Wake Forest Magazine September 2001

Bill Starling Terisio Pignatti The art collections Wake For e st M A G A Z I N E

Retired? Reenergized!

Emeriti faculty staying active. Page 18

Volume 49, Number 1 September 2001 Editor: David Fyten Associate Editor: Cherin C. Poovey Art Director: Samantha H.E. Hand Designer: David Ureña, M Creative, Inc. Assistant Editor: Kim McGrath University Advancement Writer: Kerry M. King (’85) University Photographer: Ken Bennett Printing: The Lane Press, Inc.

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Features 10 Forever Young by David Fyten We thought so highly of Bill Starling because he made us think so highly of ourselves. 18 Still Going Strong by Amy Andrews Hoogervorst Ever wonder what your old profs are up to in retirement? Plenty,

judging by these eight. Page 10 24 AView of Vision by Ellen Dockham Selections from Wake Forest’s redoubtable art collections come together on display.

Page 24 Essay 14 In Praise of a Passing Legend by Edwin G. Wilson (’43) and Departments Martha B. Allman (’82, MBA ’92) Page 18 2 Campus Chronicle In their entirety, eulogies of Bill Starling by two who knew and loved him better than most. 32 Sports

Profile 35 University Advancement 28 The Scholar of Venice by Thomas O. Phillips (’74, MA ’78) 39 Alumni Report For its entire life in Venice, Wake Forest has been befriended and taught by one of the city’s 44 Class Notes great citizens, and one of the Page 28 world’s great art scholars. 64 The Last Word

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Faculty-undergraduate research partnerships flourish

Mentors and on the close-knit campus, and in retrospect she would have colleagues grants often provide the finan- continued it without getting cial support to make research paid. In about eight hours collaborations happen. In recent each week in the lab, Sommers RIN SOMMERS (’01) years, though, more and more conducted experiments to try Ebarely hesitated when asked partnerships have received to determine why the drug to rank her undergraduate expe- institutional financial support. hydroxyurea is effective in rience at Wake Forest. “A nine “Wake Forest’s size has managing sickle cell disease. or ten, probably ten,” she said, something to do with it on a The drug has been used for quickly attributing those high couple of different levels,” King years to slow some cancers, marks to her professors and says of the mentoring opportu- especially leukemia, because particularly to the collaborative nities. “Because the classes are it blocks DNA synthesis and relationship she established pretty small, you get to know prevents cells from dividing. with one, Associate Professor students better and [can decide Researchers, including of Chemistry Bruce King. easier] if you want to invite Sommers, have suggested that As a junior, Sommers began them to your lab.” the drug also releases nitric a research project in King’s The class he teaches most oxide, which would relax laboratory. A research project often, organic chemistry, typi- blood vessels, lower blood is required for a student seek- cally includes thirty to forty pressure, and make people ing a bachelor of science in students. At a larger state uni- with sickle cell feel better. chemistry, as Sommers was, but versity, King notes, enrollment As a result of her research she didn’t see the project as in a comparable undergraduate and her mentor, Sommers was just a requirement. By continu- class would be between 300 and able to travel to San Diego ing her research throughout 400. “Our graduate program is to present a poster about her her junior and senior years, pretty small, too, and because work at a national meeting Sommers also discovered a men- of that I’ve always said I’m of the American Chemical tor, someone she could turn to going to have a component of Society, write an honors thesis not only when she needed to undergraduate students work- about her findings, and sub- discuss her project findings ing in my group.” At a larger mit her work to peer-review but also as she considered university, research advisers journals for possible publica- graduate schools and applied may have so many graduate tion. She also applied to the for awards and fellowships. students to choose from that National Science Foundation Wake Forest—where under- undergraduates have few oppor- for a pre-doctoral fellowship graduate class size averages tunities to do research and find and was accepted to all five fifteen—can be the perfect out if that is the direction they graduate research programs spawning ground for mentoring want their careers to take. to which she applied. relationships between students King, through a research King says that such moti- and professors. Informal men- grant, paid Sommers a stipend vated students also help toring always has taken place for her work, but she says that professors refresh themselves

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and relearn their discipline. “Working with undergraduate students, you can keep yourself charged up,” he says. The students become excited by their findings, grow more independent, and provide needed lab assistance. “I think by and large all of our chemistry faculty are very willing to work with undergraduates, and very eager to,” King says. “As we recruit faculty, that’s a char- acteristic the department has actually sought.” In 1999, King’s colleagues in the chemistry department recommended Sommers to him, because they knew he was Erin Sommers (’01) and Bruce King: ‘If you want to put the effort in, you can get good results.’ looking for students to help in his lab. “In my research, affirmation in academics, ing upon the project and term I’ve always tried to have a very personal life, frustrations of study. active undergraduate compo- with grad schools,” Sommers The Richter Scholars Pro- nent,” he says. The student said of undergraduates. “If gram, administered by Bank begins by working very closely you want to put the effort in, of America, awards scholar- in the laboratory with the you can get good results.” ships worth up to $5,000 to professor, learning how to use There is growing institu- undergraduate and graduate equipment and getting comfort- tional support for collabora- students at Wake Forest for able conducting experiments. tive relationships between independent study projects Once students have been students and professors. The that require domestic or inter- around for a while, their Wake Forest Research Fellow- national travel. Additional responsibilities increase and ship Program encourages indi- funds are available for extra become more complex. King vidual undergraduates research costs and travel gives each undergraduate a to become junior partners expenses to present research distinct project, and they all with professors on scholarly findings at a scholarly meet- report directly to him, not to research projects. Each year ing, and each student has a other students. Educationally, the University can award up faculty mentor. that is important. The students to 150 competitive, merit- The physical sciences par- meet weekly with King as a based fellowships to students ticularly lend themselves to group to discuss their projects who collaborate with faculty mentoring relationships, both and roles, but ultimately each mentors on such projects. formal and informal, because student works independently. Students can receive a stipend of the collaborative nature of “We don’t need hand- of $2,000 or $3,000 to offset holding, but we do need educational expenses, depend- continued on pg. 9

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All-purpose The new fitness center, from the academic, social and enhancement which contains several large, athletic demands of high arched windows that look school to those of college. The Versatile athletics facility out toward Kentner Stadium, suite for the program includes set to open next month will include new Hammer eleven study rooms with com- Strength training equipment, puter connections. HE RHYTHMIC clanging Stairmaster machines, tread- The third floor includes Tof hammers and the swish of mills, and Ground Zero and practice gymnasiums with paintbrushes will be replaced in Cybex strength equipment. bleacher seating for the men a few weeks on one part of cam- Some pieces will be brought and women’s basketball teams, pus by the rhythmic clanging of over from Benson, but most as well as the training room Hammer Strength equipment of the equipment will be new. for the volleyball and basket- and the swish of basketballs. The SAEC, which cost ball teams. $10.8 million, has been under The fourth floor includes construction for more than space for individual recre- fourteen months. The basket- ational activities and is accessi- ball and volleyball teams have ble to the whole student body. shared Varsity Gym for many Spinning (a popular type of years, creating serious schedul- stationary cycling), yoga and ing problems and a need for a aerobics are among the activi- new practice gymnasium for ties that will take place there. the basketball teams. But the In addition to the student four-story structure provides exercise rooms, the fourth much more than that. floor also includes a balcony In addition to the fitness from which football videos area on the first floor, there can be filmed. will be a basketball auxiliary The fitness and aerobics The SAEC will combine practice and training room, a basketball areas will offer hours extend- academics facilities for intercollegiate The 65,000-square-foot equipment room, locker rooms ing from early morning into athletics with health and fitness areas for faculty, students, and staff. Student Athlete Enhancement for the men’s and women’s late evening to accommodate Center (SAEC) between Kentner basketball teams and coaches, many schedules, and students Stadium and the Doc Martin meeting rooms for the men’s and staff also will have access Football Practice Fields is and women’s basketball teams, to lockers and showers. The scheduled to open in October. and storage rooms for center itself will give the Originally conceived for the grounds, football equipment, University a more centralized benefit of student-athletes— and sports medicine. hub for intramurals and other with study and computer On the second floor, the recreational activities. Wf rooms, practice gyms for men’s Student-Athlete Services pro- —Amy Andrews and women’s basketball, and gram will offer academic Hoogervoorst team locker and meeting advising, attendance monitor- rooms—the center also includes ing, academic needs evalua- a fitness center and aerobics tion, career planning, super- room which will be open to all vised study sessions, and students, faculty, and staff. tutoring. The program aims to assist with students’ transition

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Working hard at John P. Anderson, the playing hard University’s vice president for finance and administration, Campus recreation explodes says that Floyd has had the under Max Floyd’s leadership vision necessary to make the campus recreation department SINGLE DESK, SITTING what it is today. “Max comes Ain the middle of an office to see me three or four times a in Reynolds Gymnasium, rep- year, and he’s always got this resented the intramural program list and says, ‘with a little at Wake Forest seven years money we could do this’,” ago when Max Floyd arrived. Anderson notes. “He’s a man Students, based on their inter- of plans and a man of action.” ests and time, ran the few pro- The water tower field now gram offerings. is lighted and has a sprinkler Max Floyd: ‘There’s not a niche in this campus that I shouldn’t be thinking about.’ Bases were cut out of car- irrigation system because of pets because students didn’t Floyd’s request for a field that this campus that I shouldn’t be Floyd went to Ohio State want to lug heavy, regulation can be used year-round and thinking about,” he says. All for his master’s, stayed on as bases to the fields. And refs? nearly clock-round. Anderson students, staff and faculty assistant director of intramu- Well, whoever came along says that Floyd has an innate should be able to find a place rals for five years after receiv- might do; sometimes they were sense of what will work on for themselves somewhere in ing it, and in 1994 was hired members of the fraternities campus and also is a good lis- the campus recreation pro- by Wellman as Wake Forest’s that were competing. tener. “He’s good with stu- gram offerings. director of intramurals and Today, breakaway bases, dents and he’s been very good Born and raised in Kodiak, club sports. Since then, Floyd’s numbered jerseys, trained for students,” Anderson says. Alaska, where his mother is department has come to be umpires, and lighted fields await When Floyd arrived at the mayor and a retired com- called “campus recreation,” students when they show up Wake Forest, he was the first munity college president and and he’s now the director. for intramural games. No one staff person devoted full-time his father is a retired high And participation in club and has to wonder who will get to campus recreation. He now school athletic director, Floyd intramural sports has grown. the bases to the field, or even has a staff of three full-time had early ambitions of teach- In 1994–95, 3,505 students if anyone reserved the place. employees, plus a full-time ing. He played college baseball participated in intramural The campus recreation intern for most of the school at Arizona State but left school sports. By 1999–2000, par- department, led by Floyd, year. His boss is Ron Wellman, early for a stint with the Phila- ticipation had increased by works out those details for the athletics director, but the delphia Phillies organization. 78 percent, to 6,233, and the club sports, intramurals, and University, not the athletic After being released from the variety of sports offered had fitness so that students won’t department, funds the campus club and returning to Alaska grown. (Many students par- have to, and the efforts have recreation department. It’s an to work aboard a fishing boat ticipate in multiple sports— paid off in increased participa- unusual arrangement that, at for a few months, he finished hence participant numbers tion and expanded offerings. least so far, has worked well, his degree at the University of that are larger than the stu- “They can worry about Anderson and Floyd agree. Texas at El Paso, where the dent body.) Club sports par- their studies, and not worry Floyd credits the adminis- founder of the first sports ticipation increased by 15 about who has the ball or why tration for its support and says management program in the percent between 1994–95 and is the football team out here that his job matches with his country was his mentor. It was 1998–99, and aerobics and practicing when we’re supposed worldview that everyone is there that he decided to pursue to have a game,” says Floyd. special. “There’s not a niche in a career in sport administration. continued on pg. 9

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Transplants Wait Chapel’s pipe organ the grille. These are the trom- for an organ stands ready to thrill and pet enchemade, a rank of inspire, following a three-year high-pressure reed pipes. Most restoration that improves upon of the organ’s pipes, which Chapel pipe organ the original. It will resound in range from several inches to renovation complete full glory on September 23 at thirty-two feet tall, are hidden 3 o’clock in a free public recital in the two-story organ cham- WARFED AT THE organ of organ compositions by Lock- ber that rises into the fifty-foot Dconsole anchoring the lair, composer-in-residence and chapel dome. chapel dome, Dan Locklair professor of music. The organ was dedicated presses bone keys on four key- Improving the sound of on October 11, 1956, a gift boards, pulls a dozen knobs, music began with 1997 reno- from Mr. and Mrs. Walter taps the long wooden pedals vations to the chapel, includ- McAdoo Williams of Burling- with his soft black “organ ing raising the ceiling, remov- ton, who were great fans of shoes,” and an orchestra of ing curtains, and other organ music. It included about changes that allowed for a 3,400 pipes, but none that more acoustically alive room. were thirty-two feet in length, Mechanical malfunction which an organ of its size within the original console, would have had. installed in 1956, made it “All of the original pipe unreliable. Thousands of work remains in place,” Lock- moving pieces, including some lair said. “The tonal finishing made of leather, had deterio- for each pipe is meticulous. rated. In 1998, the console There is cohesion in blending was replaced. the old and the new. Some The large pipe organ is people will hear an added an unusual blend of old world warmth and brightness at craftsmanship and modern some stops.” technology. Every inch of With the new console and the twenty-ton instrument is tonal additions, the organ handcrafted, including more can now be used as a recital than 4,000 wind pipes made of instrument. The original sixty solid wood and metal alloy. ranks have been expanded to Solid-state electronic circuits eighty-five, allowing for more A restoration craftsman installs equip- run the console. A massive variety of sound. (A rank is a ment at the floor of a forest of pipes. sound fills the Wait chapel. electric blower creates a reser- set of similarly sounding pipes, Voluptuous tones emerge from voir of wind at the base of one pipe per corresponding the metal grillwork below the each rank of pipes when acti- organ key.) dome, bringing to mind a line vated by a “stop” (the pull- The console has been placed from John Dryden’s poem, “A out switches). on a movable platform, which Song for St. Cecilia’s Day”: Nearly 750 pipes have been allows it to be moved to cen- “When to her organ vocal added, yet the only obvious terstage—its original location, breath was given / an angel sign of the restoration is a then returned to the side. Wf heard, and straight appeared— row of kingly brass trumpets —Sheridan Hill mistaking earth for heaven.” thrusting forward just behind

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To dear old Stamey’s gift directly historical constitu- Wake Forest addresses one of the top prior- ency,” he said. “As ities of “The Campaign for top national schools Wake Forest: Honoring the increasingly offer Largest single gift aids Promise.” The campaign seeks more financial assis- traditional constituents to raise $450 million over the tance in the form of next five years, mostly for new scholarships rather OR WAKE FOREST FANS endowment for student schol- than loans, and in Fwho have attended ACC arships and faculty support. some cases eliminate Tournament games in the At the end of June, more than loans altogether, this Greensboro Coliseum, or $283 million had already been is an important step those who made the drive committed to the campaign, forward for Wake there for “home” basketball including $148 for the Rey- Forest in being able games in the eighties, the trip nolda Campus and $135 mil- to meet a higher per- wasn’t complete without a lion for the School of Medicine. centage of financial W. Keith Stamey (’59): The proprietor stop at Stamey’s Barbecue Stamey died in June 2000. need with scholarships.” of a legendary barbecue place bequeaths the largest single gift in restaurant across the street. He owned and operated During the summer, Wake Wake Forest history. While alumni associate the Stamey’s Barbecue with his Forest joined with more than Stamey name with barbecue brother, Charles (’56), and his two dozen other colleges and and basketball, current and nephew, Chip (’89). Along universities to adopt new future students will remember with enjoying classical and financial aid guidelines. The its owner, the late W. Keith organ music, raising orchids new guidelines should make Stamey (’59), for creating a and tomatoes, and pursuing more families eligible for major scholarship program an interest in technology, his financial aid and provide more through the single largest gift uncle loved Wake Forest ath- assistance for students from from an individual in the letic and alumni events, said middle-income families. University’s history. Chip Stamey. Stamey grew up in Stamey left his entire “Keith really considered Lexington, North Carolina, estate, valued at about $7 Wake Forest to be part of his where his father, Warner, million, to endow a need- family,” Chip Stamey said. owned a barbecue restaurant. based scholarship fund for “He wanted to do his part to He majored in business at undergraduates from the keep Wake Forest accessible to Wake Forest and was a mem- University’s traditional con- its traditional constituency. He ber of Sigma Phi Epsilon fra- stituency. The scholarship is was very concerned about ris- ternity. After graduating, he the University’s fourth-largest ing tuition and the University’s served in the Army for ten endowed scholarship, behind ability to attract North years before returning home in only the Reynolds, Carswell, Carolina students.” 1970 and going to work with and Hankins scholarships. The William Keith Stamey his brother Charles at the fam- Sixty-two students from Scholarship will help meet ily’s restaurant in Greensboro. North Carolina and adjoining those concerns, said Bill Wells He was president of Stamey’s states received the scholarship (’74), director of financial aid. Barbecue, Inc. at the time of this fall, in amounts ranging “This will significantly help his death. Wf from $1,000 to as much as us continue to meet our need- —Kerry M. King $15,000, depending on need. blind commitment and the needs of students from our

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Man behind it was time to do the things Banks had a longstanding the mikes he had always wanted to do. connection with the station. A former chair of the His father was the late E. Asheville Chamber of Com- Pendleton Banks, former New WFDD manager merce, the United Way of professor and chair of anthro- was serendipitous choice Asheville, and the board of pology and founder of the trustees of the University of Museum of Anthropology at F YOU DIDN’T KNOW North Carolina at Asheville, Wake Forest, and when he Ithat Jay Banks (’74, MBA ’76) Banks gravitated to another was sixteen, he ran the control is the new station manager at cause. From 1998 to 2000 he board at WFDD in its old WFDD, you’re not alone. He’s was director and treasurer of studios in Reynolda Hall on been thriving in his anonymity. Community Carepartners Sunday mornings. He was a Samuel T. Gladding, associate Foundation in Asheville, which freshman at Wake Forest when provost who has oversight of provided grants to area health- WFDD became a charter the station, said this is typical care institutions. But Banks member of National Public of Banks. “Jay is not still found himself drawn to Radio in 1971, the first in a limelighter,” he the marketplace. He heard North Carolina. (Also in 1971, said. “He wants to about the WFDD manager’s Banks married Kathryn Iuele promote the best in post—vacant since July 2000, (’74), the daughter of Winston- people he works when Linda Ward was reas- Salem Symphony conductor with, not himself. signed as executive director John Iuele. Their eldest son, That only helps of station development—and John, plans to graduate from the station.” dropped in on Gladding last Wake Forest in December.) Having served fall. The University already It’s been two years since as interim station was in the first round of inter- WFDD was rocked by contro- manager for six views for the position, and versy in the wake of a proposed months, Banks, Gladding asked Banks to man- same-sex union ceremony in forty-nine, was age the station in the interim. Wait Chapel. Former members officially appointed “I actually thought we of the station’s news staff said to the post in April. would find someone with they were told to restrict their His arrival in the deeper public radio experience,” coverage of a trustees policy job was circuitous, Gladding said. “Frankly, Jay regarding the proposal. serendipitous, and was a dark horse for the job.” Gladding and Banks insist Jay Banks: ‘Sometimes the unexpected happens in somewhat surprising. But based on Banks’ knowl- that editorial integrity will be a delightful and productive way.’ After more edge of public radio and the paramount, and they are focus- than twenty years depth of his management ing their efforts on rebuilding in newspaper management, experience, the search com- the news team. Pledges and Banks left the Asheville mittee decided to interview listener share have rebounded, Citizen-Times, where he was Banks in the second round. and the station’s future is look- publisher, in 1996. Gannett “Jay continued learning ing brighter. “Jay has come had bought Multimedia, at an extremely rapid rate,” up with plans for WFDD and which owned the Citizen- Gladding said. “It just shows numbers that support those Times and five other dailies, that sometimes the unexpected plans in a way that is just and Banks said he decided happens in a delightful and exemplary,” Gladding said. Wf productive way.” —Laura Moretz

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Working hard, from pg. 5 Mentors, from pg. 3 In the social sciences and Other undergraduate psy- humanities, psychology, which chology studies in 2000–01 other fitness activities also have the research involved. In biol- has the most majors at Wake included the role of intragroup been popular. ogy, for example, Professor Forest, led the way this past status in promoting or inhibit- Floyd said he wants to Peter Weigl worked in 1999– year with about fifty students ing reductions in intergroup make it as simple as possible 2000 with then-senior Andrea engaged in research projects boundaries and cooperation for students to pursue their Ward on a study of the func- with faculty members. About between ingroups and out- fitness goals. “They’re here to tional morphology of raptor fifteen students worked with groups; perceptions of males get a degree, but they want hindlimbs, and they presented Associate Professor Christy and females using family leave to have a balanced life,” he their results at two profes- Buchanan on a project titled benefits (presented at the six- says. “I’m here to make sure sional meetings. This past “Expectations for Adolescents: teenth annual meeting of the that happens.” year, six faculty members list- Predictors of Parenting and Society for Industrial/Organi- Having grown up in ed joint research efforts with a Parent-Child Relationships zational Psychology in San Alaska, where teenagers talk total of twenty-one under- during Early Adolescence.” Diego in April); and an effort more about the size of the graduates. Projects included a Preliminary results of the to reconcile conflicting find- silver salmon they caught than study of why smooth muscle study were presented at the ings regarding the effects of the number of baskets they cells stop producing proteins biennial meetings of the distance between items on made, Floyd is an outdoors- that protect them from toxins; Society for Research on Child selective attention processes, man who loves to return to an expedition to the Amazon Development in April. presented at both the annual Alaska for fishing and give a to look at the dynamics of bam- Lynn Porter (’01) studied meeting of the Psychonomic glimpse of his upbringing to boo and the effects of its domi- “The Effect of Prior Work Society in New Orleans and his wife, Debbie, and their four nance in the rain forest on tree Experience on Rats’ Effort the annual meeting of the children, ages three to eleven. diversity; development of assays Decisions,” and presented her North Carolina Cognition In fact, though the depart- for early-stage Alzheimer’s dis- findings at the ninth annual Group in Greensboro. Wf ment is about to open a new ease and plasmid-driven evolu- International Conference on —Amy Andrews student fitness center and tion in E. coli bacteria; and Comparative Cognition in Hoogervorst aerobics area in the Student various evolutionary studies. Melbourne, Florida, in March. Athlete Enhancement Center, Floyd—again, a man of plans

—looks ahead to expanding After thirty-six years of campus recreation to include running the Phillips 66 station on Polo Road more outdoor activities such near the University, Bob as whitewater rafting, sea Wilson, left, and his kayaking, snowboarding, brother Bill have retired and closed up shop. and skiing. The Wilson brothers Sea kayaking in the Pied- ran their station the old-fashioned way: mont? Snowboarding in the they never had a self- South? Now that’s vision. Wf serve pump, and they always checked under —Amy Andrews the hood. The station Hoogervoorst was a local gathering spot, with a cooler of Coca-Cola in glass bottles and plenty of conversation about whatever.

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YOUNG The sudden extinguishing of Bill Starling’s life cannot dim his warmth and light.

by David Fyten

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SK ANYONE WHO LIKED He called forth stressing that word ‘young’ that we A Bill Starling (and you wouldn’t can better understand what happened have to walk far on campus to find the finest that's to Bill four days ago. Maybe, in some one) what they found most appealing providential way, Bill was not meant to about him, and chances are they grow old. Maybe we will be strangely would mention his warmth or sense in every one of us. blessed to be able always to see him of humor. Some might cite his charac- as busy, active, talkative, cheerful, ter; some, his loyalty; others, his car- forward-looking, amused about life, ing; still others, his keen powers of admissions officer’s in the country. and therefore truly ‘young.’ We can observation and discernment. But “I could count on one hand the number always see that boyish look he had most who knew him thought of him of people who have that kind of when he crinkled his eyes and smiled.” first as just a great guy to be around. longevity,” Martha B. Allman, then- A native of Smithfield near Think of the people we like most. associate director, and now director, Raleigh, Starling enrolled at the Old Have you noticed how they show of admissions (see story on page 12), Campus of Wake Forest College in genuine interest in us by asking us said in a 1998 profile of Starling. fall 1953 and was a member of the questions, letting us talk about our- “Bill is revered by his national col- first graduating class on the new selves, and listening to what we have leagues. He’s considered one of the campus in Winston-Salem in 1957. to say? So it was with Bill Starling. admissions giants.” After a year of military service, he When you were in his presence, you His death sent the Wake Forest forsook, at the behest of Wilson and were the only person who mattered. community into shock and grief. then-Dean of the College Bill Archie, And if you are the only one who mat- Within a few days, scores of messages his goal of a lucrative textile sales job ters, it stands to reason there must be of reminiscence and condolence, to accept the post of assistant director something special about you. along with donations to the scholar- of admissions at his alma mater. Three That’s what William Gray ship fund set up in his name, arrived years later, he became only the Univer- Starling did when you were with him: in University offices or were posted sity’s second director of admissions. he put you in touch with the very best on the Web. Among them was this Starling’s first task in 1961 was to that’s in you. And for all or part of e-mail message from Mark Thomas help the College fill 300 empty residence six decades in Wake Forest’s admis- (’71): “The old saying goes that ‘the hall beds. He traveled every week sions office, that’s what he did with good die young.’ That is not quite the during the school year, visiting two to thousands of students, faculty, staff, truth. The truth is better expressed as four high schools a day. It took two alumni, and parents. He called forth ‘the good die long before we are ready years to fill those beds, and Starling the finest that’s in every one of us. to let them go.’” never faced that problem again. In On June 18—a month after he was Starling’s enthusiasm and impish recent years, he and his staff chose named dean of admissions and finan- humor gave him a youthfulness that the 950 or so members of each class cial aid, a year before he was to have belied his age. In a eulogy (printed in from more than 6,500 applications, retired, and forty-eight years after he its entirety on page 14) he read at a placing Wake Forest among the most first walked as a student onto the memorial service in Wait Chapel June selective institutions in the country. campus of the school he would love 22, Edwin G. Wilson (’43), provost The student body is the heart of and serve his entire adult life—Bill emeritus and professor of English, any institution of higher education, Starling died suddenly of heart failure spoke often of Starling as young. and much of the growth in quality and during an admissions program for “But, after all, Bill was sixty-five, recognition Wake Forest achieved in children of alumni. He was sixty-five. and he was a grandfather,” Wilson recent decades can be attributed to Starling’s forty-three years of noted. “And yet the word ‘young’ Starling’s unerring feel for whether a service was among the longest of any is right, I think, and perhaps it is in prospective student would be a good

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fit for Wake Forest, and an uncanny in, but as soon as I sat down across Elizabeth Somers (’89) recounted sense of their potential. Jill McMillan, from the cluttered desk, all that her “exit interview” with Starling the professor of communication who changed,” wrote James R. Bullock day she graduated. “As President worked with Starling on the admis- (’85), director of Wake Forest’s Hearn handed me my diploma, I sions committee and the Reynolds capital campaign who as a youth in looked out into the crowd and imme- Scholarship committee, said in the a small Rowan County town had diately saw Bill,” she wrote. “I will 1998 profile that his impact on the worked on tomato and dairy farms. never forget the look on his face and University has been enormous. “His “I don’t remember a lot about our in his eyes, as if he were saying, ‘You values, which I have come to see first- conversation except that he asked did it just like you told me you would, hand in gut-wrenching, eleventh-hour me about tomatoes—what kind of and you did it well. Good job!’” decisions over Reynolds candidates, tomatoes did we grow, where did The personal attention Starling have been personified in the student we send them, what time of year did gave to students didn’t stop once they body,” she said. “He is just as com- we sucker them, how hard was the enrolled. For a time as a student, Jay fortable talking to a recruit from our work, etcetera. I don’t really know S. Daughtry (’89) was interested in most prestigious prep school feeder as how much he knew or cared about college admissions as a career, and he he is a student from rural Appalachia. tomatoes. What I do know is that on recounted the time Starling met him He respects them both for their that day, for that moment, he cared for an extended lunch in the Reynolda uniqueness and limitless possibilities, about a boy.” Hall cafeteria to offer insights and which no amount of egoism or fear Wrote Charles E. Johnson (’77): discuss his own experiences in the or immaturity can obscure from his “Bill’s interest in me—including his field. “I was amazed at Mr. Starling’s watchful eye and keen instincts.” help in obtaining scholarship assis- willingness to take time like this for a Numerous alumni recalled their tance—has shaped the rest of my life. current student,” he wrote. “It was interviews with Starling and the care He was a remarkable institution in an efforts like these that make Wake and attentiveness he devoted to institution remarkable for its personal Forest a special and memorable place.” them. “I was nervous when I walked relationships and compassion.” Dale Walker (’65), a former chair of

Realignment

Admissions, financial aid staff changes announced primary responsibility for management of the under- hree staff members of the undergraduate graduate admissions opera- TAdmissions and Financial Aid offices tions, ranging from student at Wake Forest have been promoted or recruitment activities and assumed new responsibilities in the wake Martha Blevins Allman marketing to application of Bill Starling’s death. has been promoted to processing. director of admissions. Allman earned a bache- Formerly associate director lor’s degree in history in of admissions, Allman 1982 and a master of busi- joined Wake Forest’s staff ness administration degree in 1982. She assumes in 1992 from Wake Forest.

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the College Board of Visitors, said is,” said longtime colleague Thomas O. I’ve been able to do in my profession that as a student Starling “remem- Phillips (’74, MA ’78), director of merit is because of strong family support.” bered my name when he saw me on scholarships, a few years ago. “Straight Starling’s office was notorious for campus and always had a smile and a down the middle with rarely any mis- its disarray, but he always insisted he word of encouragement.” Recently, takes.” Having admitted to school knew precisely where everything was. Starling worked with Walker to restruc- virtually the entire lineup of champion- Files and papers cascaded over his ture the aid package of a High Point caliber players in Wake Forest’s storied desk and conference table. Boxes valedictorian from a middle-income golf history, Starling kept in touch stacked around the room required family so she could realize her dream with many of them, who would call concentration and creativity to navi- of attending Wake Forest. “He didn’t him on the phone or send him clubs. gate. Everywhere, there was stuff— have to do this personally—he could Deeply religious, he was a member of old catalogs, books, yellowing news- have delegated it to any number of Maple Springs United Methodist papers, magazines, mugs, a miniature other people—yet he kept up a col- Church, where for more than forty Christmas tree. Starling had planned laborative dialogue with me at long years he served in its children’s nursery. to retire at the end of this coming distance across several weeks to make Starling married his hometown year, and his hope was that, instead this happen,” Walker said. “She will sweetheart, Elinor, right out of col- of some big recognition event, the be in your freshman class this fall.” lege, and the couple had two children many people he had worked with at An avid fisherman and gardener and four grandchildren. Instead of Wake Forest over the years would and a fearless champion of eastern choosing for himself a fortieth anniver- come, one at a time, to the office, Carolina barbecue in enemy territory, sary gift from the University’s recog- where he would clear off a chair for Starling had a special passion for golf, nition catalog in 1998, he selected a them to sit and visit. “That’s true to bringing to the game the same level gold and diamond bracelet for her. his personality,” Allman said in 1998. of enthusiasm and attention to detail “It seemed appropriate to me that “He is the epitome of what Wake that he brought to his work. “His Elinor should have the recognition,’ Forest is: understated, intelligent, of golf game is a testament to who he he said at the time. “Much of what great moral character.” Wf

aid funds. Previously, he coordinating undergraduate managed only need-based merit and talent scholarship financial aid. programs. Wells joined Wake Phillips earned bache- Forest’s staff in 1998. He lor’s and master’s degrees in received a bachelor’s degree English from Wake Forest in in history from Wake Forest 1974 and 1978, respectively, in 1974 and master’s degrees Thomas O. Phillips and a doctorate in English William T. Wells, in history and higher educa- has been promoted to direc- from the University of North director of financial aid, is tion from the University of tor of merit scholarships. He Carolina at Chapel Hill. He assuming new responsibili- North Carolina at Chapel was formerly associate joined Wake Forest’s staff in ties, but his title remains the Hill, where he served as director of admissions and 1974, but left the University same. His additional respon- assistant director of student scholarships officer. Phillips’ from 1978 to 1982 to pur- sibilities include overseeing aid prior to assuming his new responsibilities include sue his doctorate. and managing all financial position at Wake Forest.

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In Praise of a Passing Legend

Two eulogies for Bill Starling, by two who knew him best.

Editor’s note: On June 22—four days after he died suddenly of heart failure—a memorial service was held in Wait Chapel for William G. Starling (’57), dean of admissions and financial aid. Among the tributes heard by the hundreds of mourners occupying most of the chapel’s lower level were eulogies by Edwin G. Wilson (’43), provost emeritus and professor of English who was a teacher, mentor, friend, and colleague of Starling for nearly half a century; and Martha B. Allman (’82, MBA ’92), who worked with Starling in the admissions office for two decades and was named to succeed him as admissions director. Following are the complete texts of their remarks.

by Edwin G. Wilson (’43)

DO NOT KNOW OF ANY LIFE high school student who came expec- Archie, who, with little more than Istory in the annals of Wake Forest tantly to his office last week saw, intuition but with uncannily accurate that compares—in lifelong commit- when he looked into Bill’s face, the vision, picked Bill out of the class of ment, in selfless dedication, in whole- same smiling, enthusiastic, youthful 1957, could not have known the ulti- some influence—with Bill Starling’s. person seen by that first prospective mate wisdom of his choice. We knew How can even those of us who knew Wake Forest student—by now, per- that Bill was a leader: in his fraternity him best—even those who worked haps, a grandparent—who had Bill’s and in student government he had with him every day—begin to count first admissions appointment in 1958, been elected to high office, and he and to consider the thousands of forty-three years ago. was both respected and popular. We young college-bound men and Even those of us who applauded knew that he was smart: I had taught women whom he, with a welcome the selection of Bill as director of him in four English courses, and each and a handshake, met and then admissions on that long-ago day time he had made an A—in a field patiently listened to and wisely coun- could not have foreseen that he was not his own. seled? Their numbers are beyond our destined to have a career unparalleled, But Bill was more than smart or reckoning. And what was uniquely as far as I know, in American colleges talented. He did not parade his intel- remarkable about Bill was that the and universities. Even Dean Bill lect or lead by commandment.

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Bill Starling’s office. Photo was taken by his son, Gray, after his father’s death.

Rather, he had a quiet confidence that have hope: hope for the young, how- worked with him, those who used he could do what had to be done, and ever unpromising or immature they to work with him, those whom he that confidence never left him. He might be. And every decision we remembered from bygone days, those was shrewd in his judgments and fair make about another human being whom he played golf with or went in giving voice to them, and in his must, if possible, be sprinkled by to the beach with, old friends from work and in his life he was incorrupt- love. Faith is more important than Smithfield, newer friends from across ible. He knew who he was, and that rank. And hope is more important the nation who, one day in his office, self-knowledge gave him strength to than statistics. And love is more were touched by the interest he took succeed and, in William Faulkner’s important than achievement. Those in them. great words, to “endure and prevail.” convictions are at the foundation of And, most of all, he loved his We will not honor Bill if today we Wake Forest and are what have made family. Elinor, his hometown bride praise him and tomorrow we forsake Wake Forest—at its best and noblest of forty-four years, devoted and calm his legacy. We too, like Bill, must —a place worthy of our service and and still beautiful. His daughter have faith: faith in our calling and in our affection. Jennie. His son Gray. His brother the useful possibilities of every day For Bill truly loved Wake Forest, Mike. And his four grandchildren: and every conversation. And we must and he loved his friends: those who Rebecca, Benjamin, Elizabeth and

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by Martha B. Allman (’82, MBA ’92)

Virginia. I think there was not a time Maybe we will be COME TODAY TO CELEBRATE during these last few years, when IBill Starling on behalf of the extend- Bill and I talked, that the conversation ed office family. Many of us here did not turn to his grandchildren. strangely blessed to be today worked with Bill in Admissions Because of them and because of and Financial Aid over these past Elinor and Jennie and Gray he looked able always to see him as forty-three years. Our hearts are full. ahead joyfully to years of retirement. He was our boss, our colleague, our And now we know that those mentor, our dear and colorful friend. years will not come, and we are sad- busy, active, talkative, He was larger than life, a sustainer of dened—and we grieve—in a way that the spirit of Wake Forest. defies easy consolation. (Certainly, cheerful, forward-looking, We have all learned so much from no words from a mere layman like Bill Starling. Where do we begin? me can suffice to explain or to justify For starters he taught us to appre- or to wipe away tears.) The poet amused about life, and ciate eastern North Carolina bar- Yeats, reacting to the sudden death beque and sweet iced tea in a styro- of a young and “dear” friend, said therefore truly ‘young.’ foam cup—or multiple styrofoam that, although he had become cups—and to take lunch very, very “accustomed” to the fact of eventual seriously. He appreciated fine din- death, he could not believe that this ing—Mountain Fried Chicken, Bell young man he so much admired Frye’s restaurant in old Wake Forest, Brothers, Hog’s Wild. His favorite and loved could “share” in what he having supper. He was eighteen and deli meat was tongue (how appropri- called the “discourtesy of death.” a new freshman, and I introduced ate for one who spun such long and Similarly, death came discourteously myself and said, “Welcome to Wake good tales!) —without warning—to Bill, and we Forest.” “Welcome to Wake Forest!” We learned that golf is not a are heart broken. How many times in after years must game but a way of life and that each This afternoon, in talking about Bill have said those same words to shot should be savored so that it can Bill, I have often used the word an eighteen-year-old student? And be slowly and painstakingly recount- “young.” But, after all, Bill was how appropriate and right it was that ed back at the office. We learned sixty-five, and he was a grandfather. the words came from Bill, because, that Wake Forest golfers are not And yet the word “young” is right, I as if in defiance of time, Bill was, mere mortals and that when they think, and perhaps it is in stressing somehow—to the last—still eighteen call on the phone or send golf clubs that word “young” that we can better years old himself. as gifts through the mail, unabated understand what happened to Bill joy ensues. We learned that competi- four days ago. Maybe, in some prov- He who binds to himself a joy tion is a fine thing, especially if it is idential way, Bill was not meant to Does the winged life destroy; with oneself. grow old. Maybe we will be strangely But he who kisses the joy as it flies We learned from Bill how to blessed to be able always to see him Lives in eternity’s sunrise. function in the midst of unbelievable as busy, active, talkative, cheerful, clutter. Bill’s office is of course leg- forward-looking, amused about life, Welcome to the sunrise, Bill. Wf endary. In 1983 when we celebrated and therefore truly “young.” We can Bill’s twenty-fifth admissions anni- always see that boyish look he had Dr. Wilson’s note: The above poem is versary year with a roast, we moved when he crinkled his eyes and smiled. by William Blake. his desk to the East Lounge of The first time I met Bill, I think, Reynolda Hall for the celebration. he was sitting at a counter in Dick When the desk was hoisted, an

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interview card fell out dated [Bill] integrated gently understanding of the passion September 26, 1965. Which brings and exuberance of youth. me to the most famous “Bill’s office” work into play and A few years ago when my child story. A number of years ago, was facing a difficult illness, Bill said when the admissions office was in to me,” I’ll pray for you—no, that Reynolda Hall, following an on- play into work won’t do any good. I’ll have Elinor campus rock concert, Bill was awak- pray for you and that will make a ened in the middle of the night by so that they were all difference.” He was warm and a call from University police. “Mr. humble and kind and we always Starling, we have some bad news,” knew that he loved us and was proud the officer began. “A brick was part of a seamless of us—those of us who left the nest thrown through your office window for other endeavors and those who tonight and the perpetrator subse- love of life. stayed behind. quently ransacked your office.” When Bill now joins the great men and he arrived on the scene moments women of Wake Forest history. A later, Bill surveyed the office and Wake Forest Legend. From him we with an air of relief reported that, maybe more, but he emerged with have learned much. We will miss no, everything was just as he had a clear understanding of a student’s him every day and see him, smoky left it earlier in the day. Amazingly, match to Wake Forest. He truly and gruff, the green plastic raincoat there was a system—he knew where enjoyed probing young minds and draped over his shoulder or standing the important stuff was. knew that native intelligence had to on the admissions office stoop smok- Perhaps Bill’s greatest lesson to us be married to character, maturity, ing a cigarette, chiding us for being was that work and play should flow and potential. From these marathon late to work. And when we hit a together. He integrated work into interviews, the students emerged straight-down-the-middle drive or play and play into work so that they understanding the very essence of eat fine barbeque, interview a stu- were all part of a seamless love of Wake Forest. Bill Starling was that dent, read a file, or package an life. He had a great deal of fun. He essence. His memory was phenome- award, we will thank him for what loved Wake Forest and his job here nal, his curiosity keen, his clear he taught us and we will indeed so passionately, he often remarked thinking and ability to cut to the carry the torch. Wf that if the University quit paying core of an issue renowned. him, he would do it for free. He inter- Bill taught us to be ever-trust- viewed thousands of students and worthy. He prided himself on being read thousands of admissions and a clever horse trader but his integrity scholarship applications but he never never faltered. He was the confidant forgot that these were unique individ- of many who sought his counsel on uals full of potential—their parents’ matters professional and personal. precious treasures. He read their files His advice was wise and valued and carefully, meticulously, the last one we always knew our secrets were safe. of the day the same as the first. His We learned from Bill to think mind was brilliant, he loved to gently before speaking and to weigh all grill students on political issues or the facts and then weigh them a books that they had read. When an second time after they had been hour was allocated for a student given a little while to season. He interview, he always spent two or was deliberate and measured, but

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These faculty emeriti may be retired, but they’re definitely not inactive.

by Amy Andrews Hoogervorst photography by Ken Bennett

REGORY D. PRITCHARD organizes his Gnotes and then clips on his microphone as about twenty-two students amble in. They mill about, finding seats and greeting each other before settling down as he starts speaking. Today’s lecture topic: an introduction to Far Eastern philosophy. A few students arrive late and work to find a seat. Pritchard lectures for about thirty-five minutes, and then gives students an opportunity to ask questions. In this class, though, no one has pulled the best people to deal with philosophy are three- out notebooks or pens. And there are no final exams year-olds, sophomores in college, and those past or papers. sixty,” he says. “I had dealt with the others, but The room—in which, coincidentally, no one is never before those past sixty.” wearing jeans or shorts—is about a mile north of Pritchard, like other emeriti faculty at Wake the Wake Forest classrooms that Pritchard occupied Forest, in retirement has left the University’s class- for twenty-six years. It’s a card room at Independence rooms behind. But while he and the others no Village, a retirement community on Reynolda Road longer have full-time teaching on their schedules, where Pritchard—professor emeritus of philosophy they continue to have common interests: keeping at Wake Forest—moved in March 2000. their minds and bodies active, and keeping Since then, he has missed teaching his Wednes- involved in campus life, the community, and the day morning philosophy class to the other residents world. In addition to meeting friends for lunch or only a handful of times, and he reads and researches discussions, traveling to new places, and pursuing in anticipation of each class. “I’ve always said that their hobbies, they find time to continue research interests, write books, participate in University activities, and read vigorously.

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egory Prit CYCLONE COVEY is interested in everything. Make that everything. “I never stopped working,” says the professor emeritus of history. “I just stopped teaching.” He did that in 1988, but he says he still puts in Some, like LU LEAKE, can’t seem to get away “a day’s work a day, every day.” from campus—nor do they want to. Leake, a It’s quite common to see him doing research long-time administrator, formally retired in 1997, in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library on campus, but she returned in mid-1998 for a “brief” stint where he had an office on the top floor with as interim registrar. The two or three months that other emeriti faculty until the space was needed she—a former dean of women, assistant vice for others a few years ago. Covey is set up at president for planning, and associate vice presi- home with an office that includes a computer dent for academic affairs—anticipated spending and books that are stacked to the ceiling, but in the interim position turned into eleven. nearly every other day he still visits the campus Now, at the request of John P. Anderson, vice library to do research. president for finance and administration, Leake keeps watch over the public areas of campus, to notice if couches and chairs need refurbishing or lamps and rugs need replacing. Her first priority upon retiring, she says, was to catch up on her sleep, and she relished not having to set an alarm. But she also has remained active: traveling to Rome and Prague; tutoring at a local charter school along with other members of her church, Wake Forest Baptist; and attending lectures about Greek drama, China, and mathematics through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s program in the humanities. This spring she invited about a dozen women to a luncheon she organized at her home for Mary Easley, a Wake Forest alumnae and the wife of Governor Mike Easley, so that the women could meet and establish a support network for North Carolina’s first lady. Leake also spends a couple of hours a day reading and tries to walk two miles a day. But if she wants to take a nap, she does. “My philosophy is you sort of live all of your life as well as you can,” she says. “I certainly don’t think one gives up and becomes disinterested. I certainly don’t. I’m interested in different things and keep going.” Lu Leak

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“I think all history is one, and everything is history,” he says, “so there’s nothing I’m not interested in.” Covey says he starts his day at five a.m. at his computer, often working until one p.m. when he takes a half-hour break to eat a Muenster cheese sandwich. Covey says that from his beginnings in academia He resumes his reading and researching in the after- he has researched and written continuously. noon and into the early evening. “I live a dull, staid He says he still wants to know as much as he existence; except it’s very fascinating to me,” he says. can about everything, because all fields interrelate, “I extend myself to the limit of my capacity.” and that he wants others to know about it, too. Covey’s research through the years has resulted “Very few people are interested in what I’m inter- in a stack of books that he’s written, including some ested in,” Covey says. But that doesn’t deter him: since his retirement. Gateway Essays, published in “I can’t imagine stopping.” 1999, covers subjects from “Ayn Rand’s Reason” to “The Trojan War Simplified.” “I’ve never had writer’s block,” Covey says, G. MCLEOD “MAC” BRYAN, professor “never, never. That’s an unknown. The problem emeritus of religion, lets nature start and stop his is how to say less.” A history major at Stanford, days. He and his wife live in an old farmhouse on five acres that in recent years almost has been surrounded by a neighborhood of quarter-million to million-dollar homes. The Bryans’ rooster still Cyclone C crows about four a.m. every day. Some neighbors like it; others don’t. The eighty-one-year-old Bryan says he wakes up thinking about what nature requires: the garden will not wait to be planted or watered. The horse needs feeding. The fence needs mending. At night, the hens need him to pen them up to keep the raccoons away. The whole time, he says, his mind is active. “As long as you’re writing, your mind is working all the time,” he says. When he gets a tired body and a full mind, he goes to the computer. Bryan spent thirty years at Wake Forest, years in which he passionately, and often contentiously, championed racial justice and human rights while teaching his students about religion and ethics. He has written thirteen books, including three since turning seventy. These Few Also Paid A Price, the testimonies of thirty Southern whites who participated in the civil-rights movement, was just published in June. Voices in the Wilderness: Twentieth-Century Prophets Speak to the New Millennium, was written after Bryan had had a chance to reflect on the lives of five influential people with whom he worked, laughed, cried, shared: Jaroslav Stolar, a biblical scholar and Christian leader during the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia; Baptist

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of the Wake Forest classrooms that Pritchard occupied for twenty-six years. It’s a card room at Independence Village, a retirement community on Reynolda Road where Pritchard—professor emeritus of philosophy at Wake Forest—moved in March 2000. Since then, he has missed teaching his Wednes- day morning philosophy class to the other residents only a handful of times, and he reads and researches in anticipation of each class. “I’ve always said that the best people to deal with philosophy are three-year-olds, sophomores in college, and those past sixty,” he says. “I had dealt with the others, but never before those past sixty.” Pritchard, like other emeriti faculty at Wake Forest, in retirement has left the University’s classrooms behind. But while he and the others no longer have full-time teaching on their schedules, they continue to have common interests: keeping their minds and bodies active, and keeping involved in campus life, the community, and the world. In addition to meeting friends for lunch or discussions, traveling to new places, and pursuing their hobbies, they find time to continue research interests, write books, participate in University activities, and read vigorously.

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Herman J. Pre

“I like teaching and I like being engaged in the life of the community,” she says. “I feel a great loyalty to Wake Forest.”

HERMAN J. PRESEREN, professor emeritus of education, neglects neither mind nor body. His latest project is collecting information from Wake Forest professors who served the U.S. in World War II. Preseren, who was in the Army Air Corps in the war, these days also edits a quarterly newsletter for the Reserve Officers’ Association, tracks his family’s history, and takes passport photos for the University’s international office. But his passion has been and continues to be swimming. In 1970, he was involved in a near-fatal auto- mobile accident that left him with a broken hip when he was teaching full-time. “I’m afraid I’ve and severed aorta. He was unable to continue neglected history to a certain extent,” he says, noting running for exercise, so he began swimming. Even the lure of popular magazines and novels. now, at eighty-eight, he still swims a mile practically every day that the pool on campus is open, and he has competed several times in the Senior Games. ELIZABETH PHILLIPS, professor emeritus of “Every day I get out of that pool, I’m good for English and one of the earliest female faculty another twenty-four hours,” he says. “It’s just a members at Wake Forest, also reads often—and wonderful feeling.” aloud. She gathers regularly with friends to read Last fall at the Senior Games competition in books or poetry together—from Dante’s Inferno Raleigh, he won three gold medals—in the 50-, and Shakespeare’s sonnets to the Old Testament— 100- and 200-yard events—and silver medals in and exchange views about the readings. the 25- and 500-yard events. In 1989 and again She found that she had a difficult time leaving behind the classroom when she retired in 1989 at age seventy. “I did not want to retire,” she says. “I had already reduced my load to three-quarters load Elizabeth Ph with three-quarters salary. I would have liked to continue teaching part-time, one course or so.” Instead, her first autumn away from the classroom, she went to London for six weeks, and then to Dijon for the rest of the semester. “It was just a wonderful way to keep from feeling very, very blue about not going over to the College every day,” she says. Since then, she’s kept busy by visiting with friends, traveling, attending lectures and performances around Winston-Salem, reading manuscripts and poetry of friends who are writers, traveling, following politics, and auditing a few classes.

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Charles M. A

in 1995, he participated nationally, swam against fifteen to twenty-five people, and placed fifth and sixth. “I feel proud of the fact that I’m able to do ment and Travel Fund, which has an estimated that,” he says. “Actually I’m thankful. You don’t value of $500,000, also provides money to junior find many people my age doing anything like that.” biology faculty for expenses related to their research. Preseren’s next goals are reaching ninety so he Allen jokes that most of his travel these days is can compete in the national Senior Games competi- back and forth between home and the Wake Forest tions in a new age bracket. “It’s wishful thinking, University Baptist Medical Center for appointments actually, because you never know what will happen.” and checkups. But he also spends a lot of time reading, gardening, taking photographs, and listening to his collection of 730 classical compact discs, all of CHARLES M. ALLEN, professor emeritus of biol- which are indexed. Allen, who’s known for starting ogy, knows what will happen in some areas at Wake what’s come to be known as the Secrest Artists Forest because he’s planned it. He retired in 1989 Series shortly after the University moved to Winston- but until last year kept an office on campus where Salem in the fifties, still attends performances on he would devise and sketch out renovations for campus and around town. Allen brought esteemed buildings such as Winston Hall and Wait Chapel performers such as Ravi Shankar and Marcel and blueprints for the construction of Scales Fine Marceau to campus in the twenty years he ran the Arts Center. Artists Series, and he’s still interested in the arts. Architecture interests him, he says, because it When the Allens moved from their longtime is similar to a course he taught for many years, home on Faculty Drive into a smaller house in a anatomy. A building’s electrical system, for example, retirement community, Allen gave away 6,000 LPs— is similar to an organism’s nervous system. again, all of which were indexed—to his godchild. The Allens have been planning for Wake Forest’s Among them were 400 recordings of Mozart. future in other ways, too. Earlier this year, he was Allen, whom Clara tenderly calls “a blooming recognized for his longtime service to the University idiot” because of his love for growing and tending when the Charles M. Allen Professorship in Biology a variety of flowers and herbs in his backyard, also was named in his honor. Then, in February, the had to scale back his gardening. But it didn’t take Allens established a fund to allow biology faculty him long to put in a few flower beds and make to travel to scientific meetings and field sites. The plans for more. “It seems like I stay busier now than Charles M. and Clara D. Allen Faculty Develop- when I was teaching,” Allen says. He’s in good company. Wf

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Vincent with Open Mouth Alex Katz

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A View of Vision

Exhibit spotlights University’s vast and valuable art collections.

by Ellen Dockham

AKE FOREST donating the WALUMNUS collection to Wake Thomas Jackson Simmons Forest. Simmons wrote (1883) was a man of vision that Kitchin’s request who came from a family of would allow him to real- vision. His father, William ize another part of his Gaston Simmons, professor dream, “that my art of natural science at Wake museum, instead of Forest for thirty-five years, being sold and scattered after my almost single-handedly kept the Assemblage Louise Nevelson death, should in some way become College alive after it was closed dur- the nucleus of a large and growing art ing the Civil War. His sister, Evabelle 1941 letter to the editor of the Wake museum, the cultural value of which Simmons, was the first woman to Forest College Alumni News. By the would increase constantly through enroll and graduate from Wake mid-1920s, Simmons had accomplished the years.” Forest. And Simmons himself was that dream by constructing a seventy- In the sixty years since Simmons the impetus for a University art col- five-foot-long gallery in his home in gave Wake Forest his collection of lection that continues to this day to Gainesville, Georgia, where he served ninety-four works, his vision has grow in size and value. as president of Brenau College. The grown to the point that the University “What appeared by the time I left gallery housed the works he gathered now owns nine art collections encom- college as quite the most impractical among world travels with his wife, passing more than 1,300 works of of all childish dreams was the early and he opened it to Brenau students art. To celebrate this achievement fancy of having some day a large and and the community at large. and highlight the treasures that are architecturally beautiful house which Thurman Kitchin, then president among Wake Forest’s best-kept secrets, would contain an impressive gallery of Wake Forest, saw Simmons’ cata- “Jewels in Our Crown: Treasures of paintings,” Simmons wrote in a logue and asked him to consider from the WFU Art Collections,” a

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to the University a valuable collection of art. Three pieces in that collection, “Spanish Girl” by William Merritt Chase, “Mrs. Daniel Rogers” by John Singleton Copley, and “Outside Cannes” by William Glackens, will be featured in the anniversary exhibit. The systematic collecting of art that began with Simmons has resulted in collections that are rapidly attaining museum status, said Kathryn McHenry, curator of the Wake Forest Collections. This exhibit is a rare opportunity to see the scope of the collections in one space, since normally they are displayed in thirty buildings both on and off campus. “The collection has increased in size and value to the extent that it has become a very serious collection of art,” she said. “This is a valuable and irreplaceable cultural asset that provides an excellent visual arts envi- ronment and teaching resource for the University. Few people know about the quality of our collections, and this exhibit is our opportunity to educate the Wake Forest community.” The premiere piece of the Simmons Collection is “Niagara,” a large-scale oil painting by Albert Bierstadt that Spanish Girl William Merritt Chase will be shown in the exhibit. Bierstadt, one of the most internationally hon- sixtieth-anniversary exhibit featuring ored American artists of the nineteenth fifty of the University’s works of art, century, specialized in monumental will run through October 14 in the “New World” landscapes. Wake Forest University Art Gallery in Also in the exhibit will be twenty- Scales Fine Arts Center. Admission to five paintings, prints, sculptures, pho- the exhibit—the University’s first tographs, and mixed media works ever for its art collections—is free. from the Student Union Collection of Gallery hours are Monday through Contemporary Art. Begun in 1962, Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and week- this collection includes the work of ends, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. An opening outstanding artists from the latter reception will be held September 21 half of the twentieth century, such as in the gallery. Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Portrait of Thomas Jackson On September 7, another family Jasper Johns, and Alex Katz. Every Simmons, whose largess with vision for the arts will be honored four years, under the direction of an launched the University’s as the gallery is renamed the Philip art department faculty member, a art collecting. and Charlotte Hanes Art Gallery. The small group of Wake Forest students Hanes family has generously donated researches the contemporary

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American art scene and purchases she said. “They knew all those years new pieces for the collection using ago that Wake Forest needed to give University funds. The eight pieces its students an awareness of art as added to the collection last spring part of their cultural heritage.” will be on display. (See “The Last Harry Titus, professor of art and Word” on page 64.) former curator of the collections, said “Our contemporary art collection it’s of utmost importance for the is very strong, and because of the University to continue to expand and uniqueness of its accessibility in pub- care for its art collections. “Why col- lic spaces in the Benson Center and lect art? Because it shows what we Reynolda Hall, students are exposed value—or don’t value—in our civi- to it as they go about their everyday lization,” he said. “I think visitors are routines,” said Robert Knott, profes- often surprised to learn what we have sor of art. “The collection is of great at Wake Forest, especially the more value to the University. It is so much sophisticated ones.” Wf more engaging to have students dis- cussing and writing papers about works of art that they can actually see first-hand. For those who are able Niagara Albert Bierstadt to go on the purchasing trip to New York it is a lot of hard work beyond the regular classroom experience, but a uniquely rewarding experience as they have the ultimate authority and responsibility for what is purchased.” Untitled Ketih Haring Other works of note on display include Louise Nevelson’s “Night Zag,” John Singer Sargent’s “L.A. Harrison,” Rembrandt’s “Presentation in the Temple,” Durer’s “Melencolia,” and Cezanne’s “Les Grande Baigneux.” Art for the exhibit was selected to represent the University’s different collections and also to reach many levels of art appreciation, McHenry said. “We’ll have the contemporary art, the representational art, the student art. We want to appeal not only to the art connoisseur but also to the average educated person who appreciates art but may not be as knowledgeable.” But it’s the Simmons Collection that McHenry hopes leaves an impres- sion with the Wake Forest community. “The beauty of the collection is the idea, the forward-thinking of Dr. Simmons and Dr. Kitchin, who could see the future value to the University of having an important art collection,” Flags Jasper Johns

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Profile

The Scholar of Venice

War hero, world-renowned art historian, civic and cultural leader, friend of Wake Forest… meet Terisio Pignatti, Renaissance man.

by Thomas O. Phillips (’74, MA ’78)

URING THE SPRING OF 1944, (Fascista) Alpine brigades in the Dolo- Germans. The paper enjoyed the Din the mountains above the mites in 1941, due in large part to his largest circulation of any Italian Adriatic Sea near Ancona, on the love for Alpine sports, especially ski- armed forces paper during the war. south-central coast of the Italian ing and hiking, and for the natural Meanwhile in Venice, Pignatti’s Marche, two young priests picked beauty of his native region, including fiancée, MariaLia, a teacher of tomatoes in a field overlooking the the highest Dolomitic peaks nearby mathematics, waited for Terisio and shore. They were looking for two he had climbed as a young man. observed with growing dread the things: tomatoes to eat and rifles to Pignatti had confronted decidedly desperation of the Axis to round up shoot. They hid the rifles in the field unbeautiful things in his twentieth Jewish persons, including famous several nights before when Allied year. He found his world and that of and revered families of Venice such boat crews had dropped a cache of his family and his nation torn apart, as that of Camillo and Bianca Sullam weapons on the beach. The field was first stretched by decades of growing Artom, for whom Wake Forest’s within a few kilometers of a large Fascist dominance, then rent by the Venice house came to be named. German gun battery, one of the declaration of a war some of whose MariaLia would see Terisio fewer southernmost remaining to the Axis. worst manifestations of physical, than ten days from 1941 to the end One of the priests was Father Emilio, historical, and human destruction of the war. From Slovenia Pignatti who like so many Italians turned took place on his native soil. Pignatti would turn west and south in disguise to active partisanship against the was called up to train those wintering to get through Axis territory and remains of the German-Italian Fascist brigades, all of them young and scared begin in late 1943 his service to the Axis following the Italian Armistice conscripts, before being transferred Allied troops ascending Italy. of September 1943. The other priest to Slovenia, in 1941 the Italian east- Pignatti and Don Emilio found was Terisio Pignatti. ern front, during which stint he mon- the rifles and hid them in an outbarn Pignatti, who would become one of itored covert activity and published a on the church grounds. From there the world’s great art historians and a newspaper which contained not only they would hatch a mission helpful to permanent friend and ally to Wake news about the eastern troops but the Allies on a large scale and one of Forest, was nearly twenty-three years also editorials that shaded towards extraordinary courage on a personal old. He had come to be in southern criticism of Italian policy and showed one. The nearby Nazi gun battery Italy by many twists and turns, includ- an increasing boldness in questioning contained four large movable guns ing a stint training regular Italian Mussolini’s rapprochement with the similar to those at Navarone in the

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Aegean and other key points in the generous amounts of wine. Eventually further south, removed the trigger Mediterranean, one capable of send- Pignatti was able to steal a key from pins and smashed the gun mecha- ing out shells twenty miles to Allied a commanding sergeant, and when nisms, rendering them useless. The targets at sea. Such gunneries made the Germans were sacked out after partisans took the captured Germans Allied progress, including ship move- another evening of local vino, Pignatti to the Allies. ments up the Adriatic, very difficult. and three others, with Allied rifles Pignatti eventually would be Pignatti conceived a plan to play the in hand, surprised the Germans and awarded three national medals, the roles of subservient locals, who over captured the gunnery. Pignatti, who third earned at the battle of Bologna, several days befriended the German had been in contact for weeks via near the end of the war in Italy, soldiers, including plying them with short wave radio with Allied command amid the desperate and dangerous

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withdrawal of the Germans. While a forties to assist famed director as director, making him one of a captain leading a squadron of troops, Lorenzetti, Pignatti would deepen his handful of the most important civic he staved off a mortar barrage and knowledge and grow in expertise to and cultural leaders of Venice (a place advanced, though one mortar shell equal and even surpass the greatness in which such leadership is perhaps would land just on the other side of of his first art mentor. The Correr, uniquely conjoined). Pignatti con- an old stone wall from him, and its Venice’s city museum, is a wondrous sciously rotated the vast collection concussive shock waves would per- repository of art and artifact. to make her history available for manently injure one of his eyes. Eventually Pignatti would direct the the first time to her own citizenry The Terisio Pignatti who emerged Correr for twenty-nine years, and as well as to all the world. from World War II was a mature, under his leadership it would grow in Pignatti’s reputation was enhanced hardened young man. It has been both quantity and quality, including by his writing as well as by his grow- speculated medically that his physi- its enviable collection of prints. He ing interest in painting, of which cally altered vision gave him a would instill a consistent philosophy the Correr holds an important cache. unique, not quite monocular interpre- of preserving and understanding well In 1962 he wrote for Thames and tive ability to view prints and draw- the hundreds of thousands of price- Hudson a comprehensive and author- ings (and later, paintings), when his less historical treasures great and itative guide to Venice, her history, career in art began. He analyzed law small under its auspice. art, and architecture, as part of the books before the war, then during the When Pignatti began work at the publisher’s World Culture Guides. war applied that same astute analyti- Correr Museum, the chaos of war, Pignatti, who would author sixty-two cal ability and intelligence to partisan including the destruction and looting books and over one hundred articles efforts, whether in his journalism or of art by retreating Germans (and in through the present, began in the his military actions. After armistice a few notable instances, such as the fifties a lifelong fascination with he developed his artistic acumen. abbey at Monte Cassino, profound Giorgione, and never hesitated to By near serendipity he would be destruction by the Allies), had left its enter, and eventually dominate, the offered a job at the city of Venice imprint. The materials of the Correr critical fray about authorship. About historical museum, the Correr, in 1946, were in disarray, disrepair, or dispute. Giorgione—a contemporary and and an internationally reputable What was salvageable, and what was pupil of Titian in the early 1500s career began. Most of all he found a essential and cataloguable? Pignatti’s from the Veneto who was gifted to patient and competent partner in first assignment was important: he Raphael proportions but who would MariaLia, who after earning a master’s was given responsibility to catalog die young and mysteriously—cen- degree in mathematics (at a time few the prints and drawings in the collec- turies of art critics have debated the women did so) would teach and care tion, which sub-group alone num- ascription of certain key paintings, for both Terisio and their new family bered thousands among over 100,000 often determining that such must while Pignatti earned undergraduate separate pieces of art. Pignatti’s con- have come from the hand of Titian. and graduate degrees in art, slowly stant clarity of eye—a heightened Pignatti followed the biographical, but definitively mastering his craft. clarity to see fully, almost three- geographical, and aesthetic trails as Venice in 1946 was similar in dimensionally to place the physical well as used his trained eye to claim many ways to what it is today: at and figurative aspects of a work in the authoritative Giorgione catalogue heart a small town, with many fami- deeper context—served him time and raisonné, which stands to this day lies and people who know each other again to discern, decipher, and despite decades of critical snipping. and who work together to preserve declare. He became within a decade Already an established expert on the legacy they inherited: the artistic one of Italy’s renowned authorities on prints and drawings, Pignatti thus treasures within and the physical prints and drawings, including those ascended the international stage. nature of Venice herself. One of four of Guardi, Longhi, and Canaletto. In the sixties and seventies, appointees at the Correr in the late In the fifties he succeeded Lorenzetti Pignatti’s life became one of world

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travel, exhausting preparation, and of Veronese, in which he asserts or careful delegation, both to the staff Pignatti’s decision reasserts authorship to key works. he built singled-handedly at the To him, his brother, his children and Correr as well as to MariaLia, to to affiliate with grandchildren, his legacy will be his whom much was entrusted with Milli anni d’arte di Venezia, a millen- raising their sons. Pignatti gave a Wake Forest had a nial history and catalogue of the art two-hour private tour of Venetian that has inspired one of the greatest riches to Queen Elizabeth II in 1958, academic careers itself inspired by and he later gave a similar tour to considerable impact the inexhaustible glories of Venice. the Queen Mother. In these and fol- Terisio and MariaLia, having lowing decades he would direct and on the College. raised a family in Venice and lived mount exhibits on individual painters out a full and deft life of political and around the world including several personal success in this richest of art exhibitions at the National Gallery and occasionally frustrating bureau- worlds, now find themselves in the in Washington and the Metropolitan cracy of Italian state and civic govern- position to spend time away from in New York. He mounted a special ment. Along with the Artom family, Venice, at holidays and in the sum- exhibit of the history of Venetian the Pignattis hosted and befriended mers, when heat and tourists combine painting in Teheran for the Shah and and worked with the administrators for a hot, buzzy, noisy life in sestiere Empress of Iran, one year before the who set up the program and the San Marco, where they make their revolution. His writing became well teachers and students who have come home some floors up from the calle known internationally in part because every semester to touch, if briefly, d’ostreghe near the Grand Canal. he forced himself in the forties and the permanent other-worldliness of Their graciousness extends to hosting fifties to learn English well enough Venice. Thus it was in 1971 when each succeeding group of Wake to both think and write completely Wake Forest leased the former Forest students and faculty, who in his second language. His lectures American consulate near the mouth marvel at the century-old large oil and erudition led him to Moscow, of the Grand Canal, when the first reproductions (of Velasquez and St. Petersburg, Tokyo, London, Paris, group of students (there for a full others), themselves valuable works Los Angeles, and most places in year under the tutelage of Professor of art. In recent years those rooms between. Of particular fondness for of Classics John Andronica) met the have yielded to a study in Roncoi the boys were semester teaching stints famous scholar Pignatti, who taught where Pignatti, surrounded by an at Berkeley and Harvard, where them more about Venetian and north- extensive library including hundreds Terisio was on the faculties, and ern Italian Renaissance art than they of his own works, still toils daily at where the family tasted American could otherwise learn in a lifetime. eighty-one in writing and reflecting culture deeply for the first time. And then, as now, MariaLia would on the world he knows better than As has been noted by Wake Forest invite student groups to her home, anyone in the world. Wf officials, including James Barefield, and befriend and entertain faculty Wake Forest Professor of History and and visitors with grace and style. Thomas O. Phillips (’74, MA ’78), direc- Director of Interdisciplinary Honors Sitting in a Pignatti class is an tor of merit-based scholarships and a who directed six Venice semesters, exercise in concentration, heightened teacher in the interdisciplinary honors Pignatti’s decision to affiliate with more so now as his faculties of speech program at Wake Forest, received a grant Wake Forest had a considerable impact have diminished slightly, though from the University to interview Terisio on the College. Terisio Pignatti’s not the expansive intelligence behind Pignatti extensively in preparation for a name and reputation opened doors, the words. He can summon forth in monograph biography, from which this both artistic and legal, that helped exhaustive detail the scholarship that article is taken. Wake Forest navigate the whimsical helped him add a catalogue raisonné

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Grobe Era dawns in Deacon football

First and goals returning receivers in the ACC. Webber in 1978. MacPherson, Speedy John Stone, a Deacon a dropback passer who was AST YEAR AT THIS TIME, track star as well as one of the still recovering from a spring Lthere weren’t too many nation’s top kickoff returners, knee surgery when the 2000 familiar names on the Wake will line up at the other receiver season began, took his first Forest football roster. With slot. The team leader in receiv- snap against Virginia and saw 26 players graduating from the ing yardage a year ago, junior action in the final eight games 1999 Aloha Bowl champion Fabian Davis, also will see of the season, starting the last squad, a new and very young plenty of action on offense and three contests. For the season crop of Deacons was expected special teams. Ray Thomas, a he connected on 113 of 207 to step in and fill lots of holes junior who has played in every pass attempts for 1,324 yards right away. game of his collegiate career and three touchdowns. Name recognition on the Leading tackler Marquis Hopkins (52) thus far, returns as the starting The running back corps is 2001 player roster may come returns at linebacker. tight end. headlined by the team’s lead- somewhat easier. Last year’s With the season-ending ing rusher and scorer last youngsters have evolved into group on the team, anchored by injury (and subsequent transfer) season, junior tailback Tarence experienced players, even though senior veterans Vince Azzolina of last season’s starting quarter- Williams. Williams ranked many are still underclassmen. at center and Michael Collins back, C.J. Leak, the mantle eighth among the ACC’s top In all, 47 letterwinners and 21 at guard. Azzolina, a three-year passed to two young players rushers in 2000, compiling starters (10 offense, nine defense, starter, is considered one of who made their debuts as col- 661 yards and seven touch- and two specialists) return the premier centers in the legiate quarterbacks in 2000— downs. He is slated to be the from last year’s 2–9 team. ACC. Collins, a two-year James MacPherson and Anthony starter at tailback again in There are, however, some starter at tackle, made the Young. They will compete for new names that are key to Wake switch to guard in the spring. this fall’s starting assignment. Forest football this season— Another senior, Mike Moos- Young, a speedy option those belonging to the coaching brugger, returns to his starting quarterback, was called into staff. Former Ohio University role at the other guard posi- action as a true freshman head coach Jim Grobe, along tion. Two underclassmen— when Leak went down at with eight of his former assis- sophomore Tyson Clabo and Clemson in the third game of tants, take over the program. University of Iowa transfer the season. In that game, he In this, the 100th season of David Walters—will man the promptly led the Deacons on a Wake Forest football, they will starting tackle positions. 66-yard touchdown drive that attempt to do what they achieved A pair of talented seniors included his own 55-yard run. at Ohio—resurrect a program headline the Deacon receiving When he started the next out- that is perennially among the corps. Sure-handed Ira Williams ing versus Virginia, Young have-nots in Division I football. led the team with 45 receptions became the first true freshman

Collectively, the offensive last season, and his 4.1 catches to start at quarterback for James MacPherson will battle for starting line may be the most experienced per game ranks second among Wake Forest since David quarterback spot.

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positions on the depth chart. veterans, although both will start at one cornerback post. And that doesn’t include the be adjusting to slightly new At the other corner position, six true freshmen who will be roles this fall. Clinkscale shifts redshirt freshman Marcus joining the squad. But four to free safety after starting McGruder is looking to make seniors, including two starters, nine games at strong safety an impact after enjoying a will be on hand to provide last year. Duncan, who started productive spring. experience and leadership. 10 outings at corner last sea- Both kicking specialists— The team’s leading tackler son, has moved to strong senior placekicker Tyler Ashe in 2000, senior Marquis safety. After an outstanding and junior punter Matt Brennie Hopkins, returns to his post at rookie campaign, sophomore —return for the Deacons. Wf inside linebacker for the fourth Quintin Williams is slated to season. Hopkins, who has played in every game of his Speedy receiver John Stone is one of collegiate career since redshirt- nation’s top kickoff returners. ing the 1997 campaign, posted Deacon sports ranked 33rd a team-high 100 tackles last 2001. A pair of sophomores, year and is among the top 10 overall nationally in 2000–01 Nick Burney and Fred Staton, returning tacklers in the ACC. will back up Williams. Junior One of the team’s most AKE FOREST CONCLUDED the 2000-01 Ovie Mughelli returns at full- valued leaders is outside line- Wathletic year by finishing 33rd nationally in back for the third season. backer Ed Kargbo-Okorogie. the Sears Directors’ Cup standings, the fourth con- Three of Wake Forest’s top The senior, who started all 11 secutive year the Deacon athletic department has eight tacklers last season games last fall, will line up at improved its national ranking. return as starters on the outside linebacker. Redshirt The finish is the highest in Wake Forest history. Deacons’ new 3-4 defensive freshman Mike Hamlar entered In 1997-98, Wake Forest finished 120th in the Sears front in 2001. Senior Nate preseason camp as a projected Directors’ Cup standings, followed by 110th place in Bolling shifts to left end from starter at outside linebacker, 1998-99. In 1999-2000, WFU climbed to 50th place. tackle, where he recorded 52 but two of his classmates, red- The Sears Directors’ Cup, presented annually by stops, including 11 for loss, in shirt freshmen Tyrek White and the nation’s athletic directors, is awarded to the top- 2000. The team’s sack leader R.D. Montgomery, will challenge performing school based on a point system for all in 2000, junior Calvin Pace, him for playing time. And after intercollegiate men’s and women’s sports. Stanford returns at right end, where he recording 26 tackles, including finished first, followed by UCLA, Georgia, Michigan started 10 games and tallied 50 23 solo stops, in his initial sea- and Arizona. tackles, including nine sacks. son, sophomore Kellen Brantley A record eleven different Wake Forest teams Another junior, Montique is projected as a starter at earned Sears Directors’ Cup points in 2000-01, Sharpe, will take over at nose inside linebacker. including field hockey, which advanced to the Final tackle. Sharpe shared playing The secondary will be one Four, and men’s golf, which finished 10th in the time at tackle a year ago, of the deepest position groups NCAA championships. totaling 34 tackles, including on this year’s squad. Three Among Atlantic Coast Conference schools, four for loss. starters return to the backfield, Wake Forest ranked fourth nationally, behind North The linebacking corps is but a host of young Deacons Carolina, Duke and Virginia and ahead of Clemson, a relatively young group— will challenge them for playing Florida State, Maryland, NC State and Georgia four redshirt freshmen, four time. At the safety positions, Tech. Among private institutions, Wake Forest sophomores and one junior seniors Michael Clinkscale and ranked eighth nationally. are scattered among the four Adrian Duncan are returning

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president in the university 1960s system of Georgia. John M. Tew Jr (MD ’61) Bob Frederick (’55) and his received an honorary doctor of brothers, Carlton, Don (’63) humane letters degree from the and Larry, were honored with college of Mount St. Joseph in the Robert B. Jamieson Notable Cincinnati, OH. He was hon- Names Award by the N.C. ored as the neurosurgeon of the High School Athletic year from the Ohio State Slate (’65) Adams (’68, JD ’73) Pinnix (JD ’73) Association last May in Chapel Neurosurgical Society. He Hill. The award recognizes resigned as chairman of the 1930s 1940s 1950s families who have achieved on department of neurosurgery, athletic fields in high school Ira Lee Baker (’36) continues to Martha Allen Turnage (’44) is Leroy Robinson (’50) was hon- University of Cincinnati College and college. The brothers were be active in the First Baptist retired and lives in Chambrel ored by Belk Stores Services in of Medicine in July. high school sports standouts in Church and the Historical Senior Retirement Community. April for 50 years of service to Don W. Frederick (’63) and his their hometown of Goldsboro, Society of South Rowan, where She was in the first class of co- the department store chain. brothers, Carlton, Bob (’55) NC, and Bob and Don played he edits the Society’s newsletter. eds at Wake Forest and was the Robinson began his career at and Larry were honored with football at Wake Forest. The He is an honorary member of first female editor of Old Gold Belk in 1951 as assistant gener- the Robert B. Jamieson Notable brothers also perform in a the China Grove, NC, town & Black. al counsel. He was executive Names Award by the N.C. High singing quartet, traveling the board of trade. He co-authored vice president and supervising School Athletic Association last Horace Kornegay (JD ’49) world and making recordings. the town’s prize-winning history received the Bar Association’s partner of the Belk Brothers May in Chapel Hill. The award Polly Binkley Cheek (’56) was From Chinaberry Leaves to annual Distinguished Services Charlotte Group from 1968 recognizes families who have ordained at the Mars Hill China Grove. Award. The award honors until 1989 and general counsel achieved on athletic fields in Baptist Church last April. members who have made and consultant for Belk Stores high school and college. The enduring contributions to the Services from 1989-1995. Since John Ewing Roberts (’57) brothers were high school legal system and have upheld then, he has continued to serve retired as pastor of Woodbrook sports standouts in their home- the highest ethical standards. as a legal consultant and advis- Baptist Church in Baltimore, town of Goldsboro, NC, and er. During his career, Robinson MD, where he served as pastor Don and Bob played football at helped lead Belk through since 1970. He is one of the Wake Forest. The brothers also If you have news you would like to share, please numerous store expansions and founding members of The perform in a singing quartet, innovations, such as the intro- send it to class notes editor, Wake Forest Alliance of Baptists. John will traveling the world and making duction of the Belk credit card. continue to work as a consul- recordings. Magazine, P.O. Box 7205 Reynolda Station, In 1993, Robinson and his wife, tant and will begin serving on Fred G. Morrison Jr. (’63) was Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205. Class notes Teresa, established an under- the board of the Maryland reappointed to serve as a mem- graduate scholarship at Wake can be e-mailed to [email protected] or Bible Society. ber of the North Carolina Forest for students from entered in an online form at www.wfu.edu/ Daniel W. Fouts (JD ’58) has Sentencing and Policy Advisory Montgomery County, NC, been selected for inclusion in Commission. alumni/Class-notes form.html. It is important where he grew up. the 2001-2002 edition of The William H. Graves III (’64) that you include your class year(s) and degree(s) Betty L. Siegel (’52) received a Best Lawyers in America. retired as dean of education and with each note. We are sorry, but we cannot Lifetime Achievement Award Ray W. Benfield (’59) serves as professor of counselor education from the Atlanta Business publish third-party news unless the person sub- a part-time chaplain at and educational psychology at Chronicle. The award cele- mitting it provides a telephone number for verifi- Brookridge Baptist Retirement Mississippi State University in brates Siegel’s commitment to cation and accepts responsibility for the Community in Winston-Salem. June 2001. He has accepted a education, business and the He recently served as interim position at Old Dominion accuracy of the information. The deadline for community. She has been presi- pastor of the United Baptist Universty as dean of the Darden dent of Kennesaw State class notes is the 15th day of the month two Church in Winston-Salem from College of Education and pro- University for 20 years, making months prior to the issue date. For example, the July 2000 to last May. fessor of educational leadership history in 1981 when she deadline for the September issue is July 15. and counseling. became the first woman

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1930s where he grew up. Church in Winston-Salem from July 2000 to last May. Ira Lee Baker (’36) continues to Betty L. Siegel (’52) received a be active in the First Baptist Lifetime Achievement Award 1960s Our Gift to You Church and the Historical from the Atlanta Business Society of South Rowan, where Chronicle. The award cele- John M. Tew Jr (MD ’61) he edits the Society’s newsletter. brates Siegel’s commitment to received an honorary doctor of ou can make a gift to Wake Forest, and He is an honorary member of education, business and the humane letters degree from the the China Grove, NC, town community. She has been presi- college of Mount St. Joseph in we’ll give back to you guaranteed life- board of trade. He co-authored dent of Kennesaw State Cincinnati, OH. He was hon- time income. If you are considering a University for 20 years, making ored as the neurosurgeon of the Y the town’s prize-winning histo- gift to Wake Forest, and have highly appreciat- ry From Chinaberry Leaves to history in 1981 when she year from the Ohio State ed stock paying a small dividend or Certificates China Grove. became the first woman Neurosurgical Society. He of Deposit coming due, you may wish to con- president in the university resigned as chairman of the sider a Charitable Gift Annuity. In addition to 1940s system of Georgia. department of neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati guaranteed lifetime income, some of which Martha Allen Turnage (’44) is Bob Frederick (’55) and his College of Medicine in July. may be tax free, you may also benefit from: retired and lives in Chambrel brothers, Carlton, Don (’63) and Larry, were honored with Don W. Frederick (’63) and his Senior Retirement Community. A HIGHER PAYMENT AMOUNT She was in the first class of co- the Robert B. Jamieson Notable brothers, Carlton, Bob (’55) eds at Wake Forest and was the Names Award by the N.C. and Larry were honored with ANIMMEDIATE CHARITABLE INCOME High School Athletic the Robert B. Jamieson Notable first female editor of Old Gold TAX DEDUCTION & Black. Association last May in Chapel Names Award by the N.C. Hill. The award recognizes High School Athletic Horace Kornegay (JD ’49) REDUCED CAPITAL GAINS LIABILITY families who have achieved on Association last May in Chapel received the Bar Association’s athletic fields in high school Hill. The award recognizes PROFESSIONAL INVESTMENT SERVICES annual Distinguished Services and college. The brothers were families who have achieved on Award. The award honors high school sports standouts in athletic fields in high school members who have made The following table provides some of the age- their hometown of Goldsboro, and college. The brothers were enduring contributions to the related rates for a single life gift annuity (rates NC, and Bob and Don played high school sports standouts in legal system and have upheld football at Wake Forest. The their hometown of Goldsboro, will be lower for two-lives annuities): the highest ethical standards. brothers also perform in a NC, and Don and Bob played LIFE GIFT singing quartet, traveling the 1950s football at Wake Forest. The world and making recordings. brothers also perform in a Age Rate Leroy Robinson (’50) was hon- 62 6.6% Polly Binkley Cheek (’56) was singing quartet, traveling the ored by Belk Stores Services in ordained at the Mars Hill world and making recordings. 66 6.8% April for 50 years of service to Baptist Church last April. Fred G. Morrison Jr. (’63) was 70 7.2% the department store chain. reappointed to serve as a mem- Robinson began his career at John Ewing Roberts (’57) 74 7.7% ber of the North Carolina Belk in 1951 as assistant gener- retired as pastor of Woodbrook 78 8.4% Sentencing and Policy Advisory al counsel. He was executive Baptist Church in Baltimore, 82 9.4% MD, where he served as pastor Commission. vice president and supervising 86 10.8% partner of the Belk Brothers since 1970. He is one of the William H. Graves III (’64) Charlotte Group from 1968 founding members of The retired as dean of education and 90+ 12% until 1989 and general counsel Alliance of Baptists. John will professor of counselor educa- and consultant for Belk Stores continue to work as a consul- tion and educational psycholo- FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS AND Services from 1989-1995. Since tant and will begin serving on gy at Mississippi State OTHER PLANNED GIVING OPPORTUNITIES, then, he has continued to serve the board of the Maryland University in June 2001. He has PLEASE CONTACT: as a legal consultant and advis- Bible Society. accepted a position at Old Allen H. Patterson Jr. (’72) Dominion Universty as dean of er. During his career, Robinson Daniel W. Fouts (JD ’58) has Director of Planned Giving the Darden College of helped lead Belk through been selected for inclusion in P.O. Box 7227 Reynolda Station numerous store expansions and the 2001-2002 edition of The Education and professor of edu- innovations, such as the intro- Best Lawyers in America. cational leadership and counsel- Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227 ing. duction of the Belk credit card. Ray W. Benfield (’59) serves as Or call (336) 758-5288 or (800) 752-8570 In 1993, Robinson and his a part-time chaplain at William K. Slate II (’65) was wife, Teresa, established an Brookridge Baptist Retirement elected Chairman of the Board Online: www.wfu.edu/campaign undergraduate scholarship at Community in Winston-Salem. of the American Management (under “Ways of Giving”) Wake Forest for students from He recently served as interim Association (AMA) in April. Montgomery County, NC, pastor of the United Baptist He is the president and CEO of

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Center, the first community 1978 The company provides cross- Word C. Clark (MBA) has the professional negligence sec- health center in the country. stitch designs, video tapes, nee- been promoted to senior vice tion of the NCATL. He prac- Louis B. “Buck” Vocelle Jr was dles, thread and other president at BB&T. Word is a tices with Comerford & Britt recently reelected to a fourth 1976 cross-stitch supplies via jeanfar- problem loan administrator. He LLP in Winston-Salem with a term on the Board of [email protected]. The company and his wife, Pamela, reside in focus on medical malpractice, John W. Clark recently com- Governors of the Florida Bar. plans to do cross-stitch across Winston-Salem with their defective products, personal pleted a two-year term as presi- He represents the 19th Judicial the country later this year. daughter Amanda (13). injury, and wrongful death. He dent of the Regional Food Circuit, which is comprised of serves on the Wake Forest Bank of Northeastern New Indian River, St. Lucie, Martin David Milford Morgan is an Daniel A. Monaco (JD) is a University Law School alumni York, a not for profit organiza- and Okeechobee Counties. associate pastor at Trinity partner with Drinker Biddle & tion which distributed 14 mil- Church in Greensboro, NC. He Reath LLP. He co-authored council. lion pounds of food to various 1979 is married to Kimberly Jones What the General Practitioner Jim Wheaton has joined pantries within New York. He Morgan. The couple have two Should Know About Patent Troutman Sanders LLP as a David “Shorty” Salvatore (MA has opened his own law firm in children, Mary Catherine Law and Practice. The partner in its Norfolk, VA, ’83) obtained a law degree Albany, NY, and concentrates (Macy) who is three, and American Law Institute- office where he practices in the from New York Law School in in elder law, estate planning, Abigail Jane, who is three American Bar Association firm’s telecommunications and 1985 and worked as an attor- and management labor law. months old. recently released the 2001 e-commerce, and corporate and ney in New York for 14 years. The U.S. Senate confirmed his Supplement to this publication. securities law practice groups. During that time he married Gazelle Zeya is living in nomination to the rank of The supplement was also co- Jim and Laurie (’83) continue and helped raise three children. Delaware and working in brigadier general in the New authored by Monaco. to live in Chesapeake, VA, with In the fall of 1998, the family Pennsylvania as health care York Air National Guard and their four children. moved to New Hampshire and administrator at PHI Inc. She David M. Warren (JD ’84) has U.S. Air Force Reserve where shortly thereafter David was competed her MBA in August. been appointed Chair of the he serves as a judge advocate 1983 diagnosed with multiple sclero- She has no husband, kids, cats, Local Rules Committee by the assigned as the Air National sis. Since his diagnosis, he now or new-found religion, but she United States Bankruptcy Michael J. Dodson (JD) has Guard Assistant to the Staff is a cabinetmaker with Dana has traveled abroad numerous Court, Eastern District of North been certified as a Civil Trial Judge Advocate for Air Robes Wood Craftsmen. He is times. Blasts from the past may Carolina Courts. He is a board Specialist by the National Combat Command at Langley interested in hearing from any- contact her at g.zeya@world- certified specialist in business Board of Trial Advocacy. He Air Force Base in Virginia. one else in the Wake Forest net.att.net. and consumer bankruptcy. resides in Palo Alto, CA, and is community who has MS. His a civil trial attorney for the San 1977 Joe Waters and his son, Austin, e-mail address is 1981 were contestants on the “Who Jose City Attorney’s Office. J. David Walsh (JD) was recent- [email protected]. Alan G. Bourque is an LTC in Wants to be a Millionaire?” Bryan Fichter recently received ly appointed by governor Jeb the U.S. Army. He relinquished show for the Father’s Day edi- the prestigious Keystone Award Bush to the office of Circuit 1980 command of 1st Battalion 82nd tion that aired 6/17/01. They for Linguistic Excellence. He Judge, Seventh Judicial Circuit. Bobby J. Crumley (JD) was Field Artillery, 1st Cavalry auditioned for the show while has worked as an analyst at the This circuit includes the greater the featured speaker at the Division at Fort Hood, TX vacationing at MGM studies in Department of Defense for 17 Daytona Beach area. He resides annual dinner of the Human after two years of command. Orlando. He and his wife and years. In remarks accompany- in Ormond Beach, FL, with his Resource Mangement The Paladin equipped battalion four children were flown to ing the award, Lt. Gen. wife, Stephanie, and two Association of Greensboro, was the first to return from New York for the show’s tap- Michael Hayden, USAF, noted teenage children, Matthew and NC. His presentation of “Bob’s Bosnia and reintegrate into the ing. They won $125,000 in that Bryan’s “leadership and Cathleen. 10 Commandments to Reduce new Force XXI design for the large part to the assistance of personal contributions over the Joshua W. Willey Jr. (JD) has Workers’ Compensation Costs” 1st Cavalry Division. His mis- Joe’s phone-a-friend, neurolo- past 18 months demonstrate a been elected to serve as offered attendees tips and tac- sions included rotations to gist Mike Applegate (’81, PhD superior caliber of professional Councilor of the N.C. State tics on a variety of workers’ Kuwait and the National ’86). Mike correctly told Joe performance that is unmatched. Bar, representing District 3b. compensation issues. He was Training Center at Fort Irwin, that “stannous” describes the Your language work has made He is a partner in the firm of also a featured speaker at the CA, as well as, fire fighting element of tin, for the $32,000 a difference to the mission and Mills & Willey, and his practice N.C. Chiropractic Association’s duties last fall in the forests sur- question. to our country.” He resides focuses in the areas of personal seminar “Building Your rounding Missoula, Montana. with his wife, Debbie, and injury, workers’compensation, Practice,” where his presenta- He and his family remain at 1982 their two children in Ellicott and criminal defense law. He tion “How to Avoid the Fort Hood where Alan assumed Clifford Britt (JD, MBA ’86) City, MD. duties as the Staff General resides in New Bern, NC, with Deposition or Trial Panic” has been elected as the Kurt E. Lindquist II (JD) has Secretary for the III Armored his wife, Denise, and daughter, helped attendees walk confi- Education Vice President of the joined the law firm of Corps and Fort Hood Catherine. dently through the trial process. North Carolina Academy of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP. He Commander. He looks forward James McDougald is co-owner Trial Lawyers (NCATL) and will head the Charlotte, NC, to seeing his classmates at and president of The Spirit of will serve on the Executive office litigation practice. His Homecoming 2001. Cross Stitch, Jean Farish Heart Committee of the Board of practice includes litigating & Home in Winston-Salem. Governors. He is past chair of issues between business enti-

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Julie Coyne (’89)

Julie’s kids between seven and four- eight dollars a month but is grades, some dramati- teen years old work forty- unaffordable to people who cally, and many are hour weeks. After a year of live on a dollar or two a awarded outstanding ON’T LET Julie helping with community ser- day. The nonprofit program student in their class. DCoyne’s pixie looks vice projects through a local has grown from an annual Despite working fool you. The thirty-four- Spanish language school, budget of $20,000 (“I real- seven days a week for year-old has founded she developed a charitable ly needed more, but I didn’t seven unpaid years, liv- and administers a chari- education project that now know how to ask for it,” she ing in a tiny, uninsulated table educational ser- provides scholarships to said) to $75,000. concrete block house vice in the eighty-five children, a hot Coyne, who majored where the freezing lunch (schools there do not in religion and women’s mountain air rushes in offer meals) and after-school studies at Wake Forest, under a two-inch crack classes to several dozen founded the organization in the door at night, her children. in the belief that education greatest difficulty is “They’re doing every- is a basic human right. This fundraising, which is thing they can to improve is the first year in seven that accomplished by peri- their lives, but there is a she will pay herself a small odic trips home to her limit to their resources,” stipend. She pays an assis- hometown of Norwalk, she said. “In the beginning tant, four teachers, and a Connecticut. Talking to it was just me making housekeeper who cooks churches here and there, scrambled eggs for four to lunch for the children. She she manages to raise five kids and helping them has a dedicated, local each year’s budget. with their homework, board of directors. “I completely under- because I saw that they Since overhead costs stand how much this couldn’t do it on their own are low, the majority of the work gives to me,” she and usually no one at budget goes straight to the said. “Even if I’m not “It is a tremendous poverty-stricken western home could help, either.” kids. Coyne provides bus being financially reim- highlands of Public schools are over- fare, school supplies, and bursed, I am getting experience to realize Guatemala. She recent- crowded, poorly staffed, minimal clothing needs so something more valuable ly bought land in the and under funded; some that the child’s school than money. It is a area and dreams of children never receive a attendance is not a finan- tremendous experience that you can make a raising $100,000 to textbook and teachers don’t cial burden. to realize that you can build a community edu- always show up to teach. “I have such a trusting make a difference in cational center, and of Most Guatemalans cannot relationship with these fam- another person’s life. It difference in another increasing her annual afford public school fees for ilies,” she said. “I don’t affects everything—how I budget (which she per- registration, books, and worry that they might ask think, how I see the sonally solicits, dollar supplies. Only one in eight for things they don’t need; I world—and I’m so grate- person’s life.” by dollar) to $85,000. Mayan girls makes it to the worry that they need things ful for that.” For seven years, sixth grade. Coyne pro- they don’t ask for.” Inquiries can be e- Coyne (‘89) has lived vides scholarships in La Each child is promised mailed to esperanza and volunteered in a Esperanza, educational assistance for @xela.net.gt or mailed country where 65 per- Quetzaltenango, and Llano as long as he or she to Education and Hope, cent of the population is de Pinal for moderately remains successfully in P.O. Box 486, illiterate and more than priced private school, school. Almost every child Norwalk, CT 06856. 13 percent of children which can cost as little as improves his or her —SHERIDAN H ILL

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ties, including unfair and are expecting their second Stephen W. Head (MBA) will an MS from Western Maryland Composition at the Carroll deceptive trade practices, trade daughter in November. Their serve as international vice pres- College in School Library McDaniel School of Music at secrets and interfering with first daughter, Elena, is 3 1/2 ident at Information Systems Science and has accepted a Converse College in October business relations. years old. She continues the Audit and Control Association position as the media specialist 1999. His composition practice of Ob/Gyn in Leesburg (ISACA). He was inducted in at Benjamen Banneker Middle “Awakening Autumn” received 1985 and Sterling, VA, and her hus- ceremonies held as part of School in Burtonsville, MD. the Pastiche Composers Award. Kendra B. Graham was the band is medical director at the ISACA’s International She continues to work as a free- In February 2001, his orches- first of two women to be invit- Loudoun Hospital Center’s Conference in Paris, France. He lance writer after her two boys, tral work “Spooky Does the ed by the Royal & Ancient emergency medicine department. will also serve as a member of ages 5 and 7, have gone to bed. Bunny-Hop” received its pre- Golf Club of St. Andrews to the ISACA board of directors. miere by the Plymouth Music officiate at the British Open. 1986 Since becoming involved with 1987 Series Orchestra in ISACA, Stephen has focused on Minneapolis, MN, as part of She is a consultant to the U.S. Meg Broadwell (MBA) has Robert Daniel Murrell and his developing IT audit standards the American Composers Golf Association Rules of Golf accepted a new position within wife, Julie, have a six-year-old and corporate governance best Forum Orchestral Reading Committee and has helped NASA headquarters in Wash- son, Kai, adopted at birth. Dan practices, as well as working Program. rewrite rules applying to ington, DC. She was a commer- is vice president at Triple J on the development of a new women and golf since joining cial development manager for Enterprises in Guam where he IT security credential. He is the USGA in 1987. As director the International Space Station and Julie have lived since 1992. 1989 also a member of the AICAP of women’s competitions she (ISS) but is now actively work- They are also partners with David Michael Bender (JD, Information Technology oversees six national women’s ing the political front as NASA’s Julie’s two brothers in Outback MA ’98) graduated from Executive Committee and the championships for the USGA. legislative affairs specialist for Steakhouse in Guam. Columbia Theological AICPA Technology Issues Task Anne Brown Puccio (MD ’90) the ISS. She resides in Scott Robbins was appointed Seminary last May. He is serv- Force. and her husband Dr. Ed Puccio Alexandria, VA. Chair of the Department of ing as solo pastor of Bethesda Jeanne Pilgrim Mayo received Music History, Theory, and Presbyterian Church near Rock

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SC. Xan has joined Charlotte- to become an assistant attorney Robert McGee (MD) has been based Crescent Resources Inc., general in the education divi- named to the Albertson College the real estate development arm sion of the Virginia Attorney Board of Trustees. He is a of Duke Energy. He is working General’s Office in Richmond, pathologist at Asheboro within the second home/resort VA. There she worked as legal Pathology Services Inc. and a development division on land advisor to Norfolk State member of the N.C. Chapter of aquisitions. University and the State Operation Smile. Victoria Worthington was Community College Board. She Jason C. Vuic was selected to Worthington (‘92) McGee (JD ‘95) selected to lead project man- resigned this position in May be a Fullbright Scholar to do agement in the newly created 2001 to become general coun- research for his dissertation in Hill, SC. He and his wife, 1991 position of supervising produc- sel for Old Dominion Zagreb, Croatia for the 2000- Edye, reside in York, SC. er at Erroyo. Erroyo is a pro- University in Norfolk, VA. 2001 academic year. He is a Ben Boyd was named executive ducer of short-segment video PhD candidate at Indiana Leland E. “Sambo” Sember vice president and managing content for distance learning 1994 University, Bloomington, IN. has been appointed director of director of the Washington, applications. Steve Gardner (JD), was central area sales business DC, office of The Weber Chris Wilson sold his Hyundai named partner with Kilpatrick development for Unilever Best Group, a national technology of Charlotte dealership and has 1993 Stockton LLP in January 2001. Foods. He and his wife, public relations/communica- relocated with his wife, He is a frequent writer and Elizabeth, have two children, tions firm. He lives in Elizabeth Fair Goffigon Shannon, to North Myrtle speaker on patent law and Jack (4) and Maggie (2) and Washington with his partner, received the Marcellus Waddill Beach, SC where he has opened other legal topics and currently are expecting their third child Eric Fanning, and their two Excellence in Teaching Award a Chris Wilson Chevrolet. He teaches internet business law in January. They recently relo- dogs, Abby and Bingo. this year at the elementary has also opened a Chris Wilson cated to St. Charles, IL. as an adjunct professor at PowerSports in North Myrtle Laura Lillard left the Texas level. She is a fifth grade Wake Forest University School Beach which sells Yamaha and A&M libraries in February teacher at Sparks Elementary 1990 of Law. Kawasaki motorcycles, ATV’s 2001 to take the education School in Sparks, MD. Allison S. Gassner resides in and personal watercraft as well Jonathon Albright senior vice- librarian position at the Kevin Lloyd graduated from Arlington, VA, and is an asso- as Key West boats. president and finance director University of Washington Virginia Theological Seminary ciate with the law firm of at First USA bank. He and his Suzzallo-Allen Graduate (Episcopal) last May with a Troutman Sanders LLP in 1995 wife, Karen, have two daugh- Library in Seattle, WA. masters in divinity. He was ters, Caroline (4) and Elizabeth Washington, DC, where she Stuart Albright (JD) is the dis- Beaumont Vance is the risk ordained a deacon in the (2). They are happy and well, specializes in environmental trict attorney for Guilford manager of Vicorp Restaurants Episcopal Church in June and but miss the warm weather in law. She recently became County, NC. Inc., a national restaurant is to be ordained a priest in a the south. engaged to Gautam Srinivasan chain headquartered in Denver. year. He starts a year-long posi- Amy Margaret Baggio graduat- of Jackson, MS. The wedding Jon Scott Logel was promoted He invented a new safety prod- tion this September as research ed from Northwestern School is scheduled for October 19, to the rank of Major in the uct for his company, assistant for the Archbishop of of Law last May and married 2002 in suburban U.S. Army. He teaches Elementary Solutions LLC. He Canterbury at Lambeth Palace Robert Hamilton. The couple Philadelphia, PA. American history at the United and his wife, Julie, are expect- in London, England. For those reside in Portland, OR, where Jason G. Grimes is the office States Military Academy where ing a son. who would like to reach him, they both work as advocates he serves as the course director his e-mail is kmlloyd22@hot- manager for the Atlanta office for civil rights. for “The Making of Modern mail.com. of Ketchum, one of the top five 1992 Kathryn “Kasey” Cox has America 1877-1945.” public relations agencies in the Blair Whitley is an extra in the moved to a northwest suburb Heather Funke McCown has world. Jason was recently in Alan S. Pringle published his little league baseball movie of Denver, CO. She is working finished her residency in der- the contestant pool for first book, Technical Writing “Mickey” starring Harry at Hampden Academy, a small matology. She is now in private Jeopardy! and travels frequent- 101: A Real-World Guide to Connick Jr. The movie was school for at-risk adolescents, practice in Florence, SC, where ly with his wife, Jennifer, who Planning and Writing filmed in Richmond and should and she loves it! She is glad to she resides with her husband, works for Delta Airlines. They Technical Documentation, in be released next summer. be in a good place for her Sam, and son, Samuel. are expecting their first child in September 2000. Several tech- Rita Robertson Woltz (JD) was health. She would enjoy hear- Betsy McMorrow (JD) is coun- September. nical writing programs have employed after graduation with ing from old Wake Forest sel, director international legal adopted the book as a text- the Rutherford Institute, a reli- Eric W. Iskra (JD) spoke at the friends. operations for Genzyme Corp., book. Alan has also con- gious rights and free speech annual meeting of the in Cambridge, MA. Kate Darby graduated from the tributed to The WebWorks American Bar Association in organization in Charlottesville, University of Florida College of Publisher Cookbook, which Fulton “Xan” Alexander Smith August. His topic was “The VA, as legal coordinator super- Law in 1998. She is a member was released last May. He (MBA ’97), his wife, Gena, and Top Ten Things Every Lawyer vising its litigation and volun- of the Florida Bar and is an resides in Cary, NC. five month old twins, Fulton Should Know About teer attorneys. In 1997, she left assistant state attorney in and Augusta, have moved from Employment and Labor Law.” Bradenton, FL, where she is Charlotte, NC, to Beaufort, prosecuting domestic violence cases. She is engaged to Bill

Wake Forest September 2001 LET THE BIDDING BEGIN!

BIDS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPT- ED for the one-of-a-kind Demon Deacons decorated for the kickoff of “The Campaign for Wake Forest: Honoring the Promise.” Visit the alumni Web site (www.wfu.edu/alumni) to see each Deacon. The online auction will run through 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 25, before Homecoming. Final bids will be made through an on-campus auction on Saturday morning, October 27, before the game. If you can’t attend Homecoming but are interested in purchasing a Deacon, you can still make your bids online. Visit the website at www.wfu.edu/alumni to find out more about the bidding process and how you can purchase one of these Deacons. 54

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district attorney in the 5th pros- She’d love to hear from old redistricting cases that were cated to Charlotte, NC, to ecutorial district, which friends and to get in touch with argued in the Supreme Court of begin work with a Council on includes New Hanover and anyone who is in the area. Her the U.S. He resides in Concord Education Management, an Pender counties in North e-mail address is annacf1@hot- with his wife, Debin, and their International Human Resource Carolina. His brother, Jon, mail.com. two-year-old daughter, Dorothy. Consulting Company. recently moved to Wilmington, J. Kate Harris Hatcher (JD) has Sean Moran and his wife, Susan John McCaskill Hughes left his NC, and has joined Ben in the joined the Emerging Growth Moran (MD), are coming to the position as president of Electro- DA’s office. The twins will pros- and Technology Practice at end of a three-year assignment Coatings of Iowa Inc. to attend ecute their first capital murder Hatcher (JD ‘95) McGuireWoods LLP. She has in Okinawa, Japan, where law school at the University of trial together later this year. six years of in-house counsel Susan has been serving as an air Chicago this fall. Waldron, a deputy sheriff and Thomas Edward Dougherty III experience including an inten- force pediatrician at Kadena Air Todd C. Schaeffer graduated detective for the Manatee received a master of divinity sive focus on information tech- Base. Sean stays at home with from the Philadelphia College County Sheriff’s Office. The degree from Union Theological nology transactions and their two children, Lauren (3) of Osteopathic Medicine in couple plan to be married in Seminary and Presbyterian agreements. and Natalie (4 months). He also June. He will be doing his October. She is also the School of Christian Education. Amy Barnard Hughes graduat- does computer programming internship year at Mercy “owner” of the world’s best Anna Caldwell Freehling is ed in May from the University for a company in California. Suburban Hospital in cat, Morgan. enjoying teaching second grade of Iowa with a master of health The couple has enjoyed travel- Norristown, PA, before begin- ing in the region, having visited Ben David (JD) is an assistant at St. Thomas More Catholic administration and will join the ning his residency in anesthesi- School in Chapel Hill, NC. Chicago office of Jennings such places as Bali, Korea, ology at Penn State University Ryan & Kolb, a national health Tokyo, Hong Kong and Milton S. Hershey Medical care consulting firm. Singapore. They plan to return Center in July 2002. to the U.S. in September for an Sarah Hunt graduated from Joseph David Strelka graduated assignment at Patrick Air Force Navy Officer Candidate School from the College of Base in Florida. in June. She was commissioned Architecture at the UNC- as an intelligence officer with Jeffrey Morgan (MAEd) Charlotte with a Masters degree the rank of ensign. She will be received the Marcellus Waddill in architecture last May. His attending Intelligence School in Excellence in Teaching Award thesis project won a book September in Virginia Beach, this year at the secondary level. award from the college as the VA. He is a high school English best graduate design project. teacher at the N.C. School of Christie Keeley and her hus- the Arts in Winston-Salem. band moved to London in 1997 February when Christie 1996 Amy Christine Glotzbach has Marcellus Waddill received a two-year transfer for joined Fleishman-Hillard her work at Pricewaterhouse Heather Nunez Armstrong has International Communications, Excellence in Coopers. She is working in the achieved certification as a a public relations firm in St. global capital markets group of Microsoft Certified Systems Louis, MO, as the project man- Teaching Award PwC. The couple is settled and Engineer (MCSE) and has been ager responsible for all intranet enjoying life in Europe. accepted into membership with and internet operations. She is NOMINATIONS DEADLINE: the International Who’s Who of Marc Mayhew (MD) has begun engaged to Chuck Moll and is Information Technology December 7, 2001 residency training in internal planning a fall 2002 wedding in Professionals. She is employed medicine at the University of St. Louis. as an SAP programmer analyst Alabama in Birmingham. Elaine Grace Khatod received Presented annually to two Wake Forest with the VF services test team in the doctor of medicine last May alumni who are exemplary classroom Martin B. McGee is a N.C. Greensboro, NC. state district court judge in judi- from Wake Forest School of teachers, with at least three years teaching Kyle Douglas Forst is the gener- cial district 19A (Cabarrus Medicine. She will be doing her experience, in public or private schools. al manager of Traffax of County). He was nominated by internship in internal medicine Each winner, one on the elementary level Delmarva, a radio traffic his local bar and appointed by in Roanoke, VA, before return- reporting network with 23 affil- (K-6) and one on the secondary level governor James B. Hunt. Prior ing to Wake Forest for a resi- iates throughout Delaware and (7-12), receives a $20,000 award. to his appointment he practiced dency in diagnostic radiology. Maryland’s eastern shore. He is law with Williams Boger Grady Clair Maddrey(MAEd ’99) was also on-air, doing weekends at For more information, call the Wake Forest Davis & Tuttle PA in the areas awarded the Rotary WAFL 97.7 in Milford, DE. His Department of Education, 336/758-5341, of motorsports law, civil litiga- International Scholarship and e-mail address is kyleforst@hot- tion, and criminal defense. He spent the summer studying in or visit the alumni Web site at mail.com. www.wfu.edu/alumni/events/waddill.html also served as counsel in the Brussels, Belgium, as a Rotary landmark N.C. congressional Nancy Green (JD) recently relo-

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Will Coley (’92)

Freedom U.S. without legal docu- tion studies at the Refugee the visitation project, cre- ments, and are detained in Studies Programme at the ating a volunteer force of fighter accordance with the University of Oxford. more than forty and 1996 immigration law. In 1997, Coley was renaming it First Friends. “Their faith and their “I’m trying to help ILL COLEY’S hired as a consultant to Coley continues to Wname first hit the intellect is all they own; determine how JRS could focus on raising aware- press regularly in 1999 everything else is taken provide pastoral and ness of the conditions of people caught in when the U.S. Immigra- from them,” Coley said. social services to detained detainees, providing tion and Naturalization “They are issued uniforms, asylum seekers, two years post-release social Service shut the door on see visitors only through after a riot protesting inhu- services, and creating the current system a pastoral and social glass partitions, and speak mane conditions forced transitional housing to support program he through a telephone. A the INS to shut the facility. assist them in living inde- administered in a New husband and wife are It was re-opened under pendently once they are and hoping that as Jersey immigration never allowed to touch. management of a for-profit released. He helped detention center. That They live in prison-like con- company, Corrections found and co-chairs ditions with limited medical Corporation of America. several immigration sup- more people get same year, his work was heralded by the care and lack of adequate At first, the visitations port networks in New Detention Watch outdoor recreation. Many were sanctioned, with one York and New Jersey. involved, the system Network, a national detainees have fled trau- INS director commenting Reebok chose him coalition that focuses on matic experiences in their that detainees benefited as one of four people detained asylum-seekers countries and have been from sharing their thoughts worldwide to receive its will change.” in the U.S. As project raped or tortured or have and emotions with a com- annual Human Rights director of seen family members passionate visitor. But Award, and praised him Jesuit raped, tortured, or killed. when a volunteer encour- for being “a lifeline to Refugee Our programs are aged class participants to detained refugees seek- Services’ designed to support them write about their experi- ing asylum in the United detention and prevent them from ences in the detention cen- States, whose work has project, being re-traumatized.” ter, the INS charged that brought hope, inspira- Coley (’92) A history major who the Jesuit group broke a tion and strength to the and JRS vol- minored in international prior agreement not to dis- lives of others.” unteers studies, Coley completed cuss detention issues the “What is so com- taught a master’s degree in public detainees, and put an end pelling about this work English and policy at the School of to the visitations. About that are the displays of human offered psy- International and Public time, the INS also can- will to survive and thrive chosocial Affairs of Columbia celled the group’s volunteer despite extreme difficul- support for University. In 1994, he Bible study classes. ty,” he said. “I am embar- two years at studied immigration issues Despite urgent public rassed at the way our the Elizabeth at the University of Zim- outcry and media attention nation treats refugees. I’m Detention babwe, worked for the that continued for two trying to help people Center. The United Nations Commis- years, JRS social service caught in the current sys- windowless sioner for Refugees in programs are still banned tem and hoping that as converted warehouse Geneva for several from the facility. However, more people get generally holds about months, and in 1995 he several local churches and involved, the system will 300 political refugees completed a post-graduate veteran volunteers have change.” who have arrived in the certificate in forced migra- come together to take over —SHERIDAN H ILL

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Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar. She is a French teacher at Kiser Middle School in Greensboro, NC. Patricia Thomas completed a masters degree in curriculum and teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University, in May, 2000. She continues at Hogan (JD ‘00) Columbia pursuing a doctoral degree in education with an Salem restaurant where he met emphasis on foreign language Allison—the Midtown Cafe & education. She is working Desserterie. The couple reside towards certification in foreign in Atlanta, GA, where Michael language translation. She teach- continues to serve as web devel- es French and Spanish at Trevor oper for the Office of Executive Day School in Manhattan and Education at the Goizueta welcomes classmates to e-mail Business School of Emory her at [email protected]. University. Allison is a major account executive with Pitney Elizabeth Thomas received a Bowes Office Systems. The doctor of medicine degree from wedding is scheduled for the University of Maryland March 16, 2002. Medical School in May. She entered medical school with a Thurman Lee “T.C.” Chestnutt Navy Health Professions is employed with Diversified Scholarship and was promoted Investment Advisors working from ensign to lieutenant, with Mercy Hospital in Medical Corps, U.S. Navy Baltimore, MD, as an on-site Reserves upon graduation. She representative dealing with is performing her internship at retirement planning for the Flushing Hospital and Medical employees. Center in Queens, NY, and will Ken Feeley has been accepted likely perform an active duty onto the “Pictures from Guri” Demon Deacon Hoops operational tour with the navy tour. He will spend three upon completion of her intern- months on the island of Guri, ship before continuing her resi- located off of Venezuela, com- Remember the excitement of the great games and remem- dency in family medicine. She pleting research for his gradu- ber the special players in Wake Forest’s proud basketball welcomes e-mail from class- ate degree at Duke University. mates at [email protected] After Guri, Ken will travel to heritage in alumnus Barry Lawing’s in-depth look into the Tammy Wells-Angerer joined Peru for an additional three history of Wake Forest hoops, from 1906—when Wake the Ackland Art Museum at the months of research. Next year, UNC-Chapel Hill as assistant he hopes to audition for the Forest played Guilford College in the first intercollegiate registrar in April 2001. Tammy fourth or fifth season of basketball game ever played in North Carolina—through plans to begin work on a mas- “Survivor.” ter’s degree in library science at Courtenay Elizabeth Hallman the Bones McKinney and Carl Tacy eras to Dave Odom UNC this fall. She and husband and Reagan Bradly Strey plan a and the 2000 NIT Championship. Special sections cover Ronnie Angerer (’98) reside in November wedding in Atlanta, Durham, NC. GA. Both are consultants with the author’s choices for the greatest players, teams, and Andersen in the Dallas, TX games in Wake Forest hoops history. 1998 office. Michael R. Burns was engaged Anders Klemmer and Meredith to Allison Carter on July 6, Available at the College Bookstore or contact Barry Lawing (MA ’84) Lester are engaged. The couple 2001, the five-year anniversary reside in San Francisco, CA. at 336-768-8192 or at [email protected]. of their first date. He popped The wedding is set for April 20, the question at the Winston- 2002 in Charlotte, NC.

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Yes, Virginia—and Georgia and Tennessee Horner (‘99) Jernigan (JD ‘00) too— Jen Salyer received the JD 2000 there’s a degree from Villanova Marisa Estelrich (MA) would University in May. like to share her new website at Wake Forest Vanessa Slattery and Brian www.language-arts.net. Kuklick (’99) are engaged. The Karen Ousley Hogan (JD) has wedding is set for June 1, 2002 license plate joined the Winston-Salem firm in Amber, PA. of Womble Carlyle Sandridge for you, too! & Rice in the environmental/ for you, too! 1999 toxic tort litigation group. Chris Corrado plans to marry Trent E. Jernigan (JD) has Greg Kavanaugh in Vermont. joined the firm of Womble Show the Wahoos who’s really who in Virginia. Shaida Jarrahi Horner (JD) Carlyle Sandridge & Rice in joined the firm of Blanco Winston-Salem. He was for- Tackabery Combs & merly an associate with Don’t put any old license on your ‘rambling wreck. Matamoros PA in June. Her Kilpatrick Stockton. He pro- practice will concentrate in vides legal guidance on com- Volunteer your car for the new WFU license plate. transactional and corporate mercial real estate transactions. law. January Hope Streeter recently 2001 Sign up now to reserve one of the first Wake Forest license plates for transferred from Charlotte, Matt Jamison lives in Virginia, Georgia, or Tennessee. Production of each plate can’t NC, to London with Banc of Wilmington, NC, and works in America Securities. She is the fiber optics division of begin until a certain number of orders have been received, so please working as a fixed-income Corning as a mechanical engi- research analyst covering neer. Following his junior year, call Allison Hallman (’01) in the Alumni Office, 336/758-5263 or con- European telecoms and banks. Matt transferred to the engi- Holly H. Watson (JD) joined neering program at N.C. State tact her by e-mail at [email protected]. Or for the Virginia plate, call Nelson Mullins Riley & through the Wake Forest pro- Scarborough LLP in June. She gram. He received his degree in the Virginia DMV at 804/367-0538. practices in the area of toxic mechanical engineering from tort litigation. N.C. State. Diana Gilliland Wright was recently awarded a Dumbarton Oaks 2001 Summer Fellowship, a Gladys Krieble For the North research grant for archival work in Venice, and a Travel Carolina plate, call and Publication Grant from the Australian Arts Council the NC Department of through the department of classics and ancient history, Motor Vehicles, University of Western Australia. She teaches in the 919/733-7510 department of humanities at New School University in New York City.

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Enjoy some of the greatest moments in Wake Forest football and basketball history on this new CD, which includes action from the 1992 Independence Bowl win and Gene Overby’s classic call of Wake Forest’s upset victory over DePaul in the 1984 NCAA Tournament. The Wake Forest fight song and Demon Deacon Joy, performed by the Wake Forest march- ing band, and other songs build the To order, please call 1-888-350-4747 or excitement for play-by-play clips from order on-line at www.wfu.edu/alumni Wake Forest’s back-to-back ACC Championships in 1995 and 1996, $16.98 plus postage and handling the 1999 Aloha Bowl championship, A percentage of the proceeds benefits the the 2000 NIT championship and more. Wake Forest Alumni Association

Births and 6 lbs. 6 oz. She joins her two- Simmons. 4/15/01. She joins NC: a son, Bobby Lee Rusher Paul Davis. 5/16/01. He joins Adoptions year-old big sister, Annecy. her sister, Barrett-Anne (2). III. 11/8/00. They also have a his big sister, Jordan, born David continues as an attorney daughter, Kathryn. 3/20/96 Barbara Hill (’71) and her hus- Jim Welsh (’87, JD ’97), and and managing partner of Lewis band returned from Bucharest, Beth McConnell Welsh (’90), Sara Sitton Crawford (’90) and John Saad (’91) and Susanne & Daggett Attorneys in Romania, in May after adopt- Winston-Salem: a daughter, Matt Crawford (’88), Greens- Estes Saad (MA ’93), Atlanta, Winston-Salem. ing siblings Alexa 12/28/99 Margaret Olivia “Maggie.” boro, NC: a son, Randall GA: a daughter, Hannah Cary. and Sorin 8/30/96. They have Jeb Stuart Rosebrook (’85) and 1/3/00 ‘Rand’ McCrary. 12/3/99 7/12/01 settled into their family of Julie E. Rosebrook, Matt Crawford (’88) and Sara Sue Haase Jensen (’90) and W. Jeannine Guillou Chignell (’92) three sons aged 15, 20, and 24 Williamsburg, VA: a daughter, Sitton Crawford (’90), Mac Jensen, Houston, TX: a and Kevin Chignell, Raleigh, extremely well and are learn- Kristina Corinne. 4/24/01. Greensboro, NC: a son, daughter, Sadie Proffitt. NC: a son, Connor Lee. ing English and adapting They also have a son, Jeb Alan. Randall “Rand” McCrary. 3/28/01 4/20/01 quickly. W. Todd Strawn (’86), 12/3/99 Susie Brock Verrill (’90) and Susanne Estes Saad (MA ’93) David Milford Morgan (’80) Gainesville, FL: a son, Jake Margaret Holt Bunn (’89) and Dave Verrill, Monroe, NC: a and John Saad (’91), Atlanta, and Kimberly Jones Morgan, Thomas. 12/18/00 William “Bill” H. Bunn IV daughter, Katherine Elisabeth. GA: a daughter, Hannah Cary. Greensboro, NC: a daughter, Kirstin Deaton Adams (’87) (’89), Richmond, VA: a son, 2/7/01. Susie is leaving her 7/12/01 Abigail Jane. 6/21/01 and Tim Adams, Raleigh, NC: Harris Stephens. 8/6/00 position as an exercise special- Tate Day Folstad (’94) and Doug Browning (’85, MD ’89) a daughter, Riley Byrne. Elizabeth is a wonderful big ist in cardiac rehabilitation to Steve Folstad, Mooresville, and Kit Browning (’87): a 3/27/01 sister! work in real estate. NC: a daughter, Madison daughter, Sierra Elizabeth. Kit Browning (’87) and Doug Jennifer D. Burrell (’89) and Beth McConnell Welsh (’90) Alexi. 3/23/01. Madison has a 9/14/00 Browning (’85, MD ’89): a John Moore, Asheville, NC: a and Jim Welsh (’87, JD ’97), 15-month old sister, Makenzie. David Daggett (’85) and daughter, Sierra Elizabeth. daughter, Lily Diane. 2/22/01. Winston-Salem: a daughter, Jennifer Daniel Boughman Cynthia Daggett, Winston- 9/14/00 Lily joins her brother, Ian (7), Margaret Olivia ‘Maggie’. (’95) and Lee Boughman, Salem: a daughter, Emmaline Kerry Anne Conner-Briggs and sister Julianne (3). 1/3/00 Fayetteville, NC: a son, Hank. Cameron. 6/6/01. She weighed (’87) and Dale Briggs, Vass, Kathryn Stalheim Rusher (’89) Anne Hamrick Pasco (’91) and 6/21/00 NC: a daughter, Trevor-Emily and Bobby Rusher, Salisbury, Paul Pasco, Shelby, NC: a son,

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Chrystal MacKay Robinson angiogenesis in tumors using Byrd (’95) and Herbert Byrd, novel imaging techniques. Ania Huntersville, NC: a daughter, finished her Ph.D. in neuro- feeling Silver MacKay. 2/3/01 science at Columbia University in 2001 and is a postdoctoral research fellow at MIT explor- left out? Marriages ing the mechanism of visual learning and memory. They can Todd D. Werstler (’87) and can still leave your mark on Wake Forest with your be reached at edbrown@steele. Jennifer L. Gurwin. 9/2/00 in mgh.harvard.edu. You very own personalized brick in the new “spirit Columbus, OH. Amy E. Devine (’92) and walk” between Tribble Hall and the Benson Center. At only $50 per Laura Hudak Daniel (’90) and Christopher Michael Smith. brick, honor a favorite Matt McKenna. 5/19/01 in you can celebrate your graduation, 12/29/00. Both are teachers in Atlanta, GA. professor, or remember your fraternity or sorority. So don’t the Fairfax County Public John F. Devonmille III (’90, Schools system. They reside in be left out, order your brick today! MAEd ’98) and Laura Maurer northern Virginia. (’90, MBA ’00). 6/15/01 in Please complete the form below or send information on a separate piece Margaret Church Jones (’92) Kernersville, NC. John is a and Willard Andrew Barr. of paper to order your brick. school counselor at Northwest 6/9/01. Guilford High School in Your Name ______Greensboro, NC, and Laura Stacia Partin (’92) and Bradley works in business operations at Hanscom. 5/26/01 in Raleigh, BannerPharmacaps in High NC. Stacia is the museum edu- Mailing Address ______Point, NC. The couple reside in cator at the Albany Institute of History & Art in Albany, NY. Greensboro. City/State/Zip Code ______Jon Scott Logel (’90) and Peg Jeff Zoller (’92) and Danielle Roche. 7/28/01 in Annapolis, Stager. 9/19/01. Print your message in the spaces below. Each brick has room for three lines of copy MD. Jim Brumsey (’93) and Kendall with 14 characters per line (counting spaces and punctuation). Use another piece of paper for additional bricks. Kristen Bargeron (’92) and Massey (’93). 3/17/01 in Matthews Grant (’94). 4/28/01 Decatur, GA. The couple reside at Ardmore United Methodist in Atlanta, GA where Jim is ______Church in Winston-Salem. The employed as an attorney at the couple reside in Pinnacle where law firm of King & Spalding, ______Kristen is pastor of Pinnacle and Kendall is an operation and Mount Zion United manager for North American ______Methodist churches, and Mortgage Company. Matthews will work on his Jennifer Richardson (’93) and If the brick is in honor of someone and you would like the University to notify that PhD in philosophy from Douglas Glen. 6/23/01 in Fordham University. They want Lancaster, England. person, please give their address below. to thank all their Wake Forest Jennifer Christine Souza (’93) Honoree’s Name ______friends who did so much to and Jonathan Allen Shimer. make their wedding weekend a 6/16/01 in Raleigh. Jennifer is joyous celebration, especially vice president of member ser- Mailing Address ______throwing the surprise Blue vices with the American Health Ridge Ice Cream party in Luter Care Association in City/State/Zip Code ______Lounge. Washington, DC. Jonathan is Edward Brown (’92) and Ania associate manager of Principal Return form and your check for $50 per brick Majewska. 3/23/01 in Financial Group in (made payable to Wake Forest University) to: Cambridge, MA at the MIT Washington, DC. The couple Brick Project chapel. Edward finished his reside in Alexandria, VA. Office of Alumni Activities PhD in physics at Cornell Bill Derasmo (JD ’94) and P.O. Box 7227 Reynolda Station University in 1999 and is a Jennifer Kelly of Floral Park, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227 postdoctoral research fellow at NY. 9/16/00 in Hawley, PA. Or call (336) 758-5264 for more information Harvard Medical School inves- The couple lives in Alexandria, Or visit the alumni Web site, www.wfu.edu/alumni tigating drug delivery and VA. Bill is a senior associate

Wake Forest September 2001 nline gifts to the College, Calloway School, Graduate OSchool, School of Law, Babcock Graduate School of Management, Divinity School, and any other Reynolda Campus program may still be made through the Donors to the Wake Forest University Baptist Alumni and Friends website at Medical Center may now make gifts online www.wfu.edu/ alumni/giving. A new at www.wfubmc.edu/gifts. The new, secure online giving site offers convenience and “Planned Giving Calculator” can efficiency to all donors—from single, help you immediately one-time gifts to regular pledge payments. calculate the bene- Special features include selectivity—gifts fits of various may be designated to specific funds or planned gifts. programs—and immediate confirmation of the transaction.

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with Troutman Sanders LLP in Estate Planning Group of Lakeland, FL. The couple employed as an engineer. The reside in Redmond, WA, where the federal regulatory practice Murchison, Taylor & Gibson reside in Atlanta, GA. couple reside in Newport Jason is a software test engi- group. LLP in Wilmington. Matthew S. Black (JD ’98) and News, VA. neer for Microsoft, and Karen Matthews Grant (’94) and Lisa Martin (’96) and Jeff Meredith L. Taylor (JD ’98). Kerri Smetzer (’99) and Patrick is pursuing a master’s degree. Kristen Bargeron (’92). Wolford (’96). 6/30/01 at the 4/7/01 in Raleigh, NC. Mast. 5/26/01. Kerri is attend- 4/28/2001 at Ardmore United Messina Hof Winery Rose Brett Hackshaw (’98) and ing Emory University School of Methodist Church in Winston- Garden in Bryan, Texas. After a Ashley Swenson (’99). 5/5/01 in Law. The couple reside in Deaths Salem. The couple reside in honeymoon in Playa del Charlotte, NC. Brett works in Atlanta, GA. Pinnacle where Kristen is pas- Carmen, Mexico, the couple asset-backed securities at Bank Ashley Swenson (’99) and Brett Alumni tor of Pinnacle and Mount settled in Denver, CO. Lisa of America in Charlotte. Ashley Hackshaw (’98). 5/5/01 in Edgar L. Phillips (’31), Dec. 5, Zion United Methodist church- teaches English at Horizon is attending the Babcock School Charlotte, NC. Ashley is 1999, Saluda, NC. es and Matthews will work on High School in Thornton, CO, of Management at Wake attending the Babcock School Jim Peters (’33), June 13, his PhD in philosophy from after three years of teaching Forest. of Management at Wake 2001, Roanoke, VA. He played Fordham University. They journalism and advising year- Forest. Brett works in asset- Megan Kleinfelder (’98) and four years of football for Wake want to thank all their Wake book and newspaper publica- backed securities at Bank of Joseph Patrick Roach, 1/6/01 in Forest. Mr. Peters taught high Forest friends who did so much tions at a high school in America in Charlotte. Cincinnati, Ohio. school for 23 years. He to make their wedding week- Houston, TX. Jeff is working as Kelly Williams (’99) and coached football, basketball end a joyous celebration, espe- a telephone contractor. Marcus Townsend Reynolds (JD ’98) and Kelly Kathlyn Matthew A. Wilkinson. 4/7/01 and baseball for six years in cially throwing the surprise Jera Lynn Nelson (’96) and Andres (JD ’99). 5/26/01 in in Chester, VA. The couple high schools; was a basketball Blue Ridge Ice Cream party in Carl Andrew Cunningham. Asheville, NC. The couple reside in London and are pur- referee for 25 years and a foot- Luter Lounge. 5/19/01 in Richmond, VA. Jera reside in San Diego, CA, where suing their respective theater ball referee for 32 years. He Keith Levi (’94) and Patti is working on her PhD in coun- Marcus is practicing family law and music careers. was a devoted alumnus and Cameron. 10/7/00. The couple seling psychology at Virginia with Lugar & Pohl, and Kelly William Taylor Campbell III received the Distinguished reside in Asheville, NC where Commonwealth University is practicing patent law with (’00, MS ’01) and Suzanne Alumni Award in 1984. He did Keith is with the Asheville area after completing her MA in Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich. Collins Davis (’00). 6/16/01 at volunteer work with the Lions Habitat for Humanity. clinical psychology in 1998 Centenary Methodist Church Eye Bank of Virginia from from Southern Methodist Kelly Kathlyn Andres (JD ’99) Mark Hall (’95) and Elizabeth in Winston-Salem. They will 1977-1990 where he secured University in Dallas, TX. Carl and Marcus Townsend Berglund. 6/16/01 in reside in Charlotte, NC. over 35,000 eye donors, which is a graduate of the University Reynolds (JD ’98). 5/26/01 in Richmond, VA. is a world record. He is sur- of Texas, Austin, and is a struc- Asheville, NC. The couple Brad Gilmore (’00) and Diana Jeremy H. Godwin (’96 JD, vived by two daughters, five tural engineer. The couple reside in San Diego, CA, where Karina Salazar. 1/2/01 in Santa MBA) and Lauran Starnes. grandchildren, and four great- reside in Richmond. Kelly is practicing patent law Ana, CA. grandchildren. 4/21/01. The couple reside in with Gray Cary Ware & Ashley Elizabeth Bunnell (’97) Adrian Lee Greene (’00) and Charlotte, NC, where Jeremy Freidenrich, and Marcus is Samuel T. Bennett Jr. (’34), and Christopher David Melissa Joy Painter (’00). works as a corporate and infor- practicing family law with Jan. 26, 2000, Apex, NC. Livingston. 4/31/01 in Midland, 7/21/01 in Jacksonville, FL. mation technology attorney Lugar & Pohl. The couple honeymooned in Cecil Lafayette Thompson with Moore & Van Allen. TX. The couple lives in Austin (’35), Jan. 31, 2001, where Chris works for the Sarah Stafford Brooks (’99) Victoria, British Columbia. Tracy Thompson (’96) and Lumberton, NC. Texas Attorney General and and Scott Vernon Chestnut in They reside in Nashville, TN. Justo Gutierrez. 4/28/01 in Winston-Salem. The couple Ashley is looking for a market- Ronda King (’00) and Marc George E. Bain (’36), March Coral Gables, FL. The couple reside in Mebane, NC, where ing research position. Snyder (’00). 7/21/01. Marc is 27, 2001. reside in Columbia, MD, where Sarah is a kindergarten teacher Robert Gene Fatzinger (’97, a graduate student at the George E. Copple (’36), Feb. Tracy will begin her residency and Scott is a teacher and foot- MA ’99) and Kirsten James Georgia School of Professional 10, 2001, Nashville, TN. at Franklin Square Hospital as ball coach at the high school. Psychology in Atlanta, GA, a family practice physician. Patchel (’99). 4/21/01. Bob is Louie Samuel Daniel (’36, MD Allyson Ann Fayard (’99) and and is pursuing a masters employed as an engineer, and ’38), Dec. 29, 2000. Mark Christopher Lehberg (’96 Kirsten teaches high school. David William Sonntag (’00). degree in clinical psychology. JD) and Leslie Marlee Garland McGuire Byrum The couple reside in Newport 6/23/01 in Wait Chapel. The The couple reside in Central, Hinckley. 3/10/01 in CA. Mark (’38), Feb. 18, 2001. News, VA. couple reside in Washington, SC. practices law for Gray Cary in DC. William C. Terry (’39), March Kristin Grassey (’97) and David William Sonntag (’00) San Diego, CA, specializing in 30, 2001, Hamlet, NC. Steve Frasher (’99) and Lindy and Allyson Ann Fayard (’99). intellectual property and trans- Christopher McCann. 5/5/01 in Krzyzewski (’99). 6/2/01 at the 6/23/01 in Wait Chapel. The J. Smith Young (’39), May 25, actional contracts. MA. Kristin teaches and Chris is a draftsman for Carolina Fearrington Inn in N.C. couple reside in Washington, 2001, Winston-Salem, NC. For Christopher J. Leonard (’96, Builders. The couple reside in Kirsten James Patchel (’99) and DC. more than 50 years he was a JD ’99) and Laura E. Curlee. leader in the furniture industry Cary, NC. Robert Gene Fatzinger (’97, Jason Rajtar (’01) and Karen 4/21/01 in Wilmington, NC. who built Lexington Furniture MA ’99). 4/21/01. Kirsten Elizabeth Rill (’01). 5/18/01 in Christopher is an attorney with Dan Murawski (’97) and Kim teaches high school, and Bob is Winston-Salem. The couple the Business Law, Tax and Sklenicka (’97). 6/2/01 in

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Industries in Lexington, NC, Lexington (NC) YMCA facility Philip McKay Hutchinson Sr. Theron Lamar “Pete” Caudle of the Women’s Government into one of the largest and most was named in his honor in (’46), March 22, 2001. During III (’50), April 21, 2001, Council, the Honor Council, successful furniture manufac- 1994. He is survived by his his over 25 years in the pas- Fayetteville, NC. He graduated and was named Who’s Who turers in the country. He wife, Helen, daughter Sydney torate, Rev. Hutchinson served magna cum laude, was presi- among American University received the University’s Beck, and sons Jay (’70, MALS Rankin Memorial in dent of the student body, Phi Students. She taught high Distinguished Alumni Award in ’95) and Jeff (’72). Greensboro, NC; Proctor’s Beta Kappa in his junior year, school English in Cannapolis, 1966 and was a former presi- Felix Clark Bishop (’41), Dec. Chapel, West Edgecombe, Omicron Delta Kappa, Who’s NC, for many years and was dent of the Alumni Council and 22, 2000. Webbs Chapel, and Pinetops in Who in American Universities, later a real estate broker. She Deacon Club. He was a mem- the Rocky Mount, NC area; class president as a sophomore, was the founder of the Friends Lawrence Clyde Clarke III ber of the University’s board of Plymouth Haven in Kappa Alpha Order, and was of Cabarrus-Kannapolis (’42), Jan. 29, 2001. trustees from 1982-85 and was Alexandria, VA; and six on the varsity debate team for Library, which led to the estab- named a life trustee in 1987. As John Staley Holden (’42), April churches in Montgomery three years. He was also a for- lishment of a new public a student on the old campus, he 11, 2001. Association. He is survived by mer member of the alumni library for Kannaopolis. For played center on the team that Frederick Garland Chamblee his wife of over 59 years, council and atheletic develop- her efforts, she was named won the Southern Conference (’43, JD ’47), March 4, 2001. Helen, three children, three ment council. He loved his Woman of the Year for 1983 Basketball Championship in He set up practice in grandchildren, and one great- tenure at Wake Forest and the by the Daily Independent 1939. He began his career in Statesville, NC, in 1950 and grandson. memories and friendships lasted newspaper. She is survived by the furniture industry as a teen- remained in practice until Leroy B. Lamm (’46), May 16, a lifetime. He is survived by his her husband, John Hardy (’49, ager when he worked summers 1996. He was a charter presi- 2001, Rockwell, NC. daughter, Caren, and son, Les. JD ’52), two children, three at then-Dixie Furniture dent of the Statesville stepsons, and 14 grandchil- Leonard Paul Caccamo (MD Phoebe Duckworth Diercks Company, which had been (Evening) Exchange Club, a dren. ’47), Oct. 27, 2000. (’50), March 13, 2001, founded by his uncle, Henry member of the Statesville Morgantown, NC. John William Phillips (’51), Link. After graduating from Jaycees, and was president of Joel Eugene Powers (MD ’47), James Earl Hester (’50), Sept. Dec. 9, 2000. Wake Forest, he served in the the Greater Statesville Sept. 30, 2000. 22, 2000, Hurdle Mills, NC. Lonnie Mack Woolweaver Navy during World War II Chamber of Commerce. He is Herron Kent Bennett (’48, MD (’54), Dec. 6, 2000. before returning to Dixie survived by two children. ’52), April 5, 2001. Dr. Bennett Charles Henry Randleman Furniture as vice president of (’50), April 2, 2001. Judge Arvil Woodrow Icard (’56), Dean Howell Crawford Jr. served two years in the U.S. Air sales. In the following years, he Randleman was a former dis- April 11, 2000, Shallote, NC. (’43), Oct. 20, 2000. force before establishing a gen- trict attorney of Surry County helped establish Link-Taylor eral practice. He practiced in Jon H. Gerdes Jr. (’57), March Ernest Clayton Nott Jr. (’45), and surrounding counties, dis- Corp.,Young-Hinkle Corp. and High Point, NC, for 32 years 31, 2001, Wilmington, NC. He May 2, 2001, Ormond Beach, trict-court judge, and state sen- Henry Link Corp. He eventual- before retiring in 1997. During played basketball for the FL. After attending Wake ator in 1956. He was a veteran ly became chairman and presi- his career he served as chief of Deacons and continued his Forest, he graduated from the of the U.S. Air Force having dent of Dixie and Henry Link staff at High Point Regional education at the Medical Medical College of Virginia. served in World War II. He was as well as executive vice presi- Hospital and as president of College of Virginia, where he He retired as CEO of Baptist a former commander of the dent of Link-Taylor and the Guilford County Medical graduated in 1961 with a DDS. Hospital of Miami after 24 VFW, former director of Young-Hinkle. Under his lead- Society. He is survived by his He is survived by a 16-year old years of service. He is survived Reeves Community Center, ership the four companies wife, Louvene Jordan, a daughter, Catherine M. Gerdes by his wife of 52 years, former trustee of Northern became leaders in their respec- daughter, three sons, and four of Wilmington. Frankie, three daughters, and tive markets and were acquired grandchildren. Hospital of Surry County, William Gray Starling (’57), in 1987 by Masco Corp., nine grandchildren. member of the advisory board Henry Albert Morgan (’48), June 18, 2001, Winston-Salem. which grouped the companies Carroll O’Connor (’45), June of the Small Business Feb. 17, 2001, Aiken, SC. Was He graduated magna cum under the name Lexington 21, 2001, Santa Monica, CA. Association, and member of a pastor of N.C. churches for laude in the first graduating Furniture Industries. He served Starred in the groundbreaking the First Baptist Church of more than 40 years. He also class of Wake Forest College in as president and CEO of television comedy “All in the Mount Airy, NC. He is sur- served on the General Board of Winston-Salem. He was the Lexington Furniture until his Family.” vived by his wife, Frances; a Baptist State Convention of dean of admissions and finan- retirement in 1991. He was daughter, Lou, and a grand- Walter George Coker Jr. (MD N.C. for several terms. He was cial aid at Wake Forest widely respected for his contri- daughter, April Lynn. ’46), Oct. 25, 2000. a member of Phi Beta Kapa University and a member of butions and service to the fur- Marvin Lewis Asbell (’51), James Wesley Harris (’46), and earned his master’s degree Maple Springs United niture industry and was named March 3, 2001, Locust Grove, June 21, 2001, Virginia Beach, at Southwestern Seminary. He Methodist Church. He served to the American Furniture Hall VA. VA. He graduated from the is survived by his wife, the church in many capacities of Fame in 1993. He received U.S. Naval Academy and Mildred, and two daughters. Bruce Gorrell Goodwin (’51), and worked in the church the national Anti-Defamation served the Navy for 35 years. July 26, 1998, Raleigh, NC. nursery, which was one of his League’s Man of Achievement Joseph Alger Barnes (’49, MD He is survived by his second Harriet Smith Ward Hardy greatest passions, for more Award in 1991. He was also ’53), July 12, 2000. wife, Faye, a daughter, a step- (’51), May 22, 2001, than 30 years. He was an avid active in his community, serv- Anthony Joseph DiTomo (’49), daughter, and three stepsons. Greensboro, NC. At Wake fisherman, golfer, and gardening on numerous civic and Feb. 7, 2001, Buena, NJ. Forest she served as president er. He is survived by his wife, community boards. The

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Elinor, two children, and four Adam Crawford Grant Jr. (’69, the Peach Bowl and was active that opened at Reynolda containerized shipping compa- grandchildren. JD ’71), June 7, 2001, in a variety of volunteer House in 1967 and began to ny. His idea of pre-packing Robert Edgar Bell Jr. (MD Concord, NC. He practiced endeavors including the assemble her own collection. goods into a 40-foot trailer ’58), Aug. 24, 2000. law in Concord with his broth- Atlanta Golf Classic, the Over the years, she made that could be pulled by a truck er in the law firm of Grant & Peachtree Road Race, Habitat donations of some of her finest and loaded directly into a ship, Richard C. Buell Jr. (’59), Feb. Grant. In 1974, he was elected for Humanity, the Northside art to Reynolda House. In revolutionized the way over- 1, 2001. Formerly of District Court Judge. At 27, he Youth Organization, and the 1975 she co-founded with seas freight is transported. Richmond, VA, he recently was one of the youngest per- Wake Forest Alumni Bruce Duff Hooton, Today, over 90 percent of the moved to Naples, FL. He sons to serve as a judge in Association. Art/World, a monthly tabloid worlds’merchandise is shipped retired from Reynolds Metals North Carolina. He was with art reviews and essays. In in such containers. In 1969, he Company in 1987 as vice-presi- Estevan “Steve” B. Banegas appointed Chief District Court 1980, she returned to Winston- sold Sea-Land to R.J. Reynolds dent of sales for the flexible (MBA ’78), May 24, 01, Judge in 1989 where he served Salem and started her own Tobacco for $160 million in packaging division. He spent Greensboro, NC. He served until his retirement in 1997. He business as an art consultant stock and took a seat on the 30 years in the flexible packag- during the Vietnam War with served as president of the N.C. and opened a gallery in company’s board of directors. ing and halographic industries the U.S. Marine Corps and was Conference of Chief District Reynolda Village. She estab- He served on the board of serving as director and chair- awarded the Cross of Gallantry Court Judges from 1996-1997. lished the Betsy M. Babcock Reynolds until 1977 when he man of the board of the with a Silver Star. He worked An active member of First Fund in Pulmonary Medicine resigned to buy U.S. Lines. In Flexible Packaging Association at Ciba-Geigy Corp. for 19 Presbyterian Church in at Wake Forest University 1992, he started another trans- and as director of the years until he became the Concord, NC, he served as dea- School of Medicine in 1998. portation company, Trailer Packaging Education founding president of Agri- con, elder, and Sunday school Bridge, that is still in opera- Foundation. An avid boater, he Diagnostics/Quantix in New Mildred Blount Brown, May teacher. He is survived by his tion. He died of complications was also a past commodore of Jersey. In 1992 he founded and 16, 2001, Elkin, NC. She was wife of 24 years, Alice. related to heart failure. He is the Virginia Power Boat served as president of married for 59 years to the late survived by his second wife, Association in Richmond, VA. Katie McLeod (’74), May 7, Dominion BioSciences Inc. in D.A. Brown, a professor of Irena, three children, 11 grand- He is survived by his wife of 39 2001. She died at home after a Blacksburg, VA. He is survived English who taught at Wake children, and three great- years, Barbara, three married long battle with a brain tumor. by his wife of 30 years, Forest. Until her retirement in grandchildren. sons, and three grandchildren. She was 48 years old. Katie had Amanda. 1974, she served on the staff of been a middle school teacher Z. Smith Reynolds Library. She Carlos E. Rapela, May 27, Eugene Bryant Funderburke Christopher Matthew Roshong for 22 years with the Cobb was a charter member of the 2001, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (’61), Jan. 7, 1999, Arlington, (JD ’92), June 7, 2001, County Georgia school system. Wake Forest University Club. Dr. Rapela was a great neuro- VA. Raleigh, NC. At Wake Forest, she was a For many years she was an scientist and pioneer in study- Franklin Clifford Miller (MD member of Thymes and an active participant in a ing the regulation of cerebral ’61), Nov. 16, 2000. honors graduate majoring in gourmet-cooking group that blood flow, and a former pro- Deaths Neil Leland Simstein (’64), biology. She received her mas- had ties to Wake Forest. She is fessor at Bowman Gray School ters degree from East Tennessee survived by two daughters, six of Medicine. He was in the March 2, 2001. He graduated Faculty, from New York Medical State University. grandchildren, and seven great- department of physiology for Staff and School and completed a surgi- Thomas C. Huber (’77), June grandchildren. twenty years beginning in Friends cal residency in general surgery 25, 2001, Atlanta, GA, from Annie Zelphia Jessup, June 5, 1957. while serving in the U.S. Navy. melanoma. He was employed Betsy Main Babcock, April 5, 2001, Mount Airy, NC. She Herbert Reynolds, June 18, Surviving are his wife, Beverly, by UPS as a portfolio director 2001. She was the daughter of was the cafeteria manager for 2001, Winston-Salem. Mr. and three daughters. and resided in Atlanta, GA. Charles Henry and Mary more than 30 years at the Old Reynolds and three of his Reynolds Babcock and the James Campbell Steadman After graduation, Tom received Wake Forest College. brothers founded L.A. granddaughter of R.J. and (’64), April 16, 2001. his MBA from Loyola and also Ethel Bolling Kanoy, May 18, Reynolds Co. in 1944. He secured his CFA. He served for Katharine Smith Reynolds. In served as the president and the Vascue O’Neil Brown (MD 2001, Winston-Salem. She was many years as the official scor- the 1960s she worked as spe- chairman of the board of the ’65), Nov. 9, 2000. a retired employee of Wake cial assistant to the deputy er for Georgia Tech basketball Forest University. company and its subsidiaries William Spencer Fulcher (’65), where he was recognized as one administrator of the Human from 1961 until his retirement William A. Lindsay Jr., June Nov. 10, 2000. of the top official scorers in Resources Administration in 1974. He took great plea- 10, 2001, Bessemer City, NC. John M. Perdue Sr. (MD ’65), college basketball. In addition under Mayor Lindsay. During sure in the role the company He was a member of the March 26, 2000. to his scoring duties for the Nixon administration, she played in building highways went to Washington, DC, to Demon Deacons Club and was Edna Hearn Cascioli (’67), Georgia Tech, he also served as throughout the state of North work for the Democratic an avid golfer and sports May 27, 2000. She taught for official scorer at the ACC bas- Carolina, as well as Virginia National Committee and enthusiast. 25 years at North Lenoir High ketball tournament, several and Florida. He is survived by served in the Democratic Policy Malcom P. McLean, May 25, School and was named NCAA regionals, and was the his wife, Patsy, eleven grand- Committee under Hubert 2001, New York, NY. He was “Teacher of the Year” for official scorer for the 1996 children, and six great-grand- Humphrey. She was inspired by the founder of Sea-Land 1986. She is survived by four Olympic gold medal game. children. the collection of American art Service Inc., the world’s first children. Tom served as vice chairman of

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The Last Word

Urmi Engineer (’02)

The art of art acquisition Me, five other students, our faculty advisor, and a representative from the Benson University Center were chosen to fly to New York City this spring to purchase pieces for the Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art. It was a great honor, not only because the trip occurs just once every four years, but because I was the only junior selected.

UR BUDGET WAS artists. Things got tense; we were O$50,000, and our challenge not coming to a consensus. Finally, was to buy as many pieces in as we pared our individual lists to a many genre as possible without collective one, but the final selec- sacrificing quality and importance. tions exceeded our budget and we Good art can be expensive, and just could not bear sacrificing any of the a few pieces can quickly consume such works on the list. Eliminating any of a sum. We had prepared for the trip all them would have made our selections seem year, conducting extensive research on the incomplete as a representation of the trends in contemporary art scene, and we went to New art during our four years in college. York with a good understanding of what we We spent the rest of the weekend negotiating thought we should consider. with galleries, and thanks to their willingness As we visited galleries, it was very difficult to compromise on price we were able to get all to identify ideal pieces for the Student Union of the pieces on our list. Ultimately, we added Collection. Every piece had to be judged on its eight works to the collection in a range of media contribution to current movements in contem- and by artists who are considered among the porary art, its aesthetic value, its meaning and more important of our time. In the end, every- appropriateness, and its price. Personally, it was one was satisfied with what we had acquired, difficult to decide which pieces I thought we and we had grown close in the process. It was should buy. I wondered how much more diffi- an invaluable experience, not only from an artis- cult it would be for us as a group to select the tic standpoint, but as an exercise in group work acquisitions. for the greater outcome. Wf On the Friday night we were there, we sat at a table in the restaurant of our hotel for Urmi Engineer (’02) of Charlotte, North Carolina, is a hours arguing for and against certain pieces and rising senior majoring in art and history.

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