Honoring Chattahoochee Tech President Harlon Crimm
You may have heard that Dr. Harlon Crimm has announced his retirement as president of Chattahoochee Technical College.
In the past 24 years, Dr. Crimm’s contributions to Chattahoochee Tech have been profound. He quadrupled enrollment, making Chattahoochee the largest technical college in Georgia. He oversaw the college’s accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. He instilled a sense of mission and pride in the institution, helping it gain national prestige.
But Harlon has been molding Georgia’s young minds for nearly half a century. He began his career as a high school teacher in Mississippi, later becoming the principal of Lockheed Elementary School in Marietta and director of personnel for Marietta City Schools.
I want to publicly thank Dr. Crimm for his years of service educating Georgia’s young minds. In fact, Dr. Crimm eloquently summed up his own work when he referred to the past 44 years in education not as a job or career, but as a calling.
If you’d like to watch the video of a speech I delivered before Congress today honoring Harlon Crimm, click HERE.
