Chattanooga State instructor Bruce Green shows Mike Ricketts, dean of Technology Center at Chattanooga State, the new combination Lincoln welder in the students’ cubicles at last week’s ribbon cutting ceremony. The new welding school, which culminates the efforts of Dayton City and County officials, along with Suburban Manufacturing, Chattanooga State and state and local economic development agencies, opens in Dayton, Tenn., on Thursday.
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DAYTON, Tenn. – Nearly 20 students will begin learning welding todayThursday, May 19 in Dayton when the local welding school opens for business.
Mike Ricketts, dean of the Technology Center at Chattanooga State Community College’s Dayton campus, smiled as he called the school a “labor of love” at last week’s ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The welding school culminates more than two years of efforts by Chattanooga State, Suburban Manufacturing and officials from Dayton and Rhea County, along with local and state economic development agencies.
Officials said that Suburban Manufacturing donated the building, formerly the old National Guard Armory located on Broadway Street. Mayor Bob Vincent called the company “the white horse” that “came to the rescue.”