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Features 12 World Wide by Ellen Dockham A task force recommends broaden- ing Wake Forest’s already expansive study-abroad program. 18 Wait’s End by Amy Andrews A Wake Forest Divinity School, a vision for decades and a promise for years, has come. Page 12

Essays Page 26 26 Signs of the Times by Bill J. Leonard Religion in America is not just Christianity any more. Or, some Departments might say, even religion. But it’s definitely spiritual. 2 Campus Chronicle Profile 32 Sports 34 Dugout Demon by Dan Collins Page 18

39 University Advancement George Greer has built a champi- onship baseball program by getting the right people in the right places 44 Alumni Report doing the right things at the right time.

47 Class Notes

64 The Last Word

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Grant will support women science students

Scientific in 2001. The grants will be graduate stipends, and under- made solely on the basis of graduate scholarships at the advancement merit and will cover tuition, most prestigious colleges and room and board, and other universities in the country. ERSEVERANCE HAS fees and expenses for their Competition is stiff for the Pbeen rewarded. The team junior and senior years. few grants made to new insti- of Wake Forest professors and Since 1994 a number of tutions each year. Thirteen administrators who have been professors and administrators schools are permanent mem- building a program to encour- have worked to build a pro- bers of the program and half age women science students to gram at Wake Forest that would of the others chosen must be give special encouragement and Roman Catholic. Wake Forest support to women students sought an invitation to partici- who expressed an interest in pate in the program for four science and mathematics. years before finally receiving Ellen Kirkman, professor of word earlier this year. mathematics and computer “This is a great award for science, chairs the Women in Wake Forest,” said Kirkman. Science (WIS) Committee, “It provides very tangible which has sought University recognition of the efforts of so support as well as external many faculty and administra- funding for their programs. tors—women and men—to The Clare Booth Luce Program encourage women students to Officials feel the scholarships will aid recruitment of promising is one external funder they pursue important careers in women science students. targeted early on. mathematics, the sciences, and pursue careers in science and Clare Boothe Luce, the computer science. We expect mathematics has received word widow of Time-Life Inc. the availability of these schol- that the Clare Booth Luce Pro- founder Henry R. Luce, was arships to play an important gram of the Henry Luce Foun- a playwright, journalist, U.S. role in our recruitment of high dation has awarded $255,356 ambassador to Italy, and the school students who show to Wake Forest to fund four first woman elected to Congress great promise in these fields.” Clare Boothe Luce Scholarships from Connecticut. In her will The Luce Scholars will be for undergraduates. she established a fund to encour- well-supported at Wake Beginning in fall 2000, age women to enter, study, Forest. A professor will men- the University will award two graduate from, and pursue tor each scholar in her major scholarships to outstanding careers in physics, chemistry, field, monitoring her progress upperclass women students in biology, computer sciences, and assisting her research. science, mathematics, or com- mathematics, and engineering. Each Luce Scholar will be puter science. Two additional The Clare Boothe Luce encouraged to seek a summer scholarships will be awarded Program funds professorships, research opportunity between

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her junior and senior years with One on one funding from the University. The Luce grant will com- Student-faculty partnerships plement the WIS committee’s are prized at WFU. efforts to coordinate mentor- ing, offer information, and HE OPPORTUNITY for provide support to women Tstudents and professors students and faculty in science. to work closely together is From its beginnings as a perhaps Wake Forest’s most homeless, moneyless entity, admired and zealously pro- the committee has built an tected tradition. Keeping established program. An class size small to encourage Alfred P. Sloan Foundation interaction is important, but grant provided support in finding the right professors

1996 for Cheryl Leggon, to encourage and enjoy this Christian Stevenson’s work with Bruce King, right, landed him an NSF fellowship. associate professor of sociol- interaction is equally necessary. ogy, to conduct a study of the Sometimes that interaction environment for women in becomes tangible in the form duty as an instructor,” says mathematics and science at of honors and awards, as it did King. “You need to work in a Wake Forest. The grant also for Christian Stevenson (’99). lab to understand it.” provided funds for speakers Stevenson’s research in organic Collaboration improves and gatherings of students chemistry, conducted under classes and labs and helps to discuss topics of interest the direction of Assistant faculty see new perspectives. and money to form a local Professor of Chemistry Bruce “When a student works with chapter of the Association of King, yielded a National you, it’s a greater commitment Women in Science with other Science Foundation Doctoral and a stronger relationship area institutions. Fellowship and the opportu- forms,” says King. “I can Many women students who nity to pursue a doctorate in ask about things I can improve show initial interest in science organic chemistry at Harvard or how the department can and mathematics opt not to University. improve.” continue. Kirkman believes “My research,” says Where personal relation- there are a number of reasons— Stevenson, “was to try and ships flourish between students among them, classroom envi- make a compound to deliver and professors, students are ronment, a shortage of women nitric oxide in biological tests, inspired to imagine possibilities role models, a lack of informa- and down the road, as a ther- outside of those presented tion about career possibilities, apeutic agent. Nitric oxide in the classroom. Nathan and potential conflict between is a simple gas found in the Trinklein (’99) discovered in the time demands of career body that has many roles, his junior year an interest and family. WIS addresses such as with blood pressure, in genetics research. Trinklein issues of concern through the immune system, and nerve approached Clifford Zeyl, workshops on topics such as signaling.” assistant professor of biology, career options and balancing King stopped in the lab about an idea for a research work and family. Wf often to see how things were project and asked if there —Patricia Poe going. “I look at undergradu- were space available in ate research as a part of my Zeyl’s lab.

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“I had an idea of what I Research Association titled Bat men wanted to do,” says Trinklein, “Choosing Silence: Defiance “and I collaborated with Dr. and Resistance Without It’s not the bat cave, it’s the Zeyl to design an experiment Voice in Jane Campion’s bat chamber. And it’s not in using yeast as a model organ- The Piano.” Metropolis, it’s in Winston. ism to study evolutionary To prepare for the presen- trends. We had some false tation, Patchel led a discussion IOLOGIST BILL Conner starts and blind alleys, but on The Piano in Dalton’s Film Bhas spent more than twenty things got underway.” Theory and Criticism class, years studying tiger moths, a “The attraction for me [in and both Dalton and Patchel poisonous family of moths coming to] Wake Forest,” says led a discussion on the film in found throughout the world. Zeyl, “was the blend of teach- an Introduction to Women’s But there is one mystery that ing and research. Within a Studies class. has eluded him: Why do the semester or two, students can “I see teaching as a recip- moths actually make sound observe research. Nathan rocal relationship,” says when they’re being hunted by came up with a project of his Dalton. “I fully expect to bats—animals that use sound own invention. Apart from the learn from my students. This to locate their prey? facts, the student learns the exchange makes students “You would think that if process of research.” more accountable for their you were a moth you would Trinklein will continue his learning, and their involve- not want to answer a bat and Top: Mary Dalton, left, and Kirsten research at Stanford University. ment encourages good rela- tell it you’re there,” said Conner, Patchel jointly presented a scholarly “The results aren’t in yet, but tionships. professor and chair of biology paper. Above: Nathan Trinklein, left, pursued his interest in genetics I’m looking forward to seeing “One of my favorite hob- at Wake Forest. “So we were research in Clifford Zeyl’s lab. the conclusion,” he says. “To bies is keeping up with former very curious about why this eventually see [the results] in students,” Dalton continues. family of moths answers bats.” print would be the most “I have a continuing interest Over the next two years, rewarding accomplishment.” in their work, and I find I with the collaboration of The commitment to per- do develop good, strong graduate student Nickolay sonal attention is embraced relationships with students. Hristov and the use of a spe- throughout the University in We sometimes collaborate cially constructed bat cham- a variety of ways, depending after graduation on projects, ber, he hopes to find out. The on discipline. In the psycho- and this is really a joy to me. research will form the core of logy department, nine honors It adds to the quality of my Hristov’s doctoral dissertation. student presentations described professional life.” Unlike many moth species, collaborative research on An enthusiastic Patchel tiger moths have ears. They topics ranging from dating agrees. “Mary is my mentor, can hear the high-frequency relationships to an art-related my colleague, and my friend,” sounds that bats use to ecolo- presentation on judging bright- she says. “She’s a good cate in the dark. Tiger moths ness in three-dimensional scenes. person for guidance, but also have a sound-producing In April, visiting Assistant she treats me like my ideas organ that emits clicks when Professor of Communication are valuable.” Wf they flex their thorax. And Mary Dalton and communi- —Kim McGrath when bats are after them, the cations major Kirsten Patchel moths start clicking. (’99) presented a paper to “There are three main the American Educational hypotheses about why a moth

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The scientists are control- synchronized with a recording ling the moths’ toxicity of the sounds the bat and the through their food. “By look- moth produced during their ing at how the bats handle encounter. these different groups, and in Before any recordings are particular how they learn to taken, a lot of work must be deal with these groups, we done. The four strains of

Conner, right, and an assistant should be able to distinguish moths must be developed. check their colony of moths. between the three hypothe- Palatability tests must be ses,” Conner said. “For would do this,” Conner said. example, if we have a moth “One is that, like in warfare, that produces sound and is the moths are jamming the not toxic, and the bat learns bat’s sonar system. They’re to eat it, the moth is certainly producing clicks that are false not jamming the bat’s sonar.” echoes to confuse the bat. The The challenge lies in docu- second is that they are trying to menting how the bats interact startle the bats. The sounds the with the moths when hunting moths make are very loud— them—a task made all the more Hristov, left, and Conner in the chamber, up to 100 decibels at two cen- difficult in that bats like to with bat and a microphone at the ready. timeters. That’s about as loud hunt in the dark. This is where as a jet plane when you’re the bat chamber comes in. completed to ensure that the standing next to the runway. The bat chamber is a toxic moths are really distaste- The third, and one that we’re room, designed and built by ful to the bats. The bats have particularly interested in, is Hristov, in the basement of to be acquired (Hristov is work- that they might be advertising Winston Hall. The walls are ing with local exterminators) their poisonous nature.” clad with sound-absorbing and trained to fly toward the This would be consistent foam to eliminate echoes that target light in the enclosed with the moth’s bright col- would confuse the bats. Behind space of the bat chamber. oration, which it uses to tell a moveable wall are individ- “The training is very time visual predators that it is poi- ual cages for bats, built into consuming,” Hristov said. sonous. These colors are use- the wall. Hristov plans to have “Sometimes you can only less in the dark, though, when twenty bats in all. He will use work fifteen minutes a day. bats are on the prowl. five with each type of moth. When the bat decides it’s over, To find out which hypoth- An ultraviolet light is it’s over. You can’t say, ‘Try a esis is correct, Conner and mounted on one wall of the little harder.’” Hristov are producing four bat chamber to attract the Hristov first began work- sets of moths: toxic moths moths. Around it are two still ing on the project in fall that produce sound, toxic cameras with high-speed 1997. To collect data, he will moths that do not produce strobes. When the bats swoop be flying one bat at a time, sound (by disabling their in for the moths, the strobes feeding on one kind of moth sound-producing organ), non- will fire, catching a succession at a time. Given these restric- toxic moths that produce of images that show whether tions, he said that it could sound, and non-toxic moths the bat caught the moth or that do not produce sound. veered off. The images will be continued on pg. 9

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Debunking squad Eric Carlson, associate profes- horoscopes listed,” Carlson sor of physics and the group’s says. Similar tests have failed Skeptical professors confront president. all three times Carlson has our superstitious beliefs “We live in a society where tried them. we very much don’t want to Terry Blumenthal, associ- N A RECENT FRIDAY say your ideas are nonsense,” ate professor of psychology Othe thirteenth, some Carlson says. “We’re supposed and the group’s treasurer, says Wake Forest professors took to be open to people’s ideas. TASC fits right in with his their lives in their own hands. But when somebody says to mission as a faculty member: They walked under ladders, me the world is going to end in to increase knowledge and opened umbrellas indoors, the year 2000, I think rather decrease ignorance. “Some spilled salt, and—horror or than saying ‘that’s interesting,’ people say this stuff is harm- horrors—smashed mirrors. it would be more productive less, but if it wastes your time to say ‘that’s a bunch of non- or money, it’s not harmless sense.’ I’m not afraid to call anymore,” he says. it like it is.” Take UFOs, for example. Carlson and his fellow Given the number of people who skeptics want to call it like it claim to have been abducted, is on paranormal and extraor- there would have to be plenty dinary claims that contradict of UFOs out there. But there’s science: apocalyptic thinking, no documented evidence, and UFOs, hauntings, astrology, that’s troubling for Blumenthal. levitation, psychic powers, “The question I always come fringe medicine, and all types back to is this: is there an Eric Carlson is skeptical of claims that contradict science. of urban legends. But they alternative explanation for So far, they’re all alive and don’t plan to just sit around this? When you look for well (of course, they’ll have to talking; they want to investi- alternative explanations, you wait seven years on the mirror gate those claims that can be usually find them.” thing) and planning to do it objectively studied. Besides sponsoring speak- all again the next time there’s Carlson recently performed ers and events such as the a Friday the thirteenth. This one such test on the horoscopes Friday the thirteenth supersti- time they want to fly in the printed in the newspaper. He tion-buster, TASC is also face of superstition at a shop- enlisted students in his first- starting a newsletter with arti- ping mall so lots of people can year seminar to take the twelve cles, book reviews, and letters free themselves from supernat- horoscopes, with the labels from skeptics far and wide. ural fears. erased, to people around cam- Professor emeritus of physics Their group is called the pus. Each person was given Robert Brehme, the newslet- Triad Area Skeptics Club two chances to choose the ter’s editor, says he plans to (TASC), and it started a year horoscope that best described include information on any ago with four Wake Forest the day he or she had had the appropriate topic about which faculty members. The club, day before. Only thirty out of there can be justifiable doubt. which isn’t officially affiliated 179 people interviewed chose Carlson says the year with Wake Forest, has since their true sign. “This suggests 2000 hype is a prime reason grown to more than sixty there is no correlation between members across the state, says your natal sun sign and the continued on pg. 11

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Top cop Almanac Under Regina Lawson, there’s A miscellaneous compendium of news and facts order to law enforcement about Wake Forest University

HANKS TO THE LAWS Tof law enforcement, there is no typical day for Regina ◆ONE OF THE NATION’S leading busi- the newly published Kaplan Newsweek Lawson. She may find herself ness publications has given Wake Forest College Catalog 2000. For the survey, the dealing with the theft of one University’s Babcock Graduate School of catalog contacted 4,500 public and pri- purse or several ThinkPads, Management its highest ranking ever vate high school guidance counselors the hiring and training of per- among the nation’s top graduate business around the country. The counselors recog- sonnel, or a belligerent pizza schools. U.S. News & World Report rates nized Wake Forest as a top school in the delivery person who just Babcock thirty-sixth in its annual survey following categories: “Schools for the couldn’t be inconvenienced by of America’s accredited business schools. Academically Competitive Student,” the University Parkway gate- The ranking places Babcock among the “Schools that are ‘Hidden Treasures,’” house. And then there is that top 11 percent of the 317 accredited grad- “Schools Offering the Maximum Amount “big crime” that could be uate business schools in the United States. of Individual Academic Attention,” waiting around the corner, the The ranking follows Babcock’s inclusion “Schools Providing a Good Liberal Arts one she hopes to never among BusinessWeek magazine’s top fifty Education,” and “Schools with Notable encounter but for which she graduate business schools for 1998-99. Study Abroad Programs.” The Kaplan must always be prepared. Newsweek guide also offers profiles of “I like the size of my ◆SCHOOL GUIDANCE COUNSELORS more than 1,100 colleges and universities. headache here,” says Lawson, in a new survey hand out high marks to In its profile of Wake Forest, it observes who in October observes her Wake Forest University for providing indi- that the “caring faculty at Wake Forest tenth year on the Reynolda vidual attention, a good liberal arts educa- have made a good impression on guidance Campus police force, having tion, and notable study-abroad programs. counselors, who applaud the level of stu- been appointed chief in 1991. The counselors also recognize Wake dent/faculty interaction.” The counselors “It’s a good fit for me because Forest as a “hidden treasure,” attractive also commented on the school’s honors of the size and the community to academically competitive students. The program and “fabulous” core curriculum, atmosphere, and I think peo- results of the national survey appear in the profile states. ple see us as an important part of the community.” When she arrived at the tracking. There is a continuing So how did a farm girl Wilmington to study account- University in 1989, the force emphasis on crime prevention from Stokes County end up as ing, but during a holiday was considerably smaller, and education, and there is chief of a campus police break she saw a movie called with seven patrol officers as new technology to deal with, force? As a child, Lawson Vice Squad and was intrigued compared to twenty now. such as a card access system enjoyed playing with horses by a cop’s life. She stood in During her tenure the number and closed-circuit television. and guns. The daughter of a long drop-add lines, changed of sworn officers and support “We have grown in size, hairdresser and a corrections her major to criminal justice, staff positions has grown, and stature, and strength,” says department supervisor, she and has been happy ever the department has embraced Lawson. “I hope people wasn’t interested in being a since. She worked as a stu- computerization in most of its realize we have also grown police officer; she wanted to dent patrol officer at UNC-W operations such as dispatch- in terms of capabilities and be a cowboy. After high ing, ticketing, and incident- professional standards.” school she enrolled at UNC- continued on pg. 11

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focus as mandated by the state school children to provide legislature. And she is most Wake Forest students with passionate about her work. teaching experience. “We have “Parents are becoming a waiting list of a hundred more aware of the value of children for that program early language to the cognitive right now,” she points out. learning of the child,” says Apart from her many job Redmond, who is co-chair of responsibilities, Redmond the political action committee finds time to perform Guignol of the National Network for marionette shows with Jane Early Language Learning. Mitchell, a retired professor at “But many state legislatures UNC-Greensboro where are still in the mindset of Redmond earned her doctor- twenty-five years ago, not rec- ate. The two went to France ognizing what neurologists in 1993 to research mari- For Mary Lynn Redmond, Guignol puppets are grand for enthusiasm-building. have learned about what onettes and the way French learning language does for the children respond to the Kids talk brain. Learning languages Guignol plays. “When we helps increase listening ability, came back,” she says, “we A passionate advocate of early memory, creativity, and critical decided to adapt some of foreign language training thinking — all of which are them to teach children here thinking processes that about the French language N THE FOURTH grade, increase learning in general.” and culture.” IMary Lynn Redmond was not Redmond also notes an too interested in her progres- increasing demand for work- sive principal’s efforts to expose ers who can speak foreign his students to the French languages at advanced levels. language. “I really didn’t like “This is not limited to the foreign languages when I was corporate world,” she says. little,” she recalls. “People are looking for Her childhood antipathy mechanics, social workers, toward the tongues of other and medical professionals too. Children pay rapt attention to the Guignol play, and afterward ask countries stands in stark con- When the parents and the questions in French. trast to her attitude today as work force recognize the associate professor of educa- importance of language, but At a show they conducted tion and director of foreign the people who are making at a local elementary school language education at Wake the decisions about the cur- recently, at least sixty children Forest. riculum still consider it to be watched the marionettes qui- Since joining the faculty a a frill and hard to make room etly, paying rapt attention to decade ago Redmond has been for in the budget, we’ve got the antics of the Guignol play. responsible for restructuring a problem.” Afterwards, the children the University’s language For nine of her ten years answered questions in French education program from its at Wake Forest, Redmond has and asked a few in their own former concentration on sec- conducted an annual teaching language. Wf ondary education to a K-12 practicum for elementary —Kathryn Woestendiek

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A feel for family one was writing about what Bat Chamber, from pg. 5 moms thought they should do Angela Hattery’s sense of or what it meant to be a good take up to two years to collect kinship extends to students mom. No one was writing sufficient data. about how women felt about For now, the experiment is T WAS THE TIMES in working or not working.” being financed by a grant Iher life when she felt like Hattery joined Wake from the Wake Forest Science she was writing the book Forest’s faculty in summer Research Fund, a University on family and job conflict 1998 after a job search that fund for new projects that is that led sociology professor focused on smaller schools administered by the Division Angela Hattery to do her with a commitment to teacher/ of Research Programs and doctoral thesis at the Univer- scholar ideals, smaller classes, Partnerships. If the research sity of Wisconsin on “Women, and quality education. During goes well, the collaborators Work and Family.” the first semester of her hope to get further grants “Being a mom is what led Introduction to Sociology from the National Science to the project,” said Hattery, course last fall, students were Foundation or the Department whose dissertation received assigned to teams representing of Defense. “The Navy and the National Council of families from different social the Air Force fund a lot of bat Family Relations Student/ classes. The teams did the research...because they have New Professional Book Award research necessary to find a biological sonar program,” and will be published next jobs, homes, transportation, Conner said. “But before you year as part of the Sage and schools for their families. can get funded you have to Publications series on under- They prepared budgets and have some pilot data.” standing families. “I was still brought a week’s worth of If other grants come in school when my second groceries for their families to through, Hristov will replace child was born. What I saw class on the day they reported the still cameras with a high- in the world didn’t match their findings to the rest of speed infrared video camera what I saw in the literature the class. The semester-long that will record the encounters I was reading about the divi- project ended when the class in far more detail. sion of household labor. I donated those groceries to a Recently, Conner and spent the summer home with local soup kitchen just before Hristov played host to a radio my children, hanging out in Thanksgiving. freelancer—a former student mom places.” “I found it unbelievable,” of Conner’s — who produced In places like the park said James Han (’01), as he a short feature on the bat and playlands at McDonald’s, stepped out of the shoes of chamber that aired as part of she not only met moms from a single mother on welfare, National Public Radio’s “Pulse families who really needed “to see how hard it was for of the Planet” series. extra money and chose to stay our single mother just to have Conner concedes that the home with their kids, but also a basic life. It was hard for research does not have “earth- moms from families who me to understand all her shaking” implications. “But didn’t need money and chose problems, because I come we’ll know more about the to work anyway. from an affluent background animals around us,” he said. Wf “That didn’t measure up and haven’t had to worry —Frank Elliott with what the literature was about these things.” Wf saying at all,” she said. “No —Kathryn Woestendiek

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Go West, terms of twentieth-century so much character and beauty,” young people history, it’s an interesting focal she says. “The old cities fasci- point looking toward eastern nate me the most, and there First Vienna director has Europe. Up until the Wall is so much history that I know adventure in store came down it was a place I will never have a lack of where many refugees came, things to do or places to see. HEN WAKE FOREST so it is a melting pot of vari- There’s no doubt that the four Wstudents go abroad to ous cultures.” months I spend in Vienna will study, they are usually advised In addition to study in have an impact that will last to pack light. But this fall Vienna covering the German a lifetime.” when the first group traveled language, medieval literature, West, who during his to Flow House in Vienna, they art, music, architecture, and years at Wake Forest has spent needed two things for sure: theater, West will lead his much time advising students walking shoes and thinking group to Prague as they study about foreign study, has taken caps. Larry West, professor of Franz Kafka; to the historic several groups abroad, but German and faculty director homelands of Goethe and this will be his first full semes- for this first-ever class in Wittenberg; to a former Nazi ter as a faculty director. One Vienna, intends to keep them concentration camp; and to thing that excites him most walking and thinking most of Oberammergau, home of the is the opportunity to blend the time. world-famous Passion Play, four courses—two taught by where they will tour the the- himself and two taught by ater and talk with performers. Viennese faculty—so that Flow House, to be offi- students experience subjects cially dedicated in October, through the perspectives of becomes Wake Forest’s third multiple disciplines. A study international residential study of Kafka, for example, will center, joining Worrell House include a four-day trip to in London and Casa Artom Prague and visits to his resi- in Venice. It was a gift from dences there. Courses in art alumnus and trustee Vic Flow and medieval literature will (’52) and his wife, Rodgeryn. combine the study of written West and his group of four- works with travel to certain teen students arrived in late areas where students can August, and their excitement see what was happening in Larry West, left, looked for students with curiosity and acceptance of differences. prior to their departure was the arts and architecture at infectious. the time. “It will be hands-on “Vienna has a lot to For Emily Kite, a junior learning at some of the great- offer,” says West, a Berea from Morgantown, West est museums, cathedrals and College graduate who came Virginia, the opportunity to castles in the world,” says to Wake Forest in 1969 after study abroad is a dream West, adding that classes will finishing graduate school at come true. After several years occasionally meet in a local Vanderbilt. “It is a beautiful of taking German, she has coffeehouse so that students city in terms of architecture, always wanted to travel to have the chance to meet and an amazing repository of Austria. “I have always wanted Viennese people and absorb history and the fine arts. In to see Vienna because it has the true culture.

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When West was a student, Top Cop, from pg. 7 the concept of study-abroad itself was foreign. In fact, and filled in at the Stokes he was well into his teaching County Sheriff’s Department career before he made his during the summer. “I had first trip to Germany. So he decided to go FBI but the appreciates the opportunity more I learned about law Wake Forest students have enforcement the more I real- and is eager to be a part of ized it would be a long, slow their experience. As he select- road to the federal level,” ed the students privileged to says Lawson. “I was enjoying be in the first class traveling the campus level, and I saw to Vienna, he looked for it as a wide-open field for those with a sense of curiosity women.” Regina Lawson likes the size of her and a willingness to embrace In a community where headache. differences. “It’s exciting to most residents are young peo- watch these students make ple, it stands to reason that for some cattle, seven mares, discoveries, not only about a many security risks are rooted a couple of yearlings, and different culture and different in behavior patterns. There’s two foals. “I enjoy working attitudes, but about them- the ongoing task of getting with animals because at the selves,” he says. students to lock their rooms. end of the day you can look Mason Matthews, a “Card access secures the back and see tangible results,” sophomore from Raleigh, doors to their residence halls she says. “And that isn’t North Carolina, looked for- but it doesn’t secure the always the case in law ward to Vienna as a learning doors to their rooms, and enforcement.” Wf experience and an adventure. that’s the front door to their —Cherin C. Poovey “My hope for the semester house,” says Lawson. “When is that I can improve my they’re not in their room the language skills, and that I doors should be closed and can grow through exposure locked, but that doesn’t fit Skeptics, from pg. 6 to a new culture,” he says. the social culture of the resi- West’s goals are the same. dence hall.” And students’ why TASC needs to get to “I’ve made sure they under- use of alcohol, often resulting work. “Apocalyptic thinking stand that what they get out in destructive and abusive has become commonplace in of the experience will depend behavior, requires officers to society so that when some on what they put into it,” he be at their best when students soothsayer tells people they says. “I’ve told them that a are at their worst. should stock up on supplies, conversation they may have Occasionally Lawson including ammunition, that’s in a restaurant or on a train manages to break away from accepted as a reasonable bit will be a learning experience the constant activity, the cell of advice,” he says. that can’t be matched.” Wf phone, and the pager, and it’s For more information —Cherin C. Poovey usually then that she can be on TASC, point your Web found at her brood mare farm browser at www.wfu.edu/ in Stokes County. She finds ~ecarlson/tasc Wf peace and relaxation in caring —Ellen Dockham

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heravan Jarrett hardly knew a word of Japanese when The set off last fall to spend a semester studying at Tokai University just outside Tokyo. Now the Wake Forest Univer- sity junior writes e-mail letters in Japanese to his friends and spent the summer teaching English to Japanese students at the University of Texas near his home in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The combination of full immersion in Japanese culture and language—three hours of study per day, four days a week, plus staying with a Japanese family—as well as travel around the region ignited a fire from the spark of interest World Wide By Ellen Dockham Jarrett has always had in the Orient. “It really opened up my mind,” said Jarrett, a business major with an Asian studies minor. “You can always read a book, see the black and white, but it’s not until you go there that you can really apply it to your life. “I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything in the world. I think that I will continue to benefit throughout my life from that one semester. Everybody should be able to experience study abroad.” Jarrett isn’t the only one who thinks that all Wake Forest students should spend some time abroad. In fact, a new report from the Task Force on International Study makes the expansion of international study one of the University’s A task force recommends new horizons for Wake Forest’s already far-flung international studies program. highest priorities for the next decade. ALL PHOTOS TAKEN BY WAKE FOREST STUDENTS WHILE STUDYING ABROAD. “We’re trying to think ahead. Ten to fifteen years from now knowledge of other cultures and the ability to function in a global context will be far more important than it is now,” says Paul Escott, dean of the College who chaired the President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. convened the task The Sydney Opera House, Australia task force. “We want our students to be leaders in the world force last year to give the University its first comprehen- after graduation, and we need to equip them to do that. sive look at the present and future of international study. Many of our students say that international study has He said he wanted to capitalize on Wake Forest’s already- of higher education with universities and scholars and proven to be one of the best parts of their education here.” The task force’s main recommendations include enviable reputation in that area by considering further students around the world. The American university is the The task force, made up of ten administrators and facul- the following: opportunities to give students and faculty a richer under- finest institution our country has produced. We need to be ty members from the undergraduate College and the profes- standing of other cultures, literatures, languages, and bridges over which both learning and teaching will occur.” sional schools, advocates an ambitious long-term goal: To Continue to strengthen curricular offerings and options. forms of art and expression. But that bridge goes both involve every Wake Forest student in some form of study Ambitiously increase study abroad by Wake Forest ways; Hearn said Wake Forest also has a responsibility to abroad. The short-term goal is to involve a majority of stu- students. share its knowledge and resources to improve education Strengthening the curriculum dents within the next six years. Currently, about one-third Recruit more international students and use them and living conditions around the world. of students study abroad. effectively as a resource. “It’s clear that international study is a growing and Since the Office of International Studies opened in But the task force members didn’t stop there. They set Internationalize the climate on campus by creating important issue for higher education in the next century, 1986 with politics professor Richard Sears as its director, forth a series of recommendations that would not only give excitement, awareness, and activities related to perhaps the pivotal issue,” Hearn said. “There is a broad more than a hundred new or revised courses with an inter- students more opportunities and resources for study abroad, international cultures and issues. understanding now that if America is to be the world’s national angle have been developed. An International but would also bring global resources and an international Use technology to lengthen the University’s reach leader, then a very important part of that responsibility is to Studies minor was created—with course offerings such as flavor to campus. internationally. share what we have accomplished through our institutions Forms of Orientalism, and Japanese and American Culture:

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(l to r) Joe Guttman (center) breaks with African friends; Blarney Castle, Ireland; Ayres Rock, Australia, glows in the sunset; the barbed fence of Dachau, Germany; Piazza San Marco, Venice; Honduras border checkpoint; Salzburg, Austria.

A Cross-Cultural Comparison—as well as several first-year Latin American studies, and creating new ones, such as it became more vivid to me that this was something I could “There’s no substitute for getting people out of the seminars with international components. African studies or Middle Eastern studies. really do,” he said. “You find out more about yourself when country,” said Charles Kennedy, associate dean of the “Globalization is an important part of a liberal arts edu- Some faculty members are already sensing an increased you study abroad. The people I met were so interested in Babcock Graduate School of Management and a task cation,” said Sears, a task force member who recently left the interest among their colleagues and students in interna- defining what was American. I never thought of myself as force member. “It’s vital; everything else falls short. I’m Office of International Studies to return to full-time teaching. tional issues. Task force member Charles Kimball, who extroverted, spontaneous, or loud—those American an enthusiastic supporter of every student having an inter- “Most students are going to be impacted significantly by the chairs the religion department, says the University’s stereotypes—but it seemed that way while I was there.” national experience.” global economy and events around the world because of commitment to international studies is already apparent The task force’s report outlines what will be needed to An important element of expanding international the economic interconnectedness of countries today. through recent hirings of faculty members with global reach the goal of involving all Wake Forest students in study study will be cooperation among the undergraduate We need to shape our curriculum to recognize this expertise in such departments as economics, English, abroad: significant additional money for financial aid to College and the professional schools. At Babcock, 40–50 without abandoning the basic elements of a and history. Kimball, an expert on world religions and support students; more study-abroad opportunities, espe- percent of students study abroad, and those contacts, as liberal arts education.” the Middle East who has traveled to Israel more than cially in different areas of the world such as Africa and the well as others from the School of Law and School of thirty times, says the religion department is a case in Middle East; and new formats for study abroad for students Medicine, should be shared. To that end, the task force point. Three of the ten faculty members in the depart- who cannot devote an entire semester to foreign study. recommends establishing a coordinating council with ment specialize in world religions; in the past, only one With three residential houses abroad and a demanding representatives from all the schools that would meet religion faculty member focused on that area. “Our two-year foreign language requirement that is stronger at least three times a year to share information. course offerings reflect more diversity than ever,” Kimball than most universities in Wake Forest’s peer group, the said. “The two most popular courses in the religion University already has strong international programs on department last semester were Jay Ford’s course on which to build, Escott said. Buddhism and mine on world religions.” “We are unusual, especially for our size, in having the number of houses abroad [in Venice, London, and Vienna] that we have,” he said. “But the houses can’t answer the Increasing study abroad full need. We have to create other opportunities and come up with new, shorter programs. Some students can’t Highway view of a bull-shaped billboard en route Bringing international issues into the classroom is go for a whole semester, perhaps because they have a from Sevilla to Madrid, Spain certainly important, but task force members and stu- demanding academic schedule such as pre-med. Or they dents alike say there’s no substitute for study abroad. may have a family situation or financial difficulties that Replacing Sears as the director of international studies is Sears said study abroad gives students first-hand prohibit them from going abroad. We don’t want any Pia Wood, former associate professor and director of the experience with other cultures that will serve them well student to miss out on the benefits of foreign study, so international studies undergraduate program at Old in the job market, in an increasingly diverse United we’re looking at innovative ways to get them there.” Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Wood, who has States, and in life in general. “Studying abroad helps Last year, three new summer programs were started Pagoda and pigeons in Kamakura, Japan lived and studied abroad and speaks five languages, earned a you learn to deal with life no matter where you may that could serve as models for future approaches. In doctorate in political science at the University of Geneva in be,” he said. “For many students, the study-abroad Benin, West Africa, students can study developmental Switzerland. She holds a master’s degree in Latin American experience has altered their career path or led to oppor- economics in a five-week program led by economics pro- studies from the University of New Mexico and a master’s in tunities that might not have existed otherwise. They fessor Sylvain Boko. In Quito, Ecuador, students can take Recruiting international students international business from the University of South Carolina. come back with a life-changing experience.” a six-week, ten-credit intensive course in Spanish language One of Wood’s duties under the task force’s report will Jarrett, the student who studied last year in Japan, and cultures in an immersion setting at the Pontificia Another way to bring international experiences to Wake be to encourage the creation of more first-year seminars and said the experience taught him just as much about him- Universidad Catolica del Ecuador. In Havana, Cuba, Forest students would be to increase the number of foreign other courses that emphasize international issues and cultural self and the United States as it did Japanese language, students can study Spanish language, literature, and reli- students seeking a degree from the University. In the 1997–98 diversity. The task force recommends strengthening existing culture, and history. “I had always thought I might want gion in a six-week program led by Linda Howe, assistant school year, there were forty-five international students, or interdisciplinary studies programs, such as Asian studies and to work in an international job, but while I was in Japan, professor in the Department of Romance Languages. 1.2 percent of the student body, studying at Wake Forest.

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Using technology Semester Programs: Since technology is already a strongpoint for Wake Forest, it seems only natural that ways be found to use Exchange programs in Berlin; Bogota, Colombia; the University’s capabilities to bring international Moscow; and Spain. resources into the classroom. The task force suggests a variety of ideas, including communicating through e-mail Programs in China; Dijon, France; Japan; Spain; and at with contacts abroad, such as Wake Forest students and WFU’s residential houses in faculty members as well as alumni and outside experts. London, Venice, and Vienna. Escott points to Olga Valbuena, assistant professor of English, who connected her students via video-conferenc- Summer ing with a renowned Shakespeare expert in London last Programs: year. In a first-year seminar called “Thinking Globally Benin, Africa; Havana, Cuba; About Shakespeare,” students read a textbook written by Bahamas Archeology Field Andrew Gurr of Reading University, the primary consul- Study; European Geography tant for the rebuilding of the Globe Theatre. But instead Tour; Germany; Management of just reading the book, the students were able to discuss Accounting Tour; International it three times during the semester with Gurr himself in a Business Study Tour; Israel; video conference. Quito, Ecuador; Roatan “It really brought the currency of Shakespeare to the Island, Honduras; St. Peter’s learning experience. It made Shakespeare more alive, at Oxford. more a part of their existence. To be able to meet with a famous author and be called by their own names really Winter Break: personalized it for the students,” Valbuena said. “Here London Theatre Tour; India. we are in Winston-Salem, having this international con- tact with a world-famous author. I learned a lot too and Students in Salamanca, Spain got to know him myself, which is ultimately good for me and for Wake Forest.” Helga Welsh, associate professor of politics and a task At some peer universities such as Duke University and force member, said she would like to see faculty members Dartmouth College, the numbers are much higher: 4 per- try to create opportunities by using their expertise and cent and 11.3 percent, respectively. The task force set a international connections, as did Valbuena and Candyce goal of recruiting five more international students each year. Leonard of the humanities program, who brought “That’s not an enormous change in one year but it will renowned Spanish war correspondent and playwright accumulate quickly,” Escott said. “Foreign students enrich Alfonso Armada to campus for several days last February. the quality of the Wake Forest education. They bring dif- Welsh suggests that faculty invite colleagues from other ferent perspectives and experiences to the classroom and countries to come to Wake Forest as visiting professors, to campus life.” make sure that the content of their courses reflects com- The task force recommends that the recruitment of parison with other cultures, and integrate international international undergraduate students become a priority students into class discussions and campus events. for the admissions office and that scholarship funds for “The internationalization of the curriculum and of international students be established. The report also campus life is an essential component in the educational mentions establishing more exchange programs with mission of Wake Forest University,” Welsh said. “Inter- institutions of higher education in other countries and national study enhances awareness, challenges stereotypes, encouraging faculty members who are traveling abroad and provides knowledge. In short, it will prepare our to help recruit students. students to be well-informed citizens of the world.” Wf

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hen the Wake Forest University Board of Trustees approved the idea of starting a Wdivinity school, George Bush’s presidency was still in its honeymoon, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hovered around 2,250, and the Exxon Valdez had caused one of the largest oil spills in history. Now, more than a decade later, Bush’s successor, President Bill Clinton, is well past his honeymoon, the Dow Jones has passed the 10,000 mark, a sheep has been cloned, and a new century and millennium are nigh. And that divinity school? After more than a decade of planning and preparation, it has finally welcomed its inaugural class of twenty-four full-time, degree-seeking students, along with a half-dozen non-degree students Wake Forest’s long- who are taking classes. “There are some people who thought this day would never come,” said the Rev. Mike Queen (’68), pastor of anticipated Divinity First Baptist Church in Wilmington, North Carolina, and a Wake Forest trustee who has long been a proponent School—seen as a model of establishing a divinity school at the University. The nineteen women and five men who started classes in August are seeking a master of divinity degree through for Christian theological the full-time, three-year program, and most intend to work in parish ministry. At the end of three years, Divinity training in the coming School officials expect the program to enroll about 110 students, with a core, full-time faculty of eight. Enrollment could go as high as 135. century—has opened The program begins as a fully integrated, professional school of the University, drawing on faculty and programs elsewhere at Wake Forest for resources and offering its doors at last. itself as another participant in religious and theological dialogue and education. The interdisciplinary approach of the school, in which divinity students conceivably could take a course on the business aspects of running a church from someone in the School of Management or on public speaking from someone in the communication department, is its hallmark. Bill Leonard and his building, decked out for “I hope because it has this cross-disciplinary base the coming of divinity training to the University from the beginning, it begins in this year to prepare a new generation of ministers for the changing shape of religion,” said Bill J. Leonard, a renowned church historian who was hired in 1996 as the school’s founding dean. At the end of the twentieth century, Leonard added, old denominational systems are being redefined or coming By Amy Andrews apart, and churches and faith communities are in a time of what many call “permanent transition.” Students must be prepared for new ways of connecting with and responding to such continued transitions. “We’re here to help students and churches get ready,” Leonard said.

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(For more on Leonard’s year, only one-fourth of thoughts on contemporary the seventy-two enrolled issues in American religion students professed a and divinity training for the religious faith and only twenty-first century, see his four of the students essay beginning on page 26.) were ministers. Little did University In 1945 the trustees realize Baptist State Conven- in April 1989, tion, which today has when they for- fraternal, voluntary mally approved ties to the University, the idea of starting a divinity adopted a resolution school, that it would take a asking the College to decade to get it ready. The establish a professional trustees’ approval was contin- school of theology. But gent upon the University being the idea fizzled when able to raise enough money to start the pro- the College moved to gram without adversely affecting other areas of the Winston-Salem and University, and to make certain that such a school would the Old Campus was be viable in today’s society. The money came in slower than sold to the Baptists for expected, but enthusiasm for the idea was and continues to use by Southeastern be great. To date the Divinity School has received more Baptist Theological Seminary. It wasn’t than $10 million in pledges and gifts. until the late eighties—when moderate Baptists and “Wake Forest took a long time to do this, and took their churches became concerned about the conser- some criticism for waiting so long,” said Leonard. “But I vative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention’s have to tell you, the fact that we have a solid financial base offices, boards, and institutions, including South- on which to build … is an extremely wonderful gift to a dean. eastern Seminary — that momentum began to “I’m a historian, so ten years isn’t very long,” he added. build for opening a divinity school at Wake Forest. “If it’d taken a hundred years, I’d have been a little concerned.” Moderate Baptists were beginning to wonder where Samuel Wait, the founder and first president of Wake their next generation of clergy would be educated, since Forest College, envisioned educating ministers more than the Southern Baptist seminaries were growing more 160 years ago, when he helped start the school north of conservative. Conservative Baptists tend to emphasize Raleigh. Wait, who had moved to North Carolina from the inerrancy of the Bible and the authority of pastors, New York to become the pastor of the Baptist church at and most reject the idea that women should serve as New Bern, viewed the state as a secular, pagan place and pastors. Moderate Baptists, on the other hand, tend to was convinced of the need for an educated clergy. He, his believe in the Bible being open to some interpretation, wife Sarah, and their young daughter packed their worldly in the priesthood of believers, and in the ability of possessions into a two-horse Jersey wagon and began criss- women to serve as pastors. crossing the rural state to raise money and support for their In late 1987, Queen was one of those moderate vision of educating young men for ministry. Two years later, Baptists, and he was wondering where his son, who was they had raised enough money to proceed. In 1834 the North interested at the time in becoming a youth minister, Carolina Baptist State Convention, which Wait also helped would be able to go to seminary and explore all sorts of found, opened the Wake Forest Institute on a plantation ideas. He set up a meeting with University President north of Raleigh. Students worked in the fields by day and Thomas K. Hearn Jr. and two other administrators and studied by candlelight at night, but by the end of the first asked them to pursue the possibility of a divinity school

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at Wake Forest. At Hearn’s request, Queen gathered Hearn said significant discussions have taken place in together about a dozen Baptist ministers and lay leaders recent years in academia as colleges that were founded to talk more about the idea, and in 1988 they urged out of a Protestant concern have become secular. In most Hearn to start the school. cases, those schools are proud that they’ve shaken their Trustees formally approved the idea in March 1989 religious identity, and many believe that the secularization and reaffirmed it several times after that, even though of American universities is now a fact. “Obviously we money for the school wasn’t coming in as quickly as they have a different point of view about the importance of had hoped. In early 1996, they committed to opening the religion to the academy,” he said. Leaders at Wake Forest new school by the fall of 2000. feel that the way in which they can honor their heritage Since those early discussions between Queen and Hearn, and serve the church is by training its leaders, he added. the battles between conservative and moderate Baptists “Religion is certainly among the great forces moving have eased, and so has Queen’s early concern about need- human life and human history…and an understanding of ing alternatives to the traditional Southern Baptist semi- that force and that life is instrumental,” Hearn said, naries. Other universities, including adding that he feels it was a mistake Gardner-Webb and Campbell in ‘The opening of a new decades ago to form seminaries separate North Carolina, have opened divini- from universities. Having divinity ty schools in recent years, and sever- schools or seminaries on a university al new seminaries have opened that divinity school campus gives students a richer, broader moderate Baptists feel comfortable education, he said. with, including Baptist Theological at a major university The Divinity School is the first pro- Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. fessional school to open at Wake Forest Still, Queen said, it was apparent since the Babcock Graduate School of that Wake Forest—with already in our day Management was founded in 1969. Walter J. established professional schools of Harrelson, who served from 1994 until Leonard law, medicine, and business and a is striking…’ was hired in 1996 to develop the curriculum and reputation for academic freedom and focus of the divinity school, agreed that it’s a rigorous scholarship—was an ideal momentous occasion. setting in which to start a professional school to educate “I think the opening of a new divinity school at a clergy. Each of the new divinity schools that has opened in major university in our day is striking,” said Harrelson, the past decade can be viable in today’s society, he noted, who has been dean of the divinity schools at both because none will have as large an enrollment as the six Vanderbilt University and the University of Chicago. seminaries of the Southern Baptist Convention, and each But, he added, it is particularly noteworthy at Wake has its own mission. Forest, which though it is a private university proud “My heart wanted for Wake Forest to do it back in of its religious heritage still is a secular university. “For ’89 or ’90,” said Queen, who this fall completes his sec- Wake Forest to say, ‘Our university needs to be a part ond term as a University trustee. “There’s part of me that of educating and developing future clergy’… is a bold still wishes we had stepped out and done that.” But no thing for it to do.” decision of the University is made in a vacuum, and every- At the Wake Forest Divinity School, where the motto one has a voice in its direction, he said. For the trustees to is “Christian by tradition, ecumenical in outlook, and say that the University was going to start a Divinity Baptist in heritage,” faculty members are committed to School without first raising the appropriate money would preparing students from a variety of denominational have been irresponsible, Queen said. And now that the backgrounds for work in Christian ministry and pushing time has come, he added, it is exciting for the school to them to step beyond their boundaries and test precon- open at the turn of the century and with so much transi- ceived ideas, Harrelson said. “It is a place where open, tion occurring in religious life. critical, thoughtful engagement is welcome from day one,”

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he added. Divinity School students will find genuine theology, homiletics, spirituality, and pastoral care. support and great challenges; hard work will be required “The curriculum is so proscribed that there’s nothing of them, Harrelson said, and they will be subjected to that anyone from Harvard Divinity School to Church of ideas that even annoy or anger them. “That’s just the God, Cleveland, Tennessee, School of Theology can way it has to be,” he added. change,” Leonard said. Distinguishing the program from The school, like other theological schools in the others across the country is adjunct faculty from the United States, must teach the same core classes in the broader University community teaching courses from a classical disciplines of biblical studies, church history, variety of related disciplines, such as Greek and Hebrew.

First and tell from just talking to Leonard between the ages of twenty- her to go to divinity school foremost that the program was going one and twenty-five, and at Wake Forest, she was not to be ecumenical, integrated, most come from North so sure she was hearing The members of the Divinity and challenging. Carolina. Predominantly, correctly. She remembered School’s inaugural they are Baptist, with denomi- attending musical perfor- class share at least one nations such as Presbyterian, mances at Wake Forest as common attribute: Moravian, Roman Catholic, a young child and feeling excitement over being United Church of Christ, uncomfortable because her part of something new. United Methodist, and family was seated in the Elinor Wilburn is a Lutheran also represented balcony or, when ushered Presbyterian with two in the School. near the front for a Grover children and a back- Leonard said that all of Washington concert, ques- ground in aeronautical the students seem to have at tioned about whether they engineering, but a year least one trait in common. were in the proper seats. ago—on August 31, “It’s been interesting to me; Nonetheless, Foy called 1998—she became the the students who choose to Wake Forest a couple of first applicant to the The Wake Forest come here in these early years ago to ask about the Wake Forest Divinity School’s University Divinity School years have to have and seem divinity school, and Leonard inaugural class. opened in August with to have a sense of adven- answered the telephone. She also was the first twenty-four students, a core ture,” he said. “Some one accepted. faculty of six, and a broad students will say, ‘I “I was impressed with base of adjunct faculty. want to be in on what I knew of the program,” When nearly full in its third something new; that’s said Wilburn, forty, who first year, the School is expected why I came here’.” called the Divinity School to have only about 110 Jocelyn Foy, who office for information several students, and officials hope has spent nineteen years ago, when Dean Bill J. that the small class size will years working in high- Leonard and administrative promote community and spir- er education, grew up assistant Betsy Clement were itual formation. The faculty in a Baptist church in the only two employees at the met regularly throughout the Winston-Salem that time. A resident of Salisbury, spring to review applications she said very much North Carolina, Wilburn said and select students, and of nurtured and helped He was warm and inviting, she had pondered attending those attending, nineteen are raise her. But Foy, an African- she said, and he wanted to divinity school for a couple of women and one is African- American, said that when she know more about her. “Had years, and she said she could American. The majority is first felt that God was telling it not been for him and for

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Students also have filled their schedules with a variety “That’s the sort of thing I’ve just been hungry for, to of introductory classes, including Old Testament, the be in dialogue with other people in a similar position,” spiritual life, and early and medieval Christianity. The said Elinor Wilburn, a Presbyterian from Salisbury, North only class that all students will take together this fall is Carolina, who is a member of the inaugural class. a first-year colloquium that brings together students The integrated nature of the Divinity School was and faculty each week for theological reflection and primarily the work of Harrelson, who talked to people in exploration of issues of vocation, identity, the nature University circles, around Winston-Salem, and at Baptist of ministry, and the task of thinking theologically. meetings across the state and region. From that he formed

God’s insistence that I go to telephone to encourage him “It’s neat to see how God Scott Hudgins, the direc- Wake Forest, I wouldn’t be to enroll. works, when I didn’t even tor of admissions, said it’s here,” said Foy, who’s forty Brown, who said he know about the program a an exciting time for the school and the recipient of the also considered Mercer year ago,” said Brown, who overall, and especially for Divinity School Board of University’s seminary and comes from Greenville, South students, who will be able to Visitors Scholarship. She Baptist Theological Seminary Carolina, and has wants to become a college at Richmond, wanted a wanted to be a pastor chaplain, she said, in part school that was focused on since the summer before because of the unofficial ministry and would prepare he started college. work she’s done counseling, him to the highest degree Megan A. Ramsey advising, supporting, and both academically and (’99), a Presbyterian directing students who have spiritually. When he visited from Brentwood, come into her office in recent Wake Forest in January, he Tennessee, grew up years at Greensboro College, decided to wait to send in his Episcopalian and was a where she has been the other applications until he religion major at Wake director of adult education. heard from Wake Forest. Forest. She decided to She said she’s excited about His decision was easy when return to her alma mater her new start in life. “It’s for divinity school clear to me that I’ve been because she didn’t determine the school’s direc- waiting my life for this,” like Princeton, where tion through the organizations, she said. Presbyterians often attend activities, and governance David Michael seminary. Before deciding they choose for themselves. Brown, a 1999 graduate to attend divinity school, she The inaugural class is smaller of Clemson University, had considered going to than first anticipated, but that only heard about the medical school, but through is fine, he said. “The faculty Divinity School about a an internship in pastoral care have been very conscientious year ago, through the at her church, First Presbyterian in selecting students who will pastor of his aunt and in Winston-Salem this past contribute to and learn from uncle in Wilmington, year, she received confirma- their fellow students,” North Carolina. The pastor, he learned he had been tion that divinity school would Hudgins said. Mike Queen (’68), is a accepted and received one be the right place for her. She University trustee and long- of the prestigious Wait also is a Wait Fellow and is —Amy Andrews time supporter of the Divinity Fellowships, which covers considering going into pas- School, and he wrote Brown tuition and fees and includes toral counseling or becoming a letter and called him on the a stipend for living expenses. a chaplain.

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the framework of the school. He also helped secure a church and state, is a professor of Christianity and public $150,000 grant from the Henry R. Luce Foundation to policy for an extended period. The staff includes an develop the school’s multidisciplinary courses. In administrative assistant, a director of admissions, a direc- 1996, he turned his work over to Leonard, who tor of development, and a director of supervised min- brought attention to the University and istries. Still to be named is an African-American to continued the momentum of the teach homiletics, or the art of preaching, beginning in Divinity School. fall 2000. The school received a For more than three years, $200,000 grant from the Jessie Ball Leonard—who previously chaired the duPont Fund to establish the posi- religion department at Samford tion. Leonard said he hopes that University in Birmingham, Alabama— both the faculty and student body has orchestrated the opening of the will become more diverse as the School, taught classes in the religion school grows and develops, but that department, completed really there have book projects, and lec- been no surprises tured and preached far during the past three and wide. Now, he years of planning. says, he’s glad to be Someone who back in the classroom heard about the faculty that more frequently. “It’s had been assembled comment- being a dean that ed that it sounded like an scares me,” he attempt at political correctness, quipped. “It’s classroom teaching Leonard said. “I said, ‘No, it’s that I know how to do.” the future,” he replied. “I The eclectic, small faculty—which Leonard summa- would hope the thing we mirror rizes as two feminists teaching Bible, a monk, a con- is intentional diversity in the troversial expert on religious liberty, and two Baptists University and in the church.” who have been through the Baptist wars—has raised a The school, which officials few eyebrows. hope will be fully accredited by Phyllis Trible, a renowned Hebrew scholar who the Association of Theological taught at Wake Forest from 1963 to 1971 before Schools within seven years, is all moving on to a stellar career at prestigious Union about doing “an old thing in a Theological Seminary, is associate dean and professor new way,” said Tupper. There will of Biblical studies. She joined the faculty in July 1998. be numerous opportunities for the Frank Tupper, a Baptist theologian who joined Wake small student population and the faculty to interact Forest in 1997 as a visiting professor in the religion and get to know each other, formally and informal- department, is professor of theology. Father Samuel ly, and for students to feel challenged and enriched. When Weber, O.S.B., a Roman Catholic priest and Benedictine the inaugural class and faculty first met each other August monk, is associate professor of early Christianity and 20, it was in a campus parking lot so they could go to spiritual formation. Alexandra R. Brown, who has led the Brown’s Summit north of Greensboro for a two-day religion department at Washington and Lee University retreat before the start of classes. since 1996, is serving a one-year appointment as an asso- The inaugural class is smaller than first anticipated; ciate professor of Biblical studies. And James M. Dunn, originally, officials had projected that as many as thirty- who since 1981 has been the executive director of the five would enroll during the first year. But Scott Hudgins, Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, which deals the school’s director of admissions, said that more stu- with issues of religious liberty and the separation of dents were denied admission than originally had been

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Someone who anticipated. “We wanted a very strong class, community within the Divinity School, even if it were smaller,” he said. In a few heard about the special arrangements have been made for cases, students chose to go else- some housing for the gradu- where because Wake Forest’s ate students. The students program is not yet fully accred- faculty that had been assembled each have their own rooms, ited; Presbyterian and with living, dining, and cook- Methodist denominations commented that it sounded ing space to share. The house has require students seeking three large bathrooms and a large ordination to attend accredit- backyard. Hudgins said that the school ed schools. Others may have like an attempt at political has worked to provide housing options chosen to go elsewhere because on or near campus for many students of Wake Forest’s requirement that students correctness. to foster community life, spiritual for- attend divinity school full-time. More and more mation, and group ministry. divinity and seminary programs across the country Wingate Hall, home of the are tolerating part-time commitments from students, ‘No, it’s Divinity School, also has been reno- Hudgins noted. But he said full-time programs have vated and expanded to provide more better retention rates, allow students to be more the future,’ commons areas to enable students to involved in spiritual formation and community life, meet, talk, study, and pray together, and are less expensive in the long run because they replied the and work on the building continued graduate students sooner. through most of July. A $1.5-million “We want students to think of theological education portico that has been added includes and preparing for ministry as a vocation and to immerse dean. offices and is now the formal entrance themselves,” Hudgins said. “I’d be surprised if we woke to the building. Trees that were cut up tomorrow and read that it was possible to go to med- down in front of the building to make ical school part-time.” room for the construction will be replaced during the The requirement inevitably will make for a younger Divinity School’s inaugural convocation October 12-13, student population, Hudgins said, and in the inaugural which also will feature faculty seminars, guest lectures, class at the Wake Forest Divinity School, a number of stu- and a worship service. The rest of the building was reno- dents have been out of college for less than five years. All vated in 1996 and 1997, when adjoining Wait Chapel have received some type of financial assistance to offset also received a facelift. the $10,500 annual tuition approved by the University’s Leonard, Hudgins, and others expect the Divinity trustees, and about half of the students secured merit- School’s visibility to improve now that it has a home, stu- based awards. Five received the Samuel and Sarah Wait dents are on campus, and teachers are in classrooms. Graduate Fellowships in Theology and Ministry, the most Trying to get students to apply for the school’s first year, selective of the Divinity School’s merit awards, which Hudgins said, “was such a sell job.” But now that cover the entire cost of tuition and fees and include a prospective students can see people studying, living stipend for living expenses. together, and learning from each other, the sell job David M. Brown, one of the Wait Fellows, didn’t even becomes easier because they will be able to see the school send his completed applications to the seminary at Mercer for what it is—not what it will be. Then they can better University or Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond determine if it is the place for them, he added. after he received word of his acceptance and fellowship to Many eyes will be cast upon the school this first year, Wake Forest. “I’m so excited about the whole attitude and Baptists from around North Carolina—those who and how they’ve gone about establishing the school,” he anticipate benefiting most from the school, its faculty and said. He also is one of the students living in the Divinity its students—say they’re excited that it finally is open. “I House, a home on Polo Road within walking distance of hope people will say it’s been worth the wait,” Leonard and wired to the University. In an attempt to promote concluded. Wf

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Wake Forest September 1999 27 Signs of

the Those interested in investigating the presence and pluralism of spirituality in heartland American

culture needed only to have attended (as I did) the

Bele Chere weekend in Asheville, North Carolina, times in the summer of 1998. The twentieth annual street festival attracted tourists, musicians, artists,

NASCAR drivers, and religionists galore. The signs

By Bill J. Leonard of popular spirituality were evident on every corner.

Methodists sold bottled water and soft drinks, while

Hard against a Baptists offered gospel tracts as a “witness” for

new millennium, Christ. Hare Krishna devotees with shaven heads and saffron robes distributed copies of the Bhagavad we’ve softened the Gita, proffering their own witness to the presence of lines between our god(s) in the world(s). One row of shops boasted faith traditions. store-front centers housing such diverse religious

groups as the Islamic Society and the ECKANKAR

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meditation movement. The A century later, on the edge lobby of a health-food of a new millennium, few observers of American culture restaurant posted would deny that there is an increasing curiosity about, brochures for “Psychic if not participation in, Tarot Readings,” whose varying dimensions of the spiritual life. In its broad- “psychic-sensitive” est sense, this concern for spirituality involves ways medium was “an of cultivating or “practic- ing the presence” of God, apprentice of renowned the Sacred or the Other, Native American medi- through innumerable, some- times highly symbiotic, cine man and author, Sun means. These methods, drawn from a variety of sources, Bear.” If tarot readers, ancient and modern, illustrate important reformations in the Muslims, and Hindus are in American religious terrain. Thus, while interest in spirituality is certainly Asheville, North Carolina, that not new, contemporary Americans are Baptist-infested mountain town, then they exploring an ever-increasing number of paths to the spiritual life manifested inside and outside tradi- are everywhere. Spirituality in its diverse forms tional religious institutions. In short, large numbers of Americans seem concerned about spiritual fulfillment is finding its way into regions that once were and, like good American consumers, are willing to shop around until they find what they are looking for. dominated by church steeples, tent revivals, and In the quest for spiritual experience, the lines between the King James Version of the Bible. Catholic and Protestant, liturgical and nonliturgical, Christian and non-Christian practices are becoming Certainly, American preoccupation with spirituality is increasingly blurred. In a sense, one element of “new- nothing new. Religious awakenings and enthusiasms, tradi- ness” in the current phenomenon is the way in which tional and nontraditional, seem endemic to American reli- seekers use multiple religious traditions, methodologies, gious and cultural life. As Yale’s Jon Butler and others have and literature in their search for the spiritual. A few suggested, Americans have been “awash in a sea of faith,” brief illustrations must suffice. often in surprisingly eclectic ways, since the beginnings of First, many pilgrims seek guidance through Roman the republic. The end of the last century evidenced signifi- Catholic approaches to spiritual formation, devotional cant public pursuit of what today might be called “holistic literature, and monastic spirituality. In a July 1998 religion,” manifested in Christian Science, spiritualism, edition, Time magazine reported on the burgeoning homeopathy, Seventh Day Adventism, and meditation prac- retreat ministry sweeping monastic communities across tices influenced by Eastern religions. The World’s Parliament the United States. As one of my Benedictine friends of Religions, held in Chicago in 1893, included representa- comments, “In America, everyone wants to take a retreat tives of the great world religions in an effort to survey the at a monastery but almost no one wants to become a monk.” changing spiritual environment of the then “modern” world. Monastic retreat centers are booked solid for up to a

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year in advance as believers and nonbelievers seek number of persons and groups who seek direct encounter solitude and common prayer in those sacred environs. with the Divine. In the Christian tradition, charismata Likewise, Catholic devotional literature provides spir- refers to those spiritual gifts nurtured by the presence of itual direction for innumerable individuals, many of whom the Holy Spirit in the individual believer as well as the have no official relationship to the Roman Catholic Church. community of faith. In recent history, certain charismatic These sources include older devotional classics by Teresa manifestations have been associated with specific spiritual of Avila, John of the Cross, Thomas a Kempis, Julian of exercises evidenced among American Pentecostals. In Norwich, and Catherine of Siena, as well as recent works classic Pentecostalism, charismatic gifts accompany the by Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Joan Chittister, baptism of the Holy Spirit, exhibited in glossolalia and the non-Catholic Catholic, Kathleen (speaking in tongues), healing, shouting, Norris. Although Protestant, Norris has dancing, and other external signs of written extensively about the benefits inward and spiritual experiences. of her sojourns into monastic Theologically, Pentecostals stress settings. Her recent best- the importance of sanctification, seller, The Cloister Walk, an ongoing experience of grace provides accounts from known through the power of her stays at St. John’s Abbey in the Spirit. Throughout much of Minnesota and extols bless- this century Pentecostals and ings she received there. others who manifested such Few Catholics in this religious outbursts were cari- century have had greater catured as “holy rollers,” impact on the shape of spiritually immature and spirituality than the emotionally unbalanced. Trappist monk Thomas Their preachers were Merton (1915-1968), whose attacked as charlatans or person, writings, and insights dismissed as uneducated into the spiritual life exert ignoramuses. Beyond the a profound effect on a wide caricatures, however, variety of seekers. Merton’s Pentecostals were truly “hot writings, themselves evidence of gospelers,” given to an intense, an evolving spirituality, are read “enthusiastical” religion that avidly by persons who represent was a decided anomaly for other many faith perspectives and who mainstream Protestants. William claim no faith at all. Merton’s attempts Louis Poteat (1856-1938), Baptist to link elements of Buddhist and Christian leader and president of Wake Forest monastic spirituality (his untimely death College, once was asked if the members of this occurred at a Buddhist/Catholic conference in Bangkok) uproarious sect would find their way to heaven. Poteat make him an important bridge between certain Eastern and is said to have replied: “Yes, if they don’t overshoot it.” Western religious expressions. Numerous persons inside More recently, however, the Pentecostal/Charismatic and outside Christian churches credit Thomas Merton with vision of enthusiastic religion has found its way into numer- helping to awaken their spiritual curiosity. Catholic ways ous faith communities. Many non-Pentecostals attest to of “practicing the Presence” impact many individuals in encounters with the Spirit as confirmed by particular their search for personal and communal spirituality. charismatic expressions. Charismatic Lutherans, Catholics, Second, the so-called charismatic movement currently Episcopalians, Baptists, and nondenominationalists now exercises a powerful influence over a surprisingly diverse lift their hands in common and personal prayer, dance,

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sing, and shout in the Spirit, and anoint the sick with oil. Third, the current enthusiasm for spirituality is Some even speak in tongues. Public religious rallies such shaped by what might be called religious globalism, as those of the Promise Keepers frequently are distin- an increasing awareness of and response to religious guished by numerous charismatic manifestations. In fact, practices from around the world. American pluralism the presence of a sweeping charismatic spirituality was has long provided fertile soil for diverse religious ideolo- clearly evident in the services conducted at the famous gies, whose views impacted individuals from Walden Promise Keepers march on Washington in 1997. Pond to Haight-Ashbury, from transcendentalism to Evangelical college students also reflect the influence transcendental meditation. Through television and film, of such a charismatic approach to spirituality. Today, in travel abroad, and immigration at home, Americans public and private colleges and universities across the have become acquainted with faiths they once ignored or country, student-led, student-organized worship services dismissed outright. Globalism has made those religions are characterized by contemporary and the spirituality they represent less threatening, if not Christian music, “praise more appealing. choruses” (brief hymns Direct contact with practitioners of other religions, at with catchy lyrics and home and abroad, also tends to soften the “foreignness” words posted on a of unfamiliar faiths. For example, a student at Wake screen above the Forest University recently asked me to recommend books congregation), that would help him learn more about his own Episcopal small-group heritage as a result of observing the religious intensity prayer time, evident in his Muslim roommate. “He seems to know and informal, what it means to be a Muslim,” the student remarked. exuberant “Perhaps I need to learn more about what it means to preaching. be an Episcopalian.” These kind Intermarriage between persons of varying religious of religious traditions also has transported a certain spiritual global- ceremonies ism directly into many American families. Recently, a tra- might be ditionalist Baptist deacon showed me pictures of his described granddaughter’s wedding in which Christian and Hindu as “charis- symbols were used, prayers from the two religions were matic lite,” offered, and vows were shaped by the spiritual ideals of observances both faiths. Many students are the product of so-called distinguished religiously “mixed marriages,” families that are a blend of by “hands, Protestant-Catholic, Christian-Jewish, Christian-Muslim, not tongues.” or other diverse traditions. Many seem to use university That is, partici- religion classes as an occasion for sorting out their own pants willingly religious identity. Some were reared in families which raise their hands sought religion via media, adhering to rituals from the in song and prayer distinct traditions of both parents. as a charismatic sign Elements of Catholic, charismatic, and globalist spiri- of their praise to God, tuality may even be fused in the practices of some reli- but most do not practice gious Americans. There are communions that claim the glossolalia. They are charismatic name “Charismatic Episcopalians,” mingling Prayer Book but not necessarily Pentecostal. Charismatic influence liturgy with Spirit-filled enthusiasms. Likewise, certain on worship in a wide variety of Christian communions Buddhist and Christian monastics now provide retreats illustrates yet another blurring of the lines between reli- for persons interested in exploring the shared spiritual gious groups in the United States. legacies of those two traditions. In many communities,

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public religious occasions, once labeled “ecumenical,” are pluralistic environment and how much can be properly now designated “interfaith,” bringing together represen- appropriated only within a specific context of faith and tatives of Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and other practice. Many classic Pentecostals, for example, now communions. worry that charismatic Christians have co-opted the What does this extensive concern for spiritual- outward manifestations of spiritual experience ity suggest about the American religious while avoiding the “hard sayings” of the future? On one hand, the phenomenon may Gospel regarding holiness of life and the simply be another great American self-help daily struggle for “Christian perfection.” fad, and a further indication of the rabid Some Catholic leaders fear that many individualism which lies at the heart of who visit monasteries today will move the American psyche. Obsession with on to Cherokee sweat lodges or New personal spirituality may be an Age pyramids tomorrow. Cherokee attempt by American materialists to religious leaders disagree over fill yet another void in their unend- whether to admit persons with ing search for fulfillment. On the no native heritage to sweat lodges other hand, interest in spirituality and other sacred rites. An eclectic may suggest that even in a highly pluralism may foster a kind of secular environment, some generic spirituality without con- Americans continue to search for text, community, or specificity. signs of spiritual immanence and Whatever else it may mean, transcendence, a sense of the the concern for spirituality is yet “Presence” that is at once beyond another indication of a state of and within themselves. permanent transition that has Toward the future, the quest for descended upon American religious spiritual experience no doubt will institutions. Many Americans inter- be influenced by an abiding reli- ested in spiritual renewal are not gious and cultural pluralism which seeking it in institutional religion. challenges Protestant, perhaps even They are sometimes identified as Christian, hegemony over religious “believers but not belongers,” individ- insights and institutions. Religious lib- uals who pursue spiritual fulfillment, erty, a freedom that Americans always but not as participants in established seem to grant grudgingly to immigrant denominations, churches, and programs. or indigenous religious communities, must Even those inside conventional commu- be extended in ways that foster dialogue nions seem to wear their affiliations loosely. and learning. It may also contribute to a new Indeed, fewer and few religious Americans tribalism as old fears create new bigotry. Leaders perceive their primary religious identity in terms of evangelical Christian groups, many of whose mem- of a denominational identity. Many seem willing to bers draw spiritual sustenance from Catholic or charis- jettison previous affiliations if more fruitful spiritual matic practices, currently fret that this eclecticism will experiences may be secured elsewhere. That trend seems undermine doctrinal orthodoxy and foster a worrisome certain to continue. Wf “universalism” among the faithful. Many wonder how best to respond hospitably to other spiritual traditions, while asserting the uniqueness of their own faith, all Bill J. Leonard is dean of the Wake Forest Divinity School. This without appearing to be intolerant. article originally appeared in Religion and American Culture: Other religious communions may be forced to determine A Journal of Interpretation volume 9, no. 2, Summer, 1999. It is how much of their spiritual tradition can be bartered in a used by permission of the editors.

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Sports

Duncan takes Deacon fans on a vicarious thrill ride.

June Madness state were out or and intensely private young in short supply of man he was when he arrived N COLLEGE BASKETBALL, Spurs paraphernalia. on the Reynolda Campus in IMarch is high-tide month The impact fall 1993 as an unheralded emotionally, when fans are of Tim Duncan 17-year-old from the U.S. poised to be swept along in on Wake Forest Virgin Islands. Some of his a swift and powerful surge basketball, the friends have publicly speculat- by their team. Primed by University, the ed that his shying from the back-to-back ACC titles and NBA, and, indeed, limelight may be a function the return of the great Tim the game of bas- not of reclusiveness, but of a Duncan (’97), Wake Forest ketball is yet to personal feeling that he has fans a few years back were be fully compre- not yet earned the mantle pumped for a rise toward the hended. In a league everyone is draping on him. top, only to be crestfallen, increasingly popu- Those who know him best say their hopes dashed. lated by egotistical, that whatever he does, he’ll This year, June generated a immature, morally do it because he wants to; mighty wave for Deacon fans dubious, lack- because it feels right for Tim as they watched Duncan ram- adaisical, me-first Duncan—not because some- page through the NBA playoffs college dropouts, one else wants him to do it. like a tsunami through Micro- the best player is Nonparticipation won’t nesia. Alumni everywhere felt a mature, humble, prevent him from being an AP/WIDE WORLD PHOTOS their pride swell as their hero selfless, hard- admirable role model for dominated the world’s best Duncan holds aloft his MVP trophy in the celebratory working, driven- young people—and not just aftermath of the triumphant final game. players, dispatched tough teams to-win college basketball players. America is with disdainful ease, and was graduate. The starved for the old-fashioned interviewed on national TV Duncan Deacon Mania marketing boost Duncan values of hard work, sacrifice, wearing gracious candor and manifested itself in a variety represents to its sagging selflessness, and just plain a Wake Forest cap. And at of ways. Cook Griffin, exec- image and television ratings good manners which Duncan the end, when Duncan stood utive director of the Deacon is not lost on the NBA, and embodies. One can only hope tall among his San Antonio Club, says he knows of it is eager to post his name that his qualities will shine teammates holding aloft his several club members who on its marquee in big letters brighter to youngsters than MVP trophy after averaging bought satellite dishes just as The Next Michael Jordan. the darker alternatives they’re 27.4 points and 14 rebounds so they could watch every Whether Duncan will being given elsewhere. per game in a four-to-one Spurs game. Two or three flew accept or actively participate As for Wake Forest, series rout of the Knicks in regularly to San Antonio last in his annointed status is clearly Duncan’s achievements the finals, Wake Foresters season to watch him play in questionable.Throughout already have magnified its everywhere stood there with person. Stores in Winston- his rocketing ascent, he has national identity and name him, however vicariously. Salem and elsewhere in the remained the same genuine recognition. Dave Odom’s

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recruiting doubtlessly will benefit, as may other, non- athletic aspects of the University. In the meanwhile, alumni can revel in the realization that they attended a school that produced not only profes- sional basketball’s finest player, but also one of its most solid citizens. Wf —David Fyten

Verban named to elite program

AKE FOREST STAR WMariel Verban (’01) is one of six top American women’s collegiate players named to the 1999 USA Tennis Collegiate Team, an elite training program admin- istered by the United States Tennis Association (USTA) and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). Verban, of Bloomington, Illinois, enjoyed a breakthrough season in 1999 as she reached the NCAA singles quarterfi- nals and earned All-ACC and All-American honors. She ran up a 43-17 record and finished the season ranked fourth in the nation among American-born players. After participating in a five-day training session at the USTA Training Center in Key Biscayne, Florida, the USA Tennis Collegiate Team com- peted in USTA professional circuit events and the ITA National Summer Champion- ships and received additional coaching and travel grants. Wf

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By Dan Collins Dugout Demon

George Greer may speak softly,

but his Deacon baseball teams

definitely carry a big stick.

here’s a type of verbena growing Tthroughout North Carolina that could only be described as an incorrigible showoff. Plant it anywhere you like but in weeks, if not days, you’ll find it back at the front of the garden demanding attention. In the garden variety of college baseball coaches, George Greer of Wake Forest is no verbena. Those who know him best

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around with him and he jokes around with his players. He’s very dry. “You just have to look at his track record and be with him for awhile and then you start to understand what’s going on with him.” What’s going on with the Wake Forest baseball program has been one of the University’s most exciting sports stories of recent years. Almost always good, but never good enough to reach the NCAA tournament, the Deacons floated near the middle of the ACC stand- ings from 1988, Greer’s first year at Wake Forest, through the regular season of 1998. Then, seeded fifth in the ACC tournament, the Deacons stormed through the field, upended national power Florida State in successive games on Saturday night and Sunday, and made off with their first conference title in 21 years. And as if to prove it was no fluke, the Deacons experienced even more emphatic success in 1999 when they finished second to Florida State in the regular season, defended their title with a sweep through the ACC tournament, and won an NCAA regional held at Winston-Salem’s Ernie Shore Field before losing to Miami, the eventual national champion, in a best-of- three Super Regional in Coral Gables, Florida. Over the last two seasons, the Deacons have posted records of 90-39 overall and 38-18 against ACC compe- tition. They established a school mark with 43 victories

Greer calls pitching coach Bobby Moranda, right, one of the top in 1998, and broke it with 47 wins in 1999. And with five recruiters in the nation. a promising recruiting class poised to join a strong nucleus of veterans, Wake Forest appears entrenched in the first division of one of the NCAA’s strongest would describe him more as English ivy. He’s subtle, baseball conferences. resilient, and if you get close enough to him under the right “The last couple of years have been outstanding,” conditions, he’ll grow on you. said Ron Wellman, Wake Forest’s director of athletics. Few people at Wake Forest have gotten closer to Greer “[Greer] has made adjustments in the program that have than Bobby Moranda, the Deacons’ recruiting coordinator allowed us to experience the heights of college baseball.” and pitching coach. Moranda realizes there’s a reason that Of all the factors that fell into place for Wake so many still know so little about the coach who, by guiding Forest, none was more critical than the arrival of the Deacons to the last two Atlantic Coast Conference Moranda from the University of Virginia in 1996. An championships, has lifted the program from the middle rung aggressive and tireless recruiter, Moranda went after of the conference to the upper echelon of college baseball. and landed the caliber of player who could compete “He doesn’t let you inside his walls until there’s some against, and on notable occasions beat, the Florida time spent with him and some trust,” Moranda said. States of college baseball. And as a former right-fielder, “And once he trusts you he’ll be wide open. Actually his Greer knew enough about pitching to allow a knowl- sense of humor is pretty funny. During games you can joke edgeable pitching coach to do his job.

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“You have to have the right recruiter,” Greer said. “I Andy, a 1995 gradu- tell Bobby and I tell everybody, he’s one of the top five in ate of Wake Forest who the country, without question.” has spent most of his ‘You just do it Along the way, the right blend of veterans matured to professional career in fill a void of leadership that had plagued past teams. Jon law enforcement, warns Palmieri, an All-American now playing with the Anaheim his dates not to expect the way he likes it Angels organization, credits Greer for allowing the play- Jay Leno when they ers to take the lead. meet his father. “It’s hard to be done and “I think with our team, he just loved us so much and he to know whether he’s knew we wanted to win so bad, he just let us do our own in a good mood or bad thing,” Palmieri said. “He was never one to get riled up. mood because he’s so we’re going to win He was just kind of a quiet manager who’d say things when stoic,” he said. “I tell my he needed to. You just had to know that was his style. He girlfriends, ‘This is the baseball games.’ wasn’t going to get crazy or yell at you or anything. If he way he acts. That doesn’t thought something should be said, he would say it.” mean he doesn’t like you. Moranda uses Greer’s style as a recruiting enticement. He’s just very stoic.’” College baseball is filled with coaches who micromanage Yet behind the shield their teams into a collection of almost indistinguishable of stoicism is an intriguing man whose accomplishments parts. To play for Wake Forest, Moranda tells prospects, might even surprise many who know him best. Greer was is to be allowed to play. a star basketball and baseball A criticism of Greer is that player at Westerly High School reserves are normally reserved in Rhode Island who, just last for emergencies. Only 10 play- season, was inducted into the ers, for instance, played against town’s Hall of Fame. He Siena in a 22-4 victory in the matriculated at the University NCAA regional. But once Greer’s of Connecticut, where he was a trust is earned, it is seldom lost. two-time baseball All-American “He knows this and I who roomed with Tom Penders, know this—the type of player now head basketball coach at you have to recruit to play George Washington. In 1968, under George Greer is a during his senior season, he mature player, the guy that’s was on the cover of the going to be self-motivated and NCAA Baseball Guide. mature and love a coach that He reached the pinnacle lets you play and lets you get of amateur baseball in 1967, after it,” Moranda said. “We when his ninth-inning single tell them, ‘Hey, Coach likes carried the United States things done the way he likes them done, but he’s not to an upset against powerful Cuba in the championship going to yell at you and get on your butt. You just do it of the Pan-American games. When the gold medal was the way he likes it to be done and we’re going to win awarded, it was Greer who ascended the podium for the baseball games. We’re going to win championships.’” honor. “In the ceremony they said ‘Who’s representing the Andy Greer can remember the last time his father got mad United States?’ ” Greer said. “We hadn’t chosen captains at him only because he has a good memory. The year was or anything like that. They pushed me up there.” 1982 was Andy was nine years old. His transgression was to He spent five years in the St. Louis Cardinals’ organi- squander $10 worth of hard-earned quarters on a video game. zation, winning the California League RBI title in 1970

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two-year school in the University of Connecticut system. But he kept his hand in baseball, coaching both the university’s team and the Contuit Kettleers in the long- standing Cape Cod Amateur League. No games were scheduled over spring break at Connecticut-Avery Point so Greer could wind through the South recruiting college players for his Cape Cod League team. On one such foray, in 1980, he had cause to visit the Wake Forest campus for the first time. Two years before he took his first major-college coaching position at Davidson, and eight years before he was hired at Wake Forest, Greer had what might be consid- ered a premonition. “We drove up to see Clemson play here,” Greer recalls. “Andy was six or seven at the time. We drove up Silas Creek Parkway onto campus and I said ‘Oh my gosh, this is really beautiful. This would be a great place to coach sometime.’” He earned that opportunity in 1987, after his Davidson team beat North Carolina, Duke, N.C. State, and Wake Forest all in the same season. He had also earned a reputation as one of the most knowledgeable hitting instructors in all of baseball, one that he still

For Greer, Wake Forest was love at first sight. wields today. “What he is is a technician,” said Wellman, a former head baseball coach at Northwestern. “He’s analytical. and helping lead Little Rock to the 1971 Texas League He’s as good a hitting instructor as you’ll probably find. championship. Twice he received the Joe Medwick Award And it’s not just technique, it’s understanding the situa- for being the organization’s top minor-league hitter in tion and anticipating and being intellectual in your spring training. approach to hitting, understanding the game.” But life — in this case a wife, a child, and a war — A man of varied, even eclectic, interests, Greer loves came between Greer and his lifelong drive toward the cooking, cats, yard work, theater, and music. He studied major leagues. He was married in 1970 and Andy was trumpet for seven years as a boy under Al Sculco, a one- born in 1973. But Greer left professional baseball in time member of the Harry James Orchestra, and he 1972, in part to keep his commitment to his National considered attending the New England Conservatory Guard unit in Rhode Island. The Vietnam War was still of Music before his love of sports got in the way. raging at the time, and to lose his draft deferment would Calm and patient by nature and inclination, Greer have been ill-advised. has enjoyed keeping a garden whenever he has had the By the time Greer returned for one last stab at time and opportunity. He has grown all kinds of plants professional baseball in 1973 he had become both the and vegetables, but admits that he has little in common director of athletics at Connecticut-Avery Point and a with the extravagant verbena. “For some reason I have single parent. His marriage had dissolved and Greer, always been more satisfied to stay in the background who had received custody of Andy, found himself juggling and let other people take the credit,” Greer said. “And his job and his parental responsibilities. I just smile.” Wf He remembers keeping Andy, as a toddler, in a playpen in his office at Connecticut-Avery Point, a

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University Advancement

Charlotte Weber funds art scholar’s chair

history of the Cathedral of St. she said. “When trying to help Etienne in Auxerre, France, an institution, I think you look with French art historians for to where the institution has a the past ten years. need and for something that’s Weber is a prominent arts close to your heart, too.” benefactor in New York and Both of her children who a major collector of attended Wake Forest, John C. Impressionist art and ancient “Jay” Weber Jr. (’93) and Chinese art. She provided the Christina (’96), had positive funding for the Metropolitan experiences in the art depart- Former trustee Charlotte C. Weber, with children Jay (’93), Juliet, and Christina (’96), Museum of Art’s Charlotte C. ment, she said. Christina, an announced the Weber Chair of Art at a reception in New York City hosted by Weber Gallery of Ancient art major, was an art teacher Raymond and Susan Pfeister, parents of Joseph Robert Pfeister (’00). Chinese Art, which opened in but is now earning a MFA May of 1988, by working degree. Jay is in Duke Art-felt gift the Charlotte C. Weber with the director and muse- University’s MBA program. Faculty Award in Art. um curators to assemble an “I’d like this to raise the David M. Lubin, a widely outstanding collection of profile of the art depart- HE WAKE FOREST art recognized scholar on nine- ancient Chinese Art. She has ment,” said Weber, a member Tdepartment has a new teenth century American art, served on the Metropolitan’s of the University’s Board of endowed chair and faculty joined the faculty last month Board of Trustees for the past Trustees from 1993-97. research fund, thanks to art as the first holder of the fifteen years and is a member “Bringing in a new talented collector and benefactor Weber Chair. Lubin was for- of the museum’s Chairman’s person adds scope to the Charlotte C. Weber. merly the James M. Gillespie Council and its education department and will give stu- Weber pledged $1.25 mil- Professor of Art and department. She has also dents broader choices.” lion to the Heritage and American Studies at Colby served on the board of the Professor and Chair of Promise campaign in the early College in Waterville, Maine, China Institute in America. Art Margaret Supplee Smith 1990s, but asked that it not where he taught courses in Weber studied at the said Weber’s gifts “will take a be announced until the chair art history, the history of cin- Sorbonne Ecole du Louvre in department that was already was fully funded. Because of ema, and American culture. France, where she majored in very good to another level by endowment earnings, the The faculty award will be art and interior design. She building on our strengths in value of her gifts has doubled given to a faculty member worked for three years at the American and modern art. to $2.5 million. undertaking research in Philadelphia Museum of Art It’s given us the opportunity Her gifts have funded the medieval art and architecture. as assistant to the curator of to recruit someone who can Charlotte C. Weber Chair of The award will initially sup- painting and sculpture. be a catalyst for even better Art—only the second port the work of Associate “I’ve always had an inter- things to happen and to sup- endowed chair established for Professor of Art Harry Titus, est in art and my children have port scholarship of our exist- a specific department—and who has been researching the continued in the same path,” ing faculty.” Wf

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Early inquiries meetings of the annual question or problem that has National Conference on sparked their curiosity,” said Grant will support Undergraduate Research. Professor and Chair of undergraduate research “Preparing and presenting Psychology Deborah L. Best their research findings at such (’70, MA ’72), a member of AKE FOREST has meetings builds our students’ the Research Fellows selection Wreceived a $150,000 confidence in their abilities to committee. “Many of the pro- grant from a New York foun- accomplish significant work,” jects students have worked on dation to support undergradu- Hale added. “In turn, as they in the past have been accepted ate research opportunities. apply to graduate or profes- for presentation at profession- The gift from the Starr sional school admissions, their al meetings, which shows the Foundation strengthens the research experience will add quality of their work and the Research Fellowship Program, notable depth to their need for a travel fund.” which encourages students to research as well as prepare Senior Scott Hoopes and join faculty members as junior them to meet the increased junior Rupen Amin, who partners in demands of advanced study.” spent the summer working scholarly Thirty-eight students were with Associate Professor and research in the Research Fellowship Chair of Chemistry Brad projects. Program last year, its first year Jones, said the experience was The gift is operating, but University offi- invaluable. establishing cials hope that as many as 150 “I have a much better idea an endowed students will eventually partic- of what research is like,” said fund to help ipate each year. Students Hoopes, a chemistry major students in selected for the program from Jacksonville, North the program receive scholarships worth Carolina. “It’s not something cover travel $2,000 or $3,000, funded by that you come in and do one costs to pro- the University. day, but an on-going process.” fessional Students interested in par- Amin, a biology major Junior Rupen Amin, at left, and senior meetings to present their ticipating develop a project from Winston-Salem, decided Scott Hoopes spent the summer conducting research with Associate research findings. It may also idea with the help of a faculty to minor in chemistry follow- Professor of Chemistry Brad Jones. be used to help students pay mentor who shares their ing his summer experience. “I for other expenses associated research interest. Faculty wanted to do research with with their project. members may also propose clinical samples because I’d “We hope the fellowships ideas for a collaborative pro- like to go to medical school,” create the atmosphere and ject with a student. Work on he said. “Now when I send a reality of an abundance of the research project takes sample to be analyzed, I will student research on campus,” place over two semesters or know how the process works. said Associate Dean of the during the summer and culmi- I have a much greater appreci- College Toby Hale (’65), chair nates with the student writing ation of chemistry.” of the Research Fellows up his or her project for pos- The Starr Foundation was Committee. “The Starr grant sible presentation at a profes- established in 1955 by allows students to go beyond sional meeting in that field. Cornelius Vander Starr, the confines of the campus to “The fellowships allow founder of American Inter- present their findings at meet- students to work closely with national Group Inc., a world- ings in their fields and at a faculty mentor to study a wide insurance organization. Wf

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Advancing workshops and seminars led technology by guest speakers who have had success using computer- Gift stimulates classroom enhanced teaching strategies technology applications in their classrooms. The idea for the summer HE CHARLES E. Culpeper program grew out of the TFoundation has given Computer-Enhanced Learning Wake Forest $228,305 to con- Initiative (CELI), a faculty-run tinue the University’s efforts effort to help faculty members to incorporate technology into who are late adopters of tech- classroom teaching. nology, said Angela G. King,

The gift will fund a three- assistant professor of chemistry Dr. Laurence B. Leinbach year summer program, begin- and former director of CELI. ning next summer, that will “In order to foster explo- Leinbach generous man who takes great provide faculty members the ration and adoption of infor- pride in his career as a physi- endowment time, resources, instruction, mation technology by faculty cian, and especially as a men- and technology-staff support to improve their teaching, fac- boosted tor to young doctors in train- to develop new instructional ulty members require time ing,” Cavanaugh said. technologies. that’s not readily available Gift builds fund “My wife, Gerry, and I Twelve faculty members during the academic year,” honoring radiologist decided that we wanted to will be chosen for the pro- said King, who will direct the give the proceeds from the gram each year. Participants summer program. “This will AMES CAVANAUGH of sale of this property to recog- will first submit a proposal on help faculty members develop JBaltimore, Maryland, has nize this man who was not how they want to use technol- novel and creative ways to made a gift of real estate to only a very good and dedicat- ogy—through computer simu- incorporate technology into the Wake Forest University ed physician, but who has lations or multimedia and our teaching. It will also School of Medicine for the been a treasured friend of interactive programs, for address pedagogical questions Laurence B. Leinbach, M.D. mine for twenty-five years.” example—and then spend the to ensure that technology is Endowed Fund in Radiology. Cavanaugh’s gift counts summer developing it for use not simply a prop, but an His gift, combined with toward the Medical Center’s in the classroom the following instrument to enhance learn- Dr. Leinbach’s original gift to $100 million capital cam- academic year. ing by students.” create the fund last spring, paign, “Sustaining the The grant will provide fac- The Culpeper Foundation brings the Leinbach Fund’s Miracle,” which has received ulty support and funds for was established through the total value to approximately more than $86 million in gifts software, equipment, and will of Charles E. Culpeper, $1 million. and pledges. Wf other expenses. The grant will founder of the Coca-Cola Leinbach, professor emeri- also support the University’s Bottling Company of New tus of radiologic sciences, was Advanced Technology Group, York, who died in 1940. The a member of the medical which will provide custom foundation, formerly located school faculty from 1957- software programming. in Stamford, Connecticut, 1996. Participants will meet merged with the Rockefeller “Over the quarter century weekly to discuss the progress Brothers Fund, based in New since I first met ‘Brick,’ I have of their projects and exchange York City, in July. Wf come to know him as a con- ideas. The grant will also fund summate perfectionist, a very

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October 22 and 23 CollegeHOMECOMING ’99 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22

9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Homecoming Registration Benson University Center 9 a.m. Half Century Club Gathering Reynolda Hall, Main Lounge 11:45 a.m. Half Century Club Luncheon Magnolia Room, Reynolda Hall; $10 per person Noon Fifth Annual Friends of Women’s Encore! Encore! Studies Luncheon Celebrating the tradition of Wake Forest Theatre Autumn Room, Reynolda Hall; $10 per person 1 - 4 p.m. Divinity School Open House 9 a.m. - Noon SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 Wingate Hall Festival on the Quad The Quad and Magnolia Court are 11 a.m. 2 p.m. the places to be for food, fun, Wake Forest Baptist Church Service Return to the Classroom - music, and fellowship with other Wait Chapel Alumni Classes alumni. The Demon Deacon, Visit the Homecoming Web site at marching band, and cheerleaders www.wfu.edu/alumni for topics, or will lead a rousing pep rally to get call (336) 758-4845. A Homecoming brochure and registra- you in the mood for this after- tion form will be mailed to all alumni. 2 p.m. noon’s game. Bring the kids to the You can also visit the Homecoming Alumni-in-Admissions Training traditional Carnival to enjoy vari- Web site (www.wfu.edu/alumni) to reg- Welcome Center/Admissions Office ous games. ister for events. For AIA volunteers and those inter- 10 a.m. - Noon ested in volunteering. Call Jimmy Calloway School of Business and Reunion classes (those classes ending in Clarke to register, (336) 758 - 4930, Accountancy Alumni Brunch “4” and “9”) will also have class or e-mail at [email protected]. On the Quad events. Information about reunion 4 p.m. class events will be mailed to those 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. class members. Old Campus Alumni Reception Alumni Tailgate Shorty’s, Benson University Center Piccolo Park, Groves Stadium; For more information about 6 - 8 p.m. $10 per adult, $5 per child age 12 Homecoming ’99, call the Alumni Reception and under Office of Alumni Activities, Bridger Field House, 3:30 p.m. 1-800-752-8568 or (336) 758-4845 Groves Stadium; $20 per person Wake Forest vs. University of or visit the alumni Web site, Alabama-Birmingham www.wfu.edu/alumni or e-mail [email protected]. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23 Groves Stadium For tickets, call 1-888-758-DEAC Be sure to visit the “Student 8 - 10 a.m. or (336) 758-3322. If you’re in a Organizations” page in the Campus Alumni Breakfast in the Pit reunion class (those classes ending Life section of the Wake Forest Web Reynolda Hall Cafeteria in ‘4’ and ‘9’), ask for your class site (www.wfu.edu) for a list of block. 9 a.m. Homecoming events hosted by student Post-game Reception organizations. Homecoming Registration Magnolia Patio On the Quad

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Babcock Graduate School of ManagementHOMECOMING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9

8:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. Featured Student Presentation Babcock Alumni Clubs Planning Meeting Worrell Professional Center, room 1117 Worrell Professional Center 9:30 a.m. 2 p.m. Babcock Book Club (The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Cashflow Tennis Classic (Hosted by Dean Moyer) Thomas L. Friedman; Discussion led by B. Ram Baliga) Leighton Tennis Stadium Worrell Professional Center, room 1312 4:30 p.m. 10:30 a.m. Pre-game Reception and Class Reunions Featured Speaker: Nick Yacabucci (Classes of ’74, ’79, and ’89) Worrell Professional Center, room 1312 Groves Stadium, Piccolo Park 11:30 a.m. 6:30 p.m. Career Networking Panels (Finance, Marketing, Wake Forest vs. Maryland Football Game Operations, Consulting, Entrepreneurship, and Groves Stadium International Business) Worrell Professional Center For more information, contact Paul Barnes (MBA ’98), 12:30 p.m. (336) 758-5693 or 1-800-752-8570 or at Alumni, Faculty, and Student Lunch [email protected] Worrell Professional Center Courtyard

For football tickets, call the Athletic Ticket Office,1-888-758-DEAC Visit the alumni Web site for the latest Homecoming information: www.wfu.edu/alumni

School of Law School of Medicine HOMECOMING ALUMNI WEEKEND FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6

6:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 9 a.m. 27th Annual Partners’ Banquet Dean’s Division Dinner Fall Convocation Forsyth Country Club Old Town Club Honoring the Class of 2002 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5 Babcock Auditorium 11:30 a.m. 8:30 - Noon Afternoon (Time TBA) All Class Lawn Party CME Workshops Davis Field, Wake Forest vs. Clemson Football Game Bowman Gray Campus Groves Stadium Reynolda Campus 1:15 p.m. Afternoon/Evening (Time TBA) Saturday Night CME Lecture Post-Game Gathering Reunion Dinners (Classes (Dr. Wayne Sotile) Ramada Plaza ending in ‘4’ and ‘9’) Babcock Auditorium Various locations 6:30 p.m. For more information, contact Bryan Link, (336) 758-5537 Alumni Gala Dinner or at [email protected] For more information, call and Dance (336) 716-4589 or Adam’s Mark Hotel 1-800-899-7128

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Black-and-golden Receptions were held in: New Canaan, Connecticut- welcome Greensboro, North Carolina- hosted by Jack and Margy hosted by Stephen (’90) and MacPhail and Steve and Freshmen feted by alumni Gin Reid Blair (’77) Mitchem Marge Bottcher, current and parents and Willy (’76) and Beth (’76, parents MA ’78) Sparks Hershey, Pennsylvania- ROM A COOKOUT in Greenville, North Carolina- hosted by Frankie W. Walters FSan Diego to a poolside hosted by Rusty (’70, JD ’74) (’71) reception in Nashville, and Patsy Duke, current Philadelphia, Pennsylvania- Tennessee, 200 incoming parents hosted by Jim (’60) and freshmen were treated to Spartanburg, South Carolina- Clare Mackie Wake Forest hospitality before hosted by Digit (’69) and Beth Boston/New England- they enrolled last month. (’71, MA ’75) Laughridge hosted by Jim and Jean Twenty-eight receptions Atlanta, Georgia- hosted by Whittaker, current parents for new students and their Bob and Pam Thomas, New Providence, New Jersey-

The seventh annual Alumni parents were held over the current parents hosted by Tim Barnes (’73) Admissions Forum in June summer, most in the homes of Jacksonville, Florida- hosted Long Island, New York- attracted 60 high school alumni and parents of current by Hugh (’75) and hosted by Bradley (’78, sophomores and juniors and and former students. Susan Greene MD ’82) and Saralyn C. Bute their parents. Director of Admissions William G. One hundred and twenty- Orlando, Florida- hosted by (’78) Starling (’57) talks with Joan five freshmen, parents, and Mark (’87) and Pam Oldham North Scituate, Rhode Island- F. Bailey (’77) and her alumni attended the reception Tampa, Florida- hosted by hosted by Thomas and daughter, Michelle, of St. Petersburg, Florida, and in Washington, D.C., at the David (’80) and Carol Stanley Kathleen Hynes, freshman Richard and JoAnne G. (’75) home of Dale Louda (’86) (’80) Stefany parents Marino and their son, Scott, and his wife, Ann Navaro. Knoxville, Tennessee- hosted Dallas, Texas- hosted by John from Dunwoody, Georgia. by Mike and Nancy Miller and Laurie Harper, and Ed and Maze Bolin, current parents current parents Houston, Texas- hosted by Nashville, Tennessee- two Don (’70, MA ’74) and events, hosted by David Baird Kathy Kobos (’65) and the Wake Forest San Antonio, Texas- hosted Club and at the home of by John and Susan Kerr, Brooke Watson (’03) freshman parents Memphis, Tennessee- hosted Cincinnati, Ohio- hosted by by Ralph Lake (’67) Lauren and Helen Patch, Louisville, Kentucky- hosted current parents by Hal (’89) and Heidi B. Kansas City, Missouri- hosted New students in Nashville (’88) Helmers by Charlie Schorgl (’83) and were invited to two events—to Washington, D.C.- hosted by Sid Crawley (’79, MD ’83) a Wake Forest Club dinner in Dale Louda (’86) and St. Louis, Missouri- hosted by June and to a pool party at Ann Navaro Ken (’87, JD/MBA ’93) and the home of fellow freshman Greenwich, Connecticut- Karen H. (’87, MBA ’94) Hunt Brook Watson last month. hosted by Tim and Cindy San Diego, California- hosted Hultquist, current parents by Bill (’62) and Faye Y. (’62) Strum Wf

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Alumni Notes

◆ SEVENTY-FOUR children ◆ WHILE SPRING IS still the winner receives a $20,000 ◆ THE HOST AND HOUS- of alumni enrolled last busiest time of year for cash award. ING PROGRAM is avail- month, making up seven Wake Forest Club events, For more information, able again to prospective percent of the class of more and more clubs are contact the Department of students who would like to 2003. scheduling events at other Education, (336) 758-5341. stay overnight in a residence Of the 180 alumni chil- times of the year, too. hall during their campus dren who applied for Provost Emeritus Edwin ◆ ALUMNI IN ATLANTA visit. admission, 70 percent (127) G. Wilson (’43) will be and Boston are needed to The visiting students are were accepted. Overall, speaking at the Wake Forest give career advice to stu- matched with Wake Forest only 46 percent of the Club in Boston on dents during upcoming students who show them 5,331 students who applied September 14. Career Forums to be held in around campus and take were accepted. The “yield New York area alumni those cities. them to classes. Overnight rate,” the percentage of will be gathering in West The Atlanta forum is visits are limited to Sunday students accepted who Point for the Wake Forest- tentatively planned for through Thursday nights actually enroll, also was Army football game on October 15, during Wake during the academic year. significantly higher for September 11. Forest’s fall break. The Host and Housing is alumni children—58 per- Around forty alumni in Boston forum will be held coordinated by the Student cent versus 40 percent for Atlanta attended a Braves over Christmas break or Alumni Council. For more the rest of the class. baseball game at Ted spring break. information, call (336) 758- Turner Field in June. In Alumni interested in par- 5239 between 2 and 5 p.m. ◆ ALUMNI CLUBS have Kansas City, Missouri, ticipating should contact weekdays. Please call at been formed recently in more than forty alumni and Josh Kellett (’97) at (336) least two weeks before your four areas, increasing the students attended the first 758-5263. planned visit. Wf number of Wake Forest annual alumni/student pic- Clubs to eighty-six. The nic at a city park in July. new clubs and the presi- dents of each are: ◆ ALUMNI WHO are class- Mt. Airy, North Carolina room teachers are encour- Kevin Beeson (’86, aged to apply for the MBA ’91) Marcellus Waddill Pinehurst, North Carolina Excellence in Teaching president TBA Award. The deadline for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania next year’s competition is Mike (’89) and Mary Dee December 6. Andrews (’93) Smith The Waddill Award is St. Louis, Missouri given annually to two Ken Hunt (’87, alumni who are exemplary JD/MBA ’93) classroom teachers in For more information on grades K-12 in public or Getting all wrapped up in preparations for Homecoming ’99—October 22-23—are members of the Class of ’49: Bill Clarke, Lucy Jenkins Johnson, Jim Frisbie and his the clubs program, contact private schools. At least wife, Peggy (’51), and Bill Beacham. They held a phonathon in June to call their Mark “Frosty” Aust (’87), three years teaching expe- classmates to encourage them to attend Homecoming. See page 42 for a complete (336) 758-4278. rience is required. Each schedule of Homecoming activities.

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President’s Column Two join staff Stewardship, alumni programs posts filled THE SUPPORT AND VOLUNTEER SERVICE of alumni are integral parts of the success of Wake Forest. We are blessed WO STAFF POSITIONS to have such a strong alumni network. As President Hearn Tin the Office of University said at the Alumni Council’s Summer Planning Conference in Advancement have been filled Campaign July: “A key component of (positioning) Wake Forest as a recently. national institution is having alumni volunteers in a lead role. Betsy J. Chapman (’92, director named Alumni mobilize to make it possible for the institution to MA ’94) has been named James Bullock will lead capital achieve key outcomes.” director of alumni programs. fundraising effort I’m pleased to try to do my part to keep alumni involved She will be responsible for in all aspects of the life of the University. I would like to planning on-campus events, AMES R. BULLOCK (’85, thank Diana Moon Adams (’78), who so ably led the Alumni such as JMBA ’95) will direct Wake Council during the last year. I’d also like to thank members Homecoming Forest’s next capital campaign, of the Alumni Council for their hard work and dedication. and President’s scheduled to publicly kick off in The Council acts as a link between the University admin- Weekend, and 2001. Bullock, an assistant vice istration and the alumni body of over 35,000. At the Alumni working with president in the Office of Council’s planning conference, council members received the Alumni University Advancement, has updates on such topics as admissions, use of technology, gift Council and led the Office of Major Gifts Chapman clubs, and financial support. Council members provided Parents’ and Annual Support for the last valuable suggestions and ideas about how Wake Forest can Council. Chapman was previ- three years. stay in touch with alumni and continue the tradition of per- ously an Operations Officer Since joining the university sonal contact that we all experienced as students. and Senior Training Support advancement staff in 1985, In the coming year, the Alumni Council will continue to Specialist with Wachovia in Bullock has served as assistant work with the University to support the annual giving cam- Winston- director of alumni activities, paigns, student recruitment, and alumni events. We also Salem. director of law alumni activities, want to encourage alumni to visit campus during the year Lori director of capital support, and and to participate in Wake Forest events that are held Dishman, who associate director of development. throughout the country. completed a He was responsible for the Finally, I’d like to thank the thousands of alumni who Masters in regional campaigns during the supported the Annual Funds during 1998-99, when I served Religion at University’s last capital campaign, as national chairman of the College Fund. Because of your Dishman Wake Forest the Heritage and Promise cam- generosity and support, the College Fund raised $2.4 million last spring, has been named paign, which concluded in 1995. in 1998-99, 2 percent more than last year, from about 9,300 director of gift stewardship. “James’ wealth of experience donors, again a 2 percent increase over the previous year. I She will be responsible for working with so many of our know you will be equally supportive of this year’s campaign, planning major donor events alumni and donors and the valu- being led by Bobby Burchfield (’76). and personal stewardship of able experience of having already It’s because Wake Forest has such a generous and active scholarship donors. Dishman been through one campaign alumni body that I look forward to representing alumni in had previously worked in the uniquely qualify him to lead our the coming year. University’s purchasing office next campaign,” said Sandra C. and with the Master of Arts Boyette (MBA ’95), vice presi- Sammy Rothrock (’73), Winston-Salem, North Carolina in Liberal Studies program. Wf dent for university advancement. Wf President, Wake Forest Alumni Association

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1948 Joseph C. Hough Jr. was elected president and appointed William Herb Appenzeller was awarded E. Dodge Professor of Social the 1999 Leadership Award, the Ethics at Union Theological highest honor presented by the Seminary in New York City in Society for the Study of the February 1999. Previously he Legal Aspects for Sport and served as dean and professor of Physical Activity. He is the ethics at the Vanderbilt Divinity Jefferson-Pilot professor emeri- School in Nashville, TN. tus of sport management at Pulliam (’65) Guilford College and the author 1956 of the N.C. Bar Association. of 12 sport law books. He serves Lowe A. Norman Jr. is serving as president of Appenzeller & 1962 Associates and as a special con- Oak Grove Baptist Church as sultant for the Center for Sport interim pastor. He and his wife, Lucia Pollock retired from the Law and Risk Management. Well-wishers greet Hiram H. Ward (JD ‘50) July 6 fol- Mary, reside in Virginia Beach, National Gallery of Art in lowing ceremonies renaming the federal building in VA. Washington after 20 years. She George Barrett (MD ’52) is the downtown Winston-Salem in his honor. Ward served worked for 36 years in federal recipient of UNC-Charlotte’s as a U.S. District Court judge from 1972 until his 1959 government personnel adminis- 1999 Distinguished Service retirement in 1988. tration and counseling. Award. A retired Charlotte radi- Sue Wilson Lansberry has ologist, he received the award in opened a gourmet cafe in the past spring. The 538-page book years of marriage on November 1963 recognition of his role as a new Marsha & Jimmy Gibbs is a compilation of World War 17, 1999. The couple have a local, state and national leader Oncology Center at Spartan- Diana Gilliland Wright received II letters from his brother, daughter, a son and three grand- on issues of medical ethics, as burg Regional Medical Center. a Ph.D. in Byzantine history Albert Hodge, to family mem- children. well as for his work to supply She specializes in developing from Catholic University of bers detailing his Pacific drug abuse counseling/educa- Richard M. Newton Sr. was menu items that are palatable America. Her dissertation was Theater experiences and other tion to teenagers. recently appointed to the and nutritious for people under- titled “Bartolomeo Minio: family commentary and history. Virginia State Board of Medicine going treatment. Venetian Administration in Hodge lives in Smithfield and is by Gov. James Gilmore. Dr. Fifteenth-Century Nauplion.” 1950 Shirley Hoover Strickland has a retired Baptist minister. Newton is a practicing cardiolo- Ray Keith Hodge published retired after more than 29 years Walter B. Joyner Sr. and his gist in Roanoke, VA, and a clini- 1964 Letters From Albert Hodge this of teaching English in Winston- wife, Ruth, will celebrate 54 cal associate professor of Salem and Charlotte, NC. She Joseph J. Hall has been re- medicine at the University of enjoys playing golf and traveling elected as chairman of the Virginia School of Medicine. to Australia, New Zealand, Northwest/Umstead Citizens If you have news you would like to share — Alaska, Hawaii, Portugal and Action Council in Raleigh, 1955 promotions, awards, honors, announcements Spain. NC. Additionally, he has been Harry R. Hill (JD) was recently named a member of the NCSU of marriage, births, adoptions, deaths, etc.— awarded the New Jersey 1961 Chancellor’s Neighborhood please send it to Christine Underwood, class- Commssion on Advisors panel and appointed Larry B. Sitton (LLB ’64) was Professionalism’s 1999 to the N.C. Division of Marine notes editor, Wake Forest Magazine, P.O. Box elected a Fellow of the Professional Lawyer of the Fisheries Advisory Board for 7205 Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, NC American Bar Foundation, an Year Award. The award is Oysters and Hard Clams. He is honorary organization of prac- 27109-7205. Internet: [email protected]. given to those attorneys who enjoying retirement and spend- ticing attorneys, judges and law We are sorry, but we cannot publish third- have demonstrated an extraor- ing time on the N.C. Crystal teachers whose careers have dinary commitment to profes- Coast. He is looking forward party news unless the person submitting it demonstrated outstanding dedi- sionalism throughout their to the 1999 football season. provides a telephone number for verification cation to the welfare of their careers in the law. He is a part- Go DEACS. and accepts responsibility for the accuracy of communities and to the highest ner in the Trenton law firm of principles of the legal profes- the information. Backes & Hill. sion. He is the current president

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local transportation experts appointed by the Governor of Maryland to the Transportation Solutions Group. He also com- pleted a one-year term as the president of the Maryland Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives. Viti (’67) MacLaren (’71) Cagle (’73) Apple (’75) 1975 1965 NTC/Contemporary books. Kitty Harmon Kesler retired in Carolina mailing services com- Jim B. Apple was elected as the June 1998 after teaching English pany based in Winston-Salem. Larry R. Ammons has a daugh- Melody Gyles Young retired in 1999-2000 chairman of the in public schools for 30 years. ter, Beth, who graduated from June 1998 after a 32-year teach- South Carolina Bankers She now tutors SAT preparation 1971 Wake Forest in May. ing career. She now co-owns Association. He also serves on and English. Her husband, Gene and manages a garden shop. Jim Gadd has been named the the Board of the United Way, Stig Egede Nissen has moved to Kesler, retired from the Federal Executive Director and COO Palmetto Business Forum, and Burlington, NC, and started a Drug Administration and is now 1967 of the Telephone Pioneers of the Central Carolina Economic business called Awnings of a systems engineer for M Development Alliance. For the Capt. Stephen Beuttel was America, the nation’s largest Distinction, which sells Cubed. Her daughter, Ashley, industry-related volunteer orga- past six years, he has served as retractable awnings. He is a elected to the Board of Regents recently graduated from chairman of the Wake Forest of the American College of nization. He and his wife, retired colonel from the U.S. Gardner-Webb University and Cindy, have relocated to University Scholarship Program Air Force. Physicians-American Society of her son, Zachary, is a freshman in South Carolina. Internal Medicine, the nation’s Denver, CO. Robert N. Pulliam is founder at Bullis Prep. largest medical specialty orga- R. James MacLaren is vice presi- Grover C. Carico was recently and managing partner of nization. He is program direc- dent and business banking part- named the second Faculty Pulliam Financial Group, 1969 tor of the internal medicine ner at Bank of Wilmington in Chair, an honor recognizing his PLLC, in Winston-Salem. In residency program at the Naval John L. Tate was elected a Wilmington, NC. He is responsi- outstanding achievement as a 1998, he received accreditation Medical Center in Portsmouth, Fellow of the American College ble for securing loans for small- teacher at St. Paul’s School for in business valuation (ABV), VA; associate professor of clini- of Trial Lawyers, whose mem- and medium-sized businesses Girls in Maryland. He is in his becoming one of only 800 cal internal medicine at Eastern bership is restricted to the top 1 throughout the community. fourth year as head of the sci- CPAs to earn the designation. Virginia Medical School; and percent of the civil and criminal ence department. He has since been appointed to Linda Berry Slinkard resides in an associate professor of inter- trial bar. He is chair of Stites & serve on the ABV Examination Panama City, FL, with her hus- Barbara Hofmaier is director nal medicine at the Uniformed Harbison’s product liability Committee. band, Mike, who is the vice for educational resources for defense practice in Louisville, Services University of the wing commander of the 325th Women of the Evangelical Dale Walker has been appoint- KY, and is listed in the Best Health Sciences. Fighter Wing at Tyndall AFB, Lutheran Church in America in ed president, personal financial Lawyers in America for his Thomas Jack Griffin Jr. where he flies the F-15 Eagle. Oak Park, IL. services, at Ford Motor Credit work in personal injury law. He retired from Dowell Stephen A. Webb has accepted Company. Previously he was and his wife, Phyllis McMurry Schlumberger oilfield service 1973 a new position as a corporate president and chief executive Tate (’69), live on Innisfree company on September 25, sales executive for Cardinal officer at AIG Consumer Farm, where she raises pleasure G. Frank Cagle has been pro- 1998 after 31 years. Health Inc., covering the Finance Group. horses, serves on the South moted to senior vice president Pacific Northwest. He and his Oldham High School site-based at BB&T. He is also a member 1968 wife, Paula, reside in Bellevue, 1966 council, and still squeezes in an of the campaign cabinet for Wes Corle (JD) is a new grand- Davidson County Community WA. The couple have two sons, G. William Joyner Jr. (MA ’68) occasional acting assignment. father. His granddaughter, College Foundation Inc. and is Christopher (18) and Paul (15). has been named to the board of Both their children, Adam (18) Christina Elise Corle, was born treasurer of the Lexington Christopher is a freshman at trustees at Saint Mary’s School and Emily (16), were selected in April. Barbecue Festival Inc. Wake Forest this fall. in Raleigh, NC. He is founder, for the summer drama school at the Kentucky Governor’s owner and president of G. William Charles Gordon (MA Betty Moore-Hafter resides in 1976 William Joyner, Jr. Consulting ’70) has been named president School for the Arts. South Burlington, VT, with her Inc., with offices in Pinehurst of the University of New Jackson Daily Wilson Jr. “J.D.” husband and two daughters. She Steve Duin (MA ’79) is the co- and Winston-Salem. Mexico. was recently awarded the teaches French in an elementary author of the book Comics school and also has a practice as Between the Panels, a history Shuford Smith and his wife, Helen Smithson Hindersman national Mailing Excellence a hypnotherapist specializing in of comic books that was co- Mary Helen, are co-authors of has made a major change in her Award by the United States past-life regression. authored with Mike The Retirement Sourcebook, life by pulling up stakes in Postal Service at the National Richardson, the publisher of which was recently published South Carolina and moving to Postal Forum in San Antonio, H. Walter Townshend III recent- Dark Horse Comics. He writes by Lowell House, a division of Montana, where she is enjoying TX. He is president and CEO ly completed a 14-month assign- a column for The Oregonian in semi-retirement. of Excalibur, Inc., a North ment as one of 14 national and Portland, OR.

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Jay Jenkins (’40)

Tough to early July and received a of Bill Friday (‘38, LL.D. William J. Gulbright’s rash of compliments. Jimmy ‘57), then president of the long-ago admonition beat Shumaker, a veteran news- University of North that the country “pay man and teacher of jour- Carolina. He created the more attention to the AY JENKINS (‘40) nalism at UNC, said popular “North Carolina song and less to the ‘One of the best Jtaught public school Jenkins was the “best politi- People” for UNC-TV, singer.” in Cleveland County, cal reporter” he had wrote speeches and Whatever the North Carolina for sev- observed and the “leader newsletters, was a legisla- Wake Forest spirit is, reporters who ever enty-two days and then of that flock of young and tive lobbyist, and dealt Jenkins was christened quit to start a career as tough writers” who once with many public matters. in it. The names of his one of the state’s most kept an eye on the state’s “Jay is a great student relatives and friends roamed a capital astute students of poli- politicians. of the political process crowd the alumni direc- tics. For almost twenty Jenkins, who grew up and he has an exception- tory. Many of the most years he was arguably as the son of a Baptist al ability to read people,” illustrious figures in corridor.’ the best reporter in an preacher in Boiling said Friday. “He was a Wake Forest history elite group cov- Springs, North Carolina, great influence for the uni- hailed from his native ering the North probably would have versity and the state is Robeson County or Carolina been a good teacher greatly indebted to him.” adjacent Scotland General except for a telephone call Jenkins, who lives in County. They included Assembly. from Jesse Helms (‘40). Raleigh with his wife, Jasper Memory (‘21), Gene Helms, the state’s longtime Ruth, calls himself “the who taught at Wake Roberts, a for- senator, was a newsman oldest rat left in the barn.” Forest for forty-two mer managing then and he let Jenkins A modest man, he says years; Lois Johnson, editor of The know about a job cover- he simply observed and who was dean of New York Times ing the General Assembly reported. But he acknowl- women from 1942 to who covered the for the United Press. edges that he and others 1962; and John Kennedy assassi- After additional stints kept a “bright and healthy Charles McNeill nation, the war with the Shelby Star, the light on state politics,” (1898), who also in Vietnam, and Wilmington Morning Star, and for his efforts, he was taught at Wake Forest the civil rights and one sandwiched in as named to the N.C. and was named North movement in the editorial director for the Journalism Hall of Fame. Carolina’s first poet lau- Jay Jenkins: ‘The state is South, said the “state Winston-Salem Journal- Jenkins shares the feel- reate in 1907. greatly indebted to him.’ capital beat in Raleigh Sentinel, he wrote about ing of many journalists —RUSSELL BRANTLEY (‘45) was the hottest league I politics for the Raleigh that as the fifty states are ever played in.” Later in News and Observer for ceded more federal that speech in 1998 at seven years and then was power, media coverage UNC-Chapel Hill, head of the Charlotte of state governments has Roberts said Jenkins was Observer’s Raleigh bureau declined dangerously. He “one of the best reporters for fourteen years. does not like what he who ever roamed a cap- In 1969 Jenkins began calls the media’s obses- ital corridor.” affecting the political life of siveness with the personal Jenkins celebrated North Carolina in a differ- lives of politicians, and his eightieth birthday in ent way. He joined the staff points to former senator

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Mark Wilde-Ramsing (’74)

Pirate’s a permit by the N.C. have a major conserva- As underwater Department of Cultural tion facility in the state for archeologist, Wilde- booty Resources to look for a underwater artifacts, so Ramsing reviews Spanish ship which was right now we are looking coastal construction pro- MERE twenty-two lost in the area in 1750. for funds to allow us to jects to ensure that Afeet under the sur- “We’re 95 percent sure properly continue this pro- underwater finds are face of the Atlantic this is the Queen Anne’s ject. We’d like to have a not disturbed. He has Ocean, less than two Revenge,” said Wilde- laboratory near the studied 4,000-year-old miles off the coast of Ramsing, whose adven- Maritime Museum, with dugout canoes, World Beaufort, North turesome title is underwater men and women in white War II submarine patrol Carolina, lies one of the archeologist for the state. coats behind glass parti- boats, and nineteenth- most notorious pirate Wilde-Ramsing and tions so people can century blockade run- ships ever to have his team dive for about a observe the process of ners that ran aground An alumnus super- sailed the seven seas. month and spend the rest excavating and actually while bringing supplies The hundred-foot, three- of the year carefully cata- preserving this history.” to Confederate troops. loging each find. Before The site has been Wilde-Ramsing’s vises the exploration masted sailing ship, equipped with forty can- the site is disturbed, each declared a protected area enthusiasm for his work nons, is believed to be artifact is photographed, to prevent anyone from led him to develop an and preservation of Queen Anne’s Revenge, observed, and recorded, anchoring, diving, or outreach kit, which he commandeered by including each object’s dragging fishing nets takes to eighth grade Blackbeard before it position and appearance. through it. A surveillance classes in the the infamous pirate sunk in 1718. Artifacts are placed in a camera monitored by the Wilmington area. Mark Wilde- cage, hauled slowly Carteret County Sheriff’s “Hidden Beneath the Ramsing (‘74) is the aboard a research recov- Department helps protect Waves” includes repli- Blackbeard’s ship. happy man now com- ery vessel, and brought to the site from thieves and cas of ancient bottles manding Blackbeard’s a temporary lab near the vandals. that the children touch ship, directing Maritime Museum in After earning his and turn while Wilde- field work and Beaufort where they are anthropology degree at Ramsing explains under- managing an identified, tagged, cata- Wake Forest, Wilde- water archeology. overall plan to loged on computer, and Ramsing took diving Wilde-Ramsing explore and stored in water until a con- courses in Winston-Salem spoke September 2 at preserve the servator can clean and and Wilmington. He was Wake Forest’s Museum ship’s artifacts, stabilize them. So far, div- hired in 1977 by the of Anthropology, where which are cov- ing has yielded brass sur- Department of Cultural a Martime Museum ered with silt vey instruments, wine Resources to direct a sur- touring exhibit of Queen and sand and bottles, a brass ship bell, vey of archeological sites Anne’s Revenge artifacts ravaged by and three cannons. in New Hanover County. is on display through nearly three “It can take three or “We spent a year snoop- September 14. “I love centuries. four years to get the salts ing around backyards, this work,” he said. “It’s The ship out of a cannon and stabi- identifying prehistoric sites like playing. I never was discov- lize the metal so it can be and recording them look at the clock.” ered in 1996 exhibited,” Wilde-Ramsing before they were —SHERIDAN HILL Wilde-Ramsing at the by a private company said. “That’s where the destroyed by develop- salvage site: ‘I love this that had been granted expense is. We don’t ment,” he said. work.’

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John Lassiter (JD ’80) serves as years, in June 1997. In July Command Atlantic in Norfolk, six doctors and more than 40 offices throughout eastern vice chair of the Charlotte 1997 he started Morgan VA, in September. In her new employees, with continuing North Carolina. Mecklenburg Board of Design Inc. in New York City. position, she is in charge of the plans for expansion. William D. Hill (MS ’82, PhD Education. The company develops mar- Navy’s logistics ships for the Bonnie Kay Donahue was ’89) is a tenured associate pro- keting communications and Atlantic Fleet. elected a Fellow of the fessor in the Department of 1977 brand and corporate identities American Bar Foundation, an Cellular Biology and Anatomy, David Farr has been promoted for a wide range of clientele. 1978 honorary organization of prac- and the Alzheimer’s Disease to senior executive vice presi- Donald Sensing received his David Myers resides with his ticing attorneys, judges and law Research Center, at the Medical dent and chief operating officer M.Div. degree from Vanderbilt wife, Rosemary, in the teachers whose careers have College of Georgia in Augusta. at Emerson Electric Company Divinity School in May. He Charlotte, NC, area. Their demonstrated outstanding ded- Charles L. Nesbit Jr. (MBA) in St. Louis, MO. He is respon- was made the first commis- three children, Jason Anton, ication to the welfare of their was elected a vice president of sible for the company’s global sioned minister in the order of Kristin Zulfia and Daniel communities and to the highest Sara Lee Corporation at the operations. He joined Emerson elders of the Tennessee Dimitri, were all adopted from principles of the legal profes- company’s March 1999 board in 1981 and has held several Conference of the United the same orphanage in Russia. sion. She is a member of the of directors meeting. He was key management positions Methodist Church and is in his David is vice president of mar- law firm of Womble, Carlyle, also appointed president and within the company. third year of full-time pastoral keting at Yale Security Inc., Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, in chief executive officer of Sara Andrew Cooper Fix was pro- ministry at Trinity UMC in located south of Charlotte. Winston-Salem. Lee Intimate Apparel. In this moted to professor of history at Franklin, TN. He and his wife, David Nicholson Guy Jr. new role he is responsible for Lafayette College in Easton, Cathy, have two sons and one 1979 returned to Fayetteville, NC, in the Playtex, Bali, Hanes Her PA. daughter, ages 5-13. Jay J. Coyle recently opened 1995 with his wife, Susan, and Way, Just My Size, Polo Ralph Lauren and Wonderbra inti- Clinton Heyward Morgan Jr. Mary Jo Sweeeney was pro- the fifth dental office of Jay J. their two sons, David (15) and mate apparel businesses in the left Donovan and Green, a moted to the rank of captain in Coyle, DDS & Associates, PA Mitchell (12). He is a regional United States, as well as all multidiscipline design firm the U.S. Navy and will take in the Charlotte, NC, area. The executive with Triangle Bank, where he had worked for 10 command of Military Sealift group practice now consists of with responsibility for 30 make a difference

As the 1999-2000 academic year gets under- way, you can help ensure that Wake Forest’s students have a great year. Your gift to one of the Annual Funds helps provide the excep- tional academic opportunities they’ll have this ANNUALTHE year. When a student volunteer calls you funds during the upcoming telethon, start their year The College Fund off right by making your gift or pledge. Calloway Fund Law Fund P.O. Box 7227 Reynolda Station Babcock Fund Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227 Divinity School Fund 1-800-752-8568 Medical Alumni www.wfu.edu/alumni Association Annual Fund Beth Cockman (’00) Robbins, NC

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been assigned as staff derma- Marian Keith Smith received Association. She concentrates Ed Stevens resides in the sub- tologist at the Naval Hospital. her master’s degree in elemen- her legal practice in the areas of urbs of Atlanta, GA, with his He practices internal medicine, tary classroom education from commercial real estate transac- wife, Martha, and three chil- geriatrics and dermatology. His Gardner-Webb University. tions and real estate litigation. dren, Julianne (13), Cody (10) wife, Phyllis, has returned to and Copper (4). Ed is director Deirdre Parker Smith won first part-time practice in pediatrics 1982 of quality for a chemical com- place, enterprise news, in the and has a full-time career as pany. Martha is a quality Margaret “Midge” Warren N.C. Press Association contest family director and mom. The release manager for a software Hudson is a partner in the law for 1998. She was included in couple has two children, development company. Their Chapman (81) firm of Pflueger & Hudson, PA. the first place staff award for Harrison (8) and Helen (6). kids are their hobby. The firm specializes in bank- general news. The enterprise Sara Lee branded apparel com- Brian Trumbore has launched ruptcy and reorganization and award was for a five-part series 1986 panies in Canada. Most recent- his own financial and hard news has offices in Altamonte on three men from Salisbury ly he served as president and Web site, StocksandNews.com. Springs, New Smyrna Beach who were present when Dawn Jameson is a human CEO of the Bali Company Previously, he had a 16-year and Debary, FL. She is also an Hideiki Tyo was executed after resources generalist/benefits operating unit in Winston- career on Wall Street. adjunct professor of bankrupt- World War II. The three had coordinator with Summit Salem. James E. Womble Jr. was pro- cy law at Daytona Beach never met. The staff award was Marketing Group in Atlanta, Cheryl L. Willoughby is work- moted in April to regional Community College. She for stories about the shooting GA. ing in school-age care in underwriting and marketing resides in Port Orange, FL, of a Spencer police officer and Carl B. Massey is an associate Columbia, MO, after three manager at Liberty Mutual with her husband, David W. the following 16-hour stand- in the intellectual years of service as a cooperative Insurance Company in Atlanta, Hudson, a lieutenant in the off. She also won third place in property/patent practice group extension specialist at the U.S. GA. He is the son of James E. Volusia County Sheriff’s Office. criticism in the N.C. Working of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP. Army installations in Hawaii, Press contest. Womble (’57) and Barbara James J.S. Johnson received an Jim Trusty is a team leader in Alaska, Japan and Korea. For Avard Womble (’59). He MS degree in ecology and zool- the Montgomery County, MD, nearly 10 years she lived in 1984 resides in Marietta, GA, with ogy in 1998. Some of his stud- state’s attorney’s office and has Hawaii, traveling and perform- his wife, Ann Bryan, and their ies were synchronized with his R. Andrew Fleming is the two daughters, Hannah (4) ing with her own performing children, Katherine and Ashley. serving as a cruise ship lecturer owner of the St. Augustine Toy and Molly (1). arts company. on Mayan history and Company in St. Augustine, FL. Susan Hand Zimmermann is 1981 Yucatan-Caribbean ecology for His wife, Kathy Fleming (’84), working as a research scientist 1980 Norwegian Cruise Lines. is the executive director of the Scott T. Chapman has been at Corixa Corporation, a St. Augustine Lighthouse Janice Fain Dean and her hus- promoted to professor of math- Francisco Forrest Martin is a biotechnology company in Museum. The couple has three band, Ben Dean, have two ematics at Trinity University in visiting fellow at the Human Seattle, WA. She resides in children, Phoebe (5), Zeke (6 wonderful children, David (7) San Antonio, TX. He came to Rights Law Centre at the Bellevue, WA, with her hus- months) and Jack (6 months). and Sara (4). At present, Janice Trinity in 1987 and was pro- University of Nottingham this band, Donald. is a full-time mom who still moted to associate professor in fall. Pete Nolan is a CPA in sings professionally and edits 1993. He was named a D. Patrick O’Sullivan (MBA) Mechanicsville, VA, where he 1987 dissertations on the Internet. Fulbright Scholar in 1995. resides with his wife, was promoted to vice president Allen Frommelt is the staff epi- Her e-mail address is Margaret, and their two chil- Trina Dare Griffin Graham of new ventures at Hanes demiologist at the Armed [email protected]. dren, Caroline (6) and Matt qualified for one of 60 spots in Printables. Forces Institute of Pathology in Vicki Leonard Henderson is (2). the continental United States for Washington, DC. grants manager at the the ITU Powerman Long 1983 Ronald L. Hicks (JD) was Community Service Society of Distance Duathlon World 1985 George Adams and his wife, recently awarded a “BV”rating New York, one of the oldest Championship, held in Vance Brown has been named Kay Adams (’84), are currently by the legal rating firm of and largest anti-poverty organi- Zofingen, Switzerland, on June president and CEO of enjoying a short-term assign- Martindale-Hubbell. He zations in New York City. She 6, 1999. The race consisted of GoldMine Software Corp., ment in Hong Kong with their received a “B” rating of “High lives in Staten Island with her running 8.5 kilometers, biking one of the 100 largest software two young sons. He is working to Very High” in legal ability husband and son. 150 kilometers, then running companies in the United in international logistics with and a “V” rating of “Very Jan Williams Murdoch has another 30 kilometers. She States. GoldMine develops Philip Morris. The family anti- High” in general ethical stand- been promoted to associate teaches bicycle spinning at the software that automates the cipates returning to the United ings. He is an attorney at the dean for undergraduate pro- Universal Health Club in Cape processes of sales, marketing States in the summer of 2000. Pittsburgh, PA, firm of Meyer, grams in the College of Girardeau, MO, where she and customer support for Margaret Shea Burnham (JD) is Unkovic Scott, LLP. Business and Public Affairs at resides with her husband, Doug small- to medium-sized com- a partner in the law firm of Steven A. Nedvidek (MA) was Clemson University, where she Graham, and three sons, Hunter panies. He resides in Colorado Adams Kleemeier Hagan promoted to manager of mar- has taught for 13 years. (6), Casey (4) and Stowe (2). Springs, CO, with his wife, Hannah & Fouts PLLC and has Betsy, and their three children, keting programs at Chick-fil-a Alan E. Rolfe has relocated to been appointed chair of the real Collin (8), Noelle (5) and Pensacola, FL, where he has property section of the N.C. Bar Dylan (2).

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Inc. He has been with Chick-fil- Greg Roberts was recently a for 10 years and directs the named the associate dean of Kid’s Meal program. Steve and admission at Georgetown his wife, Susan Hardgrave University in Washington, DC. Nedvidek (’87), live in Powder He relocated to the DC area in Dear Old Springs, GA, with their three August. children, Michael (7), Emily (6) and Alex (3). 1989 David W. Orlowski has recent- Randolph Benson was the only Massey (’86) ly accepted the position of vice winner in the documentary cat- president and in-house counsel egory of the Academy of 1990 for AGE Federal Credit Union Motion Picture Arts and Jonathon W. Albright is vice in Albany, GA. He and his wife, Sciences’ 26th Annual Student president-business planning Hannah, have one son, Carson Academy Awards competition. and analysis with First USA. (8 months). He was recognized for his film Previously he was vice presi- “Man and Dog.” dent and treasurer with Coca- 1988 Glenn D. Crater Jr. has finished Cola Bottling Co. Donna Elaine Bowman accept- a fellowship in pulmonary and Consolidated. He and his wife ed a faculty position in interdis- critical care medicine at the are expecting their second ciplinary studies at the Honors University of Florida and is daughter, Elizabeth, in early College of the University of now board certified in internal September. Central Arkansas in Conway, medicine and pulmonary medi- Alice Hawthorne Allen is a Wake Forest, AR. She and her husband, Noel cine. He also recently finished a post-doc at Virginia Tech in the Murray, moved to Conway this two-year term on the American physics department. Her hus- summer. Medical Association’s Council band, Joseph, is employed at Thine is a on Legislation. He has entered Michael S. Bowen (MS ’92) is a Concord College. The couple private practice in Oak Ridge, full-time professor at Wake were married in Williamsburg, glorious fame... Technical Community College’s TN, and is looking forward to VA, in May and reside in spending more time with his Health Education Department, Athens, WV. where he teaches human anato- wife, Chris, and son, Andrew. Douglas J. Balser has complet- my and physiology, microbiolo- Suzanne E. Generao graduated ed a very successful 1998-99 gy and pathophysiology. He is from the Georgetown school year as athletic director continuing work on his Ph.D. at University School of Medicine and coach at First Assembly North Carolina State University in May. In June she began a res- Christian School in Winston- and serves as a captain in the idency training program in Salem. His teams won three North Carolina National urology, which consists of two league championships—in girl’s Guard. His wife, Kimberly years of general surgery fol- volleyball, boy’s basketball and Clark Bowen (’88, MAEd ’92), lowed by four years of urologic track. This marked the fifth teaches 10th-grade English and surgery at the University of consecutive year that his track is working on her national certi- California Davis Medical team captured the league cham- fication in English. The couple Center in Sacramento. pionship. resides in Garner, NC, with Laura Papciak Hopkins earned Jon Britt resides with his wife, their son, Michael (2). her M.Ed. from Brenau COME BACK TO Lori, in Duck, NC, and is a Kelli Chase Clark has relocated University in December 1998. boat captain and sailing school to Sparta, NJ, with her hus- Elwyn Murray (MBA ’94) has owner. He is captain of the WHERE IT ALL band, Perry, and their two sons, been appointed vice president Duck Volunteer Fire Stuart and Chase. of procurement at Food Lion Department. Carol Eggleston Funderburke Inc. BEGAN. Jennifer Whicker Burke resides received an MEd in instruction Chris Scully is the owner of a in Lexington, MA, with her degree from the University of fitness gym in Atlanta, GA, husband Shawn, who was pro- Trek to the Old Campus Virginia in May. Funderburke with professional wrestler Lex moted to the Professional is director of admissions and March 31 — April 2, 2000 Luger. They are in the process Education Department of financial assistance at North of expanding the business and Boston Scientific Corporation. Cross School in Roanoke, VA. Details coming in early 2000 adding more facilities in the The couple has a son, Brendan Metro Atlanta area. James (1).

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Jan Mekare Fiske (’86)

The straight art class every semester,” being a midwife to anoth- ded in the psyche of she says. “For that I am so er’s healing and growth.” all,” as one brochure and winding thankful.” In her junior year Fiske had also studied explains it. The ancient path she switched majors, to art dance since early child- praises comprise a with a concentration in hood; now she began mantra, recited by anthropology. She studied studying dance as ritual Tibetans, young and ROWING UP in painting with Gary Cook, for sacred purposes and old alike; each praise eastern North G traveled in 1984 to Venice as movement therapy. “I refers to an element of Carolina between the with Paul Kaplan and Beth had always been drawn Tara, such as True “Great Dismal Swamp Sutherland, and studied to the wisdom teachings Refuge, Laughter, and the ocean,” as she world culture—on a path of the East,” she says, so Ferocious Compassion, describes it, Jan Fiske toward immersion in vastly she looked toward classi- Radiant Health, or (‘86) always knew she different ways of thinking cal Indian temple danc- Complete wanted to deliver and living. ing, a blend of high art Enlightenment. The babies. The only While working at the form and spirituality. “My dance was created by child in a Museum of Anthropology [spiritual path] is an eclec- Prema Dasara, and she Southern Baptist from 1986 to 1988, tic one,” she explains. “It’s and the women who family, she loved designing exhibits and deeply influenced by the are learning from her the idea of help- managing the gift shop, teachings of Buddhism are traveling to Tibetan ing bring new life she did postgraduate stud- and Christianity, with a refugee camps and into the world. So ies in tribal healing and deep devotion to the schools to teach the for college, she midwifery traditions, Divine Feminine.” dance to Tibetan headed to Wake absorbing ideas of alter- About seven years women. Forest for pre-med native ways of healing ago she also found Aside from travel- studies. and teaching. “Mekare,” a new name ing, Fiske maintains her So how is it In the late eighties she for her new journey. Then bodywork practice at that now her got to watch a massage she met a teacher named home. In early summer, name is Mekare therapist working with Prema Dasara and discov- her small front yard Fiske, and she’s a someone with a neck ered the Twenty-one grew carefully planted Buddhist/ injury, and she saw a path Praises of Tara, a Tibetan flowers and herbs that Christian doing open. Enrolling at the meditative and spiritual she had placed where bodywork and move- ‘I love bodywork so Body Therapy Institute in practice that has since the ever-moving sun will ment therapies for such North Carolina, she shaped her life. Part of her reach them. Mulching clients as dancers, ath- began melding the old morning devotions, the and massage, the letes, and the elderly, much. It is truly dream of delivering babies Tara Dance that expresses dance of the sun over and she studies and with new discoveries in the Praises of Tara has growing things and the teaches sacred dance? healing, through training in also sent her to such sacred dance of Tara— being a midwife to Her adviser at massage. She began her places as Bali and it seems as if the path Wake Forest, history pro- practice in Winston-Salem Katmandu for workshops. that began with a fessor James Barefield, in 1989, practicing body- In Tibetan Buddhism, dream of bringing life another’s healing suggested she venture work including Reiki and Tara is considered the into the world was occasionally out of the polarity therapy. embodiment of wisdom always headed in a science department. “He “I love bodywork so and compassion, “the fem- straight line, after all. and growth.’ encouraged me take an much,” she says. “It is truly inine archetype embed- —GENIE CARR

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Duane Corle is senior merchan- Matthews and Quigley, P.C. in Brenda B. Thompson (JD) is a summa cum laude. The pro- dise manager at JCPenney at Atlanta, GA, where he practices senior attorney-editor for M. Lee gram concentration was in Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem. family law. Publishers, LLC in Brentwood, International Business Strategy He resides in Greensboro, NC, Daniel O. Kennedy (JD) has TN. Her e-mail address is and included coursework at the with his wife, Elizabeth, and been named a partner in the [email protected]. She University of Tuebingen, two daughters, Christina and Atlanta, GA, office of the law and her husband, Joe H. Germany, and a tour in Hong Caitlin. firm Hunton & Williams. He Thompson, reside with their Kong and China. He has accept- daughter in Gallatin, TN. ed the position of director of Laura Daniel-Davis has been will continue his work as a finance for Arguss Holdings, named Chief of Staff to the member of the corporate and Kennedy (JD ’90) 1991 Inc. in Rockville, MD. Deputy Secretary of the securities team. His practice Department of the Interior. includes corporate representa- Elizabeth Gardner Boulware is Steve Fowler received a JD the labor and employment sec- tion of public and private com- degree from N.C. Central tion for Akin, Gump, Strauss, John Darnall resides in Duck, the association marketing direc- panies, focusing on financing, University School of Law in Hauer & Feld in its NC, and owns Toyrific, a toy tor with Strategic Outsourcing public and private securities May 1999. He also was re- Washington, DC, office. store in Duck Village. He is also Inc. in Charlotte, NC. Strategic offerings, mergers, acquisitions elected to a second two-year a lieutenant on the Duck Outsourcing is a professional Steve Simpson received a Ph.D. and general corporate matters. term as party chairman for the Volunteer Fire Department. employer organization provid- in clinical psychology and an Devra Lynn Rafeld is looking ing group benefits, payroll ser- 7th Democratic District, com- M.A. in theology from Fuller Grant Duffield has been re- forward to pursuing a master’s vices and human resources prised of nine counties in south- Theological Seminary and elected to a second term as degree in dance/movement ther- administration to clients nation- eastern North Carolina. School of Psychology. He was Chairman of the 100% No- apy. She will be attending Pratt wide. She earned her chartered Terry L. Jones II was promoted also awarded the John P. Davis Load Mutual Fund Council. He Institute in Brooklyn or property casualty underwriter to senior systems analyst with merit scholarship award. His is the director of marketing for Hahnemann University in designation in October 1998. Cone Mills Corporation in research on the psychology of the Muhlenkamp Fund in Philadelphia. She is a member Greensboro, NC. He has been the pregnancy disorder hyper- Wexford, PA. Mark Davis received his M.B.A. of a professional chamber choir degree from the University of with Cone Mills for five years. emesis gravidarum is in prepa- Christopher L. Griffith has and is studying voice. Maryland in May, graduating Kim Tullos Kash works for ration for publication. He will joined the law firm of Davis, General Motors and recently begin work in inpatient psychi- accepted a temporary assign- atric treatment and private psy- chotherapy practice in Announcing the ment in Shanghai, China, mar- keting Buick, Chevrolet and Pasadena, CA, this fall. dedication of Opel vehicles. Her husband, Mike Kash (’91), works in 1992 General Motor’s World Wide Richard F. Bednarski received Flow Purchasing, Service Parts the Judge John W. Calhoun Organization in Detroit, MI. Trial Practice Award for talent Linda Donelan Langiotti still and enthusiasm for trial prac- House resides in Tampa, FL, and recent- tice, as demonstrated in classes ly moved into a new home. She is or competitions at Washington Residential marketing manager with MP University in St. Louis School Study-Abroad Center TotalCare Pharmacy. Her hus- of Law. band, Kevin, flies helicopters for Paul E. Caldwell III received an Vienna, Austria the sheriff’s department. MD degree from the Medical Martha (Marty) Mitchell College of Virginia and began Peterson received a B.S. in inte- his residency in orthopaedic rior design from Meredith surgery in July at the Medical SUNDAY, THE THIRD College. She is an interior College of Virginia in OF OCTOBER designer with Stewart Woodard Richmond. NINETEENHUNDRED Galleries in Raleigh, NC. Her Hugh Brown Campbell III (JD) husband, John, is a native of AND NINETY-NINE was selected to become a Los Angeles. CA, and is enjoy- William H. Friday Fellow in THREE O’CLOCK IN THE ing Southern living. conjunction with the Wild AFTERNOON Reed Lock Russell graduated Acres Leadership Initiative. The first in his class from the program is a two-year humani- Catholic University of ties leadership study. He was For more information, one of 25 Fellows selected from call 1-800-752-8568 America’s Columbus School of Law in May. He is practicing in more than 300 candidates. He or by e-mail is a partner in the firm of Faw,

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1993 She had a great time attending Kimberly Garner is a clinical Caroline Booth’s wedding in dietitian with cardiology, car- Stowe Blankenship is one of early June and enjoyed seeing diothoracic and heart trans- four Wilmington, NC, residents so many Wake friends. plant patients. This summer selected to represent the United she moved into the pediatric States at the world champi- Edwin G. Wilson Jr. (JD) is a area to work with pulmonary onships of surf kayaking in Rio candidate for North Carolina and cystic fibrosis patients. de Janeiro this September. lieutenant governor in 2000. Following graduation from law Her e-mail address is kgar- Jackie Erickson received an Blankenship (’93) Tulton (JD ’95) school, he had a one-year fel- [email protected]. M.B.A. in June from the Kellogg lowship at the Z. Smith Jean Fitzpatrick Gilham Graduate School of Folger, Johnson & Campbell, Previously, she handled commu- Reynolds Foundation in received an M.B.A. from The Management in Evanston, IL. which has offices in Mount nications responsibilities for Winston-Salem. Since complet- Darden School at the This fall she will begin work as Airy and Dobson, NC. two Washington, DC-based ing his fellowship, he has been University of Virginia in May. a marketing manager for drug- trade associations. practicing with the firm of She is employed with Boston James C. Davis Jr. has relocated store.com, an Internet pharma- Maddrey Wilson and Etringer Consulting Group in Atlanta, to Charlotte, NC, and is work- Meredith A. Leathers is assis- ceutical company, and will in Eden, NC. GA. ing as an associate in the bank- tant vice president in the pri- reside in Seattle. Her e-mail ing and capital markets vate banking group for address is [email protected]. Brian R. Gracely is a product department at the law firm of Stockyards Bank & Trust 1994 marketing engineer for voice Jennifer Anderson Hudson Parker, Poe, Adams & Company. Chad V. Blankenburg works as technologies at Cisco Sytems in received an MD in 1997 and is Bernstein LLP. a retirement analyst at Research Triangle Park, NC. Stephen Rixham recently currently completing her third TeamVest, LLC, an investment He and his wife, Nicole, reside Jennifer Gibbs works with received an M.B.A. from the year of pediatrics residency in advisory firm. in Cary, NC. His e-mail address WorldTravel Partners as vice Owen Graduate School of the Greenville, SC, hospital sys- is [email protected]. president strategic account rela- Management at Vanderbilt tem. Her husband, James Anne Wells Cook is working as tions. Her husband, Sid, is a University. He has accepted a Wallace Hudson, is doing resi- a licensed clinical social worker Bonita J. Hairston (JD ’97) has systems consultant with job as an associate with First dency in family practice in with a private employee assis- a new position with Stratos Clarkston Potomac. The couple Union Capital Markets in its Spartanburg, SC. tance program in Chicago. She Mobile Networks USA LLC as reside in Atlanta, GA. Charlotte, NC, investment and her husband, John, cur- the contract administrator. Travis O. Manning has been banking group. rently reside in Chicago. Stratos is an international Paula Goodwin is completing accepted in the master’s pro- telecommunications company her doctoral studies in human Eric A. Surface is in the Ph.D. gram of Jewish studies/educa- Anissa Danielle Davis earned with headquarters in development and family studies program in industrial/organiza- tion at the Cleveland College of her master’s degree in exercise Newfoundland, Canada. at UNC-Greensboro. tional psychology at N.C. State Jewish Studies in Beachwood, science. As project director at Craig A. Kaplowitz received a University. He also is a consor- OH. Emory University, she devel- Shannon Hutcherson Hines is a tium research fellow with the oped and implemented a physi- legislative assistant for Sen. Ph.D. in American history from Michael Sellers is working for Army Research Institute for the cal activity and nutrition John Shelby (R-AL). Vanderbilt University in May Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Social and Behavorial Science program for overweight adoles- and will join the faculty of as an online broker. His Ernie Hobbs is a pharmaceuti- at Fort Bragg. cents in public housing. She Middle Tennessee State financée, Kemerie Whyte, is a cal representative for Eli Lilly currently resides in Nassau, University this fall. He and his Timothy Donaldson (’92, MS software consultant for & Co. in the Greenville/ Bahamas, with her husband, wife, Emily, live in Nashville, ’94) works for an intellectual PeopleSoft. The two reside in Goldsboro territory. TN. property law firm in Paul Petty. Charlotte, NC, and are plan- Heather Hoch is pursuing an Washington DC. His wife, Jamie Press Lacey (MA) was ning a spring wedding. Lisa Elaine Hedden Edler com- L.L.M. in tax at Georgetown Anna Whiston-Donaldson (MA pleted an M.B.A. at the Goizueta featured in a PR Week maga- Margaret Evans Temkin resides University. zine article on June 21, 1999, ’93), teaches English. Business School at Emory in New York City with her hus- Stephanie Verch Kelley earned titled “Forty PR Stars Under Rodriguez P. Webb has been University, concentrating in mar- band, Harry Temkin. The cou- an M.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill Forty.” She is director of elec- elected an assistant vice presi- keting and management. She is a ple is expecting their first child and is employed at tronic and crisis communica- dent of Wachovia Bank, N.A. marketing analyst in retail sales in December. HealthSouth Rehabilitation tions for Novartis in Raleigh, NC. He is small and service at Georgia Power, a Neil Whicker resides in Hospital as a speech-language Corporation—a leading life sci- business banking manager. Southern Company. Her hus- Atlanta, GA, where he has pathologist. Her husband, ences company—in Summit, band, Robert Edler (’94), is Dave Whaley finished his fami- entered his third year of psychi- Nathan, has a B.S. degree from NJ. She and her husband, Mike, working toward certification as ly practice residency at atric residency at Emory Duke University and is and son, Patrick, relocated to a paramedic with the Gwinnett Richland Memorial Hospital, University. employed at Pirelli Cables as a New Jersey from Maryland two County Fire Department. Lisa Columbia, SC, in May. He Development Engineer. The years ago when she took the Blair Whitley is relaxing after and Rob can be reached by e- joined Lauder Family Practice couple resides in Columbia, SC. having completed a busy year mail at [email protected] position with Novartis. in Sumter, SC, in July. He and teaching first grade at an all- and redler@ alumni.wfu.edu, Richard Paul Sonderegger is a his wife, Tonya, have two chil- boys school in Richmond, VA. respectively. high-tech analyst at Forrester dren, Tripp (3) and Kate (1).

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Research in Cambridge, MA. 1995 LLP in their business and tech- Jocelyn Marie Gilmour is a for PaineWebber in Winston- His finacée, Megan Denno, nology practice group. At senior accountant with Cherry, Salem. Tara is a business ana- David Huntington Adams, Jr. works at Ernst and Young and Brobeck, he will continue his Bekaert & Holland, LLP in lyst for Wachovia Operational received an M.B.A. from The is a junior in the nursing pro- corporate finance and general Charlotte, NC. Services, also in Winston- Darden School at the gram at UMass Boston. The corporate practice with an Salem. University of Virginia in May. Dorman Bryan Gregory is a couple is planning a December emphasis on emerging growth He is employed with Trader general contractor/speculative Rebecca Richards is a second- wedding in Salem, MA, and technology companies. Publishing Company in developer in Greensboro, NC. year graduate student in the will reside in Somerville, MA, Norfolk, VA. Curtis C. Brewer IV (JD) was He is president of D.B. Gregory Masters of International after their marriage. presented with the Outstanding Inc. His wife, Janice Stoughton Business Studies program at Brent J. Baroody received an Shannon Zazworsky recently Young Lawyer of the Year Gregory (’97), is competing her the University of South M.D. from the University of left Andersen Consulting, after award in recognition of his ser- graduate work at Duke Carolina. She is completing the South Carolina on May 7. He is four years, and joined Media vice to the Young Lawyers University. The couple resides overseas portion of the pro- doing residency training in Solutions to sell PeopleSoft Division of the N.C. Bar in Burlington. gram, working as an intern in obstetrics and gynecology at the consulting services. She also Association. He is an attorney Citibank’s Global Project & University of Tennessee Medical Erin Harzinski is living in became a triathlete, completing at the Raleigh, NC, office of Structured Trade Finance Center in Knoxville, TN. Fonda, NY, and is the second five triathlons last season. She Kennedy Covington Lobdell & in command for the City of Group in Frankfurt, Germany. Steve Bolin (JD) has joined the has moved back to Atlanta, Hickman, L.L.P. Amsterdam’s Community and She plans to graduate in May new Washington, DC, office of GA, where she owns a house. Jenny Werner Burke and her Economic Development 2000. Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison husband, Rob Burke (MAEd. Department. She has written Nancy Scarborough completed ’93), reside in New Market, several successful grants and a master’s degree in inclusive MD. Jenny teaches middle deals with incoming business early childhood education at school French, and Rob teaches and industry. She is pursuing the University of Tennessee- high school U.S. history. her master’s degree in guidance Knoxville. and counseling at Sage Anna L. Caldwell is engaged to Michael James Seezen is a bond Graduate School and plans to William G. Freehling (’97). The lawyer with McNair Law Firm, start a new career as a high couple is planning a June 17, P.A. in Columbia, SC. His wife, school guidance counselor in 2000 wedding in Chapel Hill, Rebecca, teaches 2-year olds at August of 2000. NC. Shandon United Methodist Sarah Hunt received a master’s Scott Dickinson (JD) has left Church. degree in communication sci- the practice of law to join the Cindy C. Sutton lives in ence and disorders from Baylor Corporate Finance Department Charlotte, NC, and works for University in 1997. She is a of The Robinson-Humphrey, Andersen Consulting. speech/language pathologist at LLC in Atlanta, GA. Whitni Thomas resides in Marcellus Waddill the Rocky Mount, NC, Tina Evans graduated from the London, England, and works Developmental Evaluation Wake Forest University School for JP Morgan as an associate Excellence in Center. She resides in of Medicine in May. She is cur- in the high yield group. She Greenville, NC. Teaching Award rently doing an internal medi- recently purchased a flat and Chris Koutsogeorgas is a sec- cine residency at the University plans to remain in London for a NOMINATIONS DEADLINE: ond-year doctoral student at of Alabama at Birmingham. while. She has enjoyed hosting the University of South December 6, 1999 Brian Flagler received his JD Wake Forest students visiting Carolina’s School of Public from UVA Law School in May on the international study tour Health, specializing in health 1998. He is currently practic- or staying in the Worrell House. Presented annually to two Wake Forest education administration. He is ing intellectual property law Michael J. Turton (JD) has alumni who are exemplary classroom also the manager of training for Troutman Sanders in joined the intellectual property teachers in public or private schools; must and development for the S.C. Atlanta, GA, where he resides group of Kilpatrick Stockton have at least three years teaching experi- Depatment of Health and with his wife, Amy. LLP as an associate. ence. Each winner, one at the elementary Human Services. Aaron Gallagher received an Katherine Vickers is engaged to level (K-6) and one at the secondary level David McConnell has relocated M.P.A. fromUNC-Chapel Hill. Brian Cornell (’95). The couple to Winston-Salem, where he is (7-12), receives a $20,000 award. He is living in Durham, NC, is planning a wedding early in working for the alumni associ- with his wife, Sandra, and 2000. They both attend Duke ation at Wake Forest. For more information, call the Wake Forest working for the city of Raleigh Divinity School, where Brian Brad Pitts and Tara Sparks Department of Education, 336/758-5341 as an operations analyst. plans to receive an M.Div. in or visit the alumni Web site at (’96) are engaged to be mar- May 2000, and Katherine www.wfu.edu/alumni/events/waddill ried. He is a financial advisor plans to receive an M.Div. in May 2001.

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Jason Moss (JD ’99) graduated Heather Hartman received an summer in Tallahassee, FL, Births from Wake Forest School of MA in English and American working in the legal affairs Law in May and recently began literature in May 1999 from department of the office of 1970s a federal clerkship in Georgetown University, where Governor Jeb Bush. David F. Branch Jr. (’77) and Greensboro, NC. she was named a John Carroll Brock Clary graduated from JoAnne W. Branch, Lumberton, Fellow and Graduate Scholar. Wendy Coulson Murray resides U.S. Army Field Artillery Officer NC: son, John Williams. She was awarded a research in Naples, FL, and is a national Basic Course at Fort Sill, OK, in 2/18/99 sales manager for La Playa assistantship, a summer faculty January and is a second lieu- Patrick T. McNally (’77) and Sechrest (’96) Beach Resort. Her husband, assistantship, and the Margaret tenant serving as a fire support Carla McNally, Nashville, TN: Mike Murray, also works in the Ellen Kalp Fellowship by UNC- officer with the 2d Battalion, 3d daughter, Morgan Chandler. hospitality industry. Chapel Hill, where she is con- Field Artillery in Giessen, tinuing graduate study in the 11/28/99 1996 Marisa Anne Sechrest was Germany. He commands a fire School of Information and David Myers (’78) and Alicia Blomberg finished her awarded a J.D. from Harvard support team and advises a tank Library Science. Rosemary Myers, Charlotte, first year in the physician assis- Law School in June and has company commander on the use NC: son, Daniel Dimitri. tant program at Wake Forest joined the law firm of Gibson, Bob Klatte is a vice president of artillery on the battlefield. 9/10/99 (adopted 3/15/99) University School of Medicine. Dunn & Crutcher in Los with Information Resources Inc., When not training, he travels in She and Jason Copland (’96) Angeles. She is the daughter of which has recently relocated Europe. His email address is William D. Hill II (’79, MS ’82, are engaged and planning a Steve and Cindy Glazier their Philadelphia, PA, regional [email protected]. PhD ’89) and Tricia Hill, wedding in August 2000. Sechrest (’65) of Acton, MA. office. Bob’s new office address is Farrah Moore Hughes is attend- Augusta, GA: adopted son, 500 Office Center Dr., Suite 400, Thomas David. 7/11/98 Brian C. Brady is a purchasing Michael E. Turner (JD) has ing the University of Tennessee Fort Washington, PA 19034. agent for Klaussner Furniture taken a position with the law at Knoxville, where she is work- 1980s Industries, the largest manufac- firm of Cabaniss, Johnston, et Helen Lafaye is living in ing toward a Ph.D. in clinical turer of upholstered furniture in al in Birmingham, AL. Chicago and has been working psychology. Lisa Simon Dadouris (’82) and at the national headquarters of Jim Dadouris (’79), Annandale, the United States. He resides in Tobias Jonathan Weyer has Samantha Ligon completed her the YMCA for almost two years NJ: son, John William. 4/28/99 Asheboro, NC. enrolled in the Columbus MA in American Studies at The in the international and human Marc S. Dunham (MBA) School of Law at the Catholic College of William & Mary in Linda Daugherty Lenzmeier resources departments. She moved to London, England, University of America in May. She is now working full- (’82) and John Lenzmeier, plans to begin graduate school from Munich, Germany. He is a Washington, DC. time at Van Cortlandt Manor, Raleigh, NC: daughter, Megan in June of 2000 at the business unit manager for voice an historic house museum in Elizabeth. 7/20/98 University of South Carolina’s switching equipment with 1997 Croton, NY. Masters in International Walter N. Sherrill (’82) and Siemens Communications. al-Husein N. Madhany resides Jill C. Archbold has left her Business School. Karen Sherrill, Black Michael D. Erwin recently com- position as case analyst with the in Cambridge, MA, where he is Mountain, NC: daughter, Ann W. Lyle Oelrich Jr. accepted a pleted U.S. Navy basic training State Attorney’s Office pursuing a master’s degree in Elizabeth. 1/6/99 staff consulting position with Islamic studies at Harvard at Recruit Training Command Department of Child Support Lori Hinnant (’83, JD ’87) and Pershing Yoakley and Associates Divinity School. He spends his in Great Lakes, IL. Enforcement and plans to begin Rick Hinnant (’83, JD ’88), in June. free time teaching religious cul- Lauren M. Kirby is subscrip- law school at the University of Winston-Salem: son, Peter Matthew S. Robida recieved an ture, history and theology to a tions representative at the John Florida in the fall. Stuart. 7/27/98 M.A. in Latin American studies wide range of audiences, from F. Kennedy Center for the Ayanna Baccus received an from Georgetown University in pre-teens to inmates. He hopes Christina Moran-Cobb (’83) Performing Arts in Washington, M.Ed. from the University of May. He recently accepted a to pursue a Ph.D. in Islamic and William Gregory Cobb, DC. Previously she spent three Maryland in December 1998. position as director of research studies and an M.D. Columbia, SC: daughter, Chloe years with Starbucks Coffee. She is a reading teacher in for an international consulting Madalyn. 3/3/99 This summer she appeared as Arlington, VA, and plans to E. Joy Vermillion is serving a firm, Kissinger Associates Inc., Alyson Irvin Jennette Dallas Rosalind in a production of begin work on her doctorate in fellowship with the Z. Smith in Washington. He resides in (’84) and William M. Dallas III, William Shakespeare’s “As You the fall of 1999. Reynolds Foundation in Arlington, VA. Griffin, GA: daughter, Alyson Like It” in Annapolis, MD. Winston-Salem. Kelly Lynn Barham is attending Richard S. Wright (JD) is an McKenzie. 6/6/97 Heather McMurray recieved an the Wake Forest University associate with the firm of 1999 R. Andrew Fleming (’84) and M.A. in religion from Florida School of Medicine. Beanau and King in Wilson, Kathy Allen Fleming (’84), St. State University in May. She Jason Moss recently began a Vinton C. Bruton IV was com- NC. Augustine, FL: twin sons, Zeke worked on an archeological dig federal clerkship in Greensboro, missioned as a second lieutenant and Jack. 3/16/99 as an assistant square supervisor NC. in the U.S. Marine Corps on 1998 on the Kerak Resource Project Gregory Scott Carpenter (’85) April 3, 1998 and is stationed in Jordan in July. In August, she Shannon Bothwell completed and Lara Ann Carpenter, with the 1st Marine Division at began work on a Ph.D. in reli- his first year at the Yale Law Winston-Salem: daughter, Camp Pendleton, CA. gion at UNC-Chapel Hill. School in May. He spent the Sophia Roth. 1/5/99

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Laura Southard Gill (’86) and Terence P. Ryan (’87) and Mary Charlotte, NC: son, John Paul. daughter, Margaret Childress. Charlotte, NC: daughter, Navdeep S. Gill, Durham, NC: del Castillo, Bethesda, MD: 2/4/99 2/7/99 Morgan Claire. 5/23/98 daughter, Patricia Kaur. 8/21/98 daughter, Emily Dowd. 4/14/99 Lisa Beatty Walter (’88, MBA Laura Papciak Hopkins (’89) Daniel F. Scannell (’89) and Robert T. Lucas III (JD ’86) and Susan Marie Elks Cox (’88) and ’94) and Derek Walter, and William Edward Hopkins, Leslie B. Scannell, Roswell, Perry Lucas, Charlotte, NC: John C. Cox, Holly Springs, Chicago, IL: daughter, Grayson Cumming, GA: son, John GA: daughter, Alison Jan. daughter, Jane Perry. 7/5/99 NC: daughter, Emily Caroline. Margaret Walter. 4/1/99. Michael. 6/1/99 3/10/99 Bennett Gibson Boggs (’87) and 4/3/99 Amy Trottier Buttiglieri (’89) Tracy Williams Kilfoil (’89) Elizabeth Craig Somers (’89) Brenda Spicker Boggs (’89, MA Geoffrey Gill (’88) and Amy and Steve Buttiglieri, and Tim Kilfoil, Cleveland, and Kirk L. Somers, ’91), Charlottesville, VA: Gill, Duluth, GA: daughter, Southborough, MA: daughter, OH: daughter, Emily Elizabeth. Alpharetta, GA: son, Jackson daughter, Bethany Grace. Katharine Perry. 12/21/98 Cammie. 1/23/99 1/9/99 Reed. 5/10/99 6/22/99 Virginia Williams Little (’88, Marion C. Fairey Jr. (’89) and Milton W. King Jr. (’89, MBA Susan W. Spengler (’89) and Jennifer Joyce Haycox (’87) MBA ’94) and Steve Little, Melanie Hanna Fairey, Estill, ’92) and Carol McGinnis King Stephen C. Spengler (’89), and Thomas Ashley Haycox, Kansas City, MO: daughter, SC: daughter, Caroline Hanna. (’89), Jamestown, NC: daugh- Mebane, NC: daughter, Mary Chapin, SC: daughter, Carson Caroline Little. 9/9/98 11/12/98 ter, Georgia Emily. 3/14/99 Ella. 6/22/99 Ashley. 11/4/98 Carol Jones Van Buren (’88, JD Allison Reid Grigg (’89) and Beth Richmond McKinzie (’89) ’91) and Russ Van Buren (’86), Robbie Grigg (’89), New York: and Wayne McKinzie,

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A not-so- Comedy Hour,” I knew I other comics waiting to THE DELIVERY was qualified. perform. And all of them funny So after three years of think they are funnier than Upon my arrival in Los Fear, loathing, and business emceeing the occasional you. (They aren’t.) The Angeles, I was greeted by talent show and perform- second category is the good news and bad by Nick Adams (’95) ing in the first (and to my bigger venue. These news. The good news is laughter at the CAN’T RECALL whether knowledge, only) Alpha rooms usually allow twen- that stand-up is still hot. Iit was fall or spring Phi Alpha comedy night, ty or so comics to perform The bad news is that semester. I don’t know and two years of spinning three or four minutes of soft end of a stand-up is still hot. With where I was on campus. my wheels in our nation’s material before the paid all the major (and minor) I don’t even remember capital, I made my way to regulars show up. The networks still mining the microphone. who said it. But with two Los Angeles to become the possibility of an actual ranks of the established simple sentences, my life next big thing in stand-up audience and the chance and up-and-coming comics was changed comedy. of being seen by an for possible sitcom stars, forever. agent or casting director the competition for stage “Nick, THE SET-UP make these venues more time is fierce. Many estab- you’re really competitive. lished comics stopped per- funny. You Funny thing about show- The open mic process forming for the joy of it should be a biz: in a lot of ways it’s just for The Laugh Factory, for long ago and are now comedian.” like any other profession. example, consists of lining focusing on doing “show- Me?! A And one of those ways is up, sometimes as early as cases” for the casting comedian? At that you very often have to 6 or 7 a.m., to sign a list, directors who attend look- first it seemed start at the bottom. For and then waiting in line all ing for the next Seinfeld or like a crazy comics, the bottom means day to ensure that no one Ellen. Unfortunately for us, idea. But to a open mics. An open mic is scratches your name off these showcases often take floundering just that, an opportunity for that list. It took me several place on the same night as freshman col- any Tom, Dick, or Harry to months to realize that open mics. Often, as lege student, come on down to the those people sitting out- many as forty-five comics with no major microphone and try to side the club on lawn perform in one evening. and no real make people laugh. chairs and sleeping bags No matter how talented a Nick Adams working goal in life, it Open mics fall into were comics and not newcomer is, it’s almost the crowd: there’s good was better than nothing. two categories. First, there homeless people. At the impossible to stand out news and bad news in Once I thought seriously is the smaller venue. Most world-famous Comedy among a lineup of forty- stand-up comedy. about it, it didn’t even of these are coffee houses Store, I have personally five comics, many of them seem like an outrageous and cafes that let amateur witnessed shoving match- already professionals. idea. It already fit into comics perform one or es and fist fights between All of us have heard my few criteria for two nights a week. It’s usu- comics. All this just to sign stories of an established potential careers. I ally fairly easy to get a list, which means you comic recognizing talent wouldn’t have to wear a stage time at these places, can participate in a draw- in a young up-and-comer suit. It looked like fun. and you are usually given ing for a number to per- and giving him his or her And after a summer of five to six minutes to per- form on the same stage big break, right? The watching HBO specials, form, but most often you that Richard Pryor, George funny thing is, in certain “Evening at the Improv,” are performing to a room Carlin, and Jim Carrey situations, the big-name and “Caroline’s that consists of fourteen have performed on. comedians can be your

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worst enemy. When a big- But all of these obsta- The thing is, I love mak- time comic decides to cles pale in comparison ing people laugh. I need to drop in on open mic night to how tough it can be make people laugh. I need unannounced, all bets are once you get on stage. to make everyone laugh. off, and you can wind up Audiences respond to an The instant between the set being bumped off the list. amateur comic in a totally up and the delivery of the After doing fairly well at different way than they punch line—that second or the Comedy Store one do to a known profession- two when you know the week, I was excited about al. When someone goes audience is waiting to hear my performance the to a Friday or Saturday what you have to say, upcoming week. I had an night show at The Improv when you know that what even better number in the they are looking at fifteen you are about to say is draw and I was feeling to twenty-five bucks a going to bring forth chuck- confident and just a little head, plus a two-drink les and chortles and guf- bit cocky. Then Eddie minimum with drinks start- faws from every person in Griffin decides to drop in ing at about six dollars, the room—gives me a and work on some new and valet parking for sense of power I’ve never material. This is the same three or four dollars. (This experienced in any other Eddie Griffin who has had is L.A., remember?) At situation. I believe that God two HBO specials. The those prices, customers put me on this Earth to do same Eddie Griffin who expect to laugh. If they three things: get married has appeared in movies know you’re an amateur, and have a family; eat Ben like The Last Boy Scout, they don’t expect you to and Jerry’s ice cream; and The Meteor Man, be funny. I mean if you make people laugh. I hope Coneheads, Jason’s Lyric, were funny, you wouldn’t I’m right—for my sake, and The Walking Dead, be doing open mics in for the sake of all of those Armageddon, and is the the first place, right? So unsuspecting people star of Master P’s Foolish. their attitude is, “Go attending comedy clubs in The same Eddie Griffin ahead—make me laugh. the Los Angeles area. who is the co-star of the sit- I dare you.” com “Malcolm and Then there’s the heck- While he attempts to Eddie.” Just before I was to ler. Don’t get me started. establish a career in com- take the stage the MC edy, Nick Adams (‘95) is announced that the audi- THE PUNCH LINE a researcher for LMNO ence was in for a special Productions. He is in his treat because Eddie Griffin After reading this article, second season working was there and was going you may be asking, Why? on the Fox television to give them a few min- Why would you put your- series “Guinness World utes. A few minutes turned self through all the agony Records: Primetime.” He into fifteen, then to thirty, you profess open mics to also did work on the CBS and he was showing no be? Why not just make special “Surprise, signs of stopping at forty- your family and friends Surprise, Surprise” featur- five minutes when I got fed laugh and leave it at that? ing Kathie Lee Gifford. up and left.

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Janet Butler Wertz (’89) and Copeland Spenser Jones. Steve Bolin (JD ’95) and Margaret Evans (’93) and Jason Robert Hade (’97) and William T. Wertz Jr. Aiken, SC: 3/6/99. Donna Bolin, Washington, DC: Harry Temkin. 4/19/98 Jennifer Ann Crume (’97). son, Eric Alexander. 6/27/99 Stephanie Strauss Konrad (’91) son, Andrew Patrick. 2/16/99 Mary Jennifer More (’93) and 6/5/99 Beth McInnis Wiggins (’89) and Karl Konrad, Durham, Jenny Werner Burke (’95) and Marc Robert Stauffer. 6/5/99 Marla L. Bost (’98) and and Scott Wiggins, Tampa, FL: NC: son, Kurtis. 3/9/99 Rob Burke (MAEd. ’93), New J. Wade Tollison (’93) and Vinton C. Burton IV (’97). daughter, Amanda Elizabeth. Martha (Marty) Mitchell Market, MD: son, Ryan David. Stephanie Lynn Alt. 3/20/99 10/10/98 4/24/99 4/17/99 Peterson (’91) and John H. Anissa Danielle Davis (’94) Tyler D. Gates (’98) and Peterson III, Raleigh, NC: Kathleen Breen Batchelor (JD and Paul Petty. 4/10/99 Courtney Farley. 9/5/98 1990s daughter, Morgan. 5/24/99 ’96) and Ken Batchelor, West Heather Hoch (’94, JD ’97) Farrah Moore (’98) and Rhett Raymond D. Cannata (’90) and Chester, PA: son, Kevin Joseph. Daniel Bruce Smith (’91) and and Dr. Douglas C. Szajda. Hughes (’99). 6/5/99 Katharine Fortier Cannata Susan Knipschild Smith (’91), 1/27/99 6/12/99 Adam Rothschild (’99) and (’89), Hillsborough, NJ: son, Atlanta, GA: son, Brian Nancy Elizabeth LeCroy (’94) Allison Warrington. 7/10/99 Andrew Calvin. 5/4/99 Edward. 5/26/99 and Peter John Mohler (’95). Donna Sizemore Chamberlain Marriages Ron Thayer (’91) and Kikki 6/12/99 Deaths (’90) and Darren Chamberlain, Dye Thayer, Charleston, SC: Mary Sue Petroshius (’94) and Virginia Webb Cocke, May 27, Lewisville, NC: son, McKay. daughter, Kyle MacKenzie. 1950s Stephen Paul Heckert. 6/19/99 1999, Winston-Salem. She was 3/15/99 1/26/99 Marable Patterson Dowda a staff member in the Bursar’s Duane Corle (’90) and Kimberly Dawn Thomas (’94) Blaine Clotfelter (’92) and (’51) and John Stewart Sawyer. Office from 1941 until her Elizabeth Corle, Greensboro, and Daniel Melanson. 6/13/98 Nikki Clotfelter, Marietta, GA: 4/24/99 retirement in 1971. She was NC: daughter, Christina Elise. daughter, Lindsey Camryn. Stephanie Verch (’94) and the widow of Elton C. Cocke, 4/16/99 5/4/99 1980s Nathan Kelly. 4/24/99 professor of biology. She is Cathy Warren DuFault (‘90) Michelle Bracken Davis (’92) Jan Gale Williams (’80, MA Anne E. Wells (’94) and John survived by two daughters, and David DuFault (’91), and William Bradley Davis ’82) and Larry Murdoch. Cook. 5/1/99 Gilmer Van Poole and Virginia Charlotte, NC: son, William (’92), Winston-Salem: son, 5/15/99. Brian Flagler (’95) and Amy Bloch, both Wake Forest grad- Reid. 4/7/99 Ryan Thomas. 4/19/99 Susan Lynn Hand (’86) and Vail. 8/8/98 uates. Waverly McWhorter Timothy Donaldson (’92, MS Donald L. Zimmermann. Cynthia C. Fotta (’95) and E. N. “Red” Pope (’21), June Henderson (’90) and John ’94) and Anna Whiston- 6/6/98 Jason Sutton. 5/15/99 11, 1999, Raleigh, NC. E.N. Sydney Henderson Jr. (’90, Donaldson (MA ’93), Vienna, “Red” Pope, Class of 1921, Mark L. Oldham (’87) and Dorman Bryan Gregory (’95) MBA ’98), Charlotte, NC: VA: son, Jack Harris. 3/18/99 passed away on June 11, 1999, Pam Cook. 2/14/98 and Janice Stoughton (’97). daughter, Sydney Virginia. at the age of 99. At his death it April Corn Whitehurst (’92) Chris Scully (’89) and Angela 8/1/98 6/25/98 was believed he was among the and Sam Whitehurst, Winston- Castonzo. June 1998 Jeffrey Hicks Morgan (’95) oldest, if not the oldest, living Kimberly Irvine House (’90) Salem: son, Quay Wilson. and Heather Louisa McIntosh. graduate of Wake Forest. He is and Clayton House, Federal 8/12/98 1990s 7/3/99 Way, WA: son, Kyle Clayton survived by a son, N.W. Pope, Leslie McIntyre Queen (’93) Edward. 10/3/98 Jon Britt (’90) and Lori Ellen Stephanie Neill (’95) and three grandchildren and three and Hal Queen, Raleigh, NC: Walker. 10/24/98 Robert Harner. 4/10/99 great-grandchildren. Jill Bartley Jones (’90) and daughter, Caroline Elizabeth. Alice M. Hawthorne (’90) and Robert Glenn O’Brien (’27), Terry Lawrence Jones II (’91), (3/12/99) Curtis H. Plyler (’95) and Greensboro, NC: daughter, Joseph Lee Allen III. 5/29/99 Kristin K. Eldridge (’86). December 5, 1998, Oak Ridge, Ann Madox Utterback (’93, JD Copeland Spencer Jones. Noelle R. Miles (’90) and 6/26/99. TN. A chemical engineer, he ’98) and Tracy Utterback, was the chief chemist for 34 3/6/99. Mark Douglas Griggs. 5/22/99 Michael James Seezen (’95) Albuquerque, NM: daughter, years with Swift & Co. in Brenda B. Thompson (JD ’90) Amy S. House (’91) and Ralph and Rebecca Goodrich (’96). Sarah Catherine. 12/11/98 Kansas City, KS. Prior to that and Joe H. Thompson, Gillies. 3/27/99 8/7/98 Michelle Buerkle Beischer (JD he was a high school teacher Gallatin, TN: daughter, Emily ’94) and David Beischer (JD Kim Tullos (’91) and Mike Tricia Grant (’96) and Steve and coach in Mount Airy, NC. Ann. 6/12/98. Kash (’91). 5/1/99 Hunt (’95). 5/8/99 ’94), Durham, NC: son, George Lemuel Hocutt (’28), Angela Threewit Carter (’91) Nicholas Michael. 4/22/99 Jennifer Gibbs (’92) and Sid Wendy Coulson Murray (’96) February 14, 1999, Greenville, and Scott Carter, Charlotte, Drew Carpenter (’94) and Townsend. 5/1/99 and Mike Murray. 7/10/99 NC. He was a pastor for 31 NC: son, Ryan Edward. 1/7/99 Lorrie Carpenter, Rocky Jeannine Guillou (’92) and Anne Elizabeth Shaffer (’96) years, serving churches in Ley Chaffin Habgood (’91) and Mount, NC: daughter, Kieriana Kevin Chignell. 6/12/99 and David Robert Stelts Jr. Matthews, Charlotte, Rob Habgood (’90), London, (’95). 8/14/99 Norwood, Fayetteville and Ashlyn. 5/5/99 Heather Mason (’92) and England: daughter, Catherine Ridgecrest. He is survived by Kate Hoyle (’94) and Wilson Christopher MacRae. 6/26/99 David Willis (’96) and Lenore Holleman. 12/14/98 Kralovich (’97). 8/14/99 his daughter, Margaret H. Hoyle (’89), Durham, NC: son, Jeff Dernavich (’93) and Karen Terry Lawrence Jones II (’91) Ramsdell; and two grand- Wilson Smith Hoyle IV. 4/1/99 Lynn St. Amour. 6/12/99 Kelly Lynne Barham (’97) and and Jill Bartley Jones (’90), daughters. Kelly W. Baird. 5/30/98 Greensboro, NC: daughter,

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William Frederick Barefoot he had been a Deacon Club Salmons flew 50 missions and (BS, MD ’32), May 18, 1999, member for 48 consecutive earned the Distinguished Flying Louise Patton Hearn, the mother of Wake Forest Whiteville, NC. He practiced years. He was an important Cross for his courage under University President Thomas K. Hearn Jr., died medicine in Wilmington, NC, volunteer in the Rocky Mount heavy fire. After leaving the ser- Thursday, May 27, in Albertville, AL. She was 86. after his graduation from community, where he served vice in 1945, he returned to Memorials may be sent to the Louise Patton Hearn Wake Forest College and was Tulane School of Medicine in on the N.C. State Board of Scholarship Fund at Wake Forest University. 1936 until he entered the U.S. Conservation and Develop graduated in 1947. He worked Army Air Force in 1942. He ment. He was a member of the first with Western Electric and John F. Watlington Jr., chief executive of Wachovia served as a flight surgeon from American Legion, the Elks then as a purchasing agent with Corp. for 20 years from 1956-1976, died May 31 1942-1946 in England, France Club, the Kiwanis Club and a American Cyanamid, a position after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was and Germany. After World charter member of the he held until his retirement in 88. In 1963, Watlington joined the board of visi- War II he resumed his practice Lakeside Baptist Church. 1986. He is survived by his wife, Janet Graff; his son, tors at what was then the Bowman Gray School of in Wilmington. In 1953, he Charles Highsmith (’38), June William Jr.; and his daughter, Medicine. Over the next 12 years he helped raise moved to Whiteville, NC, 9, 1999, Troy, NC where he practiced until his Elizabeth Moody. $75 million for the medical center. The Wake Elton R. Peele, April 19, 1999, Forest School of Medicine honored Watlington by retirement in 1978. Dr. Fay Knickerbock Myers Raleigh, NC. He was head of naming an academic office building for him. (’48), February 5, 1999, Charles R. Edwards (’36), the N.C. Driver’s License February 11, 1999, Knoxville, TN Division for 18 years. He Kathryn Ann Clendenin, a rising junior at Wake Christiansburg, VA served as an officer in the Navy Demar Herrond Boyles (’49), Forest, died suddenly on June 16. A campus memo- Conrad Cornelius Baldwin during World War II. He is sur- February 21, 1999, Shelby, NC rial service will be held early in the fall. Memorials (’37), June 18, 1999, Winston- vived by his wife, Hazel Marlie Linard Choplin (’49), may be sent to Bill Burns Scholarship Fund c/o Salem. In 1942 he became a Privette Peele; two daughters, March 15, 1999, Raleigh, NC Herndon United Methodist Church at 701 Bennett Chaplain for the U.S. Air Corps Mary Katherine Bolch and Ola Vergil Harrell (’49), March St., Herndon, VA 20170. and retired with more than 20 Louise Jordan; a stepdaughter, 24, 1999, Dudley, NC years of service as a lieutenant Sheila Stevens; and nine grand- colonel. He lived in Winston- children. Mack Dolphus Bissette Jr. Salem for 37 years after his (’50), November 4, 1998, Thomas M. Freeman (’39), Marion Joseph Signore (’56), division. She is survived by her retirement, where he was active Wilson, NC February 20, 1999, Dunn, NC. April 28, 1999, New Brighton, husband, Charles Robinson; in the Masonic Lodge and as a B. Frank Yandell Jr. (’50), He was a prominent leader in PA son, Mark Robinson; mother, Deacon in Knollwood Baptist the North Carolina Baptist April 26, 1999, Columbia, SC. Lillie Parsley; and brother, Dr. Adolphus Reid Allison Jr. Church. He is survived by his State Convention and served He was a veteran of the U.S. David William Parsley Jr. (’57), May 23, 1999, State wife, Cora Marriott Baldwin; a two years as president. His last Marine Corps, and served in College, PA Michael Ralph Greeson Jr. (JD daughter, Helen Thurston; two the South Pacific in Okinawa, pastorate was First Baptist ’75), June 20, 1999, sons, Chaplain Col. Charles in China during World II and Raymond Benjamin Farrow Church in Dunn. Greensboro, NC Baldwin and Conrad Baldwin at Camp Lejeune during the (’59), February 9, 1998, Glen Dr. Donnie Hue Jones Jr. Jr.; eight grandchildren; and Korean conflict. He served the Burnie, MD Alan Gerard Zyskowski (’77), (’40), April 11, 1999, April 24, 1999, Grand Rapids, one great granddaughter. Boy Scouts of America for Paul Everette Biles (’62), Princeton, NC MI Zebulon W. Stephens (’37), more than 49 years as a profes- October 20, 1997, New Bern, Austin Lovin (’41), February August 27, 1997, Fuquay sional and volunteer leader, NC Milan George Slahor (JD ’85) 18, 1999, Greensboro, NC. He and was recipient of The Silver March 6, 1999, Scottsdale, Varina, NC Levi Gillikin Jr (MA ’67) and his wife, Ruth, gave their Beaver Award. Surviving are AZ. He had a law practice in J.O. Bishop (’38), June 23, January 24, 1999, Englewood, lives as missionaries for the his wife, Margaret Lee; a Scottsdale, specializing in 1999, Rocky Mount, NC. He CO Southern Baptist Home daughter Linda Byrum; a son international law. Previously distinguished himself as a mem- Mission Board, establishing John Yandell; and a grandson, Gary Price Todd (MD ’67) he was a pilot for Piedmont ber of the University’s first golf seven churches in their work. Joshua Yandell. November 13, 1998, and American Eagle airlines. team and graduated with a law Anthony Richard Gallovich Waynesville, NC degree. He worked as a special Donald Eugene Bower (’51), Brian Wesley McDaniel (’91), (’42), April 18, 1999, Norma Jean Parsley Robinson agent for the FBI and served in November 24, 1998, May 15, 1999, Henderson, Richmond, VA (’73), June 20, 1999, the Marine Corps in the Pacific Williamsport, PA NC Greensboro, NC. She was a Theater during World War II. Joseph Whitener Abernethy Kennedy Wooten Ward (’52), member of the Ardmore In 1961, he established J.C. (MD ’45), April 18, 1999, March 23, 1999, New Bern, Baptist Church in Winston- Wheat and Co.’s first North Hickory, NC NC Salem and was a member of Carolina office in Rocky William Martin Salmons (’47), Wenfrey Eldred Billings (’53), the Deacon Club. She was Mount, where he was branch June 13, 1999, St. Petersburg, June 24, 1999, Winston-Salem owner of the Burnsville manager and president for 30 FL. As a pilot of a B-17 sta- Insurance Agency, Greensboro years. At the time of his death, tioned in Foggia, Italy, Captain

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Jane O’Sullivan (’89)

Full circle My experience as an undergraduate student at Wake Forest University can be summarized in a single word—exploration. The outcome was discovery— about my inner self, about my immediate surroundings, and about our world.

S A FRESHMAN, I was enrolled in Survey all day, it was a joy to come home to share my Aof Major British Writers taught by Dillon findings with my housemates, to discover what Johnston. Through his friendship with the Irish adventures they had had that day, and to make poet Thomas Kinsella, I enrolled in a program plans for evening excursions. at Trinity College Dublin during the spring of All of these experiences inspired me to apply my sophomore year. From January for a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial through May I explored the British Scholarship, and I continued my Isles and met an incredible array of explorations during a postgraduate people, including an all-star line- year of study at the University of up of Irish intellectuals. Equally Auckland in New Zealand. The as important, I forged friendships essential elements of interacting with other students that have in a meaningful manner with the lasted to this day. people around me, regardless My second study-abroad of cultural differences, were skills opportunity came rather unexpect- that I developed because of the edly. I remember reading an article in window to the world Wake Forest had The Old Gold and Black about a group of opened to me. Wake Forest students traveling to the Union I now work for Rotary International at of Soviet Socialist Republics during spring its World Headquarters in Evanston, Illinois. break. I had not taken any Russian language Recently I returned from a business trip to courses, but I was fascinated by the idea of Hong Kong and Singapore. In Singapore I had what life was like on the other side of the dinner with Pamela Basciani (’90), a friend who then-Iron Curtain. Together with fellow students, studied with me at Wake Forest and now works I walked the streets of Tashkent in Uzbekistan as a manager for Coca-Cola there. We shared and visited the apartments of black market the feeling that our meeting half a world away traders in Leningrad. It represented another was due in large part to our opportunities as face of humanity—in many ways different but Wake Forest undergraduates. In the words of also remarkably the same—to the one we knew the poet T.S. Eliot, neither of us had “ceased back home. from exploration” of the world during the The summer between my junior and senior intervening years. In so doing, we realized that years, I was fortunate to live and study at we now know—and appreciate greatly, perhaps Worrell House, Wake Forest’s London resi- for the first time—the place from whence we dence. After working in solitude at the library started. That place is Wake Forest University. Wf

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