Scott Thomas Palmer
A boy who made everyone around him feel better for having known him.
August 3, 1983 – September 1, 1996
Scott is the son of Sidney and Frances Palmer, and the older brother of Robert Palmer. He was an Honor Roll student at Annapolis Middle School in Annapolis, Maryland, where he played basketball, soccer, and baseball with PAL and other local teams.
He loved people, and had lots of friends. Scott had a smile that was so radiant that looking at him cheered you up. Despite difficulties in his own young life, he was always radiant and uplifting to the people around him.
A boy in motion — thirteen years, in photographs.
September 1, 1996
What we lost, and what we chose to do with it.
Scott was tragically killed in a traffic accident while attending a family reunion in Waterfall, Pennsylvania. He was thirteen years old.
Scott touched many lives, and would have touched many more. Friends, family, and members of the Annapolis community came together and established the Scott Thomas Palmer Memorial Scholarship Fund® so that his legacy could keep reaching the friends he never had the chance to meet.
Scott wanted to go to college. This fund is how he still does.
Scott liked school, and wanted so much to go on to college. That dream wasn't possible for him. His family and community made it their dream instead — one that helps a deserving Annapolis-area student head to college every single year.
In choosing each year's recipient, the Fund looks for the characteristics that made Scott who he was: hard work in the classroom, on the field, and in life. Not grades alone — character.