Daily Archives: July 31, 2013

Graduate goes from graphics to pizza

Nate Doran studied graphic design, digital arts and photography at Ozarks Technical Community College and as a result, he now operated The Big Slice N.Y. Style Pizzaria. “By degree warped into a food career,” said Doran, who graduated from OTC in 2011 with an associates degree in graphic design. After finding a limited job market…

OTC instructor uses musical talents in class and out

When Jeff Johnson performs with his group Sunset to Burns, he combines his teaching skills as a member of the OTC faculty with his homegrown musical skills. The result is a unique blend of bluegrass folk music that has found a home in the Ozarks. Johnson, who teaches audio engineering in the Electronic Media Production…

Injured student joins national SkillsUSA team

For Dillon Welch, representing Ozarks Technical Community College in the national SkillsUSA competition in Kansas City was too important of an event to miss. So even when he sustained a serious leg injury in a motorcycle accident about two weeks before the competition, Dillon made it to the event  in a wheelchair. “They put in…