Ottawa High will hold the Wall of Honor banquet tonight honoring three OHS Alumn. John Coen has dedicated his life to serving and making Ottawa and Franklin County a better place to live, work, and raise a family. After graduating from Ottawa High School in 1974, John got his degree in agriculture education from Kansas State University, he returned to Ottawa and tended dairy farm and 300 acres of land. After selling the farm in 2006, he worked in the Kansas Senate for the state majority leader and then at Kansas State Bank as a lender.
He accepted the position of president of the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce in 2012. He has been a 20 year member of the Ransom Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees and a 9 year member the OU board of trustees and served on the school board and COF board. He is part of onward Ottawa, pushing for economic development and expansion in Ottawa and in surrounding areas. For his service, he is being inducted into the Ottawa High School Wall of Honor along with Homer Kisinger class of 1940, and James Dietz class of 1984, tomorrow night and publicly recognized at halftime of the OHS football game.
