Joe Ferguson stays in touch with his own middle school and high school band teachers and many former students. So after five years as band director at Statesboro High School, he’s not going to slip away without a trace.“That’s why when anybody here says, ‘You’re leaving and you’re never going to talk to us again,’ I tell them, I’m only moving 3,000 miles away; I’m not dying,” he said over boxes packed with his belongings in the band room. “I plan on keeping ties with all the friends I’ve made here.”Ferguson and his wife Ashley are moving to Seattle.