Early Years
Schalon was the ninth of eleven children born in 1920 to a German Lutheran family in St. Joseph, Michigan. Schalon began golfing at age 14 and became captain of the St. Joseph High School golf team. He was later inducted into the St. Joseph High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
After graduating from St. Joseph High School, Schalon worked for Industrial Rubber Co. When the United States entered World War II, Schalon enlisted in the U.S. Naval Air Corps, where he served as a carrier-based bomber escort pilot with squadron VC-65 in the Pacific Theater.
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