The Civic Roundtable honored Jerome Tucker for some of
the many things he has done for Lowndes County and south Georgia.
And as usual he hit the nail on the head.

Dawn Castro

wrote for the VDT yesterday:

“We do have one of the best communities,” Tucker said. “The toughest
part of me standing before you is knowing how much better we could be
if all the little groups would work together.”

He also said:

“I am still blessed to have my dad with me,” Tucker began. “He
always asks me, ‘Where have you been?’ and ‘Did you do any good?’

Here are a few good things Jerome Tucker has done recently:

• 
  
  
  Opportunities from solar power —Jerome Tucker and MAGE SOLAR at LHS, 29 March 2011

  Jerome Tucker explained that there are jobs to be developed in south
  Georgia for solar power, in distribution, installation, and related
  industry.

• Then Jerome Tucker helped form the
  
  Renewable Energy Network at Opportunity Central.

• If you ever need a model of how to give a speech, there’s this one by
  Jerome Tucker at the October LCBOE forum on school consolidation:
  • 
    I have never, never, been asked whether I’ve got one system or two
    
    

  • 
    How will you know what’s going on in school if you don’t go in?

  • 
    People who look like you or people to do a job?

  That was the best speech I’ve ever heard around here:
  the voice of experience, with facts at his command and fire in the belly.

• 
  
  Before that he’d summed it up at a VBOE forum in one question:

  What makes the Chamber of Commerce better qualified than professional educators?

School consolidation may be ancient history soon, and Jerome Tucker did
more than his part to make that happen.

Maybe now we can move on and get all the little groups to work together.

-jsq