Main Street Newnan has released the 2013 Christmas Ornament featuring the historic Newnan Hospital, which is being renovated to become the new UWG Newnan Center.
The ornament is meant to commemorate the legacy of the old Newnan Hospital while also celebrating the city’s new addition as the property is being repurposed to house and educate future students. The front of the ornament portrays the façade of the Newnan Hospital and the back of the ornament describes the history of Newnan Hospital and its transition to the UWG Newnan Center. Read more ...
I spent thirty-some years in my first career (electronics engineer). Although that career was interesting and challenging in the beginning, it became less so as the years passed. I knew something was wrong when, in my 30s, I began counting the days until retirement. I then realized that I was in the wrong profession and decided that I wanted to make a change. Since mathematics was the most interesting part of my engineering education, I decided that I would pursue a career involving mathematics. In addition, I thoroughly enjoyed teaching young engineers at my various places of engineering employment. Hence, I decided to combine the two interests and become a math educator. Read more ...
In October, UWG Health Services traveled to the Newnan Center to help administer the flu vaccine. Under the supervision of Dr. Leslie Cottrell, director of UWG Health Services, and Kelly Smith, RN and director of nursing for UWG Health Services, senior UWG Newnan nursing students administered the shots to students, faculty and staff.
“This is a model from our Carrollton campus in which the School of Nursing has a mass inoculation day at the Coliseum,” says Dr. Cottrell. Read more ...
Government officials, representatives from UWG and Newnan Hospital and community members joined together on Monday, September 9, 2013, to celebrate a “brickbreaking,” rather than a “groundbreaking,” to officially begin the renovations and construction to transform Newnan Hospital into the new UWG-Newnan Center.
Newnan Mayor Keith Brady welcomed everyone to the event saying, “This is something that we’ve been waiting on for a long time, and a lot of people have put a lot of hard work into this project.” Read more ...
“You’re not quite college material,” the high school counselor said as I was leaving her office. I held back the stinging tears until I was sure I was out of sight. She was right! I had not exactly applied myself during my high school years. I was always late turning in homework and very seldom could I complete papers on time. There didn’t seem to be enough time in the day to do all I had to do. I had been working a third shift job since tenth grade. My mother had been injured in an explosion at her plant and had not been able to work for some time. I knew it was up to me to help earn our living until she could return to work. I worked from 11 in the evening until seven the next morning, quickly dressed for school and made my way across town just in time for the eight o’clock bell. I’d leave school around noon and head home for much needed sleep. This was a daily routine until graduation. Read more ...
The University of West Georgia is going West — three miles west — to downtown Newnan. In January, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia voted to approve the acquisition of the real property at 80 W. Jackson Street, the site of the historic Newnan Hospital facility. The decision is the result of nearly two years of planning by key stakeholders at the Board of Regents, UWG, the City of Newnan, Coweta County and Newnan Hospital, Inc., all of whom are committed to strengthening the area’s workforce through improved access to education for both traditional and non-traditional students in the Newnan area. Read more ...
This time next year I’ll be back in the place where my life first began! And my life will have come full circle. I was born in what is now called the historic Newnan Hospital on Jackson Street in downtown Newnan. Built in 1925 and having undergone many additions through the years, at the time of my birth and for many years after, it was the only hospital. Everybody I knew was born there, worked there, got better there, or died there. I know all the hallways intimately. Several of my high school friends and I worked there in the summers and during holiday breaks as ‘blueskirts’ (nurses’ aides who wore blue uniforms). I saw births and deaths there, watched surgeries, fed patients, made beds, checked vital signs, cleaned bedpans. And I decided that I did not want to be a nurse. Read more ...
The University of West Georgia Newnan Center is continuing to expand, both in size and academics, in preparation for the new renovated campus at the Newnan Hospital location.
The University of West Georgia Newnan Center is continuing to expand, both in size and academics, in preparation for the new renovated campus at the Newnan Hospital location.UWG-Newnan awarded eight scholarships totaling to $6,300 in spring 2013. This is an increase from spring 2012 in which the eight scholarships awarded totaled to $3,800. The center currently averages 500 to 600 students per semester, 75 percent of which are undergraduate students. Read more ...
