four children. While in his 50s, he earned an M.B.A. from Butler University for no other purpose than to learn, attending night classes for seven consecutive years.
Upon relocating to Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina in 2005, he pursued numerous volunteer activities in support of the local community, which he felt had so welcomed him. Among them, he served the under-served as a tax preparer at the local public library, and engaged in efforts with the Jewish Community Relations Counsel to improve relations between Jewish and African-American communities in the Charleston area.
A man of many hats and metaphors, Sig was a lifetime learner who modeled an engaged life in retirement: reading voraciously, enthusiastically participating in lectures, playing in bridge tournaments and tutoring friends, and zestfully dancing in exercise classes and at family and community events. He maintained a healthy lifestyle by exercising daily (often more frequently), nurturing new friendships, and provoking intellectual discourse via letters to editors and club activities. He was that neighbor who said it was no trouble to mow your yard since he already had his mower out. Above all else, he was a devoted father who treasured his relationships with his children and his 3 Yorkshire Terriers.
He is survived by his daughter Jenifer, his sons Jonathan (Colleen Mallea), Jeremy (Jessica Lipschultz) and Jordan (Elba); granddaughters Alexia, Sylvie and Sabina; brother Michael; sister Alice (Tom) Lloyd; niece Rebecca Lloyd; nephew Ben Lloyd.
Contributions in his memory may be made to Chabad of Charleston and the Low Country or the Yaschik Jewish Studies Center at the College of Charleston.
Graveside funeral services were held at Mt. Pleasant Memorial Gardens on Monday, August 17, 2020. Arrangements are being made by J. Henry Stuhr, Inc. Mount Pleasant.
Please join the family via ZOOM for Shiva in Sig's memory, hosted by Temple Israel in Minneapolis at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, August 20, 2020.
https://templeisrael.zoom.us/j/92762023462?pwd=OENaYXhTaHhvdFY2Qmo5VTlxaFUyUT09
Meeting ID: 927 6202 3462
Password: 508976
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