Exit Strategy: Wayne Wright Dempsey Sr., 1948-2014
For almost 66 years Wayne Dempsey provided a practical illustration of how to live well. In the last three of those years, he taught us how to die well, too. The remarkable life ended May 2, 2014, where it began, in the northwest Georgia community at the confluence of three rivers surrounded by seven hills […]
Angela Simmons-Butler: Thought for Food
There was not any one thing that drove Angela Simmons-Butler, WC ’95, BU ’02, to choose a career in nursing. She just always knew she was going to be a nurse. “You’re born to be a nurse. You know from day one,” the Clarksville, Georgia, resident said. “It’s always in your heart.” Brenau has always been […]
Ann Marie Peck: Educational Intervention
After Ann Marie Peck, WC ’97, BU ’01, lost her mother and her grandmother to heart disease, helping others fight the disease became a special mission for her. The mission became even more important when she realized how many of the women she treated as a nurse were in the dark about heart disease. “I […]
Shelia Campbell: Nurse Retention
Shelia Campbell from Ellenwood, Georgia, became a nurse because she wanted to make a difference in people’s lives. She has been doing that for many years for her patients in clinics and long-term care facilities. Now with her DNP degree from Brenau, she is focused on finding ways to make a difference for other nurses, […]
Practical Art, Practical Science
To help commemorate the university’s 135th anniversary and to celebrate the opening of the new Brenau Downtown Center in Gainesville, planners for this spring’s Brenau Gala developed the theme “The Art & Science of Brenau.” That truly captures the essence of the university. The Brenau Downtown Center represents a nexus of that expression. First, it […]
2014 Alumni Awards
The Brenau University Alumni Association named two educators, two public health leaders and a real estate executive to the 2014 class of inductees in the Alumni Hall of Fame during the annual class reunion and “May Day” celebration at the 135-year-old institution. More than 500 people attended the celebration on the front lawn of the […]
Merce Cunningham Project and the Black Mountain College Experience
This year Brenau dance students had an opportunity to work with a student of a pioneer in the American modern dance movement, to perform in New York and to be immersed in a collaborative culture that helped form such artists from the Black Mountain College as Merce Cunningham, Josef Albers, John Cage, Jasper Johns and […]
Death Wrangler
For Daniel Defoe’s two certainties, death and taxes, a financial planner can help with the latter. Heck, there are even iPhone apps for that! But what about Life’s Last Call? That’s where Brenau alumna Holley Kelley applied her journalism background to gerontology. “The inevitable awaits us; but its time we do not choose. So how […]
It’s Not All Sequins and Fun
Genetically, it made sense early on that Cole Spivia would choose a nexus of costume design and theater as her chosen form of self-expression and career path. Her mother is a painter and sculptor who always kept a trove of interesting old clothes, shoes and purses around the house. Her father arguably was singularly responsible […]
2014 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement
Brenau University awarded the first doctoral degrees in the university’s 135-year history on Saturday.
Those doctorates, presented at the second of two commencement exercises on the front lawn of the historic campus, were among more than 735 undergraduate and graduate diplomas Brenau awarded for 2014.
