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Homecoming/ Honor Roll Issue -Wake Forest-- The University Magazine September/1982 ~MAl Proud Progenitors Charles Allen ('39) and President James Ralph Scales share ribbon cutting honors at the September 2 dedication of the music wing of the Scales Fine Arts Center. Allen is th e biology professor who added "construction superintendent" to his job description for the duration of the project. Scales' support of the arts during his tenure encouraged construction of the building. They were surrounded at the dedica­ tion by other alumni, friends, and Unluerslty employees who had raised mone v fnr .a.. ... -- -~ ..... _ ... Teresa Radomski sang "Confusion Breathes " by Annette LeSiege at the music wing 's first concert Pianist was Louis Goldstein uiolist , Sally Peck; and trumpeter, Barry Baugess Dan Lockla~r conducted. usic wing dedication rts year on a strong note The music wing of the Scales Fine Arts Center has The day's festivities continued at 8:00 that even­ like sound A reviewer compared the style and part of the campus architecture since it started ing with the first concert m the new 616-seat recital idiom of the piece to the work of Ned Rorem up the hill toward Wait Chapel two years hall - it was the premier of four chamber works In "Songs of Theano." Shaffer told the love story On September 2. 1982, it became an official commissioned for the occasion The composers and ol the young student Theano and her sixty-year-old of Wake Forest when it was dedicated to com­ performers represented Wake Forest and its sister teacher Pythagoras The composer conducted the building which has housed theatre and art schools in Winston-Salem the NC School of Arts, Radomski who sang and occasionally recited the 1976. Salem College, and Winston-Salem State University three-movement work , accompanied by flutist Though University trustees named the arts center But the first performance to receive applause during Kathryn Levy ol the Wake Forest music faculty, and Scales in 1979, this was the first University-wide the evening was that of the acoustical panels on the a clarinet and viola ..,.,.,~,;t;,,n of that honor The official sign in front sides of the recital hall which can be adjusted to Tanner's "Three Movements for Brass Quintet'' the large portrait of Scales in the music wing modify the acoustics for music or spoken program was the most conventional of the new pieces. at now mark the building he and other University The works premiered at the dedication concert times having a jazz-like sound It was performed by have worked to build . were by Margaret Sandresky of Salem College, the Matrix Brass Quintet, composed of graduates of day began in Wait Chapel with a convocation Sherwood Shaffer of the NC School of the Arts, the school of the arts opened the school's !48th year The speaker Fred D Tanner of Winston-Salem State University, "Confusion Breathes " was the last piece on Don Randel, a professor of music at Cornell and Annette LeSiege, former chairwoman of Wake the program LeSiege's work which set to music a llnouo~ciho' who told the audience the fine arts Forest's music department All of the composers but text by Crista! Williams, formerly Baptist Student of Wake Forest 's commitment to LeSiege were present at the concert Minister at the University . New faculty member Dan the whole mind and spirit. He spoke of Sandresky's p1ece, "To the Chief Musician A Locklair conducted Radomski. Louis Goldstein, who n.,•rtiir,'litu of music education, saying music is New Song," took its text from the Psalms of David teaches piano at Wake Forest, and percussionist. a part of a culture as its language or including the twenty-third It was performed by violist. and trumpeter Though few of those listening to him soprano Teresa Radomski, who teaches voice at Locklair's own composition had been performed become performing musicians, Randel said, Wake Forest, percussionist Massie Johnson who, at the convocation that mornmg. He played the were the people who would be responsible for like Radomski, performed in three of the evening's piano to accompany Radomski in " A Triptych of aon.nnrtiron music (and all the arts) four works, and a flutist and pianist Gratitude to the Divine" which he wrote in 1976. his listeners that their most important The piano part called for reaching into the grand Concerts will continue throughout the year uPt>ortururv to use their awareness of music would piano and plucking the strings. producing a zither- A schedule Is on page five. parents "Read with your children and make with them in whatever way you can." he said their lives and give them the possibility of homecoming draws sell-out crowd !rlicrn•'o"inn the treasure of their cultural heritage in of its variety Show them by example what it is to Betty Lentz Siegel ('52) planned to celebrate her psychology department faculty at the Univksity of an inquiring mind Make certain that your own 30th reunion by making the main address at the Florida and eventually became dean of academic af.- _ is not so narrow as to inhibit the development Homecoming, Reunion banquet on October 8. Her fairs for continuing education. Later she became theirs ." speech and a sell-out crowd for the Wake Forest dean of the School of Education and Psychology at versus UNC football game were prominent features Western Carolina University until her appointment C. C. Hope Jr , chairman of the board of trustees, of a weekend of festivities for alumni and friends. by the Board of Regents of the University System of said that the completion of the fine arts center il ­ The address followed the annual banquet in the Georgia as Kennesaw College's second president lustrates three things· Benton Convention Center on Friday evening The Wake Forest and Carolina rivalry always pro­ By finishing the music wing (for which there was Preceding the banquet were socials lor the ten duces great interest for their annual football contest. not enough money when the theatre and art wings classes celebrating their five -year reunions and the and adding the homecoming festivities and UNC's were built in 1976), the University shows that it is Half-Century Club. The class of 1932, chaired by high national ranking to the package produced an committed to the music program. The center also Fleming Fuller of Kinston , were inducted into the unprecedented demand for seats in Groves Statium shows Wake Forest's commitment to a total Half-Century Club during the evening Seats in the stands were exhausted by early academic community that includes the fine arts, he Siegel (featured in the August 1982 issue of Wake September, and even square footage on the grassy said Forest: The Unluersity Magazine) is the president of bank was bought at a premium And, Hope said the center illustrates Scales' com­ Kennesaw College in Marietta, Georgia and is the Other alumni events planned for the weekend in­ mitment to the arts at Wake Forest first Wake Forest alumna to be named to such a cluded a reunion class parade and "Spirit Walk" on After e convocation the guests went to the new post. A native of Cumberland, Kentucky, she re­ the campus on Saturday morning, an alumni recep­ wing fo a ribbon cutting, a few more short ceived her M Ed degree from University of North tion at the Graylyn estate sponsored by the Wake speech and the unveiling of the full length oil por- Carolina and her PhD from Florida State University Forest Club of Forsyth County, and r-eunion class trait of y Anne Kesler Shields. The portrait with concentrations in psychology, educational ad­ parties ranging from breakfasts in the cafeteria to a was unveiled by Scales' wife, Elizabeth Randel ministration, and teacher education. After post­ barbecue at Simos Inn . Scales, and his mother, Katie Whitley Scales. doctoral study at Indiana University, she Joined the A summary of gifts to Wake Forest in on page eleven, where the annual Honor Roll of Contributors begins. September /1982 Wake gifts to WFU top $10 million Forest Wake Forest received more money in capital 34 percent. Bob Mills , also coordinator for Babcock and operating gifts during 1981-82 than ever before School fund raising, said, "The Babcock School has The University Magazine in its history. G . William Joyner, vice president for outstanding alumni support with over 50 percent of development, announced that the University's an­ its graduates giving in each of the past two cam­ Marty Lentz (MBA '79), Editor nual giving had exceeded $10 million for the first paign. Thanks to Frank Schilagi and TRAVCO, and Terry Hydell , Assistant time. the leadership of campaign chairwoman Debbie Roy "Ten million dollars is remarkable for a private ('75, MBA '79) and the Alumni Executive Commit­ Volume 29 Number 5 institution the size of Wake Forest," Joyner said. tee, we increased the average alumni gift as welL" WAKE FOREST: The Umuers1ty Magazme is published six "We're especially glad that both the capital campaign The Law Fund raised $308,000. surpassing its times a year in August, September, November , Jan uary, and the College Fund had successful years." The goal of $300,000. Joe Nail (JD '73) of Smithfield, April , and June by Wake Forest University . Send ed1torial College Fund raised a record-setting $821,523 for NC guided the Law Fund in soliciting pledges from correspondence, changes of address, and alumni news to operating support of the University, and the Presi­ over 54 percent of the lawyer alumni plus parents 7227 Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, North Caroli na 27109 Subscription rate $4.00 per year Second class dent's Club had its greatest single-year increase.

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