Forfar Family News -
April 2002
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Forfar Family News -
April 2002
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Forfar Family News is an update on family history research for Scott-Dalgity descendants and family who share a Scottish connection through Forfar and New Scotland (Nova Scotia) where David and Jeannie settled 200 years ago.
| The news that Marcy Scott was awarded
an Honorary Doctorate
by Lake Forest
College, has come as great news of an outstanding individual with a
stellar
career. Born blind, Marcy refused to be limited by the fact and earned
two
Masters degrees and became an educator at the world-famous Perkins
School
for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts. Like her grandparents,
Walter
Dill Scott and Anna Marcy (Miller) Scott, who both gained PhD's by
studying
in the German language, Marcy discovered an ability to learn languages
while
young. In the Caribbean while on vacation at the age of 14, Marcy heard
the
voices of the native speakers in Spanish, and realized that she could
follow
their words. She later studied in Spain and taught in South
America
and is equally fluent in French. Her graduate work includes research on
Special
Education and she is also a musician.
The citation from Marcy's convocation at Lake Forest College is a moving tribute to a remarkable individual - Dr. Marcy Scott. |
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A recent article in the
Northwestern Alumni News
called
The Great Scotts tells of the continuing connections of
the
Illinois branch of
the family with Northwestern University in Evanston IL. Although
even
more family connections to Northwestern exist, the individuals named
give
an indication of the abiding family connections with the institution
from
1887 to the present.
Over that time, Northwestern grew from serving a local need to being an internationally recognized institution. Although it was 1939, when Dr. Walter Dill Scott retired as President of Northwestern at the age of 70, his alma mater continues to note that he is "known for saving Northwestern from a financial crisis and making it one of the nation's best universities" during his tenure. |
| A family artifact which first intrigued me as a child when discovered in our Wolfville, Nova Scotia attic, has gradually begun to tell its story. 40 years ago I asked, where did this come from? , and gradually answers now emerge. The 1796 model British military sword was recently authenticated as being the model of sword that could have been worn by a Sergeant stationed with the Royal Artillery in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1803. The story of how the sword arrived in our attic had never been told until Fred Scott of Ste Croix, NS, age 90 revealed the answer when I asked him the question, where did this sword come from? . Learn more about unravelling the mystery of, The Sword in the Attic . |
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 Nancy & Mark Alexander's Site . |
The arrival of two new family history
web sites, created by
relatives help to tell the story of various branches of the
family. Both sites launched within recent weeks and tell, through
pictures and text important family stories. You are invited to explore
these welcome additions - the web
sites of
Michael Wilson and of Nancy and Mark
Alexander. (Ed note - sorry links no longer currrent in 2017) |
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| Easter 2000 was a special family occasion when a possible link between two main branches of the family was confirmed when papers were located in Nova Scotia. The papers also helped links a modern generation of descendants within those two branches, restoring communication that had been broken for 100 years. The story of that connection begins here - Finding Lost Connections. | |
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