Toward the close of the convention session on July 4 during the report on our capital campaign, everyone in the audience received a hard hat. For each of us, accepting the gift represented individual personal determination to "Build it now!"

Mary Ellen Jernigan at the podium with President Maurer beside her, both wearing hard hats

Everyone in the audience donned hard hats as soon as they were passed out.

Linda Gwizdak and her guide dog Jacob, wearing hard hats.

Bruce Gardner with his hard hat perched on top of his cowboy hat

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Marie Cobb also sporting the layered look

Noel Nightingale, her husband Jim Peterson, and their baby daughter Leila all wearing hard hats