8-19-17
Dr. Emir Caner cuts ribbon opening new student wellness center
(Cleveland)- The enthusiasm matched the bright sunny day Saturday as students, friends and community leaders gathered to help Truett McConnell University cut the ribbon and open the new George Blaurock Student Wellness Center on Campus.
The 69 thousand square foot facility was named after one of the founders of an Anabaptist movement over 500 years ago, George Blaurock.
Dr. Emir Caner, TMU President said, “for a lot of years Truett McConnell was a suitcase school, they would go home on the weekends, we wanted something where they could fellowship with each other and make lifelong friends, but also a place to honor the Lord.”
The building is one of the biggest facilities in the county. It features a student commons area, racquet-ball courts, leisure pool, running and walking track, gymnasium, fitness center, staff offices and the Georgia Public House cafe, featuring Georgia grown products .
The new wellness center is not just for the students and faculty, the community can sign up for membership use.
At the centers groundbreaking in March of 2016 Dr. Caner told the crowd, today is not the beginning of a project , but it’s a continuation of a dream that was begun on July 23,1946, when Truett McConnell College was founded.
Georgia Public House Cafe located inside the Student wellness center
The Benjamin F. Brady Arena inside the Student Wellness Center
Fitness Center in the wellness center
The George Blaurock Student Wellness Center prior to Saturdays opening
