Tom Buhler, business development director for Butter Buds Inc., will deliver the keynote address of Gateway Technical College’s associate degree and technical diploma fall and summer commencement ceremony Dec. 18.
The ceremony will recognize 393 prospective candidates for graduation. A total of 181 have registered to participate in the ceremony.
The ceremony will be held 6 p.m. in the Indian Trail High School Auditorium, 6800 60th St., Kenosha.
Bryan Albrecht, Gateway president, will deliver the welcome address. Albrecht and members of the Gateway Technical College Board of Trustees will present degrees; Jacquita Hughes, graduate in Gateway’s Human Services program and District Star Ambassador, will provide the student response; and faculty member Ginger Karaway will lead the ceremony opening and closing.
Buhler has served for five years as the director of Business Development at Butter Buds Inc., a Racine-based company and industry leader in natural concentrated flavors.
He joined Butter Buds in 1991, serving as its first international marketing director, a position he held for 18 years. At the time he began, the company – which was started by his father, Allen C. Buhler – was 12 years old.
Buhler serves on the leadership council for Schools of Hope, a United Way program dedicated to increasing the reading proficiency of first-, second- and third-graders in Racine’s public schools. He also serves on the executive committee of Food & Beverage Wisconsin and participates in the CEO Roundtable sponsored by the Racine Economic Development Corporation.
The commencement ceremony can be viewed on Gateway’s Web site, www.gtc.edu/graduation, beginning in early January.