Christopher Scott ’66

Christopher Scott ’66 was born on July 22, 1945, in Chicago and passed away at Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital in Sumter, South Carolina, on June 7. Chris graduated from Evanston Township (Illinois) High School and went on to major in journalism at Dartmouth and earned an M.B.A. at Tuck. He served in the U.S. Navy and was stationed in Dunoon, Scotland, on a submarine tender in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Chris started his career as a certified public accountant at Price Waterhouse and then moved on to Xerox in Stamford, Connecticut, where he and his wife, Sheryl, raised their two daughters. Chris later worked at Novartis, based in Parsippany, New Jersey. He traveled around the country and internationally as an internal auditor, a job he enjoyed because of its similarity to detective work. In 2001 he moved to Sumter to assist his mother after his father’s death. He is survived by daughters Lara and Paige; son-in-law Chris; sister Barbara; brother-in-law Mozette; grandchildren Silas, Jasper, and Etta; grandnieces Dasia and Kaia; and numerous cousins.