Gary A. Scott Le Roy High School Scholarship

11/06/2022

06/25/2022

This year’s recipient of the Gary Scott Award is Taeya Starkey. She has struggled to succeed, against great odds. She moved between foster homes and attended half a dozen schools prior to moving to LeRoy with new foster home guardians.
Further, demonstrating her determination and grit was her ability to go from the BOCES technology program to the academic LeRoy program in the last two years
She has chosen a non-traditional field for women to succeed in (diesel mechanics) and has volunteered to recruit women to technical training, by encouraging them to join her in these non-traditional fields that ultimately pay better than many more glamorous jobs. The Gary Scott scholarship for her is $10,000. She will attend Alfred State this Fall.
Pictured here as well as her foster parents is Kathy Damann, Gary’s cousin with the retiring vice-principal Lynda Lowe.

06/07/2022

Memorial Day '22. Jane and Stefano placing flags in Alexandria National Cemetery.

07/12/2021

Memorial Day '21 interview with Jim and Kathy Damann.

07/12/2021

First, a visit to Highland Park Vietnam Memorial. Then the Le Roy High School 2021 Honors Night recognizes Felicity Wieseltier and Delcina Cassidy each with $4,000 scholarships in honor of Gary's sacrifice.

11/12/2020

03/25/2018

Such a waste of a good life with great promise.
50 years ago this week 2nd Lt Gary Scott, Platoon Leader, 101st Airborne was killed in an ambush south of Hue, Vietnam.
His Corpsman reported Gary saved his life – no surprise.
In “Letters Home from Vietnam”, Gary’s radioman said, “Gary could not understand the whys of this conflict that called him 10,000 miles from home.”
Gary graduated at the top of his ROTC class – he had choices. When I asked him why the Infantry he said, “There were not enough African-Americans in leadership positions in this country”
I still ask, why should Gary and other non-Caucasians feel it is necessary to earn acceptance in our country – even today. My parents were immigrants, his weren’t. Enough.

07/08/2017

Lt Gary Scott, a '67 graduate of Syracuse University and a platoon leader with the 101st Airborne, was killed in an ambush in Vietnam in March 1968.