The Missouri Speech-Language-Hearing Association (MSHA) supported the Stuttering Foundation this year with their MSHA Cares campaign, which raised $864.88.
 
The money was primarily raised through T-shirt sales.  For a $10 donation, participants received a shirt. Other folks simply donated because they wanted to support the Stuttering Foundation.
 
Leon “Jigger” Sirois was a keynote speaker at this year’s MSHA Convention in April. Jigger is a longtime supporter of the Stuttering Foundation. He often purchases materials from the Foundation at his own expense and distributes them to local libraries.
 
Jigger, however, is best known for being a race car driver. It was his failed attempt to qualify his car at the Indy 500 in 1969 that ironically gave him his claim to fame. He was mistakenly waved off a lap early in a run that would have been fast enough to qualify and win him the pole position. 
 
The “Jigger Award” — one that no driver really wants to win — is given annually before the Indy 500 to the driver with the worst luck that season.
 
The theme of this year’s MSHA Convention was Mission Possible: Together Towards Tomorrow. To go along with the “spy” theme, participants could dress in costumes and have their pictures taken.
 
From the Fall 2014 Newsletter