Brenau board OKs three honors in memory of Skelder

The Board of Trustees of Brenau University has authorized the naming of a residence hall on the Gainesville campus to honor the university’s late President, Anne Skleder.

The residence hall, referred to as “New Hall,” since it opened in fall 2016, will be renamed Skleder Hall. (See photo). Additionally, Brenau’s Trustees commissioned a portrait of Skleder that will be installed in the second-floor lounge of Skleder Hall.

“President Skleder loved Brenau and especially its students, who she often called ‘our reason for being,’” Mike Smith, chair of Brenau’s Board of Trustees, said. “In seeking a way to honor her legacy and lasting impact on Brenau, we found it fitting that her memorial be connected with students. I think she would be pleased yet humbled, as she never sought individual recognition for doing the good work of Brenau.”

Trustees also authorized changing the name of the scholarship created by Skleder in 2019 to the Anne A. Skleder First Generation Endowed Scholarship Fund, a perpetual fund to receive gifts in her memory.