September 1989 Wake Forest University Magazine orest Wake Forest University Magazine Volume 36, Number 1 September 1989 Campus Chronicle 2 Pignatti Elected to American Academy 2 • Divinity School Development Director Named 3 • Sears Roebuck Grant 3 • Graylyn Honored 3 Features 4 A Day in Beijing: Students Remember 4 • Frank Thompson: Tribute to an Alumnus 7 • Hard-Hat Area: Construction Changes Face of Campus 9 University Departments 20 Athletics: Two Opens for Strange 20 • Dreams on Several Fields 21 Alumni News and Classnotes 22 Babcock Fund Thrives 22 • Wachovia's $1 Million Pledge 22 • Staff Ap­ pointments 23 • College Fund Has Record Campaign 23 • Classnotes 24 Editor -Jeanne P. Whitman • Assistant Editor- Cherin C. Poovey Classnotes Editor- Adele LaBrecque • Design - Debbie D. 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POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE, 7227 Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. Campus Chronicle Terisio Pignatti: Honored for his scholarship and teaching Pignatti Is Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences erisio Pignatti has in­ and Sciences as a foreign adjunct professor at Casa Ttroduced hundreds of honorary member. Election Artom in Venice. Professor Wake Forest students to the to the Academy is one of Pignatti and his wife, Maria glory of the Venetian the academic world's Lia, came to the Reynolda Renaissance through the highest honors. campus for the fall semes­ language of art. In the Pignatti's international ters of 1984 and 1986 and stone and marble galleries reputation is based on ac­ the spring semester of 1989. of Venice's museums and tive scholarship and Pignatti's course, "The cathedrals, Pignatti teaches teaching in Europe and the Paintings of Paolo composition, color, and United States. He taught at Veronese," was crowded history using some of the the University of California with students who had world's most beautiful art at Berkeley in 1966 and at studied with him in Venice as his vehicles. For many of Harvard University in 1981; or who were familiar with the students who have however, his main associa­ his reputation. studied at Casa Artom, tion with American univer­ Pignatti has studied and Pignatti's course becomes sities had been as a mem­ written about most of the one of the most memorable ber of Wake Forest's art of Venice in more than parts of the semester. Department of Art since 60 books and articles. There For his scholarship and 1971, when he became an is practically no great Vene­ superior teaching, Professor tian old master-painter, Pignatti was elected to the American Academy of Arts draughtsman, or print­ chair in the University of Sears Roebuck "Executive Retreat of the maker-about whom he has Venice) study his manual, Year" in 1985. The 55-acre not written. He has exam­ The Art of the World. Even Presents Award estate, formerly the home ined Bellini, Carpaccio, more significant is the title of Bowman Gray, has 49 Giorgione, Titian, Tintoret­ of Pignatti's latest book, ake Forest University guest rooms. That capacity to, Veronese, Tiepolo, Lon­ published in 1989: Venice: W has been selected to will almost double in 1990 ghi, Canaletto, Guardi. He One Thousand Years of Art. panicipate in Sears Roebuck with the restoration of The is currently completing a It represents a synthesis of Foundation's 1989-90 Teach­ Mews. catalog of the old masters' Pignatci's decades of ing Excellence and Campus drawings of the Correr research and teaching. Leadership Award Program. Museum, where he is the Pignatci was born in Wake Forest is one of 00 Mandelbaum director. Mantua, Italy in 1920. He private liberal arts colleges Appointed An students in Italian holds degrees in law and and universities to receive universities (he holds a fine arts. the awards, which recognize Kenan Professor excellent educators. Win­ ning faculty members will r. Allen Mandelbaum, receive 1,000. The Univer­ Da scholar, translator sity will receive a 1,500 in­ and poet of international Divinity Development Director Named stitutional grant to encour­ repute, has joined the age campus leadership, faculty as Kenan Professor oben Spinks, former faculr\' enrichment, and im­ of Humanities for the R chief fund-raising proved teaching. 1989-90 academic year officer for the Southeastern Mter teaching at Cornell, Theological Seminary, be­ Columbia, Yeshiva and came director of develop­ Graylyn Chosen Hunter College, Mandel­ ment for the University's One of 5 Best baum was a Rockefeller Fel­ proposed divinity school on Executive Retreats low in Humanities and Sept. 1. then went to the Society of In April, the Board of Fellows at Harvard Universi­ Trustees approved the raylyn Conference ty in 1951, spending most proposal for a divinity G Center of Wake Forest of the appointment in Italy, school contingent upon the Umversity has been selected where he was a Fulbright funds for a projected 1 as one of five executive Research Scholar. Mandel­ million annual operating retreats of the decade in baum has received the Ord­ the lOth anniversary issue of er of Merit from the budget. The divinity school Robert Spinks would be ecumenical, Andrew Harper' Hideaway Republic of Italy. Since his Report. The repon describes return to the United States, though predominantly At Southeastern, Spinks itself as a "connoisseur's he has taught at the Baptist. was assistant to the presi­ guide to peaceful and un­ Graduate Center of the "Baptists have an oppor­ dent for financial develop­ spoiled places." City University of New tunity to develop a new, ment from 1978-1988. He This is the second time York, where he chaired for fust-rate divinity school in a left Southeastern to become Graylyn has been listed in eight years and was formerly historically Baptist atmos­ vice president for develop­ the repon. It was named professor emeritus of En­ phere," said Spinks. "Now ment and institutional rela­ glish and Comparative is the time. All we need is tions at Colgate Rochester Literature. He is co-General the help of our friends." Divinity School, Bexley Hall Editor of both the JPS ] ew­ and Crozer Theological ish Poetry Series and Seminary. California Lectura Dantis. Tell the World! Students Wzll Always Remember That Day in Bezji.ng EDISON MciNTYRE urning buses, bloodstained sidewalks, and milling Chinese crowded the view of Wake Forest students caught in the turmoil of downtown Beijing one Sunday morning last June. As they sat tensely in a van, hoping to go to the Beijing air- port, a Chinese man suddenly opened the front door and shouted: "Seven thousand have died! Tell the world!" At that moment, home and "the world" seemed a long way off. There were few feelings of foreboding when 25 Wake Forest students and two professors left the United States for Japan and China on May 19. It was the third student tour that John Litcher, professor of education, had taken to the Orient in three years. This summer, for the first time, the tour included Wake Forest eight hours in Beijing whelming feeling that business students taking an seemed like a tourist holi- nobody liked the govern- international management day. "We completed the ment." course taught by Associate entire tour on schedule," The situation in Beijing Professor Stephen Ewing of Ewing said. "It was only appeared calm that Friday. the School of Business and the last 24 hours in Beijing On Saturday, the Wake Accountancy. that were a little out of the Forest group took in an In Japan, the group kept ordinary." evening acrobatic show after up with the news of unrest Among the sites they a day trip to the Great in China, where Beijing visited on Friday, June 2, Wall, north of Beijing. As students continued to pro- was Tiananmen Square, they boarded the tour bus test corruption in the where thousands of students after the show, a military Chinese government, and and other Chinese citizens helicopter flew low over- the government threatened had been gathering in pro- head, and the Wake Forest to send in the troops. Lit- test for the previous six students began to sense a cher stayed in close touch weeks. new, more tense atmosphere with University officials Earlier in the tour, in the city. The bus driver back in Winston-Salem, Chinese students in the city said Chinese government who agreed to let the group of Xi'an told the Americans radio and television broad- go on to China. they had been waiting for casts were warning people "The tension seemed to years for the chance to to stay indoors, away from be easing about the time speak out. "They were very Tiananmen Square. The we went in," Litcher said eager to express their opin- tour guide urged the later. "In terms of ions, without being asked," Americans to return to their volatileness it seemed to be said Andrew Carson, a hotel and stay put.