February 10, the AMC held it's 125th Annual Meeting in Waltham and recognized outstanding individuals that have been actively involved in AMC affairs over the past decades. It shouldn't be a surprise that all are either OH, Special OH or Honorary OH. Following are excerpts from the biographical information that Special OH FRANK KELLIHER drew from as he presented MAC STOTT this year's Joe Dodge Award, the only AMC award that Fred had not won after a lifetime of service.

FRED STOTT has been a member of the AMC board of directors. He is a current member of the AMC Board of Advisors and the AMC Capital Campaign Steering Committee. Advocacy is in Fred Stott s nature, in the late 1980 s he founded the AMC President s Society to recognize donors of $1,000 or more. Since then, the Society has grown to over 300 members, thanks to his perennial and indefatigable fundraising. He has made outstanding contributions that have enriched the experience provided by the Hut System and has been a member of the AMC President's Society since 1988.

JOE DODGE gave Fred the name "Mac" when he joined the hut crew. Also nicknamed "fireball" a name he gained from his Andover and Amherst baseball mates who, according to his teammates, said his pitches wouldn't break a pane of glass.

Within the AMC, Fred has served since 1936 as hut crew, director, and advocate. He has also earned his reputation for wit and story telling. His anecdotes cover search and rescues of the 1930s (when hut crews without first aid training unbolted metal bunks for litters), baseball (particularly his 13 1/2 days as a left-handed fireball pitcher for the Pawtucket Red Sox), and hiking (such as his Bastille Day ascent of Mt. Lafayette, complete with French Flag).

He went on to attend Philips and Amherst College where he excelled in sports and participated in soccer, skiing and baseball.

While at Amherst, he worked in the AMC huts for Joe Dodge from 1936 until 1939. His chronicle when he started at Pinkham in 36, hutmaster of Pinkham in 37, member of the Madison Hut Crew of 1938 and hutmaster in 39 was published in the Resuscitator.

After graduating from Amherst in 1940, he taught at Governor Dummer Academy in Byfield until he entered the Marine Corps in the spring of 1942. He went through officers training at Quantico, VA, then Camp Lejune N.C. by train to Camp Pendleton, CA where he became an officer with the 4th Marine Division, he participated in the invasions of Kwajalein, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. He won Two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and a Navy Cross. The Navy Cross, second only to the Medal of Honor, was given to him for his courage in coordinating an attack in the early stages of the battle of Saipan. He received the two purple hearts for injuries sustained at Saipan (a tank in which he was riding was hit by a Japanese field gun) and Iwo Jima (while moving from fox hole to fox hole, a knee mortar landed next to him, sending shrapnel into both legs and breaking a bone in one.)

After World War II, he ended up on the West Coast working in a political action group trying to bring new blood into the Republican Party. (Afterward, he would also work on several democratic campaigns; he served as finance manager for the successful campaign of State Senator John D. O Brien and the unsuccessful campaigns to elect Paul Tsongas in 92 and Michael S. Dukakis U.S. President in 1988). He remained in Southern California until 1950. In 1951, John Kemper, former headmaster of Phillips Academy at Andover, offered him a job in the alumni office.

He went on to a great career at Phillips Academy where he worked in Alumni relations and development and as the secretary to the Academy s board of trustees. He retired from Phillips in 1981.

A list of his contributions to Andover, MA would have to include vice chairman of the Andover Finance Committee, his participation on two school building committees, membership on the town's first Conservation commission, service as a trustee of the Holt Hill Reservation, treasurer of the town s 350th Anniversary Committee.

In 1965, during his tenure at Phillips, he took a six-month sabbatical to Nepal where he hiked above base camp to 19,000' on Mount Everest. The trip took 35 days and covered over 350 miles on foot. He has hiked the 4000 footers, won senior titles in skiing and claims to have made it from Madison Hut to the Ravine House on 25 minutes in his hutmen days. He and his wife Susan have regularly hiked a five mile circuit adjacent to Cardigan Mountain, where they have a home.

In the 1990s Fred was an official at the Iditarod. He has photographed and written about the Iditarod and has attended the dog-sled race in four times as official correspondent for the Lawrence Eagle Tribune and the Concord Monitor. He served as volunteer chairman for the Nature Conservancy of Alaska for the lower 48 states for their donor recognition group.

He was married to the late Georganne (Nan) Stott with whom he climbed to Mt. Everest in 1965. They had two children: Peter C. Stott and Frederic (Sandy) S. Stott-the former editor of Appalachia. Sandy is Fred s lifelong hiking companion who finished Fred s 4000 footers with him on Owls Head. Nan Stott died on October 29, 1981 at the age of 58. Fred married Susan Garth Stott in 1982. She is a member of the AMC President s Society. Susan Stott works at Phillips Academy at Andover. She has a degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Fred was the chosen speaker at JOE DODGE's and FRAN BELCHER's memorial services. He was the co-producer of the 100th Anniversary of the Hut System slide show in 1988, the centerpiece of the 100th anniversary. In 1989 AMC recognized Fred s outstanding contribution to the AMC Capital Campaign. In 1998, he was recognized by his OH Association as an Honorary Member. In January 2000 Fred received AMC's Distinguished Service Award. In June 2000, he became the recipient of AMC's first Lifetime Achievement Award. In February 2001 Fred was the honored recipient of the Joe Dodge Award.

Fred currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Merrimac River Watershed Council.

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