“It is quite incredible to reflect on the 50th anniversary of Algonquin College and realize that my career, also over the span of 50 years, began and will end with Algonquin. I take great pride in this.”
Cathy Yantha and Algonquin College have been a team for 50 years. It started in 1967: the same year Algonquin was founded. In fact, her Marketing and Advertising certificate names both Algonquin College and its predecessor, the Ontario Vocational Centre.
Now, Cathy works with Employment Services as the Co-op Coordinator at our Pembroke Campus. We spoke to Cathy about how she found her path and built her career. We are honoured to share her story.
Algonquin College taught Katrina Lewis to be an esthetician – and a feminist.
The former was the result of classes on skin care and body treatments in the College’s Esthetician diploma program, from which Lewis graduated in 2001. The latter was an unexpected consequence of the two-year Business Management and Entrepreneurship program Lewis completed last year.
When Algonquin’s Outdoor Adventure diploma program was brand new, students like Ben Shillington would spend up to seven days a week in kayaks or canoes, on skis or trail bikes, in snow and on mountains, in rain and on rivers. However, it wasn’t this rigorous adventure training that would make Shillington “the world’s most extreme expedition guide,” as men’s lifestyle magazine Sharp recently dubbed him. It was everything else he learned at Algonquin, he says. Read more >
“It is quite incredible to reflect on the 50th anniversary of Algonquin College and realize that my career, also over the span of 50 years, began and will end with Algonquin. I take great pride in this.”