The following is a portion of an email recently sent to those class members from the Leadership Steering Committee:
"We cannot begin to know or understand how each of you feel in our current situation. One thing we hope you know is how very
PROUD
we are of
EACH OF YOU
!
A few things you did not know about your class ...
You are the first class in the 16 years of the program that:
**ALL participants excepted into the class also completed the class, and will receive their certificates and cords;
**ALL participants attended all class days (except the last class, but that was not your fault);
**When the Steering Committee members reviewed each class day at their meetings, there was never anything but positive wonderful comments about the class participants regarding attentiveness, respect and engagement during the class days.
Junior Leadership is a program of the Laguna Madre Education Foundation, which was created, and is managed, by the South Padre Island Chamber of Commerce. A comment at the first Steering Committee meeting following your retreat was how very impressed the Steering Committee was with the class participants this year, and you continued to impress us throughout the year. It would have been wonderful if the world never had to endure what we are going through today, but it did happen, and we have no doubt the members of Class 16 will learn and grow from the experience, and move forward to do amazing things in the future."
We realize this is not the same as walking across the stage as you had expected, attending Awards Night, attending prom or just celebrating with your classmates, but it is a little something and comes from the heart of each Leadership Laguna Madre Steering Committee Member!
CONGRATULATIONS!