Graduate Connections

Graduate Connections – Meet Duston Summerville

Duston, 24, was born in Mississippi, but has lived his whole life just a few miles over the border in a small town called Sulligent, Alabama. Duston completed the ten-month Welding Specialist with Pipefitting program at Tulsa Welding School in Jacksonville in February 2023. Thanks for your time, Duston. What did you do before coming […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Sam Cohen

Sam, 18, from Stuart, Florida, graduated from the seven-month Professional Welder program at Tulsa Welding School in Jacksonville in January 2023. Thanks for sharing your story, Sam. Did you come to Tulsa Welding School straight out of high school? Yes, I enrolled not even a month after I graduated high school. So, where did the […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Britton Townsend

Britton, 27, is from a town called South Coffeeville, Oklahoma, about a mile south of Coffeeville, Kansas, so right on the border. Britton graduated the Professional Welder program at Tulsa Welding School in 2018. Thanks for your time, Britton. What did you do before enrolling at welding school? I started out playing college baseball for […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet James Roney

James, 58, born in Gallatin, Missouri and raised in Fresno, Texas, graduated from the Professional Welder program at Tulsa Welding School & Technology Center in Houston in 2016. Thanks for your time, James. Tell us about your life & career before welding school. Well, I didn’t have a career previously. I actually went to prison […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Brady McDuffie

Brady, 24, was born in Columbia, SC, but as a self-proclaimed “military brat,” he moved around a lot and calls Portland, Maine, home. Brady graduated the Welding Specialist with Pipefitting program at Tulsa Welding School in Jacksonville in August 2022. Thanks for your time, Brady. What did you do before coming to Tulsa Welding School? […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Mikey Brown

Mikey, 30, from Houston, Texas, graduated the Welding Specialist with Pipefitting program at Tulsa Welding School & Technology Center in Houston in October 2022. Thanks for your time, Mikey. Did you enroll in pipefitting from the start or add it later? I added the pipefitting after. I was so new to it all that I […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Christopher Small

Christopher, 35, from Jacksonville, Florida, graduated the nine-month Electro-Mechanical Technologies program at Tulsa Welding School in Jacksonville in June 2022. Thanks for your time, Christopher. What did you do before coming to Tulsa Welding School? After high school I went to college for computer drafting and design. I got my associate degree and then I […]

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