GAINESVILLE, GA (05/18/2012)(readMedia)-- Several Dacula area students graduated from Brenau University during commencement exercises held May 4 and 5. Those graduates are:

Joseph Baptiste from Dacula, Ga., who received a Associate of Arts degree after focusing studies on liberal studies.

Robert Thomas Casey from Dacula, Ga., who received a Master of Business Administration degree after focusing studies on project management.

Courtney Elizabeth Chatham from Dacula, Ga., who received a Bachelor of Science degree after focusing studies on early childhood education.

Machelle Dunn from Dacula, Ga., who received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree after focusing studies on nursing.

Sunny Marie Hatchett from Dacula, Ga., who received a Bachelor of Science in Nursingdegree after focusing studies on nursing.

Kenneth Lambert Jackson from Dacula, Ga., who received a Master of Arts in Teachingdegree after focusing studies on special education.

Ashley Renee Labanics from Dacula, Ga., who received a Bachelor of Arts degree after focusing studies on theater.

Megan Marett-Lovett from Dacula, Ga., who received a Master of Science in Nursing degree after focusing studies on family nurse practitioner.

Yasmin Naomi Norris from Dacula, Ga., who received a Bachelor of Science in Nursingdegree after focusing studies on nursing.

Jennifer Reyes from Dacula, Ga., who received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree after focusing studies on nursing.

Gigy Skariah from Dacula, Ga., who received a Master of Science in Nursing degree after focusing studies on family nurse practitioner.

Jennifer Arlene Stoeckig from Dacula, Ga., who received a Master of Business Administrationdegree after focusing studies on health care management.

Taylor Nicole Walker from Dacula, Ga., who received a Bachelor of Fine Arts/M.I.D. degree after focusing studies on interior design.

Brenau collaborates with Gainesville State College in the Gainesville Theatre Alliance, which for three decades has brought high-level drama and musical performances involving students, community theater amateurs and professionals to stages at the two institutions. Brenau conferred 786 degrees on 762 undergraduate and graduate recipients – some of whom have completed dual degree programs for both bachelor's and master's degrees. All told Brenau awarded 341 graduate diplomas and 430 undergraduate diplomas at commencement ceremonies May 4 and May 5 at the Georgia Mountains Center in Gainesville.

To read the commencement address by Kent M. Keith, internationally renowned author of "The Paradoxical Commandments" and the chief executive office for the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, go to http://www.brenau.edu/home/?p=10894.