The following Veterans Day programs will be held at St. Joseph-Ogden High School, Prairieview-Ogden Junior High School and St. Joseph Middle School on Nov. 11, 2019.
Prairieview-Ogden Junior High
St. Joseph-Ogden alum Jeff Mathis will speak to Prairieview-Ogden Junior High School students at 2 p.m. on Nov. 11.
Mathis attended PV-O after moving from Tolono in the sixth grade.
Mathis will share his story enlistment in the Army, completed basic and advanced training at Fort Jackson and how he stationed at Fort Riley in Kansas with a 13-month deployment in Iraq.
After finishing his time in the Army, Mathis returned to Central Illinois to finish his education. In 2011, he received my bachelor’s degree from ISU in Exercise Science followed by my Master’s degree in 2013.
Mathis is now a husband and father and a member of the Local 149 Plumbers and Pipefitters Union.
St. Joseph Middle School
Paul Lewis was one of 52 Americans held captive in Iran for 444 days when a group of Iranian college students who took control of the U.S. Embassy on Nov. 4, 1979.
He will speak to St. Joseph Middle School students during their Veterans Day ceremony at 1 p.m. on Nov. 11.
Lewis’ talk will take place after the St. Joseph student council performs a skit about the Pledge of Allegiance. The band will also play the National Anthem and the medley of Armed Forces.
All Veterans are invited to attend the ceremony.
St. Joseph-Ogden High School
Veterans will be honored beginning at 10:40 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial at St. Joseph-Ogden’s High School Park.
The guest speaker has not been finalized yet.
