State audit: Funds misspent at small Ohio college

COLUMBUS (AP) — A special state audit has found that a former president of Hocking College, his wife and two others from the southern Ohio school illegally spent more than $28,000 in taxpayer funds.

The audit released today orders former president John Light and the other three to repay the two-year technical college near Nelsonville.

The auditors say they determined that Light improperly used $602 in public money for travel to a second home in New York. The audit also says three Hocking College employees including Light’s wife, Roxanne DuVivier, received more than $9,200 each in state grant money for their work on a project that should have been considered part of their regular duties.

Light stepped down this year after 41 years. Neither he nor his wife has a phone listing in Nelsonville. A call to a phone listing in Shelter Island, N.Y., went unanswered.