THANK YOU

Thank You To Our Community

45 Years of Investing in the Game and Revolutionizing the Field of Education

Since 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 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 standards of the educational program? Not quite––not yet.

The school’s 2009 Campus Master Plan set out to change that. Over the past twelve years, progress made on that master plan has resulted in more upgrades to the functionality, feel, and overall aesthetic of the school than in any other decade in the school’s history, from our stateof-the-art science lab to a beautiful new Lower School, totally renovated gym, dorm bathrooms, reception and art gallery, rec room and Little Theater, student laundry room, and the list goes on.

The campus itself has seen massive improvements from a new pond and gazebo, to hiking trails that span the 720acre campus, a new promenade and pathway, front gate upgrade and more.

In order to achieve that ongoing goal of an educational ideal, we rely on supporters like you. Gifts of time, leadership, and resources, no matter how large or small, all make a difference. Your support ensures that we can hire and retain expert teachers and supervisors, provide financial aid to nearly 40% of our students, and support all aspects of a Delphian education, from academics to arts to athletics.

We’d like to give a special and very heartfelt thank you to all of our donors over these past 45 years. We truly appreciate your outstanding support! Your donations have helped provide the benefits our students receive today. Your gifts will make possible even greater opportunities for the children and grandchildren of tomorrow’s Delphians. That is what we mean by a culture of giving.

We all have within us the desire to help. This purpose pulls us together as a group, a community, a nation. As each new family contributes toward putting that future there, others are inspired to follow their example.

No matter how you chose to contribute, Delphian thanks you, our students thank you, and the hundreds of children we’ll be educating long into the future will also thank you.

A bench and firepit built by students participating in the Outdoor program with the Head of School, located on one of the many campus hiking trails