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Owens Alumni Hall of Fame Class Featured at Creative Expressions Arts Fundraising Event

The community is invited to join Owens Community College alumni, faculty and staff for a special evening celebrating the arts at Creative Expressions as well as honoring the College’s second Alumni Hall of Fame class at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3 at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts.

Creative Expressions, the annual arts fundraiser, supports the endowed Artistic Award Funds for students pursuing a major in our technical arts programs. Nearly $41,000 has been awarded to students from the Artistic Performance Awards since 2014, with 296 students impacted.

This year’s event, entitled “Passport to the Arts” will showcase the arts through interactive and immersive stations where you can explore your artistic talent. The evening will also include a silent auction and hors d’oeuvres catered by Carolyn’s Catering.

Sponsored by the Owens Community College Foundation, the Alumni Hall of Fame awards will be presented to outstanding Owens alumni who have excelled personally and professionally, making a continued and significant difference in their community on a local, state, national or international level. The 2025 Alumni Hall of Fame class includes:

• Sharon D. Crawford, a 2006 early childhood education technology graduate who also earned an early child director’s certificate in 2004. Crawford has spent 12 years as a family support partner for Toledo Public Schools.
• Steven T. Flowers, a 2012 wide-area networking technology graduate, is a senior cloud solution architect at Microsoft. He is also the author of “Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.”
• Diane T. Keil-Hipp, Ph.D., a 1988 applied business graduate who is the chief operations officer for Knight Insurance Group in Toledo.
• Linda S. Lear, a Class A CDL certificate earner in 2019, has been an instructor at Owens since 2023 while also earning her bachelor’s degree in social work; she is currently working towards her master’s in the same field.
• Brittany Moore, a 2006 dental hygiene graduate, has worked in pediatric dentistry since 2006 in northwest Ohio as well as an oral health screener for the Ohio Department of Health. She is an adjust faculty member at Owens.

Complete bios of the Alumni Hall of Fame class are available at owens.edu/alumni/awards.

Tickets, priced at $100 per couple and $65 for an individual ticket, include a commemorative art tile as a gift. Sponsorship packages as well as other commemorative items and permanent tiles on the mural wall are available for purchase as well.

Tickets are available online at owens.edu/cam/giving. Seating is limited.