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SGTC President Emeritus Sparky Reeves is shown above with SGTC Instructor of the Year Andrea Ingram and Allene Reeves.South Georgia Technical College President Emeritus Sparky Reeves and his wife, Allene, recognized South Georgia Tech’s 2016 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year Andrea Ingram and the college’s 2016 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) winner Ashley Rodgers recently with gifts from the Sparky and Allene Reeves endowed fund. President Emeritus Reeves and Allene...

SGTC Interim President Janice Davis presents Ashley Rogers with her GOAL award.South Georgia Technical College Marketing Management student Ashley Rodgers of Oglethorpe has been selected as SGTC’s GOAL winner for 2016, announced SGTC Acting President Janice Davis at the recent GOAL luncheon held in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on SGTC’s Americus campus.    Rodgers was selected for the honor by a panel of local community leaders out of a group of four finalists. The...

SGTC Interim President Janice Davis is shown above presenting Andrea Ingram with her Instructor of the Year plaque. Dr. John Watford, Vice President of Academic Affairs is also shown.South Georgia Technical College Computer Information Systems instructor Andrea Ingram was selected as the SGTC 2016 Instructor of the Year and will represent the college in the state Rick Perkins Award competition in Atlanta this year. The announcement was made by SGTC Acting President Janice Davis at a...

Technical College System of Georgia Commissioner Gretchen Corbin will be the keynote speaker at the South Georgia Technical College fall 2015 graduation exercise on Tuesday, December 15th at 6 p.m. in the James S. Peters Gymnasium on the Americus campus.           Commissioner Corbin as well as South Georgia Technical College’s 2015 Instructor of the Year Raven Payne will address the graduates and their families, fellow students, faculty, and staff during the commencement...

Janice David is named Interim President at SGTC.Americus, GA – Gretchen Corbin, Commissioner of the Technical College System of Georgia, has appointed Janice Worth Davis to serve as Acting President of South Georgia Technical College (SGTC), following the September 30th, 2015 retirement of SGTC President Sparky Reeves. Davis is currently Vice President of Administrative Services at South Georgia Tech.       “Janice Davis is a long-standing member of South Georgia Tech’s senior...

South Georgia Technical College President Sparky Reeves quoted the lyrics from the Randy Travis “Three Wooden Crosses” song as he thanked the over 500 individuals who attended the special retirement reception held in his honor recently at the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the Americus campus.       “It is not what you take when you leave this world behind you, it is what you leave behind you when you go,” said Reeves as he thanked everyone at the event for what...

President Sparky Reeves and Allene Reeves accept a plaque from the TCSG Commissioner. South Georgia Technical College President Sparky Reeves became the first sitting technical college president to have the “President Emeritus” status voted on and approved from the State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) at its meeting September 3rd, 2015 at the TCSG state offices in Atlanta. That distinction will officially begin on October 1, 2015.       Ben I. Copeland,...

South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) President Sparky Reeves announced that 86 area students were named to the SGTC President’s List for spring semester 2015.   In order to qualify for the President’s List, a student must be enrolled in a degree or diploma program and have a 4.0 GPA for that semester’s coursework. The students who qualified included: Coweta County: William Cody Kellogg of Newnan, Aviation Maintenance Technology; and John Andrew Pryor of Newnan, Aviation Maintenance...

Sparky ReevesFor over four decades, change has been constant at South Georgia Tech, but one thing has remained consistent – Gary Lamar “Sparky” Reeves. Today, that one constant factor has announced his intention to retire as President of South Georgia Technical College effective September 30th, 2015.    Gary Lamar “Sparky” Reeves has served as President of this prestigious two-year technical college since August 12, 2004, and has had a tremendous impact on the college and the...