“He became, for so many people, the spirit of Carolina, a dream of what this place could be.”
Those were the words Chancellor Carol Folt spoke in reference to the late Stuart Scott.
A member of the class of 1987, Scott was inducted into the N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame Friday night at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center.
Scott died on Jan. 4 from appendiceal cancer, which he was fighting for the third time in his life.
Speaking at the 2014 ESPYs after accepting the Jimmy V award for perseverance, Scott said, “When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer.