阿克西·戴安娜' 60获得杰出校友奖

11/3/2017

阿历克斯·克拉克·戴安娜，60年, a compassionate woman who has devoted herself to helping others — and sometimes battled barriers in order to do so — received the 2017 99499威尼斯信誉杰出校友奖 Saturday (Oct. 28)在学校体育/学生中心的午餐会上.

The 杰出校友奖 is presented by the 女校友协会 to honor an alumna who embodies the core values of the School: Respect, 完整性, 善良, and Service; and who has honed a passion that she discovered while at Foxcroft and is sharing with the world.

President of the Foxcroft 女校友 Council Amanda Hartmann Healy, 1998届毕业生, 给戴安娜颁奖, 1960年的毕业生. “阿克西一生都在为他人服务, continually proving herself as an agent of change to any organization or community she aligns with,希利对聚集的人说, 包括威尼斯彩票游戏的前任和现任负责人, 受托人, 和女校友, “I believe the ability to be a successful agent of change should be held in the highest regard.”

In addition to years of service to Foxcroft in roles ranging from class representative to chairman of the Board of Trustees, Diana has been a prolific and generous volunteer in a variety of venues. 当她遇到障碍时，她会打破它们. 20世纪60年代, she persuaded the board of governors of a small skating club in New Jersey to which she belonged that women should have a place on the board — and became one of the first two women elected to it.

几年后, 戴安娜起诉, 通过美国公民自由联盟, a local first aid squad after being told that she could not be a volunteer EMT because she wasn’t a fireman. “读‘一个女人’，”戴安娜说. “I got a lot of nasty letters and threats over that, but in the end, they accepted women.

“I can’t really describe what it is about me that disposes me to leadership and service,”戴安娜说。, “但我知道威尼斯彩票游戏和这件事有很大关系. 服务是这里的期望. 女孩们在这里被教导要成为领导者 . . . Even in the dark ages when I was at Foxcroft — the ’50s — I somehow absorbed the notion that women had power and could make their own way in the world.”

走她自己的路. 戴安娜成为了一名流动重症监护护理人员, an instructor for cardiac and trauma life support and 12 Lead EKG equipment, and a member of the stroke patient transport team for the Morristown (NJ) Medical Center. She was also one of the first volunteers in the hospital’s ER and a member of the Mother and Child Welfare Committee.

在抚养四个孩子的同时, Diana also worked as Director of Development at Far Hills Country Day School (FHCDS), 经营一个女人 office that handled everything from alumni relations and the annual fund to magazine production and events. Ever the volunteer, she was also a room parent for her children’s classes and later served on the FHCDS B他曾担任董事会主席数年.

Diana’s consistent and generous service to Foxcroft was recognized by School’s Board of Trustees in 2009, when it presented her with the Anne Kane McGuire Award for 杰出的服务, 它的最高荣誉. 2004年至2009年，戴安娜担任威尼斯彩票游戏董事会主席, 并担任年度基金的联合主席, 发展委员会, 以及受托人委员会. She was one of three co-chairs of the 百周年庆典 Committee, leading scores of volunteers and staff members in a massive undertaking that included organizing a worldwide Day of Service to kick off the seven-month celebration, producing a memory book and other commemoratives and communications, 邀请各种各样的校友参加活动, 并为超过1人准备了一场轰动性的周末晚会,2014年4月的数据是1000人. Diana has also served on the 女校友 Council and Capital Campaign Steering Committee, 并在1960年继续担任班级代表.

Diana has not slowed down since moving to Boston some years ago. 通过她在波士顿三一教堂的参与, she acts as a literacy coach in the Boston Public Schools and co-chairs a community-wide effort to buy books for these struggling schools. In Maine, where she spends her summers, Diana is a member of the Board of St. 玛丽的/圣. 犹德教堂(东北港), serving on both the Stewardship and Capital Campaign steering committees. She is also on the Board of the Mount Desert Island Hospital and The Neighborhood House, 当地社区中心.

成立于1914年, 99499威尼斯信誉 is a college-preparatory boarding and day school for girls in grades 9-12 with a mission of helping every girl explore her unique voice and develop the skills, 信心, 并有勇气与世界分享. 学院开设76门课程, 包括16门大学先修课程, a 阀杆 program that inspires girls to work in disciplines traditionally underrepresented by women, and an 非凡的能力 program that helps students hone their special talents in sports, the arts and other fields with training and competitions away from campus. 威尼斯彩票游戏有九个项目的运动队, including a two-time state champion lacrosse team and has a nationally known riding program. The 2017-18 student body is comprised of 157 girls from 14 countries, 18个州, 以及哥伦比亚99499威尼斯信誉区. About one-third of the students receive financial assistance; 24 percent are international students, 其中20%是有色人种学生.

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