His abstract sculptures are on display locally, including at each campus of Chatfield College, where he’s a longtime board member. An ‘Ersatz’ historyĪll the while, he’s kept up with his own art – sculpting and photography. His last job before he “allegedly” retired, as he puts it, was general manager and on-air personality for jazz station WNOP Radio. He spent several years as a freelance photographer so he could “be there to take the kids to school and bring them home.” Mark went on to a varied artistic career: photographer for high school yearbooks librarian for Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library vice president of an ad agency director of creative services at exhibit builder ADEX International. Both also earned master’s degrees from Indiana University (he in library science, she in English). Their careers began similarly, in teaching – Mark at Lloyd High School, where he eventually became a librarian Rosemary at her alma maters of McAuley and Edgecliff. Rosemary quipped back: “She’s only five months old give her some time.” “Except the one who doesn’t speak,” Mark said.
Those children are now raising a combined total of four “interesting” grandchildren, she said. Rosemary describes their four grown children as clever, entertaining and sharing their parents’ affinity for the arts. (It doesn’t look like any other in the neighborhood, they noted). They live in a modern, art-filled Green Township home Mark designed. The two West Side natives celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last Thanksgiving. “He always wanted to do weird stuff,” she said. It definitely wasn’t love at first sight – at least, not for Rosemary.īut he liked her, so he kept asking her out. That last connection was made at a Friends event at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Through Young Friends, “I learned fundraising and marketing, met the Cincinnati philanthropic community, met my husband.” First art, then marriage “I always told Irma she was responsible for my whole life,” Rosemary said.
While attending Edgecliff College in 1968, she joined Young Friends of the Arts and met one of its founders, arts visionary Irma Lazarus. “The arts are like a religion,” she said. Rosemary’s passion was fueled by McAuley High School teachers who brought in symphony performers and took students to live theater. Mark inherited his love of the arts: His family enjoyed performing arts, and his father designed theater sets. “Philanthropy is the best way, as far as I’m concerned, to love other people, help other people, make the world better for other people,” Rosemary said. Today, they give their time, talents and treasure “in spades,” as one nominator put it, to a long list of arts, education and human services organizations. Philanthropists of the Year: Mark and Rosemary Schlacter That shared interest led them to each other – and planted the seed for their philanthropic efforts. Rosemary and Mark Schlachter fell in love with the arts at an early age.
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