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IN THE NEWS
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Senator Diane Allen Urges Graduates to Move
Forward and Toward Their Goals
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Senator Diane Allen, a dear friend of Doane
Academy, was our commencement speaker
this past June 9th, marking the close of our
181st year. Under the late hot spring sun, she
addressed the twenty-four members of the
class of 2018 as well as the audience of
hundreds of family, friends, faculty, and staff
who had gathered on our varsity soccer field.
She spoke of her youth, and the time she
spent pursuing a B.A. in Philosophy at
Bucknell University. She shared her
experiences hosting a local radio broadcast,
the attention it brought her, and the
comprehensive reexamination of her career
choice. She shared inspirational stories about
her break into broadcasting, her subsequent
struggles to find equality of treatment and pay
for women, and her later transition into politics
and public service. But perhaps her story of a
young student pilot on their first in-air flying
lesson was the most engrossing part of her
speech.
The flight instructor had equal amounts of
flying experience, in planes built to land on
runways and in small planes designed for
water landings. He moved his novice student
through all of the basics of flight and, as the
lesson was coming to a conclusion, he had his
student position the plane for a landing on the
runway below. His student did not question his
instructions, which may or may not have
confused angle approaches for land and sea
landings. The plane hit the runway, bounced,
and proceeded to pancake onto its roof. The
two emerged from the wreckage, stunned but
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only slightly injured. Senator Allen asked the
class of 2018, “Do you think that the student
should go back for another lesson, or leave the
ambition to get a pilot’s license behind?” After
some murmuring from the audience, she let
them know, “Well… I did go back, right away,
and I got my pilot's license.” The lesson that
she offered was not lost on them. Yes,
sometimes we all face failure, sometimes
dramatic failure, but if you pick yourself up,
learn from your experiences and modify your
approach, then one can continue to move
forward toward one’s goals.
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Spartans Invade Greece
During our 2018 spring break, twenty-two
students traveled to Greece to immerse
themselves in the Greek history, culture, and
cuisine. Their journeys and experiences
included Athens, Mycenae, Corinth, Olympia,
and Delphi. They engaged in hill climbing,
viewing ruins, pottery making, explored
archeological sites, and climbed the sacred
road that led to the Oracle of Delphi.
On the way to Kalambaka, they stopped at
Thermopylae to visit the hot spring and the
statue of Leonidas, a famous Spartan hero. In
their last days in Greece, the Spartans visited
monasteries in the mountains of Meteora,
enjoyed the cold Mediterranean waters, and
spent an evening dancing.
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Have You Heard?
Doane Academy reached two school
enrollment milestones, to open the 2018-19
school year.
- 246 total students (largest since 1986-87)
- 38 ninth-graders (largest in school history)
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