The parents of two Elon alumni died along with two others on July 18 in the crash of a small plane in Wyoming.
Don Scott, father of Elon alumnus Edward “Teddy” Scott ’10, and Joyce Bartoo, mother of Elon alumnus Alex Litoff ’10, died when the plane Scott was piloting crashed on July 18 near Yellowstone National Park. Also killed were Scott’s sister, Diane Stubbs, and her husband, Gerald Stubbs. According to media reports, the four people were vacationing together and the plane was enroute from Sheridan County, Wyoming, to Billings, Montana. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash, which had no survivors.
Scott was a nationally renowned trial lawyer, a founding partner of the Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott law firm, and an active community leader and philanthropist in Denver, where he lived. He was a member of Elon’s President’s Advisory Council, and made a major gift, along with his former wife, Ellen Scott, to name Scott Studios, the university’s performing arts facility that opened in September 2014. Don and Ellen Scott were passionate arts patrons, and Teddy Scott is an alumnus of Elon’s music theatre program. Teddy is an actor in West Hollywood, California.
“Don was a great friend of Elon, a brilliant man, profoundly wise and deeply kind,” said Elon President Leo M. Lambert. “His death, along with the death of Joyce Bartoo, has shocked and saddened our community. We deeply mourn their passing.”
Bartoo, of Washington, D.C., was an antitrust attorney who spent most of her career working for the U.S. Department of Justice before moving to private practice and retiring about five years ago. Her son, Alex Litoff, was a communications major at Elon and works at Event Farm in Washington, D.C.
Bartoo met Diane Stubbs in law school and the two were longtime friends. Stubbs and her husband, Gerald, lived in Annapolis, Maryland.