12 • The Beacon April 3, 2025
COTC was designated a Leader College
Central Ohio Technical College was designated a Leader College by Achieving the Dream, a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing community colleges as accessible hubs of learning, credentialing and economic mobility in their communities. The college’ s three-year Leader College term began Feb. 20.
COTC is among 15 community colleges from across the nation to be honored with this designation.
“ As with any award or special recognition, this Leader College distinction reflects the hard work of our faculty and staff to improve student success and reduce equity gaps
on our campus,” said COTC President John M. Berry, PhD.“ COTC continues to shed light on Ohio as a place to receive a quality education and prepare for a career.”
To achieve Leader College designation, institutions must show an increase of 3 % or more in two major student success categories such as retention or completion and a significant narrowing of achievement gaps between student demographic categories such as under 25 and over 25. COTC exceeded expectations in both categories through innovation and commitment to holistic student support initiatives.
COTC has been a member of the Achieving the Dream Network, a coalition of more than 300 colleges in 45 states and the District of Columbia dedicated to improving student success, since 2021.
MEM RIES
SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1975
The Coshocton Redskin Tide’ s winter program has closed on its first season, and it saw 70 swimmers participate. The program provides kids 14 and younger with the opportunity to swim competitively. Coach Roger Tom, who also serves as coach for the high school team, is one of the organizers for this program and spent nearly 12 hours a day coaching between the two teams. League membership has not yet been established, so the team only competed at a limited number of meets against the Zanesville YMCA and at the Marietta YMCA’ s Invitational. The club is currently seeking league affiliation for next year’ s winter season, and Coach Tom is looking forward to the program growing.
FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1985
Six thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars was raised across 82 participating waitstaff and 30 businesses for the Coshocton March of Dimes. Part-time waiter Dewey Fisher, who retired from the water department due to disability, of McMickey’ s raised the most at $ 2,085 and was named the No. 1 Best Waiter-Waitress. Mike Newell, owner of McMickey’ s, was honorary chairman of the fundraiser. A banquet was held at Mc- Mickey’ s on Thursday where the efforts of Coshocton’ s waitstaff and March of Dimes were honored including Doris Green, Helen Guinther, Sandi Guinther, John Guinther and John Vanaman.
SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1995
“ Our first hope was to have an ice cream and dairy, but people told us they needed gas on that side of town and if you’ re going to put gas in, you need a convenience store,” said D & R Convenient Express owner Ruth Gay. D & R Express is located on Whitewoman Street off Route 16 and will run its grand opening all week long.“ It’ s just a convenience for the community. We try to give service with a smile.” In addition to the new gas station Ruth and her husband Dale run the Three-Rivers Motel.
SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 2005
“ I’ ve always been interested in CHS basketball,” said Mike“ Bird Johnson.“ My dad( Buck Johnson) played in the late 1930s, and I had followed its teams ever since I was a kid. When we found out the 100th year was coming up we thought it would be a great idea to put something together that could be collected as a keepsake.” Johnson is the author of a soon to be published book covering CHS basketball over the past hundred years. The book features not just the teams themselves but the cheerleaders and notable fans and reporters such as Helen Bryant,“ Red” Myers and the late Frank Shepherd.“ My only regret is we’ ve lost six guys since we started working on it. There were some of the older guys who were looking forward to seeing it and I feel bad that it’ s taken so long. It kind of robbed some of those guys who didn’ t get to see it.”
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015
All 24 gymnasts and cheerleaders of Flip-N-Out Gymnastics have qualified to go to the national competition.“ It has taken lots of practice and a lot of patience from the coaches to get us back there,” said gym owner Wendy Guilliams. The gym has only been open for two years, and last year they sent eight to the national competition.“ Some of them couldn’ t even do cartwheels
when they started here.”
All information was obtained from microfilm of the Coshocton Tribune at the Coshocton County Library and from the archives of The Coshocton County Beacon.