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139 AN T I OC H CO L L E G E C L A S S O F 19 6 5 5 0 t h A N N I V E R S A R Y B O O K A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z S C O T T immunology job at the Fels Institute and then applied to grad school as I was running out of money for tu- ition. Luckily, University of Chicago accepted me without a degree so off I went to the South Side! To make a long story short(er), I got my M.S. in Chicago and then moved to Yale for my Ph.D. in immunology! Never got my B.S. or even B.A. from Antioch. Moving to New Haven was a bless- ing as that is where I met my wife, Judy Gold,who was aVassar junior at the time. Forty-seven years and four moves later we have two wonder- ful, talented sons, Jason, who runs a green investment company in New York, and Joshua, who is a graphic artist living in Rockville, Md., near us.They blessed us with four beau- tiful grandkids, Kaia (2005), Jedi (2008), Ella (2008) and Layla (2013), all adorable, of course. Jedi is in the photo with President-elect Obama at right. CURRENT ACADEMIC POSI T ION: professor of medicine (immunology) at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; research to treat undesirable immune responses, as in autoimmunity; administration as vice chair for research. Honors include Dean’s Professor ship (endowed chair, University of Rochester), numerous visiting pro- fessorships, Distinguished Service Award, American Association of Immunologists (as education chair focusing on K–12) and Boerhaave Professorship at Leiden University Medical School,The Netherlands. My academic career looks good on paper: Antioch, Chicago, Yale, Oxford. I then took a circuitous but seemingly direct academic route. After going to Oxford as a post-doc- toral fellow, my first academic job was at Duke (12 years) where I be- came a tenured professor.Then U of Rochester as head of immunology at the Cancer Center (for 11 win- ters), then 10 years at American Red Cross Labs in Rockville, Md., until research unit was dissolved and we all moved to University of Maryland in Baltimore. Four years ago, I took my current job, a bike ride away. Hallelujah! Except for government furloughs and a f lat salary, I am happy and have developed a respect for the folks here! During academic life, I had one sabbatical in Australia and one in London,plus several mini- sabbaticals in Alberta, La Jolla, Basel, Freiburg, Leiden and Paris. Antioch taught me how to pack quickly! I have been fortunate to live in many places, rub shoulders with brilliant scientists, and have NIH (and foun- dation) research funding for four de- cades. Victories are in the eyes of the beholder but I have a few achieve- ments (beyond the gifts my kids give in their lives). Serving as education chair at both the American Society for Microbiology and the American Association of Immunologists gave me great satisfaction working with K–12 teachers and kids! I was able to convince leadership at AAI and secure funding for teachers to do research in immunology labs and to then convert that experience into new curricular tools, a program that is ongoing. I even had a lesson called “Using Balloons to teach immu- nology” ( www.aai.org/Education/ Resources/Scott_Using.html; see next page). At Rochester, I started the Rochester Al l iance Promoting I have been lucky to have been born when I was born, grow up in quieter times, be enriched, challenged and inspired by Antioch, my colleagues and my family. We live in Bethesda, Md., and have a share in a beach house in N.C., which we don’t get to use enough!