Fifty years after the first class of nurses in Hall County began learning, Brenau University celebrated the graduation of its first nursing doctoral students. The five new graduates were honored alongside the other 1,800 nurses who have graduated from the university’s nursing school in a recognition event Thursday on its East Campus at the Featherbone Communiversity in Gainesville. Brenau University President Ed Schrader said he felt it was “amazing” to be celebrating half a century of healing in Hall County.