I just found this on E-Watchman's forum...
http://e-jehovahs-witnesses.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=822&st=40
Judah Shroeder was listed as Deputy Director of Public Affairs as of 2000 and was heavily involved in helping the organization defend itself
against Russia and France. He will apparently soon graduate Columbia Law School. Good for him and anyone else who decides to fill their
empty head, as far as I am concerned! Apostle Paul was one of the most educated men of his era and he didn't do so badly in Jehovah's
service. I never understood why higher education is so devalued by WT in light of that.
Also...
Below are the orbituaries for Albert Schroeder and Dan Sydlik
http://e-jehovahs-witnesses.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=822&st=20
FYI Brothers and Sisters: Still curious as to why no announcement of these two deaths were not on the WTS "official" websites!
Notes on the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses
Translated and adapted from Aquila's French pages
Albert D. Schroeder (1911-2006)
Albert D. Schroeder was born on April 7, 1911 in Saginaw (Michigan, E.U.A.)
His maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Darger, used to associate with the Bible Students during World War I. In 1923 Schroeder found the publications of the Bible Students.
First he had the "earthly hope", but after his baptism, in July 24, 1932, in Vandercook Lake, he decided he wanted to be of the "anointed".
On September 13, 1932 he enters to Brooklyn Bethel.
In 1937, when he was only 26 years old, Schroeder is sent by Rutherford to England, to 'put order in the house' among the Jehovah's Witnesses. On May 6, 1942, the English government declared him persona non grata and expulsed him from the country.
He then returns to the U.S.A., and Nathan H. Knorr, third president of the Jehovah's Witnesses, appoints him as secretary and president of the Committee that will organize the Gilead Biblical School (training of missionaries of Jehovah's Witnesses). The school is inaugurated in February of 1943.
In 1955, at an assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses in Europe, Schroeder met Charlotte Bowin (born 1920), who had belonged to the 1st Gilead class in 1943 and had been missionary in Mexico and El Salvador. They married in August of 1956 and had a son called Judah in February of 1958.
On December 18, 1974 Schroeder was appointed to the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Died March 8, 2006. Sources: w83 3/1 10-17; w85 12/1 26 (French).
Daniel Sydlik (1919-2006)
Daniel Sydlik was born in February 1919, near Belleville, Michigan (U.S.A.), where his family lived in a farm. Sydlik had a difficult childhood: his father, who belonged to the Bible Students, died when he was 3 years old and his mother had to raise the 6 children.
At the end of the 1930s, Sydlik started to show interest for the Jehovah's Witnesses. In September of 1941 he became pioneer and in 1942 became special pioneer in San Pedro (California, U.S.A.) and in Richmond (San Francisco, U.S.A.)
In the Second World War, the government refused to give him the status of Christian minister. Sydlik is judged and in 1944 is condemned to 3 years of forced labor.
He is freed in 1946 and goes to Hollywood as a pioneer.
Sometime after that, Milton G. Henschel (at the time secretary of President Nathan H. Knorr) invites him to Bethel. Sydlik accepts and starts service on October 20, 1946.
At Bethel, he helps in the writing service for 20 years. He is appointed member of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York and Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania.
Sydlik is married to Marina, a young girl from Hebburn, England.
On November 28, 1974, he was appointed to the Governing Body.
Died April 18, 2006. Source: w85 6/1 21-26 (French).
