Fall 2015
Priceless Gift
A Women’s College alumna’s generous gift to Alpha Delta Pi isn’t just a display of sororal pride. It’s also an enduring testament of a mother’s love for her daughter. After graduating from Brenau Women’s College, Sarah Wahl, WC ’50, returned to her hometown in Tampa, Florida, where her parents ran a clothing store. She became […]
2014-2015 Donor Report
2014 – 2015 Annual Report of Donors July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015 The Order of Brenau Sustaining Benefactors $500,000 + A Friend of Brenau University Mr. and Mrs. William H. Shane The Order of Brenau Benefactors $100,000 - $499,999 Mr. and Mrs. John R. Cleveland Community Foundation of Central Georgia, Inc. Ms. Margaret Evangeline [...]Building a Bigger, Better Quad
Ongoing redevelopment is transforming the campus green into a more active, yet intimate, space for students and faculty alike. With the construction of four new sorority houses and an all new residential campus hall along Prior Street comes another development for Brenau: a 31,000-square-foot, fully renovated greenspace. The $200,000 project includes an expanded and freshly […]
In Memory: Fall 2015
Grace Braselton Cook, A ’19, of Atlanta, died April 28, 2000. Marthanel Miller Sandlin, A ’34, WC ’38, of Houston, Texas, died Jan. 25. Frances Kelley Brannen, WC ’39, of Macon, Georgia, died March 16. Matha Tallant Tribble, WC ’39, of Cumming, Georgia, died Nov. 12, 2014. Mary Katherine Davenport McIntyre, WC ’40, of Holland, Michigan, died April 2. Jane [...]A Head Start to the Alumni Experience
Current students and future alumni are one and the same. Therefore, the Alumni Association Board and staff are putting a greater emphasis on getting to know Brenau students before they become alumni. By generating awareness about the alumni experience ahead of graduation, we create immediate connections back to the university for the young alumni population – […]
From Lake Lanier to the Yangtze River
Longtime Brenau professors Dr. Bryan Sorohan and Dr. Eugene Williams had an opportunity to visit one of the most prestigious colleges in China earlier this year. Under Brenau’s ‘two plus two’ partnership program with Anhui Normal University, more faculty and students – on and off campus – are set for similar international learning experiences. The […]
Hitting the Reset Button
We’ve all heard stories about children following their parents to the same college. But here’s a twist on that tale, thanks to a pair of women enrolled in Brenau’s health sciences programs. Sit for a first meeting with Yvonne and Whitney Chappell and it is almost like you’ve interrupted a coffee klatch with a pair of BFFs. […]
New Faces and a New Era
More than 300 new students hailing from 11 states and six countries began classes at Brenau University’s Women’s College this fall. The freshmen make up close to 40 percent of the entire residential student body at Brenau. With a cumulative 3.49 grade point average (out of 4.0) and an average SAT score of 1022 out […]
Professor with a Passion
Qualifications for tomorrow’s senior nurses include working familiarity with the nuts and bolts and strategic implications of technology systems, entrepreneurial business vision and, of course, quick, sound decision-making skills in life-and-death situations. Troy Heidesch’s job is to make sure all Brenau graduate nursing students get that – no matter where they study. At nine o’clock […]
