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.

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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.

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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

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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. Senator Richard Burr (’78) our foundational principles—the population, he said Japan (with

4WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE D A U Q E H T D N U O R A SPRING EVENTS CBS News’ legend Bob Schieffer signed its 1.32 percent birth rate), and copies of his book before his Voices of Our the European Union (1.68 percent) Time address in October. Speaker: Daniel Ellsberg must import several hundred January 24 thousand immigrants each year and would be making a “terrible ORMER MILITARY analyst who to sustain any kind of economic mistake” if it did anything to dis- Fleaked the top-secret Pentagon growth. courage foreigners who want to Papers to The New York Times. Presented With its 2.11-percent-and- attend college here. in conjunction with the Secrest Artists declining birth rate, Burr asked, Burr said Congress’ failure to Series presentation (January 17–18) of can the U.S. sustain its 3.5-percent pass an immigration bill almost the radio drama “Top Secret: The Battle annual economic growth rate ten was a foregone conclusion, given for the Pentagon Papers,” by L.A. years into the future? “Thank that immigration “is just too hot Theatre Works, starring Stacey Keach. God,” he said, “that we’re still the politically.” If Americans truly place people want to come to.” want to reform the system, he “Why Work: Business, Professions In building its vibrant high- said, it’s in their hands. “If this and the Common Good” tech economy, North Carolina issue is to be resolved,” he said, March 27-28 has been fortunate in attracting “this has to be a groundswell.” Opening keynote speaker a critical mass of “immigrant” tal- David Brooks, The New York Times columnist —David Fyten ent from California and abroad, TWO-DAY CONFERENCE about the Burr said. With its population Achallenges that face Americans projected to increase some 58 today in business and in the professions percent over the next eighteen of law and medicine. years, he said, the state is distinc- tively well-positioned to attract “College of the Overwhelmed” “the best and the brightest,” April 7 Keynote speaker: Richard Kadison, co-author of College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do About It Immigration conference keynote speaker Ray ONE-DAY FORUM about various Marshall, Secretary of Aaspects of campus mental health Labor under President that must be addressed by colleges Jimmy Carter and universities. For more information, visit www.wfu.edu/voices

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U Six sophomores have started

Q their own company to pursue ideas they developed in a fresh-

E man seminar class. They hope

H to use the animated “character”

T myosin (below) for a Web site and a cartoon or video game. D N U O R A

Inspired by seminar, students create BioBotz start-up company

FTER TAKING A FRESHMAN company named BioBotz. They inside the cells of humans, plants, ASEMINAR designed to foster have received some funding from and animals carrying bubble-like entrepreneurial thinking, six stu- the Office of Entrepreneurship cargo from place to place. dents have started their own non- and Liberal Arts and from a pri- Each student works on differ- profit educational entertainment vate supporter, but they are still ent aspects of the project, from company to teach children about raising additional capital. finance to creativity to market cell biology. “We want to take the They plan to create a picture research, and they all cooperated complexities inside a cell and book, an animated television on developing a storyline for make them fun for kids to learn,” series, and the picture book. says sophomore Mike Metzmaker, a video game “We have a very from Rutland, Massachusetts. to get kids exciting story The students were classmates excited about involving our main last year in a freshman seminar the inside of the cell. “Every kid characters, kinesin, myosin, and on biophysics, “Harnessing Life’s goes through a stage where they dynein, saving the cell from an Molecular Machines: From AIDS know all about dinosaurs, or invading virus,” explains Metz- Tests to Hydrogen Cars,” taught spaceships, or, more recently, maker. “You’ll just have to read by Assistant Professor of Physics Pokemon. Why not things inside it to find out how.” Jed Macosko. In the course, the cell?” asks Branson. Macosko encourages students to Student artists William look at the molecular level of cells Brown of Nashville, for ideas that can be developed Tennessee, and Jessica into entrepreneurial ventures. Vogel of Metairie, Louisi- The six students—Metzmaker; ana, both seniors, have Sara Branson of Princeton, West drawn a few character Virginia; Ashley Edwards of Dal- sketches for the company las, Texas; Michael Epstein of and designed a Gumby- Orange, Connecticut; Jane Lee inspired prototype toy.The of Little Ferry, New Jersey; and stuffed toy is modeled after Elizabeth Newman of Cincinnati, kinesin, the molecular Ohio—have created a startup motor that walks around

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Atomic detector raises the bar H in ‘nuclear forensics’ T D

ROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY structed using the metal coil specific elements and amounts N Brad Jones is leading a team filament from a standard slide of radioactivity. U P O of researchers at four institutions projector bulb powered by a Jones notes that the radio- R to develop the first handheld, 12-volt battery, such as the type isotopes likely to be stolen from A field instrument capable of detect- used to start boats or automo- medical or industrial facilities ing and identifying radioactive biles. Environmental samples of and used by terrorists are also particles at the site of potential suspect particles are dissolved the most brightly emitting ele- contamination. in liquid, and droplets are placed ments in atomic spectrometry. The device will enable author- on the coil. The samples are dried Instrument manufacturer ities to quickly test dust, soil, at low voltage and the residue Teledyne Leeman Labs is inter- water, and crops in the event of vaporized at 3,000 degrees, pro- ested in the production and mar- a terrorist attack such as a “dirty” ducing a flash of light. Each keting of the device once Jones’ bomb. Jones, who specializes in metal displays a unique color research group perfects their creating spectroscopic instru- signature, which is captured by a prototype. The three-year project ments, saw the potential to adapt fiberoptic sensor connected to a is being funded by the National a design he originally conceived laptop computer. Test results are Science Foundation in conjunc- years ago to permit rapid field charted on a graph showing each tion with the Department of testing for lead in blood samples. sample’s wavelength and intensi- Homeland Security. “The proposed device repre- ty, allowing scientists to identify sents a new way of thinking in the field of nuclear forensics,” he says. “Atomic emission spectrom- etry is traditionally a laboratory- based technique using very large, very expensive instruments. With immediate on-site results, resi- dents could be given timely infor- mation about a potential threat or reassured that none existed rather than waiting for samples to be transported to laboratories for analysis.” Portability may also lead to new applications of atomic spec- trometry in the field such as test- ing for contamination by pesti- cides and other pollutants. Jones’ “Tungsten Coil Atomic Emission Spectrometer” is con- Brad Jones: identifying sparks

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R knowledge about the Middle

A Eastern conflict and its connect- edness to global terrorism.” During a second trip to Israel for the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism’s conference on the global impact of terrorism, he attended several workshops Randy Rogan: The use of cyberspace by radical factions is disarming. including “Combating the Ideol- ogy Behind Islamist Terrorism” and “Cyberspace as a Platform Dynamics of terrorism for Global Jihad Terrorism.” How film, television, and the Communication professor Randall Rogan makes eye-opening trips to Israel. Internet are used to spread the influence of militant Islamists by WO TRIPS TO ISRAEL HAVE He attended a ten-day conference promulgating hatred, killing, and T BROUGHT HOME for com- that included briefings by intel- death is an issue Rogan says we munication professor and chair ligence analysts, many with expe- can’t afford to ignore. Americans Randall Rogan how terrorism rience dealing with groups such accept that the freedom that comes has changed and will continue as Hamas, Hezbollah, or Fatah, with open access to the World to change world relations. and site visits to key conflict Wide Web means that people will For his first trip, Rogan attend- areas, police operations head- create sites used for subversive ed the “Defending Democracy, quarters, and a prison housing purposes—but should terrorist Defeating Terrorism” fellowship convicted terrorists. Web sites be hosted in the U.S.? program, hosted by the Founda- “We had access to the highest “The use of cyberspace by tion for Defense of Democracy— level of Israeli government. We radical factions to promote ter- a nonpartisan policy institute were briefed on suicide bomber’s rorist activity is disarming created in response to 9/11 to activities in Israel and viewed because our culture generally fight the ideologies that drive footage from a three-hour film doesn’t give a lot of thought to terrorism. That these doctrines that Iran provided Hezbollah how Internet sites are used,” are disseminated using easily and Hamas on how to construct Rogan says. “Researchers and accessible mass communication a suicide bomb vest,” says Rogan. intelligence analysts estimate strategies fits Rogan’s interest “Seeing how Israel manages that approximately 60 percent and expertise. to exist as a democracy while of terrorist Web sites are hosted The foundation invited Rogan to under siege on a daily basis was on U.S. servers. And while the apply for an academic fellowship enlightening. I came away from instinct is to shut them down, it’s in part because of his interests in the visit with a much deeper a Catch-22 because although the terrorism and communication. and broader understanding and sites are used to recruit young,

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often marginalized Muslims to Rogan says this asymmetry Regardless of one’s motivation or R jihad, they also provide intelli- between the terrorists and those cause, terrorism is a criminal tac- A gence resources where investi- terrorized needs to be addressed. tic of targeting civilians.” gators can learn about and track “Americans hold themselves Participating in counterterror- these radical organizations.” and their allies highly account- ism efforts and traveling to Israel Though held in Israel, neither able for the actions of their sol- has supplemented Rogan’s conference specifically addressed diers, but we do not hold our already extensive knowledge the Arab-Israeli conflict itself, opponents to the same kind of and experience in hostage crisis but instead centered on the use scrutiny. We are highly critical of negotiations. He has worked of terrorism as a tactic. “Perhaps our own actions— trying to deter- with the FBI’s Critical Incident most disheartening and disturb- mine if we are doing the right Response Group in the crisis ing is how children are being things for the right reasons — management unit, and for him indoctrinated into believing that but we often fail to engage in hostage negotiation and terror- they should kill and die for their the same level of analyses of the ism are directly linked. “Basic struggle, to not value life nor to groups that we are in conflict to dealing with terrorism is com- want to live, and that their reli- with. Radical extremists strive to munication and negotiation. gion not only justifies such think- frame their actions as retaliation Understanding the communica- ing and actions but that it also for political actions, foreign poli- tive dynamics of terrorism is cen- requires it of them,” Rogan says. cies, and oppression. If, however, tral to working toward resolution. “There exist myriad examples of a group admitted to committing I hope to learn more about how video footage from Middle East terrorist acts for religious domi- to communicate and negotiate media outlets in which cartoon- nation, we’d explore it further. with terror groups, and if negoti- type characters teach school-age But if we believe the acts have ation is even possible in certain children disrespect for others, taken place in retaliation for our contexts, such as with suicide anti-Semitism, animal cruelty, and own or our allies’ political actions, bombers. Given the proliferation that the death of non-believers we somehow view terrorism and potential threat of radical and the use of martyrdom to differently, and this makes it dif- Islamic terrorism in the U.S. and bring it about are glorious.” ficult to find resolution,” he says. Western Europe, understanding A skewed perspective exists— “Political and social grievances the dynamics of terrorist negotia- at times fostered by the media— certainly do exist. Yet, radical tion is essential.” that these kinds of extremist Islamists are advancing a con- Visit www.wfu.edu/magazine for communications come as a result spiracy theory that Islam is under online exclusives including a photo of oppression and that terrorism attack from the West as a means gallery and audio presentation of is somehow mitigated or validated to appeal to a broad base of Mus- Professor of Communication Randall because of it. A blurred line exists lims and to motivate them to acts Rogan’s experiences in Israel. between terrorist actions and the of violence. Most people agree idea that people have the right that this distorts the true nature —Kim McGrath to fight for what they feel is right. and philosophy of Islam.

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U Helen Akinc with a painting by

Q Noreen Walsh Treadway (’03). E H T D N U O

R many problems my first year,

A from feeling homesick to failing a chemistry test. Dr. Akinc was there to talk to me and believe in me. I would not have passed my Transition freshman year without her.” Wake Forest’s students’ suc- Helen Akinc retires from the Calloway School after a career of putting students first. cess in competing for the Kemper Scholarship—one of the nation’s FTER A STELLAR TWENTY- Office of Career Services to help premier scholarship programs AYEAR CAREER, Helen Akinc, students prepare for the transi- to prepare liberal arts students the assistant dean of student pro- tion from academic to profession- for leadership and service in fessional affairs at the Calloway al life — developing methods that business fields—is testimony to School of Business and Accoun- have become a model for other her commitment to the program. tancy, is saying farewell to Wake schools and departments within Wake Forest has had two win- Forest. But if ever “retirement” the University. ners in each of the past two years. were a misnomer for what comes “Helen always exhibited great “She’s a champion for her stu- after full-time employment, it is interest in individual students and dents,” says Kemper Scholar Ian in Akinc’s case. With characteris- has an appreciation not only for Afflerbach, a senior political sci- tic energy and enthusiasm, she’s business, but business grounded ence and English major. “She’s looking forward to achieving per- in a liberal arts perspective,” says glad to do whatever needs to be sonal goals. director of Career Services Bill done, and if she can improve on “When I hit the speed limit Currin (’60). something, she will.” and turned fifty-five, I realized Akinc’s other contributions Akinc’s patience and under- that if I were going to pursue include her leadership of the standing likely stem from the other interests I’d have to start Summer Management Program, unique experiences she has now, and part of this means tak- a crash course in business basics shared with her husband, Umit ing better care of myself so that for non-Calloway majors that Akinc, who holds the Thomas I can pursue my dreams for expanded from twenty-five to H. Davis Chair of Business in the many years to come.” sixty students during her tenure; Calloway School. The Akincs met Akinc joined the Calloway her dedication to the Kemper while both were at UNC-Chapel School in 1987 as an adjunct pro- Scholarship program; and her Hill and, after marrying, they fessor to teach organizational commitment to advising students. moved to Turkey. (She is nearly theory and behavior. She later She received the Excellence in fluent in Turkish and plans to pub- took on her most prominent role Advising Award in 2001. lish a cookbook of Turkish recipes as a student liaison—helping “Dr. Akinc was a source of in both English and Turkish.) But business and accounting grads support to me,” says sophomore war and terrorism in Turkey made prepare for a post-Wake Forest Jannah Obaid, who came to Wake it impossible for Umit to teach life. She’s worked closely with the Forest from Saudi Arabia. “I had there, so they returned to America.

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“When you’ve lived in another R country, it changes you,” she says. A “You’re never completely com- fortable in either culture.You’re always looking for ways to incor- porate parts of one culture into your life when you’re living in the other.You have to learn to bridge Jack Fleer: Examining gubernatorial contributions. differences and bridge cultures, and what I’ve learned in bridging N.C. governors speak in Fleer’s new book cultures works in bridging other situations.” ROFESSOR EMERITUS OF Office of Governor itself (did they Though no longer in her Cal- PPOLITICAL SCIENCE JACK strengthen the position) and loway office, her friends know D. FLEER examines the political their policy achievements. He where to find her. Noreen Walsh lives and accomplishments of also looks into how they won Treadway (’03), who was a busi- North Carolina’s governors over the office — their political ambi- ness major and art minor, recalls the last forty years in the most tions and campaigns—and how when Akinc purchased one of comprehensive look at their they dealt with the legislature, the her paintings. “It was a sign to tenures ever published in his executive branch, and the public. me that she cared about my per- new book, Governors Speak “The Office of Governor, not sonal and artistic ambitions and (University Press of America). only in North Carolina but also not just my place in Calloway. Fleer conducted extensive in many other states, is not a very Helen and I no longer talk about interviews with five of the last well-known office,” says Fleer, jobs. We talk about our shared six North Carolina governors who retired in 2002. “The way interest in knitting and crochet- (omitting Dan K. Moore, who the office has evolved has made ing, family life, and many other had already died when he began the individuals who occupy it things that friends talk about. the book): Terry Sanford (1961– particularly important.” It’s clear to me that Helen has 65), Robert W. Scott (1969 –73), While the book focuses on been so valuable to Wake Forest James E. Holshouser Jr. (1973– North Carolina governors, it also because she recognizes the unique 77), James G. Martin (1985 –93), examines the importance and qualities in every person and and James B. Hunt Jr. (1977– 85 development of the office nation- embraces them.” and 1993–2001). He was the last wide. “Four of the past five U.S. Send Helen Akinc best wishes person to interview Sanford presidents [previously] served as on her retirement at www.wfu.edu/ before his death in 1998. governors; through U.S. history magazine. Fleer examines each governor’s almost one half of U.S. presidents tenure in two broad areas: what served as governors,” Fleer notes. —Kim McGrath contribution they made to the —Kerry M. King (’85)

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Style and substance

Sociologist Saylor Breckenridge studies the relationship between comic books and popular culture. Saylor Breckenridge: Consumers wanted crime and got superheroes.

F, AS SOME CRITICS SAY, THE not only their literary style and the iconoclastic William M. Gaines, ISTORY OF AMERICAN culture topical substance, but also their who also published the notorious is the conflict between censorship reach, into the adult market. Mad magazine, Congress in 1954 and freedom of expression, then Comic books are among the threatened to regulate the content you can find everything you’d many popular-culture interests of comics, much like films were ever want to know about it in of associate professor of sociology controlled. But instead of fighting comic books. Saylor Breckenridge. Brecken- the move, the industry imple- According to a faculty author- ridge, who joined the faculty in mented a code of its own, which ity on the subject, the comics 2001, counts among his research excluded the words “horror,” industry—much like film, video subjects the funeral home indus- “death,” and “crime” from titles; games, and other forms of art try, the North Carolina wine banned violence, sex, profanity, and entertainment—evolved in industry, and the impact of the scenes of kidnappings, dark and the second half of the twentieth integration of Major League base- cynical endings, etc.; and man- century through the struggle ball on the sport’s popularity. He dated happy endings in which of its youth-oriented purveyors devoted most of his attention to the “good guys”and cops always to loosen constraints on their comics last spring in preparing a won. Romance comics, another content and subject matter. paper on the subject. popular genre of the day, couldn’t Their ultimate triumph, achieved Breckenridge notes that in show unmarried couples kissing. through a combination of sub- response to the graphic crime and “Effectively, the code drove terfuge and an if-you-can’t-beat- horror comics being published in many publishers out of business,” ’em-join-’em mentality, extended the early fifties by, among others, Breckenridge points out. “All that

12 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE o,butinstead gotthesuper- ror, crime, adds on formationofaculture, entertainment industrycanhave that regulationoftheartsor interesting exampleoftheimpact comic-book subjects. operas andpoliticsarepopular soap forinstance, InJapan, ters. mainstream storiesandc mate vehicles ofexpressionfor comics were seenaslegiti- world, good ande acters andidealizednotionsof with theirall-po etc., theFantastic Four, League, — can was leftwas thatnotableAmeri- Superman, “America’s experience isan phenomenon, “Consumers wanted the . h oac,andthehor- the romance, vil. Batman, Elsewhere inthe werful titlechar- the superheroe the J harac ” he ustice - s cious comicswithprettyauda- seventies, “Startinginthe Breckenridge. the confinesofcode, worked anddistributedoutside en independentpublisherswho a tant, onl “Itopenedthedoor shed event. lished itan but Leewent aheadandpub- Lee wrotedidn’tpasscodereview, What into hisSpidermanseries. incorporate ananti-drugmessage Comics publisherStanLeeto federal authoritiesasked Marvel when started toappearin1971, ient cracks inthecomicscode by theregulatoryprocess.” The culturewas created heroes. cialty comicsshops[inthe late distribution withtheriseof spe and impossibletowithhold from Robert Crumbdifficulttocontrol of undergroundcartoonistslike comics ing they were magazinesandnot thereby claim- black-and-white, lishing inlargerformatsand ed thecodesuccessfully by pub- Conan, variation oftopicsandembold- y Breckenridge notesthatincip- because itbegantoencourage a content lik crac . and Regulators foundthew k, yw Vampirella but itw a .Itwas awater- y. e Heavy Metal, as v circumvent- ery impor ” sa ys orks - - ic of high-qualityliteratureingraph- pendent undergroundpublishers down forgoodby awave ofinde- that thecodedoorwas kicked according toBreckenridge, nineties, andincursoryfashionatthat.” it, even botheredtoconsider DC— and Comics, lishers—Archie only two pub- By themid-2000s, thecodewas dilutedtwice. ness, Because ofitsgrowing powerless- seventies andearly eighties]. stories comics returnedtotellingreal “Itwas intheeightiesthat notes. Breckenridge Generation Xennui,” among teensasexpressionsof “These were immensely popular re magazines lik the pointwheretoda to increasingly okay foradults, Ball, Hate, F cial Award forLetters in1992. that w isagraphicnovel of theHolocaust, Spiegelman’ which releasedthemodern of publisherswas Fantagraphics, oremost amongtheneww view comicsandgraphicnovels.” format. It was intheeightiesandearly on ararePulitzerPrizeSpe- . As aresult, www.wfu.edu/wowf F and or example, s e po Love andRockets T w ime erful metaphor comics became and y —David Fyten mainstream Maus Slate D ECEMBER a Eight , ve ve Art . 0713 2007

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A intervention”and “sports and include departmental colleagues exercise”would sum it up nicely. Stephen Messier, Gary Miller, The early intervention came and Paul Ribisl, along with Roger from her parents, Dick (’71, MA ’72) Anderson of the Division of Pub- and Sandra Buchanan (’70) lic Health Sciences and Edward Bozoian, who met while they Levine of Surgical Oncology on were students at the College. the Bowman Gray Campus — “Growing up, I would visit cam- strategies to promote confidence pus with them, and I was always in older adults suffering from struck by how friendly everyone chronic diseases to participate in Shannon Mihalko: Exercise contributes was,”she recalls. “It was a strik- restorative physical activity earli- to psychological well-being. ingly different kind of place.” er than is customary. As for sports and exercise, her In one study titled RESTORE, Mihalko recently launched a dad had played on the 1970 ACC she had women who had under- new study with Suzanne Dan- championship football team. As gone breast cancer surgery doing hauer, a researcher and clinician an undergraduate, she majored in walking and upper-body weight at the Comprehensive Cancer health and sport science, known lifting as early as four weeks after Center of Wake Forest University, now as health and exercise sci- their operations. “Physical activi- and Heidi Klepin, a geriatric ence. As a graduate student at ty as part of cancer rehabilitation oncologist at the School of Medi- Illinois, where she earned three is a novel approach,” she notes. cine. The study will focus on older degrees, she met her future hus- “But if a surgical patient is not adults who have been diagnosed band, Ryan Mihalko, who had physically active at the start, she with acute leukemia, a virulent played football at Notre Dame can lose flexibility, strength, and and usually fatal form of cancer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, range of motion fairly quickly. requiring six to eight weeks of when the Irish won a national “We’ve found that exercise hospital-based therapy, and will championship. has a positive impact on their include in-hospital physical inter- Now, back at her alma mater psychological state as well,” says ventions, including walking, for the past eight years as a fac- Mihalko, who received her doc- stretching, and strength training. ulty member in her major depart- toral degree in health psychology. “These will be tools they can ment, she is still engaged in early “We conduct group behavioral take home with them,” Mihalko interventions and exercise, albeit sessions with the subjects so says, “and perhaps prepare them of a different kind. She does pio- that they figure out for them- to withstand and endure more neering work with older adults selves why physical activity is intensive therapies to come.” who’ve had cancer, encouraging important. [Exercise] naturally them to begin an exercise regi- helps with their emotional —David Fyten men immediately after their sur- recovery and helps them build geries and treatments to restore the confidence to get back into their bodies and spirits. their regular daily activities.”

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O YOU THINK MENTAL ILL- R SNESS AND other mysteries A of the mind have become hyper- medicalized and excessively pharmacologized? Well, maybe you don’t. But you might if you perused the Diagnostic and Statis- George Graham: helping philosophy and psychiatry to reassume their traditional partnership. tical Manual of Mental Disorders. Published by the American approaches toward metaphysics of mind and mental illness that Psychiatric Association, the DSM to understand the mind’s work- he will title The Disordered Mind. is a reference book for mental ings. Conversely, influential phi- Graham, who came to Wake health professionals that lists dif- losophers like Immanuel Kant Forest in early 2003, traces the ferent categories of mental disor- and John Locke wrote on mental dissolution of the link between ders and the criteria for diagnos- health topics from a psychiatric philosophy and psychiatry back ing them. When it was first pub- perspective and are considered to the “hypermedicalization”of lished in 1952, the manual was 130 seminal in bridging the disciplines. the latter in the second half of the pages long and contained 106 cat- In his capacity as A.C. Reid twentieth century, when social egories. Its 1994 edition, the most Professor of Philosophy at Wake factors and the emergence of recent, is 886 pages and lists 297 Forest, Graham strives, through managed care began mandating disorders. Unofficially, that figure his writing, editing, and teaching, more specific diagnoses. Hence has risen to more than 400, and to do his part in helping philoso- the growth of the DSM list. some think the next edition, slated phy and psychiatry reassume Another factor is at work as for publication in 2012, could con- their traditional partnership in well. Graham notes that to get a tain as many as a thousand dis- probing the puzzle of what con- new drug on the market, a phar- tinct categories of mental illnesses. stitutes normal and abnormal maceutical manufacturer must George Graham bemoans mental function. He is co-author identify a specific disorder that it this obsession with the chemical- and co-editor of The Oxford Text- will treat. “Eventually, the drug biological side of the mind-brain book of Philosophy and Psychiatry, can be used for ‘enhancement’ by problem and our belief that every that is used widely in the train- someone who is well but wants to psychological aberration, how- ing of mental health profession- be better,” he says. “Or, it may be ever slight, can be treated with a als in England, and co-editor used for conditions other than its drug. It wasn’t always this way, of Reconceiving Schizophrenia, a initial target. Anti-depressants, he notes. Once, not long ago, the compendium of articles that for instance, sometimes are used world’s great psychiatrists—men challenge a purely psychiatric for conditions such as compul- like Karl Jaspers and Sigmund approach to the phenomenon of sion and obsession. The drug’s Freud—were philosophers as well schizophrenic delusion. And market has expanded.” as scientists who looked beyond Routledge Press has invited him traditional medical-clinical to write a book on the philosophy —David Fyten

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R ORRELL PROFESSOR OF favorite business pro- 1983 to celebrate the 150th A WAnglo-American Studies fessors as identified anniversary of the found- David Coates has written a new by students. “Marcum ing of Wake Forest, and book, A Liberal Tool Kit: Progressive brings an uncanny four other compositions, Answers to Conservative Arguments energy to his lec- performed by the Slovak (Praeger). The book outlines a tures,” one student Radio Symphony Orchestra series of hot political issues, and noted. “After taking Marcum (Kirk Trevor, conductor). how progressives can respond his rigorous classes, I to conservative arguments on feel absolutely confident that I OMMUNICATION SCHOLAR each issue. Coates, a native of will succeed after college.” Mar- CMichael J. Hyde was chosen England, is also the author of cum, an associate professor of to deliver the prestigious Carroll Prolonged Labour; the Slow Birth of finance, joined the Calloway fac- C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture New Labour Britain and the co- ulty in 1996. at the National Communication author of Blair’s War, a study of Association’s Annual Convention the UK’s involvement in Iraq. last month. Hyde, the University Distinguished Professor of Com- acquelyn S. Fetrow, munication Ethics, joined the fac- JReynolds Professor ulty in 1994. He is the author of of Computational more than sixty scholarly articles Biophysics and director and five books, and is currently of the graduate track at work on another book. in structural and com- putational biophysics, HE DEPARTMENT OF COUN- has been appointed by TSELING HAS BEEN NAMED Fetrow the National Institutes the “Outstanding Masters Coun- of Health to a four-year term selor Education Program for on a panel that reviews the scien- IVE SYMPHONIC WORKS by 2007” by the Southern Associa- tific merit of grant applications. Fcomposer-in-residence and tion for Counselor Education Fetrow joined the departments professor of music Dan Locklair and Supervision. The program of physics and computer science are included on a CD released offers a two-year Master of Arts in 2003. this fall by record label Naxos. degree in counseling. In 1999, Naxos, one of the world’s most Wake Forest was recognized by USINESSWEEK profiled Cal- comprehensive catalogues of the Association for Counselor Bloway School professor Bill classical music, selected Locklair Education and Supervision for Marcum on its Web site in Sep- for its “American Classics”series. having the “Outstanding Coun- tember for its ongoing series on The CD includes “Phoenix and seling Program” in the nation. Again,”which was composed in

16 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE cation ofthebook, ledto thepubli- Sarah,”which “T up the2004lectureseriestheme, follows andMuslim,” Christian, a series in2001( whoendowed thelecture Billue, the firstsincedeathofSylv and MuslimPerspectives. and theirChildren: Jewish,Christian “Interfaith nary sc support offeministinterdiscipli- Uni national forumindicatesthe sponsorship ofsuch amajor program. Women’s andGenderStudies and foundingdirectorofthe professorofEnglish DeShazer, today,”says Mary in theU.S. religious studiesscholars atwork most feministtheologiansand dialogue withsomeofthefore- tions andengageinmeaningful lectually stimulatingpresenta- nity anopportunitytohearintel- Divinity School. at the will beheldMarch 4–5 of BiblicalStudiesPhyllis Trible, scholar andUniversity Professor internationally known biblical T feminism focus oninterfaith Trible Lectures School at336.758.5121. orcontacttheDivinity tures.html visit di full conferencesc he This year’s conferencewillbe The 2008lectureseries, “The seriesoffersthecommu- v TURE HE ersity’ Children ofHagarand vinity.wfu.edu/trible-lec- holarship.” P HYLLIS “W S s F ERIES eminisms: J strong ak see page77 e Forest’s annual T namedfor , RIBLE , hedule, Hagar, Sarah, ongoing ewish, ). L F EC or - a ommend. the studentsandattorneys rec- to requesttestingforcasesthat Tom Keith (JD ’70)hasagreed DistrictAttorney DNA testing. to identifycasesthatqualifyfor and law enforcementofficers prosecutors, defense attorneys, Law studentswillwork with demonstrate theirinnocence. benefit fromDNA testing to identifying prisonerswhomight The barassociationhasbegun Forsyth CountyBarAssociation. Project incooperationwiththe Newman. tems withProfessorofLaw Joel will teach Comparative Tax Sys- Professor ofLaw MartinGinsburg, Georgetown University husband, Her Law Suzanne Reynolds. P and EqualityinaComparative Personal Autonomy course on J Casa Artomin Venice nextJuly. Summer AbroadProgramat teach intheSchool ofLaw’s S T and W also holdsummerclassesat ustice Ginsburgwillteac erspecti ak Ruth BaderGinsburgwill UPREME beginning aDNA Innocence HE Vienna. e Forest’s housesinLondon S P ve withProfessorof HO OF CHOOL T ROFESSIONAL he la C OURT w sc hool will L J USTICE AW h is a Economist among U.S.-based schools in 40 programs intheworld andNo. was ranked oneofthetopMBA theBabcock School Also thisfall, active BusinessSchool Survey. Wall Street Journal this fall’s annualsurvey by top regionalbusinessschools in ranked secondamongthenation’s T Biomedical Researc was formerly known as lion, built in2006atacostof$72mil The five-story building, Program. the LipidSciencesResearch for Regenerative Medicineand houses the Wake Forest Institute Biomedical Research Building Sciences Wake Forest University Health retired presidentandCEOof in honorofDr Winston-Salem hasbeennamed T T its curriculum. and en mitment tointegratingsocial the AspenInstituteforitscom- The school was ranked 30thby tional rankingofMBA schools. riad Research Park indowntown S HE BUILDING HE CHOOL S vironmental issuesinto NEWEST B . ABCOCK ’s sixthannualinterna- CHOOLS h ihr .Dean The Richard H. www.wfu.edu/wowf of Management . in thePiedmont Ric RESEARCH /Harris Inter- adH Dean, hard H. G h RADUATE F acility 1. D ECEMBER The The - 0717 2007

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A of Arts and Sciences. Professor have been hired for the Alumni Associa- of Biochemistry Linda McPhail recently to fill posi- tion’s merchandising and (MS ’73, PhD ’76) was appointed tions in the alumni Burch affinity programs and to a three-year term as associate and University the alumni continuing dean of graduate programs on Advancement offices. education program. She the Bowman Gray Kristin Tyrrell was previously associate Campus. Since Burch, who graduated dean of continuing stud- joining the faculty in 1996 with a degree ies at Salem College. in 1984, she has in sociology, has been Georgia Thompson served as director named assistant vice (’05) has been named of the biochemistry president and direc- alumni programs officer graduate program tor of alumni activi- Boone for the professional and co-director ties. Minta Aycock schools. She was previ- of the molecular McNally (‘74), former- ously a project coordi- McPhail medicine graduate ly assistant vice presi- nator for Water Missions program. dent and director of International, a relief Associate Prof- alumni activities and agency based in Charles- essor of Psychology annual support, earli- ton, South Carolina. Cecilia Solano was er was named to a Kathryn “Kate” appointed to a new position as asso- Yandell (’07) has been one-year term as ciate vice president named assistant director associate dean of and director of parent Thompson of alumni programs. graduate programs and donor relations. She will be responsible on the Reynolda Burch will oversee for programs such as Solano Campus. She also alumni programs, Homecoming and class will continue as both on campus and reunions. director of the master’s program nationally. She had In the University in liberal studies. Solano, who previously worked at Advancement office, joined the psychology faculty Georgetown Univers- Debbie Miller has been in 1977, had served as associate ity, first as assistant named assistant vice dean of the Graduate School director of develop- Yandell president for prospect since 1999. She was interim dean ment for the Lom- development. She was for a year following the retirement bardi Comprehensive previously director of of Gordon Melson in June 2006 Cancer Center, and, prospect development at until the appointment of Lorna since 2005, as director The Nature Conservancy. Moore as dean this past June. of alumni relations.

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F WAKE FOREST’S BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT were an ecosys- Item, it would be classified as complex—one that teems with marvelous and diversified organ- isms on its faculty. Flourishing in its fecund habi- tat are a primordial species (Erik Johnson); an established genus early into the most productive stage of its life cycle (Miles Silman, Miriam Ashley-Ross, Brian Tague, and Clifford Zeyl); a family a bit farther still along the evolutionary path (Gloria Muday, James Curran, Dave Anderson, chair Kathleen Kron, and William Conner); an order of advanced specimens that have migrated to the system (endowed chair holders William Smith and Susan Fahrbach); a class with deep roots (Wayne Four in Fruition… Silver and Robert and Carole Browne); and a mature and vener- able phylum (Herman Eure and Above the complex Hugo C. Lane). Their domains ecosystem that is range from molecular genetics to biology at Wake evolutionary ecology—a diversity rarely found today in the kingdom Forest is an over- of university biology departments, arching canopy— which tend toward homogeneity the venerable on the molecular branch. Biology at Wake Forest is like award-winning an old-growth forest. It was the quartet of Jerry first department on the Reynolda Campus with a doctoral program, Esch, Ray Kuhn, and its home for forty-five years, Pete Weigl, and Winston Hall, remains uncharted Ron Dimock. terrain to many, with its bewil- dering warren of halls and room- numbering illogic. There are those who believe it is sacred ground, By David Fyten suffused as it is with the spirit of the late, longtime, and much-loved professor Charles M. Allen. And above the forest, at its very apex, is an overarching canopy of Jerry Esch, Ray Kuhn, Pete Weigl, and Ron Dimock. Few departments at Wake Forest—or elsewhere, for that matter—can boast of such a ven- erable quartet. Collectively, they have 157 years of experience in the department, but the respect they are accorded by their col- leagues and students is not a function of longevity alone. In recent years, each has received a major national award, at the nomination of their former Gerald W. Esch: “I students, recognizing their GERALD W. E SCH: A “labor of love” don’t know of very many mentoring and teaching people who’d work for contributions. All of them nothing, but I might.” had little or no familiarity with Wake Forest before F JERRY ESCH WERE ANY HAPPIER years, I had offers from the University they were hired, but within I …well, there’d have to be two of of Tennessee and Pitt and turned them a couple of years none of him to hold it all. Nestled in the comfy- both down. There was a feeling at them would have even looking upholstered armchair in his Wake Forest in those years that I don’t thought of leaving. Today, crammed-with-memorabilia office, the quite know how to describe. I think it at ages ranging from sixty- Charles M. Allen Professor of Biology was due to people like [former deans four to seventy-one, they still can’t quite believe his good fortune of the College] Ed Wilson (’43) and remain as active in their in landing at Wake Forest forty-two Tom Mullen. They cultivated an laboratories, field stations, years ago. atmosphere of family.” classrooms, and offices Brought up in Wichita, Kansas, Esch Esch pursued ecological parasitology as ever, with retirement attended Colorado College in Colorado as his field of specialty and became well decidedly on the back Springs, where he majored in zoology known in it. For ten summers he taught Bunsen burner. (that’s ZOE-ology—not ZOO-ology, as at the prestigious Kellogg Biological To be sure, they’re dif- he’s quick to note) and met his future Station in Michigan and for the past ferent. Esch and Kuhn spouse, Ann, herself from small-town fourteen years he has edited the Journal are extroverted characters; Kansas. Then it was off to the Univers- of Parasitology. The most recent of the Weigl and Dimock are more ity of Oklahoma for a doctorate and to seven books he has written or edited, on the subdued and serious the University of North Carolina-Chapel Parasites and Infectious Diseases, recounts, side (although not without Hill on a post-doc. through personal interviews Esch con- wit). But, as in any family, “I’d never heard of Wake Forest ducted with eighteen researchers, many blood runs thicker than before I came to North Carolina in of parasitology’s most important discov- water. “These guys are like 1963,” he says. “When I first came eries. “It was a labor of love,” is his des- brothers to me,” Esch says. here, I thought I would die profession- cription of it. A painting by his daugh- “I grew up with them.” ally if I stayed. But in my first three ter, a gifted artist, adorns the cover.

DECEMBER 2007 21 Over the years Esch has mentored scores of graduate students, many of whom have gone on to distinguished academic careers of their own. It was they who nominated him in 1998 for the coveted Clark P. Read Mentor Award given by the American Society of Parasitologists each year. Esch had no inkling he had won and, due to illness, missed the meeting at which it was announced. But several of his former students who were there made sure he knew about it by placing calls to him at home. He was presented the award the following year. Esch and Ann have started down sizing; they’ve sold their house and moved into a condo on Paschal Drive. RAYMOND E. KUHN: Good old boy Eventually, they’ll retire to a cabin they own in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, at the foot of Pike’s Peak. immunoparasitology teacher, researcher, 1962. (At this point, Kuhn embellishes But the venerable professor is in no and mentor. the story with the details of how the rush to retire, even at seventy-one. The story of Kuhn’s first self-rein- college’s admission officials didn’t “There’s just something about this vention (there has been at least one know who he was when he showed up place,” he says. “I don’t know of more) is a classic, even among the but let him stay anyway because they very many people who’d work for many classics in his legendary reper- needed warm bodies, but we’ll leave nothing, but I might. toire of tales tall and short. Raised in that for him to tell.) Cobb County, Georgia, northwest of Kuhn took a liking to biology and ITH HIS Atlanta, back when it had a population graduated from Carson-Newman in WSUSPENDERS of 3,000 (it’s now over 400,000), he three years. His pastor thought he’d AND CASUAL worked as a mechanic and then a make a good missionary and encour- CLOTHING that truck driver after high school with no aged him to go to medical school. He looks tailor-made intention of going to college. But when was accepted by a handful of schools for manual labor; he was passed over for a promotion in —including Wake Forest’s Bowman his countrified favor of a guy who had a year of col- Gray School of Medicine—but by then humor, expressions, lege, he decided it might be a good biology was in his blood so he enrolled Raymond E. and penchant for story- idea after all, and enrolled in a remedi- in a doctoral program at the University Kuhn: once telling; and enough South al class at Georgia Tech. of Tennessee and finished his Ph.D. in a truck driver, in his mouth to add an Kuhn did poorly at first, but he gar- three years. always an immunopara- extra syllable to any word, nered the attention of his instructor, When Kuhn arrived at Wake sitologist. William L. Poteat Profes- who was about as different from him, Forest—then in its infancy as a uni- sor of Biology Ray Kuhn politically and culturally, as he could be versity and the smaller school with could easily pass for an auto mechanic but who saw potential in Kuhn that Kuhn research potential he was seeking— or a truck driver in rural Georgia. hadn’t seen in himself. “You ought to in the fall of 1968, he was a develop- Which is precisely what he was go to college,” the instructor told him, mental biologist (or, in older parlance, before taking a hard turn toward so Kuhn packed his car and arrived on embryologist). At the time, Esch was what would become a forty-years- the campus of Carson-Newman College using a larval tapeworm in some and-counting career as a university in Jefferson City, Tennessee, on June 3, developmental research he was doing.

22 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Collaborating with Esch on his project, with near-total recall, he can recite the department’s junior members Kuhn became interested in the immuno- names and circumstances of virtually in honing their teaching skills. logical features of host-parasite relation- every student he has ever had and “I remember telling Dave ships. Around the same time, Esch recite with pride the productive careers Anderson [today a full profes- discovered that he was doing the same onto which many have gone, often sor and one of biology’s most thing with his parasite that another with his assistance. “A week doesn’t esteemed teachers and research- scientist had done with a different par- go by that one of my former students ers] when he first started teach- asite five years earlier. By then he had doesn’t call me,” Kuhn says. He even ing, and was a little stiff, to just been teaching for some years at the keeps a golf club by his office door throw away his damn notes,” Kellogg Institute and had acquired an in case one in particular who likes to Kuhn says. “Suddenly, he relaxed interest in ecological parasitology. So swing it should show up. Small won- and got on top of it.” both of them retrained themselves der that a campaign mounted by Ed Having recently guided a class (Kuhn by reading virtually everything Roland, his very first doctoral student, of students in developing a that had been written in immunology to generate supporting letters from patentable product for the testing since 1928) and went on to prosper in alumni for his nomination of Kuhn of diseases in fish-farm populations, their new disciplines. So accomplished for this year’s Read Award should yield and with a laboratory full of students did Kuhn become in immunoparasitol- a flurry of effusive missives. Kuhn’s about to begin a project to study the ogy that he has edited journals in both acceptance speech was titled, “We Are decline of amphibians due to fungal immunology and parasitology and has Scientists, But We Are In the People disease, Kuhn, at sixty-five, feels no forged close personal and professional Business.” inclination toward calling it quits. relationships with many of the country’s Students haven’t been the only “As long as I do good work, attract leading researchers in the field. beneficiaries of Kuhn’s mentoring. passionate young people, and feel Some of those relationships led to For many years, he and his senior as good as I do now,” he says with a the formation and longevity of what colleagues have helped guide the grin, “no telling how long I’ll stay.” will certainly be one of his primary legacies—the Fancy Gap Immuno- parasitology Workshop. Begun by Kuhn in 1974 and held in a University- PETER D. WEIGL: A man about the world owned lodge off the Blue Ridge Park- way on an October weekend ever since, the workshop is a one-of-a-kind event bringing together scientists from Har- ETE WEIGL BEARS THE BATTLE vard and other top schools and Wake PSCARS of a life as an ecologist in Forest graduate and undergraduate some of the planet’s most rugged and students for three days of science pre- inhospitable places. The Amazon, the sentations and merriment, including Andes, the Galapagos Islands, Africa, dancing, gourmet cooking, and a Borneo, the mountains of Poland… marathon poker tournament with an you name it, he’s explored it. Tucked idiosyncratic consolation prize for the in the corner of his office are a copy loser. Above all, it is a fertile venue for of Vermeer’s The Girl with a Pearl networking, with a number of the stu- Earring and a medieval Crusader’s dent participants winding up as post- helmet that one might surmise had graduate research assistants in the labs been scavaged on some swashbuckling Somehow, this sort of soldier- of senior scientists they had met at adventures. On his journey, he’s been of-fortune existence seems slightly Fancy Gap. bitten, lacerated, stomped, and scraped incongruous for a man with his Networking and mentoring—in and has logged enough hard hikes and scholastic pedigree and eclectic a broader sense, people—is Kuhn’s falls to warrant the knee replacement tastes and talents.Williams Col- greatest talent and passion. Blessed procedure he underwent recently. lege, then on to Duke for his

DECEMBER 2007 23 doctorate; a rich and resonant bass “My adviser was not thrilled, but I Not surprisingly, Weigl is a passion- voice with a solid command of the liked the atmosphere at Wake Forest,” he ate and politically active conservationist. classical choral repertory; keeper of a recalls. “There was a quality to it, a Among the ecologically sensitive areas thirty-eight-acre wooded lot and fruit- friendly place where communication was he has helped preserve are the long- and-nut orchard; an insatiable reader easy. It was during that era under Wilson leaf pine forests of the coastal plains of and self-described “book addict” who and Mullen when the quality of the rela- eastern North Carolina. Currently he is finished most of the requirements for tionships among faculty and students active in helping conserve the famous an English major as an undergraduate came to the fore. I enjoyed teaching, “grassy balds” hills of the Southern …Indiana Jones, or perhaps Richard and I could do all the research I wanted.” Appalachians, endangered due to land Burton, the Victorian-period explorer Over the years, Weigl has taken un- use changes in the mountains. Weigl and Renaissance man, might occur to told numbers of students on field trips has been as effective in the cause of the imaginative mind as comparisons. to farflung parts of the globe. And not conservation as he has largely because Weigl, of course, would have none just biology students: some of his fond- of the time and patience he has invested of that nonsense. As direct and down-to- est recollections are of trips with travel in developing long-term relationships earth as he can be, he’ll tell you he’s just study groups—non-experts who com- with those in a position to decide the a regular guy whose most cherished bine sightseeing with a deeper study fate of threatened areas of the localities memories are not of exotic escapades, of political, cultural, and other topics in question. but of his colleagues and students. on their travels to exotic localities. One Over the course of his career, Weigl Weigl’s coming to Wake Forest, like of his most memorable journeys was has received four of Wake Forest’s five those of all of his contemporaries, was to South America and the Galapagos major faculty awards: the Reid-Doyle Prize (1972) and Jon Reinhardt Award (2003), both for excellence in teach- ing; the Award for Excellence in Advising (1992); and the Donald O. Schoonmaker Faculty Award for Community Service (1999). The one category in which he has not won is for excellence in research, which is why he was gratified to receive the Joseph Grinnell Award for excellence in training student researchers at this summer’s meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists. Weigl is teaching half-time under a phased retirement he began this fall, but that doesn’t mean he’s out to pas- ture. “If I retired, I could write for five Peter D. Weigl: a world explorer with a down-home devotion to students. years without gathering any more serendipitous. He was all lined up for Islands with a group of Master of Arts in data,” he reports. But he has an option a post-doctoral position in Australia in Liberal Studies students who observed to extend the phased arrangement, and 1968 when his funding suddenly fell first-hand the flora and fauna that at sixty-seven, he’ll take his sweet time through. Without a job, he accepted famed nineteenth-century naturalists to decide if and when he’ll hang up his an offer from Wake Forest (which Charles Darwin and Alexander Hum- hiking boots for good. “If I’d have to liked his diversified expertise in phys- boldt had recorded in their journals. choose one aspect of my iology, animal behavior, vertebrate In his leisure time, Weigl and his wife, career as my ecology, and environmental biology) Ann, have accompanied travel study legacy,” he says, and joined Kuhn as newcomers to the groups others have led to Turkey, Nor- “it would be the students. It is biology faculty that fall. way, and Central Europe. really why I’m in no hurry.”

24 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE RONALD V. D IMOCK JR.: No landlubber he

O WHAT’S A MARINE BIOLOGIST SDOING IN the North Carolina Piedmont, anyway? Good question. Ron Dimock wondered about that him- self back in 1970, when he accepted Wake Forest’s offer. A native Bostonian who earned his master’s degree at Florida State and his doctorate at the University of California-Santa Barbara, Dimock had always been within figu- rative shouting distance of salty water. But after thirty-seven years, he’s grown fond of rolling countryside and hasn’t let his landlocked status prevent him Ronald V. Dimock Jr.: sending in the marine. from pursuing all things aquatic. “When I was at Florida State, we Because of his location, Dimock field trips naturally were played Wake Forest in football,” recalls shifted the focus of his research to part of their experience. the Thurman D. Kitchin Professor of freshwater mussels while retaining They spent four days at a Biology. “I’d never heard of the school, saltwater field trips as an integral part of marine lab in Wales, visited but it kind of stuck in my mind. Then, his teaching. He has taught for twenty London’s world-famous as I was completing my doctorate at years at Duke’s marine lab in Beaufort Natural History Museum, Santa Barbara, my advisor compiled a and has taken groups of students on went to Oxford University job-placement letter for three of us who extensive field trips to the Atlantic for a presentation on scien- were finishing up and asked each of us coast, the Galapagos Islands, and the tific publication, and traveled to list any institutions to which he Baja California peninsula, where they to Cambridge University for a should send it. I put down Wake Forest camped out for a month. “The quality behind-the-scenes tour that only because of that football game. of our students has been, and contin- included viewing many of “A while later, I was interviewing in ues to be, outstanding,” he says. Darwin’s original specimens Maryland and my wife called to tell me Dimock also is proud of the many from the Galapagos Islands. As Wake Forest wanted me to come to graduate students he has mentored over a bit of delightful serendipity, Winston-Salem to check out the biology the years. His current doctoral student the Dimocks’ daughter and department,” he continues. “I told her is doing promising research on the use family lived a five-minute walk to tell them I wasn’t interested, but [then- of freshwater mussels as biomarkers from the Worrell House this fall department chair] Ralph Amen persisted for stress from contaminants and global while her husband was on tem- and said they wanted to fly me down. warming. Seven or eight of his students porary professional assignment. I said okay— and liked it. Esch and are on college or university faculties, Dimock’s hobbies include Kuhn were instrumental in my decision. and it was them, along with others, (surprise!) scuba diving, wood- I was impressed with how the two of who nominated him for the Meritorious working, reading, traveling to them combined and balanced their teach- Teaching Award he received from the a place he and Joyce own on ing and research. Still, there was some Association of Southeastern Biologists Emerald Isle, and seven grand- cultural transition at first, and I thought a couple of years ago. children. Retirement? “The word I would stay for only two or three years. Dimock spent this fall as housemas- has come up,” admits Dimock, But we really grew to love it here. My ter at the Worrell House in London. at sixty-four a relative youngster wife [Joyce] would work for the Most of the fifteen students in residence among the quartet. “Maybe in Chamber of Commerce if she could.” at the house were biology majors, and three or four years.”

DECEMBER 2007 25

…and Four in Formation Profiling a quartet of rising stars in the Wake Forest College faculty fermament.

By David Fyten

26 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Since the turn of the millenium, the tenured or tenure-track undergraduate faculty at Wake Forest (not counting the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy) has grown by 10.3 percent—from 261 to 288 positions. The expansion has brought a remarkable infusion of gifted young teacher- scholars as both occupants of new positions and replacements for retirees. Here are profiles of four whose careers display exceptional promise.

DECEMBER 2007 27 Lynn Neal: romance for women trying to get closer to God.

[evangelical] churches are restricted to men, they constitute a form of women’s ministry in a cloaked and covert way. They’re fun to read, yet they stay with- in the bounds of the evangelical faith by upholding conservative sexual and gender values, for example. The women who read these books are trying to get closer to God, and by depicting an image of a nurturing and forgiving God more than one of judgment and wrath —the titles suggest a God who is romancing humanity—they help their readers recover their feelings of faith.” According to Neal, first-generation religious romance novels dealt only with religious experiences, dramatizing 2003 to 2005 and returned as a tenure- the conversion of one or both members LYNN N EAL: track faculty member last fall after a of a couple, for example. “Now, they’ve Romance for the religious year at Appalachian State. opened up, portraying the full range of Besides her current research on reli- challenges in a marriage today—even T’S FUNNY HOW EASILY STEREO- gious intolerance, her primary scholarly infidelity,” she notes. “If one thinks of ITYPES CAN BE CONFOUNDED. interest is the interface between Chris- evangelicalism as permeating life, then Would we expect, for example, women tianity and gender and popular culture everything—the anger felt toward an who are evangelical Christians to read issues. For her doctoral dissertation, unfaithful husband, for instance—is a romance novels? Heavens no! And yet, she examined religious romance novels, spiritual problem, and the true nature they do—avidly. interviewing twenty authors and fifty of forgiveness is explored in that light. But these novels are not your garden- readers. UNC Press has published it In these novels, the tensions within a variety swashbuckling bodice-rippers. as a book titled Romancing God: Evan- marriage are always religious in nature. No steamy passion or sex—certainly gelical Women and Inspirational Fiction. And the message they impart is, the none outside marriage—here. Infused “I wanted to pursue a study that closer the couple gets to God, the closer with biblical tenets, they dramatize the questioned the stereotypes of evangeli- they get to each other.” challenges of Christian relationships calism,” says Neal, who characterizes Neal is co-authoring, with John in a secular world and serve as inspira- the movement by its emphasis on the Corrigan of Florida State University, a tion that helps their readers maintain authority of the Bible, a personal con- history of religious intolerance in the their faith in a profane culture. version experience, and witnessing United States, concentrating her efforts The little-known but vital literary that experience to others. “It’s a study on the twentieth century. “It’s a tough subgenre of religious romance novels of women in evangelicalism—of how topic to teach because our national is a research focus of Assistant Profes- one sustains her faith on a daily basis ideology of religious freedom and tol- sor of Religion Lynn Neal. in the face of doubt and the distrac- erance is so ingrained in us,” she says. Neal, who holds a master’s degree in tions posed by popular culture. “Intolerance is just not part of our theological studies from Duke Divinity “The novels are effective for these framework, but it is a vital part of our School and a doctorate in American women on a spiritual level,” she history.” She currently is at work on a religious history from UNC-Chapel explains. “They’re for, by, and about chapter on anti-semitism, which she Hill, served as a visiting professor from women, and insofar as the pulpits of says was at its worst in the last century,

28 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE and will dedicate another chapter to Before joining the Wake Forest fac- The opening shot is of three teens the Branch Davidian massacre at Waco, ulty in 2003, Helme was a scientist poised to bungee-jump from a bridge. Texas, with the view that it cloaked for a cancer research center in Denver, The first two do wild and thrilling religious intolerance in the mantle of Colorado, where he sought to deter- jumps, but the third hits the gorge bot- policing the secular transgressions of mine which features of public service tom and explodes. Then comes the real David Koresh and his followers. announcements (PSAs) are most effec- message: only one product actually tive at discouraging teens from using kills one-third of its users—tobacco. tobacco and marijuana. Follow-up studies conducted by “We’re all hard-wired for needing Helme showed the PSAs to be quite D ONALD H ELME AND certain amounts of excitement, and effective in changing attitudes toward S TEVEN G ILES: ‘Sensationalism’ in communication

ONALD HELME AND STEVEN DGILES have more in common than having earned their doctoral degrees at the University of Kentucky and their current posts as assistant professors in the Wake Forest Depart- ment of Communication. Both also hold joint appointments in the Depart- ment of Social Sciences and Health Policy at the School of Medicine and have collaborated on grant proposals and research manuscripts. And they both specialize in communication as a health intervention tool for adoles- cents and young adults. To be sure, they have their differ- ences. Helme concentrates primarily on adolescent smoking while Giles Steven Giles (left) and Donald Helme: communication for high-sensation seekers. focuses mainly on disordered eating and problem drinking among college high sensation seekers, who are most at and usage of tobacco among Colorado students. Helme specializes in design- risk for engaging in [perilous] behaviors teenagers. “An extra bonus was that ing and evaluating media messages like drug abuse and unsafe sex, need a low sensation-seekers also liked the that can attract and hold the attention lot of excitement to keep from getting PSAs,” Helme says. “We got double of at-risk adolescents while Giles spe- bored,” Helme says. “This strongly bang for the buck with our [spots].” cializes in identifying how peer norms suggests the kinds of PSAs that might While the rate of smoking adoption and networks can influence college stu- be effective in persuading high sensa- is falling among the high school student dents to make poor behavioral choices. tion-seekers to assume healthier atti- population, it is on the rise among col- But essentially, they are more alike tudes and behaviors. The PSAs need to lege students—a trend Helme attrib- than different. Both embrace a com- be stimulating, fast-paced, and packed utes to a shift in marketing strategy by mon purpose: to parlay their knowl- with action, but also contain a strong the tobacco companies. “Unable to edge into strategies to deter at-risk story line.” lawfully direct its advertising to teens adolescents and young adults from One particularly effective Truth and pre-teens, the [tobacco] industry engaging in risky and self-destructive Campaign PSA that Helme tested was now tries to grab them when they reach behaviors. for a fictitious beverage called Splode. eighteen with giveaways and other

DECEMBER 2007 29 promotions,” says Helme, whose other “That really put it on the map for disordered eating behavior. We even research interests include strategies me,” he goes on. “It opened the flood- hear stories about mothers engaging for developing and supporting anti- gates. One student came into my office in weight loss competitions with their tobacco coalitions for the benefit of and told me it was a serious problem daughters to see who can wear the native American and minority popu- for his girlfriend. In their minds, eating smallest clothing size.” lations as well as physician-patient disorders were a universal expectation Giles also has collaborated with communication as it relates to patient —part of being a popular and success- scientists in the Department of Social satisfaction and compliance by diabet- ful college student.” Sciences and Health Policy at the ics and other chronic disease sufferers While only 1 to 5 percent of college School of Medicine to study the rela- with prescribed treatment regimens. students report having been diagnosed tionship between eating and alcohol “We need to develop campaigns that with an eating disorder such as anorex- consumption. “We found that 32 per- are targeted specifically at the college- ia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, studies cent of college women reported restrict- age population. The challenge is that indicate that anywhere from 20 percent ing calories on days they planned to college students consume different to 80 percent of all college students drink, and that 24 percent of these types and amounts of media than do engage in some form of disordered eat- women did so because of weight con- teens and pre-teens, making it more ing, such as vomiting, the use of laxa- cerns,” Giles notes. “Restricting calo- challenging to reach them with health- tives or diet pills, self-starvation, or ries on days they planned to drink was related messages. But until we develop obligatory exercise. Women who fit a significantly associated with binge some special strategy, we’ll need to certain profile—white; middle to upper drinking and getting drunk. Clearly, continue using television.” class; highly competitive and perfec- many of the ways that college students Giles, who was an adjunct instruc- tionistic—have traditionally been seen compensate for potential weight gain tor in the communication department as the highest-risk group, but recent can have terrible consequences.” for four years prior to joining the fac- research indicates that eating disorders Giles thinks that many of the ulty full-time in fall 2002, previously are on the rise among African Ameri- underlying causes of disordered eating was a research associate at Tanglewood cans, Latinas, and even white males. are also related to other problem Research Inc., a Greensboro-based From data he gathered from first- behaviors such as smoking, drinking, company that was launched by Dr. year and upperclass students through or unsafe sex. He has co-authored a William Hansen, formerly of the Div- surveys, focus groups, and other instru- paper with Helme and another depart- ision of Public Health Sciences at the ments, Giles gleaned some insights mental colleague, Marina Krcmar, School of Medicine. There, he obtained into the social norms and environmen- which examines this issue in depth. grant funding from the National Insti- tal factors behind the behavior. “Social “In my opinion, at the root of it all is tutes of Health (NIH) to create educa- norms included one’s perception of heart rot,” Giles says. “These students tional drug abuse prevention materials its prevalence and acceptability and are trying to fill the hole inside with and to develop a continuing education the extent to which one’s peers think whatever they think will give them teacher-training course. thinness is important,” he notes. value among their peers.” In the past three years, Giles has “Among the environmental factors turned his attention to another subject: were body-esteem, media influences, the social and environmental factors and parental attitudes. influencing college students’ eating “Mixed messages are a challenge,” D AVID YAMANE: habits. he continues. “Sororities will serve A scholar with “I asked one of my classes in the cookies and pizza at social functions Catholic interests spring of 2004 what the number one but communicate to their members health problem on college campuses that thinness is important for the S A RESEARCHER, DAVID was,” Giles recalls. “I thought they image of the chapter and the campus AYAMANE FOCUSES on what’s would say drinking, or drinking and as a whole. Parents’ comments and right in front of him. Take Catholicism, driving, but the top response was eat- attitudes about weight also can have for example. He is a convert to the ing disorders. Another class confirmed a negative influence on a child’s body faith, and he spent five years on the that perception. esteem and is often a precursor to faculty of Notre Dame, so it stands

30 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE to reason that the Roman Catholic education, abortion, capital punish- vocations. “American culture is not Church would command a portion ment, immigration, and other issues. welcoming of celibacy and the banning of his professional attention. Brought up in what he calls the of women priests,” he states. “Also, as But as they would be for any good “religiously indifferent” culture of women’s societal status has risen over scholar, personal connections alone are suburban northern California, Yamane the past half-century, the number of not sufficient justification for his inter- converted to Roman Catholicism nuns has dropped precipitously. By est in the subject. Fascinated by the when he was a graduate student at the contrast, vocations to the priesthood relation between religion and other University of Wisconsin. Like many in Asia and Africa are booming and domains of society, Yamane connects contemporary converts, he was intro- helping to fill the shortage of priests trends such as the Church’s declining duced to the faith by his wife-to-be. in the U.S. The priesthood’s economic conversion rates and numbers of “Most people convert because of and social status can make it an attrac- priests and nuns in the United States well-established network connections tive option in the developing world. to changing social norms on marriage, or for other mundane reasons, such It will be interesting to see whether sex, and the roles and status of women as a marriage or the birth of a child,” vocations in Asia and Africa decline in this country. he points out. Although, as he notes, as well once the standards of living Yamane, an assistant professor of over 150,000 Americans converted to on those continents rise.” sociology who also is a faculty associ- Catholicism last year, the long-term Yamane believes the Church even- ate in the religion department and trend is downward. “The traditional tually will be forced to change its cen- teaches the sociology of religion in reason why most non-Catholics con- turies-old dictates against married and the Divinity School, is a specialist in verted—it was their spouse’s religion, women priests. “Catholicism has to the interface between organized reli- and unanimity was thought to be choose if it will continue to require gion and secular institutions and cul- important for child-rearing—is much these non-essential characteristics of ture. Among his topics of research is less important now, with more options priests, which threaten the viability of the lobbying of state legislatures by and fewer sanctions for religiously the priesthood and the Church, or if it conferences of Catholic bishops on mixed marriages.” will come into line with contemporary Contemporary norms to save what is essential about America is experienc- the Church: the sacraments,” he says. ing a rise in “seeker “The shortage of priests is bad enough spirituality,” but few that it could bring about incremental of these seekers opt for change—first, welcoming back former Catholicism. Part of priests who are now married; then, the reason, as Yamane permitting married laymen to enter observes, is that Cath- the seminary; and, finally, allowing olic doctrine is self- ordained priests to get married. I don’t consciously out of expect it all to happen in my lifetime, step with present-day but I think it will come.” culture. Nowhere is Yamane, who with his wife, Megan this more evident than Polzer, has three children ages 12 and in the Church’s teach- under, is anticipating his next research ing on sexuality and subject. “My projects always emerge the role of women, from my personal experiences,” he which is related to says. “Certainly, for my work on the the drastic decline in Church, it was fortuitous that I was at Catholic religious Notre Dame. Now that I am at Wake Forest, I wonder what will strike me David Yamane: as interesting locally. The rise of the Catholicism in crisis Catholic South, perhaps?” and facing choices.

DECEMBER 2007 31

Pursuing Their Passions

Wake Forest’s Fifth-Year Institute provides postgraduate support to budding entrepreneurs.

HEN WAKE FOREST the James S. Kemper Foundation. The first student in the program, RECEIVED a $2.16 million Students selected for the highly com- biology major Sarah Yocum (’05), is Wmatching grant from the petitive program receive a stipend now CEO of Aqualutions Inc., a start- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to help cover their living expenses up company that emerged from research in late 2003 to develop programs to and seed money to develop their conducted with biology professor Ray promote entrepreneurship in the lib- business. They can also take up to Kuhn. Aqualutions, which recently eral arts, it was hailed as the boldest three classes for two semesters free of received a grant from the North Carolina new initiative at the University in years. charge; most take entrepreneurship, BioTech Center, is developing products One of the most innovative goals was business, or marketing courses in for disease detection in commercial to create a “Fifth-Year Institute” to the Calloway School of Business and fish-farm populations. provide support to a select group of Accountancy and the Babcock Gradu- Last year’s recipients, theatre students for a year after they gradu- ate School of Management. And per- majors Matt Gutschick (’06) and ated so they could continue to develop haps most importantly, the students Ben Whiting (’06), used their fifth their entrepreneurial ventures. have access to a network of faculty year to develop MagicMouth Produc- Four years later, the Fifth-Year and alumni mentors and staff in the tions, a nonprofit, educational theatre Institute is thriving. In May, the pro- Office of Entrepreneurship and Lib- company. Gutschick is now education gram received a $22,000 grant from eral Arts (OELA). director for The Little Theatre of

32 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE to budding entrepreneurs. Stories by Kerry M. King (’85) Photographs by Ken Bennett

Winston-Salem. Whiting is an actor Institute isn’t only for students devel- The Fifth-Year Fellows are not the and magician in Chicago. They are oping a for-profit business; Pyle has only students starting new ventures. currently developing their second formed a nonprofit organization to Five sophomores have started their show, a comedy titled “Rubber Doves,” provide character-education programs own nonprofit educational company which they hope to premiere in Chi- to elementary schools. to teach children about science, based cago next year. “For students who are developing on ideas they developed in a freshmen The three students selected for ventures with high potential, it is a seminar class (see page 6). the program this year—Martha real benefit to be able to stay at Wake Senior Ali Carroll, who has received Napier, John Pyle, and Laura Bullins— Forest for an additional year,” says a New Venture Seed Grant from the frequently use the word “passion” Betsy Gatewood, director of the OELA. OELA, is partnering with women in when describing their entrepreneurial “They may not have taken an account- a Kenyan village to make jewelry ventures. Napier is creating a line of ing course or a marketing course, so which she sells in the United States; hand-dyed, custom-embellished it’s a chance to build some crucial she’s now the proud owner of a piece women’s knit tops. Bullins is trying to functional skills. And it’s also a chance of land in Kenya and has ambitions carve out her niche by offering high- to have faculty and alumni advisers of building a factory there to provide quality, hand-painted yarn for knitting provide feedback on their venture steady employment to villagers (see and crocheting. And the Fifth-Year ideas or business or marketing plans.” page 40).

DECEMBER 2007 33 Martha Napier: Justees: for Justice

NTREPRENEURS HAVE TO from friends, so she decided to make TAKE CHANCES, and Martha more of them to sell to raise money ENapier (’07) took a big one last for her trip. Selling the tops wasn’t a fall. She wasn’t really an entrepreneur problem, but making them was an then; she was just a college senior who arduous process: first she had to take needed some money to pay for a serv- apart a couple of extra-large men’s ice trip to Vietnam. A budding fashion white tee shirts, then dye the fabric a designer, she had just finished a sum- solid or tie-dyed color, then stitch the mer program in fashion design at the fabric back together to create a femi- prestigious Parsons School of Design nine top, and finally add the finishing in New York City and was eager to put touches such as lace or silk trim, but- to work what she had learned there. tons, and straps. Some sample tops she had made at That chance she took? She really Parsons were drawing rave reviews didn’t know how to sew. With her

34 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE rudimentary skills, it was taking her This fall, operating out of the din- is the slogan on her Web site. She about a day-and-a-half to make each ing room of her Winston-Salem apart- chose to support the Be Bright Pink shirt. So she did what any good entre- ment—which doubles as her office/ Foundation (www.bebrightpink.com), preneur would do: she realized her studio/production area—she worked an organization that focuses on young limitations and hired a seamstress to on the logistical issues of ramping breast-cancer survivors, for personal fill the fifty orders she had received. up production. She hired someone reasons—her mother is a breast- “That’s part of being an entrepreneur, locally to do the time-consuming cancer survivor—and for business figuring things out,” she says. work of making the shirts, resisting ones—her target market is young A year later, she’s figured out a lot, suggestions, so far, to take the pro- women. “I’ve come to realize that and through the coursework, funding, duction overseas. She’s still buying breast cancer is not just my mom’s and mentoring offered through the her raw material—the tee shirts— or her generation’s cause; it’s going Fifth-Year Institute, she’s turned her from Wal-Mart and the Hanes’ to affect me, my friends, women my passion into a business, Justees: for outlet in Winston- age,” Napier says. “I can feel ethi- Justice. “It turned out to be an alterna- Salem and knows cally good about building the busi- tive way of getting to my end goal of she needs to find ness, and the customer being a designer,” she says. “I’ve been a better supply can feel good about put into a position where I haven’t chain, but purchasing an item.” even gone to design school, and I’m cash flow is The mentoring already in a position to build my own a problem. she’s received from her clothing line.” Initially, professors and others Her initial foray into the business she’s selling has been invaluable in world was supposed to be a one-time her tops through her Web starting her business, she venture. She planned on returning to site (www.justeesforjustice.com) says. “I really debated about Parsons this fall for the one-year asso- and through friends at Wake Forest. whether to do the Fifth-Year Institute ciate’s degree program in design, but Customers can order from about a or go to Parsons. Looking back, I deferred her admission until next year dozen different styles and colors of couldn’t have made a better decision. when she was accepted into the Fifth- tops in her “ready-to-wear” line or One of my main reasons for picking Year Institute. After graduating from order custom-made tops. Next, she’d the fifth-year (program) wasn’t neces- Wake Forest last May, she moved back like to land space in a few boutiques sarily the classes or the grant to build home to Hinsdale, Illinois, for the in Winston-Salem and line up what she the business; it was having access to summer and used a grant from the calls “ambassadors” at other universi- mentors. I love hearing stories about Kauffman Foundation to take sewing ties in the state to promote her tops. other people’s successes and mistakes. lessons and develop her business plan. She plans to form an advisory board If I can learn from someone else’s mis- “When you’re in college, you think to help guide her business, and even- take before making it, obviously that’s you have to follow a certain path to tually, if all goes well, she’d like to the best thing that can happen.” be successful,” says Napier, who had hire someone to handle the originally considered attending Parsons business end of the opera- or the Fashion Institute of Technology tion, so she can concentrate before choosing Wake Forest after on what inspired her to start receiving a Presidential Scholarship the venture in the first place: in art for her talent in painting. (She designing clothes. majored in studio art, with minors in Since all this began as art history and journalism.) “At the a way to raise money for a end of my senior year, I realized that service project, she decided there might be a different way to get to to give away 10 percent my goal of becoming a fashion designer. of her profits to a charity: I had to learn to be more open-minded “making just tees the just to see other opportunities.” way for a more just filled world,”

DECEMBER 2007 35 John Pyle: Character Resources Foundation

OHN PYLE (’07) WAS ALREADY Since graduating last May, his entre- raise kids with values, who put other A SEASONED ENTREPRENEUR BY preneurial streak has taken him in a people above themselves, to exhibit the Jthe time he graduated from Wake totally different direction. He’s formed same things we do at Wake Forest.” Forest. In high school, he started a nonprofit organization, the Character One of the resources he provides to his own lumber business selling fire- Resources Foundation, dedicated to schools is a booklet he wrote, “Being wood in Rhode Island, where he then promoting character development in My Best: What the Animal World Can lived. He did well enough to hire another young children. “Too many children Teach Me,” which uses animals to person to help out with the business. don’t receive positive encouragement teach young children character traits Later, when his family moved to Mis- today,” explains Pyle, who credits such as courage, kindness, diligence, souri while he was in college, there his mother, a high-school special- and humility. The Golden Retriever, wasn’t much of a market for firewood, so education teacher, as his inspiration. for example, shows loyalty, and chil- he started a deck-maintenance business, “Our goal is to provide schools with dren can be loyal too, he writes, by cleaning and staining decks. He did those resources they need for their being obedient to adults and being well enough at that to hire two people. character-development programs to loyal to their friends “even if they are

36 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE not as popular or cool as other kids.” work following a semester in Costa and he took several business and The mongoose shows courage, a good Rica, where he lived with a local family. entrepreneurial classes in the Babcock lesson for children to realize that they During his time there, and in visits to and Calloway schools. For one class, have “the strength to overcome (their) Nicaragua and Panama, he saw the he wrote a case study on the success fears and worries.” crushing poverty in the region as he of one of his predecessors in the Fifth- So far he’s donated about six volunteered in schools and with Habi- Year Institute, Sarah Yocum (’05). hundred booklets to two elementary tat for Humanity. “I saw kids who Pyle’s short-term strategy is clear— schools in his hometown in didn’t have a lot, who were to attract sponsors so he can provide Missouri, with the help of a so thankful for the his program to additional schools — couple of small businesses attention they got. but he’s not sure what the future holds. that funded the cost. He You could bright- “I haven’t thought too far ahead. In hopes to donate about en their day, their startups, you often can’t plan ahead. 5,000 booklets to lives, just by You hit walls and redirect your path. schools in Winston- showing You’re never going to have a direct Salem this year. a little concern. shot. It changes so much. No matter Schools can use the That was a matur- what happens, we’ve still done a lot booklets however they ing experience. It want, whether in a class- really opened my eyes room discussion or simply send- to the things that do last, ing them home with the students. the effect you can have on other peo- Eventually, he would like to provide ple’s lives.” speakers, inspirational posters, and He majored in communication with other resources. “My long-term goal— a minor in entrepreneurship and social in five to ten years—is to be a consis- enterprise, and he had three job offers tent resource for schools to get their — in broadcasting and consulting and character-development materials, for as a financial adviser—his senior year. schools that don’t have the budget to “I had these offers, but I just wasn’t purchase books and supplies.” enthusiastic,” he says. “I was coming On his Web site (www.character- back from Charlotte (from a job of good,” says Pyle, who yes, is a traits.org), he has posted words of interview), kind of dejected, positive, upbeat sort. “This year encouragement that would appeal to wondering if I was ever going we’ll provide 5,000 kids with books adults as well as children, on “making to find something that I’m that they can take home.” your life count” and “keeping your passionate about. I’m passionate hope alive.” Pyle, himself, seems to about helping people improve have gotten where he is today by tak- their lives. So I thought, why not ing these messages to heart. A native try something different instead of Georgia, he came to Wake Forest of going the traditional route.” on an ROTC Scholarship and had He started his foundation intended to become a career army and registered it last March officer. But after a medical condition as a nonprofit organization in caught up with him (he’s deaf in his Missouri. He was accepted left ear, the result of a bout with menin- into the Fifth-Year Institute gitis when he was one), his aspirations shortly after that, and he to join the military ended, and he had wrote his booklet over the to find a new dream. summer. This fall, he worked on He felt a nudge toward nonprofit getting his program into local schools,

DECEMBER 2007 37 Laura Bullins: The Unique Sheep

HO KNEW THAT HIGH- END YARN was such a hot Wproduct? Laura Bullins (’07) did, and she’s carving out a niche as a provider of high quality, hand-painted yarn with help from the Fifth-Year Institute. “It’s a funny thing to get into because of some of the miscon- ceptions that people have about knit- ting and fiber arts,” she admits. “But people are willing to spend big bucks on special yarn. If you think about how long it takes to knit something, it makes sense to make it out of some- thing nice.” Bullins, whose family lives in Winston-Salem, is operating her busi- ness, The Unique Sheep, out of the basement of her parents’ home. (Her father, Spencer, is a 1973 graduate of Wake Forest.) Ever since her mother, Jan, taught her to sew when she was young, she’s been into what she calls “fiber arts”— sewing, weaving, knit- ting, and crocheting. She attended Wake Forest on a Presidential Schol- arship in theatre/costume design and originally considered a career in the fashion industry. But a summer spent working at a bridal boutique changed her mind and sent her in a different direction where she could combine her love of fiber arts with her interest in art and design. Working at a yarn shop in Winston- Salem called Knit Picky, she knew that the industry was undergoing a revolution of sorts following a boom

38 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE in interest in knitting and then the Bullins buys large inevitable bust. But she saw the down- quantities of un- turn as an opportunity. “A lot of the dyed yarn, dyes it people who learned how to knit dur- by hand, and pack- ing this big boom continued to knit, ages it into skeins but they transferred their focus from for sale. She has the basics to the more advanced tech- about fifteen differ- niques,” she explains. “And they ent color-combina- switched from using novelty yarns tions of yarns avail- to using animal fabrics and higher able, but will also make custom-dyed wasn’t out there. What’s vitally quality yarns. The focus switched from yarn. She gets ideas for her colors important to a shop of that nature the craft stores that carry the cheaper (we’re not talking solid blues and is customer service and forming yarns in bulk to the chic yarn shops reds here) from photographs submit- relationships with your customers.” that carry more expensive, higher- ted by customers. A photograph of An anthropology major with quality yarn. Along with this has been an autumn day in New York’s Central minors in theatre and women’s and a greater focus on hand-dyed yarns Park, for instance, was the inspiration gender studies, Bullins heard about and the independent artist, which is for “Autumn in the City,” a yarn dyed the Fifth-Year Institute right after where I come in.” in strands of reds, greens, oranges, starting The Unique Sheep and and yellows. A photograph of a sunrise right before graduation, so the over Washington’s Mt. Rainier inspired timing was perfect. This fall, she’s “Daybreak,” with yellows, purples, taken several classes in the Babcock and pinks. and Calloway schools, and she Soliciting the photographs started plans on taking some accounting as a way to get inspiration for her col- and marketing classes in the spring. ors, but it’s also become a clever mar- Working with faculty mentors has keting tactic. “I think it’s a good busi- given her a firmer foundation for ness strategy,” Bullins says. “Not only her business, she says, by forcing She started The Unique Sheep last do I get these great photos from all her to think more intentionally spring and sells her specialty yarns over the place, the people who send about business plans and finances. over the Internet (www.theunique- their photos that are turned into yarn Seed money through the program sheep.com) and to shops such as have a real connection has helped with marketing costs. Knit Picky and a few others. with the shop. It “I’m beginning to feel pretty She also sells un-dyed yarn, becomes their confident that I can make enough knitting and sewing acces- color, so they’re to live off of, a modest income” she sories, and patterns for more likely says. But The Unique Sheep proba- several items. (She to go bly won’t be her last venture. She displays a few out and has a passion for small businesses sample products promote and can see herself as a consultant made from her yarn the shop.” to small-business owners—or the on her Web site, but Bullins is owner of another small business doesn’t plan on offering intense about cus- herself. “I’m a serial entrepreneur. finished pieces for sale tomer service, one of the I think within the next year I’ll start because of the time involved in many things she learned in what something else.” making them.) “It was slow at first,” you could call her apprenticeship at she admits. “When you start a new Knit Picky. “I learned a lot there about business like this without any reputa- the fiber and yarn industry, the trends tion, it takes time. I’m getting my in the industry, what people were name out there more and more.” looking for, what was out there, what

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E extremely difficult. The night sky is brilliant with stars gleaming from one horizon to the other because there is no electricity for miles around. The footpaths are traveled daily by barefoot men, women, and children, looking for food, water, or for some type of paid labor. The seclusion of the villages makes emer- gency medical care very difficult, and women die in childbirth daily without proper medical care. Last summer, I was awarded one of Wake Forest’s Pro Humanitate scholarships to teach English to a women’s cooperative in the town of Moshi, Tanzania. Moshi is a small town at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro. On my early morning walk to work, I often looked up from my path through the wide, green cornfields to see Kili’s majestic peak rising out of the clouds. I taught a group of female tailors in a tiny classroom made of cement blocks, with crude openings for the window and door. All of the women I taught had been unable to finish school but wanted to learn English. They sat daily, side by side, on a handmade wooden bench, eager- eyed and ready to learn. The women ranged from the ages 17 to 45, and all were married with families. HE STRIKING BEAUTY OF The women invited me into their Beads of Hope TEASTERN AFRICA belies a homes and prepared traditional world of contrasts: skies bluer than Tanzanian cuisine: fried bananas, By Elizabeth Alig “Ali” Carroll (’08) any I’ve ever seen, unmarred by tele- chapattis, beans, and fresh fruit. They phone wires, cover a land of deep taught me traditional Swahili songs green fields interrupted only by red and dances, and they welcomed me dirt footpaths. Clusters of villages into their lives and culture. are dotted throughout the land with After my project ended in Tan- brightly colored storefronts and rich- zania, I joined a lifelong friend, ly cultivated gardens, and each vil- Eleanor Campbell, and together we lage carries a feeling of self-sufficient traveled to Kenya. We stayed with solitude. The very factors that create our dear friends, Susan Kaburu and

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her two daughters, Anne and Njeri, A in a farming village called Ndathi. S S

This was Eleanor’s first time in E Kenya. It was my second. The Kaburus are members of the Kikuyu tribe, and I met them nearly two years ago through a mutual friend. Susan is a true African woman: regal, hardworking, soft-spoken, and wise. She is a nurse-midwife who runs her own clinic, often working sixteen-hour days to serve 20,000 patients around the village of Ndathi. Their convivial yet cramped home is made of sheet metal and concrete blocks, and the living area is brightly decorated with pictures from magazines and calendar pages. Building bridges between women in two countries and providing jobs for Kenyan women. They have no running water and no access to electricity, so we drew I encountered several women who weeks with my family. I was dis- our water from a tank and cooked had given up their own beds, shoes, tressed by all the poverty. I saw its our meals over a propane stove. or food to provide for the children depth for the first time. While I was Much of their food was grown in in their household. They are driven, traveling cross-country in a Matatu, their gardens, and we often hoed determined, motivated, creative, and I struggled with my experiences in potatoes or carrots for our meals. hardworking. They are simply in Kenya. I’d been to the slums, I’d The Kaburus’ nightly routine con- need of opportunity and direction. been inside the mud huts, I’d spent sists of eating together, reading, Two of my Kenyan friends, Njeri time with the children who were singing, and, when the sun goes Kaburu, with whom I lived, and orphaned by AIDS. But why was I down and the natural light is gone, Esther Gathigia, a friend and neigh- there? Certainly not simply for the going to sleep. The nights were bor with an entrepreneurial spirit, thrill of experiencing things that pre- peaceful, as we were so far removed have started micro-lending groups viously had only existed to me as from any cities, but we were often shaped after Nobel prize-winner photos in a National Geographic. I awakened by the sound of elephants Muhammed Yunus’s model for the had to act, to do something to assist trampling through the gardens. Grameen Bank. I had the privilege these people, however marginal my During my time in the village, of seeing first-hand how the women efforts may be. I was struck by the able-bodied, in the community were beginning A few days later, we visited a willing women who have almost to reap benefits from the use of their bead factory in which single Kenyan no profit-generating opportunity. loans. Even still, I thought that more mothers were handcrafting ceramic The majority of Kikuyu women could be done in the way spend their time gathering firewood, of providing an employ- knitting goods to sell, or farming. ment opportunity. The women are vivacious, talented, C and inspiring. Many of them care Let me back up. In for orphaned relatives in addition the summer of 2006, I to their own immediate family. visited Kenya for three

A Dhow, or Tanzanian fishing-boat, coming home from a day at sea in Zanzibar. Y Children at the primary school A

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taken in over $1,000 in revenue. I decided to return the money to Kenya through African Leadership, an organization dedicated to training leaders across the continent and then supporting the projects that African leaders develop, allowing Africa to be strengthened from within. When I returned to Wake Forest in the fall, I began to take steps to learn more about business, and I was well-assisted by the entrepreneurship office. I was counseled by other more experienced entrepreneurs and received a New Venture Seed Grant. I developed a name for the jewelry, Adia, which means “valuable gift” in Swahili, and I began marketing the pieces to friends. Within the year, their popularity exploded. My jewelry was being worn throughout the campus, and the reception of the jewelry at Wake Forest made me beads. The vibrancy of their colors I believe that everyone realize: This jewelry could be mar- was unparalleled with any precious keted and sold in other places, too. stones I’d ever seen, and my artistic has the potential to be C eye was immediately attracted to Now, I must explain what hap- the beads. I began mentally arrang- a social entrepreneur, pened in Kenya this past summer. ing the beads into jewelry designs. whether an opportunity As I began to understand the hard- An idea came to me: I might be able ships the Kikuyu women face and to sell the jewelry to friends back presents itself across their need for employment, I began home, both spreading the word the Atlantic or simply thinking. What if I were to move about the people I had encountered the manufacturing of the beads and and raising money to help relieve down the street. the production of the jewelry to their poverty. With these hopes in central Kenya? I needed employees mind, I bought five hundred beads, my own earrings and necklaces, I to create the pieces of jewelry, and a sizeable investment for a penny- taught myself how to create different the Kikuyu women needed profit- pinching student, but I was con- pieces. It did not take long for the generating work. Through provid- vinced that these beads held hope beads’ popularity to grow within my ing the women with a dignified and promise. groups of friends. One person would employment opportunity, I could Back home in Nashville, Ten- buy a pair of earrings, others would help to improve their standard of nessee, I went to a craft store and admire them, and the orders began bought the tools necessary for mak- coming in more quickly than I could A Kenyan woman spins ing jewelry. After studying some of fill them. In less than a week, I had sheep’s wool into yarn.

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living, strengthen their households, A and allow them to earn the funds to S S

educate their children. E I wanted to train these women to craft the beads and assemble them into finished pieces, so I met with a women’s cooperative in the village. I showed them the beads I had been working with and some of the jewel- ry I had created. They were thrilled. They loved the idea of creating such bright and beautiful beads, and they certainly loved the idea of having steady employment. As I began playing with the idea, my friend Eleanor became my enthusiastic business partner. Together, we started brainstorming Ali Carroll, proud co-owner of Plot 97 in Mbiriri, Kenya. about what we would need in order to make this venture work. We had that fit exactly what we needed enabling them to appreciate, honor, the idea, we had willing laborers, immediately after we started looking. and reward the labor of Kenyan but, among many other resources, Because of the scarcity of running women, while also providing jobs for we needed land. We knew we would water and electricity in the central Kenyan women and working toward need flattened land that had access province, this land was rare and sustainable development in Ndathi, to electricity and piped water, as valuable, and, after much thought, Kenya. I must stress that I am not well as access to the main road in we bought it. enormously gifted; I was simply central Kenya. Miraculously, a I am now the co-owner of Plot 97, given an opportunity to create change. Kikuyu friend found a plot of land Mbiriri, Kenya. Though I have some I believe that everyone has the good resources to start potential to be a social entrepreneur, with, I have a great deal whether an opportunity presents to learn about starting itself across the Atlantic or simply a business. The entrepre- down the street. The jewelry pro- neurship office offers vides a bridge between cultures, practical courses that through which women of each cul- are designed for projects ture are able to give a considerable like mine, and I am gift to the women of the other. I am using that as a starting so blessed to share in the lives of block for building the both Kenyan and American women, business. I am currently and I have begun to see how one studying New Venture person’s willingness and creativity Planning, Financial can aid in bringing about change in Knowledge for Entre- the world. preneurs, and Sales. I am hoping to be a messenger, bringing fresh, uniquely-styled Elizabeth “Ali” Carroll, a senior from jewelry to women here Nashville, Tennessee, is majoring in in the United States, communication and studio art.

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A N I L A K H A O N TurningRicky F Vanunn Veen (right)y and Zach Klein

Into Money By Jane Bianchi (’05) W hen Zachary Klein (’04) was a little grammer,” says Van Veen, who majored in business boy, grown-ups sometimes asked with a concentration in information systems. him what he’d do if he had a million dollars. Enter Klein, a studio art major and photogra- His answer: He’d build a sophisticated tree house. pher for the Old Gold and Black, whom Van Veen And he and his business partner, Ricky Van Veen met through a friend. At the time, Klein was busy (’03), have done just that. running his own Web site called ReptileShack.com, It all started in 2000 when Van Veen created through which he sold exotic animals. But he did Using business savvy a Web site called CollegeHumor.com with a buddy some side projects for Van Veen and impressed him of his from the University of Richmond. They post- with his artistic abilities. and a sense of humor, ed funny photos, videos, and articles online, and “Zach can make anything look good,” says Ricky Van Veen (’03) then convinced friends at their respective schools Van Veen, who asked him to join the team as the to add content, promoting the site via Instant graphic designer, along with another student from and Zachary Klein (’04) Messenger and by placing ads above urinals in the Rochester Institute of Technology to be in transformed a Web site bathrooms (“viral marketing in its truest sense,” charge of site development. Hiring fellow students into a multimillion says Van Veen). Soon word spread to other col- and developing ideas at Wake Forest, says Van leges, advertisers took interest, and a business Veen, was one of the keys to their success. dollar company. was born. “College is the perfect place to start a busi- Van Veen handled the editing, and his partner ness,” says Van Veen. “If you fail miserably, you took care of the business negotiations. “But to run go back to being a kid with a meal plan.” Having a Web site, you also need a designer and a pro- no overhead allowed the boys to survive when the

44 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE bubble burst in the dotcom market. But another sold a majority stake to media mogul Barry Diller’s Wake Forest also taught them how to protect thing that helped: avoiding temptations that InterActiveCorp, which allowed them to move to a their pennies. “Professor Thomas Goho’s ‘million- seemed too good to be true. brand new 17,000- square-foot office in the coveted dollar lecture’ on how to invest was the most useful Six months after launching the site, they were Union Square area of Manhattan. When faced with thing I ever learned,” says Van Veen. offered $9 million to sell the business to a compa- multiple investment offers, choosing IAC was a no- Money management is yet another reason ny called eFront (which has since been plagued brainer. “Editorially, they let us do our own thing,” they’re living large—they only spent what they with scandal), but turned it down because it sound- says Klein. “But they help us make transactions could afford. “When we started, every expense was ed fishy. Van Veen still carries around that offer as because they have so much clout and access.” a group decision,” says Klein, who was once chided a reminder to keep things in perspective. But don’t think for a minute that these quick at dinner with his partners for ordering spring rolls After graduating, the foursome had to decide accomplishments have eclipsed what triggered all with his meal, breaking the team’s entrée-only rule. where to base their business. “The beauty of run- of this in the first place: the guys’ sense of humor. Now that they have some breathing room, the ning a Web site is that you can do it anywhere,” “Ricky is twenty-six going on twelve,” says Sarah guys do order appetizers now and then. They also says Van Veen. So they settled on San Diego. But Schneider (’05), a former member of the Lilting spend money on others. Klein recently purchased a after living next door to a house full of San Diego Banshees comedy troupe and a media planner for painting by author Dave Eggers as a fundraiser for State sorority sisters on a street just a few blocks CV. “One minute, he’s on the phone with an execu- his publishing house, McSweeney’s, and is consider- away from the beach, the guys found it difficult to tive, and the next, he’s sending a mass e-mail in ing buying apartment space for burgeoning artists concentrate. So in 2004 they moved to New York, which three quarters of the words are abbreviat- in his hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana, so they “a city that matched, if not exceeded, our ambi- ed.” Goofing around is nothing new for Van Veen, can work on projects without worrying about rent. tion,” says Klein. the class clown of his Timonium, Maryland, high Klein is never short on ideas. He has so many, When they landed in the center of the media school who was once sent to the principal’s office in fact, that he’s decided to leave the company as world, that’s when things took off. “In California, for dressing up like Where’s Waldo in a senior a partner, but remain tethered to it as a consultant. we had to explain ourselves a lot,” says Klein. “But photo (administrators alleged that his cane could “I’m content with my achievement at CV,” says in New York, when you say you work for a dotcom have been used as a weapon). Klein, “I just want that ‘startup’ feel again.” that has an audience of six million unique users a So it’s important to the guys that the company But it won’t be a tearless goodbye. “One of the month, people understand—and they pay attention.” culture remains playful. Since there is no dress unanticipated and stinging side-effects to building Soon they were written about in such well-respected code at the office, instead of a “casual Friday,” a stable business is that when you leave, it goes on publications as The New York Times and the New the guys enforce an occasional “formal Friday” for without you,” says Klein. Yorker magazine, and deals with major companies, fun. They also created the “Thursday Night Hang,” Luckily, Van Veen will still be there to steer the such as Penguin and Paramount, followed. where the staff gets together after work for an ever-growing CV ship, and he hasn’t lost sight of Before they knew it, the Web site spawned in-house happy hour to play ping-pong, listen to what initially attracted their audience. “When kids multiple offshoots. CollegeHumor.com was no music, and chat. used to come home from school, they’d turn on the longer just a Web site—it was a brand. They pub- “CV is more than just a company; it’s a lifestyle,” TV, but now they go straight to the computer,” says lished two books: The CollegeHumor Guide to says Klein. “Most of our employees are friends with Van Veen. “So our goal is to base their entertain- College and Faking It. Plus, they scored a movie each other, and a good number of them live togeth- ment experience around CollegeHumor.com. If we deal. A screenplay is currently being developed er.” And some weekends, they even throw CV par- keep it up, I don’t see why we can’t become the by two of the writers from the NBC sitcom “The ties, which often have themes. For instance, there next Comedy Central.” Office,” which will be about what a college kid is a Rubik’s Cube party in the works. The gist: each The only thing stopping them might be getting experiences when he comes home for winter break. guest must arrive wearing six different colors—a evicted from their offices, which they share with And that’s not all. The business, which has red shirt, blue pants, a yellow hat, etc.—and each more established tenants who don’t wear denim grown from the original four partners to over fifty must leave wearing a single color. quite as often. Van Veen and Klein recently got an staffers, now also includes a clothing line called But what these twenty-somethings have angry letter from their landlord, who asked them Busted Tees (shirts that display jokes developed by achieved is no joke—and their experience at Wake to “cease certain behaviors,” such as spinning too staffers), a live comedy tour that travels to college Forest, to which they both applied “early decision,” many times in the lobby’s revolving door. But when campuses across the country, and a video-sharing helped foster their talents. “It was the perfect incu- you’ve built a sophisticated tree house, you can’t Web site called Vimeo.com. bator, because if you showed even a hint of passion forget to play in it once in a while. The company, which has evolved into so much in a particular area, like entrepreneurship, profes- more than just CollegeHumor.com, is called Connected sors, such as Page West, would go out of their way Jane Bianchi (’05) is the associate health editor at Ventures (CV for short) and in 2006, the partners to form personal relationships with you,” says Klein. Family Circle magazine in New York City.

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Crossroads

For senior Chris Jackson, OCATING SO NEBULOUS AN to create one seamless pursuit, academics have always Lintersection as that of science whether it be penning a thesis been interdisciplinary. and literature can seem taxing, if or studying the cerebral cortex. not incongruous. Navigating and Take, for example, Jackson’s study synthesizing the disciplines evokes of English. Rather than examine a whole other set of tasks, difficulties, the subject finitely, he approaches By Arthur J. Nelson (’07) and to some, even contradictions. it as a malleable discipline, explor- Surely successful forays include ing matters such as the psychologi- sci-fi authors such as Isaac Asimov, cal and neurological construction but even then is the author and of memory in T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste metaphor really accurate? Yes. In Land,” W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, and fact, it is all too befitting. Asimov Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way. He in addition to being a prolific author, constantly challenges and bends his was, after all, a professor of biochem- fields of study in new and insightful istry. It is then even more appropri- ways, and his excellence in English ate that Chris Jackson navigate this has earned him the H. Broadus Jones intersection of the fictional and the Scholarship. empirical with a degree of excellence In keeping with his interdisci- that illustrates what comprises the plinary nature, Jackson is also the DNA of a Wake Forest student. recipient of both the Carswell and To Jackson academics have Sullivan scholarships. A grant from always been interdisciplinary. English, the Carswell program in 2006 funded his major, can coalesce with neuro- his summer in Australia with science and chemistry, his minors, Shaowu Zhang at the Australian

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National University in Canberra. cortex changes in response to senso- quarterback in high school, football Together they experimented with ry deprivation. This type of research is as familiar to him as the writings the Apis mellifera, commonly known sheds new light on how the brain of Samuel Beckett. as the honey bee, to observe visual responds and rewires to environ- These simple but sincere passions learning and navigation. Jackson’s mental stimuli. Jackson’s contribu- are certainly reflective of Jackson’s work at Canberra built upon the tions to, and passion for, science relaxed and contemplative disposi- body of research he, along with earned him the prestigious Barry tion. As his English advisor Barry Reynolds Professor of Biology Susan M. Goldwater Scholarship in the Maine so aptly put it, “For all his Fahrbach, have collaborated upon spring of 2007. talents and accomplishments in the with respect to memory and learning. Nestled in his mosaic of colle- study of science and the humanities, This past summer Jackson con- giate pursuits, Jackson has made Chris is a modest, soft-spoken, tinued his research in neuroscience valuable room for a long-time pas- and unassuming young man.” Even at the Massachusetts Institute of sion: the outdoors. With Lebanon, more to the point, as Maine said, Technology. Sponsored by Amgen, Virginia, as his home, it is only natu- “You ask him a question and he an international biotechnology com- ral that the outdoors be a favorite really takes off with it.” Perhaps it pany headquartered in California, pastime. Nestled in the majestic is Jackson’s approach to academia he collaborated with the brightest Appalachians, his backyard leaves that has contributed to this balanced of academia to study candidate little for the fisherman or hiker to and thoughtful character, or perhaps plasticity genes and dendritic arbor desire. Perhaps it is because of humility and inquisitiveness are pre- remodeling in mice. Shoulder to Virginia’s absence of a professional cisely what led him to his unique shoulder with physicists, electrical team, or because of Brett Favre’s pursuit of academia, and success, at engineers, chemists, and biologists, “gunslinger style” as Jackson terms Wake Forest. Jackson explored how the architec- it, that the Green Bay Packers are ture of interneurons of the visual his team of choice. Having played

DECEMBER 2007 47 A & Q Q. So you must have a pretty glam- orous life now in Hollywood? A. Right now I live alone, in a mangy Ad man Joe Lawson apartment near UCLA that feels like a rehab center. But I’m never takes his cavemen to Hollywood there so it doesn’t matter. My clothes live there. My wife, Sheri, and our daughter, Harper, moved back to Richmond at the end of the summer so Harp could start school. We can’t really commit to either place until we know what’s going to happen with this show and/or my writing career. It’s great, the uncertainty of it all. I haven’t slept in months. Advertising executive Joe Lawson (’90) created the Q. How did Wake Forest prepare you iconic cavemen television for what you’re doing now? A. I majored in economics; I thought commercials to promote I was going to be a stockbroker insurance company GEICO’s or business person of some sort. Web site —“So easy, a cave- I didn’t think it through as much man can do it.”— while as I probably should’ve. By the at The Martin Agency in time I realized what I wanted to do with my life, college was way Richmond, Virginia. Now over. I didn’t take a theater or act- he’s taken his cavemen ing class until the last semester of to Hollywood as the co- my senior year, but I really loved creator and co-executive them and obviously wish I had discovered that whole arena earlier. producer of “Cavemen,”

which premiered on ABC Q. Was there anyone at Wake Forest in October. who was a mentor? A. Wake Forest seems to breed or exacerbate a positive expectation By Kerry M. King (’85) from life. At least it did for me. Or maybe that’s just the type of students it attracts. Either way, I left there feeling I could do any- thing once I figured out what that thing was. Of course, if this show bombs, then I’ll realize I was wrong.

48 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Q. What did you do after graduation? A A. I took a job in a management- &

training program at a big pharma- Q ceutical company. Then I held various jobs in various places until finally ending up at the Portfolio Center in Atlanta. I joined the Martin Agency in 1998 and resigned A

when ABC bought the show. I D E M C Q. B You’re obviously well known for A Y S

the GEICO commercials, but what Q. What inspired you to take the E T R U

were some of your other successful characters from a 30-second O C S

campaigns? commercial to a sitcom? O T

A. A. O GEICO has certainly been the We just liked the characters and H P most rewarding creatively. The wanted to spend more time explor- NASCAR campaign, “We want ing the different shades of their to race the truck. People love personalities. We wanted the chal- the truck,” has been very effective lenge of taking them from being a Q. Do you know Carol Barbee (’81), for UPS. The “Reward Your bunch of grumpy furballs to a team who’s the executive producer of Curiosity” campaign for Vanilla of underdogs. If we succeed, it will “Jericho”? Coke helped sell a ton of that be because the audience related to A. I don’t know Carol, but I Googled stuff when it launched. Some the cavemen on a human level, her and she seems very nice. I’d weird campaigns for PING golf which is a strange thing to say, but love for the cavemen to appear on clubs. It was all fun. technically makes sense. I think. “Jericho,” especially since that fan base is so rabid. Plus, it makes Q. How did you develop the caveman Q. In the online bios for the three perfect sense—cavemen are theme to sell car insurance? cavemen, you give their alma maters incredibly resilient. If they can A. It just sort of popped out one day as Carnegie-Mellon, Penn State, survive the Ice Age, why not a while working on a new TV cam- and the University of Pittsburgh— nuclear attack? For now, let’s just paign for GEICO.com. We were what, no love for Wake Forest? But hope they survive the critics. just sort of fed up with how po- wait, one of the cavemen’s favorite litically correct the culture had Web sites is collegehumor.com. Q. Any resemblance between the become and how difficult that Hmmm, do you know those guys? cavemen and any one you knew made it to do our jobs well. So (See page 44.) at Wake Forest? we insulted cavemen, just to get A. The only one that could’ve gotten A. I didn’t know him personally, it out of our system. into Wake is Andy, but he chose but the Demon Deacon is not Penn State because he wanted to uncavemanlike. stay close to home. I don’t know the College Humor guys personal- ly, but I’m a fan of the site and Nick Kroll, the actor who plays Nick the caveman, is friends with them. Or at least he says he is.

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Prime Time Veteran television writer and producer Carol Barbee (’81) oversees the lives of the residents of a small town in Kansas as they struggle to survive in the aftermath of a nuclear attack in the CBS drama “Jericho,” which premiered last year. The show, cancelled after its first season, is now scheduled to return this winter with seven new episodes. Barbee, the show’s executive producer, lives in Santa Monica, S

B California, with her husband, actor and playwright Carlos C / N O

T LaCamara, and their two sons, Lucas (14) and Diego (10). N I R B Y T N O

M By Kerry M. King (’85)

Q. How did Wake Forest prepare you me from a play and I started for a career in Hollywood? working in television (and a little A. I was lucky enough to be a part bit of film). I worked mostly in of the theatre department in the one-hour dramas. The format just new/current theater arts building. seemed to fit me. I could do the Dr. [Harold] Tedford, Dr. [Don] dramatic, emotional material but I Wolfe, and Ms. (Caroline) would always try to find a way to Fullerton were wonderful teach- bring a little humor to the scene. ers, mentors, and friends. Dr. When I began writing, the one- Wolfe had the greatest, most hour format came naturally to me. generous laugh, and Dr. Tedford told the funniest stories. Ms. Q. You had guest parts on ’90s hits Fullerton was instrumental in such as “LA Law,” “The Fresh my going to UCLA. The fact that Prince of Bel-Air,” “Blossom,” she thought I could get an MFA “Northern Exposure,” “Ellen,” in acting made me feel I could. and “JAG,” so why did you decide I loved the Wake Forest theatre you had a better future behind department. I felt at home there. the camera? A. I was always meant to be a writer, Q. How did you break into acting? from an early age. I wrote poetry A. After I graduated from UCLA, I and stories, songs. But I knew that did a lot of theater in Los Angeles first I needed to have an interest- and joined a theater company ing life. I needed life experience called City Stage, of which I am so I’d have something to write still a member. An agent signed about. Ten years of being an

50 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE A & Q actress gave me that. When I Q. What does an executive producer do? open up our world and show finally found a story I wanted to A. The executive producer is the what’s going on in the wider tell, I was ready. I took classes in boss, and in television, the EP is country. The audience will find the writing program at UCLA also the head writer. I spend time out who attacked us and why, and Extension until I completed my in the writers’ room hearing story what Hawkins had to do with it. screenplay. That screenplay won pitches; reading scripts, and giv- The seven episodes tell a complete an award UCLA gave in conjunc- ing notes; popping into editing to story, have an amazing and satisfy- tion with DreamWorks Studio. watch a cut or work on particular ing ending and will let the audi- scenes; fielding calls from the ence know where we’ll be heading Q. Then you got your first major network and the press—then if we get a season three. writing gig on “Providence”? heading to the set to watch film- A. They were having a hard time ing to be sure the director is Q. Growing up in Concord, North finding female writers for making his day (shooting all of Carolina, did you have something “Providence,” which had not yet the scenes scheduled for that day) against New Bern, North premiered. The producers liked and getting the coverage and per- Carolina, since you chose that my material and hired me to write formances we need. I also check name as Jericho’s nemesis? a script. The show premiered to the pages to be shot the following A. I can’t take credit for naming the great numbers, they put me on day and rewrite them if necessary. warring town ‘New Bern.’ Some of staff, and I was there for five the writers came up with it. I have years. When “Providence” was Q. “Jericho” is heavily layered, so no animosity toward the town of cancelled, I was hired onto the how do you keep it all straight? New Bern, North Carolina, in fact staff of “Judging Amy.” The next A. When we sit down to arc out a it’s lovely there. year, I was asked to run the show, season, we talk about the big and I had one of the best creative ideas for the run of the series, Q. Do you know Joe Lawson (’90), experiences of my life there. I then the big ideas for the current who helped create ABC’s learned so much about running a season. Once we figure out how “Cavemen” show? writing staff, arching out a season far we want the story to go in the A. I do not know Joe Lawson but I of stories, handling network number of episodes we have applaud him for getting a show notes, and creative collaboration. been given, we begin to arc out on the air. That’s a major achieve- specific episodes. Writers are ment. Also, I love those Geico Q. How did you land on “Jericho”? assigned individual episodes and commercials, so, well done, Joe. A. I did a year on a Bruckheimer from that point on, my job is to crime drama (“Close to Home”) read the scripts, give notes and, just to see if I could tell those if necessary, rewrite the scripts. types of stories. When that season was coming to a close, CBS asked Q. The season finale ended with a me to run one of their pilots. I chilling shot of a new U.S. flag. chose “Jericho.” I loved the small Will the new season give more town of it. The characters. Ordi- clues as to what’s happening out- nary people in extraordinary cir- side Jericho? cumstances. And I’m a bit of a A. The flag of the new Cheyenne sci-fi geek. I loved the speculative government is seen in “Why We fiction aspect. I also thought it Fight.” That flag, with its vertical would be a hit and I was excited stripes and twenty-one stars, will to do something so different than be explained in the season two For more with Carol Barbee and Joe what I had done. opener and yes, this season will Lawson, visit www.wfu.edu/magazine.

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W AKE F OREST A LUMNI A SSOCIATION S E

President’s Column T O N

he Christmas and holiday season is upon us. It is a time for togetherness with family S and friends and for reflecting on the things for which we are thankful. I hope Wake S

T A Forest holds as special a place in your heart as it does in mine. We are all part of the Wake L Forest family and family means so much, particularly at this time of the year. C In this season of giving, there are many ways that alumni can make a meaningful con- tribution to Wake Forest. It does not matter if you live in Winston-Salem or far away, there are many, many ways you can help support our family. The members of the Alumni Council developed this list of “25 Ways You Can Help Wake Forest,” which provides 25 ways that you can help advance the mission of Wake Forest through your time, experience, and/or resources. Some of these ideas require very little time or effort, but can bring tremendous benefit to our alma mater. Take a look at the list below and I ask that you make it your New Year’s obligation to engage yourself more deeply and purposefully in Wake Forest in 2008. Working together, we can make a difference!

Rod Webb (‘92) Alumni Association President

25 Ways You Can Help Wake Forest

1. Make an annual gift to The College Fund (including The Calloway Fund). Every gift, regardless of size, helps. 2. Help recruit future Wake Foresters and encourage a prospective student to visit campus. 3. Hire Wake Forest students and graduates. 4. Mentor current students. Participate in Alumni Career Networking Forums and the Alumni Career Assistance Program. 5. Support Wake Forest athletics. Attend and cheer loudly at games! 6. Attend a Wake Forest Club event in your area, and take a fellow Wake Forester with you. 7. Host a Wake Forest event. (Events include student receptions and alumni gatherings.) 8. Update your mailing address, e-mail address, job information, birth of children, etc. by visiting the Alumni Web site or by calling 800.752.8567. 9. Act as an ambassador and share your love of Wake Forest. 10. Stay educated about Wake Forest; share what you know with others. 11. Register for WIN (Wake Forest Information Network), e-mail forwarding for life and the online directory. 12. Visit campus. 13. Wear Wake Forest clothing and display Wake Forest paraphernalia at home and at work. 14. Be sure your local high school is well informed about Wake Forest. Offer to meet with counselors, and/or join AIA (Alumni-in-Admissions). 15. Subscribe to What’s New @ WFU, Wake Forest’s electronic monthly newsletter (at www.wfu.edu/alumni) and Window On Wake Forest daily headlines at www.wfu.edu/wowf. 16. Help the records office locate “lost” alumni. Encourage alumni to keep records up to date. 17. Identify potential donors for scholarships, endowments and naming opportunities. 18. Recruit five new College or Calloway Fund donors. 19. Write a letter of recommendation for a student applying to Wake Forest. 20. Identify future leaders for the Alumni Council and other volunteer boards/councils. 21. Attend and promote Wake Forest cultural activities. 22. Remember Wake Forest in your will and estate plan. 23. Read the Wake Forest Magazine and share it with a friend when finished. Visit www.wfu.edu/magazine. 24. Contact a former professor and say thanks for his/her teaching and mentoring. 25. Encourage friends and classmates to attend Homecoming and their class reunions.

www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2005 1 www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 53 Submitting a Classnote?

Wake Forest Magazine welcomes CLASSNOTES submissions from alumni. There are three ways to submit information: Standard mail: CLASSNOTES editor, Wake Forest Magazine, P.O. Box 7205, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205.

E-mail: [email protected] VANN (’42, MD ’45) DILTHEY (’57, JD ’60) Online: www.wfu.edu/magazine/classnotes Submissions guidelines: • Please include your class year(s) and degree(s) with each submission. Nancy “Jo” Smith Thomas (’58) • Please include a telephone number and e-mail address so that we may verify the information. wrote a book, Moravian Christmas in the • Because of space considerations we are able to accept individual head shots only. Photos must be at least 2x3 inches at 300 pixels per inch (600x900 pixels). South (published by Old Salem, distrib- • Person submitting the item assumes responsibility for its accuracy. uted by UNC Press). • Submissions may be edited for length and clarity. • We’re sorry, but we cannot accept items submitted by a third party. Martin N. Erwin (’59) is with Smith Moore LLP in Greensboro, NC. He was Deadlines: named one of the “Best Lawyers in • The deadline for CLASSNOTES submissions is the 15th day of the month two months prior America” in labor and employment. to the issue date. For example, the deadline for the March issue is January 15. Murray C. Greason Jr. (’59, JD ’62) is vice chairman of the board of directors 1930s William Bryce Hunt Jr. (’48, MD ’53) of Wake Forest University Health Sciences. retired in 1995 as director of cardiopul- Wade E. Brown (JD ’31) celebrated monary services at Craven County his 100th birthday in November with his Hospital and the practice of pulmonary 1960s family. He is a trustee emeritus, former disease and critical care in New Bern, general counsel for Appalachian State NC. He retired on his 80th birthday as Sidney S. Eagles Jr. (’61, JD ’64) is University and former head of the N.C. tuberculosis consultant for the Craven with Smith Moore LLP in Greensboro, Parole Commission. He established the County Health Department in New Bern. NC. He was named one of the “Best Wade Brown Law Scholarship. Lawyers in America” in appellate law.

1950s Larry Sitton (’61, JD ’64) is with 1940s Smith Moore LLP in Greensboro, NC. Robert S. Murphy (’53) retired after He was named one of the “Best Lawyers Robert L. Vann (’42, MD ’45) and teaching high school mathematics for 33 in America” for the 10th year. his son, John M. Vann (’80), established years in Somerset, KY, and as an adjunct Clinical Trial Management Services in instructor at Somerset (KY) Community Emily Herring Wilson (MA ’62) Bristol, TN, with offices also in Winston- College. He lives in Hampstead, NC, and received the 2007 John Tyler Caldwell Salem, in 1990. CTMS was named one is an adjunct mathematics instructor at Laureate, the state’s top humanities of the “Top 25 Best Employers in Cape Fear Community College in award, from the N.C. Humanities Tennessee”by Business Tennessee Wilmington, NC. Council. The award was presented at Magazine. Reynolda House Museum of American Frank P. Meadows Jr. (JD ’56) is with Art following the Caldwell Lecture in Will D. Campbell (’48) received the Poyner & Spruill LLP in Rocky Mount, the Humanities. 2007 William Sloane Coffin Award for NC. He has been named one of the “Best Peace and Justice from Yale University. Lawyers in America” in tax law. Bill Shendow (’63) stepped down as director of the John O. Marsh Institute Betty Duncan Hall (’48) lives in Ronald C. Dilthey (’57, JD ’60) is a for Government and Public Policy at Asheville, NC, and would love to hear senior partner at Patterson Dilthey & Shenandoah University in Winchester, from classmates and friends. Clay in Raleigh. He was inducted into the VA. He will remain chair of the under- Delaware Valley (PA) Hall of Fame and graduate program in political science was named one of the “Best Lawyers in and coordinator of the public manage- America” and a “North Carolina Super ment graduate certificate program. Lawyer.”

54 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Skip Queen (’70) received the Dick Knox Distinguished Service Award from the N.C. High School Athletic Association for his service as a trainer and referee for swimming. He was the first recipient of the newly created Skip Queen Volunteer of the Year Award from

ERWIN (’59) SITTON (’61, JD ’64) SHENDOW (’63) COWAN (’65, JD ’68) the High Point (NC) Community Swim Association.

David H. Coates (’71, JD ’78) practices law in Hightstown, NJ. He Allen J. Casey (’64, MA ’65) is the Harry A. Arsenault (’69) is rector at served on the board of the Mid-Jersey second vice president of the N.C. Council Church of the Resurrection in Norwalk, Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research of the Blind and the council’s legislative CT. Foundation and as vice president of representative. He was appointed by the governmental relations. He has been governor to the N.C. Commission for the active in the effort to foster stem cell Blind. 1970s research in New Jersey. He and his wife, Suzanne, have three children: Henry, Mary Beth Packard (’64) was ordained Grover A. Carrington (’70, JD ’74) Malcolm and Charlie. an elder in the United Methodist Church is with White Peck Carrington LLP in and appointed senior pastor of Norland Mt. Sterling, KY. He was recognized as Walter W. Pitt (JD ’71) is with Bell United Methodist Church in Miami a “Kentucky Super Lawyer” for general Davis & Pitt PA in Winston-Salem. Gardens, FL. litigation by Law & Politics. He has been named one of the “Best Lawyers in America” for bankruptcy David Zacks (’64, JD ’67) is with David Heymann (MD ’70) of Geneva, and creditor-debtor rights. Kilpatrick Stockton LLP in Atlanta. Switzerland, is assistant director of He was selected to the 2007 edition of communicable diseases at the World Dwight W. Allen (JD ’73) is with Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers Health Organization. He is a co-recipient Smith Anderson LLP in Raleigh. He for Business. of the 13th annual Heinz Award in received the Distinguished Service Human Condition. Award from the N.C. Telecommunications J. Donald Cowan (’65, JD ’68) is with Industry Association. Smith Moore LLP in Greensboro, NC. He was named one of the “Best Lawyers in America” for the 10th year.

Barbara Ann Bennett Leonard (’65) is associate dean of High Point Univer- Wes Hatfield (’41) sity’s School of Education. turns his writing talents to mysteries Joe Carazo (’66) was captain of the 1965 Deacon football team and first team Now in his late eighties, Weston P. Hatfield (’41) All-ACC. In 2006 he was named to the can look back on a life rich with diverse interests and National Football Foundation and experiences. Having served with distinction during College Hall of Fame, Lehigh Valley the Second World War as a radio correspondent, Chapter. He and his wife, Phyllis, live in criminal investigation agent, and “denazification” Phoenix. They have a daughter and two officer, he attended Harvard Law School and served in a number of philan- granddaughters. thropic capacities in Winston-Salem, including five terms as chair of Wake Forest’s Board of Trustees, of which he is a life member. William Kearns Davis (JD ’66) is But that doesn’t begin to tell the whole story. A passionate student of with Bell Davis & Pitt PA in Winston- medieval history, Hatfield has written a biography of Joan of Arc—traveling Salem. He has been named one of the over all the ground in France that Joan had trod in her brief life—as well as “Best Lawyers in America” for bet-the- articles on the lives and musical theater of Gilbert and Sullivan. company, commercial and personal Now, over the last couple of years, he has turned his authorship talents to injury litigation, and medical malpractice. the mystery genre, writing and publishing three novels—Murder at First Baptist, The Governor’s Choice, and Where There’s a Will—that have created a buzz among those on campus who have read them. Graham Denton (’67) is chairman of For more information on the books and how to obtain copies, contact the board of directors of Wake Forest Hatfield at [email protected]. University Health Sciences.

www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 55 WIDGEON (’74, MAED ’75) STARLING (JD ’75) TAYLOR (JD ’76) WISEMAN (’77, MBA ’88) WILKIE (’78) BORUM (JD ’80)

Cathy Walker Johnson (’73) is H. Ray Starling Jr. (JD ’75) received Margaret Smith “Peggy” Abrams associate dean of arts and sciences at a presidential nomination and was con- (’76, JD ’80) is president-elect of the Alamance Community College in firmed by the U.S. Senate to major gener- N.C. Academy of Trial Lawyers. She lives Burlington, NC. She is co-author of four al in the Air National Guard and as a in Raleigh with her husband, Doug (’76, math textbooks. Her husband, Robert reservist in the U.S. Air Force. He is the JD ’79), and their four sons. Their law F. Johnson (’70, JD ’73), is district Air National Guard Assistant to the Judge practice is Abrams & Abrams PA. attorney for Alamance County. Advocate General of the U.S. Air Force. In civilian life, he is a managing partner Marty Brown (’76) is president of Linda McPhail (MS ’73, PhD ’76) is a for several Hawaii-based energy service Power Brands, a beverage-brand devel- professor of biochemistry at Wake Forest. and consulting businesses. His wife of 33 opment company in southern California. She has been named to a three-year term years, Pamela T. Garrison (’75), is an He and his wife, Jane, and sons, Kyle (22) as associate dean of graduate programs attorney. They live in Kailua, HI. and Blair (14), live in Villa Park, CA. on the Bowman Gray Campus. John D. Sykes Jr. (’75) is a professor Dan Taylor (JD ’76) is with Kilpatrick Jane Warfford Handly (MA ’74) has of English at Wingate University in Stockton LLP in Winston-Salem. He was been named the National Woman of the Wingate, NC. He published a book, selected to the 2007 edition of Chambers Year for Delta Zeta Sorority. Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and the USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Aesthetic of Revelation (University of Business. George A. Parker (’74) is director and Missouri Press). CFO of Leasing Technologies International Victoria Noble Igoe (’77) teaches Inc. in Wilton, CT. He was elected treasurer Mark S. Thomas (’75, JD ’78) is with eighth and ninth grade Spanish at of the executive board of the Eastern Asso- Williams Mullen Maupin & Taylor PA in Harmony Intermediate School in ciation of Equipment Leasors. He wrote Raleigh focusing on ERISA and employee Leesburg,VA. several e-books including Using Venture benefits litigation. He has been named Leasing as a Competitive Weapon and 101 one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Mitchell Lewis (’77) is a lieutenant Equipment Leasing Tips. He lives in New labor and employment law. colonel in the U.S. Army and serves as Rochelle, NY. the command chaplain for the 19th Michael D. Thornton (’75) retired as Sustainment Command in Daegu, South Tracy L. Trotter (MD ’74) practices human resource director with the North Korea. pediatrics with the San Ramon Valley (CA) Carolina public schools. He received The Primary Care Medical Group. He and his Order of The Long Leaf Pine for 30 years Jack Nichols (JD ’77) is a 2008 wife, Anne, have two children, Kelly and of public service to the state of North Democratic candidate for the N.C. Senate Brett, and live in Lafayette, CA. He has Carolina. representing District 16, Wake County. been appointed to a four-year term on the advisory committee on heritable and Phil Thrailkill (’75) is pastor of Curtis Strange (’77), a two-time U.S. genetic diseases in newborns and children Duncan United Methodist Church in Open champion, was inducted into the by the secretary of the Department of Georgetown, SC. He published a book, World Golf Hall of Fame. He played at Health and Human Services. Mary: Lessons in Discipleship From Jesus’ Wake Forest in the mid-1970s on what Earthly Family (Bristol House, 2007). His was probably the best college team of all- Betty Rankin Widgeon (’74, sermons on the Lord’s Prayer and the time, with Jay Haas (’76), Bob Byman MAEd ’75) joined the National Arbitra- Gospel of Matthew, “The Message of (’77) and David Thore (’78). He won tion Forum’s panel of independent and Hope,”are being translated into Serbian the individual NCAA title in 1974 and the neutral arbitrators and mediators. to be broadcast in the former Yugoslavia Deacons captured the NCAA champi- through Trans World Radio. onship in 1974 and ’75. After turning pro- William S. “Bill” Cherry Jr. (JD ’75) fessional, he won back-to-back U.S. Open is with Poyner & Spruill LLP in Raleigh. titles and was a five-time Ryder Cup He has been named one of the “Best selection. Lawyers in America” in real estate law.

56 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Eric Wiseman (’77, MBA ’88) has Nancy Joie Wilkie (’78) is a project Dan A. Boone (JD ’80) and a partner been named president and chief officer at the National Institute of Allergy opened a real estate development entity, executive officer of VF Corporation in and Infectious Diseases. She provides Cabernet Holdings LLC, in Concord, Greensboro, NC. He is on the board of oversight for the MVA smallpox vaccine NC. Their first project is a hotel and visitors of the Babcock Graduate School development and production contracts restaurant at Childress Vineyards in of Management. as part of Project BioShield. She lives in Lexington, NC. Brookeville, MD. Thomas L. Crouch (’78) is president Howard L. Borum (JD ’80) is with and CEO of Young Transportation in James Bradley Wilson (JD ’78) Carruthers & Roth PA in Greensboro, Asheville, NC. The family-owned received his MA from Duke University. NC. He was named one of the “Best business includes partners Hank Lawyers in America” in real estate law. Garbee (’91) as chairman and Ralph Carolina Lehoczky Fernandez (’79) Young (’53) as executive vice president is a financial advisor and financial Stephen J. Owens (JD ’80) has been and COO. Young Transportation received planning associate at Smith Barney in appointed general counsel of the the 2007 National Motorcoach Operator Stamford, CT. She has been appointed to University of Missouri. of the Year Award. the Advisory Council of the Fairfield County Community Foundation. She and Stephen M. Russell (JD ’80) is with Susanna K. “Susie” Gibbons (’78, her husband and four children live in Bell Davis & Pitt PA in Winston-Salem. JD ’81) is with Poyner & Spruill LLP in Ridgefield, CT. Their oldest son, Nicolas, He has been elected president-elect of Raleigh. She has been named one of the is a sophomore at Wake Forest. the Forsyth County Bar Association and “Best Lawyers in America” in labor and named one of the “Best Lawyers in employment. America” for commercial litigation and 1980s legal and professional malpractice. Louis Moore (’78) is region group president for BB&T. He and his wife, Martha Davis Akin (’80) teaches John M. Vann (’80) and his father, Teresa, and sons, Colby and Josh, elementary physical education at Robert L. Vann (’42, MD ’45), relocated to Charlotte. Landmark Christian School in the established Clinical Trial Management Atlanta area. She and her husband, Services in Bristol,TN, with offices also in Daryl, and daughter, Molly (6), live in Winston-Salem, in 1990. CTMS was named Peachtree City, GA. one of the “Top 25 Best Employers in Tennessee” by Business Tennessee Magazine.

Right now, there is a new generation of Wake Forest students walking the same paths we did. Sitting in the same classrooms and being inspired by the highest caliber scholar/educators.

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Stephen R. Berlin (’81, JD ’84) is Alfred S. Irving Jr. (’81) is a superior Don McDuffie (’82) is a colonel in the with Kilpatrick Stockton LLP in Winston- court magistrate judge, hearing civil U.S. Army. He is an optometrist and Salem. He was selected to the 2007 cases, in the District of Columbia. officer-in-charge of the Medical and edition of Chambers USA: America’s Dental Inprocessing Clinic at the Basic Leading Lawyers for Business. Bradley N. Schulz (’81) is a trial Combat Training Center in Fort Jackson, lawyer at Mast Schulz Mast Johnson & SC. Alan G. Bourque (’81) completed a Wells in Smithfield, NC. He is on the three-year tour as chief of staff of the board of governors for the N.C. Academy Mary Tribble (’82) is founder and Corps of Cadets, U.S. Military Academy, of Trial Lawyers and has been appointed president of Tribble Creative Group in at West Point, NY. He has been deployed chair of the law practice management Charlotte. She was inducted into the to Baghdad to the Multi-National Corps section of the N.C. Bar Association. Event Industry Hall of Fame by Event headquarters as the anti-terrorism and Solutions Magazine at the Spotlight force protection chief for all coalition Robert L. Wilson Jr. (JD ’81) is with Awards in Miami. units. Smith Moore LLP in Greensboro, NC. He was named one of the “Best Lawyers in Jill R. Wilson (JD ’82) is with Brooks Cyrus E. Gwyn Jr. (’81) is a colonel in America” in health care law for the 10th Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard the U.S. Army. He assumed command of year. LLP in Greensboro, NC. She has been the Defense Information Systems named one of the “Best Lawyers in Agency CONUS during a change of B. Scott Burton (’82, JD ’86) has America” in education law. command ceremony at Scott Air Force joined the corporate practice group of Base. His decorations and awards include Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP in Dan M. Boyd IV (’83) is an executive the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Atlanta. vice president with Citizens South Bank. Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Commen- He and his wife, Amy, have three sons dation Medal, Army Commendation Gary K. Joyner (JD ’82) is with and live in Gastonia, NC. Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP in Raleigh. National Defense Service Medal with He was selected to the 2007 edition of Cynthia Edwards (’83) is a professor Bronze Star, Kuwait Liberation Medal, and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers of psychology and associate vice Joint Meritorious Unit Award. for Business. president for academic programs at Meredith College in Raleigh. Gary W. Hall (MA ’81) is director of Patricia McHugh Lambert (JD ’82) athletics at Barton College in Wilson, NC. is with Hodes Pessin & Katz PA in C. Frank Hilton (JD ’83) practices He retired from coaching college soccer Baltimore. She has been named one professional malpractice and personal after 27 years. He was an assistant coach of the “Best Lawyers in America” for injury litigation with Wharton Aldhizer at Wake Forest and head coach at insurance. & Weaver PLC in Harrisonburg,VA. He Campbell University, Lenior-Rhyne has been named to Virginia’s “Legal College, and for the past 18 years at Francisco Forrest Martin (’82) Elite,” the list of “Super Lawyers” and Barton College. He and his wife, Jean, published a book, The Constitution as the “Best Lawyers in America.” have two children, Andrew (13) and Treaty: The International Legal Ashley (9). Constructionalist Approach to the U.S. Chester M. Jones (JD ’83) opened a Constitution (Cambridge University solo practice in Franklin, NC. Ben Hodge (’81) served in Iraq with the Press, 2007). The book demonstrates the U.S. Army’s 105th Combat Engineer federal court’s authority to review the Jacquelyn Wortman Reynolds (’83) Group and earned the Bronze Star. He is constitutionality of federal and state law is medical staff coordinator for Caldwell glad to be home with family and friends. based on international law. Memorial Hospital in Lenoir, NC.

58 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE George Harry (’84) and his wife, Kara, David Lerner (JD ’85) is with Elwin Dale Melton (’85) is associate Matt Redshaw (’85) and his wife, Litchford & Christopher PA in Orlando, vice president for seminary relations at Brenda, and Scott Walters (’85) and FL. He was recognized with an “AV Peer Louisville (KY) Presbyterian Theological his wife, Kris, live in Metuchen, NJ. They Review Rating” by Martindale-Hubble, Seminary. are fraternity brothers and coach the the highest distinction assigned by the “Demon Deacon” flag football teams in law directory. Curtis R. “Randy” Sharpe Jr. (JD ’85) the Metuchen Recreation Flag Football joined Pendleton Pendleton & Deaton PA leagues. They keep the Wake Forest spirit of Lincolnton, NC, to open a branch alive with other alums in Metuchen like office in Denver, NC. Rich Weber (’84) who serves on the Borough Council, and attorney Rich Mongelli (’85).

Elizabeth Anne Hester (’84) is an accounting manager at Sunrise Senior Living’s international headquarters in McLean,VA. She and her two children, ages 12 and 16, live in Sterling,VA.

Montrose Streeter (’84) is the associate dean of campus safety and student conduct at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.

Janet E. “Betsy” Tuttle-Newhall (’84, MD ’88) has been on staff in the surgery department at Duke University Medical Center for 11 years specializing in solid organ transplants. She and her husband, Philip M. Newhall (’92), live in Durham, NC.

David D. Daggett (JD ’85) is managing partner at Lewis & Daggett in Winston- Salem. He qualified for the fifth time to Playing well with others compete in the Hawaii Ironman World Championships. He and his wife, isn’t just for kids Cynthia, have three children. We emphasize teamwork for a simple reason: To succeed in business, you must work effectively with a broad range of people. Deryl Davis (’85) is director of “The Sunday Forum”at Washington National Rafting in teams at Charlotte’s U.S. National Whitewater Center Cathedral and a faculty member in is just one of many ways our students learn to build collaborative working relationships. And better teamwork skills make for religion and drama at Wesley Theological better business leaders. Seminary in Washington. He is publishing his first book in 2008, A Spiritual Guide to The Babcock School has been ranked among the top business schools Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” He and his wife, in the world in each of the five major business school rankings - Whitney Warren Davis (MAEd ’97), Business Week, Forbes, Financial Times, have three children, twins Nate and Eliza U.S. News & World Report and The Wall Street Journal. (3), and Caroline (1). Learn more about how our programs can help you succeed at www.mba.wfu.edu. Reed Haywood (’85) is a shareholder in Dickie McCamey & Chilcote PC, based in Philadelphia and also working out of Haddonfield, NJ. He concentrates on pharmacy, premises and products liabili- ty, aviation, automobile negligence and Full-time, Evening, Saturday and Fast-Track Executive MBA Programs insurance coverage, professional liability, and a Master of Arts in Management Program, insurance fraud and general liability Winston-Salem and Charlotte claims.

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Bo Dempster (JD) is managing partner of Poyner & Spruill LLP in Raleigh. He is on the board of directors of The Boys & Girls Clubs serving Wake County, and he has been named one of the “Best Lawyers in America.” TREBING (MBA ’86) DIBIASE (’87) HARRIS (’87)

Doug Douds is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. He commands an Randall D. Avram (JD ’86) is with Ann Gromada Flynt (’87) received her F/A-18 fighter squadron and his unit will Kilpatrick Stockton LLP in Raleigh. master’s in educational administration deploy to Iraq next fall. He and his wife, He was selected to the 2007 edition of from UNC-Greensboro. Anne, have two sons, Gus (8) and Sam (5). Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Terrill Johnson Harris (’87) is with J.C. Huggins is manager of Web Smith Moore LLP in Greensboro, NC. engagement for Blue Cross and Blue Kevin Beeson (’86, MBA ’91) is senior She was named one of the “Best Lawyers Shield of Minnesota. He and his wife, vice president of First Horizon Corporate in America” in health care law. Melanie, have three children, Adeline, Financial Services in Winston-Salem. He Lila Rose and Shepard. They live in has been selected for the 2007-08 class of Gloria Cabada-Leman (’88) is St. Paul. Leadership North Carolina. owner/operator of Carolina Sauce Co., an online retailer of specialty foods with John S. Penton Jr. is a partner at J. Nicholas “Nick” Ellis (JD ’86) is a focus on N.C. products. She recently Knoblock Kim Coxhead & Penton PA with Poyner & Spruill LLP in Rocky launched “Operation Sauce Drop” in Miami, FL. He specializes in aviation Mount, NC. He has been named one (carolinasauce.stores.yahoo.net/opsadr.html) products liability and international of the “Best Lawyers in America” in to deliver a taste of home to U.S. military aviation law. He and his wife, Natasha, commercial litigation. personnel stationed abroad. Military and two children, Anastasia and Colin, personnel with an APO or FPO address live in Cutler Bay, FL. Nancy Atkinson Linton (’86) is a can choose from among seven free gift professional counselor currently working boxes of hot sauces, BBQ sauce and more. Matthew Stevens has been named to as campaign manager for a Fairfax the Columbus, OH, “Forty Under 40” by County School Board member. She and Robert P. Shafer (’88, MD ’01) is a Business First magazine. Franchise Times her husband, David, and daughter, staff anesthesiologist at the U.S. Naval magazines and Business Planet radio Lauren (8), adopted a son, Alexander (3), Hospital in Okinawa, Japan, and is serving consult him regarding franchise business from Russia. as the director of pediatric anesthesia. He activities and perceptions. and his wife, Wendy, and three daughters, Russell S. Palmer (JD ’86) has a Libby, Haley and Eagan, live in Okinawa. private practice in Middletown, CT. He 1991 has been reappointed by the governor to Amy K. Smith (JD ’88) is with Bell the Board of Pardons and Paroles. He Davis & Pitt PA in Winston-Salem. She Christopher T. Copeland is the was named one of the “Best Lawyers in has been named one of the “Best minister for leadership and congrega- America” in DWI defense. Lawyers in America” for trusts and tional life for the Alliance of Baptists in estates. Washington. This association of progres- Peter A.W. Swain (’86) completed his sive Baptist congregations and individu- MD from the University of Miami Charlot F. Wood (JD ’89) is with als is committed to inclusiveness, part- Medical School. His residency is in Bell Davis & Pitt PA in Winston-Salem. nership and justice. family medicine at Bayfront Medical She has been named one of the “Best Center in St. Petersburg, FL. Lawyers in America” for commercial Paula L. Durst (JD) was named a litigation and workers’ compensation. leading lawyer in environmental law in David Trebing (MBA ’86) is director of West Virginia by Chambers USA. U.S. State and Canadian Policy at SAS Carol Woodfin (MA ’89) is an associate Institute in Cary, NC. He has joined the professor of history at her undergraduate board of directors of Curamericas Global alma mater, Hardin-Simmons University, 1992 Inc. in Raleigh. in Abilene, TX. Anna P. Cooke is a professional dancer Thomas A. “Ted” DiBiase (’87) has in the “Sirens of T.I.” show at Treasure joined the construction litigation firm of Island in Las Vegas. She is also a free- Shapiro Lifschitz & Schram in Washington. lance aerial artist.

60 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Lois McCracken Gardner is owner of Paul Wingate is a major gift officer in Kimberley C. “Kacey” Hickey has and instructor at “Fitness For Her” in the Wake Forest University advancement traveled to Hawaii, Boston and New York, Winston-Salem. She and her husband, office. completed two triathlons and is engaged Casey Gardner (’94), have three to be married. She lives in Arlington, TN. children: Chase (7), Grant (3) and Lila (2). 1993 Bruce M. Jacobs (JD) was named a Chuck Meacham and his wife, Karen leading litigation lawyer in West Virginia O’Connor Meacham (’93), and their Jason W. Botts (’93) completed his by Chambers USA. three children plan to spend the spring MBA, with an emphasis on finance and semester at Harlaxton College in strategy, at the UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan- Donna R. Johnson is a secondary math Grantham, England. They will be teaching Flagler Business School. supervisor and STEM coordinator with classes, traveling and learning about life the Carolina County Board of Education in the UK. Samuel P. Funk is a partner with in Dover, DE. She is working with the Sherrard & Roe PLLC in Nashville, TN. county’s middle and high school teachers Neil Alan Willard is rector of the He was named one of the “Best Lawyers to develop curriculum. Episcopal Church of St. Stephen the in America.” Martyr in Edina, MN.

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EZZELL (’95) OXENDINE (PA ’95) FORBES (JD ’96) is assistant vice president for student development-student success at Mount Olive (NC) College.

Kevin Lloyd is rector at St. Matthew’s Ann G. Haywood-Baxter completed Kristin Burch is assistant vice president Episcopal Church in Jamestown, RI. He her chaplain board certification with the and director of alumni activities at Wake and his wife, Julia, have a son, Harry (4). Association of Professional Chaplains. Forest. She is a United Methodist minister Sherri McDaniel Sealey (MBA ’01) is serving as pediatric chaplain at Massa- W. Ross Forbes Jr. (JD) is a partner in the benefits administrator for Inmar Inc. chusetts General Hospital in Boston. the litigation section of Jackson Walker in Winston-Salem. She and her husband, Richard Baxter, LLP in Dallas. He has been selected for celebrated their second anniversary. the Leadership Dallas class of 2007-08. Patrick Sullivan (MBA ’03) is They are active in Harvard-Epworth assistant director of career services at United Methodist Church in Cambridge. Christopher S. McDonald completed Wake Forest. He received the Award for a degree in athletic training at the Administrative Excellence at New Shannon Joseph (JD) is a litigation University of North Florida. He is an Student Convocation. partner with Smith Moore LLP in athletic trainer with the Los Angeles Raleigh. She has been named an Dodgers and lives in Vero Beach, FL. administrative law judge by the State of 1994 North Carolina. Quentin Tremayne McPhatter is deputy city manager for the city of Eric W. Iskra (JD) was named a Lisa Huggins Oxendine (PA) Kingsland, GA. He and his wife, Michele, leading lawyer in labor and employment published a book, The Pink Begonia and daughter, Kendall (10 mos.), are law in West Virginia by Chambers USA. Sister’s Caribbean Retreat. Her book was relocating to Georgia. chosen as a “giveaway”and she was Joseph E. “Joe” Zeszotarski Jr. given a scholarship to attend a confer- Katina Parker is a visual artist in Los (JD ’84) is with Poyner & Spruill LLP in ence, “Changing Patterns of Cancer in Angeles. She has launched a grass roots, Raleigh. He has been named one of the Native Communities: The Power of multi-media, public awareness campaign, “Best Lawyers in America” in criminal Partnership,” in Minneapolis. She is an “New Orleans: A Labor of Love,” to defense. adjunct faculty member in the Health/ mobilize 5,000 volunteers to participate PE Department at UNC-Pembroke. in reconstructing New Orleans during 2008 (www.nolaboroflove.com). 1995 Laura Layman Stickler is an assistant professor at the Medical University of Brian James Cornell and his wife, South Carolina in the Department of 1997 Katherine Vickers Cornell (’95), are Obstetrics and Gynecology. ministers at Christ Church in Gastonia, Kelly Lynne Barham (MD ’03) is a NC. They have three children, Michael dermatologist with Davie Dermatology (3 1/2), James and Paul (both 21 mos.), 1996 in Advance, NC. Her husband, Kelly and are expecting their fourth. W. Baird (MD ’05), is a resident Kristen Helms Bassick (MBA) anesthesiologist at Wake Forest Univer- Aimee Ezzell joined the real estate launched a line of natural, fun skincare sity Baptist Medical Center. They have development practice of Smith Moore for children, “Stuff for Sprouts,” one son, Sidney (1), and live in Lewis- LLP in Wilmington, NC. www.stuff4sprouts.com. She and her ville, NC. husband, Mike Bassick (MBA ’96), Bob Goglia (MBA) is a national market and their children, Amanda (8) and Jack Kerry Rotondi Bianchi (MD ’01) is an manager for Syngenta. He relocated to (5), live in Chester Springs, PA. internist at Kannapolis Internal Medicine Jamestown, NC. in Davidson, NC. She and her husband, Jess, and daughter, Camryn, live in Davidson.

62 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Sean Cole (JD) is a partner with Nancy Prager (JD) published a Beverly Huffstetler Savinsky Martin & Jones in Raleigh focusing on perspective on the impact of piracy on (MAEd ’02) completed her PhD in psy- catastrophic automobile and trucking independent music, “It’s About Piracy, chology at the University of Tennessee, collisions. He wrote a chapter, Not Privacy,” on News.Com. She provides Knoxville and is employed by South- “Automobile and Trucking Complaints,” intellectual property and corporate western University. Her husband, Chris and edited the second edition of North counsel to technology and entertainment Savinsky (’96, MBA ’01), is employed Carolina Manual of Complaints in clients and maintains a blog by Dell Inc. They live in Austin, TX. conjunction with the N.C. Academy of (nancyprager.wordpress.com). Trial Lawyers for LexisNexis. Sarah Hovis Shurts completed her Doug Radi (MBA) is vice president PhD in modern European history at Christopher Rogers Gaskell of marketing at Charter Baking Co. in UNC-Chapel Hill. She defended her (MAEd ’95) has transferred from the Boulder, CO, where U.S. marketing dissertation, “Redefining the ‘Engage:’ Miami field office of the U.S. Secret brands include Rudi’s Organic, The Intellectual Identity and the French Service to the Presidential Protective Baker and The Vermont Bread Co. He Extreme Right, 1898-1968.” She teaches Division in Washington. and his wife, Kathleen, and their three at Montclair (NJ) State University. sons live in Golden, CO. Ginger Lohr Milne is a research Elizabeth Thomas is a lieutenant assistant professor in the Department of commander in the U.S. Navy Medical Medicine at Vanderbilt University in Corps. She is a family physician assigned Nashville, TN. to the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren,VA. She is serving her second deployment as a member of the Expedi- tionary Medical Facility Kuwait.

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www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 63 Patricia Thomas lives in Northern 1999 Stuart Hipp teaches English at Calvary Virginia and is an educational adviser Baptist Day School in Winston-Salem. for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Jennifer Bahus is the communications providing guidance and scholarship manager at the Morehead-Cain Foun- Kristen Franke Johnson was support for gifted students with limited dation at UNC-Chapel Hill. commissioned as a second lieutenant in financial means. She is completing a the U.S. Army through OCS at Fort PhD in educational studies from Emory Jonathan Neil Perry is a vice Benning, GA. She and her husband, University. Her research focuses on president and managing director of trust William, are completing Signal Corps representation of U.S. Latino culture in and investment management for Fidelity training at Fort Gordon, GA. Spanish language textbooks. Bank, headquartered in Fuquay-Varina, NC. He and his wife, Paige, and Jocelyn Liana Womack received her daughter, Parker, live in Wendell, NC. MA in African-American studies from 1998 Columbia University. She received her Michael Dale Warren is an instructor JD from the University of Pennsylvania Holly A. Litle Berndt completed the in clinical pediatrics in the Department Law School, where she was editor-in- internal medicine residency program at of Pediatrics at the Vanderbilt University chief of the Journal of Labor and the Emory University School of Med- School of Medicine in Nashville, TN. He Employment Law. She is a federal icine. She is the only practicing internist is pursuing a master’s in public health as judicial clerk in the Eastern District of at Chatuge Family Care in Hiawassee, part of an Academic General Pediatrics Pennsylvania. GA. She and her husband, Karl, live in Fellowship. Young Harris, GA. Joe Zelenka is in his ninth season in 2001 Kristen Eppley is a visual artist and the National Football League, seventh bassist for a funk band, “Hunkamama,” with the Jacksonville Jaguars. He played Charles Douglas Brown II (JD ’06) in Los Angeles. his 100th consecutive game for the Jags, is an associate practicing commercial real marking a franchise record. He is a estate lending in the capital markets Carmen Vaughn Ganjehsani is an volunteer in hospitals, camps, the armed group of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & attorney focusing on civil appellate forces, the United Way and HabiJax. He Rice PLLC. He and his wife, Caroline litigation at Carpenter Appeals and Trial serves on the board of Coaches Honor, a Sheffield Thomas Brown (’03, Support LLC in Columbia, SC. local ministry, and has been added to the MD ’07), live in Winston-Salem. roster of All Pro Dads. He and his wife, David M. Grubb is director of Rebekah Demshar Zelenka (’97), Robert E. Ferguson is president and communications for community and have twins, Grace and Benjamin (16 mos.), director of online services for Allied governmental relations for the Algiers and live in Jacksonville, FL. Distributing Inc., an online wholesaler Charter Schools Association in New and specialty retailer of entertainment Orleans. and household products, in Charlotte. 2000 Jason Lowe (MBA ’02) is assistant Victoria Levy Gelfeld is the Howard women’s soccer coach at Emory Andrew M. Ciccarelli (MD) completed Born Memorial Scholar in the MBA University in Atlanta. his radiology fellowship at the University program at Georgetown University in of California San Francisco. He and his Washington. She was a summer intern in Elizabeth O’Donovan is one of the wife, Ann, work at Cooley Dickinson the vaccines division at Merck and her finalists for the Sue Alexander Most Hospital in Northampton, MA. concentration is in marketing. Promising New Work Award given by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Emma Claggett is an editor/translator Kate Mason Michalek is a pediatric Illustrators. with the English services division of the physician assistant in Denver. Bank for International Settlement in Douglas W. Thiessen (JD) is general Switzerland. Robert O’Kelley is assistant men’s counsel of the Maryland Republican basketball coach at Crichton College in Party. He and his wife, Sarah, and four Brian C. Doyle (JD) joined Farrell Fritz Memphis, TN. He has experience with children live in West River, MD. PC as counsel in Bridgehampton, NY. underprivileged youth through the Memphis Athletic Ministries and as an Rebecca Suits Hartsough is a stay-at- assistant coach for White Station High home mom preparing for the N.C. Bar so School. His basketball team of 12-year- she can practice law part-time. She and olds, the Memphis Demon Deacons with her husband, Jason, moved from Atlanta a motto of “Pro Humanitate,” finished its to Charlotte. first season in the top 20 in the country.

64 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Douglas Pulse received his master’s 2004 in foreign service from Georgetown University. He is a presidential Steven Ray Elliott is pursuing a management fellow at the U.S. Agency master’s of public affairs at UNC- for International Development and is Greensboro. engaged to be married. Sam Simmons (MD/MBA) is completing Brandon Walters his final year of pathology residency at KORNEGAY (MBA ’05) ROBBINS (JD/MBA ’07) received his JD from the New York Law School. the University of Kentucky and will begin a forensic pathology fellowship Tucker Ryan Pearson is a veterinarian with the North Carolina office of the at Carmichael Road Animal Clinic in 2003 Chief Medical Examiner. Montgomery, AL. Caroline Sheffield Thomas Brown (MD ’07) is a resident in pediatrics at Shannon “Missy” Sumerell 2005 the Wake Forest University Baptist Spainhour (JD) is an associate in the Medical Center. She and her husband, Ana Kornegay (MBA) is global marketing employment litigation department of Charles Douglas Brown II (’01, manager for Southern Comfort with Brown- Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman JD ’06), live in Winston-Salem. Forman Corporation in Louisville, KY. LLP in Charlotte.

Sean Patrick McGuire is pursuing an Annie Lausier received her master’s in Elise Morgan Whitley (JD) received MBA at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, digital media from Georgia Tech. She is her certification in family law and has TN. He was elected to the Nashville Metro an interaction designer at Yahoo! in been named a partner of Morrow City Council and reports he is the young- Sunnyvale, CA. Alexander Porter & Whitley PLLC. She est of the 40 members. and her husband, Cameron, and son, Milo, live in Winston-Salem.

Charlie C. Yang (MD) has joined the team of surgeons at Triangle Orthopaedic Associates PA in Durham, NC.

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Cindy DiTiberio is an associate editor at HarperSanFrancisco Publishers. She is Alumni find success with the PGA celebrating five years in the Bay Area and is engaged to be married. ake Forest has long been well known for its golfing tradition, and now that tradition Melissa Joyal (JD) is with Morris Wextends to behind the scenes, as well as on the course. Four Deacons hold adminis- Manning & Martin LLP in Atlanta. trative positions with the PGA Tour at its corporate headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Last year, Ross Berlin (’78) rejoined the PGA Tour as senior vice president of player Molly Mattingly received her MDiv affairs after working with the William Morris Agency and Michelle Wie as her player from the Vanderbilt University Divinity agent. Berlin works with the players (many of whom are former Deacon standouts) on ini- School in Nashville, TN. She is pursuing tiatives such as the new FedExCup season, player benefits, retirement programs and the a JD at the University of Louisville new anti-doping program. Previously, he was vice president of corporate marketing and Brandeis School of Law in Louisville, KY. title sponsor relations for the Tour. Jim Clarke (’95, MALS ’07) was recently named a project manager for golf course Joe Parker is a captain in the U.S. properties. He is currently working with the Tournament Players Clubs across the country Army. He took command of the Echo to implement a talent management program. Forward Support Co., 215th Brigade Todd Achilles (’01) was recently named coordinator of business development in Support Battalion, 1st Calvary Division in corporate marketing. He helps identify sponsor prospects and supports PGA Tour title Baqubah, Iraq. sponsorship sales efforts. He was previously a marketing assistant on the accounts management side. Courtney Pieczynski received her Mack Horton (’06), who began working at the Tour as an intern after his junior year, MBA from the University of Virginia. She now works with the Tour’s chief marketing officer on major events. is a healthcare consultant at Avalere Health in Washington.

www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 65 Erica Pigott received her MS in 2006 2007 international studies from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Bill Morgan (JD) is an associate in the Christopher M. Czarnecki received a litigation group of Patrick Harper & Dixon two-year U.S. Golf Association Fellow- Allison Scanlan served in Rwanda, LLP in Hickory, NC. He won a Metrolina ship in leadership and service. He will Africa, with a team from Trinity Church Theatre Award for Outstanding Perfor- work in the Western United States. of Greenwich, CT. The team served in mance by a Supporting Actor in the role many areas including one of World of Lockwood’s slapstick sidekick Cosmo Candace S. Friel (JD) has joined Vision’s development projects. They Brown in the Hickory Community Theatre Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP helped restore a clinic with Partners in production of “Singin’in the Rain.” in Winston-Salem. Health, and they built a playground for children who had never seen one. Marshall Reffett is the legislative Patrick M. Kane (JD) is an associate in correspondent for Congressman Dave the litigation practice group of Smith Reichert in Washington. He is pursuing a Moore LLP in Greensboro, NC. master’s in national security and strategic studies at the Naval War College.

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Pick up your cue and drop us a line or give us a call and let us know where you are and what you’re doing.

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66 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE William Scott Mannear completed the Sharon Anita Sikorski (’94) and Tiffany Noel Mitzman (’97) and advanced Mandarin language course at the Brian Sofield. 8/3/07. They live in Benjamin Harvey White III (’98, Monterey Institute of International Studies Taylors, SC. MA ’98, JD ’02). 10/6/07 in Greensboro, in Monterey, CA. He teaches English as a NC. They live in Winston-Salem. foreign language at the Nanchang Institute William Kirkpatrick “Kirk” Sanders of Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, (JD ’95) and Ashley Stowe Hayden. Amy Beth Raphael (’97) and Richard China. He is journaling his experience at 4/28/07 in Winston-Salem. Diepenbrock. 5/20/07 in Fort Lauderdale, sinoscott.blogspot.com FL. They live in Pembroke Pines, FL. Valerie L. Hodge (’96) and Tab J. J. Neal Robbins (JD/MBA) is an Mathis. 6/16/07 in Huntington, WV. Courtney Page Foley (’98) and Gabe associate in banking and finance with The wedding party included Heidi Byars. 7/8/07 in South Lake Tahoe, CA. Carruthers & Roth PA in Greensboro, NC. Reckord (’95). They live in Durham, NC. Attending were Deniz Akinc (’98), Kristin Wontka Longo Anne Wood is working in customer serv- Christopher B. Savinsky (’96, (’98), Allison Reid (’95), Cary Schaefer (’98) ice and marketing at Serena and Lily in MBA ’01) and Beverly C. Huffstetler and Brooke Beebe Woody (’98). Sausalito, CA. Serena Dugan (’94) (’97, MAEd ’02). 8/12/06 in Gastonia, NC. started this company of high-end linens They live in Austin,TX.The wedding party Michele O’Connor (’98) and Robert and bedding. included Shannon Cosart (MBA ’01), Kevin Rieb. 7/21/07 in Staten Island, NY. Father Johnson (MBA ’01), Ashley Bunnell Jude DeAngelo officiated. Attending Livingston (’97), Ginger Lohr Milne (’97), were Elise Murphy Forrest (’99), Jennifer Richwine (’93) and Joe Weeks (’95, Kayamma Lewis (’99), Erin Logan Marriages MBA ’01). Attending were Nan Falls Murphy (’99), Terri Gillispie Walling (’99) Bridgeman (’71), Charity Burnette (’96), Ed and Corinne Zadik (’01). Harry A. Arsenault (’69) and Valerie Clayton (’90, MBA ’00), Margaret Make M. Shepard. 12/23/06 in Danbury, CT. Clayton (’89), Beth Frey (JD ’02), Doug David Romhilt (’98) and Beth They live in Norwalk, CT. Hoogervorst (MBA ’01),Travis Howell (’97), Kaleida (’98). 8/25/07 in Duck, NC. They Susan Kwolkoski (MBA ’01), Alyson live in New York.The wedding party Daniel K. Cook (’78) and Heather C. Bunnell Miller (MBA ’96), Cynthia Moore included Tom Callahan (’98), Blake Gayle Perkins. 11/18/06 in Elkridge, MD. They (MBA ’99), Jeff Owen (’97, JD ’00), Lisa Cort (’98), Julie Muir Harlan (’98, MSA ’99), live in Columbia, MD. Owen (’95), John Powers (MD ’98), Leona John Hocutt (’98, JD ’01), Catherine Trombly Taylor (’98) and Brian Uzwiak (’96). Mitchell Jaxon (’98), Megan Deardorff Lillian Hill Pinto (’80, JD ’83) and Lecky (’98), Sara Hicks Malone (’98), Robert L. Watson. 10/14/06. They live in Sean Cole (JD ’97) and Sharon K. Dow. Andy Mathews (’98), Amy Stribling Rees Greensboro, NC. Her son, Andrew, is a 1/27/07 in Key West, FL. They live in (’98), Jennifer Kristen Salyer (’98), David Wake Forest sophomore. Raleigh, NC. Smith (’98, JD ’01), Jessica Dreisbach Stanfield (’98) and David Wilkins (’98). Brian “Zeke” Johnson (’89, Carlos Edward Jane’ (JD ’97) and MAEd ’91) and Laura Anne Shubilla. Ashley Caroline Kinney. 11/11/06.They live Nathan Andrew Anderson (’99, 8/07. They live in Philadelphia. in Winston-Salem.The wedding party MBA ’02) and Elizabeth Swanson Perry. included Scott M. Adams (JD ’97), Corey D. 7/28/07 in Clinton, NC. They live in Tom Legan (’89) and Brian Dean (’89). Buggs (JD ’97), Matthew S. Cheney (JD ’97) Greensboro, NC. The wedding party 3/6/07 in Scotch Plains, NJ. and John T. Earwood (’92, JD/MBA ’97). included Phil Hodes (’99). Attending were Frank Bell (JD ’77), Amy Thomas R. Rubino (’92) and Christine Washburn Cheney (’89, MAEd ’94), Timothy David Cashdollar (’99) and Elizabeth Dow. 8/25/07 in Birmingham, J. Calvin Cunningham (JD ’74), Paul Ekster Maria Yumibanda. 8/19/07 in Westport, AL. They live in St. Louis. (JD ’99), Dale Graham (JD ’83), Charles H. CT. They live in Valencia, PA.The Harp (JD ’72), Laura Lu Hedrick (’83, wedding party included Jeff Flowe (’99). August John Gering (’93) and Anne JD ’86), Bobby McCroskey (JD ’99), Roy M. Enenbach. 8/12/06 in Durham, NC. McDonald (JD ’00), Jimmy L. Myers (’75), Kimberly Elizabeth Dynan (’99) and The wedding party included R. Lawton Jon W. Myers (’88, JD/MBA ’92), J. Rodwell Albert Aviles. 7/27/07 in Tarrytown, NY. Jordan III (’93) and Brandon Pemberton Penry (’67, JD ’71), Phyllis Sturdivant Penry They live in Los Angeles. The wedding (’93). Attending were Scott Killingsworth (’71, JD ’75),Theodore S. Royster (’68), party included Megan Lavin Powell (’99). (’93) and Corey Witt (’93). Dawn Sheek (JD ’00), Jimmy Snyder (’67, Attending were Challice Lee Bonifant (’99), JD ’70), Jeffrey Sodko (’93, JD ’97), William Reece Burns (’99), Allison Pete Ballard (’94) and Stefanie B. Carlton Terry (JD ’96), Wendy Joyce Terry Milunic Hennessey (’99), Andrew Whitaker. 10/6/07 in Atlanta. (JD ’97), Derek Wagner (JD ’97) and Chuck Charles Hennessey (’98) and Gray Wall (’70, JD ’72). Wilson Powell (’98).

www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 67 Margaret Stuart Brooks (’00) and Brendan Christopher Reichs (’00) Jason Patrick Cofone (’02) Matthew Edward Snyder (’02). 9/8/07 and Emily Grace Quimby (’01). and Solange Blaschke. 5/26/07 in in Winston-Salem. They live in Charlotte. 7/28/07 in Westborough, MA. They live Southampton Parish, Bermuda. The father of the bride is George Evans in Charlotte. The wedding party included Brooks (’71). The wedding party included Lisa Marie Biedrzycki (’01), Melissa Bethany Johanna Dulis (’02) and Parker Brooks (’97), Melanie Donnelly Wellman Norman (’01, MAEd ’04), Nadeem Dallal. 7/1/07 in Westwood, (’00), Ben Duckworth (’02), Claire Strang Robert Anthony Rinaldi (’00) and Allison KS. They live in Kansas City, MO. The Farver (’00), Drew Frazier (’02), Courtney Dale Taylor (’01). wedding party included Tamara Dunn (’02) Docter Gable (’00), Emily Jacobs (’00), and Shannon Reibel (’02). Attending Charlotte Hartzog Kermode (’00), Wil Geoffrey William Warren (’00) were Christina Bruggeman (’01), Dorothy Lavender (02), Pat Lonning (’02), India and Meredith Mieczkowski. 6/26/06 in Kuykendal (’02) and Emily Wilson Perry (’00), Rob Poidomani (’02), Sara Columbus, OH. They live in Ashburn, Sumner (’01). Price (’00), Jonathan Snyder (MD ’04), VA.The wedding party included Andy Meredith Brooks Sorrell (’99), Margaret Archer (’00), L. Chris Bustamante (’99), Rebecca Lindsey Ham (’02) and Turner (’00), Brooke MacPhail Ueberroth Dave Celello (’00), Charlie Compton (’01), Benjamin Shaw Ormsbee. 6/9/07 in (’00) and Reed Walden (’02). Jon Gambill (’00), Rich Graves (’00), Neil Washington. They live in Rockville, MD. Jenkins (’00) and Adam Ward (’00). The wedding party included Julia Ham Emma Louise Claggett (’00) and (’04), Kristin Koop (’02) and Kimberly Peter Zachary Gehret. 10/14/06 in Vicki Levy (’01) and Todd Gelfeld. Storer (’02). Attending were Eleah Raleigh. They live in Basel, Switzerland. 7/14/07 in Arlington,VA.The wedding Gamble (’02), Tyler Koop (’02), Gus The father of the bride is Stephen R. party included Claire Boetticher (’01), Kryder (’04), Scott Mann (’01), Caleigh Claggett (MA ’81). Attending were Katherine O’Brien (’01), Melissa Vorselen McElwee (’02), Eve-Marie Welch (’02), Jordana Soyke Barclay (’00), Dee Clarke (’01) and Mary Burroughs Yuill (’01). Sarah Wildrick (’03), Margaret Williams (’00), Laura Jeanne Teeter Dildine (’00), (’02) and Jessica Zazworsky (’02). Sara Hunt (’00), John Leonard (’00) and Kate Mason (’01) and Mark Michalek. Susan Myers (’81). 9/7/07 in Steamboat Springs, CO. The Mary Claire Hodges (’02) and John wedding party included Winston Irwin David Hall. 10/6/07 in Winston-Salem. Kristen Marie Franke (’00) and Marosek (’01). Attending were Anna They live in Fort Worth, TX. The wedding William Lee Johnson. 9/1/07 in Lake Blitch (’01), Emilie Johnson (’01) and party included Caroline Tyson Cox (’02), Chambersburg, PA. Attending were Erin Leahy (’01). Faith Glavey Pawl (’02), Christie Marzahn Sarah Yaramishyn Nolin (’00), Lauren Stump (’02), Kara Wallace (’01) and Rule (’00) and Danielle Whren (’00). Lisa Tucker Ryan (’01) and Jon David Valerie Patrick Zaryczny (’02). Pearson. 6/9/07 in Montgomery, AL, Stuart Hipp (’00) and Stephanie where they live. The wedding party Aaron Winter (’02) and Susannah Vartanian. 1/14/07 in Simmsbury, CT. included Anna Kuhn (’02). Rosenblatt (’03). 6/23/07 in They live in Winston-Salem. Mitchellville, MD. They live in Long Jason Timothy Shaw (’01) and Beach, CA. The bride’s mother is Faye Tiffany Dawn Kassab (’00) and Ashley Megan Buchanan (’01). Setzer Rosenblatt (’67). The wedding Freddie Lee Williams II. 8/11/07 in 7/14/07 in Sedalia, CO. They live in party included Gerald Barbee (’02), Ian Greenville, SC. The wedding party Parker, CO. The wedding party included James (’02), Margaret McKenzie (’03) included Amine Tharrington Seifert (’00). Marguerite Corvini (’01), Stacia Harris and Brian Palank (’02). Attending were Attending were Tim Bennett (’02, (’01) and Jeanne Lynch (’02). Attending Katie Beck Agress (’03), Peter Banks (’03), MALS ’04), Megan Dowdy (’01), Meg were Kevin Cahill (’01), Lacye Huffaker Gretchen Crook Bauer (’03), Loren Goodman (’00) and Sam Seifert (’99). Cahill (’00), Caroline Clore (’01), Lauren Biggs (’01), Aaron Bokros (’02), Justin Klopacs (’01), Courtney Sellars Pepper Catanoso (MALS ’93), Tori Countner (’03), Sheereen Miller (’00) and Ahmad (’01) and Whitney Kinlaw Shevlin (’00). Alison Delaney (’04), Jeff Feintech (’03), Russell. 9/1/07 in Charleston, SC. They Elizabeth Bland Glynn (’04), Phil live in New York City. Attending were Keyshorn Smith (’01) and Diedre Glynn (’03), Lisa Hoppenjans (’03), Candrice Heath (’00), Shannon Johnson Washington (’02). 8/4/07. The wedding Meredith Carroll McSwain (’03), Jacob (’03), Jocelyn Womack (’00) and Brandi party included Kito Gary (’99), Montgomery (’02), Justin Parker (’02), Wubbena (’00). Christopher McCoy (’01), David Moore Liz Eads Parker (’01), Chrissy Engle (’00) and Kristin Washington (’04). Raver (’03), Todd Raver (’02), Adam Wells (’01), Jon Willingham (’03), Sarah Jones Paul M. Browning (’02) and Emma Wingfield (’03), Will Wingfield (’03) and Jane White (’02). 8/11/07 in adjunct professor James Barefield. Massachusetts. They live in Cary, NC. The wedding party included Amanda Winston Monschein (’02).

68 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Michael George Altieri (’03) and Alexandra Lee Snyder (’03) and Rose Weinberg (’04), and Layne Grayson Danielle Margaret VanSice (’06). Leonardo Andres Garcia. 9/8/07 in Wilson (’04). 7/7/07 in Winston-Salem. They live in Charleston, SC. The bride’s uncle is Charlotte. The wedding party included Laurens John Snyder (’84). The wedding Josh Edwards (’04) and Alison Ben Boyd (’98), Catherine Chinlund (’06), party included Katherine Hollingsworth Pomeroy (’06). 7/21/07 in Durham, NC. Jay Morgan (’02), Bethany Novak (’06) Brown Gelatt (’03), Kristen Rita O’Kane They live in Arlington,VA. Ingram and Ryan Peiffer (’02). (’03), Kathleen Blaire Overly (’03) and Hedgpeth (’76) officiated. The wedding Kelly Anne Ross (’03). Attending were party included Jared Cardwell (’04), Meredith Anne Carroll (’03) and Bryn Brett Francis Bechtel (’03, MD ’07), Larissa Cyran (’06), Andrew Glassick Walker McSwain. 3/31/07 in Wilmington, Spencer Dunlap Bolln (’04), Stephen (’03), Diana Harrison (’06), Julie McKenna NC. The wedding party included Katie Michael Hawryluk (’03), Nicholas (’06), senior Annie Murphy, Blake Smith Beck Agress (’03), Gretchen Crook Bauer Anderson Jeffries (’03), Lindsey Rushing (’04) and Dayton Vielguth (’04). (’02), Ann McAdams Bumgardner (’00), Kueffner (’03), Kathryn Ann Larson (’03), Margaret Leigh McKenzie (’03), Christine Jennifer Elizabeth Martin (’04) and Steve LeFaivre (’04) and Catherine Engle Raver (’03) and Susannah Stephanie Jean Pavlis (’03). Fortin Major (’04). 7/14/07 in Ottawa, Rosenblatt Winter (’03). Canada. The wedding party included Jamie Lyn Whittaker (’03) and Adralyn Wendel (’04). Attending were Connie Fleming (’03) and Andrew Joseph Addonizio. 9/7/07 in Meredith, Jamie Athas (’01), Nick Blue (’04), Ryan Wright. 10/13/07 in Pinehurst, NC.They live NH. The wedding party included Hubbard (’03) and Erin Keating (’04). in Raleigh.The wedding party included Breanne Collins (’03), Tanis Smith (’03) Jordan Simpson (’04) and Kate Turnage and Marc Whittaker (’01). Attending John William Lettieri (’04) and (’04). Attending were Emily Conrad Beaver were Andy Bologna (’03, MSA ’04), Carrie D’Ann Grady (’04). 8/18/07 in (’03), Ryan Beaver (’03, JD ’06), Danielle Cher Jacques (’03) and Erin Tully (’03). Winston-Salem. Tripp Harrington (’98) Binder (’03), Elizabeth Gandy Hall (’03), was photographer and Brett Allen Harris Jonathan Hall (’01), Anna Chrietzberg John Leland Ammons (’04) and (’04) provided special music. The wedding McKenzie (’03), David McKenzie (’02), Laura Whitney Hall (’04). 9/2/07 in party included Scott Ralph Cleveland Chris Schneider (’03, MSA ’04) and Emily Louisville, KY. They live in Waynesville, (’04), Morgan Taylor Fordham Jr. (’04), Saunders Schneider (’03). NC. The wedding party included Larry Kelly Lauren Gamble (’04), Rebecca Rogers Ammons (’65), Allison Page Hall Wilson Harris (’04), Molly Elizabeth Hunt Tracy Lee Herrmann (’03) and Ryan (’07), David Michael Irvine (’04) and (’04), Mary Ellen Kistler (’04), Joanna Teel. 9/22/07 in Big Canoe, GA. They live Jennifer Marie Paschal (’04). Attending Frances Lee (’04), Robert Henry Mills in Atlanta. The wedding party included were William Joseph Allegra (’05), (’04) and Gregory David Schutt (’04). Erin Lunn (’03). Attending were Jennifer Elizabeth Ann Ammons (’99), Shaunna Schneider Camp (’03), Will Clough (’03), Elizabeth Bailey (’04), James David Baird Sam Simmons (MD/MBA ’04) and Melissa Jordan (’03), Tracie McDonald (’65),Vicente Jose’ Bastidas (’04), Linette Alixanne Davis. 8/07. They live in (’03, MSA ’04) and Christie Witzig (’03). Marie Capitano (’04), Susan Pei-Shan Lexington, KY. Lynne Cheng (JD ’07), William Macklin Anna Elizabeth Holt (’03) and Charles Cobb (’04), Jeffrey Juergens Conklin (’04), Lauren G. Beyer (’05) and current Burns Upton II. 8/18/07 in Charlotte. They Gregory Scott Connor (’04), Jason medical student Brian C. Werner. live in Tallahassee, FL. The wedding party Michael Davin (’04), Kristin Johnson 8/10/07 in Lancaster, PA.They live in included Caroline Thomas Brown (’03, Davin (’03, MAEd ’04), Emerson Winston-Salem. The father of the bride is MD ’07), Traci Kelly Cherry (’06), Anna Goodwin Dickey (’04), Kristy Diane Frederick C. Beyer III (’73, MD ’76), and Warburton Coffin (’03), Lindsey Stergiou Fletcher (’04), Maureen Theresa Flynn her aunt and uncle are Mary Simpson Guenther (’03), Amy Wilson Hale (’03), (’04), Michael Joseph Gorman (’04), Ryan Beyer (’75) and Richard W. Beyer (’74, Melissa Erin Jones (’03), Ashley True Arthur Green (’04), senior Thomas JD ’76). Lang (’03) and Emily Walters Langley (’04). William Haberstroh, Rebecca Alston Hamilton (’04), Courtney Carolyn Hicks Aaron Patrick Nam Blades (’05) and Morgan Emily Mann (’03) and (’04), Julia Lynn Hutcheson (’04), Jean- Margaret Elinore Bussmann (’06). Richard Scott Meador. 8/11/07 in Marie Joel (’04), Sarah Elizabeth Johnson 6/16/07 in Hyannis Port, MA. The wedding Richmond,VA.The wedding party (’07), James Patrick Kelly (’04), Richard party included Larissa Cyran (’06), Matt included Karen Trapnell (’03). Ashley Steven Kozell (’04), Letitia Marie Lanier English (’05), Louise Louthan (’05), Baker (’03) attended. (’04), Lily Parsons Melton (’04), William Ashley Weston McGowen (’05), Richard Boyd Owen (’67, MD ’71), Uma Vijay Nance (JD ’06), Dayton Vielguth (’04) and Aaron Mayo (’03) and Betty Ashton Patwardhan (’04), Whitney Young Pennell Aaron Wolcott (’07). Andrews. 8/11/07 in Roanoke,VA.The (’04), Garrett Wheler Redmond (’04), wedding party included Hunt Mayo (’01) Brooke Elizabeth Shepherd (’04), Wesley Saud Rahman (MD ’05) and Huma and Sean McGuire (’03). Attending were David Sherman (’04), Casey Kennedy Ansari. 8/14/05 in Palatine, IL. 8/20/05 in Cary Hudgins (’03), John Martinez (’03) Tealdi (’04), Alyssa Leigh Veselick (’04), Baltimore. They live in Glen Allen,VA. and Tommy O’Reardon (’03). Janssen Kyle Kimmel Vis (’04), Joanna

www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 69 Kyle Scott Erickson (’06) and Irene J.C. Huggins (’90) and Melanie Jimmy Hendrix (’94) and Alli Hendrix, Caitlin Webb (’06). 7/7/07 in Winston- Huggins, St. Paul, MN: a son, Thomas Oviedo, FL: a son, Palmer William. 4/3/07. Salem. They live in Chicago. The wedding Shepard. 7/6/07. He joins his sisters, He joins his sister, Lily (5), and brother, party included Charlene Afable (’05), Adeline (8) and Lila Rose (2). Campbell (18 mos.). John Cooley (’06), Kari Erickson (’04), Frank Oroszlan (’06) and Chris Rose (’06, Angela Lewellyn Jones (’90) and Michelle Dupont Mitchell (’94) and MSA ’07). David M. Jones, Hillsborough, NC: Brian Mitchell, Atlanta: a daughter, a son, Samuel Benjamin. 4/4/07. He Zoe Alexandra. 6/28/07 Andrew Dale Irby (JD ’06) and Megan joins his sister, Tea Hope (3). Elizabeth Bennett (’06). 7/14/07 Scott Vantre (’94) and Elizabeth Alison Teresa Chilcott (’91) and Marsh Vantre (’94), Glen Allen,VA: a Baxter McGuirt (’06) and Maggie Michael Gary Lyon, Estes Park, CO: daughter, Elizabeth “Ella”Scott. 5/1/07. Simmons (’06). 5/12/07 in Clemmons, a daughter, Kathryn Rose Alexandra. She joins her brothers, Nicholas Porter NC. They live in Winston-Salem. 6/30/07 (6), Steele Thomas (4) and Drew Scott (2).

Ashley Griffin Pollock (’06) and Scott Anthony Lewis Amos Jr. (’92) and Carol Owens Brown (’95) and Ben C. Wesley Sutton (MA ’07). 6/30/07 in Kimberly Head-Amos, Decatur, GA: Brown, Charlotte: a daughter, Hannah Topsail Beach, NC. They live in Hender- a daughter, Anne Beaty. 8/18/07 McKenzie. 9/1/07. She joins her brothers, son, NV.The wedding party included Aaron (4) and David (2). She is the grand- Katie Chinlund (’06), Mallory Kinlaw Laura Blood (’92) and Michael Hill, daughter of Joyce and William F. Owens (’06), Nancy Muir (’05), Harold Pollock Washington: a daughter, Meredith. Jr. (’59) and niece of Frank Welder (JD ’78), Rhett Pollock (’02), Claire Sellner 9/19/07. She joins her brother, Ethan (2). (MBA/PhD ’04) and Cathy Owens Welder (’06) and Martha Woodrum (’05). (’90). Kory Barrett (’93) and Julia Barrett, Severna Park, MD: a daughter, Lynn Gregg Fernstrom (’95) and Elizabeth. 10/17/07. She joins her sister, Katherine Bresette Fernstrom (’96), Births/Adoptions Reese (6), and brother, Owen (4). West Orange, NJ: a son, Owen Lars. 4/5/07. He joins his sister, Chloe (3). Dean Coulopoulos (’82) and Maria August John Gering (’93) and Anne Coulopoulos, Great Falls,VA: a son, Gering, Durham, NC: a son, Angus John Tracey Parrington Jones (’95) and Dimitri William. 5/10/07. He joins his Augustus. 9/5/07 Jeff Jones (’96), Charlotte: a daughter, sister, Sophia Irini (3). Sophie Grace. 5/10/07. She joins her Rusty Painter (’93) and Carrie Painter, sister, Sarah (2). Linda Boone Bartlett (’85) and Bill Durham, NC: a son, William Landry. Bartlett, Greenville, SC: adopted son, 8/22/07 Christine Rose-Cavallo (’95) and James (Jae) Robinson. 2/20/05 in South Frank Cavallo, Hackensack, NJ: two Korea. He joins his sister, Maria Rusty Ray (’93) and Kerry Feldmann daughters, Allexia and Alyssa. 12/31/06 Elizabeth. (’95), New York: a daughter, Zoe Gaither. 6/28/07 Shelby Wallach Schultz (’95) and David Blick (’87) and Patricia Blick, Fred Schultz, Naperville, IL: a daughter, Annapolis, MD: a daughter, Ann Sherri McDaniel Sealey (’93, MBA ’01) Catherine. 10/2/07. She joins her brother, Campbell. 7/4/07 and Danny Sealey, Winston-Salem: a son, Matthew (5), and sister, Elizabeth (2). Justin David. 8/6/07 David Krell (’88) and Andrea Gooch Laura Layman Stickler (’95) and Krell (’91), Matthews, NC: a daughter, Jennifer More Stauffer (’93) and David Stickler, Mount Pleasant, SC: a Caroline Carter. 7/15/07. She joins her Marc R. Stauffer, Tampa, FL: a son, Davis son, Paul Bowen. 7/22/07. He joins his brothers, Evan (9), Jason (6) and John Anthony. 4/17/07. He joins his brothers, brothers, Andrew Evan (5) and Bennett Carter (2). Grady (5) and Henry (3). Kennedy (2).

Suzanne Eileen Generao (’89) and Joshua Wade Harrison (’94) and Derek Van Zandt (’95) and Jennifer Jaime Dickerson, Sacramento, CA: a Janet Faris Harrison (’95), Norcross, Lee MacNeill Van Zandt (’97), New daughter, Gigi Elizabeth. 8/22/07 GA: a daughter, Mary Caroline Graves. York: a daughter, Hayden Lee. 9/21/07 7/5/07. She joins her brother, Miles (2). Brian Christopher Arthaud-Day Charles Curry (’96) and Melissa Curry, (’90) and Marne Lynn Arthaud-Day Amy Young Harwood (’94) and Orlando, FL: a daughter, Georgia Grace. (’92), Manhattan, KS: a son, Holden David Harwood, West Orange, NJ: a 8/16/07 Timothy. 1/14/07. He joins his brother, son, Cooper Bruce. 8/4/07. He joins his Koen (4). brothers, Tyler (2) and Jack (2).

70 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Heather Saunders Grimsley (’96) W. Chris O’Neal (’97) and Catherine Stephanie Wilkerson Yoder (’98) and and Larry Grimsley, Sykesville, MD: a Kendrick O’Neal (’98), Atlanta: a son, Alex Yoder, Winston-Salem: a daughter, son, Colin Allen. 6/7/07. He joins his William Kendrick. 8/22/07 Ava Catherine Elizabeth. 2/6/07 sister, Kate (5), and brother, Kyle (3). Keith Siegner (’97, MSA ’98) and Julie Ashe Ball (’99) and Joe Ball, David Matthew Jackson (’96) and Carissa Siegner, Stamford, CT: a son, Winston-Salem: a son, Donovan Hayes. Amy Bumgardner Jackson (’97), Cole Robert. 7/17/07 7/5/07. He joins his brother, Riley (3). Roanoke,VA: a son, William Nolan. 8/4/07 Susan Reid Burns (’98) and Barry Tanya Glosson Floyd (’99) and Burns, Enterprise, AL: a son, Reid Michael Floyd, Charlotte: a daughter, Randall Kirsch (’96) and Amy Lewis Holden. 3/23/07. He joins his brother, Addison Nicole. 4/22/07 Kirsch (’96), Atlanta: a daughter, Cheryl Bryant (4). “Callie”McAlister. 6/5/07. She joins her Thomas H. Hawk III (’99) and brother, Miles Walker (2 1/2). Morgan Poteat Corbett (’98) and Elizabeth Canfield Hawk, Atlanta: a Brian F. Corbett (JD ’00), Raleigh: daughter, Chambless Louise. 10/5/07 Shannon Meeker Marrujo (’96) a daughter, Louise McNeill. 10/13/07. and Daniel Marrujo, Apex, NC: a son, She joins her brother, Charlie (4), and Elizabeth Katherine Crumley Kinast Christian West “CW.” 3/21/07. He joins sister, Essie (2). She is the granddaughter (’99) and Matt Kinast (’99), Ithaca, his brother, Max (2). of Robert M. Poteat (’68). NY: a daughter, Maura Elizabeth. 7/24/06

Carrie Maletta Rusche (’96) and E. Bradley Evans (’98, JD ’02) and Stephen Kroustalis (’99) and Nicole Paul Rusche, Liberty Township, OH: Elizabeth Watson Evans (’99), Kroustalis, Winston-Salem: a daughter, a daughter, Angela Christine. 6/21/07 Greenville, NC: a daughter, Clara Elaina Caroline. 7/18/07. Grandparents Elizabeth. 9/13/07. She joins her brother, include Otis (’66) and Carole Chilton and Rebecca Childress Turner (’96) and William Meade (2 1/2). Chris (’67) and Kia Kroustalis. Charles Turner (’96), Houston: a son, Benjamin Charles. He joins his sister, Carmen Vaughn Ganjehsani (’98) Elizabeth Graff Luekens (’99) and Julia Claire (2). and Warren Ganjehsani, Columbia, SC: Michael Timothy Luekens (’99), a daughter, Arianna Elizabeth. 10/16/06 Kittery, ME: a son, Evan Jeffrey. 8/4/07 Caroline Coln Wall (’96) and Marshall Wall, Raleigh: a son, Frank Brewer. Suzanne Willeers Hlavacek (’98) Amy Cahoon Malasky (’99, MAEd ’01) 5/31/07. He joins his brother, Angus and Jim Hlavacek, Gainesville, GA: and Damon Malasky, Raleigh: a son, Jones. a daughter, Emily Grace. 4/15/07. Seth Reynolds. 7/25/07. He joins his She joins her brother, Andrew (2). brother, Paul (2). Kim Dallas Busby (’97) and Bart Busby, Atlanta: a daughter, Claire Marin Shaughnessy Knight (’98) and Ryan J.T. Patrick (’99) and Laura Elizabeth. 8/9/07. She joins her brother, Eric Knight, Charlestown, MA: a son, Sayers Patrick (’00), Austin, TX: a Patrick (2). Hale Hampton II. 7/26/07 daughter, Martha Kathryn “Mary Kate.” 4/2/07 Karen West Baker Chippendale (’97, Rebecca Muyres (’98) and Jeffrey MSA ’98) and William Chippendale Jr., Muyres (’99), Matthews, NC: a son, Lawton Pearson (’99) and Lanier Issaquah, WA: a daughter, Addison Colin Audric. 5/1/07. He joins his Defnall Pearson (’00), Perry, GA: Parker. 7/25/07. She joins her brother, brother, Ethan Michael (2). a daughter, Adeline Lanier. 8/11/07 Will (2). William R. Pekowitz Jr. (’98) and Jonathan Neil Perry (’99) and Paige Patrice Carpenter Dyckes (’97, Karen Pekowitz, Ossining, NY: a Perry, Wendell, NC: a daughter, Parker MBA ’05) and Jason Dyckes, Charlotte: daughter, Alexandra Marianne. 7/20/07. Simpson. 8/21/07 a son, Parker Owen. 7/31/07 She joins her sister, Julia (20 mos.). Andrew Rush (’99) and Rebeccah Christopher R. Gaskell (’97, Travis Holmes Perry (JD ’98) and Rush, Winston-Salem: a son, Henry Jack. MAEd ’98) and Leslie Gaskell, Holly Perry, Fruita, CO: a son, Nathan 8/13/06 Leesburg,VA: a daughter, Marlee Holmes. 7/28/07. He joins his brother, Ryenne. 7/18/07. She joins her sister, Lucas Holmes (3). Allyson Fayard Sonntag (’99) and Kylie (3). David Sonntag (’00), Alexandria,VA: a Patricia Marie Barattini Taylor (’98) daughter, Anna Calleigh. 5/29/07. She Ginger Lohr Milne (’97) and Stephen and Gregory Taylor, East Northport, NY: joins her brother, Asher (2). Bruce Milne, Brentwood, TN: a daughter, a daughter, Maggie Lynne. 6/11/07 Carol Elizabeth. 4/30/07.

www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 71 Carter Sorrell (’99) and Meredith Ira Williams Jr. (’01) and Lamaya Deaths Brooks Sorrell (’99), Charlotte: Covington Williams (’01, MALS ’05), twin daughters, Brooks McLeod and Winston-Salem: a son, Ira III “Tres.” Robert W. Crutchfield (’30), Aug. 14, Laura Parker. 4/24/07 5/6/07. He joins his sister, Amira (6). 2007, Kannapolis, NC. He taught high school, earned his master’s in accounting Wendy Marie Schriever Vogl (’99) Christopher F. Brislin (JD ’02) and from UNC-Chapel Hill, and began work and Tom Vogl, Winston-Salem: a son, Maggie Brislin, Charlotte: a daughter, on his PhD at Ohio State University Joshua Frank. 2/25/07 Wren Alexandra. 12/6/06 before World War II. He became a civilian employee for the defense department. Megan Johnson Whelen (’99) and Gabrielle Ceruzzi Henrich (’02) and After the war, he worked at Cannon Mills Jim Whelen, Winston-Salem: a son, Benjamin Henrich, Mount Pleasant, SC: Co. and was a professor of accounting at Colin James. 6/9/07 a son, Jackson Ramsay. 8/18/07 UNC-Chapel Hill. He returned to Cannon Mills in 1950 and retired in 1975 Andrew M. Ciccarelli (MD ’00) and Elizabeth Ann Hollan (’02) and Bill as a CPA and assistant controller. Ann Ciccarelli, Amherst, MA: a daughter, Hollan, Winston-Salem: a daughter, Eva Lindsay. 11/24/06 Anna Chitwood. 2/2/07. She joins her Cecil Clarence Bost (’31), June 14, brother, Will (4). 2007, Davidson, NC. He taught and Rebecca Suits Hartsough (’00) and coached in Mooresville, NC, before Jason Hartsough, Charlotte: a son, Sarah Catherine Pearson working with Alcoa Aluminum in Badin, Jackson Andrew. 7/13/07 Huempfner (’02) and David NC. He retired in 1972. Huempfner, Mount Pleasant, SC: Steven C. McRae (JD ’00) and a son, Sullivan Edward. 8/2/07 T. Carl Brown (’32), July 8, 2007, Ann Macon McRae, Graham, NC: Raleigh, NC. He earned his master’s in a daughter, Flora Haddock. 1/18/07 Laura Rose Neelon (’02) and vocational education from UNC-Chapel Joshua Brian Neelon, Winston-Salem: Hill and taught at Statesville High School Jeremy William Rupon (’00) and a daughter, Alice Ladd. 5/23/07. She joins before World War II. He served in the Keira Brooke Bard Rupon (’00), her sister, Lucy (3). U.S. Army Signal Corps and continued in Boston: a son, Quentin Joseph. 8/2/07 the National Guard until his retirement Brandon A. Van Balen (JD ’02) and as brigadier general in 1971. Scott Bernard Watson (’00) and Julie Van Balen, Atlanta: a daughter, Megan Watson, Charlotte: a son, Aubrey Elizabeth. 7/28/07 Floyd T. Allen (’34), Sept. 22, 2007, James Ian. 4/20/07 Chesapeake,VA. He was retired from Gregory Alan Drabik (MBA ’03) and W.R. Grace & Co. Jennifer Rader Windley (JD ’00) Sarah Drabik, High Point, NC: a son, and Lance Windley, Raleigh: a son, Miles Gregory. 5/31/07. He joins his David Livingstone Beavers (’37), Grayson Thrasher. 5/19/07 brother, Mason Kenneth (3). July 19, 2007, Winston-Salem. He received his DDS from Northwestern University, Rebecca Todd Bell (’01) and Lee Christopher Davies Rolle Jr. (’03) was a dentist in Winston-Salem for 40 David Bell Jr. (’03), Memphis, TN: and Jessica Lynn Ryan Rolle (’04), years, and on the staff at the Wake Forest a son, Riley McClain. 6/13/07 Westminster, MD: a son, Christopher University Baptist Medical Center for 25 Davies III, and a daughter, Ryan Grace. years. He served in the U.S. Army as a James L. Caldwell II (’01) and 9/11/07 dental officer during World War II, was a Shantha Hyman Caldwell, Winston- POW and received the Silver Star and Salem: a son, James III “Trey.” 5/6/07 Bronze Star. He is survived by his wife, Betty; three sons, David, Philip (’71) and Jason Rajtar (’01) and Karen Rajtar Bill; three daughters, Janet (’73), Gail (’01). Bellevue, WA: a daughter, (’80) and Judy; and 14 grandchildren. Alexandra Rose, and a son, Jax Deacon. 9/29/07 Haywood Brill Huntley (’37), Sept. 16, 2007, Wadesboro, NC. He operated Wadesboro Hardware and Electric Co. with his brother before entering the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He returned to Wadesboro Hardware before co-founding Huntley-Ashcraft Insurance. He later became a realtor and contractor and opened Huntley Realty Co.

72 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Wilbur Morton Jolly (’37, JD ’41), OBITUARY Aug. 18, 2007, Zebulon, NC. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and BILL ANGELL (’41) continued in the U.S. Army Reserves until 1963. He began practicing law in 1945 and retired in 2004 as a senior partner of . William “Bill”Angell, an Jolly Williamson & Williamson in Louis- Jordained Baptist minister burg, NC. He was inducted into the N.C. who promoted an ecumenical Bar Association Lawyer’s Hall of Fame in outlook during his 35 years 2002 and was dean of the Franklin County teaching in the religion Bar. He represented Franklin County in department, died Sept. 10 in the N.C. Senate in 1957, 1959 and 1963 Winston-Salem. He was 87. and represented the 14th district in the Angell (’41) joined the N.C. State House of Representatives in faculty in 1955 and retired in 1980. 1990 as Easley Professor of Religion. In 1968, he helped develop The Ecumenical Institute, a joint venture still operating between Wake Forest Elton W. Manning (’37), Aug. 30, 2007, and Belmont Abbey College, a Catholic college near Charlotte. At the Greenville, NC. In 1995, when he was 80 time, it was the only institute of its kind to be jointly sponsored by years old, he donated $2 million to Wake Protestants and Roman Catholics. Forest to endow a need- and merit-based “He will be remembered as a man who came out of the Baptist tradition undergraduate scholarship for students to give so much of his energy to developing The Ecumenical Institute that from eastern North Carolina. Eighteen was intended to bring Baptists and Catholics together,”said Provost students are receiving the Manning Emeritus Edwin G. Wilson (’43). “At that time, in the South, at a Baptist Scholarship this year. A native of college, that was groundbreaking.” Robersonville, NC, he served in the U.S. Angell served as director of The Ecumenical Institute from 1970 until Army during and after World War II, and 1974 and was later a board member and consultant. In 1973, he received retired from the Army Reserves as a the Papal Medal for Ecumenism from Pope Paul VI in a ceremony at the lieutenant colonel. For many years he Vatican. In 1986, he received The Ecumenical Institute’s Cuthbert E. Allen lived in the Washington area where he Award for contributions to ecumenism. worked for the federal government as a He was among the first faculty members to teach an interdisciplinary real estate appraiser. He later had his course, teaming with philosophy professor Bob Helm to teach for many own real estate appraisal business in years “Meaning and Value in Western Thought.” He was the author, co- Northern Virginia, before moving to author or editor of nine books and more than 40 articles in various jour- Raleigh, NC, and later to Greenville. nals. In 1988, he was named the first John Allen Easley Professor of Religion. William Oscar Petty Jr. (’37), Aug. 20, “He was a tremendous theological scholar and always a gentleman,” 2007, Raleigh, NC. He served in the U.S. said Rev. Bobby Touchton (’85), a religion major who is now a chaplain at Navy during World War II and worked at the federal correctional institution in Ashland, Ky. “The theological and Duke University for 26 years. He served ethical topics he broached in his classes were wide and complex, but he the Duke Endowment as a student loan was able to break them down for undergraduates as though they were officer. from a simple Sunday school lesson.” A native of Mocksville, NC, Angell attended Mars Hill College before Joseph Alexander Ross Sr. (’37), graduating from Wake Forest. He received a Master of Theology degree Sept. 7, 2007, Barco, NC. He grew up in in 1945 from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.; a the Baptist Children’s Home in Master of Sacred Theology degree in 1946 from Andover Newton Thomasville, NC, and was a lieutenant Theological School/Harvard Divinity School in Boston; and a Ph.D. in 1949 commander in the U.S. Navy during from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He pastored Baptist church- World War II. He was a teacher and es in North Carolina, Kentucky, Massachusetts and Florida, served as principal at Poplar Branch (NC) High chaplain of Campbell College, and taught at Stetson University for four School and a retired sales manager for a years before joining the religion faculty at Wake Forest. masonry manufacturing company. He is survived by his wife, Marjorie Sutterlin Angell; two sons, John William Angell Jr. and George Sutterlin Angell of Baltimore; and four Earle W. Strickland (’39), July 19, grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the Easley Fund in the 2007, Williamsburg,VA. He received his Department of Religion; the Divinity School; Wake Forest Baptist Church; DDS from the Medical College of or The Ecumenical Institute of Wake Forest University and Belmont Abbey Virginia and served in the U.S. Naval College. Dental Corps. In 1946 he opened a dental office in Zuni,VA, and retired in 1985. — Kerry M. King (’85)

www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 73 OBITUARY Henry Bruce Land Jr. (’41), Oct. 2, Jean Shelton Norman (’48), Aug. 14, 2007, Baltimore. He served as a chaplain 2007, Clemmons, NC. She taught school, NORMAN A. WIGGINS (’50, JD ’52) in the U.S. Navy during World War II and worked at Western Electric Co. and was a the Korean War. He served in the U.S. homemaker. She is survived by her son, Air Force Reserves until retiring as a David (’79), a granddaughter, brother orman Adrian Wiggins (’50, JD ’52), lieutenant colonel in 1980. He pastored and twin sister, Jo Shelton Edwards Na former Wake Forest law professor churches in North Carolina,Virginia and (’48). who served as president of Campbell Baltimore. He taught English as a second University for 36 years, died Aug. 1. Wiggins, language in Laurel, MD, and traveled on Clarence S. Olive (’48), Aug. 2, 2007, who died of complications from lymphoma, mission trips with his wife, Evelyn, to Fayetteville, NC. He received his DDS was 83. He is survived by his wife, Millie Argentina, China, Egypt, England, Israel, from the University of Maryland. He Harmon Wiggins (’50). Japan, Mexico, Scotland and Turkey. served in the U.S. Navy during World Wiggins was named president of War II and the Air Force during the Campbell—a small, private, Baptist-affiliated Fred D. Welch Sr. (’41), Sept. 30, 2007, Korean War. He was a dentist in college in Buies Creek, NC—in 1967. Over Columbia, SC. He was a World War II Fayetteville for 43 years. the next three decades, he oversaw the and Korean War veteran, receiving the school’s growth into the second largest pri- Bronze Star for his service on Omaha William Clarke Sr. (’49), June 10, 2007, vate university in North Carolina and the Beach on D-Day. He was a manufacturer’s Midlothian,VA. He was retired from the second largest Baptist university in the representative for Lexington Industries Veterans Hospital as a social worker. world. Under his leadership, Campbell of Lexington, NC, and traveled South He is survived by his wife of 60 years, established professional schools of law, busi- Carolina for 38 years. He retired in 1992. Marjorie Perry Clarke (’48), and six ness, education, pharmacy and divinity, and children. a trust management program considered Charles I. Lahser (’44, MD ’46), one of the best in the nation. Campbell Sept. 24, 2007, Gastonia, NC. He served Gordon Bennett Kelley (’50, JD ’51), achieved university status in 1979. He was as a battalion surgeon in the U.S. Army July 28, 2007, Raleigh, NC. He served in named chancellor after retiring as president during World War II. In 1953, he formed the National Guard and practiced law in in 2003. The Children’s Clinic, a pediatric Raleigh. He was honored by the Wake Wiggins was also a former president of the partnership. He was on the staff of County Bar Association in 2002 for 50 N.C. Baptist State Convention. The Biblical Gaston Memorial Hospital and former years of service to the profession. Recorder once named him one of the “Most director and co-founder of the Mental Influential Baptist Leaders of the Twentieth Health Clinic. He retired from active Paul N. Moss (’50, MD ’54), Aug. 17, Century.” He was also a nationally acclaimed practice in 1985. 2007, Lenoir, NC. He served in the U.S. legal scholar who wrote three books on wills, Navy during World War II. He was a trusts and estates. Nathan “Nat” Cole Jr. (’47, JD ’49), retired physician in Hudson, a former A native of Burlington, NC, Wiggins July 21, 2007, Louisburg, NC. He enlisted coroner for Caldwell County and an served in the U.S. Marine Corps in World in the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1942 and organizer of the Hospice facility in War II. He later earned an associate of arts retired from active service as a captain Caldwell County. degree from what was then Campbell Junior in 1969. College before graduating from Wake Forest Donald Bynum Thompson (’50), College and law school. He received his William Marcus McGill (’47), Oct. 2, Oct. 4, 2007, Gastonia, NC. He served in master’s degree and a doctorate in law at 2007, Wilson, NC. He was a debater at the U.S. Naval Air Corps during World Columbia University School of Law. He Wake Forest. He received his MA from War II. He retired from the N.C. joined the Wake Forest law faculty in 1956 Vanderbilt University, was a teaching Department of Motor Vehicles as an and was general counsel from 1964 until assistant at the University of Tennesee, instructor after 33 years. 1967 when he was named president of and taught at the University of Mississippi Campbell. and Tennessee Wesleyan College. He Robert “Brownie” Wallace Sr. (’50), received his PhD in philosophy from Sept. 14, 2007, Marion, SC. He served in Boston University, joined the faculty of the U.S. Coast Guard during World War Millsaps College in Jackson, MS, and II. He was a cotton merchant with taught for 23 years at Atlanta Christian Thompson & Wallace Cotton Co. for College, now Barton College. over 44 years and a founder and former co-owner of McMillan-Small Funeral Jesse C. Dunevant (’48), Sept. 19, Home in Myrtle Beach, SC. 2007, Albemarle, NC. Earl N. Porter (’51), July 23, 2007, Charlotte, NC. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II and was a pastor at Whiting Avenue Baptist Church for 30 years.

74 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Henry Talmadge Pulliam (’51), Mary Ellen Rountree (MD ’56), Marian “Didi” White Rief (’66), July 18, 2007, Murfreesboro, NC. He Aug. 7, 2007, Highland Beach, FL. After Oct. 7, 2007, Tampa, FL. She was involved served in the U.S. Army and received the graduating from the University of Miami, with The Friends of the Arts at Tampa Good Conduct,Victory, Asiatic Pacific she played baseball in the All-American Bay Arts Center, the Florida Gulf Coast Theatre Campaign and Bronze Service Professional Baseball League, best Symphony Guild, the Tampa Junior Star medals. He taught school in Person remembered in the movie, “A League of Museum, the Tampa Museum of Art, County and in Colerain, NC, before he Their Own.” Her baseball career helped the Home Association, St. John’s joined the faculty at Fork Union (VA) finance her studies at the Bowman Gray Episcopal Day School, Tampa Military Academy, where he retired after School of Medicine. She had a private Preparatory School, the Guilders, Las 33 years. His collection of books and practice in internal medicine in Florida Dames des Arte, the Golf View Garden items related to Thomas Wolfe, “The until retiring. Club, the Council of the New England Pulliam Thomas Wolfe Collection,” is in Historic Genealogical Society, the Police the rare books section of the Wake Forest Eddie Mac Page (’57), Aug. 12, 2007, Chief’s Advisory Council, the Daughters Z. Smith Reynolds Library. He is sur- Roanoke Rapids, NC. He served in the of the American Revolution, the Colonial vived by a sister and a brother, Bruce U.S. Air Force, was a salesman for Dames XVII Century, and the Jamestown Pulliam (’49). Metropolitan Insurance Co. and owned Society. She served on the alumni Super Stop Realty. He helped establish councils for Salem Academy and Wake David M. Dawson (’52), Aug. 22, 2007, the Halifax Academy. Forest University. She is survived by her Caswell Beach, NC. He served in the U.S. husband, Frank “Sandy” Rief (’66), Army Air Corps. He received his Worth B. Utley (’57), Aug. 19, 2007, and two daughters, Elizabeth (’94) and master’s from the University of Virginia Dunn, NC. He served in the U.S. Army Katie (’00). Memorials may be made to and retired from First Union National during the Korean War. He taught school Salem Academy, Wake Forest University Bank in 1987. for 30 years in the Harnett County School or The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem. System. Jeanne Smith Garrell (’52), July 18, Don H. Elkins (JD ’69), Sept. 8, 2007, 2007, Columbia, SC. She enjoyed tennis Harvey Carlton Smith (’59), July 29, Hendersonville, NC. He served in the and music. She is survived by her 2007, New Bern, NC. He served in the U.S. Air Force, achieving the rank of husband, Hubert “Hugh” Garrell U.S. Air Force. He was owner/operator of first lieutenant. He practiced law in (’52), a son, a daughter and nine the family business, Emmies Flower Henderson County for more than 35 grandchildren. Shop, for over 40 years. years, most recently in a partnership with his son. Thomas Wade Estes (’54), Oct. 4, 2007, Jack P. Gulley (JD ’63), Aug. 22, 2007, Greensboro, NC. He was a veteran of the Raleigh, NC. He practiced law in Raleigh Troy Stephen “Steve” Wilson (’71), U.S. Marines and received the Purple and Wake County for 33 years, retiring in July 31, 2007, High Point, NC. He played Heart. He retired as pastor of Guilford 1996. football and was a member of Kappa Baptist Church in 1984. Sigma while at Wake Forest. He had a Donald Carroll Johnson Jr. (’64), 35-year career in the furniture industry. H. Howard Hartness (BBA ’54), Aug. 14, 2007, Statesville, NC. He served Sept. 11, 2007, Spring Hill, FL. He served two years in the Peace Corps in India. He Ann Elizabeth Schultz (’72), Aug. 18, in the U.S. Army. He worked for the N.C. was a customer service representative in 2007, Chicopee, MA. She completed her Revenue Board, Western Electric Co. and the Elmers Products Division of Hunt MBA at Western New England College AT&T, retiring in 1989. Manufacturing. and was employed for 29 years as a production planner, accountant and Edward Thomas Roberts Jr. (’54), Nancy Cain Schmitt (’64), Sept. 20, programmer at the former General Aug. 20, 2007, Salisbury, NC. He served 2007, Anchorage, AK. She had a career of Cable Corp. in Chicopee. in the U.S. Army and was chaplain and more than 30 years in journalism and Bible teacher at Frederick Military public relations. She was with the Academy in Portsmouth,VA. He was a Gastonia (NC) Gazette and the Fayetteville Baptist minister who served churches in Observer before she moved to Alaska in Apex, Beaufort, Jacksonville, Kernersville 1978. She was on staff at the Anchorage and Salisbury, NC. Times, Alaska Journal of Commerce and MultiVisions Cable Television. She was Robert Parker Wilson (’55), July 22, the spokesperson for the U.S. Postal 2007, Southern Pines, NC. He received Service in Anchorage, retiring in 2003. his MAEd from Vanderbilt University. He was a professor of history at Methodist University in Fayetteville, NC, and a founding member of the Cape Fear Regional Theater.

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Molly Elizabeth Hall (’91), Sept. 12, 2007, Short Hills, NJ. She was owner of Murray Hall Designs, an interior design business, based in Atlanta and Short Hills.

76 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE James Edward Dogan (MBA ’96), Oct. 2, 2007, Clemmons, NC. He was most recently vice principal at First Assembly Christian School in Winston- Salem.

Megan Graham Lambert (MA ’00), Oct. 13, 2007, Chapel Hill, NC. She taught English at East Chapel Hill High School.

Friends, Faculty/Staff

Sylva Belle Billue, Sept. 20, 2007, Winston-Salem. She was a philanthropist who supported women’s causes and endowed the Phyllis Trible Lecture Series at the Divinity School. A past member of the Wake Forest Board of Visitors, she also supported the University’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program. A native of Oklahoma, she moved to Asheville, NC, in the 1950s to study woodworking and later settled in Winston-Salem. She became an accomplished woodwork artist and a supporter of various women’s organizations and charities. In 1987, she established the Syvenna Foundation in honor of her mother to create a writer’s colony for women writ- ers. She is survived by two sisters, Gayna Veltman and Cathi Billue, and a brother, George Billue. Memorials may be made to the Women’s and Gender Studies Program or The Phyllis Trible Lecture Series, PO Box 7227, Winston-Salem, NC 27109.

David Dutcher, Oct. 1, 2007, Winston- Salem. He retired from the National Park Service in 1994 and moved to Winston- Salem to establish an Elderhostel pro- gram at Old Salem. He was a student in the MALS graduate program.

Ruth Minchew Malone, Aug. 8, 2007, Winston-Salem. She was a nurse in the Student Health Service from 1966 until retiring in 1981 as director of nurses. She was also a volunteer in Crisis Control Ministry’s pharmacy. She is survived by two daughters, Ruth Nuhn (’78) and Malinda Huffstetler, and four grandchildren.

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T Nomads No More

& By David Fyten T N A T S N O C

Elizabeth Phillips: A venerable career as teacher, mentor and role model.

The established community ifty years ago, Elizabeth Phillips Along with her poetry books, of Wake Forest faculty women Farrived at Wake Forest College, the peripatetic English scholar a nomad in the wilderness for brought with her an independent can credit, for its stability women in academe. Having wan- streak and a tough skin. When the and status, the arrival of an dered among outposts in an inhos- man who hired her, Dean of the itinerant female instructor of pitable landscape for female college College William Archie, asked her poetry—Elizabeth Phillips— instructors, Phillips—in her late in her job interview what she could thirties, not young by higher educa- contribute to a “good Baptist at a male-dominated pioneering tion standards—at last had been college,” she replied, “Criticism.” settlement a half-century ago. appointed to a tenure-track position Yet Phillips tempered her feisti- by a school that was itself an itiner- ness with a certain graciousness and ant, barely a year into its bold humility. She had come to a campus adventure of westward resettlement. with only five women on its faculty,

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two of whom taught physical edu- will be given in her name to the argue both sides of the issue with T cation. So paltry was its female student author of the best essay on him—yes, there is a God; no, there S faculty representation that the a topic relevant to gender issues. is no God—while we sat on the N O

American Association of University This year has been particularly porch, just to sharpen my deductive C Women denied it membership. One eventful for Phillips, who remains reasoning and argumentation of the women on the faculty—the as sharp as ever in her late eighties. skills.” late Jeanne Owen, who taught In the late night of April 17, she After high school, Phillips en- business law and would become suffered an attack of congestive rolled at the Women’s College of the the first woman at Wake Forest to heart failure at her home on Royall University of North Carolina (now achieve the rank of full professor— Drive. Only the swift action of her UNC-G) in Greensboro because warned her: “If you’re going to be housemate, retired lecturer in women then weren’t allowed to a woman on this faculty, you’ll have Romance Languages Eva Rodtwitt, attend the main campus in Chapel to be better than the men.” To and her neighbors, biology profes- Hill until their junior year. She had which Phillips replied: “I’ve met sor William Conner and his wife, originally planned to transfer to the men in my department, and I Mindy, saved her life. The fact Chapel Hill, but when the time doubt I can be better than them.” that she could attend an award came she chose to remain at Befriended and nurtured by her ceremony only a month later is Women’s College because of the colleagues—especially by the male a testament to her indomitable strong female mentors on campus in her department whom she had in fortitude. “The luncheon gave me and the opportunities for leadership mind when responding to Owen, a wonderful boost,” she says. it afforded. esteemed Romantic poetry professor “I hadn’t realized what a celebratory Phillips was born with a congeni- and academic administrator Edwin event it was to be. I was invigorated.” tal cataract in her left eye and lost G. Wilson (’43)—Phillips flourished Born and raised in the small sight in it when she was very young and proceeded to enjoy a long and town of Spruce Pine nestled by the after several unsuccessful opera- venerable career as a poetry teacher, Blue Ridge Parkway between Boone tions. Reading has been a lifelong mentor, and role model to young and Asheville, Phillips was influ- challenge for her as a result—which women. enced deeply while growing up by she thinks might account for why It has been eighteen years since her mother and maternal grand- she has always favored poetry over she last stood before a class, but mother. “Both were extremely prose. But she never lost sight of her stardom still radiates brightly strong and independent women,” her love of reading or her desire to in the fermament of the institution’s she says. “My grandmother wanted teach. memory. In May, at a luncheon in me to be a lawyer because I argued Her first job out of college was the Rhoda Channing Room in the with people so much. I recall one back in Spruce Pine teaching high library that was attended by dozens time when her brother visited us. school. “I had wanted to be a news- of friends and former students, the He was an agnostic, and he and my paperwoman, and three days after I Women’s and Gender Studies religious grandmother would argue had started my job at the school in Program honored her by presenting about the existence of God. On this Spruce Pine, The Greensboro Record the first of an annual award that occasion, grandmother made me called and offered me a job,” she

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T recalls. “As much as I wanted to Although Phillips’ primary teach- seventy and was not allowed to S take it, I didn’t think I could leave ing specialty was American poetry, continue teaching even part-time. N my job so soon after committing she taught twentieth-century fiction She chose to look at the situation as O

C to it.” early in her career, and team-taught, an opportunity to “catch up on all Phillips left Spruce Pine after a with other faculty legends, courses the reading I couldn’t do while I year and embarked on her odyssey in the interdisciplinary Honors was grading all those student papers —back to Women’s College for a Program that were revered for their over the years.” Today, she lives three-year stint in its public rela- rigor and originality by generations quietly at the tasteful modernist tions office; then, to the famed of Wake Forest’s brightest students. dwelling she had built in 1969 at Writer’s Workshop at the University But it was outside the classroom, the corner of Royall Drive and of Iowa, where she earned a mas- with her influence as a mentor and Timberlake Lane that resembles ter’s degree; then, for a brief turn at role model for women students at a architectural styles she acquired a Lees-McRae College back in the time when women in this country taste for while she was in Korea on Blue Ridge; then, to Butler Univer- were redefining their roles and academic leave in the early sixties. sity in Indiana, where she was hired identities, that she made an equally Besides exercising and “watching because so many returning service- important contribution. Emblematic my diet” (her prescribed heart ther- men flush with G.I. Bill cash had of her exalted institutional status is apies), she enjoys the company of enrolled—and with the implicit the Medallion of Merit, Wake her oldest and dearest friends, Ed understanding that she would be Forest’s highest honor, which was and Emily Wilson and Tom and replaced by a man once suitable bestowed on her in 1992. Ruth Mullen, and of Anne Boyle, candidates had time to earn their From almost the beginning, when- Mary DeShazer, Gillian Overing, advanced degrees; then, to graduate ever a faculty position would open, Sally Barbour, and other women school at the University of Minne- Phillips would prod the depart- faculty members who are grateful sota (which she forsook after a year ment chair in question to hire a that scholars of their gender are because of the bitter cold); then, to woman. But it was not until 1974, nomads no more because of trails a teaching post at a small women’s seventeen years after her own blazed by pioneers like Lib Phillips college in Milwaukee; and finally, to arrival, that the College would hire so long ago. the University of Pennsylvania, the next woman who would attain where she earned her Ph.D in tenure and longevity—Dolly English before being hired in 1957, McPherson, also of English. During along with more than a score of her only term as department chair other new faculty appointees, from 1971 to 1975, Phillips including a promising young histo- appointed a couple of women to rian named Thomas E. Mullen, who faculty positions, but none of them would go on to a distinguished lasted. career at the College as a teacher, Phillips was forced to retire in scholar, and Dean of the College. 1989 at the then-mandatory age of

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