{"id":18112,"date":"2016-04-19T15:39:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T15:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=18112"},"modified":"2016-04-19T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T15:39:29","slug":"martha-lou-scott-still-inspiring-students-after-45-years-at-baylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2016\/04\/martha-lou-scott-still-inspiring-students-after-45-years-at-baylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha Lou Scott: Still inspiring students after 45 years at Baylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18114\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/marthalou-apr16.jpg\" alt=\"Drs. Kevin Jackson and Martha Lou Scott\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/marthalou-apr16.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/marthalou-apr16-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/marthalou-apr16-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/student_life\/index.php?id=925531\" target=\"_blank\">Martha Lou Scott<\/a>&#8216;s leadership potential became apparent while she\u00a0was still a Baylor undergraduate student. Five months before she earned her diploma, university administrators made sure Martha Lou would\u00a0be sticking around campus after graduation, hiring her for a job in the\u00a0Office of Women\u2019s Residence Halls.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-five years later, multiple generations of Baylor students have benefitted from\u00a0that one simple decision.<\/p>\n<p>Now <em>Dr.<\/em> Martha Lou Scott,\u00a0BS\u2019 71, EDD \u201984, the longtime Baylor Bear was\u00a0honored earlier this year\u00a0for her 45 years of service to the university. Over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qoDeUtp5D00\" target=\"_blank\">nearly half a century<\/a>, the\u00a0leadership qualities that were\u00a0first noticed as a student have led Martha Lou\u00a0from the residence halls all the way to her current role as associate vice president for student life.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qoDeUtp5D00?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Along the way, she\u2019s impacted thousands of students en route to their own leadership roles here at Baylor and beyond.\u00a0She still hears from many of them, whether via personal correspondence or broad public messages &#8212; like the dozens of comments left on a pair of recent\u00a0Baylor Facebook posts\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/61388081925\/photos\/a.61505216925.69631.61388081925\/10153956902591926\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/61388081925\/videos\/vb.61388081925\/10154021652826926\/?type=2&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). Words like \u201cinspiration,\u201d \u201cmentor,\u201d \u201crole model,\u201d \u201cleader\u201d and \u201cangel\u201d appear over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you think of poise, you think of Martha Lou,\u201d says Jordan Hannah, BA \u201910, a Baylor staff member who has worked\u00a0with Martha Lou as both a student leader and as a colleague. \u201cThe thing I appreciate most about her is her ability to be in the moment with you no matter what goes on around her. Her responsibilities are so wide-ranging and no day is a cakewalk for her. She helps lead a division of hundreds of people. Despite all of that, she gives students her undivided attention when they\u2019re with her, really paying attention and interacting with you. She\u2019s constructive, graceful and uplifting, and she does it for more students than you could count. I honestly don\u2019t know how she does it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After 45 years, it\u2019s tributes like those to people like Martha Lou that\u00a0embody what Baylor is all about.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Martha Lou Scott!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martha Lou Scott&#8216;s leadership potential became apparent while she\u00a0was still a Baylor undergraduate student. Five months before she earned her diploma, university administrators made sure Martha Lou would\u00a0be sticking around campus after graduation, hiring her for a job in the\u00a0Office of Women\u2019s Residence Halls. Forty-five years later, multiple generations of Baylor students have benefitted from\u00a0that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-honors","category-service","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}