Schuck was born in Brooklyn in 1895 and became a volunteer Scoutmaster at age 18 in 1913, while working in a Newark, New Jersey factory.

[1] He started his professional work with the BSA in 1917, serving Pennsylvania councils in Lancaster and Reading.

[1] When Schuck became a Professional Scouter, he sought to teach boys "to live in friendship without regard for race, creed or color", said the New York Times forty years later in its coverage of the 1957 National Scout Jamboree in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

[2] As Chief Scout Executive, Schuck said the principal purpose of the BSA is: "To give to America a new generation of men of character, with ingrained qualities that make for good citizenship".

[3] In 1957 he received the highest distinction of the Scout Association of Japan, the Golden Pheasant Award.