Maynette Loftus Scott

Amarillo, TX

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I graduated from Texas Christian University in 1962 (BFA), my major field being dance and theatre.  In addition, after graduation I took the advanced modeling course with John Robert Powers and modeled in the Ft. Worth area as well as danced with the Ft. Worth Civic Ballet, Casa Manana and the State Fair Musicals.  I also competed in the Ft. Worth Miss American contest; however, my talent was a result of my own faulty choreography.  I needed three minutes, and I could only match music and dance to two minutes.  Oh, well!

I returned to Amarillo and began teaching and working locally.  I met Bill Scott in 1963, and he was completing his degree at WTSU in finance.  We married when he graduated and was working for Schneider, Bernet & Hickman in 1965.  I was working for Ordway-Saunders in mortgage loans and teaching dancing on weekends and was contemplating beginning a partnership to teach dancing.  In 1968, we adopted our first daughter, Michelle, and then my family who had been involved in farm and ranching since 1906, began passing away.  Three of my family passed away in three months in 1970, and so Mother and I began a partnership in farming and ranching for 33 years.

Bill and I continued growing our family and adopted our second daughter, Maria, in 1974, and I began commuting to Pampa with the two girls.  We grew to love the land, and the girls learned about animals and most of all horses.  We tried dancing, piano and instruments in the school, and even commuted to Pampa to dance classes with Jeanne Willingham, but wound up in 4-H with Randall County and American Quarter Horse.  We have traveled all over Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and even Congress in Columbus, OH.  I pulled the trailer for about 21 straight hours and was surprised that I made it.  It was Maria’s senior year, so I drove with the trainer and she flew up to Ohio.  Bill kept the home fires burning, and we explored the East.

I was active in the Jr. League of Amarillo for eleven years and enjoyed my volunteer activities.  At the present I am a member of the Republican Women of Amarillo, and we are planning the summer picnic for August.  I have been a supporting member of Amarillo Little Theatre and continue to attend their productions.  I helped develop Winners’ Circle Equitherapy from 1989 to 1995.  The project has been incorporated as a therapeutic tool here in Amarillo with a rehabilitation group.  Bill began Amarillo Securities, a franchise of Prospera Financial here in Amarillo.  He has enjoyed his 38 plus years in the business.

With the help of my daughter Maria, I have learned how to use some of the tools on the computer and love to send e-mails from friends.  Maria is a CPA, her specialty being taxes, with Johnson, Sheldon.  Michelle is a photojournalist with Fox 5 in Atlanta, Ga.  We don’t have any grandchildren, just lots of grand dogs, grand horses, a grand parrot and one grand turtle.  Ha! Ha!

I have enjoyed working with my high school classmates for the reunion on September 12, 2003, and I hope to see everyone there.  May God bless and keep you all.

50th Reunion Addendum

 Hello, I hope more of our classmates will do a bio. It is fun to see what everyone we grew up with have been doing for the last 50 years. My only update would be we have a granddaughter, Zoey Mae Cortes. She was born Jan.18th, 2006. She and my daughter and husband live in Scottdale, Ga. and are still involved in the news at "Fox 5" and "CNN". Michelle is a photojournalist and Eddie is an editor in the international division of CNN.

We drive to Atlanta and as a result had to have a Navigator to get there, so I bought a new Yukon from Loyd Waters in Pampa so we could get there safely and where we really wanted to end up!

I am still raising quarter horses (QH), and my daughter Maria is showing "Clyde" the QH I raised and is now 4 years old and doing QH shows. I hope to have a new foal in May of this year. I have learned to irrigate with my Micro Rain machine so we can have grass even if it doesn't rain. I can move the machine to 4 positions and water almost all of the pasture.

Bill and I hope to travel to Albuquerque in June for a family reunion and hope that Thera's four sons will join us. Of course I have to find a baby sitter for my 6 dogs and 3 horses for the week-end. I am going to check on the Pampa reunion group next month and will try get the party up and going.

Love,

Maynette