Hall of Fame
During a career of nearly thirty-five years in junior high and high school education, Doran has served as a science and physical education teacher, coach, athletic director, dean of students, assistant principal and principal. His commitment to education and his students have earned him such honors and awards as the 1961 Ohio Science Teacher of the Year Award and the Outstanding Service Award as an athletic director at Waite High School. Doran has also given of his time and talents by serving as chairman of the Northwest District Science Board, president of the Toledo Athletic Directors, elder of the Perrysburg Alliance Church, member of the Toledo Waite Hall of Fame Board, and in a number of positions at the state level for Gideons International, “Snyde,” as his teammates refer to him, was a three year letterman as a running back for the Oilers football squad, a four year letter winner in basketball, and a record setting pole vaulter on the track team. He competed on conference championship teams in both football and basketball, and participated on NAIA state, district and national championship teams in basketball. Doran’s philosophy on the value of sports is that they allow you “to develop your physical and mental abilities to the maximum – to glorify the Lord’s gift given to you.”
