Teachers,
Our kickoff speakers for this 82nd State
Convention are Chance Veazey and UGA Head Baseball Coach, David Perno. If you don’t
know about Chance’s story, you can read more at the following link. I encourage
you to share this with your students. I encourage you too to have your students
keep up with Chance on his Caring Bridge website. He is a special young man.
There are a few things that I would like for you to know
before Thursday night gets here.
First, Chance and Coach Perno have waived any type of
speaker fee. We’re not paying them one dollar! Next, the Georgia
baseball team has a game Wednesday night and a weekend series (Friday,
Saturday, Sunday) in Athens with South Carolina. Coach Perno has every excuse
not to attend our Convention, but he is coming! He is making a special effort
to be there to help tell Chance’s story to our young people.
Secondly, if you read the story on the link above, you will
see that the UGA baseball team is collecting donations at every home game for
the “Prayers for Chance” fund. We will provide the same opportunity
at the Convention on Thursday. When you and your students arrive, there will be
opportunities around the Arena to donate pocket change or dollar bills to the
Prayers for Chance fund. We are not asking for large donations…just
pocket change or dollar bills. Every dime we raise will be given to Chance’s
fund. Please encourage yours students to consider this opportunity.
Finally, Coach Perno and Chance have requested an
opportunity for students to ask Chance questions during his presentation. At
the appropriate time, we will turn up the house lights in the Arena and allow
chapter delegates to ask questions of Chance. We will have a house mic
available on the Arena floor. Please encourage your two delegates sitting on
the floor on Thursday night to think of any appropriate question that they
would like to ask Chance. He wants that interaction with our students.
I appreciate you giving both of these items some attention.
Ben
Ben Lastly
Executive Secretary
Georgia FFA Association
316 Poultry Science - UGA
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: (706) 542-8990
Fax: (706) 542-3707
Website: www.georgiaffa.org