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Study a-broadened Stand-up guy Tim mania Wake For e st M A G A Z I N E Across a threshold Divinity School doors are open at last. Page 18 Volume 47, Number 1 September 1999 Editor: David Fyten Associate Editor: Cherin C. Poovey Art Director: Samantha H.E. Hand Designer: David Ureña, M Creative, Inc. Assistant Editors: Kim McGrath, Christine Underwood University Advancement Writer: Kerry M. King (’85) University Photographer: Ken Bennett Printing: The Lane Press, Inc. Wake Forest Magazine (USPS 664-520 ISSN 0279-3946) is published four times a year in September, December, March, and June by the University Editor’s Office, Wake Forest University, 1834 Wake Forest Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205. It is sent to alumni, donors, and friends of the University. Periodicals postage paid at Winston-Salem, NC 27109, and additional mailing offices. Send letters to the editor ([email protected]), classnotes ([email protected]), change of address ([email protected]), and other correspondence to the e-mail addresses listed or to Wake Forest Magazine, P.O. Box 7205 Reynolda Station, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205. Telephone: (336) 758-5379. You can access the Wake Forest World Wide Web site at http://www.wfu.edu POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Wake Forest Magazine Alumni Records, P.O. Box 7227 Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227. Volume 47, Number 1 Copyright 1999 Wake For e st M A G A Z I N E 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 Page 36 Volume 47, Number 1 September 1999 Also in this issue: Pilot of a powerhouse Baseball coach George Greer is a diamond in his field. Page 34 A boost for the budding Grant will support women science students. Page 2 2 Campus Chronicle 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 Wake Forest September 1999 3 Campus Chronicle 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. Wake Forest September 1999 4 Campus Chronicle “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.