2013 Women’s College Commencement
The former U.S. State Department’s top foreign policy planning expert says that by taking sometimes scary risks of choosing ‘caregiving over breadwinning and love over money’ women might actually be able to have it all.
Dr. John “Myron” Faircloth, EWC ’02
Dr. John “Myron” Faircloth, EWC ’02, was inducted into the Golden Key Honor Society in 2010. This international society comprises more than 400 chapters at colleges and universities around the world. It is committed to a high standard of scholastic achievement, integrity, respect, collaboration and diversity. Dr. Faircloth was also honored with the Valdosta State […]
Miss Brenau Contest Turns 75
“Miss Brenau,” in all of her well-groomed incarnations over the past 75 years, could illustrate a timeline of how women’s roles in society have changed, along with their hairstyles and hemlines.
She first bounded on to the campus lawn as an Olympian “goddess” and then became a “beauty queen” and a “pageant winner” before her current reign, in snappy business attire, over what is now termed a “scholarship competition.”
Anne Haarsløv Sodemann
Communications Coordinator, AAK Aarhaus, Denmark The Denmark native spent her freshman year at Brenau (1990-91) as an English and business administration major before returning home to study English and international studies at Aalborg University. She works as communications coordinator for Malmö, Sweden-based AAK (AarhusKarlshamn AB), the world’s leading manufacturer of high value-added specialty vegetable fats – […]
Maria Ebrahimji
Executive Editorial Producer CNN, Atlanta The rising star in the international news organization is a 1998 Women’s College graduate, a broadcast journalism major and a member of Alpha Chi Omega. Ebrahimji is also is a co-editor of the book, I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim, an anthology of 40 essays from Muslim-American women […]
Global Awareness: Soccer builds on 2011 “surprise” season
As all the world seemed inundated with information about how England fared against France, whether the Czech Republic could beat Portugal, and what Obama and Putin were really saying to each other through body language, Brenau Soccer Coach Mike Lochstampfor quietly pondered a little international strategy of his own: whether adding two experienced players from […]
Tennis Nets No. 6 spot after a 16-win season
Golden Tigers tennis teams know what it is like to play for the national championship. Only one other team has won more than Brenau’s two National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics tennis titles – Auburn University-Montgomery, which now has 12, including the last eight. Although AUM resided as the top contender in Brenau’s Southern States Athletic […]
News Happens
You probably will never see Brenau alum Kalina Haynes on your television screens delivering the news or ever know about the pivotal role she has as an invisible behind-the-scenes player in television news, and that’s just fine with her. By David Morrison On April 20, 1999, her first day of work in the newsroom at […]
Talking with the other side of the world
EDITOR’S NOTE: Lee Walburn, the venerable former editor of Atlanta Magazine, once described the distinctive northeast Georgia mountain twang of his star writer Candice Dyer, WC ’92, as sounding like the verbal utterances of the love child of country singer Loretta Lynn and NASCAR icon Bill Elliott. With that sort of credential, there was really […]
A very unShackelton-like ‘Antarctic Explorer’
AS A WRITER, Gloria Cassity Stargel, WC ’77, always looks “for a story that has a little twist to it,” she says, gesturing with her tiny hand like she’s jimmying a lock with an imaginary screwdriver. Those foundling bits others ignore make her stories memorable and, in a word professional journalists need to learn, salable. […]
