Frank “Scott” Minor became a member of the Gainesville Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in September of 1995, but he had been familiar with Friends from childhood. He was born in Pennsylvania and attended Newtown Friends School and Newtown Friends Meeting as a child.

Scott served in the military during the Vietnam War.  When he was inducted, he wrote “Quaker” on the line requesting religion. The man behind the desk smiled and asked, “Don’t you know Quakers are pacifists?” Scott didn’t know that.  He earned several military decorations while in service.

When he returned from the war, like many other Vietnam veterans, he was left with a residue of anger about the war and a sense of exclusion from the mainstream culture. He bought a motorcycle and had two crashes, which injured him physically more than the war had.

Scott loved popular music and amassed a collection of long playing vinyl records which he hoped would increase in value over the years. He also liked to play music for his own pleasure and in performing groups.  He enjoyed the role of disc jockey. He tried his hand at writing lyrics and succeeded in writing a popular song called, “My Baby She Wrote Me a Letter.”

He worshipped with the Quakers who meet in Ocala.  He first came to the group when it met at George Newkirk’s house in Ocala.  A bond grew between George and Scott. The meeting itself was a point of stability in Scott’s life through the many difficulties he had. He called the Quaker Meeting his family.