Martha Anderson Coleman Scholarship in Nursing

The scholarship is given in memory of Martha Anderson Coleman. Martha earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.
Her specialty was maternal and newborn nursing. She began her career at Eugene Talmadge Hospital in Augusta and then at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach, Florida.
Martha joined the Georgia Air National Guard as a flight nurse where she attained the rank of major and she served as chief flight nurse in the 158th Aeromedical Evacuation Flight based in Savannah.
She performed her active-duty tours in several locations within the United States, Germany and Japan. Martha served on faculty at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. After her marriage to Nathan in 1975, Martha joined the nursing faculty at Armstrong-Atlantic State College (now Georgia Southern University) in Savannah. There she was instrumental in establishing the RN-to-BSN program for practicing nurses.

The scholarship recognizes outstanding students majoring in Nursing.