Stephen Scott:
CLASS OF 1972
Ponca City High SchoolClass of 1972
Ponca city, OK
Stephen's Story
Greetings! After high school, I lived a greatly varied life. Tried Northern Oklahoma College for one year and gave up; Married my high school sweetheart; raced motocross for several years; divorced high school sweetheart; played night clubs with several bands; joined the Army for 2 years; found second wife; went to work for Conoco in R&D, then Geophysics, then Telecommunications divisions (almost 17 years); had a daughter; crew chiefed for 2nd wife's open wheel racing career; divorced second wife; worked communications for the NFL for several super bowls; worked communications for two indy car races; worked communications for several Colorado State Winter Special Olympics events; worked with each Ponca City elementary school to design and install sound systems in each one, East Jr. High, the High School and the field house; finally found the right wife (3rd time was a charm-the previous wives were training so I would appreciate the right one when she came along!); enjoyed horses and llamas for a few years; played several years with the Good Ol'Boys band; worked for Warner Brothers for several months during the shooting of the movie "Twister;" served for 6 years as a commissioner on the Osage County Rural Water District board; was downsized from Conoco; gained enough insight and inspiration to return to college and graduated from OSU with my EE; joined the U.S. Department of State in Diplomatic Security and t...Expand for more
raveled the world engineering security systems for consulates and embassies for several years (including living in Moscow for 2 years, and in Kuala Lumpur for 3 years); received 3 meritorious honor awards for special activities; returned to Washington DC as a Branch Chief over Technical Surveillance Countermeasures; joined the National Nuclear Security Administration (Department of Energy) where I am the Sr. Technical Security Engineer for the Nevada Site Office. Currently I engineer and administer security for the largest U.S. Government test site and the protection of classified weapons development programs. Received the highest award given by the Department of Energy from the Secretary for my innovative security technology programs in a formal ceremony in Washington DC in January 2009; and received the Security Professional of the Year award for 2010 from the National Nuclear Security Administration. I was selected by NNSA to attend the U.S. Government "War College" at National Defense University, and graduated in June 2014 with my Master of Arts in Strategic Security Studies. I retired in August 2018 and now live in our home town of Ponca City, OK; Been with and married to wife #3 (Betty) for over 30 years now. And that's a quick summary of 40+ years of living since high school, although there were a lot of other little things in there along the way too (some I like to remember, and some I don't).......
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