Ohio State Marion Director of Development Cathy Gerber

Typically issues, together with careers, come full circle.

“As a child rising up on the farm, I spent plenty of time enjoying outdoors and exploring alongside our close by creek,” recalled Cathy Gerber. “Once I was little, I thought of being an explorer, however principally I assumed I might develop as much as be a nurse. I used to be at all times the one working to get the primary assist equipment every time anybody in our household bought damage.”

However life took a flip. Immediately, Gerber is director of growth and neighborhood relations at The Ohio State College at Marion.

“I work to boost funds for scholar scholarships and capital tasks that assist notice our land grant mission, the place we try to make school accessible to everybody,” she defined. “I additionally work to construct relationships with the campus and neighborhood companions in a wide range of methods.”

Catherine “Cathy” Gerber grew up on a farm in Higher Sandusky, graduated from Higher Sandusky Excessive College and was the primary particular person in her household to go to school. With “the blessings of Pell grants and slightly scholarship cash,” she was capable of attend Ohio State at Marion. She earned a level in schooling and graduated in “The Shoe” on the Columbus campus in 1991.

“Ohio State Marion was a godsend because it was shut sufficient for me to commute,” Gerber mentioned. “I labored within the library on campus all through my school profession, so my important fear was having a dependable car to commute to and from campus.”

After school, Gerber began at Marion Technical School as a basic school member, then because the office literacy coordinator at Whirlpool in Marion — and ultimately the Whirlpool Findlay group the place, she mentioned, “I constructed a profession for greater than 21 years, principally in communications.”

She began her present place at Ohio State Marion in July of 2019.

“Cathy is a terrific member of the Ohio State Marion group,” assessed Greg Rose, dean and director of The Ohio State College at Marion. “In her few brief years right here, she has very successfully engaged with campus mates and donors to boost help for Ohio State Marion in addition to for neighborhood tasks. She’s knowledgeable at group, facilitation and management, and is keenly conscious of what it takes to handle a venture. Plus, she’s enjoyable to be round, has an important humorousness, and is a devoted Ohio State Marion Buckeye.”

“Coming again to Ohio State Marion was form of like coming residence,” Gerber responded. “I vividly keep in mind being a scholar on the Marion campus and I empathize with our commuter college students who generally wrestle to make ends meet.”

“With the ability to assist increase funds that straight influence the lives of scholars and their skill to attain their educational objectives is a superb factor,” she added. “Elevating funds for capital enhancements to the campus can also be expensive to my coronary heart.”

“It’s enjoyable,” she concluded, “understanding what the campus used to appear to be, seeing the enhancements and visualizing what continues to be but to return.”

The Ohio State College at Marion is positioned at 1465 Mt. Vernon Ave. in Marion. For extra data, name 740-389-6786 or go surfing osumarion.osu.edu.

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