East Georgia State College's Fall Convocation 2013 will kick off a three-day community celebration starting at 11 a.m. Thursday. The guest speaker for the event, which will be held in the Luck Flanders Gambrell Auditorium on the college's main campus in Swainsboro, will be Michael L. Thurmond, the interim superintendent of the DeKalb County School District. DeKalb County, the third largest district in Georgia, serves nearly 99,000 students with more than 13,400 employees.