Scott Gray Norvell

Class of 1982

 

Scott was killed in an auto accident a few days before Christmas, 1996, while driving from San Antonio to Fort Worth to spend the holiday with his brother’s family.

 

After leaving Lackland, Scott started his sophomore year at Judson High School.  He didn’t like much starting out at the “bottom” again!! (Judson is a 3-year high school.)  Scott had many strong friendships at Judson, most with students involved with ROTC. 

 

After graduating from high school, he started college at Texas A&M University studying Computer Science.  Many of his friends from high school went to A&M also, but had joined the Corp of Cadets.  Feeling a bit left out, he joined the Cadets mid-way through his freshman year (known as “frogging in”, in Aggie speak)… this to the amazement of his mother, father, and brother.  By the end of his freshman year, all of his ROTC high school buddies transferred to other service academies.  But Scott stuck it out and stayed in the Corp.

 

Some time in there, Scott changed his major to Environmental Design (first stage to becoming an architect).   He ultimately finished his undergraduate degree on the “6 year plan”.  During his college career, his greatest pleasure was being a member of the all-male choral group, the Singing Cadets.  He enjoyed traveling all over the U.S. and the world with this group, especially a trip to Germany, where he was born.

 

After college, Scott got a job in Marble Falls, where he prepared working drawing for the cutting of stone.  He would take an architect’s drawings and convert them into practical designs, so that the stone could be hung from the façade of buildings or whatever special purpose the stone would be used for.

 

After a few years, he was hired away by one of the stone company’s clients… one of the biggest construction companies in the world, based in Toronto.  They set him up in an office in Austin, Texas, essentially doing what he was already doing before.  After a short while, he was jetting all around the world, supervising many aspects of stonework, from quarries in Italy, to installing stone at huge projects in London.

 

At some point, Scott heard the call and decided to become a Methodist minister.  He spent a year at the seminary at Duke University, where he worked as a resident advisor in a dorm.  He finished his studies at the seminar in Austin, Texas.  He looked forward to ministering with youth and music programs.

 

Once ordained, he was given a church in San Antonio, Asbury United Methodist Church, on San Pedro Ave.  The average age of his “youth” group was 54!  He still enjoyed putting on musical programs, though.

 

Scott is buried in a small country cemetery in Buda, Texas, a site suggested to the family by one of his close friends who is a Methodist minister in Buda (just south of Austin).

 

 

Prepared by his brother,

Gerry Norvell ‘79

 

1979 Yearbook, 9th Grade

Texas A&M University - 1986