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DECEMBER 2007 The Quarterly Magazine of Wake Forest University Four in Fruition… …Four in Formation F E A T U R E S ED I T O R Cherin C. Poovey (P ’08), [email protected] A S S O C I A T E E D I T O R Kerry M. King (’85), [email protected] DE S I G N / AR T D I R E C T I O N Urena Design, [email protected] PH O TO G R A P H E R Ken Bennett, [email protected] CL A S S N O T E S ED I T O R Janet Williamson (P ’00, ’ 0 3 ) , w i l l i a j m @ w f u . e d u 20 Four in Fruition… C O P Y E D I T O R Kim McGrath, [email protected] By David Fyten A b ove the complex ecosystem that is biology at Wa ke SE N I O R WR I T E R Forest is an ove r a r ching canopy of venerable faculty: David Fyten, [email protected] Jerry Esch, Ray Kuhn, Pete Weigl, and Ron Dimock. PR I N T I N G The Lane Press, Inc. Burlington,Vermont 26 …Four in Formation Wake Forest Magazine (USPS 664-520 ISSN By David Fyten 0279-3946) is published four times a year in The expansion of the University’s tenure-track September, December, March, and June by the Office of Creative Services, faculty has brought a remarkable infusion of Wake Forest University, P.O. Box 7205, gifted young teacher-scholars whose academic Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205. stars are on the rise. It is sent to alumni, donors, and friends of the University. Periodicals postage paid at Winston-Salem, NC 27109, and additional mailing offices. 2 A R O U N D T H E Q U A D POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Wake Forest Magazine Alumni Records P.O. Box 7227 52 C L A S S N O T E S Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227. Volume 55, Number 2 December 2007 Copyright 2007 W W W . W F U . E D U 32 Pursuing Their Passions By Kerry M. King (’85) What do the creators of T-shirts, E SSAY children’s books, and yarn have in common? Support from The 40 Beads of Hope Fifth-Year Institute for young By Ali Carroll (’08) entrepreneurs. An American woman offers hope to African women through jewelry that bridges cultures. 44 Turning Funny into Money By Jane Bianchi (’05) Business savvy plus a healthy sense of college humor equals a multimillion- P ROFILE dollar company for Ricky Van Veen (’03) and Zach Klein (’04). 46 Crossroads By Arthur Nelson (’07) For scholar and scientist Chris Jackson (’08), academics have always been interdisciplinary. Q & A 48 Joe Lawson (’90) takes his ad C ONSTANT & T RUE cavemen to Hollywood. 78 Nomads No More By David Fyten When the dean who hired Elizabeth Phillips 50 Carol Barbee (’81) asked what she could writes a new epi- contribute to a ‘good sode in her life. Baptist college,’ she replied, ‘Criticism.’ Librarian of Congress James H. Billington spoke on “The Future of Freedom” at Opening Convocation in October. Kirkman, Carter honored with faculty awards AKE FOREST HONORED communities since joining the fac- Wtwo faculty members and ulty in 1975. The award is named two alumni during Fall Convoca- in memory of the late Donald tion October 30 in Wait Chapel. Schoonmaker, a political science The annual recognitions were professor who died in 1993. made prior to a keynote address Stewart Carter, professor of by James H. Billington, the librar- music and department chair, ian of Congress. received the Jon Reinhardt Award Professor of Mathematics for Distinguished Teaching. Carter Ellen Kirkman received the Donald joined the faculty in 1982. Nomi- O. Schoonmaker Faculty Prize for nations for the Reinhardt Award Community Service in recogni- are made each year by alumni tion of her commitment to the who are celebrating the tenth Wake Forest and Winston-Salem anniversary of their graduation. 2WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE D A U Q E H T D N U O R The award is named in memory the past twenty years, linked the online nearly 11 million Ameri- A of Jon Reinhardt, a political sci- free flow of knowledge to the can historical items from the ence professor who died in 1984. spread of freedom around the collections of the library and President Nathan O. Hatch world. “The digital revolution has other research institutions. presented the Marcellus E. Wad- created new possibilities for uni- Recently, the Library of Congress dill Excellence in Teaching Award versalizing the Jeffersonian ideal has teamed up with UNESCO to Sally Smith (’75), of Greens- of knowledge as the basis for and libraries from around the boro, North Carolina, and Jared democratization,” he said. world to launch the World Digital Rashford (MAEd ’00), of Wood- Billington, the author of The Library, modeled after the stock, Georgia. Each received a Face of Russia, called that country “American Memory”project. $20,000 cash award. “a vital test case for the future of Smith, who graduated with a freedom. It has become, for the degree in psychology, went on to first time in its modern history, a earn a Master of Education degree nation-state rather than an empire, from the University of North Caro- and formally at least, a democra- lina at Greensboro. She teaches cy rather than an autocracy, but it sixth-grade language arts and is still the Wal-Mart of weapons social studies at Kernodle Middle of mass destruction.” School in Greensboro. A former history professor Rashford teaches science and at Princeton and Spanish and serves as the chair Harvard universities, of the gifted education program Billington led the cre- President Hatch presents the Waddill Award at Alpharetta High School in ation of the “American to Sally Smith (’75), above, and Jared Georgia. He is currently a doc- Memory” National Rashford (MAEd ’00), below. Professor toral candidate in science educa- Digital Library, which of Mathematics Ellen Kirkman, at left, received the Schoonmaker Faculty Prize. tion at Georgia State University. makes freely available Dean of the College Deborah L. Best (’70, The Waddill Award is given MA ’72) presents the Reinhardt Award to annually to two alumni, one Professor of Music Stewart Carter. who teaches on the elemen- tary level and one on the secondary level. The award is funded by David Waddill of Rye, New York, in honor of his father, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Marcellus Waddill. In his remarks, Billington, the librarian of Congress for www.wfu.edu/wowf DECEMBER 2004 3 D A U Q E H T Immigration conference co-organizer David Coates, Worrell Professor of D Anglo-American Studies, far right, N with panelist Robert Rector of the U Heritage Foundation O R Peril and promise A Conference speakers explore both sides of the immigration issue. ROMINENT FIGURES from of leading experts on the topic in rule of law—and said our sense Peither side of the political panel discussions October 3–5. of national unity, which will be fence converged at one border The conference was organized crucial to our continued ability to point as keynote speakers at a by David Coates, Worrell Profes- govern ourselves effectively, will three-day conference on immi- sor of Anglo-American Studies, depend on how well we assimi- gration held at Wake Forest in and Peter Siavelis, associate pro- late immigrants into the main- early October: that immigration fessor of political science. Audio stream of national life. may be fraught with peril, but is and video transcripts of the Among the steps Marshall also filled with promise. conference can be accessed at proposed for extracting us from Ray Marshall, Audre and Bern- www.wfu.edu/voices. the immigration morass are to ard Rapoport Centennial Chair Marshall, who served as Sec- tighten the controls on documen- in Economics and Public Affairs retary of Labor during the Carter tation legitimacy; inaugurate at the University of Texas-Austin, Administration, noted that the tougher sanctions against employ- and U.S. Senator Richard Burr United States will experience ers who hire illegals; adjust, on a (’78), a Republican from North zero percent growth in its native- one-time-only basis, the status of Carolina, delivered sobering yet born work force over the next unauthorized immigrants; imple- hopeful messages at the opening twenty years. “In order to grow ment strong border controls; and and close of the symposium. [economically],” he said, “we must mount an international effort to “Immigration: Recasting the have immigration.” strengthen the “fundamentally Debate,”part of the University’s Ideally, immigrant labor should flawed” Mexican economy and its Voices of Our Time series of lec- complement the skills of native inadequate judiciary and educa- tures and symposia on important workers, he said. But, contrary to tion system so that the Mexican issues of the day, featured a host popular belief, “many illegals are people have viable employment competing with native low-wage options in their home country. workers and displacing them.” Burr, who pinch-hit on short To remain competitive in the notice for scheduled speaker Mel global marketplace, he went on, Martinez (R-Florida) whose flight “we’ll need well-educated work- was cancelled, said globalization ers. But as it stands, [America’s] and its Siamese twin, immigra- immigrants are mostly at the tion, is impacting every nation lower literacy end of the spectrum.” on earth. Noting that countries Marshall noted that illegal with annual indigenous birth immigration undermines one of rates of less than 2 percent lose U.S.