Winter 2018: Investing in Tomorrow’s Health Care Professionals
2017 Alumni Awards & Homecoming
Chandy Henson’s Long Journey
It’s been quite a decade for Chandy Henson. The Atlanta resident enlisted in the Army, served seven years as a medic, left military service and, finally, began to pursue her dozen-year-old dream of becoming a physical therapist. Then she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Henson, a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Physical Therapy […]
Sandra Greniewicki: Pliable Heart
In May of 1961, President John F. Kennedy tapped into that nascent mother lode of good old American faith and chutzpah when he declared that the veritable global laughing stock of a U.S. space program would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. A year earlier, a group of Gainesville, […]
In Memory: Winter 2018
Jonette “Jo” Helms Shelton, WC ’42, of Covington, Louisiana, died Sept. 13. Betty Stansbury Ambrose, WC ’44, of Atlanta, died July 14. Althea Bergtholdt, WC ’44, of West Hyannisport, Massachusetts, died Sept. 6. Carmen Cowart Noel, WC ’46, of Atlanta, Georgia, died July 17. Nell Gilder, WC ’51, of Glenwood, Georgia, died Aug. 16. Joan […]
Brenau mourns passing of longtime supporter of health care programs
George Thomas, husband, father, brother, businessman, church leader, woodworker and longtime supporter of Brenau University, died Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017, at Lanier Village Estates in Gainesville following an extended illness. He was 87. At Brenau, Thomas and his wife, Anne Warren Thomas, are perhaps best known as the Gainesville benefactors who helped sustain and grow […]
Celebrating the Past, Creating the Future
Brenau truly has a rich history, and I love to flip through old annuals and read about the traditions that have made our alma mater what it is today and the alumni who have left lasting legacies. My favorite piece to read is the Brenau Ideal written by H.J. Pearce: To find satisfaction in being […]
Class of 2021 Brenau Scholars
Brenau Scholar Olivia Pelton
From the moment you meet Olivia Pelton, with her golden Rapunzel hair and delicate cat-eye makeup, you might imagine she is straight out of a Disney fairy-tale musical. It’s no surprise, then, that she started her own business at age 14 called Party Princess, in which she dressed up as Disney princesses to attend community […]
Brenau Scholar Olivia Eafano
Olivia Eafano has had an interesting relationship with music from an early age, not only because she loves it, but because it helped distract her from a childhood medical issue. She started taking voice and piano lessons at age 5, which was about the time she was diagnosed with uveitis, an autoimmune disorder that tricks […]
