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Edison DC campus dean to retire in December

GREENVILLE – “I’m going to miss the students,” said Darke County Campus Dean Janice Michael. “And the faculty… the people here are really good.” Michael, who has been a fixture at the Edison Community College local campus – in all of its locations – for 30 years, will be retiring at the end of the year. With accumulated vacation time, her last day on campus will be Dec. 12.

Michael taught her first class as an Edison adjunct in 1983 at the college’s location on Fifth & Walnut Streets, next to a laundromat. “We were there about two years… we had a row of desks on one side of a narrow room; barely enough room to walk from one end to the other. We could hear the washing machines and dryers next door.”

When the lease expired, Edison moved to Greenville High School, evenings only. Several years later, in 1991, the Center moved to the location where Romer’s is now. By then Michael had been teaching as an adjunct for nearly 10 years. A year later, in August 1992, she was named Director of the Darke County Center. She currently holds the title of Darke County Campus Dean.

“We were at that location until 2001,” Michael said. “On Sept. 30 we held our last classes there. While the students were in class we moved the office to our new campus here (Wagner Avenue complex); as soon as the last class was finished we moved the classrooms...

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