THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, May 3, 1995 TAG: 9505020135
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 17 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY JO-ANN CLEGG, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Medium: 58 lines
``The first comment everyone makes about Amy Doll is how appropriately she is named,'' Salem High School guidance counselor Peggy Middleton wrote in her nomination of Amy Joy Doll for the Civitan Club of Virginia Beach Outstanding Young Citizen award for the 1994-95 school year.
``However, Amy is not the goody two-shoes, unopinionated doll sometimes associated with the porcelain plaything. (She) is indeed a woman of substance,'' the counselor was quick to add.
Doll, who went on to win the Civitan award, has a long list of accomplishments that bear out Middleton's assessment.
From the time she was named ``Hardest Worker'' in the ninth grade at what was then Salem Junior High to the current school year in which she has served as Student Cooperative Association president, she has been a leader in school activities.
She was the one 10th-grader chosen to represent the school at the Hugh O'Brien Youth Leadership Foundation, one of two students chosen to attend Girls' State in the 11th grade and was recently named Outstanding Teen in South Hampton Roads by the YWCA.
Along the way she has been active in music and drama, swum competitively with her neighborhood team and volunteered for children with AIDS, battered women, cystic fibrosis and in the recreation department's therapeutic swimming program.
She is also an honor roll student and a member of the National Honor Society.
Amy is the oldest of the three daughters of Steve and Donna Doll. Her dad, who retired from the Navy last year as a master chief petty officer, is in the real estate business. Her mother works as a financial aid officer for a local technical institute.
Her sister Jenny is just a year behind her at Salem High School while the family's youngest daughter, Missy, is a student at Salem Middle School.
While many high school seniors are still trying to figure out what they'll be doing come fall, Amy already has the next several years planned.
``I'll be going to the Naval Academy,'' she said. She plans to major in political science and then look into the intelligence specialty.
In her typical self-effacing way, she brushed off her appointment to the academy with a toss of her head and a broad smile.
``I got a vice-presidential appointment. It's the easiest one to get if your dad is in the military,'' she explained. ILLUSTRATION: Photo
Salem High senior Amy Doll will attend the Naval Academy. She plans
to major in political science and look into the intelligence
specialty.
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