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American chef (1954 2015)

Walter Stanley Scheib III (May 3, 1954 – June 13, 2015) was an American chef who was White House Executive Chef from 1994 until 2005.

Scheib was born on May 3, 1954, in Oakland, California, His father worked for the Atomic Energy Commission, and his mother was an accountant. The Scheibs moved to Bethesda, Maryland, when Walter was a young boy. Scheib's favorite television programs were The Galloping Gourmet with Graham Kerr and The French Chef with Julia Child. He asked his mother to allow him to chop vegetables or prepare food so often, that in time he became extremely proficient at cooking and was allowed to prepare all the family's meals. In 1990, he took a position as the executive chef at The Greenbrier, a luxury resort near White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. and French born and trained chef Pierre Chambrin, who succeeded Raffert, was asked to resign in March 1994 after refusing to cook the low fat American cuisine favored by President Bill and First Lady Hillary Clinton. Most of Chambrin's staff were also asked to leave. Mrs. Clinton was impressed with Scheib's managerial skills and ability to prepare hundreds of first class meals in a short period of time. Scheib auditioned before the First Lady and several other women and a 24 ounce porterhouse steak with béarnaise sauce and onion rings whenever the First Lady was absent. created major problems for the kitchen staff, who could no longer use the same utensils and pans for cooking meat and vegetables. After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Scheib's cooking duties were largely restricted to the First Family, as all social engagements at the White House were curtailed for nearly a year. He was succeeded in August 2005 by Cristeta Comerford, a White House sous chef whom Scheib had hired in 1995. During both the Clinton and Bush administrations, Scheib usually served three meals a day to the First Family.

Scheib went hiking in Taos, New Mexico, and went missing on June 13, 2015. He was found dead on June 21, 2015. An autopsy revealed that Scheib died from drowning on or about June 13. A precise date of death was not determined, as the cold water temperature of the ravine preserved his body in a manner that made it impossible to determine when exactly he had died. The area where he was hiking is prone to flash floods, and thunderstorms had struck the area the day he went missing.

Scheib met his first wife, Jean Prince, at the Capital Hilton, where she was working as a chef. The couple had two sons, Walter S. Scheib IV (born in 1988) and James Prince (born in 1991). Their marriage ended in divorce. Scheib then married Yvonne Swartz; their marriage also ended in divorce.