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When Linda Stowe first became a secretary at Sinclair Community College in 1972, her office was on the fifth floor of the YMCA and she had to go across the street to the Blacklidge Building to make copies.<\/p>\nWhen Linda Stowe first became a secretary at Sinclair Community College in 1972, her office was on the fifth floor of the YMCA and she had to go across the street to the Blacklidge Building to make copies.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a little cumbersome,\u201d Stowe said about making copies. \u201cWe didn\u2019t take it lightly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stowe left the YMCA office in the fall of 1972 when the first seven buildings of the main campus opened. Stowe said her most memorable main campus moment was the flood of 1983.<\/p>\n
\u201c(The flood) was such a shock because we were all set for classes to start, and out of the blue this water main breaks in the Library,\u201d she said. \u201cAt that point, books were the heart of the education, so we had to get the books out that we could.\u201d<\/p>\n
Up to their knees in water, Stowe said staff and students filled plastic boxes with books, passed them up bucket lines to the mezzanine floor where a forklift then transported them to the University of Dayton to be freeze dried.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe flood wasn\u2019t cool, but it was kind of neat,\u201d Stowe said.\u201d It was neat because of the way it brought people together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stowe said another memorable thing she did at Sinclair was take classes.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmployees can register for classes at a reduced rate, so I took whatever I was interested in,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Stowe took classes in history, English, psychology, writing and journalism, among others. She never planned on getting a degree until an academic advisor suggested it to her.<\/p>\n
Stowe took advantage of Sinclair\u2019s tuition reimbursement program \u2013 offered only to employees \u2013 and got her bachelor\u2019s degree in Human Development from the McGregor School of Antioch University and her Masters degree in Higher Education from Ohio University.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so glad I did (what the advisor suggested),\u201d she said. \u201cAntioch was a great experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stowe has also experienced changes in communication over her years at Sinclair.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were much smaller (when I first started), so we were a closer family. We used to have TGI Fridays and go over to each other\u2019s houses because people knew each other,\u201d Stowe said. \u201cBut, because we\u2019ve grown from just one building to over 20, it\u2019s not like that anymore. There are people that I interact with by name that I\u2019ve never seen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Because of these changes, Stowe said she will forgo her retirement reception at the end of the school year.<\/p>\n
Even with all the changes, Stowe said there is one thing that has stayed the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cSinclair is still a happy, friendly environment where the faculty wants students to succeed,\u201d she said. \u201cCommunity is still our middle name.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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