ABSTRACT
Betty grew up in a family with mixed political views. Betty earned her PhD at Berkeley some three years after the start of the Cold War between the US and USSR. This was the same year the UC Board of Regents proposed that all employees should sign a Loyalty Oath saying they were not Communists. In 1953, a group of IMS members including Betty and Neyman decided to send a petition to the elected governing council requesting an amendment to the IMS by-laws that would explicitly prohibit racial segregation. Betty worked hard to save Aquatic Park. Betty's colleagues in the statistics department recognized her penchant for advocacy. When asked who was involved with the Free Speech Movement, Blackwell said, 'I do not think most of the people in the statistics department were involved one way or another… My guess is that Betty Scott would have been, and very much on the side of the students'.
