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There’s little doubt that the most active student organization on campus is the Pensacola State College Student Veterans Association (SVA).
You’ll see them at nearly every PSC event – from hosting tailgate cookouts at sporting events to helping organize events such as January’s Welcome Back Bash. Seriously, the College’s SVA always answers the call to duty.
Now the SVA is launching the Veteran Coffee Project to raise funds to attend the 2024 SVA NATCON Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
Each Tuesday through the spring semester, the PSC SVA will sell coffee, hot cocoa and baked goods to raise funds for the 2024 conference.
The SVA will host the Veteran Coffee Project from 7:30-10 a.m. each Tuesday ─ switching locations from outside Building 6 to outside Building 14 each week. The Feb. 14 Veteran Coffee Project event will be outside Building 6. (Bring cash! No debit or credit cards.)
SVA members recently returned from the 2023 SVA NATCON Conference in Orlando, held Jan. 5-7.
“It really opened my eyes to what is out there for veterans,’’ said U.S. Army veteran Jackson Clyde, recently-installed PSC SVA president. “Plus, you’re with student veterans from across the country, so you get that camaraderie that you had in the military.”
Clyde replaces fellow Army veteran Lisa Marshall-Velez as SVA president. Marshall-Velez pushed the chapter to be a presence on the Pensacola campus and raised the visibility at PSC.
“We’re taught that you lead by example,’’ Clyde said of the reason that he, Marshall-Velez and other veterans remain so active on campus.
“That’s just the military way.”