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Tim Blunn
Group of radiologists at Grant Medical Center

a traveling CT technologist. “I love my job at Grant. The hospital, the pace, the variety and the types of ...

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Chase Ghiloni
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exhausting. So, I thought I would give this digital media design thing at COTC a try.” Ghiloni started taking ...

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The Right Thing
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a drastic change for me, but from day one at the academy I loved every minute of it,” Kyle said about ...

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Timothy Young
Sonja Darsee and Timothy Young stand in front of the Licking Knox Goodwill building.

got started here purely by the instructor and connection I had made at COTC.” No ...

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Jeff, Julie and Collin Pillow

technology at Park National Bank. “I have hired a lot of people at Park National Bank, and COTC is one of my ...

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A Career to Build
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(COTC), gave her an advantage. “One of my professors at Ohio State Newark knew Ken Ollish in the ...

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Mother and Daughter Earn Same COTC Degree 20 Years Apart
Lora Smith stands next to Lydia Smith who is holding her COTC diploma after just walking across the stage at COTC's commencement ceremony in December 2022.

practice after graduating. As her family grew, Smith paused her career in favor of being a stay-at ...

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Braden Patchett
Alumni Braden Patchett

associate degree would change his life forever. Now a junior designer at Varo Engineers in Granville, ...

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COTC Alumna Bolin Inspires Hope Through Change
COTC human services graduate Melody Bolin stands outside of The Main Place where she works as a mental health case manager.

a specialty area. Bolin’s practicum placement at The Main Place — a consumer-operated mental health recovery ...

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Dual-Enrollment Led COTC Engineering Technology Student Sydney Palur to Early Start in Dream Career
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for her attendance at the University of Louisville, but quickly realized after one semester that it ...

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Kori Caughenbaugh

individually to design layouts, 3-D conceptual models and construction documents; skills she mastered at COTC. ...

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Billi Gross and Matayah Berry
Portrait of Billi Gross and Matayah Berry at COTC's Coshocton campus.

even easier to navigate as a young mother. “At the time, she was a baby, so it was very convenient for ...

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Braden Feick
Brandon Fienk sits at a desk with his hand on a mouse in front of a wall of monitors.

After a brief time at a four-year university, Feick learned about COTC’s electrical transmission and ...

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Archana Rajendran
Archana Rajendran standing next to ultrasound machine.

when she started doing clinicals at local hospitals as part of the DMS program, she kept to herself. ...

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Heather Prince, DNP, APRN-CNP
Portrait of Heather Prince standing outside COTC's Pataskala campus.

available [at COTC],” Prince said. “You don’t have the traffic, the congestion, walking miles and miles to ...

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Angela Simmons

became a nurse manager at an urgent care. Simmons also worked in case management at a surgery center in ...

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Sophia Tosi
COTC alumna Sophia Tosi stands outside TrueCore Federal Credit Union where she works.

to what she learned in her coursework. “At COTC, all the classes were very tailored, so now I can ...

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COTC Alumna Reflects on Nursing Career
Sherry Engle stands next to a mannequin in a nursing lab at COTC's Pataskala campus.

working at Mount Carmel Health System, where she remained until her retirement in 2012. After spending ...

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A love story of institutions and the people they unite
Portrait of Mary Ellen and Lee St. John outside of a greenhouse.

like the St. Johns — Mary Ellen who taught at COTC for 27 years, Lee who served Ohio State Newark for ...

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Lacey McCombs
Lacey McCombs stands in front of her storefront in Coshocton.

to college right away. As a senior at Ridgewood High School, McCombs combed through her options ...

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Alumni Award Winners Honored
Terry Bertiaux holds his Outstanding Alumni Award certificate and glass trophy.

dispute resolution at Sullivan University in Kentucky. Today, Bertiaux works as a mediator for the Defense ...

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Vickie Sant
Vickie Sant sands in the COTC Knox campus lobby for a portrait.

go to school at the same time,” she said of her COTC experience. “This allowed me to qualify for ...

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Becca Saxton
Becca Saxton stands wither her mom on the day of her pinning ceremony at COTC.

away. “I was waking up at 4 a.m. to drive to clinicals, then getting home late,” she said. “It was so ...

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Toby Starr
Toby Starr

everything. My time spent (at COTC) helped me develop communication skills, not just through classes, but in ...

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COTC Recognizes Three Alumni with College Awards
Portrait of COTC President John M. Berry, PhD;  alumni Bryanna Stigger; and Jay Barker.

skills I can only assume he began honing at COTC.” Martin also spent many years as a part-time faculty ...

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Randy Thorp, Mark Weiner and Nick Shuster
Two men in police uniforms and one man in a suit stand inside a courtroom of the Licking County Courthouse.

All of these men used the background they established at COTC to serve and give back to their ...

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Jennifer Ellis-Brunn
Portrait of Jennifer Ellis Brunn standing in downtown Newark.

been amazing at organizing this partnership and connecting students with community resources.” JFS and ...

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Tina Gibson
Portrait of Tina Gibson in a nurse's cap and cape holding a porcelain lamp.

Guard. Those interested in volunteering or donating can contact Gibson at meonursehonorguard@gmail.com. ...

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Jennifer McDonald
Jennifer McDonald with foam number one finger at the Licking County Chamber of Commerce office.

Visitor’s Bureau from 1991 to 2004. In 2004 she became vice president at the Licking County Chamber of ...

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