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EDITOR Cherin C. Poovey (P ’08), [email protected]

ASSOCIATE EDITOR Kerry M. King (’85), [email protected]

DESIGN / ART DIRECTION Urena Design, [email protected] Jessica Koman, [email protected]

PHOTOGRAPHER Ken Bennett, [email protected]

CLASSNOTES EDITOR Janet Williamson (P ’00, ’03), [email protected]

SENIOR WRITER David Fyten, [email protected]

PRINTING The Lane Press, Inc. Burlington,Vermont 16 The Journey Endeth Wake Forest Magazine (USPS 664-520 ISSN By Kerry M. King (’85) 0279-3946) is published four times a year in September, December, March, and June by the From their years as fragile freshmen to savvy Office of Creative Services, seniors, W ake Forest Magazine has followed eight Wake Forest University, Box 7205, students along their college journey. How have Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205. they changed? As they begin a new journey, their It is sent to alumni, donors, and friends of the words tell the story. University. Periodicals postage paid at Winston-Salem, NC 27109, and additional mailing offices.

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WWW.WFU.EDU 26 Regeneration to the Rescue By David Fyten

The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, under the leadership of its tenacious and compassionate director Anthony Atala, is poised to rejuvenate in more ways than one.

32 Rise and Fall By David Fyten

As architectural historian Margaret Supplee Smith has discovered, the ski resort industry is a microcosm or metaphor of the American experience.

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63 Impossible Questions and Questioning the Impossible By Emily Nicole Leonhardt (’06)

College is a time to develop as well-rounded individuals, 38 Minor Innovation capable of facing big questions By William E. Conner that will inevitably lack and Sharon Andrews perfect solutions. If a primary component of the academy’s job is to place our students in the strongest possible position to have satisfying and successful lives as good world citizens, then it makes sense to provide opportunities to develop entrepreneurial thinking. All smiles are (left to right) James Adams, Caroline Adkisson, and Christina Ajello.

Commencement 2006

Wrestle with complex issues, ade as meaningful commentary,” Warner tells 1,500 graduates he said. “Instead, wrestle with those complex issues, be respectful ormer Virginia Governor of those with whom you disagree, FMark Warner, a potential and always remember that despite Democratic candidate for presi- all our differences there is that dent, told members of Wake common bond that draws us Forest’s Class of 2006 that they together and binds us together now have a responsibility to as Americans.” elevate the nation’s political Warner spoke to about 934 discourse to address problems undergraduates and 649 graduate ranging from the war in Iraq to and professional school students American dependence on foreign who received their diplomas dur- oil.“Reject the cynicism and shal- ing the May 15 ceremony on Hearn low posturing that dominate our Plaza, which began under cloudy media, tune out the shouting and skies with cool temperatures, but background noise that masquer- ended under bright sunshine. It was

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issues without questioning each H other’s underlying morality or T

religious sincerity. We should be D able to disagree about tax or health N care policy without questioning U O

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or motives. If you remember A nothing else about what I say today, remember this: No one, no one in politics has a monopoly on virtue, on patriotism, or most importantly, on the truth.” Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner The issues the United States the first Commencement presided faces, he said, are too important President Nathan O. Hatch over by President Nathan O. Hatch, for name-calling and superficial who took office last summer. debate.“America’s diminished Warner, whose term as Virginia stature in the world, global terror- nation. As graduates of Wake governor ended in January, gave ism, the hyper-competitiveness of Forest you are perfect candidates no hint of his political future in the global economy, our depend- for this job.” his fifteen-minute address, but he ence on foreign oil which threatens Warner, a co-founder of did touch on themes that would not only our nation’s security but Nextel Communications before likely resonate in a campaign. adds to global warming, and the entering politics, offered gradu- “We can, and should, disagree massive budget deficits that under- ates one final word of advice: about the great issues of the day. line our ability to meet these “Call your mother,”he said to But we should be able to disagree, challenges; each of these problems laughter and applause. “I say that for example, about the war in Iraq are like snowballs rolling down the not just because I was in the cell- or our nation’s foreign policy hill, each picking up their own phone business… you’ve got to without impugning each other’s momentum, any one of which, if acknowledge that you didn’t get patriotism. We should be able to we get wrong, could be a major here alone.” Warner, who received disagree about serious social national catastrophe. “Unfortunately all these problems are approaching us simulta- neously. To turn these perils into promise, to reap the huge potential of this interdependent world, we do need peo- ple who are passionate in their beliefs, dedicated to debate, but committed Graduate Chris Kowal proudly shares his diploma to forging consensus in with his family. the best traditions of our Congratulatory hugs

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ROTC cadets at the Commissioning Ceremony.

Clockwise from top: Retiring faculty Gordon A. Melson, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and professor pected and welcome the joy of Brown Taylor, a professor at Pied- of chemistry; Jill Jordan McMillan, professor surprise.” mont Bible College in Georgia, of communication; and Charles L. Richman, Three retiring faculty members who delivered the Baccalaureate professor of psychology. from the Reynolda Campus were address on May 14, honorary recognized during the program: Doctor of Divinity degree; Elias A. an honorary doctorate of laws Jill Jordan McMillan, professor of Zerhouni, director of the National degree, stayed on stage to shake communication, who joined the Institutes of Health, honorary the hand of each graduate as he faculty in 1983; Gordon A. Melson, Doctor of Science degree; and or she crossed the stage. dean of the Graduate School of Walter A. Orenstein, associate In his remarks to the graduates, Arts and Sciences and professor director of the Emory University Hatch recognized President of chemistry, who joined the Vaccine Center and a former Emeritus Thomas K. Hearn, Jr., faculty in 1991; and Charles L. director of the Centers for Disease and his wife, Laura, who were Richman, professor of psychology, Control and Prevention’s National in the audience, and thanked who joined the faculty in 1968. Immunization Program, honorary students for welcoming him to Professor of Philosophy Marcus B. Doctor of Science degree. campus, before offering some Hester (‘60), who joined the faculty advice. “Do not expect to know in 1963, is also retiring, but was —Kerry M. King (’85) today what your best opportuni- unable to attend the ceremony. ties will be in the future,”he said. Three retiring faculty members “As much as we like to plan from the Bowman Gray Campus and prepare for what is ahead, also were recognized: David A. to control our destiny, in all likeli- Bass, professor of Internal hood your best opportunities will Medicine—Pulmonary, Critical come as a surprise.You have no Care, Allergy, and Immunologic way today of charting them or Diseases; W. Kenneth Haisty, predicting them ahead of time. associate professor of Internal And today, if you limit yourself Medicine—Cardiology; and Paul to what is already evident on the J. Meis, professor of Obstetrics horizon, you may be in more con- and Gynecology—Maternal/Fetal trol, but your future will be less Medicine. Honorary degree recipient Barbara Brown interesting and less inspiring. So In addition to Warner, hon- Taylor, the Baccalaureate speaker, receives the Doctor of Divinity from President today, my advice is simple: Relish orary degrees were awarded to Nathan O. Hatch (left) and Divinity the unknown, embrace the unex- author and preacher Barbara School Dean Bill Leonard.

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Graduation album Q E

Joe Martinez of Jacksonville, North H Carolina, a photographer while he was a T student at Wake Forest, took his camera D to Commencement on May 15. He shared N photos from his graduation album. U O R A

Smiling friends….

The prize…

Joe with his parents… Gathering…

Getting ready to march… The graduate’s view from the Quad…

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H HE FOLLOWING NEW MEMBERS were Hatch initiates strategic planning T Telected to the Board of Trustees at the board’s

D March meeting: S HE COMPLETES his first Senior Vice President Nancy N year in office, President Suttenfield will co-chair the plan-

U A • RANLET S. BELL (JD ’89), Winston-Salem, Nathan O. Hatch has begun a ning process and a planning O an attorney with Womble Carlyle R comprehensive strategic planning council comprised of faculty,

A Sandridge & Rice; process to identify key priorities staff, and student members. The • SUSAN M. IVEY, Winston-Salem, chair- for strengthening the University. first part of the process will man, president and chief executive officer The planning process, expected to involve examining the internal of Reynolds American Inc.; be completed by the fall of 2007, and external factors that affect • JOHN R. LOWDEN (’79, MBA ’82), Greenwich, Connecticut, president of includes all schools and depart- Wake Forest to develop strategic Newcastle Partners LLC; ments on the Reynolda Campus. priorities; each academic and • HAROLD O. ROSSER, New Canaan, “Our new plan will build administrative area will then Connecticut, managing director of upon existing strengths and create plans to address those Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. LLC; and identify areas where we need priorities. “We will need to take • JOSHUA M. KING, a junior from Johnson to improve, through setting prior- into account not only our own City, Tennessee, the student member of ities, defining strategies, and highest aspirations for Wake the board. developing tactics to reach our Forest but also the external forces Former members re-elected to the board were: goals,” Hatch said. “This is an that impact us,” Gordon said. • W. LOUIS BISSETTE,JR. (’65), Asheville, exciting time for Wake Forest. “A viable plan balances the two.” an attorney with McGuire, Wood & I am more confident than ever A Web site (www.wfu.edu/ Bissette; that Wake Forest has the ability planning) has been established • SIMPSON O. (SKIP) BROWN,JR. (’77, to continue to take a significant to keep alumni, faculty, staff, and MBA ’86), Winston-Salem, president and place within higher education.” students informed about the chief executive officer of TriStone Community Bank; Provost William C. Gordon planning process. (’68, MA ’70) and incoming • LAWRENCE D. HOPKINS (’72, MD ’77), Winston-Salem; • JAMES W. JOHNSTON, Winston-Salem, president and chief executive officer of Stonemarker Enterprises Inc.; • K. WAYNE SMITH (’60), Newton, North Trustees approve ’06–’07 budget Carolina, president emeritus of OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc.; and HE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 3 percent overall increase in the • JANICE KULYNYCH STORY (’75), Atlanta. Thas approved a $286 million staff salary pool and a 6 percent Current board member Graham W. budget for the Reynolda Campus overall increase in the faculty Denton, Jr. (’67), North Carolina president for 2006-2007, up from $268 mil- salary pool. Trustees will vote this of Bank of America, was re-elected to the lion this year.The most signifi- month on the new budget for board. cant increase is for salary and Wake Forest University Health The board re-elected L. Glenn Orr, Jr., fringe benefit increases, up $8.4 Sciences, which includes the of Winston-Salem, chairman, and elected million from the current fiscal Bowman Gray Campus and K. Wayne Smith vice chairman. Former board year. The new budget allows for a Piedmont Triad Research Park. member Jan W. Calloway of Greenwich, Connecticut, was elected a life trustee.

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WFU Press Poteat Scholarship to honor Parker Q E

AKE FOREST UNIVERSITY POTEAT SCHOLARSHIP IS (’98, JD ’01), a former Poteat Scholar H T WPRESS, the major publisher A being named in honor of who is leading the fundraising of Irish poetry in North America, the program’s longtime director, effort to endow the scholarship in D has been awarded a National Lynn H. Parker, who is retiring Parker’s name. Established in N Endowment for the Arts grant for after twenty years. “Lynn has been 1982 for North Carolina Baptist U O

Volume 2 of T he W ake Forest Series an integral part of the Poteat Schol- students, the Poteat Scholarship R of Irish P oetry . Like the first volume, arship program for most of its is awarded to about twenty fresh- A the second volume consists of rep- existence, leading the men each year and is resentative anthologies to intro- program and its students currently valued at duce a number of Irish poets who with personal attention, $11,200 per year. Gifts have not appeared widely before passion, and profession- may be made to Box in North America. Although small alism,” said Jason Cogdill 7227, Winston-Salem, among university presses, the NC 27109. Wake Forest Press is internation- ally known for publishing such distinguished poets as Ciaran Parker Carson, Thomas Kinsella,Vona Groarke, Conor O’Callaghan, and John Montague. Babcock offers Babcock receives MA in management $1 million gift Reynolda House names director HE BABCOCK GRADUATE $1 MILLION GIFT FROM TSCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT A businessman Thomas Dingle- DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF The will offer a new Master of Arts in dine (MBA ’78) will be used to A Baltimore Museum of Art management degree this summer. fund courses and programs at has been named executive direc- The one-year program, designed the Babcock School to promote tor of Reynolda House Museum for college graduates who were ethical, social and environmentally of American Art. Allison C. Per- liberal arts or science majors, will responsible business leadership. kins, who had been responsible introduce students to the funda- His gift will help faculty mem- for the Baltimore museum’s edu- mentals of business and manage- bers create new content for their cation and interpretation division ment. “We created this new man- classes, provide funds for research since 1999, has more than twenty agement program with the non- in those areas, and create new years of experience as an art business major in mind,” said experiential learning opportunities museum educator and adminis- Babcock Dean Ajay Patel. “It will for students. Dingledine, president trator. She has served as acting provide college graduates with a of Exploration Partners LLC in curator of education at the Joslyn fifth year of study that will instill Charlottesville,Virginia, said he Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska; in them solid, marketable business hopes the gift will increase aware- curator of education at the Port- fundamentals that will add to the ness about how to conduct business land (Maine) Museum of Art; fine education they have in their in a way that recognizes respon- and education director of the college major.” sibilities to the greater good. Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth,Texas.

www.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2006 7 Stellar Students T D RUM AN SCH OLARS A 1977 Je U anne Truman Scholar Whitman Calloway students 19 Q 78 N eil Rector tops in CPA scores 1979 Susa

E n ISING SENIOR ELIZABETH D. Rector 1979

H M R LUNDEEN of Grand Rapids, ike Riley HE CPA EXAM may have T 1984 Michigan, is the latest Wake Ted Bilich Tbeen reformatted, but gradu- 1990 P D a Forest student to receive a Truman trick Auld ates of the Calloway School of 1 N 994 L Scholarship, a national award for ori Fuller Business and Accountancy still U 1995 M postgraduate study for students egan Reif came out on top. Calloway grad- O 1 998 Jennif R er interested in careers in govern- Bumgarne uates taking the exam in 2004— 2000 r A Jessi ment or public service. She was ca Posner the year the exam was reformat- 2 002 Linds one of seventy-five students ay Littlef ted—achieved the highest pass- 2 ield 003 Jenni nationwide selected to receive a fer Harris ing rate in the nation on each of 2004 A $30,000 scholarship for graduate njali Garg the four sections, according to the 200 6 Elizabet or professional school. A political h Lundeen most recent results available from science and history major, she the National Association of State plans to pursue a joint law and Boards of Accountancy. Wake master’s in public policy degree Forest also ranked first in the and work for the government or nation for the number of candi- a non-profit agency before practic- dates who passed one, two, three, ing environmental law. Fourteen or all four sections. Since the Wake Forest students, including Calloway School began offering four in the last five years, have the master’s degree in account- received the scholarship since ancy in 1997, Calloway students Congress established the Harry S. have consistently performed well Truman Scholarship Foundation on the exam, ranking first in the in 1975. nation for five years and second in the nation for three years. Lundeen

Kemper Scholars Rhodes Scholar

ISING SOPHO- a nonprofit ENIOR LAKSHMI KRISHNAN, R MORES DeeDe organization SWake Forest’s latest Rhodes Pinckney and Sarah in Chicago. Scholar, picked up another honor Walker have been The Kemper when she was named to USA named Kemper program is Today’ s 2006 All-USA College Scholars, the second designed Academic Second Team. An consecutive year to help English and German major from that two Wake liberal arts Sugar Land, Texas, Krishnan Pinckney Walker Forest students students was one of only six students have been selected by the James prepare for leadership roles in from North Carolina colleges S. Kemper Foundation of Chicago. their chosen field and community. and universities to be recognized. Each will receive an annual schol- Pinckney, of Moncks Corner, South USA Today named twenty students arship of $3,000 to $8,000 for the Carolina, plans to major in soci- each to a first, second, and third next three years and a $6,000 ology. Walker, of London, plans to team, based on outstanding stipend for a summer internship major in business or Spanish. academic achievement and following their sophomore year in

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ECENT GRADUATES Jamie A R Carroll (’06) and Brad Hall (’06) placed second in the nation among seventy-eight teams competing at the National Debate Tournament in March. It was the highest finish by a Wake Forest science majors, defeated teams tournament. The teams of senior team since the 1997 team won from Dartmouth, Northwestern, Elizabeth Gedmark of Louisville, the national title. and Emory, and two teams from Kentucky, and junior Chris Sedel- Carroll, from Nashville,Tennes- Harvard before losing on a split myer of Erie, Pennsylvania, and see, was named the tournament’s decision in the final round to freshmen Seth Gannon of Atlanta, eighth best speaker, and Hall, Michigan State University. Georgia, and Alex Lamballe of from Manahattan, Kansas, was Wake Forest was one of only Nashville, Tennessee, finished the named the ninth best speaker. six schools in the nation to qualify tournament with 4–4 records. The teammates, both political the maximum three teams for the

leadership ability, from the nearly six hundred students nominated nationwide. Krishnan, who received the Krishnan Rhodes Scholar- ship in November, will study KidsFest literature at Oxford University More than three hundred local children with disabilities were treated to carnival this fall. games, entertainment, and food during the inaugural “KidsFest” on campus in April. The festival was organized by three student groups—Helping to Overcome Physical Expectations, the Volunteer Service Corps, and the Disabilities Awareness Coalition—to build on the volunteer efforts by Wake Forest students at The Children’s Center for the Physically Disabled and The Special Children’s School. Organizers hope to make the festival an annual event.

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E Kline Harrison Ronald Dimock H T ROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT IOLOGY PROFESSOR Ronald D PJ. Kline Harrison has been BV. Dimock, Jr., has received the N named the Calloway School’s first Meritorious Teaching Award from U Kemper Professor of Business. the Association of Southeastern O

R Harrison, who is also an associate Biologists for his contributions to

A dean at the Calloway School, the training of both graduate and joined the faculty in 1990. He undergraduate biology students. teaches classes on organiza- Dimock, the Thurman tional behavior and manage- D. Kitchin Professor Ralph Peeples and Catherine Harris ment, and he was heavily of Biology, teaches involved in creating the new marine biology, inver- A better way interdisciplinary global trade tebrate zoology, com- and commerce studies minor. parative physiology, Law, sociology faculty collaborate The professor- and physiological to study the ‘settlement dance.’ ship was funded ecology. Since joining by a grant of Dimock the faculty in 1970, EDICAL-MALPRACTICE $129,500 from he has led student M lawsuits have exploded in the James S. field trips to a variety of sites, recent years, leading to huge jury Kemper Foundation including the southwestern verdicts for injured plaintiffs. of Chicago. United States, Mexico, and the Or so newspaper headlines and Galapagos Islands. Candidates politicians crusading for tort for the award must be nominated reform would have you believe. Harrison by former students. In reality, fewer than 10 percent of malpractice cases actually Joseph Milner proceed to trial; most cases are voluntarily dismissed by the ONGTIME PROFESSOR OF been given. Milner joined the fac- plaintiffs without any payment L EDUCATION Joseph O. ulty in 1969 and had served as of money, while 30 percent to Milner has received the Dellinger chair of the education depart- 40 percent are resolved through Lifetime Achievement Award ment since 1978—the longest negotiated settlements. from the North Carolina English tenure by a current chair—before As essential as settlements are Teachers Association, only the stepping down this summer. In to keeping the wheels of justice third time the award has ever addition to training hundreds of turning, there’s been very little teachers, he has been active with research on the process. For the the North Carolina English last ten years, what may seem Teachers Association, the an odd pairing of Wake Forest National Council of Teachers of researchers—an attorney and a English, North Carolina sociologist—have observed hun- Governor’s School, the Advanced dreds of hours of settlement Placement Institute, the National talks, combed through reams of Writing Project, and the North documents, sifted through hun- Carolina Association of the dreds of court files, and queried Gifted and Talented. attorneys, judges, insurers, and Milner doctors to understand what they

10 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE that the approac social-science background.The Harris’ for someonewithDr. that’s amethodsproblem terns, information andlookingforpat- Butonceyou startgenerating it. and pullalitigationfileread “Icouldgotothecourthouse said. Peeples tary skillstotheproject,” thing lawyers know much about.” researc ical studentstotheirongoing interest inissuesrelatingtomed alongstanding data—and lyzing scientificall quantitati She broughtabackground in researc of sociologistsinthecountry isoneofonly ahandful Harris, fessor ofSociology Catherine T. be betterunderstood.” to process ofsettlementneeds so these casesaresettled, the Butmostof lawyers trycases. you focusonthetrial— school, “Inlaw of Law RalphPeeples. there aretooman ments andsimilar onesdon’t, why somecasesresultinsettle- butarefocusing on are toolarge, suits filedorwhetherjury awards T epe’rsac ate,Pro- research partner, Peeples’ he y’re carefultoexplain h. hing malpracticeissues y’re notstudying whether h ete, says Professor settled,” malpractice lawsuits are ature ontheway medical- liter- little very there’s but more oftenthanverdicts, inlitigation. malpractice the costandtimeinvolved better utilizedtoreduce it canbeimproved and m “settle- like tocallthe “W v to ent dance”and how ent dance”and e y “Settlements happen researc researc e collecting andana bring complemen- y malpractice h h is notsome method s . — - - - tions andare working onapaper by allthekey players innegotia- followed “settlementdance”— the come torecognizetherituals— in malpracticelitigation. plaintiffs’ ing trial; theroleofinsurersinresolv- resolv being sued;theway claimsare attitudestoward about physicians’ writing of articlesandpapers, “fly onthewall.” the proverbial lasting morethantenhour settlement mediations—some major insurers;andobserved fifty access totheclaimsfilesoftw tice; received unprecedented who ha andphysicians claims adjusters, attorne files; interview analyzed morethan500court cases inNorthCarolina. a forged aheadandhave collected Peeples andHarris project ended, When that malpractice lawsuits. ordered mediationinresolving 1990s to study theuseofcourt- professor Tom Metzloffinthe mid- teamed withDuke University law way toresolve thoseclaims.” a thereshouldbe there areclaims, Peeples notes.“When patient,” doctorandthe players—the loses sightoftheoriginaltwo andoften and time-consuming, “Litigationisexpensivedynamics. interaction andnegotiation butalsohuman and legalissues, researching notonly medical t and why somecasesendupin iladohr o’.Itinvolves rial andothersdon’t. wealth ofdataonmalpractice more satisfyingandefficient They’ve publishedanumber Peeples andHarrisinitially claims; andtheattributesof ed, ys ve beensuedformalprac- , whether b lawyers whospecialize superior courtjudges ed andsurv y settlement or T They’ve he e s y —as y’ve ed o , “There hastobe abetterway.” larger scalestud cases), positi we canshow some the state.“If visiting morecourthousesacross lookforthemtobe litigation, the costandtimeofmalpractice model guidelines. have agreed toabideby their ne andattor- of recently filedcases, and defenselawyers inanumber “model approac They’ve pitched a tion process. for impro find realcasestotesttheirideas future stud that couldpro convenient regionaldifference witnesses damages orthenumberofexpert North Carolinadoesn’tlimit case issettledorproceedstotrial. testify inatrialhasonwhether witnesses thatcanbecalledto and limitingthenumberofexpert effect imposingcapsondamages reach asettlement. it’s intheirbestintereststotry lawyers know thelongoddsso percent ofthetime;plaintiff’s for thephysician morethan75 juriesfind Attrial, trial. before the caseisgoingtobesettled mostofthetime offer ofmoney, aninsurermakes any instance, for If, instinctively understands. everyone involved intheprocess butit’s adancethat Peeples says, r to describethatintricatechoreog- py It’s nottaughtinlaw school, aphy. ys inse If it’s successfulinreducing They’re alsostudying what v e that oughttoleada results (intheearly ving theclaimsresolu- , veral ofthosecases while y . T —Kerry M.King(’85) he vide fodderfor www.wfu.edu/wowf h” , Peeples says. y,” y’ ignade,a Virginia does, re alsotryingto to plaintiffs’ J UNE 0611 2006

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D Master plan financial planning and N long-range planning—to U The next step in John Anderson’s Wake Forest in January O journey takes him from the adminis- R 1984. He instituted the

A tration to the classroom. University’s first long- range academic planning HE ELEVATOR RIDE from the process and developed TWait Chapel narthex to the the first campus master bell-tower suite of offices takes plan to address a serious precisely forty-four long seconds. lack of academic and stu- An engineer by training, John P. dent space. Anderson (MAEd ’00) took note Over the next two of that during his first year at decades, he led the plan- Wake Forest when his office was ning, construction, and located there, high above Hearn financing of $200 million Plaza. Twenty-two years later, the worth of construction elevator ride still takes forty-four projects—including Olin seconds; that still-rickety elevator Physical Laboratory, Anderson may be the only part of campus the Benson University that hasn’t been improved during Center, the Worrell Professional of Law’s 440 plan in the late 1980s his long tenure as the campus Center, Kirby Hall, and Greene to the Plan for the Class of 2000, master builder and planner. Hall—that dramatically changed which brought the now-ubiquitous the face of the Reynolda Campus. computing environment to Wake “The thing I have always liked “One of the things that I take the Forest. Through his management most pleasure in is to walk on of some of the largest administra- best is being allowed to work campus and to see the buildings tive units on campus—facilities with Wake Forest students. built during the Hearn adminis- management, information systems, Every time I work with them tration and see how much the human resources, and financial I’m reminded that they’re place has been ‘prettied up,’ and accounting services—his high-class people.” because when I came here it was influence was felt in most every a little ‘severe,’ and now we have corner of campus. His portfolio Anderson, who is retiring a really beautiful campus,” he early on also included student this month as vice president for said. “One of Tom Hearn’s direct affairs and, later, managing the finance and administration, instructions to me was that we University’s endowment and brought an engineer’s discipline win a prize for the most beautiful serving as treasurer. Off-campus, and a planner’s zeal when he campus in America, and we did he oversaw the growth of Graylyn followed new President Thomas that his last year.” into an award-wining conference K. Hearn, Jr., from the University Anderson also has played crit- center and, more recently, he of Alabama—where he had been ical roles in the University’s major helped bring Reynolda House a professor of engineering and academic initiatives during the Museum of American Art into mathematics and director of last two decades, from the School the Wake Forest family.

12 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE high-class people. them I’mremindedthatthe Every timeIwork with dents. to w always liked bestisbeingallowed “The thing Ihave his newrole. more contactwithstudentsin years andislookingforward to taught acounselingclassfor Hall forse to theofficehe’s hadin Tribble and moved hiscounselingbooks bookcase thewidthofhisoffice books thatfilledonesideofa he ga nolda Hallofficethisspring, ing from master’s ineducationcounsel- Salem, UAB he moved when to Winston- a was alsojustathesisaway from of plus anMBA fromtheUniversity allfromGeorgia Tech, mechanics, ter’s anddoctorateinengineering applied mathematicsandamas- who holdsamaster’s degreein landing placeforanengineer Itmay seemanodd program. time inthegraduatecounseling campus nextfalltoteach full- he’llreturnto North Carolina, Group Therapy inChapelHill, Southeast InstituteofFamily and as apostgraduatefellow atthe doctorate inpsychology from lbm-imnhm Buthe Alabama-Birmingham. As After spendingthenextyear ork with ve away theengineering he cleanedouthisRe and W v ak rlyas He’s co- eral years. he W e —Kerry M.King(’85) later pic ak F orest. e ” F orest stu- ked upa y y’ - re name dir Society Birthplace New head ofreferencefor had alsoserved as He retiring lastyear. Historic Sitesbefore the Division ofState and visitorservicesfor as c mostrecently for thirty-two years, Department ofCulturalResources ris w CharlesEdward Mor- this spring. the Carolina was nameddirectorof A ector Wake Forest BirthplaceSociety hief ofmuseum ork LONGTIME of historicsitesinNorth d ed fortheNorthCarolina ADMINISTRA Morris T OR many years whileworking in in thetown of Wake Forest for historic sites programming attwenty-two state w wherehe State HistoricSites, of educationfortheDi the StateArc as responsibleforeducational www.wfu.edu/wowf near theOldCampus. located Jones House, museum attheCalvin place archives and the Wake Forest Birth- Raleigh, . hi Morris v es will o and curator wholived , vision of versee J UNE 0613 2006

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Q Bullock to succeed Boyette

E as VP for Advancement H T WO VETERAN ADMINISTRA- tions, including associate director D TTORS ARE TAKING on new of development for the School of N Suttenfield is named roles this summer. James R. Law and the Babcock School and U senior VP for finance Bullock (’85, MBA ’95), assistant director of capital support for the O

R vice president for “Heritage and Promise”

A ANCY D. SUTTENFIELD, University capital campaign in the Nvice chancellor for finance Advancement, early 1990s. and administration at the Uni- has been promoted Boyette, who joined the versity of North Carolina at Chapel to vice president development office staff in Hill, has been named senior vice for University 1981, was foundations offi- president and chief financial offi- Advancement, suc- cer and assistant director cer. She will assume part of the ceeding Sandra C. of development before duties of retiring Vice President Boyette (MBA ’95). being named director of Bullock for Finance and Administration Boyette, who has public affairs in 1987. She John P. Anderson (MAEd ’00). directed the University’s alum- became Wake Matthew S. Cullinan, formerly ni, development, and public Forest’s first an administrator at the affairs offices since 1996, will female vice University of Notre become a senior advisor to president Dame, previously President Nathan O. Hatch and when she was had been named will also continue to oversee named vice vice president for the public affairs office. president for administration. Bullock has served as direc- public affairs Prior to assuming tor of the University’s current Boyette in 1989. She her current position at capital campaign, “Honoring assumed addi- Suttenfield UNC-Chapel Hill in the Promise,” since it began in tional responsibilities for the 2000, Suttenfield was 1999. He joined the alumni and University’s alumni and develop- vice president for finance and development office after graduat- ment offices in 1996 and was administration at Case Western ing from Wake Forest in 1985 and named vice president for Reserve University in Cleveland, has served in a number of posi- University Advancement in 1997. Ohio, for four years. She has also worked at the Smithsonian Insti- tution in Washington, D.C., in Fund will honor Clay, help Calloway students various positions, including chief financial officer, and with the HE RICHARD “DICK”CLAY opened the bookstore after the state of Virginia’s Department of TFUND has been established move to the new campus and Planning and Budget and Depart- in memory of the longtime later served as director of ment of Taxation. She received Campus Bookstore director. It University Stores before retiring her undergraduate degree in will support students in the after thirty-seven years. For more mathematics education from Calloway School of Business and information on the fund, contact Indiana University of Pennsyl- Accountancy who have intern- Mike Buddie (’93), assistant direc- vania and a master’s degree in ships or independent study proj- tor of development for the economics from Virginia ects that deal with entrepreneur- Calloway School, at (336) 758-5223 Commonwealth University. ship and ethical aspects of busi- or [email protected]. ness. Clay (’56), who died in 2004,

14 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE D A

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as Graduate School dean Q E

ORDON A. MELSON, who new dean will begin later this H G led the development of new summer. T graduate programs in the bio- In Melson’s first year at Wake D medical sciences and other areas, Forest, nineteen doctorates and N Presidential is stepping down this month after ninety-six master’s degrees were U O

Trust for serving as dean of the Graduate awarded. Last spring, forty-eight R

Faculty Excellence School of Arts and Sciences for doctorates and 186 master’s degrees A fifteen years. During his tenure, were awarded. The number of RESIDENT NATHAN O. new graduate programs were degree-seeking students on the PHATCH has announced a created in molecular genetics, Bowman Gray Campus has risen new plan to attract $10 million biomedical engineering, cancer from 113 in 1991–92 to 290 in in additional funds for faculty biology, health sciences research, 2005–06, while the number on the support during the next eighteen accountancy, and molecular med- Reynolda Campus has risen from months. He has created the Presi- icine. In recent years, the Univers- 351 to 413 during that time. dential Trust for Faculty Excellence, ity has launched a joint School of During his tenure, he increased which will be used to support Biomedical Engineering with Vir- partnerships and collaboration faculty professorships, stipends, ginia Tech, introduced a new Ph.D./ between the Graduate School and and research. About $2.3 million MBA program, and reinstated an the rest of the University, particu- had already been pledged to the M.D./Ph.D. degree program. larly in the sciences, and between new fund by mid-April. Melson, a native of Sheffield, faculty on the Reynolda and Gifts of $250,000 or more, in England, joined Wake Forest as Bowman Gray campuses. “I’m cash or securities, are being solic- dean and professor of chemistry in also pleased to see our Graduate ited for the Presidential Trust. 1991 from Virginia Commonwealth School students embracing pro- Seventy percent of each gift will University, where he was associate grams that cross departmental, be used to fund an endowment provost for research and graduate school, and campus lines,” he supporting faculty stipends, affairs and professor of chemistry. said. “In today’s world, people in departmental professorships, Prior to his appointment, every the workplace need to be able to and chairs.Twenty percent will dean of the Graduate School had work comfortably and effectively provide carry over operating been a Reynolda Campus faculty with those involved in other funds to be used at the discretion member. A national search for a fields, other specialties.” of the dean to make competitive offers to new faculty and to cur- rent faculty being recruited by other institutions. The remaining 10 percent will be used for the purchase of library materials that support faculty research.

Gordon Melson has been Dean of the Graduate School since 1991.

www.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2006 15 THE JOURNEY Endeth

HEIR COLLEGE JOURNEY be with th gan T ese words of the welcome from n-President T homas K. He “Shel S arn, Jr.: ilverstein ha s a marvelou homily des s little cribing the c yo hoice that is urs today at the start of y our journey:

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Let the journey begin… OR THE EIGHT STUDENTS Wake Forest Magazine has Ffollowed since that late August day in 2002 when they entered as freshmen, their college journey indeed took them to Spain and Maine— and Australia and Amsterdam and Vietnam, too. The magic carpet took them to places they never envisioned four years ago, as they discovered new aca- demic passions and new possibili- ties for their future and the joy of serving humanity. But the best rides end all too soon, they discovered. As they graduated last month, they reflected on where they’ve been and where they’re headed next.

Stories by Kerry M. King (’85) Photos by Ken Bennett

JUNE 2006 17 Melissa “Missy” Malkush N “I expect Wake Forest Shoreham, New York A

M to prepare me for the H

S transition from living E

R with ‘mommy and URING HER COLLEGE JOURNEY, while studying for the MCAT, I knew Winston-Salem, where she worked F daddy’ to being on DMissy Malkush discovered an that was a life direction that my heart with recent amputees and in the fab- my own. A lot will unexpected way to combine her life- wasn’t into.” rication studio making new limbs. long interest in medicine with her Some sage advice from A Presidential Scholar in art for have to happen to passion for art. She found what she Associate Professor of Art David Finn, her talent in photography, she was make that possible.” was searching for by following her himself a biology major, helped open able to combine art with her interests heart away from medical school and her mind to other possibilities. “He in the human body in Finn’s sculpture into the growing field of prosthetics wanted to let me know that if I have class on “Bodies and Objects” last and orthotics, which she’ll pursue in a passion for art, I don’t have to let fall. “I was beginning to recognize never envisioned four years ago. A a master’s program at Georgia Tech go of it because I may major in how art can be part of my life. I semester in Spain helped her learn to this fall. something else. But what do you do found something that I really enjoyed live on her own. The LEAD leader- Despite changing her major from with health science and art?” that I wasn’t expecting. I was work- ship-development program helped studio art to chemistry to biology and As she was reconsidering medical ing with plaster in ways that I would her set goals and sharpen her lead- finally to health and exercise science, school, a classmate’s comment that work with it in the field. Everything ership skills. And Wake Forest’s divi- Malkush had remained firmly on the her father studied orthotics sparked just seemed to come together. I sional requirements forced her to pre-med track until last summer. “I her interest. When she found the pro- never thought that I’d become a take classes outside the sciences, had been on this health-professions gram at Georgia Tech, she had the sculptor, but in prosthetics/orthotics, which stimulated her thinking in direction since I was a little girl, but I “This is it!” moment she had been I’ll sculpt the human body.” other areas. “You don’t have to stick was waiting for something to sweep seeking. She got a firsthand look at Malkush credits a range of other to one route,” she said. “You can’t be me off the sidelines. When I began to what her future career might look like experiences with giving her the con- scared to not know what’s ahead; take med school more seriously by volunteering last year at a clinic in fidence to pursue something she see where your heart takes you.”

Reggie Mathis Wilmington, North Carolina

N “I’m very rooted in A

M my Christian faith; H

S college won’t change E that. However, I am R F open-minded and when it comes to understanding others’ views and opinions, I am able to learn.”

MAJOR Political Science or Religion

FUTURE PLANS MAJOR Law School Double Major in Political Science and Religion

FUTURE PLANS Divinity School, then Law School 18 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE MAJOR Health and Exercise Science (Minor in Studio Art)

FUTURE PLANS Master’s Program in Prosthetics and Orthotics

R “‘Following your heart’ O I is an expression that’s N

E overused, but it’s true. S If there’s something inside whispering to you where you should be going and what you should be doing, you’re better off listening to it.”

MAJOR Undecided

FUTURE PLANS Medical School

OR REGGIE MATHIS, HIS COLLEGE less-driven leader as a senior, when he representing churches and religious “When I came to Wake, I don’t think I Fjourney ended up pretty much served as Student Government presi- organizations. listened very well, but as president I’ve where it all began—planning for dent. He came into Wake Forest with Mathis effectively combined reli- had to listen. As a freshman, I had divinity school and law school— firm religious beliefs and a strong gion and politics into his academic very clear ideas. I can see other ideas which isn’t to say that he hasn’t interest in politics, and left with a life—majoring in both areas—and in now. It (college) challenges your way of changed along the way. Confident clearer vision of how he can combine his extracurricular activities. He was thinking. You can certainly understand and ambitious as a freshman, he the two in his future. “It’s not so much active in Student Government and cam- where other people are coming from.” matured into a more thoughtful, about my degree, but what the degree pus religious activities, and he helped Despite some notable achieve- opens me up to doing,” he said. start an interfaith worship group. As ments as president—working with As his last semester ended, he perhaps the most prominent African- ARAMARK to improve the student had to choose between following American student leader on campus, meal plan and leading an effort to his faith into divinity school or his he was pulled in many directions and construct a replica of the Old Campus R “My respect for other

O interest in politics into law school. He had to learn to say “no,” a lesson arch on Hearn Plaza—he took his I people’s views and opted for divinity school—at Wake learned the hard way when he took lumps in the Old Gold and Black N

E beliefs has grown. Forest—at least initially, with law on too much too early on. But the almost every week. “It’s been a S I’ve been challenged school to follow. Four years of col- most important lessons learned may humbling experience, but it’s better into seeking deeper lege—and in particular a class on have been patience and tolerance— to be criticized for doing something into what I believe “Religion and Public Life” with Pro- whether of a difficult roommate or a than for doing nothing,” he said. fessor of Religion Stephen Boyd— classmate’s differing views. “Certainly I was in some adverse sit- and to know exactly showed him how he can use his “I’ve learned how to understand uations where I had to rely on faith to why I choose to faith to help people in what he now other people, to tolerate other people, get me through, and that was the most believe what I do. envisions as a career as an attorney and to listen to other people,” he said. rewarding part about being in college.” That’s not changed my faith, only made it stronger.” JUNE 2006 19 MAJOR English (Minor in Journalism)

FUTURE PLANS Tyler Barefoot Law School Dunn, North Carolina

MAJOR Business

FUTURE PLANS Business School

N “To flourish as an A

M individual is as

H important as my S

E education. Being the R

F smartest man alive would be worthless without a useful purpose. My purpose is to be a good person…someone who is a pillar of the community, someone whom people respect, and someone whom people can look up to and count on.” Sasha Suzuki Fort Lee, New Jersey N “When I look back A

M at my college days,

H I know that it will OR SASHA SUZUKI, THE FORMER viewing residents of a public housing the other opportunities coming her S walk-on to the women’s golf project sparked her interest in urban way. “I miss my teammates, but had E be the experiences, F R team, her college journey ended at and social problems. “That was the I stayed on the golf team, I wouldn’t F all the trials and a place she never would have envi- catalyst, and then it spiraled out of have had the time to do a lot of other tribulations that I sioned four years ago: a full-time control. It shaped the last two years in stuff. I’ve always had an interest in will remember job—five months before graduation terms of my professional and academic being involved in the community —with a social-service agency in interests. I might not be where I am even though my résumé might not more than anything downtown Winston-Salem. Along the now if it weren’t for that class.” reflect that.” written in a text- way, she gave up golf but gained a Wanting to do something in the The daughter of Japanese immi- book, for every new passion for social issues and the community, she landed an internship at grants and a native of New Jersey, obstacle and every confidence and maturity to balance the United Way, where she worked on Suzuki says she now feels at home challenge I face is class work and a demanding job dur- the “Project Welcome” team—along in Winston-Salem. She planned to the opportunity ing her last semester. with divinity school students Kyle remain at ESR after graduation but “College does force you to Layman and Adam Davis—matching would like to return to school even- for me to grow as become more mature and make you displaced Hurricane Katrina families tually for a master’s in public health, a person.” appreciate and realize how fortunate with organizations and churches that public administration, or social work, you are and not take for granted the could provide support. That led to a or perhaps an MBA. “I want to stay many things we are given, such as full-time job last December with the in the non-profit sector, but I’m not the opportunity to be here at Wake Experiment in Self-Reliance (ESR) as sure about staying in direct services, have to rely on social-service sys- Forest,” she said. “It gives you a dif- a caseworker providing continuing that wears you out. It’s such a differ- tems…. There are so many ways ferent perspective and insight on life.” support for those families. ent world. Many of us here are fortu- to get involved in the community and An assignment in professor David She made the difficult decision nate enough to not know what it’s you may actually have a chance to Phillips’ “Urban Planning” class inter- to give up golf to take advantage of like not to be able to pay the rent or make a difference.”

20 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE YLER BAREFOOT BEGAN HIS college own world view, and not just what be a business major, and I needed Tjourney heading for business you’ve been told your entire life.” to do this, this, and this, so I can get R “I’m still working on school, but after a major detour A native of Dunn, North Carolina, to this point. And once I get to that O I that. I’m sure I’ll through the English department he Barefoot found new homes in places point, I can become even more suc- N

E spend the majority is heading to law school now—or probably on the opposite end of the cessful. It was all about monetary S of my life trying to back to the road to see where the spectrum: in the office of the Wake success and trying to move up. Now, become that person. journey takes him next. The small- Forest University Press, the major I really just want to do what makes town North Carolina boy who worried publisher of Irish poetry in North me happy.” The biggest change as a freshman about being away America, and Kappa Alpha Fraternity, As he graduated last month, he over the last four from home probably won’t be return- which he helped bring back to life was still contemplating his plans for years is what’s ing home anytime soon; the last four as one of the charter members of the this summer—clerking at a law firm important to me in years have whetted his appetite to reconstituted chapter. He attended or perhaps writing for a newspaper life. It’s not about see, and do, more. high school at North Carolina’s pres- or magazine—and beyond, weighing how high I can “I have grown into a very differ- tigious School of Science and Mathe- offers from several law schools, and ent person,” he said. “I’m far more matics, but he fell in love with the looking ahead to a possible career go or how much independent and open-minded than humanities at Wake Forest. as a sports or entertainment attorney, money I can make, I was when I came here. I feel that After changing his major from or a constitutional law expert. “I think but about doing I have matured into a much more business to history to political sci- there’s a pretty good chance that I something that I responsible person and that I have ence, he switched one last time, to might take a year, or even two, away like and being a developed a stronger sense of self. English, for practical reasons—as from school,” he said. “I’m 22 years respectable person.” You don’t think about it when you’re good preparation for law school— old and in no rush. There are still sitting in class studying history or and because he discovered that he things I haven’t seen and haven’t science or math, but you start to look enjoyed writing and studying litera- done yet, so I’m leaving plenty of at things differently and develop your ture. “At first, I thought I needed to options open.”

R “The golf team, the O I professors that I’ve N

E befriended, the S internships, work- ing, it is all part of the last four years. Things are not always fun, and they are not always easy. But all those experiences have shaped me.”

MAJOR Political Science (Minor in History)

FUTURE PLANS Job with non-profit agency

MAJOR History or Sociology

FUTURE PLANS Undecided JUNE 2006 21 Andy Lobashevsky Birmingham, Alabama

NDY LOBASHEVSKY’S ASSESSMENT University of Alabama-Birmingham A of his college journey probably or Duke University—but he wants won’t end up on any student-recruit- to work with patients, perhaps as a ment posters: “I know less now than surgeon, and not in a research lab. I did before I came here.” But that’s If his goal has been clear from not a bad thing, he quickly adds. “I his first day on campus, had convictions galore when I was a he had plenty of time MAJOR freshman. I knew everything. I could for soul-searching. Chemistry

tell you how to graduate from college FUTURE PLANS and become a doctor. But then you Medical School get a couple of bad grades and rejection letters from medical N “College is an schools, and you get humbled.” A

M opportunity to A native of Moscow, H

Lobashevsky and his parents immi- S find out who E

grated to the United States when he R I really am. I was six and eventually settled in F know there are Birmingham, Alabama. His parents aspects of my are medical researchers, and he’s personality that spent the last four years aiming for I haven’t found medical school—at graduation, he was still deciding between the yet that will help me grow as a person.”

Lindsay Wilber Yarmouth, Maine

N “I’m not out to cure cancer, A

M find world peace, or stop

OR LINDSAY WILBER, A NATIVE of ent.’ It’s not that I want to leave H

S hunger all in one day, Maine who spent a year volun- Wake Forest because I’ve loved it. I F E but I am out to make a teering with AmeriCorps before have met so many great people and R F coming to Wake Forest, the last four built wonderful friendships. In that difference. I intend to years solidified her interest in volun- way, it will be difficult to move on to continue to do ‘my part’ teer work, and especially working something else, but you just come to and make my contribution with children. “The more things I’ve this point where it’s time to try each and every day.” tried (here) and learned about myself, something different.”

the more I know what I want to do,” Wilber left behind a record of MAJOR said Wilber, who returned to Maine service, most notably with the DESK Undecided after graduation to look for a job in a project, which provides desks for FUTURE PLANS non-profit organization in the local school children to use at home, Classes on organizational behav- Undecided Northeast. and to the Volunteer Service Corps, ior, taught by Professor of Communi- “I don’t know if I feel ‘prepared,’” which she co-chaired and helped cation Jill McMillan, and on leader- she said. “I feel excited about all the reorganize this year. She was also ship in the non-profit sector, taught opportunities out there. I feel like I active in CARE (Community by Associate Professor of Business have a good education and that there Awareness through Response and Holly Brower (’83), meshed well with are a lot of things that I could do. It’s Education) and the LEAD (Leadership her campus activities and her future funny when you get to senior year… Education and Development) pro- goals. “I spoke with the LEAD group there’s sort of a shift when you think gram, and she served as a PREPARE right before spring break, and it was ‘okay, I’m ready for something differ- advocate, trained to assist student interesting to think about how I am victims of sexual assault. now as opposed to sophomore year

22 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE “Throughout the whole process, me to turn my thoughts to others R “I think I have grown.

O I questioned myself, do I really want because selfishness and self- I Did I find out who I

N to do this? Wake Forest gave me centeredness are limitations. Wake

E really am? No. I found the challenges and classes and Forest has allowed me to do just S out who I’m not. I’m opportunities to ask myself that that because I’ve encountered so not the smartest repeatedly and to confirm that my many different people inside and person in the world. experience has led me to this point outside the classroom.” My curiosity about with confidence. From having a Funny, outgoing, and, by his variety of experiences, in the class- own admission, a little off the wall, the world has been room, outside the classroom, extra- Lobashevsky enjoys lobbing verbal spurred and made me curricular activities, I’ve realized metaphors to answer questions, but realize how little I what my maximum potential is.” there’s a serious message behind his know and how much A Reynolds Scholar, Lobashev- broad smile. “College is a playground more I have left to sky pursued an eclectic array of and I can play with anything I want. learn. And that’s excit- interests, from taking jazz-piano But you have to watch out for the lessons to hosting his own show on bullies, and my bullies have always ing. It’s been a huge WAKE Radio, to conducting research been fear and pride. If I kept those stepping stone to the in biochemistry and on artist Max two at bay, I could fully enjoy the plethora of opportu- Ernst. He traveled to Spain, Holland, freedom of college, and that entailed MAJOR nities out there.” and Florida for research on Spanish trying out everything from art to Chemistry master Salvador Dali. He was the humanities to scientific explorations. (Minor in Women’s only male in his class to minor in Here’s another one: College is a and Gender Studies) Women’s and Gender’s Studies. vacation from real life, and I got a lot FUTURE PLANS College made him more aware of souvenirs that I’m bringing back— Medical School of his own shortcomings, he said, all of the experiences that I will “and at the same time, it helped remember for the rest of my life.”

R “I think I’ve made O I a contribution. N

E I’ve seen differ- when I was leading CARE,” she said. S ences in myself. “CARE was really my first challenge I’ve grown a lot with leading a group. I was out to through what do everything myself, and that’s not I’ve done here, really being a leader. You have to work with people and allow others especially in to take on things.” developing my Wilber hopes to return to school leadership skills.” one day for her master’s degree, possibly in non-profit management. While she didn’t have a job lined up MAJOR at graduation, she’s convinced that Communication she took away something far more (Minors in History and Urban Studies) important from Wake Forest. “I remember giving a speech in high FUTURE PLANS Work for a non-profit school that college is not necessarily organization in the deciding what you want to be, but Northeast deciding who you want to be. I feel like I’ve become the person I want to be at this point in my life.”

JUNE 2006 23 Will Brown N “I know that

Radnor, Pennsylvania A

M Wake Forest H

S will give me a N AVID OUTDOORSMAN

, Will Brown’s aspect of who I am and what I He has come E

college journey literally took him believe in.” a long way since R chance to get

A F up mountains and down raging rivers, After coming into Wake Forest living for three the best edu- but the most challenging destination uncertain about a major, Brown years on a sail- cation possible, may have been right on campus, in found himself drawn to the Calloway boat, sailing from but it is up to the Calloway School of Business and School. He capped his senior year one port in the me to make Accountancy. Meeting those chal- with an internship at Pricewater- Caribbean to the sure that I do… lenges in and outside the classroom houseCoopers in Charlotte. “What next, with his has made him a more confident per- really drove me to the business parents after they and take full son, ready to take on another year in school was the challenge of it and retired from their advantage of the Calloway School in the master’s the fact that the classes were so jobs and sold my professors.” in accountancy program and a career difficult. I knew if I put my mind to the family home in finance after that. it and was willing to commit the in Radnor, Penn- “I think I’ve changed a lot, in that time, I could do it and have a sense sylvania. The transition from a soli- MAJOR I’m a lot more confident,” he said. of accomplishment. That’s what I tary educational experience—he Undecided

“Wake Forest has challenged me, and was looking for out of my experience. earned his high-school diploma by FUTURE PLANS I’ve been able to rise to the challenge. I didn’t want to come to college correspondence courses—to a Undecided At the same time, I don’t think I’ve and take an easy path through. I hectic college lifestyle was largely changed in terms of the deeper really like to see how far I can go.” smooth sailing. “I’m pretty good at

Kelly McManus professors Katy Harriger and Bryan Her brother, Ryan, just finished his Greenville, North Carolina Shelly, and vice president and law freshman year at Wake Forest. professor Ken Zick, she’s combined As one of the few liberals in a classroom work, research, commu- largely conservative student body, ELLY MCMANUS’ NASCENT interest nity service, and advocacy to build she naturally gravitated to College K in politics blossomed—no, a solid foundation for her future. Democrats, but she also found a exploded is probably a more accu- After her stint with Teach for America, home in Kappa Kappa Gamma MAJOR rate word—into a passion during she’d like to return to London, Eng- Sorority. “I had to face a wide variety Political Science her college journey. But before she land, where she spent last summer of challenges in my leadership posi- (Minor in Communication) heads to Capitol Hill or runs for as an intern for a member of the tions within these groups, especially FUTURE PLANS office, she plans to spend the next British Parliament. Then she plans trying to get people involved and Teach for America two years teaching middle-school to attend law school and then grad- excited about our activities. I have English in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, uate school to earn a master’s in also really tried to make sure that through Teach for America. public policy. Then it’s on to work I’m listening to the people in my If college made her more intense for a public-policy group or lobby- organization and not trying to impose R “I firmly believe O —“I’m the most intense person I ing firm and perhaps a run for polit- my opinions on the group.” I that I’m capable of N

know,” she says—it also helped ical office. A service trip to Vietnam and E effecting change. focus her political energies. “I’ve “Because I’ve had so many dif- experiences closer to home—whether S I’m idealistic and learned a significant amount about ferent experiences here, I feel more tutoring in a local school or volun- optimistic and leadership and the best ways to make able to adapt, and in that sense I feel teering at AIDS Care Service— willing to take on change. I have become really com- prepared,” she said. “I know who I complemented her classroom and mitted to several causes and have am, what I am capable of, what my research work. “You can use academ- the challenge, but developed a more holistic world- passions are, what I care about, ics for real practical social change, realistic enough to view. I have definitely grown up a lot, and what I want to accomplish.” for helping people. I saw the impor- know my limits and and I feel much more confident about McManus grew up largely in tance of not just living in the ivory to know that I’m who I am and what I believe” Winston-Salem where her father, tower, but using what I was learning, not going to change With the mentoring of profes- Jerry (’78), was an assistant football using research, to go into the com- the world as much sors such as political science coach at Wake Forest in the 1990s. munity and become a part of it.” as I might try.”

24 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE R “I think I have done adapting and making the most of O I that for the most whatever situation I’m in. Freshman N

E part. That’s why year was a little rocky just because S I ended up doing it was such a different situation, but the five-year once I found my place, it’s been great. I have an incredible group of friends, accounting program and that’s what I’ll value most about and finance degree. Wake Forest.” I heard about that Brown left his mark on Wake when I came into Forest by invigorating the Outdoor Wake, and my Recreation Club and organizing and initial reaction was often leading student adventure trips—backpacking trips to the why would some- Grand Canyon, Paria Canyon in Utah, one want to do and the Greek Island of Crete, and that, it just sounded a whitewater-rafting trip in West impossible. I took Virginia, among them. (He also trav- on the challenge, eled to Costa Rica for a service trip.) because I was He likens those experiences to his college journey. “You can look at a interested in it and hike on a map or look up at a moun-

MAJOR I thought I could tain you‘re going to climb, and think Finance do it, and so far it’s impossible. But then you do it, and you have that sense of accom- FUTURE PLANS the results have Master’s in Accountancy worked out.” plishment that makes it worth it.”

N “It’s not A

M important H

S that people E know who I R F am when I walk around campus. But I want to be known as someone who’s active and who cares and is involved.”

MAJOR Political Science

FUTURE PLANS Graduate School

JUNE 2006 25 Regeneration

26 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Electrospinning is used to fabricate scaffolds to produce bioengineered vessels—in this case, blood vessels. on The Wake to the Rescue Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, under the leadership By David Fyten of its tenacious and compassionate director, is poised to rejuvenate in more ways than one.

OMPASSION, COUPLED C WITH fearlessness in the face of long odds and formidable obstacles, can produce dramatic rescues. Witness the firefighter who busts into a blazing building or the non-swimmer who plunges into a river to save a life. Could that same combination of traits also produce dramatic advance- ments in medicine? In the case of one of the most dramatic of our times, the answer is, absolutely. The phenomenal process of tissue and organ regeneration is being nur- tured at perhaps the world’s premier research laboratory in the field—the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine—by the empathy and deter- mination of its director, Anthony Atala, M.D. The results of his team’s work to date are amazing—achievements that

this case, blood vessels. JUNE 2006 27 only a decade ago would have been Based on his accomplishments to autoimmunological and ethical road- the stuff of science fiction. Already, date, Atala has received the Christopher blocks associated with organ trans- Atala and his colleagues have bioengi- Columbus Foundation Award, given plantation and embryonic stem cell neered urethras and injectible cartilage to a living American who is currently research. In a major breakthrough in cells that have been successfully working on a discovery that will signif- summer 2005, Atala’s team successfully implanted in humans. In a recent issue icantly affect society. And more is to extracted stem cells—undifferentiated of a leading medical journal, Atala come. Presently, the Institute’s scientists cells that can adopt the structures and

Anthony Atala: ‘It begins with the patient. This is the problem; how can we solve it?’

reported long-term success with seven are working on growing more than features of other cell types—from skin. children and teenagers in whom he twenty different organs and tissue The process holds promise for provid- and his co-researchers implanted blad- types in all parts of the body, including ing the formative cells for organ and ders grown from their own cells. Blood the heart, liver, pancreas, kidney, lung, tissue regeneration through a far less vessels, muscles, wombs, and vaginas and nervous system. The beauty of complex and painful procedure than the team has fashioned have been test- their approach is that in fashioning new bone marrow extraction—not to ed pre-clinically and are nearly ready tissues and organs, they use the patient’s mention avoiding the use of human for human testing. own cells, thereby circumventing embryos, a political and ethical pitfall.

28 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Atala and his team hold more than today, and we were extremely fortunate just the past few years have reached a hundred national and international not only to get out ahead of the curve a critical mass that holds promise of patents and they have been adding new in the field, but to do so with what is engendering the kind of self-sustaining ones at a pace of one every six weeks widely regarded as the premier research economic growth and development since their arrival at Wake Forest two- group in the nation in this field. It is we are after.” and-a-half years ago from Harvard an extraordinarily promising area of And yet, with all the spectacular University, where Atala was director of research and product development and achievements and hoopla, Atala is at tissue engineering and cellular thera- one that will draw other groups and heart a humble clinician interested peutics. A half dozen companies have companies to grow up around it.” in research not for its own sake but been formed to develop and market Richard H. Dean, president and for what it can do to relieve sickness these technologies, with a new one chief executive officer of Wake Forest and suffering. Despite the demands of being founded every couple of years Health Sciences, says the regenerative running a multi-million-dollar, eighty- or so. It is safe to describe him as a institute is consistent with the Medical member laboratory, overseeing the var- darling of venture capitalists, and he Center’s strategy of recruiting research ious companies, dealing with investors is newly ensconced in a 60,000-square- foot laboratory in downtown Winston- Salem that is the world’s largest dedi- cated to regenerative medicine. Small wonder that economic development officials regard his presence here as a powerful catalyst for prodigious growth of the local biomedical industry— a sector they hope will be a pillar of the region’s economy in decades to come—and that Wake Forest Univer- sity Baptist Medical Center leaders deem his work a boon to its burgeoning prestige and position in the competi- tive environment of medical research funding and a thoroughbred addition to its growing stable of ahead-of-the- field research groups. Biotechnology Research Facility No. 1, the most advanced facility of its kind in the For an anemic economy as well country, was dedicated May 16. One of its floors houses the regenerative institute. as for seriously ill human beings, the groups that are national leaders in and government funding agencies, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative their fields—groups such as the and chairing Wake Forest School of Medicine just might yield a dramatic hypertension center, which relocated Medicine’s urology department, he rescue of its own. from Cleveland in the early nineties, always finds time to treat patients. “The recruitment of Tony was a and the human genomics center, When he says, in his warm and self- bold and insightful act on the part of which arrived from Baltimore in 2000. effacing way that betrays not one shred [Wake Forest University Baptist] Med- “Tony’s work is highly collaborative, of hubris, that he would never have ical Center,” says Christopher Price, and by facilitating and integrating entered research if it wouldn’t have senior vice president of Wake Forest with the work of other disciplines and held promise of direct benefit for University Health Sciences and exec- centers, it will multiply and magnify patients, you don’t doubt his sincerity. utive director of the Piedmont Triad all of our outcomes and profiles,” Dean “What drives this whole effort at Research Park, where Atala’s laborato- notes. “We have crossed a threshold. the end of the day is the patient,” Atala ries are located. “It is only in the last The quality and quantity of biotech- says with his radiating smile that can few years that regenerative medicine nology research groups and companies practically heal on its own. “Many has received the attention it’s getting that have located in Winston-Salem in times as physicians we feel helpless for

JUNE 2006 29 lack of tissue or organ therapies and completed his internship and residen- patient’s organ targeted for therapy. wish we could do more. It’s a different cies at the University of Louisville, Growth agents are added in the lab way of looking at research. Typically, began to confront the challenge some to prompt the cells to multiply. The research is hypothesis-driven; there is sixteen years ago in Boston, where cells are then seeded onto a mold or some mystery there to be solved. We he had completed research and clinical scaffold shaped like the organ, where do that in our research, but it begins fellowships in pediatric urological they continue to grow. Finally, the with the patient. ‘This is the problem; surgery at Children’s Hospital and mold is implanted into the patient’s how can we solve it?’” Harvard Medical School and had body, where it degrades once the organ The Institute is dedicated to allevi- joined their staff and faculty. or tissues are integrated. ating one of medicine’s most serious “The idea of creating an organ was In situations where biopsies are not crises: the shortage of human organs not on anybody’s radar screen at that possible or where extracted cells can- and tissues. Someone dies every thirty time,” he notes. “I was a neophyte, not be made to grow, stem cells, with seconds from organ failure and every and in my naivete I started with the their ability to acquire the characteris- ninety minutes while on a waiting list bladder.” (His goal was to improve upon tics of other cell types, might be the for organ transplantation. According the century-old procedure of building solution. Atala’s group is working with to estimates, the United States spends new bladders for cancer patients from several types of stem cells, including close to $600 billion a year caring intestine. Because intestine is designed stem cells they have drawn from skin for patients who might benefit from to absorb rather than excrete as blad- and developed into muscle, fat, and replacement tissues and organs. In an ders are, recipients of built bladders bone cells. Eventually, Atala envisions obese and aging nation, demand will are prone to developing cancer, kidney only continue to soar. The only prac- stones, and other ailments.) “If I’d tical solution to the organ and tissue shortage, Atala and others believe, is to increase the supply by growing them.

The collaborative institute team includes, above, Weixin Xao and George Christ, who apply their expertise in muscle cell physiology to various projects; and, right, James Woo, who supervises numerous tissue engineering studies.

muscle cells developed from stem cells Tissue engineering is not new— known then what I know now of being guided to organs in the body, the first product, artificial skin, was the challenges involved, I probably such as the heart, to replace damaged developed in 1981—but there were wouldn’t have started. What was sup- or diseased tissue. few clinical applications over the ensu- posed to be a one-year project turned Among the numerous cell-engineer- ing two decades, primarily because of out to be five.” ing research projects institute scientists the difficulties associated with getting The process Atala and his group are pursuing are the use of keratin, a cells to grow outside the body. Atala, refined over years of trial and error protein found in human hair, as a scaf- who received his medical degree and starts with a biopsy drawn from the folding material and an artificial blood

30 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE substitute; islet cells that could serve as insulin-producing pancreatic cells as well as cell-replacement therapies for neurological, cardiovascular, liver, and other illnesses; artificial blood ves- sels; and treatments for renal failure. All told, close to a hundred projects administered by ten senior researchers are under way at the institute. Not surprisingly, Atala’s work is generating substantial interest in the venture capital community. Wake Forest has entered into a multi-year, multi- million-dollar agreement with a Penn- sylvania-based biotechnology company, Tengion, Inc., which holds a licensing agreement to develop and market tech- nology that Atala developed while he was at Harvard. Tengion will fund research projects at the institute that focus on vascular and geni- tourinary applications and Bioengineered bladders, with which Atala has had great success, have an exclusive worldwide begin in molds like the one shown above. license or option to develop any resulting technology. post at Harvard, one of America’s most are aligned, you have the ability to “[Atala’s] group has the esteemed medical institutions. But for move forward quickly. three components necessary him, the decision to relocate when “Besides, my family and I love for success: funding, talent, Wake Forest started recruiting him living here,” he adds. “It’s a wonderful and desire,” Dean Stell, asso- four years ago was easy. place to be.” ciate director of Wake Forest’s “At Harvard, there was one medical Despite his progress to date, Atala Office of Technology Asset school but many independent hospitals, harbors no illusions. He knows that Management, said in an arti- each with its own specialty and many obstacles still loom, and that cle in the medical center’s bureaucracy,” Atala notes. “It’s well- years of painstaking trial and error lie magazine, Visions. “Many known in clinical circles that conduct- ahead before regenerative medicine scientists who make funda- ing trials at Harvard can be challeng- becomes as safe and commonplace as mental discoveries just don’t ing, to say the least. Here, we have joint replacement and heart bypass have the desire to do the applied one medical school, one hospital— surgery (to name two procedures research that is needed to take it to one medical center. that were gee-whiz stuff less than another level.” Partnering with indus- “The vision Dick Dean shared dur- two decades ago) are now. But he is try is “essential,” in Atala’s view. “We ing the recruitment process of devel- undaunted. The patient needs it. do the ‘R’—the research—of R&D,” oping the largest urban research park “We’ve hit and scaled many walls he states. “You need the ‘D’—the in the nation in Winston-Salem was to get to where we are today,” he says. development—to get it to the patient. inspiring,” he goes on. “Wake Forest, “And I know there will be many more Technology for its own sake is incom- the city, the state—all of them regard walls. But having hit and penetrated plete. It needs to be disseminated.” biotechnology as important to their those walls in the past, I am completely Some might wonder why a researcher future. It is really terrific to have the confident we’ll circumvent those to of Atala’s stature would forsake a glam- kind of collaborative environment we come as well.” orous city like Boston and a prestigious have here. When everybody’s interests

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Above: railroad tycoon W. Averell Harriman’s Sun Valley resort blazed the trail for those that followed. Inset: Sun Valley on the cover of Life magazine.

32 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE As a Wake Forest architectural historian has discovered, the ski resort industry is a microcosm of the American experience.

N THE BEGINNING, there were of discretionary the pioneers—mountain men with income and leisure Irustic gear who blazed trails through time and the enter- virgin territory. They were followed by prise of Army moun- captains of industry—entrepreneurs tain warfare veterans The lavish Beaver Creek resort of vision and means who transformed who had trained in the was among the few built after rigid development controls came and opened the wilderness for a newly Rocky Mountains ignited a wildfire of to the mountains. prosperous and mobile populace. In resort development and opened skiing time, political, financial, and environ- to the less affluent and families; to the its topic, so she devoted much of the mental forces stalled the push, although eventual intrusion of “urban” prob- exhaustive research she conducted new breeds of speculators and adven- lems into resort communities and the over six years to interviewing key turers remain drawn to the landscape. resultant rise of regulatory controls players in the ski resort industry. In its day, it was a phenomenon that and political opposition to unrestrained The story of downhill skiing and personified a country with lofty ambi- development; to a return to skiing for destination resorts in America begins tions, a taste for the fast life, a rapid the rich and a flat growth curve for the nearly a century ago with two types of ascent to the pinnacle, downhill industry, which would be flatter still skiing: near and far. On the one hand momentum, and a clear path and vast were it not for snowboarding and a hot were the members of “outing clubs”— and marvelous vistas before it. second-home market—the ski resort groups of privileged urbanites and col- This might be a capsule history of industry can be viewed as a microcosm lege students—and locals who skied the American West—and it largely is or mirror of our national experience, within easy travel distance in pristine —but actually, it describes the American and skiing itself as a metaphor of the mountainous areas like Lake Tahoe, ski resort industry. From the early American dream’s rise to dazzling California, and Stowe, Vermont, with- decades of the twentieth century, when heights and descent to lower eleva- out benefit of lifts, lodges, or runs. domestic skiing was rudimentary and tions over the past half century. “They camped or stayed in farmhouses local; to the first destination ski resort, Harold W. Tribble Professor of Art or cabins,” says Smith, who is one of built in Sun Valley, Idaho, by a railroad Margaret Supplee Smith is documenting just a handful of academic historians tycoon to draw passengers; through this fascinating and surprisingly rele- studying the subject. “They would the quarter century after the Second vant story in a book she is working on make one or perhaps two runs a day World War, when phenomenal growth titled High on the Mountain, scheduled because they had to hike to the top of for publication later this year. Smith is the mountain.” For the outing clubs, an architectural historian by spe- “it was a Sierra Club-type experience cialty—hence the book’s subtitle: in the tradition of the Scandinavian An Architectural History of Ameri- ideal of Idraet—outdoor exercise that can Ski Resorts. But she realized it demanded strength, toughness, and would be incomplete if it failed manliness.” On the other hand were to address the political, economic, the rich and socially well positioned, social, and cultural implications of who vacationed at the exclusive Alpine resorts of France, Switzerland, and Vail, opened in 1962, was the Austria. Many went there not so much first planned community resort and the first in the Rockies that was readily accessible by car. JUNE 2006 33 Celebrities like Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper, and Clark Gable made Sun Valley a fashionable destination. to ski as to partake of European culture and society. East. During the Great Then, at the very depths of Depression, the Civilian the Great Depression, a corpo- Conservation Corps estab- rate executive named William lished camps at Stowe, Averell Harriman had an Vermont, and began clear-

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quick-release clamps, high-speed chair long after its opening in early 1946. lifts, and snow-making and grooming to comprise a robust cadre of inven- Aspen was difficult to get to, which equipment—made skiing safe, com- tors, developers, and instructors. More no doubt enhanced its aura of special- fortable, predictable, and relatively than sixty resorts were either founded ness. But in the broader picture, inac- hassle-free. With the industry’s path by, directed by, or had ski schools run cessibility was an obstacle that would cleared of obstructions, the number of by 10th Mountain veterans and some need to be circumvented if Rocky Moun- ski areas nationally shot from seventy- two thousand of them would join the tain resort development was to proceed eight in 1955 to 662 a decade later. ranks of ski instructors. on a large scale. Two breakthroughs Developers gleaned the greater The impetus for America’s next des- demolished that barricade. First, devel- potential inherent in skiing’s rising tination resort came from one of those opers convinced airlines to provide popularity and the nation’s growing veterans. At the war’s outset, Austrian scheduled service to towns close to pursuit of recreational opportunities, skier Friedl Pfeifer emigrated first to prospective resort areas. Second, Inter- and they began to build “total” ski Australia and then to America, where state Highway System planners routed resorts with luxury spas and family- he taught at Sun Valley before joining east-west I-70 through the heart of the oriented attractions and summertime the 10th Mountain Division. He often Colorado Rockies. Some of the finest activities such as golf, hiking, and came to Aspen, the isolated mining skiing areas in the world would be horseback riding. Among the first town that Schaffgotsch had rejected, accessible to the rich and middle was Vail, which opened in 1962. on maneuvers and weekend furloughs income alike. Developed by 10th Mountain veteran while training at nearby Camp Hale. The sport grew steadily but unspec- Peter Seibert, it became, along with After the war, Pfeifer settled in Aspen tacularly in popularity through the Aspen, one of Colorado’s two world- with the dream of making it a world- fifties. Then, advances in technology, class ski resorts. But in a number of class ski resort, and opened its first ski coupled with an event with huge impact, respects, Vail differed significantly school. Meanwhile, a third of a conti- sent it soaring toward the summit. In from its elder forty miles to the south- nent away in Chicago, Walter Paepcke, 1960, the Winter Olympics were held west. Situated along the I-70 corridor a an industrialist and philanthropist, had in the U.S. in Squaw Valley, California. hundred miles west of Denver, Vail a vision of his own—of founding an The televised Games, highlighted by was reached easily by car, which made institute for the propagation of culture, America’s technological panache, pro- it more convenient and economical for leadership, ideas, and values-based dia- vided a victory over the Soviet Union moderate-income, single-day, and fam- logue. He was drawn to Aspen, and at the height of the Cold War, captivated ily skiers. To differentiate its look from although he was not especially keen on the nation and introduced it on a large Aspen’s Victorian-Western style and to the notion of a ski resort, he realized it scale to alpine skiing and the glamour attract the affluent skiers who were was Aspen’s future, and he pooled his and brilliance of its European champi- going to Europe, Seibert and chief efforts with Pfeifer’s to develop it. Joining ons. Also, through much of the fifties, architect Fitzhugh Scott designed Vail them were architects Frederic “Fritz” recreational skiing had stayed frozen in to resemble a Tyrolian village. Aspen Benedict, a Frank Lloyd Wright protégé a technological backwater. Wooden skis was becoming a haven for the counter- and 10th Mountain Division veteran, had to be waxed after every couple of culture; to attract a more conservative and his brother-in-law, Herbert Bayer, a runs; clothing often consisted of clientele, Vail was developed as a modernist designer in the Bauhaus tra- woolen, water-absorbent hiking gear; planned community with strict design dition. Together they transformed the boots and clamps were cumbersome and land-use regulations. Even long shabby town into a model of Victorian and unyielding, promoting broken hair was prohibited. And its year- architecture preservation and built a bones; waits of an hour or more for round appeal positioned Vail as an modern resort complex for the Aspen slow-moving T-bars and rope tows attractive second-home site, a market Institute. With its breathtaking panora- were the norm at peak periods; and that would mushroom in coming mas, highbrow ambience, and challeng- sudden thaws or lack of snowfall had decades. Vail’s popularity touched off ing runs unequaled this side of the Alps, resorts and skiers at their mercy. Then, an avalanche of resort development, Aspen became a destination of choice a blizzard of inventions—fiberglass starting with new facilities at the ven- for expert skiers and the social set not skis, waterproof boots and outfits, erable Steamboat Springs, Colorado,

JUNE 2006 35 fragile mountain environments, and and Whistler-Blackcomb in Alberta, locals resented the Canada—were built in the eighties, loss of control over and all were enormously expensive. their communities. Other factors were making skiing This prompted Ver- increasingly costly and beyond the L

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36 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Hence, the shift to condos, time-shares, fractional ownership, etcetera.” a slope with both feet on one board) As the total-resort concept has grew in tandem with its flatland cousin, waxed, the mountain has waned in skateboarding—both capitalizing on a stature, in Smith’s view. “All of the renegade, “bad-boy” image. Because of resorts are going to the idea of a village that image, many resorts prohibited dedicated to entertainment,” she notes. snowboarding for years. But as the “Ski resorts today are owned by corpo- ranks of its aficionados spread from rations, and with skiing being the vul- adolescent males to men and women nerable enterprise it is, and the fact of all ages and social status, so did its that most people ski just a few hours a respectability, and today only a couple day, they need a broad base to protect of holdout resorts still ban it. Snow- Margaret Supplee Smith looks up at the th their investments. The mountain used boarders today comprise about 25 per monument to 10 Mountain Division in Vail, Colorado. to be the focus of a resort; now, it’s the cent of a typical ski resort’s clientele village center. The mountain is seen as and are projected to overtake skiers in cover of Sports Illustrated twice in the an amenity to sell real estate.” With a decade. Like America itself, the ski sixties and founded Snowbird in Utah; the village the focus of attention, many resort industry is evolving and adapt- Frank Snyder, who started Stratton; resort towns are in a virtually constant ing to cultural change. and Leslie Otten, a former president of state of renovation, according to Smith. Smith, who earned her doctoral the American Ski Company (and the “The Western resorts, with their struc- degree at Brown University and joined father of 1999 Wake Forest graduate tures dating back to the sixties and the Wake Forest faculty in 1979, spent Joshua Otten), who developed Sunday seventies, are in urban renewal,” she twelve years curating an exhibition on River in Maine, among other resorts. says, “while New England is engaged in and co-authoring a comprehensive She also interviewed a host of renowned the sort of comprehensive resort plan- history of North Carolina women. By snow country architects, such as Henrik ning we think of as Western, which the time the project was finished in Bull (whose nephew, Eric Stone, teach- means their buildings will be newer.” 1999, “I needed a change,” she says. es in Wake Forest’s psychology depart- Skiing’s popularity has been on a “I was ready to get outdoors, get back ment), Ian Mackinlay, John R. Smith, gradual downward slope the past cou- to architecture, and work with men George Homsey, and Ray Kingston. ple of decades, a trend that might have as well as women.” “Because so much of the resort devel- slowed or stopped many resorts dead On a skiing trip to Aspen in 1994, opment occurred in the sixties and in their tracks were it not for the rise Smith had been struck by the archi- seventies, and because they were and of snowboarding. Invented in 1985, tectural look of the village, and the are robust sportsmen, many of them the sport (in which one “surfs” down notion of researching a history of ski- are in their seventies and eighties and resort design stuck with her. Soon in very good shape,” she says. “It after she started the project in 2000, never occurred to me when I started she created an on-line database of the project that I would identify all architects and their projects, which these key players, and that they would currently has more than 350 names still be around to tell their stories.” of ski resort designers. In 2002, Smith gave a paper at the It also was Smith’s good fortune to first and only International Ski History L B E I be able to interview many of the pio- Congress held in Park City, Utah, just R H C

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E and sustaining organizations in A new minor creatively connects entrepreneurship and the liberal arts. today’s global environment. It pro- vides an overview of the role and By William E. Conner and Sharon Andrews importance of entrepreneurship in the global economy and in society, examining how individuals use entrepreneurial skills to craft inno- provide opportunities to develop vative responses to societal needs. I was seldom able entrepreneurial thinking. The third course, “Internships in That is why last fall Wake Forest Entrepreneurial Studies,” provides to see an opportunity unveiled a new course of study for students with opportunities to apply until it had ceased its students—a minor in entrepre- knowledge in an entrepreneurial for- neurship and social enterprise. With profit or not-for-profit environment. to be one. built-in flexibility, the minor encour- It encourages students to engage —Mark Twain ages students to take control of with the real world. The remainder their education and offers them the of the courses required for the minor opportunity to gain the knowledge (nine hours) allow students to deter- WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO THINK that will support the pursuit of their mine a concentration that most suits ENTREPRENEURIALLY? What passions. The appeal of the minor is their personal passions and goals. qualities encourage some to recog- already obvious. More than thirty The menu of options, drawn from nize opportunities? Why do some students signed on in the first few departments throughout the univer- take advantage of those opportuni- weeks of the program. sity, is organized under the general ties to create value for themselves The minor is built on the premise categories of “Thought and Behavior,” and others or to solve problems for that many of the courses that are “Leadership and Engaging the World,” the social good? Is teaching these useful to the would-be entrepreneur and “Entrepreneurial Process.” qualities a valuable part of a liberal are already taught at a liberal arts Along with this wide variety of arts education? A subset of Wake institution. Students begin with three courses already offered at Wake Forest’s faculty has thought long and required core courses. The first is Forest, new upper-level entrepreneur- hard about these questions for the “Creativity and Innovation,” taught ship courses are also being developed. last two years. by Associate Professor Lynn Book, For example, “Free Trade, Fair Trade: It is clear that entrepreneurs are who has a shared appointment with Independent Entrepreneurs in the the change-makers of our world. the Office of Entrepreneurship and Global Market” is a field-based semi- To think entrepreneurially means Liberal Arts and the Theatre and nar that compares the barriers to to think analytically, to synthesize Dance department. This interactive market participation that independ- information, to solve complex prob- seminar introduces students to read- ent entrepreneurs experience cross- lems, to work within ambiguous ings and processes from various culturally. Free trade policies are environments, and to organize and disciplines that elucidate the nature contrasted with fair trade practices to lead teams. Entrepreneurial thinking and function of creativity and the determine why so many independent creates value: intellectual value, social conditions that stimulate it. Students producers have trouble succeeding in value, and artistic value as well as engage in dynamic creative processes a globalizing world. Some students in economic value. If a primary com- and projects in order to develop a the course will travel with their men- ponent of the academy’s job is to “critical creativity.” tor, Anthropology Professor Jeanne place our students in the strongest The second course, “Foundations Simonelli, to Chiapas, Mexico, to possible position to have satisfying of Entrepreneurship,” is taught by see first-hand the effects of free trade and successful lives as good world Bren Varner (’99) from the Center and fair trade practices on small-scale citizens, then it makes sense to and the Calloway School of Business coffee producers. Others are working

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overuse of antibiotics in non-infected E ponds because of a lack of good detection methods. Aqualutions’ products will benefit the fish farmer and the environment. Although the products are presently aimed at the catfish industry, other future markets include the ornamental fish trade and hobbyists. The next major step in support- ing entrepreneurial thinking at Wake Forest is the development of an Entrepreneurship in Residence Pro- gram. Entrepreneurial alumni and successful community entrepreneurs Magic Mouth Productions was the inspired venture of theatre majors Matt are needed to serve as mentors for Gutschick (’06), seated, and Ben Whiting (’06), inside box. students interested in starting non- profit or for-profit ventures. The on a feasibility study to see how To think entrepreneurially office is also establishing a Board of Wake Forest can help facilitate Advisors to help guide Wake Forest market access for small producers. means to think analytically, students as they initiate ventures. The minor in entrepreneurship If you would like to be involved in has tapped into a vital source of to synthesize information, this program, contact Elizabeth energy on campus. Wake Forest Gatewood, director of the Office of students are by nature creative and to solve complex problems, Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts, or innovative, and several students visit the Web site at www.wfu.edu/ have been inspired by the new entre- to work within ambiguous organizations/entrepreneurship/. preneurship initiative to start ven- There is a surge of interest in tures of their own. Others who had environments, and to entrepreneurship and the mindset already begun projects have found and skills inherent in entrepreneurial considerable support from the Office organize and lead teams. thinking on college campuses. of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts Creativity, innovative ability, social and even a home in student-run made stuffed robots on-line. Their motivation, and leadership are space, the Entrepreneurship Center. product demand was so high that emerging as basic entrepreneurial Two theatre majors formed the they had to suspend operations long qualities. The value of encouraging company Magic Mouth Productions. enough to restructure their business. these qualities in our liberal arts The theatre/magic show they wrote They now have a supplier and sales community is self-evident. With the and produced, “Awakenings,” was are again in full swing. A group of new minor in entrepreneurship and performed for sold-out houses in biology and business students under social enterprise, Wake Forest is the Main Stage Theatre. It delighted the tutelage of Professor of Biology assuming a prominent position in audiences of all ages with a poignant Ray Kuhn have created a company promoting entrepreneurial thinking coming-of-age story combined with called Aqualutions LLC. The company and action in college students. large-scale illusions such as a car produces immunological reagents magically appearing on stage. that will allow aquaculturists to William E. Conner is professor of Two other students have created detect diseases in fish cultures. Such biology. Sharon Andrews is associate a company that sells unique hand- diseases currently rob the aquaculture professor of theatre.

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Justin Gray(’06)

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SPRING IS ALWAYS A SPECIAL TIME FOR WAKE FORESTERS, and we are proud L

to welcome our recent graduates, the Class of 2006, into the Alumni Association. C Commencement was held on Monday, May 15th with Mark Warner, the former governor of Virginia, as the Commencement speaker. Barbara Brown Taylor, an Episcopal priest, professor, and noted author, was our Baccalaureate speaker on May 14th. Approximately 1,400 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students graduated. (Remember: one of the “25 Ways You Can Help Wake Forest” is to “hire Wake Forest students and graduates.” If you have job openings at your place of business, please consider hiring Wake Forest alumni whenever possible!) We are equally pleased to welcome the newest members of the Wake Forest family, the newly- admitted students who will join the Class of 2010. This year we had another strong year for alumni children applying to Wake Forest, with more than 250 applying. June 30th concludes Wake Forest’s fiscal year, so we now are in the final days of our 2005–06 College Fund drive. Please help us reach our goal of 11,500 donors to the College and Calloway Funds. Alumni participation is our primary goal: every gift helps us reach it, as well as having a positive effect on Wake Forest’s national rankings. Please remember your alma mater and join me in giving generously to the College Fund. Your gift counts! In July, the volunteer boards and alumni councils of the Reynolda Campus will meet for a joint Summer Leadership Conference, which will be my final meeting as your Alumni Association President. Much work has been done this year under our strategic plan: 1) to strengthen our regional alumni clubs through the dissemination of best practices; 2) to enhance alumni involvement in career services and networking opportunities for undergraduates; and 3) to expand alumni programs and outreach through such new offerings as the Lifelong Learning pilot program, among others. Special thanks go to all who helped in these efforts this year. I am pleased to announce that following our July meeting, Ruffin Branham (’69) of Richmond, Virginia will become the new Alumni Association president. Ruffin has been an active member of the Wake Forest family, and I know he will build on the momentum achieved thus far by the Alumni Council in implementing its strategic plan. I am confident that the Alumni Association will continue to flourish under his leadership. Looking ahead to the fall, I hope you will mark your calendars now and plan to come back to campus on September 29–30 for Homecoming 2006. This year, alumni have an extra special reason to return to campus—the 50th anniversary of Wake Forest in Winston-Salem. We will celebrate the beginnings of the Reynolda Campus with a number of special events highlighting this historic Wake Forest milestone. Additionally, reunion events are being planned for members of the Classes of 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, and 2001. Bring your families for lots of fun, games, and food at the Festival on the Quad on Saturday morning, as well as the Alumni Tailgate and Post-game Reception in Bridger Field House. More details will be available on the Alumni web site later this summer (www.wfu.edu/alumni), and Homecoming brochures will be mailed to all alumni then. Call your friends and classmates and plan to come back to campus for a wonderful Homecoming weekend! As I conclude my tenure later this summer, let me say that it has been a pleasure to serve you and to see, first hand, all the ways you support Wake Forest through your participation in campus and regional events, your volunteer service, and your financial support. Wake Forest truly is an institution unlike any other. Thank you for all you do for our University. With all best wishes,

Nancy Kuhn (’73) Alumni Association President

www.wfu.edu/alumniwww.wfu.edu/alumni JJUNEUNE20052006 41 If you have news you would like to share, please send it to CLASSNOTES editor, Wake Forest Magazine, P.O. Box 7205, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205. CLASSNOTES can be e-mailed to [email protected] or entered in an online form at www.wfu.edu/magazine/classnotes. It is important that you include your class year(s) and degree(s) with each note. The person submitting information must provide a telephone number for verification and accepts responsibility for the accuracy of the information. The deadline for CLASSNOTES is the 15th day of the month two months prior to the issue

date. For example, the deadline for the September issue is July 15. PALMER (’51) ZACKS (’64, JD ’67)

1940s John Wagster (’57) reports that Nashville Clarence W. Moss (’63) is a staff duty officer Wake Forest alumni defeated Vanderbilt with the High Point (NC) Police Department. Altha Smith Satterwhite (’45) is 85. She alumni in the ninth annual Wake/Vandy took a trip to Kyoto, Japan, for the 50th Golf Match. Using a Ryder Cup format at David Zacks (’64, JD ’67) practices alterna- anniversary celebration of the Japan Baptist the Lake Nona Club in Orlando, FL, Todd tive dispute resolution, health care law and Hospital, which she and her husband helped Brown (’80), Brian Cook (’84), Glenn personal injury litigation with Kilpatrick start. Funk (’82), Mike Kriel (’72) and Fred Stockton LLP in Atlanta. He has been recog- Williams (’67) rounded out the team. nized as one of “The Best Lawyers in America” for 2006. 1950s Robert F. Corwin (’58) and Stephen H. Corwin (’62, MD ’65) retired and closed John H. Crowe (’65) retired as professor of Corwin Urology Clinic in Waco, TX. They Arnold D. Palmer (’51) has been named molecular and cellular biology at the University continue to be active in civic activities. one of the NCAA’s “100 Most Influential of California, Davis, after 35 years on the fac- Student-Athletes”as No. 25 on the list. He won ulty. He serves on advisory boards for the two NCAA Championships (1949 and 1950) Malcolm T. Foster Jr. (’59, MD ’63) is a biomedical industry, the Mondavi Center for and was the first-ever ACC Champion in 1954. professor of internal medicine at the University the Performing Arts, the Sacramento Opera, Professionally, he played from 1955–2005 with of Florida Health Science Center-Jacksonville. the American Bach Soloists, and the Wake 62 PGA Tour victories and 10 Champion Tour He has been elected to a four-year term as Forest College Board of Visitors. Since retiring, victories. He was named to Wake Forest’s governor of the Florida Chapter of the he and his wife, Lois, have enjoyed a tour of Hall of Fame in 1971. American College of Physicians. Peru and a safari in Tanzania.

Betty L. Siegel (’52) has been named to Jerry L. Punch (’65) is an audiologist and a Georgia Trend magazine’s “Most Influential 1960s professor in the Department of Communicative Georgians Hall of Fame.”As the retiring Sciences and Disorders at Michigan State president of Kennesaw State University, she Maurice W. Horne (’60, JD ’66) is chief University. He has been named a fellow of was honored by its Foundation with “A Silver judge of the Social Security Adjudications the American Speech-Language-Hearing Salute”for her 25 years of leadership. and Review Office in North Carolina. He has Association for his contributions in teaching, presided over hearings involving appeals of research and administration. Eunice Duncan Liesmann (’53) and her disability claims for 24 years. He and eight husband, Ronald, retired to Livingston, TX, other judges and a staff of about 40 are Allan Head (’66, JD ’69) has been an exec- to be near their son, Michael. They have a involved in setting hearings from Fayetteville utive with the N.C. Bar Association for 32 daughter, Sallie, who lives in California. to the mountains. years. He has been named president of the National Association for Bar Executives. Robert S. Murphy (’53) lived in Kentucky Ruth Winchester Ware (’61) had her poems, for 51 years, teaching math in high school “Timothy’s Stone,”published in the Poetry Wade B. Haubert (’67) turned 60 and retired and at Somerset Community College. He has Council of North Carolina’s Bay Leaves, and after 35 years in transportation, the last 25 as returned to North Carolina and is teaching “Tuesday Woman,”published in Immigration sales manager for Billings Transportation math part-time at Cape Fear Community Emigration Diversity. Her untitled black and Group in Pennsylvania. His plans include College. white photo was exhibited in Chapel Hill, volunteer work and lots of golf. NC, at the Women’s Center Annual Art Show, “Through Women’s Eyes, By Women’s I. Beverly Lake Jr. (’55, JD ’60), former Mike Lewis (’67, JD ’70) and David Hands.” Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Daggett (JD ’85), of the law firm Lewis & Court, received the Distinguished Alumni Daggett in Winston-Salem, sponsor the Safe Award for Outstanding Service to the Legal Stephen H. Corwin (’62, MD ’65) and Sober Prom Night Program. They motivate Profession and to the State of North Carolina Robert F. Corwin (’58) have retired and high-school students to take a pledge against from the Wake Forest School of Law. closed Corwin Urology Clinic in Waco, TX. drinking and driving and distribute free “Do They continue to be active in civic activities. it Right!” T-shirts to those who take that pledge. Buck Rish (’55, MD ’58) has published his third novel, The Last Mule in Sunrise. Charlie King (’62) is with Darrell & King Investments in Charlottesville,VA.They were Jim Funderburk (’68, JD ’72) has been ranked among the top three U.S. Equity Multi- re-elected as a state bar councilor from the Cap Blend Managers for the third year in a Gastonia, NC, area. He is vice chairman of row by Money Manager Review. the Rules Review Commission.

42 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Henry “Hank” Shore (’77) is pursuing his master’s in library and information science at the College of St. Catherine in Minneapolis, MN. He is an intern in the archives of Cargill Inc.

Richard Burr (’78), U.S. Congressman, gave the address at Wake Forest’s Founders’ Day Convocation in February. CROWE (’65) BRYAN (’72) HOLDEN (’73)

Clare Novak (’78) is an international lead- ership development consultant in Chester Springs, PA. She wrote Lee Nathan Sanges (’68) is manager of the Charles Monroe Wilmoth (’75) is a devel- Never Rule Without a local office of the Employment Security Com- opment officer for Foundation Partnerships Magician, a Sage and a Fool: How Great Advisors mission/Stanly County JobLink in Albemarle, with the Hispanic Scholarship Fund in San Help Leaders Soar While Keeping Both Feet on . Her personal journeys have led NC. He has been in workforce development Francisco, CA. He is a graduate of Leadership the Ground her from ice-climbing to dinner on the Danube, programs for 32 years. He and his wife, San Francisco. He received a Leadership Dneiper and the Nile. Marlene, have two sons, Thane and Evan. Commendation and serves as a literary judge and grant panelist for the San Francisco Arts Commission. James H. Burrus Jr. (’79, JD ’81) is an 1970s assistant director of the criminal division of Mark Northam (’76) is a research science the FBI in Washington, D.C. Carl Keller (’70) and his senior mixed- consultant, focusing on carbon management David “Nicky” Guy Jr. (MBA ’79) has doubles tennis team won the Wilmington technologies, in the Technology Management survived two strokes and is improving with Championship and advanced to the North Department of Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, therapy. He and his wife, Susan, have two Carolina State Championships for the third Saudi Arabia. He enjoyed four years of college students. straight year. retirement from ExxonMobil but missed the challenges and interactions of the workplace. John R. Lowden (’79, MBA ’82) is presi- Murray Joseph Thompson (’70) wrote a dent of Newcastle Partners LLC in Greenwich, book, Christianity’s New Model for Ministry: J. Anthony “Andy” Penry (’76, JD ’79) is a CT. He has been elected to the Wake Forest The Multi-denominational Church, highlighting partner with Taylor Penry Rash & Riemann in Board of Trustees. a post-modern model for ministry in main- Raleigh, NC. He was elected to membership line Protestantism. in the American Law Institute. Tamara Greb Smith (’79) is in her 23rd year of teaching drama at Kellam High School in George M. Bryan Jr. (’72) has been named Stephen R. Briggs (’77) was provost and Virginia Beach,VA. She has been selected president and chief executive officer of The vice president for academic affairs at The Teacher of the Year for 2005-06. Children’s Home Inc. in Winston-Salem, College of New Jersey. He has been named with a satellite campus in Franklin, NC. the eighth president of Berry College in Mount Berry, GA. Lawrence N. “Chip” Holden (’73) has been 1980s recognized as a leader in production with Stephen W. Coles (’77, JD ’80) is with MassMutual Financial Group in Winston- Brinkley Walser PLLC in Lexington, NC. He Jocelyn Burton (’80) has joined Kilpatrick Salem. is one of Woodward White Inc.’s 2005-06 Stockton LLP in Winston-Salem as counsel. “Best Lawyers in America”for civil litigation. She is a member of the Wake Forest Board of His daughter, Sarah Craig, is a Wake Forest Trustees. Richard S. “Steve” Orr (’74) has been freshman. appointed insurance commissioner for the state of Maryland. He and his wife, Michelle, Bob Costner (’80) composed additional live in Baltimore County. Eric N. Olson (’77, PhD ’81) is the Robert A. music for a film documentary,“Martha in Welch Distinguished Chair of the Department Lattimore,”which was screened at the of Molecular Biology at the University of Texas RiverRun International Film Festival in Joanne Johnston Ritter (’74) is an adminis- Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He Winston-Salem. trative assistant in the Office of Alumni Acti- and Abraham Rudolph won the 2005 Pollin vities and Annual Support at Wake Forest. Prize for Pediatric Research for their pioneer- She and her husband, Bob (’74), have two Gilda Glazer (JD ’80), a pianist with The ing work in fetal and neonatal cardiology. children. Glazer Duo, has recorded an album of American music,“Amber Waves”(Centaur Ernie Rushing (’77) has retired from the Records, 2006). Richard W. Scheiner (’75) is chairman of Washington State Attorney General’s office. Semmes Bowen & Semmes, a firm of 70 He served as senior assistant attorney general attorneys headquartered in Baltimore, MD. Mac Haupt (’80) is in the monitoring section and division chief for both the Natural of the Ecosystem Enhancement Program of Resources Divison and Fish, Wildlife and Parks the North Carolina Department of Environ- Division. He and his wife, Janet, daughter ment and Natural Resources. He lives in Amanda, and son Ben, live in Washington and Raleigh with his four sons. Mexico.

www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2006 43 Rick Glazier (JD ’81) has been named to Becky Garrison (’83) is senior contributing the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Advisory editor for The Wittenburg Door in New York. Panel for a three-year term. He is an attorney (www.wittenburgdoor.com) She has pub- teaching criminal justice at Fayetteville State lished a book, Red and Blue God, Black and University and pre-trial law at Campbell Blue Church: Eyewitness Accounts of How University School of Law. American Churches are Hijacking Jesus, Bagging the Beatitudes, and Worshipping the Almighty Chris Swecker (JD ’81) is an assistant Dollar (Jossey-Bass, April 2006). BULLOCK (’85, MBA ’95) BARBEE (MBA ’87) director in the criminal investigation division of the FBI in Washington, D.C. Morris C. Massey (’83) focuses on land use, governmental matters and real estate with Alan E. Rolfe (’80) is retiring as a captain Thomas Preston Walk (’81) practices law in Hill Ward & Henderson in Tampa, FL. after 26 years in the U.S. Navy Medical Virginia. He completed his sixth year as board Corps. He will continue his medical practice chairman for Clinch Independent Living Bill McKenney (’84) is a senior policy in dermatology, consultative internal medi- Services Inc. He serves on the board for advisor with the Department of Homeland cine and geriatrics in Norfolk,VA. Bluefield Baseball Club Inc. and is a substi- Security in Washington, D.C. He and his tute judge and administrative hearing officer. wife, Ellen Sheehan McKenney (’89), live Jerry Allen Wolfe (JD ’80) has been re- in Chevy Chase, MD, with their children, elected as the Commonwealth’s attorney Mary Dalton (’83) directed a film docu- Jack (4) and Lila (2). for the City of Bristol,VA. He has served mentary,“Martha in Lattimore,”which was 16 years on the Bristol City Council and screened at the RiverRun International Film James R. Bullock (’85, MBA ’95) has been seven years as mayor. Festival in Winston-Salem. named vice president for University Advance- ment at Wake Forest, effective July 1.

Allyson Shepard Brown (’86) is vice presi- dent and controller of Direct Retail Lending Fall with BB&T Corporation in Winston-Salem. Ally Currin (’86) is a playwright and actress and teaches acting and theater classes at Weekends 2006 George Washington University. She was pro- filed in a book, Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads: Finding a Path to Your Perfect Career (Ten PLAN TO JOIN US! Speed Press, May 2006), showing how to turn a liberal arts degree into a meaningful career.

Saturday, September 2 Wake Forest vs. Syracuse football game Angela G. Ellis (’86) has her own dental practice in Chapel Hill, NC. She and Gerald Saturday, September 9 Wake Forest vs. Duke football game Hladik were married in 1999 and adopted VARSITY CLUB WEEKEND two children in 2002.

Saturday, September 30 Wake Forest vs. Liberty football game Melanie Barbee (MBA ’87) is vice president of sales and marketing at Santa Fe Natural HOMECOMING and the celebration of the Tobacco Company, a subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds 50th anniversary of Wake Forest in Tobacco Company, in Santa Fe, NM.

Winston Salem—College, Calloway School, Gene Castagna (’87) is chief financial officer Babcock School, Divinity School, Law School and treasurer of Bed Bath and Beyond. He and his wife, Michele, and three children, Saturday, October 7 Wake Forest vs. Clemson football game Michael (9), Nicholas (7) and Julia (2), live in New Providence, NJ. FAMILY WEEKEND and SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ALUMNI WEEKEND Ronald L. Hicks Jr. (JD ’87) is on the management committee at Meyer Unkovic Saturday, November 4 Wake Forest vs. Boston College football game & Scott LLP in Pittsburgh, PA. PRESIDENT’S WEEKEND Gerald M. Malmo III (MBA ’87) has been recognized as a leader in production with Saturday, November 18 Wake Forest vs. Virginia Tech football game MassMutual Financial Group in Winston- Salem. Please visit the Alumni Web site at www.wfu.edu/alumni or call the Andrew Hart (’88) is pastor of Douglas Office of Alumni Activities for more information. Presbyterian Church in Lancaster, SC.

44 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE HICKS (JD ’87) MALMO (MBA ’87) DEMPSTER (JD ’90) VEA (’92) WHITTLE (JD ’92)

Catherine Hendren (JD ’88) received the Karl Greeson (’89) was invited to attend the Paul Caldwell completed a fellowship in St. Paul’s Cross from St. Paul’s Episcopal 2006 AT&T Leaders Council at the MGM arthroscopy and sports medicine. He is with Church in Winston-Salem for extraordinary Grand in Las Vegas. This annual event Tuckahoe Orthopaedics Association in dedication to her parish and community. She recognizes top AT&T business performers. Richmond,VA. He and his wife, Melissa, and her husband have two children. have twins, Lily and Pierce (1). Joseph LaMountain (’89) is president and Elizabeth Morriss Srinivasan (JD ’88) founder of SparkLight Communications. He J. Todd Perry (MD ’96) and his wife, Lisa, received the Chester County (PA) Bar produced a public service advertisement for live in Mount Airy, NC. They have three Association’s 2005 President’s Award. television that is a finalist for the American sons, Grant, Reid and Max Ruslan. Advertising Federation’s 2005 ADDY Award. Ranlet S. Bell (JD ’89) is with Womble He and his wife, Mimi, and two daughters, David Styers is senior director of Points of Carlyle Sandridge & Rice in Winston-Salem. Mein and Phoebe, live in Alexandria,VA. Light Foundation and Volunteer Center She has been elected to the Wake Forest National Network in Washington, D.C. He Board of Trustees. Jennifer Vladimir Shashaty (’89) has pub- was profiled in a book, Smart Moves for lished a book, Bermuda Hearts: A Bennington Liberal Arts Grads: Finding a Path to Your Perfect Kevin Bertelsen (’89) is senior vice president Hall Legacy Romance, a historical romance. Career (Ten Speed Press, May 2006), showing and power and utilities portfolio management how to turn a liberal arts degree into a officer in Bank of America’s Global Corporate meaningful career. and Investment Banking Group. He received 1990 the bank’s highest honor, the Award of Laura L. Vea is in the immigration practice Excellence, in 2005. He and his wife, Jenny, Joseph B. Dempster (JD) has been named group of Hodgson Russ LLP in New York, son Jackson, and daughter Libby, live in managing partner of Poyner & Spruill LLP NY. She is the co-author of a chapter in the Charlotte, NC. with offices in Charlotte, Raleigh, Rocky Practising Law Institute’s book, Basic Mount and Southern Pines, NC. Immigration Law.

George Reasner was the director of photog- Kimberley A. Whittle (JD) is a special agent Legal Elite raphy for a film documentary,“Martha in assigned to the FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorism Lattimore,”which was screened at the River- Task Force in New York City. She received the The following alumni have been named Run International Film Festival in Winston- 2005 Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional to the list of “Legal Elite”by Business Service for her work as case agent in the North Carolina Magazine. Salem. prosecution of three individuals convicted of aiding members of a terrorist group. She Jacob Valashinas has opened a personal reports this is the highest honor for a federal Catherine B. Arrowood (’73, JD ’76) jewelry business in Carolina Beach, NC. He law enforcement officer. Antitrust enjoys surfing every day and painting oil Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP portraits. Raleigh, NC 1993 Mark S. Thomas (’75, JD ’78) Employment 1991 Maupin Taylor PA Elliott Berke has been named counsel to the U.S. Speaker of the House. He and his wife, Raleigh, NC Nick Mantia is senior vice president and Lindsey, and daughter Julia, live in director of training at HomeBanc Mortgage Thomas N. Griffin III (’80) Arlington,VA. Corporation in Atlanta. He received the Bronze Environmental Award for Achieving Impact by Chief Learning Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP Officer magazine. He and his partner live in Jill Stricklin Cox (JD) is a managing mem- Charlotte, NC Sandy Springs. ber of Constangy Brooks & Smith LLC in Winston-Salem. She represents management Stan Atwell (JD ’84) in employment law. Estate planning and trusts Carruthers & Roth PA 1992 Greensboro, NC Jennifer Carlson Goldcamp is the research coordinator for the Injury Control Research Shelley McVey Boehling is a stay-at-home P. Neal Cook (JD ’95) Center at West Virginia University. She and mom; homeschooling, teaching Sunday Business her husband, Michael, and their children, School and playing in the Wilmington Tennis Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP Ethan, Nate and Emily, live in Morgantown, League. She and her husband, Eric, live in Charlotte, NC WV. Wilmington, NC. They have three children, Andy, Brock and Corrie Lee.

www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2006 45 Erik A. Schwanz (JD ’98) has joined the business litigation department of Cozen O’Connor in Charlotte, NC.

Christina Benson Smith teaches middle school French at The Lovett School in Atlanta.

BOYETTE (MBA ’95) GODSOE (’95) O’BRIEN (MBA ’96) HERBST (’97) 1996

Carl Daniels is a director at Merrill Lynch. Mike McCrary has been inducted into the Amanda McMakin Rader and her husband, He works as an institutional salesman in the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame. He was a Dustin, are owners of Beyond Media in Municipal Markets Division at the world defensive lineman on the 1992 Independence Louisville, TN. They have three children, headquarters in New York City. He and his Bowl championship football team and was Hannah (8), Jackson (6) and Annie (2). wife, Lindsay, are expecting their first child. drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the 7th round in 1993. He played with the Seahawks Loyd Henderson works for the mezzanine for four years before moving to Baltimore. 1995 debt fund at Oaktree Capital in Larchmont, NY.

Andrew Snorton is with the Gwinnett Nick Jamile Adams has published a book, April Hess (MSA ’97) and her husband, County Public Schools in Norcross, GA. He How To Make Friends with Black People. Hans, have opened Elevation Burger, an served as a consultant for the Youth Motivation organic hamburger restaurant, in Falls Task Force at Albany State University, chapter Victor R. Allen (MBA) is treasurer of Eastman Church,VA. president of the Gwinnett County Alpha Phi Chemical Company in Kingsport, TN. Alpha Fraternity Inc. and co-director of the Alpha Leadership Program for Higher Jeff Miller is senior vice president at Cantor Achievement. He was one of WB-TV’s Eric Boone is a seven-year associate in the Fitzgerald LP in New York City. He and his “Unsung Heroes”for outreach. Global Securities Department of Milbank wife, Kim, and two children live in Long Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP in Brooklyn, Beach, NY. NY. He is a member of the national board Blair Lynn Whitley teaches second grade at of directors of the National Association for The Steward School in Richmond,VA. J. Brice O’Brien (MBA) is senior vice presi- the Advancement of Colored People and is dent of consumer marketing at R.J. Reynolds vice chair of the board’s international affairs Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem. 1994 committee. Sandra Combes Boyette (MBA) will retire 1997 Jill Celeste Alikonis is a travel photogra- as vice president for University Advancement pher. She owns a wine bar,“Palate,”and on July 1. She was named senior advisor to Stephen Barnes is in his third year of med- recently opened Jill Celeste Gallery. She lives the president and will still supervise the ical school at St. Georges University. His in Decatur, GA, where she received a office of Public Affairs. Hometown Hero Award for founding outdoor wife, Elizabeth McGill Barnes (’99), is the community jazz concerts and local wine-tast- northeast regional manager for Wilkins John C. Godsoe practices employee benefits ing events. Media Company. They live in Brooklyn, NY, law with Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC in with their new daughter. Buffalo, NY. Justin Choulochas is chief financial officer for Hoya Lens Shanghai Ltd. in Shanghai, Kenny Herbst is an assistant professor of L. Carter Gray (MD ’99) is on faculty in the People’s Republic of China. marketing in the Mason School of Business OB-GYN Department at Duke University at the College of William and Mary. He and Medical Center in Durham, NC. his wife, Caroline, live in Williamsburg,VA. Kelly Dougherty published her first book, Sleeping with Steinbeck, a chronicle of her Stephanie Neill Harner has been inducted cross-country journey with her dog. Michele Scriven Mason is completing a res- into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame. She idency with New Leaders for New Schools. was the first four-time All-American in ACC She is pursuing her doctorate in educational Jason G. Grimes completed his MS in women’s golf history. She competed profes- leadership at Union University. Her husband, building construction and facility manage- sionally on the Futures Tour and one season on André (’96), is a national sales consultant ment at Georgia Tech. He is with the U.S. the Ladies’ European Tour, and was assistant with First Tennessee Bank.They have one son, General Services Administration in Georgia. coach at Wake Forest for the 2003-04 season. André Jarrod (2), and live in Memphis, TN. He and his wife, Jennifer, have two daugh- ters, Caelyn Mildred (1) and Carrie (4). Amy Lee Montri and her husband, Michael, Melanie Sloan is vice president of research and son, Carter (1), have moved back to at the Winfield Consulting Group in Atlanta. Bonita J. Hairston (JD ’97) has been Atlanta. appointed legal counsel for the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. Jamey Spencer focuses on the firm’s private Chad Simpson is completing an Air Force equity fund of funds business at Morgan optometric residency in Texas. Upon comple- Creek Capital Management LLC in Chapel Brian T. Nicholson (MBA) is vice president tion, he and his family will be transferred to Hill, NC. of business strategy at The Fresh Market Inc. Guam. in Greensboro, NC.

46 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE KEMPER (’98) QUIRK (JD ’98) TAYLOR (JD ’98 ) BRADFORD (JD ’99) CULBRETH (’99, JD ’04) JONES (MBA ’99)

Corinne Woodcock Topper is executive Christopher Heim competed his master’s in 1999 director of the Susquehanna Art Museum in education for school administration and Harrisburg, PA. supervision at Johns Hopkins University. He Stacey Thurman Bradford (JD) is a mem- teaches fourth grade at Grace Episcopal Day ber of the labor and employment practice Bill Williams and his wife, Kari, have opened School in Kensington, MD. group of Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP a family dental practice in Fletcher, NC. in Birmingham, AL. Hunter Kemper received the Jim Thorpe All-Around Award from the United States P. Devan Culbreth (JD ’04) is an associate 1998 Sports Academy. He is a triathlete and attorney with Johnson Hearn Vinegar Gee & reports he completed the 2005 season with Glass PLLC in Raleigh, NC. the distinction of being the first U.S. male to Wendy Wade Barclay (PhD ’04) has com- reach the ranking of No. 1 in the world. He pleted her training as a post doctoral fellow Allison Dougherty completed her two-year was selected as the U.S. Olympic Committee’s in the Department of Cancer Biology at the service as an education volunteer with the Sportsman of the Year for 2005. Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Peace Corps in Paraguay. She is an education She and her husband, David (MD ’02), and specialist for The Hartford in Boston, MA. daughter Vivian, are moving to Denver, CO, Thomas M. Quirk (JD) has been named a partner with Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein this year for David to complete a pediatric Benjamin F. Jackson is a fellow in pediatric LLP. He is a member of the real estate and anesthesiology fellowship. emergency medicine at the University of commercial development group in the Alabama-Birmingham/Children’s Hospital Charlotte, NC, office. Connie Boerkoel (MBA) is director of mer- of Alabama. chandise planning and deployment at the David Terrell Slade is national manager of Bath & Body Works division of Limited community tennis at the U.S. Tennis Scott Jones (MBA) is a financial advisor Brands Corporation in Columbus, OH. Association in New York, NY. with UBS Financial Services Inc. in Winston- Salem. Kimberly A. Gossage (JD) and Jennefer Craig Taylor (JD) practices with Carruthers Cross Garrity (JD ’95) have opened a law & Roth PA in Greensboro, NC. He was named Jeremy Noel is director of Clickitgolf.com practice in Charlotte, NC. Garrity & Gossage “Young Lawyer of the Quarter”by the N.C. in Charlotte, NC, where he was project coor- LLP provides insurance defense and elder Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Division for dinator for the parent company, Clickit law services. his state wide “Ask-A-Lawyer Day.” Ventures LLC.

Super Lawyers

The following alumni have been named “Super Lawyers”by Charlotte and North Carolina Super Lawyers magazines.

Carl W. Hibbert (’70, JD ’84) Joslin Davis (JD ’77) Craig B. Wheaton (JD ’81) Stan Atwell (JD ’84) Estate planning and trusts Family Employee benefits/ERISA Estate planning and trusts Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Davis & Harwell PA Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Carruthers & Roth PA Raleigh, NC Winston-Salem, NC Winston-Salem, NC Greensboro, NC

Daniel R. Taylor Jr. (JD ’76) Howard Borum (JD ’80) Gary K. Joyner (JD ’82) Randall D. Avram (JD ’86) Business litigation Real estate transactions Real estate transactions Labor and employment Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Carruthers & Roth PA Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Winston-Salem, NC Greensboro, NC Raleigh, NC Raleigh, NC

Stephen W. Coles (’77, JD ’80) Stephen R. Berlin (’81, JD ’84) Sarah Wesley Fox (JD ’83) David Daggett (JD ’85) Business litigation Environmental and land use Labor and employment Lewis & Daggett PA Brinkley Walser PLLC Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Winston-Salem, NC Lexington, NC Winston-Salem, NC Raleigh, NC Gregg E. McDougal (JD ’87) Business litigation Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Raleigh, NC

www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2006 47 Kristine VanDoran Rork is in a one-year Jake Stump (JD ’05) practices commercial internship in child clinical psychology at the litigation with Lowndes Drosdick Doster Medical University of South Carolina in Kantor & Reed PA in Orlando, FL. Charleston. Jason W. Wenzel (JD) is a partner with Andrew I. Shaw is an associate in the corpo- Narron O’Hale & Whittington PA in rate department of Posternak Blankstein & Johnston County, NC. He focuses on corpo- Lund in Boston, MA. rate law, asset sales and acquisitions and CEDARLEAF (JD ’02) PEREZ (’03) commercial real estate. He lives in Clayton, NC. 2000 Jennifer Nall received her master’s of public Brent C. Wootton practices bankruptcy law Suzanne Davis Campbell is on the board of health from Tulane University and completed in Durham, NC, with his father, Clyde A. directors for the YWCA in Winston-Salem. her service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Wootton (’63, JD ’65), and brother, Lance Malelane, South Africa. A. Wootton (’92). W. Taylor Campbell III (MSA ’01) is a financial advisor with D.L. Davis & Company Michael C. Palma received his DMD from in Winston-Salem. He has been recognized the University of Pennsylvania Dental 2003 as a leader in production by the MassMutual School. He graduated with National Board Financial Group. He reports he was ranked Honors, the Dental Implant Student Award Ray Ashburg (JD) is an attorney with Dow third in the United States for placement of and the H. Segal Emergency Care Award. He Chemical Company. He and his wife, Amy, insurance with the LifeBridge Program, a is in his residency in oral and maxillofacial live in Pearland, TX. free life insurance program for working par- surgery at Jefferson University Hospital. ents to protect children’s educations. Nick Jeffries received his MDiv from Duke Erin McGeehan Sommers received her PhD University Divinity School. He is the pro- Shannon Watkins Catlett is a senior graph- in organic chemistry from the University of gram specialist and administrator for Camp ic designer with Neiman Marcus Advertising Pennsylvania. She is a technical specialist at Chestnut Ridge in Efland, NC. in Dallas, TX, and serves on the board of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Duner LLP in Washington, D.C. directors for the Dallas Society of Visual Ricky Perez is the wide receiver coach for Communications. She and her husband, Sean, Elon University. celebrated their first wedding anniversary. Cameron Williard completed her BS/MS in the accelerated program of nursing from the Nicole Patterson Smiley is a national Medical University of South Carolina. She is Jennah Dieter received her MS from Palmer account executive for the Asheville Citizen- a nurse practitioner at the Medical University College of Chiropractic. She specializes in Times in Asheville, NC. She was honored as of South Carolina’s Division of Endocrinology pediatric and perinatal chiropractic care at Retail Sales Executive of the Year for 2005. the Khoury Centre for Health and Wellness Diabetes Management Service. in Bellingham, MA.

Matthew A. Krause (JD) is a defense counsel 2002 2004 with the U.S. Army Trial Defense Service at the 10th Mountain Division Field Office, Fort Sara Jane Belsches received her MD from Kelly Doton was chosen as a member of the Drum, NY. He represents soldiers involved the University of South Alabama. Her resi- World Cup field hockey team to represent in court martial actions. dency in pediatric neurology is at Vanderbilt the United States in the World Cup Quali- University in Nashville, TN. fying Tournament in Rome, Italy. Cheryl Bradley Smith (MBA) is director of strategic planning for Hatteras Yachts in New Lee Briggs is pursing an acting career in Brian Lenker is assistant director of the Bern, NC. New York. He is an intern at Cinetic Media, College Fund at Wake Forest. He focuses has been on the soap opera “Guiding Light,” primarily on young alumni and the senior has appeared in a Sprint commercial and is class campaign. 2001 finishing a low-budget feature, “The Way Toward Dover,” that he acted in, produced and directed. His highest-profile job to date April D. Craft (JD) practices family law and Marriages is in a Pepsi commercial, http://pepsi.yahoo. education law with Brinkley Walser PLLC in com/freeride/tv_ad.php. He is the son of Bill Lexington, NC. She reports she is the first Douglas P. Connor (JD ’64) and Marjorie Briggs (’73) and Becky Connelly (’72) and female attorney in their 120-year history. G. Mitchell. 2/12/06 in Mt. Olive, NC. grandson of Jean and Earle Connelly (’48). Seven of the nine attorneys are Wake Forest He plans to be married in July. Law graduates. Henry E. “Hank” Shore Jr. (’77) and Mary Hinkle. 6/4/05 in Winston-Salem. They live in Nicole True Cedarleaf (JD) has joined the Lauren Klopacs is director of new business Minneapolis, MN. Rochester, NY, office of Hiscock & Barclay LLP. in the circulation department of Forbes in She practices insurance defense litigation. New York, NY. Christina Lynn Benson (’95) and Hunter Holmes Smith. 3/4/06. They live in Atlanta.

48 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Shannon Loraine Bailey (’97) and Matt Kerry Church (’01) and Kevin Dillon (’01). Branston W. Williams (’02) and Sarah J. Seal. 3/5/05. They live in Charlotte, NC. 8/27/05 in Philadelphia, PA.The wedding party Lester (’03). 10/29/05 in Atlanta. The wedding and guests included Kevin Bray (’02), Mike party included R. Cameron Cole (’01, MAEd Elizabeth “Betsy”Kennon Graber (’97) Devin (’01), sophomore Matt Dillon, Chris ’02), Nicholas R. Dahm (’02), Jonathan M. and Scott Richard Linkowski. 11/12/05 in Fahrney (’99), Laura Brett Fahrney (’02, MSA Fenton (’03, MSA ’04), Elizabeth Doby Justice Blowing Rock, NC. They live in Charlotte, ’02), Greg Gladstone (’01), Ashley Horton (’02), Jeb M. Justice (’02), Mildred C. Kerr (’03), NC. The wedding party included Stephanie (’01), Courtney Kuhl (’01), Fairley Washington Jennifer L. Newman (’03, PA ’06), J. Stephen Lynn Jenkins (’97) and Kelly Ann Mason (’97). Mahlum (’01), Maureen Meyer (’01), Cameron Perkins (’02), C. Benjamin Rainwater (’02), Miller (’01) and Kadi Thompson (’01). Rebecca K. Rose (’03), Matthew G. Scott (’02), Adrianne V.Thompson (’03) and Amanda L. Florence Elizabeth York (’98) and Myles Whitehead (’03). Werner Clouston (’00). 10/22/05 in Atlanta. Matthew Anthony Jaso (’01) and Carrie The wedding party included Joseph Hayes Snyder. 10/22/05 in Cumberland, MD. They Calvert (’99), Caitlin Beth Curtin (’98), Jessica live in Richmond,VA.The wedding party Brent C. Wootton (’02) and Sloane Elizabeth Ann Kent (’98), Shannon Elizabeth Stinnett included Christopher Gialanella (’01). Liddle. 11/19/05. They live in Durham, NC. (’97) and Kelly Lynn Evans Ventura (’98). Attending were Robert West Candler III Ann Marie Mongelli (’01) and Michael Catherine Anne Beck (’03) and Adam Lael (’02), Amanda Elizabeth Carlson (’01), David Hawryluk. 2/18/06 at the U.S. Naval Academy. Agress. 4/8/06 in Atlanta. The wedding party Huffman Dorsey (MBA/MD ’01), Matthew The wedding party included Jennifer included Alicia Burns (’03), Tori Countner (’03), Hultquist (’01), Jennifer Lynn Iwanicki (’01), Iwanicki (’01). Tiffany Cummins (’03), Jennifer Gayle (’03), Meredith Mulhearn Jultquist (’01), James Lauren Magnetti (’03) and Marie White (’03). Stacey Rhodes (’97) and tennis coach Jeffrey Laura Elizabeth Pridgen (’01) and Owen Todd Zinn. English Taylor (’01). 2/18/06 in Charlotte, Helen Pierce (MD ’03) and John Jones III. NC. Eugene Connelly Pridgen (MBA ’75, 3/17/06 in Winston-Salem. Alecia Robyn Chandler (’99) and Matt JD ’78) and Jamie Pridgen are the bride’s Wilder. 7/16/05 in Colorado Springs, CO. The parents. Elizabeth Owen Taylor (’65, MA ’71) Jennifer “Jen” E. Schneider (’03) and wedding party included Alison Snodgrass and Charles Hart Taylor (’63, JD ’66) are the Matthew C. Camp (MD ’05). 5/28/05 in Chiock (’99), Allison Dougherty (’99), Halle groom’s parents, and Helen Bryan Owen (’37) Davis Chapel on the Bowman Gray Campus. Eisenman (’99), Amelia Hummel Hodges (’99) is the groom’s grandmother. The wedding They live in Redlands, CA. The wedding and Kerrie Kardatzke (’99). Attending were party included Amy Lampert Brandt (’02, party included Erin Lunn (’03) and Brad Amy Williams Cantando (’00), Matt Cantando MSA ’02), Alyson Beacham Davis (’02, MSA Thomas (’00, MD ’05). (’99), David Hodges (’99), Brooke Kennedy ’02) and Catherine Barr McLester (’02, MSA Newton (’99) and Alison Bilheimer Rao (’98). ’02). In attendance were Mary Helen Owen Christopher Andrew Webb (’03) and Davis (’70), William Hersey Davis (’70), Mary Jennifer Anne Coccitto (’03). 8/7/05 in Bryan Holt (’50), John Charles Hunter (’81, JD Andrew Rodd Ferguson (’00) and Abbey P. Asheville, NC. They live in Norwalk, CT. The ’85), Susan Jackson Kelly (’01), Holly Marie Keenan (’00). 10/15/05 in Chatham, MA. wedding party included Eric Putnam (’03) Langmuir (’01), Edward Marcus Marsh (JD ’74), They live in Charlottesville,VA. The wedding and Matthew White (’03). Ryan Blackburn Jennifer Rose McCorkle (’01), James Griffin party included William Balistreri (’00), (’03) attended. Courtney Boshart (’00), Amanda Silva Chanon Owen (’69), William Boyd Owen Jr. (’67, MD (’00), Ann Ferguson (’01), Carinne Keenan ’71), Angela Smith Pridgen (’73) and Anna (’98), Kristen Miller (’00), India Perry (’00), Worley Townsend (’02, MSA ’02). John Rabun (’00), James Stevens (’00) and Births/Adoptions Brooks Sykes Sutton (’00). Britton Kristen Stackhouse (’01) and Hugh Bennett Miller Jr. 10/15/05 in Pensacola, FL. J. Anthony “Andy” Penry (’76, JD ’79) and Holly Elizabeth Ivanoff (’00) and Matthew They live in Arlington,VA.The wedding Karen Moriarty, Raleigh, NC: a daughter, Lloyd Graham. 10/8/05. They live in Arlington, party included Krissy Yablonsky Atwater Sarah Marie. 2/18/06. She joins her sisters, VA.The wedding party included Paula Abigail (’01), Erin Haugh (’01), Trista Hopkins (’00) Carolyn (20) and Kathryn (16), and brother Decker (’00) and Michelle Therese Hess (’00). and Allison Forrest Houle (’00, MSA ’01). John (2).

Claire Knaur Strang (’00) and Charles Brooke Ashley Woods (’01) and Lee Michael Lora Jaye Smeltzly (’78) and Michael Finch, Jacob Farver (’01). 3/4/06 in Charleston, SC. McCollum. 9/17/05 in Dallas, TX. The wedding St. Petersburg, FL: a daughter, Lily Meloy Tess. They live in Arlington,VA.The wedding party included Andrea Brooks (’01), Alexandra 10/21/05 party included Courtney Mills Boshart (’00), McFall (’01) and Lindsey Randolph (’02). Margaret Stuart Brooks (’00), Alex Bradley Mark A. Johnson (’82) and Allyson M. Cregan (’01), Nicholas Ryan Farrell (’01), Lisa Glebatis (’02) and Joshua Perks. 8/20/05 Johnson, Greenbelt, MD: a son, Christopher Christopher Chauvin Hicks (’01), Thomas in West Park, NY. They live in Austin, TX. The Michael. 3/28/06 Andrews Ivers (’01), India Shea Perry (’00), wedding party included Addie Blabey (’02), Robert Renn Pfeiffer (’01), Gregory Thomas Sarah Egner (’02) and Kaycee Shoemaker Kelli Brewer Sabiston (’86) and Paul Tietjen (’02) and Margaret Siewers Turner (’00). (’02, MS ’03). Attending were Holly Howell Sabiston (’85), Shallotte, NC: a son, Eric (’02), Hope Walters Inman (’02), Ross Inman Brewer. 10/27/05. He joins his sister, Natalie (’01), Candace Kohl (’02), Kara Markley (’02), Clare (6). Rick Price (’02), Erik Ryan (’02) and Ben Snow (’03).

www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2006 49 Run the World Hunter Schimpff (’05) is in the business of serving up culture, with a side dish of exercise.

By Scott Holter

f your idea of a vacation is to become immersed in the “We look at our offering as a main course of culture with Ifabric of a thriving city or seaside town, to spend after- a side dish of running,” say Schimpff, who manages the noons shopping at the trendiest boutiques and evenings business from his home. “So often people go on vacations indulging in the local cuisine, Hunter Schimpff’s itinerary and don’t get a lot of exercise. We are perfect for culture- may not be for you. seekers who are active, whether it’s walking three miles a But if you’re looking to do all that and begin each day day or running seven miles a day.” with a vigorous, heart-pumping run over some of the world’s The one-time high school cross-country athlete was a greatest landscapes, Schimpff’s Dallas-based tour-operating recreational runner during his four years at Wake Forest. company, Run The World, may be your ultimate guide. These days he puts up to eighteen miles a week on the train- Schimpff, a 2005 graduate who majored in Spanish, ing shoes but leaves the actual tour running to the guides he launched the Web-based business last October with two has employed in both South American countries. destinations—Chile and Argentina—and a pledge to provide Schimpff gained an appreciation for that part of the customers with a healthy mix of his two greatest passions. world while studying abroad in Chile during his junior year.

50 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE It eventually became a springboard to what would be the In Chile, tours cover the coastal town of Vina del Mar first big business decision in his young professional life. “I and its sister city Valparaiso, and activities include a Casablanca really got to know the (South American) people and learned vineyard visit, a tour of the homes of poet Pablo Neruda, what tremendous people they are,” he says. “When I decided jaunts through local art galleries, and stops at several bakeries to go forth with the company, it was a natural to want to and ice cream shops. take people there.” Participants are asked to choose their favorite six. That decision came last August. Stuck at an early-career Schimpff gathers all the votes and, using a point system, crossroads following a summer in Uruguay where he worked whittles the activity list to the four that will be offered on as a duck-hunting guide, Schimpff was pounding the Texas that particular tour. pavement of Austin and Dallas each day in search of work. On a typical day, guests will run in the morning and take During one sleepless night an inspiration came to him. part in an activity in the afternoon. A two-hour break in the He had no clear-cut idea of any certain vocation, knowing middle allows them to rest, shop or tour the city or country- only he wanted his job to have an international and cultural side on their own. flavor and allow him to interact with people and use the “It’s a combination of structure and exploration,” Schimpff technology skills he garnered in college. The running aspect says. “Even with the running, we say, ‘Exercise at your own of the business equation was a natural. “Finally in October,” pace.’ If they want to run for eight miles, fine. If they only Schimpff says, “I got some gumption and some courage, and want to run two miles and spend some time exploring the I did it. I figured the worst thing that would happen was I’d park where we’re running, it’s their choice. All activities are lose the savings that I used in the investment. But at least I’d done at their pace.” learn quite a bit.” As Run the World’s lone United States employee, Relying on his own experiences in South America, coupled Schimpff has found himself acting as travel agent, public with the knowledge of his in-country guides, Schimpff has relations executive and accountant. He has also served as assembled a smorgasbord-style itinerary for each country chief marketer, handing out fliers at marathon expositions, that promises to have his tour groups, which are limited to contacting local running clubs, and placing an ad in the ten people each week, learning as well. popular Runner’s World magazine. Every piece of literature “I’m keeping the tours in smaller groups because I don’t he hands out directs people to www.runningvacation.com. want anyone feeling like they’re just a number,” says Schimpff, “It’s about making what I do inviting to people, and I who hopes to expand to Scotland and Canada. “I want each guess it all comes back to that sense of community that was and every person to get to know the guide and all of the so special and unique at Wake Forest,” he says. “I went to people they’re traveling with.” Wake to learn how to think, and they did an awesome job Tours leave on Sunday and return the following Saturday, of preparing me to do just that.” and the majority of customers travel in groups or with fami- The thinking he learned in college paid dividends for lies. Every fourth week, Run the World offers an excursion Schimpff, especially during the two months of indecision for singles. following August’s middle-of-the-night brainstorm. “When While running is the conduit for most everyone who it was still on my mind in October, I decided to listen to the signs up, Schimpff assures customers they will also uncover advice that I usually give to my friends,” he recalls. “Think much of the country. He provides an orientation packet, through what you’re doing, but ultimately do what you’re which includes a list of activities offered. For instance, in passionate about.” Buenos Aires guests might explore the historical architecture, participate in a “gastronomy walking tour” of various neigh- borhoods, attend a soccer match, or visit the city’s venerable Scott Holter is a freelance writer based in Seattle. churches and museums.

www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2006 51 Joan Brodish Binkley (’87, JD ’91) and John Jordan (’90) and Anne Jordan, Chuck Meacham (’92) and Karen O’Connor Daniel H. Binkley, Greensboro, NC: a son, Charlotte, NC: a son, John Wilson. 1/20/06 Meacham (’93), Evansville, IN: a daughter, Julian Steele. 12/8/05. He joins his brothers, Colleen Elizabeth. 10/7/05. She joins her sister, Joseph (6) and George (3). Jennifer Sorensen Kaylor (’90) and Kevin Kate, and brother, Conor. Kaylor, Pawleys Island, SC: a son, Jackson Alan Joseph White (’87) and Stephanie Allen. 1/17/06 Kim Doolittle Norris (’92) and Alex Norris, Ann White, Waltham, MA: a son, Deacon Atlanta: a daughter, Kathryn “Kate”Adair. Charles. 11/22/05 Melonee Eatmon Purcell (’90) and Drew 2/22/06 Purcell, Roanoke,VA: a son, Charles Andrew Andrew Hart (’88) and Laura Hart, Michael. 10/27/05 and adopted on 2/2/06. Timothy S. Oswald (’92) and Jennifer Lancaster, SC: a daughter, Olivia. 3/5/06 Inglis Oswald (’93), Marietta, GA: a son, David Young (’90) and Kelly Young, Chapel Nevan Bradford. 3/30/06. He joins his brothers, Linda Sink Smith (’88) and Sander Smith Hill, NC: a daughter, Myla Elizabeth. 11/21/05 Espen (6) and Anton (4). (’88), Winston-Salem: a daughter, Emma Grace. 4/27/05 in South Korea and adopted Nick P. Chinuntdet (’91) and Amber Patrick Picklesimer (’92) and Amy 9/05. She joins her brothers, Alex (9) and McKinney Chinuntdet (’92), Powder Picklesimer, Chapel Hill, NC: a daughter, Graham (6). Springs, GA: a son, Alexander Nicom. Linda Elaine. 7/3/05 3/27/06. He joins his brother, Andy. Shula Ramsay Good (’89) and Ward Good, Robert M. Cook II (JD ’93) and Lisa Cook, Richmond,VA: a son, Randolph Lawson. Shelley McVey Boehling (’92) and Eric Batesburg-Leesville, SC: a daughter, Caroline 12/13/05. He joins his brother, Ramsay (2). Boehling, Wilmington, NC: a daughter, Hope. 1/8/06. She joins her brother, Trey (9), Corrie Lee Louise. 11/17/05 and sister, Helen Elisabeth (18 mos.).

Leigh Anne Clark Lambert (’92) and Charles Lambert (’92), Birmingham, AL: Help us Reacha son, Thomas our Monroe. 8/17/05. goal He joins his by June 30! brother, Reynolds (4), and sister, Betsy (3).

We are concluding the 2005-06 Annual Funds campaigns and we need your help to reach a successful conclusion. The Annual Funds—which include the College and Calloway Funds, Babcock, Divinity, Law, and Medical Funds—provide unrestricted support to Wake Forest. Unrestricted funds are used where the needs are greatest—in areas like student aid, faculty funds and study-abroad programs. How will your gift help? Your gift will help Wake Forest continue to be one of only 28 schools that offer “need blind” admissions—which means we do not consider a student’s financial status when making the admissions decision, and we commit to meeting a student’s full financial need. Tuition does not cover the full cost to educate Wake Forest students. Private gifts to the University make up that difference. Your gift will help ensure that the students of today and tomorrow can continue to enjoy the same outstanding experiences alumni had during their time on cam- pus. Donor participation—or the percentage of alumni who give to the University—is an important measure used in the annual U.S. News and World Report rankings. When you make a gift, you build our donor par- ticipation rate, which will impact our rankings. Your gift will have both an immediate and lasting impact. Please add your name to the list of those who sup- port the Annual Funds. Make your gift today at www.wfu.edu/alumni/giving or mail it to P.O. Box 7227, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227. For questions, please contact 800.752.8568. the A NNUAL F UNDS College Fund • Calloway Fund • Law Fund • Babcock Fund • Divinity School Fund • Medical Alumni Association Fund

52 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Caryn Chittenden Craige (JD/MBA ’93) Tracy Nickerson Schaefer (’94) and Jim Amy McMahan Crawford (’96, JD ’99) and and Rob Craige, Charlotte, NC: a son, Schaefer, Black Mountain, NC: a daughter, David J. Crawford, Huntersville, NC: a son, Connor Nelson. 2/2/06 Kylie Elizabeth. 8/7/05 Owen James. 3/13/06. He joins his brothers, Jacob (5) and Cole (3). Amanda Karper Doss (’93, MS ’95) and Jan Stewart Swanton (’94) and Thomas Will Doss, Winston-Salem: a daughter, Swanton, Greensboro, NC: a daughter, Carly Nicole Ferrara Essig (JD ’96) and Matthew Lillian Rose. 9/14/05. She joins her sisters, Elizabeth. 10/19/05. She joins her sister, R. Essig, Highlands Ranch, CO: a daughter, Susannah Ellen (5) and Evelyn Grace (3). Hannah (4 1/2). Natalie Nicole. 12/14/05

Jennifer Grayson Hudson (’93) and Jon Robert Michael Cruickshank (’95) and Ann Loyd Henderson (’96) and Kelly Henderson, Edward Hudson (’94, MD ’04), Winston- Cruickshank, Reading, MA: a son, Conall Larchmont, NY: a son, Drew Beck. 2/10/06. Salem: a daughter, Clara Elizabeth. 8/30/05 Patrick. 2/16/06. He joins his brother, Liam (2). He joins his twin sisters, Tai and Sydney.

Melissa Anderson Laxton (’93, MD ’98) Melissa Berry Gratias (’95) and Eric J. April Arden Hess (’96, MSA ’97) and Hans and Ron Laxton,Yadkinville, NC: a daughter, Gratias (MD ’98), Chattanooga, TN: a son, Hess, Arlington,VA: a daughter, Elisabeth Hannah Marie. 10/27/05. She joins her brother, William Eric. 3/3/06. He joins his sister, Arden. 11/21/05 Henry (3). Maddie (4). Tony Hooker (’96) and Melissa Hooker, Erin Komich Petty (’93) and Robert C. L. Carter Gray (’95, MD ’99) and Jim Warner, Concord, NC: twin sons, Nathaniel Cade and Petty, Stonington, CT: a daughter, Sydney Durham, NC: a son, James Henry. 3/2/06 Andrew Cole. 3/3/06. They join their brother, Catherine. 1/17/06. She joins her brother, Logan (3). Holden (2). Tim Hailstock (’95) and Arlethia Friday Hailstock (’96), Highlands Ranch, CO: a Schuyler Andrew Huck (’96) and Emily Elizabeth “Beth” Jenkins Pflomm (JD ’93) son, Jeremiah Joshua. 10/28/05. He joins his Turner Huck (’98), Charlottesville,VA: a and Rob Pflomm, Tustin, CA: a son, Nicholas brother, Tim “TJ”II (21 mo.). daughter, Elle Kate. 1/3/06. She joins her Robert. 2/17/06. He joins his brother, Jack (2). brother, Turner (3). Laura Bain Hamel (’95) and Jonathan Lauren Martin Smith (’93) and James Smith, Hamel (’96), Miami, FL: twin sons, Jonah Shannon Meeker Marrujo (’96) and Daniel Denver, NC: a daughter, Laura Elizabeth. Alexander and Benjamin Henry. 1/20/06 Marrujo, Apex, NC: a son, Maximilian Daniel. 2/16/06. She joins her sister, Sarah Kathryn (2). 8/16/05 Liesl Rose Lawrence (’95) and Dylan Kimberly Erickson Arnett (’94) and Harry Lawrence, Boise, ID: a daughter, Annabel Leslie Godby Martell (JD ’96) and Gregory Arnett, Decatur, GA: a daughter, CJ. 2/1/06 Rose. 1/6/06 Martell (MBA ’94), Gaithersburg, MD: a daughter, Caroline Anderson. 2/11/05 Mary Renner Beech (’94) and Curt Beech Jennifer Finnegan Patruno (’95) and David (’94), Pasadena, CA: a daughter, Eden Renner. Patruno, Syracuse, NY: a son, Jonathan David. Jeffrey S. Miller (’96) and Kim Miller, Long 1/3/06. She joins her sister, Tate (2). 2/12/06 Beach, NY: a son, John “Jack”Patrick. 6/8/05. He joins his sister, Catharine (2). Melissa Thomas Cantrell (’94) and Joseph Erin Harzinski Russo (’95) and Tom Russo, DeArmond Cantrell (’94), Williamsburg, Nelliston, NY: a son, Eli Trent. 2/18/06. He joins Gannon Johnson Ward (’96) and David VA: a son, Jacob “Jake”Charles. 12/15/05. He his sister, Lillian Jane (3). Ward, Charlotte, NC: a daughter, Lillian joins his sister, Laura Elizabeth (3 1/2). Ruth. 1/17/06. She joins her sister, Katherine Chad Simpson (’95) and Tara Simpson, San (18 mos.). Katie Gage Crites (’94) and Mark Crites, Antonio, TX: a daughter, Bryce Bailey. 8/24/05 Atlanta: a son, Colin Marshall. 2/28/06. He Brett Weber (’96, JD ’99) and Cameron joins his brother, Gage (16 mos.). Jessica Hannah Thacker (’95) and Brian Bader Weber (JD ’01), Charlotte, NC: a son, Thacker, Winston-Salem: a daughter, Kelsey Thomas Briggs. 1/12/06. He joins his sister, Stephen C. Dettor (’94) and Gina G. Dettor, Rose. 11/5/05 Carson (2). Lighthouse Point, FL: a son, Parker Lee. 1/11/06 Chad Bredernitz (’96, MSA ’97) and Cynthia Ryan B. Weimer (’96) and Adrian Chastain Joe Dickson (’94) and Elizabeth Dickson, Bredernitz, White Lake, MI: a son, Tyler Burns. Weimer (’99), Edinburgh, London: a daughter, Chattanooga, TN: a son, James Alexander. 12/28/05. He joins his sister, Anna (2). Annabel McCrary. 2/12/06 1/30/06. He joins his sister, Emily (13), and brothers, Jacob (12), Aidan (9) and Morgan (7). Daniel Lee Briggs (’96) and Laurie Long David Wayne Willis (’96) and Lenore Briggs (’97, MSA ’98), Lexington, NC: a son, Kralovich Willis (’97), Marietta, GA: a Patrick Eric McLaughlin (’94) and Nicole Lyndon Carroll, 12/12/05. He joins his sister, daughter, Ashlyn Marie. 11/21/05. She joins Germain, Woonsocket, RI: a son, Miles Sidney Leier (2). her brother, Daniel (2 1/2). Alexandre. He joins his brother, Maxson. Lisa Martin Wolford (’96) and Jeffrey Brian Shelby Thornton Patrick (’94) and Chip Wolford, Arvada, CO: a son, Kai Martin. Patrick, Charlotte, NC: a son, Thompson. 2/9/06 3/27/06

www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2006 53 The Wake Forest Virginia License Plate

Join fellow Deacon fans in being among the first to You can register for your plate in three simple steps: show your school pride with the new Wake Forest/ 1. Fill out the license plate form on the Wake Forest Web site. Virginia license plate. The plate costs $25 a year, https://wwws.wfu.edu/alumni/kiosk/plates/virginia_ plate.html and the plate may be personalized for an additional $10. The WFU Virginia license plate can be viewed 2. Complete the VSA-10 Form on the Virginia DMV Web: www.dmv.state.va.us at www.dmv.virginia.gov/exec/vehicle/splates/ infoindev.asp? PLTNO=&id=307 3. Fax or mail the completed form to: Wake Forest Office of Alumni Activities, c/o Mark “Frosty” Aust, P.O. Box 7227, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227, Fax: 336.758.4800

Jennifer Brock (’97) and Erick Brock, Joppa, Bryan Lee Macy (MBA ’97) and Teresa Macy, John David Anderson (’98) and Macie MD: a daughter, Emily Noel. 12/8/05. She joins Folsom, CA: a daughter, Kaitlyn Rose. 4/27/05 Anderson, Meridian, MS: a son, Bradley her sister, Corinne Elizabeth (3). Tipton. 1/25/06 Joseph M. Michalski (’97) and Jennifer Kelly Boblett Griffith (’97) and Gareth Harrison Michalski (’00), Charlotte, NC: a Wendy Wade Barclay (’98, PhD ’04) and Edward Griffith (’88), Greensboro, NC: a daughter, Breana Lucille. 3/15/06. She joins David Knox Barclay (MD ’02), Winston- son, Maddock Ryne. 12/11/05. He joins his her brother, Joseph Merritt ( 2 1/2). Salem: a daughter,Vivian Ruth. 1/14/06 brother, Bryce Maguire (2 1/2). Shannon Bailey Seal (’97) and Matt Seal, Laura Tucker Cecil (’98) and Ben Cecil, Allison Costa Kearney (’97) and Edward Charlotte, NC: a daughter, Madelyn Louise. Charlotte, NC: a son, Tucker Scott. 7/23/05 “Gus” Kearney IV (’97), Leesburg,VA: a son, 12/16/05 Edward Augustine V. 8/31/05 David C. Fenton (’98) and Jennifer Fenton, Todd Sninski (’97) and Dabney Sninski Pickerington, OH: a son, Tyler. He joins his Josh Kellett (’97) and Brandi Bingham (’97), Cary, NC: a son, Andrew Ryan. sister, Audrey (2). Kellett (’00), Fort Lauderdale, FL: a son, 11/23/05 Elijah “Eli”Lee. 3/13/06. He joins his brother, Jacqueline Hughes Gulino (’98) and Michael Marshall (2 1/2). Bill Williams (’97) and Kari Williams, Gulino, Bronx, NY: a daughter, Sofia Paige. Asheville, NC: a daughter, Sarah Anne. 2/10/06 10/1/05

54 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Heather Moon Hayes (’98) and Bob Hayes, Stefanie Mathews-Rosecrans (’99) and Jennifer Storey Plante (’01) and Marcel Charlotte, NC: a daughter, Eleanor Anne. Christopher Rosecrans, Dana Point, CA: a Plante,Villa Park, IL: a son, Pierce Christian. 2/13/06. She joins her sister, Mary. son, Austin Kane. 1/6/06 5/21/05

Christopher Heim (’98) and Maryann Heim, Adrian Miller (’99) and Marti Miller, Leigh Anne Shepherd Wray (’01) and Hal Rockville, MD: a daughter, Alison Michelle. Conover, NC: a son, Kennedy Lennon. Wray (Wake Forest medical student), Winston- 3/15/06 1/21/06 Salem: a daughter, Serena Lillie. 4/2/06

Katherine Flynn Henry (JD ’98) and Deron Ben Wilson (’99) and Shelly Woodson Rebecca Van Zandt Albertson (’02) and Henry, Kernersville, NC: a son, Quinn Thomas. Wilson (’99), Winston-Salem: a daughter, Zach Albertson (’02), Winston-Salem: a son, 12/27/05 Abigail Riley. 10/3/05 Peter Van Zandt. 1/7/06. He joins his sister, Leah. Cassie Howell Martucci (’98) and Nicholas Hugh Brian Wolverton (’99) and Monica Martucci, Charlotte, NC: a son, Giovanni Bates Wolverton (’99), Mt. Pleasant, SC: a Gary D. Brewer (MBA ’02) and Ginny Elijah. 6/21/05 daughter, Audrey Mae. 8/21/05. She joins her Brewer, High Point, NC: a daughter, Merritt sister, Landry Kathleen (2). Belle. 1/20/06 Christopher Mullen (’98) and Lori Mullen, South Portland, ME: a son, Joshua. 2/17/06. Todd P. Zerega (JD ’99) and Megan Lulich Jill Massey Desmonie (MBA ’02) and He joins his sister, Emma (2). Zerega (JD ’99), Pittsburgh, PA: a daughter, Benjamin Desmonie, Mebane, NC: a son, Madeline Megan. 11/28/05 Dylan. 2/28/05. He joins his brother, Paul (3). Stacy White Nichols (’98) and Robert Nichols, Bakersfield, CA: a son, Ryan Weston. Daniel F. Diffley (JD ’00) and Catherine Eduardo Espinola (MBA ’02) and Cathy Jo 3/8/06 Alexander Diffley (JD ’00), Atlanta: a Espinola, Collierville, TN: twins, Brendan daughter, Eloise Catherine. 11/11/05 and Savannah Marie. 11/24/05. They join William R. Pekowitz Jr. (’98) and Karen their brother, Alec (2). Pekowitz, Ossining, NY: a daughter, Julia Cameron Farmer (’00) and Brooke Farmer Brotherhood. 12/3/05 (’00), Clemmons, NC: a daughter, Ada Cavin. Sarah Janczak Ramsden (’02) and Tim 1/28/06 Ramsden (’02), Charlotte, NC: a son, Hudson Amanda Lewis Riepe (’98) and Andrew W. Richard. 10/8/05 Riepe (’99), Indianapolis, IN: a daughter, Mia Caroline Knox (JD ’00) and Ashley Knox, Elizabeth. 9/2/05 Hendersonville, NC: a son, Turner Ashley. David Robbins (MBA ’02) and Angela 1/31/06 Robbins, Raleigh, NC: a son, Charles David. Megan Kleinfelder Roach (’98) and Joseph 6/13/05. He joins his brother, William. Roach, Cincinnati, OH: a son, Maxwell Joseph. William Andrew Merritt III (’00) and Shelli 9/21/05. He joins his sister, Morgan (2). Merritt, Charlotte, NC: a son, William Joseph. Obi I. Chukwumah (’03) and Danielle 4/5/06. He joins his sister, Nina (2). McDougal Chukwumah (’03), Winston- Kristin Dougherty Scali (’98) and Michael Salem: a daughter, Zinachukwudi Chiamaka. Scali, Kennett Square, PA: a son, Benjamin Jennifer Pollock Mueller (’00) and Matthew 3/23/06 Cole. 2/27/06. He joins his brother, Michael Mueller,Timonium, MD: a son, Hadley Cristin. (22 mos.). 3/2/05 Jeremey C. Roy (MBA ’03) and Karen Roy, Edmond, OK: a son, Jacob Evan. 1/19/06 Erik Steven Vadersen (MBA ’98) and Amanda Epstein Musson (’00) and Stephen Jennifer Giffen-Vadersen, Savannah, GA: a Musson, Marietta, GA: a son, Nicholas Joseph. Greg Russ (MBA ’03) and Shannon Russ, son, Jack Moore. 3/12/06 3/9/06 Winston-Salem: a daughter, Ashley Caroline. 4/15/06 Rachel Avon Whidden (’98, MA ’00) and Keith Zanni (JD ’00) and Lisa D. Zanni Christopher M. Whidden (’98), Lake Forest, (JD ’01), Chesapeake,VA: a daughter, Vanessa E. James (JD ’05) and Jason R. IL: a daughter, Felicity Mae. 7/20/05 Megan Katherine. 12/30/05. She joins her James (MAEd ’03), Bridgeton, NJ: a son, brother, Drew (2). Aidan Michael. 2/23/06 Elizabeth McGill Barnes (’99) and Stephen Barnes (’97), Brooklyn, NY: a daughter, Robert Browne (MBA ’01) and Sandy Caroline Margaret. 12/16/05 Browne, Moyock, NC: a daughter, Jennifer. Deaths 1/21/06 Sarah Houghtlin Beatty (’99) and Patrick Louis G. Horn Jr. (’25), Jan. 30, 2006, Beatty, Atlanta: a son, James Houghtlin. Wendi Jean Cimino (MBA ’01) and Richard Mocksville, NC. He practiced dentistry in 12/13/05 C. Cimino, Greensboro, NC: a daughter, Anniston, AL, for over 50 years. Gretchen Elliot. 12/31/05. She joins her sister, Benjamin F. Jackson (’99) and Elizabeth Winston. George P. Donavant Sr. (’30), Aug. 22, 2005, Wingfield Jackson (’00), Birmingham, AL: a Raleigh, NC. He worked with Addressograph daughter, Anna Dargan. 1/1/06. She joins her Scott M. Duncan (’01) and Kristen Duncan, Multigraph in Raleigh, NC, and Nashville, brothers, Samuel (3) and Henry (2). Louisville, KY: a son, Carter Hale. 3/7/06 TN. He reitred as purchasing agent in 1975 from the City of Raleigh.

www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2006 55 Nathan David Dail (’32), April 19, 2006, Walter B. Peyton (JD ’39), Dec. 21, 2005, William Sidney Windes (’42), Jan. 28, 2006, Greensboro, NC. He was a retired mail carrier Binghamton, NY. He served in the U.S. Army Aliso Viejo, CA. in Edenton, NC. As a student on the Old during World War II and was a staff officer Campus, he had legendary President William for General Eisenhower at the Supreme Head- Willis J. Hobbs (’43), June 23, 2005, Louis Poteat for a biology class, and in 1996, quarters Allied Powers Europe in London Mooresville, NC. He was a teacher. his name was linked with Poteat’s when and Paris. He was an attorney, director and his daughter, former trustee Barbara D. president of the Broome County Taxpayers Harvey S. “Buddy” Northington Jr. (’43), Whiteman (’58), and her husband, Bob, Association and president of the United Jan. 2, 2006, South Hill,VA. funded a Poteat Scholarship in his honor. Taxpayers of New York State. He is also survived by two other daughters, Wooten Marion Odom (’43), March 7, 2006, Mary Helen D. Crowe and Marion D. Seaman. Robert C. Brown (’40), Jan. 25, 2006, Ahoskie, NC. He served in the U.S. Marine Memorials may be made to the Nathan D. Asheville, NC. He was a high school science Corps during World War II. He was retired as Dail/Poteat Scholarship Fund, PO Box 7227, teacher in the Asheville City and Buncombe a partner in the Farmers Tobacco Warehouse Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227. County schools for 38 years and he also and as owner of the Red & White Food Store. taught in Charlotte, NC, and Largo, FL. He Herbert R. Kendrick Jr. (’32), March 9, served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in aerial William H. Price (’43) 2006, Dillsburg, PA. He was the founder and photography and remained active in the Air , Dec. 17, 2005, former owner of radio station WHGB, an Force Reserve until retiring in 1967. Monroe, NC. outdoor sports writer for national magazines James D. Reeves (’43) and Gun Dog editor for the Pennsylvania John S. Watkins Jr. (’40), Feb. 15, 2006, , March 27, 2006, Fort Game News. He was a ship-model maker, Oxford, NC. He was a World War II veteran Lauderdale, FL. He served in the U.S. Army exhibiting at the Smithsonian Institution, and a retired automobile dealer and tobac- during World War II and was awarded the Statue of Liberty Museum and Chesapeake conist. Purple Heart and two Bronze Star Medals. Bay Maritime Museum. He was president and owner of the Miami Beach land survey firm of Zurwelle-Whittaker Charles Ward White (’40), Jan. 15, 2006, Inc. for 30 years. James Wyatt Newsome (JD ’36), Feb. 4, 2006, Durham, NC. His father, R.B. White, was a Raleigh, NC. He was retired from the Army professor of law at Wake Forest. He worked B. Donald Keyser (’45) Air Corps after serving at posts around the at DuPont and served in the U.S. Navy , March 8, 2006, United States and in foreign countries. before practicing law with various partners Buies Creek, NC. He was professor emeritus in Durham over the next 50 years. He prac- in the Department of Religion and Philosophy DeWitt Smith Jr. (’36), Feb. 24, 2006, ticed with Hofler Mount & White until 1994 at Campbell University. He served several Charlotte, NC. He served in the U.S. Navy and retired in 1997 as of council for King pastorates and was named theologian in and was a Pearl Harbor survivor. He was a Walker Lambe & Crabtree. residence at Memorial Baptist Church. He tobacco farmer most of his life and a sales- co-published a book, Jerusalem to Gaza: A Theology of the Old Testament. man for Williamson Volkswagen in Lumberton, Lois Upchurch Jeffreys (’41), July 19, 2005, NC, before retiring in 1982. Raleigh, NC. She retired in 1983 after 30 Stanley Margoshes (MD ’45) years of service to the North Carolina State , Feb. 16, 2006, Coy W. Yates (’37), Jan. 13, 2006, Durham, Laboratory. She was the widow of Joseph Miami, FL. He was a medical officer in the U.S. NC. He was retired from Crain and Denbo Jeffreys (’43). Army and practiced private internal medicine Inc. and a member of The Gideons Inter- until 1986. He was the director of the Cedars Hospital Geriatric Clinic, a clinical associate national. Rudy L. Sloan (’41), Jan. 29, 2006, Lake Mary, professor of family medicine at Cedars FL. He served as a paratrooper during World Medical Center and later vice president of Robert M. Martin Jr. (’38), Jan. 29, 2006, War II. He was an engineer with the Atlantic the board of directors of the Guardianship Charlotte, NC. He practiced law in High Coast Line and Seaboard Coastline Railroad Program of Dade County, FL. Point, NC, and was Special Superior Court for 42 years, retiring in 1984. Judge for seven years. He served an eight- Douglas D. Brendle (’46), Feb. 11, 2006, year term on the N.C. Court of Appeals, Fred Tillman Collins (’42), Jan. 23, 2006, Winston-Salem. He was a former trustee before retiring in 1982. He was also a special Fort Worth, TX. consultant to the N.C. State Treasurer. (1987–1990), founder of the Brendle’s catalog- showroom chain and a member of the family Malvin J. Parham (’42), Dec. 20, 2005, that funded Brendle Recital Hall, named for Edward V. Blanchard (’39), Jan. 9, 2006, Penrose, NC. He served in the U.S. Air Force his father, during the second phase of con- Ahoskie, NC. He was the founder and presi- and operated several businesses before retir- struction of the Scales Fine Arts Center in the dent of Blanchard Office Supply Inc. for over ing to western North Carolina. early 1980s. After attending Wake Forest, he 50 years and was active in the community. graduated from Western Kentucky University O.R. Pearce Jr. (’42), March 1, 2006, Topsail and served in the Army for two years before T.W. “Casey” Martin Sr. (’39), March 3, Beach, NC. He served in the U.S. Navy during joining his father’s wholesale grocery-distrib- 2006, Lattimore, NC. He retired after 46 years World War II and practiced dentistry in uting business in Elkin, NC. In the early 1960s, in education in Green Creek, Boiling Springs, Greenville, NC, for 50 years. he and his two brothers opened North Lattimore, Mooresboro and Waco. He was a Carolina’s first catalog showroom. By 1990, Cleveland County Principal of the Year and Richard Thomas Vernon (’42), Feb. 8, 2006, Brendle’s was one of the Southeast’s leading a District II Principal of the Year. Walnut Cove, NC. He was a school teacher in catalog-showroom chains with 3,000 employ- Walnut Cove and was active in his father-in- ees and 59 stores in five states. He retired in law’s petroleum distribution business, Walnut 1995 as president and chief executive officer. Cove Fuel Supply Inc., until his death. He later opened Doug Brendle’s Natural Health Superstore in Winston-Salem and in four other locations.

56 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Roy Grady Burrus Jr. (’47), March 10, 2006, Jones C. Abernethy Jr. (JD ’49), Jan. 31, Edward D. Champion (’50), Jan. 9, 2006, Shelby, NC. He served in the Navy during 2006, Newton, NC. He was a self-employed Raleigh, NC. He was a radio announcer most World War II, was a car salesman and repair- attorney practicing for more than 50 years in of his life in the southeastern United States. man and put up power lines over central and Hickory, NC. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean eastern North Carolina. He had a successful War. He retired in 1993 after 15 years with dental practice in Shelby for almost 50 years Carroll W. Beasley (’49), Jan. 22, 2006, the N.C. Farm Bureau Federation as director and was past president of the Western Dental Colerain, NC. He was a U.S. Army Air Corps of Broadcast Services. Society. pilot in World War II. He retired after 40 years as manager of Beasley Oil Company. Neil Elbert Downing (’50), March 9, 2006, Charles L. Morris Sr. (’47), March 30, 2006, Fayetteville, NC. He served in the U.S. Navy Winston-Salem. He worked for Western John F. Crossley (JD ’49), Feb. 10, 2006, during World War II as a pharmacist’s mate. Electric Co. in Winston-Salem and Greensboro, Wilmington, NC. He was a U.S. Navy blimp He was a retired educator and after retiring NC, Buffalo, NY, and Atlanta. He retired from pilot in World War II and later became a JAG he was a volunteer at Highsmith-Rainey Lucent Technologies in 1984, moved to Myrtle officer. He practiced law at Crossley McIntosh Memorial Hospital. Beach, SC, and then returned to Winston- Prior & Collier in Wilmington, NC, from 1949 Salem in 1999. until his retirement in 1990. In 2003 he moved Howard C. Knight (’50), Feb. 10, 2006, to Bradenton, FL. Concord, NC. He served as a missionary for Henry A. Pond (’47), Sept. 30, 2005, the Southern Baptist Convention in Tarboro, Portland, OR. He served in the U.S. Navy John R. Flowers Sr. (’49), Feb. 19, 2006, Kershaw, SC, Buenos Aires, Argentina and during World War II and was with the Hickory, NC. He was the retired president of Morehead City, NC. After retiring, he served Portland Public Schools for 32 years. The Flowers Company and president of N.C. as interim pastor in Kinston, NC, and Automotive Wholesale and Southern Auto- Cabarrus and Mecklenburg counties. William Kerr Hauser (’48), Jan. 24, 2006, motive Wholesale. He is survived by his wife, Raleigh, NC. He served in the U.S. Navy Peggy, daughter and son-in-law, Sara and Jeff, Paul C. Livick Jr. (’50), Jan 17, 2006, Canton, before completing his degree. He was an and son and daughter-in-law, Bobby Jr. (’90) OH. He served in the U.S. Army and played entrepreneur, self-employed most of his and Dana. minor league professional baseball for the career, and president of Alco Custom Joplin Miners. He was a 25-year volunteer for Cabinets Inc. Sarah Staton Howell (’49), Feb. 22, 2006, the World Series of Golf and retired from the Concord, NC. She was a retired teacher and Akron Regional Development Board in 1991. Albert K. Hines (’48), Feb. 6, 2006, Enfield, librarian at Mount Pleasant middle and high NC. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps schools. Walter L. Pate Jr. (’50), Aug. 2, 2005, during World War II, was a farmer and Plymouth, IN. founded Hines Manufacturing Co. Inc. Donald E. McCollum (’49, MD ’53), March 29, 2006, Durham, NC. He served as a medic Charles “Chuck”Allen Shaw (’50), April 11, Needham O. Horton (’48), April 7, 2006, in the U.S. Air Force and was professor 2006, Winston-Salem. He was a World War II Wake Forest, NC. He served in the U.S. Navy emeritus of orthopaedic surgery at Duke veteran of the Marines. He was a chaplain during World War II. He was a retired prison University, where he retired in 1998 after and achieved the rank of captain during his guard at Camp Polk in Raleigh, NC. 41 years. After retirement, he served three 20-year career in the U.S. Navy before retiring years as a consultant to the Veterans in 1973. He worked as an employee counselor Maury C. Newton Jr. (’48), Jan. 7, 2006, Administration Hospital in Durham. for RJR Nabisco until 1987. Kennesaw, GA. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He joined his father, Merle D. Paciocco (’49), March 26, 2006, David S. Snipes (’50), June 13, 2005, Central, Maury C. Newton (’25), in the general Lynchburg,VA. She retired from Leggett in SC. He served in the U.S. Army during the practice of medicine in the Blue Ridge 1992. Korean War. He was a geologist with the Mountains of Virginia until his father’s death. California Oil Company in New Orleans, LA, After completing a fellowship in cardiology, Allen A. Bailey (JD ’50), Feb. 10, 2006, and Jackson, MS, until 1960. He was a geology he was assistant professor of medicine at the Charlotte, NC. He was an alumnus of the professor at Furman University from 1963-68 University of Virginia Medical School. He then School of Law and a member of its board of and at Clemson University from 1968 until his practiced medicine for 21 years in Marietta, visitors. He received the “Alumni of the Year” retirement in 1998. Clemson’s annual hydro- GA, before retiring in 1998. He is survived by award in 1979. One of the courtrooms in the geology symposium bears his name. his wife, Pamela, a son, Maury III (’75), two Worrell Professional Center for Law and daughters, Cynthia and Lucy, and seven Management was named in his honor in 1993. Gerald Reid Chandler (’51, JD ’54), Nov. 19, grandchildren. An attorney in private practice in Charlotte 2005, Albemarle, NC. He had his own legal before retiring in 2004, he co-founded the practice. William Edward Walker Jr. (’48),Nov.3, N.C. Academy of Trial Lawyers and was active 2005, Kinston, NC. He served in the Navy in the Southern Trial Lawyers Association William C. Mercer Jr. (’51), Jan 24, 2006, during World War II. He served 38 years as and the Association of Trial Lawyers of Farmville, NC. He served in the U.S. Marine purchasing agent and freezer locker manager America. He was one of only 500 lawyers Corps during World War II. He practiced at Kennedy Home. elected as a fellow in the International dentistry in Farmville and Greenville for Academy of Trial Lawyers. He served as more than 48 years. Frances Hunter Perry Aaroe (’49), April 15, president and vice president of the North 2006, Richmond,VA. She worked for the CIA Carolina Baptist State Convention from 1972 in Washington, D.C., and Lake Laboratories to 1975 and was named “Baptist Layman of in Milwaukee, WI. She was in drug registra- the Year”in 1972. He is survived by his wife, tion at A.H. Robins in Richmond,VA, where Evoydeene (Ebbie), and son, Michael Allen she retired in 1990. Bailey. Memorials may be made to the Allen Bailey Scholarship Fund, Wake Forest School of Law, PO Box 7206, Winston-Salem, NC 27109.

www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2006 57 Mary Jane Myers Overby (’51), March 18, Joseph F. Woodruff Jr. (’57), Jan. 24, 2006, John F. Porter Jr. (’66), March 20, 2006, 2006, Reidsville, NC. She was a retired labo- Charlotte, NC. He served in the U.S. Army Hamlet, NC. He was a pharmacist in South ratory medical technician at Annie Penn and was a sales representative for Champion Carolina. Hospital where she worked for 30 years. Map, Rand McNally and Quality Map Companies. A. Gilmore Crumpler Jr. (’67, JD ’70), Jan. 21, William Donald Wilfong Jr. (’51, MD ’54), 2006, Sandy Springs, GA. He was vice presi- Jan. 17, 2006, Bennettsville, SC. He was a Robert Frank Goerlich (’58) and his wife, dent of the Trust Department at Wachovia Navy veteran of World War II and a retired Shirley Boyce Goerlich, April 6, 2006, Port Bank in Winston-Salem and then in Atlanta. radiologist with Marlboro Park Hospital, Orange, FL. They lived in Unadilla, NY, and He established a personal financial counseling Chesterfield General Hospital and Hamlet wintered in Florida. He served in the U.S. firm, Crumpler & Company, retiring in 2004. Hospital. Army, received the Purple Heart, a Bronze Star and other commendations, and retired as Stephen D. Duckett (’67), Jan. 15, 2006, W.C. Barham Jr. (’52), Sept. 18, 2005, Wake a lieutenant colonel. He retired from public Wellsville, NY. He served in the U.S. Navy and Forest, NC. He pastored a number of church- communications in 1995 with Singer Link Naval Reserve. He worked for Otis Eastern es in eastern North Carolina and was the Aviation and was appointed to the Southern and at one time owned Better Days. interim pastor of Ransdell Chapel Church in Tier Regional Economic Development Council. Franklin county. He is survived by his wife, Randy J. Weikel (’67), Jan. 31, 2006, Ida Mae Driver Barham (’56), a son, a Albert H. Lowdermilk (’60), Jan. 17, 2006, Greensboro, NC. He was a partner for 30 years daughter and four grandchildren. Granite Falls, NC. He served in the U.S. Air in the family manufacturer representative Force for the National Security Agency in business and later a sales consultant with the Hubert L. Owen (’52), Jan. 12, 2006, Raleigh, Washington, D.C., and retired after 35 years Fenton Art Glass Company in West Virginia. NC. He served as a pilot in the U.S. Army in the textile industry. Air Corps during World War II. He taught James B. Jacobsen (’68), Jan. 12, 2006, high school for several years in North Carolina John S. “Jack” Phillips (’60), Feb. 17, 2006, Piedmont, SC. He served in the U.S. Army and was a civilian flight instructor for the Air Rehoboth Beach, DE. He served on the Honor Guard and was a real estate attorney Force. He retired in 1984 as professor and Rehoboth Beach Life Guard Squad and was in Mauldin, SC. assistant department head of physics at North very active in sports. Carolina State University. James T. “Jim” Clack (’69), April 7, 2006, Winfred Eugene Spaugh (’60), Jan. 26, 2006, Greensboro, NC. A three-sport athlete and a R. Judson Mitchell (’53), March 25, 2006, Winston-Salem. He was a member of the U.S. member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of New Orleans, LA. He served in the U.S. Army Army Security Agency during the Korean Fame, he went on to have a standout career and was an assistant professor at Emory War. He was retired from Bell Laboratories as an offensive lineman in the NFL with the University. He was a professor emeritus of and I.L. Long Construction Company. Pittsburgh Steelers and the New York Giants political science at the University of New and won two Super Bowl Rings with the Orleans, where he retired in 2000. He authored Margaret Ann “Peggy” Smith (’63), Jan. 18, Steelers. After retiring from the NFL in 1981, three books on the Soviet Union, wrote articles 2006, Salisbury, NC. She was a Latin teacher he had a successful business career as a com- on Soviet and European politics and wrote a with the Salisbury-Rowan County school mercial and residential real estate developer, novel, Immerman. system and performed with the Winston- restaurant owner and retailer. Most recently, Salem Symphony. he was the CEO of Impact International, a William J. Rowland (’55), Jan. 20, 2006, sales and sales management-training firm. He Garner, NC. He worked for International Frances Rittenhouse Bowen (BBA ’65), founded the Jim Clack & Friends Foundation Resistance Company, Lilly Mills, Nov. 25, 2005, Reedville,VA. She was buried to provide mentoring for people in their Pharmaceutical Sales Company, owned con- at Arlington National Cemetery. comebacks from adversity. venience stores and was a real estate appraiser. Sandra L. Allison (’66), Feb. 15, 2006, Charles Winfield Paul (’70), Feb. 6, 2006, Washington, D.C. She was associate deputy Lancaster,VA. He was a probation officer with Richard A. Smart Sr. (’55), Aug. 19, 2005, assistant secretary of finance and budget and the Raleigh (NC) Probation Department, Ocean Isle Beach, NC. He owned and operated officer of housing with the Department of worked in trusts with Central Carolina Bank Smart Advertising Inc. in Rancho Mirage, CA. Housing and Urban Development where she in Durham, NC, Centura Bank in Rocky had worked for 40 years. Mount, NC, Wachovia Bank in Midlothian, Charles R. Wilson (’56), Jan. 9, 2006, Oak VA, and later was the senior vice president and trust officer at Bay Trust Company in Island, NC. John Homer Hodges (’66), Jan. 23, 2006, Kilmarnock,VA. He is survived by his wife, Winston-Salem. He was past president of the “Ray,”and two sons, Carlyle “Bear” (’99) Jerry Wayne Fulp (’57), March 23, 2006, N.C. Foot and Ankle Society and the N.C. and Westray. Wallburg, NC. He worked for Sears, AT&T Board of Medical Examiners. He received the and Security Life before starting Triad Trading Starling Harford Award for Excellence in Post in 1967. Anatomy from the Pennsylvania College of Charles Blackmon (MBA ’75), May 6, 2005, Podiatric Medicine. Durham, NC. George Edward Johnson (’57), April 9, 2006, Pfafftown, NC. He retired in 2003 as president Karen Sheddan Landolina (’66), Feb. 7, Steven M. Frank (’76), March 5, 2006, of Holly Poultry Company of Winston-Salem. 2006, Burlington, NC. She was the 1986 Lexington, NC. He was retired from Volunteer of the Year at the Alamance Lexington Realty. County Association for Retarded Citizens.

58 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Richard D. Hodges (’77), March 6, 2006, Rodell Charles Johnson, March 6, 2006, Ernest Harshaw Yount Jr., March 15, 2006, Mount Airy, NC. He was a North Carolina Advance, NC. He served in the U.S. Army, Winston-Salem. A professor emeritus at the and Virginia land surveyor and past presi- and was associate producer and animation School of Medicine, he helped develop the dent of the Piedmont Chapter of the N.C. director for Bray Studios in New York City, Department of Medicine during his 36 years Society of Land Surveyors. and a prominent watercolor artist. on the faculty. After graduating from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and serving Robert Hunnicutt Smith (JD ’77), Feb. 19, Gabrielle Jolie Malliett, Jan. 31, 2006, as a medical researcher in the U.S. Army, 2006, Taylorsville, NC. Winston-Salem. She was a former temporary he joined the medical school faculty in 1948. employee at the School of Law. She is survived In addition to chairing the Department of Medicine from 1952-1972, he also served Richard Lee “Rick”Potter (’79), Feb. 22, 2006, by her mother, Janet Malliett, a library tech- as chief of medical services at the medical Fredericksburg,VA. He and three others were nician in the Professional Center Library, center before retiring in 1984. He received killed when the small plane he was piloting two brothers and her father. the medical school’s Distinguished Faculty crashed while returning from a trip to Service Award in 1990. Winston-Salem for the Wake Forest-Clemson Mary Alice King Morris, Nov. 9, 2005, basketball game. A season-ticket holder, he Gastonia, NC. She was a generous donor to had flown to games from his home for the the athletics program and the widow of past two seasons. He was the owner of Potter Leslie Morris (’41, MD ’43), who served Homes and co-owner of Spotswood Construc- two terms on the Alumni Council in the tion Loans. He was active with the Rappa- 1970s. She and her husband funded a tennis hannock Community Foundation, Habitat for scholarship in 1996 and, following his death, Humanity and the Angel Flight Program. she continued his philanthropy to Wake Forest. In 1998, she and her son, Les Morris Edward Arthur Grandpre (MAEd ’80), Jr. (’67), created a charitable lead trust to March 17, 2006, Anderson, SC. He was an fund an athletic scholarship in memory of assistant professor of higher education at Leslie Morris. Clemson University. He had served in student affairs positions at Florida State, Mississippi Joseph Waverly Rowell, Jan. 25 1006, Bristol, State, Ohio State and the University of Georgia. TN. He was a former professional baseball player and was retired from Dillard Paper Anthony C. Bruneio (’81), Feb. 21, 2006, Company. He is survived by his wife, Frances, Cheraw, SC. and four sons, Steve (’73), Brent, John and David (’82). Memorials may be made to First Presbyterian Church, The Salvation Army or Carl R. Adkins (MBA ’82), Feb. 2, 2006, Wellmont Hospice in Bristol, TN, or to the Joe Aiken, SC. He was a family practitioner in and Frances Rowell Scholarship Fund, Wake Fayetteville, WV, for 11 years and chief of Forest University, PO Box 7227, Winston-Salem, staff at the Raleigh General Medical Center NC 27109-7227. in Beckley, WV. He retired in 1998.

Robert Stephen Sherman, Feb. 22, 2006, Friends, New Bern, NC. He was the civil engineer who did the structural designs for Wake Faculty/Staff Forest’s new campus and was later vice president of Carolina Steel. Pauline J. Bean, Jan. 9, 2006, Wytheville,VA. Memorials may be made to the Wake Forest Robert Dicks Shore, Feb. 27, 2006, Winston- University Health Sciences Institute for Salem. A donor to WFDD, Reynolda Gardens Regenerative Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC. and the School of Medicine. He was retired from Alex Brown and Sons. Sharon Brophy-Forst, Sept. 15, 2005, and Olivia Brophy-Forst, Sept. 19, 2005, New Mary Virginia Camp Smith, Jan. 12, 2006, Ashford, MA. The wife and newborn daughter Raleigh, NC. She was a member of the of Kyle Douglas Forst (’96). University’s Board of Trustees from 1974 until 1977. She was active in historic preservation John Edward Davis Jr., Feb. 3, 2006, efforts and was chairman of the Historic Harrisonburg,VA. He taught biology at Wake Murfreesboro (NC) Commission for 21 years. Forest from 1956 until 1968 when he was named chairman of the biology department Eugene Gray Smith Jr., March 9, 2006, at James Madison University. He later served Winston-Salem. He was retired from R.J. as provost at JMU before retiring in 1986. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and was an organizer and first president of Winston-Salem Tennis Dorothy Wright DeLoach, April 5, 2006, Inc. He is survived by his wife, Rachel, and Charlotte, NC, formerly of Winston-Salem. children Eugene Gray Smith III (JD ’76) She worked in the Wake Forest Athletic and Stewart Smith Perry. Ticket Office.

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everal hundred alumni attended the SOld Campus reunion in April, which Familiar faces from both campuses, Provost Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of English Edwin G. Wilson (’43) and Chaplain Emeritus Ed Christman (’50, JD ’53). included tours of the campus, class photo- graphs, and a program in Binkley Chapel (at left and above).Wake Forest moved to the new campus fifty years ago this summer.

www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2006 61 OBITUARY

Eugene Worrell, alumnus and benefactor, dies

Left: Eugene Worrell receives the Medallion of Merit in February. Above: Worrell (far right) as a student debater.

Eugene Worrell (’40, LLD ‘79), Management, which opened in 1993. World War II and later practiced law T. the namesake and major donor He also generously supported the in his hometown of Bristol,Virginia. for the Worrell Professional Center University’s international programs. In 1949, he began his long career as a for Law and Management and In 1976, the Worrells funded the pur- newspaperman when he founded Worrell House in London, died April chase of a house on Steeles Road in The Virginia Tennessean newspaper in 20 in Charlottesville,Virginia. He London, which became Worrell Bristol. After purchasing The Daily was 86. House, the University’s second Progress in Charlottesville,Va., in Worrell received the University’s study-abroad residence. In 1982, they 1970, he moved to Charlottesville highest award for service, the Medal- funded an endowed chair in Anglo- and lived there until his death. lion of Merit, during Founders’ Day American studies. Worrell also funded Worrell Newspapers grew to become Convocation in February, for his more the Roger Goldberg Award in Trial one of the largest chains of small than three decades of service to the Advocacy, given annually to a Wake dailies in the country. University as a trustee, a member of Forest law student who displays the After transferring ownership of the boards of visitors for the School highest aptitude and ethics in trial the chain in 1978 to his son, Thomas of Law and School of Medicine, and advocacy. E. Worrell, Jr., he established Worrell a prominent benefactor. He received Worrell attended Wake Forest on Investment Company. Worrell was an honorary doctorate degree in 1979. a debate scholarship and was a also a collector of wildlife art, and In 1990, Worrell and his wife, Anne, champion orator. He briefly attended his collection of sculpture, paintings gave $5 million—the largest gift ever law school at Wake Forest, but grad- and antique Chinese jade is the only from an alumnus—toward construc- uated from George Washington one of its magnitude in the country. tion of what became the Worrell University School of Law. He worked Professional Center for Law and as a Special Agent with the FBI during

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Impossible Questions and Questioning the Impossible

By Emily Nicole Leonhardt (’06)

average on a weighted 4.0 scale. And it declared a double major in English…for didn’t hurt to be an avid cellist or have a fun. Through literature, I have explored patent pending if you were fishing for a far-off and fantastical places, and I’ve scholarship. The cycle continued in col- reexamined the familiar. I’ve looked out lege; but, instead of acceptance letters, from under the Bell Jar with Sylvia Plath, we aspired to business programs, research and I’ve searched for a room of my own grants, internships, and honor societies. with Virginia Woolf. I’ve seen characters All too soon, these goals became presti- face questions much tougher than an gious scholarships, Fortune 500 jobs, integration problem, and I’ve learned and top-notch graduate schools. And from their successes and failures. suddenly we find ourselves here, at I believe that there is still time to learn ome of the best advice I have ever graduation. If we continue to define the nuts and bolts of our careers and Sreceived came from my fifth-grade ourselves by these goals, we are at risk that there are no textbook instruction social studies teacher. Mrs. Hillman of never being satisfied. As soon as we manuals for the problems we will face in insisted that no matter how daunting a attain one, we plant a new ambition. the future. College is a time to develop test question appeared, it was never Landing the dream job is not enough— as well-rounded individuals, capable of impossible. She gave us a simple tip: when there will be promotions and raises to facing big questions that will inevitably faced with a difficult problem, take a strive for afterwards. lack perfect solutions. How do we study deep breath and think, “Oh, what an Now don’t get me wrong, I’d like to in preparation for a hurricane? What interesting question!” be successful. But how do you measure textbook teaches us to deal with cancer? To this day, my mother teases me with success? I think it’s kind of like limits in We can spout facts and add up the this line when I’m studying for a partic- calculus. We can get infinitely close to atrocities of war, of terror, of hunger, but ularly difficult test. The method never achieving it without getting it perfect. And does it help us to do anything about it? worked miracles and it didn’t guarantee that’s frustrating. I am fully confident Both inside and outside of the class- correct answers, but the lesson served that we will do some amazing things in room, our lives are a process of learning. me well over the years. Mrs. Hillman the years to come, and I believe that all We gather knowledge, skills, and experi- knew that no matter how much we dreams are possible. I hope, however, ence so that when we are faced with our studied, we wouldn’t always have the that we never get stuck in a cycle of own impossible questions, we are pre- exact answer to every question. She attempting to perfect ourselves. My pared to try to answer them. It is natural trusted our ability to reason and encour- social studies teacher would say that in to become overwhelmed by the magni- aged us to rely on experience when the end it is not about whether or not tude of the problems that arise in the memorization failed us. we answer correctly, but about how we world today, but it is unacceptable to If I recall, those fifth-grade history tests approach the question and what we avert our eyes, to say we can’t at least were not terribly difficult; but, by the time learn in the process. try to find answers. I began my second year of calculus, I In our pursuit of answers, we must Our education has prepared us well, was dealing with some very interesting find time to appreciate the questions. A and we leave tomorrow with confidence, questions. I was consistently one of the liberal arts education provides the unique ready to question the impossible. But last students to finish each test, stub- oppor- tunity to learn for the sake of when the inevitable panic of that first bornly refusing to give up on tough learning. In my field, a technical school tough question strikes, we need to just problems. It often paid off and I’m proud would have offered the training to make breathe and remember—“Oh, what an of my accomplishments, but I have a me a more proficient computer program- interesting question.” nagging feeling that Mrs. Hillman mer than I am today. I chose Wake Forest, wouldn’t want me to settle for academic though. In doing so, I discovered a diver- This senior oration by Emily Leonhardt perfectionism. That wasn’t her point. sity of experiences and a breadth of (’06) was one of three winners selected at Ironically, it’s easy to be a perfection- knowledge that I will take with me the 2006 Senior Colloquium and presented ist at an institution like Wake Forest. It wherever I go. at the Honors and Awards Ceremony on begins before college and by the time we My professors demonstrated a genuine May 14. The other winning orations were are on the job hunt it is an art form. We passion for learning, and I found their “The Bubble Experience” by Andy perfected our high school resumes, ensur- enthusiasm contagious. A professor of Lobashevsky (’06) and “Hope—in the ing that our applications listed X hours Victorian literature inspired me to spend Voices of Africa” by Nemanja Savic (’06). of community service, Y number of AP a week delving into the personal letters Read them online at www.wfu.edu/orations. classes, Z leadership positions and, of and critical heritage of George Eliot. I course, an astronomical grade point loved every minute and soon after,

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September 29 and 30 Friday, September 29 Half Century Club Gathering and Luncheon Return to the Classroom Alumni Admissions Forum Alumni-in-Admissions Training 50th Anniversary Celebration; presentation of Distinguished Alumni Award to Bobby Burchfield (’76) Class reunion parties Return to Wake Forest for a celebration Saturday, September 30 of friends, fun and fond memories! Service of Remembrance Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Festival on the Quad Alumni Tailgate Wake Forest in Winston-Salem! Wake Forest vs. Liberty Football Game (3:30 p.m.) Homecoming will feature special Post-Game Reception in Bridger Field House events commemorating the Reynolda Campus and its history.

Reunion events will be held for the Half Century Club and the Classes of 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996 and 2001.

Visit the alumni Web site (www.wfu.edu/ alumni) for your class events and the most up-to-date schedule.

Questions? Call 800.752.8568

Watch your mail for more details coming later this summer!

Sarah McPherson hugs her mom, Connie, before she lines up to receive a master’s degree in counseling at Commencement on May 15. To see more Commencement photos, go to www.wfu.edu/wowf/commencement.