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Alumni Owned Businesses

​​​​The businesses below are owned all or in part by alumni of the Central Ohio Technical College. ...

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The Right Thing
white female in lab coat standing smiling, man in officer uniform standing smiling, white female with black hair standing and smiling

that when his dad owned his own appliance repair business, “He always put others before himself. He ...

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

join, and all Gibson asks of volunteer nurses is to provide their own white scrubs to wear during ...

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

McCombs said. “This town is huge on supporting local, so it’s a place where our women- and veteran-owned ...

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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.

that their lab instructor was also her mother. She wanted to make her own path and her own friends. ...

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Angela Simmons

Louisville. Air Evac EMS, Inc., which operates Air Evac Lifeteam, is the largest independently owned and ...

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Jeff, Julie and Collin Pillow

their own college. While their daughter went to a four-year institution, Collin decided COTC was the ...

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Julio Valladares
Julio Valladres' headshot.

save enough to make it on his own. In 1985, he was granted citizenship, and five years later, he ...

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Braden Patchett
Alumni Braden Patchett

after his own graduation, Patchett returned to COTC to provide the commencement address to the summer ...

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COTC Alumna Opens Childcare Center
Portrait of Brittany Klinkert and her three children.

being a server like I did in my past!” The idea to start her own daycare came about when Klinkert was ...

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Julio Valladares
Alumni Julio Valladares receiving Community Service Award

live with his host family. He worked many odd jobs until he was able to afford his own housing, and he ...

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A Career to Build
Woman in lab coat smiling at camera

COTC radiologic science technology alumna Mara Weber made her own path. Mara Weber began ...

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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.

now, they have proudly watched these partner institutions use the same principles to uphold their own ...

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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.

Martin started his own photography company, Martin Digital, in 2005. From 2013-2016, Martin and three ...

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