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Reinhardt
M A G A Z I N E
President
Dr. J. Thomas Isherwood
Vice President for Institutional
Advancement & External Affairs
JoEllen Bell Wilson ’61
Production/Photography Staff
Marsha S. White*
Executive Director of Marketing
and Communications
Lauren H. Thomas*
Media Relations Coordinator
Amanda L. Brown*
Graphic Designer
Steven P. Ruthsatz*
Assistant Athletic Director
Jennifer Wiggins Matthews ’90
Director of Alumni
Bruce R. Bynum
Director of Development
Erin P. Honea
Database Specialist
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annually by Reinhardt University. Creative
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The Office of Alumni
Reinhardt University
7300 Reinhardt Circle
Waleska, GA 30183-2981
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phone: 770-720-5509
Front Cover: As a member of the National
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
(NAIA) and the Appalachian Athletic Conference
(AAC), Reinhardt fields 16 athletic
teams, eight for women, seven for men and
a co-ed cheerleading squad. All offer scholarships
for qualified student-athletes.
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Features
Reinhardt is Hot News!
Find out how Reinhardt students, alumni, community members,
faculty and staff joined together to celebrate the beginning of a new
chapter in Reinhardt’s history.
Reinhardt Firsts
Witness some of the firsts as Reinhardt moved from college to university
status. As a comprehensive university firmly grounded in the
liberal arts tradition, Reinhardt’s new slogan is: Shaping Lives and
Building Futures.
Biology takes Root
Increasing numbers of students are putting pressure on facilities and
budgets. The top construction priority in the new strategic plan is a
new science building.
Departments
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Year in Review - accomplishments from 2009-10
Honor Roll of Donors - donors who supported Reinhardt
during the 2009-10 year
Alumnotes
Intercollegiate Athletics
Reinhardt has extra excitement this fall!
Fall 2010 classes began with more students than ever before, 1229 to be exact!
822 are traditional students taking courses in Waleska with 475 living on campus, 133 receiving music
scholarships, 230 receiving athletic scholarships and 340 receiving academic scholarships. This recordsetting
student body also includes 407 nontraditional students at outreach programs for working
adults in Alpharetta, Cartersville, Marietta and Epworth. Another 119 are graduate
students studying business, education, or music; 130 are in the WAIT program (our evening baccalaureate
degree in early childhood education); and we will train more than 100 students in our police academy in
Alpharetta during the 2010-11 academic year.
Now a comprehensive university
The small college you cherish has developed into a comprehensive university
vital to the educational stability of not only our region, but the state of Georgia.
We now have more than 40 undergraduate degree programs, 3 master degree
programs, and more to come. Your Reinhardt has taken its rightful place as an
educational leader in the state of Georgia.
New complexity, same spirit
With all this change, with all this complexity, if you came back to our campus, I
know you’d find the spirit very familiar and you’d feel right at home. During this
exciting and wonderful transformation, we have worked very hard to maintain
our core values. We still build positive relationships and provide a healthy mixture
of both challenge and support. We simply and honestly care about each other.
We believe we are creating such a positive living environment that our graduates
will take the ideals of love for each other, integrity, and personal and social
responsibility with them into the future. Reinhardt has always been a special place
and remains so today.
We need you!
There are young people today who need to be with us to share in the life-changing
experience of Reinhardt University. Too many of them are not here because
they can’t afford to be. We give all we can as a university without damaging our
instruction. You are the answer. Every gift to our scholarship efforts, no matter
how large or small, brings the Reinhardt experience closer for one more student.
Do what you can today. It isn’t just about their future; it’s about your future. And,
for all of us, it’s about the debt we owe this wonderful place and what Reinhardt
means to us.
Tom Isherwood
President
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