A Fredericktown native with long-time ties to education and public service is the newest member of the Knox Educational Service Center (ESC) Board of Governors.
Bruce Gregg was sworn in during the board’s first meeting of 2024. He was appointed by incumbent board members to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Don McLarnan. No one filed for election to the board last November.
Gregg said he decided to serve on the board at the urging of Ken Boeshart, former Danville Local Schools superintendent, who has served on the ESC board for several years.
“I had served on the Knox County Fair Board with Kenny for several years. Since retiring from that board after 28 years, I had been looking for another opportunity to serve the community,” Gregg said. “Kenny said he thought I could be of service to the educational service center so I agreed to do it.”
The Knox ESC, located at 309 Martinsburg Road, develops, implements and operates cooperative, shared educational services for the Centerburg, Danville, East Knox, Fredericktown and Mount Vernon school districts, as well as the Knox County Career Center. The ESC operates two programs of its own, the Knox ESC Preschool and the Knox Learning Center in Mount Vernon.
Gregg is a graduate of Fredericktown High School and The Ohio State University. Gregg Farms, located on Zolman Road, is primarily a crops operation.
“We raise some beef cattle, which I call my winter exercise program,” Gregg said.
He serves on the Junior Fair Livestock Sale Committee and the OSU Extension Advisory Committee.
Gregg and his wife, Colleen, a fifth-grade teacher at Fredericktown Elementary School, are members of the Fredericktown Presbyterian Church. They have three grown sons and a granddaughter.
Gregg’s connections to public education include his sister and brother-in-law, both retired teachers. Two of his sons have master’s degrees.
He joins Boeshart, Vicki Bechtel, Donnie Rogers and Laurie Gallwitz on the five-member ESC board. During Wednesday’s meeting he was named to join Bechtel and Rogers on the Knox County Career Center Board of Education. He fills the vacancy there also created by McLarnan’s retirement.
Boeshart was elected president of the ESC board for 2024. Bechtel was elected vice president.
The board will continue to meet at noon on the second Tuesday of the month.
