September 2005 FF RUITRUIT The Quarterly Magazine of ofof thethe Wake Forest University VINEVINE 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] PRINTING 12 Fruit of the Vine The Lane Press, Inc. By David Fyten Wake Forest Magazine (USPS 664-520 ISSN In wine there is truth, and entrepreneurial 0279-3946) is published four times a year in Wake Foresters across the country are September, December, March, and June by the Office of Creative Services, Wake Forest dispensing it freely. University, P.O. Box 7205, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205. It is sent to alumni, donors, and friends of the 2 A ROUND THE Q UAD University. Periodicals postage paid at Winston-Salem, NC 27109, and additional mailing offices. 36 C LASS N OTES POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Wake Forest Magazine Alumni Records P.O. Box 7227 Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227. Volume 53, Number 1 September 2005 Copyright 2005 WWW.WFU.EDU Cover illustration by Jessica Koman. Cover photos by Ken Bennett. 22 Bridging the Gap By David Fyten Today’s ever-shrinking world needs good interpreters and translators. Wake Forest trains students to ensure that speaker and listener don’t get mixed messages. P ROFILE 28 Classics Act By David Fyten James Powell, teacher and servant of the University, keeps a low profile but has a big impact. E SSAYS C ONSTANT & T RUE 30 Ignite the Spirit, 32 What is an 63 Character Join the Circle American? Study By Ulrike Wiethaus By Jill Bader (’05) By Kerry M. King (‘85) Native Americans A student’s service trip There’s no mistaking convene to celebrate to Vietnam answers the wit and wisdom their proud—and some questions, but of Willis “Doc” complex—heritage. raises others. Murphrey (’52, JD ’57). Inauguration week University of Chicago. The second symposium, “The Moral Chal- Hatch to be installed as thirteenth lenges of Professional Life,”is President on October 20. scheduled to be moderated by E.J. Dionne, Jr., a columnist with EPRESENTATIVES FROM The Washington Post and a senior RCOLLEGES and universities fellow with the Brookings around the country are expected Institution. to attend the inauguration of During the installation cere- President Nathan O. Hatch next mony, greetings will be delivered month. The installation ceremony by local, state, and federal gov- will take place Thursday, October ernment officials; and speakers 20, at 3 p.m. in Wait Chapel, fol- representing students, faculty, lowed by a reception on Hearn staff, alumni, and higher educa- Plaza. Admission to the ceremony tion. Hatch will be installed by is by invitation only, but the Board of Trustees Chairman L. reception will be open to the Glenn Orr and receive the Wake Forest community. Presidential Chain of Office from Inauguration week activities President Emeritus Thomas K. will begin on Tuesday, October 18, Hearn, Jr. when the Divinity School will On Friday, October 21, Hatch host a community prayer break- will participate in the annual fast for local religious leaders. President’s Weekend programs On Wednesday, October 19, on campus. That night, students two academic symposia featuring will host an “inaugural ball” for leading scholars will be held on Hatch and his wife, Julie, at campus. The first symposium, Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial “Why the Liberal Arts? Exploring Coliseum that will be open to the the Aims of a University entire community. Education,”is scheduled to be On Saturday, October 22, moderated by Stanley Katz of Hatch will speak at a breakfast Princeton University. Panelists recognizing scholarship recipi- expected to participate include ents and donors. Later that day, Andrew Delbanco, Columbia he will host special guests in the University; Ken Miller, Brown President’s Box at Groves Stadium University; Harry Stout,Yale for the Wake Forest-N.C. State University; and Jean Elshtain, football game. 2WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE D A U Q E H Three named T to President’s staff D N U RESIDENT NATHAN O. O PHATCH has made three R appointments to his staff. Mary A E. Pugel, who worked with Hatch at Notre Dame as his executive assistant for eight years while he was provost, was named senior James Dunn executive assistant. Previously, Pugel had been a senior consult- Divinity School gift ant with Catholic School Man- honors Moyers agement Inc. She has also held Pugel development, communications, IVINITY SCHOOL PROFESSOR and public relations positions DJames M. Dunn and his with not-for-profit organizations wife, Marilyn, have given $100,000 in Seattle and Los Angeles. to establish the Bill and Judith Longtime Wake Forest Moyers Scholar Program in employees Donna K. Gung and honor of their longtime friends. Nancy S. Moore have also joined The gift will provide funding for the President’s Office staff. one divinity student a year to Gung, executive assistant to serve as an intern at the Baptist Gung Hatch, joined the Wake Forest Joint Committee on Religious legal department in 1995 and was Liberty in Washington, D.C. most recently an administrative Dunn, resident professor of assistant to Vice President and Christianity and public policy, General Counsel J. Reid Morgan served as executive director of (’75, JD ’79). the BJC from 1980 to 1999 and Moore, executive assistant to works part-time as president of Pugel, has worked at Wake Forest the organization’s endowment. since 1976 and was most recently Dunn first met Bill Moyers when an assistant to the Presidential they were both students at Moore Search Committee and the Presi- Southwestern Baptist Theological dential Transition Committee. Seminary in Fort Worth,Texas, in From 1984 until 2002, she was the late 1950s. Moyers, a longtime an assistant to now-retired Vice CBS and public television broad- President and Counsel Leon H. caster, received an honorary Corbett (’59, JD ’61). She also degree from Wake Forest in 1970. served until recently as assistant secretary to the Board of Trustees. www.wfu.edu/wowf SEPTEMBER 2005 3 D A U Q E H T an organization’s leader to its D members. A leader must work to N define reality for the organiza- U tion—where it is, where it wants O R to go, and by what it will measure A itself. A leader also must nurture the people of an organization in a holistic manner, because an organ- ization will reach its potential in proportion to the degree that its constituent members achieve their own promise. As well, De Going the leadership, gathered both in- and Pree encourages the constant second mile outside of the academic world. asking of probing questions: Allow me to describe these con- 1. Have we stopped hiring people By Nathan O. Hatch victions, as well as the sources of better than ourselves? their influence. 2. When did I last stop to say This is an excerpt from a speech I have been privileged to know “thank you”? delivered by President Nathan O. Max De Pree, an extraordinary 3. When did I call a customer and Hatch at the University’s Summer leader who is the former CEO ask how we are doing? Leadership Conference on July 8, 2005. of Herman Miller Furniture. I 4. Do I have a nose for stale air? To read the full text of the speech, go to gleaned firsthand his many tal- My second deep conviction http://www.wfu.edu/administration/ ents while serving on a board about leadership is that one must president/ with Max, and I have also found go the second mile to find the his writing about leadership both right people. I have come to this TAKE UP THE MANTLE OF compelling and challenging. Max conclusion from experience, but I leadership at Wake Forest has many great ideas about lead- as a principle it has been best cognizant of the great challenges ership, such as the notion that articulated by James C. Collins that we face together. Exactly you can only focus on so many (in his book Good to Great) and where we need to go is yet to be things at once. He used to carry others. Lawrence A. Bossidy, determined, as is how we get around a three-by-five card with chairman and CEO of Honeywell there. I am committed to moving his stated priorities listed. When International, put it this way: forward, to building a culture that someone in the company asked “At the end of the day, you bet faculty and students increasingly about another problem or issue, on people, not on strategies.” prize, to becoming more fully Max would pull out the card and At every level in higher edu- part of a national conversation, suggest how that person might cation, having the right leaders and to increasing our profile as address the issue at hand. makes all the difference, be it at the school of choice for genera- My first deep conviction about the level of department chair or tions of superb undergraduate leadership derives from the heart- dean, in the areas of admissions and graduate students. beat of De Pree’s writing (in books and placement, in the library and To these ambitions I bring a such as Leadership is an Art and registrar’s office, and in informa- core set of beliefs and commit- Leadership Jazz), which involves tion technology and research ments that inform my approach to the profound responsibility of administration. And the same can 4WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE D A U Q E H be said for athletics, investments, stay pretty much the same.