Walter Scott Jr.

He graduated from Colorado State University in 1953 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.{{cite web|title=Walter Scott Jr, Biography|url=http://www.news.colostate.edu/download/engr2-bio.pdf|publisher=Colorado State University|access-date=April 15, 2011}}

Scott was first elected to the Kiewit Corporation board in 1964. In 1979, he was elected president. When Peter Kiewit died later that same year, Scott was selected to succeed him as chairman.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}

He sat on the board of Berkshire Hathaway, and was a childhood friend of Warren Buffett. He was also on the board of directors of Burlington Resources, Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises, Level 3 Communications Inc., MidAmerican Energy Holdings, RCN Corporation, Valmont Industries, and Peter Kiewit Sons' Inc, and was the chairman of the Open World Leadership Center at the Library of Congress.{{cite web |url=http://www.openworld.gov/about/trustees.php?lang=1&PHPSESSID=0cbc4ade63de24f6a2d24001e37afbe4 |title=Open World - Board of Trustees |access-date=January 27, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727132102/http://www.openworld.gov/about/trustees.php?lang=1&PHPSESSID=e723885cfdacf71fce6261593d014c85 |archive-date=July 27, 2011 }}

He was a director of the Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska Game and Parks Foundation, and the Omaha Development Foundation. Nationally, he was a director of the Horatio Alger Association and the National Forest Association.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}

Scott was chairman of Level 3 Communications.{{cite web |url=http://www.level3.com/about_us/technology_leadership/boardofdirectors/index.html |title=Board of Directors |access-date=May 28, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515044829/http://www.level3.com/about_us/technology_leadership/boardofdirectors/index.html |archive-date=May 15, 2008 }}

Scott consistently ranked among the wealthiest Americans. With his wife, Suzanne, he founded the public, non-profit Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation which has funded the Scott Atrium & Education Center at University of Nebraska Medical Center,{{cite web |url=http://www.unmc.edu/durham/donors/scotts.htm |title=UNMC Durham Research Center |access-date=May 28, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517134934/http://www.unmc.edu/durham/donors/scotts.htm |archive-date=May 17, 2008 }} the Scott Technology Center{{cite web |url=http://scott-technology.com/ |title=Scott Data Center |access-date=May 28, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080523193616/http://www.scott-technology.com/ |archive-date=May 23, 2008 }} in Omaha, and The Summit: Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve.

In June 2010, when Warren Buffett appealed to him to join the Giving Pledge, he partially accepted, stating that after his death his remaining estate will go into his eponymous foundation.{{cite web| title= The Giving Pledge|url= http://givingpledge.org/|website=Givingpledge.org|access-date=November 15, 2016}}

In 2011, he committed $10 million to the construction of Engineering II, a $70 million, {{convert|122,000|sqft|m2}} building which will house interdisciplinary energy, environment and health programs at Colorado State University.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}

In November 2016, it was announced Scott would be donating $53.3 million to Colorado State University School of Engineering, CSU's largest ever gift, and that the College of Engineering at CSU will be renamed the Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering, becoming the only named college of engineering in the state of Colorado.{{cite news|last=Whaley |first=Monte |url=http://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/15/csu-53-million-donation-walter-scott/ |title=Colorado State gets record $53 million donation from graduate Walter Scott Jr. |newspaper=The Denver Post |access-date=November 15, 2016}}

In 1996, Scott acquired the original sales document of the Louisiana Purchase for his private collection.[https://web.archive.org/web/20020602073944/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/04/0418_020419_lewisclark.html "Louisiana Purchase Manuscript Goes on Public Display".] News.nationalgeographic.com. Retrieved July 29, 2010

Scott became an Eagle Scout in 1946 and was a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.{{cite news|url=http://www.register-herald.com/todaysfrontpage/x1744211043/Boy-Scouts-of-America|title=Boy Scouts of America New major donors and jamboree dates announced |last=Sendor|first=Julia|date=October 23, 2010|work=Raleigh Register-Herald|access-date=October 29, 2010}}

He received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1991, presented by Awards Council member Dennis Washington.{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#business}} Scott was the Host of the 1998 Achievement Summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Scott's second wife, Suzanne ({{nee}} Marshall; 1930-2013) had been a good friend of his late first wife, Carolyn Jane ({{nee}} Falk; 1932-1983), but did not know Walter. They wed in 1987 at the Countryside Community Church. Suzanne Scott died in 2013, aged 83.{{cite web|url=http://www.omaha.com/news/suzanne-scott-intelligent-and-energetic-philanthropist-dies-at/article_74e01f41-8b91-594a-8df9-56de607a4b26.html |title=Suzanne Scott, 'intelligent and energetic philanthropist', dies at 83|website=Omaha.com |date=September 9, 2013 |access-date=November 15, 2016}}

Walter Scott died on September 25, 2021, at the age of 90.{{Cite web|date=September 25, 2021|title=Former Kiewit CEO Walter Scott, Jr. dead at 90|url=https://www.3newsnow.com/news/local-news/former-kiewit-ceo-walter-scott-jr-dead-at-90|access-date=September 25, 2021|website=KMTV|language=en}}

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