Longtime educator has MCCTC conference center named in her honor

CANFIELD — Joyce E. Brooks didn’t expect to see her husband, Loran, at a Mahoning County Career & Technical Center Governing Board meeting today.

“You’re supposed to be in Columbus,” she said to him as he entered the board meeting room.

It turns out that he had delayed his trip long enough to see the board honor his wife by passing a resolution naming the school’s new conference center now being built the “Joyce E. Brooks Conference Center.”

She didn’t know the honor was coming.

“Joyce is speechless. I am so honored and totally surprised,” she said as the resolution was introduced.

The conference center is part of a new wing being built to replace a portion of the school destroyed in a fire in spring 2007.

Superintendent Roan Craig said the wing should be operational in the spring.

For the complete story, see Tuesday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com