director retires after 19 years Gerald Hochreiter, director of the WE-MO-CO Career and Technical Education Center for the past 19 years, retired April 5. Hochreiter started at Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES Career and Technical Education Department in 1983 as director. He spent a total of 33 years working in career and technical education for the Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES). Prior to coming to BOCES 2, he was director of the Career and Technical Center at Onondaga Madison BOCES and prior to that he was building principal at Washington-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES. Hochreiter will continue to work at SUNY Oswego as an adjunct professor, a position he has held since 1979. He teaches in the teacher preparation program. During Hochreiter’s tenure, he oversaw the growth and development of career and technical education that have led to and provided tremendous success for students preparing for meaningful employment or college. Hochreiter is also credited with developing the New Visions program for high school seniors. In New Visions, seniors take English and social studies in the context of their career interest and get practical career experience while earning both high school and college credit. In addition, he helped develop programs for at-risk students, like the TEAM program for teenage parents, the Jr. Alternative High School, and GED program. The process for identifying new leadership at the BOCES 2 Career and Technical program is already underway. Hochreiter, a Brockport resident, is looking forward to spending more time with his wife, Joanne, who is retired from SUNY Brockport, his three adult children and two grandchildren. Friends bid him farewell at a party in his honor on April 4 at the Spencerport Fire Exempts Hall. |
