page_title: Tubby Schmalz
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Tubby Schmalz / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Clarence Vincent Schmalz gravestone
context_page_description: Clarence Vincent "Tubby" Schmalz was a Canadian ice hockey administrator. He served as vice-president of the Western Ontario Athletic Association from 1940 to 1950, and coached and managed the senior ice hockey team in Walkerton, Ontario. He was elected to the Ontario Hockey Association executive in 1956, and served as its president from 1969 to 1972. He was the first commissioner of the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League, serving from 1974 to 1978. He became vice-chairman of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association in 1979, and was elected its chairman in 1981. He was a graduate of St. Jerome's College, and operated the Hartley House hotel in Walkerton. He served on the Walkerton Town Council for 17 years, including three years as reeve from 1979 to 1981.
  Schmalz began the practice of referee and coach clinics in the OHA, and assisted in development of the National Coaches Certification Program in Canada. He was instrumental during junior ice hockey restructuring that saw Ontario's top tier of hockey evolve into the OHA Major Junior A Series and subsequently into the OMJHL.
context_section_description: Schmalz was nicknamed Tubby due to his physical size. Despite it being politically incorrect, he embraced the nickname and regularly introduced himself with it. He married Dorothy Wolfe Brundritt on December 2, 1969, with whom he had one daughter and three step-daughters. He was a member of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church in Walkerton, and the local Knights of Columbus. He was an amateur ceramic artist had his own kiln at home. 
  Schmalz went on a deer hunting excursion on Manitoulin Island in November 1981 and returned home feeling ill. He died at home in Walkerton, Ontario, on December 7, 1981, due to a massive heart attack. He was interred at Calvary Cemetery in Walkerton, and his pallbearers were colleagues from hockey his career, including Murray Costello and Bill Long.
caption: Schmalz's gravestone in Calvary Cemetery
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