By Jessica Vaughn / jessica@gulfcoastmedia.com
Colonel Douglas, USAF (retired), was awarded Foley High School’s Teacher of the Year. At the Wednesday, Feb. 14 Optimist Club meeting held at the Gift Horse in Foley, the club presented Colonel Douglas with a special award from the members and the community.
“I have to pinch myself again and again,” said Douglas. “I’m very humbled, thankful, and grateful for this opportunity.”
Douglas has worked at Foley High School for two and a half years, after working for the government for 33 years, and was working in Washington DC when Foley High Principal Russ Moore contacted her for a job interview.
“I had the opportunity to go to North Carolina and visit one of the junior ROTC programs with my old first sergeant,” said Douglas. “I was invited to go in and spend a week there to talk to the cadets. I thoroughly enjoyed that. I said, ‘wow, look at these young people.’ They were excited, they were energetic … I watched them do their briefings, I watched them go through their curriculum, and I thought, ‘wow, I could do this.’”
She returned to Washington DC and put in her application, and when Moore contacted her, she accepted the position with gratitude.
“Nothing will make my heart smile more than for every last one of [the cadets] in Foley’s ROTC program to be successful,” said Douglas.