Sixty years have gone by since I first graduated from McGill, and over fifty years have passed since I began teaching in the Faculty of Law. In 2021, the occasion of McGill’s Bicentennial, I am fortunate to be able to celebrate its achievements. It is a world-renowned institution built by a community of students, graduates, faculty and staff, as well as broad support from Quebec, Canada, and abroad.
For well over a year now, that community has been largely absent from its grounds. I myself have been separated from my favourite spots: I have always enjoyed the walk on Lower Campus, especially at night, and the Law Faculty’s greenspace is congenial yet solemn.
Rest assured that the University is eager to welcome you back to its campuses as soon as it is safe to do so.
In the meantime, McGill’s Bicentennial continues, and the 200 for 200 Legacy Challenge is one way to celebrate. I have already planned a legacy gift to McGill, and I welcome you to do the same.
My legacy will support the scholarships I have established, from which I derive enormous pleasure. The first, the Scott-Rappaport Family Scholarship, commemorates my late parents and my stepfather. The second, the John Fisher Burns and Jane Scott-Long Scholarship, honours two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Burns, BA’66, whom I first knew as a first-year law student, and his late wife, a bureau chief for the New York Times. Students of ability, character, and promise hold these awards, and I am pleased to meet and be in touch with them.
Your legacy gift can honour those whom you hold in high regard, or remember those who mean most to you. You can support the projects which – or the people who – interest you most.
I urge you to join me in doing so. McGill deserves our support.
Dr. Stephen Allan Scott, BA’61, BCL’66
Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University
What will your legacy be?
McGill is celebrating its 200th anniversary with the goal of securing 200 legacy gifts. For more information, please contact us.
