KEUKA PARK, N.Y.-- Doris Brooks Scott '50 received the Eleanor Judd Wilkes Service to Keuka Award at the Keuka College Alumni Association Reunion breakfast Saturday, August 1. This annual award was one of several presentations given during the Keuka College Alumni Reunion Week, where approximately 200 alumni and their families visited the College and celebrated over the course of one week.

"I was most honored to receive this award," Scott said. "It was particularly meaningful as I had worked in the College bookstore with Eleanor. I know she too would be proud as she taught me the true meaning of service to Keuka." Scott was also pleased that three of her four daughters, and her classmate Barbara Murray Young '50 were in attendance at the presentation. Many members of the Binghamton Alumni club and Scott's friends from Apalachin, New York were there as well.

Scott has been generating support for the College for nearly 50 years. Even before she graduated in 1950, Scott agreed to help Keuka raise money from potention donors in the New York City area. While attending graduate school at Columbia University, Scott organized and became the first president of the Long Island Keuka Club. She also assisted then College president Dr. Katherine Blyley with planning and organizing the first Houseparty Reunion.

After marrying Dr. John Scott and moving to Philadelphia in the mid-1950s, Scott continued her service to Keuka by re-energizing the Philadelphia Keuka Club. She soon became its president, and initiated a myriad of programs and activities to benefit local alumni. In a later move to Apalachin, New York, Scott engaged in alumni activities that ranged from recruiting prospective students, to planning regional events, to soliciting her peers for gifts, to providing advice to Keuka's social work students.

Since 1984, Scott has served as treasurer of the Binghamton Area Keuka Club, a club that has consistently provided generous support to Keuka's scholarship funds. She was elected president of the Class of 1950 in 1989, and has been a reunion organizer for many years. Scott was Keuka's representative to the Consortium of Independent Colleges and Universities in the early 1980s, and she also assisted with planning for Keuka's Centennial Celebration in 1990.

Most recently, Scott has been a leader in raising money for Keuka College. As co-chair of the President's Circle Committee from 1993 to 1995, and a member of that committee since 1995, Scott's leadership has resulted in thousands of dollars of support for the Keuka Fund.

"Over the years, Doris has consistently made 'giving to Keuka' a prionty," said Joan Braun '63, President of the Keuka College Alumni Association, who presented Scott the award. "Her service as a club and class leader, as an event planner, as a philanthropist, as an admissions recruiter, and as an advocate and cheerleader for Keuka College is sincerely appreciated and recognized as a wonderful example for all Keukonians who aspire to serve their alma mater."

Throughout its history, Keuka College has benefited from generous alumni who have made service to Keuka a pnority in their lives. Since 1951, the Keuka College Alumni Association has recognized several individuals and regional Keuka clubs for their extraordinary volunteer service, philanthropic support, and leadership on behalf of their alma mater.