Special to The Times
Jimmy and Deborah Coker went to college at Alabama School of Trades, which now is the Gadsden State Community College East Broad Campus, and gained much more than a skill set that would create long-term careers — they found a lifelong partnership.
“We know that the trade school brought us together,” Deborah said in a release provided by GSCC. “It’s really funny how it all came about.”
Deborah graduated from Gadsden High School in 1970, and enrolled at the School of Trades a week later. She was in the secretarial studies program, which required students not only to learn the necessary skills of administrative assistants, but also to perform housekeeping duties.