FPS staff report
October 13, 2009
 Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland will be the guest speaker at the Carroll County Democrat party’s annual Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner to be held Sunday, Oct. 25.
According to County Democrat Party Chairman Ruby Gilliam, the dinner will be held at the Atwood Yacht Club beginning with a social hour at 11 a.m. and dinner at 12:30 p.m. Tickets at $25 are now available from any member of the Carroll County Democrat Central and Executive Committee or by calling Jane Lindner at 330-738-2413, Mrs. Gilliam, 330-868-7634, or Thelma Ebling, 330-627-5771. The deadline to purchase tickets is Thursday, Oct. 22, Mrs. Gilliam said.
Elected as Ohio’s governor in 2006, Strickland also served in the United States Congress and is a former minister, psychologist and college professor. He is a native of Lucasville, the son of a steelworker and one of nine children.
Upon graduation from Northwest High School, Strickland entered Asbury College in Kentucky where he received a bachelor of arts degree in history in 1963. He went on to attend the Asbury Theological Seminary and received a Master of Divinity degree. He continued his studies at the University of Kentucky, receiving a doctoral degree in counseling psychology in 1980.
He was an administrator at the Methodist Children’s Home, an assistant professor of psychology at Shawnee State University and a consulting psychologist at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.
He and his wife, Frances, an educational psychologist and author of a widely-used screening test for kindergarten-age children, reside in the Governor’s Mansion in Columbus. |
