Alum Sets Example for Transfer Students

   

  

 

 

Faye Bader '10, Equine program graduate, believes her experience at Hocking College was unfor-gettable. Bader grew up in New Jersey with almost no experience in agriculture. She found her place in Hocking College through the 2007 Wilderness Horsemanship Pack Trip, which she said was one of the best decisions and experiences of her life.

"The thing I appreciated the most about Hocking was the one-on-one relationships you build with your teachers and all the adjunct faculty. I still have a close relationship with the people I met at Hocking College and that means the world to me."
 
Seven months after graduation, Bader took a full-time job as a foaling attendant/trainer specializing in the development of young horses at a race-horse breeding facility in North Dakota. This winter she will be opening her own boarding facility with the profile she had written for a final project in a business management class.
 
In her free time, she dives more into her passion, fixing fences and equipment or tending to her cows or chickens. She also has a handful of clients in the area that she sees for massage/aromatherapy sessions.

Beverly Aeh '76 - Emergency Medical Services

Ralph Goff '77 - Human Services & Corrections

Sharon Ely '80 - Accounting & Financial Services

Minnie Humphreys '83 - Nursing

Joseph Lichtenstein '85 - Computer Programming

Todd Orr '85 - Forest Management

Jeffrey Freer '88 - Business Management

Ray Cartee '92 - Human Services & Corrections

Chad Shuttleworth '94 - Industrial Ceramics

Ryan Dean '98 - Ranger Services

Charles Bailey '06 - Culinary Arts

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Senator Rob Portman, R-Cincinnati, visited the area last Friday and stopped by Hocking College to speak to college leadership and some culinary students.

The Hocking College Culinary Competition team created appetizers to serve during Portman's visit, then talked to the senator about the college and the upcoming American Culinary Federation state competition.

Portman also visited Ohio University's Innovation Center and met with OU President Roderick McDavis during the trip. 

 

 

Dr. Roger Buck, Director of the Counseling Center, will present an upcoming webinar for Innovative Educators entitled, "Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: How to Improve the Academic Success of Student Veterans on Your Campus."
 
The seminar will explore the scope of mental health, neuro-cognitive, and readjustment problems that previously deployed military veteran students face as they return to our college campuses. It will also explore some unique issues military veterans who have not been deployed to a war zone may bring to college campuses.

Dr. Buck is a retired Navy veteran with 22 years active duty serving during the Vietnam War era.  Dr. Buck is a licensed professional Clinical Counselor, a Doctoral Addictions Counselor and a retired U.S. Navy Veteran.  He has extensive advanced training and research in human responses to Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  Dr. Buck also has extensive experience as a counselor, teacher, consultant and administrator spanning a 25-year career.  

 

Robin Vinovich '76 & Terri (Sternberg) Vinovich '76

Robin and Terri met at Hocking in 1974 where Robin was in the forestry program and Terri was studying to be a medical assistant.  After graduation, they married in 1977 and Robin worked at the Okefenokee National Refuge in Georgia for 3 years.  They wanted to be closer to home so he got a job at Daniel Boone National Forest in Somerset, KY working as a forester.  Terri worked for an orthodontist for several years and then they began a family.  Today, both of their daughters are married and Robin is retired.  Robin and Terri have been back to Hocking several times as they have relatives who live in Athens.  They report that the college has changed a lot but for the good.

 

Robert Burns '79

Bob is a graduate of Police Science.  He went to work in law enforcement less than a week after graduation.  He started out as a dispatcher with a local township police department.  He then took a dispatcher's position with the Stark Co. Sheriff's Office, where he worked five and a half years and then was promoted to Identification Officer / Corrections Officer.  In 2001, he was promoted to Sergeant over the Identification Bureau and Jail Receiving.  Bob states that if it were not for the "hands on" training at Hocking Technical College, he would never have had the skills in fingerprinting, photography, and criminalistics, which got him promoted into the Identification Bureau.

 

Bob retired in 2003, due to health issues.  He is enjoying an active retirement in his hometown where he keeps busy sailing, flying, working with classic cars and volunteering with Shetland Sheep Dog Rescue.

 

Roger Badger '83

Soon after Roger's graduation from the EMT-Paramedic Program at Hocking he moved to Chagrin Falls, Ohio and began working as a paramedic on an ambulance with C&A Ambulance Service. He was then transferred to Lorain, Ohio to supervise the start-up of a satellite operation with C&A, based at St. Joseph Hospital. He worked there for about two years before he decided to move to Knoxville, Tennessee in 1985 working for Rural/Metro EMS. In 1988 he got another position with Baptist Med-Flight as a Flight-Medic. Roger worked there until 1990 when they were preparing to discontinue operations. He continued his full time employment with Rural/Metro EMS until 1995, when he was hired as one of the full-time faculty at Roane State Community College. Roger became the clinical coordinator/instructor with the EMT/Paramedic Program. To date he continues with RSCC as one of the faculty paramedic lab instructors. He resides in Maryville, Tennessee with two grown children, one granddaughter and keeps in touch with numerous former foster children. He enjoys woodworking, hiking, camping, gardening and flying his light sport airplane in his free time.

 

Craig Springer '85

Craig is a graduate of Recreation and Wildlife.  He recently co-authored the book "Spearfish National Fish Hatchery: Images of America" in partnership with The Booth Society, Inc. Craig is a writer for the US Fish and Wildlife Service in New Mexico and he is editor of the magazine, Eddies.  For more information on Craig and his book, visit this link.

 

Joseph "Joe" Fields '88

Joe is a graduate of the Police Science program.  He is currently employed as a sergeant at Belpre Police Department in Belpre, Ohio with 21 years of service there.

 

Fred Thompson '93

Fred's Ceramics degree took him to work at Selee Corp. in North Carolina. After 6 years, he picked up his tools and worked as a journeyman electrician in Asheville doing residential and commercial work. A few years of that made him start looking for less physical employment. He answered an ad for a Lab Tech at the North Carolina State University Minerals Research Lab. He was hired as the Maintenance Supervisor, a position he still holds today. Fred says he still uses some of the things that he learned at Hocking College as he gets involved in some of the process engineering and speaking to educational tours. Recently, his employer has partnered with University of North Carolina - Asheville to teach mineral processing to their students. Fred resides in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

 

Burt Douglas Witham '95

Doug is a graduate of the Telecommunications /Broadcast program.  He has been employed by United McGill, Cellular One, Sprint and Ericsson, in a variety of positions of electronic repair and communications.  He is currently employed at AT&T mobility as a Field Engineer.  He lives in The Plains, Ohio with his wife and two sons.  He states that he would love to catch-up with some of the guys he graduated with and find out where their lives and careers have taken them. 

 

Laura (Bauer) Lytle '02

Laura is a graduate of the Nursing program.  After graduating, she worked as a travel nurse for a few years and lived on the coasts of California and enjoyed the "easy life."  She then moved back home and took a critical care position at the Cleveland Clinic and has been there ever since. Laura has worked all critical care areas from Medical, Surgical, Neuro, Vascular ICU's to Cardiothoraic and Heart and Lung Transplant ICU.  She obtained her Master's in Nursing Education and plans to work as a teacher and lactation consultant someday.  She is married with a 1 year old daughter.  She says that she takes GREAT pride in being a Hocking College graduate.