Story and photos by Cary Griffin, Forney Messenger

On Monday, June 1, the Forney Education Leadership Foundation Board of Directors hosted a special breakfast for the Forney High School  students who produced a video that was used during FELF’s fourth annual recognition/appreciation banquet on May 17.

The video was a first-time feature of the banquet. It introduced the FHS seniors in the Class of 2009 who ranked among the top ten academically. Each of these students chose a favorite teacher from their entire career in FISD, and the favorite teachers were also introduced during the video.

The video production team members were: Hannah Elder, Alexa Casteneda, Alicia Sherrod, Stacey Trigeros, Lauren Ervin, Caitlin Conner, Ashlea Vanderbilt, Tracia McDonald, Adam Hasley, Claudia Pettigrew, Gabbi del Ponte’, Shae Goldston, and Adam Hasley. Team advisor is Joy Wood.

The special breakfast took place in the computer room attached to FHS journalism teacher Joy Wood’s classroom. It began at approximately 9:00 a. m.

Special thanks were accorded to team leader Adam Hasley, a junior. Just as Hasley was finishing the video on the Friday night before the banquet, it crashed. Assisted by other team members, Hasley worked throughout the rest of the weekend to remake the video—and had it delivered to the banquet on time.

As members of the FELF board thanked the students for their work, one of them stated, “We all did what we needed to do.”

Larry Coker, FISD’s Director of Communications, who is a member of the FELF board, personally thanked the students for their effort under considerable pressure. “It was a crunch-time thing,” he related.

Breakfast consisted of all-you-could-eat cinnamon rolls from CiCi’s Pizza and an orange drink.

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