Collyn Schmidt, A Covenant College Founder, Has Died
By TheChattanoogan.com

Collyn Franzenburg Schmidt, long-time resident of Lookout Mountain and a founder of Covenant College, died on Saturday, October 15, 2016. She was 92.

Collyn, a native of Iowa where her immigrant father operated several meat markets, began her relationship with the college in 1959 when Covenant was still located in St. Louis, Mo. She then played a variety of roles with Covenant over the next 40 years.

With a degree in nursing from the University of Iowa and a degree in theology from Faith Theological Seminary in Delaware—where she graduated in 1951 as the only woman in a class of 17—Collyn served for seven years as head of nursing at Berakah Tuberculosis Sanitorium, a mission hospital just outside Bethlehem in Jordan.

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