Spring 2008 Issue

Use the links at right to open selected articles.
Questions about the magazine?
David Morrison,
Director of Communications and Publications
500 Washington St. S.E.
Gainesville, GA 30501
dmorrison@brenau.edu |
| Click on thumbnails to view articles. All articles are in pdf format. |
 |
President's Column |
Open Wider
"...we should strive to know other cultures better than our own. Knowledge of global societies is not only intellectually and artistically enriching; in today’s “flat world” it is almost mandatory..."
|
|
 |
Coming up at Brenau... |
| |
“We are opening doors to a new way of thinking about liberal arts education,”
says Brenau President Ed Schrader, introducing the new logo of the university. Also: Ambassador Musnier (L), and more. |
|
 |
From the chicken house
to intensive care |
| |
Tommy Fields thought he had left his dreams of a health care career in the clutter of too much time out of the classroom dealing with parental obligations and helping run the family farm. A chance conversation with a woman who herself had been a non-traditional student sent Fields in his 40s to Brenau for a degree in nursing. |
|
 |
Brenau alums cross paths in
AGL Resources’ executive suite |
| |
Connie McIntyre, left, and Suzanne Sitherwood, were Brenau students at the same time. Now they’re “classmates” in the officer suite of a $3.3 billion Fortune 1000 company. |
|
 |
Tennis team boasts athletes from all over the world |
| |
This article, plus a donor's generous gift to Brenau Tennis, and a story about the Swim Team. |
|
 |
Reorganizing the Closet |
| |
For the past couple of years, Brenau has been working diligently to expand its relationships with Nanyang Teachers College in Nanyang and Zhongyuan University of Technology in Zhengzhou City, both of which offer fashion design programs to prepare students for China’s fast-growing fashion industry... |
|
 |
Revealing
Character |
| |
From the dirty, drunken Calamity Jane in Deadwood to the dapper, duplicitous Don Draper in Mad Men, Brenau Academy graduate Janie Bryant outfitted some of the most memorable characters in recent television and motion picture history... |
| |
|
|