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march 2008 A looser CANON Idiosyncrasy in the First-Year Seminar Program “Tales of Mystery and Imagination” “Melancholy Androids: On Emotion and Artificial Humanoids” “Otherworlds: The Monstrous and the Meaning of the Human” “Wide Open Spaces: The American Frontier and the Formation of National Identity” “Fallen Women and Fine Art: The Aesthetics of Commercial Sex” The Quarterly Magazine of Wake Forest University “American Manhood” F EATURES EDITOR Cherin C. Poovey (P ’08), [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITOR Kerry M. King (’85), [email protected] 10 A Looser Canon By David Fyten DESIGN / ART DIRECTION Wake Forest’s first-year seminars expose freshmen Urena Design, [email protected] to some fairly idiosyncratic topics while honing PHOTOGRAPHER their communication and critical thinking skills. Ken Bennett, [email protected] CLASSNOTES EDITOR 18 Goal! Janet Williamson (P ’00, ’03), [email protected] By Steve Phillips COPY EDITOR Men’s soccer wins the NCAA championship—a sweet Kim McGrath, [email protected] and nostalgic victory for players, coaches, and fans. SENIOR WRITER David Fyten, [email protected] PRINTING The Lane Press, Inc. Burlington,Vermont Wake Forest Magazine (USPS 664-520 ISSN 0279-3946) is published four times a year in September, December, March, and June by the Office of Creative Services, Wake Forest University, Box 7205, 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. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Wake Forest Magazine Alumni Records P.O. Box 7227 Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227. 2 A ROUND THE Q UAD Volume 55, Number 3 March 2008 36 C LASSNOTES Copyright 2008 WWW.WFU.EDU Future from our past: University celebrates Founders’ Day ROFESSOR OF PBIOLOGY Herman Eure (PhD ’74) encour- aged Wake Forest’s leaders to embrace the best traditions of the past while planning the University’s future, in remarks delivered at Founders’ Day Convoca- tion on February 7. “The modern version of Wake Forest should be better than the old Professor of Biology Herman Eure (PhD ’74) described version, yet still reflect the University’s evolution to offer a “prescription for success” for the University's future. its ancestral lineage,” Eure said in his remarks in Wait of the College. “Wake Forest has Chapel during the annual convo- a way of getting under your skin,” cation that honors Wake Forest’s he said. “Its commitment to the founding in 1834. “Our strategic liberal arts tradition, its sense of priorities should set forth our community, its concern for its aspirations for what we want faculty, staff, and students, an to become, and also, embrace emphasis on excellent teaching, the best traditions of our past.” its commitment to North Caro- Eure joined lina and its citizens, and a power- the faculty in 1974 ful commitment to the service of shortly after he humanity, all combine to make became the first Wake Forest a unique and very African-American special place.” to receive a doctor- During the program, President ate degree from Nathan O. Hatch presented the Wake Forest. He University’s highest award for served as chair of service, the Medallion of Merit, the biology depart- to longtime trustee Murray C. Murray Greason’s granddaughter, ment from 1998 until 2006, when Greason (’59, JD ’62). Greason’s May Teague, admires his Medallion he was named an associate dean ties to the University date back of Merit. 2WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE For more on Founders’ Day Convocation, including a photo gallery of past winners of the Medallion of Merit, see www.wfu.edu/magazine to the Old Campus, where his was our commitment to our core father was Wake Forest’s basket- traditional values, our DNA.” ball coach and his mother worked He offered a “prescription for Also during Convocation, AROUND THE QUAD in the dean’s office. He has been success” for the next stage of several teaching, research, and a member of the University’s the University’s evolution. “The service awards were presented Board of Trustees since 1991 and courage of a James Ralph Scales to faculty members: served as vice and a Thomas K. Jenny Puckett (’71), instruc- chair from 1997 Hearn, Jr., and tor in Romance languages, to 2002 and as their Boards of received the Kulynych Family chair from 2003 Trustees should Omicron Delta Kappa Award for to 2005. serve as your Contribution to Student Life; Eure’s remarks, guide for steer- Assistant Professor of Anthro- “Using our Past ing the Univers- pology Paul Thacker received as a Roadmap Assistant Professor of Anthropology ity into a broad- the Reid-Doyle Prize for Excel- for Charting our Paul Thacker receives the Reid-Doyle er path of self lence in Teaching; Prize for Excellence in Teaching from Future,”came as Dean of the College Deborah L. Best determination; Associate Professor of Biology the University is (’70, MA ’72). the boldness Miles Silman received the Award in the midst of a of a Harold W. for Excellence in Research; strategic planning process. He Tribble should serve as your Sherry Moss, associate pro- traced the evolution of the Uni- model for implementing the right fessor of organizational studies versity, starting with its founding kinds of change; and the vision in the Babcock Graduate School in 1834 in Wake County; through of a William Louis Poteat should of Management, received the the move to Winston-Salem in serve as your barometer for Cowan Faculty Research Prize; 1956; the admission of women in determining Ram Baliga, the 1940s and blacks in the 1960s; the appropri- John B. McKinnon its fight for academic and gover- ate amounts Professor of nance freedom in the 1970s and of growth and Management 1980s; and its growth into a expansion the in the Babcock national institution in the 1990s. University School, received “Wake Forest can boast of can sustain,” the Kienzle Teach- some giants in its history that he said. “We ing Award; and changed the course of its devel- must be an Associate Professor of Biology Miles Associate opment,” Eure noted. “Former institution Silman receives the Award for Excellence Professor of in Research from Lorna Moore, dean of Presidents Wait, Poteat,Tribble, that remains the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Law Robert M. Scales, and Hearn moved their committed to Chesney received Wake Forest into new directions, its core traditional values and the Joseph Branch Excellence in directions that made us a better constituencies, but also an insti- Teaching Award. University. However, what tution that has the vision, daring, remained constant in each of and courage to embrace new — Kerry M. King (’85) their iterations of Wake Forest values and new constituencies.” www.wfu.edu/wowf MARCH 2008 3 F ACULTY AM BALIGA, John B. McKinnon of governmental and nongovern- Winston-Salem in December. RProfessor of Management, mental organizations from Africa, Proceeds from the sale of the pho- co-led a keynote presentation, the United States, and Europe. tos and the book will go to a non- “Applicability of Business Models Seck co-edited the book with Boko. profit organization in Jharuwarasi. AROUND THE QUAD in Strategy Formulation and The photographs may be viewed Execution: Lessons from the eynolds Professor of Physics at www.wfu.edu/magazine. ATLAS Experiment at CERN,” RJACQUE FETROW and at the 27th annual international Professor of Biochemistry Leslie ahle Family Professor of conference of the Strategic Poole were invited to give presen- KHistory and Associate Management Society in San tations in January at the Chulab- Provost MICHELE GILLESPIE Diego. He co-presented a paper, horn Research Institute and co-edited a book, Pious Pursuits: “Deconstruction of Business Mahidol University in Bangkok, German Moravians in the Atlantic Models and their Applicability Thailand. They each gave two World (Berghan Books). She gave to Large-Scale, Multinational presentations to faculty, students, an address, “Making Herself Research Projects,”at CERN’s and other researchers entitled Modern: Katharine Smith Reyn- conference. He also co-presented “Feature Analysis of Protein olds and the New South,” for the a paper, “Atlas: Through the Active Sites With Application To annual Southern Association of Looking Glass,” in Geneva, Peroxiredoxins and Modifiable Women at the Southern Histori- Switzerland. Cysteines” and “Biochemical cal Association meeting in the Studies of Bacterial Peroxiredox- Library of Virginia. YLVAIN BOKO, Zachary T. ins: Potent Peroxide Reductases SSmith Associate Professor With Novel Activities and ATALIE HOLZWARTH, pro- of Economics, is co-editor of a Mechanisms,” respectively. Nfessor of physics, received new book, NEPAD and the Future funding from the National Sci- of Economic Policy in Africa, pub- nthropology lecturer STEVE ence Foundation for her proposal, lished by Africa World Press. AFOLMAR and one of his “First Principles Simulations of The book contains select research former students, Brian Perry (’04), Battery Materials.” papers on agriculture, market have put together a series of access, institutional reform, fifty-two photographs and stories ROFESSOR OF MUSIC and and finance that were presented showing life in Jharuwarasi, a PComposer-in-Residence DAN at a 2005 conference in Dakar, village in Nepal’s Katmandu LOCKLAIR had his “PHOENIX Senegal, on the New Partnership Valley, for an upcoming book, for Orchestra” broadcast nation- for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). Atma Katha (My Story). For the ally over American Public Media’s Boko and Diery Seck, director of past five years,