alumni & friends
Dean honored with Distinguished Service Alumni Award During this year’s Commencement ceremonies, Laura Susan Dean ’00 received the Distinguished Service Alumni Award. Presented by the LaGrange College Alumni Association, the honor is based on continuous devotion to and support of the college. Dean graduated magna cum laude in 2000 with a degree in Biochemistry. She went on to earn a physician assistant degree magna cum laude from Augusta University in 2003. While at LaGrange, Dean was a member of Phi Mu, the Honor Council and the Phi Eta Omega chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta, a national honor society that recognizes students who have achieved academic distinction while pursuing a
premedical or predental program. She was the recipient of the 2000 Waights G. Henry Jr. Leadership Award. After graduation, Dean traveled to Uganda to work in a medical clinic. She has been involved in global medicine and humanitarian medical relief since then. Today, she is a physician assistant in head and neck surgery at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta. Dean was instrumental in developing Emory’s protocol for telemedicine visits, working to make sure COVID patients were correctly monitored at home and transferred to the hospital if necessary. She has been a member of the Alumni Executive Committee since 2013 and has served as an officer since 2015. She also served as president from 2018-2020. She
chaired an initiative to name a room for Dr. Sue Duttera in the Ida Callaway Hudson Lab Sciences Building and served on host committees for many alumni regional events in Atlanta.
an ICU nurse at Wellstar West Georgia Medical Center.
teacher of the year 2022-2023 for Callaway High School.
2015 Loishirl Hall of LaGrange is a juris doctorate candidate at University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law and is starting a new position as summer associate at LPJ Legal PLLC.
2016 Allison Coats Hunn M’19 of Marietta is the development assistant at The Shepherd Center in Atlanta.
2016 Braily Guthrie Alford M’18 of LaGrange is the art teacher at Gardner Newman Middle School. Glenn Gantner ’11 of Vacaville, California, completed basic training with the United States Air Force.
counselor for Queen’s Springs Lactation & Parenting Support. 2015 Evan Brasselle ’17 of Senoia was featured in “20 under 40” by LaGrange Daily News. She is
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2016 Abigail Bowen of LaGrange is the research and policy manager at Campaign for Southern Equality in WinstonSalem, North Carolina. 2016 Shelby Renee Holcomb of LaGrange has been nominated as
2016 Mary Katherine Nix M’19 of LaGrange is the assistant general manager at Sweetland Amphitheatre at Boyd Park. 2016 Tressea Stovall of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an applied behavior analyst therapist at Gamut Early Intervention Services. 2017 Sydney Aronson of Peachtree City has completed her degree from the University of Georgia Law School and has successfully passed the bar exam.
