Sue Scott
"Volunteering brings wonderful things into your life that you may not
expect," says Sue Scott, who first volunteered at age 14 in Dayton,
Ohio, giving up her recess to watch a classroom for a teacher who
needed a lunch break. "In high school, I tutored junior high kids in
math and English." When she arrived in Eugene in 1970, after two years
of college in Colorado, Scott volunteered at a care home, reading to
seniors, and met a woman there whose boy friend introduced her to Tom
Hinkle. "I met my husband because of volunteer work," she notes. They
got married in 1974, the year she finished a UO degree in biology. They
spent one year as back-to-landers in rural West Virginia, and, later
on, six years of work in town plus farming in Upstate New York, while
she was becoming a full-time mom for their kids Jesse, Luke, and Jill.
"I have volunteered in every city we lived," she says. "My main passion
is La Leche League, helping people breast feed. I've been a leader and
administrator for 37 years." The family returned to Oregon in 1984 and
settled in Springfield, where their second daughter Anna was born, with
autism, two years later. "I knew it when she was two days old," says
Scott, who is still a full-time mom, and also Anna's paid personal
support worker. Ever since she was a little girl, Anna Scott-Hinkle and
her mother have taken jewelry making classes offered by local nonprofit
Kindtree-Autism Rocks, where mom also helps out with sales and
publicity. View their jewelry on Etsy or Facebook at RamonaBearDesigns.
Kindtree-Autism Rocks will hold its annual DANCE! Like Nobody's
Watching benefit event, 7-10 pm on Saturday, May 19, in the Vet's Club
Ballroom, 1626 Willamette Street in Eugene. Find details at
kindtree.org.
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photograph and story by Paul Neevel
Eugene Weekly / 17 May 2018
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