Kiwanian Marcille Bird invited her neighbor, Ron Jones, to speak to the club. Mr. Jones is the Director of International Student Recruitment for Georgia Southern University. His job is to travel to foreign countries to market GSU to potential students in hopes of bringing them to Statesboro to attend the university. GSU has recently become more stringent in their admission requirements. The student population is now over 17,000 and the minimum SAT score is 1000. Georgia Southern has 8 colleges that include 120 majors. Ron was hired in a newly created position to expand the diversity of the student population and to market the University internationally. Mr. Jones chose to live in Metter because of the small town atmosphere and says that he loves the community of Metter and Candler County.