Education Roundup: Aultman College Preview Day is Wednesday

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CANTON – Aultman College is opening its doors for a Preview Day at 6 p.m. Wednesday. This is an open-house-style event for interested students.

The event includes tours of college facilities and classrooms, the opportunity to meet with students, faculty and staff and presentations about the various programs in nursing, radiography, social work, medical assisting and the health sciences, as well as College Credit Plus for high school students.

The event is free, but reservations are required. To learn more and RSVP, visit www.aultmancollege.edu/open-house. Aultman College is next to Aultman Hospital at the corner of Dartmouth Avenue and Seventh Street SW. For more information about Aultman College, visit www.aultmancollege.edu.

Distinguished Fairless Falcons to be inducted in November

BREWSTER − The Distinguished Fairless Falcons classes for 2020, 2021 and 2022 will be inducted together in November during a ceremony at Fairless High School. Due to the pandemic, the induction ceremonies had been postponed. Those who receive the Distinguished Fairless Falcon Award become members of the Fairless Hall of Honor.

The Class of 2020 Distinguished Fairless Falcons

  • Greg Colaner is a 1975 graduate of Fairless High School. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Education from Bowling Green State University in 1979 and a license to practice nursing home administration in 1983. He joined the Altercare company in 1986, where he served as the Administrator of Altercare Navarre. He held a succession of positions including president of Absolute Health Services and later assumed his role as president of Altercare in 2003.

  • Casey (Miller) Lucius grew up in Brewster and graduated from Fairless High School in 1994. She attended Ashland University before joining the Navy in 1997. She was trained in naval intelligence and served on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. In 2000, she earned a master of arts in national security affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School and later earned a Ph.D in political science from the University of Hawaii. In 2005, she moved to Vietnam to work as the operations assistant to the U.S. ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi. Upon returning to the U.S. in 2009, she began teaching national security decision-making at the Naval War College in Monterey, California. During this time, she served on the local City Council for four years and ran for U.S. Congress in 2016. She has also written two books on political decision-making and campaigns. In 2017, she and her family moved to Naples, Florida, where she works for the City of Marco Island.

The Class of 2021 Distinguished Fairless Falcons

  • Scott Budge grew up in Brewster and is a 1980 graduate of Fairless High School. He also graduated from the two-year welding program at R.G. Drage. He obtained his vocational career license from Kent State University and has taught welding and metal fabrication for 31 years at R. G. Drage Career Technical Center. He is a CWI certified welding inspector and provides this service back to his students for free certifications. He serves on Labor Management and District Leadership Teams as well as the Student Learning Objective, Oil and Gas, and Alumni Committees. He volunteers to coordinate the regional and state of Ohio Skills USA competitions and serves as a judge at these events. He sits on the National Visiting Committee as a representative through the National Science Foundation for WELD-ED and is the president of the Stark County Area Vocational Educators for R. G. Drage. He received the 2016 Plummer Memorial Education Award, sponsored by the American Welding Society. He and his students designed and fabricated the Falcon that graces the front of Fairless High School.

  • Jane (Myers) Williams is a 1975 graduate of Fairless High School. In addition to being the starting center for the girls’ basketball team, she began her career in the entertainment industry early as a Thespian Award Winner at Fairless. Jane attended the University of Tulsa, before heading to New York City in 1978. She has worked in the costume departments of over 35 movies and TV shows. She is the founder/director of Morningside Theatre Company in Edina, Minnesota, where she has taught theater to kids every summer for the past 12 years.

The Class of 2022 Distinguished Fairless Falcons

  • Davina Gosnell is a 1960 graduate of Brewster High School. She earned her diploma from the Massillon City School of Nursing, her BSN from the University of Pittsburgh, a master of science and Ph.D in nursing from the Ohio State University. She was the dean of the College of Nursing at Kent State University and was a professor and founding director of Hiram College’s Department of Nursing. During her career, she worked in foreign countries and was a consultant for the World Health Organization.

  • Tim Stith was a teacher in the Fairless Local School district for most of his career, having served from 1973-1998 as a sixth-grade teacher. He was a coach of Fairless cross country and track and field teams. He was Stark County Track Coach of the Year (1978), All-Ohio Cross Country Coach of the Year (1978), All-Ohio Track Coach of the Year (1979). He served as president of the Fairless Education Association and was a science teacher who served on curriculum committees at the local and state levels. He is a cross country, track, and swimming referee for OHSAA.

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