Patton passes gavel to longtime GHC Foundation Board member Randy Quick
Randy Quick received the gavel from Greg Patton during a recent Georgia Highlands College Foundation Board meeting.
Patton, owner of Patton Financial Associates in Cartersville, was the previous board chair and treasurer.
Quick, who also serves as a Rome City Commissioner, takes over for the 2022-23 fiscal year. He said he looks forward to helping further cement GHC as the” best value for higher education in the region.”
“We’re growing, we’re moving forward, and we are in a very strong campaign right now to increase the identity of exactly everything Georgia Highlands has to offer,” Quick said. “We want to make sure people know and can see what opportunities are available to them as they graduate from high school.”
Quick said what keeps him serving on the board year after year is seeing the value GHC has to offer young people in the community.
“It’s great to see students graduating from GHC, and it’s great to see high school students doing Dual Enrollment and graduating from high school with a jump start to their college education,” he said.
Establishing targeted scholarships to help students who were at risk of not being able to continue their education is one of his proudest achievements on the board, he added.
Quick is a partner and general manager of Rome Radio Partners, LLC. He is a past chair of the Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce and the Rome Floyd Economic Development Authority and has led numerous organizations, including the Rotary Club of Rome, Paul Harris and Will Watt Fellowships and The Salvation Army Advisory Board.
Patton will continue to serve on the GHC Foundation Board, driven by his commitment to college-level, local, quality education that graduates talented students to meet the workforce demands of Northwest Georgia.
“I’ve always been involved in education in the community and have been honored to be asked to serve on this board when the Cartersville campus located on Highway 20 was to come online,” he said.
An alumnus of then Floyd Junior College, Patton helped establish a foundation in Cartersville prior to the development of the GHC Foundation.
“I’m very proud of my education at Floyd Junior College, and if it weren’t for them, I probably wouldn’t have continued my college education at that time,” he said. “They helped me establish a path toward higher education.”
Patton said he is positive about the future of the foundation and the college under new president Mike Hobbs.