September 2006

Th e m ove tha t m ade a U niv ers ity

The Quarterly Magazine of Wake Forest University F EATURES

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

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

DESIGN / ART DIRECTION Urena Design, [email protected]

PHOTOGRAPHER Ken Bennett, [email protected]

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

SENIOR WRITER David Fyten, [email protected]

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WWW.WFU.EDU 32 Art and Craft By Kim McGrath

Irish poets-in-residence Vona Groarke and Conor O’Callaghan welcome guests into their world of melody and magic.

E SSAY C ONSTANT & T RUE

35 Common Cents 64 ‘Boy, do I By Robert M. Whaples remember the move.’ Once it was a necessity, now it’s

a nuisance. It’s P ROFILE time to retire the penny. 36 Divine Intervention By David Fyten

Teacher, scholar, and compassionate mentor, religion’s Mary Foskett is the quintessential Wake Forest professor. Class of 2010 welcomed with ‘open arms’

HIRTY YEARS AFTER they 7,300 applications were received Twere freshmen at Wake for this year’s freshman class, Forest, Jack (’78, JD ’81) and Mary down about 2 percent from last Jo Cunningham (’80) Elliott of year, but still the second highest Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were number ever received. North back on campus in mid-August Carolinians make up about a dropping their daughter Laura fourth of the class, followed by off for her freshman year. As students from New Jersey and Laura moved into her residence Pennsylvania (7 percent each), hall, Mary Jo Elliott pointed to and New York and Virginia (6 Luter Residence Hall, then called percent each). New Dorm, where she once lived. Jenna Redfearn of Boynton “It’s a nice feeling that she’s Beach, Florida, looked at nine here,” Mary Jo Elliott said. “We’ve schools before choosing Wake told her that it’s not so much Forest. “I had always heard about a huge transition in her life as Wake Forest and knew that it another chapter in her life. I was a great school. It seemed to think the whole family will gain have the best of everything.” by having her come here.” Joshua Newell had perhaps Laura Elliott is one of the the longest trip to Wake Forest— more than 1,100 freshmen in the from Alexandria, Egypt—of any Class of 2010; about 8 percent are freshman. He lived in Charlotte, children of alumni. More than North Carolina, until he was

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Clockwise (far left to right): A Sarah Flowers (right) and her roommate, Lucy Pope, move into their residence hall room; Jenna Redfearn (left) and her mother, Lisa, tackle the move-in process; Gretchen Jennings gets help from family and friends as she selects a carpet for her room; new students pick up their ThinkPad computers from Information Systems; a new Demon Deacon waits beside a stack of “move-in” boxes.

11-years-old, when his parents Forest kept rising to the top of moved to Alexandria to work in her list. “I’m not sure what I By the numbers a church. He always planned to want to major in, so I was looking Applied Accepted Percent Accepted return to the United States for for a school that was good in college. “I wanted to go to college everything. 2006 7,341 3,128 43 in the South and close to home Marking the start of his sec- 2005 7,494 2,862 38 2004 6,289 2,945 47 (Charlotte),” he said. “Some of ond year at Wake Forest, Presi- 2003 5,752 2,599 45 my parents’ friends had gone to dent Nathan O. Hatch welcomed 2002 5,995 2,454 41 Wake Forest and I thought it was new students and their families 2001 5,271 2,421 46 a good fit.” “with open arms into the Wake 2000 5,079 2,480 49 Candace Blas, the only stu- Forest family”during Orientation. 1995 6,342 2,710 43 dent in the freshman class from “There’s nothing more to earn, to 1990 5,213 2,029 39 1985 4,303 2,062 48 Alaska, discovered Wake Forest join, or to accomplish,” Hatch through a college guide. Even told the new students. “You are Admission of alumni children though she had lived in Greens- a member of this learning com- boro, North Carolina, until her munity in full standing. We at Applied Accepted Enrolled family moved to Alaska when she Wake Forest are privileged that 2006 269 173 (64%) 90 was in eighth grade, she wasn’t you have chosen this to become 2005 294 182 (62%) 97 familiar with Wake Forest. But as your alma mater, and today we 2000 211 147 (70%) 80 she made and revised lists of embrace you with an unqualified 1995 204 163 (80%) 97 possible college choices, prima- welcome.” 1990 189 136 (72%) 78 1985 223 159 (71%) 101 rily on the East Coast, Wake — Kerry M. King (’85)

www.wfu.edu/wowf SEPTEMBER 2006 3 D A U Q E H T D N U O R A Outward Bound

OST INCOMING freshmen students with an opportunity Mspend the last few days of to bond before school begins. summer packing their things, University Photographer Ken saying goodbye to their friends, Bennett spent some time with and maybe worrying about college this year’s group as they lived life. But forty Wake Forest fresh- in the wilderness of western men learned how to climb moun- North Carolina. tains and hike steep terrain as part of a five-day course at the North Carolina Outward Bound School. The program, directed by the Office of Student Development, teaches leadership and outdoor skills, and it provides incoming

Jessica Hayes (’08) wins Congressional Award

UNIOR JESSICA 240 young people to receive a struggling families and children. JHAYES has received a gold medal this year. For the physical fitness compo- Congressional Award Students participating in the nent, she earned seven varsity Gold Medal, the highest program set goals in four areas— letters on her high-school tennis award given by the voluntary public service, personal and cross-country teams and United States Congress development, physical fitness, was captain of the tennis team. to recognize young peo- and expedition/exploration—and For personal development, she ple for their community are recognized at various levels, became a certified lifeguard and service, initiative, and depending on the amount of time was manager of her high-school achievement. Hayes, a they spend working toward their cross-country team. And for the Hayes native of Atlanta, Geor- goals in each area. expedition/exploration compo- gia, who is majoring in For the volunteer service com- nent, she planned and conducted accountancy, spent more than ponent of the award, Hayes volun- hikes in Yellowstone National Park four years working toward the teered for more than 450 hours and in western North Carolina. gold medal. She was one of about at organizations that work with

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Walsh, architect of for the money” in the United ranked Wake Forest’s LLM pro- H “enormous gains,” States, based upon such factors gram fifth in the nation. T will step down as as bar passage rates, placement Walsh said the school has con- D School of Law dean rates, and student-faculty ratio. tinued to improve by recruiting N The school has received numer- nationally known legal scholars U O

HEN ROBERT K. WALSH ous national awards, including with solid teaching credentials. R Wwas named dean of the the Emil Gumpert Award for In 2002, the Educational Quality A School of Law in 1989, the school Excellence in Trial Advocacy from Rankings of U.S. Law Schools was bursting at the seams in the American College of Trial ranked the School of Law’s fac- cramped Carswell Hall. Plans Lawyers; the E. Smythe Gambrell ulty third in the production of already had been announced for Professionalism Award from the books and eleventh in the pro- a new building to house the law American Bar Association (ABA) duction of both school and the Babcock Graduate for its comprehensive professional books and articles School of Management, and four education program; and the Har- per capita among years later the law school moved rison Tweed Award from the ABA the top 50 law into the Worrell Professional for providing outstanding pro bono school faculties. Center for Law and Manage- services through the Domestic “I’ve been privi- ment. In the years since, Walsh Violence Advocacy Clinic. leged to participate has moved the school in new A graduate of Harvard Law in developing the directions and to greater national School, Walsh was a partner in best law faculty in prominence. the largest law firm in Arkansas America,” Walsh Walsh, the longest serving when he was named to succeed said. current dean at Wake Forest, is Don Scarlett. Previously, he had retiring next summer after eight- been dean and professor of law een years as dean, but he will at the University of Arkansas at remain on the faculty. “During Little Rock School of Law and a Walsh Bob Walsh’s term as dean, the professor of law at Villanova. School of Law has made enor- Under his leadership, the Deans, Wake Forest School of Law mous gains in the quality of its school began a number of new faculty, its students, and its pro- programs, including the Legal Needham Y. Gulley 1905–1935 * grams,” said Provost William C. Clinic for the Elderly and the Dale Foster Stansbury 1935–1944 Gordon (’68, MA ’70). “Certainly, Chief Justice Joseph Branch Inn Herbert R. Baer 1944–1945** the national and international of Court to provide mentoring I. Beverly Lake 1945–1946** reputation for excellence that the and professional development to Robert E. Lee 1946–1950 School of Law enjoys today is the students. He also international- Carroll W. Weathers 1950–1970 direct result of Bob’s outstanding ized the curriculum by starting Pasco M. Bowman II 1970–1978 leadership over so many years.” summer study programs for law Leon H. Corbett Jr. 1978-1979 ** Since the mid-1990s, the students at Wake Forest’s resi- J. Don Scarlett 1979–1989 school has consistently ranked dential study centers in Vienna Robert K. Walsh 1989– among the nation’s top forty law and Venice and by offering a schools. In 2002 and 2004, National Master of Laws degree (LLM) * The School of Law was founded in 1894, but Jurist magazine named Wake For- program for international Gulley, the first, and for many years the only, est the “best private law school lawyers. In 2004, the American faculty member, wasn’t named dean until 1905. Universities Admission Program ** Acting dean

www.wfu.edu/wowf SEPTEMBER 2006 5 D A U Q E H

T The clot thickens D

N Physics professor’s research reveals fibers stretch more than previously thought. U O

R HE RESEARCH FINDINGS of strands that make up a human A TAssistant Professor of Physics blood clot are more stretchable Martin Guthold made a splash than a spider’s web helps us to this summer when a paper on understand how clots can seal blood clots that he co-authored wounds tightly and withstand was published in the journal the pressure in our blood vessels,” Science and followed up by sto- he explained. “This new informa- ries in newspapers around the tion also helps us to understand country, including USA Today, how tough it is to remove a clot the San Francisco Chronicle, and that is preventing blood flow to a the Houston Chronicle. person’s heart or brain, causing a Guthold’s findings—that heart attack or stroke.” fibers that make up blood clots Blood clots are a three-dimen- Martin Guthold can be stretched more than pre- sional network or mesh of fibrin viously thought—could have fibers, stabilized by another pro- broke much easier. In some cases, profound implications. It could tein called factor XIIIa. Because fibrin fibers had the ability to be help medical researchers create of its important function of stem- stretched more than six times more accurate blood clot models, ming the flow of blood in the their length before they broke.” provide new insights into the body, clots have to be both strong Scientists had previously been wound healing process, and offer and pliable. Fibrin fibers measure unable to study the mechanical a deeper understanding of heart about 100 nanometers in diame- properties of individual fibrin attacks and strokes. ter, roughly 1,000 times smaller fibers because of their small size. Guthold, who joined the fac- than a human hair. Guthold and his research team ulty in 2001, collaborated with The research conducted by created a device to do that by colleagues in the physics depart- Guthold and his team showed combining two microscopes that ment and with researchers at that the tiny fibers have extraor- could not only see the fibrin the School of Medicine and the dinary elasticity, on average fibers but also stretch them. “Our University of North Carolina at stretching to almost three times discovery of these mechanical Chapel Hill. Senior Eric Sparks their length, while still retaining properties of individual fibrin and graduate student Wenhua their ability to go back to their fibers shows that these fibers Liu, who work in Guthold’s lab, normal shape, and expanding to likely endow blood clots with also contributed to the research more than four times their length important physiological proper- findings. before breaking. “For all naturally ties,” Guthold said. “They make Roy Hantgan, an associate occurring fibers, fibrin fibers are blood clots very elastic and very professor of biochemistry at the the ones you can stretch the fur- stretchable.” medical school and a member of thest before they break,” Guthold the research team, said the study said. “This was a stunning revela- —Jacob McConnico, findings have significant impli- tion because people hypothesized Wake Forest News Service cations. “Knowing that the fibrin that these fibers stretched but

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History faculty publish new books H T

HREE FACULTY MEMBERS century. (His) insights about the ships at Wake Forest, is associate D in the history department Confederate South transcend the editor of the Journal of Southern N

T U have had books published nineteenth-century and, as good History at Rice University. O

recently, on subjects ranging history should, speak to univer- Visiting Assistant Professor of R from the Civil War to Russian sals in the human condition.” History Ronald Bobroff, who spe- A foreign policy during World Kahle Associate Professor of cializes in Russia and European War I to infamous Wake Forest History Michele K. Gillespie has Diplomacy, tackles far different alumnus Thomas Dixon. returned to a familiar subject in subject matter Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of than Escott and Modern America, (Louisiana State Gillespie — both University Press, 224 pages), a Southern histo- collection of essays first presented rians — in his at a symposium that Gillespie book, Roads to and co-editor Randal L. Hall (’94) Glory — Late organized at Wake Forest in 2003 Imperial Russia on the life of the controversial and the Turkish writer. Dixon (1883) is best remem- Straits (I.B. Escott bered for his racist novels that Tauris, 251 Bobroff Reynolds Professor of History served as the basis for D.W. pages). Bobroff Paul D. Escott’s latest book, Mili- Griffith’s 1915 classic film, The argues that Russia’s key foreign tary Necessity: Civil Military Rela- Birth of a Nation. policy objective prior to World tions in the Confederacy (Praeger War I was containing the growing Security International, 215 pages), threat of German aggression, not examines how “military necessity” maintaining control of the Turk- determined policy and shaped ish Straits — the Russian fleet’s all aspects of life in the South gateway to the Mediterranean— during the Civil War; as the war as previous scholars have argued. took a growing toll on the South, But Russia became more the military assumed an increas- focused on acquiring the Straits ingly larger role in the social after Turkey entered the war on Gillespie and political sector. Escott argues the side of the Central Powers, at that “never before or since in The book’s nine essays, writ- the expense of the more impor- American history have the needs ten by leading historians, as well tant fight against Germany and and influence of the military as scholars in film, literature, Austria-Hungary. That move, weighed so heavily on society.” and religion, seek to explain the Bobroff writes, extended the war Historian Emory Thomas, appeal of Dixon’s racist message and led to popular discontent — Regents Professor Emeritus at in the early 20th century and opening the door to the 1917 the University of Georgia, calls the power of popular culture in revolution. Escott’s book “the most impor- forming attitudes — then and tant work on the Confederacy now. Hall, formerly associate —Kerry M. King (’85) published in the last quarter- director of merit-based scholar-

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Q F ACULTY F OCUS E H

T Patterson receives

D advising award more time N to research. U OR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS, Graduates of O

R FProfessor of Economics Perry the Master A Patterson has devoted much of his of Science in Alumni Admissions time to ensuring that incoming accountancy ‘mini’ forum first-year students get off to a program good start. Patterson, who stepped ranked first “MINI-VERSION” of the Hinson down as chair of the Committee in the nation A annual Alumni Admissions on Orientation and Lower Divi- for their performance on the CPA Forum will be held during Home- sion Advising this summer, was exam in 2004, the most recent coming weekend. The Forum, recognized for his efforts when year for which comparison scores held each June, provides alumni he received the Award for Excel- are available. and their college-bound children lence in Advising during New an inside look at the college Student Convocation last month. Solano named interim admissions process and offers “Perry has shown extraordinary dean of Graduate School tips on finding the right college, care, thoroughness, securing financial aid, preparing and commitment to SSOCIATE DEAN OF THE college applications, and more. our students’ well- AGRADUATE SCHOOL OF The mini-forum will be held being,”said Asso- Arts and Sciences Cecilia H. September 29 at 1 p.m. in the ciate Professor of Solano has been named interim Benson University Center. To Religion James L. dean while a national search for a register, please contact Dawn Ford, who succeeded new dean gets underway this fall. Calhoun (’99), associate director Patterson as chair. Solano joined the faculty in 1977 of admissions, at calhoude@ as an assistant professor of psy- wfu.edu or 336-758-5177. Patterson chology and has served as associ- Hinson new director ate dean of the Graduate School of MSA program and director of the Master of Arts Lifelong Learning in Liberal Studies program since plans history course SSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF 1999. She will serve as interim AACCOUNTING Yvonne dean until a successor is named COURSE ON THE “History Hinson has been named director for former dean Gordon A. A of the South”will be offered of the Calloway School’s Master of Melson, who retired in June. next summer as part of the Alumni Science in accountancy program. Association’s new Lifelong Learn- Hinson, who is also the Price- ing Program. The course, to be waterhouseCoopers Faculty taught by Kahle Associate Profes- Fellow, has served on the faculty sor of History Michele Gillespie, since 1997. She succeeds Terry will be offered June 28 –29 on Baker, PricewaterhouseCoopers campus. About thirty alumni, Associate Professor of Account- ing, who stepped down to devote Solano

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B RIEFS Q E H T D N U O R parents, and friends attended the A first Lifelong Learning Program, a course taught by Divinity School Dean Bill J. Leonard, in June. For more information on the “History of the South” course, contact Betsy Chapman (’92, MA ’94), director of Alumni and Parent Programs, at [email protected] or 336- 758-4845.

WF ranked 30th in U.S. News list

AKE FOREST WAS ‘Deacon Tower’ part of WRANKED 30th among Groves renovation national universities in the 2007 edition of U.S. News & World ANS ATTENDING FOOTBALL President’s Box and media seat- Report’s guide, “America’s Best Fgames in Groves Stadium ing on the next level, and radio Colleges,”released in August. this fall should bid a fond and television booths on the Wake Forest tied with two other farewell to the old press box. If top level. The ground level will schools for 27th place in last all goes according to plan, the include public restrooms and year’s edition. The University current 7,000-square-foot press concessions. again fared well in categories box, built in 1968, will be torn Funding for the project will such as graduation/retention down following this season and come from box suite and club rates and alumni giving rate. replaced, in two years, with a seat revenue, sponsorships, and The Calloway School of Business 123,000-square-foot tower that fundraising. Future plans for the and Accountancy was ranked will stretch across much of the stadium include new public rest- 29th, tied with five other schools, top of the West Stands. rooms and concession stands, a in the listing of the top under- “Deacon Tower” will include new home locker room, new end- graduate business programs in premium seating for about zone suites, and an expanded the nation. 1,000 fans in club seats and plaza at Bridger Field House. luxury boxes on two levels, the

www.wfu.edu/wowf SEPTEMBER 2006 9 D A U Q E

H Capital campaign concludes, T exceeds goal by $90 million D N U AKE FOREST’S MOST University and their gifts are the construction of new facilities. O

R Wrecent capital campaign making a great impact on the The Reynolda Campus gained A ended in June with almost $690 future of Wake Forest.” 156,000 square feet of new space, million raised, $90 million above “The Campaign for Wake including Greene Hall and Kirby the campaign goal. About $405 Forest: Honoring the Promise,” Hall, part of the Calloway Center million was raised toward the focused on raising new endow- for Business, Mathematics and $400 million goal for the Rey- ment to provide additional stu- Computer Science. A major addi- nolda Campus, and $284 million dent financial aid and increased tion to Wingate Hall was built to toward the $200 million goal for faculty support. Nearly 400 new house the Divinity School. its Bowman Gray Campus. scholarships were created and Since the campaign began in “The completion of this cam- 437 existing scholarship funds 1999, about 45,000 alumni, par- paign is a great achievement, were increased during the cam- ents, and friends have made gifts and a testament to the love and paign. In addition, 249 new to the University. The campaign loyalty the Wake Forest family faculty funds were created was publicly launched in 2001 has for this institution,”said and 80 existing faculty funds with a total goal of $450 million, President Nathan O. Hatch. were increased. but early success prompted the “Their commitment is one of Gifts also supported a wide University to increase the goal the greatest strengths of our range of academic programs and to $600 million in 2002.

Join us for the Celebration! Homecoming weekend

Friday, September 29 Saturday, September 30

4 – 5:30 p.m. Enjoy the sounds of 9 a.m. – Noon Homecoming the band Swing On, Festival on the Hearn Plaza Quad, Hearn Plaza 5:30 Ceremony with President Nathan O. 10:30 a.m. Parade featuring Hatch, Winston-Salem antique cars, Wake Mayor Allen Joines Forest cheerleaders and other distinguished and more. guests, Hearn Plaza 6:30 Reception, Green Room (Reynolda Hall) and Magnolia Patio

10 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Douglas Phelps(’61) isnotamajoritydescription? tive” Duk I Should are Deaconsportsfans. For certainthey educational goal. sons tohave Wake Forest astheir I’ve encouragedmy grand- sive. uni ing thatourliberaleducation proud Deacwiththeunderstand- New Bern,NorthCar Forest’s conservative nature? attendance, its iconJerry Falwell likely in Uni estimated. of aconservative bastionthanI cal. liberal Democratwould beatypi- not soconservative thatbeinga the studentbody was thatitwas my assumptionof Wake Forest, Baptist Convention controlof Southern “no dancing,” since the Since many years have passed itated toCollegeDemocrats.” shenaturally grav- student body, liberals inalargely conservative “As oneofthefew comment, tions Kelly! ongratula- impressed withher. Iwas quite Kelly McManus(’06). and especially thestoryabout 2006) “The Journey Endeth”(June T now encouragethemtolookat THE O I My reasonforwritingisthe I v v P e ersity was atleastprogres- read withinterestyour article ha ersity atHomecoming erhaps or UNCwhere v e E remained alo DITOR Is pla an Wake Forest ismore indication of Wake ying Liberty : olina “conserv yal and , with a - Democrats executi ing asamemberoftheCollege “kick off”meet- During my first campus duringm membership andvisibilityon grew tremendousl more progressive studentgroups College Democratsandother letter. ation, torespond toMr. Phelps’ joined Teach forAmericaaftergradu- zine Because ofm the studentbod variety ofissuesdeveloped for for discussionanddebateona andmoreopportunities points, became morediverse initsview- conservative Republicanstudents. w including mostofmy friends, ture thatmostofthestudents, Iwould ven- ity ofthestudents. views andpositionsofthemajor- definitely referencingthepolitical of thefewliberalsoncampuswas has evolved withthetimes! certainly gladthattheUniversity butIam my dad’s experience, Ilove hearingabout University. time andmy dad’s timeatthe Forest haschanged sinceyour Note: Editors’ page ofthe theeditorial dance! Each year, had about150studentsinatten- within my classandwithinthe Iwas definitely identified issues, tions andv ould considerthemselv T The statementthatIwas one alotat Wake Without adoubt, hat said, asked KellyMcManus,who ocal supportofcertain Old GoldandBlack Wake Forest Maga- y ho leadership posi- y w to experience. e y y v v four y e er in their or,we board, , the es fairl ears . y Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Kelly McManus(’06) w si more committedtotheprogres butithelpedmebecome body, a Wake Forest mighthaveme now. building thefirethatburnswithin taught mecomplacency insteadof school couldhave potentially Attendinganother sent my way. some ofthefirestormsthatw today withouthaving towithstand I far aspoliticalopinionw I w There which needstobemet. ability totak m what Icaredformost. anddeterminingformyself fight, decidingwhich battlesto others, learned thevalue oflisteningto andcommitment;I passion, tity, developed my own senseofiden- I rienced throughthisprocess. learning andgrowth thatIexpe- frequency orintensitytothe didnotcompareintheir though, frustrations, bered minority.These especially agreatly outnum- ity, what itwas like tobeintheminor- Ilearned and frustratingattimes. I that responsibility. andIthoroughly enjoyed pus, progressive communityoncam- school asoneoftheleaders ofthe would notbethepersonIam wished Iwas inthemajorityas didn’t admitthatitfeltlonely ve causesofsocialjusticethanI majority-conserv as whenIentered. ere certainly many timeswhen yself andmoreconfidentinm I I left Wake Forest moresureof ol elig huh if though, would belying, www.wfu.edu/wowf e on an ati y v c e hallenge student ent, S EPTEMBER but ere - y 0611 2006

LETTERS N MONDAY MORNING, May 21, 1956, Hubert Poteat Ostood on the rostrum in the Wake Forest College chapel in Wake Fifty years ago, Forest, North Carolina, poised to Wake Forest College deliver the very last Commencement address ever to be given on the cam- took the road pus. Outside, a fleet of moving vans less traveled. packed with the belongings of faculty And that has made and staff members, and visible to those gathered in the sparely finished chapel, all the difference. stood parked and ready to roll the following morning one-hundred-and- seven miles to the west-northwest to a smattering of spanking new structures on a field of red soil ringed by woods on the fringes of the mill and tobacco town of Winston-Salem.

By David Fyten

12 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Harold W. Tribble trained his sights one-hundred-and-seven miles to the west-northwest, and Wake Forest moved forward.

SEPTEMBER 2006 13 Poteat—tall and dignified; an stentorian sermons and lectures in On that day, could the prescient esteemed Latin scholar and beloved churches and classrooms; the pop tunes among those assembled have foreseen teacher; son of the legendary “Doctor of the day—“I’m Getting Sentimental the future —the radical transformation of Billy” who as college president had Over You,” “In the Mood,” “Star Dust,” a small, provincial, sectarian college with defied the Baptist preachers three and “Moonlight Serenade”— playing modest reach, ambitions, and resources decades earlier over the teaching of for students as they waited for their into a secular university of the first evolution and in so doing asserted the principle of intellectual freedom; a skilled organist who played at college functions; a Grand Mason of national stature—gave an address rich in reli- gious content. Having chosen to retire rather than relocate, he bid goodbye at the end of his talk to his lifelong friends and colleagues, wishing them well as they prepared to embark on their uncharted adventure. Then, as one who was there recalls, the old scholar, perhaps struggling to control his emotions, put his hands over his face for a moment as if to veil his grief. At that instant, the spiritually sensi- tive could surely have seen the hosts of apparitions on the dais behind Poteat —the specters of the intellectual giants and kindly townsfolk who had nur- tured generations of small-town and farm boys. From outside, borne by shafts of ethereal sunlight, they could hear the mournful wail of the “hoot owl”; the click-clack of pool balls at Shorty’s; the tolling of the Wait Hall bells signaling the start of classes or a sports victory; the huzzahs, emanating from the ramshackle stadium seating built into the sides of a hill, hailing another Peahead Walker gridiron tri- meals at Mrs. Newsome’s boarding rank, drawing students and assets from umph; the strains of a Beethoven house; the genial voices of unacquaint- across the nation and abroad? In the symphony wafting from an upper ed students greeting each other accord- chiaroscuro of the setting, could they room of Wait Hall, where someone— ing to the unwritten mandate that one have asked: Is all that has been, and all Thane McDonald, probably—had must speak to others he doesn’t know that will come, only a dream? stacked a set of scratchy 78 rpm when encountering them; the banter So far away, yes; but so near. So far records on the music department’s of ebullient youth waiting in line for ahead, true; but so clear. It was no turntable; the hellos from D.B. Bryan a ride to Raleigh on the “bumming” dream, but a vision. or Elliott Earnshaw or Grady Patterson corner by Miss Jo’s — fun-loving but The story of Wake Forest’s relocation peeking out from an office in the Wait earnest young men who would go on —or “removal,” as oldtimers in the Hall rotunda, or from Fred or Ben or to become North Carolina’s judges, town it forsook still call it—has many “Smut” at the College Soda Shop; the principals, and preachers. subplots, with a full complement of

14 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE colorful characters, intrigue, and melo- idyllic in the thirties and forties. On a minute’s walk from campus through drama. But in the end, it comes down to the south edge of town was a mill; to the Old Stone Arch and the railroad simple dynamics: the push of an iron- the west and north was the “Harrakin,” trestle, over which a lonely freight train, willed man determined to do the job he a hurricane-devastated district where dubbed the “hoot owl” for its haunting poor tenant farmers tilled the soil. The whistle, passed by in nocturnal melan- choly. On White Street, a student could find practically anything he might want or need except alcohol, which couldn’t be sold within a mile-and-a-quarter of the town limits. There was a men’s clothing store, Ben’s of Wake Forest, whose owner, Ben Aycock, was the father of Director of Alumni Activities Minta Aycock McNally (’74); two movie theaters, the Forest and the Collegiate, which changed films two or three times a week; Holding’s Drug and Soda Shop; Hardwick’s Pharmacy; Jones Hardware Store; Barney Powell’s barbershop; Mr. Satterwhite’s savings and loan; Snyder’s College Book Store, which sold text- books, school supplies, and ice cream sodas; the post office, a daily destination where postmistress Lib Greason, the wife of the basketball coach, greeted every student by name; and Shorty’s, a smoky hamburger joint and pool hall that was a den of iniquity to the right- eous but a perennial heaven on earth To generations of graduates and faculty, Old Wake Forest was an idyllic haven, to students. Every Friday and with landmarks like Holding’s Drug and Saturday, students would line up in Soda Shop on White Street, the Old Stone late afternoon at the “bumming” corner Arch, and the Old Well. to catch rides to Raleigh eighteen miles away for a dinner or movie or to date coeds at Meredith or Peace colleges. The compact campus, with its lush was hired for, and the pull of a power- rest of the town’s residents were bound stands of magnolias and flora, its rustic ful and prosperous family striving to up—body, heart, and spirit—with the brick buildings and walkways, and its better the community in its keeping. small Baptist institute for men founded landmark Old Well, was ringed by the a century before. stone wall affectionately named after WF U.S. Highway 1, the East Coast’s Dr. Tom, the College’s beloved African main north-south route in those days, American groundskeeper. Otherwise, O KNOW HOW FAR YOU’VE COME, became Main Street as it eased on into there was little separation between the Tyou need to know where you’ve town, making one hard turn, then College and community, physically or been. Or, put another way, to know who another, to skirt campus before ambling socially. Most of the townspeople were you are, you must know who you were. on to Key West and the Canadian bor- College alumni or the children of fac- The town and college of Wake Forest der. One block east of Main was the ulty members. At one point during the were, in the glow of autumnal memory, town’s commercial artery, White Street, Depression when the College could not

SEPTEMBER 2006 15 meet its payroll, merchants extended credit to the faculty and staff. Until the coming of female students, there were no dormitories on campus; students resided in the homes of townsfolk, often faculty members themselves. G. McLeod “Mac” Bryan (’41, MA ’44), who would go on to a distinguished and often controversial career as a profes- sor of religion and provocative change agent on the Reynolda Campus, epit- omized the student of his day. Like many others, he was the first in his family to attend college; his father, a truck farmer in nearby Garner, could afford Mac’s annual tuition of just under two hundred dollars but had to pay for his room and board with vegetables. Over the course of his four years, Bryan bunked in the basements and attics of religion professor W.R. Cullom, C.C. “Skinny” Pearson of his- tory and social sciences, and biology professor Elton C. Cocke. “Exposed as we were to their libraries and lives of scholarship, we were introduced to a completely new way of learning,” Bryan says, vividly recalling Cullom’s prolific writing habits that were said to have generated more words in The Biblical Recorder than by any other writer. “It lifted your sights.” Bryan would go on to earn a doctor of divinity degree from Yale University and return to his alma mater as an impassioned champion of racial justice. Cullom, Pearson, and Cocke were among a coterie of near-legendary teachers at the College. There was A.C. Reid of philosophy, who locked the door to his lecture room once class started, who whistled his S’s, who ended his typically impenetrable propositions The coterie of near-legendary Old Campus teachers included (top) with a quizzical “Hm-mh?” and whose C.C. “Skinny” Pearson of history and social sciences; (group shot, left to right) A. Lewis Aycock of English, Cronje Earp of classical following was borderline mystical; languages, Elton C. Cocke of biology, and Jasper Memory of Hubert Poteat, who probably could education; and (bottom) H. Broadus Jones of English. have had his pick of any Latin chair in the country; William E. “Old Bill”

16 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Speas of physics, who mumbled uncom- plimentary things under his breath as he graded papers; C.S. Black of chem- istry; E.E. Folk and H. Broadus Jones of English; Olin T. Binkley and J. Allen Easley of religion; Cocke’s colleague in biology, Ora C. Bradbury; and many others. Talented, principled, caring yet uncompromising, working on twelve- month contracts and teaching two out of every three summers for salaries that were south of $5,000 a year for associate professors as late as 1950; they were revered by the generations of students who arrived from the farms and towns of eastern North Carolina as diamonds in the rough and departed as gems, thanks to their mentors’ hew- ing and polishing. If a student’s parents could not afford the tuition, they would be ushered into the office of President Kitchin, who would tell them there Soon after esteemed Latin was no financial aid available but that scholar Hubert Poteat (right) delivered his farewell speech he could reduce their bill by, say, a at the last Old Campus third. Those in their eighties or nineties Commencement, grads recall education professor Jasper Mem- milled about near the moving vans that were ory’s annual Commencement contest poised to commence the for his faculty colleagues; the winner move to Winston-Salem the following day. knew the most names of the graduates as they paraded to the podium. And the students returned the affection. When hard times threatened to fore- stall publication of the first volume of G.W. Paschal’s (BA ’27, BS ’28, MD ’29) epic history of Wake Forest College, each member of the Class of 1935 mathematics professor K.T. Raynor WF donated five dollars toward it. (1914), in Old Wake Forest. “There “It was like heaven. It was as close to was no distinction between cap and N AN EFFORT TO SOP UP THE heaven as one could get on this earth,” gown and community,” Raynor goes Ination’s glut of medical practitioners, says Beulah Lassiter Raynor (MA ’47) on. “All the faculty members and the American Medical Association’s of Wake Forest in those years. Raynor students knew each other and went to Council on Medical Education voted came to the College in 1945 as one of church together, and you had a per- in fall 1935 to stop recognizing two- its first women faculty members, teach- sonal connection with your grocer.” year medical schools like Wake Forest’s ing half-time while assisting Dean of Raynor didn’t know it at the time, —one of three (along with UNC and Women Lois Johnson. Having retired but the seeds of the campus relocation Duke) in North Carolina and only ten from the English department in 1979 that would sprout a year after her in the nation. Forced to decide between and now ninety-six, she will be buried arrival had been sown a full decade closing the school and expanding it next to her late husband, longtime beforehand. to four years, Wake Forest chose the

SEPTEMBER 2006 17 latter course, knowing that would was away in the service. Despite the would have been impossible; the cam- require affiliating with a teaching admission of women in 1942, enroll- pus would be landlocked by the town, hospital. Baptist Hospital in Winston- ment in spring 1944 fell to 328, the with no further room to grow. Salem was an able and willing prospect, lowest figure since 1904. To weather So is it any wonder that Wake but for a time it appeared that UNC the storm, the School of Law merged Forest’s trustees would regard as would beat it to the punch. The Bow- with Duke’s for the war’s duration. manna from heaven an offer in early man Gray Foundation, established Desperate for revenue, the College 1946 of a major gift in perpetuity that from the estate of the recently deceased leased a large amount of space to the would enable the College not only to head of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Com- Army Finance Center, a decision that survive but also to grow and prosper; pany, offered to pay for relocating doubtlessly saved it from closing. and would vote swiftly and uncon- UNC’s school to Winston-Salem. The To remain affordable to the non- tentiously to accept it, even thought it deal was brokered by Odus M. Mull affluent, Wake Forest held tuition steady would mean pulling up roots that were of Shelby, a staunch supporter of at roughly eighty dollars a semester more than a century old, and pulling a Baptist institutions who would go on from 1930 to 1945. It managed to make heart from its body—a college from its to play a significant role in guiding ends meet with income from the Jabez small community? Contentiousness— Wake Forest’s future. A study com- Bostwick Fund (established with Stand- and there would be plenty of that— mittee appointed by the governor ard Oil stock donated by its namesake would come later; now was not the endorsed the plan. But after the state a half century earlier) and donations time to look a gift horse in the mouth. legislature appropriated money to keep from Baptist churches channeled the school in Chapel Hill, UNC backed through the State Convention, which WF out, and Mull turned to Wake Forest. controlled the College. But as costs With the blessing of President of the escalated after the war, and as the State N FOUR YEARS, the Bowman Gray College Thurman D. Kitchin (1905), Convention founded more colleges ISchool of Medicine had been a boon who had served as dean of the medical and spread church support more thinly to both Baptist Hospital and Winston- school himself for sixteen years, med- among them, Wake Forest found itself Salem. Winston-Salem’s dominant fam- ical school dean Coy C. Carpenter closer to destitution than prosperity. ilies —Hanes; Reynolds; Gray — had (’22) met in fall 1938 with Baptist Even after the flood of veterans flush admirable track records of perceiving Hospital officials and the Bowman with G.I. Bill cash sent enrollment need and meeting it; when R.J. Reynolds Gray Foundation trustees. In August soaring past 1,500 in fall 1946, Kitchin first started hiring black workers, for 1939, the Gray family and the College refused to raise tuition as other schools example, he established medical and jointly announced an agreement to had to maximize government payments educational facilities for them. Socially found a four-year medical school affil- lest that give the impression that Wake conscious members of the Reynolds iated with Baptist Hospital. Two years Forest was no longer affordable to family were sensitive to the absence of a later, the Bowman Gray School of families with modest incomes. Mean- substantial middle class and the educa- Medicine opened on Hawthorne Hill while, the prospects for generating sub- tional and economic disparities between in Winston-Salem. stantial external support in the Raleigh- the upper and lower classes in the city, Life at the College back in Wake Durham area were not encouraging for and they were vigilant for initiatives Forest went on pretty much as usual. a school that would have to compete that could ameliorate the situation. Then, World War II erupted—and with its bigger and more prestigious In October 1945, Gordon Gray had everything changed overnight. Within Big Four brethren, Duke, Carolina, a radical idea, which he refined with a few months of Pearl Harbor, faculty and State. To relieve the College’s dire Coy Carpenter. Wouldn’t reuniting Wake members and students started enlisting shortage of space, President Kitchin in Forest College with its medical school in the military, and within a year their 1938 announced a major fund drive, benefit everyone? He had a source of ranks were depleted. Classical languages only to see it fall far short of its goal. funds in mind: the Z. Smith Reynolds was down to two teachers for the bulk Construction of a new chapel was Foundation. Founded in 1936 by the of the war, and one of them, Hubert begun, but there wasn’t sufficient money three surviving Reynolds children as a Poteat, also served as choir director, to finish its interior. Even if the capital memorial to their late brother, its mis- standing in for Thane McDonald, who fund drive had succeeded, future growth sion was to support “charitable works in

18 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Movers and shakers in Winston- Salem whose money and influence made the move possible included (clockwise from upper left) Nancy Susan Reynolds, who made the College library her special cause; William Neal Reynolds, brother of R.J. and family patriarch whose endorsement of the move was crucial; Bowman Gray School of Medicine Dean Coy C. Carpenter, who beck- oned the distant College; Gordon Gray, the once-presidential aide and future-UNC president who masterminded the move and how to pay for it; and Charles and Mary Reynolds Babcock, who donated the land for the new campus and gave additional millions in real estate, rare books, and cash.

the state of North Carolina.” But after the trust’s money to relocating Wake The proposal submitted by the Z. a decade, its only significant project had Forest College to Winston-Salem. The Smith Reynolds Foundation board to been a syphilis eradication program to cost would be huge, he acknowedged the Wake Forest trustees in March 1946 which it devoted $50,000 a year. to “Old Will,” but the potential benefit called for an appropriation of $300,000 Gray, who would one day assume the would be equally so. Reynolds liked annually to the College in perpetuity presidency of the University of North the idea, and floated it by R.J.’s daugh- if it relocated to Winston-Salem. The Carolina, approached William Neal ter and son-in-law, Charles and Mary Babcocks offered to donate 300 acres Reynolds, R.J.’s brother and the family Reynolds Babcock, who were enthusi- of rolling wooded property they owned patriarch who chaired the foundation’s astic and spread their zeal among the contiguous to Reynolda, the family’s board, with the notion of dedicating rest of the family. estate on the northern fringe of the city,

SEPTEMBER 2006 19 for a campus. There had been some preliminary talk of creating a “Reynolds University” comprised of Wake Forest College and the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, but the family astutely opted to stipulate that there should be no name change. The move itself would be change enough. It was an offer a cash-strapped col- lege confronting a tenuous future could not refuse. Within a month, the College trustees and the board of the Left to right: Although Baptist State Convention voted to he supported it publicly, President Thurman D. Kitchin’s heart accept it. But as spring morphed into never was in the move; conservative Baptist summer and then autumn, the exu- minister and Board of Trustees chairman Casper C. berance darkened into discontent. Warren sought to control Tribble—and learned, like so many others, how difficult that was; The town, which drew its social and commercial sustenance from the College, split between those who of trustees quickly named an eight- political instincts, a student body acknowledged the inevitability of its member search committee headed by restive in its demands for a loosening departure, and others who tried to Charlotte minister and trustee Casper of restrictions on student life and an mount a grass-roots campaign to over- C. Warren (BA ’20, BLaws ’21). Every- end to the Vietnam War, thereby turn the decision. Although a majority one realized that the fate of the move sparing the campus from the turmoil of the faculty—including Ora Bradbury, hinged on its recommendation. Not that ravaged so many of America’s uni- Old Bill Speas, and Jasper Memory— everybody recognized that the very versities. Scales’ cosmopolitan tastes, spoke out in favor of it as a once-in-a- character of the College—its mission, charm, and political talents spawned lifetime shot at progress, an influential governance, and future direction— initiatives in the arts and foreign study few—notably, A.C. Reid and E.E. also was at stake. and helped restore Wake Forest’s Folk—were vociferously opposed. relations with its alumni and, through Kitchin’s initial approval had been WF a modified covenant, the Baptists, pre- lukewarm at best, and as time wore paring the way for the eventual gov- on, it was plain to many that his heart CROSS THE YEARS, Wake Forest ernance severance and the remarkable simply was not in it. Kitchin disguised Ahas been blessed with presidents financial, qualitative, and building his feelings in public, but without his well-suited to their times—the right accomplishments of the administration full energy behind it, the fund drive to men for the right moments in the of Thomas K. Hearn Jr., between 1983 build the new campus lagged badly. In institution’s history. In the first quarter and 2005. 1948, the College actually spent more of the twentieth century, William Louis But of all these great leaders, perhaps on fundraising than it raised. Poteat(1877)—Dr. Billy—protected none was better equipped, or faced Kitchin’s health, which had been the College from outside efforts to more adverse conditions at a more tenuous for years, declined rapidly regiment instruction. Kitchin kept the critical juncture in the institution’s after he suffered a sequence of small College solvent during the Depression history, than Harold Wayland Tribble, heart attacks in 1948. Physically and and World War II, and his leadership in president from 1950 to 1967. It is no emotionally drained, he submitted his moving the medical school to Winston- overstatement to say that without resignation in April 1949, to take effect Salem started its rise to the first rank Tribble, Wake Forest would not have in July 1950, ending his thirty-three- of America’s academic medical institu- relocated. And without the move, not year tenure at Wake Forest as a physi- tions. James Ralph Scales, who served only would it not have become the ology instructor, medical school dean, from 1967 to 1983, quieted, through world-class university it is, it might and, since 1930, president. The board his openness, conscience, and liberal have languished as a small denomina-

20 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE and some schools or departments devoted to scholarly specialization, [as well as] a graduate school of the first rank.” His remarks about culture and university status must have startled institutional conservatives like Folk and Reid, as well as preachers who were saddled and ready to ride from the pulpit as vigilantes in hot pursuit of secularism. To revitalize the stagnating capital campaign, Tribble literally hit the ground running. In his first year alone, venerable Old Campus professors A.C. Reid and E.E. Folk brought their minds he addressed eleven alumni groups; to Winston-Salem, but left their hearts, souls, and preached or conducted special services permanent residences back in Old Wake Forest. at twenty churches; led a week of evangelism at the First Baptist Church in Durham; spoke at six churches, tional institution, living hand to mouth offering the job to Tribble, Warren three conferences, eight civic clubs, in relative obscurity. attached a second confidential letter and four Baptist association meetings; Tribble’s appointment, like so many pleading with Tribble to “come to the preached the sermon at Gordon Gray’s decisions that ultimately prove wise, rescue” of the conservatives in their inauguration as UNC president; deliv- had an element of good fortune. The effort to stack the Board of Trustees ered two college and five high school search committee’s first choice, Univer- with preachers who would endeavor addresses; and traveled from Massa- sity of Richmond President George to eradicate the “cynicism, liberalism, chusetts to Florida, with several exten- Modlin, turned the job down because independence, etc.,” he said had sive road trips through North Carolina. he doubted that the funds needed for a “crept into the school.” Warren listed By November, the new president’s campus—originally estimated at about fifty-two Baptist ministers “and 500 enthusiasm and shoe leather had six million dollars, but escalating rap- others I could mention” who could boosted to $7.5 million the sum raised idly because of delays and inflation— be counted on to support Tribble in cash and pledges for the move, could be raised. Tribble, an ordained “100 percent” in any efforts he would prompting the State Convention to minister and respected preacher and mount to secure control of Wake authorize the College to begin con- scholar who earned graduate degrees Forest for the fundamentalists. struction at its discretion. Tribble and taught at Southern Baptist Theo- If Tribble responded to Warren in directed architect Jens F. Larson to set logical Seminary before assuming the accepting the offer, there is no record up headquarters in what is now Amos presidency of Andover Newton Theo- of it. As Warren and many others Cottage on the Graylyn estate near the logical Seminary, seemed like a prudent would learn over the years, Harold site of the new campus. alternative for a college at which regu- Tribble was his own man and nobody Visitors to campus today who lar chapel attendance was mandatory. else’s—fearless in taking unpopular admire the lovely architecture, with its But there was more involved than met stands and not mincing his words in classic Georgian elegance, consistent the eye. Fundamentalists wielded for- communicating or rationalizing them. red brick motif, and orderly site plan, midable influence in the Baptist State In his inaugural speech, he declared can credit the gifted but difficult man Convention, and from their bully that the development of the College whose vision it was. Roughly six pulpit they denounced campus life as into a university was “inescapably months after the Reynolds offer was riddled with moral turpitude and implicit in the removal and enlarge- accepted, Kitchin named a committee called for even more rigid standards ment program,” and that he foresaw it to oversee campus planning and con- of behavior. In Casper Warren, they as “including all the areas of learning struction. Charles Babcock, an ad hoc had a surreptitious ally. To the letter that are essential in culture at its best, advisor to the group, pushed hard for

SEPTEMBER 2006 21 the hiring of Larson, a New Yorker who had served twenty-seven years in the Dartmouth College building program and fifteen years as Colby College’s landscape architect. Larson had a repu- tation for conservatism at a time when modernism, with its canonical use of glass, steel, and concrete and its appli- cation of trendy design elements such as expanses of south-facing glass and veiling walls of staggered concrete blocks, was all the rage. Although critics, including the North Carolina Society of Architects, pilloried Larson as hopelessly behind the times, Bab- cock convinced the committee that his style would engender the kind of visual continuity with Old Wake Forest that could help mitigate the social and cultural dislocation that was bound to accompany the move. In hindsight, the appointment of Larson was a stroke of genius, as so much of postwar-period modernism seems dated or downright ugly today. But that genius came at a price. “He [Larson] was autocratic and egotistical as hell,” says Harold S. “Pete” Moore, who came to Wake Forest in 1953 during the initial construction phase as superintendent of buildings and grounds and would go on to serve for more than thirty years as Reynolda Campus facilities management director. “He never went to architecture school, but he had very strong opinions, and he was assertive in putting contractors in their place. He knew who wrote the checks and was solicitous of anyone who influenced the ownership, but he was not always respectful of those over Background: an aerial shot of the new campus taken around the time it opened. Buildings, shown under construction, include (clockwise from top) Wait Chapel; the Z. Smith Reynolds whom he had the upper hand.” Library; Davis Residence Hall; and W.N. Reynolds Gymnasium. Larson’s early vision for the new campus was quite elaborate, proposing, reminiscent of White Street and bisect- accommodating two thousand students for example, a women’s complex ed by a thoroughfare from Reynolda on an orderly grid, with its axis an remote from the main campus and Road to the west entrance to campus. imaginary line from Pilot Mountain conceiving the quadrangle as a com- But in the end, a more conservative (representing nature) to the R.J. mercial district with stores and shops plan was chosen. It called for facilities Reynolds headquarters tower down-

22 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE troversy. Douglas “Peahead” Walker, the winningest football coach in College history and hugely popular despite his reputation for off-the- field improprieties, abruptly resigned after Tribble refused to give him a fifteen-hundred-dollar pay raise. Tribble explained that granting Walker the raise he wanted would have hiked his salary above that of any member of the faculty, but critics were not mol- lified. The incident would come back to bedevil the president. Fortunately, there were compensating positive developments. To keep pace with the cost and rejuvenate fundrais- ing, Tribble that spring announced the largest concentrated fund drive in Col- lege history. Anonymous donors (later revealed to be William Neal Reynolds and his niece, Nancy Susan Reynolds) offered to donate two million dollars to campus construction if an addition- al three million dollars were raised by July 1, 1952. Tribble knew that to fuel the challenge-grant drive and quell the raging controversies, the groundbreak- ing ceremony, scheduled for October 15, 1951, had to be extraordinary. He rejected as too unacademic and pedes- trian the suggestion of Eugene Olive— director of alumni affairs and former chaplain and pastor of Wake Forest Baptist Church who had been instru- mental in convincing the trustees to accept the Reynolds offer and then fundraised indefatigably for the move— to highlight the event with a football game against Carolina. Instead, Tribble parlayed Gordon Gray’s contacts from Left to right: Richard Reynolds, Jens Larson, and Charles Babcock survey campus plans in his time as a White House assistant, 1956 with the newly completed Reynolda Hall in the background. along with the influence of alumnus Gerald Johnson (1911), an esteemed town (signifying commerce) that ran doubled and opposition to the move columnist for the Baltimore Sun, into through the chapel steeple (symboliz- was gaining momentum. It was at that securing the President of the United ing God). moment, when he needed every iota States, Harry S Truman, as speaker. By early 1951, the relocation’s of political influence he could muster, Conservative Baptists weren’t thrilled original cost estimate had more than that Tribble became embroiled in con- about the choice of Truman, with his

SEPTEMBER 2006 23 the gym location was a bog that wasn’t apparent from the surface; footings had to be widened and extra stone filling and drainage work done. One especially vexing spot was the dip to the east of what are now Carswell and Bostwick halls. “It was an unbelievable quagmire trying to get concrete trucks through there,” Moore says. “To keep it passable, we kept dumping fill material into it. Old battery cases from Douglas Battery lasted for a while, but they got Above: U.S. President mashed down into the muck. We finally Harry S Truman, far used bricks from a demolished school.” left, was the featured guest at groundbreaking (Terrestrial challenges would be on- ceremonies in October going on the Reynolda Campus. An 1951. Left, Truman underground stream found during ini- uses the occasion to deliver an important tial site preparation for the Scales Fine foreign policy address. Arts Center in the late sixties required major pre-construction engineering work.) Red dust and mud blew or was tracked into every cranny imaginable. Later, when grass wouldn’t grow on the Quad, landscapers scattered tobacco rough language and pro-civil rights sustain a sense of optimism, self-iden- stems over it to supply nitrogen, prompt- inclinations. But it would be difficult tity, and resolve. ing one Old Gold and Black wag to to overstate the importance of his The groundbreaking ceremony, at warn pedestrians against walking on appearance. Not only did it ensure which Truman delivered an important it lest they get cancer of the feet. national exposure for the occasion, foreign policy address covered by the North Carolina’s Baptist churches it sent a clear signal that the move nation’s media, was celebratory, despite made important contributions toward would indeed happen. Southeastern the lingering pall from the death of the new campus, but it would not have Baptist Theological Seminary bought William Neal Reynolds a month earlier. been built, and certainly would not the Old Campus in 1950 and moved Within days, general contractors George have been nurtured in its formative in almost immediately, so buildings W. Kane, Fowler-Jones, and Frank L. years, without the burgeoning support were crammed, with older seminarians Blum went to work in earnest. The cost of the Reynoldses. At the end of 1954, shoulder to shoulder with traditional- estimate for the twenty-two buildings the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation age college students. Dislocation, envisioned had risen by late 1951 to upped its annual allocation to the Col- perhaps even disquiet, could have more than twenty-seven million dollars lege to $500,000 and tacked on an afflicted the community. Off campus, (even that figure would prove unrealis- extra $40,000 for every million dollars the struggle to raise money and the tic), so initial-phase plans were pared raised by the Baptist State Convention incessant carping and sniping of to twelve structures: chapel; library; for capital needs. Charles and Mary opponents of relocation and Tribble science building; administrative-student Reynolds Babcock alone donated close were an insidious and vicious circle. services building; law school building; to seven-and-a-half million dollars in The groundbreaking, followed by gym; and six residence halls —four for cash, rare books, real estate, and Rey- periodic bus trips of faculty, staff, and men and two for women. nolds stock. Besides the land for the students to the new campus site It wasn’t long before crews began to campus, the six hundred acres they over the next four years, helped fill encounter the site problems that would gave to Wake Forest included the in pockets of flagging morale and dog the project throughout. Beneath sylvan field along Reynolda Road to

24 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Coliseum Drive, the Groves Stadium All this, coupled with lingering motives of “Basil and his crowd” as a site, and Reynolda Gardens. Nancy anger over the Peahead Walker episode “plot to gain control of the College.” Susan Reynolds made the library her and the persistent belief of many in It is doubtful Tribble would have own special cause, giving some two mil- the Baptist State Convention that the overcome his trials or have raised lion dollars to its endowment. These College was not sufficiently Christian money as effectively as he did locally figures from the fifties and sixties would in all of its practices, prompted out- without the backing of trustee Irving have a much higher dollar value today. going board chairman Basil Watkins E. Carlyle (1917) of Winston-Salem. A good portion of the Reynolds (1915), a conservative, to appoint A founding partner of one of the state’s largesse can be attributed to Tribble’s a nine-member panel in November largest and most prominent law firms powers of persuasion. His productive 1955 to investigate the “overall situa- and an early and energetic member relationship with the family is rendered tion” at Wake Forest. Behind Watkins of the Wake Forest College Planning all the more remarkable by the fact was Grover Jones, a fundamentalist and Building Committee, Carlyle that he was offending or angering so preacher who recently had been helped to offset the more reactionary many other major constituents at the elected president of the Baptist State members of the board with his time. After a hit by a Carolina tackler Convention. But after surveys had businesslike and relatively liberal injured a star Wake Forest player in a been distributed to the faculty and approach. To protect the move, he football game, Tribble publicly accused staff, the board suddenly squelched shielded, defused, and bridged more the Tar Heels of coaching their players the inquiry in December, and then than one bullet, land mine, and to play dirty. The ensuing uproar dissi- announced in February that no pitfall for the president. pated months later, but Gordon Gray change in the College administration harbored ill feelings toward Tribble would be made “at this time.” Clearly, WF for years. A series of conflicts and un- a majority of the board was concerned popular decisions involving assorted about the political and public relations VER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR coaches and athletic administrators — damage that removing Tribble could Obetween the springs of 1955 and James H. Weaver, the strong-willed but do to the relocation at that critical 1956, all but one of the twelve original successful athletics director who resis- junction. Afterward, a defiant Tribble buildings were certified as completed ted Tribble’s domination and finally wrote a letter to new board chair and turned over to College ownership. quit to become the first commissioner Odus Mull (1902, JD 1903) asserting They were Wait Chapel, the Z. Smith of the Atlantic Coast Conference; no wrongdoing and castigating the Weaver’s successor, Paddison W. Pres- ton, who chafed under what he deemed to be arbitrary and capricious rule by Tribble and ultimately resigned along with football coach Tom Rogers in late 1955; baseball coach Taylor Sanford, who quit one year after guiding the Deacons to the national championship because of the “disloyalty” reflected in the president’s earlier attempt to fire him based on rumors about his per- sonal life; basketball coach Murray Greason (JD ’26), whom Tribble wanted to have fired for failing to teach his Tribble’s unpopular decisions involving sports and his players to shoot free throws accurately conflicts with athletics department officials—including, left to —fomented student demonstrations right, football coach Peahead Walker, athletics director Jim Weaver, and basketball coach Murray Greason—undermined and unfounded rumors that Tribble his political position and almost cost him his job. planned to deemphasize athletics and pull Wake Forest out of the ACC.

SEPTEMBER 2006 25 Reynolds Library, Salem Hall, Reynolda Union functions shoulder to shoulder Hall, Carswell Hall, the Davis, Taylor, with administrative offices and class- Poteat, and Efird dormitories for men, rooms. It wasn’t until Winston and and the Bostwick and Johnson dormi- Harold W. Tribble halls were opened tories for women. (The sole incomplete in 1961 and 1963, respectively, that structure was the William Neal Reynolds overcrowding began to ease. Gymnasium, which was ready by fall Kinks of all kinds—plumbing and semester.) Having packed up the Old drainage problems, inoperative electri- Campus by that final Commencement cal outlets, etcetera—are common to day, the College moved into its fresh new construction, and the new campus new digs in time for summer school. was no exception. Just before fall classes (Moore relates one bit of intoxicating began, Winston-Salem was inundated irony in the move: the library books of by torrential rainfall; water backed up a Baptist college were packed in liquor in numerous buildings, and rivers boxes provided by the state Alcoholic surging down hallways forced the tem- Beverage Control Board.) porary evacuation of the lower-campus dorms. Students groused at first about the inconveniences and the Martian landscape of the new location; a group of Old Campus expatriates calling themselves the LAMBOCs — Let’s All Move Back to the Old Campus—sup- plied a steady flow of mostly tongue- in-cheek commentary. But the whining largely evaporated after the last of them graduated in 1959. The College implemented special measures to smooth the adjustment of faculty and staff. It set up a three hun- dred thousand dollar fund to buy the houses that faculty members couldn’t sell in Old Wake Forest, and it built a Aside from Salem Hall for the sci- transitional housing complex—Faculty ences and Carswell Hall for the law Apartments — on the western fringe of school, there were no classroom build- campus for them. (For many, it was ings at the outset. For the first half- not so transitional; longtime women’s dozen years (and, for some departments, athetics staff member Dot Casey still longer), classes were conducted in the lives in the unit she moved into in library, Reynolda Hall, and Wingate 1956.) But some found it hard to sever Hall in the rear of the chapel. The the ties. Until their retirements in 1965, library, for example, housed English, A.C. Reid and E.E. Folk shared a history, political science, and classical Winston-Salem apartment during the and modern languages, along with the week and returned to their homes and College Theatre. Reynolda Hall func- wives in Old Wake Forest on weekends. Left: the newly completed tioned as a sort of all-purpose adminis- What really sustained the sense of quadrangle with its beloved elm trees, which would fall trative and student services building, community faculty had enjoyed in victim to disease in the late with the dining “Pit,” Pub Row, the Wake Forest was the formation of eighties. Right: the Wake Forest community processes into Wait campus radio station, and other College Faculty Drive. Before it even moved, Chapel for the campus dedica- tion convocation in fall 1956.

26 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE the College subdivided a large tract south of campus and sold the lots to faculty and staff. The first five houses built by developer Jack Kesler (whose daughter married longtime physics professor Howard Shields) were sold to Jasper Memory, O.C. Bradbury, reg- istrar Grady Patterson, H. Broadus Jones, and Henry Stroupe of history. Stroupe, who taught his first course at Wake Forest as a senior in 1935 under the auspices of a New Deal program and joined the faculty full time in 1946, taught Southern history and served as founding dean of the Division of Graduate Studies from 1961 until his retirement in 1984. “After the front yard was graded, we had a mess of red dirt,” recalls Stroupe, now ninety-one. “You couldn’t come into the house without tracking red mud everywhere. The day we moved in, the welcoming committee, which was chaired by the president of Salem College, served us lunch. You might say it rolled out the red carpet for us, literally as well as figuratively.” To further stabilize and sustain the community, the College brought along Wake Forest Baptist Church and its popular pastor (and college chaplain), J. Glenn Blackburn. “The move was one of the saddest events of my life, but it was nice to know we would have our same neighbors,” says Beulah Raynor. “And it helped that we brought our church with us.” The same depart- mental conviviality that characterized the Old Campus continued on the new. For a good while after he arrived at Wake Forest in 1961, history professor J. Edwin Hendricks, along with his fellow newcomers, would be taken to the “Pit” for coffee and conversation every morning at ten by Forrest W. Clonts, who had been a member of the department since the twenties. But across the years, as turnover and

SEPTEMBER 2006 27 expansion transformed the mainly Union, and the Dean’s Office’s first white, male, Southern, and Baptist intelligent record-keeping system. Into faculty and staff, Wake Forest’s people a history department that was top- gravitated out toward Winston-Salem’s heavy with Southern historians, for neighborhoods, clubs, and churches example, Archie hired its first-ever and formed their own circles of friends specialists in Europe, Africa, Russia, apart from the institution. Wake and Asia. Among the twenty-six faculty Forest retains the love and loyalty of members he appointed in 1957— the its own to this day, and intradepart- one year he had sole hiring authority mental fraternization still occurs. But —were English professor Elizabeth the physical proximity, homogeneous Phillips and a number of others who culture, cross-College socializing— would go on to stellar careers at Wake the authentic sense of family—that Forest or elsewhere. was Old Wake Forest is no more. “I cannot think of anybody who had a greater impact on Wake Forest WF in a shorter period of time than Bill Archie,” says Wilson, an English pro- HEN WAKE FOREST COLLEGE fessor and beloved teacher of Romantic Wreplanted itself in the red clay poetry who served as an asssistant of Reynolda, only its location was dif- under Archie. “He was a person of meeting, Archie called the roll on a ferent. It was, as former President Hearn exceptional integrity and honesty and motion he wanted passed. From the once called it, the old school in a new took an interest in everything that was back of the hall could be heard a soli- place. But by the time Tribble retired happening on campus. He was busy tary, emphatic “No!” “Would you like eleven years later, it was vastly changed, all the time getting things done.” Mac to bark again?” was the dean’s retort. with all of the elements in place that Bryan regards Archie as the quintes- It should come as no surprise that would precipitate an even more radical sential outsider. “He wasn’t a Baptist, Archie didn’t suffer Baptist interference metamorphosis in years to come. and he wasn’t afraid to hire somebody in the College’s affairs quietly, and after Of all the many watershed decisions who wasn’t a Southerner or whom only a year, he quit to become dean Tribble made in the final decade of his someone [at Wake Forest] didn’t know,” at Emory University. Despite his brief presidency, few had more long-range he says. “Bill Archie was a hand pump tenure, Archie bequeathed to Wake importance than his appointments of for generating a university.” Forest a lasting legacy of adopting the William C. Archie and Edwin G. Wilson, Stories of Archie’s personality are best standards and practices of aca- Jr. (’43), as deans of the College. the stuff of folklore. “He was the demic administration. Archie, who had taught French on essence of indiscretion,” says Thomas Wilson, who for two years after the Old Campus and served on Eisen- E. Mullen, a European historian who Archie’s departure shared the dean’s hower’s staff as a liaison to the French was hired by Archie in 1957 and went position with chemistry professor John during the Second World War, was on to serve as Dean of the College for W. Nowell before accepting Tribble’s Tribble’s choice to succeed the venera- more than two decades until his retire- offer of a permanent appointment in ble D.B. Bryan as dean in 1956. To say ment in 1994. “You always knew 1960, couldn’t have been more differ- that Archie hit the ground like a torna- where you stood with him.” One day, ent than his predecessor in personality do does not diminish the power of a Archie was escorting an academic and temperament. Whereas Archie was tornado. In less than two years, he official from another school down a blunt and even offensive, Wilson was established an Asian studies program; hallway when the visitor paused at a congenial and diplomatic. Where Archie diversified homogenous departments doorway and inquired about the depart- sought his own counsel, Wilson was by hiring promising young scholars ment inside. “It’s a good department,” collegial and an instinctive consensus- with diverse specialties and doctorates Archie said. “Give me a shotgun and builder. But in their uncompromising from eminent universities; and created two shells and I’ll make it a great commitment to quality, they were the Admissions Office, the College department.” Another time, at a faculty alike. Early in his long and illustrious

28 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE into a nearby shopping center parking lot.) A disgruntled group of College alumni, meanwhile, mounted a mas- sive mail campaign to oust Tribble; among the signers of their petition was Hubert Poteat. Then, in 1958, the Com- mittee of 17, a conservative Convention clique, announced that it had found evidence of serious “moral and social problems” at Wake Forest and called for the restoration of mandatory chapel attendance, with at least two services each week of strictly devotional nature. Left: blunt but brilliant Dean of the College William C. Archie, center, who in his brief tenure made superb faculty hires like (photos at right) Elizabeth Phillips of And in 1959, the Convention sought English and future dean Thomas E. Mullen of history and charted the school’s transi- the right of prior approval before the tion toward a modern university, is flanked by his assistant deans and co-successors, Edwin G. Wilson Jr. of English (to his right) and John W. Nowell of chemistry (to his trustees adopted any changes to the left). Wilson eventually would ascend to solo occupancy of the deanship and lead the College charter. College to even higher scholastic stature. Tribble was saddened but also defi- ant, for although none of these efforts career as dean, provost, and senior vice leave office, a college that was a uni- and measures prevailed, they convinced president, Wilson focused on filling versity in fact also became one in name. him that the College’s relationship with the vacuum of programs for superior the Baptists had to change. A devoted students by creating interdisciplinary WF Baptist himself, he hoped Wake Forest and departmental honors programs could manifest its close spiritual iden- and fostering intellectual opportunities HE SIX-YEAR PERIOD BETWEEN tification with the denomination while such as the revived Euzelian and Philo- T1957 and 1963 might well have retaining control over its own affairs. mathesian literary societies. He also been the most eventful, tumultuous, But the events of 1957–1959 made disassembled any remaining barriers to and pivotal in Wake Forest’s history. It clear to him that the governance of the building the best faculty possible by began on the afternoon of April 26, College was in crisis, and that fund- hiring more women and Wake Forest’ 1957, when the trustees, acceding to raising would atrophy unless the board first Jewish and African American fac- student petitions, voted to allow danc- was opened up. In early 1962, Tribble ulty members. By the end of Tribble’s ing on campus (subject to certain and the board prepared a proposal to presidency, Wake Forest was attracting conditions) for the first time since the allow the election of a minority of more top-caliber students and schol- Baptist State Convention had banned trustees who were not Baptists or ars, and from more diverse localities it in 1937. A photograph of students North Carolinians, as was required by and backgrounds, than ever before. dancing spontaneously on the Reynolda charter. Ministers attacked the plan at In 1961, Tribble moved the College Hall patio was printed in Life maga- the Convention meeting in November, closer to his goal of university status by zine. But the ensuing uproar among but that did not deter the board, which securing trustee approval of the restora- Baptist leaders not only prompted the in April 1963 adopted a resolution that tion of the graduate studies program board to rescind its decision in October; would permit up to sixteen of the thirty- that had been suspended in 1950. it also precipitated the largest State six board members to be non-Baptists Although modest in its scope, offering Convention meeting attendance in or out-of-state residents as nominated only master’s degrees on the Reynolda history a month later, at which larger by the Board of Visitors. Tribble lob- Campus—and those only in mathemat- issues of College control were aired. bied passionately for the measure at the ics, history, physics, biology, chemistry, (Back on campus, students burned in Convention meeting in Wilmington and English—it symbolized an impor- effigy the visible leader of the anti- that November. But although it gar- tant shift in institutional identity. Six dancing faction, and they started an nered majority approval, it required years later, as Tribble was preparing to impromptu dance that spilled over two-thirds for passage, and it fell 194

SEPTEMBER 2006 29 votes short out of 2,700 cast. On his way back to Winston-Salem, caravans of students met the despondent Tribble and escorted him to campus, where additional thousands of cheering spec- tators lined the streets waiting to wel- come him. For a president who had Tribble is greeted by known mostly rebuke in his thirteen cheering throngs upon his return to campus years in office, the spontaneous out- from the 1963 Baptist burst must have been gratifying indeed. State Convention meet- ing in Wilmington, at A year later, Tribble and the trustees which he narrowly failed tried again with a scaled-back proposal, in his attempt to obtain but this time, it fell far short of even partial governance autono- my for the College. Later, majority approval. It would be his final standing on the Reynolda attempt. In one sense, he had failed to Hall balcony, he addresses a crowd on the issue. change an outmoded and problematic governance relationship. But in another, he had succeeded by taking the first steps of a journey that would conclude triumphantly two decades later, when the University severed its formal ties ments mathematics professor Jack the president sternly. Three days later, with the Baptist State Convention and Sawyer made at a faculty meeting in Tribble ardently hailed that same jun- positioned itself on the threshold of fall 1960 and offered him the post of ior faculty member on the Quad, with another two-decade period—this one faculty representative to the ACC and no acknowledgement of what had of remarkable progress. NCAA—immediately after the meeting. transpired at the meeting. “He had to Sawyer, who would establish Wake be very, very strong—otherwise, [the WF Forest’s computer science program in College] never would have moved,” 1962, accepted the offer a few days Sawyer says. “It didn’t always show in T IS TEMPTING TO DRAW Harold later and went on to serve with distinc- faculty meetings, but he was really a ITribble with a black pencil on white tion in those capacities for twenty-eight very warm and human person.” In paper: clean lines; no abstraction or years, including stints as ACC president, addition to a penchant for blunt talk, stylization. But to paint an accurate NCAA vice president, and a member Hendricks says, Tribble had “a genuine portrait, one must use a full palette of the infractions committee that gave knack for speaking the language of and subtle strokes and shading, for he Southern Methodist University the so- good, common sense” that appealed to was far more complex and enigmatic called “death penalty” in the eighties. country Baptists. One time, Tribble than was apparent to the casual eye. More often than not, Tribble’s first went to the mountains to see an old- For example, impulsiveness was impulse proved to be the correct one. timer about a modest cash gift and thought by some to be his prime weak- “He was an excellent judge of charac- came away with a hundred acres of ness. After the 1957 season, he abrupt- ter,” Stroupe says. “He consistently prime oak forest, which eventually ly shunted popular basketball coach brought in the right kind of people.” yielded the paneling that graces Wait Murray Greason into an athletic admin- Tribble could be exceedingly curt Chapel, formal rooms, and podia istration post and appointed in his and autocratic. For much of his across campus. place the flamboyant, evangelical Hor- tenure, he presided over faculty meet- We tend to think of dictators as ace “Bones” McKinney, who played ings with an iron hand. On one occa- reactionaries, but Wake Forest’s was a and coached under his predecessor. sion, a junior faculty member had the liberal. When famed African American McKinney would lead the Deacons to temerity to voice an opinion contrary singer Marian Anderson was denied a their only Final Four appearance five to Tribble’s on a particular issue. hotel room while in Winston-Salem years later. Tribble liked some com- “Young man, you can sit down,” said for a concert in the sixties, Tribble

30 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE pressured Tribble to punish them and tripled; the percentage of its faculty prohibit future protest, he refused. with doctorates went from 40 percent When College news director Russell to 70 percent; and its enrollment Brantley (’54) published a novel, The increased from 1,750 to over 3,000. Education of Jonathan Beam, which The campus had moved, graduate ridiculed efforts to prohibit dancing at studies had resumed, the College had “Convention College,” in 1962 and been integrated, honors and Asian Baptist leaders clamored for his firing, studies programs had begun, depart- Tribble said no.When in that same year ments had been overhauled, and the The Student literary magazine printed institution’s relationship with the a scurrilous parody of Billy Graham’s Baptists had shifted— subtly, perhaps, campus crusade, Tribble suspended but also perceptibly and irreversibly. publication but stopped short of out- Always something of a loner, with right cessation. When history professor relatively few close friends and con- David Smiley said some things in his tacts on the faculty and in the commu- Sunday School class that Baptist lead- nity (he was never asked to join the ers considered blasphemous, Tribble Downtown Rotary Club), Tribble left stood behind him. Most importantly, Wake Forest and never looked back, when Mac Bryan and others mounted rarely returning to campus from the a campaign to integrate Wake Forest, day he retired until his death in 1985. which culminated with the admission In his memoirs, he mused that the authorized housing her at Wake Forest. of Edward Reynolds (’64) of Ghana in College might have erred in retaining College Chaplain Ed Christman (’50, 1963, Tribble said nothing. For years, its name; that its title properly belonged JD ’53) didn’t relish the prospect of Bryan was openly critical of Tribble for to the little town that was its birthplace bringing a particular proposition to the having refused to publicly support the and had nurtured it for so very long. president for his approval in 1965: a cause. But today, even Bryan himself We might liken Harold Tribble to a coeducational group of service-minded acknowledges the wisdom behind Trib- mythic Western hero—the lonesome students sought permission to live ble’s silence. “He didn’t support it, but stranger who rides into town, sees a together in a house in a poor section of he did not oppose it, which was cru- job to be done and does it in the face town so they could be closer to the cial,” Bryan says. “The move alone was of hostile opposition, and rides off, population they served. Male and a Sword of Damocles hanging over his never to be seen again. Behind him, female students living together would head. I think he knew that he couldn’t he left pioneers in an established have scandalized many then, especially have held his job had he ventured far- settlement—pilgrims with progress Baptists—but to Christman’s surprise, ther out [into the integration fray].” on a limitless horizon. Tribble approved it immediately. “He had a mission-mindedness about him,” WF Grateful acknowledgement for research Christman says. “He saw the mission assistance and use of the photographs that of the school to be church-related and N OCTOBER 14, 1966, one month appear in this article is given to Mollie to cultivate people of good character, Oshy of his sixty-eighth birthday, Rawls of the Frank Jones Collection at the and [the proposal] conformed with that. an admittedly weary Tribble submitted Forsyth County Public Library; Julia He was willing to take some risks and his resignation, effective the following Bradford and Vicki Johnson of Wake push the envelope for the right causes.” June 30. From the day he assumed Forest University Special Collections and But the true measure of the man office until the day he left, Wake Forest’s Archives at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library; can be found not so much in what he total assets grew from $10.5 million to Ed Morris of the Wake Forest Birthplace did as in what he did not do. When $91.3 million; its budget rose from $1.6 Society in Wake Forest, North Carolina; ten students were arrested for partici- million to $13.6 million; its total library and Richard Murdoch and Todd Crumley pating in a 1960 lunch-counter sit-in holdings increased from 109,092 to of the Reynolda House Museum of for integration, and external constituents 369,767; its faculty salary budget nearly American Art in Winston-Salem.

SEPTEMBER 2006 31 Art and Craft By Kim McGrath

NYONE FORTUNATE ENOUGH her husband at his analogy, and the Vona Groarke and to meet Vona Groarke and moment captures the easy humor Conor O’Callaghan A Conor O’Callaghan, Wake between two friends who have been Forest’s poets-in-residence, will be together for seventeen years—making share the magic and gently drawn into a world where poetry seem as comfortable as the poetry is a way of life. As husband family’s favorite well-worn easy chair. melody of poetry. and wife sharing an appointment, The couple, from Dundalk County O’Callaghan acknowledges the unusual Louth, Ireland, have been teaching nature of their position. “We look a introductory and advanced poetry- bit like the Sonny and Cher of Irish writing classes during their two-year poetry,” he quips. Groarke laughs with tenure that ends this academic year.

32 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Both agree that no matter what level O’Callaghan use a method considered take something away from our poetry they are teaching, their goal is to somewhat old-fashioned in teaching workshops into their broader lives.” remove poetry from the confines of today. Students choose a poem from “Students say that Conor and the classroom. the established canon, memorize it, Vona bring poetry to life in ways that “We want to make poetry a part recite it, and explain it to the class. make it germane to their individual of students’ lives,” says Groarke. “The music of a poem is very often lives in 2006 in Winston-Salem,” “Otherwise it’s just something to do an awful lot of it, and the sounds that says Eric Wilson, professor and chair when you’re sitting down and looking it makes are the key element of what of the English department. “They at a book in the library.” a poem is,” says Groarke. are quick to add, however, that Conor “Part of our job is to make and Vona are also very much aware poetry seem less forbidding,” adds of the complexities and subtleties of O’Callaghan. language. They teach students to “The difference between poetry appreciate how poems work and and prose is like the difference how the form of a poem can add to between abstract and narrative paint- its meaning.” ing,” Groarke says. “In the museums, “The music of a As poets, O’Callaghan and Groarke people tend to gravitate towards know well the challenge of crafting paintings with a story. There are poem is very often words into verse. “There isn’t a for- things to recognize and relate to, mula for writing poetry,” she says. such as the light on a girl’s face or an awful lot of it, “I tell the students if you’re a dentist the way she’s reading a letter, and and the sounds then you’re bringing the accumulated suddenly the whole thing comes knowledge of every tooth you’ve ever alive. Abstract art is more like poetry that it makes are worked on to bear on this tooth that because it is about itself.” you’re doing now, but with poetry, it’s “Poetry is difficult. There is no the key element of not like that. Everything you’ve done simple way around this. The poem up to this point matters nothing at is a depopulated landscape. But ulti- what a poem is,” all. It’s a clean slate. You have to allow mately, its difficulty creates its yourself to do it fresh every single rewards,” says O’Callaghan. says Groarke. time, which is difficult.” Groarke and O’Callaghan know “You say this to the students and that not all of the students who sign up you see the horror on their faces,” for their poetry-writing workshops will says O’Callaghan. “Writing poetry is go on to write great poetry, so their a question of momentum: The only classes are designed to teach students way to do it is by doing it. We try to how writing a poem can improve their instill in the students a very artisan ability to read one as well. “It is gratifying to see how, over approach to poetry as if they were “Students who take our writing the course of the semester, the poem making a coffee table. You keep impos- classes know what it is to be in the becomes part of the student’s life. ing some craft on your material until poet’s position,” explains Groarke. They actually take the poem as their you get to the best form of completion “They learn to make decisions about own and enjoy both the saying of it that you can manage. We try to get how a poem they are writing is going aloud and the repetition of it around away from the conventional idea that to end up, and they begin to under- and around in their heads,” adds a poem is somehow inspired.” stand why a poem might be written O’Callaghan. In addition to teaching poetry one way rather than another.” “If it is in your head, you take the workshops, Groarke and O’Callaghan Because they believe there is little poem with you when you’re shopping coordinate the poetry side of the distinction between learning how or cycling. It becomes part of your Dillon Johnston Writers Reading to write a poem and learning how vocabulary,” says Groarke. “We want Series hosted by the English depart- to understand one, Groarke and to facilitate ways to get students to ment. Last year, Simon Armitage,

SEPTEMBER 2006 33 from England, and Harryette Mullens, students from their class read as well. “When you take a position jointly, from California, were invited. It was the ease with which they con- there’s always the danger of being “The reading series promotes ducted themselves and the talent of seen together,” says O’Callaghan. “We poetry as stimulating and enjoyable. their students that struck us all.” can do this job with the knowledge Poets are used to speaking to six peo- “We consider part of our job to that the work we do stylistically and ple, two of whom are in their family do what we can to encourage poetry the way we use language and forms and two of whom are asleep. Vona in any possible way,” says Groarke. are largely very different. My work is and I put a lot of effort into the read- “When a student comes to us and much more formal than Vona’s — more ings last year and, in both cases, over recognizably regulated stanzas, lots of one hundred people came to hear rhymes, and more traditional forms. the visiting poets. It was incredibly Vona’s style tends to be a little freer.” gratifying to hear people walk away Says Candide Jones, assistant direc- from the event saying, ‘I really enjoyed tor of the Wake Forest University that. It was more interesting than I Press, “Both poets are extremely sub- expected it to be.’ ” tle and both are absolutely brilliant “We want to create a living, breath- “Writing poetry and very accomplished in formal ing audience for poetry that isn’t just matters. Vona’s voice has a certain restricted to students,” says Groarke. is a question of secretiveness and inwardness; whereas “Students are the main component of Conor’s is hard-edged and has a sar- what we do, but we want to use poetry momentum. The donic glean to it.” to build up a cultural community that Wake Forest University Press allows students to interchange with only way to do it published O’Callaghan’s third collec- people who are of a like mind outside is by doing it,” tion of poems, Fiction, in November of college.” 2005. Groarke’s newest collection, When Armitage came to read at says O’Callaghan. Juniper Street, is slated for publication Wake Forest, says Wilson, “it was in October. wildly successful—almost like a rock Groarke and O’Callaghan, who concert. There was a real buzz sur- met at a poetry workshop at Trinity rounding the event. There is a per- College, Dublin, in 1989, have two ception that poetry lives in college children, Tommy and Eve. Though classrooms, but poetry is alive. Poetry the family is enjoying America, thrives in everyday situations in Groarke says that she and Conor real people.” aspire to someday have a house in To create the community in a small- asks us to judge an erotic poetry which each can have a separate er group, Groarke and O’Callaghan competition on Valentine’s night, office —“even if it’s only like a broom also bring poetry back to that comfort- we say ‘sure, why not.’ Anything that cupboard. With separate spaces that able spot in the home. “One night a helps to promote poetry as being we can just call our own.” couple of English professors and the part of the life of students on campus, “Within one’s life, that’s what poetry director of the women’s and gender we’re happy to be involved with.” is,” says O’Callaghan. “The poem itself studies program brought our poems With regard to their own work, is a private little room that you can go to Conor and Vona’s home,” says Holdridge says Groarke and O’Callag- away to—even if only in your head— Jefferson Holdridge, associate professor han have long been seen in Ireland without having to explain it to any- of English and director of the Wake and the United States as two of the body else in the family or, at times, Forest University Press—an interna- most important poets of their genera- without even admitting anyone else tionally recognized major publisher of tion, if not the most important. into that room.” Irish poetry in North America. “Conor Increasingly, he says, they are judged and Vona each read a poem and some among the elite Irish poets.

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The bottom line is that it’s not A

Common cents S just the Mint that’s losing money on S

Necessity-turned-nuisance: pennies. The Federal Reserve, banks, E it’s time to retire the penny. retailers, and customers lose millions more due to the costs of toting around and handling these almost By Robert M. Whaples worthless coins. Time is money, and conservative estimates of the value SLEW OF RECENT headlines agrees: “When people start leaving a of our time lost using pennies exceed Ahave announced a startling fact monetary unit at the cash register $300 million per year. —it now costs more than one cent for the next customer, the unit is too Aficionados will counter that the to produce a penny. The value of the small to be useful.” Lincoln Penny is almost as much of metal in the penny (primarily zinc) However, groups like Americans an American emblem as the Statue has climbed to about 85 cents and it for Common Cents worry that cus- of Liberty. Liberty, however, has aged costs 0.6 cents to mint each penny, tomers will be royally ripped off if with grace from a shiny copper stat- so the cost of coining a penny is now Congress kills the penny. In a penny- ue to a majestic verdigris icon. Time more than 40 percent greater than its free world, sellers would round your and inflation have not been as kind face value. If the U.S. Mint were a for- bill to the nearest nickel. Cash pur- to the penny. When the half-penny profit business, the next step would chases totaling $9.98 or $9.99, for was retired in 1857, it was worth be pretty automatic—it would shut example, would be rounded up to about 1/18th of the average hourly down penny production or quickly $10, while those equaling $10.01 or wage of a common laborer. The reduce the penny’s cost by changing $10.02 would be rounded down to equivalent fraction of today’s mini- its content. The Mint, however, has $10. Since so many retail prices end mum wage is 23.6 cents. Paradoxi- the luxury of considering what is with nine, the fear is that this round- cally, few complained about the elim- best for the country as a whole, not ing would gouge consumers. One ination of the half-penny in 1857, simply its own bottom line, in mak- widely cited simulation estimates yet there is so much misguided con- ing such a momentous decision. that this “rounding tax” could cost cern about the loss of today’s penny. What is in the interest of the American consumers around $600 If our nation wishes to continue nation as a whole? I will argue that it million per year. to celebrate Abraham Lincoln, we is to discontinue the dear old penny. Unfortunately, this calculation could always drop the penny and In fact, economists of all political ignores taxes and is based on rough put him on the dollar coin, which stripes have concluded it’s time to guesses about consumers’ actual would suddenly be accepted, since get rid of the penny, even if the Mint purchases. Recently, I calculated cash drawers would have an open could make it at zero cost. On the the magnitude of this “rounding slot. The Federal Reserve estimates left, Princeton’s Paul Krugman puts tax” after obtaining data on nearly that we could gain another $500 it this way in his introductory text- 200,000 transactions from a multi- million per year by replacing the book (co-authored by Robin Wells): state convenience store chain. The paper dollar with a widely with average wages now at $17 per data reveal that the “rounding tax” used, durable dollar coin. hour, a penny is “equivalent to just is a myth. In reality, the number Good-bye, Lincoln Penny. over two seconds of work— and so of times consumers’ bills would be You served us well, but your it’s not worth the opportunity cost of rounded upward is almost exactly time has passed. the time it takes to worry about a equal to the number of times that penny more or less.” The rising value they would be rounded downward. Robert M. Whaples (B.A., Maryland; of our time “has turned a penny from It turns out that customers actually Ph.D., Pennsylvania) is professor of a useful coin into a nuisance.” Har- gained about one cent for every forty economics at Wake Forest. This piece vard’s Greg Mankiw, former chair- purchases, and both poor-neighbor- was first published in USA Today on man of President George W. Bush’s hood buyers and rich-neighborhood July 12, 2006. Council of Economic Advisors, buyers gained a miniscule amount.

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I Divine F

O intervention R P Religion professor Mary Foskett’s scholarship and compassion inspire her department and students.

By David Fyten

N 1961, AN AMERICAN naval Iofficer and his wife adopted an choose their paths. She is an active her courses fill regardless of the hour ethnic Chinese orphan from a baby scholar, conducting novel research on they’re held and despite the fact that home in Yokahama, Japan. She be- women in the New Testament, among she is not an easy grader. One of her came the youngest of their five chil- other subjects—most notably, on greatest gifts is her ability to identify dren and the only girl. In adulthood, Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the counterproductive patterns in her that same orphan and her Anglo- meaning of the virginity that has students and to hold them account- American spouse would themselves been ascribed to her. able in an extraordinarily compas- adopt an infant Vietnamese boy. Away from the classroom and sionate way.” The particulars of Mary Foskett’s library, Foskett is active in a host of Students are no less effusive in life go a long way toward illuminating University and community service their admiration. “She succeeds in her extraordinary compassion and activities. She co-coordinates the combining unflinching academic inclusiveness and her transforma- cadre of nine faculty marshals who professionalism with genuine care tional effect on her department and organize and shepherd the faculty at and concern for the lives of students students as an associate professor of official convocations such as Com- and the [vitality] of our on-campus religion at Wake Forest. They are mencement and Founders’ Day and community,” said one in the citation traits that have made her among the is an advisory board member and read at Founders’ Day Convocation College’s most popular teachers and core faculty member of the women’s at which the Kulynych award was account for her receiving, by student and gender studies program. Off presented. Exclaimed another who vote, the Kulynych Family Omicron campus, she teaches adult education had nominated her: “As a teacher, Delta Kappa Award for Contribution and sings in the choir at First Baptist she is unequaled in her ability to to Student Life this past year. Church and is active in CHANGE, invite students into new experiences Foskett’s courses in New Testament a multiracial, multifaith, grassroots and ideas.” And this, from yet anoth- and biblical interpretation fill up organization that identifies and er student: “While she never allows quickly despite their challenging addresses needs in the community. us to settle [into a comfort zone], content and methodology.Her warmth “Mary is the quintessential Wake she can meet us where we are. More and genial disposition belie a relent- Forest professor,” says Charles Kim- than any other professor I know, her less and uncompromising approach ball, professor and former chair of door is always open.” in the classroom that forces students religion who hired Foskett in 1997 as As a young woman, Foskett was to ask and respond to hard questions his first tenure-track faculty appoint- not initially drawn to theological and to confront and be comfortable ment and the department’s only studies or an academic career. Raised with the complexity and uncertainty woman faculty member at the time. on Long Island, she graduated from of the subject matter. She applies the “She defines what we mean by the NYU in 1985 with a major in psychol- same dialectic in her undergraduate teacher-scholar ideal. She is a great ogy. “I spent time after college getting advising, guiding students to discover teacher, and as an adviser, she is off my bearings by doing some social their talents and proclivities and the chart. It is striking how quickly work,” she says. When she enrolled

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at Union Theological Seminary a Furman as the new department chair, on and off campus; and somebody L year later, she studied psychology that internal discontent became whom all of us in the department I F

and religion with the intention of public. Accusing the University of can relate to and trust as a friend and O practicing pastoral psychotherapy. abandoning its heritage, two profes- colleague as we shape our future.” R Then she took two introductory sors, including the venerable holder of Foskett, who is finishing work on P courses in Old Testament from leg- a chair in New Testament, resigned a book she is co-editing on Asian- endary teachers Phyllis Trible (who is to accept positions at Baptist-affiliated American biblical interpretation, says now on the faculty of Wake Forest’s universities. interest among students in religious Divinity School) and George Landes. Kimball knew that his first two studies seems to have increased since The inspiration and illumination of or three faculty appointments would 9/11. “There is greater interest in the experiences “changed everything,” define the department, and that his pluralism in general today, and the she says. very first, a New Testament specialist study of religions is seen by many Still, after earning her Master of to replace the departed senior profes- young people as an entrée to this Divinity degree in 1989, Foskett sor, would be the most crucial. Com- phenomenon in cultures and soci- remained unsure of her career path, mitted, as was the academic adminis- eties worldwide,” she notes. “It so she resumed working in social tration, to diversifying the faculty and equips them to engage critically in services in New York City, working curriculum, he hoped to hire a woman, personal reflection and with public principally with homeless families at but he would not allow that to pre- discourse on some of the most risk for child abuse and neglect while clude finding the best young teacher- important issues of our times.” continuing her biblical studies. “One scholar available—one who would Good teaching has three elements, recognizes over time that studying combine the traits of excellence in in Foskett’s view. “The first is careful the Bible has larger implications for teaching and research, defined as the listening—hearing what students are public discourse—a greater global ideal Wake Forest faculty member by really asking,” she says. “Sometimes reach,” she says. Sure at last of her the newly adopted curriculum over- when a question is asked, there is longing for a life of scholarship, she haul known then as the Plan for the another question behind it. That’s accepted a doctoral fellowship in New Class of 2000 and now as the Wake where the second element—identifi- Testament studies at Emory Univers- Forest Undergraduate Plan. cation—comes in: helping them ity in 1991, earning her Ph.D. in 1997. From a pool of roughly 150 appli- identify what they are truly asking. Her dissertation, on classical repre- cants, the department interviewed The third element is to create a safe sentations of virginity and the por- sixteen candidates and brought three space for them—to give them per- trayal of Mary in the Gospel of Luke, to campus. Foskett was the resound- mission—to pursue their deepest the Book of Acts, and the extra- ing choice. Her appointment pro- intellectual concerns. canonical Protevangelium of James, pelled the department’s drive toward “One of the purposes of the hu- advanced the reputation of its author diversity, which progressed the fol- manities is to help students acknowl- as a promising young biblical scholar. lowing year with the appointment of edge the complexity of human society,” Wake Forest’s religious studies Jay Ford in Japanese Buddhism and notes Foskett, who with her hus- program was in turmoil in the mid- East Asian religions and has advanced band, former Wake Forest Divinity nineties. Historically focused on Pro- since—most recently, with the hir- School administrator Scott Hudgins, testant Christianity and with a largely ing of Jarrod Whitaker in Hinduism is raising their six-year-old adopted white, male, and Baptist faculty, the and South Asian religions in 2005. son, Daniel. “Few areas reveal com- department raised the eyebrows of “Mary has been everything we plexity more fully, or in a richer and some traditionalists in 1995 when had hoped for,” says Kimball, who more rewarding way, than the synergy it hired Simeon Ilesanmi, a young stepped aside as department chair in between faith, experience, and intel- African scholar specializing in com- 2004 and has published or is prepar- lectual inquiry. Their questions, and parative religious ethics and African ing several noted books on Islam and the skills to pursue them, are what religions. But it was the following terrorism. “She is a terrific teacher students must carry forward, because year, when Kimball, a highly regarded and scholar; a superb adviser; an they won’t all be answered by the scholar of Islam, was brought in from engaged member of the community, time they graduate.”

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President’s Column T O N S S A L

HE ALUMNI COUNCIL, on behalf of the Wake Forest Alumni Association, C Tas worked for the past two years to develop a strategic plan that has focused on providing greater services and programs for alumni. One key goal was the development of a Lifelong Learning Program so that alumni could continue to enjoy courses taught by our outstanding faculty. The first class, on American religion, was taught by Bill Leonard in June and was a great success. The Alumni Council has also focused on improving programming for Wake Forest Clubs throughout the nation. Among our most well-attended Club events are our monthly networking luncheons that are held in major cities. This is a great way to meet other Wake Foresters, exchange business information and ideas, and build your personal network. Visit www.wfu.edu/alumni/clubs to get information on the club nearest you. The Clubs program is always looking for energetic volunteers to help plan events, so please consider working with your local club—and bring a friend to the events! I hope you are planning to attend Homecoming weekend, which will be held September 29–30. This year’s Homecoming is a celebration of Wake Forest’s 50 years in Winston-Salem, and many special events are planned. The Class of 1956—the last class to graduate from the old campus—will be inducted into the Half Century Club. Classes ending in “1” and “6” will have reunion parties and dinners. All Wake Foresters are invited to the 50th Anniversary Celebration program on Friday afternoon on Hearn Plaza followed by a reception. At the reception, Bobby Burchfield (’76), a former president of the Alumni Association, will receive the 2006 Distinguished Alumni Award. On Saturday, September 30, the Service of Remembrance will be held in Wait Chapel beginning at 9:30 a.m. And you won’t want to miss the Festival on the Quad on Saturday morning. This family-friendly event brings Wake Foresters of all ages to the Quad for free food, games for the kids, music by stu- dent and faculty groups, and much more. The Festival is a great way to start the morning, followed by tailgating at Groves Stadium and the football game against Liberty. A post-game party will be held at Bridger Field House. Visit the Alumni Web page at www.wfu.edu/alumni for more details. I’d like to thank the Alumni Association past president Nancy Kuhn (’73) for her leadership with the Alumni Council and strategic plan. Also, I want to thank all alumni for their support as we seek to increase the number of alumni who support Wake Forest through gifts to the College Fund. Your participation— no matter what the amount—directly affects Wake Forest’s national ranking among colleges and universities. In fact, due to your support, Wake Forest rose one spot to No. 18 in alumni giving, as reported in the fall’s U.S. News and World Report “America’s Best Colleges.” Please join me and make a gift today. Finally, I’d like to extend a special welcome to the children of alumni who have enrolled as freshmen this fall. There are nearly 100 alumni children in the Class of 2010. Of those, 18 come from families where both parents hold Wake Forest degrees. Wake Forest truly runs in the family!

Ruffin Branham (’69) Alumni Association President

A new arch, completed over the summer, www.wfu.edu/alumniwww.wfu.edu/alumniSEPTEMBERJUNE 20052006 39 marks the entrance to Hearn Plaza. If you have news you would like to share, please send it to CLASSNOTES editor, Wake Forest Magazine, P.O. Box 7205, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205. CLASSNOTES can be e-mailed to [email protected] or entered in an online form at www.wfu.edu/magazine/classnotes. It is important that you include your class year(s) and degree(s) with each note. The person submitting information must provide a telephone number for verification and accepts responsibility for the accuracy of the information. The deadline for CLASSNOTES is the 15th day of the month two months prior to the issue date. For example, the deadline for the December issue is October 15. TATE (JD ’49) SINGLETON (’52, JD ’54)

1940s School of Medicine. He continues to pur- reviewer for an e-journal, Reviewing the sue his interests in medical history, ethics Evidence, and serves as judge for the Weston P. Hatfield (’41), an attorney in and the humanities. He is on the Board of Lambda Literary Awards. Winston-Salem and a former chairman Trustees at Oak Ridge Military Academy. of the Wake Forest Board of Trustees, has Al Hartness (’61, MD ’65) is still in published his first novel, Murder at First Robert Charles “RC”Soles Jr. (’56) private pediatric practice in Fayetteville, Baptist. The novel, described as part mys- was inducted into the General Practice NC, after 30 years. He has been tery, part courtroom drama and part love Hall of Fame of the North Carolina Bar involved in medical missions to Vietnam, story, is set during the Depression in a Association. Honduras, Iraq, Macedonia, South fictional North Carolina town, where the Africa, the Czech Republic and inner-city murder of the new church organist Ronnie Lee Stanley Sr. (’56, MD ’60) London. He and his wife, Shirley, have reveals a “deeply segregated Southern retired from family practice and is serv- two sons, Jonathan (’92) and Chris town struggling to make sense of the ing as a patient advocate and a medical (’02). They have established a Poteat events that have overtaken it.” He dedi- review officer for a drug-free workforce. Scholarship named after their four- cated the novel to President Emeritus generation ownership of Sanford Milling Thomas K. Hearn Jr. His second novel, Howard C. “Pat” Fodrie (’57) is a certi- Co. in Henderson, NC. The Governor’s Choice, is scheduled to be fied financial planner and home health published in December. executive. He and his wife, Connie, own Allen Page (’61) has been appointed a Medicare Certified Home Health interim vice president of academic affairs Murray Tate (JD ’49) was inducted into Agency in Missouri City, TX. at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC. He the General Practice Hall of Fame of the is a retired professor of religion and for- North Carolina Bar Association. George W. Braswell Jr. (’58) retired as mer head of Meredith’s Department of professor of world religions from South- Religion and Philosophy. eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1950s 2004. He is now senior professor of world John L. Whitley (’61) and his wife, religions at Campbell University Divinity Susan, have moved to Williamsburg,VA. Ellsworth Kent Rogers III (’51) has School. He gave the Commencement ser- He is president/CEO of CSG-Keystone retired from dental practice after 50 mon and received an honorary doctor of PC, an organizational and leadership years. He established an athletic schol- divinity at Campbell’s graduation exer- development group focused on human arship to reflect his appreciation of the cises in May. resource management issues. He is a cast University and to honor coach Tom member/instructor in the Brewmasters Rogers, his brother, Jack L. Rogers Kennieth S. Etheridge (’58, JD ’60) Club of Anheuser-Busch Entertainment (’53), and R.C. “Skippy” Rogers (’50, is a retired attorney in Laurinburg, NC. at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. JD ’57), all deceased. He and his wife, He was honored in his hometown of Gail, live in Asheville, NC. They have Norfolk,VA, as the 51st person inducted John R. Woodard Jr. (’61) received the five children and seven grandchildren. into the Granby High School Hall of 2006 Heritage Award from the Biblical Fame. Recorder. He is the former archivist for Rudolph G. Singleton Jr. (’52, JD ’54) the Baptist Historical Collection in the Z. was inducted into the General Practice Smith Reynolds Library. Hall of Fame of the North Carolina Bar 1960s Association. Carolyn Rowe Hale (’62) retired as an Drewey Wayne Gunn (’61) is professor area administrator after 29 years with the Billy F. Andrews (’53) is professor and emeritus at Texas A&M University in Free Library of Philadelphia. chairman emeritus of the Department of Kingsville, TX. He published a book, Pediatrics at the University of Louisville The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (Scarecrow Press, 2005). He is a mystery

40 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE SOLES (’56) ETHERIDGE (’58, JD ’60) WILLIAMS (’62, JD ’66) MORRISON (’63) MCGINN (’64, JD ’67) ZACKS (’64, JD ’67)

Deanna Marie Lewis (’62) retired after Donia Whiteley Steele (’65) and her Jimmy Viers (MA ’67) has been named 33 years at Lynchburg College. She lives husband, Mark, better known as the an associate professor emeritus of chem- in Wilson, NC. “Steeles on Wheels”have parked their istry in the College of Science at Virginia RV after eight years on the road and Tech in Blacksburg,VA. Meyressa Schoonmaker (’62, JD ’68) bought a house in Albuquerque, NM. was named one of the 2006 North Harry A. Arsenault (’69) is priest-in- Carolina Women of Achievement by the Peggy Cushmore Bolcoa (’66) is a mar- charge for St. James Episcopal Parish in General Federation of Women’s Clubs. riage and family therapist in Irvine, CA. Stamford, CT. He is engaged to be mar- She and her husband, Larry, are grand- ried. Alan White (’62) is retiring after 27 parents. years at Elon University. As athletic Thomas P. Williams (’69) and his wife, director he led the program into NCAA Robert J. Braxton (’66) and his wife, Noreen, walked the Inca Trail to Machu Division II and then into Division I. Beth Pirkle Braxton (’66), the 1966 Pichuu in Peru on their honeymoon. social actions chair of the Baptist Student James T. Williams Jr. (’62, JD ’66) is Union, joined Michael David Bridges with Brooks Pierce McLendon Humph- (’66) and Luana Green Goodwin (’66) 1970s rey & Leonard LLP in Greensboro, NC. for the 40th reunion of the Patterson He has been recognized by Chambers Avenue House Project. It was hosted by Rusty Duke (’70, JD ’74) is a senior USA as one of “America’s Leading Busi- Elaine Clary Williams (’66) in Okemos, resident Superior Court Judge in ness Lawyers,”ranking first in general MI. Greenville, NC. He is a candidate for commercial litigation. Chief Justice of the N.C. Supreme Court. Nancy Ann Norbeck Jones (’66) is a Fred Gilbert Morrison Jr. (’63) has teacher in the Oconee County School Douglas Wayne Ford (’70) is a financial been appointed by the Governor as District in Seneca, SC. She was one of 50 planner with Innovative Financial a Tennessee Ambassador of Goodwill. educators nationwide to attend a work- Solutions in Greensboro, NC. He He and his wife, Carolyn, live in shop at George Washington’s Mount received the 2006 Distinguished Service Raleigh, NC. Vernon in Alexandria,VA. Award from the Society of Financial Service Professionals. M. Daniel McGinn (’64, JD ’67) is with Mary J. O’Connor (’66) is a professor at Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & the UCLA School of Medicine. She has Elmer “Rex” Spurr (’70) is a drummer Leonard LLP in Greensboro, NC. He has been appointed to the National Task performing with several bands, including been recognized by Chambers USA as one of Force on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and psychedelic blues legend Shiva’s “America’s Leading Business Lawyers,” Fetal Alcohol Effect, advising Congress Headband, in Austin, TX. ranking first in defendant employment. on issues related to prenatal alcohol exposure. Don J. Hall (MD ’71) and his son, Jason David Zacks (’64, JD ’67) is with Kilpat- J. Hall (’98, MD ’02), published an arti- rick Stockton LLP in Atlanta. He has been Ron Staley (’66) is president of the NC cle on the first successful hysterectomy recognized by Chambers USA as one of Lions Foundation, administering in the United States (1856 in Knoxville, “America’s Leading Business Lawyers,” statewide sight and hearing programs TN) in Obstetrics and Gynecology in general commercial litigation. supported by the Lions Clubs. (February 2006).

Cecilia B. Grimes (’65) received honor- Steve Burns (’67) plans to retire in able mention from the 2006 Independent February after 32 years of teaching Publishers for her book, What It Means English in the Swiss public school sys- To Raise a Child With Southern Manners,at tem. He lives in Pully, Switzerland. the 10th annual IPPY Book Awards.

www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2006 41 Charlotte, NC. She has been ordained as a minister with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and serves as pastor of Rocky Fork Christian Church in Sanford, NC.

Philip C. “Flip” Perry (’75) is on the SMITH (’72, JD ’75) HOLDEN (’73) PERRY (’73) TAYLOR (JD ’76) board of directors for the Perry Institute of Marine Science, headquartered in Jupiter, FL, and Lee Stoking Island in the Eunice Doman Myers (’71) joined an David R. Perry III (’73) is a sales asso- Bahamas. He and his wife, Rankin, have international group to complete the last ciate with Prudential Carolinas Realty in one daughter, Genevieve Cameron. 107 kilometers of the pilgrimage to Winston-Salem. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. This John Barr Watkins III (’75) is assistant pilgrimage has been made continuously Claudia Parker Roberts Brown (’74) is dean and director of the Indiana since the middle ages. She lives in an architectural survey coordinator for University School of Medicine at Wichita, KS. the NC State History Preservation Office Bloomington. He is a professor of phar- in Raleigh. She is featured in a book, macology and toxicology. D. Clark Smith Jr. (’72, JD ’75) is Firestarters: 100 Job Profiles to Inspire Young member-manager of Brinkley Walser Women, as one whose career achievements Barbara C. Batson (’76) wrote a catalog PLLC in Lexington, NC. He was sworn in are an inspiration to young women. to accompany an exhibition,“Freeing Art as the 112th president of the North From Wood: The Sculpture of Leslie Carolina Bar Association. He and his Edna C. Green (’74, MBA ’96) is vice Garland Bolling,”published by the wife, Pat, have five children; David, president and senior corporate facilities Library of Virginia (July 2006). Alden, Robert, Jason and Jodi. administrator at BB&T Corporation in Winston-Salem. Jan Doub Morgan (’76) teaches English Lawrence N. “Chip” Holden (’73) has as a second language for K-5 students in been recognized by the Million Dollar Jim Harton (’74) is president of Rhodia the Wake County public school system. Round Table for 30 consecutive years as Inc. in Cranbury, NJ. He has been elected a qualifying member. He is with Holden to the American Chemistry Council Mike Reynolds (’76) and his wife, Mary Mickey & Mickey Inc. in Winston-Salem. Board of Directors. Lou, and son, Matthew, attended the graduation of their daughter, Allison Larry W. Kissell (’73) won the Darian Lance Smith (’74) has pub- (’06), in May. She is now completing her Democratic primary to face the incum- lished a book, Payback, on profit sharing fifth year in the master’s in accounting bent U.S. House of Representative mem- and our alternative socio-economic, program before joining Ernst & Young in ber in North Carolina’s 8th District. He political and religious future. He and his Philadelphia, PA. and his wife, Tina, and two daughters, wife of 33 years, Maria Fornasier Smith live in Biscoe, NC. (’74), live in Kernersville, NC, and have Dan Taylor (JD ’76) is with Kilpatrick two children. Stockton LLP in Winston-Salem. He has Nancy R. Kuhn (’73) was named direc- been recognized by Chambers USA as one tor of external relations for the Business- Mike Wells (JD ’74), of Wells Jenkins of “America’s Leading Business Law- Higher Education Forum in Washington, Lucas & Jenkins PLLC in Winston-Salem, yers,”in general commercial litigation. D.C. She was a partner with the interna- has been named a North Carolina “Super tional law firm of Morgan Lewis & Lawyer”for 2006. Sarah Kent Drummond Brunnig (’77) Bockius LLP. She served as president and her husband, John, live in an old of the Wake Forest Alumni Association Ronnie M. Mitchell (’75, JD ’78) was house in DeLand, FL. Two of their six last year. named a “Super Lawyer”by Charlotte and children are away at college. She teaches North Carolina Super Lawyers magazines. nutrition at the community college. Lawrence Allen Lyon (’73) of Blowing He is with Mitchell Brewer Richardson Rock, NC, received his master’s of divini- LLC in Fayetteville, NC. Joslin Davis (JD ’77) is a shareholder of ty from Union Theological Seminary and Davis & Harwell PA in Winston-Salem. Presbyterian School of Christian Misty Talbert Mowrey (’75) completed She has been elected a Diplomate of the Education in Richmond,VA. her master’s of divinity from Gordon- American College of Family Trial Conwell Theological Seminary in Lawyers.

42 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Preston Parrish (’77) is executive vice president at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. With the deaths last year of his father and son only five days apart, he and a team including Rob Jones (’97) ran a 26.2 mile marathon to raise money to continue his son’s love of telling others about Jesus Christ. They are accomplish- DAVIS (JD ’77) MATAVA (JD ’78) SINGER (JD ’79) VAUGHAN (JD ’79) ing this through the “Dare to Be a Daniel” ministry for tweens (ages 9-14). ber of the Greensboro (NC) City Council. John James Cater III (’81, MBA ’83) Edward Anfindsen (’78) is a federal He has been practicing with Vaughan & received a PhD in management at Loui- account executive for 3PARdata Inc. in Johnston in Greensboro for over 20 years. siana State University. He is an assistant Virginia. professor of management at Nicholls Gregory B. Williams (’79) is senior State University in Thibodaux, LA. Penny Smallwood Hazen (MA ’78) has pastor at Grace Lutheran Church in retired after 27 years as a counselor in Hendersonville, NC. Leah Durner (’81) has a one-person public schools. She has her own busi- exhibition of her paintings opening this ness, Hazen Life Coaching, to assist peo- month at the Wooster Arts Space in New ple in their personal effectiveness. 1980s York City.

George Matava (JD ’78) is a sharehold- Sam Lanham (JD ’80) is a partner with Stanlee P. Greene Jr. (’81) is executive er in Greenberg Traurig LLP in Denver, Cuddy & Lanham in Bangor, ME. He is director of the David D. Hunting Branch CO. He has been recognized by the president of the Maine Trial Lawyers YMCA in Grand Rapids, MI. He received Chambers & Partners USA Guide as one of Association and serves on the Board of “America’s Leading Business Lawyers.” Governors of the American Trial Lawyers Association. He and his wife, Stephanie, Annette Grynkewich Pashayan (MD have three sons, Sam, Andrew and John. ’78) is a physician, musician and breast cancer survivor. She and two other Louis M. Strickler (’80) is pastor of women completed a six-movement musi- Woodlawn United Methodist Church in Call for cal,“Songs from the Edge,”for mezzo- Roanoke,VA. Alumni Authors soprano and string quartet. The text is five poems she wrote in 1996 about her Steve Berlin (’81, JD ’84) is with Have you published a book? experiences with breast cancer. She is a Kilpatrick Stockton LLP in Winston- staff anesthesiologist with Gate City Salem. He has been recognized by The Office of Alumni Anesthesia at the HealthSouth Surgical Chambers USA as one of “America’s Activities would like Center of Greensboro, NC. She lives in Leading Business Lawyers”in environ- to know about alumni Winston-Salem with her husband and mental law. children. publications and would Alan G. Bourque (’81) is deputy com- be honored to add yours to Robert A. Singer (JD ’79) is with mandant and chief of staff of the U.S. its collection. If you have Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Corps of Cadets at the U.S. Military published a book and want Leonard LLP in Greensboro, NC. He has Academy at West Point. been recognized by Chambers USA as to donate an autographed one of “America’s Leading Business Glenn C. Campbell (’81) is a partner copy for the Alumni Library, Lawyers,”ranking third in banking and with King & Spalding LLP in please send a copy of your finance and in corporate/M&A. Washington, D.C. He has been named book to: one of the top 10 deal-making attorneys Donald R. Vaughan (JD ’79) was recog- in the District of Columbia region by the Wake Forest Authors nized by the Young Lawyer Division of Legal Times. P.O. Box 7227 the 18th Judicial District Bar for 14 years Winston-Salem, NC of service as Mayor Pro Tem and a mem- 27109-7227

www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2006 43 David Daggett (JD ’85) of Lewis & Daggett in Winston-Salem qualified for one of 30 slots to compete in the 2006 CEO Ironman Challenge in Lake Placid, NY.

Lesley-Jane Dixon (’86) has taken LANHAM (JD ’80) BERLIN (’81, JD ’84) DREW (’83, JD ’88) MILLS (’84) “early retirement”as a partner with Lord Abbett in Bloomfield, NJ. She plans to travel across the USA and throughout Central and South America in an RV. the Peace and Justice Sermon of the Penny Towe Holland (’83), her husband She has been doing research and brush- Year Award from the West Michigan Gary, and their three children live in ing up on her Spanish. Conference of the United Methodist Germany at Ramstein Air Force Base. Church. She would love to hear from other active Laurie Hockman (’86) premiered a new duty Deacon families stationed anywhere. dance work, “Rift/What Remains,”with John C. Hunter (’81, JD ’85) is with jazz musician Daniel Carter at Speyer Biggers & Hunter PLLC in Asheville, John C. Richardson (’83) is a gift officer Hall at University Settlement in lower NC. He has been included for the third with the Winston-Salem Industries for Manhattan, NY. straight year in Martindale Hubbell’s the Blind, providing opportunities for National Bar Registry of Preeminent persons who are blind or visually Rick Tobar (’86) is a development Lawyers. In addition to practicing law, impaired in need of training, employ- programs manager for DuPont in he is executive director of the Education ment and services. Charlotte, NC. and Research Consortium of the Western Carolinas Inc. He and his wife, Sue, have Jeffrey W. Harris (’84) is senior vice Ronald L. Hicks (JD ’87) is co-chair of seven-year-old triplets, John, Hope and president of investments with Post the business litigation group at Meyer Sarah. Properties Inc., an Atlanta-based multi- Unkovic & Scott LLP in Pittsburgh, PA. family REIT, with responsibility for all Joseph W. Wescott II (’81, MA ’00) acquisitions and development in North Robert Kevin Hinkle (’87) earned a is a program specialist in general admin- Carolina. doctorate in international education from istration with the University of North the Steinhardt School of Education at Carolina and has three children, Rachel John McCune (’84, JD ’87) is a staff New York University. (13), Joseph (10) and Rose (7). judge advocate for Air Forces Northern (First Air Force) at Tyndall Air Force Base Robert E. Lamb (’87) is chairman of Susan E. Hochstetler Bridges (’83) in Florida. Brevard Community College’s Fine Arts has been named National Distinguished Department in Cocoa, FL. Principal of Virginia for 2006 by the Vir- Jennifer Mills (’84) is host of USA ginia Association of Elementary School Network’s PGA Tour Sunday, a weekly Scott Robbins (’87) is interim dean of Principals. She will represent Virginia at one-hour program airing live on Sundays the Petrie School of Music at Converse a White House reception in 2007. at 11 a.m. Eastern/9 a.m. Pacific. College in Spartanburg, SC. The SC Music Teachers Association and Music David S. Cobb (’83) is a lieutenant Jim W. Phillips Jr. (JD ’84) is with Teachers National Association commis- colonel and physician in the U.S. Army. Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & sioned him to compose “Psychedelic He is stationed in Northern Iraq as the Leonard LLP in Greensboro, NC. He Epigrams,” which premiered in senior physician for an army medical has been recognized by Chambers USA November, and “...Conjure Something company. He plans to return to teaching as one of “America’s Leading Business Glowing...” for women’s voices and in the Department of Family Medicine at Lawyers,” ranking second in general orchestra, which premiered at the inau- the Madigan Army Medical Center in commercial litigation. gural ceremony of Converse College’s Tacoma, WA. president. Daniel Alcazar (MBA ’85) is vice presi- Mark L. Drew (’83, JD ’88) is with dent of brand marketing and external John “Jay” C. Waters (’87) is an Army Maynard Cooper & Gale PC in communications at Embarq Corporation lieutenant colonel. He served for one Birmingham, AL. He has been recog- in Kansas City, MO. year as director of manpower and per- nized by Chambers USA as one of sonnel for the Combined/Joint Task “America’s Leading Business Lawyers.” Force-76 in Bagram, Afghanistan. He conducted operations in Uzbekistan and

44 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Kyrgyzstan, and had the opportunity to use some of the Russian history he learned at Wake Forest. He is back at his regular base in Northern Italy with his wife Anna, sons Albert and Eric, and daughter Sarah.

R. Bruce Thompson II (’88, JD ’94) PHILLIPS (JD ’84) DAGGETT (JD ’85) HICKS (JD ’87) THOMPSON (’88, JD ’94) has been appointed by the Governor to the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television Board of Trustees. Steven Schmidt (MAEd ’89) has taught tours to Iraq. He is a general surgeon He is a partner with Parker Poe Adams & school for 16 years. He is associate vice in private practice in Cincinnati, OH. Bernstein in Raleigh, NC. president for basic skills and workforce readiness at College of the Albemarle in Katherine Potak Zehfuss (’89) is Carol F. Polk (MBA ’89) is chief admin- Elizabeth City, NC. His wife, Susan Revis a fisheries scientist for the Bureau of istrative officer of Bell Davis & Pitt PA in Schmidt (’89), is a stay-at-home mom. Reclamation in the Federal Center in Winston-Salem. Denver, CO. She and her husband, Larry David T. Ward (’89) completed his com- Zehfuss (’86), have three children, mitment to the U.S. Army, including two Colleen (11), Tabitha (8) and Holden (4).

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www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2006 45 1990 Steve Lindsley received his doctor in 1991 ministry from Pittsburgh Theological Karla Leigh Bean received her DVM Seminary. His doctoral paper was Amy Spangler Gerald is an assistant from NC State College of Veterinary Med- “Preaching in the Missional Church.” professor of English at Winthrop icine. She works at a small animal clinic He lives in Mount Airy, NC. University in South Carolina. in Charlotte, NC, and is starting her own mobile practice, “Hooves n’ Hummers.” Marian Padgett is broker-in-charge Laura Lillard is a diversity officer and She will treat goats, sheep, alpacas and at Prudential Carolinas Realty’s Lake education librarian for the University of llamas in the Western Piedmont. Norman/Huntersville (NC) office. Washington Libraries in Seattle, WA.

Sue Haase Jensen joined the board of Melissa Higgins Twaroski is a regional Jennifer “Jeni” Olsen Mattingly was a directors of Katrina’s Kids Project, a not- archaeologist/heritage program manager family medicine physician’s assistant, for-profit begun in the aftermath of for the southeastern region of the U.S. and is now a stay-at-home mom for her Hurricane Katrina. A traveling exhibit of Forest Service. She oversees programs on two children, Jonah (4) and Caroline (1). the children’s artwork is currently on tour. 16 National Forest areas in 13 southeast- She and her husband, David “Shawn” ern states and Puerto Rico. She and her Mattingly (’94), live in Louisville, KY. husband, Jim, live in Atlanta. Anne Hamrick Pasco is taking a break from teaching AP psychology while she and her husband, Paul, daughter Jordan The Marcellus Waddill (10) and son Davis (5) relocate to Excellence in Teaching Award Chicago, IL. Nominations due by October 16, 2006 Thomas B. Phelps is a vice president at BB&T in Winston-Salem.

Reed Lock Russell is a major in the Army National Guard. He served a nine- month tour in Iraq advising the Iraqi Security Forces. He has resumed his labor/employment law practice at Akin Gump in Washington, D.C.

Harriet Stephenson received her mas- ter’s of science in nursing from East Carolina University. She is director of nursing education at Wakemed Health and Hospitals in Raleigh, NC.

The Marcellus Waddill Excellence in Teaching 1992 Award is presented annually to two Wake Forest alumni who are exemplary classroom teachers James H. Coston (MA ’95) is pastor of First Baptist Church of the City in with at least three years’ teaching experience Trenton, NJ. He was elected to a four- in public or private schools. Each winner, one year term on the Trenton City Council. on the primary level (K–6) and one on the sec- He and his wife, Julie Davis Coston ondary level (7–12), receives a $20,000 cash (’95), have a son, Justin Wells (3). award, one of the largest monetary awards of any teacher-recognition honor in the country. Justin B. Doran is a managing director with RBC Capital Markets in New York. He and his family live in Princeton, NJ. For additional information, call the Wake Forest Alumni Activities Office at (336) 758-4852 or visit the alumni Web site at www.wfu.edu/alumni/events/waddill.html

46 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Galen Johnson received the Faculty Laura Amiot Greve completed a pedi- Excellence Award for Teacher of the Year atric psychology fellowship at Children’s at John Brown University in Siloam Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical Springs, AK. He teaches church history, School. She and her husband, Richard, theology and philosophy. and their two children live in Atlanta.

Christopher King was named by the Tom Harley is pursuing a master’s of Wall Street Journal as one of the “All-Star divinity and christian education at Union PADGETT (’90) GOODWIN (’99) Research Analysts for 2005”for his work Theological Seminary and Presbyterian in covering wireless telecommmunica- School of Christian Education in 1995 tions services stocks for Stifel Nicolaus Richmond,VA. in Baltimore, MD. Greta Larkin Brunet (PA, MBA ’02) is J. Wade Tollison Jr. received his MBA senior manager, marketing, with TEAMM Margaret Robinson Martin has joined from the University of Minnesota. He Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Morrisville, NC. Boyd Collar Knight LLC in Atlanta, prac- and his wife, Stephanie, have three chil- ticing domestic relations and family law. dren, Ella (4), Jackson (2) and Sam (2). Terese Renea Mack Ewing completed her master’s in counseling and works Chuck Meacham is an associate profes- at A.G. Cox Middle School in Winter- sor of theatre at the University of 1994 ville, NC. Evansville, IN. He presented a Wake Forest Presidential Scholarship in dance Emily Giffin released her latest book, Eric Gerber received his PhD from the to freshman Jennifer Hayden at her high Baby Proof, in June. Information can be University of Georgia and has joined a school awards program. found at www.emilygiffin.com. management psychology firm, RHR International, in Atlanta. He consults with Ross Rumbaugh is principal of Harry L. Eric W. Iskra (JD) is with Spilman clients on succession planning, executive Hallyburton Elementary School in Drexel Thomas & Battle PLLC in Charleston, assessment and coaching, organization (Burke County), NC. WV. He has been named a leading change and executive education. lawyer in West Virginia by Chambers USA. Mark Schnably is a science teacher at Ryan McNally co-authored a book of Jefferson Middle School in Winston- Robert Lang (JD) is a commercial litiga- humor, Class Dismissed (Random House), Salem. He coached the girl’s basketball tor and partner with Quarles & Brady with Ben Applebaum (’97) and Derrick team for two years to an undefeated LLP in Chicago, IL. Pittman (’96), based on college experi- record and two consecutive county ences. championships. His wife, Jane Harrison David Shawn Mattingly is a captain in Schnably (’93), is a nurse at the the U.S. Air Force Reserve, flying the C- Lisa Huggins Oxendine (PA) has Carolinas Pain Institute. 17 at McGuire Air Force Base and a DC-8 published a novel, The Pink Begonia for UPS in Louisville, KY. He and his Sister’s Caribbean Retreat. More wife, Jeni Olsen Mattingly (’91),have information can be found at 1993 two children, Jonah (4) and Caroline (1). www.ThatIMightEnjoyLife.com.

Rick Bridger is chief financial officer for Jeffrey D. Patton (JD) is of counsel at Lori Archer Raible of Charlotte, NC, NSi Industries in Charlotte, NC. His wife, Spilman Thomas & Battle PLLC in Winston- received her master’s of divinity from Laura Waldner Bridger (’93), is a stay- Salem. He practices labor and employ- Union Theological Seminary and at-home mom for their two children, ment law and commercial litigation. Presbyterian School of Christian Hannah (7) and Austin (5). Education in Richmond,VA. Brad Pryce is a loan officer with Gina McCarver Brock is the minister of American Home Mortgage in Winston- Tonya Christine Walser completed single adults and youth at First Baptist Salem. He and his wife, Mary Katherine, her PhD in medical pathology from Church in Greenville, SC. live in Clemmons with their two daugh- the University of Maryland School of ters, Ashton and Taryn. Medicine in Baltimore. She is a post- doctoral fellow conducting lung cancer Elizabeth Rees is pursuing a master’s of research at the David Geffen School of divinity at Virginia Theological Seminary. Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles.

www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2006 47 1996 Jennifer Beck Dean (MD ’01) is in Anne Jordan Randall is a graduate of her final year of a pediatric hematology/ the Georgetown University Law Center. Gillian Harrell Allen, a former social oncology fellowship at Saint Louis She received the Mecklenburg County worker with Hospice in Charlotte, NC, is Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, MO. Bar 2006 Pro Bono Attorney of the Year a stay-at-home mom. Award. She is an associate with Alston Nathan Patrick Dean (MD ’01) is & Bird LLP specializing in intellectual Leon H. Corbett III completed his MBA in his final year of a pediatric critical property litigation in Charlotte, NC. from Florida State University. He is direc- care fellowship at Saint Louis Children’s tor of advertising and direct marketing Hospital in St. Louis, MO. Leslie Shively Robinson (MSA ’99) for VISIT FLORIDA, the state’s official completed her PhD in accounting at the tourism marketing corporation. He and Catherine Whittenburg Dolinski (MA) University of North Carolina at Chapel his wife, Laura Lee, live in Tallahassee. completed her master’s in public affairs Hill. She is an assistant professor at the journalism and covers state politics for Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth T. Adam Ginn (MD ’00) is an ortho- the Tampa Tribune. She and her husband, College in Hanover, NH. paedic hand surgeon at Orthopaedic Michael, live in Tallahassee, FL. Associates of West Florida in Clearwater. Charles Starks is an associate with He lives in Belleair, FL, with his wife, Phillips Preiss Shapiro Associates, a city Rebecca Toney Ginn (’96), and their 1998 planning consultancy in New York, NY. four children. Abdulaziz Al-Bosaily (LL.M) practices Daniel Stern had his first feature film, Derrick B. Pittman co-authored a with the Al-Jadaan Law Firm in Ridayh, “This is a Business,”screened at the humor book, Class Dismissed (Random Saudi Arabia, affiliated with Clifford Village International D-Cinema Film House, July 2006), with Ryan McNally Chance. Festival in Lisbon, Portugal, at Dances (’95) and Ben Applebaum (’97), based with Films in Los Angeles, CA, and at the on college experiences . Nathan B. Atkinson is an associate St. Louis Filmmakers’ Showcase. at Spilman Thomas & Battle PLLC in Rachel L. Sheedy is associate editor Winston-Salem. He practices labor for Kiplinger’s Retirement Report in and employment law and commercial 1999 Arlington,VA. litigation. Leigh Ann Abernethy is pursuing a Robb Warfield (MAEd ’00) is with the Christopher Kevin Behm (JD) is an master’s in architectural preservation Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. equity partner in Block Crouch Keeter and planning at Cornell University in He and his wife, Sheila, have three chil- Behm & Sayed LLP in Wilmington, NC. Ithaca, NY. dren, Avery (6), Avalyn (4) and Hayden (3). Allison Cole received her MBA from Bill Goodwin received his MBA from Columbia Business School. She lives in the University of North Carolina at New York and is an investor relations Chapel Hill. He is a vice president and 1997 associate with JPMorgan Partners, a divi- managing consultant with Morgan sion of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Howard Worldwide, an international Michael Allen is a senior project manag- executive search firm, managing their er with Bank of America in Charlotte, NC. Jason J. Hall (MD ’02) and his father, office in Raleigh, NC. Don J. Hall (MD ’71), published an arti- John Andrews (MBA) is vice president of cle on the first successful hysterectomy David Holden is with Holden Mickey & public relations for the Triangle Chapter in the United States (1856 in Knoxville, Mickey Inc. in Winston-Salem. He com- of the American Marketing Association. TN) in Obstetrics and Gynecology pleted his certified financial planner cer- He is an adjunct professor of marketing (February 2006). tification and has seven years’ experience at the Raleigh campus of The University in the financial services industry. of Phoenix and is vice president of mar- Zachary M. Moretz (JD) and Ronald keting for Implus Footcare LLC. A. Skufca (JD) have merged their law Justin Houghton has completed the firms to form Moretz & Skufca PLLC, four-year JD/MBA program at the New Ben Applebaum co-authored a book of with offices in Charlotte and Concord, York University School of Law and humor, Class Dismissed (Random House), NC. The new firm provides services in Leonard N. Stern School of Business. with Ryan McNally (’95) and Derrick business law, commercial real estate, He is joining the corporate practice of Pittman (’96), based on college experi- business litigation, construction law, Shearman & Sterling LLP in their New ences. family law, homeowners association and York office. planned community law, and motor- sports law.

48 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Lauren Bennett-Ale Hull completed a Michael Dale Warren is the pediatric residency in family medicine and joined chief resident at Vanderbilt Children’s Carmel Family Physicians in Charlotte, Hospital in Nashville, TN. He received NC. Her husband, Nathan Myers Hull the Joe M. Strayhorn Award for best (JD ’99), is a senior partner with Hull & grand rounds given by a resident, “The Chandler PA, focusing on corporate Methamphetamine Problem and Its transactions and business litigation. Impact on the Children of Tennessee.”

HOLDEN (’99) BUMGARDNER (’00) Maggie Shaffer Lindley and her hus- Joe Zelenka is in his eighth season in band, Matt, have a wholesale art busi- the National Football League, playing the ness, Maggie Lindley Designs. Their last five with the Jacksonville Jaguars. He WWAY NewsChannel 3, the ABC website is www.maggielindley.com. has received community service awards affiliate in southeastern North Carolina. from the Jaguars and the NFL. His wife, She and her husband, Richard, live Darren Linvill (’99, MA ’02) is pursu- Rebekah Demshar Zelenka (’97), in Wilmington, NC. ing a PhD in educational leadership at spends her time volunteering in Jack- Clemson University. sonville, FL, and caring for their twins, Tim Fuller is an assistant men’s basket- Grace Rachel and Benjamin Jacob. ball coach at Fairfield University in Terri Gillispie Walling received her MD Fairfield, CT. from Marshall University’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. She is a 2000 Lidwine Lacquemant Graciet (MBA) is resident physician in the Department of senior product manager at Procter & Internal Medicine at West Virginia Ann McAdams Bumgardner is the Gamble France. University in Morgantown, WV. weekday evening news anchor for

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Justice for all Sam Funk (’93) and David Wells (’05) choose to fight for human rights.

By Scott Holter

S A PARTNER IN A NASHVILLE LAW FIRM not comprehend the poverty and the inequality A that specializes in commercial litigation, in the world without setting foot on their soil. I Sam Funk (’93) repeatedly fights for justice for know it sounds cliché, but it changes your life.” people throughout middle Tennessee. But Funk Such a life alteration actually came almost also gains satisfaction from a different aspect of four years earlier for Funk. Five days after the his work, one for which he is rarely recognized terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a guest and not paid a dime. Funk, who majored in speaker at his Nashville church spoke about the political science, has traveled to India and Kenya tragedies in New York and Washington, but also providing legal expertise as part of a human about similar catastrophes he had encountered rights organization. The mission: to stop legal in Rwanda. The man was Gary Haugen, CEO injustices seen there by relief workers and over- of the International Justice Mission (IJM). The seas missionaries. Washington, D.C.-based group, which has opera- “I have lived in upper middle-class my whole tions in a dozen locations (including Guatemala, life,” Funk said in recalling his first moments in Honduras, Peru and Thailand), rescues victims Kibera, a shantytown slum of more than a million of violence, sexual exploitation, slavery and people in the heart of Nairobi, Kenya. “You can- oppression. “The massive killings and injustices

50 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE worldwide had been the springboard that led daughter to his family. The invitation was to him to IJM,” Funk said. “He wanted to know travel to Nairobi with two other attorneys to how we as Christians are delivering justice.” work on behalf of victims of police brutality and By the following March, Funk was providing sexual assault. The men would pay their own Haugen with an answer first-hand after traveling expenses, estimated at $4,000, and miss two weeks with an IJM group to India to assist victims of of work. But the hardship paled in comparison bonded slave labor. When residents there are in to what lay ahead. a financial crisis, money is often borrowed from “What immediately struck me the most when local lenders, who then put them to work to pay we arrived were the extremes of society that off the debt. exist,” said Wells, who served as a technology “They go to work for the lender and are not liaison on the mission, researching cases, assisting allowed to leave until the money is paid back in a with investigations and interviewing witnesses. lump sum,” Funk said. “But the interest rate is often “Working day to day as a caseworker, I was in so high that the money can rarely be paid back.” one of the largest slums in the world and seeing Funk saw with his own eyes the kind of labor people who live on less than a dollar a day.” it often takes, including a seven-month pregnant The group soon heard of a man arrested on a woman making bricks in the hot sun, a man in minor incident and put in jail to await his charges. flip-flops breaking rock with a sledgehammer, By law the charges were to come within 48 hours. and children hand-rolling cigarettes. But on the third day his wife came to visit and “Often children will inherit their parents found her husband dead on the floor of his cell. loans, or the kids need money to pay for their “He was lying in a pool of blood, and the steel mother’s funeral,” Funk said. door was off its hinges,” Funk said. Local police He spent 10 days in India, interacting with reported the death to be suicide, but IJM, with the more than 250 people in IJM’s one-case-at-a-time, help of Funk and his fellow lawyers, filed suit two-fold approach: bringing justice for individuals, against the attorney general of Kenya and Nairobi’s and sending a message to others in the community police chief. In a city plagued by slow systems that perpetrators will be held accountable. He and and crowded courts, the case is still pending. other lawyers interviewed bonded workers and With Kenya on the “No Travel” list for United prepared affidavits that legally explained their loans States citizens, Funk and Wells experienced the and working arrangements. As a result, more than danger of their surroundings every day. They visited 100 of the bonded laborers were relieved of their a 3,000-capacity prison that held 6,000 inmates, obligations. “It’s somewhat like a medical mission 90 percent of whom were waiting to be tried. trip,” Funk said. “You can bring immediate relief And they stayed in a hotel surrounded by a brick and have an impact on the lives of others.” wall. Armed guards held mirrors under every car Funk returned to Nashville a changed man, approaching the hotel to look for explosives and but with a wife, Betsy Brakefield-Funk (’92), were there to welcome opening elevator doors on and two daughters to care for, he knew those every floor. “Being in a situation where we were responsibilities came before another IJM trip. obviously American, we had to keep aware of Still, he kept in touch with the organization and what was going on,” said Wells. “In Nairobi, the proudly provided pictures of his cross-the-globe word is that a third of the city spends the day pro- justice mission to anyone interested. That included tecting a third of the city from a third of the city.” his nephew, David Wells (’05). Shortly after Funk returned to Nashville, he “I was very familiar with Sam’s trip and saw got a call he had been hoping to receive. The fight many of those pictures over the years,” said Wells, for justice had allowed a jailed man to receive his who majored in business and whose mother is the unconditional release. “It’s nice to know that your sister of Funk’s wife. “When Sam had the oppor- work can make a difference, and that IJM can be tunity to go on another mission, he called and such a good resource,” said Funk. “Each year asked if I wanted to go. I jumped at the chance.” is different (for me), but I’d certainly like to go It was June 2005. Wells, a recent graduate, again sometime.” had two months before beginning a new job in Charlotte, while Funk had just welcomed a third Scott Holter is a freelance writer based in Seattle.

www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2006 51 Frederic Joly (LL.M) is in the legal Steven C. McRae (JD) and Thomas R. 2001 department of TF1, a European television Peake II (JD ’95) have formed Peake & channel and a subsidiary of BOUYGUES. McRae PA in Graham, NC. Lisa Biedrzycki spent six months study- He is engaged to be married in October ing law in Tokyo, Japan, and graduated in Chartres, France. Keith O’Halloran (JD) has a solo prac- from Temple University School of Law. tice in criminal defense in Westhampton She received the TASA Prize for Scott D. Jones (MBA) is responsible for Beach, NY, with a satellite office in Excellence in Evidence. She has taken up new business development, client servic- Garden City, NY. kung fu, is working towards a pilot’s ing and assisting in firm management license and is moving to New York City. with Arbor Investment Advisors in Martin Podolan (JD) is head of legal Winston-Salem. and corporate affairs at Slovenske elek- George Faithful received his master’s of trarne, a.s., the second largest power divinity from Covenant Theological Marcus S. Lawrence Jr. (JD) formed the generator in Mid and Eastern Europe. He Seminary in St. Louis, MO. law firm Thorn Lawrence PL in Tampa, lives in Trnava, Slovakia. FL, specializing in civil litigation and Beth Mabe Gianopulos (JD) is associ- estate planning. ate counsel at NC Baptist Hospitals Inc. in Winston-Salem.

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52 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Klemens Keferboeck (LL.M) is a junior partner at Binder Groesswang Rechtsaenwalte in Innsbruck, Austria. He focuses on banking and capital markets and is engaged to be married.

Jennifer Nall has an internship with JONES (MBA ’00) BASS (JD ’02) Samaritan’s Purse in Kholm, MOSER (JD ’02) ELDRIDGE (JD ’03) Afghanistan, working with a girls’ educa- tion project. 2002 Aaron Oyarce (LL.M) is head of the Jonathan Nelson (JD) served as a trial corporate department at San Martin lawyer at the Marine Corps Base Camp Steven Anderson (MD) is a chief resi- University’s Law School. He also teaches Pendleton, CA, and in the Middle East. dent in orthopaedic surgery at Duke Uni- in the MBA department. He is teaching trial advocacy and crimi- versity Medical Center in Durham, NC. nal law at the Naval Justice School in Stephanie Parks Pezzo graduated from Newport, RI. Eric Bass (JD) is with Wishart Norris the University of South Florida College Henninger & Pittman in Charlotte, NC. of Medicine. Following an internal medi- Sara Shaw Nicholas received her MD He is a member of the North Carolina cine internship at the University of South from the Medical University of South and South Carolina Bars. Florida, she will begin her residency Carolina. She is pursuing a residency in training in diagnostic radiology. obstetrics and gynecology at Washington Adrienne A. Bohannon is a pediatric University in St. Louis, MO. clinical speech pathologist at Duke Jessica E. Poirier received her doctorate University Medical Center in Durham, of pharmacy from the University of Kala C. Taylor received a JD and BA in NC. Her primary area of clinical interest North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is civil law from Louisiana State University is dysphagia and feeding/swallowing pursuing a pharmacy practice residency Paul M. Hebert Law Center. evaluation and treatment. at The Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, OH. Carrie Vey received her MD from the Garrett W. Colby received his MD from University of South Florida. She was the University of Alabama School of Adam W. Shick (MA) is associate inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha and Medicine. He will complete his residency director of Institutional Research at the Gold Humanism Honor Societies, in diagnostic radiology at Tripler Army Wake Forest. received the Doctor’s Doctor and the Medical Center in Honolulu, HI. Charles E. Aucremann MD Excellence in Jochen Zaremba (LL.M) is with Family Medicine Awards. She is in a Lauren Linfante DeAlexandris (MBA) Schwartz Rechtsanwaelte in Amberg, family medicine residency at Halifax and her husband, Brian, opened a fran- Germany. Medical Center in Daytona Beach, FL. chise location of Super Suppers in Jacksonville, FL. Shenika Watlington received her MBA 2003 from the University of Michigan. She is Zhen “Katie” Feng (LL.M) is an associ- an associate brand manager with Kraft ate practicing intellectual property law Susanna Baker has extended her time Foods in New York. for the international law firm of Lovells with the Peace Corps as a volunteer coor- in the Shanghai office. dinator in Quito, Ecuador. Robin Heather Whitley is in the U.S. Navy stationed near Cambridge, England. Lauren Parks Golding graduated from Erik Jonas Blomqvist is vice president Duke University School of Medicine. Her of operations for Medical Review Service Shin Yamazaki (LL.M) is senior coordi- residency is in radiology at Wake Forest in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. nator of the legal team at Matsushita University School of Medicine. Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. in Yokohama Scott Eldridge (JD) is an associate in City, Japan. He and his wife, Junko, are Jonathan Lee Kelly was selected for the the office of Miller Canfield Paddock & expecting a baby to join their son Taichi Zuckerman Fellows Program at Harvard Stone PLC. He is in the labor and (5) and daughter Natuha (2). University. employment group in Lansing, MI.

Emerson C. Moser (JD) is with Dins- Anne Fritzler (LL.M) has a legal posi- more & Shohl LLP in Cincinnati, OH. He tion in the Administrative Tax was named a “Ohio Super Lawyer — Department of Hamburg, Germany. Rising Star” by Law & Politics Media.

www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2006 53 Jessie Lee Smith is assistant director of corporate and foundation relations in the Wake Forest Development Office.

Derrick Spice and Brett Ross (’06) won the tennis doubles title at the Crown North Carolina Closed Championships MOROZ (’04) ANDREWS (’05) BOREEL (’06) PLACKEMEIER (’06) in Greensboro.

Chi Tan (LL.M) is in the legal depart- Elizabeth Hall completed her AAS Kristie Schavey received her master’s in ment of Chailease Finance Co. Ltd. in degree in interior design at Central clinical exercise physiology from Taipei,Taiwan. Piedmont Community College in Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Charlotte, NC. She is a junior designer at She is working in Tampa, FL, for LifeScan the commercial interior design firm of Wellness Centers. 2006 Club Design Group in North Port, FL. Seth Smith (MDiV) is pastor at Horse Maeke Boreel played in four consecu- Katherine Collins Neal is a senior Shoe First Baptist Church in western tive field hockey final fours and received account executive with Porter Novelli in North Carolina. the Marge Crisp Award as Wake Forest’s San Francisco, CA. top female student-athlete for the 2005- 06 academic year. Virginia Lee “Ginger”Bailey Rolfes 2005 (JD) is an associate at Kilpatrick Ayca Konuralp (LL.M) participated Stockton LLP, focusing on commercial Kathleen E. Andrews is in account in the Federal Judicial Observationship real estate and finance, in Charlotte, NC. management at Cardinal Capital Program with Chief U.S. Magistrate Management in Raleigh, NC. Judge Carl Horn in Charlotte, NC.

2004 Lindsay Butler is divisional marketing Ryan Plackemeier broke the NCAA specialist at Prudential Carolinas Realty record for punting average and received Kelly Doton will travel with the USA in Winston-Salem. the Arnold Palmer Award as Wake women’s national field hockey team to Forest’s top male student-athlete for the World Cup in Madrid, scheduled for Jamie Dean is pursuing a JD/MBA at the 2005-06 academic year. He was a September 26-October 8. Wake Forest. He was chosen by U.S. seventh-round draft choice and plays Rowing to represent the United States as for the Seattle Seahawks. Barbara Maida-Stolle (MBA) is vice part of the first-ever Adaptive National president of retail services for Goodwill Team in the Olympics. The FISA World Brett Ross and Derrick Spice (’05) won Industries of the Southern Piedmont. Rowing Championships were held in the tennis doubles title at the Crown Eton, England, in August. North Carolina Closed Championships Manuel Moctezuma (LL.M) is on the in Greensboro. Brett won the singles board of directors of the Hispanic Bar Ryan Dings (JD) is an associate attorney championship there and at the CVITT Association. He is a foreign counsel at with Moretz & Skufca PLLC in Charlotte, Tournament at the Oakwood Country Ajamie LLP in Houston, TX. He pub- NC. Club in Lynchburg,VA. lished an article analyzing the disclosure requirements for public companies Jennifer Kalcevic (LL.M) is serving a Liron Strauss was selected to the under Mexico’s new Securities Market clerkship in the U.S. District Court in Academic All-Atlantic Coast Conference Law in the American Bar Association Charlotte, NC, and then a one-year clerk- tennis team. Mexico Update. He and his wife, Paulina ship in the Superior Court of New Jersey. Castro (LL.M ’04), are expecting a baby. Paul T. Mayer is an account executive at 2007 Mark Moroz is a recruiting assistant for ISP Sports in Winston-Salem. He handles the football team at Wake Forest. corporate sponsorships and multimedia Matt Antonelli was drafted 17th in the marketing partnerships with Wake Forest first round of the major-league baseball athletics. draft by the San Diego Padres.

54 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Marriages Alexander (’97), Erin Crabtree (’97), January Hope Streeter (’99) and Aaron Gibson (’97), Bill Logan (’97), Ben David Carmalt. 4/30/05 in Atlanta. The Julian P.S. Smith III (’76) and Diane Martin (’95), Geoff Michael (’97), Scott wedding party included Katie Church Rudulph. 4/13/06. They live in Rock Hill, Nye (’98), Carl Osberg (’01), Mark (’99), Kristin Hill (’99), Jen Lyon (’99), SC. Schofield (’96), Teresa Schofield (’97), Kevin Richardson (’99), Laura Vieta Keith Smith (’97), Sarah Smith (’97) and Richardson (’99), Lawson Rothgeb (’99) John McCune (’84, JD ’87) and Holly Jamie Weinbaum (’98). and Valerie Williamson (’98). Henry. 6/17/06 in Ocala, FL. They live in Lynn Haven, FL. Jonessa Nicole Howald (’97) and Beth Cockman (’00) and Richard Wood. Matthew Tyler Alexander. 5/27/06 in 6/24/06 in Wait Chapel. They live in Rick Tobar (’86) and Anne Gallagher. Lakeland, FL. They live in Winder, GA. Fayetteville, NC. The wedding party 4/29/06 in Charlotte, NC. included Julie Greer (’00) and Emilee Molli Frances Perkins (’97) and Romie Simmons (’00). Attending were Chaplain Steve Dapkus (’95) and Andrea A. “Terry” Terrence Barnes. 7/1/06 in Emeritus Ed Christman (’50, JD ’53), Jean Partridge. 2/18/06 in Playa Del Carmen, Rockville, MD. In attendance were Christman (’51), Lauren Clendenin (’02), Mexico. They live in Birmingham, AL. Ronnie Angerer (’98), Rebecca Filbey Jason Cogdill (’98, JD ’01), April Gloth (’97), Arwen Blayney Lietz (’97), Tammy (’00), Jo Godfrey (’61), Jennifer Goforth Laura Brooke Lawrence (’95) and Wells-Angerer (’97) and John Whitmire (’00), Myers Johnson (’88), Pam Powell Jonathan Hata. 4/1/06 in Durham, NC. Jr. (’97). (’00) and Ann Wells (’00). Attending were Jenny Hall Aldrink (’95), Ann Haywood Baxter (’95), Cheri Ted Tseng (’97) and Heather Harelik. Paula Abigail Decker (’00) and Williams Bowling (’95), Monica Stuckey 5/28/06 in Lake Las Vegas, NV.They live Alexander Bartholomew Currall. 5/6/06 Goudy (’95), Karen Blue Norris (’95), in Denver, CO. The wedding party in Alexandria,VA. Richard Paul Decker Regan Reding (’95) and Cameron Butler included Will Garin (’96) and Vicki Ho (’68) and Virginia Decker are the bride’s St. Clair (’95). (’97). parents. The wedding party included Holly Ivanoff Graham (’00), Melanie Seth T. Chait (’96) and Dori J. Popkin. Rachel Claire Childs (’98, MAEd ’99) Sheffield Haley (’00), Michelle Theresa 5/6/06 in Glen Head, NY. They live in and Charles Hale Durant. 4/22/06 in Hot Hess (’00), Meredith Leigh McDonald Baltimore, MD. Attending were Scott Springs, NC. Attending were David (’00) and Emily Donofrio Wilson (’00). Alvey (’99), Raj Batheja (’96), Amy Caggiano (’98), Maria Alavanja Caggiano Marchel Charasika (’99, MAEd ’00), Pai (’98), Elizabeth O’Donovan Land (’98), Elke Fuessmann (’00) and Robert Charasika (’98), Carl Daniels (’96), Dylan Mary Patrick Lemmons (’74), Brent Phillips (’00). 5/27/06 in Chapel Hill, Heck (’98), Andrew Laskowski (’02), Evan Martin (’98), Katharine Humphrey NC. They live in Conshohocken, PA. The Peverley (’96), Aaron Prisco (’95), Bobby Martin (MAEd ’99, MDiv ’05), David wedding party included Brock Benson Schott (’96), Jeff Scola (’96), Blake Tenore Nichols (’98), Julie Davis Nichols (’98) (’00), Sarah Galbraith Harris (’00), Erin (’96), Robert Tulley (’96), Burns Wetmore and Jamie Womack (’98). Valenti (’01), Nick Wessling (’00) and (’96), Sarah Little Wetmore (’96) and Cory David White (’00). Attending were Ted Winig (’98). Bill Goodwin (’99) and Neal Aitken (’00), Maryellen Dougherty (’00), Whitehead. 5/13/06 in Pinehurst, NC. Greg Givens (’00), Jason Shoemaker (’00) Brian Lee (’96) and Katie Foxworth. They live in Raleigh, NC. and Stephanie Reddy White (’00). 6/24/06 in Athens, GA. They live in Atlanta. The wedding party included Rich Grogan (’99) and Erin Aloan. Lidwine Alexandra Lacquemant (MBA Brian Adams (’96), Thomas Carroll (’96) 5/13/06. The wedding party included ’00) and Benoit Graciet. 5/6/06 in and Will Chambliss (’96). David Hodges (’99, MD ’03), Bob Hendaye, France. MacReynolds (’99), Adrian Miller (’99), Thomas Graham Honaker IV (’97) and Patrick Murphy (’99) and Pete Tarsa (’99). Warner Douglas May (’00) and Melissa Sarah Katherine Morsbach. 5/27/06 in Lynn Freeman. 6/3/06 in Thomasville, Chicago, IL. They live in Louisville, KY. David L. Hall (’99) and Mary Traylor GA. The wedding party included Daniel The wedding party included George Larus. 6/10/06 in Richmond,VA.They live Gilchrist Barnes (’00, MD ’04), David Andrus (’97), Alex Brown (’98), Zach in Atlanta, GA. The wedding party Thomas Celello (’00), Holly Miller Gentry Everson (’98) and Matt Harrington (’99). included Radford Hallman (’99) and (’99), James Haynes Gentry (’99), Robert Attending were Andy Alcock (’83), Amy Henry Kinard (’99). Hamilton Haley (’00, MSA ’01) and Steven Edward Huntington (’00).

www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2006 55 Attending were Hima Maramreddy Sara Janet Shaw (’01) and Peter party included Lindsey Evans Chitwood Bloomfield (’98), Neil Bloomfield (’00), Nicholas. 11/26/05 in Spartanburg, SC. (’02), Doug Pulse (’02) and Jack Zoesch Brian Branson (’00, MSA ’01), Paula They live in St. Louis, MO. Janet Weir (’02). Attending were Lewis Chitwood Decker Currall (’00), Brian Dodwell (’00), Shaw (’75) is the bride’s mother and (’02, MSA ’03), James Hamill (’02, MSA Steven Feinberg (’00), Melanie Sheffield Alexander Frank Weir Jr. (’50, MD ’53) ’03), Jami Johnson (’02), Sarah Wildrick Haley (’00), Marian Corbet Moss (’56) the bride’s grandfather. The wedding (’03), Evan Willett (’02) and Amy Daniel and Kevin Samuels (’00). party included Suzanne Lock (’02), Molly Zoesch (’03, MSA ’04). Mattingly (’02) and Anna Shaw (’06). Scott F. Wyatt (’00) and Christine M. Christie Paige Marzahn (’02) and Borowski (’00, MSA ’01). 5/27/06 in David Scott Siemon (’01) and Tamara Jacob Richard Stump (’02, JD ’05). Union, NJ. Attending were Shaine Brooke Gehris. 5/6/06 in Atlanta. The 5/27/06 in Virginia Beach,VA.They live in Orlowsky Capone (’00), Jon Gambill (’00), wedding party included Jason Aquilante Orlando, FL. The wedding party included Daniel Murphy (’00, JD ’06) and Kristy (’02), Joshua Paul Bartlett (’01) and Kyle Michael Ellis (’02), Mary Claire Hodges Rice (’00, MSA ’01). Matthew Price (’01). Attending were (’02), Allegra Klacsmann (’02), Michael Matthew William Briggs (’00), Ben Elbe McIntyre (’02, MSA ’03), Kristen Norris Aaron Heinrich Baer (’01) and Jennifer (’03) and Christian Brent Turner (’99). Rogers (’02, MSA ’03), Jordan Wagner Lynn Beem (’01, MA ’05). 7/15/06 in (’02) and Valerie Patrick Zaryczny (’02). Asheville, NC. They live in Winston- Mariana Alvarez (’02) and Shawn Salem. The wedding party included Elise Kallivayalil. 5/20/06 in Jacksonville, FL. Lauren Parks (’02) and Jay Golding. Agrella (’01), John Cooper (’01), Derek They live in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The 5/27/06 in Durham, NC. They live in Degrass (’01), Lisa Bear Degrass (’01), wedding party included Nikki Arminio Summerfield, NC. The wedding party Andy Rigsby (’03) and Pam Santilli (’01). (’02), Jami Johnson (’02), Lorraine Kostiw included Stephanie Parks Pezzo (’02). (’02) and Maryn Whittles (’02). Allison Dale (’01) and Ryan Taylor. Virginia Lee “Ginger” Bailey (JD ’03) 5/27/06 in Amelia Island, FL. They live in Garrett W. Colby (’02) and Elaine and Robert Jerome Rolfes. 5/20/06 in Atlanta. The wedding party included Marie Cox. 4/29/06 in Montevallo, AL. Charlotte, NC. Emilie Johnson (’01), Anna Lake (’01), The wedding party included Jason Asbell Melissa Wellman Norman (’01) and (’00), Cameron Cole (’01, MAEd ’02), Lisa Katherine Kemp Collins (’03) and Emily Quimby (’01). Ferguson (’04), Zachary Morgan (’04) and Brian Christopher Neal. 4/8/06 in Paris, William Rice (’98). KY. They live in San Francisco, CA. The James Edward Johnson Jr. (’01) and wedding party included Laura Marie Carrie Elizabeth Beaty. 6/17/06 in Claiborne Heilman (’02) and Darren Anderson (’03), Emily Conrad Beaver (’03), Greenville, SC. The wedding party Linvill (’99, MA ’02). 6/3/06 in Nags Adrienne Ann Bohannon (’02), Susan included Samuel Lindsay Carrington Head, NC. They live in Clemson, SC. The Patricia Edwards (’03), Helen King Stock- (’01), Cara Elizabeth Mathis (’01), John wedding party included Allison Gravely still (’03) and Julia Dean Taylor (’03). David Rock Jr. (’01) and Mark Robert (’02), Jimmy Hilburn (’99), Elizabeth Attending were Ryan Lee Beaver (’03, JD Wilson (’01). Attending were Bert Lester Machalek (’02), Jacob Montgomery (’02) ’06), Courtney Ann Beitler (’03), Katharine Bennett IV (’04), Alexander Bradley and Anita Woolley (’02). Elizabeth Rouse (’04), Tanis Jan Smith Cregan (’01), Will Daniel Godfrey (’01), (’03) and Jamie Lyn Whittaker (’03). Luke Campbell Iglehart (’01), William Megan Love Lambert (’02) and Erik Paul Jaudes (’01), William Jesse Teague Jr. Jonas Blomqvist (’03). 5/13/06 in Adam Dickey (’03) and Katie (’01) and other members of the Kappa Georgetown, SC. They live in Jupiter, FL. Henderson (’03). 7/22/06 in Fort Myers, Alpha Class of 2001. The wedding party included Stephen FL. They live in Chicago, IL. The wedding Michael Hawryluk (’03), Jamie Lynn party included Will Clough (’03) and Lisa Michelle Pearson (’01) and Chad Jennell (’01), Sonya Lee Kohnen (’02), Cambra Overend (’04). Anthony Collums. 5/28/06 in Hilton David Willingham Lentz (’03) and Head, SC. They live in Troy, MI. The wed- Margaret McCollough Schottler (’02). Laura Ellen Jajosky (’03) and Matthew ding party included Ann Ellen Ferguson Essex Morgan (’04). 7/15/06 in Winston- (’01), Kathryn Lynn Ossowski (’01) and Lauren Vacher Linfante (MBA ’02) and Salem. They live in Alexandria,VA. Cristina Ann Pandolfo (’01). Brian DeAlexandris. 6/3/06 in Sheldon, Chaplain Timothy Auman officiated. The SC. They live in Jacksonville, FL. wedding party included Ashley Crouse (’03), Heather Green (’03), Daniel Margot Lombardo (’02) and Michael McGinley (’04), Chris Reilly (’04), Dan Green (’02). 6/10/06 in Bermuda. They Schaaf (’04) and J.D. Stallings (’04). live in Washington, D.C. The wedding

56 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Elizabeth Anne Lee (’03) and Benjamin S. Ashley Steakley (’04) and Benedict David L. Mathus (JD ’84) and Elizabeth Allen Steere (’03). 7/1/06 in Durham, Young Kim. 2/12/05 in Austin, TX. The Mathus, Westbrook, CT: a son, William NC. They live in Athens, GA. Ingram wedding party included Shelley Adams Henry. 2/27/06. He joins his brother, Hedgpeth (’76) officiated. The wedding (’05), Noelle Balliett (’02), Tasha Pinckney James (3). party included Andrea Lavin (’03) and (’01) and Jackie Shock (’02). Justin Lee (’00). Attending were Craig Daniel Alcazar (MBA ’85) and Theresa Brodersen (’02, MS ’03), Jennifer Ashley Elizabeth Batts (’05) and Lynn Alcazar, Kansas City, MO: a son, Schneider Camp (’03), Ed Gaskins (’63), Thomas Hart Allen (’05). 8/6/05. The Sebastian August. 5/27/06 Christine Manuck (’03) and Liz wedding party included Mark Arinci Richardson (’03). (’05), Aditya Dasika (’05), Lindsay John W. Boswell (’86) and Meg Boswell, Morgan Farrar (’06), Elizabeth Showalter Atlanta: a daughter, Caroline Whitney. John Melquades Martinez (’03) and Godbold (’05), Katherine Drew 4/10/06 Helen Virginia Owens (’03). 5/20/06 in Hitzhusen (’05), Julia Michelle Koch (’05) Orlando, FL. The wedding party included and Christopher Michael Nelson (’06). John Douglas Phillips (’86) and Catherine Goodman (’03), Andrew Courtney Phillips, Houston, TX: a daugh- Harper (’03), Sidney Hawkins (’03), Leigh Karen Buschman (’05) and Cason ter, Alice Grey. 6/8/06. She joins her sis- Hearne (’03), Cary Hudgins (’03), Ryan Barnes. 6/7/06 in Gaithersburg, MD. They ters, Sarah (3) and Lucy (1). Lally (’03), Annie Manchester (’03), Aaron live in Nashville, TN. The wedding party Mayo (’03), Katherine Nash (’03), Tommy included Katie Bason (’05) and Lauren Annette Dvorak Wyeth (’86) and O’Reardon (’03) and Sarah Steen (’03). Collins (’05). Michael Brian Wyeth (’86), Haymarket, VA: a daughter, Madison Emery. 4/13/06 Jayme Michelle Shomaker (’03) and Michael David Colvard (’05) and Charles Oliver Gallop. 5/6/06 in Winston- Lindsay Elizabeth Yurkutat (’04). Thomas F. Binkley (’89) and Jaime L. Salem. They live in High Point, NC. The 12/17/05 in Downingtown, PA. They live Binkley, South Williamsport, PA: a wedding party included Lindsay Dedo in St. Louis, MO. Ben Milner (’93) offici- daughter, Lucy Emma. 5/10/06. She joins (’02) and Adrienne Powell Loffredo (’03). ated. The bride is the daughter of Linda her sisters, Abigail Lynn (8) and Sophia Setterstrom Yurkutat (’71). The wedding Isabella (13 mos). Jessica Sloane Snure (’03) and Wayne party included Matthew Thomas English Clifford Paullus III. 5/7/05 in Amarillo, (’05), Zachary Bryant Hill (’05), Stephen Elizabeth Malcom Cooke (’89) and TX. They live in Columbia, MO. The wed- John MacDonough (’07), Matthew Scott Rocky Cooke, Cary, NC: a daughter, ding party included Rachael Elizabeth Miller (’00), Karen Rene Riddle (’05), Mary Elizabeth. 3/20/06 Carney (’03), Kelly Carpenter (’03), Lenora Ann Simpson (’06), Barbara Louise Walker Freeman (’03), Anne Mathes Yurkutat (’99) and Robert John Lorna Campbell Martin (’89) and Elizabeth Thorkelson (’04) and Anna Yurkutat (’99). Michael Martin, Southern Pines, NC: a Elizabeth Warburton (’03). daughter, Amelia “Mia”Grace. 4/24/06 Katie Cox (’05) and Craig Tribble. Lindsey Anne Stergiou (’03) and Drake 2/11/06 in Greensboro, NC. Steven Schmidt (MAEd ’89) and Susan Andrew Guenther. 5/6/06 in Columbus, Revis Schmidt (’89), Elizabeth City, NC: OH. They live in Charlottesville,VA.The a son, William Mitchell. 1/20/06. He joins wedding party included Meghan Births/Adoptions his sister, Emily (5). Coleman Burns (’03, MSA ’04), Amy Wilson Hale (’03), Anna Elizabeth Holt Stephen John “Steve” Gurganus (’80) Susan Hope Crockett Smith (’89) and (’03), Melissa Erin Jones (’03), Marie and Kathleen McQuaid, Raleigh, NC: a Wiley Smith, Pearl City, HI: a son, Ethan Therese Szczurowski (’03), Ashley daughter, Ciara Li Ru Frances. 1/14/04 in Robert. 5/19/06 Elizabeth True (’03) and Anna Elizabeth China and adopted 5/31/05. Warburton (’03). Karl Tweardy (’89) and Susan Tweardy, John James Cater III (’81, MBA ’83) Richmond,VA: a daughter, Tristan Amil. Christopher D. Marston (MBA ’04) and Estelle Cater, Houma, LA: a daugh- 4/24/06 and Claire E. Anderson (MBA ’04). ter, Elizabeth Stockett. 6/14/05 4/1/06 in Charlotte, NC. The wedding Jan M. Johnson (’90) and Stephen party included Steven G. Bumgarner (’95, Mishol, Quincy, MA: a daughter, Sophia MBA ’02) and Elizabeth Watson Evans (’99). Jane. 7/27/05

www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2006 57 Lynn Margiotta (’90) and Jennifer Justin B. Doran (’92) and Sara Pickens Ann Greenwood Burns (’93) and John Margiotta, Silver Spring, MD: a son, Doran, Princeton, NJ: a son, Henry Burns, Dallas, TX: a son, David William. Anthony Whitehead. 5/23/06 Robert. 5/3/06. He joins his brothers, 4/24/06. He joins his brother, Jack. Charlie (8), Tom (6) and Will (2), and his Scott McDonough (’90) and Julie sister, Lila (4). Albert Cedric Calhoun (’93) and McDonough, South Riding,VA: a son, Amanda Kate Wenner-Calhoun, Silver Aidan Patrick. 5/24/06. He joins his sister, Charles D. Greene (’92) and Jenny Spring, MD: a son, Gavin Cedric. 2/7/06 Caleigh (6), and brother, Zach (4). Greene, Winston-Salem: a daughter, Ashley Lynn. 4/26/06 Leslie Austin Creel (’93) and Brad Amy Scheeler Sparks (MBA ’90) and Creel, Danbury, CT: a daughter, Jenna Timothy Sparks, Raleigh, NC: a son, Sterling Griggs (’92) and Kellie Griggs, Ann. 6/13/06 Dylan Webster. 1/23/06. He joins his Yadkinville, NC: a son, Deacon Sindler. brother, Jason (2). 6/15/06. He joins his sisters, Chandler Laura Amiot Greve (’93) and Richard and Reynolds. Greve, Roswell, GA: a daughter, Zoie James R. Dickey (MBA ’91) and Meri Olivia. 2/17/06. She joins her brother, Dickey, Center Valley, PA: a son, Jakob David E. Inabinett (’92, JD ’96) and Cameron (7). Matthias. 4/6/06. He joins his sister, Elizabeth Hawkins Inabinett (’94), Caitlin (3). Lexington, NC: a daughter, Katherine Brad Hipps (’93) and Laura Hipps, Elliott. 2/28/06 Houston, TX: a son, Walker Stroh. 5/25/06 Andrew Meadows (’91) and Sadie Meadows, Tampa, FL: a son, Justis Galen Johnson (’92) and Lori Johnson, Carie Jones-Barrow (’93) and Andrew Richard. 5/31/06. He joins his brother, Siloam Springs, AR: a daughter, Caroline Edward Barrow (’93), Silver Spring, Quentin David (3). Grace. 7/10/06 MD: a son, Jonathan Carl. 8/1/05. He joins his brother, Adam Edward (3). Mark Mendenhall (’91) and Anna Christopher C. King (’92) and Gatewood Mendenhall (’94), Charlotte, Christine King, Baltimore, MD: a daugh- George Harrison Jordan (’93) and Amy NC: a son, Eric Newell. 9/30/05. He joins ter, Caroline Sarah. 11/10/05. She joins Young Jordan (’93, MD/MBA ’98), his brothers, Parker (5) and Tye (3). her brother, Camden (3). Greensboro, NC: a son, William Allen. 3/21/06. He joins his brother, Ben (2). Marty Mitchell Peterson (’91) and John Kimberly Uhorchak Mattoon (’92) and Peterson, Raleigh, NC: a son, John “Jack” Dean Mattoon, Fuquay Varina, NC: a son, Julie Boswell McCulloch (’93, MAEd Hilmer IV. 11/1/05. He joins his sisters, Lee Steven. 2/8/06. He joins his sister, ’95) and Michael McCulloch (’95), Morgan (7) and Mimi (2). Sydney (2). Charlottesville,VA: a daughter, Claire Elizabeth. 5/8/06. She joins her brother, Jamie Schirippa (’91) and Cathy Ha, Mark Schnably (’92) and Jane Andrew Paul (2). Florence, SC: a son, Albert Ha. 7/7/06 Harrison Schnably (’93), Winston- Salem: a son, Richard Edmund. 5/9/06 Diane McKeon Smith (’93) and Forrest Brooke Wimbush Shumaker (’91) and Smith, Cary, NC: a daughter, Caitlin Travis Shumaker, Kirkland, WA: a son, Susan Anderson Wood (’92) and Easterlin. 4/12/06. She joins her sister, Tegan Thomas. 5/24/06 Bradley Owen Wood (’92), Winston- Jordan Elizabeth (3). Salem: a son, Samuel Anderson. 2/4/06. Peter Carlino (’92, JD ’95) and Cathy He joins his brother, Owen Patrick (7 Elizabeth Ann Neighbors Way (’93) Carlino (’92), Charlotte, NC: a daughter, 1/2), and sister, Elizabeth Corinne (5). and Michael Way, Winston-Salem: a Sophia Antonina. 3/8/06. She joins her daughter, Rachel Ann. 5/3/06. She joins sisters, Olivia (6) and Gabriella (5). Shanna Swatts Autrey (’93, PA ’95) her sister, Katherine Elizabeth (2). and Charles Dale Autrey (MBA ’01), Vicki DiLillo (’92) and Joseph Roel, Princeton, WV: a daughter, Kendal. Jamie Vacca Chambliss (’94) and Delaware, OH: a son, Benjamin Walker. 4/5/06. She joins her sister, Laken (9), and William B. Chambliss (’96), Newton, 5/9/06 brother, Brock (7). MA: a son, James Kendrick. 2/14/06. He joins his sister, Maggie (3). Gina McCarver Brock (’93) and Charles Brock, Greenville, SC: a daugh- ter, Rebecca Cameron. 2/27/06

58 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Blake Ellavsky (’94) and Caroline Angela Denison Silva (’95) and Samuel Laura Philo Diaz (’97) and Kevin Diaz, Ellavsky, Cary, NC: a son, Nikolai Silva, Philadelphia, PA: a son, Jonathan Fernandina Beach, FL: a son, Robert Edward. Adopted from Moscow, Russia, Eber. 4/4/06. He joins his sisters, Lydia Cooper. 1/16/06 4/06 at 16 months old. He joins his sis- Caroline (4) and Esther Gabriela (2). ters, Sophia (6) and Maya (2). Jean Ann Grant Mansfield (’97) and Darrin Howe Skinner (’95) and Whit Mansfield, Atlanta: a son, Whitacre Allison Susan Gassner (’94) and Heather Skinner, Charlotte, NC: a son, “Tucker”II. 10/27/05 Gautam Srinivasan, Arlington,VA: a Zachary Howe. 6/16/06. He joins his sis- daughter, Harper. 1/2/06 ter, Sasha ((2). Kristin Grassey McCann (’97) and Christopher McCann, Morrisville, NC: a Julia Flanagan Gates (’94) and Kevin Gillian Harrell Allen (’96) and Michael son, Keegan Howard. 5/25/06 Gates, West Chester, PA: a daughter, Allen (’97), Charlotte, NC: a son, David Hailey Gwendolyn. 4/23/06 Wade. 2/13/06 Chuck McFadden (’97) and Kathryn Meyer McFadden (’98), Greenville, SC: Elizabeth Rees (’94) and Holden Heather Nunez Armstrong (’96) and a son, Charles B. III. 4/19/06 Hoofnagle, Alexandria,VA: a son, Dylan. Andrew Armstrong, McLeansville, NC: a 6/13/06. He joins his sister, Sophia (2 1/2). son, Aidan Alexander. 8/31/05. He joins Hope Culpepper Mewborne (JD ’97) his brother, David (1). and Jeffrey D. Mewborne, Greenville, Brenda Langenbacher Sperry (’94) and NC: a daughter, Andrea Claire. 3/1/06. Douglas Sperry, St. Louis, MO: a son, Danielle Boyle-Ebersole (JD ’96) and She joins her brothers, Travis (6) and Samuel Douglas. 5/11/05. He joins his Jason Ebersole, Gilbertsville, PA: a son, Luke (3). sister, Abigail Marie (3). Chase James. 3/6/06. He joins his sister, Skyler (3). Nell Pittman Sutlive (’97) and Charles Thomas Kevin Taylor (’94) and Jenny Edward Sutlive Jr., Atlanta: a son, Lynn Hinson (’95), Norwood, NC: a son, Jera Nelson Cunningham (’96) and Charles Edward “Ward”III. 7/1/06 Thomas Cameron. 6/30/06 Carl Cunningham, Mechanicsville,VA: a son, Caleb Austin. 3/21/06 Rebekah Demshar Zelenka (’97) and Allison Tufts Utecht (’94) and Joe Zelenka (’99), Jacksonville, FL: Alexander Utecht, Malvern, PA: a son, Julie Grabarek McGinnis (’96) and twins, Grace Rachel and Benjamin Jacob. Abraham Aidan. 3/27/06. He is their Shannen McGinnis, Thousand Oaks, CA: 6/18/06 fourth child. a son, Jeremy Donovan. 2/23/06. He joins his brother, Owen Ray (2). Nathan B. Atkinson (’98) and Kristin Greta Larkin Brunet (PA ’95, MBA W. Atkinson, Winston-Salem: a girl, ’02) and James Brunet, Apex, NC: a son, Mindy Tischler Reed (’96) and Craig Elizabeth “Ella”LeGrand. 2/3/06 Rylan Andrew. 5/9/06. He joins his broth- Reed, Cincinnati, OH: a daughter, Anna er, Braedon Jameson (2). Grace. 2/22/06. She joins her brother, Christopher Kevin Behm (JD ’98) and Max (20 mos). Kristin Behm, Wilmington, NC: a daugh- Steve Bumgarner (’95, MBA ’02) and ter, Josette Catherine. 6/15/06 Heather Bumgarner, Winston-Salem: a Kathy Day Stevens (’96) and Eric son, William Steven. 6/8/06. He joins his Stevens, Mason, OH: a daughter, Hannah Autumn Stokley Chandler (’98) and sister, Caroline (2). Carolyn. 12/28/05 Robert Michael Chandler (JD ’99), Charlotte, NC: a daughter, Reagan Terese Renea Mack Ewing (’95) and John Andrews (MBA ’97) and Mary Kincaid. 6/8/06 Kemp Ewing, Greenville, NC: a daughter, Shannon Andrews, Raleigh, NC: a Emma Caroline. 4/15/05. She joins her daughter, Mary Catherine. 2/13/06 Theresa Oubre Chielens (’98) and sister, Courtney Madison (6). Klaas Chielens, Brussels, Belgium: a son, Kelly Lynne Barham (’97, MD ’03) and Thyl Luc Anthony. 7/2/06 Steve Hunt (’95, MBA ’02) and Tricia Kelly W. Baird (MD ’05), Lewisville, Grant Hunt (’96), Atlanta, GA: a daugh- NC: a son, Sidney Haynes. 3/22/06 Karen Rzonsa Hauser (’98) and ter, Tatum Pace. 11/20/05. She joins her Matthew Hauser, Columbus, OH: a sister, Ellie (2). Nathan Patrick Dean (’97, MD ’01) daughter, Elizabeth Hannah. 4/26/06 and Jennifer Beck Dean (’97, MD ’01), St. Louis, MO: a son, Liam Alexander. 3/9/06

www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2006 59 Andrew Hennessey (’98) and Allison Roger Steur (’99) and Anne Lanier received several medals. He worked with Milunic Hennessey (’99), Bristol, CT: a Steur (’00), Birmingham, AL: a son, Swift & Company in Norfolk,VA, had an son, Rowan Amos Bede. 5/30/06. He joins William Houston. 1/30/06. He joins his office supply store in Ahoskie, NC, and his brother, Beckett (2). sister, Molly (2). retired from Mutual/United of Omaha Insurance Companies. Vanessa Slattery Kuklick (’98) and Marcus Ramon Herdrich (’00) and Brian Kuklick (’02), Charlotte, NC: a Kelly Marselle Herdrich (’01), William S. Harrill Sr. (’36), June 2, 2006, son, Cole Fletcher. 2/19/06 Columbia, MD: a daughter, Erica Nicole. Greer, SC. He served in the U.S. Army 5/11/06. She joins her sister, Samantha Air Force during World War II. He owned Shannon Gardner Stockton (’98) and Kay (19 mos). and operated Harrill’s Inc. from 1945 Bryan Stockton, Reston,VA: a daughter, until retiring in 1982. He received the Hilarie Dawn. 2/15/06 Cynthia Sheek Illingworth (’00) and Melvin Jones Fellow Award from the Brent Illingworth, Brevard, NC: twin Greer Lions Club. Erin Taylor Anderson (’99) and Steven daughters, Kaitlyn Ada and Caroline Anderson (MD ’02), Durham, NC: a Bree. 5/17/06 Charles Lawrence Marks (’38),Feb.8, daughter, Anna Grace. 3/22/06 2006, Rocky Mount, NC. Kate Barber Jernigan (JD ’00) and Stacey Thurman Bradford (JD ’99) and Trent Jernigan (JD ’00), Winston- Edward C. Thompson Sr. (’38), April 30, Franklin Bradford, Birmingham, AL: a Salem: a daughter, Adelaide Tart. 6/11/06. 2006, Forest City, NC. He worked with son, Harry Franklin III. 12/8/05 She joins her brother, James (1 1/2). the N.C. Highway Department, the U.S. Ordinance Department and was a Cynthia Cox-Walsh (’99) and Shannon Lally McLay (’00) and Bill chemist and plant manager for Firestone Christopher J. Walsh (MBA ’04), McLay, Tampa, FL: a son, William “Will” Tire and Rubber Co. He was owner and Charlotte, NC: a son, Brennan Seanne. 2/12/06 president of Ron & Eddy’s Restaurant for Christopher. 6/12/06 57 years. He received the NC Order of Jeff D. Braintwain (JD ’01) and Tracy the Long Leaf Pine Award. Beckie Heim Eggers (’99) and Mike Cobb Braintwain (JD ’01), Atlanta, GA: Eggers, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA: a a daughter, Catherine Frazier. 2/1/06 John H. Knight (’39), April 19, 2006, daughter, Gabrielle Emelia. 6/12/06. She Greenville, NC. He was a Baptist pastor joins her sister, Annsley Jayne (2). Melissa Shearer (MBA ’01) and Jeremy in Asheville, Concord, Durham and Shearer, Kernersville, NC: a son, Ethan Mebane, NC. After retiring, he served as Jonathan Harper (’99) and Elise Adams Christopher. 1/15/06. He joins his sister, interim pastor for 20 churches in and Harper (’99), Dallas, TX: a son, Luke Nora (2). around Buncombe County. McInnis. 5/25/06 Thomas O. Wheless (’39, MD ’43), Maggie Shaffer Lindley (’99) and Matt Deaths June 19, 2006, Louisburg, NC. He was a Lindley, Franklin, TN: a son, Robert U.S. Army veteran of World War II and Winston. 5/23/06 Marvin L. Davis (’31), June 30, 2006, had a medical practice in Louisburg for Atlanta, GA. He served in the U.S. Army over 40 years, retiring in 1988. He is sur- Chris McLaughlin (’99, MBA ’04) and during World War II. He interned at vived by his wife Lois, daughter Kay, son Tamara P. McLaughlin (’99), Winston- Wake Forest and practiced pediatrics in Thomas Jr. (’75) and five grandchildren. Salem: a son, John Connor. 3/6/06 Atlanta for more than 50 years. Robert Strange Cahoon (’40), Jan. 7, Emily Sanders Miller (’99) and Kevin William W. Finlator Sr. (’34), July 3, 2006, Greensboro, NC. He served in the Miller, Rock Hill, SC: a son, Sanders 2006, Raleigh, NC. He was pastor emeri- U.S. Army in World War II. He practiced Blaine. 4/29/06 tus of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in law in Greensboro for more than 50 Raleigh, having served as pastor there years, founding Cahoon & Swisher. Ryan Benjamin Opel (’99) and Dawn from 1956 to 1982. He was inducted into Shoultz Opel (’99), Winston-Salem: a the Raleigh Hall of Fame. He is survived Horace H. Hilton Jr. (’41), May 10, 2006, son, Ian Malcolm. 12/20/05 by his wife, Mary, son William (’67), and Wilmington, NC. He pastored churches daughters Elizabeth and Martha (’72), in Grayson, KY, Chattanooga and Jessica Skalyo Paul (’99) and Robert and eight grandchildren. Knoxville, TN, Detroit, MI, and Charlotte, Paul (’99), Philadelphia, PA: a son, NC. From 1976 until retiring in 1986, he Brendan Russell. 5/20/06 Joseph C. Holloman Sr. (’35), May 12, pastored the Myrtle Grove Presbyterian 2006, Powellsville, NC. He served in the Church in Wilmington, NC. U.S. Army during World War II and

60 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Charles R. “Chick” Jarrell (JD ’42),July William C. Palmer (’44), May 12, 2006, Charles George Owen (’49), April 18, 2, 2006, High Point, NC. He practiced law Shelby, NC. He served in the Army Air 2006, Delray Beach, FL. He served in the in High Point for over 60 years. He took Force during World War II. He worked Air Force during World War II. He was special pride in representing those less for 18 years as personnel director of drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers and fortunate. Hudson Hosiery Mill and retired after 17 was a teacher and coach from 1951 until years as personnel and public relations retiring as a guidance counselor in 1983. Samuel Herbert Massey Jr. (’42), June director of J.P. Stevens Co. 16, 2006, Warrenton, NC. He served in the George H. Pryor (’49), July 6, 2006, U.S. Navy in World War II and the Lois Odom Dameron (’45), April 24, Orlando, FL. He served during World Korean War. He practiced dentistry in 2006, Tabor City, NC. War II aboard an aircraft carrier. He Warrenton for over 46 years. He received taught and coached in the Orange the North Carolina Dental Society’s Carolyn Owenby Copeland (’47), June County School System, retiring after Citizenship Award. 4, 2006, Wake Forest, NC. She was a 40 years. retired chemist with the NC Department Dewey F. Nye Jr. (’43), April 23, 2006, of Agriculture Soil Testing Division. Carl David Rosenbaum (’49), June 25, Myrtle Beach, SC. He served three years 2006, Fayetteville, NC. He retired in with the Naval Dental Corps and prac- Riley Moore Jordan (’47, MD ’51),May 1992 as vice president of industrial ticed dentistry in Hartsville and then 8, 2006, Pinehurst, NC. He was a family sales at North Carolina Natural Gas Columbia, SC, for 25 years. He was the physician in Hoke Country (Raeford, NC) in Fayetteville. first full-time endodontist in South for 52 years and served on the staff of Carolina, was a life member of the Moore Memorial Hospital in Pinehurst Phyllis Timberlake Ross (’49), May 15, Southern Endodontic Study Group, a for 29 years. He served on the 2006, Charlotte, NC. She was a retired diplomat of the American Board of University’s board of trustees in the teacher, having taught in Coats and Endodontics and a fellow of the 1970s. He also served 22 years on the Matthews, NC, and 20 years at McClintock International College of Dentistry. Hoke County Board of Education and Jr. High School in Charlotte, NC. four years on the Hoke County Board of Robert C. Pope (’43, MD ’45), May 28, Commissioners. 2006, Wilson, NC. He was a retired pedia- trician, member of the American Heart Charles W. Snell Jr. (’47), June 16, 2006, Association, American Red Cross, Greenville, NC. He served in the U.S. American Cancer Society, Cystic Fibrosis, Marine Corps during World War II and Wilson County Medical Society, NC the Korean War. He worked for the Service of Medical Society, Southern Medical NC Department of Transportation for Remembrance Association, American Medical 35 years, retiring as division engineer Association, NC Pediatric Society, in 1983. Kiwanis Club and a past president of the Wake Forest University School of Jesse Edward Glasgow (’48), June 7, PLEASE JOIN FELLOW MEMBERS Medicine Alumni. 2006, Glen Arm, MD. He served in the OF THE AKE OREST FAMILY Army during World War II. He was a W F Jean Bailey Brooks (MD ’44), June 17, retired financial editor and columnist FOR A MEMORIAL SERVICE TO 2006, Greensboro, NC. She was the first for The Sun in Baltimore, where he had HONOR ALUMNI AND FACULTY woman to graduate from the Bowman worked since 1953. Gray School of Medicine and the first WHO HAVE PASSED AWAY woman to serve as president of the Clyde D. Hardin (’48), May 24, 2006, BETWEEN OCTOBER 2005 AND Bowman Gray Alumni Association. Charlotte, NC. He was in the U.S. Navy Along with her husband, the late Dr. during World War II and a civilian scien- AUGUST 2006. James Taylor Brooks, she practiced tist and executive in Defense Electronics medicine in Greensboro, where she for 40 years. He became technical direc- The service will be held during was the city’s first female gynecologist, tor of the U.S. Army Electronics Research from 1948 until 1988. She served on the and Development Command. Homecoming weekend on medical school’s Board of Visitors and Saturday, September 30 at 9:30 on the boards of various arts organiza- John Dewitte Muse Jr. (’49), Jan. 20, tions in Greensboro. She and her hus- 2006, Granite Falls, NC. He was a World a.m. in Wait Chapel. band were also major benefactors to the War II veteran. He was a funeral director medical school. in Ahoskie, NC, and was postmaster at Windfall, Gatesville, Conway and Granite Falls, NC, retiring in 1986.

www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2006 61 Fitzhugh E. Wallace Jr. (JD ’49), April South Carolina School of Law. He prac- counties and until 1994 was the radiolo- 17, 2006, Morehead City, NC. He earned ticed law with Edens & Hammer before gist at Anson County Hospital. After a Bronze Star for his service in World partnering with Taylor Rion. graduating from the Bowman Gray War II. He was an attorney with Wallace School of Medicine, he was a flight sur- Morris & Barwick PA in Kinston, NC, for W.L. “Bill” Pearson Jr. (’51), June 27, geon in the Army before returning to his 50 years. 2006, Boonville, NC. He served over 33 native Wadesboro to practice medicine. years as a pastor in five Baptist churches, He completed his residency in radiology Charlie Bryan Finch (’50), April 15, 2006, retiring in 1994. He was director of mis- at North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Oxford, NC. He served in the U.S. Air sions with Surry Baptist Association from 1972. He is survived by his wife, Lula Force in the medical field and practiced 1983 until 1994. Since retiring, he had Ann, and two children, Robert Lee medicine for 45 years as a general prac- served as interim director of missions for Davis Jr. (‘87) and Melissa Davis Sikes. titioner in Granville County, retiring in two Baptist associations and interim pas- 1995. He is survived by his wife Gene, son tor for four Baptist churches. Jane Norton Fowler (’57), May 20, 2006, Charlie Jr. (’89), and daughter Tamara. Alexandria,VA. She was a musician and Norman Robert Schatzel (’51), June 11, taught violin, viola and cello in her home Glenn B. Hays (MD ’50), June 16, 2006, 2006, Irvington, NY. He retired in 1990 as and at the Alexandria School of Music. New Cumberland, PA. He was an Army vice president of administration of the She played for 40 years with several veteran of World War II and served as a American Kennel Club in New York City. orchestras, including the Washington, the meteorologist in the European theater. He was president and a board member Pan American, the Ukraine National and He was a dermatologist, practicing in of the Half Moon Cooperative the Czech National Symphony orches- Tarpon Springs and Ft. Myers, FL. He Apartments North in Irvington. tras. served as a physician in Zimbabwe, Thailand and Papua New Guinea. Joseph B. Barkocy (’52), May 3, 2006, Alexander B. Kingman (BBA ’57), Warwick, NY. He played football at Wake May 14, 2006, Winston-Salem. He was a Rubert B. Pearce Jr. (’50), April 21, 2006, Forest and was a high-school math retired accountant with Wachovia Bank. Henderson, NC. He served in the U.S. teacher for 33 years and a football coach Navy during World War II and was a for 25 years before retiring in 1986 from Charles E. Reeves Sr. (BBA ’57), April member of the American Legion in Ridgewood (NJ) High School. A native of 27, 2006, Hickory, NC. He served in the Franklinton for 50 years. He is survived Pennsylvania, he was inducted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War and by his wife, Mary Jo, and son, Bert (’83). Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. He was a business leader in the furniture lived in Orange County, NY, for 39 years industry. He is survived by his wife, Garland Nathaniel Tolbert (BBA ’50), before relocating to Asheville, NC. He is Libby, two sons, Charles and Alex (’86), June 19, 2006, Greensboro, NC. He served survived by his wife, Carolyn (’56), three and five grandchildren. in the U.S. Army during World War II. sons, Dean, Bruce and Paul (’90),a He retired after 39 years with Pilot Life daughter Betsy, 17 grandchildren and Edgar “Lon” Boggs (’60), July 9, 2006, Insurance Company, Jefferson Pilot. one great-grandchild. South Bend, IN. He was a retired Presbyterian minister. J.R. “Jack”Wrenn Jr. (’50), May 7, 2006, Everett Eynon Jr. (’52), April 18, 2006, Roanoke Rapids, NC. He was a U.S. Aiken, SC. He served in the U.S. Marine Janice Grossman Vaughan (’60), June Army veteran and the owner of what is Corps during the Korean War . He was a 30, 2006, Rocky Mount, NC. She is sur- now the Wrenn Clarke & Hagan Funeral senior vice president of Weaver Brothers vived by her husband, Thomas Ray Home. Insurance Inc. in Washington, DC, for 30 Vaughan Jr. (’66), a daughter, two sons, years, retiring in 1996. and six grandchildren. George John Bartels (’51), May 10, 2006, Spring Lake, NJ. He served in the Thomas F. Miller Jr. (’53, MD ’56), Joseph Henry Bridges (’65), June 8, U.S. Army during the Korean War and May 20, 2006, Portland, OR. He was a 2006, Fort Worth, TX. He was a captain in was a retired manager with National Art physician with the Navy for 22 years in the U.S. Army and served in the Vietnam Industries, Ramsey. the Philippines, Saipan, San Diego and War receiving a Purple Heart and the Oakland, CA, and Corpus Christi, TX. Distinguished Flying Cross. He was vice Dudley H. Britt (’51), May 27, 2006, president of finance at the Bank of North Columbia, SC. He was a World War II Douglas Holder Pruden Sr. (’56), Feb. Carolina, comptroller at Tower Federal and Korean War veteran. He worked for 13, 2006, Cary, NC. Credit Union in Washington, DC, presi- First National Bank in Columbia and was dent of the Treasury Department Federal general manager of Rawls Chevrolet Co. Robert Lee Davis Sr. (’57, MD ’61), Credit Union, controller of the American before graduating from the University of May 19, 2006, Wadesboro, NC. He was a Airlines Federal Credit Union in Dallas, physician in Anson and Richmond (NC) TX, and finally an international finance consultant at Verizon.

62 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Joel David Russell (’65), July 16, 2005, Thomas S. Lynch (’75), April 20, 2006, 1997. He received the Operations Statesboro, GA. He was with Klopman Lancaster, PA. He practiced dentistry in Management Award from Wake Forest Mills in North and South Carolina, an Lancaster county for over 25 years. He and was senior financial analyst for the industrial engineering manager at was voted “Best Dentist in Lancaster U.S. Trust Company, NA. Crown Crafts Inc. in Calhoun, GA, and County”by Lancaster County Magazine. King Finishing Co. in Dover, GA, before David Eric Seamon Sr. (MBA ’01), June joining Ogeechee Technical College as Joseph Lee Ayers (’77), July 7, 2006, 18, 2006, Winnsboro, SC. vice president of economic development Pine Hall, NC. He was a farmer and in 1994. owner/operator of Riverview Golf William Akinkumni Kingsley (MBA Course for over 40 years. ’04), April 27, 2006, Folsom, CA. William W. High (’66), June 16, 2006, Raleigh, NC. He was a social worker at H. David Hawthorne Jr. (’77), April 16, Neal Middle School in Durham, NC. 2006, Buffalo, NY. He worked for various Friends businesses, including Union Carbide Charles Selle Jr. (’67), March 7, 2006, Corp, the West Valley Demonstration Clarence I.W. Baity, July 16, 2006, Palm Harbor, FL. He served in the U.S. Project, and Chapter and Verse Book Yadkinville, NC. He was an owner of Air Force and was in computer pro- Store. He was a preacher, chalice bearer Baity’s Tire Service in Winston-Salem gramming and systems design for R.J. and Eucharist minister at St. John’s- and a major supporter of Wake Forest Reynolds in Winston-Salem, McDonnell- Grace Episcopal Church. athletics. Douglas in St. Louis, MO, and GTE in Tampa, FL. He was a consultant for the Cornelia Whiting Lowery (MBA ’77), Charles Conger Ervin, June 1, 2006, state of Georgia and most recently for June 8, 2006, Camden, SC. She was a Indian River Shores, FL. After serving in Franklin-Templeton in St. Petersburg, FL. principal in Whiting Products and The the Navy during World War II, he settled Edge Inc. in Camden, and was a SCORE in Charlotte, NC, where he founded what Paul Preston Hinkle Jr. (’68, JD ’73), counselor. She pioneered the Junior became the largest homebuilder in the May 30, 2006, Mocksville, NC. He was a Achievement Prison program in Southeastern United States in the 1960s. U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War, Columbia, SC. After selling the Ervin Company in 1970, receiving the Purple Heart. He worked he continued to build and develop multi- with the IRS Estate Division in Raymond H. McPherson (’81), May 21, family and commercial properties. He is Greensboro, NC, Linn and Shuford 2006, Clemmons, NC. He was president survived by his wife, Carolina (’66), and Partners and Happ Roberts. He practiced of Piedmont News Co. Inc. and general a son. law and tax work. manager of K&S News Co. Gus G. Gallins, May 31, 2006, Winston- Ronald Vernon Carter (’70), April 19, R. Charles White (’84), May 21, 2006, Salem. He co-founded, with his brother, 2006, Cary, NC. He was a retired U.S. Martinsville,VA. He was the owner of Gallins Vending Co., which became one Army major who served in Vietnam. Charles White’s Chevy Olds Cadillac of the largest independent vendors in dealership in Martinsville,VA, the third North Carolina. Richard Lee Goard (’70, JD ’73), May generation of his family to own the 70- 12, 2006, Old Greenwich, CT. He prac- year-old institution in downtown Dorothy Edmondson Myers, May 3, ticed law in North Carolina, and in 1977 Martinsville. During college, he became 2006, Charlotte, NC. Memorials may be moved to New York City, eventually known as the “onion man”for buying made to the Charlie and Addie Myers becoming a partner with Brown & Wood. Vidalia Onions in Georgia and reselling Scholarship Fund, Wake Forest In 1996 he joined the firm of Squire them in Martinsville; his story was fea- University, PO Box 7227, Winston-Salem, Sanders & Dempsey, working in health tured in the Washington Post and in near- NC 27109. care finance. ly 30 other publications. Starting with a pick-up truck and 40 bags of onions, he Robert L. Rascoe, June 17, 2006, John Daniel Bolz (MA ’73), May 28, grew the business to 18-wheelers and Winston-Salem. He was a stockholder 2006, Winston-Salem. He was a retired 40,000 pounds of onions per trailer, and sales manager of Bocock-Stroud Co. supervisor in child welfare services for 27 before selling the business after graduat- for 52 years and a major supporter of years in Forsyth County. He volunteered ing from Wake Forest and joining his Wake Forest athletics. for the Civil Air Patrol and the Winston- father’s car dealership. Salem Rescue Squad. Jack Fuller MacMillan Jr. (MBA ’99), Samuel L. Cobb (’75), June 14, 2006, April 20, 2006, Hickory, NC. He went to Greenville, SC. the U.S. Naval Academy and was an offi- cer in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1986 to

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AM OBVIOUSLY not old enough to Ihave even been alive much less been a student at the Old Campus. However, I do feel that the Old Campus and the Wake Forest tradi- tions are as much a part of my life as anyone’s. You see, I grew up in The Wake Forest Faculty, 1945–46 the town of Wake Forest. I attended Wake Forest Elementary School, OY, DO I REMEMBER the move construction, dirt and the most Wake Forest-Rolesville High School, Band it surely did feel like a unappetizing unknown! and of course graduated from Wake removal of me from where I belonged What an interesting experience Forest University. My home church and wanted to be. I was 8 years old in retrospect! Nearly all my friends of 15 years is the original Wake and my father was chairman of the and folks I had known also moved Forest Baptist Church which sits on sociology department (although on and, in some ways, it seemed that the grounds of the Old Campus. I leave to work with the N.C. Parole only the surroundings had changed. was also married in this church. Board at the time), and I was “forced” My graduation ceremony from high Adele Patrick (’69) to leave lovely and idyllic Wake school was held in Binkley Chapel. Athens, Georgia Forest to go to a big new town, a I have spent many, many hours in big new school, a new home and Shorty’s shooting pool and hanging WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU how new people. I was a very unhappy out with friends, listening to the the students and townspeople child. I’m pretty sure I cried during I train go by, just as students did. of Wake Forest learned about the the entire trip to Winston-Salem Growing up I was told story after Reynolds offer in 1946. It was and, if I didn’t, that’s the way I story about the Old Campus. I have supposed to be a big secret until remember the move! played in more than one oak and announced by the Reynolds I was a child and I certainly did magnolia tree there. I remember Foundation. not understand or care that this was hearing stories of how the stone Simmons Fentress (’45) was a a wonderful opportunity for the wall that circles the campus was reporter on the Raleigh News & College (later to become the univer- built. I guess while I did not attend Observer. One night he was stand- sity). On trips to the “new” campus, as a student, the Old Campus, the ing by the AP machine and saw a what I saw was endless red clay and College and the town have made story coming over about the (then) it definitely did not compare to the me who I am. So, for me, the Old $16 million offer from Reynolds. place where I had lived since infancy Campus lives on in a modern This was about 10 p.m. He imme- and enjoyed a wonderful childhood. campus student. diately called his fiancée, Ruth It was horrible to think of leaving Blount (’46), who was a senior and Michael Coleman (’98) the beautiful magnolia trees and the lived in Bostwick Hall. Within Myrtle Beach, South Carolina small town for what appeared to be five minutes of that call, everyone

64 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE HOMECOMING 2006

50 years in Winston-Salem RECONNECT WITH OLD FRIENDS AND MAKE NEW MEMORIES DURING HOMECOMING WEEKEND, SEPTEMBER 29–30, AS WAKE FOREST CELEBRATES 50 YEARS IN WINSTON-SALEM!

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 • Half Century Club Gathering and Luncheon • Academic Symposia: • Service of Remembrance “Biotechnology: Innovation, Funding and Ethics” • Festival on the Quad • Alumni Admissions Forum • Alumni Tailgate • Return to the Classroom with Rick Matthews • Wake Forest vs. Liberty Football Game • Book Discussion and Q&A with Emily Giffin (’94) • Post-game Reception in Bridger Field House • Alumni in Admissions (AIA) Training • 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reception

Special reunion events for the Half Century Club and the Classes of 1956, 1961,1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996 and 2001.

Visit the alumni Web site, www.wfu.edu/alumni, for more information about Professional School events, class reunion details and the most up-to-date schedule. Portrait of a Dean

A portrait of venerable Dean of the College Thomas E. Mullen was unveiled in Reynolda Hall in September. Mullen served as dean from 1968 until 1995 and continued to teach in the history department for another five years before retiring.