Ltllfak~ Jjrnr~St Alumni N~Ws

ltllfak~ JJrnr~st Alumni N~ws No. 1 • October · 1940 HENRY GROVES for whom New Stadium in named. Wake Forest M n Next Governor J. M. BROUGHTON R. H. McNEILL The next go,·ernor of ::-\01-th Carolina will he a \Yake Forest graduate. If the Democratic Party take· the bacon home in the Xovember elec tions, then J. :\I. Broughton, Democratic nominee and a member of the cia s of 1910 at \\' ake Fore t 11·ill mo,·e in to take oYer the position now held by Hi~ Excellency, Clyde H. Hoey. On the other hand, if the Republi cun succeed in getting their candidate into the chief cxecuti,·e'· chai1·, then ll. H. :'llcXeill, a member of the cia s of 1897, will be ).orth Carolina' first citizen. :'llcXeill's son, George, wus al~o graduated from \ Vuke Fo1·est-in 19Q7. Broughton'· ~on, J. ~I., Jr., i now u member of the fre hmen clas·. This may ha,·e no political benring, but J. ;u . Broughton, Jr., Ia t week reported for the b·y-outs to decide ju;,t 11·ho will be included on the Deacon debate squad thi~ ye1u·. Page Three October lssue, WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS 107th Session Opens; 1,067 Enrolled where Then• were in the neighborhood of From Hertfordshire, England, had been as :H5 freshmen among the students who • the drone of azi planes of traffic had filed into the Baptist Church on the toward preserving progre iYeness in familiar as the hum-drum came John <'ampus at the formal opening of the the field of modern education-especial been to Greater London, Hl+O-·n ession of Wake Forest Col ly in Jorth Carolina. Oatfield, a lad ju t past fourteen years examina l!'ge, to well the new emollment to it When he had fini hed, over 1,000 stu in age. lie took an entrance member largest in the 106 past years of history. dent and 70-odd faculty members tion and became a fullfledged His interlude Official report from the registrar's roared their approval with a hearty ap of the freshman class. at Wake Forest and in America (where offic·e indicate that 1,067 men have reg plause. Thi body repre ented the per he came with 499 other English refu istered to date, surpassing even last sonnel of what Wake Fore t wa to has been set .v<'nr's early September enrollment of work with for the new se sion . gees on a ship in :M:ay), for "indefinitely," for he plans to re· 1,0±-l men . And la t year' enrollment main here for the duration of the war. brok<' all pre,·ious records, being closely Faculty Members approached only by the 1,02± student In the group of faculty members Side by side in classwork with the who enrolled here in 193±. there were two men returning to their Engli h youth is a son of the Far East, The day \Yas a typical formal open pots at Wake Fore t. Profe or W. C. Edward Chow, Chinese pre-medical ing day for Wake Forest. New students L\.rchie, for two year a graduate stu student who sought to ('\' acuate the were identified by their fre hmen dent at Princeton niversit_y, returned Nippon-threatened areas of hi native . hield of old gold and blac·k, and there to his work in the French department. land. Originally of Yangchow, located were several new profe sors in the rank .\.nd Zon Robinson, after pending a near Nan king, the former capital of of the robed in tructor . It was Sep year in tudy at Syracuse Univer ity, China, young Chow, now 19 year· of t<'mber 12, 1940, at 11 a.m. ew York, was returning to his student age, plan to return to his China as a religious secretary position and instruc doctor to a Baptist 111:ission Ho pital. Erwin Sounds Keynote tor in public speaking. Profe ssional Schools Dr. Clyde Erwin, state superintend There were new members of the fac ent of instruction, sounded the keynote ulty, too. Dr. H . R. Baer, formerly of Adding to the strength of the stu of the new year, with an addres ap Comell {TniYer ity, had come South to dent body, the Law School reported a plicable to Wake Forest. The address join the Wake Fore t Law chool Fac total of ixty-four tudent for the new set off the opening session of a new ulay; J. C. Drake, a member of the ession, and the l\Iedical School an decade one in which most anything clas of '36 here, returned to hi Alma nounced the enrollment of sixty-six. might 'be expected from the world and :Mater to do graduate study and teach Thirty-eight student entering the liied one in which Wake Forest expects great in the Engli h Department; Dr. C. B. School ma.v have the honor of being Earp, formerly of Columbia Univer- things. the first graduates of Wake Forest's ity, took oyer an a ociate professor " ... In order for this country to live School of Medical Sciences in Winston ship in Greek, succeeding Dr. G. W. prosperously in every way," the speaker Salem. And the Law School accepted Paschal, retired; R. H . H<'lm, a gradu said, "there mu t be a rededication of twenty new men for the fir t year ate in 1939, was coming back to be the lives of young men and women of cour e -exactly the same number who come nn instructor in the p ychology the nation to the fundamentals and went before the State Bar examiner philo ophy department after spending ideals upon which it was founded . during the middle of August. a year at Duke niver it;v; and the "Wide-spread radicali m over the Strengthened by a school spirit typi Rev. Eugene Olive, a member of the entire nation threatens the very bed 1910 graduating class, was taking over cal of Wake Forest's more-than-a-cen rock of our democratic princi pies," he dutie as chaplain of the college and tury of history, the in titution has en continued. "You should remember that pa tor of the Baptist Church h ere. tered another year prepared to keep in you are o fortunate as to live in a pr o motion the cogs that turn out men. gressive country at peace in this time Students Come Long Ways Enter ing his second decade as presi of international chaos . .." dent, Dr. Thurman D. Kitchin has pro The speaker pointed out his asso Students poured onto the campus this nounced the pr ospect for another year ciations with the Wake Fore t school year from F lo rida to New England, on a excellent, for he ha behind him the leaders over North Carolina during tl1e eaboard side, and across the mi d same type of faculty and students who the past decade. He lauded their work, we t, to the R ockies in the opposite di have ent the name Wake Forest and indirectly turned much credit down rection. That was the United States' around the world. their paths for the work they have done side of the geographical distances. October Issue WAKE FOREST COLLEG~] ALUi\1:-\1 XE\\'S Page Four Homecoming Game with Duke Oct. 26 New Groves Stadium To Be Dedicated, Featuring Henry Groves, J. M. Broughton, and Leroy Martin It was hnt•k in the pring, the du.v, gift of Henry Gron?, who,e loyalt~· bas But the D e mon Deacon will face :lfarch G, when a group of ·wnke For been un wa ,·erinl!. them with a team that last ,Year out I's! oflieials n"t>mbled on a plot of gained the Blue n e ,·il< ground as ail Homecoming Crowd To Be Here ground that was known to the neighbor ants-and then lo t to them by the hood as Ror·k prings-whert> a hon<·~· Though the field will be 1"ed for tlw henr1-breaking score of 7-0. In other >Ucklt>d rnvine divided two hillsides game with Furman, October 5, and with words, the W akc Fore t hu ki es will from Pach other.• \ group of nrrhitt>rls :lfarshall College. October 19, it will be he eeking a weet re1·enge and the Blue and landscaper· stood in the back officially dedic·atcd before what is ex Devils ha1·e indicated their determined ground, and one of the officials dug a pected to be an o1·ertl ow homecoming stand to keep clean their recent records spade into tht> earth and openPd a small <·rowel. It i capable of eating 16,000 with the Deacons. hole in the ground. without the u e of temporar.Y hleachers, That day marked the beginning of and sporting critics look with keen e,vcs Other Features Promised what proved to be one of the most beau towa1·d the tilt with Duke a· an out The show will be staged in perhaps tiful stadiums in the Southland, and standing day in W ake F orest's athletic Xorth Carolina' mo t crucial moment those official were breaking the ground histor_y. in 19-!0 football and before one of the for its commencement. W allace W ade's Duke Blue D e1·ils tate'< mo t enthu iastic crowds. Fac I .\.nd now, on the afternoon of Ot· will trot out on the green arena as the ing earh other will be bunks of spirited tober 26, a group of officials will gather dedicatory foe.

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