SERVICE PERSPECTIVE Doug's Trip 2011


"The highest reward for a person's work is not what they get for it, but what they become because of it." - John Ruskin


Te memory of Douglas Robert Wardle lives strong within the St. Anne's-Belfield School community. Doug was an honor student, elected Student Body President, athlete, actor, and recipient of outstanding academic awards, whose range of talents was extensive. His spirit of service, ever-present smile, and the passion with which he ap- proached his volunteer work in Central America, was a guiding light for his teach- ers, friends, and family.


In 2007, while on a service trip with his classmates and father in Nicaragua, Doug collapsed. Doctors discovered a rare con- genital hemorrhage in his brain, and, sadly, he passed away that day, leaving life as he loved to live it: in the service of others.


Doug’s senior classmates, the Class of 2008, joined their parents in dedicating their se- nior class giſt to Doug’s memory. It was a giſt of service – funding for the rising fresh- man class to travel as a group to a location where its energy and empathy would have a genuine impact. In 2009, the inaugural year of “Doug’s Trip,” the freshman class traveled to Pass Christian, Mississippi, to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. In 2010, a new group of freshmen returned to the area to pick up where their predecessors leſt off.


Keeping the tradition and memory of Doug alive, over 100 students and faculty again in 2011 embarked on a journey to Mississippi to clear large amounts of debris remaining from the hurricane.


For more information, photos, and daily blog entries from the 2010 and 2011 trips, please visit: http://dougstrip.wordpress.com/


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