The Stott Family William Ross Stott, Jr
Margaret Lawler Stott
Oak Hill, Virginia
Home: 703-715-2170
Cell: 703-609-8937

SUMMARY
Bill and Peggy were married on July 25, 1959. They have 5 children: William R. Stott III (b. 1962), Stasia Reynolds (b.1964), Christopher J. Stott (b. 1966), Rachel Irene Stott (b. 1968), and Alexa M. Stott (b. 1970). Bill and Peggy have 11 grandchildren (7 boys and 4 girls).

RELIGION

• Roman Catholic
• Variety of lay ministries
• Spiritual Affiliation
• Benedictine Oblates – Oblation at St. Gertrude’s Monastery, Ridgley, MD on June 24, 2007
• Founded the Benedictine community at Deogratias.co

QUALIFICATIONS
Degrees

• Columbia University, M.A., 1963
• English Literature & Philosophy
• Georgetown University B.S.S., 1957
• English Literature & Philosophy

Honorary Degrees

• Fisk University, D.H.L., 1994
• Georgetown University, D.H.L., 1985

Administration

• Has been and continues to be an advisor to over 75 colleges, universities, schools, and non-profit organizations

Academic/Teaching

• 55 continuous consecutive years of college level teaching in Humanities, Natural History, Biological Sciences, Poetry, Literature, Sacred Scripture, Philosophy, and History.

Lectures

• Over 250 invited public lectures on Liberal Arts, Natural History, Ornithology, Environment, Teaching, Higher Education, Student Affairs, and Literature
• 2 Complete curricula designed & executed:
  

  1) Power of Story	1999-…..(See Attachment A)
  2) Master Naturalists Program	1999-2007 (See Attachment B)

Fine Arts

• Creative writing Poetry

Drama, Theatre

• Designed and built model of Globe theatre to be used in Shakespeare courses.
• Toured and presented 40+ exhibitions of the model
• Produced & Directed renaissance plays using students as actors
• These mounted productions were received extremely well by professional audiences

Gym: “Athletes”
Gymnasium on the premises, created to train athletes, emphasis on grace, movement & power

TRX Certifications

• Suspension Training Course (L1)
• RIP Training Course (L1)
• TRX Functional Training Course (L1)
• TRX Summit (2015)

CAREGIVING
Wide Variety of settings & Situations since 1945

• Social
• Personal
• Professional
• OPK
• Interventional Counseling
• Geriatric & End of Life Matters
• Alzheimer’s Caregiving (16 Years)
• Hospice
• Death & Dying Counseling
• Grief Counseling
• Burying the Dead & Estate Matters

ATHLETICS & SPORTS

• Life long participant in a variety of competitive settings.
• Competitive Middle Distance Runner (10K).
• Coaching: baseball, basketball, track & field (for instance)
• Training: conditioning, strength, endurance (specifically)
• Training Methods: Wide variety of methods, emphasis on calisthenics, gymnastics etc.
• Gymnasium Owner/operator : personal clients

INTERNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC RELIEF

• Save The Children (120 Children over 45 Years)
• Unbound (20 Years)

Food for the Poor	2015-Present
Senior Advisor, Policy and Planning

COMMUNITY BUILDING in Association with FOOD for the POOR

MEDICAL SUPPORT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

INSTITUTIONAL EXPERIENCE

United States Naval Reserve	1959-1965
Commissioned Ensign (1959) U.S.S. Dominant (MSO-431); First Lieutenant (Deck, Gunnery, MCM, Supply) (1959-1961) Volunteered for UDT Training (1961) Buds Training – Injured prior to graduation SERVLANT for remainder of Enlistment (1962) Joined Active Reserve (1962) U.S.S. Lorikeet (MSCO-49); First Lieutenant (Deck, Gunnery, MCM, Supply) (1962) Injured (1963) Disabled Active – VA Disabled Veteran (1965) Retired (1965)
Fordham University	1964-1977
Teacher	1964-1977
“Upward Bound Program, Free University Course, Natural History, Ornithology Follow-up Program for Upward Bound Students using My Students (once a week papers, etc.) Experimental ‘60s “Bensalem” Program
Assistant Dean of Students	1973-1977
Developed, with the Academic Council, The Values Program
Georgetown University	1977-1985
Dean of Student Affairs	1977-1980
Member: Student Life Committee, Athletic Advisory Board, Administrative Council
Teacher	1977-1985
English Department: Renaissance Studies: Shakespeare, Renaissance Poetry Natural History, Ornithology
Vice President of Student Affairs	1980-1985
Managed Residence Life, Athletics, Security, Student Health, and Counseling & Career Centers ($20 million budget) Directed program and design of new University Center ($30 million) Oversaw the construction of four Residence Halls ($10 million) and Recreation Center ($7 million) Member: President’s Cabinet, Committee of Vice Presidents, Council of Deans, Budget Advisory Committee (University budget $320 million)
Ripon College	1985-1995
President & CEO Raised $50 million via Capital Campaigns Retired external debt Conducted a renovation project Residence Halls: $6 million Student Union: $3 million Science Building: $3.6 million Built Fine Arts Building: $1 million Increased endowment from $9 million to $25 million Established Chairs in Classics, Religion, Ethics & Values, Performing Arts, and Economics Achieved North Central Association accreditation in 1990
Professor English Department: Shakespeare, Epic, Irish Literature, Environmental Literature Extramural: Ornithology, Ecology (Open to Public) Children’s Programs: Advanced College Experience Program
Georgetown University	1996-2000
Teacher SSCE: Environmental Ethics
Fairfax Audubon Society	1996-2007
(Renamed Audubon Society of Northern Virginia)
Teacher & Trip Leader	1996-2000
Ornithology & Ecology (over a hundred field trips)
Founder, President & Faculty	1997-2007
Designed & executed, and taught a comprehensive curriculum in natural history Attachment B Designed bird checklist for the area
St. John Neumann Catholic Church	1999-Present
Teacher & Lecturer Designed, executed, and taught a comprehensive curriculum in Scripture: The Power of Story Attachment A
Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church	2004-2015
Teacher & Lecturer Designed, executed, and taught a comprehensive curriculum in Scripture: The Power of Story Attachment A
Food for the Poor	2015-Present
Senior Advisor, Policy and Planning
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Counseling	1950-Present
Management Personal Religious Sports and Exercise (athletics, coaching, and training)

ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Languages

• French, German, Latin, Greek (reading), Spanish (colloquial, conversational)

Travel (Study Travel, Tour Leading, and Teaching)

• Over 85 Countries in 7 Continents including: North, South, and Central America, Mexico, Canada, British Isles, Western Europe, East Africa, Malaysia, Australia, New Guinea, Antarctica, Arctic North, and Tropical Rainforests
• Civil War Battlefield Tours
• Book Author Family History and Genealogy (v. bibliography)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Council on Education
American Association for Higher Education
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges
The Council for Liberal Learning
Association of American Colleges

DIRECTORSHIPS
Thomas More College
Defenders of Wildlife
Cornell University of Ornithology
American Birding Association
American Bird Conservancy
Kaytee Avian Foundation
Wildfowl Trust of North America

GRANTS & HONORS
Donald C. Faber Distinguished Scholar in Residence (Miami University, Oxford OH, 1996)
Honorary Membership, Wisconsin Alpha Kappa Delta (Nation Honorary Forensics Society, 1986)
Project QUILL, Living & Learning Residence Halls (American Association of Colleges, 1978)
Teaching Award for Teaching Innovations, President’s Fund (Fordham University, 1973)
Various non-profit environmental organizations

MEMBERSHIPS
American Birding Association
Defenders of Wildlife
Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology
American Ornithologists Union
Wisconsin Society of Ornithology
Fairfax, VA Audubon Society (Past President)
Urner Ornithological Club
Explorers Club (Fellow National)
Wildlife Trust of North America
Civil War Trust
NRA (Life, Endowment, Patron Member)
UDT-Seal Association (Life Member)

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

• The Role of Student Affairs in Values Education, M.J. Collins (ed.). Jossey-Bass, 1983
• Reading The Signs: Drawings and Poems, Ripon College (ed.). Ripon College, 1995
• Finding Our Place. The Ancestors and Descendants of William Ross Stott, Jr. and Margaret Ann Lawler
  Authors: Clifford L. Stott and William Ross Stott, Jr. 2010

DRAMA PRODUCTIONS (with Paul McCarren S.J.)

• 6 Renaissance plays
• Shakespeare’s: “Comedy of Errors”, “Twelfth Night”, “As You Like It”
• Marlowe’s “Faustus”
• T.S. Elliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral”

SHORT STORIES

• “Billy and Lord Byron a Matter of Time”, Private printing Durham N.C. editor Jessica Ryan

POETRY

• “Insinuating the world of noon” and “Punctuated by light”, Four Quarters, Vol. XXI, No. 2, January 1972
• “Ordinandus”, Chimaera, February 1972
• “Here on this lofty eminence”, Cardinal Poetry Quarterly, Vol. VI, No.4, March 1972
• The top of my son”, Riverside Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 3, August 1973
• “Ars Moriendi”, Thought, Vol. XLVIII, No. 190, Autumn 1973
• “Going”, Four Quarters, Spring 1974
• “Mr. Jackson Lockhart made lists” and “Reading the signs”, Quoin, Spring 1974
• “For William Carlos Williams”, Thought, Vol. 52, No. 205, June 1977
• “Feeley and Griffin’s”, Ball State University Forum, Vol. XIX, No. 4, Autumn 1978
• “Encounter”, Georgetown University Journal, Spring 1984
• “Rhesus”, Wisconsin Academy Review, Vol. 35, No. 2, March 1989

ART

• Pencil Drawing, Black-Crowned Night Heron, The Passenger Pigeon, Journal of the Wisconsin Society of Ornithology, Summer 1988
• Pencil Drawings, Marsh Wren and Sedge Wren, The Passenger Pigeon, Spring 1989
• Pencil Drawings, Osprey, Common Yellowthroat, Milkweed Pod, The Passenger Pigeon, Summer 1989
• Drawing, Sandhill Crane, Ripon College Permanent Collection
• Drawing, Green Heron, The Passenger Pigeon, Spring 1995

ART SHOWS

• Pencil Drawings, Ripon College Art Gallery, October 1987
• Drawings and Photographs, Rodman Art Center, Ripon College, April – June 1995
• Drawings and Photographs, The Fitton Center, Hamilton OH, April – May 1996

May 2010

ATTACHMENT A

The Power of Story is the name given to a scripture series; the genesis, development, and execution of which is a story in itself. In 1999, I was engaged in an educational consultation for the St. John Neumann Catholic Community regarding an adult formation program. At the conclusion of these discussions, I was asked if I would consider teaching a scripture course.

My yes turned out to be, by the grace of God, nothing less than a collegial reenactment of the entire Catholic Canon, all seventy-three books. In order to accomplish this enormous task, I resorted to an academic model, deploying the text in an eight semester pattern over four years. The series was offered in the fall of 1999 with the first of the eight courses, The Poetry of Prayer. The response was extraordinary. That was the beginning.

It is appropriate to note, [at this time, May 2010], I have completed the Power of Story three times! We have had hundreds of student participants, principally Catholics, but including many from a wide variety of religious and secular persuasions and dispositions. One of the most gratifying features of this experience has been that the vast majority of registrants have stayed with the course throughout. The overriding conclusion is that there is a deep desire for the Word of God.

The Power of Story has come to represent my response, however modest, to the universal call to evangelize: Matthew 28:19-20. As such, it constitutes both my motivation and delight.

Of course, each time that I have taught this series, it has been enriched and expanded as we all have learned and grown. I have been told by many students over the years that the appeal of the series derives from its approach which they see as unique, an approach which knows the Word as Poetry.

Poetry is, among other things: concrete, specific, palpable, and sensual. In its full manifestation it begs enactment as Drama and Liturgy. It is by its nature as the Word of God, oral, creational, and generative. The story of God’s unfolding revelation is expressed in the very words He gave us as namers in order to know Him. Sacred scripture is a drama, a doing, an enaction, physical, and sacramental.

I have stressed throughout the Power of Story that the series is not about scripture. It is not about Theology or Philosophy, or Apologetics. It is, rather, an attempt to do, to enact, and to be at one with the Word of God. All this has been deeply gratifying for a poet/teacher who has always known, by the grace of God, that teaching is, above all, a bearing of witness. The experience has been, beyond calculation, the most exacting, most exciting and most fulfilling of my professional life.

May 2015

At the preset time, mirabile dictu, I am entertaining several invitations to begin the Power of Story series again. I am gratified and excited at the prospect.

This addendum reviews and updates the original statement/prospectus to the present, lists the present offering and projects the future of the curriculum.

The power of story has now been completed in full FIVE Times! We have expanded our understanding of scriptures power and reach greatly.

As a consequence, we are now expanding our offerings by adding three new courses in Biblical Theology. This past Spring, we completed the first of the three courses (#10) ”Virtue/Vice”. We will begin “Spirit; in context” (#11) this Fall & “Spirituality; in context“ (#12) in Spring 2016

Finally, I am deeply grateful for the privileged opportunity to play in the fields of the Lord.

“UT IN OMNIBUS

GLORIFICETUR DEUS”

Prospectus

Power of Story

This Scripture series attempts a collegial re-enactment of the Catholic canon, all seventy-three books. This new rendition requires twelve semesters over six years. Obviously, numerous structural and thematic variations and arrangements are possible, indeed encouraged.

Old Testament

1) Poetry of Prayer (1)	The Bible, the Way of the Word, Poetry, the Psalms and Job, Song of Songs	Fall 2010
2) Poetry of Prayer (2)	The Way of the Word in Wisdom: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom, Sirach	Spring 2011
3) Old Testament I	Covenant, Bondage, Exodus and the Promised Land: The Pentateuch	Fall 2011
4) Old Testament II	The Promised Land: Settlement, Monarchy, Division, Exile	Spring 2012
5) Old Testament III	The Histories: Chronicles to Maccabees	Fall 2012
6) Old Testament IV	Prophets and Prophecy: The Poetry of Righteousness	Spring 2013

New Testament

7) New Testament I	The Synoptic Gospels: Mark, Matthew, Luke	Fall 2013
8) New Testament II	The Acts of the Apostles, The Gospel of John, The Person of Paul	Spring 2014
9) New Testament III	Paul, The Epistles; Hebrews, The Catholic Epistles, The Book of Revelation	Fall 2014

Biblical Theology

10) Virtue/Vice, Sin/Redemption	In The Light of The Seven Penitential Psalms	Spring 2015
11) Spirit; in context	The Word, in the context of the Word	Fall 2015
12) Spiritualities; in context	Spiritualities in the context of the heres and the beyond	Spring 2016
13) Patristics	The Father’s of the Church, Heresies and the Creed	Fall 2016
14) Monasticism	Monasticism and Civilization	Spring 2017

ATTACHMENT B Master Naturalists Program

In 1997, I was teaching a course in Environmental Ethics at Georgetown University. At the same time, I was teaching an Ornithology course through The Fairfax Audubon Society. Aware of the widespread ignorance of the natural world, I, with the help and support of two fellow members, designed and implemented a full curriculum in natural history studies.

This program was an outgrowth of my lifelong experience as a naturalist, field ornithologist, and educator. Based on a liberal arts model, the curriculum included a 4 core full-semester course in ornithology, ecology, and botany. In addition, we offered, as needed, six or seven electives (geology, area ecology, etc.) as well as 7-15 workshops (e.g., warblers, piedmont wildflowers, etc.). All offerings had — as vital and characteristic requirement — 3 or 4 half to full day field experiences.

Students, who elected to do so, could take the fully prescribed curriculum (it would take 2-4 years “full time”) for which we awarded a certificate as a master naturalist.

We recruited a faculty of 5-7 professionals over the years. During the decade in question, we had hundreds of students participate in the program. Remarkably, we had a good number matriculate for the full curriculum. At the present time, we have graduated over 15 Master Naturalists from our certificate program.