Insight
Terri Vrtiska fits the profile of many Doane students in the early 1980s.
She grew up in the tiny farming community of Table Rock and graduated with 20 classmates.
Her father was a dryland farmer who spent 12 years in the Nebraska Legislature.
Her mom was a teacher and homemaker to the family's three children.
They were a Cornhusker red family whose children went to Doane and Peru. College tuition - private or public - did not come without sacrifice.
Blake, junior
Hometown: Maxwell, Neb.
Campus involvement: Doane Ambassador, resident assistant, Campus Crusade for Christ, Doane Choir, Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Directions mentor, Relay for Life fundraiser, drama, teacher's aid, instrumental/vocal accompanist, Cardinal Key inductee (academic honor society)
Major: Secondary English/languge arts education
Taylor, junior
Hometown: Ogallala
Campus involvement: Doane Owl, Student Congress Senator, Honors Program, Delta Kappa Pi Fraternity, former Resident Assistant
Major: Journalism
V.J., junior
Hometown: Liberty, N.Y.
Activities: member of Doane Choir, "Doublewide," former director of "Exalted Adoration," Gospel Festival organizer, Doane Theatre
Major: vocal music
Dr. Andrea Holmes
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
To really know Dr. Andrea Holmes, you need to know that she's a lot like a chiral molecule.
In chemistry that means molecules with opposing handedness, an object that differs from its mirror image.
In Holmes, it means she appreciates both molecular sensors and beauty pageants.