About — Loan Eby for School Board

Background

My name is Loan; it’s a Vietnamese name (I pronounce my name Low-wen). I grew up in Kearney, Nebraska. My parents adopted me from an orphanage in Vietnam. I am told the plane I was on may have been the last plane out of Saigon; whether this is true remains to be seen; however, it makes for an exciting story. I met my husband in Kearney while working at Cabela’s, and we moved to Dallas, Texas, because that was where his first job took us after he graduated from UNK.

While in Dallas, I worked full-time, attended the University of Texas Dallas, and earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. I took some graduate economics courses at Southern Methodist University (SMU). I worked for a company that specialized in providing risk management, marketing, and supplier data on companies. I started as an administrative assistant and was promoted to a customer support representative and then earned a sales territory that comprised North Dallas, Louisiana, and Northern Arkansas. My husband was promoted, and we moved back to Nebraska and proudly bought a house in Papillion, Nebraska.

I had various corporate positions in the Omaha metro area before we decided to start a family. My husband and I are blessed with two perfect children. My daughter is a CPA in Colorado and works for an international construction firm in Denver; my son is working on his degree at a university in Kirksville, Missouri. Since we are “empty nesters,” our attention and affection are channeled to our little dogs.

VACANCY APPLICATION

In October 2023, I applied for the Papillion LaVista Community Schools Board of Education vacancy. Although the document is public record, I have redacted my address and cell number. Please let me know if you have any questions about my application or want to meet with me. My email is loan.eby@gmail.com

Nebraska State Constitution Article I-1, Statement of Rights

All persons are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent and inalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the right to keep and bear arms for security or defense of self, family, home, and others, and for lawful common defense, hunting, recreational use, and all other lawful purposes, and such rights shall not be denied or infringed by the state or any subdivision thereof. To secure these rights, and the protection of property, governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

My favorite quote is a speech titled “Citizenship in a Republic” by Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States, at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, on April 23, 1910

Man in the Arena

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”