COLUMBUS, Ind. — From a very young age, Susan Finke Scott knew she wanted to work in education.
“I can remember sitting in my classroom at St. Peter’s Lutheran School and thinking to myself, ‘I need to remember how this feels. I need to remember what the teacher did in this,'” she recalled.
Now, she is an assistant principal at Columbus North High School and the latest inductee into the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp.’s Education Hall of Fame. Scott began working in education in 1974.
Per award criteria, this honor is given to teachers, former teachers or administrators who have made “a noteworthy and extraordinary employment contribution to the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. which merits recognition for excellence.”
Scott said that it’s “humbling” to receive the Education Hall of Fame award because she knows so many people who deserve it.
“I feel like it’s a way to have a forum to represent all the hard work other people do, because no one gets to successful places without a lot of support,” she said. “And I’ve always had great support.”
She attributed her passion for education to both her own teachers and the broader community, both of which had an impact on her life.
“My mission with schools, in general, has been because I was raised in a community that was so caring and so supportive of me when I was growing up,” she said. “It made it really easy to come back to this community.”
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