Scotty, a New Jersey native, was raised in Spokane, Washington. He earned his bachelor of art degree from The Colorado College. He met Gayle Lawrence while at Colorado College and they married shortly after graduation. Scotty enlisted in the Navy in May of 1972 and was commissioned an Ensign after completing Naval Aviation Officer Candidate training. During a 21-year Naval career he flew more than 1,000 flight hours as a Radar Intercept Officer in F-4 Phantom and F-14 Tomcat aircraft. He attended the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. While there he earned a master’s from Salve Regina College.

Scotty retired from the Navy as a lieutenant commander and began a short-lived second career with Horizon Airlines. He worked all facets of ground operations at SEATAC and then transferred to Whitefish to supervise Horizon operations at Glacier Park International Airport. In February 1996 he started work at Semitool as a trainer/technical writer. He remained a technical writer after Applied Materials purchased Semitool until his second retirement in November 2012.

Scotty helped lay sod for the first two soccer fields at the Smith Field Sports Complex. Scotty became a FIFA/USSF certified soccer referee in 1997 and a MHSA/MOA certified high school soccer official in 1999. He has recertified every year since. He serves as the secretary/treasurer of the MHSA Region 1 soccer referee pool. He officiates high school and recreational soccer during the fall and select youth soccer during the spring.

He has been a Whitefish Theatre Co. volunteer since 1998 when the O’Shaughnessy Center first opened. He taught himself to program and operate the theater lighting and sound systems. He creates and maintains the WTC and O’Shaughnessy Center websites and creates a video promoting each season. He helped the Project Whitefish Kids board develop its first website. Scotty designed the Whitefish Bulldog license plate for the Whitefish School District Education Foundation.

Scotty and Gayle raised two children in Whitefish, Duncan and Abigail.

Marcus Duffey hails from West Texas, but left Texas to attend Gonzaga University. Marcus met his wife, Audrey (Peterson) there and they married soon after graduation. They moved back to Audrey’s hometown of Whitefish as quickly as they could. The Duffey’s have enjoyed life in the Flathead Valley with their four children for the past twelve years. Rearing their children (George – 7, Charley – 5, Jane – 3, Ruth – 1) in the mountain town of Whitefish was a dream of theirs. Marcus grew a prominent local business for nearly a dozen years and proudly participated in dozens of local events and organizations. Today he maintains much of his community involvement as he sits on the North Valley Hospital Foundation Board of Directors and he chairs the Whitefish Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Today, Marcus is a Realtor with Glacier Sotheby’s International Realty. Marcus enjoys the great outdoors as a fisherman, hunter, skier and golfer, as well as a passion for cooking and gardening. In the summer, you will often find Marcus and his family camping alongside a river somewhere in northwest Montana.