When she was awarded the Order of Canada a little more than a year ago, Barbara Scott '52 says she wondered "why me?" Despite her credentials--24 years on the Calgary City Council in the thick of what she calls "a whole bunch of community activities--child care, women's stuff"--she was overwhelmed at receiving Canada's highest non-military award, which recognizes a lifetime of achievement, merit and service to community or country. "I felt very, very proud," she said.     Her award was no surprise to the voters in Calgary's Ward 8, who elected her to eight consecutive terms, or to the newspapers that lauded her for her "magic hand" at guiding Calgary's health and social services while showing "little patience with bureaucratic intransigence, bafflegab and baloney."     Scott is matter-of-fact about projects she initiated, such as safe houses that helped teenagers get off the streets, and her role in developing a dental clinic and in reducing the health problems of street people. "These things are important to me. I'm proud--but without sounding arrogant--because you never accomplish anything in this world by yourself. You have to work together," she said.     She entered Colby thinking pre-med, but when she was given a frog to dissect, "that was the end of that," Scott said. "After I groped around, I landed on sociology." An M.A. in urban sociology from Boston University led to stints as a research assistant in Houston and as a social and market research associate in Toronto. In 1965 she joined the Calgary Social Planning Council as research director. In 1969, two years before she was elected to the Calgary City Council, she took out Canadian citizenship.     Scott says she retired from her 24-year council service "to do other things"--volunteering in a shelter for abused women, for instance, and taking on the responsibility for Celebration Canada, a forum on citizenship education. She also took up hiking, and she loves skiing. She took lessons on the slopes at age 60, she says, because "one tends to get busy with day-to-day affairs and forget about mind-clearing activities."     So what did she think when a call came out of the blue not long ago, offering her a seat as judge in Citizenship Court? The post, which deals with citizenship and immigration laws and with the conflicts of interest they sometimes raise in the business world, also would mean travel between mid- and lower Alberta. She answered, "I love retirement. I'll take it if I can do it part time. First I have to figure which end is up."      In late October, about to head off to Ottawa for training and three days of meetings with all of the court's 20 or more judges, she was already on task, going down to the office, setting up a schedule. For starters, a judge in this specialized, challenging court has to be a member of the Order of Canada. Otherwise, she says, the job calls for common sense, awareness of jurisprudence and, most important, "an appreciation and respect for people."