College Honors Waits, Dakes With Inaugural Scribner Medals

President Philip Glotzbach awards the Lucy Skidmore Scribner medal to Candace and Charles V. Wait.

During Centennial Weekend, Skidmore presented a newly named award in honor of its founder, Lucy Skidmore Scribner, to the Wait and Dake families for their distinguished service to the community and to the College.

The inaugural Lucy Skidmore Scriber medals were presented at a ceremony that paid tribute to Skidmore’s leaders, past and present. “The medal will be awarded by the board of trustees to individuals whose lives have embraced those qualities that reflect Lucy Skidmore Scribner’s founding vision: a selfless dedication to others, a capacity to imagine creative solutions to important problems and issues, and a deep commitment to fostering community,” states the award citation.

The Wait family – including Charles V. Wait, president of Adirondack Trust Company and former Skidmore trustee – has been associated with Skidmore since its early years. The Dake family – including Stewart’s chairman and Skidmore trustee William P. Dake and his wife Susan Law Dake ’71 – has been involved with Skidmore for more than 50 years.

Members of the Dake family receive the Lucy Skidmore Scribner medal from President Glotzbach. From left: Phyllis E. Dake, Susan Law Dake ’71, Trustee William P. Dake, and Pernille Aegidius Dake, UWW ’96 and MALS ’02.

“The histories of Skidmore and Saratoga Springs have been intimately intertwined since the College’s start, each sustaining the other,” said Sue Corbet Thomas ’62, chair of the Board of Trustees. “This symbiosis is most clearly exemplified in the signal roles played by successive generations of the Wait and Dake families in the lives of both the city and the College. Over the past century, both Saratoga Springs and Skidmore have benefited from the wisdom, generosity, and community-minded spirit of numerous family members.

“They have developed creative solutions to issues that have stymied other cities and colleges, enabling both Skidmore and Saratoga to flourish and grow,” Thomas concluded.

Accepting the medal on behalf of the Wait family were Charles Wait and his wife Candace. Representing the Dake family were Bill and Susan Dake, Phyllis E. Dake and Pernille Aegidius Dake, a graduate of both UWW and the Skidmore master’s program.

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