2008 Loretta Richards Distinguished Alumni Award
Faith, family and love of community have guided Georgine Braidic Wolohan through a lifetime of leadership and advocacy for community voluntarism and organ donor awareness. This nurse, wife and mother is deserving of the Mount’s highest alumni award.
Raised in Cleveland, Georgine came to the Mount in 1959 to major in nursing and emerged as a leader. She was class president as a freshman and sophomore and president of the Student Nursing Association. Since graduating magna cum laude in 1963, Georgine helped organize every class reunion. She serves on the Mount’s Board of Trustees and Presidential Search Committee. She is a past member of the Alumni Board and past chair of the Mount’s Annual Fund Alumni Campaign.
Georgine’s community service includes Leadership Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, CET Community Advisory Board, Dress for Success, Junior League, Kidney Foundation of Greater, and Civic Garden Center. She has been an arts advocate and docent at the Cincinnati Art Museum for 17 years.
In 1986 Georgine received a liver transplant. She remains an active spokesperson on the benefits of organ donation, and feels blessed as the longest-surviving liver transplant recipient in the region.
Georgine was honored as a Great Cincinnatian during the 1988 Bicentennial Celebration. She has received the Cincinnati Enquirer Woman of the Year Award, the Mount’s Sister Mary Lea Human Service Award, Three River Girl Scouts Distinguished Woman Award, LifeCenter Organ Donor Network Volunteer Award, and Junior League Sustainer Award for Community Service.