COTC Recognizes Associate Degree Graduates at Ceremony ...
COTC Recognizes Associate Degree Graduates at Ceremony ...
COTC Recognizes Associate Degree Graduates at Ceremony ...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br />
Media Contact: Steven Nyeste<br />
Communic<strong>at</strong>ions Coordin<strong>at</strong>or<br />
740.364.9684 snyeste@cotc.edu<br />
<strong>COTC</strong> <strong>Recognizes</strong> <strong>Associ<strong>at</strong>e</strong> <strong>Degree</strong> <strong>Gradu<strong>at</strong>es</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Ceremony</strong><br />
December 19, 2011—Newark, OH—Central Ohio Technical College (<strong>COTC</strong>) recently held<br />
nursing recognition ceremonies to honor <strong>Associ<strong>at</strong>e</strong> of Applied Science in Nursing<br />
Technology gradu<strong>at</strong>es from the Coshocton and Newark campuses.<br />
The following gradu<strong>at</strong>es were honored <strong>at</strong> the ceremony held on Thursday, December 8<br />
<strong>at</strong> the college’s Newark Campus:<br />
<strong>Associ<strong>at</strong>e</strong> <strong>Degree</strong> Nursing <strong>Gradu<strong>at</strong>es</strong><br />
Bexley – Kim Payne-Weiss<br />
Blacklick – Kevin Clear, Rachel Epperly, Chenell Shuff<br />
Carroll – Maggie Stinson<br />
Columbus – Ian Conradt, Sarah Martin, Laura Prifogle<br />
Danville – K<strong>at</strong>ie Myers<br />
Galloway – Erin Travis<br />
He<strong>at</strong>h – Traci Bonifant, Melissa Trago<br />
Hebron – Holly Heim<br />
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Nursing/Page Two<br />
Hilliard – Lindsey Corcoran, Michelle Kiner<br />
Mount Vernon – Michelle Belcher, He<strong>at</strong>her Gruenwald, Barbara Lyons, Jared Young<br />
New Lexington – Kira Brame<br />
Newark – Brooke Anderson, Kayla Andrews, Shannon Claggett, Timothy Dierks,<br />
Kelsey Duke, LeAnn Everman, Elizabeth LeFever, Marcia Lehman, Chelsea Oberfield,<br />
C<strong>at</strong>harine Pontious, Suzanne Posey, Lisa Schrumpf, Kaleesa Spivey, K<strong>at</strong>herine Swartz,<br />
Elizabeth Van Horn, Robert Wilson<br />
Newcomerstown – Renee Luke<br />
Orient – Jennifer Kaufman<br />
P<strong>at</strong>askala – Rebecca Waite<br />
Pickerington – Brandy Lucas<br />
Powell – Rachel Mitchell<br />
Reynoldsburg – Nisha Keeler<br />
Saint Louisville – Thomas Gitchel<br />
Somerset – Alexis Wilson<br />
Thornville – Hannah Lough, Darcy Walker<br />
Utica – K<strong>at</strong>rina Fogress<br />
Westerville – Agerie Afework, Jessica King, Anne Newell, Benjamin Weise<br />
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Worthington – Antonio Butler, C<strong>at</strong>hey Steiner<br />
Zanesville – Amanda Ford<br />
No Residence Given- He<strong>at</strong>her Long<br />
The following gradu<strong>at</strong>es were honored <strong>at</strong> the ceremony held on Sunday, December 11<br />
<strong>at</strong> the Triple Locks The<strong>at</strong>re in Coshocton.<br />
Columbus – Erin Ault<br />
Dublin – Angela Lawrence<br />
Frazeysburg – Loretta Noblick<br />
Fredericktown – Sheris Bell<br />
West Lafayette – Sandra Weltman<br />
Zanesville - Ashley M<strong>at</strong>z<br />
The gradu<strong>at</strong>es were recognized for their achievements and received <strong>COTC</strong> nursing<br />
pins. The pinning ceremony is a long-held tradition marking the passage of student to<br />
the ranks of professional nursing. The ceremony origin<strong>at</strong>ed in the 1860s <strong>at</strong> London’s<br />
Nightingale School of Nursing. Florence Nightingale, who had recently been awarded<br />
the Red Cross of St. George for her selfless service to the injured and dying in the<br />
Crimean War, chose to extend this honor to outstanding nursing gradu<strong>at</strong>es by<br />
presenting each of them with a medal for excellence.<br />
*Only gradu<strong>at</strong>es who have granted <strong>COTC</strong> permission to release their names to the public are<br />
listed.<br />
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Central Ohio Technical College is a two-year college dedic<strong>at</strong>ed to providing high quality,<br />
accessible programs of technical educ<strong>at</strong>ion in response to current and emerging<br />
employment needs, as well as encouraging the professional development of students, staff,<br />
faculty, and administr<strong>at</strong>ors to assist them in achieving their maximum potential. <strong>COTC</strong><br />
oper<strong>at</strong>es campus loc<strong>at</strong>ions in Newark, Coshocton, Knox and P<strong>at</strong>askala.<br />
In this 40 th anniversary year, <strong>COTC</strong> celebr<strong>at</strong>es its ongoing<br />
commitment to fostering collabor<strong>at</strong>ion between academic units,<br />
community partners, and local businesses, to forging new p<strong>at</strong>hways for<br />
student success and achievement, and to broadening access to higher<br />
educ<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
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