TCTC graduates 580 Students at Spring Commencement

When Michelin announced in 2012 that it would build a new Earthmover tire plant in Anderson County, Michelin Chairman and President Pete Selleck challenged his team to hire as many local maintenance technicians as possible. When the company opened last year, the Michelin team exceeded this goal with 90% local hires, among them nine Tri-County Technical College students who spent the last year as Michelin Technical Scholars, Selleck told the College’s 580 graduates at the spring commencement held May 8 at the Anderson Civic Center. “As a testament to the scholars themselves and Tri-County Technical College, all nine 2014 grads have passed our qualifiers and all will be working as maintenance technicians at our plants here in Anderson County.  To have 100% job compliance is truly remarkable,” said Selleck, who is responsible for the coordination of all operations of the Michelin Group in North America, consisting of 19 major manufacturing facilities, 22,000 employees and annual revenues of $10.76 billion. Following the speech, Tri-County President Ronnie L. Booth and other College officials presented degrees, diplomas and certificates to the graduates.