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52 Faces of Community: Anne Schout
By Holly Desrosier
Anne Schout greatly values the preservation of historical structures and has helped the New Bern area make tremendous headway in the restoration of its historical district. Her hands-on humanitarian efforts in many organizations have also helped New Bern stay current with the area’s more progressive issues, such as attainable education, community integration and support for all walks of life.
“If I m going to join an organization, I m going to work for it,” she said. “I m not going to just sit back.”
Anne, whose family dates back to the original settlers in Charlotte, earned her degree in chemistry from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1971. She went on to work as a chemist for nine years. She worked for the Department of Medicine at UNC and did independent cancer research for three years before working for the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, where she analyzed feed, fertilizer, pesticide, food and gasoline. After gettin