September 2005

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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]

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Volume 53, Number 1 September 2005

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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 . 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 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.

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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.

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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. If I open the door almost before the T finance, human resources, and could borrow Thomas Jefferson’s knock is heard. D fundraising. Higher education, metaphor of a bellwether in the My fourth deep conviction N sociologists tell us, is the most night, the thing I most fear at involves what it means to be part U O

internally complex organization Wake Forest is this—resting on of an aspiring institution. Last R in modern society. Finding the our laurels. John V. Lombardi, the week, while Randolph Childress A right leaders for all these diverse former president of the University was on campus, someone gave functions is critical and will be of Florida and now of me an article recounting the 1995 my most important job as presi- UMass Amherst, put it this way: ACC Tournament in which he dent. There is very little that I can “Absent a strong drive for change, played so brilliantly. The depic- accomplish personally at Wake most institutions stay more or tion of the game against North Forest. What I can do, however, is less the way they are: stable, com- Carolina referred to “little” Wake find the right leaders and enable petitive at their level, but unlikely Forest, the David arrayed against them, working together, to move to move dramatically without the giant Tar Heel Goliath. I us forward on many fronts. significant and unusual impetus.” have heard Murray Greason, the My third deep conviction I trust that at Wake Forest we outgoing chair of our Board of involves the challenge of organi- are able to sustain more of a Trustees, refer affectionately to zational success. In fact, I think sense of urgency. “Little ’ol Wake Forest.” Wake the biggest danger at a place like Toward this end, I try to encour- Forest is the smallest of the ACC Wake Forest is not weakness but age leaders to do three things: schools, but in other ways it has success; or, more specifically, a 1. Engage in vigorous self-examination. had a further distance to cover to mood that the Pulitzer Prize- At Wake Forest I hope we can achieve recognized excellence. winning journalist Hedrick Smith have a code of candor that What I would like to empha- has called a “success reflex.” This rewards frankness which allows size is that my own professional is an institutional mindset, given us to “work out problems.” history involves similar institu- notable accomplishment, of 2. Benchmark operations against tions. Wheaton College, Wash- coasting, of defending the status the external environment. What are ington University, Notre Dame— quo, and being smugly compla- best practices? We cannot be all are institutions that can boast cent. It says, “Look where we have preoccupied with our own view excellence but remain slightly come from.” In his book Rethinking of the world. We must remain outside the corridors of academic America, Smith analyzed American part of a larger conversation. power and influence. companies like GM and IBM that 3. Encourage innovation and risk- Frankly, I like the part of the were mired in the mindset of taking. An institution must know underdog. I am confident that success, their arteries clogged by what it values deep down to its it has been compelling for all of overconfidence. By contrast, he toes. But it must be a living you to see how far Wake Forest noticed that Toyota was relent- experiment to find fresh ways has come. I welcome the oppor- lessly reorganizing as if they were to make those values alive and tunity to see how far this com- in deep trouble—even though dynamic. A study of college pres- munity of faculty, students, and they were immensely successful. idents who have been particu- alumni can travel together in It is very easy for successful larly successful found a common coming years. I hope all of us universities to remain inwardly characteristic: they are opportunity- can go “the second mile.” focused and to adopt such a conscious, have a sixth sense about façade. And most universities opportunities, and are ready to

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Q Undergraduate applications hit record high E

H HIS YEAR’S FIRST-YEAR CLASS class,”said Director of Admissions Next year’s freshmen will be T Twas selected from among the Martha B. Allman (’82, MBA ’92). among the first to take the SAT’s D largest number of students ever to “We are however, very pleased new writing section. But Allman N apply to Wake Forest. Applications with the class, particularly with said that Wake Forest, like many U increased 20 percent from last our increases in multicultural and other universities, is taking a O

R year to a record high 7,494, easily North Carolina students.” “wait-and-see attitude”—waiting

A topping the old record set in 1997 Seventeen percent of new stu- on validity studies to determine by more than 900 applications.To dents are minorities, the largest how closely the test predicts maintain the size of the class at number ever, and 26 percent are future academic success—before about 1,120 students, the number from North Carolina. Eight percent deciding how much stock to put of students accepted fell from 47 are children of Wake Forest alumni. in the test results. percent to 38 percent. The class has an equal percentage “We will consider the writing “This significant increase in of women and men. test, but it will not become part of well-qualified applicants made us Allman attributes the increase a student’s composite score,”she unable to admit many fine stu- in applications partly to strategy, said. “We’ll look at it much like dents who in previous years such as recruiting in new areas of the SAT II scores, as additional would have had a place in the the country and offering new on- information.”Admissions officers campus programs to may consider the writing test encourage prospective score and read the test essay if By the numbers students to visit campus; trying to decide between two Applications for freshman admission: partly to demographic closely rated students. Applied Accepted Percent Accepted factors, such as popula- Wake Forest’s admissions 2005 7,494* 2,862 (38%) 2004 6,289 2,945 (47%) tion growth among high- application is already writing- 2003 5,752 2,599 (45%) school age students; and heavy, Allman said. “We love 2002 5,995 2,454 (41%) partly to extraneous fac- looking at student writing to see 2001 5,271 2,421 (46%) tors, such as the success what kind of person you are.” 2000 5,079 2,480 (49%) 1997 6,536** 2,848 (44%) of the men’s basketball This year’s application contains 1995 6,342 2,710 (43%) team.“The key now is to five short-answer questions and 1990 5,213 2,029 (39%) maintain this excellent two essays. 1985 4,303 2,062 (48%) applicant pool and The new writing section of the * Record high number of applications insure large application SAT has two parts. Students have ** Previous record numbers for future twenty-five minutes to write an Admission of alumni children years,”she said. This fall, essay to effectively communicate 2005 2004 admissions officers are and support a position, and thirty- Applied 294 242 Accepted 182 (62%) 176 (73%) targeting large cities, five minutes to answer multiple- Enrolled 97 88 including Atlanta, choice questions to improve Nashville, New Orleans, sentences and paragraphs.The Freshman class profile, 2005 vs. 2004 Los Angeles, San Diego, writing section, like the revamped 2005 2004 Seattle, and, for the math section and the verbal sec- Minority 17% 14% first time, Minneapolis, tion (newly named the critical Alumni children 8% 7% States represented 45 46 in addition to heavily reading section), counts 800 points, North Carolinians 26% 24% recruiting in North raising a perfect score from 1,600 Other top states: New Jersey, Maryland,Virginia, Florida, Georgia Carolina and neigh- to 2,400. boring states.

6WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE coac house in1930beforebecominga teac forty-seven-year educationcareer sity and aP from theUniversity ofMissouri and earnedamaster’ Westminster (Missouri)College starred inbasketball andtrack at Medallion ofMerit. whenhereceived the Science” Department ofHealthandSport hero whobuilt Wake Forest’s “theunsung in1989as Jr. Hearn, by then-President Thomas K. was honored whowas 95, Barrow, diedonMay 15. department, research-oriented recognized, tion teachers intoanationally one thattrainedphysical educa- formation ofthedepartmentfrom whobeganthetrans- Barrow, M. P HES department,dies Harold Barrow, founderof odri h eatet After holder inthedepartment. tw ment. combined withtheathleticdepart education departmentwas still faculty in1948whentheph () College. and basketball coach atEureka War II and thenfootball washead and rehabilitation during World Na Hespenttwo years inthe school. education ataMissourihigh nyyas the only doctorate enty years, vy asaspecialistinathletics A Barrow joinedthe Wake Forest . Physical EducationHarold ROFESSOR hing inaone-roomschool- h He beganwhatw aieo isui Barrow native ofMissouri, ewstefrt andfor He was thefirst, and directorofph .E.D . from IndianaUni E EIU OF MERITUS s ould bea degree ysical ysical v er - - books including two widely usedtext- numerous articlesandbooks oriented facultymembers small butsolidcoreof a ciples ofHisPhysicalEducation Measurement inPhysicalEducation who succeededHottinger andPaul Ribisl, as chair in1975, whosucceededhim Hottinger, impact onthedepartment—Bill who would alsohave asignificant other up-and-comingresearchers in thelate1960sandlatertwo a hired looked uponasscience.”He emy ofPhysical Education in1979. president oftheAmericanAcad- Hewas published in1970–71. the outstandingeducationbooks which was recognizedasoneof and Magazine letic field, in theclassroomandonath- in a2003interview hesaid looked uponasgames,” education. was appointedchair ofphysical andBarrow rate departments, athletics were divided intosepa- physical educationand 1956, the move tothenewcampusin didn’t have thedutiesofbeing y retired in1977. asmyhv enm et I ears may have beenmy best. e er,hehadassembled a few years, specialist inexercisephysiology Barrow was theauthorof “I’ ni h ae16s PE was “P.E. Until thelate1960s, Man andHisMovement:Prin- v , e A tried tobeagoodteac “Then we begantobe . Practical Appr ” Barrow saidwhenhe “These lasttwo researc Wake Forest oach to . . W h- , ithin , her Harold M.Barrow stepdaughter and daughter, andason, (’53), wife, before andafterheretired.” that endearedusalltohim, had awarmth andanintegrity Healso as acollegeprofessor. undergraduate studentandlater ment andevaluation bothasan I the leadingscholars inour field; buthewas alsooneof campus, only was hehighly respectedon “Not Ribislsaid. followed him,” dard ofexcellenceforall who andhesetastan- professional, some booksI’mproudof.” I’vewritten closer tothestudents. chairman andsomehow Ifelt used histextbookonmeasure- Barrow issurvived by his “He was theconsummate Kate Dunn www.wfu.edu/wowf . W eaver Barrow S EPTEMBER 057 2005

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A president, provost, and vice presi- dent of administration/CFO. The EZNICK GROUP, a national ACE Fellows Program is designed Raccounting and tax firm, has to identify and prepare promis- pledged $250,000 to the account- ing college and university faculty ing program at the Calloway and administrators for senior- School of Business and Accoun- level administrative positions. tancy. Kenneth E. Baggett, man- Forty fellows were selected this aging principal of Reznick Group, year in a national competition. one of the Top 20 accounting He will become associate dean firms in the country, said the for faculty when he returns to quality of the school’s graduates Jan Hensley (’62) the Babcock School in January. inspired the firm’s gift. “Previous Wake Forest recruits have proven Hensley works on exhibit Balzano to direct women’s that Wake Forest accounting stu- and gender studies dents are among the very best in N EXHIBIT OF NORTH the nation. They make our firm ACAROLINA poetry and ISITING ASSISTANT PROFES- better,” he said. Calloway account- photographs by Jan Hensley (’62) VSOR WANDA BALZANO has ing graduates have ranked in the will be on display in the Z. Smith been named director of the women’s top five in the nation in passing Reynolds Library through the and gender studies program, the CPA exam for the last eight end of September. succeeding Professor of English years. Anne Boyle, who had filled the Babcock’s Smunt position on an interim basis. Med school climbs named ACE Fellow Since coming to Wake Forest last in NIH grants fall, Balzano has developed a new IMOTHY L. course, “Irish Women in Writing HE MEDICAL SCHOOL’S TSMUNT, pro- and Film,”and received the Pan- TDepartment of Public Health fessor of manage- hellenic Council Award for Teaching Sciences has climbed to first in ment at the Babcock Excellence. She previously taught the nation in grant support from Graduate School women’s writing, humanities, the National Institutes of Health. of Management, social sciences, English, and Ital- Overall, the medical school has been named an ian at University College, Dublin. ranked 32nd, its highest position American Council She earned bachelor’s and mas- ever, with almost $129 million on Education Fellow. ter’s degrees in English from the received in NIH grants in the Timothy L. Smunt He is serving his University of Naples in Italy and a 2003-2004 fiscal year, $14 million one-year fellowship second master’s and a doctorate in more than the previous year. The Anglo-Irish literature and drama Department of Public Health from University College, Dublin. Sciences received about $40 mil-

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lion in 2003. Other departments R in the Top 25 nationally included A physiology and pharmacology, Harry Miller, professor emeritus 5th; family medicine, 11th; cancer of chemistry, remembered biology, 15th; anesthesia, 18th; radiologic sciences, 19th; surgical sciences, 22nd; and obstetrics and ROFESSOR EMERITUS OF a number of interests and talents. gynecology, 22nd. PChemistry Harry B. Miller, “He was a strong supporter of who it was estimated at his research in what was predomi- New coaches named retirement in 1983 had taught nantly an undergraduate setting 6,000 students in organic and in those early days,”he said. ORMER ASSISTANT WOMEN’S general chemistry over his thirty- “He was very insightful; when Ftennis coach Chad Skorupka six year career, died June 4 in he had something to say, there has returned to Wake Forest to Winston-Salem. He was 92. weren’t many instances when succeed Brian Fleishman, who “He was regarded as a very he wasn’t right.” resigned in May after six seasons demanding, straightforward, no- In a tribute to Miller when he as head coach. Skorupka had nonsense teacher who expected retired, Professor of Chemistry been head women’s tennis coach the best from his students,” said Ron Noftle described him as “a at Yale since leaving Wake Forest Provost Emeritus Edwin G. Wilson strong champion of strengthening in 2001 after two seasons. A grad- (’43). “He loved the department the chemistry curriculum and uate of Penn State, he was the and worked hard to encourage program, building a library collec- assistant women’s tennis coach progress in the department. He tion which would represent excel- there for three seasons, and he was very insistent and determined lence, and developing a strong worked for the United States that chemistry go forward with graduate program within the Tennis Association before his first graduate programs.” Wilson, department and the University.” stint at Wake Forest. who was Dean of the College A graduate of the University Also during the summer, when chemistry reinstated its of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, assistant volleyball coach Heather master’s program in 1961 and Miller worked for the Naval Kahl was named to replace head provost when the Ph.D. program Research Laboratory in Chapel coach Valorie Baker, who resigned was approved in 1971, remem- Hill during World War II before after five seasons to become an bered Miller pushing hard for both. joining the Wake Forest faculty in assistant athletic director at Professor of Chemistry Willie 1947. He and his wife, Helen, who Harpeth Hall, a private all-girls Hinze, who had known Miller died last year, lived on Royall school in Nashville, Tennessee. since 1975, remembered him as a Drive before moving to a retire- Kahl was a standout player at private person, but one who had ment community several years ago. Clemson and an assistant coach there for five years before coming to Wake Forest in 2001.

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E Teaching tolerance H

T An academic and activist, Charles Richman does his part to advance

D racial and cultural understanding. N U NE OF CHARLES RICHMAN’S It was a fitting tribute to a O

R Omost cherished memories venerable faculty member in his A of boyhood in Newport News, thirty-seventh year at the Univer- Virginia, was the regular pres- sity. Service to the persecuted and ence of African-Americans in the powerless seems to define him. his parents’ home. “Many of my Holder of a Black Belt, karate’s father’s closest friends were highest proficiency level, he taught African-American,” recalls the rape self-defense to college women Charles Richman longtime Wake Forest professor as head of the Wake Forest of psychology. “Although he was Karate Club for seventeen years. which a girl he was dating was Jewish, he was an honorary dea- “Charlie is one of the most abruptly transferred to a private con in [an evangelical black] committed individuals I know,” school in another state and cut off Baptist church. I don’t recall any says Herman Eure, professor and from all contact with him by her social or political events in our chair of biology who along with parents after they learned he was house at which African-Americans Richman barnstormed historically Jewish. weren’t present.” black colleges and universities in As an undergraduate at the Jewish and black American as North Carolina and Virginia to University of Virginia, Richman close friends in the South of the recruit minority faculty in the late befriended the handful of black forties and fifties—now there’s seventies and early eighties.Their students who were permitted to tolerance for you. It goes a long efforts yielded the psychology attend the then-segregated school way toward explaining why Rich- department’s first two black fac- because it had the state’s only man has devoted much of his ulty members: Maxine Clark in engineering program at the time. career to promoting understand- 1980 and Susan Wallace in 1989. They were housed in the base- ing and acceptance of others dif- “He is genuinely a good human ment of a dormitory. “I dated the ferent than us—not just African- being who wants everyone to sister of one of the guys,” he says. Americans, but people of different have a fair shake at life, including “We had to sit up in the balcony faiths, genders, sexual orientations, equal access and equal opportu- when we went to a movie because and ethnic origins. nity,” Eure continues. “Charlie’s blacks weren’t allowed on the And that activism for tolerance, efforts are not just window dress- main floor.” which has encompassed scholarly ing from some liberal who feels After graduating from Virginia research, service on committees to that his own cap will be feathered (he represented the Southeast as advance racial and cultural under- by championing causes that pro- a bantamweight at the last NCAA standing, and the conducting of mote equal access for minorities boxing championship ever held, workshops across the country on and women. They grow out of his in 1960), Richman enrolled at “unlearning”prejudice and dis- genuine belief that we are a better Yeshiva University in New York, criminatory attitudes and behav- people, and a better university, if where he completed a master’s iors, explains why he was named we are diverse.” degree in psychology. He then a recent recipient of the Donald Although Richman himself spent nearly four years on active O. Schoonmaker Faculty Award wasn’t a persistent target of dis- duty in the Army and considered for Community Service. crimination as a youth, he vividly making it a career for a time recalls a high school incident in

10 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE D A U before opting to pursue an aca- tions between people who are counselors in the local school sys- Q

demic career. different from each other. To that tem on racial and sexual orienta- E

A self-acknowledged “terrible end, he has been a strong sup- tion issues. H clinician,” Richman focused on porter of the Wake Forest Gay- At sixty-seven, Richman shows T research and earned his Ph.D. at Straight Student Alliance, which no signs of easing into retirement. D the University in Cincinnati in has a place in the Benson Univer- Bald, with a slight build that belies N experimental psychology, the study sity Center where homosexual his forceful presence, he sits at his U O

of animal and human behavior. and heterosexual students can desk each day amid torrents of R

While on a research fellowship at meet and talk without duress. paper cascading from shelves. A Harvard in 1976–77, he changed A follower of Conservative (Unapologetic about occupying his field to developmental psychol- Judaism, Richman has been presi- what must surely rank among the ogy, which examines child devel- dent of the Winston-Salem half dozen most disorderly offices opment from birth through teens. Conservative Synagogue and the on campus, he has cheerfully Since very early in his career, ritual and education chair of Beth posted a sign proclaiming, “A Richman had been studying and David Synagogue in Greensboro. messy office is a sign of character. writing about racism and its con- He chaired the Greensboro Jewish You should see the character who sequences. In the early eighties, Federation’s community relations works here.”) He spent a half-year he published a study of the emo- committee, which works to build sabbatical at Hebrew University tional effects of educational bridges with the Christian and in Jerusalem researching hetero- stereotyping on black elementary African-American communities, sexism within the Muslim and students in North Carolina. In and has served on the education Jewish communities and has a 1982, he gave testimony before and training committee of the variety of other projects under way. Congress on racial biases in stan- Winston-Salem Urban League Just as Richman acquired his dardized testing. and as facilitator of the “Other passion for social justice from his “I came to find,” he says, “that Voices”program of the Greensboro father, his own children are acquir- one cannot restrict one’s study of Chamber of Commerce. He is a ing it from him. His two children injustice to racism. Sexism, het- member of the NAACP and its from his first marriage—Adam erosexism, religious intolerance, National Black Child Develop- (’94) and Susan—are variously ethnocentrism… they all feed ment Institute. involved in ethnocentrism studies into each other.” So, twelve years For two years, Richman gave and diversity training, and his step- ago, as the natural culmination workshops on unlearning racism son, Ben Halfhill, who graduated of his personal and professional throughout the South and East from Wake Forest in December, interests, he changed specialties under the sponsorship of the is a devoted volunteer and social again, to prejudice, racism, dis- Southeastern Psychological activist. crimination, stereotyping, hetero- Association. Today, he offers the Asked if his life’s purpose was sexism, and other manifestations workshop twice a year at Wake in his genes, Richman smiles and of hate behavior. Forest. Since 1995, he has con- nods. “That’s why I really enjoy Besides creating and teaching ducted more than thirty seminars what I’m doing,”he says. “I don’t two core courses—a first-year across the country training col- always enjoy what I find, but I seminar titled “Human Diversity” lege professors on how to diversi- enjoy doing it. and a junior-senior-graduate-level fy their curricula and deal with “I will always be indebted to course on “Prejudice, Discrimi- symbolic and often subtle mani- my department and the Univers- nation, Racism, and Heterosexism” festations of racism in their ity for having supported my —Richman has been a prolific courses and classrooms. He has teaching and research financially scholar. Among his findings is that created and published an instru- and emotionally throughout my majority students often benefit ment to test the efficacy of diver- career.” the most from positive interac- sity programs, and he has trained —David Fyten

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In wine there is truth — and Wake Foresters across the country are dispensing it. by David Fyten

HE LAND IS FLUSH WITH from Winston-Salem to the Blue Ridge ic development officials are pulling out the fruit of the vine and and north to the Virginia state line, with the stoppers to let a budding new one Tawash in its luscious liba- a slight southeasterly droop towards breathe and come to fruition. tion. In virtually every state, including Charlotte—once-fallow hillsides and So in wine, it seems, there is truth those hitherto thought marginal, hob- former tobacco fields are now vineyards. —and Wake Foresters across the coun- byists, entrepreneurs, retirees, and Boosted by a special federal appellation try are dispensing it. From the execu- farmers, intoxicated by surging con- that bestows upon the Yadkin Valley a tive offices of the elite wineries of the sumption and the romance of the vine- hallmark akin to the Napa Valley, the Napa Valley to vineyards of less than yard, have joined established commer- number of wineries in North Carolina ten acres in Surry County, alumni and cial wineries to grow and make has increased more than fourfold, from faculty are active in all facets of the in- wine in record quantities. nine to forty-one and counting, in the dustry—growing, making, marketing, In North Carolina—and especially past decade. The implications are not lobbying, distributing, importing, exper- in the Yadkin Valley, a 1.5-million-acre, lost on a state buffeted by downturns in imenting, analyzing, educating—and seven-county region extending west its bellwether industries, and econom- are having the times of their lives doing it.

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As heady as the times are, there are the lush and low-hanging produce that remain particularly popular sobering realities. Overproduction and that’s right in front of them and to sit in the eastern part of the state. competition from outstanding inexpen- back and savor the fruits of their labors. The state’s first commercial winery, sive wines from Australia and other It may surprise some to learn that Medoc Vineyard, was America’s leading countries threaten to dilute the market. North Carolina was the first winemak- wine producer in 1835. Its wineries Yadkin Valley’s winemakers, while off ing state in America. Historical records continued to thrive through the mid- to a promising start, have yet to settle show that Sir Walter Raleigh’s colony on and late-nineteenth century, and in on grapes and styles that could make Roanoke Island grew grapes and made 1888, French experts named a North them known for the distinctiveness and wine in the late sixteenth century. The Carolina wine as the world’s best out- quality of their wines and not merely colonists cultivated muscadine grapes— side of France. But if Prohibition didn’t for the existence of their wineries. often called scuppernong—which are kill North Carolina’s wine industry, it But all this is on the horizon. For now, relatively pest-resistant and prosper in certainly put it in a prolonged coma. Wake Forest’s growers, winemakers, and the hot, sandy conditions of the coastal The slumber deepened to the point merchants are content to luxuriate in plain. They are the source of the sweet where, in the early nineties, fewer than

SEPTEMBER 2005 13 we do it all—crush it, press it, ferment it. We make about fifty gallons of each kind and give a lot of it away. “Making wine is a lot like cooking,” she muses. “You have to pay attention, especially during the fermentation process. You can’t make good wine out of bad grapes, but you certainly can make bad wine out of good grapes.” Clay Hipp, who teaches business law in Wake Forest’s Calloway School of Business and Accountancy, grows grapes and makes wine on four acres of a twenty-acre tract he bought near Pilot Mountain in 1996. A wine lover and expert his entire adult life, he experiments with various grapes and styles to determine which wines— especially reds, of which he is most Wake Forest business professor and grower Clay Hipp has mixed thoughts fond—are best suited to the soil and about North Carolina’s wine industry. climate of the Piedmont. He’s planted a lot of different French and Italian ten commercial wineries were operat- Many winemakers, of course, are grapes, raking off a couple of hundred ing statewide. In the Yadkin Valley, simply hobbyists who are passionate pounds of each and making five-gallon there was Westbend Vineyards of and knowledgeable about wine and batches to see which ones taste and Lewisville and not much else. Then love to make and experiment with it. hold up the best, and then selling the came the supernova. Carole Wedl (’71) and her husband, rest of his grape harvest. His goal is to A number of factors account for the Donald, were captivated by a bottle of find a good crop, have it custom- explosion. American wine consumption dandelion wine a friend gave them crushed under a bonded winery, estab- has soared—from 337 million gallons when they were newly married in lish a label, and sell his wine under the in 1972 to about 595 million gallons in North Carolina in 1973. They started state’s Farm Winery Law, with its loos- 2002—due in large part to its reported making wine of their own from plums er regulatory stipulations. health benefits. In North Carolina, the and other fruits and graduated to Hipp has experienced the up-and- Piedmont and eastern slope of the Blue grape wine (or “real wine,” as Carole down, cyclical—and, in its formative Ridge, with elevations of 700 to 1,500 calls it) after they moved to Pleasant years, unprofitable—nature of the feet above sea level, are ideal for the Hill in east Contra Costa County, grape-growing and enter- growing of European grape varieties California, a few years later. prise. “My best year was 2002, when I and French-American hybrids. And in “It’s a lot of fun,” Carole says. “There sold a little over ten tons [of grapes],” grapes, many former tobacco farmers used to be a vineyard a few blocks from he reports. “I almost broke even that have found what they feel is a suitable, our home where we could pick our own year. 2003 was a washout and the if not as lucrative, substitute crop. grapes, but unfortunately the owner 2004 crop was short. I’ve lost money In 2003 alone, the state’s grape grow- died. But there are new vineyards where every year.” As for his wines, Hipp ers increased their acreage by more than we can pick, and we buy grapes from says the 2000 vintage “is drinking 15 percent, to 1,200 acres. Twenty new a local large-scale commercial winery. nicely,” but the late nineties “are fad- wineries have been established in the We make , , ing fast due to the youth of the vines.” last two years alone. Today, North Caro- , gewürztraminer, and He has conflicting thoughts about lina ranks near the top ten nationally other varieties—it varies from year to the region’s wine industry. “The upside in both grape and wine production. year. There are about fifteen of us and is that we’ve already established that

14 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE we can make wines here that are pleas- that converge on style and that taste cial American Viticultural Area. The ant to drink,” he states. “[Wine] con- very much the same, and away from appellation, which recognizes agricul- sumption is up, but so many grapes making wines that best fit their own tural regions that are particularly well are being grown that the increase has resources and capabilities,” Taplin suited for growing vinifera grapes, is a been sopped up. I worry that we’re states. “So the question is, can Yadkin redoubtable marketing tool and aid in planting too many grapes too fast and Valley’s wineries make a profit by building a collective consciousness and in wrong places. We don’t really know being distinctive?” sense of purpose among the Valley’s yet what the best grapes for this region On the positive side, Taplin cites winemakers. And a May Supreme Court are. Maybe they’re ones consumers the growth of infrastructure to support ruling could open vast new online aren’t familiar with—I see promise, for the industry, the cooperative attitude markets for wineries, especially for example, in two lesser-known grapes of Valley winemakers, and the poten- smaller ones like the Valley’s, which can from Italy and Portugal, barbera and tial for broader economic growth as have difficulty securing widespread touriga, which appear to thrive here— reasons for optimism. “The licensed distribution. and if that’s the case, we’d face a steep program at Surry County Community “One of the distinctive characteris- consumer education curve. College that started in the late nineties tics of Yadkin Valley’s wine industry is “Inevitably, there are disappointments its cooperative nature,” Taplin says. down the road,” Hipp says. “There are “As an incipient industry, it relies always fallouts when one tries to do strongly on sharing of information and too much too soon. A lot of our winer- is not as competitive. The winemakers ies want to get into premium wine too realize that the more of them that early. Until we establish that we can prosper, the greater their overall visi- make really good wines at the $10-to- bility will be, and the more consumers $15 price point consistently, our future they will attract.” will be up in the air.” Thus will form a critical mass for Intrigued by the phenomenal growth an economic nuclear reaction. “The in North Carolina wineries, a pair of growth of wineries will encourage Wake Forest sociologists, Ian Taplin growth in attendant sectors,” he notes. and R. Saylor Breckenridge, went door- “Real estate agents and equipment to-door in the Yadkin Valley in 2003, suppliers are among those that should visiting about half the state’s wineries to benefit. One can foresee the clusters of learn more about the industry’s history, wineries that are forming spawning growth, and potential. They published bed and breakfasts, luxury spas, and their study this past March in the jour- other satellite tourist attractions, all nal Research in the Sociology of Work. part of the Yadkin Valley ‘wine trail.’” Taplin, who specializes in industrial has been quite successful,” he points One catalyst for this reaction could sociology, also sees value in a Yadkin out. “The emergence of its first gradu- well be the entrepreneurial initiative of Valley identity. “To compete, you must ates might be contributing to the surge a Wake Forest alumnus and his part- be different,” he says. “To be different, in wineries as more expertise is avail- ners. T. Gray King (’00) is chief you must make wine that emphasizes able to farmers and would-be entrepre- operating officer of The your particular terroir; that plays to the neurs.” Installing highway exit signage Virginia Company, a strength of your region. That produces to wineries and establishing the North retail and mail order the best-quality wine.” But the market, Carolina Grape Council, which pro- food, wine, and gifts he notes, prefers the so-called fruit-for- motes the industry, are other supportive business based in ward style, which emphasizes an initial measures the state has implemented, Stanardsville. Among its burst of grape flavor at the expense of he adds. offerings is the of the the harsher, aged-in- tannin quality The federal Tobacco and Alcohol Month Club, which each month ships of classic wines. “Critics with clout Trade Bureau has helped out as well by two bottles of wine from a different have forced producers to create wines designating the Yadkin Valley an offi- Virginia winery to its members. Last

SEPTEMBER 2005 15 September, the company, in partner- by its meteoric rise to date, I’d say the Too small to secure access to retail out- ship with an original founder of the [Yadkin Valley wine industry] is defi- lets through licensed distributors, they Virginia wine club who had relocated nitely here to stay.” typically sell nearly all of their product to High Point, founded a similar club The ever-proliferating Internet is from their own tasting rooms or those in North Carolina. Its membership getting the word out about everything, of co-ops to which they belong. today stands at several hundred, including wine, which can only help The second category is the mid- roughly double that of the Virginia build and educate the market further. sized operation—between ten and club at a similar stage in its develop- Children’s book authors W. Shuford thirty acres in size and producing ment fifteen years ago. “Ford” Smith (’66, MAEd ’72) and his 10,000 to 50,000 gallons annually. “The quality of North Carolina wife, Mara, for example, sell wine lists “These are the former tobacco farmers wines is tremendous—I was really for all occasions on their Web site at who have decided to diversify,” Taplin surprised,” King says. “We’re concen- www.entertainwithstyle.com. says. “To them, grapes are just another trating on the vinifera-growing region In their study, Taplin and Brecken- agricultural product, so they learn of the Yadkin Valley and are featuring ridge identified three winery categories how to do it. They already own their wines you won’t stumble upon every in North Carolina. The first and land, and under certain conditions, day. People are willing to experiment, fastest-growing category is the small they can qualify for grants from the and we’re excited with where we stand. operation, generally ten acres or less Golden Leaf Foundation [tobacco settle- “North Carolina’s wine industry has and run by a family or a retiree on a ment money that’s been earmarked to a lot going for it,” he continues. “The part-time basis. These “boutique” help farmers transition to other crops] and obtain their vines practically for free. Typically, they sell their grapes to other wineries at first, then make wine themselves eventually.” For about fifteen of the nearly twenty years he has owned an eight- acre parcel in Surry County, H. Robinson “Rob” Kornegay (’74) raised tobacco. But severe reductions in tobacco quotas prompted him to look for alternatives, and there plainly wasn’t a lot of money in row crops. Inspired by the wine consumption boom and a buddy who had turned from tobacco to grapes, Kornegay planted his first vines in 2001 with the H. Robinson ‘Rob’ Kornegay (’74) at Old North State Winery : help of a consultant. Today, the R.J. ‘A game you’d better be in for the long term.’ Reynolds Co., retiree grows a variety of European-style vinifera grapes— soil and climate of the Yadkin Valley wineries, as they call them, produce , chardonnay, , are tremendous. North Carolina has a less than 10,000 gallons of wine a year , merlot, cabernet sauvignon, terrific demographic, with an educated and typically experiment with different others—with a growing level of com- population that drinks wine and has a grapes and wine styles. Most aren’t in fort and sophistication. lot of state pride. Winemaking is a it for money, but, self-financed in a Kornegay belongs to a co-op of great way to save farm jobs, preserve capital-intensive industry where the thirty-eight Surry County vineyards, green space, and promote tourism. cost of planting vines alone exceeds of which his is one of the largest. The “The key for them now is to pro- $10,000 an acre, they are under pres- co-op bought an old department store duce even better wines and get the sure to turn a profit sooner than the building in downtown Mount Airy and word out,” King adds. “But, judging standard five-year break-even point. makes and sells its wine there under

16 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE the name of Old North State Winery. It anticipates bottling close to 10,000 cases this year. “[Winemaking] is a game you’d better be in for the long term,” he says. “It’s not a get-rich-quick scheme, let’s put it that way. It’s four to five years before you realize a full-yielding crop, and with all the foreign imports, the market’s extremely difficult right now. But we’ve been drawing fairly good recognition in international competi- tions, so we’re positive, even though we know it will take a while. Cultivat- ing tourism is one of our primary goals.” The third category is the large-scale Six years after opening RayLen Vineyards, Joseph and Joyce operations of more than thirty acres (JD ’75) Neely expect to bottle nearly 10,000 cases this year. and with annual wine production of over 100,000 gallons. “These are the The Sheltons are credited with You must find a niche and keep work- capital-intensive wineries established lobbying for most of the government ing the same customers over and over by wealthy individuals who have a actions favorable to the state’s wine again. The Yadkin Valley appellation passion for winemaking,” Taplin notes. industry, including the viticultural was a coup. There aren’t many in the “They know they probably won’t turn appellation, the highway signage, and eastern U.S., and people are always a profit for a decade or more but are the N.C. Grape Council’s recent open- looking for an identity. We’re hoping in it for the long run.” In the Yadkin ing of a North Carolina wine shop in that in fifteen or twenty years the Valley, Shelton Vineyards near Dobson the Charlotte airport. The point person Yadkin Valley will be thought of in was launched in 1999 and immediately for its political activities is Ballard G. the same way the Napa Valley is.” became the state’s largest family-owned “Buddy” Norwood (’60), chief admin- Wineries everywhere received a estate winery. of istrative officer for Shelton Companies. substantial boost when the U.S. Supreme Lexington, opened in fall 2004 by “We’re making progress, but we Court ruled May 16 that state govern- legendary NASCAR owner Richard haven’t turned the corner yet,” he says. ments may not prohibit their residents Childress, is among the top three. “It’s an extremely competitive business. from purchasing directly from out-of- state wineries. By a narrow margin, the court ruled that Michigan and New York had enacted protectionist laws that unconstitutionally discriminated against wineries in other states. Asser- tions of possible lost taxes or shipments to minors are no justification, the court’s majority stated. Unless protectionist states respond by passing new laws requiring all alco- hol sales, even by their own wineries, to take place face-to-face, the ruling means that consumers in states with Left: Steel fermenting vats at RayLen. Right: Joe Neely amid oak he and protectionist laws—about half—will Joyce eventually will recycle into fine furniture. be able to bypass licensed distributors and stores and order directly from a

SEPTEMBER 2005 17 winery’s Web site. That comes as wel- Valley. During a visit in October 1997, her legal work to RayLen and does come news indeed to Norwood. “Our they introduced Joe—a retired Sara Lee most of its marketing while Joe runs goal has been to allow boutique winer- executive and inveterate entrepreneur the business side. “Our focus is on ies to ship wine directly to consumers who served on the Board of Visitors making the very best product we can in every state,” he says. “It’s a key part of Wake Forest’s Babcock Graduate make. There is something wonderfully of our marketing strategy.” School of Management—to the pleas- satisfying in that.” Another blossoming large-scale ures of fine wine. “Joe caught fire, One of the Napa Valley’s premier operation is RayLen Vineyards and and he looked at me and said, ‘I can wineries is Joseph Phelps Vineyards Winery on the western outskirts of do this,’” Joyce recalls. Aided by their near St. Helena, and its chief executive Winston-Salem. In 1999, Joyce Neely longstanding friends the Shelton officer and one of its corporate part- (JD ’75) and her husband, Joe, bought brothers, the couple grew grapes on ners is a Wake Forest graduate—Tom a 115-acre dairy farm near Mocksville rented land in Lewisville for a year Shelton, Class of ’74. and planted a variety of vinifera vines before locating an ideal tract, situated Shelton’s ascent to the crest of the on thirty-eight acres of it. In this, its just off Interstate 40 and its tourist winemaking profession began some- what serendipitously. After graduating as a political science major, he enrolled in a master’s degree program at the University of Maryland, working part- time in a wine shop. He grew so fond of the wine business over time that he dropped out of school and worked as a wine distributor for four years before borrowing the money to open his own shop in north . Rising interest rates forced Shelton to sell his shop in the early eighties, but, as he says now, it was “the great- est thing that ever happened to me,” for he caught on with Vintage Wine Merchants, a top-tier distributor of premium California wines. Climbing quickly through the ranks, he was transferred to the company’s headquar- RayLen Winery, in Davie County, North Carolina ters in San Francisco, where he had the opportunity to meet the Napa Valley’s leading winery owners. He left sixth year since opening and fifth traffic. Amid row upon row of vines Vintage in 1986 for a top marketing vintage year, RayLen (named for the on gently rolling land, the Neelys have post with Franciscan Vineyards and two Neely daughters, Rachel and Helen) built an elegant winery and tasting joined Phelps in 1992 as vice president expects to bottle between 9,000 and room where, besides wine, they sell of sales and marketing. He was named 10,000 cases of reds and whites, includ- an exclusive line of furniture hand- president in 1995, chief executive offi- ing merlot, cabernet blends, pinot made from recycled oak wine barrels cer in 1996, and a partner in 2001. grigio, chardonnay, , viognier, and host cookouts, music concerts, “We’re in the premium wine busi- and shiraz. receptions, meetings, and other events ness,” notes Shelton, who, along with Joyce, who practiced law with regularly. his vintner, Craig Williams, and their the Winston-Salem firm of Pfefferkorn Theirs is an idyllic lifestyle.“Putting families, was on campus in May to Cooley Pishko & Elliott for many it together ourselves has been a lot of attend the graduations of their daugh- years, has close friends in the Napa fun,” says Joyce, who today restricts ters (see related article page 19). “We’re

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hey say that college Tand winemaking are family affairs. Tom Shelton (’74) and a cou- ple of his winemaking colleagues in the Napa Valley would drink to that—with gusto. As chief executive officer of Joseph Phelps Vineyards of St. Helena, California, Shelton pre- sides over a premium winery established in Tom Shelton (’74), fourth from left, and Craig Williams, with their the early seventies by daughters and spouses at Commencement. the man whose name it bears. Joe Phelps lives talents in cultivating devoted to Wake Forest Thomas K. Hearn, Jr. today in retirement on support for the University, as Shelton. He served on with a magnum of a ranch overlooking the hosting wine dinners the Parents’ Council and Phelps’ premium Insignia winery while his son, at Phelps as well as at convinced Doug Shafer, wine in a specially Bill, serves on the cor- the Council’s Summer the vintner at a neigh- designed bottle com- poration’s senior man- Leadership Conference boring Napa Valley memorating Hearn’s agement team. and an elegant function winery, to send his son, retirement and service As an alumnus of in New York. For years, Kevin, now a sophomore, to Wake Forest. Fittingly, Wake Forest, Shelton he had extolled the to Wake Forest. “It’s he used a winemaking feels such a strong kin- school’s virtues to Phelps’ been a great experience term in his tribute. ship with his alma mater vintner, Craig Williams, —a very, very special “French winemakers that he not only enrolled whose daughter, experience—for all of have a word, elevage, his own child there, but Maureen, is the same us,” Williams says. “My which means the ‘rais- also convinced associates age as Shelton’s daugh- wife and I have come ing,‘ the educating, of with no previous connec- ter, Jessica. When it came to appreciate the nurtur- the wine in the cellar so tion to the school to do time to enroll them in ing environment and that it may go out into likewise. They too have college, Williams, as well family focus that Wake the world with all of its come to regard the as Shelton, chose Wake Forest cultivates. It really sensibilities,” Williams University as family. Forest. Both families presents a great sense explains. “Truly, Wake A former member were on hand in May to of place.” Forest epitomizes the of the Alumni Council, watch their daughters Williams was pro- spirit of elevage and Shelton has been gener- graduate. foundly honored when its implications for our ous with his time and Over the course of he was asked in February young people.” Maureen’s four years, to present President —David Fyten Williams became as In the minds of many connoisseurs, France remains the lordly prince among winemaking nations, and Charles Neal (’83) is bringing a gen- erous portion of its largesse into this country. As founder and president of San Francisco-based Charles Neal Selections, Neal oversees a wines and spirits importing business with gross sales of roughly $1.2 million in 2004. Although he represents some sixty producers throughout France, he spe- cializes in the southwest region and its lesser-known appellations—Madiran, Jurançon, Cahors, Gaillac, Marcillac, Bottles on display at Old North State Winery proudly wear the medals they’ve won Béarn, Côtes du Frontonnais, and oth- in competitions. ers. But while the wines he imports are modestly priced, there’s nothing mod- solidly estate-based—we farm over 90 Phelps’ market niche—the well-to-do est about his single-estate percent of our grapes—and believe in and the collectors—insulates it from , , a strong relationship between site and from the fierce competition style of wine. We think the soil and being waged in the every- climate of a vineyard we’ve bought at day price range by the Freestone on the Sonoma Coast west Australians and other for- of Santa Rosa, for example, are ideal eign producers. “Not that for growing pinot noir with its light we don’t have challenges,” red skin. he adds. “Cold tempera- “The artisan approach we take to tures, wind, and rainfall winemaking means that we cannot sell are variables that will affect your yield. a bottle of wine profitably at $15,” he 2003 was a perfect storm continues. “On the high end, our of a weakening economy, and . They single-estate cabernet, the war in Iraq, the fall- fetch from $40 to $300 a bottle. Backus, retails out from the Silicon Neal’s odyssey to the wine business for $150 a bot- Valley bust, and a was even more circuitous than tle. Insignia, a vintage that was per- Shelton’s. An art and theatre student blend of Bordeaux ceived as weak. In at Wake Forest, he hoped to attend varieties from six spite of it all, the film school, and moved to London or seven of our five preceding years after graduation for what he thought vineyards, sells for had been so favor- would be six months. Instead, he $125. It accounts for able, and the next stayed for five years and turned to 18 percent of our vol- year’s vintage was so writing, authoring a rock music book ume but 40 percent of well received, that we wound up and an unpublished novel. our revenue. At the lower with strong results. This year should Neal spent the next three years in end, our Le Mistral, a Rhone blend, be extraordinary—we’re probably Spain teaching English and writing sells for $30 and our Napa Valley looking at a shortage. Our reputation about music. He learned a lot about Cabernet retails at about $45.” at the luxury end for quality based wine there and found his interest in it Shelton, who is unrelated to the on style has us looking very strong waxing in proportion to his waning North Carolina winery family, says right now.” interest in music. He and a French

20 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE woman he’d met in London moved France’s wine industry, Neal says his Magruder explains. “We’re looking to first to her home in southwestern business continues to thrive. “There build national brands and probably France and then to Rome, where Neal was some fallout in this country when represent sixty to seventy-five different wrote another novel and taught France wouldn’t stand with the U.S. on wineries from all over the world.” English. They returned to France in the war in Iraq, but it’s been localized,” Magruder has seen a lot of change 1992, got married, and moved to he says. “The market in the wine industry over the last Austin, Texas, for its vibrant music has stayed fairly decade. “It used to be a family-owned, scene. Neal applied for a strong in liberal good-old-boy environment where writing program states like everything was done by handshake,” but was rejected, California. he notes. “Now, it’s all corporate. The so a year later Where I’ve business has changed so much that they moved again noticed it is our gross sales are greater than those to New York City, in more con- of most wineries and distilleries. It’s where he parlayed servative more of a mutual partnership today, his wine knowledge parts of the and we’ve been able to sharpen prices into a position with country like as a result.” a leading Manhattan Long Island, Across the land, then—in all cor- wine merchant. “It where one major retailer ners of the field—oenophiles in old was a fantastic place removed a row of French wines from gold and black are purveying the red to expand my knowledge,” he says. its shelves in protest. and the white, and relishing it. “One After three years, he and his wife “Australian wines, and a lot of of life’s truly exquisite experiences is moved yet again, this time to San American wines for that matter, don’t to drive through the Yadkin Valley Francisco, where he landed a job at a have a lot of complexity or hold much and happen upon a small winery, store specializing in champagne and interest for connoisseurs,” Neal states. where the vintner might be pouring high-end spirits. “They have too much oak and are too in the tasting room,” says Gray King. “I decided in 1997, when my wife fruit-forward for their tastes. The weak “You feel like you’re part of a family.” became pregnant with our second dollar isn’t really hurting us, either, daughter, to write a wine book,” Neal because a lot of the domestics and says. “I discovered that no books had imports from other countries are over- been written about Armagnac, a region priced, which compensates.” in southwest France that is similar to Southern Wine and Spirits of Cognac.” For three months, he lived America, Inc., of Miami is the with his wife’s parents, mastering nation’s largest distributor of French and visiting wine and spirit alcoholic beverages, with producers throughout Armagnac. “I operations in twelve states must have sampled over 500 varieties,” including the two biggest, he says. Gradually, the thought California and New occurred to him, why not select three York. As its wine man- or four producers and distribute their ager for Kentucky, products in the United States? Scott Magruder Working on commission, he made (’82) sells its enough money from brokering client wineries’ prod- “obscure wines no one had heard of ” ucts to stores throughout the to buy 350 cases of Armagnac wines state and works closely with them in himself. He sold them, and a business developing brand, price, and promo- was born. tion strategies. “Almost every state in Although much has been written the nation has wineries today, but our about the depressed condition of niche is not the local or regional label,”

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distinct, the gap can widen into a yawning chasm that swallows commu- nication. Especially in affairs of state s to ensure that speaker and listener don’t get mixed messages. or business, important outcomes can be left hanging in peril. By David Fyten The importance, then, of expert interpreting and translating in cross- lingual situations, where comprehension

SEPTEMBER 2005 23 Hill, with every intention of that made my academic inter- one day becoming a college ests seem less... academic. professor. However, my focus The state’s Hispanic popula- gradually changed. tion multiplied dramatically, My interest in the Spanish and suddenly I found that language goes back a long my Spanish skills were useful time: I started taking classes not only on far-flung study in middle school, and each abroad trips, but also in my one of my trips abroad (to hometown. Spain, to Cuba) caused that Driving back from a week- interest to intensify. People end at Topsail Beach one from my small hometown summer night—too late to were sometimes mystified, be out driving through those FOUND IN TRANSLATION sometimes suspicious when dark, deer-infested woods— By Emma Claggett (’00) I described summer trips to I came to an intersection Cuba with Professor Linda where there had been a hen, as a sophomore in Basel, working as a trans- Howe’s program. On some wreck. Flashing blue lights W at Wake Forest, I lator and editor at the Bank level I think I enjoyed pursu- revealed a frustrated police declared my Spanish major, for International Settlements. ing a career that was so dif- officer trying to speak with I never thought it would When I studied at Wake ferent from that of any of a man who appeared to be eventually lead me to Switzer- Forest, the Spanish major’s my elementary school class- Hispanic. Their cars were land. The possibility that I emphasis was on literature, mates, and yet, as I continued blocking the road, so I rolled might end up working in a which I loved. In fact, after with my studies and travels, down my window and asked bank seemed even more graduating, I did a master’s something interesting began if I could help. A few minutes remote. And yet, here I am in that subject at UNC-Chapel happening in North Carolina later I found myself taking a

really counts, is readily understood. Less Yet more than ever, today’s ever- ing jobs or advanced study here and so are the skills that define “expert.” shrinking world needs good interpreters abroad. And that’s just for starters: Especially in interpreting, which deals and translators, along with localizers, plans are in the works to incorporate with the spoken word (as opposed to terminologists, and cultural brokers who other languages as capability and translation of the written), traversing can adapt and interpret the products demand warrant. the gap between two languages is not and customs of one country for others. The program is the creation of simply a function of fluency in both. It That’s not to mention subtitlers, voice- Olgierda Furmanek, an associate pro- requires sensitivity to subtlety and over narrators, and practitioners of fessor of Romance Languages who nuance; a command of idiosyncratic the many other linguistic services in came to Wake Forest in fall 1999 and colloquial expressions; discernment demand worldwide. specifically to start it. A native of of instances when word-for-word con- Wake Forest offers one of the few, if Wroclaw, Poland, Furmanek speaks version won’t convey exact meaning; not the only, undergraduate programs five languages and has an impressive the mental acuity to simultaneously in the nation to help meet the demand. background as an interpreter, high- retain what’s just been said, listen to Under the auspices of its Department lighted by her assignment as lead what’s being said, and translate on the of Romance Languages, it conducts a interpreter during the late Pope John go; and the ability to put it all into certificate program in Spanish trans- Paul II’s visit to Poland in 1997. But play instantaneously. No wonder that in lation/localization and Spanish inter- it is in teaching and theory that she is the entire world, there are only about preting. Now in its sixth year, the making her biggest mark today. six hundred licensed simultaneous program has awarded certificates to “People think translation involves interpreters deemed skilled enough for roughly twenty graduates to date, of only languages, but it is more than high-level diplomatic duty. whom many have gone on to reward- that,” says Furmanek, who is called

24 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE statement about the wreck nickel for every time they mental to the functioning deals with central banks from from one person who spoke said something about me of many other professions: all over the world, so although no English, for another who being a career student and lawyers, politicians, health- it is headquartered in Switzer- spoke no Spanish. never getting a “real job”...), care workers, and interna- land, it receives documents Over time, similar occur- started my second master’s tional bankers and business- from Spain and Latin Ameri- rences made me realize that degree, this time in transla- men all depend on translators can countries that must be there were other applications tion and interpretation. and interpreters to get their translated into English, French, for my foreign language Interestingly, while study- message across to a global German, and Italian. I’m very skills. During my senior year I ing translation (the transmis- audience. Another important excited about my new job; took Professor Ola Furanek’s sion of a written message in realization was the value of it’s not what I would have first class in translation and one language into another) my Wake Forest liberal arts envisioned myself doing six interpretation, which intro- and interpretation (which is background: translators must or seven years ago, but it duced me to the nature of oral), I realized that my study be knowledgeable not only offers me the opportunity to a translator’s career, and it of literature came in handy. about grammar and terminol- use my skills in a beneficial appealed to me. Before I After years of analyzing ogy, but also about the sub- way while continuing to graduated, Dr. Furmanek poetry, the idea that words ject matter at hand, and the develop them. Wake Forest’s mentioned the name of one take on different meanings ability to effectively research translation and interpreta- of the few United States depending on their context unfamiliar subjects is of para- tion program has expanded graduate schools that taught was not new to me, and I mount importance. greatly, and I encourage all translation and interpreta- found this to be one of the This is how a Spanish students interested in lan- tion: the Monterey Institute most important concepts to major from North Carolina guages to consider the pro- of International Studies. To grasp in order to translate can end up working at a bank gram—who knows where it make a long story short, I and interpret successfully. I in a country with three offi- will lead you. applied, and, much to my learned that translation and cial languages, none of which friends’ ridicule (if I had a interpretation are funda- is Spanish or English. The BIS

Ola by her friends and colleagues. gram, candidates must be proficient and interpretation studies collections “Knowing two languages is not enough in Spanish and have spent at least a in the United States, with more than to be an interpreter any more than summer or a semester abroad. She five hundred volumes and eighty having two hands is sufficient to be begins her courses by administering bilingual and multilingual dictionar- a pianist. It involves cultural context a mental aptitude test. “Interpreters ies. She has created three Web sites, and comprehension of meaning. Know- must be able to move back and forth, including two that feature research- ing the topic and its terminology are quickly and accurately,” she says. based reviews of information on important. You need the strategies of “The brain’s ability to switch fast is translation and interpreting studies. how to decode and recode. You need something you must be born with, And she provides a practical field to master the note-taking techniques. but you also must develop it.” So in exercise with a required internship. You can’t concentrate on words and lab sessions, she conducts exercises to She has established contacts with sentence structures or you will mis- improve active listening skills—the various companies, non-profit groups, interpret or fall hopelessly behind. ability to hear what people really say and professional translation and inter- “It is said that interpreting exerts and not what you think they ought to preting agencies nationwide that are one of the highest known demands say—and short-term memory. willing to sponsor internships and has on the mind,” she adds. “The stress Furmanek’s troops have top-of-the-line developed rigorous evaluation proce- felt by the interpreter in the booth is logistical support. With departmental dures and requirements. Students are likened to the soldier on the front line.” help she has acquired professional free to design their own internships, So, like a good drill instructor, laboratory equipment and state-of-the- and they can get pretty creative. One Furmanek prepares her students for art software and has built one of the put together a glossary of Spanish battle. As a prerequisite for the pro- most extensive translation, localization, dental terminology for a dentist and

SEPTEMBER 2005 25 never have gotten a peek into what it takes to start a volunteer program, into another country’s social services scene, and into the religious life at the friary where I stayed.” Many students who have graduated with the interpreting certificate work as community interpreters in hospitals, schools, and non-profit organizations. After studying in Spain, Caitlyn Kraft (’03) decided that whatever career path she chose, she wanted to be speaking Spanish. To retain her newfound skills in the language, she signed on to volunteer at El Centro Clinico, a Ola Furmanek: fascinated by ‘the mystery of the interpreter in the booth.’ healthcare facility for low-income Hispanic people in Winston-Salem. another translated a clergyman’s ser- York. He helped provide social services She soon found herself learning how mons into Spanish. The program has mostly to Latino low-income families to be a medical interpreter by serving captured the attention of colleges at an inner-city neighborhood center. as the go-between for doctors and across the country interested in launch- Last fall, he accompanied FrancisCorps’ patients. The experience inspired her ing programs of their own, and it is director to Costa Rica to interpret to obtain the certificate (devoting her included in the Guide to American discussions with a community of internship to translating into Spanish Translation and Interpreting Programs Franciscan friars who were interested a guest book explaining the rules approved by the American Translators in having FrancisCorps started there. and procedures at the local Ronald Association. Among the potential program sites at McDonald House) and to devote her The certificate is definitely market- which he interpreted were a shelter for skills to the medical field. After grad- able. Emma Claggett (’00) graduated people who were receiving treatment uation, she joined the Urban Servant this spring from America’s most presti- at a local hospital but could not afford Corps, a year-long volunteer program gious professional school of interpreting a place to stay, a support center for in Denver, where she lived and served and translation in Monterey, California, children and adults with HIV or AIDS, among the poor as an interpreter at an and is working now as a translator and and homes for terminally ill children inner-city health center. So impressed editor for the Bank for International and homeless senior citizens. He stayed was the clinic’s staff with the quality Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. (See on with FrancisCorps in Syracuse after of her work that they hired her after related story, page 24.) The first two his volunteer year was over and today her volunteer year was over. translation/localization certificates works full-time at the community “I feel very fortunate to have more were awarded to graduates this spring; center overseeing various programs, direction now for what I want to do Andrea Gormley has a job localizing including respite care for children with with my life, and I think I owe the Web sites into Spanish in Charleston developmental disabilities. beginning of that to my experience in and Sally Taylor is a freelance techni- “Dr. Furmanek taught us to approach the Wake Forest interpreting certifica- cal translator in Chicago. interpreting in an analytical way,” he tion program,” says Kraft, who is study- After graduating with a double says. “To be truly professional means ing nursing. “The classes are not easy, major in mathematics and Spanish and understanding that you are conveying but the program was worth it by offer- an interpreting certificate, Benjamin not only mere words, but also concepts, ing guidance on how I could practically Desiderio (’03) joined FrancisCorps, attitudes, motivations, maybe even use my Spanish verbal skills.” a year-long, faith-based community emotions. When I was in the inter- By the very fact of her birthplace, volunteer program for young Catholic preter’s chair in Costa Rica, I realized Furmanek seemed destined for a women and men in Syracuse, New that, without those skills, I would career in languages. Equidistant from

26 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Berlin, Prague, and Warsaw, Wroclaw translator and cultural broker on especially challenging subspecialty of has been inhabited or governed by behalf of European firms seeking to poetry translation. Poles, Czechs, Austrians, Germans, do business in Eastern Europe. Furmanek worked for another year and Russians at various stages of its “So many companies were coming in as a freelancer in California, Chicago, thousand-year history. A polyglot like from Italy, Spain, Great Britain, and Austin, Texas, and Poland, where she that can’t help but give a city a cosmo- France in the early nineties,” she says. translated the Pope’s comments into politan character, and that in turn can’t “I was better at interpreting than English for a large pool of other inter- help but influence a bright child who translating, which I found tedious. preters who then converted them into is curious about the world at large. When you interpret, you have a cer- their own languages. “I didn’t want “For as long as I can remember, I tain degree of power over a situation.” to teach at first,” she explains. “But have been fascinated with languages,” after being in the rat race for a while she says. “I started studying English I wanted to start sharing my experi- when I was five or six and was forced ences with students.” She accepted a to learn Russian [in elementary school]. “To be truly professional position at Yale University and quickly Marshal law was declared while I was discovered her latent passion for in high school in 1981, a year after the means understanding teaching. When Wake Forest adver- Solidarity movement. The country’s tised a tenure-track faculty post to situation was dark and tragic but I that you are conveying create an undergraduate certificate recall how happy I was because we not only mere words, program in translation and interpret- didn’t have school for three weeks— ing—what would be the first of its everything was locked down and we but also concepts, attitudes, kind in the country—she seized the couldn’t move. I am part of the tran- motivations, maybe opportunity. “I had a vision, and it sition generation in Poland. We was a great match, especially with the remember how things were [under even emotions.” growing Hispanic population here,” Communism] and embraced the she says. changes when they came.” With the programs in Spanish Furmanek started studying Spanish on solid footing, Furmanek is “wide when she was eighteen and worked as Not surprisingly, Furmanek decided open to respond to any interest and a tourist guide in various countries over to take her career to the next level need” by adding other languages. holidays, which exposed her to western and pursue a doctoral degree. What French, Italian, and perhaps Arabic European cultures. She spent her third was surprising was her choice of look promising in the short term. year of college studying in Cuba on institution. “I wanted to improve my Whatever direction it may ultimately scholarship. “We had personal body- English, and I wanted to come to the take, it will be fueled by its director’s guards to ensure that we didn’t have any United States because American Eng- energy and enthusiasm, which seems contact with Cubans,” she says. After lish is the standard today,” she says. to recognize no borders. graduation, she enrolled for graduate “But I didn’t want to study on the East “Translating is a skill, and it studies at Jagiellonian University in Kra- Coast. All my life I had lived in big requires strategies similar to the kow. Her field was Spanish and French cities, and I wanted to experience the development of skills in sports or linguistics, but she soon became capti- heartland, where real English is spo- music,” she observes. “The more you vated by their practical application. “I ken.” So she applied to the University practice, the better you become. You became fascinated by interpreting and of Nebraska, about as “heartland” as need to have the talent and inclina- translating—by the mystery of the inter- American universities come. “I thought, tion. You need be tolerant of stress. preter in the booth,” she says. “Working ‘Lincoln, Nebraska—the Wild West, You need powers of concentration on my thesis at the Sorbonne [in Paris], the true America,” she quips with her and focus. Above all, you need to be I had the chance to work with some characteristic broad smile. The choice curious about the world; to have a famous professors of interpretation.” proved to be a sound one. She finished broad spectrum of interests and to be While finishing her master’s degree her doctorate in translation theory in open, inquisitive, and knowledgeable in 1992, Furmanek also worked as a 1997, devoting her dissertation to the about current events.”

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Classics act James Powell, esteemed teacher and servant of the University, keeps a low profile but has a big impact on student life. By David Fyten

HOSE INCLINED TO BELIEVE languages. And it would be equally master yet knows everybody’s name Tthere are two kinds of people in challenging to name one who has by the second day of class. the world might assume there are two had a greater impact on student life All of the principals involved in kinds of faculty members who are at Wake Forest, in and out of the the overhaul of the College judicial thought of by their students as spe- classroom. system in the late nineties credit cial. One is the dynamic type—the At a time when Greek and Latin Powell as its prime architect. The movers and shakers. The other is the aren’t exactly competing with reality University Senate, Phi Beta Kappa, and quiet sort who keeps a low profile. shows and “American Idol” for the First-Year Seminar Committee Meeting James T. Powell can youth’s attention, Powell’s courses are among the many other benefici- disabuse one of the tendency to on Greek myth and the epics of aries of his time and talents, given think in twos. Antiquity routinely fill up quickly. generously. It would be difficult to find a more Inevitably, he will succumb to the Having previously received the unassuming, humble, and unpreten- pleas of wait-listed students eager Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in tious member of the faculty than to study the Iliad and the Odyssey Teaching in 1996 and the Award the associate professor of classical under a teacher they’ve heard is a for Excellence in Advising in 2003,

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Powell completed the triple crown school, where he discovered a whole Powell took care to build flexibil- L of student esteem last semester with new world.” ity and diversity of competencies I F

the Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Powell attended graduate school into the revised system. “We created O

Kappa Award for Contributions to at Yale University, where he earned a Board of Investigators whose mem- R Student Life. three degrees in classical languages: bers both represent students and P “I can’t say enough good things a master of arts, a master of philoso- present cases to the Honors and about this man,” says Robert Lovett, phy, and a doctorate, the latter com- Ethics Council,” he notes. “The stu- professor emeritus of English who pleted a few months after he joined dents go through training so that chaired the Judicial Council during the Wake Forest faculty as a visiting they can do either side. This is not the restructuring process. “He is instructor in the fall of 1988. He was an adversarial system; we don’t want wise, he is dedicated, and he is a put on the tenure track as an assis- prosecutors and defenders.” magnificent teacher. He walks his tant professor in 1990 and earned Powell has been especially active in own quiet way.” tenure and promotion to associate recent years in his service to the cam- “Jim is a master teacher who is professor in 1997. pus community. Besides his ongoing dedicated to teaching and working Besides teaching and advising service as secretary-treasurer of the with students,” says John Andronica, with distinction, the dignified and Phi Beta Kappa chapter and Secre- professor and chair of classical lan- bespectacled Powell served in his tary to the Faculty, he chaired the guages. “He unselfishly carries heavy early years as an advisor to the old Judicial Council for two years after assignments to provide attractive Honor Council. Then, in 1996, he Lovett’s retirement in 2001; served courses in areas of basic, divisional, was appointed to the Judicial Council three years (two as chair) of the and elective offerings, and to meet at what would prove to be a water- First-Year Seminar Committee, which the needs of majors and minors, shed juncture. reviews faculty seminar proposals for with frequent preparation of courses For a variety of reasons, Wake consistency with the program’s stan- either new to him or in need of Forest’s venerable tradition of peer dards and objectives; was a member revision and with selfless expenditure adjudication of student ethics and of the Divinity School accreditation of time with students. conduct transgressions was proving and Dean of the College search com- “A full measure of the man is increasingly unworkable. In 1997, the mittees; and serves on the Reynolds found in every aspect of his exem- council, under Lovett’s chairmanship, Scholarship Committee. This year, plary service, which is in full accord undertook the task of rewriting the he is chairing the program review with his academic principles and Judicial Code to incorporate more committee for the Department of painstaking approach to exacting faculty and administrative involve- German and Russian. and significant work,” Andronica ment. The challenge was to infuse At the end of a full day, Powell can goes on, “and in his outstanding the system with greater oversight and be glimpsed walking briskly across character, personal sense of honor, year-to-year continuity without com- campus, briefcase in hand, to his and conduct which work in the best promising student empowerment. Faculty Apartments residence, where way to provide a model for students “Jim, more than anyone else, his beloved books and opera CDs and colleagues alike.” formed the new system,” Lovett says. await. He regularly attends campus Born and raised on a farm near “He’s a wonderful detail man and is concerts and theatre productions and Montgomery, Alabama, Powell extremely thorough. You might say accompanies his close friends, Carl attended Emory University in he was the obstetrician to our gestat- and Lucille Harris, to dinner or off- Atlanta, graduating Phi Beta Kappa ing ideas of how the system ought campus arts events from time to and summa cum laude in Greek and to be—he pulled them forth. Then, time. But mostly, he leads a quiet Latin in 1980. “Jim’s always led without usurping power in any way, life at home. something of a sheltered life,” Lovett he distilled our ideas into written It is, for this classics professor, an says. “He’s never owned a car or had forms that were invariably right. He idyllic existence. “I can’t imagine a a driver’s license—he said he tried took his work very seriously and better place to be than Wake Forest,” driving in high school but didn’t worked quietly, very hard, and always he says. like it. He likened Emory to a prep with good humor.”

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A By Ulrike Wiethaus

S Ignite the Spirit—Join the Circle S E “WARRIORS NO LONGER RIDE HORSES OR LEARN TO USE A TOMAHAWK. INSTEAD, THEY GET EDUCATED TO DEVELOP THEIR MIND AND STRENGTHEN THEIR SPIRIT SO THEY CAN BETTER SERVE OTHERS.”

LMIGHTY SPIRIT / PLEASE Carolina reaches back into the deep “Aempower our souls / so that our past. Archeological finds tell of hunter story of triumph / can be affably told.” and gatherer communities in our area Adam Richardson, a young member more than 12,000 years ago. North of the Haliwa-Saponi Nation, com- Carolina’s rivers, such as the Yadkin posed these lines as a tribute to the and Lumber, witnessed the growth of efforts of American Indian commu- American Indian communities as long nities in North Carolina. And indeed, as 2,000 years ago, that engaged in spirituality, stories of triumph, and extensive trading, exchange, and empowerment flowed like high- cultural creativity. Wake Forest has a voltage electrical currents through link to this past through the Museum four remarkable days on campus this of Anthropology, which recently summer. Guided by the theme of received more than 20,000 artifacts “Ignite the Spirit—Join the Circle,” from the Douglas Rights Collection Wake Forest hosted, for the first time, of the Wachovia Historical Society more than two-hundred American and the Mission Society of the Indian Youth from across North Caro- Moravian Church. lina, the United States, and Canada North Carolina today is home attending the twenty-sixth annual to the largest American Indian popu- conference of the North Carolina lation east of the Mississippi (over Chapter of the American Indian Youth 100,000 members), comprising eight Organization (NCNAYO). The confer- tribal nations and several smaller ence was co-sponsored by the North American Indian communities. North 12,000 members), in Halifax, Carolina Department of Administra- Carolina tribes include the Waccamaw Warren, and adjacent counties; the tion, the North Carolina Commission Siouan Nation (People of the Fallen Saponi Nation settled across the of Indian Affairs, and the American Star) located in the southeastern North Carolina and Virginia border; Indian Not on Tobacco Program. counties of Columbus and Bladen; the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Young American Indian men and the Meherrin Nation (People of the located on the Qualla Boundary; and women gathered for workshops, lec- Muddy Water), residing very close the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi tures, traditional crafts and dancing, to their original homelands in the Nation in Alamance County. and networking. Some of the sessions “Little California/Pleasant Plains” North Carolina is home to several took place in a building dedicated area of Hertford County; the Lumbee non-profit urban American Indian to the lifetime achievements of the tribe (People of the Dark Water) centers: Guilford Native American late President Emeritus James Ralph located in Robeson, Hoke, Cumber- Association in Greensboro, Metrolina Scales, a member of the Cherokee land, and Scotland counties; the Native American Association in Nation and lifelong supporter of Coharie Nation situated near Clinton; Charlotte, Triangle Native American American Indian communities. the Haliwa-Saponi Tribe, the third Society in Raleigh, and the Cumber- Those who attended are heirs of a largest tribe in the state (following land County Association for Indian complex and proud history also filled in numbers the Lumbee tribe with People in Fayetteville. with great struggle. The presence of about 45,000 members, and the The excitement and energy of the American Indian peoples in North Eastern Band of Cherokee with over group was electrifying at the opening

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right to practice indigenous spiritu- Their enrollment represents a rich S S

ality and life ways. It took until 1934, opportunity for all our students to E —D.J. Vanas (Anishinabek/Odawa), with the passage of the Indian Reor- come together and learn from each The Tiny Warrior ganization Act, for American Indian other. Unlike other groups, young rights to religious freedom to be for- American Indian students struggle mally acknowledged. Congress com- to overcome a long history of being mitted itself to the protection of denied full expression of their cul- American Indian religious freedom in tural identity, including speaking 1978, yet many communities strug- their native languages. It is significant gle to conduct their ceremonies due that Wake Forest’s faculty includes to a denial of access to sacred sites. Associate Professor of Anthropology Mickey Michelle Locklear, coordi- Margaret Bender, who specializes in nator of the conference, director of the study of the Cherokee language. the North Carolina Commission of A nationally acclaimed motiva- Indian Affairs Educational Talent tional speaker and author from the Search Program, and a member of Anishinabek/Odawa Nation, Eagle the Lumbee tribal nation, under- Bear Vanas, encouraged the young scored the importance of being able participants to develop outstanding to practice native spirituality. Of the leadership skills and to give back to fire ceremony and the conference the community through their many symbol of a circle into which every- talents. Every participant received a one is invited with respect, support, copy of his book, The Tiny Warrior. and special responsibilities, she said, In connecting the meaning of tradi- “I think that’s what our American tional cultural roles such as being Indian youth can teach other people. a warrior with modern life today, You don’t have to be the winner, you he stressed values worth practicing can share titles and share honors… I in all human communities. “A don’t have to stand out all by myself, warrior’s power does not lie in his ceremony. A Council of Elders lit a I can have supportive people around strength, his size or feats in battle. ceremonial fire—which remained me… Even when one person doesn’t A warrior’s power lies in his heart, lit throughout the conference—to do as well or perform at a high level, his character, and his commitment evoke and honor the past, present, we can embrace them and support to those he serves.” and future of American Indian peo- them and lift them up.” Young Adam Richardson prayed ples. Christian prayers and songs Workshop sessions focused on to the Almighty Spirit for strength complemented the fire ceremony, strengthening cultural and historical to tell the American Indian story of along with the spiritual contributions knowledge and were often taught triumph against all odds. Our Wake of the drumming group Southern by elders and nationally recognized Forest University community is eager Eagle Drum. artists such as tribal historian Shirley to listen and to learn this story. Bringing together American Freeman (Waccamaw-Siouan), and Indian and Euro-American spiritual master potter Senora Lynch, and tradi- Ulrike traditions in a spirit of harmony and tional drumming expert Jeff Anstead, Wiethaus is religious tolerance has historically both of the Haliwa-Saponi Nation. Professor of been difficult. Even in our community, A college admissions workshop Humanities at it took some effort to explain the was conducted by the Office of Wake Forest. religious importance of the fire cere- Undergraduate Admissions. This mony to the city fire department. The fall’s freshman class has nine Ameri- United States government has long can Indian students, almost double

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Jill Bader (center) rides a taxi in Vietnam. What is an American? A student’s service trip to Vietnam answers some questions, but raises more. By Jill Bader (’05)

N JANUARY I TRAVELED TO DALAT, cliffs and lurching back on the path and trying to figure out how I fit into IVietnam, with a group of Wake to our next destination. this international portrait. Would Forest students on a service trip As we headed down the moun- Vietnam teach me a lesson in how sponsored by the Pro Humanitate tains I would giggle with the Vietnam- an American girl can find her place? Center. After we finished building ese guides sitting around me, ask My only notions of Vietnam were our school in Vietnam, we rode a questions about the countryside, or gleaned from the stories of my father little white bus down a mountain of smile at the dozing heads of other and his generation, who dreaded the country landscape. The bus passed students. Looking out the window, numbers that could send them to a rice fields, children playing in the feeling the wind brush my face in place from which many didn’t return. streets, and large mud cliffs exposing gusts of warm, stale air, my mind Images came from history class films, a schism in the red clay earth. We wandered. I reflected, “Asia is such complete with San Francisco sound- flew past coffee beans drying in the a different place than anything I tracks, and the views from Stanley sun, glistening with the dew from a have ever seen before.” Only a week Kubrick movies. Vietnam is shown small shower. Our driver almost hit earlier, as Vietnam was banging on only as a vast jungle, filled with the water buffalo, swerved, and our bus my doorstep, I thought “What should horrors of war, clouded by the color clung to the bend in the road, whip- I expect from Vietnam?” I have red. They all lead to the same image ping past giant Buddhas perched on always loved exploring world cultures of Vietnam: red. Red blocking views

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of the sky. Red clouding the smiles of As I reveled in my Vietnamese little boy with flowers for us as we A its village inhabitants or children’s experience, I tried more and more to finished the school. I shook the S S

games. Red: a reminder of the sorrow pinpoint what makes me uniquely hand of an old man, smiling at us E and oppression from centuries of war. American. “Who am I?” seems to and showing us a poem a former Though all of these pictures are a be a question most twenty-one year GI friend sent him. I walked through sobering reminder of Vietnam’s past olds ask ALL the time, but on that the cu-chi tunnels that so many and a difficult reflection of so many bus going down the cliff I asked, people lost their lives defending… young American lives lost in conflict, “What is American?” What is that and finding. Vietnam today is different than how culture, that feeling, or that unspoken I suddenly realized there are a I imagined it. It is not just one thing. quality that defines our country— million different things that do set It is a mosaic of the past and present, that makes America? us apart as Americans. There are of history and the future, of young differences in dress, tastes, food, people exploring a western lifestyle, politics, language…the list goes on and old people instilling important and on. This identity as Americans traditions and customs to their fami- Vietnam today is different fits uniquely into the international lies. The only common thread I could than how I imagined it. puzzle. But what I learned from the tie together about Vietnam is that it people of Vietnam is that these dif- is a lovely place filled with lovely It is not just one thing. ferences don’t matter. What makes people. As we passed jungle, hill, us American doesn’t matter. We are and dale, I saw places that seemed It is a mosaic of the past people, built from different molds untouched by human hands, yet and present, of history but made of the same materials. We were once the battleground for fear- are Americans, but still the guest in ful conflict. I began to think about and the future, of young … someone’s home and welcomed as my home. I began to think about family.We are Americans, often blessed America. Is there something about and old …. with education, but learning the being American that makes us so steps to a native Vietnamese dance different from our new friends and just as a Vietnamese child does. We all those we’d met in Vietnam? My motives of exploration were are Americans, with a wealth of On that windy bus in Vietnam not political. I am far from anti- information at our fingertips but I reflected on this question about American, and I can’t make a con- still asking the question about what my American identity. I first looked clusion about the Vietnam War, or our role in the world should be. broadly to Asia and my differences eloquently describe if the color red To answer the question “What with the people there. To me it was a indeed clouds the sky of Vietnam, is an American?” could take years, foreign land, up until recently visible but I can and did explore this feeling but to answer what is a person takes only through the world of “Crouching and identity that followed me around just one thing—the ability to view Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” or better yet the world and back again. I continue a smile, and smile back. I saw that epitomized by my vague childhood to ask how this identity, as American, smile every day in Vietnam. I know memories of the guru Splinter on fits with different people all around I’ll continue to explore my American “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle” car- the world. How different is Vietnam’s identity for years to come, and that toons. This place has always seemed countryside from ours—a mosaic of I will find my piece to this interna- so far, far away, yet also enchanting ideas and people, old and new all in tional puzzle. But whenever I think and exciting—a place I always want- one country? Wait…isn’t America a about Vietnam and what I learned ed to visit. I was so thankful to cou- mosaic of sorts—a melting pot filled there, I’ll just smile again. ple this intrigue with Asia and my with variation, yet all joined as one? love of service with the Vietnam trip Then I looked really hard at Viet- Jill Bader (’05) is a constituent relations over the winter break. I was delighted nam. I smiled at our new Vietnamese representative for Sen. Lamar Alexander that with only a smile from our new friends as they sang a special rendi- in Washington, D.C. friends I could feel at home again. tion of a YMCA song. I picked up a

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T Wake Forest welcomed 1,120 freshmen to campus on

C August 18. The Class of 2009 represents forty-three states I

P and eleven foreign countries. Twenty-six percent are North

N Carolina residents. Thirty-eight percent of the students I graduated within the top 5 percent of their high school classes. Seventeen percent are minorities, the largest number ever.

Left: Erin Gorman, from Lutherville, Maryland, unloads her car in front of Bostwick Residence Hall.

Below: Thomas Cahyuti, left, and Timothy Silva carry new ThinkPads and printers back to their residence hall rooms.

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Top: President Nathan O. Hatch visits with Drew Grindrod and his parents in a residence hall.

Right: Despite the rain, move-in day goes smoothly for Jill Kirkley, left, Cameron Frothingham, Josh Anders.

Below: Ashleigh Parker of Hickory, North Carolina, takes a tram back to her residence hall after picking up her ThinkPad.

Right: Julie Edwards with her mother, Jamie, from Columbia, South Carolina, takes a break from decorating Julie’s room.

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Thomas Henderson Pritchard Charles Elisha Taylor William Louis Poteat Francis Pendleton Gaines 1879–1882 1884–1905 1905–1927 1927–1930

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THE INA UGURATION of NATHAN O. HATCH AS THE THIRTEENTH PRESIDENT of WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY OCTOBER 20, 2005 W AKE F OREST A LUMNI A SSOCIATION S E

President’s Column T O N S S A L

GREETINGS,WAKE FORESTERS! I am Nancy Kuhn (’73), the new Alumni Association President. C I look forward to serving you during my 2005–06 term. Before I remind you of upcoming campus events this fall, I’d like to give you a quick update on recent activities of your Alumni Association. The Alumni Council has been busy working to enhance the alumni experience for all. In that regard, we recently developed a strategic plan that focuses on ways to enhance communications, outreach, and services for our more than 55,000 alumni. We are investigating how best to increase involvement in alumni clubs and career servic- es, as well as to develop lifelong learning programs for alumni. Look to future issues of the President’s Column for more news on these developments. As to campus activities, please be sure to mark your calendars for Homecoming 2005 (September 23–24). This year we are honoring reunion classes ending in 0’s and 5’s, so let’s have a strong showing from our reunion class alumni, particularly our newest Half Century Club mem- bers from the Class of 1955! During Homecoming, there will be a number of special events: Friday morning and lunch will be devoted to Half Century Club activities, and Friday evening will fea- ture a reception for alumni, faculty, and emeriti faculty in the Green Room of Reynolda Hall. At this reception, D.E. Ward (’43, MD ’45), will receive the 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award.Dr. Ward is a Life Trustee and former president of the Alumni Association (1974–75); four of his grand- children are current Wake Forest students and/or young alumni. Because this reception also honors faculty, please be sure to complete the section of the Homecoming brochure about professors you hope to see there, so that we can extend a special invitation to them. On Saturday, September 24, we will hold the Service of Remembrance, which honors the memory of Wake Foresters who have passed away by reading aloud the names of those who have died since October 2004. The service will be held at 9:30 a.m. in Wait Chapel. One of the liveliest traditions of Homecoming is the Festival on the Quad on Saturday morn- ing. This event brings hundreds of Wake Foresters and their families to the Quad for great food, games for the kids, student and faculty musical groups, and much more. The Festival is a great way to start the morning, followed by our tailgate and football game against Maryland. We will then gather at Bridger Field House at Groves Stadium after the game for a wonderful post-game party. The Homecoming Web site is new and improved, with lists of class attendees and a way to send e-invites to others—so visit it today at www.wfu.edu/alumni/reunions/ and make plans to join us for Homecoming! As you know, Dr. Nathan O. Hatch will be installed as Wake Forest’s thirteenth president on October 20th. Alumni and friends are invited to come to campus for this historic event. Inauguration Week will feature a number of exciting events, including academic symposia, special tours of campus, and locations to watch the installation ceremony (due to limited seating in Wait Chapel), and will culminate in a reception on the Hearn Plaza (Quad) following the ceremony. For information about Inauguration Week activities, please visit www.wfu.edu. Finally, I am pleased to partner with our new National College Fund Chair, Steve Darnell (’70, MBA ’74), as we once again strive to increase the number of alumni who give to The College Fund. Your participation in whatever amount directly affects Wake Forest’s national ranking among col- leges and universities. We encourage you to give generously. There is much going on at Wake Forest, and I hope you will visit our Web site at www.wfu.edu/alumni to learn more. Feel free to contact me or anyone in the Alumni Activities Office for information. I look forward to seeing you on campus soon.

Nancy Kuhn (’73) Alumni Association President

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Allen S. Johnson (’51) retired in 1997 H.H. “Dickie” Newsome Jr. (’58) has E.D. Gaskins Jr. (’63) is managing as professor of history and geography at retired as dean and professor of surgery at partner of Everett Gaskins Hancock & N.C. Wesleyan College after 33 years but Virginia Commonwealth University School Stevens LLP in Raleigh, NC. He received continued to teach part-time. He has of Medicine after 40 years of service. the Wake County Association’s published a book, A Prologue to Revolution: Joseph A. Branch Professionalism Award. The Political Career of George Grenville, Murray C. Greason Jr. (’59, JD ’62) is 1712-1770 (University Press of America) a member of the corporate and securities Fred G. Morrison Jr. (JD ’63) received and co-authored a book, Tar Heel Maps, practice group of Womble Carlyle a Howard Miller wall clock in recognition 1595-1995, with Gregory W. Williams Sandridge & Rice PLLC in Winston-Salem. of his 35 years of service to North (JD ’78). He was listed in “Who’s Who in He received the N.C. Bar Association’s Carolina. He has been appointed to the World.” 2005 Dr. I. Beverly Lake Sr. Public Service another two-year term on the N.C. Award for his dedication to Wake Forest Sentencing and Policy Advisory Joseph F. Newhall (’51) and his wife, and community organizations. Commission. He and his wife, Carolyn, Sue, celebrated their 50th wedding live in Raleigh. anniversary. Joining in the celebration 1960s were their sons, Judson J. Newhall Rebecca Brown (’65) was one of six fac- (’87) Philip Mayes Newhall (’92) and , Jennings L. Wagoner (’60) has retired ulty members to receive the N.C. School Betsy Tuttle and their daughter-in-law, after 37 years as a professor of history of of the Arts Excellence in Teaching Award. Newhall (’84, MD ’88) . education in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. Former stu- William K. Slate II (’65) is president Bill Hartley (BBA ’52) was a golf dents and colleagues established a schol- and CEO of the American Arbitration instructor aboard the Crystal Cruise Line arship in his name, and he received the Association. He was elected to the for 10 years. He is now a golf profession- UVA Alumni Association Distinguished International Council for Commercial al in Oceanside, CA. His wife, Mary Lou Professor Award. He is the author of Arbitration and is chairman of the Board Hartley (’52), is a retired high school Jefferson and Education (UNC Press 2004) of Managers of Girard College, a resi- teacher. They have five children and 12 and American Education: A History (McGraw- dential K-12 boarding school in grandchildren. Hill, 3rd edition, 2004). He and his wife, Philadelphia. Shirley, live in Charlottesville. Betty Siegel (’52) was the featured Leon Pharr Spencer Jr. (’65) was speaker and received an honorary doc- Harold L. Dale Jr. (’61, JD ’63) retired awarded an honorary doctorate in divini- torate at the commencement ceremony after 37 years as a military and civilian ty degree from the Virginia Theological of Southern Connecticut State University attorney with the U.S. Army. For the last Seminary in Alexandria. He is dean of in New Haven, CT. 16 years before retirement he was a the School of Ministry for the Diocese of contract and international law attorney North Carolina and lives in Greensboro. Wiley Warren (’52) died in 2003. The with U.S. Army Europe in Heidelberg, Broughton High School baseball field in Germany, where he received a commen- Elizabeth “Beth” Pirkle Braxton (’66) Raleigh, NC, was named in his honor for dation for exceptionally meritorious has been head pastor of Burke (VA) his longtime support and help in founding performance of duty. Presbyterian Church for 21 years. She is the athletic booster organization, Caps leading a mission work-camp to Kibwezi, Club. Ashley L. Hogewood Jr. (JD ’63) is Kenya, returning to the country where with Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein in she worked the summer after her fresh- Yulan Washburn (’56) is a professor Charlotte, NC. He has been recognized man year at Wake Forest. emeritus at the University of Tennessee. by Woodward/White’s “Best Lawyers in He and his wife, Mary “Dolly” Brock America 2005–06”in real estate law. Allan B. Head (’66, JD ’69) completed Washburn (’56), live in Knoxville. He 31 years of service to the N.C. Bar has published a book, To Dream Like God, Association. He is president elect of the based on a true story. National Association of Bar Executives.

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Richard A. Honeycutt received his PhD Catharine B. Arrowood (JD ’76) is O

in interdisciplinary arts and sciences with Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein in N

with a specialization in electroacoustics Charlotte, NC. She has been recognized S

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in Cincinnati. He is a consultant and 2005 “Legal Elite” in antitrust, and by A

engineer in audio system and loudspeak- Woodward/White’s “Best Lawyers in L SLATE (’65) SMITH (’72,JD ’75) er design. He and his wife, Betty Jane, America 2005–06”in alternative dispute C live in Lexington, NC, near their grand- resolution and business litigation. children, Alex (3) and Grace (1). Randy Harmon, of Lake Oswego, OR, is Malcolm J. Howard (JD) has been proud of his daughter, Jillian, for being John Henry Buczek (BBA ’67) works appointed by the Chief Justice of the U.S. named to the high school All-American at Grandfather Golf and Country Club in Supreme Court to the Foreign girls’ basketball team. Linville, NC. He received the Intelligence Surveillance Court, com- Merchandiser of the Year Award, monly referred to as America’s Secret Carolinas section. His wife, Dariel Court. He will continue his duties as a Saunders Buczek (’69), assists in the Federal District Judge for the Eastern 1974 shop. They have one daughter, Chase District of North Carolina. (21). Tom Blank is acting deputy administra- Max E. Justice (JD) is with Parker Poe tor of the Transportation Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Donald M. VonCannon (’67, JD ’71) Adams & Bernstein in Charlotte, NC. He Homeland Security in Arlington,VA. practices commercial real estate with has been recognized by Woodward/White’s Allman Spry Leggett & Crumpler PA in “Best Lawyers in America 2005–06”in Winston-Salem. He was elected manag- environmental law. Steve Shelton is a retired band director ing director of the firm and named one at South Stokes High School. His wife, of Business North Carolina’s “Legal Elite” Olivia Nelson Shelton (’73), works for 2005. part-time with the Stokes County School system. They live in Danbury, NC, where, 1971 as a hobby, they buy, sell and repair ban- Patricia Reed Head (’68) is chair of the jos, banjo-ukes, dulcimers and other tra- Wake County (Raleigh, NC) Board of Lana J. Furr and her husband, Richard, ditional instruments. Education. own Furr Resources Inc. in Greensboro, NC, helping boards of directors develop best practices beyond compliance. They were presenters at the Virginia Bank 1975 Directors College on “Essential Practices for Your Board’s Future.” Harvey L. Cosper Jr. (JD) is with Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein in Charlotte, NC. W. Edward Poe Jr. (JD ’74) is with He has been recognized by Woodward/ Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein in White’s “Best Lawers in America 2005–06” Charlotte, NC. He has been recognized in personal injury litigation. by Woodward/White’s “Best Lawyers in Suzie Hudson (’68) and several alumni America 2005–06”in public utility law. Stan Koonts is manager of human from the class of 1968 met at the home of resources for Summer Industries in Anne Stoltz Bowers (’68) in Welcome, NC. Georgetown, SC. They went to visit, dine, shop, enjoy the beach and attend a cook- 1972 Richard McGarry is a visiting professor ing class at Charleston Cooks, owned by of neuroscience at the Medical University Dayna Tate Elliott (’68). Pictured from D. Clark Smith Jr. (JD ’75) is a mem- of South Carolina. He is conducting left to right are classmates Linda ber-manager of Brinkley Walser PLLC in research into the neural interface of Barrick White, Merley Glover Lexington, NC. He was named president- memory, emotion and the construction Boshart, Vicki Morgan Curby, Chef elect of the N.C. Bar Association. He and of grammar. John Scoff, Judy White Wicker, his wife, Pat, have five children: David, Dayna Tate Elliott, Nicka Thompson Alden, Robert, Jason and Jodi. Thornton, Suzie Owensby Hudson, Anne Stoltz Bowers and Sue Milam Dunbar.

www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2005 39 0W 40 CLASSNOTES Fall Weekends 2005 AKE Please visitthealumni Web siteat Office ofAlumni Activitiesat Saturday, September Saturday, September Thursday, November Thursday, September Saturday, October and Jillian. Matthew have two children, Kennett, Heandhiswife, Recruiting Region. andthe Western SanDiego, Depot, chief ofstafffortheMarineCorpsRecruit MarineCorpsasacoloneland the U.S. Thomas W. Spencer NC. of aNaval Reserve UnitinRaleigh, Carolina andisthecommandingofficer in the22ndJudicial DistrictofNorth Hereturnedtothebench Marine Corps. after two years active dutywiththeU.S. Jimmy L.Myers district of Winston-Salem. online fromher1927homeinthehistoric She teaches morethanhalfoftheclasses business programatPfeifferUniversity. and humanresourcesforagraduate diversity teaches organizationalbehavior, Anne MinardMurray(MAEd’77) F Saturday OREST M AGAZINE , October has beenreleased has retiredfrom 22 24 17 17 1 1 Babcock School,DivinitySchool Homecoming—College, CallowaySchool, Wake Forest vs.Marylandfootball game Varsity Club Weekend Wake Forest vs.EastCarolinafootball game Wake Forest vs.Vanderbilt football game Inauguration ofDr. NathanO.Hatch(Oct. Wake Forest vs.NCStatefootball game Weekend, LawSchoolReunions Family W W President’s Weekend Wake Forest vs.Miamifootball game (And Thursday nights,too.) 336.758.5264 PLAN TO JOINUS! ak e www.wfu.edu/alumni F orest vs.Clemson football game eekend, SchoolofMedicineAlumni Collection: Virginia’s ArtisticInheritance nRlih NC. in Raleigh, Zachary andSamattendmiddleschool school; ElliottisatUNC-ChapelHill;and attending theUniversity ofGeorgialaw ihod Sheco-authored Richmond. tions fortheLibraryof Virginia in Doug Abrams(JD’79) 1976 J. AnthonyPenry (JD’79) Barbara C.Batson Noah (’05) Peggy (’76,JD’80) and SuretyLaw Committee. the AmericanBarAssociation’s Fidelity Hewas namedvicechair of NC. Raleigh, with Taylor Penry Rash &Riemannin Collects: ArtfromCapitolSquare.” “Virginia complement theexhibition for updates. is breakingtraditionand or callthe have foursons: , is curatorofexhibi- and hiswife, A is apartner Capitol 20 ) ,to ties). Insurance GroupinChantilly,VA. He isseniorvicepresidentofMedmarc Aid ofNorthCarolina. chair oftheboard ofdirectorsLegal Hewas elected PLLC in Winston-Salem. with Womble Carlyle Sandridge&Rice matters inRandolph, estateplanningandelder law real estate, Wesley P. Warren Kathryn McMurtrySnead Insurance Settlements Kevin Quinley N Reid C.“Cal”AdamsJr 1978 Ginger HaynesStillman III B(Carteret, Superior CourtJudge forJudicial District Hewas sworn inasresident Association. president ofJ the CarteretCountyBarAssociationand of theN.C. c ticed la John E.NoblesJr Andrew C.Fix 1977 It willbea modern Europefor The TeacRing Company. He tapedacollegelecturecourseonearly history atLafa D.C. Defense Councilin Washington, tor of programsattheNaturalResources n nvriis nWsigo,D.C. in Washington, and Universities, American AssociationofStateColleges partofthe Opportunity Colleges, appointed presidentofServicemembers hairman oftheGeneralPracticeSection O BLES (JD ’77) w for 27y v Bar Association, ailable tothepublicin2006. udicial DistrictIIIBBar y Cra ette CollegeinEaston, is professorandchair of has co-authoredabook, as hasserved as ears, ven andPamlico coun- has beennameddirec- . (James Publications). (JD) NJ. A D AMS . , who hasprac- (JD ’81) specializes in president of (’78, JD’81) has been is P A. ahntn D.C. Washington, aninvestment-banking firmin Group, c Heismanagingdirectorand last spring. ru nNrhRcln il,TX. Group inNorthRichland Hills, ance operationsattheUICIInsurance president andgeneralcounselofinsur- public-interest programs anon-profitproducing Radio Shows Inc., gles An archive canbefoundatwww.paulin- National PublicRadio(NPR)programs producer inAlbuquer Cheryl L.W Mik 1979 P David W. Dupree(MBA) for hiswork withthe Triad HealthProject. Level President’s Volunteer ServiceAward Hereceived theSilver NC. in Greensboro, communications withAmericanExpress J. TylerCox Hank Berg ml,Molly and Virginia.Emily, have threechildren, Cathy, and hiswife, He of HighlandSchool in Warrenton,VA. ed tothe Arm and hasaspecialcontractwiththeU.S. She hasw of ElementaryandSecondaryEducation. supervisor fortheMissouriDepartment Babcoc Hehasbeenchairman ofthe School. standing alumniservicetotheBabcoc DeRamusAward forout- the Judson D. mother. caring forher76-year-old NC, town, Shelives inElizabeth- Japan andKorea. C hief executi OLLIFLOWER aul Ingles .com. e y Colliflower (JD) at installationsinHa k Boar W He isalsopresidentofGood re o ..StateUniversity orked forN.C. ak (JD ’79) has beennamedheadmaster v illoughby is anindependentradio d e e is managerofemployee of officer of F orest Boar V isitors andwas elect- que, W is anafter A is seniorvice T . RREN he Halifax has received d M andison NM, ai Alaska, waii, of Trustees (’81, JD’84) -sc hool k . tal law by He hasbeenrecognizedinen NC. Poe Adams&BernsteininCharlotte, and De pal scientistatPfizerGlobalResearc B Gary M.Hall(MA) Susan PrughHagen 1981 Mary MoormanHolmes “BestLawyers inAmerica2005–06.” White’s Woodward/ by “LegalElite”and of the2005 Thomas N Chris Gambill Van Denton 1980 to seetheClassof1980at25threunion. hope Coker (12)andCovey (4), children, her husband, Sheand NC. Foundation inFayetteville, director ofCumberlandCommunity Health in Winston-Salem. with theCenterforCongregational News &Observer at County andlocalnewstopics, Wake for legislative andstatecoverage, etn nWsigo,D.C. meeting in Washington, American ChemicalSociety Award inOrganicChemistry fromthe received a2005 Technical Achievement at theAmericanChemicalSociety’ ed herwork onHIVproteaseinhibitors Andrew (11)andAshley (9). have two children, Jean, He andhiswife, Carolinas-V three years andanall-sportsaward forthe gram w The athleticpro- NC. College in Wilson, and headmen’s soccercoach atBarton R ITT (’82, JD/MBA ’86) v on theJoby Hawn Cupthelast elopment inAnnArbor Business NorthCarolina . irginia AthleticsConference. Griffin III smtoeio,responsible is metroeditor, J ohn, is aseniorconsultant nRlih NC. in Raleigh, and two youngest is directorofathletics is aseniorprinci- G is withP R AVES is executive . She present- vironmen (’84) , ark The MI. as one s er h She - h ..Academy of Trial Lawyers. the N.C. Hehasbeenelectedpresidentof Salem. Comerford &BrittLLPin Winston- catastrophic injuryanddeathlaw with Courts. EasternDistrictofNorthCarolina Court, Bankruptcy Committee by theU.S. reappointed chair oftheLocalRules Hehasbeen NC. LLP inRocky Mount, commercial law withPoyner &Spruill bankruptcy andcreditor’s rightsand Sc She isinapsychiatry residency atSIU Uni doctor ofmedicinefromSouthernIllinois iasi pigil,IL. pitals inSpringfield, (16), Reiman (’84) of service. Army in Octoberafter211/2years U.S. will remainin Sean-Evan and Haleigh, two children, Logistics ManagementCollege. Army an associateprofessorfortheU.S. Clifford Britt(JD/MBA’86) 1982 David M.Warren (JD’84) David S.Jonas(JD) Nancy Victoria Graves Victore “Vic” Evaro 1984 Jim Reiman Maryland BarF Shehasbeeninductedasa MD. Ulman P and insurancedefensewithHodes on businessanden P nryi ahntn D.C. Energy in Washington, Departmentof Administration attheU.S. of theNationalNuclearSecurity L Heandhiswife, FL. Baptist MedicalCenterinJacksonville, atricia McHughLambert (JD) hool ofMedicineanditsaffiliated hos versity School ofMedicineinMay. Chris (15), essin &KatzP www.wfu.edu/alumni He andhiswife, is ananesthesiologistatthe , V have fourchildren; Robert Jack (13)and Tori (11). oundation F irginia wherehewillbe vironmental litigation Liz Homeyer is retiringfromthe is generalcounsel A in Baltimore, received her e n,and Lee Ann, ello practices focuses on S w EPTEMBER . focuses - 0541 2005

CLASSNOTES S David J. Stevens is a lieutenant colonel E in the U.S. Army and serves as a human T resource manager for the Third U.S. O Corps at Fort Hood, TX. He and his wife, N

S Lori, live in Harker Heights, TX. S A L

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Jim W. Phillips Jr. (JD) is a partner Christopher Stamm is teaching eighth- Tommy Mayes is president of First with Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey grade science and coaching football, National, Wachovia’s private bank in & Leonard LLP in Greensboro, NC. He basketball and baseball at Pine Crest Palm Beach, FL, and managing director has been re-elected by the N.C. Senate to Middle School in Boca Raton, FL. He of the wealth management practice in serve as a member of the UNC Board of received the Deaver Foundation Award the Palm Beach area. He and his wife, Governors. for Excellence in Teaching. Susan, and three children, Thomas (7), Sydney (5) and Jack (3), live in Palm Branson Sheets received his doctor of Beach Gardens. ministry from Asbury Theological Seminary and is the pastor of Covenant 1986 Larry D. Russell (MA) has been United Methodist Church in Greenville, appointed lecturer in the Department of NC. He and his wife, Stephanie, have Cynthia Gibson, an attorney with Katz Religious Studies at Elon University in four children: Rebekah, Robby, Wesley Teller Brant & Hild, has been named one Elon, NC. and Christopher. of “Cincinnati’s Top 10 Female Attorneys” in the Reader’s Choice Awards by Women’s Alexander S. “Sander” Smith celebrat- Business Cincinnati Journal. ed the first anniversary of his company, Cornerstone Concepts LLC, in Winston- Laurie Hockman presented a new Salem. The company provides personal dance work, created in collaboration with and business insurance and retirement jazz musician Daniel Carter, at Speyer and estate planning strategies. Hall, University Settlement in lower Manhattan. Guy Strandemo (JD) is a foreign- service officer in the public affairs section James E. Meadows (JD) is a partner, of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China. He focusing on technology transactions, with and his wife, Kimberly, have three children: Marcellus Waddill Duane Morris LLP in Atlanta. Thomas (11), Madeline (9) and Sarah (6) and are expecting another. He won three Excellence in Robert Sileo is senior vice president and golf tournaments last year in the Beijing- Award partner with the Miami office of Wachovia Tianjin area. His next assignment will be Teaching Wealth Management Group Inc. two years in Doha, Qatar, as an economic Nominations postmarked deadline: officer. November 28, 2005 1987 Presented annually to two Wake Forest 1989 alumni who are exemplary classroom Andre F. Mayes (JD) is a senior attorney teachers, with at least three years in the school and municipal law group of Lynn Hutchins Haney is a technical teaching experience, in public or Clark Hill PLC in Birmingham, MI. writer and editor for IBM Corporation in private schools. Each winner, one on Research Triangle Park, NC. the elementary level (K-6) and one on David Saitta is senior director for ESPN the secondary level (7-12), receives a in Manhattan. He and his wife, Cynthia, Kent L. Schwarz is part of a group $20,000 award. have two children and live in Stamford, Kenneth CT. hosting the second annual Gordy (’88) Memorial Golf Outing in For more information, please call the Charlotte, NC. Donations for the Vicki Schmidt Soni is associate vice Wake Forest Department of Education at Kenneth Gordy Memorial Scholarship president for the Raleigh Service Center 336.758.5341, or visit the alumni Web site at can be sent to the Director of Gift of Nationwide Insurance. She and her www.wfu.edu/alumni/events/waddill.html Stewardship, Wake Forest University, husband, Shawn (MBA ’89), live in P.O. Box 7227, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. Raleigh, NC, with their daughter, Sara “Kaitlynn”(14).

42 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE S E T O N S S A L VAUGHAN (’89) GRIMM (JD ’90) ELSE (’93) WAGNER (’93) COX (JD ’94) C

Jeff Vaughan has started an investment John J. Earnhardt manages political Ryan M. Greene is a resident in the advisory business, Avondale Investment and public policy communications for Department of Otolaryngology (head and Management LLC, headquartered in Cisco Systems Inc. in San Jose, CA. neck surgery) at the University of Illinois Charlotte, NC. He and his wife, Emily, at Chicago. He plans to complete a fellow- have two daughters, Rachel (9) and Neil F. Hagan is director of operations ship in facial plastic and reconstructive Shelby (6). for the Capital Group of loan servicing surgery. and asset management companies in Tokyo, Japan, where he lives with his Greg Hatcher (JD) specializes in family wife, Thuy, and their two children. law and is a partner with Gilpin & 1990 Hatcher PC in Charlotte, NC.

Allison M. Grimm (JD), a partner in Katherine “Katy” Pugh Smith is Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & 1992 executive director of the Piedmont Leonard LLP in Greensboro, NC, was Health Care Foundation, making grants honored as one of the Triad’s Top “2005 Jill K. Center is on a temporary duty to nonprofit organizations in upstate Women in Business”by The Business assignment with the Center for Disease South Carolina. This part-time position Journal. Control’s Global AIDS Program in Kenya. allows her to enjoy time at home with her husband, Matt (’91), and their Angela Lewellyn Jones is an associate M. Scott Hagaman received his doctor children, Lila (3) and Matthew (1). professor at Elon University in Elon, NC. of ministry from the Gardner-Webb She is also department chair for sociolo- University School of Divinity in Boiling Scott Wagner reports he is one of the gy and anthropology. Springs, NC. youngest and one of only two doctors in the Jacksonville, FL, area to graduate Robert M. Linz is director of the law Jonathan Hartness is assistant director from the Las Vegas Institute for library and information technology serv- of financial aid at Wake Forest. His wife, Advanced Dental Studies. He owns ices and assistant professor of law at the Laura Woodside Hartness (’93), is a Jacksonville Exceptional Dentistry. Campbell University Norman A. Wiggins stay-at-home mom during the day and School of Law in Buies Creek, NC. works part-time in the evenings at the Whit Wilks (JD/MBA) was named to Wake Forest law library. the Charlotte Business Journal’s “40 Under Jon Scott Logel is battalion executive 40” for the Class of 2005. officer for the 1-25 Aviation Regiment at Tom Rubino is pursuing a master’s of Schofield Barraks in Hawaii. He recently divinity at Covenant Theological Seminary completed a six-month deployment to for the Presbyterian Church in America Afghanistan with the 25th Aviation in St. Louis, MO. 1994 Brigade. David Styers is senior director of volun- Andrew Baker is the creative director at teer centers and national partnerships in the National Geographic Channel in the infrastructure development and Washington, D.C. 1991 delivery systems at the Points of Light Foundation and Volunteer Center Carolyn Armstrong Calkins is a National Network in Washington, D.C. Michael D. Bell is a partner with Mintz contract manufacturing manager for Kao Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC in Brands Corporation in Cincinnati. Washington, D.C. He is in the health sec- tion specializing in legal and regulatory 1993 Jennifer Collins is a computer pro- matters. grammer with TSYS in Columbus, GA.

Colleen Conner Carr Joshua Else is assistant dean for devel- is the director of Shelia J. Cox (JD) practices commer- operations for Wekiva Springs Women’s opment at the Sheridan Libraries of The cial real estate and financial services at Wellness Center (www.wekivacenter.com) Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Poyner & Spruill LLP in Charlotte, NC, in Jacksonville, FL. MD. and was recently licensed in Georgia.

www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2005 43 S D. Kenji Kuramoto is vice president Candace McCain is a marketing research E and co-founder of AcuityCFO in manager, supporting the Spalding athletic T Norcross, GA. His company focuses on brand, with Russell Corporation in Atlanta. O establishing operational efficiencies N

S within the financial department of small Jeffrey A. Sanborn (JD/MBA) is an

S and mid-market companies. associate attorney in the business and

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L David Priest (MD ’99) is an infectious of Williams Mullen in Norfolk,VA. SANBORN (JD/MBA ’96) C disease specialist with ID Consultants PA in Charlotte, NC. Sarah Little Wetmore (JD ’99) is Jason G. Grimes is pursuing a master’s practicing civil litigation with Milligan in building construction and facility James E. Quander (JD ’98) and Law Firm in Charleston, SC. Her hus- management at Georgia Tech. He is a Stacey D. Rubain (JD ’99) have formed band, Burns Wetmore (’96, JD ’99) is specialist on U.S. Green Building Council Quander & Rubain PA in Winston-Salem, a trial team leader for the Charleston issues and operations contracting for specializing in criminal defense, personal County District Attorney’s Office. U.S. General Services Administration. injury/wrongful death, family law, and the representation of professional athletes. Daniel Munn (MS ’96, MD ’00) is chief 1997 resident of general surgery at the Naval Chad Simpson received an optometry Medical Center in Portsmouth,VA, where degree from Southern College of Emily (’97, JD John Andrews (MBA) he lives with his wife, Optometry and is a captain in the U.S. is vice president ’01) , and their children, Madeleine, Air Force. He reports he is one of only of marketing for Implus Footcare LLC. Avery and Davis. two in the USAF selected to complete He and his wife, Mary Shannon, live in the optometry residency program for Raleigh, NC. 2005–06. 1995 Will Burns (MBA ’03) is assistant direc- Jennifer Sipos (MD ’99) completed tor of corporate and foundation relations her internal medicine residency at Wake in the Wake Forest Development Office. Jennie Hall Aldrink is completing her Forest and her endocrinology fellowship He and his wife, Debbie, have two chil- residency in general surgery at Duke at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is an assistant dren, Lilly and William. University Medical Center in Durham, NC. professor of endocrinology at the University of Florida in Gainesville Craig Collison (MD) has published a Adrienne F. Brovero (MA ’97) is assis- and will focus on thyroid cancer and book, Tattered Flesh, Resilient Spirit (Llumina tant director of debate at the University metabolic bone diseases. Press), about his illness with “flesh-eat- of Richmond in Virginia. Her husband, ing bacteria”while a resident physician Judd Kimball (’90), is a stay-at-home dad. David Starmer received his master’s at Rainbow Babies and Children’s in the management of information tech- Hospital in Cleveland, OH. He and his Jennifer Brown Coulombe is a process nology at the University of Virginia’s wife, Michelle, have four children: Taylor, improvement consultant with BB&T and Caroline and Lydia. McIntire School of Commerce. He is Chase, is pursuing a Six Sigma Black Belt certifi- the information technology director for cation. She and her husband, David Biscuitville Restaurants in Greensboro, Jason Hade graduated from the Coulombe (’93), live in Winston-Salem. NC. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School. April Stephenson Culver (JD ’00) is He has completed his internship and vice president of government affairs at started a residency in ophthalmology. His Johnston Memorial Hospital in Smithfield, 1996 wife, Jennifer Crume Hade (’97), grad- NC. She was recognized as one of the top uated from the University of Medicine “40 under 40”professionals by Triangle and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Ronda Bryant (MAEd ’99) completed Business Journal. Dental School and is in private practice. her PhD in higher education administra- tion at the University of Virginia and is Kate Harris Hatcher (JD) practices the director of enrollment support and Kathleen “Katy” Hurley is a litigator corporate law with Helms Mulliss & the instructor/advisor for the Inspirational with Fields Howell Athans & McLaughlin Wicker PLLC in Charlotte, NC. Choir at Western Carolina University. in Atlanta. She completed the NASPA/ SACSA Mid- Ray Hutchins is a senior financial ana- Managers Institute for emerging leaders Emily Meyers Munn (JD ’01) is staff lyst with Kay Chemical Company in in college student affairs. attorney for the Norfolk (VA) Sheriff’s Greensboro, NC. He and his wife, Stacy, Office, advising staff on employment law, live in Kernersville. law enforcement policy and procedure Scott T. Cheek (MBA) is a marketing and prisoners’ rights. manager with Alcoa in Indianapolis, IN.

44 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE S Charlotte Opal has co-authored a book, Andrew Clark is artistic director of the E Providence Singers, a symphony chorus Fair Trade: Market Driven Ethical Consumption T (SAGE Publications, June 2005). in Rhode Island, a music faculty member O and director of choral activities at Tufts N

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the director of career planning and ducting debut and performed on NBC’s L HANEY (MBA ’98) placement services at Barry University in Today Show. He was named one of North C Miami Shores, FL. America’s most promising young con- ductors as a finalist for Chorus America’s Catherine Mitchell is a producer for James B. Rorrer Jr. is in the credit Robert Shaw Conducting Fellowship. CNN’s “NewsNight with Aaron Brown” department of Amarr Garage Doors in in New York. Winston-Salem. Stephen Cook has resigned as pastor of First Baptist Church in Morrow, GA, Charles Garrett Putman received his John Stillerman is business adminis- to pursue his master’s of theology at MBA from the Fuqua School of Business trator for the Department of Obstetrics Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian at Duke University. He is in brand man- and Gynecology at Wake Forest University. He and his wife, Amy, live in agement with McNeil Consumer University Physicians in Winston-Salem. Fort Worth, TX. Pharmaceuticals, an over-the-counter division of Johnson & Johnson. He and Katherine C. Cooke has completed her his wife, Harriet, live in Philadelphia. master’s of divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ. Karin Starr (PA) and her husband, Eric, 1998 She is the associate pastor of the First live in Beaumont, CA. She works at the Presbyterian Church in Oxford, MS. Desert Medical Group in Palm Springs. Abulaziz Al-Bosaily (LL.M) is legal manager of the Saudi Arabian Investment Seth A. Haney (MBA) is director of Allison Todd received her doctorate of Authority in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. manufacturing advancement in The audiology from Pennsylvania College of Timken Company’s Industrial Group in Optometry, School of Audiology. She is James Buescher is a business, enter- Canton, OH. practicing in Jonesboro, GA. tainment and political correspondent for the Intelligencer Journal in Lancaster, PA. Todd J. Liu received a law degree and a He received a Keystone Journalism master’s in health administration from Award for “Best Feature-2005”for his Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT. story, “Resting Place Saved From Water Company,”from the Pennsylvania News- paper Association. He is working on his first novel, The Bin Fishers, and has been added to the “Author’s Corner”of his play publisher’s Web site, www.dramat- Have you published a book? icpublishing.com. The Office of Alumni Activities needs your help with a new Richard L. Buff was ordained as an project on Wake Forest Authors. We’d like to know about alumni elder in the United Methodist Church publications and will be compiling a library of books published and has begun his fifth year serving four churches in Lilesville, NC. by Wake Foresters. If you have published a book and want to donate an autographed copy for the Alumni Library, please Andrew Chalhoub (MSA ’99) is a send a copy of your book to: manager in the Assurance and Advisory Business Services Division of Ernst and Young LLP in Iselin, NJ. Wake Forest Authors P.O. Box 7227 Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227

We hope to feature new and recently published books in the Wake Forest Magazine, as well as have a complete on-line catalog and library of all Wake Forest alumni and faculty books. Please help us by sharing your work with us! For more information, please contact [email protected].

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E 2000 T OUR GIFT O Faisal Al-Lazzam (LL.M) is man-

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C ou can make a gift to Wake Maryam, have a son, Khalid. YForest, and we’ll give back to you guaranteed lifetime income. If Michelle Howard Bae is pursing a you are considering a gift to Wake Forest, 1999 master’s degree in nursing at Virginia and have highly appreciated stock paying Commonwealth University in a small dividend or Certificates of Deposit Richmond,VA. coming due, you may wish to consider J. Hayes Calvert received his doctorate a Charitable Gift Annuity. In addition from the West Virginia School of Osteo- W. Taylor Campbell III (MSA ’01) to guaranteed lifetime income, some pathic Medicine. He is in the emergency has been recognized by the Million of which may be tax-free, you may also medicine intership program at South Dollar Roundtable’s (MDRT) Top of benefit from: Pointe Hospital in Cleveland, OH. He the Table. He was also recognized by and his wife, Connie, have one daughter, the MassMutual Financial Group as A HIGHER PAYMENT AMOUNT Sabrina (10). both Blue Chip and Leader’s Council AN IMMEDIATE CHARITABLE for 2004. Susan Hoffman Corey is a resident in INCOME TAX DEDUCTION dermatology in Tampa, FL, where she Katie Cunningham received her REDUCED CAPITAL GAINS lives with her husband, Al, and twin sons. MBA from the Darden Graduate LIABILITY School of Business Administration at James A. Ebright has been ordained a the University of Virginia. She is a PROFESSIONAL INVESTMENT Catholic priest. He celebrated his first senior consultant with Deloitte in SERVICES mass at the church where he was bap- Atlanta. tized 30 years ago in Mocksville, NC. He The following table provides some of the age-related rates for a single-life gift is a parochial vicar at Our Lady of Grace Colin H. Gillespie (MBA) is director Church in Greensboro, NC. of customer marketing for the annuity (rates will be lower for two-life Americas, Pacific and Direct with annuities): Jaime Jenkins is a first-year resident in LEGO Company in Hartford, CT. internal medicine at Boston University LIFE GIFT Medical Center. He is engaged to David W. Kaminski (MD) is an Melissa Shields (’01) . emergency medicine physician at Age Rate Effective Rate* Durham (NC) Regional Hospital. 85 9.5% 14.3% Kirk Owens graduated from the 80 8.0% 11.8% University of Louisville School of Jill Snyder Kerr (MAEd ’01) is 75 7.1% 10.0% Medicine and is pursuing a residency teaching at Bishop McGuinness High 70 6.5% 9.0% versity in orthopaedic surgery at the Uni School in Kernersville, NC. of Louisville Affiliated Hospitals. 65 6.0% 8.0% * Effective rate assumes a cash gift and a 28% Richard A. McCluney is in a transi- Matthew Shady marginal income tax bracket. Higher brackets is an associate concen- tional residency at St. Louis University produce an even higher effective rate. trating on corporate and business law Hospital and will do his three-year nd general litigation with Seeley Savidge a residency in anesthesiology at the & Ebert Company LPA in Cleveland, OH. For more information about this and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical other planned giving opportunities, Center. He completed his MD at The please contact: R. Carter Smith is pursuing a PhD in University of Tennessee Health Science English at Washington University in St. Center. Shortly before graduation he Louis, MO. was able to help a woman who fell at Allen H. Patterson Jr. (’72, MALS ’02) a gas station in Atlanta and update Director of Planned Giving Tamara Yacavone (MSA ’00) received the paramedics when they arrived. P.O. Box 7227 her MBA in quantitative finance and Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227 financial instruments and markets from Sheereen Miller is associate director Call 336.758.5288 or 800.752.8568 the New York University Leonard N. of marketing at Sports Illustrated in Stern School of Business. She is on the New York. Online: www.wfu.edu/campaign trading floor in institutional sales at (under “Make a Gift”) Deutsche Bank in New York City.

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Jason Grubbs (JD) has formed Grubbs for Administrative Organization, a gov- A ernment committee for research. L MURRAY (’00) TEAGUE (JD/MBA ’02) Law Firm PA (www.GrubbsLawFirm.com) in Kernersville, NC. He focuses on estate C Nazila Alimohannadi Meghan Murray is a national brand planning and administration, corporate is pursuing his manager for Amarula on the developing governance and civil litigation matters. DDS at Creighton University’s School of Jayne Walker Grubbs (’01) brands team with Brown-Forman His wife, , Dentistry. Beverages in Louisville, KY. teaches third grade at Union Cross Traditional Academy. Claire Lillian Boyette received her Ryan Savage completed his master’s in master’s in mental health counseling Wesley W. Hilliard (MBA) business administraton at Northeastern is director of from the University of Cincinnati and University in Boston. He is working for North American customer care at has begun work on her PhD in counsel- the wind energy division of General Computer Associates International in ing at Kent State University. Electric in Pensacola, FL. Tampa, FL. The company develops opera- tions, security, storage, life cycle and John Bruns is pursuing an MA in edu- service management software. Ahmad Washington (JD) and his wife, cation at Johns Hopkins University and is Karen, are associate attorneys and man- teaching English to students with dyslex- Keeley C. Luhnow (JD) agers of the new Charlotte, NC, collection received the ia at The Jemicy School in Baltimore, MD. law firm of Mann Bracken LLC. Wiley W. Manuel Pro Bono Services Award from the State Bar of California for her work with Legal Aid San Diego in founding the Conservatorship Clinic. She 2004 2001 traveled to four cities to train Adult Protective Services employees in wills, Jason Anderson is a wide receiver and trusts and powers of attorney. Stephen Arndt finished medical school has a free-agent contract in the National at Loyola University and has begun his Football League with Tennessee. residency in orthopaedic surgery at the Lisa Miller (MSA ’02) completed her Peace Corps service in the Dominican University of Florida in Jacksonville. Tyson Clabo, an offensive tackle, was Republic and is a financial project coor- sent to the Hamburg Sea Devils by the dinator for ACDI/VOCA in Washington, Jeffrey S. Burkett is pursuing a gradu- Denver Broncos and has been named to D.C. ate degree in business at UNC-Chapel NFL Europe’s All-Pro Team. Hill. Elizabeth Schneider is pursuing her Blake E. Lingruen is a center and has a master’s of science in education at the Michael S. Coblin is an attorney in the free-agent contract in the National University of Georgia in Atlanta. U.S. Army JAG Corps stationed at Fort Football League with Detroit. Lewis, WA. C. Edward “Ted” Teague III Jerome Nichols is a defensive lineman (JD/MBA) is an associate with the finan- Michael P. Hebert (JD) practices com- and has a free-agent contract in the cial transactions, real estate and restruc- mercial real estate law with Moore & Van National Football League with turing department of Kilpatrick Stockton Allen PLLC in Charlotte, NC. Washington. LLP in Winston-Salem.

Steve Jones (MBA) is chief operating Emily Ruth is the assistant field hockey Eric Trosch (JD) is practicing family officer at McLeod & Company in coach at Wake Forest. law and general civil litigation with Roanoke,VA. Conrad Trosch and Kemmy PA in Andrew Simpson Charlotte, NC. has been named Michael Mitchell graduated from the assistant men’s tennis coach at Wake Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina Forest. Shea Foley Wesolowski is a finance University and has relocated to manager with General Electric in Tempe, Englewood, CO. Alexander Stubbs - AZ. is senior manage ment analyst for BearingPoint in the Karen Roberts is a technology program Homeland Security and Intelligence associate at the Children’s Partnership in Community Sector in Alexandria,VA. Washington, D.C. She is pursuing a mas- ter’s in community, culture and technology at Georgetown University.

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soon-to-be bride loses her engagement ring during up scrapping most of what I’ve written. I don’t write Aa pre-wedding fling. Her fiancé is hiding in her with an outline so I tend to be somewhat inefficient. maid of honor’s closet wearing only boxers. Darcy and But for me, it’s a very character-driven process. I like Rachel, the bride and the maid of honor, respectively, being surprised as the story unfolds.” share more than just their lifelong friendship. They Giffin’s spontaneous style seems as well-suited to share Dex, the fiancé. All are characters created by her writing as to her personal life. Majoring in history New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin (’94), and earning minors in English and politics, Giffin grad- and their story unfolds in Giffin’s companion novels, uated summa cum laude. She chose the University of Something Borrowed and Something Blue. Virginia law school over Harvard to stay in the Atlantic Darcy is charmed—the kind of woman who must Coast Conference. “I loved law school much more than have the perfect shade of pink lipstick to wear with her the actual practice of litigating at a large New York City perfect bridal gown on the perfect wedding day when firm. During law school and my four years of practice, I she marries Dex, the perfect fiancé. Rachel is her hard- continued to write often with thoughts of becoming a working, ever-dependable best friend who is always novelist. After I paid off my loans, I moved to London on-hand to support Darcy although she’s often felt over- to pursue my dream.” shadowed by Darcy and her perfect world. Something Giffin left for London in September of 2001. She Borrowed is told from Rachel’s perspective and Something committed to finishing her novel, Something Borrowed, Blue from Darcy’s, because, as Giffin says, there are in one year, allowing herself six months to find an agent. always two sides to every story. She determined that, if after eighteen months she found “All of my characters have some of me in them,” herself unsuccessful, she would return to New York to says Giffin, when asked which of her characters she most practice law. “Fortunately I got very lucky. I finished the resembles. “It would be hard to write effectively about story in a year, found an agent in another two months, people if I couldn’t somehow relate to their feelings or and a publisher a month later.” circumstances.” While writing her books, Giffin worked in references Giffin spends about six hours a day, four days a to her hometown of Naperville, Illinois. One of her week creating her memorable characters. “Some days back-porch dramas, “The Day the Mothers Ran Away,” everything just flows and the hours fly by and it feels written in elementary school, was performed there. The incredible. Other days are a complete struggle, and I end neighbors were charged admission, and the play opened

48 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE S E T O N S S A L “All of my characters C have some of me in them,” says novelist Emily Giffin.

to rave reviews. Giffin says she enjoys “paying respects essay she had written on the bus back to Winston- to her old stomping grounds.” Salem. It was a factual, accurate letter written from the As for Wake Forest, Giffin pays her respects there perspective of one who shared the emotions of the as well—working in details about Wake Forest hoops. moment and the agony of defeat as much as any player “And if I can do it while slamming Duke, all the better. or coach,” says Odom. I grew up obsessed with college basketball. In high Odom and his wife have both read Giffin’s second school, I decided that I wanted to follow my passion and book and despite the novel’s “chick-lit” reputation, be the manager of an ACC basketball team. I actually got Giffin receives several e-mails each week from men the job as a student manager for the basketball team who’ve enjoyed her stories. Most, however, say they before I was accepted by admissions.” remove the pink jacket on Something Borrowed while Actor Marc Blucas (’94), the shooting guard/small reading it in public. “I read both of Emily’s novels in forward when she was student manager, says Giffin’s three days. I read them because my friend wrote them, curiosity led her to constantly question and analyze but I was so blown away,” says Blucas. “Emily is another people and the situations in which they found them- Wake Forest success story. She’s paid her dues, and she’s selves. “She kept a journal that the whole team wanted earned everything that comes her way.” to read,” says Blucas. She wrote in it constantly. Emily Giffin, who resides in Atlanta with her husband and always wanted to understand relationships and feelings. twin sons, Edward and George, has signed a contract She’d ask ‘How did you feel after that shot was blocked?’ for two more books and has sold the movie rights to It was a constant assault. It’s no surprise to any of us Something Borrowed. Her next novel, about the com- that she became a novelist.” plexities in a relationship where the husband wants “Emily was my favorite manager,’’ says Dave Odom, children but the wife does not, is slated for printing former head coach of the Deacons and now head coach next summer and is tentatively entitled Baby Proof. at the University of South Carolina. “Her contribution “It has been a major adjustment. I went from living to the team was much greater than retrieving balls, in Manhattan and London with no children to living in handing out towels, or arranging water breaks…. We Atlanta with a car and a house and two children and a loved her as a manager and adored her as a person.” new career. I’ve experienced a lot of change all at once, After a psychologically devastating loss to Carolina, but I love where I am now, and it’s great to be back in “Emily walked into my office and handed me a two-page ACC country.”

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N is minister with youth and young adults McMahon. 4/16/05 Charles Clay. 8/14/04 in Wrightsville

S at Knollwood Baptist Church in Winston- Beach, NC.

S Salem. Lynn Bonnette Hutchins (’89) and A William Clayton Haney III. 4/9/05. They Lauren M. Kirby (’96) and Kris L Ashley Hoagland was named to the live in Matthews, NC. Winther-Hansen. 5/29/05 in Annapolis, C U.S. Team for the 2005 Fuji Xerox U.S.A. MD. They live in Stow, OH. The wedding vs. Japan Collegiate Golf Championship John J. Earnhardt (’91) and Lisa party included Amanda Macomber by the Golf Coaches Association of Damkroger. 5/29/05 in Portola Valley, CA. (’96) and Alysa Reid (’95). The bride’s America. She began her professional The wedding party included Will parents are Michael R. (’66) and golfing career by competing in the Marklin (’90) and Michael Pascarella Carolyn Powell (’66) Kirby. Laconia Savings Bank FUTURES Golf (’91). Attending were Michael Poling Classic in Concord, NH. (’91) and Steve Rooney (’91). Katherine A. Brewer (’97) and R. Carter Smith (’99). 7/17/05 in Petoskey, Eric King was selected in the fifth round Elita D. Cobbs (’92) and John McMillon. MI. They live in St. Louis, MO. of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills 4/17/05. They live in Tampa, FL. as the 156th overall pick. Kathy A. Scott (’97) and Abe Rummage. Carolyn Elizabeth Armstrong (’94) 7/10/04. They live in Denver, NC. The Tripp Pendergast is a media relations and Brian Durbin Calkins. 4/22/05 in wedding party included Lee Rhoades assistant for cross country, track and Kiawah Island, SC. They live in Cincinnati. Sugg (’97, MSA ’98) and Amy Dotson field, women’s golf and women’s soccer Wogan (’98). at Wake Forest. Andrew J. Baker (’94) and Erin Hanson. 6/25/05 in Guilford, CT. They live in John Stillerman (’97) and Kathryn Christian Wyss (LL.M) is with the law Washington, D.C. Attending were Kevin Wilson. 6/11/05 in Warren, OH. They live firm of Vischer Rechtsan Waelte in Basel, Todd Barfield (’94), H. Lee Butler in Winston-Salem. The wedding party Switzerland. (’94), Morgan Campbell (’94), Russell included Amy Barnett Berklich (’98), Daniel (’94), Joe Dickson (’94), Joe Brian Berklich (’97), Ginny DeFrank Fowler (’94), Scott Frailey (’94), (’01), Jessica Thompson DeFrank Robert Funderburk (’94), Scott Smith (’97), Mike DeFrank (’96), Matt Marriages (’94) and David Wood (’94). Fearrington (’97), Chris Gerecke (’97), Todd Sninski (’97) and Todd Stillerman (’94). Edward A. Leinss (’63) and Claudia Jennifer Collins (’94) and Brad Barnes. Saunders McDaniel (’64). 4/15/05. They 4/2/05. They live in Columbus, GA. Rev. first dated as students at Wake Forest, Katherine Vickers Cornell (’95) Linne Michelle Amundson (’98) and but each ended up marrying another stu- presided. Brian Cornell (’95) attended. James Bryan Gherdovich. 11/04 in dent. After their first marriages ended in Colorado Springs, CO. They live in Hawaii. the ‘70s, they each married again and had Darren Spencer Cranfill (JD ’94) and long marriages before both their spouses Amanda Lee Miller. 6/11/05 in Advance, died in 2004 within days of each other. NC. Jeff Patton (JD ’94) attended. Amy Kathleen Bassett (’98) and Although they hadn’t seen or even talked Ronald G. Patz Jr. 5/28/05 in Pittsburgh, to one another since 1963, Leinss found PA. They live in Charlotte, NC. The wed- Jennie Hall (’95) and Mike Aldrink. McDaniel’s e-mail address in the alumni ding party included Sarah Hovis 4/23/05. They live in Durham, NC. directory and sent her a condolence note Shurts (’97) and Matthew Shurts Attending were Jen Jackson (’95), Lori last September, and the two began (’97) attended. Dawkins Mauro (’95), Elizabeth exchanging e-mails and then phone calls. McGee (’95), Laura Bagwell They met for the first time in 41 years on Otterberg (’95), Julianne Surface Andrew Elias Chalhoub (’98, MSA New Year’s Eve 2004 and were married (’95) and Tricia Jones Thompson ’99) and Amanda Ruth Safko. 6/5/05 in four months later. (’95). River Edge, NJ. They live in Clifton, NJ. The wedding party included Timothy Stan Koonts (’75) and Brenda Lucas. Ronald Blue (’98), Stephen Hunter Matthew D. Thompson (’95) and 5/28/05 in Winston-Salem. They live in Cook (’98), Mark Ferguson Lindley Cecily Audrey Reynolds. 4/23/05 in Midway, NC. (’98, MSA ’99) and Robb Jay Wiegand Albany, GA. They live in Keyport, NJ. (’98). F. Stanley Black Jr. (’83) and Michele Garrett Baker (’96) and Melissa Ann Madore. 5/6/05. They live in Chang. 6/4/05 in Harrisburg, PA.They Richmond,VA. live in New York City.

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Jennifer Aznive Gough (’98) and Erin Michelle Wuller (’98) and Paul Jenne Parrish Nesbitt (’99) and Scott O

Matthew C. Sargent. 7/3/05. They live in Jursinic. 5/14/05 in St. Louis, MO. They DeAngelis. 4/23/05. They live in Redondo N

Boston, MA. The wedding party included live in Chicago, IL. The wedding party Beach, CA. The wedding party included S

Beth Amos (’98) and Tremayne included Amanda Kennedy Malone Casanova (’99), Betsy LaFuze S

(’98). Attending were Nakea Alston (’98, MD ’02), Munira Dabir Siddiqui Gill (’00), Jeanie Marklin (’95, MAEd A (’99), Nancy Comorau (’98) and (MD ’02) and Kristen Nicole Warren ’02) and Mandy Poinsette Wright L Joseph Parkhill (’98). (’98). (’99). C

Angela Dawn McElreath (’98) and Katherine Lynn Arnold (’99) and Mark R. Kirk Owens II (’99) and Kathryn Brady John Ojibway. 4/30/05 in Marietta, Gatza. 4/2/05 in Memphis, TN. Hobbs. 2/19/05 in Louisville, KY. GA. Stephen Michael Kroustalis (’99) and Catherine Wright Mitchell (’98) and Nicole Laine Chilton. 6/5/05 in Winston- James Jay Jaxon III. 6/11/05 in New Salem. The groom’s parents are Kia and Marlborough, MA. They live in New York. Christopher Kroustalis (’67) and the bride’s parents are Carole and Otis Chilton (‘66).

WITH GRATITUDE…

We thank you for helping us achieve another historic Your gift also helps how accomplishment! The 2004–05 College and Calloway Fund Wake Forest is perceived campaign had a record number of donors (10,749) and helped as a leading University: raise more money than in any other year ($3,313,713). I Donor participation, Wake Forest is grateful for your gift because of what it the percentage of does for current and future Wake Foresters. Your gift to the alumni who give to College and Calloway Funds makes an immediate impact the University, is an by helping worthy students attend Wake Forest, no matter important measure what their financial situation: used in the annual U.S. News & World Tuition currently supports about 75% of the cost of a Wake I Report rankings. And as our ranking increases, so does the Forest education. Financial gifts to the University make up value of a Wake Forest degree. the difference. We are grateful for your help this year…and ask that you I Close to 60% of Wake Forest students receive financial aid, and the average award is over $13,000. The College and continue to help us. Calloway Funds are an important part of providing this aid. Remember, with gratitude, what Wake Forest means to you. I Wake Forest does not consider a student’s financial status Think, with gratitude, what Wake Forest could mean to others. when making the admissions decision. Wake Forest is one of only twenty-eight need-blind institutions nationwide Support lasting memories by giving to the Annual Funds. committed to meeting full need and developing a new approach to defining need. Gifts to the Annual Funds, including the College and Calloway Funds, are unrestricted; your support will be put to immediate use in areas where the funds are most needed, such as student aid, faculty development, and other educational programs.

To make your contribution, please call or write: Dawne Clark (‘83), Director of Annual Support P.O. Box 7227, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227

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www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2005 51 S Elizabeth Harris Rogers (’99) and Thomas Carlton Rich (’00) and Cali Ashley Elizabeth Futrell (’01) and E William Keener Brodnax. 6/4/05 in Che Todd. 6/4/05 in Winston-Salem. They David Charles Anderson (’01). 4/2/05 T Atlanta. Megan Allen Ramsey (’99, live in Boston. The wedding party includ- in Greensboro, NC. The wedding party O MDiv ’02) was co-officiant. The wedding ed the groom’s father, Thomas included Ann Chenery Gapper (’01), N

S party included Sara Elizabeth Lenwood Rich III (’70). Elizabeth Hechenbleikner (’00), Tracy

S Bradford (’99), Mora Bow Hanlon Howell (’01), Molly Mitchell (’01) and

A (’00), Rebecca Suits Hartsough (’00) Rebecca Grace Tate (’00) and William Katherine Moore (’01).

L and Courtenay Hallman Strey (’98). Noah Walker (’01). 10/30/04. Mike C Attending were Elizabeth McGill Daugherty (’00) officiated. The wedding Jay Hemphill (JD ’01) and Melinda Barnes (’99), Will Bradford (’99), party included Ginny Bunch (’01), Seamans (JD ’02). 6/19/04 in Arlington, Brent (’00) and Megan Eaton (’00) Taylor Harris (’00), Dwayne Hill VA.They live in Pittsboro, NC. The wed- Cann, Jessica Peterson Dempsey (’00), Emily Tate (’07) and Jenny Tate ding party and special guests included (’96, JD ’99), Kathryn Tompkins (’02). Heather Carpenter Botta (JD ’01), Edgecombe (’98), Meredith Reinecke Steve Eldridge (JD ’01), Elizabeth (’00) Allison Hallman Sapp (’01) , and Suzanne Powell Troop (’00) and Drew Frey (JD ’02), Sabrina Gicola (JD LeeAnn Landers Smith (’99) . Bartlett Durgin. 5/28/05 in Dallas, TX. The ’02), Lolly Hemphill (’07), Matt Jobe wedding party included Brooke Lauren (JD ’01), James Mills (JD ’01), Charles “Chance” Randall Welfare III Anthony (’00) and Katita Smith Jonathan Nelson (JD ’01), Kristen (’99, MBA ’07) and Laura Mae Palamar (’00). Rectenwald (JD ’02) and Sharon Everhart (’00). 5/7/05 on Bald Head Zielmanski (JD ’02). The parents of the James (’69) Laura Island, NC. They live in Winston-Salem. Andrea Nicole Arco (’01) and Michael groom are and Aimee Ann Thomson (’71) Hemphill The wedding party included Harry Mastromichalis. 6/4/05 in . Cirucci (’00) Peter John Denmark , Pittsburgh. They live in Charlottesville. (’99) George Andrew Everhart (’99) , , The wedding party included Elise Scott McKnight (’01) and Katherine Stephanie Anne Hudson (’00) Sydney , Agrella (’01) and Jessica Posner (’01). Knoll. 4/30/05 in San Antonio, TX. They Sancher Lair (’00), Andrew Robert live in Birmingham, AL. The wedding Rush (’99) and Charles Randall party included Walter Chad Hembree Stephen Arndt (’01) and Jamie Lemke Welfare Jr. (’68). The bride’s father is (’01) Christopher Sears (’01) (’01). 4/16/05. They live in Jacksonville, and . George Raymond Everhart III (’73, FL. The wedding party included Andrew MD ’77). A wreath was given in memory Arndt (’04) and Megan Mason Arndt Michael Scott Mitchell (’01) and Joan of the groom’s grandfather, Charles (’04). Elizabeth Ferran (’02, MAEd ’03). Randall Welfare Sr. (’36, MD ’38) . 6/26/04 in Gainesville, GA. They live in R. Jarrod Atchison (’01, MA ’03) and Englewood, CO. The wedding party Alexander Robert Wilson (’99) and Lars David Anderson (’01) Rebecca Eaton (’03). 5/28/05 in The included , Emily Claire Donofrio (’00). 6/18/05 in Ellene Noell Craig (’02) Sheila Ann Woodlands, TX. They live in Athens, GA. , Winston-Salem. They live in New Haven, Dillon (’02), Lee Harper Ferran (’08), The wedding party included Mario CT. The wedding party included Andrew Adam Wencel Jacques (’02, MSA ’02) DeMarco (’01), Lindsay Littlefield , Bronneck (’99), Karen Corvino (’00), Megan Marian Lane (’01) Bradford (’03), Michelle Neidigh Maslowski , Paula Decker (’00), Julie Donofrio Harlan Lewis (’02, MSA ’02) Eddie (’02), Kristen McCauliff (MA ’04), , (’03), Molly Donofrio (MBA ’06), Yolanda Lindler (’02) Katharine Drew Shermeta (’01) and Brad , Stephen Frasher (’99), Melanie Young Martin (’02, MAEd ’03) Erin Stewart (’00). , Sheffield Haley (’00), Michelle Hess Marietta Pearson (’02), Mandy (’00), Adrian Langlois (’99), John Elizabeth Pedersen (’03), Melissa Jeffrey S. Burkett (’01) and Brittany Whaley (’99), Mike Wilson (’99) and Bryce Perkins (’02, MSA ’02), Kristen Anne Perry. 5/29/04 in Raleigh, NC. The Sarah Wilson (’03). Norris Rogers (’02, MSA ’03) and wedding party included Brock Hilpert Matthew Gormley Scott (’02). (’01) and Ben Stafford (’01). Michelle Marie Howard (’00) and Jonathan Bae. 6/4/05 in Cape Cod, MA. Karen Leigh Roberts (’01) and Michael S. Coblin (’01) and Mary The wedding party included Valerie Douglas James McNamara. 6/11/05 in Jenkins Dalton. 4/9/05 in Charlottesville, Nestor Colvin (’00), Leslie Bae Michel Washington, D.C. The wedding party VA.They live in Olympia, WA. The wed- (’98) and Kelly Sharpe (’99). included Aimee Cirucci (’00), Monica ding party included David Feldser Alosilla Graves (’01) and Erika (’00). Attending were Ben Donberg David Wilburn Kaminski (MD ’00) Zimmerman (’01). (’00), Alisha Feezor (’04), Nate Huff and Lynn Kay Weller. 2/26/05 in Osprey, (’01), Peter Iskander (’01), Shaw FL. They live in Carrboro, NC. Lentz (’01), Brent McConkey (’01), Robert Mullinax (’01, JD ’04), John Robert D. Keller (PhD ’00) and Pinkard (’01) and Tyler Russell (’01). Kathleen A. Gilbert. 6/8/05 in Hillsboro, NC. They live in Cleveland, TN.

52 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE S Suzanne Denise Steele (’01, MD ’05) Allen Forrester Hobbs (’02) and Dustin Andrew Knutson (’02) and E and Jeffrey Kyle Covington (’01). Caroline Griffis Bennett. 6/25/05 in Keri Anne Senges. 6/18/05 in Voorhees, T 6/4/05 in Wait Chapel. They live in Augusta, GA. They live in Arlington,VA. NJ. They live in Oklahoma City, OK. The O Winston-Salem. Associate Chaplain The wedding party included Bucky wedding party included Will Barrett N (’02), Andy Cloud (’03), Adam Foster

Rebecca Hartzog officiated, Matthew T. Dohn (’02), Bill Haas (’04), Cortland S (’04) Susan A. Martin (’03) Liz A. Phillips (’00) played the carillon, and Lowe (’03), Dave McKenzie (’02), , , S Richardson (’03) Brian Shaw the readers were Carol Elaine Cooley Sarah Kate Noftsinger (’03) and and A

(’01) and Marcia Allen Stafford (’01). Bryson Powell (’02). (’03, MSA ’04). L

The wedding party included Elizabeth C Catherine Brill (’01), Douglas Raymond Hunt (’01), Sara Christine Nelson (MD ’05), Kevin Lee Taylor (’01), Joseph Ryland Yancey (’01) and Susan Irene Yancey (’01).

Melissa Joy Wellman (’01, MAEd ’04) and Benjamin R. Norman (JD ’04). 6/18/05 in Winston-Salem. The wedding party included Allison Dale (’01), John Gardner (JD ’04), Anna Lake (’01), œÜ Ì >Ì Üi½Ài > ̜ÜiÀˆ˜} œ>Ž] Emily Quimby (’01), Kevin Rice (’98) and Nicole Wellman Rice (’98, MD i̽à ˜œÌ vœÀ}iÌ œÕÀ ÀœœÌà ’04).

Erin Pace Davis (’02) and Chandler 4HE#ALVIN*ONES(OUSE Hadlock. 4/16/05 in Yemassee, SC. They live in Savannah, GA. The wedding party included Laura Anderson (’03) and Jennifer Huss (’02). Attending were Jeanne Lynch (’02), John Reynolds (’04), Matthew Snyder (’02), and Emily Word (’05).

Mary Elizabeth Dodd (’02) and Paul Michael Nadeau. 6/18/05 in Winter Park, CO. The wedding party included Amanda Riddle (’00). Attending were Amy Currie (’05) and Ashley Kesling /œ`>Þ] 7>ŽiÊ œÀiÃÌÊ ˆÃÊ ÀiëiVÌi`Ê >ÃÊ œ˜iÊ œvÊ “iÀˆV>½ÃÊ i>`ˆ˜}Ê Õ˜ˆÛiÀÈ̈ið (’03). / iÊÃii`ÃʜvʜÕÀÊiÝVii˜ViÊÜiÀiÊ«>˜Ìi`ʈ˜Ê7>ŽiÊ œÕ˜ÌÞʈ˜Ê£nÎ{°

Isabel Dungas (LL.M ’02) and Eric /œÊ «ÀiÃiÀÛiÊ œÕÀÊ ÀˆV Ê iÀˆÌ>}i]Ê ÜiÊ >ÛiÊ >Ê “ÕÃiÕ“Ê ˆ˜Ê Ì iÊ Vœi}i½ÃÊ Simmerman. They live in the wÀÃÌÊLՈ`ˆ˜}]Ê/ iÊ >Ûˆ˜Êœ˜iÃÊœÕÃi°Ê7iÊ>ÀiÊ«>˜˜ˆ˜}Ê>˜Ê>``ˆÌˆœ˜Ê̜ Washington, D.C., area. “>ˆ˜Ì>ˆ˜Ê>˜`ÊiÝ ˆLˆÌʜÕÀÊVœiV̈œ˜°Ê/ >̽ÃÊÜ iÀiÊޜÕÊV>˜Ê i«°

Shea Foley (’02) and Cory Wesolowski. >ŽiÊ>ÊÌ>݇`i`ÕV̈LiÊVœ˜ÌÀˆLṎœ˜Ê̜\ 7>ŽiÊœÀiÃÌÊ œi}iÊ ˆÀÌ «>Vi 4/16/05 in Scottsdale, AZ. They live in -œVˆiÌÞ]Ê *°"°Ê œÝÊ {™{]Ê 7>ŽiÊ œÀiÃÌ]Ê Ê ÓÇxnn°Ê ,œœ“Ê ˜>“ˆ˜}Ê Àˆ} Ìà Chandler, AZ. Guests included Lisa >Ài >Û>ˆ>Li° œÀ “œÀi ˆ˜vœÀ“>̈œ˜] V> ­™£™® xxȇә££] i‡“>ˆ Andrew (’02), Noell Craig (’02), Laurie Haynie (’02), Anna Kuhn (’02), V>««Ã}ÌJÜvÕ°i`Õ]ʜÀÊۈÈÌÊÕÃÊ>ÌÊÜÜÜ°Ü>ŽivœÀiÃÌLˆÀÌ «>Vi°œÀ}° Elizabeth Miller (’99, MAEd ’01), Missy Bryce Perkins (’02, MSA ’02), ?M OZM_ [\ZWVO IVL XZW]L 4M\¼[ VW\ NWZOM\ W]Z JMOQVVQVO[ Stephen Perkins (’02), Nandana Shenoy (’02) and Kara Wallace (’01).

Kristin Dawn Gerner (MDiv ’02) and 02%3%26).'(%2,%'!#9 Michael Joseph Vaughn. 4/9/05 in Greensboro, NC. The wedding party ! CAMPAIGN FOR THE 7AKE &OREST #OLLEGE "IRTHPLACE 3OCIETY included Elizabeth Parker (MDiv ’02).

www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2005 53 S Margaret Maree McCollough (’02) Helen Adair King (’03) and Adam

E Births and and Jeremy Schottler. 7/2/05 in Asheville, Blake Stockstill. 6/18/05 in Abilene, TX. T NC. They live in Vienna,VA.The wedding They live in Charlotte, NC. The wedding O Adoptions party included Megan Lambert (’02) party included Katherine Collins (’03), N

S and Ashley Mason (’03). Attending Susan Edwards (’03), Alexandra Frederick Thomas Smith (’85) and

S were Jonas Blomqvist (’03), Sonya McFall (’01) and Dean Taylor (’03). Dorothy Ruth Smith, Atlanta: a son,

A Kohnen (‘02) and Lisa Miller (’02, Frederick Preece II. 6/3/05

L MSA ’02). Robert Michael Fischer (’04) and C Sara Elizabeth Duckworth (’05). Kirstin Deaton Adams (’87) and Nakesha Andreana Merritt (’02) and 5/28/05 in Knoxville, TN. They live in Timothy Adams, Raleigh, NC: a son, Craig Micah Dawson (’02). 5/28/05 in Winston-Salem. The wedding party Parks Lawrence. 3/9/05. He joins his Wait Chapel. They live in Winston-Salem. included Emily Brooks (’05), Zach sister, Riley (4). The wedding party included Kyllan Cotter (’05), Bonnie Zitzmann Fenton Brown (’02) Crystal Fisher (’02, MSA (’03, MSA ’04) Allison Lintz (’04) , , , Kathy Sellers Maroney (’87) and Ken ’03) William Merritt III (’00) Don Ross Mangin (’03) Mary Young , , and Maroney, Concord, NC: twin daughters, Mulnix (’77) Masanori Toguchi (’01) and . Meghan Skye and Elizabeth Grace. (’02) . 5/5/05 Joseph L. Taylor (’04) and Erin Grey Lacey Ann Shirk (’02) Kyle Hardin (’04) and . 1/05 in Winston-Salem. Linda Merchant (’87) and Don Thomas Glandon (’02) Stephen . 6/18/05 in The wedding party included Rollfing, West Palm Beach, FL: a son, Mann (’04) Preston Teeter (’04) Bloomington, IL. The wedding party and . Austin William. 5/4/04 included Sam Barger (’02), Liz Milhaupt (’02), Joe Morrow (’02), Thomas Evatt Roper Jr. (’87) and Amanda Prewett (’02), Matt Reger Dianne Manning Roper, Raleigh, NC: a (’02) and Tom Rein (’02). daughter, Shelley Catherine. 8/10/04

54 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE S Susan Jane Parks Keiser (’88) and Jon Scott Logel (’90) and Peg Roche Diana Esposito Koelliker (’92) and E Thomas L. Keiser, Avondale, PA: a son, Logel, Kapolei, HI: a daughter, Charlotte Paul Koelliker, Farmington, NM: a son, T Sean Matthew. 6/17/05. He joins his Grace. 1/27/05 Jackson Kipp. 12/20/04 O brothers, Christopher (4) and Brian (1). N

Christie Riddle Montgomery (’90) Laura Bush Sedlacek (MA ’92) and S

David Krell (’88) and Andrea Gooch and Michael Montgomery, Richmond, Scott Sedlacek, Lenoir, NC: a son, Rylan S

Krell (’91), Matthews, NC: a son, John VA: a daughter, Grace Bartley. 5/4/05 Taylor. 6/23/05 A

Carter. 5/29/05. He joins his brothers, L Evan (6) and Jason (4). Colleen Conner Carr (’91) and Rob Amy Devine Smith (’92) and Chris C Carr, Jacksonville, FL: a daughter, Hannah Smith, Herndon,VA: a son, Christopher Terri Sells Smith (’88) and Clay P. Grace. 9/7/04. She joins her sister, Haley Michael Jr. 4/22/05. He joins his sister, Smith, Concord, NC: a son, Cooper (5). Madeleine (2). Pierson. 5/27/05. He joins his sister, Grace Kinbrae. Missy Cortese Foxman (’91) and Dan Shawnya Jones Tolliver (’92) and Linze Foxman, Silver Spring, MD: a daughter, Tolliver, Richmond,VA: a daughter, Shawn Amy Van Oostrum-Engler (’88) and Margaret “Maggie”Lily. 4/13/05. She Laia. 1/22/05. She joins her brother, Linze Ray Engler, Cary, NC: a daughter, Kayla joins her sister, Katy (4). III (2 1/2). WenMin. Born 4/1/04 in China, adopted 5/31/05. She joins her brothers, Peter (7) Neil F. Hagan (’91) and Thuy Hagan, Peter Woodrow (’92) and Erin Woodrow, and Zachary (5). Bangkok, Thailand: a son, Tristan Liam. Saint Leonard, MD: a son, Hayden James. 6/3/05 4/11/05. He joins his sister, Lucy. Jeanne Azevedo Doherty (’89) and Timothy Doherty, Winston-Salem: a Lisa Calderone Key (MD ’91) and Norman Michael Archer (’93) daughter, Katherine Rose. 4/8/05. She Lorne Whyte-Shearer, San Mateo, CA: a and Grainne Johnson Archer, joins her brother, Jack (3). daughter, McKenna Ikue. 2/18/05 Kennebunkport, ME: a daughter, Grace McDaniels. 5/28/05. She joins Robert Greco (’89) and Linda Greco, Jennifer Everett Kitchens (’91) and her brother, Declan Thomas (3). Freehold, NJ: a daughter, Meghan Keith Kitchens, Alpharetta, GA: a daugh- Elizabeth. 3/7/05. She joins her brothers, ter, Allison Everett. 10/9/04. She joins her Glenn A. Brown (’93) and Deb Brown, Matthew (7) and Michael (3). sister, Emily (2). Atlanta: a daughter, Annika Elisabeth. 3/10/05. She joins her brothers, Ransom Andrea Anders Bitzer (’90) and Mike John M.E. Saad (’91) and Susanne (5) and Alex (2). Bitzer, Salisbury, NC: a son, Andrew Estes Saad (MA ’93), Atlanta: twin “Drew”Michael. 4/15/05 sons, Andrew Elias and Davis Michael. Beth Bivens Faircloth (’93) and Barry They join their sister, Hannah (4). W. Faircloth (’93), Winston-Salem: a Christopher Dannahey (’90) and Mary daughter, Olivia Kay. 6/21/05. She joins Dannahey, Alexandria,VA: a daughter, Matt Smith (’91) and Katherine her sister, Sophie, and brother, Spencer. Catherine “Cate”Marshall. 4/27/05. She “Katy” Pugh Smith (’93), Greenville, joins her sister, Grace Elizabeth (3). SC: a son, Matthew Bradham Jr. 7/4/04. Greg Hatcher (JD ’93) and Kate He joins his sister, Lila (3). Harris Hatcher (JD ’95), Charlotte, S. Bryan Durham (’90) and Carol NC: a daughter, Julia Davenport. 5/4/05 Anne Durham, Wilmington, NC: a son, Brad Turner (’91) and Karalee Turner, William Lane. 6/24/05. He joins his brother, Damascus, MD: a son, Isaac Nathaniel. Bruce M. Jacobs (JD ’93) and Amy Noah (3). 5/3/05 Hage Jacobs, Charleston, WV: a son, Benjamin Stuart. 6/1/05. He joins his David Spencer Hall (’90) and Lori Hall, Sydney Nightingale Broaddus (’92) sister, Megan Elizabeth (20 mos.), and Winston-Salem: a daughter, Abigail and G. Allen Broaddus, Richmond,VA: a brother, Joseph Andrew (20 mos.). Mary. 2/16/05. She joins her sister, Avery daughter, McLean Nightingale. 5/30/05. (2). She joins her brother, Gray (3), and sister, R. Lawton Jordan (’93) and Jennifer Leighton (1). Jordan, Smyrna, GA: a son, Lawton. Kimberly Irvine House (’90) and Clay 4/5/05 House, Ellicott City, MD: a son, Cameron Jonathan Hartness (’92) and Laura William Archer. 4/19/04. He joins his Woodside Hartness (’93), Winston- Jennifer Dework Katz (’93) and Joel brothers, Kyle (6) and Colin (4). Salem: a son, Colson Hunter. 4/9/05. He Katz, Newport Beach, CA: a son, Nathaniel joins his brother, Matthew Woodside (5). Oliver. 8/21/04. He joins his brother, Max Ginny Close Lapish (’90) and Darren (2). Lapish, Winston-Salem: a son, Lex Alan. Heather Loftin Holding (’92) and 5/14/05. He joins his sisters, Allie (9), James Holding, Wake Forest, NC: a Susan Lancaster Mintmire (’93) and Erinn (12), Chloe Marie (3) and Laurel daughter, Lauren Maria. 1/31/05 Mark Mintmire, Orlando, FL: a son, Anne (3), and brother, Adam (9). Walter Frank. 4/27/05

www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2005 55 S Deacon dining E T It’s not your father’s—or your grandfather’s—Pit any more O N S S A L C

he venerable Reynolda Hall cafeteria has undergone Ta complete makeover to create a modern food marketplace with an emphasis on fresh food prepared right in front of you. It even has a fancy new name, The Fresh Food Company, although ARAMARK resident district manager Veronica Cruickshank acknowledges students will still call it the Pit. “But it doesn’t look like The Pit before renovations began in May, left, and above, after the a pit anymore,” she said. transformation into the Fresh Food Company cafeteria. Other than some minor renovations over the years, the cafeteria had changed little since it was built fifty The old a la carte pricing system has been replaced years ago. The old serving lines in the back of the with a fixed price, all-you-can-eat system. All residential cafeteria are gone now, replaced by half a dozen large students are now required to purchase a minimum food stations around the room. The walls separating the number of meals that can be eaten in the Pit or the main dining room from the two adjoining smaller ones Magnolia Room. The Benson Center food court and have been removed, leaving only the supportive arches the Subway sandwich shop on the Quad have retained between the rooms. Tables, booths, and counter stools individual pricing. can seat about 700 students in small seating areas clus- With the new concept, the Pit’s central kitchen has tered around the food stations. been mostly eliminated; almost all prep work and cook- The summer-long renovation was paid for by ing takes place in the dining room as students order ARAMARK, a Philadelphia-based food-service company their food. Food servers and back-room cooks had to that operates the Reynolda Campus dining facilities. be retrained as improvisational chefs able to whip up a The Pit is only the tenth university cafeteria operated meal and banter with students as they wait. The cafeteria by ARAMARK to be converted to the Fresh Food staff has doubled. Company concept. “The design is just for Wake At the Produce Market/Deli station in the center of Forest,” Cruickshank said. “We spoke to different the main dining room, students can make their own groups on campus to find out what they would like to salad, help themselves to soup, select fresh fruits and see and then we designed it. Students wanted to see an vegetables, or order a deli sandwich. The International all-you-can-eat concept where you pay one price.” Grill, located near the old Subway counter, offers ethnic,

56 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE S E T O N S primarily Asian, entrees; students can pick out ingredi- S ents for a stir-fry dish, for instance, and watch a chef A L

prepare it on a special round grill. The adjoining C Mediterranean station offers a variety of pasta dishes. The Southern Kitchen, where the old serving area used to be located, offers carved meats, rotisserie chick- en, and vegetables. The Grill area offers specialty sand- wiches, hot subs, and French fries. All the bread and pastries for the cafeteria are prepared at the Bakery, where students can also pick up dessert or make their own waffle. The Sundry Shop, displaced from Hearn Plaza last year after the Subway sandwich opened, has relocated to a corner of the Pit, in part of what was once the athletic dining room.

The new Pit emphasizes fresh food prepared by chefs at half a dozen food stations scattered around the room (below).

www.wfu.edu/alumni SEPTEMBER 2005 57 8W 58 CLASSNOTES AKE and Aaron (2). Hejoinshisbrother, 4/14/05. Carter. C o,JcsnLcs 5/8/05 Jackson Lucas. NC: ason, Melissa NelmsGupton, daughter Cooper J Angilly (’95) nephew of Carrie (4). Shejoinshersister, 3/18/05. Caelyn. GA:adaughter, Peachtree City, Grimes, Courtney (21/2). her sister, Shejoins 3/24/05. Julia Grace. daughter, MD:a Bethesda, Shanahan Schneider, Hurley Ciampa(’95) i rte,Ian(3). his brother, Henry Winston-Salem: ason, James Jones, Nathan A.Jones(’95) Jeff Jones(’96) Tracey Parrington Jones(’95) Timothy Lucas Gupton(’95) Kathleen Eleanor(3). andsister, Austin William (6), brother, Hejoinshis 4/9/05. GrantAndrew. son, NC:a Greensboro, Jacqueline Connors, Manning A.ConnorsIII(JD’95) Cathy OwensW Bro Carol OwensBrown(’95) D. Judd Kimball(’90) Adrienne F. Brovero(’95,MA’97) Julie CruitAngilly(’95) Katy Ford Sikorski (’94) Abigail (2). Sophia Hejoinshissister, 6/2/05. Grant. Cooper PA: ason, West Chester, Ludt, Jennifer LehmanLudt (’94) Jason G. Grimes(’94) Mark T. Ciampa(’94) Cory BrentSchneider(’93) daughter 5/26/05 Ford Edward. TN:ason, Bristol, Sikorski, 1/10/05 William. MarkVincent son, F OREST wn, W illiam F W Charlotte, ohn. M , smrln.31/5 Hejoins 3/17/05. estmoreland. , Sarah Cecelia. Bella. Da Frank (MBA/PhD’04) AGAZINE vid isthegrandsonofJ a rnic,CA: ason, SanFrancisco, , 4/5/05 . OwensJr 4/20/05 hrot,NC:a Charlotte, , elder (’90) C o,David NC: ason, lhrta GA:a Alpharetta, , Richmond,VA: a , and Spring Hope, and Jennifer and Monica 6/3/05 . (’59) and and Chet Aileen and BenC. . and Karen and Jason Greg and and the and and o and and yce aey.6/20/05 Katelyn. Hannah GA:adaughter, Newnan, Smith, e itr Avery. her sister, Shejoins 2/5/05. Kelsey Royal. daughter, Mic Nordhaus Shipp(’96) Fasen Kuramoto (’96,MA’98) W lzbt ai.5/10/05 Elizabeth Karin. IL:adaughter, Naperville, Schultz, Kenji (3). Samuel Shejoinsherbrother, 1/28/05. StellaKatherine. Atlanta: adaughter, Ashley ArmstrongKoontz(’95) Matt DeFrank (’96) Gregory RichardCran(’96) and Alicia Blomber Ryan (5)andKyle (3). Shejoinsherbrothers, 5/25/05. Jessica. Cheek, Scott T. Cheek(MBA’96) AndrewErik(2). brother, Hejoinshis 5/31/05. Alexander Elliott. Chaikin, Emily JonesChaikin(’96) Ba W (’96, MSA’97) Rebecca “Becky And Laura CoakleyWoerner (’95) Cameron ButlerSt.Clair(’95) Robert W. SmithJr. (’95) Shannon RoyalShipp(’95) Shelby Wallach Schultz(’95) Kenji Kuramoto (’95) brother Shejoinsher 5/11/05. Lily Hannah. Campisi Cran, 12/30/04 Elizabeth. Hailey NC:adaughter, Burlington, Price(5)andBlane(2). brothers, V NC:adaughter, Boone, Clair, Scott St. agrt“ageNcl.5/24/05 Margaret “Maggie”Nicole. Atlanta:adaughter, Eric AlanKoontz, ai hre.6/21/05 Davis Charles. irginia Butler ashington, allingfor yne. al.5/24/05 haela. y Jason C.Copland(’96) W 6/20/05 , Indianapolis oerner Aidan Alexander(2). Williamsburg,VA: ason, d, CT DC: adaughter , . hcg,IL:adaughter, Chicago, Herndon, 1/7/05. : adaughter and TomBlazejowski, g Copland(’96,P ” BayneBlazejowski , IN: adaughter and LisaDeFrank, She joinsher Atlanta:a , and V A: ason, Allison , and Julie and Kristie , Rachelle and Erik , Madison and and Kara and Fred and , and Jamie A ’00) and , /70.H on i itr Juliet (3). Hejoinshissister, 3/17/05. Matt Chambers Sadie Elizabeth. itr,Madeline(4)andSarah(2). sisters, Hejoinshis 5/29/05. MatthewBrian. son, Bohannon, son, 4/5/05 SamanthaRylee. NC:adaughter, Cary, (1). Rachel (12)andHallie joins hissisters, He Alexander Callaway “Cal.”3/20/05. NC:ason, Wilkesboro, Gilley-Crumpton, ila ai.9/10/04 William David. Monica LehmannHoltgrewe(’98) Andy Holtgrewe(’97,MSA’98) Robert J. Crumpton(JD’97) Kim DallasBusby(’97) Brian Ward (’96) Stephanie EvansWard (’96) Melissa EgertonRamb(’96) Raritan, Caroline BarrittChambers(’98) John W. Brooker (’98) Brian D. Bohannon (’98) Jason AndrewAquilino(’98) Ronnie Angerer(’98) T Betsy AllenScott(’97) Allison ChurchLePage (’97) David Lardieri (’97) Scott (’97) LeP Katherine (3). Beth. Leah OK:adaughter, Fort Sill, Brooker, 4/30/05 Emma Grace. FL:adaughter, Orlando, Justin Ramb, uinEwr.4/14/05 Julian Edward. ason, Alexandria,VA: Anne Aquilino, 6/17/05 Patrick James. Atlanta:ason, Busby, art.5/9/05 Barritt. olsLih 3/23/05 Hollis Leigh. ammy W age, ereBatn 3/17/05 George Brayton. 3/20/05. Indianapolis NJ: ason, ells Roc hrot,NC:adaughter, Charlotte, , She joinshersister - iga,NC:ason, kingham, Angerer (’97) , 6/21/05 tat:asn James Atlanta: ason, akovle FL:a Jacksonville, , Matthew Da , IN: adaughter and EricaLardieri, uhm NC:a Durham, , and Melissa and and Bart and Jennifer Geor and vid. and and Jason and and Sally and Kina , Anna and ge M. and , , 4/7/05 William Shepard. NC:ason, Davidson, on e rte,NoahMichael (1). joins herbrother, She 4/22/05. HelenaCaroline. daughter, New NY: a York, William Gilmore, Menius L 5/11/05 Bak 5/27/05 Ella Ann. GA:adaughter, Roswell, Michael Parker, 3/1/05 MorganJohn. son, Beach,VA: a Allison Makovec,Virginia (’68) W Noah FL:twinsons, Tampa, Corey, Margaret MaeandGertrudeGrace. granddaughter of Sheisthe Charlie. joins herbrother, She 5/2/05. EssieHubert. a daughter, Margaret Lunger Lefevre(JD’00) Justin C.Lefevre(JD’99) William (2). Hejoinshisbrother, 5/19/05. Samuel Ward. Richmond,VA: ason, William J. Lagos Jr. (’99) Susan HoffmannCorey(’99) Troy D. Cahill(JD’99) Martin M.Baker (’99) Julia SettleVance (’98) Kate CrowleyP Mark Mak Todd J. Liu(’98) Catherine CorbiereGilmore(’98) Elizabeth “Liz”Watson Evans(’99) E. BradleyEvans(’98,JD’02) 12/17/04 James “Jay”Richard. Atlanta:ason, and Jason Edgecombe, Kathryn Tompkins Edgecombe(’98) Brian F. Corbett(JD’00) Morgan Poteat Corbett(’98) 3/25/05 William Meade. NC:ason, Greenville, W ason, Alexandria,VA: O’Hara Cahill, V 5/13/05 KieranClark. CT: ason, Wallingford, ance (’98) illiam andZac illiam Douglas r tat:asn RhodesMcKinley. Atlanta:ason, er, . agos (’99,MSA’00) ovec (’98,MAEd’99) , Sa v age, kary Phillip . ark 4/29/05 Robert M.Poteat and Jeanne Liu, MD: twindaughters er (’98) and Jennifer R. and Jeneanne and aeg,NC: Raleigh, , 4/25/05 . and and and Ron , and Al and Katie and and 2/1/05 and , , , rc.3/31/05 Grace. DatieMac(5). Hejoinshissister, 10/6/04. Fordham Brock. CT: ason, Hartford, ae nrw 3/24/05 Caleb Andrew. M. Goins(’00,JD’03) agtr yal an.11/6/04 Mykayla Jayne. daughter, Arlington, J IN:ason, Culver, Justin Zimmerman, George. Cranford Winston-Salem: ason, Raper, 5/29/05 o,JcsnEis 2/16/05 Jackson Elias. a son, Dalton (2). Shejoinsherbrother, 2/24/05. Macy Kay. SC:adaughter, Simpsonville, Bennett, Jeffrey Trapani(’99) and Elizabeth ThorntonTrosch(JD ’02) Elizabeth Schneider(’02) James Raper(MAEd’02) and Meredith BlondellWearing (JD’01) Beth MabeGianopulos(JD’01) Aimee MillerZimmerman(’00) J Daniel Donna DobbinsT Ronda KingSnyder(’00) P Sam Mattox (’01) Margaret LintonMattox (’00) Kelley TurnerGoins(’00) Ginger RobertsGillespie(’90) Colin H.Gillespie(MBA’00) Tiffany Bennett(JD’00) on e rte,Jacob Alexander. joins herbrother, She 6/14/05. MariaElizabeth. daughter, NC:a Kernersville, Michael Gianopulos, 5/19/05 ElizaRose. daughter, 6/27/05 Schuyler Jansen. MA:ason, Dorchester, Snyder (’00) P 7/14/05 NC: ason, ohn Mic ac o amela Yeager Powell (’00) el ooe,N:aduhe,Caroline NC:adaughter, Conover, well, kson Da Eric C.Trosch(JD’02) Robert Wearing (JD’01) T de,Cos,NC:ason, Crouse, edder, 6/11/05 hael. V Alexander i.5/25/05 vid. :asn DylanRobert. A: ason, hrot,NC:ason, Charlotte, , 9/18/04 edder (’00) on sad SC:a Johns Island, , “ Alec” and Clover Lewis, ihPit NC: HighPoint, , and Andy , Thornton. and and Paige and Atlanta: a Charlotte, , and J , and and Marc West , Jason and and and ason (’43) orsil,N,for30years. NC, Mooresville, World War IIandpracticeddentistryin He served asadentistintheNavy during band, for 15y ogist atBethesdaMedicalNaval Hospital Shewas amedicaltechnol- 2005. May 23, rd.6/1/05 Brady. Jackson NC:ason, Greensboro, Lee, grandchildren. Normal P. Sholar(’40) John N. Denning(’37) ment in1977. untilhisretire- NC, Company inLiberty, He owned andmanagedSmith Tractor Army AirCorpsduring World War II. Heserved intheU.S. 2005. April 27, Alger LoyceWagoner (’33) Deaths Charlie D. Lee(MDiv’05) Insurance Co. Merchants andBusinessmanMutual in World War II andwas retiredfrom Naval aviator Hewas aU.S. 2005. April 20, Helen CampfieldSylvester(’43) Gladstone M.Hill(’43) James RichardCramer(’42) James G. 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CLASSNOTES S Thomas Solon Russell (’44), athletics there; the school’s baseball Robert Sevurne Moore (’56), E April 4, 2005. He was a professor emeritus, stadium is named in his honor. A faculty May 26, 2005. He was a teacher and T having taught biometry for 30 years, at member at Wesleyan for 33 years until he guidance counselor at Beaufort High O Washington State University in Pullman, retired in 1993, he served at various times School, a guidance coordinator for the N

S WA. as department chair in education and S.C. Department of Education, an author,

S physical education and an academic and the founder of a consulting firm in

A Charlotte Boone Hawley (’46), dean. He was the Deacon’s ace pitcher on Columbia, SC, that led him to speak

L Feb. 25, 2005. Memorials may be made the 1949 team that won the Southern throughout the country. C to the American Diabetes Association or Conference Championship on the way to to the General Scholarship Fund, Wake the school’s first appearance in the College Cyrus James Faircloth (’58, JD ’60), Forest University, P.O. Box 7227, Winston- World Series. He finished the 1950 season Feb. 24, 2005. He was an attorney in Salem, NC 27109-7227. 11-0, the fourth-highest single season wins Clinton, NC, and a member of the total in school history; he is also eighth in Sampson County Bar Association. career victories and sixth on the all-time Jane Taylor Olive (’47), May 6, 2005. winning percentage list. He is survived She taught French, chemistry and biology Thomas L. Swatzel Jr. (’58), by his wife, Mary, and a son, Paul. in North Carolina public high schools, was May 22, 2005. He played football at Wake in social work, and was a librarian with Forest and was a U.S. Army veteran. the Winston-Salem Journal. Alva H. Johnson (’50), April 2, 2005. He was a retired agent with 30 years service for New York Life Insurance Co. Reeford L. Chaney (’48), June 25, 2005. Luther “Frank” Safrit (’50), in Hickory, NC. He was an ordained minister for 65 years June 11, 2005. He served in the U.S. Army dur- in the Church of the Nazarene in Alabama, ing World War II, retired from General Donald Brown Haskins (JD ’59), Hawaii, North Carolina and Tennessee. Motors after 33 years of service, and vol- May 28, 2005. He was a retired senior vice He was district superintendent of unteered at Rex Healthcare for five years. president for student development and Alabama for 13 years and Virginia for an emeritus professor of law at Wingate nine years. Ralph Harold Sauls (’50), (NC) University. He was an honorary June 18, 2005. He served in the U.S. Navy alumnus of Wingate and received the Eugene Benjamin Hager (’49), during World War II. He taught at Ft. Order of the Seal for his years of service. April 20, 2005. He retired in 1993 as Myers (FL) Junior High for 10 years and director of missions for the Southern was principal at Edgewood Elementary Donald Lee Richardson (’60), Baptist Convention. School for 20 years. June 2, 2005. He was a retired teacher and coach from Dentsville and Airport Ivan Lacy “Ike” Holleman Jr. (’49, J. Graham Thomas Jr. (’50), High Schools in Lexington, SC. MD ’53), June 9, 2005. He was a faculty May 24, 2005. He was the chief appraiser member at the Bowman Gray School of for North Carolina with FHA/HUD. A. Brantley Edwards (’61), Medicine and a staff pathologist at N.C. April 24, 2005. He coached youth sports Baptist Hospital for 36 years until his Fairlee D. Halstead (’51), June 3, 2005. in the Greensboro, NC, area. retirement in 1996. He is survived by his She taught school, became a legal secre- wife, Marjorie, and three sons, Sam (’94), tary, and retired from the Common- Benjamin Moore Brower (’63), Scott and Bennett. wealth Attorney’s Office in Norfolk,VA. April 26, 2005. He was president and owner of Brower Homes Inc., a home- Neil J. Pait Jr. (’49), May 15, 2005. He Eugene Mills Jr. (’51), May 17, 2005. building company, in Charlotte, NC. served in World War II and was retired He was in the U.S. Air Force during He and his wife, Cherie, retired to from the N.C. National Guard. He World War II and received an Asia Pacific Liberty, NC, where they owned and worked in payroll and benefits at N.C. Service Medal with two bronze stars and operated an antique store. State University. a distinguished unit medal. He spent most of his working years as a special R. Carroll Stegall (’63), May 29, 2005. Raymond “Moe” Bauer (’50), representative in the insurance industry. He was a voice teacher and choral con- June 24, 2005. He was a member of the ductor in North Carolina, Oklahoma, Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame and a Georgia A. “Kate” McNemar (’54, JD Indiana, Iowa and Virginia. He published standout pitcher for the Diamond Deacs ’56), April 16, 2005. She was a retired a book, Journey Toward Wholeness: A who is still among the career leaders in attorney in the criminal division of the Spiritual Encounter With Prostate Cancer several categories. After playing profes- U.S. Department of Justice in (Augsburg Press, 2004). sional baseball in the Chicago Cubs Washington, D.C. organization for eight years, he earned his master’s and PhD from the University of North Carolina. He was one of the first three faculty members hired at N.C. Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount in 1961 and is considered the “father”of

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June 29, T public relationsfor Turner Network for theAtlantaBra He w Mountain (NC)MiddleSchool. and atPilot NC, in MountAiry, 32 years atFranklin ElementarySchool Histeaching careerlasted 2005. June 9, er fortheAnsonCountySheriff’s Office. Stanly CommunityCollegeandanadvis- coordinator oflaw enforcementclassesat aspecial NC, University inMisenheimer, professor ofcriminaljusticeatPfeiffer Hewas anassistant Investigation in2001. StateBureauof agent withtheN.C. Department andretiredasaspecial was withtheCharlottePolice Reserves, Army Heserved intheU.S. 2005. June 13, by herhusband, Sheissurvived and stay-at-home mom. certifiedfinancialplanner accountant, She was acertifiedpublic 2005. June 16, Bureau. Chapel Hill-OrangeCounty Visitors Shewas directorofthe 2005. March 28, Barton DavidBurpeau(’72) Robert Page OdomJr. (MBA’92) Anna Hawkins (5). Kimberly GreeneDulaney(JD’89) Walter A.Ward III(’86) Roy ThomasShelton(’77) Rene DeLapp Campbell(’75) Joseph RoyKirkman(’73) Kent Hirsch(’73) etsr rciei acse,PA. a dentistrypracticeinLancaster, ’89) (RAIN). the RegionalAIDSInterfaithNetwork Lay Corporationandwas avolunteer for Hewas retiredfromFrito 2005. June 13, ele vision (TNT)and o,Tip() andadaughter, Tripp (8), ason, , as thedirectorofcommunications es andwas withNationalGypsum Dain Dulaney(JD v e.9 04 Hehad 2004. 9, Dec. , es anddirectorof TBS. a ,2005. May 8, , , , , , , , daughters andoneson. three Florence, survived by hiswife, Heis assistant footballcoach atArmy. career in1943asheadbaseballcoac Hestartedhiscoaching Berlin Games. mo Boar W to promotecharacter development inthe cation andwas recognizedforhisefforts Hewas alsoactive inpublicedu- states. the c Today,Corral restaurantinFayetteville. franc conceived theideaofafamily steakhouse he andbusinesspartnerJames Maynard adn,andthewidow of Gardens, the Wake Forest theatreandReynolda U hewas amemberofthefirst baseball, Nebraska infootball, Astandoutathleteat Department. of theNebraskaStateBanking NBC Bankandwas laternameddirector in1967aspresidentof NE, of Lincoln, Hereturnedtohishometown Charlotte. a vicepresidentfor Wachovia Bankin Forest attheendofseasontobecome ACC Coach ofthe Heleft WakeYear. Snead (’61) back withAll-Americanrunning first team, twice namedACC Coach ofthe His Year. hewas 1 intheACC infourseasons, Forest was only 11-26-3overall and7-19- Althoughhisrecord at Wake until 1959. football coach at Wake Forest from1956 former memberoftheBabcoc Golden Corralrestaurantc A behind record-setting quarterback ACC 4-3)in1959 his bestyear (6-4, heputtogether and the1958season3-7, Afterfinishingthe1957season0-10 Year. but hewas namedACC Coach ofthe finishedtheseason2-5-3, rushing record, Paul J. Amen Friends Faculty, Staffand who diedin1994. Mar W Jackson Crutchfield(’38,MD ’40) supporter oftheDeaconClub Shewas agenerous 2005. April 29, pril, .S. illiam Foster “Bill”Carl ak v ed toNorthCarolinain1973when garet GrehanCrutchfield e County(NC)publicsc d of Ol hain boasts385restaurantsin39 hise andopenedthefirstGolden Bill Barnes(’57) 6 05 Hewas afounderofthe 2005. 16, ympics baseballteamatthe1936 V str.Antv fOi,he Anative ofOhio, isitors. www.wfu.edu/alumni andhewas againnamed , ue4 05 Hewas head 2005. June 4, , basketball and setting anACC hain anda Andrew , hools , k Sc S WFDD, EPTEMBER , hool’ . Norm h and , s 0561 2005

CLASSNOTES S Charles Jeffrey Kovacs, Sept. 29, 2004. Billy Richard Satterfield, E He was a faculty member from 1981–1985 April 17, 2005. He was a colorful local T in radiation oncology and the founding builder who parlayed his love of golf into O director of the radiation biology research developing exclusive golf and country N

S lab at the Bowman Gray School of clubs, including Bermuda Run in nearby

S Medicine. He moved to East Carolina Davie County and Olde Beau in the NC

A University in 1985. mountains. A Forsyth County native, he

L was a plumber before becoming one of

C Nell Gifford Martin, June 22, 2005. the county’s biggest developers, building She was the wife of University Professor houses, apartment complexes and shop- Emeritus of Religion James A. Martin. An ping centers. He developed Bermuda art collector of primitive American folk Run as an upscale golf and residential art and one-time gallery owner in New community in the 1970s, and it became York City, she earned a master of arts an incorporated town in 1991. He was a and PhD in art history from UNC-Chapel generous donor to the Wake Forest ath- Hill after moving to Winston-Salem with letic program. her husband in 1984. She taught at UNC, Duke and the NC School of the Arts Jacob “Jake” L. Whitaker Jr., before teaching eighth grade language May 22, 2005. He was a generous donor arts and social studies at a local school and a member of the Deacon Club for 30 for several years until retiring last year. years.

James Marvin Nicholson, June 16, 2005. He retired in 1989 after nearly three decades at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library as curator of the Baptist collection and circulation librarian. He worked in the library on the Old Campus from 1952 to 1954, then worked at the University of Georgia, before returning to the ZSR Library in 1961. A World War II veteran, he graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

John A. Parrella, June 24, 2005. He was a former member of the Wake Forest Parents Council and a generous donor to the University through the Founders’ Circle. He and his wife, Josie, established a scholarship for undergrad- uates from New Jersey and New York in 2000. He was formerly director of radiol- ogy at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, NJ, and president of the Radiological Society of New Jersey. In addition to his wife, he is also survived by two daugh- ters, Michele P. Mairone (’92, JD ’95) and Daniele P. Centanni (’93).

Shirley Rogers, May 11, 2005. She worked in the Wake Forest treasurer’s office for thirty years before retiring in 1994 as assistant to the controller. She is survived by a son and daughter and two grandchildren.

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Living legend T N

There’s no mistaking Willis E. ‘Doc’ Murphrey (’52, JD ’57), an unforgettable character. A T S

By Kerry M. King (’85) N O C

e won’t be charging down to It probably would have been No one who knows Murphrey Hthe cheerleader platform at more fitting at halftime of a football was surprised when he tried to fol- Groves Stadium this season to exhort game this fall, but in the more dig- low Hearn back to the Wait Chapel the crowd to get up and cheer for nified confines of Wait Chapel last podium to say a few, or more than a the Demon Deacons like he once February, Murphrey received the few, words. “They wouldn’t let me did, but the memories are still strong. University’s highest honor, the talk then,” he said. “I was going to The cane and the straw hat, stuffed Medallion of Merit, from then-presi- tell a story about that little old col- with the ticket stubs from the glori- dent Thomas K. Hearn Jr. It was a lege in Wake County. When I was ous victories and the more numerous remarkable recognition for one coming from Roanoke Rapids glorious defeats, have been put away, whose gift of gab and school spirit (North Carolina), I remember com- but he still has his love for Wake has endured him to generations of ing through Louisburg, and I started Forest. And when he opens his students and alumni. getting excited ‘cause I knew the mouth, there’s still no mistaking “Hell, I cried; I’m a tenderhearted next town would be little old Wake Willis E. “Doc” Murphrey (’52, JD ’57), fellow,” he said later, before quickly Forest. (As we got closer to cam- indefatigable cheerleader, story-teller dispensing with the sentimental pus) I’d see the chapel steeple, and extraordinaire, and unforgettable stuff. “That’s a heck of a medal,” I’d get so excited that I was coming character. There’s still nobody who he said, turning over the heavy back to Wake Forest.” can spin a yarn like Doc—and medallion with the University seal. Doc—the nickname came from whether it’s true or not is beside the “If I hit a dog in the head with that his father, who was a dentist—was point—or who enjoys it as much. thing, it’d kill him.” already well on his way to becom-

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T ing a Wake Forest legend even In 1952, Murphrey was drafted Jacksonville, Florida. On Saturdays

before he graduated because it was and sent to protect South Carolina he’d head for Groves Stadium, driv- & taking him so long to graduate. A during the Korean War. The Army ing for many years an old airport T running back on his high school recognized his talents and made limo that, so the story goes, was N football team in Roanoke Rapids, he him “head of athletics” at Fort originally painted Carolina blue, A

T received a scholarship from coach Jackson (“entertaining the troops,” before Murphrey had it painted

S Peahead Walker—another legendary in his words), which often meant black and gold.

N figure from that era—and enrolled driving troops up to campus for In the days before the now O in 1946, but he played only one football games. The Old Gold and familiar costumed Demon Deacon, C minute, thirty-five seconds in three Black offered a parting tribute to fans looked to Murphrey, in his seasons, by his own reckoning. him: “The long and brilliant career straw hat and waving a cane or (“The team had two tackling dum- of ‘Doc’ Murphrey is rapidly draw- megaphone, to get the crowd fired mies. I was the one they carried in ing to a close. Murphey’s search for up, as he would run down the sta- every night,” is how he describes knowledge has not been along the dium steps from the seats he’s had his football career.) strictly defined paths… It has been in Section 5 since the stadium was If he wasn’t going to become a his assumption, and one to which built to the cheerleader platform. star on the football field, he would he has adhered religiously, that one “The crowd wanted to see me,” he become the biggest fan the school can perhaps better achieve this goal said. “I wasn’t shy. I went up there had ever seen. “We were playing through a complete absorption into anytime to lead the cheers. I led the against Carolina, and the fans start- the very singular atmosphere of cheers when we beat Auburn in ed hollering, ‘we want Murphrey, Wake Forest College rather than the (1979), the best victory that Wake we want Murphrey.’ Peahead got more depressing channels of aca- Forest ever had. Went to a bowl tired of it and hollered, ‘Murphey demic preparation.” game that year and got the hell beat come here.’ And I said ‘coach, who But Murphrey’s career at Wake out of us.” did I go in for?’ And he said ‘no Forest wasn’t over just yet. After Because of his declining health, damn body. They want you and I eighteen months of duty, he returned it’s been ten or so years since don’t want you, so get up there with to campus to finish his undergradu- Murphrey, who turned 77 in June, them.’ I started right then and there ate degree and then followed the has led the cheers in Groves Stadium. being a cheerleader, not really a school to Winston-Salem, earning He hasn’t been able to even attend cheerleader, but just a guy who his law degree in 1957, at the age of many games since suffering an would get up when you needed twenty-nine. “I went to school for aneurysm five years ago; a more somebody to rally the troops.” eleven years. My daddy was so glad recent illness landed him in North Murphrey loved college, just not when I finally graduated. We started Carolina Baptist Hospital for six the studying part. “I took Spanish 1 home, and I looked at the degree months. He did make it to the twice, Spanish 2 twice, Spanish 3 and they had misspelled my name. North Carolina game last year—his twice, and Spanish 4, five times… And I said ‘daddy they misspelled first game in three years—and There was a murder on the campus my name, turn around and go wanted to go down to the cheer- (1949). Couple of guys playing back.’ And he said ‘the hell you say, leader platform, but son Everette poker, and Raymond Hair shot Roy let’s keep what we got.’” held him back. “You’re no fun,” Coble over a darn poker debt. He He returned home to Roanoke Murphrey told him. was arrested, escaped, and got slam Rapids, where he had a successful He’s still loud and boisterous out to California; the whole world career as a defense attorney and when telling his famous stories, but was looking for him. They got him, prosecutor (“Juries loved me,” he his voice softens for a moment: “I brought him back here, and he was said), and raised a family with his love Wake Forest. No boy ever went convicted of second-degree murder wife, Yvonne. Son Everette (’81, JD to Wake Forest College and enjoyed and sent to prison. He got out of ‘84) is an attorney in Winston-Salem; it more than I did.” prison before I got out of Spanish.” daughter Susan Britt Macon lives in

64 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE HOMECOMING 2005 September 23 and 24

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Return to Wake Forest for a celebration Half Century Club Gathering and Luncheon of friends, fun and fond memories! Return to the Classroom Alumni Admissions Forum All schools of the Reynolda Campus will Alumni-in-Admissions Training celebrate Homecoming together this year. Old Campus Alumni Reception Alumni Reception Honoring Current Special reunion events for the Half and Emeriti Faculty; presentation of Century Club and the Classes of 1955, Distinguished Alumni Award to D.E. Ward (’43, MD ’47) 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, Class Reunion Parties 1990, 1995 and 2000.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Visit the alumni Web site 50th Anniversary of Pre-School Breakfast (www.wfu.edu/alumni) Service of Remembrance for your class events and Festival on the Quad the most up-to-date schedule. Alumni Tailgate Wake Forest vs. Maryland Football Game Questions? Call 800.752.8568 Post-Game Reception in Bridger Field House Deacon dining

Can this really be the Pit? After a summer of renovation, Reynolda Hall’s cafeteria has a new—distinctively Deacon—look. See story, page 56.