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WELCOME BABY!!

Today, Carter Lane Lamberson was born to the proud parents Karen and Josh Lamberson. Karen is OCC’s Director of Placement Services. Carter was born on Thursday at 6:11pm weighing 8 lbs, 4oz and is 21 inches long. Of course he’s the handsomest one in the nursery with dark brown hair and Daddy’s smile.

Karen and baby are both doing well and will be in Baptist Hospital until early Sunday.

Current News

Administrative Services announces the newest member of our OCC Team. Lora Lobb will be joining our staff replacing the recently promoted Jennifer Clark. Lora has a lengthy background in administrative services, public relations and most recently working in family law. Her credits include Business Administrative credentials as well as paralegal training. Our 2^nd Annual Oklahoma Day will be celebrated this year on September 28^th. Our staff will be joined by their families as we kick off the day at Arcadia Lake! Their will be games, entertainment, inflatable’s and fun for all ages.

Student Services Update- We have been blessed with continued growth! We will be celebrating our largest graduation ceremony tomorrow with 40 graduates! As we continue to increase our enrollments and upgrades our student population is now steady at about 70-75 students per three week cycle. This is an incredible increase given our very first class held on August 8, 2005 enrolled 4 students producing 3 graduates!

Training Department Updates

Forster Barnes just returned from Phoenix where he attended the Crosby Group Train-the-Trainer workshop and he will be providing Crosby rigging and safety training to our students. The students receive a certificate of achievement directly from the Crosby Group. Forster is also a member of the NCCCO Rigging and Signalperson task force. Forster is a Subject Matter Expert for the NCCCO and involved in the development of the new CCO Certification for riggers and signalpersons. We are proud to have Forster on our instructor team. Patrick Carruthers, HEO instructor, will be attending Focus Four Safety Training September 14 provided by the Association of General Contractors. Scotty Gecks, Director of Training Services, will be attending AGC’s 1^st Annual Training & Development Conference October 25 and 26 in Dallas, Texas. We are just a few days away from completion of our 2^nd simulator. The design has been improved over the first simulator for more comfort and ease of use.

OCC Open House Huge Success

The Oklahoma College of Construction (OCC) held an open house for its new training facilities on October 12. It was a huge success. Over 130 guests attended the event, including dozens of vendors, career counselors, contractors, potential students, and local residents. Some of the visitors came from other states.

Success came because of the OCC staff. Admissions specialists took turns giving walk through tours of the facility. Instructors were available in each program level classroom to explain specific training objectives of each program level. Our “social butterfly” instructors, Troy Rouse and Scott Paul, served as tour guides on shuttle buses to the field training site and did a fantastic job of explaining the field site and various projects covered in each program level.

Those who came now know what the OCC is and why it is here. We were able to share some history of the OCC, as well its present goals and objectives, with all of those who attended.