The following memorial was posted online with the April 1, 2015, issue.
Scott was born in LaGrange, Ga., but completed his secondary education at Riverdale Country School in New York City. He entered Princeton in the engineering program, but switched his major to economics in sophomore year. He did, however, maintain his ties to engineering, serving as editor-in-chief of The Princeton Engineer and as vice president of the engineering council. He was also vice president of the Glee Club. He took his meals at Tower and he played IAA touch football and softball.
Right after graduation, Scott embarked on marriage, to Cynthia Comer, and on graduate studies in business management. He received his MBA in 1964 from Emory University. After graduate school, Scott “joined the rat race in Macon, Ga.,” as he wrote in our 20th reunion handbook, and five years later “began phasing out of the rat race” by becoming business manager at Mercer University in Macon. While at Mercer, he developed a curriculum in business administration.
In 1971, he moved his family to Switzerland, where he became a professor of accounting and finance at the American College in Leysin. In 1980, he made a remarkable career change, taking up dairy farming in Vermont. Sadly, Cynthia, the mother of his three children, died one year later. Scott went back to the education world in 1983, teaching accounting at Champlain College in Burlington, Vt., for two years; then in 1985 he joined the Burlington office of H&R Block as a tax preparer.
Scott died March 9, 1995, in Vermont. He was survived by his wife, Prudence, and his children. His brother, Jim ’64, died in 1990. One club mate recalled Scott as a “quiet friend with no pretense and a lively sense of humor.” In the 25th reunion book, Scott wrote that he “preferred to avoid the limelight.”