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February 1991 Wake Forest University Magazine

Allen Mandelbaum: The 'Dancing Master'

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Volume 37, Number 3 February 1991

Editor Features 2 Jeanne P. Whitman The Minds of the South Symposium 2 • Associate Editor WJ. Cash's Mind 9 • Is the Racist South Cherin C. Poovey Staging a Comeback? 10 • Staff Writer Profile: Allen Bernie Quigley Mandelbaum 12 Classnotes Editor Adele LaBrecque Typography Rachel Lowry Printing Fisher-Harrison Corp. University Departments 17 Photography Women's Studies: A Look Back 17 Front cover: Kenan Professor of Humanities Allen Mandelbaum, • Sociology: Educating the Work by Susan Mullally Clark. Force 18 • Medicine: Fighting for the Charlie Buchanan: 3 (top); 4, Lives of Infants 20 • Law: Marion 5, 6 (top); 7 (top); 8, 29; Benfield Joins 21 Susan Mullally Clark: 3 Faculty (center, bottom); 6 (center, bottom); 7 (bottom); 11, 13, 15 , 16 , 19, 21, 22, 23 , 24, 26 , 28 , 30, 35; Jack Gold, 34; Campus Chronicle 22 Scott Manin, 27; Courtesy of Founders' Day: Grant Announced, Charles Elkins Jr., 9; Bowman Gray School of Medicine, 20. Faculty Honored 22 • Edward Rey­ nolds Returns 24 • New Trustees 25 • International Executive Program 25 • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY Preparing for a Semester in Japan 26 MAGAZINE (USPS 664-520, ISSN 0279- 3946) is published five rimes a • A Fourth Rhodes Scholar 27 year in September, November, February, April and July by Wake Forest Universi­ ty. Second class postage paid ar Winsron-Salem, NC, and additional Alumni Report 29 mailing offices. Please send letters ro Trustees Pledge to Campaign 29 the ecliror and alumni news to WAKE • Pughs FOREST UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, Name Auditorium 29 • Benson Gift to 7205 Reynolda Station. Winsron-Salem, Divinity School 30 • President's NC 27109. POSTMASTER: Send Associ­ address changes to the WAKE FOREST ates 31 • Report from the Council Presi­ MAGAZINE, 7227 Reynolda Station, dent 32 • Homecoming Winston-Salem, C 27109. '91 34 • Clubs 36 • Classnotes 37 The Minds of the South Scholars, journalists Remember Cash's Landmark Text

BERNIE QUIGLEY

n 1920, when In Cash's depiction of the Southern heartland literary Wilbur]. Cash was a South, among the few in­ genius unmatched in the student at Wake tt)fest stances of enlightenment American annals, including I College, he read an and courage were those such the work of Thomas Wolfe essay by H.L. Mencken as "... Poteat's teaching of and William Faulkner. To which declared the South to evolution in the face of the Cash's surprise, his book, be "almost as sterile, artisti­ stake to young Baptists at The Mind of the South, cally, intellectually, culturally, Wake Forest College ... and published in 1941, was as the Sahara Desert." Menck­ the Commission of Inter­ greeted with a unanimous en's volatile prose penetrated racial Cooperation, which chorus of critical acclaim in the conscience of the South, aims to foster a more North and South alike. and goaded a new genera­ reasonable attitude toward In the preface of The tion of Southerners at Wake the Negro." Mind of the South, Cash Forest and at other colleges It was the first of a long asked his readers to disabuse into rethinking the South. series of essays that Cash their minds of two correlat­ The Agrarians at Vander­ would write for Mencken; ed legends, those of the old bilt University staunchly essays that bit to the quick and the new Souths. "My defended selected elements of American sensibilities at thesis," Cash told his pub­ of the old South, while a time when the American lisher, Blanche Knopf, "is others, such as Wake Forest's dream was giving way to that the Southern mind famed editorialist, Gerald cynicism. The Great War represents a very definite W. Johnson ('11) and Clarence had barely passed before culture, or attitude towards Cason, author of 90 Degrees new war clouds appeared. life, a heritage, from the old in the Shade, advanced Cash's 1929 essay was uni­ South, bur greatly modified Mencken's criticism. Perhaps formly condemned in some and extended by conscious no one was as strongly af­ 50 newspaper editorials and unconscious efforts over fected by Mencken's essay as throughout the South. At the last hundred years to WJ. Cash. the height of the Depres­ protect itself from the en­ Nine years later, Cash sion, when Franklin croachments of three hostile wrote an essay for Mencken's Roosevelt named the South factors: the Yankee Mind, American Mercury in the "Economic Problem Num­ the Modern Mind, and the Baltimore sage's own mock­ ber One," the Southern Negro." At its best, the ing tone. He targeted the press reacted with hostility South portrayed in Cash's new South as "a chicken­ and outrage at criticism by book was "proud, brave, pox of factories on the outsiders. Bur by the 1940s, honorable by its lights, Watch-Us-Grow maps." a primary change had oc­ courteous, personally gener­ The old South was a curred. Mencken's ridicule of ous, loyal, swift to act, often pretense to aristocracy whose "that stupendous region of roo swift, but signally effec­ lord and baron was "neither fat farms, shoddy cities and tive, sometimes terrible in a plamer nor an aristocrat, paralyzed cerebrums" had its action ...." Its vices in­ bur a backwoods farmer." contributed to a firestorm of cluded "violence, imoler­ The mind of the South was literary activity that echoed ance, aversion and suspicion magnificem only for its the intellectual interest in toward new ideas, an inca­ "incapacity for the real , a the South that had been pacity for analysis, an incli­ Brobdingnagian talem for seen in the 1920s. It nation to act from feeling the fantastic." brought forth from the rather than from thought,

2 Top: Panelists (left to right) Gerald L. Balzles, former governor of Virginia; Histonan C. Vann Woodward; jour­ nalist Howell Raines; and Professor Edwin G. Wzlson ('43), moderator.

Left: Hodding Carter III, journalist and author, talks with conference guests.

Above: Nell Irvin Painter of Pn'nceton University called Cash 's book "racist and sexist. " To Cash, ''Wttke Forest was a lush green pasture waiting to be inhaled."

an exaggerated individual­ few among professional ism and a roo narrow con­ historians.'' cept of social responsibility, In February, Wake Forest attachment to fictions and University held a symposium false values, and above all celebrating the 50-year­ too great attachment to ra­ anniversary of the publica­ cial values and a tendency tion of Cash's book. "The to justify cruelty and in­ Minds of the South: W J. justice in the name of those Cash Revisited" brought values, sentimentality and a together the nation's most lack of realism." esteemed historians, jour­ The book became a mile­ nalists, public and literary stone in the study of the figures on the subject of South and an integral part the South, to consider the Marilyn Mzlloy (left), bureau chief for Newsday, and Ed of the Southern historian's impact of Cash's book on Wzlliams, editor ofthe editorial pages ofTbe Charlotte Observer perception. "Like William Southern studies since Cash. were panelists. Faulkner and C. Vann Woodward, the dean of Woodward himself," histori­ Southern historians, called an Bertram Wyatt-Brown has the event "a cultural phe­ written, "Cash is simply nomenon" as it drew such a part of a Southern scholar's broad range of interest from intellectual frame of refer­ the public as well as from ence. He can no more be the academic world and the expelled from memory, press. The eight sessions conscious or otherwise, than drew hundreds-over 750 the author of The Sound people attended one event and the Fury or the bi­ -and the conference was ographer of Tom Watson featured in The 1-Uzshington can be." C. Vann Wood­ Post, The New York Times, ward, Cash's most promi­ and on National Public Ra­ nent critic, said of The dio's "All Things Considered." Mind of the South that "no Bruce Clayton, author of other book on Southern the recently published biog­ history rivals Cash's influ­ raphy of Cash, WJ. Cash: A ence among laymen and Lzfe, began the confer- Former Governor Gerald L. Balzles of Virginia

4 "Without blacks, Cash's book is like Lawrence of Arabia without the Arabs.''

journalists (left to nght) Claude Sitton, M ichael Rzley ('81), and Edwin Yoder ence with an overview of that would later develop in Cash's life. Cash. But the Southern Growing up in Gaffney, mind clashed with the South Carolina, where modern mind. In the end, ''even children knew the said Clayton, what Cash name of lynchers," Cash had dubbed the "Savage thrilled to the racist novels Ideal" - the South's bar­ of Thomas Dixon, said barous sense of frontier in­ Clayton. But at Wake dividualism - would be Forest, Cash discovered Dr. unyielding and stultifying. William Louis Poteat, who, ''In death as in life he was as president of the College, a· tragic figure," said Clay­ championed the spirit of ton, "something of a mirror free inquiry at a time when of the South. " the Scopes trial in Tennes­ Raymond Gavins, associ­ see was threatening intellec­ ate professor of history at tual independence in the Duke University, introduced South. the theme that would To Cash, "Wake Forest dominate the conference: was a lush green pasture race and racism. Citing waiting to be inhaled,'' said W.E.B. Dubois' landmark Clayton. Poteat represented work, The Souls of Black the modern mind to Cash, Folks, he invoked Dubois' said Clayton, the mind of image of a veil to represent Darwin, Freud, Dewey and a metaphor for segregation. Spengler. His teaching of "Cash did discern a stir­ "biology without equivoca­ ring behind the veil," said tion" represented a new Gavins. He did not discern spirit of tolerance and free that these strivings were inquiry, everything that the nurturing a social move­ old South was not. ment that would shake The modern mind that America and the South to Cash found at Wake Forest, its foundations. said Clayton, was the mind Michael Rzley: ''The South needs a psychiatnst. ''

5 ''When I first went to Washington, I was consi­ dered something less than a full American. '' President Thomas K. Hearn}. with guests at the reception.

Nell Irvin Painter, pro­ Without blacks, said Lin­ fessor of history at Princeton coln, Cash's book is ''like University, said that when Lawrence of Arabia without she first encountered The the Arabs.'' Mind of the South as an " For too long, historians undergraduate in the 1960s, were loath to include Mri­ she thought it was a can-Americans or even poor thoroughly racist book. whites," said Pete Daniel, When she read it as a curator at the division of graduate student in the agriculture and natural 1970s, she thought it was resources, National Museum sexist, she said. The mind of American History. But that Cash described is that the South is a different of the white, Southern place today. ''So different,'' male, said Painter. He all he said , "that there is a Hundreds of scholars and teachers from across the country but disregarded Mrican­ small industry about attended the symposium. American men and women whether or not the South and poor whites. still exists." "I don' t think he'd be Hodding Carter III, jour­ able to imagine a person nalist, documented the like me able to stand as his changes that have taken equal," said Painter. place in the South and in Blacks were left out of the nation's perception of The Mind of the South, the South during his politi­ said C. Eric Lincoln, professor cal career. of religion and culture at Duke ''When I first went to University, although race is Washington, I was consi­ the one component that makes dered something less than a sense of all the others. full American," said Carter, "The South was and is referring to the early 1960s about Negroes, African­ when he went to work for Americans," said Lincoln . Lyndon Johnson. Later, ''They figure in every way. when he returned to work Cash' 'mind' is the mind for Jimmy Carter, after the Bertram Wyatt-Brown (left) and C. Vann Woodward of the ruling hegemony.'' South had made consider- (second from right).

6 ''We are a region of . . recovenng raczsts, lzke alcoholics. ''

able racial progress during bear no resemblance what­ the civil rights movement, soever to the South of "a Southerner, instead of Cash's time. being an object of scorn , Although much has was an object lesson,' ' he changed in the South, Hodding Carter talks with Professor ofPolitics Carl Moses (nght) said. much remains the same, and Helen Moses at the symposium banquet. Although racism is stili a said Merle Black, Asa G. problem, said Carter, it is Chandler Professor of Polit­ no longer exclusively a ics and Government at Southern problem, but is Emory University. Black ci­ instead a national problem. ted statistics which indicate "Ten years ago I would that white Southern males have said we were less ra­ are predisposed to feel cist," said Frye Gaillard, warmly about "the South, Southern editor for The whites, the military, the en- . . Charlotte Observer who vuonment, conservatives, has written extensively on Republicans, blacks and school busing. ''We are a Democrats.'' region of recovering racists, ''The big change,'' said like alcoholics. It takes Black, ''is that 'Democrats' vigilance, and I don't see is no longer a sacred sym­ Nell Irvin Painter (center) is greeted by Professor of Relzgion that vigilance anymore.'' bol." White Southern males Ralph Wood (left) and Samuel Hill (nght), professor of Howell Raines, Washing­ are coolly predisposed to relzgion at the University of Florida. ton editor for The New "radical students, gays and York Times, cited Dr. Mar­ lesbians and black mili­ ever an intellectual wilder­ Although race, change, tin Luther King's reference tants," he noted. ness, he said, it has ceased the old South, the new to the habit of obedience Gerald L. Baliles, former to be. South, historical perspec­ that both whites and blacks governor of the Common­ "I cannot help think that tives and historians past have felt to the upper class­ wealth of Virginia, said that Cash might write more and present were fully dis­ es in the South. Until that the region has made tre­ proudly if he wrote today,'' cussed throughout the con­ habit is broken, said Raines, mendous social and eco­ said Baliles. ference, W.]. Cash re­ "the task of political libera­ nomic progress since Cash's "The South is the only mained the centerpiece. tion has hardly begun." time. Although a Democrat, place in America that readi­ ''The turnout for this Carter pointed out that he said that the one-party ly compares to most of the conference is a testimony to there are areas below the political system of the old rest of the world," said C. the continuing power of Mason-Dixon line such as South did not serve the Vann Woodward. "It has Cash to provoke approval South Florida and Fairfax South as well as a two­ suffered hardships, disaster, and disapproval,'' said County, Virginia, that now party system. And if it were defeat and humiliation.' ' George B. Tindall, Kenan

7 Above: Larry Ti.re, execu­ tive director of The Benja­ min Franklin National Memorial, and Raymond Cavins, associate professor of history, Duke University.

Left: President Hearn (left) and Hodding Carter at the banquet.

Professor of History Emeritus has never been one South, issue of race,'' said Riley. which integrated public at the University of North or one mind of the South, "Hardly anyone does." schools, Sitton said that the Carolina at Chapel Hill. but always many. Edwin Yoder, a syndicated South has mer the test of "We've demonsuated one "Virginians and Virgin­ columnist for The ~shing­ racial integration about as thing that we can all agree ia,'' he said, "bear about ton Post, said that "if there well as any region in the on," said Tindall, "Cash was as much resemblance to is one big idea in Cash, it is country. a provocative writer." Texans and Texas as possums that the past is the key to "The South no longer The conference ended to armadillos." the future." He recalled an stands as the region Cash with a panel of journalists Michael Riley ('81), a era in the South marked by knew," said Sitton, "a South offering thoughts and ob­ reporter for the Washington racial segregation, violence, separate and apart. Instead servations about the South bureau of Time, said that a sense of history, a sense of it is a lowercase South and what's ahead for the the South is not dead, but language taken from the different from the rest of outh. Claude Sitton, it is schizophrenic. It needs King James Bible, an apti­ the nation only by irs geog­ former editor of Raleigh's another Cash to explain it, tude for storytelling, and raphy. And to that circum­ ews and Observer and he said. small towns full of characters. stance, thinking Southerners enior lecturer at Emory "To understand the region Citing the Supreme Court's should say a fervent Amen." University, said that there you have to understand the landmark decision in 1954,

8 The Words Came Hard and Took Their Toll on Cash's Life

On July 27, 1940, Wilbur ]. Cash, a 40-year-old Char­ lotte journalist, mailed his manuscript, The Mind of the South, to publisher Alfred Knopf in New York. For eleven years, Cash had wrestled with his study of the South. The words carne with difficulty and at con­ siderable strain to his fragile health. He had an intense need to explain his native South - its history, culture, and distinctiveness. To debunk the Southern myths that had lasted for generations, Cash used his rhetorical skills and his abil­ ity to frame ideas in an en­ Wj. Cash (right) with publisher Alfred Knopf in 1941. gaging style. Published in February of 1941 to critical ty" is how Cash's friend Chicago and Charlotte. of Charlotte. On publica­ acclaim, The Mind of the and classmate Edwin Hol­ While editor of a Shelby tion day, February 10, 194 1, South has gained popular man described Wake Forest. newspaper during the presi­ a proud Cash signed copies acclaim 50 years later and is President William Louis dential election of 1928, he of The Mind of the South. cited as a classic in histori­ Poteat, affectionately known produced the first of eight Amid favorable reviews, a cal literature. as "Dr. Billy,'' taught evolu­ essays for H.L. Mencken's Guggenheim fellowship, Cash was born in Gaff­ tion in his biology classes, Amen·can Mercury in May and an invitation to be ney, South Carolina, on and Cash and his Old Gold of 1929. The second essay commencement speaker at May 2, 1900. The oldest of and Black colleagues in October was titled "The the University of Texas, John and Nannie Cash's defended that right from Mind of the South." Blanche Cash was beginning to en­ four children, Cash long attacks by fundamentalists. Knopf soon asked Cash to joy success. His pleasure, remembered "the drab vil­ Cash was nicknamed "Sleepy" expand it into a book. however, was to be short­ lage ringed about by cotton for he often "appeared to Shelby was a stifling en­ lived. By the summer of mills." In 1913, the family be only half awake." "Sleepy," vironment for those with 1941, Cash, ill and de­ moved to nearby Boiling class of 1922, was managing ideas such as Cash's, and his pressed in the heat of Mexi­ Springs, North Carolina, editor of the Old Gold and poor health hampered work co City, took his life. where he attended the pri­ Black his senior year, wrote on the book. In the first The Mind of the South is vate Baptist Academy­ prose and poetry for The half of the 1930s, Cash Cash's attempt to express, later to be Gardner Webb Student, and panicipated in wrote occasional essays for in historical terms, his College. Cash read the work Professor C. C. Pearson's The Amen'can Mercury. He thoughts about the land he of thinkers such as Freud Political Science Club. joined the Charlotte News loved. Fifty years after the and Marx, as well as tra­ Classmates many years later in 1935 as a writer of book's publication, time has ditional literature and de­ remembered his love of editorials and literary acknowledged Wilbur veloped a lifetime love for "bull sessions," a searching topics. Progress on his book Cash's achievement. literature. mind, and an interest in carne painfully slow. Mter unhappy semesters the South. Cash completed The Editor's note: This article at two colleges, Cash went After graduation, Cash Mind of the South in July was wn'tten by Wttlter to Wake Forest in January returned to Wake Forest for 1940. He began to discuss Beeker ('81}, who was a 1920. "A small Baptist col­ a year of law school before new projects; he longed to member of the symposium's lege with the liberality and two years of teaching and write a novel. In December, coordinating committee. the integrity of a universi- work as a journalist in he married Mary Northrop Premature Demise Is Racism Stzll Alive and Well in the South?

PAUL ESCOTT

s the racist South damned nigger-loving The limits on black polit­ staging a comeback? scoundrel in league with ical power in the South also In 1989, Virginia­ the enemy." are becoming apparent. I linchpin of the Con­ The civil rights movement True, the 1965 Voting Rights federacy and headquarters of and Sunbelt prosperity Act destroyed the old politi­ the lost Cause-elected changed all that, or so it cal system and empowered Douglas Wilder as the na­ seemed. By the 1970s, a black Southerners. And to­ tion's first black governor. new crop of Southern gover­ day, more blacks hold local But this year, former klans­ nors, including Jimmy Carter, offices in the South than man David Duke has were declaring the racist anywhere else. Several shocked politicos in louis­ South dead and gone. School mayors have actually won iana with a strong, though desegregation, after 15 years the support of heavily white unsuccessful, campaign for of resistance, proceeded rapid­ electorates. Still, further the U.S. Senate. And in ly and thoroughly. Black gains for blacks are not like­ North Carolina, Jesse Helms Southerners moved into better ly in the years ahead. Only used racially oriented ads to jobs and began to win local 17 percent of Southern overtake black challenger elections in substantial num­ voters are black. The sub­ Harvey Gantt in the fmal bers. Suddenly the South urbs, usually Republican days of the campaign. was leading the nation in and conservative, have more The demise of the race is­ racial progess by almost any clout and more potential for sue now seems clearly exag­ objective measure. growth than the black vote. gerated. Has all that changed? But history suggests that Racism has always played The November '90 elec­ the old racist South is not a prominent role in tions prove that the milleni­ likely to return either. There Southern history. It was um has not arrived. Racism is a crucial difference be­ central to slavery. According is not dead in the South, tween the Southern society to W J. Cash, interpreter of and dominant political atti­ of today and the South of the white South's psyche tudes do not favor the agen­ slavery and segregation. In and au thor of The Mind of da of blacks. Racism is earlier eras, racism served the South, whites after strongest in areas little the vital interests of the emancipation "preserved vir­ touched by economic change. most powerful groups in the tually intact" their "first so­ Resentment of affirmative South. The old South's cial principle" - "the action programs is widespread planters used racism to justi­ Negro was still 'mud-sill,' " and is reinforced by older con­ fy slavery and maintain and "a white man, any servative attitudes which exalt white unity. New South white man, was in some individualism and condemn leaders in the 1890s, stung sense a master." Through big government. The Helms by the fury of angry farm­ decades of segregation and supporter who told Newsweek ers, whipped up racism to disfranchisement, that racist that Harvey Gantt would preserve their power and principle prevailed. Any "give it away to the hippies, obscure their suppression of Southerner who deviated the Jews, and niggers" the Populist movement. from it "stood in pressing was a small-town business­ peril of being cast out for a man, not a klansman.

10 Conference Committee, Fellows

"The Minds of the South: Conference Fellows were: WJ. Cash Revisi ted," a sym­ Bradley Bond, who is now posium on the occasion of completing his Ph.D. at the fiftieth anniversary of Louisiana State Universiry the publication of The Mind where he won the T. Harry of the South, was held at Williams Fellowship; Wake furest University from Claudia Smith Brinson, a Feb. through Feb. 12. The senior writer for The State conference was coordinated in North Carolina. She is by Paul Escott, Reynolds also a 1990 Gonzales Award Professor of History. Co m­ Winner and a 1990 Carolina mittee members included, Byliner Award Winner. In Walter Beeker (' 81 ), Jack D. 1990 she won an 0. Henry Fleer, professor of policies; Prize fo r creative writing; Ashley Hairston III ('92), a Colin Camp bell, column­ junior at Wake furest; Claire ist f or The Atlanta journal Holton Hammond, professor and Constitution. He is the of economics; AI ton B. Pol­ winner of the Overseas Press lard III, assistant professor of Club Award f or Reporting religion; Bynum G. Shaw on Human Rights, and the (' 48), professor of journal­ Robert F. Kennedy Award ism; and]. Howell Smith, for International Reporting; professor of history. Jason DeParle, domestic The Rare Books Room, Z. policy correspondent for The Smith Reynolds Library, held ew York T imes; Paul Escott: The South has a new agenda. an exhibit prepared by the Terence Finnegan, a Ph.D. library staff displaying a fust candidate at the University Racism flourished in the works against a resurgence edition of The Mind of the of Illinois at Urbana­ South for many reasons but of the old racism and marks South and the original tran­ Champaign; the most important reason a significant change. script of The Mind of the Pamela Grundy, a Ph .D . was simple: powerful people Through most of Southern South with WJ. Cash's an­ candidate at the University wanted it to flourish. They history, class interests notations in the typescript. of North Carolina at Chapel promoted racism because fostered racism; today, they The exhibit also included Hill where she holds the their privileges and power support racial progress. letters to Cash from Mar­ William R. Kenan Jr. Fel­ depended on ir. garet Mitchell-Marsh, Ellen lowship. Corporate and business Editor's note: Paul Escott is Glasgow, and others; photo­ leaders in today's Sunbelt Reynolds Professor of History graphs of Cash; and other cities have a different agen­ and was director of the artifacts and documents da. They see racial harmony Minds of the South Sym­ relating to Cash and The as a key to progress and posium. Mind of the South. economic growth. In Co­ The conference included lumbia, South Carolina, re­ writers, academics and jour­ cently, that priority forced nalists who were selected by the integration of exclusive a compeuuve process as private clubs. The dedica­ people who were writing, tion of roday's business thinking, and making a leaders ro economic growth difference in the South. PROFILE Allen Mandelbaum

GALE SIGAL

"The Dancing Master" dancing one learned step by !though most with the sublime resulted For Allen Mandelbaum subtle Wake Forest in a dazzling fireworks dis­ step a dozen years ago. students have play: intense, explosive, Of all my dancing masters Only this past never had the colorful, dense, startling, the most difficult to follow summer, caught up in one memorable ex­ illuminating, brilliant. was Allen, for he could dance of those peri- perience of returning home Despite the daunting, un­ after class to the sway of pedantic erudition, the vast, so a step so intricate, patetic dialogues outside the New York City IRT, encyclopedic lexical range, convoluted, AssZ:rz; on they nevertheless do have the lightning speed associa­ tripping my poor feet kept the dusty road to Francesco 's something they can share tions, there were, unfailing­ one over holy hermitage, with Paul Mariani: the ly, thunderbolts to hang the other just trying to it struck me finally that, dance unique experience of being onto, particles of meaning keep up. a student of Allen Mandel­ ultimately more valuable as quickly as I could, I must baum, an experience proba­ than the entire lectures, "Dante 's line splits into always stay . . bly more akin to a roller­ someumes enure courses, Baudelaire 's a step behind, that, mazurka coaster than a subway ride. students encountered else­ preoccupation with the as I might, Since 1989, when Allen where. Those thunderbolts polis and his stride was always greater, Mandelbaum assumed the provided keys, shed light, Mallarme's narcissistic self though dismay. " Kenan Professorship of Hu­ opened vistas. As the I am at least as tall as him. . . manities at Wake Forest (after meanings we held onto So he might begin, and I'd and younger. Most masters the retirement of Germaine stayed with us, they reso­ go tripping exist for Bree ), students have had nated, grew larger, more foot over foot following first the overtaking, at least the opponunity to enroll sure, until gradually, parti­ the one step then the other, eventually, in one of the ''Dancing cles began magnetically to spinning Master's" courses. draw together, ideas to con­ so Hegel has it. Though not Taking a "Mandelbaum nect, and large meanings home from his dancing this one. One course" was a rite of pas­ slowly to piece themselves class at Hunter two, heel and toe, always sage for students in the En­ together. The class's slow, late at night on the swaying another step, glish department of the painstaking progress in con­ IRT halfstep, in the compound Graduate School of the City trast to Mandelbaum's ve­ dizzy stzil with so much arabesque, proving, University of New York; it locity was intimidating and stepping. was also, and more impor­ humbling. But at least, like for once, Zeno's tortured math tantly, an initiation into the Paul Mariani, we were stumb­ If it wasn 't Yeats 's packed about the life of the mind. A "Man­ ling, at our own pace, along spondees, then it tortoise and the hare. Fitting, delbaum course" transcend­ the same path. was recondite word bounda­ I suppose, ed mere graduate school: it Mandelbaum breezed a n.'es framing Mtlton 's that he should foot it first, was a true education, lead­ world of culture and refine­ epic, the hexameters of foot following ing students to a lofty plat­ ment into our studies, in­ Virgil transmuted eau from which they could fusing our classroom with foot outward, as we strode feel , after the arduous an energy and creativity so into blank verse clipped, or then toward climb, the thrill of learn­ copious that it overflowed Hopkins fitting the grotto, me a half step ing, the satisfaction that ac­ onto us all, enveloping us chant to the chorus lines in behind him, companies the attainment in a rarefied atmosphere Aeschylus both dancing toward the same of a new understanding. that even the din of the to the limits of percussion. szience. Such tentative Mandelbaum's mode of 42nd Street traffic could -Paul Mariani fusing the fundamental not penetrate and in which

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PROFILE

ideas, associations, individu- at Wake Forest, where Man- scure." Heralded for being the scholarly arena and the al words, even emotions ac- delbaum is once more en- the "English Dante public eye. Mandelbaum crued fresh, profound sig- riching, mystifying, en- which ... should satisfy has been publishing his nificance. He more than lightening and startling stu- Italianists, and medievalists own poetry since 1967. His taught us: he nurtured, en- dents in equal measure. and readers of poetry," journeyman was followed by couraged, probed, provoked, Mandelbaum's pedagogic Mandelbaum's Dante has several other volumes of startled, shocked, but most talents are intertwined with become, as Hugh Kenner poetry: Leaves of Absence of all, moved us. He lifted other talents just as remark- predicted it would, "the (1976); Chelmaxioms: The us out of ourselves and our able. He has been said to English Dante of choice." Maxims, Axioms, Maxt·oms customary world, a model have "the most ambitious In addition to the Virgil of Chelm (1978); A Lied of of the exhilarating potential oeuvre of any translator we and Dante translations, Letterpress (1980). The poet of dynamic mind wedded have had." He is best Mandelbaum has published James Wright spoke of to ardent, willing spirit. known, perhaps, for his Na- the Selected Writings of Professor Mandelbaum's Allen Mandelbaum's tiona! Book Award-winning Salvatore Quasimodo (1960), Chelmaxt·oms as "original, receptivity to the ideas of translation of The Aeneid a book "which no lover of learned, comic in a way others, especially of his of Virgtl (1972), "a living living poetry should miss," that only a master of many students, manifests a will- Aeneid ... vital, flowing," a translation of Giuseppe languages (like Joyce) can ingness to recognize and "the only one since Dryden Ungaretti's Life of a Man be comic; often lyrically pursue the valuable no which reads like English (1958) as well as Selected lovely and finally haunting- matter whence it issues. verse ," or his exquisite Poems of Giuseppe Un- ly sad." Wright noted, too, And this openness, this translation of Dante's Di- garetti (1975 ). These early "the extremely dense rich- generosity of spirit, like his v.ine Comedy (1980-1984), translations "made available ness of learning" in a book dynamism and brilliance, which the poet Charles to English readers ... pres- that likewise contained seem to know no bounds. Simic welcomed as "a mira- ences that have contributed "lyric poems of surpassing In his capacity as depart- de. A lesson in the art of most to this half century of simplicity and beauty." The ment head, Mandelbaum translation and a model (an Italian poetry." His recent poem was called "an amaz- was an energizing tutelary encyclopedia) for poets. The Ungaretti and Palinurus ing and amazingly beauti- spirit whose guidance in full range and richness of (1989) is followed by a just ful volume .. . verbal para- practical matters was sound, American English is dis- completed translation of dise" that opened "an penetrating, freely given played as perhaps never be- The Odyssey of Homer, a exciting new dimension and instrumental to the fore." Known for its lu- translation that "lets Ho- in poetry." success of many former stu- cidity, eloquence, strength, meric epic sing in the In 1987, Allen Mandel- dents who are now pub- and "profoundly moving rhythms and idiom of a liv- baum published "one of lished poets, scholars, and depths," Mandelbaum's ing language." It has been the most original and im- professors across the coun- Dante contains, as James chosen as the monthly se- porrant poems wntten 10 try. This may be the reason Merrill noted, "countless lection by the Book of the English in the last 50 years why one of the many ac- free, brilliant, utterly Dan- Month Club. In the wake (Choice), his The Savantasse knowledgments to him tesque strokes." A splendid of his publication Ovid in of Montparnasse, a "grand claims that he upholds a fusion of fidelity to the Siczfy (1986), he is now and marvelous" poem in corner of Heaven. After a original and of truly in- preparing an eagerly await- which one encounters Man- class or a conversation with spired poetry, Mandelbaum's ed translation of the entire delbaum's eccentric and Mandelbaum, one feels in- translation attempts to pro- Metamorphoses of Ovid for wise characters, as well as vigorated, elated and in- vide a more accessible Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. an overpowering sweep of spired - just a little Dante: "I was striving for a Only a gifted poet could language and idea. The transformed. That spirit Dante that was ever more achieve such prodigious sue- poem plots the unflagging now graces our classrooms complex and ever less ob- cess simultaneously in both efforts of the Paraphrases of

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Montparnasse to decode the meaning of Wen Tong's painting, a path that winds through an extraordinary array of language, colors, materials, and emotions. Not unlike Homer's "man of many wiles," Allen Man­ delbaum has "wandered many paths" geographically as well as intellectually. Born in Albany, New York, in 1926, he left at the age of one and was raised in Louisville, Troy, Toronto (home of his mother's rab­ binical father), and Chica­ go, arriving in New York City at the age of 13. Man­ delbaum's father had come to America from Jerusalem in 1917 (where the family had settled in the 1870s). He was ordained as a rabbi at what is now Yeshiva University and was Mandel­ baum's principal teacher. It was at Yeshiva Univer­ sity that Allen Mandelbaum received his B.A. in 194 5, followed by his M.A. and Ph.D. at Columbia in 1946 and 1951. After teaching at Cornell, Columbia, Yeshiva, and Hunter College, he be­ came a Rockefeller Fellow in Humanities and then a Harvard Society Fellow in 1951. He spent most of the appointment in Italy, where he remained until 1964, Allen Mandelbaum: He nurtures, provokes, shocks. completing his volumes of U ngaretti and Quasimodo to the States. During the printworks at Cassino and cal technology - a con­ and preparing the poems latter part of those Italian then directed the Tipografi­ suming interest in itself - that formed journeyman, years, Allen Mandelbaum ca at Rome. His keeping up is manifest in the pains­ published upon his return was technical director of the with the latest typographi- taking care he contributes

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to the technical preparation the University of California of his books. This care Press. He was co-general results in beautifully print­ editor of the Jewish Poetry ed books whose illustrations Series UPS), and is now the by Barry Moser (The Divine general editor of the Cali­ Comedy) and by Marialuisa fornia Lectura Dantis - a de Romans (Ovid in Siczly, three-volume critical com­ The Odyssey of Homer), are mentary on The Divine splendidly reproduced. Comedy. He is co-editing From 1964, Mandelbaum an anthology of American taught first at Sarah Law­ verse from its origins to rence and then at the World War I, and complet­ Graduate Center of the ing an edition of his Col­ Ciry University of New lected Poems as well as York, where he chaired the From Homer to Dante: English department from Translations from Antiquity, 1972 to 1980. On leaves for Harcourt Brace Jovano­ away from the Graduate vich, and Convivio, a two­ Center, he was Hurst Pro­ volume edition of his select­ fessor of Creative Literature ed verse translations of at Washington University in twentieth century Italian St. Louis, Honors Professor poetry for the University of of Humanities at the Uni­ California Press. versity of Houston, Distin­ Allen Mandelbaum, like guished Professor of Hu­ Homer's Ulysses, has "map­ manities at the University ped the minds - of many" of Colorado at Boulder, and as poet, translator, scholar, Distinguished Visiting professor, mentor. And he Scholar at Purdue Universi­ has given that mapping, ty. His achievements have generously and in manifold been recognized not only in ways, to the world. He is America, where he received the incessant weaver, the the Honorary Doctor of obsessed scrutinist, who Humanities degree at Pur­ amazes and inspires. He has due in 1987 , but also in brought his world and its Italy, where he received the mappings here, where the Order of Merit in the 1970s. Carolina cricket and the Countless other projects majestic expanse of the have occupied Allen Man­ region's vast blue sky, new­ Editor's note: Gale Sigal is an assistant professor in the delbaum as participator, found endearments, help to Department of English and a former student of Allen contributor, or director. He shape Wake Forest Universi­ Mandelbaum. has recently been instru­ ty into a work-center from mental in founding the which he can spin out his Forest in choosing it as the tinue to weave his own Wake Forest Studium, a exuberant dance. Having site from which he will con- timeless and seamless web. joint publishing venture ranged so widely, Mandel­ linking the University to baum has honored Wake

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W 0 M E N ' S S T U D I E S ·:

Women at Wake Forest: 'A Precious History'

didn't particular age to be a suc­ When Jeanne Owen professor of English and the colleague that if she cessful pioneer in the South joined the Wake Forest first black faculty member; stop speaking up at faculty on a predominantly white faculty in 1956, she taught Bianca Artom, lecturer meetings, she was never . campus required much," she 15 3 students: three of those emerita in Italian and first going to get a husband be­ said. "Certainly strength, were women. "Women were director of the Venice pro­ "The big difference and humor, and a bit of ar­ not taking business courses gram; Germaine Bree, Ke­ tween then and now was rogance, and the ability to except to teach secretarial nan Professor Emerita of that I worked on the pre­ either confront or ignore subjects," said Owen, who is Humanities; and Patricia L. mise that I had to work unpleasant b ehavior stem­ a professor of business law Adams (MD '74), associate within the system and beat ming from racism." in the School of Business professor of nephrology and the men at their own Noting that there are now and Accountancy. associate dean of student af­ game," Owen said. "I think t black women on the Owen, who went on to fairs at the Bowman Gray I did not think a great deal eigh undergraduate faculty, become the first woman to School of Medicine. about what I was doing for McPherson said that she has attain full professorship on "In my interview with other women. I'm glad the of women found the Wake Forest en- the undergraduate faculty, Dr. Tribble, he asked me, current generation . . supporuve. was one of several "firsts" among other things, if I is tackling the system." vuonment Adams, who was appoint­ who were recognized during planned to get married," McPherson, who joined ed associate dean of student a discussion of women's his­ said Owen. "He assured me the English department in affairs at the medical school toty at Wake Forest held at that it would be all right to 1974, said she remembers 88 , said that the per­ a meeting of the Association get married." Owen said she her early days at Wake in 19 of women fa culty of Women Faculty and Ad­ was visited by a group of Forest with warmth and af­ centage has not increased mlrustrators. faculty wives, who advised fection, even though there members since she was a Other "firsts" were Dolly her as to "eligible" faculty were some difficult times. significantly student. A. McPherson, associate men, and was told by a male ''For a black woman of a medical "There were six women in my class of 76 students," she said. "We were treated like little sisters by our classmates and by the faculty, sort of like aberrations with which they had to deal. Most people were polite and supportive." Elizabeth Phillips, profes­ sor emerita of English and acting director of the Wom­ en's Studies program, said women at Wake Forest should value their past and shape their future. "We all need to be more knowledge­ able about our history," she saic.i . "It is a precious history to be loved and regarded, bur to be improved on." jeanne Owen (left) and Patricia Adams

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Is Technology Compensating For Poor Education?

In most fast food restaur­ "Today's youth are com­ But in America, there is to school," Pearson said. ants, cash registers have peting one on one with the a movement to do less. "Interest begins to formu­ been replaced by electronic same youth population in ''Some states are talking late in about the sixth machines that have pictures Germany, France, England, about having a high school grade for kids who have the of cheeseburgers, french the Pacific Rim countries diploma and having a cer­ interest and the ability. I fries, and other menu items and other parts of the tificate of attendance for think the problem we have on the keys. Besides record­ world," he said. "If you going four years to high now is that more kids are ing sales, these computer­ have a case where the aver­ school, but only giving choosing not to take it, ized systems serve another age worker in Japan can diplomas to those who have even as an elective." purpose: they enable those read a blueprint and the met the academic require­ Pearson has been trying who cannot read, or add or average worker here cannot, ments," he said. "You go to to encourage more women, subtract, to hold down jobs. you can see that, in terms school for four years, but it blacks, and other minorities Willie Pearson, professor of competition, we have a is not the same as having a to go into the fields of of sociology, sees this use of problem." high school diploma." science and mathematics. technology to compensate Education is the key to a Science and technology Historically, they have been for a poorly educated work competitive work force, said are the cornerstones of a underrepresented in those force as a sign of the times. Pearson, and manufacturers modern technological socie­ fields, he said, but a study Pearson has spent the last are unlikely to be attracted ty, said Pearson, but many he recently completed for 15 years of his academic to areas with high rates of Americans with an aptitude the Educational Testing Service indicates that the ranks of blacks and Hispan­ ics studying on the gradu­ ate level in science and "If we are going to be competitive as a nation, math has recently declined. we're going to have to have people trained ex­ ''For the last ten years there has been a dwindling tremely well.'' supply in terms of quality and quantity of American science and engineering hu­ man resources," said Pear­ career concentrating on his illiteracy. "If we are going for those subjects are going son. "When you have a research on human resource to be competitive as a na­ into MBA programs and serious decline like that, problems in science. As a tion," he said, "we're going other graduate fields. One particularly in the sciences, fellow in the Congressional to have to have people trained reason is that some students there is a serious problem think tank, the Office of extremely well. That means are put off by the quality in terms of the talent Technological Assessment, that kids are going to have of instruction in science. pool." and at the Educational Test­ to do more homework - Another is the extreme The gap is being filled ing Service in Princeton, effective homework, not competitiveness of graduate by foreign students. More N.J., Pearson and his col­ busywork. After all, that's work in science. than half of all graduate leagues have analyzed the what happens with some of In elementary education, engineering students now problems the United States our competitive trade part­ science is sometimes taught studying in the United faces in educating and ners. The kids get more in in a way that rums children States are foreign. training a labor force to school, more is required of away, he said. "Most kids The United States has compete in a new interna­ them, and they rise to the are interested in math and already lost major market tional economy. occasion to do more." science when they first go shares to international UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS

concerns, Pearson said. More than 90 percent of the microelectronics indus­ try used to be based in the United States, he said. Now the U.S. controls less than 10 percent of the industry. And, less technical industri­ al jobs now require more sophisticated skills. Quality circle training, for example, a team-oriented method used in the Japanese auto industry, requires workers to have good skills in writing, reading, and quantitative work, he said. However, American high schools are increasingly turning out students with sixth, seventh, or eighth-grade reading levels. "You are going to have a growing population of peo­ ple who will not be able to find employment," he said. "How can we attract more industry to provide more jobs, if we don't have the kind of people coming out of our schools who can do the work?" -Bernie Quigley

Willie Pearson: American youth face tough competition.

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MEDICINE

Researcher Working to Make a Difference on the 'Baby Level'

Within the Intensive and therefore, the number that might affect deliveries. "I have just always en­ Care Nursery of Brenner of infants who die in North The study is the largest joyed working with chil­ Children's Hospital lie in­ Carolina, is the goal of a nursing research grant ever dren," said Moore. "When fants so small they look like five-year, $1 million study received by a Bowman Gray I taught pediatrics - it was dolls. Looking at one nearly headed by Moore. Called faculty member, and it is called pediatrics then in­ brings tears to the eyes of " Reducing Low Birth Moore's latest attempt to stead of obstetrics-! Dr. Mary Lou Moore (MA Weight Through Intensive answer some of the ques­ thought, 'If we can make '7 1), who has devoted much Nursing Interventions," the tions surrounding pre-term some difference on the of her career to helping ba­ study attempts to deter­ labor and birth. Such ef­ baby level, we wouldn't bies avoid premature birth mine if regular telephone forts are one reason she was have problems later on.' " and its complications. contact with mothers-to-be named Nurse Researcher of In addition to conducting "Two-thirds to 80 percent during the third trimester the Year for 1990 by the the five-year study, Moore is of infant mortality is as­ can produce healthier ba­ N.C. Nurses Association. a member of Bowman sociated with prematurity," bies born closer to term. Moore knew she wanted Gray's ethics committee. said Moore, who is a The study involves contact to work with children when With Professor Judith Kay research assistant professor with 750 patients who have she enrolled in nursing of Wake Forest's Depart­ of obstetrics and gynecology been identified as being at school at the Medical Col­ ment of Religion, she is at Wake Forest's Bowman risk for pre-term babies at lege of Virginia in Rich­ conducting a program Gray School of Medicine. Winston-Salem's Reynolds mond. She earned the M.A. called "Ethical Dilemmas in "If you are going to make Health Center. Four nurses degree from Wake Forest Community Health." Under any change with infant working under Moore's and the Ph.D. from the another grant, she is coor­ mortality, you have to make direction have begun calling University of North Caroli­ dinating a national panel a change with prematurity." the women four times each na at Greensboro. She identifying programs suc­ Reducing the numbers of week to discuss nutrition, joined the Bowman Gray cessful in making prenatal babies born prematurely, support, and other factors faculty in 1983. care accessible. Although the low birth weight study involves more than four years of informa­ tion gathering, Moore is al­ ready exploring ways to use telephone contacts over the first two years of life. "To me, research is trying to figure out answers to questions," she said. "My main reason for going back and getting a doctorate was to learn some of the hows and to get some of the an­ swers to some of these questions surrounding prenatal care. Long after you are on the scene, some of the answers you've found can make a difference." -Wlyne Thompson

Mary Lou Moore: Fighting the battle against premature birth

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LAW ._. .-

Marion Benfield Is Named To Distinguished Chair

Marion W. Benfield Jr. He first practiced private­ (LL.B '59), a national ly in Hickory, N .C., and authority on commercial then taught at the Universi­ law, has been named to the ty of Georgia and Case­ first Wake Forest Distin­ Western Reserve University. guished Chair in Law. ''I'm pleased to be at Benfield had taught at Wake Forest," said Benfield. the University of Illinois "The law school and the since 1966, where he was an University are riding a wave. associate dean for five years. I think we have the oppor­ He held the Albert E. Jen­ tunity to get a lot of en­ ner Jr. Chair at Illinois. While thusiasm here for making a there, he was a visiting pro­ good law school even better fessor at Duke, New York in the years ahead. It's a University, and the Univer­ pleasure and an honor to sities of Texas, Houston, and be a part of that." North Carolina. In 1985 Benfield serves on several and 1986 he taught interna­ committees of the National tional finance and Ameri­ Conference of Commission­ can contract law at Peking ers on Uniform State Laws. University and Shenzhen He drafted the Uniform University in China. Land Transactions Act, the ''When I was in China Uniform Simplification of the university people were Land Transfers Act, and the very optimistic that the Uniform Condominium "When I was in China the university government would become Act. more liberal in allowing He is a member of the people were very optimistic that the freedom of expression, free­ permanent editorial board dom of thought," he said. of the Uniform Commercial government would become more liberal "The general attitude of Code, the American Law in allowing freedom of expression, free­ people was that nothing Institute, and the Joint like the Cultural Revolution Editorial Board for the Uni­ dom of thought. '' could ever occur again be­ form Land Acts. cause the memories were -Marion Benfield too fresh and too painful. I don't think they would have anticipated anything like Tiananmen Square." Benfield is a prolific writer with four books on commercial law and many articles to his credit. He received a law degree from Wake Forest in 1959, then earned a master of laws from the University of Michigan.

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Grant Presented, Faculty Honored At Founders' Day Convocation

Faculty support and stu­ Six Reynolda Campus dent aid will be the bene­ faculty members were hon­ ficiaries of a multimillion ored during the convocation. dollar grant from the Z. Antonio Vitti, assistant Smith Reynolds Foundation. professor of Romance lan­ The gift was announced guages (Italian), received the during Founders' Day Con­ Reid-Doyle Prize for Excel­ vocation on Feb. 7. lence in Teaching. Dean of The three-part gift pro­ the College Tom Mullen said that students described Professors Mark Welker (left) and Byron Wells vides $2 million for minori­ ty scholarships which will Vitti as "energetic, demand­ be renamed in honor of ing, humorous, open and Joseph G. Gordon, associate helpful, and even, cool." professor emeritus of radiol­ They cited his willingness ogy at the Bowman Gray to spend time with his stu­ School of Medicine and a dents and to help those in member of the Foundation's need of extra attention. board. The grant also adds Michael Berry, associate $500,000 to the Nancy Su­ professor of health and sport san Reynolds Scholarship science, was awarded the program and provides Sears Roebuck Foundation $250,000 annually in per­ Distinguished Teacher Award. petuity to strengthen un­ "He is the kind of teacher dergraduate teaching and who his students say makes research. difficult concepts easy to "This three-part grant not understand," said Mullen. President Thomas K. Hearn (left) c ongratulates Dr. joseph only reflects the historically Co-winners of the Award G. Go rdon. strong relationship between for Excellence in Research the Foundation and Wake were Byron Wells, associate Forest, but also is a testimo­ professor of Romance lan­ ny to the particular interest guages (French), and Mark the Foundation has in the Welker, assistant professor of University," said Foundation chemistry. board member Hubert Hum­ James P. Barefield, profes­ phrey Jr., a former trustee. sor of history, received the The convocation opened Omicron Delta Kappa "The Minds of the South Award for Contribution to Symposium" held on campus Srudent Life. The award is Feb. 7-12 . Paul Escott, Rey­ presented annually ro the nolds Professor of History faculty member deemed and coordinator of the sym­ most active in bridging the posium, gave the convoca­ gap between classes and sru­ tion address after the dem life. scheduled speaker, New "This year's recipient, Medallion of Men't winner Weston P Hatfield ('41) (left) York Times columnist Tom although not noted for his and Provost David Brown Wicker, was forced to cancel athletic prowess, regularly because of illness. plays Frisbee with his stu- 22 dents, and he does this not on one, but on two conti­ nents," said Associate Dean of the College Billy Hamil­ ton. Generations of students have turned to Barefield for everything from simple criti­ cism of creative writing to advice on graduate study. Barefield also was recog­ nized for his contributions to the creation of the lower division advising program, his stewardship to the inter­ disciplinary honors program, and his work with the Venice program. Peter Peacock, associate professor of management and director of the Evening MBA Program, received the Sara Lee Excellence Award. The award recognizes excel­ lence in teaching, research, and service to the Babcock Graduate School of Man­ agement. Attorney Weston P. Hat­ field ('41), an alumnus former trustee, and former trustee chairman, received the Medallion of Merit, the University's highest honor. "He has been a true exam­ ple of our heritage, and of our promise," said Hearn.

Clockwise from top: Antonio Vitti (left) is con­ gratulated by Dean Thomas Mullen; Peter Peacock (left) and Dean john McKinnon; james Barefield (left) receives his award from Dean Bzily Hamilton; Michael Berry (nght) is con­ gratulated by Capital Cam ­ pazgn Director Bob Mills ('71, MBA '80)

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"We've Come a Long Way, Baby, But We Ain't Home Yet"

"We've come a long w ay, "Today is not just baby, but we ain't home another day," he said. " It is yet." a d ay ro refl ect, ro abhor So Edward R ey nolds ('64), violence, ro work for justice, Wake Forest's first African­ for social be tterment, for a American graduate, de­ better way of life for all scribed the progress of the people," he said. "It is a civil rights movement in day to work fo r Dr. King America. Reynolds spoke in and the thin gs he stood Wait Chapel at a service for." commemorating the birth­ African-Americans have day of slain civil rights leader come a long wa y, Reynolds Martin Luther King Jr. said, b ecause they will no Reynolds, a native of long er accept the inferior Ghana who came to Wake position to which society Forest in 1962, is a teacher has consigned them. But and researcher at the Uni­ they are "not home yet," versity of San Diego, where because too many African­ he a member of the city Americans have become vic­ planning commission. He is tims of violence or are not also a minister, having re­ getting an education. ceived the master of divini­ African-Americans today ty degree from Yale D ivin i­ hold white Americans ty School. He holds the responsible for the ills of M.A. from Ohio Un ive rsi ty, slavery, he said, and they and a Ph.D. from the Lon­ realize they, not whites, will don University School of be responsible for their own African and Oriental Studies. liberation. ''We are sick and tired of being oppressed, we are sick and tired of being exploit­ ed, we are sick and tired of ''African -A meri­ being excluded, we are sick Edward Reynolds spoke in Wait Chapel on jan. 21 . and tired of being stigma­ cans must come tized, we are sick and tired, work and against daily self­ stop waiting for handouts and period," he said. abuse and destruction. "We undercutting each other together to put King fought the sources need an agenda of things for economic power." their differences of poverty, discrimination, we must do for ourselves," Reynolds cited the leader­ injustice, and war, Reynolds he said. ship and conviction of Mar­ aside - to ad­ said, and he knew that the "African-American or­ tin Luther King Jr. , quoting changes he sought would gaDlzauons must come lyrics from a song, "This dress drugs, probably not take place in together ro put their differ­ little light of mine, I'm cnme, health his lifetime. What Mrican­ ences aside-to address going ro let it shine." Americans need, Reynolds drugs, crime, health care. "King did not hide his care.'' said, is an a genda: an agen­ We must view the problems light under a bushel," Rey­ da for the family, for educa­ realistically and attack them. nolds said. " It rook courage tional opportunities and We need the African-Ameri­ ro lead that movement. It against drugs, for legislative can 'connection.' We must rook courage to follow."

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Ptaszynski, British Executive Visits Baker Are Babcock School Promoted Bryan RJ. Wakeham, for International Studies chairman of the london in­ made possible through the Robert T. Baker has been surance brokerage firm, Flow family of Winston­ promoted to assistant vice Jeffreys Coates and Associ­ Salem. The institute is president and director of ates Ltd. , has been named designed to develop among development on the Rey­ the first Flow International students a better understand­ nolda Campus. He will Executive-in-Residence at ing of other countries' eco­ Robert T. Baker direct and supervise the the Babcock Graduate ies and businesses, with areas of foundation rela­ School of Management. emphasis on the Pacific Rim. tions, law school alumni, Wakeham spent about Wakeham, 61, started his Babcock school alumni, es­ two weeks at Wake Forest in insurance career in 1943 tate planning and prospect February and delivered lec­ when he joined a family­ research, and divinity tures, participated in class­ owned Lloyd's of london school development. es, and met with students brokerage firm, Bain Dawes. Baker, who joined the and faculty members. From 1947 to 1949, he administration in 1978, "With the globalization served in the Life Guards, most recently served as of the U.S. economy, it is which is part of the Royal director of development. highly appropriate that our Household Calvary. In 1956 Before that he was assistant first executive-in-residence he became the youngest as­ director of development for was Bryan Wakeham," said sistant vice president in the corporate relations and james G. Ptaszynski Babcock Dean John B. history of Bain Dawes. In director of corporate re­ McKinnon. "He has in­ 1979, he was appointed lations. staff, administration, and sights into the coming con­ managing director of Leslie Before coming to Wake non-academic affairs. solidation of the common and Godwin, another Forest, Baker was director Ptaszynski joined the market starting in 1992 and Lloyd's of london of annual programs at Ge­ Babcock school staff in to total world insurance and brokerage. orge Peabody College for 1985 . He holds the B.A. in shipping transportation in­ He is past chairman of Teachers of Vanderbilt psychology and a Ph.D. in dustries." World Marine and General, University. He holds organizational development The Flow executive-in­ and he is a member of the bachelor's and master's from the University of residence program is part of Wake Forest MBA's board of degrees from Vanderbilt. North Carolina at Chapel the school's Flow Institute VlSltOrS. James G. Ptaszynski has Hill; and an M.S. in coun­ been promoted to associate seling psychology from dean of the Babcock Grad­ Shippensburg University. uate School of Manage­ ment. He was formerly New Trustees Elected; Calloway Is Chairman director of admissions and financial aid. Ptaszynski succeeds Paul D. Wayne Calloway ('59), Deposit Insurance Corp., Winston-Salem; James W. Dierks, professor of president and chief execu­ was elected vice chairman. Johnston of Winston-Salem; management, who resigned tive officer of PepsiCo, Inc., New trustees elected to Petro Kulynych of Wilkes­ to return to full-time is the new chairman of the four-year terms are: Murray boro, N.C.; John G. Medlin teaching. As associate dean, Wake Forest Board of C. Greason Jr. ('59, JD (LLD '90) of Winston­ Ptaszynski will direct plan­ Trustees. He succeeds '62), of Winston-Salem; Salem; Frances S. Pugh of ning, full-time admissions Weston P. Hatfield ('41), Deborah S. Harris of Raleigh; William B. Sansom and financial aid, budget­ who chaired the board for Charlotte; Harvey R. Hold­ of Knoxville, Tenn.; and K. ing and financial control, three years. C.C. Hope ing of Atlanta; Lawrence D. Wayne Smith ('60) of Dub­ computer facilities and (' 4 3), director of the Federal Hopkins ('72, MD '77) of lin, Ohio.

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Preparing for a Semester in Japan

Beginning in September, They will take classes at the 15 Wake Forest undergrad­ Shonan campus and partici­ uates will learn the Japanese pate in activities there. The language and culture first group will live in nearby hand. They will travel to apartments. Michael Hazen, Japan to study at Tokai Uni­ associate professor of speech versity for the fall semester. communication and theatre Eight students from Tokai arts, will acompany the group. will arrive at Wake Forest in Hazen, who has been to January 1992 in the first Japan on two occasions, said annual exchange of under­ the semester abroad will graduates between the two consist of 16 credits. Ten universities. The exchange will be in the Japanese lan­ program broadens Wake guage and will be equiva­ Forest's relationship with lent to two courses. Tokai University. The Bow­ Initially, one course will man Gray School of Medi­ be on Japanese cui ture, cine hosted a Japanese taught in English by a medical student last fall Japanese professor. Hazen and plans to send one or will teach a course in cross­ two students to Tokai later cultural communication. this year. " It will teach you how to Wake Forest Provost transmit ideas and look at David Brown said the ex­ the basic cultural images," change is of importance to said Hazen. The course will Wake Forest because of its also look at various cultural opportunities and high signals that both cultures educational value. practice and interpret "A semester in Japan, led differently. by a professor with a cluster Before arriving at Tokai, of exceptional students, is Wake Forest students will what educational researchers spend two weeks near Kyoto now say is the best way to becoming acclimated to structure education," said Japanese culture. Brown. "We have found it "They will live in private successful in Venice and homes in Sonobe, a beauti­ Michael Hazen wzll teach cross-cultural communication. London, and now we have a ful agrarian area," said John chance to repeat that suc­ Anderson, vice president for cess in Tokyo." administration and plan­ January 1992, they will live taking regular classes at Brown said students will ning, who traveled to Japan in group accommodations Wake Forest. Richard Sears, have many contacts with with Brown to finalize the at a Wake Forest-owned director of international leaders of Japanese society, exchange. "They'll be in­ house on Polo Road next studies, said the students industry, education and structed in calligraphy, door to the University's will be given special courses government. meditation, Japanese Russian House. Their on campus in American Students selected to cooking, customs and lan­ faculty adviser will live in studies and in English as a study in Japan will be guage while staying with an adjacent house. second language. The Tokai required to have at least their host families." The language barrier will students also will attend one year of Japanese lan­ When Japanese students prevent the first group of lectures and participate in guage study, Brown said. come to Winston-Salem in Japanese students from campus acnv1ues.

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Application Rate Increases, As Does Tuition

Wake Forest's Board of plications during the past higher faculty compensa­ cost when compared with Trustees heard reports on 10 years. tion, and anticipated infla­ our peer group." undergraduate admissions The board voted to in­ tion of around 6 percent Wake Forest is in the top levels, installed new mem­ crease tuition and fees for were the major factors in 20 percent of the American bers, and voted to increase all units of the university the tuition increment, said Association of University tmuon at Its wmter meet­ next year. Those include the President Thomas K. Hearn. Professors category II -A ing held Jan. 31-Feb. 1. undergraduate college, the Other causes include ex­ rankings. The University's admis­ Graduate School, the Bow­ pected higher utility costs, Student aid will reach an . . . sions office told the board man Gray School of Medi­ msurance premmms, main- all-time high in the 1991-92 that applications for the fall cine, the School of Law, tenance of new buildings, academic year. The Univer­ 1991 freshman class remain and the Babcock Graduate and new academic programs. sity's need-blind admissions at high levels at a time School of Management. "While everyone recog­ policy-admitting students when most colleges are ex­ Undergraduates will pay nizes that any increase is based only academic ability periencing a significant tuition and fees of $10,800 unwelcome, Wake Forest re­ and providing financial aid decrease. The application in 1991-92, an 11.3 percent mains a good value in pri­ to all who demonstrate rate has increased some­ increase over this year's vate higher education," need-continues. what, compared with a year $9,700. On-campus housing Hearn said. "Last year's Hearn added that stu­ ago. Last year, around 5,300 rates will also increase, by figures show that Wake dents still will pay only students applied for 850 approximately five percent. Forest provides a top educa­ around 70 percent of the places. Wake Forest enjoyed An expected 18 percent tion at a relatively low cost. actual cost of tuition. a 66 percent increase in ap- increase in student aid, We are near the bottom in

Rhodes Scholar Is On to Oxford

Robert]. Esther, a senior Wake Forest have carried history major who wants to him to Venice and to Lon­ become a doctor, has been don, where he read the selected as a Rhodes Scho­ memoirs of 30 doctors be­ lar. He becomes Wake fore deciding to write his Forest's fourth student to honors thesis on Dr. Ed­ win the honor in the last ward Berdoe. Although SlX years. much of his undergraduate Esther, whose home is St. study has been in English Louis, Mo., told the inter­ literature and history, Esther viewing committee that he has done research at the thought he would get a Bowman Gray School of better perspective on people Medicine, studying heart by majoring in history. "I disease in pigeons and how think it will make me a human blood platelets clot. better doctor," he said. Esther, who came to The Rhodes Scholarship Wake Forest on a Reynolds pays for two years of study Scholarship, is a former in­ at Oxford University; Esther tern for The W'a/1 Street plans to earn a second journal and spent part of bachelor's degree there in last summer working for the modern history. Arthritis Foundation in Bob Esther plans to study medicine. Esther's history studies at Atlanta.

27 BO OK REV I EW

Autobiography As a Creative Form

Order Out of Chaos: The Autobiographical Works of Maya Angelou. Dolly A. McPherson. Peter Lang Publishing Co. New York. 1990.

rofessor Dolly McPherson considers P Maya Angelou's five autobiographical volumes individually and also places them as a totality in the context of American, and specifically African-Ameri­ ''Dr. McPherson can, autobiography. Mc­ has succeeded in a Pherson is interested in au­ tobiography as a genre with Dolly McPherson, associate professor of English perzlous under­ its own conventions and as taking, evaluating a creative form that "de­ vival strategies" in modern Maya Angelou is so beloved the work of an fines and redefines" the self America. There is virtually a member. In the depth, on its spiritual journey no precedent for the sensitivity, and maturity of author who is also through time and space. honesty with which she this critique, this book is a a beloved frz'end. '' The time covered by the describes adult female ex­ testimony that friendship volumes - the Depression penence. can be capacious enough to through the '70s - has As McPherson shows, embrace intellectual chal­ been crucial in the evolu­ characteristic images repeat lenge as well as affection. tion of minority political throughout the five volumes Small wonder that Order rights, and McPherson - rebirth, the journey, Out of Chaos has been shows how Angelou's work reconciliation - always nominated for the 1991 traces her own personal moving from the "chaos" John Hope Franklin Award, politicization. The space of confusion and pain given each year for the best ranges from small town toward the greater "order'' book in American Studies. Stamps, Arkansas, to of the integrated self, hence Eastern Europe to Harlem the title of this study. These Editor's note: This review to Ghana, where, as images capture the essential was written by Nancy Cot­ McPherson points out, An­ qualities of this autobio­ ton, professor of English gelou departs from the graphical voice, an ever­ and Acting Dean of the traditional focus of African­ renewing innocence and in­ Graduate School of Arts American autobiography to creasing empathy for all hu­ and Sciences. consider the United States mankind. from outside, as an expatri­ McPherson has succeeded ate examining her historical in a perilous undertaking, identity in terms of the evaluating the work of an African diaspora. author who is also a be­ This study also considers loved friend. In this under­ Angelou's contribution to taking, she represents us all our understanding of wom­ as members of the Wake en and their "range of sur- Forest community, of which

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WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

Trustees Pledge $18 Million RIUM

ake Forest trustees have contributed W more than $18 mil­ lion toward the Heritage and Promise campaign. The amount surpasses the entire goal of the last Reynolda Campus' capital campaign, the Sesquicentennial Cam­ paign, which sought $17 .5 million in 1980-84. The Heritage and Promise cam­ paign has a goal of $150 million to be raised be­ tween now and 1995. Left to right: Walter Pugh, Watson Pugh, Frances Pugh, Fred Pugh, Holly Pugh j o hnson Outgoing trustee chair­ man Weston P. Hatfield (' 41) announced the totals Pugh Family Names Film Auditorium at the Board of Trustees' meeting last Oct. 5. The ne of the more recent ditorium in memory of Mr. Bowman Gray School of gifts of 52 current, recent, gifts to the Benson and Mrs. Hollis W. Plimp­ Medicine and is practicing . . . or mcommg trustees are m- mUniversity Center was ton and Eric W. Pugh. in High Point. cluded. $300,000 from Watson and The gift was their second The Pughs' youngest son, The generosity of the Frances Pugh of Raleigh, to support a new building Walter, is a senior at Wake trustees has resulted in $2 .1 N.C., who named the au­ at Wake Forest. In 1982, Forest this year. Their oldest million for 17 new or en­ ditorium. they named the Choral Re­ son, Vernon , will begin a larged scholarship programs; The 285-seat Pugh Au­ cital Hall in the Scales Fine residency in radiology at $2.3 million in seven grants ditorium is on the second Arts Center in memory of Bowman Gray this spring. for chairs or professorships; level of the center and is Frieda Gerth Wheatley. Watson Pugh is a pedi­ $6.9 million for 11 endowed the new home for the Stu­ The Pughs' support of atrician who has practiced additions to programs and dent Union's film series. Wake Forest began when in Raleigh for 30 years. operating support; $6 mil­ Because of its size and ac­ their daughter, Holly Pugh Frances Pugh manages the lion in 20 grants to the cessibility, the auditorium Johnson ('82), was a student family's Tara Farm, where building program; and will also be a popular site at Wake Forest. Johnson re­ Morgan horses are bred. She $621,000 in undesignated for lectures and entertain­ cently completed a residen­ is a member of the Wake support. ers. The Pughs gave the au- cy in ophthalmology at Forest Board of Trustees. ALUMNI REPORT

Benson Pledges $500,000 To Support Divinity School to lans for a divinity I first heard about it a few mates it will cost $600,000 gift will inspire others school at Wake years ago," Benson said. to start the school and $1 follow his example." of the llForest have received "Having completed my million a year to operate it. Benson, a member Church in a boost with the announce­ other obligations to the Fund raising for the di­ Bay Leaf Baptist graduated from ment of the largest gift ever University, I now am able vinity school is included in Raleigh, was Forest in 1964. "I to the proposed school. to help with this special the University's capital cam­ Wake all we Trustee Clifton L. Benson project." paign. Hen.tage and Prom­ fully believe that - time, money, talent, Jr. ('64) has announced a "This new program at ise: The Campaign For 'Wake have - comes $500,000 pledge. Benson, Wake Forest needs support Forest seeks to raise $150 energy, everything God," Benson chairman of Benson Diversi­ and encouragement," he million between now and as a gift of we will fied Ventures in Raleigh, added. "My family and I 1995 for endowment and said. "Although God and his family gave $1 mil­ saw helping the divinity operations for all areas of never be able to pay blessings, lion to Wake Forest in 1986 school as the next thing we the University. back for all our the for a student center. The could do for the University. "We are sincerely grateful everyone of us can help Clifton L. Benson University The Wake Forest Board of to Cliff Benson for this cause of Christ by using Center, named after his Trustees approved the estab­ wonderful gift," President what God has given us." father, opened in Septem­ lishment of a divinity Thomas K. Hearn said. The divinity school would a ber. Benson has also estab­ school in April 1989, con­ "He and his family have initially enroll 45 students lished a professorship in the tingent upon sufficient meant so much to us over year for a total enrollment School of Business and Ac­ financial support. Before the years. Now, thanks to of 13 5 by the third year. countancy and made major the Benson gift, more than his help, we have added a gifts for athletic facilities. $1 million had been raised strong cornerstone to the "I have been interested in gifts and pledges for the foundation of our new di­ in the divinity school since school. Wake Forest esti- vinity school. I am sure his Campus Campaign Begins

~ ake Forest faculty and Deborah L. Best, profes­ ~ staff supported the sor of psychology and chair­ Hentage and Promise woman of the campus cam­ campaign with a successful paign, said that the cam­ campus drive in November. paign is an easy one for The campus campaign ef­ faculty and staff to support. fort involved 200 volunteers ''The goals speak for who attempted to contact themselves," she said. "The all 1,200 employees on the priorities of the campaign Reynolda campus and 200 are to improve the Wake retired employees. Results of Forest experience for both the drive will be announced faculty and students. We soon. wanted to have a high par­ The campus drive began ticipation rate to demon­ with a celebration on the strate that we believe in the Benson University Center campaign," Best added. terrace on Nov. 1. Several "Potential donors outside hundred faculty and staff the University will want to turned out to enjoy food know if the people closest and entertainment by stu­ to Wake Forest support the dents, faculty, and staff at campaign and its goals." Associate Dean of the College BzJ/y Hamilton performs the day-long event. ALUMNI REPORT

The President's Associates: Reestablishing a Commitment lumni under 30 who wish to reaffirm A their relationship with Wake Forest now have a gift club exclusively for themselves. The President's Associates recognizes more than just another level of giving; it recognizes a long­ term commitment to the University by the alumni who know it best. Jeff ('85) and Sue Ahrens ('85) Covington were the first to acknowledge the sig­ nificance of the President's Associates. As charter mem­ bers, they liked the idea of "getting the ball rolling for other young alumni." "We have not been away from Wake Forest all that long, but already we were jeff (left) a nd Sue Ahrens Covington beginning to feel somewhat detached," Sue said. "The time to recruit, they were noted, " between the differ­ received and the satisfying President's Associates pro­ ready to make a different ent contributions Sue and I collegiate experience they vided us with a way of re­ kind of commitment to made throughout the year, enjoyed, Jeff and Sue's newing our relationship Wake Forest. we were almost giving an membership in The Presi­ with our alma mater." As President's Associates, equivalent amount." The dent's Associates was an ap­ As residents of Winston­ Jeff and Sue pledged to benefits, however, for mak­ propriate and attainable Salem since graduation, Jeff contribute $2 ,500 over a ing the single commitment next move for them. Young and Sue stayed in touch five year period payable at to the President's Associates alumni traditionally have with Wake Forest as much whatever schedule best suits are numerous. Like mem­ been slow to respond to the as time and busy work sched­ them. They may designate bers in the President's Club needs of their university, ules would allow. Right after half of their gift to a re­ and the Pro Humanitate and the Covingtons hope to graduation, Sue served as a stricted fund such as the Society, President's Associ­ reverse this trend by mak­ liaison between the cheer­ Deacon Club or professional ates will be invited to an ing the first commitment to leaders and their corporate school funds, but at least annual President's Associ­ a young alumni gift club. sponsor, Goody's. Jeff, a half of their gift will go to ates weekend on campus "So much recently has corporate lending officer at an annual fund such as The each winter. In addition, been brought to the fore­ NCNB, had returned to Wake College Fund. Since both the tax-deductible gift also front in giving to Wake Forest on occasion to recruit Jeff and Sue work for brings with it a gift ac­ Forest," noted Sue. "The seniors. Together they have matching gift companies, knowledging this leadership Benson Center, for example, volunteered on numerous their contribution will be level of support and the op­ represents the fruits of occasions as callers and co­ covered in large part by portunity to convert the generous giving. Just think chairmen for the College their employers. membership and gifts to a how much further we could Fund National Telethon. The President's Associates President's Club status at take Wake Forest if the With Sue now working at was a substantial but not anytime during the period. young alumni would begin RJR Nabisco, Inc. in mar­ overwhelming commitment In recognition of the to take an active role." keting and Jeff having little for the Covingtons. As Jeff quality education they ALUMNI REPORT

Report From the Council President

The Alumni Council's winter meeting was niche in the ACC: to teach the value of held on Feb. 15-16. Gene Corrigan, com­ academics with athletics. missioner of the Atlantic Coast Confer­ ence and keynote speaker for the meeting, Others reporting on Wake Forest athletics addressed national athletic reform. Wake were Becky Ward, assistant to the athletic Forest has taken a leadership role in this director, who spoke on the complex task movement, and the Alumni Council was of complying with NCAA regulations, pleased to have this opportunity to be­ and John Goodridge, men's track/cross come better educated and more involved country coach, who reported on the out­ in this very important issue. standing athletic and academic success of his track/cross country team. As I reported in my last column, the Alumni Council is proud to welcome 18 Doug Bland (' 7 3), director of academic .. new members (see listing of new mem­ support services, and Mike Pratapas ('85 ), bers). Their "initiation" took place in academic support services officer, presented A. Doyle Early Jr. C213 Tribble on the Thursday before an overview of the academic assistance ('64, ]D '67) Homecoming weekend. For those of you program for student-athletes. High Point, North Carolina who have forgotten, C213 Tribble is Ed Wilson's classroom, and true to form, Dr. The four Alumni Council committees also Wilson walked in right on time to update met during the fall meeting. The Fund the new members on a bit of Romantic Raising Committee, Admissions and Stu­ poetry as well as recent events at Wake dent Activities Committee, and Clubs and Forest. After "class," the new members Communications Committee all had pro­ were invited to dinner at the home of ducti~e sessions, with students and ad­ President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. ministrators present at many. The Nomi­ nations Committee had a particularly The fall meeting also served as the kick­ significant session as they established new off for the 1990-91 Alumni Council study guidelines for soliciting nominations for of issues related to student-athletes. Dr. Alumni Council membership. A variety of Hearn, the most senior of the ACC presi­ methods for broadening the sources of dents and member of the Knight Com­ nominations were approved. Those in­ mission, Dr. G. Eugene Hooks ('50), terested in nominating alumni for con­ director of athletics, and Dr. Edwin G. sideration as members of next year's Wilson (' 43 ), vice president for special council should return the nomination projects, addressed the Council. form on the opposite page.

Hearn discussed his belief that questions The Alumni Council has a full and excit­ in intercollegiate athletics will ultimately ing agenda for the remainder of the be answered through government action if 1990-91 council year. If you have ques­ universities fail to institute their own re­ tions about the Council's objectives or ac­ forms. Hooks' remarks focused primarily tivities, please write to me in care of the on the historical development of the alumni office. I look forward to hearing ACC, concluding with reflections on the from you. recent addition of Florida State University to the conference. Hooks stated his belief that the addition of FSU to the ACC will broaden the ACC's impact in Florida, one Alumni Council of the largest television markets in the Wake Forest University country. Wilson concluded the session by Box 7227 Reynolda Station describing what he sees as Wake Forest's Winston-Salem, NC 27109

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WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY 1990-93 ALUMNI COUNCIL MEMBERS NOMINATIONS FOR THE North Carolina Newport News WAKE FOREST ALUMNI COUNCIL Asheville Michael Mulkey ('70) lou Bissette (' 6 5) If you or anyone you know is interested in serving on New York the Alumni Council, please fill out the following Winston-Salem New York City nomination form and mail it to Doyle Early Jr., Stephany Painter Alphin Margaret Hobbs Collins alumni council president, in care of the Alumni ('59) ('78) Office, Box 7227 Reynolda Station. If you have questions, please call Kay lord, director of Alumni Activities, at Greensboro Massachusetts 1-800-752-8568. Terry Brock Parrish ('66) Wayland Kassie Shotwell Kattwinkel NOMINATION MADE BY: Raleigh ('64) Jim Stone ('70) Name: ______Ernie Simons ('67, JD '71) Washington, D.C. Bobby Burchfield ('76) Class: ______Lexington Steve Coles ('77, JD '80) Pennsylvania Address: ------Philadelphia South Carolina Jane louise Goforth ('78) City: ------Greenville Rick Sumerel ('72) Illinois State/Zip: ------Chicago

Georgia Bill Straughan ('64, JD '72) Daytime Telephone Number: .2..( ____...... :):....______Atlanta Eli Galloway ('42) Connecticut I would like to nominate the following person: Stoney Creek Virginia Myra DeLapp Moffett Name: ______Roanoke ('73, JD '76) John Lambert ('67) Class: ------Ohio Cincinnati Richmond Address: ------Boyd Collier ('61) John Tew ('57, MD '61) City ------

State/Zip: ------

Daytime Telephone Number: ~( ____...... :):....______

Upon receipt of this nomination, notification will be sent to the nominee along with a request for additional information.

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Homecoming '91: It's Not Too Early to Make Plans

omecoming/Reunion '91 will take place mthe weekend of Nov. 8-10 . Already, planning has begun to make '91 a won­ derful year to come home to Wake Forest. As a time of sweet nostalgia and row­ dy good times, the tradi­ tions of Homecoming offer something for everyone. A highlight of every An­ niversary Reunion weekend is the presentation of a class gift to Wake Forest. Alumni from the classes celebrating their lOth, 25th, 30th, or 50th reunion have volun­ teered to organize major fund raising campaigns. As part of the drive to meet an overall Anniversary Reunion goal of $250,000 to the College Fund, committee members from the four classes are identifying challenge and lead gifts, participating in telethons, and personally contacting many members of their The HalfCentury Club celebrates Homecoming '86. respective classes. The chairs and their class goals are committee co-chair Gift Goal-$66,000 Attendance Goal-200 listed as follows: Howard Bullard, gifts com­ Donor Goal-66 percent of members of class returning mittee co-chair class contributing Other classes celebrating Class of 1941 Mary Gail Koontz Nesbit, Attendance Goal-166 reunions are 1946, 1951, Charles Cheek, chair activities committee chair members of class returning 1956, 1971, 1976, and 1986. Bill Flowe, activities com­ Gift Goal-$40,000 Volunteers from these class­ Class of 1981 mittee chair Donor Goal-56 percent of es will meet in February to discuss Homecoming/Re­ Gift Goal-$15,000 class contributing Lisa Patterson Lawrence,chair union '91 activities and to Shorty's Goal-$5,000 Attendance Goal-125 Patty Connelly Burgess, follow up on fund raising Donor Goal-55 percent of members of class returning gifts committee chair effons begun in the College class conuibucing Sara Johe Busse, activities Class of 1966 Fund Telethon held in the Attendance Goal-40 committee chair members of class returning fall. All gifts counted in Skip Gribble, chair Gift Goal-$25,000 the Anniversary Reunion President's Club Goal-10 Class of 1961 Pam Bain Davis, activities campaign are unrestricted co-chair new members and applied to the 1990-91 Donor Goal-46 percent of Charlie Chatham, chair Mary Nan Sweeny Moser, College Fund. Ashley Hagewood, gifts activities co-chair class contributing

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College Fund Surpasses Goal

he Wake Forest College Fund Na­ T ional Telethon raised $520,687 in unrestricted gifts during 21 nights from Oct. 21 through Nov. 20. The total surpassed the goal of $520,000 and marked the most successful drive in telethon history. The tele­ thon plays a vital role in the College Fund's achieve­ ment of its $1.5 million goal for the 1990-91 cam­ prugn year. The telethon was led by two alumni and four stu­ dent volunteers. Sheila Ful­ ton Fox ('68) and Susan Left to right: jerry Finley (MBA '79) , director of management consulting at N . C. Baptist Gunter ('86) served as the Hospital; Bob Mtlls ('71, MBA '80), assistant vice president and director of the capital College Fund National Tele­ campaign at Wake Forest; Kitty Green ('74, MBA '82) , president of Carolina Manufac­ thon co-chairmen and led turers Service; and Professor Bob Shively of the Babcock school keep the phones hot and the alumni volunteer re­ the pledge cards coming in. cruitment. Shannon Hefner ('91), Wendy Isil ('92), Charlie Kennedy ('92), and Babcock Telethon Raises Over $106,000 David Upchurch ('92) recruited student callers. olunteers raised Judi Wallace ('87 EX) supporting salaries for Over 500 volunteer callers V $106,636 for the chaired the telethon. Kitty members of the faculty and participated-the largest Wake Forest MBA Green ('74, MBA '82) financial aid for students. group ever for the annual program, surpassing a chairs the Babcock Alumni Seven new members joined fund drive. $100,000 goal, in the annu­ Council's Fund Raising the President's Club "Without Wake Forest al Babcock Fund Telethon. Committee. through their contributions alumni and students taking More than 760 Babcock The money raised will go to the Babcock school a personal interest in the alumni contributed during into the Babcock School's telethon. University and the College the Oct. 15-17 telethon. general operating fund, Fund, our telethon could not achieve the success it has over the last few years," said Jim Welsh ('87), direc­ tor of alumni and student programs. CLUBS

Faculty and Administration Will Visit Alumni Clubs

f you think you "Roads Scholars" will pro­ its $1.5 million goal for the Over 500 volunteer callers I know what a Wake vide an informative and 1990-91 campaign year. participated - the largest Forest club event is nostalgic return to the class­ The telethon was led by group ever for the annual all about, think again! The room and no pop quizzes! two alumni and four stu­ fund drive. Clubs Program is gearing Wake Forest athletics will dent volunteers. Sheila Ful­ up for an expanded agenda be well represented on the ton Fox ('68) and Susan to complement the upcom­ club circuit. Football Coach Gunter ('86) served as the ing capital campaign, Bill Dooley, Basketball College Fund National Tele­ Heritage and Promise. Coach Dave Odom, Golf thon co-chairmen and led Representatives from the Coach Jack Lewis, and Soc­ the alumni volunteer re­ University will be making cer Coach Walt Chyzowych cruitment. Shannon Hefner extended visits to communi­ are just a few of those who ('91), Wendy Isil ('92), ties nationwide to update will share with alumni their Charlie Kennedy ('92), and alumni, parents, and recruiting stories and locker David Upchurch ('92) re­ friends on the exciting new room secrets. cruited student callers. changes taking place on Under the leadership of campus. Ken Johnson ('68), national The model club program chairman of the Wake DR. HEARN'S 1991 CLUB SCHEDULE will include donor and Forest Clubs Program, club volunteer receptions, club events are setting records January 17 San Francisco, California events featuring professors, for attendance and volun­ February 19 Jacksonville, Florida coaches, and administrators, teer participation. Over 140 February 27 Gastonia, North Carolina and young alumni events alumni, parents, and April 17 Washington, D.C. for those under 30. friends attended Raleigh (special event) President Thomas K. receptions coordinated by May 2 Asheville, North Carolina Hearn Jr. and Dr. Edwin G. Jim ('70) and Caroline May 9 Chicago, Illinois Wilson ('43), vice president Stone and Owi and Beth for special projects, will visit Parker Osterkamp ('85 ). Ge­ DR. WILSON'S 1991 CLUB SCHEDULE clubs around the country. orge ('71) and Mary Stuart Dr. Wilson speaks from a Brooks and Jody ('80, JD January 17 Fayetteville, North Carolina wealth of knowledge about '84) and Beth Jones ('83) January 24 Durham, North Carolina Wake Forest history, its peo­ Carpenter hosted events in January 29 Ahoskie, North Carolina ple, and its place among Charlotte while AI ('68) February 5 Atlanta, Georgia liberal arts universities. and Ginni Lineberry and February 12 High Point, North Carolina President Hearn will be up­ Harold ('77, JD '81) and February 19 Tampa, Florida dating alumni, parents, and Mary Jane Beavers hosted February 26 Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina friends on the changes at events in Greensboro. March 5 Roanoke, Virginia Wake Forest and on plans The Wake Forest College March 12 Boston, Massachusetts for the future. Fund National Telethon March 13 Baltimore, Maryland A new program called raised $520,687 from unres­ March 14 Richmond, Virginia "Roads Scholars" will tricted gifts during 21 March 19 Martinsville, Virginia present Wake Forest faculty nights from Oct. 21 April 8 Columbia, South Carolina to a wider audience than through Nov. 20. This year's April 9 Charleston, South Carolina ever before. Members of the total surpassed the goal of April 24 Lumberton/Laurinburg, North Carolina faculty will conduct infor­ $520,000 and marked the April 25 Wilmington, North Carolina mal classroom discussions most successful drive in tel­ May 29 Birmingham, Alabama on topics such as modern ethon history. The telethon May 30 Orlando, Florida art or economic theory at plays a viral role in the Col­ June 4 Norfolk, Virginia 20 club events nationwide. lege Fund's achievement of

36 CLASSNOTES

assist Celanese Mexicana in starting the private practice of marital, fa­ control in the Mortgage Corpora· '20s and '30s up a nylon hosiery business. 0 mily therapy and hypnotherapy in tion Control Division. 0 Jan Gilmer C. Brande ('49) has been Absecon, NJ. He also teaches pan­ Mcinroy ('65) is the managing edr­ living in Reidsville, NC, since time at Rutgers-The State Universi­ tor of Texas Monthly magazine in Leon P. Spencer ('27) of Raleigh, retiring from the Reidsville city ty of New Jersey. In October, he Austin, TX. 0 Robert G . Moore NC, celebrated his 50th wedding schools. 0 Jackson S. Hoyle ('49) presented a workshop at the con­ ('65) is an insurance advisor for the anniversary this year as well as his is vice president for health services ference of the American Associa­ Virginia Farm Bureau Insurance second retirement as manager of with the Baptist Retirement Homes tion for Marriage and Family Co. in Prince George, VA, and is the Baptist Employees Credit Un­ of North Carolina, Inc. He is Therapy at Washington, DC. He vice chairman of the Hopewell ion. In 1974, he retired as comp­ based in Winston-Salem. 0 David also presented a paper in August (VA) School Board. 0 Peter Bugel troller of the N.C. Baptist State T. Singleton Jr. ('49) is retired in at a professional European Con­ ('66) is known to Las Vegas au­ Convention. 0 A . ). Hawes ('34) Hickory, NC, after 3 5 years as high gress held at the Universitat Kon­ diences for his vocal ensembles is retired and living in Buena Vis­ school principal. stanz in Germany. 0 James 0 . which have appeared in hotels as ta, VA . 0 Alex T. Wood ('34) lives Watson Jr. is director of parks and in Louisburg, NC. He retired in well as on the classical concert recreation for Fulton County, stage. He also has taken part in 1976 after 36 years as register of wife and Georgia. He lives with his special holiday programs at Con­ deeds for Franklin County, NC. 0 '50s two children in Atlanta. Ralph B. Blowe Sr. (MD '36) gregation Ner Tamid. 0 D. celebrated his 86th birthday with Stephen "Steve" Hall ('66), execu­ his three children, nine grandchil­ Basil M. Boyd Jr. ('50, MD ' 53) is tive director of Mission Bay dren and eight great grandchil­ president of the North Carolina , 60s Memorial Hospital in San D iego, dren. 0 William W. Staton {'38, Orthopaedic Association. He is an CA , received a Special Achieve­ JD '41) is a senior partner in rhe orthopaedic surgeon with the ment-Innovation Award from Epic law firm of Staton, Perkinson et al Miller Orthopaedic Clinic in Ellis L. Aycock ('61, JD '65) is a Healthcare Group for development in Sanford, NC. He is a member Charlotte. He is also team physi­ partner in the law firm of Patton, of an innovative incentive program. of the NC Senate and is serving cian for Davidson College and a Starnes, Thompson, Aycock & He also received a Special Ach ieve­ his 8th term as chairman of the consultant for sports medicine in Teele in Morganton, NC. He and ment Award in Marketing Excel ­ Senate Banking Committee. He is the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools. his family live on a ranch outside lence. 0 S. Nelson " Sandy" also chairman of the Southern A member of the North Carolina of town where they have registered Weeks ('66, JD '69) was named a Legislative Conference on Economic Sports Hall of Fame, he has served Texas Longhorn cattle and quarter partner in the Baltimore­ Growth, Commerce and Trade. 0 as a board member and is past horses. 0 James L. Martin ('61), Washington law firm of Frank, Altha S. Satterwhite ('39) is retired chairman. 0 Bill F. Hensley ('50) manager of Westvaco Worldwide, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman, in Avon Park, FL, but busy - was honored by the Society of has been elected a vice president and co-chairman of the firm 's Busi­ doing some writing for a local American Travel Writers with its of Wesrvaco Corporation in New ness Department. He also serves on newspaper and active in the Heart highest award; he was named a York City. 0 Ruth Winchester the firm's Management Commit­ of Highland Chorus of Sweet Marco Polo member. His company, Ware ('61, MA '81) is a PhD can­ tee. 0 Sarah Jenkins Beale ('67) is Adelines. Hensley Fontana, is based in didate in mass communications a history teacher at Greensboro Charlotte. 0 Jennings M. Agner (international photojournalism) at Technical Community College and ('51) is retired and enjoying a life the University of Tennessee, Knox­ has received the Excellence in , travel, and civic endeavors. ville. She works as a licensed clini­ Teaching Award . D James S. '40s of golf He and Jo K. Agner ('52) live in cal social worker at Overlook Knight III ('67) is a base dental Owensboro, KY. 0 Frederick Mental Health Center in Knox­ surgeon at Seymour Johnson AFB Paddison W. Preston ('43) is re­ "Fred" D. Malone ('52) is now ville. D David E. Williams ('63) is in Goldsboro, NC. 0 James E. tired and has moved to Bermuda working as VP and senior lending president of the NC Association of Snyder Jr. ('67, JD '70) is in the Village in Advance, NC. 0 Ber­ officer for the Thomasville Com­ CPAs and North Carolina's desig­ general practice of law in Lexing­ nard D. Keyser ('45) is in semi­ munity Bank in Thomasville, GA. nated rep to the Council of the ton, NC (Davidson County). D retirement in Buies Creek, NC, af­ He took early retirement from American Institute of CPAs. He is Viclci Morgan Curby ('68) is direc­ ter 31 years as a teacher in Camp­ Citjzens & Southern National a managing partner of Williams tor of the Learning Center at the bell University's Department of Bank of Florida in Ft. Lauderdale. Overman Pierce & Co. in Greens­ University of Missouri at Colum- Religion and Philosphy. He was 0 Benjamin C. Sutton Sr. ('56) is boro. He also has been appointed bia. She is also director of the honored at Campbell University's vice president of financial affajrs at to the Advisory Council of WFU's Ronald E. McNair Post-Bacca­ Homecoming in October as the Chowan College in Murfreesboro, School of Business and Accountan­ laureate Achievement Program at recipient of a distinguished alumni NC. 0 Thomas C. Webb ('57) re­ cy. 0 Nancy Cain Schmjtt ('64), the University. 0 Contrary to award. 0 Charles B. Summey tired at the end of June from the communications manager for the other reports, Sara Umstead Davis ('47) was honored as "Alumni of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Anchorage Field Division of the ('68) lives in Gulf Breeze, FL, with the Year" at Mars Hill College in School System after 32 years of U.S. Postal Service in Alaska, was her husband and two teenage chil­ October as part of the college's an­ service, incl uding 20 years as a awarded the Assistant Postmaster dren. D Donna G. Goings ('68) nual Homecoming celebration. He school principal. In July, he joined General's Communications Award has joined Colonnade Realty in is retired after spending most of Crowder Realty Company as a full­ for the Postal Service's Western Charlottesville, VA, as a senior his life in pastoral ministry. 0 C. time realtor in Winston-Salem. 0 Region. D Manrung L. Smith sales associate. 0 William C. K. Norville ('48) has retired from John E. Biggers ('58) is director of ('64), director of student services "Bill" Gordon ('68, MA '70) is the pastorate of Kenwood Pres­ the Geropsychiatry Unit at John for Garrett Community College in chair of the Department of Psy­ byterian Church in Baltimore, MD, Umstead Hospital in Butner, NC. Maryland, was certified as a profes­ chology at the University of New and has moved to Edinburg, VA. In November, he also was re­ sional counselor in Maryland and Mexico at Albuquerque. D 0 G. Parks Sherrill ('48) and his elected to a 4-year term as a Gran­ completed the Advanced Profes­ Elizabeth A. Roseberry ('68) wife, Mary, of Valdese, NC, have ville County commissioner. 0 sional Certificate in Curriculum finished her neonatology fellowship returned from Mexico City, Mexico, Harold Chakales ('55, MD '58), an and Instruction from the University in June, 1990, at the University of where he served as a volunteer orthopaedic surgeon, has complet­ of Maryland at College Park. D Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. with the International Executive ed a term as chairman of the Thomas H. Flatt ('65) is now She has joined a private group of Service Corps (IESC). A retired VP Board of Trustees of the Universiry senior VP of NCNB National Bank 15 neonatologists in orthern Vir­ of Leath McCarthy & Magnard, of Central Arkansas in Conway. D in Hickory, NC. He is also con­ ginia. She is living in the historic Inc., he was recruited by !ESC to William A. Miller Jr. ('58) is in troller and manager of mortgage village of Occoquan on the Occo- CLASSNOTES

Hoyle ('49) Willzams ('63) Weeks ('66) Hutchison ('73) Burgess ('80) Hood ('83) Hutcherson ('83) Dabbs ('84) quan River in Vir ginia. 0 Joe T. G. Criston Windham ('72, ]D '76) PhD in child development and fa­ partner in the Winston-Salem law Causby Jr. ('69) is an assistant is a partner in the law firm , Wom­ mily relations from North Carolina firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge princi pal at t he junior high school ble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice. He (Greensboro). 0 Doug Murray & Rice. He practices venture capi­ for Amer icans in Dhahran, Saudi practices litigation and environ­ ('77) is now pastOr at First Baptist tal and securities regulation and is Arabia, and has been close tO the mental law in WinstOn-Salem. 0 Church in Elizabeth City, NC. 0 chairman of the firm's Emerging tensions in the Persian Gulf. 0 Donald). Hutchison ('7 3) has Lesley G. Philpott ('77, ]D '83) is Business Group. 0 G. Cameron Kay Morgan ('69) is an assistant joined the Minneapolis, MN, office a partner in the Winston-Salem Kent ('79) is living in Redondo superintendent in instruction for of William M. Mercer Inc. as a office of Womble Carlyle San­ Beach, CA, and works as a screen­ the Winsron-Salem/ Forsyth County health care consultant. He will ad­ dridge & Rice. She practices writer. 0 Edward H. Stall Jr. ('79) schools. vise employers on how to evaluate primarily in the areas of corporate is director of Health Care Con­ and select health care coverage. 0 law and mergers and acquisitions. cepts, Inc., a full service healthcare James K. Phillips ('74, JD '77) is a 0 David E. Ratcliffe ('77) is senior consulting firm in Greenville, SC. ' 70s partner in the law firm of Womble VP of trust development for Sun Carlyle Sandridge & Rice. He prac­ Bank in Palm Beach and Broward tices anti-trust, trade regulation , Counties. Last year he was featured , 8 0 M. Stanley Whitley and Mary Jo and international law in the in Palm Beach 1//ustrated Magazine Whitley have moved to WinstOn­ WinstOn-Salem office. 0 Tom as one of the outstanding trust Salem . He has joined the Romance Brown ('7 5) is working as special bankers in South Florida. 0 Davis Marine Capt. Michael L. Abbott is language department at Wake assistant to the chancellor of the R. Ruark ('77) has been re-elected on duty with Training Squadron­ Forest and she is teaching in a pri­ North Carolina School of the Arrs to a four-year term as state's attor­ Two, Naval Air Station, Whiting vate school. 0 Danny "Dan" M. in Winston-Salem. 0 Joseph T. ney for Wicomico County in Field, Milton, FL. 0 F. David Bur­ Edwards ('71) is now"executive sales Liverman Jr. ('75 , MD '80) has Maryland. He lives in Salisbury, gess has been promoted tO presi­ director for major accounts/the been with Smithfield Family Medi­ MD. 0 Susan Satrom Kent ('78) is dent of the Ferguson Enterprises, Americas for Intergraph Corpora­ cine in Smithfield, NC, since an account executive with Com­ Inc. branch in Lexington, KY. 0 tion in Huntsville, AL. 0 George 1983. He is district IV directOr of puter Corporation of America in Charity Goodwin-Johansson is pur­ E. Gatzogiannis {'71) is enjoying the NC Academy Family Practice. Santa Monica, CA. 0 T. Stran suing her PhD in adult education earl y re tirement on the island of 0 Anne Murray ('7 5) moved back Summers ('78) is working in Wil­ at UNC-Chapel Hill and working Xal kis in Greece, sai ling around tO Winston-Salem in 1989 and had mington, DE, for Blue Cross Blue as a physical therapist for Pro­ the Mediterranean with his wife a daughter born the same year. Shield of Delaware as manager of Rehab, Inc. 0 Margaret). Hobson and two children. 0 Philip A. She is working as a psychologist at corporate taxes. 0 John R. Teel High received the PhD degree in May (MA '71) has been named the Whitaker Rehabilitation Center {'78) is international supervisor at economics from Texas A&M director of the Center for Alco­ of Forsyth Memorial Hospital. 0 rhe Southeastern Reservations University last August. She is holism, Substance Abuse and Ad­ Timothy Stare (MA '7 5) is back in Office of American Airlines in teaching in the economics depart­ dictions, a part of the psychiatry California where he is working as Cary, NC. 0 Annis Paschal West­ ment of Reading University, department of rhe University of an assistant investment manager at moreland ('78) is media manager Reading, Berkshire, England. She ew Mexico School of Medicine. World Savings and Loan in Oak­ for Coca-Cola Enterprises in Atlan­ and her husband live in London. May is a professor in the UNM land. 0 James H. Culbreth Jr. ta. 0 William R. Whitehurst ('78) 0 Robert H. Sasser lil (BS, JD De partment of Sociology. 0 Dr. ('76) has moved to Richmond, VA , has been named a partner in rhe '83) is a partner in the Winston­ Mary Lou Moore (MA '71), where he is with the law firm of WinstOn-Salem law firm of Wom­ Salem office of Womble Carlyle research assistant professor ar the McGuire, Woods, Bartle, and ble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice. He Sandridge & Rice. His specialty is Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Boothe. 0 R. E. "Pete" Harrison practices in rhe areas of employee civil litigation, including producrs was named Nurse Researcher of the (MBA '76) and Connie A. Harri­ retirement and welfare benefits liability and commercial and busi­ Year for 1990 by the orth Caroli­ son (MBA '82) live in Kuala Lum­ and executive compensation. 0 ness litigation. 0 Nancy B. Wolfe na Nurses Association. 0 Kathie pur, Malaysia, where he is vice Diane Cox Craver ('79) is mar­ (MBA) was one of 85 practitioners deNobriga ('72 , MA '74) is serving president-finance for R. ). Reynolds keting directOr for the Winston­ in the US to be elected to the as a panelist and sire reporter for Tobacco, Bangunan British­ Salem branch of Contract Data Public Relations Society's College rhe National Endowment for the American. She is busy with their Services, Inc. She lives with her of Fellows in recognition of her Art . She is also executive director two young children and as a volun­ husband and their two-year old distinguished service to the public of Alternate ROar in Atlanta. 0 teer at both church and school; daughter in Midway, just outside relations profession and ro the So­ Victoria Schliestett McCall ('72 ) is she is also a member of rhe Board of Winston-Salem. 0 David S. ciety. She is president of rhe Wolfe reaching full rime as a 3 rd grade of the International School of Kua­ Felman ('79) has rejoined rhe law Group, Inc. , a Winswn-Salem- reacher in Resurrection Christian la Lumpur. 0 Scott L. Lippmann firm of Glenn, Rasmussen , Fogarty, based management and PR consult­ chool in Charlotte. 0 Guy F. ('76) was promoted to the job of Merryday & Russo in Tampa, FL. ing firm ; she is also a lecturer in Fain Ill ('7 5) of ignal Mountain, financial director of rhe American 0 Robert N. Headley ('79) lives in public relations ar Appalachian TN, IS serving a three-year term on Boar & Yacht Council in Millers­ Lynchburg, VA , with his wife and Stare University in Boone, NC. the Board of Trustees for the ville, MD. He received a master's three children. He is in private Chananooga-Hamilron County degree in finance and information practice in medical oncology Medical ociery. He also was recer­ systems from Johns Hopkins with the Lynchburg Hematology­ tified as a diplomate of rhe Ameri - University in May. 0 Helen Purga­ Oncology Clinic, Inc. 0 Jeffrey C. an B oard of Famd Pra rice. 0 son Vaughan ('76) completed rhe Howland ('79) has been named a

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poration's retail and corporate cus­ , 8 1 tomers in the Metro Washington area. Ben V. Hodge is manager, indus­ trial contracts, for Goodwill Indus­ tries of Nonhwest NC in 1. 8 4 Winston-Salem. He is also chaplain (1st Iieut.) in the 7 30th Maintenance Battalion, C Army Allison Rosser Barnhill (BA, JD National Guard. D John Korzen '90) has joined the law firm of will be graduated from Wake Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Forest's School of Law in May and Hickman in Charlotte as an associ­ will clerk for a year for 4th Circuit ate. D David W. Dabbs is practic­ Judge Sam J. Ervin III in Morgan­ ing corporate law in the Charlotte ton, NC. D Patricia Vecellio office of Womble Carlyle San­ Rogers is adjunct assistant professor dridge & Rice . D Mark Erwin is in the biology depanment of Vir­ now a captain in the US Army ginia Poly. Tech. and SU in Blacks­ and a company commander in the burg, VA. D Gary K. Sue is a 82nd Airborne, stationed at Fort panner in the law fum Henson, Bragg , NC. During the first week Henson, Bayliss , and Sue in of the crisis in the Persian Gulf, Greensboro. D Judy Ginter Walker his regiment was deployed to Sau­ has been promoted to assistant di Arabia as part of Operation registrar at Wake Forest University. Desert Shield. 0 Joel A. Gentry has been practicing general dentist­ ry in High Point, NC, since he received the DDS degree from , 8 2 UNC-Chapel Hill. 0 Michael D. Hurst OD) is now a shareholder of House & Blanco, a 16-member law Catherine Korzen is a copy firm based in Winston-Salem. D manager for Sara Lee Direct (a di­ James C. Newsome Jr. is pastor vision of Sara Lee Corp.) in of Hope Moravian Church in Winston-Salem. Winston-Salem. D Jeffrey A. Tay­ lor (BA, JD ' 87) is chairman of the Gaston County (NC) Young '83 Republicans and served as the county coordinator for the success­ ful 1990 re-election of U.S. Rep. Susan Hockstetter Bridges is now Cass Ballenger. assistant principal of Warrenton Amidon Wins Literary Prize Junior High School in Warrenton, VA . D W. Kent Dickinson has 8 tephen Amidon ('81) won the British Arrs Council's joined the firm of Baker, Rakich, 1. s n Shipley & Politzer, Inc. in Berwyn, D.ll Bursary for the Short Story for 1990-91 . He was PA , as a consultant. D Phil B. Mary Hayes Bryant is a school psy­ the only winner selected for this year and may be the Harris Jr. is a VP at First Citizens chologist with the Darlington first American to win such an award. Bank in Wilmington, NC. He County School District in South Amidon was selected after submitting one published serves as a commercial loan officer Carolina. She lives in Florence . 0 story and one work-in-progress to a panel of judges. at the main office. D Bradford F. Tama A. Hendley is living in Hood has joined Martin Thomas, Memphis, TN, where she works as The monetary award makes possible the completion of Inc. (Providence, Rl) as senior ad­ a market development analyst at another book. vertising account executive. D International Paper Co. She has an In May of 1990, his first novel, Splitting the Atom, James P. Hutcherson (BA , JD '89) MBA degree from the Fuqua was published by Bloomsbury Publishing Co. in London. is an associate in the law firm of School of Business at Duke Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice University. 0 Tiffany Lee is cura­ It concerns an American businessman and his fractious son in Winston-Salem. His area of tor of education at St. John's as they try to come to terms with the accidental death practice is litigation. D Linda D. Museum of Art in Wilmington, of the businessman's other son. Reviews of the book have Jones is a postdoctoral fellow at NC. 0 Navy Lt. Cmdr. James W. been very favorable. A reviewer for Durrant's Literary Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Myers (MD) completed the Officer TN. She received the MA and Indoctrination School at the Naval Review (London) predicted that it will win a prize. PhD degrees in psychology from Education and Training Center in Bloomsbury also will publish Amidon's book of short Kent State. 0 Daniel W. Perry Newport, RI. 0 Sheila D. Smith­ stories, Subdivision, in February. Amidon has had QD) has a criminal defense prac­ Aimony has been promoted to numerous short stories, book reviews, and articles pub­ tice in Orlando, FL. He was elected bodily injury specialist with USAA as an Orange County court judge Insurance in San Antonio, TX. 0 lished in such British publications as the Financial in September '89 and took the M. Gray Styers Jr. has been named Times, the Independent on Sunday, the Listener, and bench in January 1991 . 0 Carroll an associate at the Raleigh office the Literary Review. D. Swenson is an investment of Petree Stockton & Robinson . 0 Amidon has been living in England since 1986. A officer with the Signet Bank in Bobby J. Touchton is serving as Vienna, VA . He manages invest­ pastor of the First Baptist Church full-rime writer, he is married to an actress, Caryl Casson, ments for Signet Investment Cor- in Big Stone Gap. VA . He also is and they have a two-year-old daughter. CLASSNOTES working on h is doctorate at t he Southern Baptist Theological Sem i­ nary in Louisville, K Y. 0 Navy Lt. Brian K. Washington OD ) was awarded the Navy Ac hieveme nt Medal for super ior performance of duty while stationed at Naval Air Station Cecil Field, Jacksonville, FL. Hurst OD '84) Styers ('85) Dunlap (MBA '86) Fitzgerald (JD '87) Horton OD '87)

' 86 Inc. in Hickory, NC. She was re­ Bremen, GA. He was graduated student at Mercer University School cently named a professional divi­ from the Cumberland School of of Medicine in Macon, GA. 0 sion co-chair for United Way. 0 Law of Samford University in May Kenneth E. Holbrook is a loan Khalil Abu-Sabu is enrolled at the Cynthia " Cindy" M. Bunch is as­ of 1990. 0 John C. Woods (MBA) analyst with Chase Manhattan University of California, Santa sistant edi tor at InrerVarsity Press is assistant VP for internal relecom­ Education Finance in Tampa, FL. Cruz, as a gra duate srudent in in the Ch icago area. She received munications and office systems 0 Robert "Rob" W. Hoysgaard Jr. chemical oceanography. He h as a the MA de gree in theology from technology for GTE's largest divi­ started work in January as an assis­ full scholarship with stipend from Northern Baptist Theological Semi­ sion in Dallas, TX. He is also one tant aviation broker with Alex­ the Deparrment of Marine nary last June. 0 Blaine M. Byers of 12 senior informacion technolo­ ander & Alexander, Aviation & Sciences. 0 Edward K. "Ted" is now VP of Geo. Byers Sons Inc. gy professionals named to the Ex­ Aerospace Division, in New York. Bilich was graduated from H arvard and general ma nager of Byers ecutive Advisory Council of Lotus He spenr last year in London in a Law School a nd is now living in Chevrolet in Columbus, OH. 0 Development Corp. training program to learn aviation Washington, D C, whe re he is an John E. Fitzgerald (BA , JD '90) is insurance and international insur­ associate with the law firm of an associate with Snavely Fi nancial ance broker functions. 0 Navy En­ Jones, D ay, R eavis & Pogue. 0 Group, an ins urance-based estate, sign Christopher A. Kurtz com­ 1 . 8 8 Irish Dunlap (MBA) h as been pension, business and personal pleted the Officer Indoctrination promoted to senior projects coordi­ planning company, in Winston­ School at the Naval Education and nator with Burroughs Wellcome Salem. He was admitted to the Tom Cassara has been named an Training Center i!J Newport, RI , in Co. in Research Triangle Park, NC. NC State Bar in August. 0 Beth Associate of the Society of Actu­ August. 0 Melissa A. Venable 0 J o hn F. Harris was one of 12 Hilbert, regional sales manager for aries, an international organization Willson was graduated in Novem­ srudents who received the William University Directories in Chapel based in Schaumburg, IL. He is an ber from the Adjutant General Michael Shermer Award at the Hill, received the Village Pride actuary with William M. Mercer in Officer Basic Course at Fort Benja­ D arden Graduate Sch ool of Busi­ award for excellence in her work Richmond, VA. 0 Marine 2nd Lt. min Harrison in Indianapolis, IN. ness Administration at the Univer­ on the basis of nominations by her Clifton C. Hamner is back in the sity of Virginia. He is completing colleagues. 0 Elizabeth Horton States after deploymenr to Okina­ the second year of the MBA pro­ OD) is an associate at the wa and Japan with the 2nd Banal­ ' 9 0 gram. 0 Angela Holum is wo rk­ Winston-Salem law office of Petree ion, 2nd Marine Regiment and ing in Atlanta ar rhe Emory Stockton & Robinson. D Sherri B. Division of Camp Lejeune, NC. 0 Un ive rsiry Cem er for Rehabilitarive Martin received the MA degree in John P. Hesford is on duty with Carrie M. Koontz QD) and Reed Med icine as a re habilitarion physi­ physical therapy at the University Training Squadron-Two, Naval Air W. Ramsay OD) have joined the cal rherap isr. 0 Rogan T. Kersh is of Southern California. She is work­ Station Whiting Field, Milton, FL. law firm of Allman Spry Hum­ in a 5-year d octoral program at ing as a staff therapist, specializing 0 lisa W. Speigh McKee is in her phreys Leggett & Howington in Yale. D Arthur W. Orr has been in amputees, at the Reading Re­ third year of medical school at Winston-Salem as associates. D se rving as a Peace Corps Volunreer habilitation Hospital in Reading, Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Patricia A. Schnably is sales in a remote Himalayan mountain PA. 0 Stephen A. Mayo is living 0 lisa Mountain is living in New manager for Macy's Northeast in village in eastern Nepal since Sep­ in Raleigh and working as a law York City where she works for Macy's Owings Mills, Md. tember 1989. He is a graduate of clerk to the Hon. Burley B. Mitch­ department store. She anended the University of Alabama's law ell Jr. on the Supreme Court of graduare school ar the Fashion In­ school a nd passed the Alabama North Carolina. He was graduated stitute of Technology. 0 Matthew bar examina tion. D Brian Perkin­ from the Washington & Lee J. Severance received the MBA and MARRIAGES son is now a s oftware systems de­ University School of Law in Lexing­ MHA degrees at the University of veloper ar SAS Instirute, Inc. in ton, VA , last May. 0 Chad B. Florida and is now an administra­ Cary, NC. 0 Patrick M. Pitts is in McKee is in his fourth year of tive residenr at Roper Hospital in the practice of family dencisrry in graduate studies in physics ar Duke Charleston, SC. D D eidra Murphy ' 50s and ' 60s Mt. Ho ll y, NC. He joined Dr. University, working on free electron Steed has been married since June Bruce H. Hawkins' pracrice in Sep­ lasers. 0 John C. "Chip" Rives 24 , 1989 and received the master's rember and welcomes new pa­ (BA, MBA '89) is an accounr ex­ degree in education in December Gray T. Boyette ('56, MD '60) and tients. D Terry E. Smith has ecutive wirh Imernarional Manage­ 1989 from Appalachian Srare Sandra C. Connor. 6/ 30/90 begun her residency in family mem Group in Cleveland, OH. University. D 1st Lr. Thomas F. Joseph V. Capell {'6 5) and practice at Marshall University Sama's Helper, the non-profit or­ Willson lives in Fort Polk, LA, and Mararuth C. Ashburn. 10/ 2 1/90 Medical school ( Humington, WV) ganization thar he founded when is a special weapons officer for the where she also recei ved the MD he was a WFU football player, c on­ 5th Banalion, lsr Field Artillery deg ree. tinued to help underprivileged (Regimemal). He returned to the children this past Chrisrmas in the States after a year's tour in Turkey. ' 70s Winston-Salem area. D Treva Da­ vis Stack is public relations director ' 8 7 Elizabeth L. Bagby ('77) and J on a­ for the ational Kidney Founda­ 1. 8 9 than K. Robinette. 11 /3/90 tion of Maryland in Baltimore. D Anita Adams is a senior accoun­ Evan L. Stapler is an associare with Nancy B. Davis {'77) and Leo T. tant with Merchants Distributors the l aw fum of Jack F. Wi rcher in James B. Gilbert ill is a first-year Whirr. 2/ 1990

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Patricia A. Seitz ('77) and Ronald Charlene Hodges (' 88 ) and David S. Wood. 10 /719 0 R. Loope (MA '88). 6/30/90 and Susan Satrom ('78) and G. Came­ Keith B. Marschke (PhD '88) ron Kent ('79). 9/1/90 Lynne E. Smith. 9/15/90 Ginger Lee Williams ('88) and Dan Sims. 111 3/90

1 . a o s Karen J. Becht ('89) and Jerome M. Travers. 111 3/90

James R. Morgan Jr. ('80, JD '84) Wendy G. Lewis ('89) and Elwyn and Mary S. Bennett West. G. Murray ill ('89). 8/4/90 91 16 /90 P. Carol Rogus ('89) and Angelo S. James R. Sugg Jr. ('81 , JD '85 ) and C. Collins. 9/22/90 Elizabeth K. Norfleet. 9/15 /90 Lesa C. Vandewalle ('89) and Ed­ Roberr B. Wrenn Jr. ('81) and Ka­ ward J. Chang ('87) . 11 / 10/90 thy Melvin. 3/ 31 /90 Elizabeth M. Wiggins ('89) and Keng Y. Low ('82 , MBA '84) and Victor T. Freund ('89). 7 I 14/90 Martha V. Cook (MA '89). 10 / 13 /90 Alumnus Conducts Research Deborah L. Roberts ('82 , PA '84) 1 . 9os and Robert A. Reece. 9/22 /90 In Environmental Biotechnology Eric R. Spence UD '82 ) and Sha­ Margaret P. Benson ('90) and Mah­ ron L. Hartman. 10 /6 /90 lon A. Dickens ('87). 1016190 r:t r. Terry C. Hazen (PhD '78) has developed three Laurie M. Petty ('83) and Donald Patrick H . Flanagan UD '90) and 1.:11 new methods to remediate contaminated soil and R. Scott Jr. 9/22 /90 Leslie K. Crow. 9/15 /90 groundwater using organic compounds. Martha A. Stewarr ('83 , MA '85 ) Lela R. Usry ('90) and Matthew J. Hazen works in Westinghouse Electric Corporation's and David M. Doolittle. 9/29/90 Severance ('88). 7/7190 Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C. His research provides Mark E. Bennett ('84 ) and Deneal Melissa A. Venable ('90) and Tho­ new ways to detect, control, and clean up chemical Hicks. 10 / 20/90 mas F. Willson ('88). 6/16/90 waste sites. He has shown that bacteria preferentially Diana V. Domhoff ('84) and Todd move towards or away from certain chemicals. This E. Smith. 9/15 /90 means that bacteria can be attracted to a contaminated Jennifer Bender ('85 ) and George BIRTHS area to degrade toxic chemicals or kept away from ]. Rothen. 6/ 30 /90 ' places such as underground pipes to prevent biocorro­ Pandora J. Passin ('85 ) and Marrin sion. These discoveries have great potential for applica­ Lloyd Zook II . 5/ 19 /90 I '50s and '60s tion to waste site remediation and assessment at most Daniel Cynthia A. Rink ('85) and By using existing microbes with a min i­ T. Springer. 10/20/90 industrial sites. James 0. Watson Jr. ('59) and mum of energy and equipment, the cost is a fraction of Sara E. Bright ('86) and Herbert]. Dinah H. Watson, Atlanta: son, conventional technology. Vogelsang II. 10 /6/ 90 James Vernon. 9/6/89 In 1989, Westinghouse awarded Hazen one of ten Joseph F. Hill ('86) and Celeste D. Karen James M. Sinkway ('64 ) and Gold Signature Awards for his research. The Chaney. 10/6/ 90 Sinkway, Yardley, PA: daughter, corporate of Excellence Kara M. Orsak (MD '86) and Katy Rebecca Kathleen. 9/ 3 /90 George Westinghouse Signature Awards standards of ex­ M. Karahadian 8/ 25 /90 Michael Markham ('69) and Stacy honor distinctive achievement and high Richard N. Watts (MBA '86) and L. Markham, Manhews, NC: cellence in engineering and manufacturing within the Allison T. Pruin. 9/ 29 /90 daughter, Hannah Eliott. 6/ 1/90 Westinghouse organization. Hazen is the first Savannah Celia C. Carpenter ('87) and R. River Site employee to receive the Gold Signature Wade Liner ('88). 8/ 25 /90 Award. 1. 7os Susan J. Connell ('87) and Hazen enjoys an international reputation for his Lawrence T. Zehfuss Jr. ('86). research. He has spoken at the University of Hawaii at 8/4/90 Sandra J. Cook (' 72) and husband, for tropical Chapel Hill, NC: son, Paul Honolulu on standards of contamination Treva A. Davis ('87) and David R. Spencer Darsie. 6/ 8/90 waters. He has participated in a symposium in Australia Stack. 9/29/90 Susan Menard ('73) and husband, on water problems in the humid tropics. The papers Susan C. Lavender ('87) and Lexingron, KY: daughter, Laura from that meeting helped to form the basis for the next Walter T. Wood Jr. ('86). 10 /13 /90 Davis. 6/ 3 /90 five -year plan for UNESCO and the International Melodie W. Sheets ('87) and Dan Cheryl Newman ('74) and hus­ has been invited by the German C. Langford ('86). 8/ 111 90 Hydrology Program. He band, Augusta, GA: son, John Al­ government to speak to the European Commonwealth Lisa M. Wright (' 87) and Lawrence len Whitlow. 7/3/90 S. Solomon. 10/ 20/90 on environmental biotechnology. Cynthia Anderson Laney ('75) and is a member of the Wake Forest University Susan A. Henry ('88) and Bryan Dan Lane y, Atlanta: son , Dan Hazen M. Combs ('89). 9/22/90 Foster IV. 11 / 26 /89 Board of Visitors. CLASSNOTES

]. Reid Morgan ('75, JD '79) and Charity Goodwin-Johansson ('80) S. Davison Obenauer ('88) and Lee Oliver Fagan Chair of Bible Elizabeth Morgan, Winston-Salem: and Scott Goodwin-Johansson, Barbara K. Obenauer, Lake Ridge, and Religion. In April, the student twin sons, Theodore Benjamin and Pittsboro, NC: daughter, Ann VA : son, Alexander. 7/16/90 body of Chowan dedicated their James Whittier. 1119/90 Christopher. 8/8/89 annual, The Chowanoka, to him. At graduation in May, he received Laws ('81) and Ed­ Denise Williams Koch ('76) and Laura Thomas the annual Excellence in Teaching Jr., Williamsburg, win E. Laws II ('81), Statesville, Charles H. Koch DEATHS Award bestowed by the faculry. He Andrew Edwin. 10 / 11190 VA : son~ Andrew athaniel. NC: son, is survived by his wife, Mrs. 6/13/90 Leslie Vanlehn McNamara ('81) and Elizabeth Lewis Parker, and two Debra Richardson Moore ('76) and Michael A. McNamara ('80), Walter Johnson Matthews Jr. ('22) daughters. August 11, 1990, Durham, NC. He Vince Moore, Taylors, SC: daugh­ Charlotte, NC: daughter, Laura ('48) September served as North Carolina parole Roy S. Glass 6, ter, Madison Claire. 4/24/90 Elizabeth. 6/21/90 , FL. commissioner from 1950 to 1970. 1990, Ft. Lauderdale Helen Purgason Vaughan ('76) and Elizabeth Miller Meade ('81) and Charles D. White ('49) September Jesse James Tarlton (' 25 ) Septem­ husband, Gibsonville, NC: son, Todd Meade, Statesville, NC: Beach, NC. He ber 3, 1990, Rutherfordton, NC. 19, 1990, Sunset Seth Overton. 5/6/90 daughter, Laura Helen. 5/23/90 29 years with the He was a retired Rutherfordton was retired after Insurance Co. William Weldon ('76) and wife, Richard S. Wurst Jr. ('81) and Ann County superintendent of schools Metropolitan Life Mountainside, N): son, William Jr. H. Wurst, New Canaan, CT: son, and chairman of the Community Stacey Clyde Eggers ('74) Novem­ 3/25/90 Gordon McGregor Hall-Wurst. College Board. He is survived by ber 4, 1990, Boone, NC. Mrs. Hattie Tarlton, and Chris Blair ('77) and Kim Blair, 714190 his wife, two sons. Richmond, VA: daughter, Anne Eric Daniels ('82) and Melba Hunter. 4/27/90 Daniels, Charlotte, NC: daughter, Charles Rudolph Potter (' 35) Sep­ In Memoriam Scott E. Chant ('77) and Susan L. Diana Elizabeth. 4/23/90 tember 13 , 1990, Elizabethtown, NC. Chant, Maineville, OH: daughter, John]. Eck ('82) and Deborah Vonda Reece, who retired as Sarah Christine. 10 /18 /90 Eck, Evergreen Park, IL: daughter, William H. Gibson ('29, MA '42) director of financial aid on the Charles L. Little Jr. ('77) and Janie Devin Elizabeth. 6/20/90 November 5, 1990. Retired in Reynolda Campus in 1989, died Raleigh, NC. he had served as ath­ January 6. She had worked at Little, Greenville, SC: son, Charles Catherine Korzen ('82) and John L. III. 5/ 17/90 letics director at Wake Forest Wake Forest since 1965 . The Korzen ('81, JD '91), Winston­ University from 1956 to 1964 . He family has requested that Virginia &.lrrison Merritt ('77) and Salem: daughter, Claire Marie. started his career as a teacher and memorials be made to Hospice Don Merritt, Winston-Salem: 12 / 24/ 89 coach at Apex High School in daughter, Amy Virginia. 10/9/89 of Yadkin County, P.O. Box 457, Sarah Heuerman Bailey ('83) and 1929. He was a member of the Yadkinville, N .C., 27055 , or to R. Tate Young ('77) and Neva Philip R. Bailey ('74), Charlotte, N .C. General Assembly in 1935 Young, Houston, TX: daughter, NC: so n, Patrick Thomas. 8/ 5 /90 and served as principal of Apex the Leukemia Foundation of Jane Victoria. 1 /24/90 High School from 1935 to 1938. America, 5801 Executive Center Harold L. McDonald Jr. ('83, MA He spent 14 years as an FBI agent Drive, Charlotte, N.C. T. Stran Summers ('78) and wife, '86) and Nancy W. McDonald, (1942 to 1956). During the years Wilmington, DE: son, Erik. Mars Hill, NC: daughter, Hillary 1964-67, he was a member of the 8/28/90 Worthington. 5/29/90 N .C. Parole Board and director of John R. Ted ('78) and wife, Rebecca L. Mustian ('83) and V. the North Carolina Probation Raleigh, NC: so n, Brooks Addison. Martin Mustian Jr. ('80), Charlotte, Commission. 7/14/89, South Korea, adopted NC: daughter, Katherine Robert Lee &.lrrison ('41, MD '44) 12/6/89 Elizabeth. 12 / 13/89 July 14, 1990, Charlotte, NC. He Cynthia lves Cauffman ('79) and Emma &.lrdner Wheeler ('83) and was chief of surgery at Mercy husband, Elverson, PA: daughter, James Wheeler, Richmond, VA: Hospital and a member of the Stephanie Ives. 12 / 1/89 daughter, Rachel Elizabeth. staff of Presbyterian Hospital, as well as a member of the teaching Craig ill ('79) and 91 17190 Hubert M. staff at Carolinas Medical Center. Gastonia, NC: Emily Craig, Paul R. Eason ('84) and Margie B. He was on the board of trustees of Meredith Lanier, 3/1/88; daughter, Eason, Winston-Salem: daughter, Mars Hill College. son, William Maxton, 8/22/89 Rachel Elizabeth. 9/27/90 Wilson W. Padgett Sr. ('44), March Pamela Koch ('79) and Ray Peart, James C. Newsome Jr. ('84) and 27, 1990, Shelby, NC. He had re­ , PA: daughter, Kathryn Lancaster wife, Winston-Salem: daughter, tired as pastor of Eastside Baptist Chelsea Peart. 3/27/90 Mary Katherine. 10 /22/89 Church in Shelby after 26 years of Prudence lrby Swerlick ('79) and Margaret "Muffie" Cook Sandberg service. He was a former member husband, Atlanta: daughter, Mar­ {'85) and Mark D. Sandberg ('85 ), of the Board of Trustees of garet Hannah. 3/9/90 Baltimore, MD: son, Todd D. Gardner-Webb College and was 2/ 25/90 chaplin of the Shelby police and fire departments for over 30 years. Karen Sanko Stitcher ('85) and He received the Governors Award Kurt Stitcher, Glenview, IL: son, \· 80s for outstanding service to the state David Andrew. 9/3/90 of North Carolina. He is survived Kim Deaton Cagle {'80) and Piper McDaniel Kelly {'86) and by four children. Robert H. Cagle, Charlotte, C: Hugh M. Kelly III , Atlanta, GA: Earl Hoyt Parker ('44) August 5, on, Brendan Hunter. 9/23/90 daughter, Jordan Elizabeth. 1990, Murfreesboro, NC. Despite a Helen Revelle Cain {'80, MAEd 9/22/90 lengthy illness, he continued to '82} and James P. Cain ('79, ]I) Ellen Freeman Wible ('87) and teach full-time in the Department '84}, Raleigh , C: daughter, Anne John F. Wible {'86), Carrboro, C: of Religion and Philosophy at Cho­ Cameron. 4/ 190 daughter, Carrie Ann. 10/9/90 wan College, where he held the E.

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Justice Joseph Branch, Lifetime Trustee, Dies in Raleigh

Joseph Branch GD '38), retired chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, died Feb. 18 in Raleigh. A native of Enfield, North Carolina, he was a lifetime member of the Wake Forest University Board of Trustees. Branch served as chair­ man of the Board of Trustees in 1970-71 and 1986-87, and he served five terms as a member of the Board of Trustees. In 1987, he was awarded Wake Forest's Medallion of Merit. Branch was also a member of the Board of Visitors of the Wake Forest School of Law. "I am deeply saddened by the death of Joseph Branch. He was a wise and just man whose intellect was matched by his wit and compassion," said President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. "As a joseph Branch donned many jurist, he was respected for a ceremonial robe at Wake Forest. his principled approach to interpreting the law. Twice State Convention in 1986. in 1980. In 1986, he was In an earlier tribute to chairman of our Board of His tenure as a University the recipient of the Wake Branch at a dinner where Trustees, Justice Branch trustee was marked by sig­ Forest University Lawyers retiring trustees were hon­ courageously led his alma nificant grants to the Alumni Citation for Distin­ ored, Hearn said: "We mater, Wake Forest Univer­ University and record­ guished Service, and an ex­ remember especially the sity, through a momentous setting increases in applica­ cellence in teaching award leaders who guided Wake period of change. I shall tions for admissions. was established at the Wake Forest through complex sit­ miss this great friend and In 1983, an honorary Forest University School of uations, for they are the advisor. His contributions to Doctor of Laws degree from Law in his honor. He was champions of our motto, Wake Forest will constitute Wake Forest was awarded to elected life trustee of Wake Pro Humanitate. Justice a living memorial to this Branch during commence­ Forest University in 1987. Joseph Branch was that man we all loved so well." ment exercises. He received Branch, who practiced kind of leader. The same Branch, who graduated the Outstanding Service law in Enfield, served four quiet but firm adherence to from the Wake Forest Alumni Award in 1971, the terms as a representauve m principle that directed his University School of Law in Wake Forest University Dis­ the North Carolina General career as a jurist also distin­ 1938, was chairman of the tinguished Service Citation Assembly. In 1966, he was guished his tenure as chair­ Board of Trustees when in Law in 1975, and the appointed associate justice man of the board of Wake Forest University Carroll Wayland Weathers of the North Carolina trustees. His chapter in our adopted the fraternal rela­ Distinguished Alumnus Supreme Court, and in history is truly remarkable." tionship with the Baptist Award from the law school 1979, chief justice. CLASSNOTES

An Attorney and a Guitarist, He Has the Best of Both Worlds

or the past four years, Richard Tarrier UD '86) has D juggled the practice of law with the practice of the guitar, maintaining an active concert and recording schedule, and composing children's songs. He has made his mark in both worlds. One of his children's songs, "Walk Outside," was chosen by Columbia Pictures as the theme for the film, "The Adventures of Milo and Otis." The movie, which is about a kitten and his best pal, a small dog, was shot in Japan over a four-year period. It was a box-office hit there before Columbia released it in the States this past year. In addition to using his song as the theme of the film, Columbia Pictures had Tarrier rewrite some of the lyrics to fit the story. Tarrier has been in the practice of general law in Boone, N.C., since graduation from Wake Forest's School of Law. As a new lawyer, he was nominated for the N .C. Bar Association's Pro Bono Award for signifi­ cant free legal aid. In 1988 he represented one of the only refugees from El Salvador to gain legal political asylum in the United States. A Michigan native, Tarrier is a self-taught guitarist who had two guitar lessons in high school. He received the undergraduate degree in political philosophy and English at Notre Dame. Mter college he worked odd jobs, including teaching in Head Start programs and manning factory assembly lines. He eventually focused his interests on traditional music and working with chil­ dren. He was hired as a teacher's aide in Ann Arbor and used music not just for entertainment but as a learn­ ing tool. In the late 1970s, he moved from the Midwest to North Carolina, as he and his friends followed the old­ time music trail. The 1978 Union Grove Old-Time Fid­ dlers' Convention in Chapel Hill led to his joining the and married a potter in 1984. He was graduated in original lineup of a Greensboro band, the Swamp Cats. 1986. The band played backup on Tarrier's first children's al­ Tarrier says he went into law to make money - but bum, "Songs for Kids," which was named among the he wanted the money to support his musical career. He ten most notable records of 1979 and an album of the has wide-ranging tastes, playing jazz, Dixieland, folk month by Bluegrass Unlimited magazine. His second al­ and traditional string music with other musicians. bum, "Songs for Older Kids," was released in 1984 - Each month, he walks across the street from his law remarkable achievements for a man who does not read office to the Watauga County Library to give a free chil­ mUSlC. dren's concert. He plays singalongs for a roomful of After a dozen years as an itinerant traditional musi­ happy preschoolers. cian, Tarrier decided to enter law school. He maintained Unless he is tied up in a trial, Tarrier tries to practice a home base in Watauga County, but spent the school music at his office for an hour or so each day. He week 100 miles away in Winston-Salem in a school bus stretches out in a big rocking chair and reaches for one convened to an efficiency apartment. He rented a of the instruments hanging on the wall - a tenor gui­ meadow near the Reynolda Campus and parked the bus tar, a fiddle, a mandolin, a banjo guitar. They occupy a there during the week; on weekends, he drove it home. place of honor alongside his framed degrees from Norre He played music to support himself through law school Dame and the Wake Forest University School of Law.

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Wake Forest Alumni and friends traveled "around the world" in 1990. Will you join us for 1991? Exciting des­ tinations and guaranteed good times are in store for you.

February, 1991 - Trans-Panama Canal Air/Sea Cruise Eleven days: Join us aboard the luxurious new cruise ship Crystal Harmony as we visit Caldera, Costa Rica; transit the Panama Canal; and stop in each of the fol­ lowing colorful Caribbean ports: Willemstad, Curacao, St. Maarten, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

May, 1991 - Seine: London, Normandy, Paris Fourteen days: Start with a three-night stay in London, then travel through the beautiful Normandy region of France aboard M/S Normandie, France's most luxurious river cruiser. The trip concludes with an evening illumination cruise through the heart of Paris and a two-night stay in that romantic city.

August, 1991 - Pacific Northwest/Alaskan Inside Passage Cruise Thirteen days: Our 1990 Alaskan trip filled up quickly, and we are offering it again by popular demand! This trip begins with visits to Seattle, Victoria, and Vancouver before you board the deluxe Princess Cruise ship and sail for seven nights through the Alaskan Inside Passage and a wonderland of natural beauty.

September, 1991 - Danube River Adventure Fourteen days: Another trip brought back by popular demand! Have a closer look at the dramatic changes in Eastern Europe. Your cruise begins in Vienna and proceeds down the Danube through Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Romania. This historical trip concludes with a cruise on the Black Sea and a two-night stay in Istanbul, Turkey.

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The following schedule includes several events of 12 noon. Magnolia Buffet. Commencement 1991. Parents of graduating students will receive more detailed information in the coming 1:45 p.m. School of Law Hooding Ceremony. Wait weeks. For information call the Office of Public Chapel. Affairs at 919-759-5788. 2 p.m. College Honors and Awards Ceremony, Saturday, May 18 Brendle Recital Hall.

10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Special events ticket pick-up. Infor­ 4 p.m. Department Receptions mation and Commencement Hospitality Center. Benson University Center Rotunda. Monday, May 20

9 a.m. - 1 a.m. Annual Graduating Gala, 401 Benson 7 - 9:30 a.m. Traditional Graduation Breakfast, University Center. Reynolda Hall Cafeteria.

Sunday, May 19 9:30 a.m. Graduation Exercises, University Plaza.

7:30 - 10 a.m. Baccalaureate Continental Breakfast, Reynolda Hall Cafeteria. *The dates were listed incorrectly in the spring issue 11 a.m. Baccalaureate Service, Wait Chapel. of Parents' News.

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