I would like to take the opportunity to express my most sincere gratitude to you for coming in to speak to our classes regarding your personal experience with alcohol, chemical dependency and DWI. It’s one thing to be a health teacher and try to discuss the issues that surround the use, misuse and abuse of alcohol, but it is another thing to have someone who can speak from personal experience. We try very hard to encourage our students to make positive decisions during their lives, however, kids sometimes just don’t listen to logic and reason. Your presentation gave them a life experience that they couldn’t just blow off. It was real and they knew it.

I also want you to know that I truly admire your courage for coming forward and opening up the way you did. You have a very nice manner with teens, and it is easy to see why our students take to you every semester. Your character speaks volumes with the honesty and integrity that you present.

It was our pleasure to have you once again as a guest in our classes. I hope that you would give consideration to returning again in the future. It is always nice to have guest speakers to break up the monotony of everyday school life, but especially nice to have someone with such a positive and appropriate message as yours.

Thank you once again,

Peter M. Jean