Doris Jean Hurd Savoy
District of Columbia Public Schools
Mrs. Savoy is a Spanish teacher at Calvin Coolidge Senior High School. She has taught in the District of Columbia Public School system since becoming an educator in 1968. Mrs. Savoy began her career teaching Spanish at Calvin Coolidge, moving to Hine Junior High School in 1972 and Rabaut Junior High School in 1973, where she also taught Spanish. She returned to Coolidge as a Spanish teacher in 1986. In 1991, she was the recipient of the Walt Disney Outstanding American Teacher Award and in 2001 she appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show as one of the outstanding teachers in America. In 2004, Mrs. Savoy was among six area educators selected as The Washington Post/Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Fellows to Japan. She received a bachelor of arts degree in Spanish and education from Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Ga.