RICHARD ALLEN SCOTT - Through the Years

RICHARD ALLEN SCOTT
THROUGH THE YEARS
1999
Into the Private Sector
I started in my private sector life right after New Years, staying with HVR for a year and 4
months. During that time, I worked on risk management contracts at Foreign Affairs, Year 2000
project at National Defence, and the world-wide Price-Waterhouse Coopers Year 2000 project,
which garnered me a couple of nice jaunts into the U.S., though the first did not go smoothly as I
was ‘detained’ by U.S. Immigration prior to boarding my flight (first class I might add!). They
didn’t like that I was going into their country to do a job (for an English firm) that an American
could do. Also, since I did not have a University degree I was not admissible. After a couple of
hours in seclusion I brought out my retired RCMP ID and the agent said that he’d let me pass
‘out of professional courtesy’. I thought I was done.
I was very fortunate to be sent to HVR’s English
head office in the Fall for some meetings and a
formal evening at a lovely gathering at a country
inn. From there, Sharon and I rented a car and
saw a lot of England once again, staying (on the
company expense account) at a lovely spot in the
Cotswolds (Stowe on the Wold)…the Stow Lodge
Hotel, and visiting Bourton-on-the-Water (our
favourite), and Bibury, and places in between.
Also, with Pam and Len in Barnet, who showed us
around considerably.
The Stow Lodge Hotel
Stow-on-the-Wold, originally called Stow St. Edward or
Edwardstow after the town's patron saint Edward, probably Edward the Martyr, is said to have
originated as an Iron Age fort on this defensive position on a hill. Stow was built as a
marketplace on the hilltop nearer to the crossroads, to take advantage of passing trade.
Originally the small settlement was controlled by abbots from the local abbey, and when the first
weekly market was set up in 1107 by Henry I, he decreed that the proceeds go to Evesham
Abbey.
Sharon
Along the main street in Stow
The Swan Inn - Bibury
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