Scott Middle School was established in 1996 and was named after Hazel G. Scott. She was born in 1900 and began teaching in a country school at South Bend, NE in 1918. Miss Scott joined the teaching staff at College View High school in 1924. She was assistant principal from 1946 to 1947 and principal from 1947 to 1955 when the school closed and Southeast High school opened. She was Southeast’s first principal from 1955 to 1956. She then asked to become assistant principal and served in that position until her retirement in 1965. She was the first woman principal of a Lincoln high school.
Miss Scott died in 1993, a day before the announcement of the names of the new
schools.
