Thank You To Our Community 45 Years of Investing in the Game and Revolutionizing the Field of Education
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ince Delphian’s founding over 45 years ago, a culture of giving has distinguished the school community. In fact, our very first donors gave to us when we were just a group of educators with nothing more than a dream. The founding staff began with a lofty goal. It was never solely about creating a premier boarding school on a hill in Oregon––and it isn’t today. It was, and is, about helping revolutionize education through the creation of an entirely new model: A showplace where visitors––educational, political, philanthropic––can view a new reality for education: no grades, no factory model classrooms, no “teachers,” just full understanding for every student in every subject. Where faculty believe student potential is unlimited. Where students take full responsibility for their own education. Where children become self-determined, independent, thinking adults. Where graduates launch into a world in need of positive change, having the knowledge, ethics, integrity and leadership skills capable of effecting that change. From the beginning you were there: board members, families, alumni, supporters. You believed in the big game PAGE 8
and helped to nurture and feed the dream. With deepest gratitude to you, and to a selfless and dedicated team of staff and faculty, we now stand witness to more than 45 years of superlative results. In the beginning, Delphian possessed a remarkable campus with great potential, but with limited facilities and even fewer financial resources. Nonetheless, a team formed up to take the first critical step towards a new educational paradigm: the creation of a comprehensive K-12 curriculum while utilizing the educational breakthroughs of American author and educator L. Ron Hubbard. Piece by piece, this team built a program of carefully crafted benchmarks and high standards. Generous donations enabled the team to get the school program up and running. In June of 1976, Delphian opened its doors, first to thirty-six brave summer students and then to its first fullyear students. A new era of education had begun. Today, students arrive into a highly evolved educational program and an experience that is rich with the diversity of an international student body. As always, Delphian continues to charge ahead, never satisfied, always seeking a higher educational ideal. An iconic building in a majestic setting is something few schools can match. But has Delphian achieved the reality-altering “showplace” vision of its founders? More specifically, does the building and the campus match the
