As part of Homecoming Week 2024, The Ohio State University at Lima will celebrate two alumni at the annual Alumni Awards Ceremony.
The Alumni Awards Program will be held on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, in the Reed Hall Café. The reception begins at 5 p.m. and the ceremony at 5:30 p.m. All Ohio State Lima alumni are invited to attend and can register at go.osu.edu/limaalumniawardsrsvp.
Barbara Hochstetler is the 2024 inductee to Ohio State Lima’s Alumni Hall of Fame. Successful Alumni Hall of Fame inductees are advocates for the university and regarded as community leaders with a record of sustained professional recognition or involvement in community activity or both. Members of the Alumni Hall of Fame have successfully completed at least one term of full-time study at Ohio State Lima and graduated from Ohio State 20 or more years ago.
Isaac Altenburger will receive the 2024 Early Achievement Award. Successful Early Achievement Award nominees are advocates for the university and have demonstrated distinctive achievement in a career, civic involvement or both. The Early Achievers have successfully completed at least one term of full-time study at Ohio State Lima and graduated not more than 10 years before the award.
More about the nominees
Barbara Hochstetler
Bachelor of Science in Education, 1973
Throughout her life Barbara Hochstetler has strived to help others learn, improve and succeed. She attended Ohio State Lima and earned her BS in Education in 1973. She and her husband raised four children and she went on earn her Masters of Arts in Education in 2001. For 37 years she worked for the Lima City Schools as a teacher, mentor, literacy leader and school improvement coach. She was a mentor trainer for the Northwest 9 mentoring program, lead numerous professional development meetings, was the 1998-1999 Allen County SESA Teacher-in-Residence, and received the Martha Holden Jennings Award.
After retiring she continued her community involvement as an Allen County Museum docent and a civic center usher. She worked with the Allen County Board of Elections, served as a field supervisor for future teachers and as a trainer/consultant with Project MORE (Mentoring in Ohio for Reading Excellence) through the Putnam County ESC.
Isaac Altenburger
Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2017, magna cum laude
Issac Altenburger started his Ohio State journey in 2013 at Ohio State Lima where he served as a telecounselor, university ambassador and as a student safety officer under Sgt. Tony Swygart. In 2015, he transitioned to Marion for one year where he worked as a security officer for the student living apartment complex and served as a student safety officer. In 2017, Isaac completed his education in Columbus where he graduated magna cum laude and worked as a safety officer. Upon graduation Isaac was hired at the Wexner Medical Center as a hospital security officer. After a year, he began working in law enforcement in central Ohio. Isaac has been a field training officer, an Officer in Charge in the absence of supervisor, instructor of CPR/AED/First Aid, FAA drone pilot, and a 2023 recipient of the Life Saver Award. Isaac is an active participant in community relations engaging in Shop with a Cop, National Night Out, and Cops and Bobbers.