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The new residential study program in Vienna. Page 12 Features 12 A Gateway to the Glorious by Ellen Dockham Flow Haus, Wake Forest’s third residential study-abroad facility, will open students to the marvels of Vienna and to an emerging and increasingly critical region. 16 The Sacred and the Profane by David Fyten The world’s holiest river, the Page 12 Ganges, is also one of its most polluted. A simple treatment system based on the natural symbiosis of algae and bacteria may be its best— and last—hope for salvation. 22 Women in Lab Page 22 by Amy Andrews The cause of the University’s female science students is advancing, thanks to grants and a dedicated coterie of Departments supporters.

2 Campus Chronicle Profile Page 16 28 Rare Air 38 Sports by Frank Elliott Even his physics colleagues may not 40 Alumni Report fully understand Paul Anderson’s field, but suffice to know that he’s one of the best in the world at it. 42 University Advancement Essays 48 Class Notes 32 Unholy Warfare In companion essays, a scholar Page 28 and a tandem of Muslim students 64 The Last Word condemn the pervasive stereotyping and suppression of Islam in the U.S. and another Westernized democracy. Campus Chronicle

Dating is going out at Wake Forest

Unsteady as from Florence, South up hanging out on campus. Carolina. “There aren’t too And it seems foolish, she says, they go many casual dates at Wake to ask someone to go on a date Forest. If you do go out, even without leaving campus. “But HE RUMOR IS, Deacons people in class that you don’t when people get to be seniors, Tdon’t date. They hang out even know will know about it they start to be more serious at fraternity parties and in the next day. Dates are usually about intimacy,” she says. residence hall lounges. They serious and well thought-out.” “Seniors know the area and go in groups to games or Laura Acton (’98), from since they’re usually twenty- movies. They ask each other Raleigh, North Carolina, says one, they can ask someone to to planned events, like sorori- the social scene for many stu- go out for a drink or some- ty or fraternity formals. But dents revolves around fraterni- thing.” one guy asking one girl ty parties and Greek date Gilsenan, who says she did out for a nice, friendly functions. If you go to several have one serious relationship off-campus dinner? such events with the same per- at Wake Forest, now has been Not likely, students son, you’re considered “hang- going on “sporadic” dates say. Unless, of course, ing out” but not really dating. with different people. “That the guy and the girl “There are always the excep- has never happened before, don’t mind the news tions, but most of the relation- and it’s hard to get used to. being all over campus ships are casual,” Acton says. How do you deal with it when the next day and don’t “Since the Greek system is so one person likes the other one mind the possibility of large, it allows girls and guys more? I think that’s why peo- immediately being to wait for the next date func- ple don’t date more, because labeled a couple. Or tion to spend time with the they want to avoid conflict, unless it’s true love, the opposite sex.” and it’s safer to just meet kind that leads to a This scenario is especially someone at a party and flirt long-term commitment true for underclassmen, says with them.” and maybe even to the Kerry Gilsenan (’98), from John Bonney, a rising big M. That’s right, it South Windsor, Connecticut. senior from Atlanta, Georgia, seems that dating (or For the first two or three years, who has done some dating but the lack of it) is serious students are exploring their says he’s in the minority, Dating couples such as Jordan Wong, left, and Becca Lee are the business at Wake Forest: options, and some find there agrees with Gilsenan. “People exception on campus. Many students are either on aren’t many when it comes to feel more comfortable doing the road to marriage or idling weekend activities. Aside from group things. They’re not in neutral. the parties, there’s always going sticking their necks out. In “You’re either basically off campus, but if students high school, you wanted to engaged or you’re not dating aren’t familiar with Winston- date because it got you out of at all,” says Catherine Salem or don’t have the money the house, but now there are Dyksterhouse, a rising senior or the transportation, they end always people around to hang Campus Chronicle

out with. I live with twenty of The other problem with gone rollerblading. They also my good friends.” the party scene can be the do a Bible study together. Perhaps the lack of dating role of alcohol, says Natascha Lee says their dating rela- relationships can be attributed Romeo, the University’s tionship changed the dynam- to the convenience of group health educator. Some stu- ics of their group of friends, ‘If you do go out, even outings. But what else is going dents feel there aren’t many but that it has been an enjoy- on? Betsy Taylor, a staff psy- opportunities outside of class able experience. She says not people in class that you chologist in the University to socialize without alcohol, many people she knows date, Counseling Center, says there’s she says, and that’s not the but she thinks they probably a larger issue here. “College healthiest situation. “Some would like to do so. “They don’t even know will students appear to be more students are fearful of social- either haven’t found the right focused on achieving academi- izing sober. Alcohol is like liq- type of guy or the right guy know about it the next cally in undergraduate school uid courage for them. That hasn’t pursued them. I think and are less focused on roman- really hinders the relation- both girls and guys are frus- tic relationships and finding ship.” Romeo and others on trated. They’re waiting and day. Dates are usually their life partner in college campus are looking at ways not knowing what to do.” than they were ten years ago,” to provide alternative func- Ben Piper, a rising senior serious and well she says. “Many more students tions for students. They’re from Cleveland, Ohio, has are postponing dating until starting with a survey that been dating the same girl for graduate or professional asks students what social two years. He thinks some thought-out.’ school or until they enter the activities would interest them. people hesitate to date workplace. The fact that the Some Deacons do date. because they don’t want to be average age of getting married Jordan Wong and Becca Lee, labeled, and he thinks that has gone up over the past for example, are rising seniors drinking also inhibits long- twenty years in part reflects who have been dating since term dating. But he and his this phenomenon.” April 1997. “My first two girlfriend don’t drink, prefer- Students feel a lot of pres- years here, I didn’t date. Now ring instead to spend time sure to make sure they’re well- it doesn’t seem so weird,” going out to dinner, bowling, prepared for the future, and Wong says. “I think the main playing Putt-Putt, or watching sometimes that means there’s problem is that people movies. no time left for dating. For approach dating in a selfish Dyksterhouse says she some students, that’s no prob- way. The point of loving thinks more students would lem, but others wish having a someone is to put their needs prefer to spend time dating, relationship was more the first, and unless you’re ready but that they’re not sure what norm, Taylor says. “I suspect for that, you shouldn’t date.” to do about it. “In the past, at that the fact that dating is Wong and Lee still spend time least you knew it was the guy rarer probably has contributed with their friends—watching who was supposed to call. to men and women students movies, playing cards, “chill- Now everyone’s waiting for not communicating as deeply ing out”—but they also find other people to take the initia- about personal issues, about some creative ways to spend tive. I think both sexes want who they really are. That cer- time alone. They’ve gone to to date but neither one wants tainly does occur, but it is hard the fair, the zoo, and the cir- to call.” to really get to know someone cus, taken a carriage ride —ELLEN D OCKHAM intimately when you see them through Old Salem, picnicked mostly at parties.” in a downtown gazebo, and Campus Chronicle

Smiles, hugs, and exultation were the order of the day at this year’s Commencement. Top left, White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles delivers the Commencement Address. Middle left, Former Wake Forest and NBA basketball standout Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues answers questions from the media. Bogues received his bachelor’s degree in communication. Campus Chronicle

Thanks giving Infectious Diseases with the National Institutes of Health; Commencement 1998 was an and Romulus Linney, play- Way Back When event to appreciate writing professor with the by Kim McGrath Actors Studio at the New HITE HOUSE Chief School in New York. Wof Staff Erskine Faculty retiring from the Quotes from Commencement in, and a steadfast Bowles advised 1998 gradu- Reynolda Campus are: speakers past: willingness to accord to ates to show gratitude in his Kathleen M. Glenn, Wake others the unfettered address at Commencement Forest Professor of Romance ◆ 1921 right to their opinions, on May 18. “You simply Languages; Mordecai J. Jaffe, Josephus Daniels no matter how widely can’t say thanks too much,” professor of biology; Patricia Former Secretary of they may differ from our said Bowles, as he spoke to A. Johansson, associate dean the Navy own. the 822 undergraduates and of the College and lecturer in Wake Forest will be 571 graduate and profession- English; Robert W. Shively, judged by its output. ◆ 1963 al schools students who professor of management; Unless those who go out Luther H. Hodges received degrees at this year’s and Harold C. Tedford, pro- from its walls ‘make Secretary of Commerce ceremony. “Gain a reputation fessor of theater. Retiring good’ they will not reflect We are moving swiftly for appreciating the work of from the Bowman Gray cam- credit on the college. into an age of scientific others.” Bowles also charged pus are: Edgar T. Chandler, and technological trans- graduates to “add to the associate professor of internal ◆ 1941 formation which could woodpile” by finding their medicine; Robert J. Cowan, Josiah William Bail (’93) overwhelm many of our own way to make the world professor of radiological sci- U.S. Senator traditional human values. a better place. ences; Robert M. Kerr, associ- The people of the nation Bowles was one of six ate professor of internal med- do not make war, but ◆ 1965 honorary degree recipients in icine; Jon C. Lewis, professor defend they will to the Terry Sanford this year’s ceremony. Also of pathology; William M. utmost against all, from Former North Carolina receiving honorary degrees McKinney, professor of neu- within or without, who Governor were Joan Brown Campbell, rology; J. Michael Sterchi, would invade their land We need to be teaching general secretary of the professor of surgical sciences; or their rights… that communism won’t National Council of and Richard L. Witcofski, stand the light of day or Churches; Henlee Hulix professor of radiology. ◆ 1956 the light of truth. Our Barnette (’40), clinical profes- (Final Commencement on best weapon is the truth. sor of psychiatric and behav- the old Wake Forest campus) ioral sciences at the University Dr. Hubert Poteat ◆ 1975 of Louisville School of Professor of Latin and Barbara Jordan Medicine; Eugene Francis Romance Civilization U.S. Representative Corrigan, former commission- This college has always First woman and first er of the Atlantic Coast preached and lived a African-American to give Conference; Anthony Stephen joyous hospitality to the the Commencement address Fauci, chief of the Laboratory truth, no matter from The transition from of Immunoregulation and the what source it comes, an dreams and rhetoric to director of the National Nancy Helms wears flowers uncompromising refusal fact is not an easy one. to celebrate graduation. Institute of Allergy and to form final judgment The path is fraught with until all the evidence is travail. Campus Chronicle

Golden days since, WFDD hosted a fiftieth Federal Communications anniversary party in May. Commission. The signal from WFDD In the mid-forties when Money was a concern. is strong at fifty Wake Forest College still was Then-Wake Forest President located in its namesake town Thurman D. Kitchin said the URN AN EAR any time of north of Raleigh, Randall and College couldn’t support a Tday to WFDD, with its Parris were students who station financially, so students round-the-clock schedule of began tinkering with a one- and organizations started music, news, and other pro- tube oscillator, phonograph, donating money. Randall and grams, and you’ll be hard- and microphone they had in Parris also sought the help of pressed to imagine the early their room. One night in the students as announcers, engi- years when the radio station fall of 1946, they surprised neers, and writers. Some broadcast from only 7:00 p.m. the students who lived nearby: helped broadcast Wake Forest to midnight. “This is station W-A-K-E baseball games. Brothers Tune in the 60,000-watt coming to you from the cam- David and Ralph Herring Jr., FM station today from any of pus of Wake Forest College in built the station’s first fifty- the thirty-two counties that it Wake Forest, North Carolina, watt transmitter using simple reaches in North Carolina or and presenting the Deacon- diagrams supplied by the Each evening’s southwestern Virginia, and light Serenade—beaming engineer at a Raleigh station. you’ll be hard-pressed to envi- musical good cheer to you and And the first studio was in sion that in the beginning its yours, styled the Wake Forest the press box at the old broadcast ended with signal wouldn’t carry off the way.” Groves Stadium. Wake Forest campus. Off and on for more than By spring 1948, the sta- ‘The Star-Spangled Listen as the station raises a year, the men played around tion had its license and signed hundreds of thousands of with their equipment, broad- on April 19 as WAKE. The dollars during its semiannual casting from their room to call letters changed within the Banner’ sung by a fundraising drives, and you’ll about 300 feet in all direc- month to WFDD, which be hard-pressed to believe that tions. Each nightly broadcast stands for Wake Forest barbershop quartet. station founders Henry R. opened with Jimmy Dorsey’s Demon Deacons, because “Randy” Randall recording of “Contrasts.” The WAKE already was taken. (’50) and Alva E. students sang the Chiquita For the first thirteen years in “Al” Parris (’49, Banana jingle for a commer- Winston-Salem, the station’s MD ’53) once got cial, and they ended each night signal traveled on “carrier excited about rais- with a recording of “The Star- current” and didn’t reach ing $122 in a Spangled Banner” performed beyond campus. In 1961, it month by passing by a barbershop quartet. became an over-the-air, ten- the hat at Wake Students responded enthu- watt educational FM station. Forest basketball siastically. They loaned their The signal still didn’t travel games. records, requested songs for far but for the first time was But such were their sweethearts, and encour- available to those outside the Al Parris (’49) prepares to the simple begin- aged the men to seek a license immediate area. broadcast from a dormitory room nings of the station a half-cen- and turn their hobby into a In the sixties, a group on the Old Campus in 1948. tury ago. To celebrate those real station. Soon Randall was called the Friends of Fine beginnings, as well as the sta- hitchhiking to Washington, Broadcasting had been trying tion’s extraordinary growth D.C., to seek licensing from the to sustain a commercial Campus Chronicle

station, WYFS, that played antenna started operating, classical music in Winston- and it stood until May 5, Salem, but the station folded. 1989, when tornadoes and The group turned its support strong winds damaged to WFDD, and its efforts to WFDD’s tower on Miller raise community money, plus Street. The tower since has the station’s receipt of money been replaced with a 60,000- from the Public Broadcasting watt tower in northern Act of 1967, led to the pur- Davidson County. chase of a new antenna and Today, WFDD is a major 36,000-watt stereo transmit- radio presence in the ter. The accomplishment Piedmont Triad, operating made WFDD the first stereo around-the-clock from state- FM station in Winston-Salem, of-the-art studios on the Wake and the station began operat- Forest campus. It has a ing even during summer and 60,000-watt FM transmitter, The spirit of today’s WFDD staff comes through loud and clear. winter breaks. nine full-time employees, Other federal money in seven part-time student 1970 allowed the station to employees, a raft of volun- coverage, continuing its com- hire its first full-time employ- teers, and broad financial mitment to classical music, ee, and the next year the sta- support. and building up Saturday’s tion became a charter member The programming has programming with traditional of National Public Radio. continued to evolve, and music. Ward says she expects WFDD continued to those changes occasionally the station to continue to grow and change. The sta- have met with criticism. In grow, make technological tion hired additional profes- 1996, the station dropped the improvements, and increase sional employees and Saturday afternoon broad- its listener support. “Our lis- increased its on-air hours. casts of the Metropolitan tenership is higher than it’s Some things stayed the same, Opera and began broadcast- ever been,” she says. though. Programming contin- ing the University’s basketball Marc Lovelace, the sta- ued to be eclectic, with some and football games. Linda tion’s first faculty adviser and classical music, NPR pro- Ward, who succeeded a Winston-Salem resident, is grams, and student-oriented Callison as station manager in one of those listeners, and programs. early 1997, announced earlier when he tunes in WFDD now, The eighties and nineties this year that WFDD no it often carries him back to brought threats from the fed- longer would air those games those adventuresome early eral government to cut grants after the 1997-98 basketball days. “It was quite an experi- to public broadcasting. In season. The station in January ment for us and a wonderful 1982, Cleve Callison became also resumed broadcasting “A enterprise,” he says. “I’m glad the station manager and led Prairie Home Companion,” to have had a part in some- WFDD through a period of one of the most popular pro- thing that’s become a delight- increased support from listen- grams on public radio. ful addition to the life of ers and businesses. About the WFDD’s future seems Wake Forest University.” time Callison arrived, a bright. The station is adding —Amy Andrews 100,000-watt transmitter and reporters to expand news Campus Chronicle

In the interest the University began to the jurisdiction of the of justice express a lack of confidence Honor Council were being in the old process. heard by the Judicial WFU overhauls its “I think the concept of Board. judicial system honor in all facets of University The report offered the life gradually lost some of its community three basic F PART OF Wake Forest’s lustre and, therefore, some of options: try to determine I mission is to equip gradu- its power to hold us together in what a “culture of honor” ates to contribute to the community,” says judicial truly means and then decide social, moral, and economic adviser Clay Hipp. what, if anything, needs to be well-being of the nation, then The judicial system is pre- done to achieve it; tinker with the ongoing reform of the stu- sented with approximately the existing system through dent judicial system is no 300 to 400 cases a year, about minor modifications; or mere tinkering with a few thirty of which are heard by launch a full-scale reform of bureaucratic details. the two student panels—the the existing system. The latter Like most serious and sub- Honor Council and the course was chosen, and the stantial change, this reform Judicial Board. The rest are Judicial Council Subcommit- did not happen overnight. It handled administratively by tee, comprised of four faculty was launched several years Hipp and Dean of Student members and four students, ago as various groups within Services Harold Holmes. went to work. Full-scale reform of the “We were charged to system was inaugurated in the make a complete overhaul of fall of 1995 after the Harriger the judicial system,” says Report—named after Asso- Robert Lovett, professor of ciate Professor of Politics English and chair of the sub- Katy J. Harriger, who chaired committee. Lovett believes the the University-wide study— new system will require more identified several problems. commitment from those Specifically, Harriger and her entrusted with its operation colleagues found that: and governance; that it will ◆ The people who had the be more inclusive, or repre- most experience with the sentative, of all constituencies judicial system had the within the University; and least confidence in it; that it will be more efficient, ◆ The legitimacy of the sys- especially in its ability to con- tem was being questioned duct multiple hearings simul- by some students who taneously. More than sixty members of the Wake Forest community, including those thought representation in James Powell, an assistant shown here in rehearsal, participated in performances of a Promenade the governing bodies professor of classical languages Passion Play held April 5-7 in celebration of Palm Sunday. About 1,500 increasingly had become a who also served on the sub- people viewed the performances, which depicted episodes of Christ’s life and were held outdoors in the area surrounding Scales Fine Arts Center. popularity contest; and committee, says that reform James Dodding of the theater faculty directed. ◆ Delays in handling the case was fueled by perceived incon- load were resulting in some sistencies in judgments, pro- inconsistencies. For exam- tracted delays in case manage- ple, cases technically under ment, and a general eroding of Campus Chronicle

Almanac A miscellaneous compendium of news and facts about Wake Forest University

◆ The Wake Forest Retirees on the Bowman University Board of Gray Campus are Edgar Trustees elected four new Chandler, inter members at its April nal medicine; Robert meeting. They are Leslie Cowan, radiology; Robert M. “Bud” Baker Jr. of Kerr, gastroenterology;

‘Bronze Bowl,’ a two-by-four-foot sculpture by Meg Webster, right, was Winston-Salem, president Jon Lewis, pathology; purchased this spring as part of the Student Union’s quadrennial art- and chief executive officer William McKinney, neu- buying trip to New York. Students participating in the trip included, left to of Wachovia Corp.; rology; J. Michael Sterchi, right, Jennifer Bumgarner, Christine Calareso, and Curtis Thompson. The sculpture will be displayed on campus at a location to be determined. Carlyn J. Bowden (’74, surgery; and Richard MBA ’76) of Greensboro, Witcofski, radiology. office manager at R. Steve Bowden & Associates; ◆ Students accepted for this faculty confidence in the for- have a responsibility to work James R. “Jay” Helvey III fall’s incoming class are mer system. on these things.” (’81) of Summit, New from every state except Harriger noted that one By the time the report Jersey, managing director Alaska. The class is evenly of the crucial factors unveiled was issued, Harriger says, of J.P. Morgan; and the divided between men and by her group’s in-depth study two goals had emerged. “We Rev. Roy J. Smith (’53) of women and 12 percent of the judicial system was wanted any reform of the sys- Raleigh, retired executive are minority students. “that it was becoming tem to preserve the student director of the Baptist increasingly difficult for stu- voice, because ownership of State Convention of ◆ Rising senior Jennifer dents to sit in judgment of the system is important,” she North Carolina. Bumgarner has been their peers.” says. “But we also wanted to awarded a $30,000 Harriger’s study aimed to provide for a longer, histori- ◆ Six faculty members on Truman Scholarship for settle the question: Were the cal perspective that would the Reynolda Campus post-graduate studies in concerns raised about the assure continuity for the com- retired this spring. They public service. Two grad- efficiency of the former sys- munity and its culture.” are James Dodding, the- uating seniors—Andrew tem isolated to just a few dis- Harriger says the success- ater; Kathleen Glenn, Frey in physics and gruntled voices, or did they, ful reform effort can be cred- Romance languages; Shannon Poe-Kennedy in fact, signal a bigger prob- ited in large part to the lead- Mordecai Jaffe, biology; in anthropology—have lem that had to be addressed? ership of Lovett and Powell. Patricia Johansson, won $73,500 awards There was, she says, But the final result, she adds, English and Dean’s from the National Science some consensus among those could not have been accom- Office; Robert Shively, Foundation for graduate involved in the study that the plished without a responsible Babcock Graduate School studies. Poe-Kennedy also University was simply mir- reaction, some thoughtful rec- of Management; and was named a recipient of roring a perceived trend ommendations, and a willing- Harold Tedford, theater. an Andrew M. Mellon “in society at-large to ness to compromise from all Also retiring is David Fellowship in Human- absolve all human behavior, the students involved. Riffe, Methodist campus istic Studies. but we also agreed that we —STEPHEN M C C OLLUM minister. Campus Chronicle

Quantity and second at Wake Forest, the looking at how people nego- quality religion department had to tiate these issues in some of turn students away from her these early texts.” Bright talent–and plenty of Parables of Jesus course. Wake Forest has quickly it–joins an expanding faculty Foskett won’t tell you that, become home to Foskett and but department chair Charles her husband, Scott Hudgins, ITH THE EBB and Kimball Jr. will. “It’s unusual who is working in student Wflow of academic life, to have upper division classes recruitment and student ser- each year brings new faces, in religion overflowing,” vices for the new divinity new research, new teaching Kimball says. “Mary brings school. “It’s important to me styles. But in the last two an engaging teaching style that Wake Forest values the years, Wake Forest has hired and a fresh perspective that study of religion as part of a more new faculty than appeal to students. She blends liberal arts education,” she usual—twenty-eight tenure nicely an active involvement says. track positions in all. That’s with the church and engaging, partly because of the forty contemporary scholarship.” Hugh Howards, Mathematics new positions provided by the Foskett started her career Assistant professor Hugh Wake Forest Undergraduate as a social worker and also Howards is excited about Plan—about half have already served as a Baptist campus math. Ask him to explain his been filled and the rest will be minister in New York. Those field, topology, and he’ll whip filled by 2002—and partly experiences raised questions out a piece of string and start because of normal turnover. in her mind that she wanted demonstrating knot theory. In While that number is “huge” to pursue, and she went on to theory, he says, if you tie a for a university this size, says earn a master’s of divinity at knot in a string you could associate dean Claudia N. Union Theological Seminary untie it and bring it back to Thomas, what’s even more and a doctorate at Emory its original shape. But if you impressive is the quality of University. “I became aware glue the ends together, and the faculty. of how powerful and impor- then tie a knot, could you “As Wake Forest is rising tant a role the Bible plays in bring it back into a circle? in its national reputation, many people’s lives, in their “This is an entire field of that has affected the level of thinking and beliefs on many math, a beautiful field with interest top candidates are levels,” Foskett says. deep, difficult questions,” showing in us,” Thomas says. Foskett has focused her Howards says. “Scientists are “We’re getting faculty who work on images of women in interested in knot theory show a renewed dedication to early Christian literature and because when DNA repli- teaching and who really want finds that Christians struggle cates, it ties itself in a knot, to be part of the Wake Forest today with many of the same and then unties itself. If we community.” issues, such as the role of could understand knots, we Here are brief profiles of women in ministry, as the could understand DNA.” Mary Foskett, top, and Hugh Howards, above: images of women three of the new faces on early church did. “Some of But it’s not the practical in early Christian literature, and the campus: the modern-day issues are application that attracts esthetics of mathematics. not new. People have been Howards; it’s the beauty of Mary Foskett, Religion struggling for centuries with the logic. “I study math for In spring semester, assis- these questions,” she notes. the same reason an artist does tant professor Mary Foskett’s “We can get some help by art: because it’s beautiful,” he Campus Chronicle

says. “People think of math, Janis Caldwell, English unfortunately, as memorizing There are many doctors in formulas. But it’s really a way Wake Forest’s English depart- of thinking.” Howards likes ment, but only one doctor. art, too—he grew up in Assistant Professor Jan Charlottesville, Virginia, Caldwell has an M.D. hanging watching his mother do pro- on the wall next to her Ph.D. fessional weaving—but he says For Caldwell, the journey from he’s “sadly limited” in that emergency room to classroom area. So he’ll stick to creating has been a quest for humanis- logical arguments. tic approaches to scientific Howards is so enamored thinking that she found lack- of the logical process that he ing in the medical profession. refuses to use computers in his After receiving her medical research. “If you give the degree from Northwestern problem to a computer, you University School of Medicine, can no longer see the process,” Caldwell practiced emergency he states. “Math with comput- medicine for seven years. “I One of the central questions Janis Caldwell explores in her classes is why ers is useful, but I would always had an aptitude for modern science seems to require a lack of compassion in its practitioners. rather be an English professor science and a fascination for than do that because that’s human problems,” she says. “I Victorian literature. The closer to what I do.” thought medicine would be English department recog- Howards, who earned his the ideal situation because it’s nized her unique perspective doctorate last year at the so scientifically based and and hired her this past year University of California at San allows you to deal with to develop courses in the rela- Diego, said he was attracted humans on a daily basis in tionship between literature to Wake Forest’s balance some of the most complicated and science. between teaching and scholar- issues that can arise. Instead, I One of the central ques- ship. He made his mark in his found that my medical train- tions her literature and sci- very first class when he posed ing treated the human side ence course addresses is why as a pizza delivery man, and with benign neglect.” the modern study of science then used the pizza to illus- Caldwell discovered what seems to require a lack of trate topological principles. she was looking for in a litera- compassion for its human Although he wasn’t always ture course she took after subjects. “I feel that, as prac- interested in math—he picked practicing medicine for five titioners, we sometimes are math as an undergraduate at years. Over the next two years encouraged to be detached Williams College largely she took more courses while from our patients out of fear because of its dynamic facul- pulling fewer shifts in the that if we get emotionally ty—he was always interested emergency room, until she involved we lose our objectiv- in teaching. “I think you have eventually returned to school ity,” she says. “I think there to be passionate about your full-time and earned her doc- are other models we can field and make the class come torate in English from the choose that would encourage alive,” he says. University of Washington in both interest and compassion Seattle. She interviewed at for our patients and smart, Wake Forest as a specialist in scientific thinking.” Gustav Tschermakgasse 20 a Gateway to the Glorious

ineyards still dot the countryside, reminiscent of a more pastoral time. Grand villas fill the Vstreets where turn-of-the-century Viennese city dwellers whiled away their summers. Walk one block and you’re in Wahringer Park, where Beethoven himself may have stopped to contemplate. Gustav Tschermak, one of the world’s first geneticists, may have walked along the street that bears his name. w Beginning next January, Wake Forest students and faculty members will also walk that street in Vienna to reach Gustav Tschermakgasse 20, where stands the 1890s villa that will serve as their home for a semester in Vienna. Thanks to a generous gift from Winston-Salem businessman Victor I. Flow Jr. (’52), and his Wake Forest’s third wife, Roddy, Wake Forest has bought a house in the north- residential study-

western Vienna neighborhood that is now known for its abroad program will diplomatic residences, embassies, and distinguished private immerse students in homes, but once was a string of summer get-away villages for the elite. “Beethoven spent his summers in the area,” Viennese culture and said Peter Kairoff, associate professor of music and part of expose them to an

the team that selected the house. “From Mozart to Mahler, emerging and vital hundreds of great masterpieces were composed within a few region of Europe. minutes of the house.” w The 7,200-square-foot villa, which will be known as Flow Haus, has an “old world feel” that will help students soak up the European atmosphere by Ellen Dockham that can’t be found in the United States and certainly not from a textbook, Kairoff said. who have participated will tell you The house, which most recently the experience changed their lives.” served as the private residence of Flow, chairman of Flow American embassy officials, has an Automotive Companies and a Wake elegant, turn-of-the-century quality Forest trustee, said Vienna is the per- characterized by decorative ceilings, fect city for study abroad not only beveled glass, and wrought iron. The for its rich culture and history but rooms are grand and spacious; the also because it serves as a gateway garden, lovely. There’s a wood- to Eastern Europe. “Roddy and I ‘It’s a city where paneled library and plenty of room can think of no better place than for classrooms and study areas as Vienna,” he said. “Wake Forest the culture we well as a faculty apartment and liv- University educates and prepares ing space for about fifteen students. future world leaders, and part of “Fifty-two years ago, Wake that preparation certainly is interna- study is so alive in Forest moved to Winston-Salem. tional studies. Wake Forest is truly Now we are expanding our bound- now an international university.” day-to-day life.’ aries back to the east,” said Outgoing Student Government President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. at a president Scott Plumridge, a senior from New Canaan, Connecticut, said the Vienna study program will offer students yet another chance to experience the global culture they study in the classroom. “This increases Wake Forest’s prominence in the global scheme,” he said. “About 30 percent of our under- graduates participate in foreign study, and for most it is the high point of their college career.” Future generations of Wake Forest students and faculty alike will be able to take advantage of the opportunity to live among the history, music, art, science, and cul- ture of Vienna, if only for a few short months. “It’s a city where the

CESARE CEROLIMETTO/THE STOCK MARKET culture we study in the classroom is so alive in day-to-day life,” Kairoff University gathering announcing the said. “So much happened there and gift in early April. “This will be our is still happening. It’s one of the third house abroad and will be a sig- great world centers of culture.” nificant addition to our international There are opera houses and the- study opportunities. The other two aters, museums and libraries, parks programs in London and Venice have and neighborhoods where history been extremely popular. The students comes to life. David Levy, professor and chair two of the most important places in should be able to take advantage of of music, said the University couldn’t so many subjects, and they’re certain- these relationships to enhance the have made a better choice than ly two big players on the internation- Vienna program, Escott said. Vienna. “For me, it’s like putting a al market,” he said. “Vienna has been Flow Haus will help meet the kid in a candy shop,” he said. a connecting point for refugees fleeing growing demand for international “There’s a musical shrine on every the east, so there are many people in study by Wake Forest students. block. There are monasteries you can the city from Eastern bloc countries. Thirty percent of 1997’s graduating visit that house tremendous collec- It’s a wonderful place to network.” class studied abroad while at Wake tions of music. You can go to the The Vienna program will run Forest. In addition to the London Imperial Chapel and hear masses by similarly to the London and Venice and Venice programs, students par- the composers sung in the very place programs, said Paul D. Escott, dean ticipate in exchange programs estab- where emperors worshipped. The city of the College. A faculty member will lished with universities in Spain, was home to the key figures we teach be chosen to coordinate the faculty France, and Asia. Some also study in all the time: Haydn, Mozart, Beet- and students who will get the chance non-Wake Forest programs abroad. hoven, Schubert. It doesn’t need any to spend a semester in Vienna. The program also is a natural out- more recommendation than that.” Classes will most likely be taught growth of the Wake Forest Under- Levy points out that there’s no four days a week to give students graduate Plan, approved in 1995, substitute for being able to put the long weekends and breaks to explore which has received international subjects studied in the context Austria and other parts of Europe. attention for expanding the use of where they belong. “We’ll be able to Two courses will be taught in the fac- technology on campus. One part of visit the actual spots where the ulty director’s specialty, whatever the thirty-seven-point plan calls for music was composed. It will be ter- that is from year to year, and stu- nurturing international study, in part rific for students to be able to read a dents also will take courses in two of by creating new study-abroad scholar- book and then go to see those places the following three areas: music, the ships that will be awarded this year in context.” history and culture of eastern for the first time. Flow Haus, like Levy isn’t the only professor lin- Europe, and German language and Worrell House in London and Casa ing up to spend a semester at Flow literature. The University has con- Artom in Venice, will be wired for Haus; nor is music the only disci- tacts with various faculty members at access to the University’s computer pline that would benefit from study the University of Vienna and may network and the Internet. in Vienna. Larry West, professor of hire one or two of them to teach an But all impressive plans aside, the German, is excited about the oppor- occasional course, Escott said. heart of the house will be the life- tunity to spend time in the city Students from Wake Forest’s pro- changing experience awaiting all who known as the gateway to central and fessional schools may get the opportu- stay there. Kairoff, who coordinates eastern Europe. “There are natural nity to spend some time at Flow Haus the Venice program, said: “While in connections in Vienna for the study as well. The Wake Forest School of Venice, I watched students’ eyes and of psychology, history, politics, the Medicine, along with anthropology minds opened through what they arts, religion, science, philosophy,” faculty on the Reynolda Campus, were learning in the classroom, and West said. “And, of course, we think already have a relationship with the partly through what they were experi- it will be better to study in the origi- University of Innsbruck through the encing in the streets. After all, that’s nal language, so we’re anticipating “Iceman” project. Wake Forest and why we are in education: to open the opportunity to get more students Austrian researchers are helping peoples’ minds. interested in learning German.” unravel the mysteries of the 5,300- “When you study abroad, you get West said it’s important for stu- year-old Iceman, whose body was a new perspective, a fresh vision on dents to learn to think and speak found frozen in a glacier in the your own culture. Your own neigh- globally. “Germany and Austria are Austrian Alps in 1991. The University borhood will never look the same.”

the

and Sacred

the Profane

by David Fyten

n time immemorial, water Iflowed from the skies to Earth, where Lord Shiva, god of destruction

and creation, stood on the peaks of the Himalaya waiting to catch it in his hair. From his matted locks the water wended its mighty way down the Indian subcontinent to the sea. Thus was born Mother Ganga, the divine god- dess who purifies all who drink and bathe in her holy waters. The sacred Hindu story of the creation of the Ganges River may seem somewhat unscientific to Western minds, but its symbolic power is undeniable. To devout Hindus, the Ganges is sacred, and immersing oneself in it cleanses the spirit and leads the way to moksha, or salvation. Each day, hundreds of thousands of faith- ful wade into the river—sixty thousand alone at the sacred city of Varanasi, where funeral pyres and fires of homage to Lord Shiva line its shores day and night. It is believed that to die in Varanasi and be buried in the Ganges takes one straight to heaven, and each year multitudes of pilgrims perform about forty thousand traditional funerals in the city, with the ashen remains of the dead scattered in the river to begin their journey to the next world. But over time, and through forces that have accelerated in this century, the sacred Ganges has been defiled beyond belief. In addition to the ashes of the completely immolated, hundreds of BENJAMIN RONDEL/THE STOCK MARKET MICHELE BURGESS/THE STOCK MARKET

Devout Hindus immerse themselves in the Ganges at sunrise at the sacred city of Varanasi. Millions of workdays and rupees are lost each year due to river-related illness. partially cremated remains, along with nine thousand cattle carcasses and three thousand human corpses of those too poor to afford funerals, are thrown in the Ganges at Varanasi each year. Organic remains are only a drop in an ocean of pollution that flows into the river along its 1,560-mile length. A hundred cities and towns and thousands of villages line its banks, and nearly all of their sewage—more than 1.3 billion liters a day—pours, largely untreated, into the Ganges. Another 260 million liters of industrial waste—every conceivable noxious byproduct from hydrochloric acid and chlorinated

solvents to heavy metals and horse flesh—are contributed California by the hundreds of factories along its shores. at

The ironic consequence is that this most sacred of Berkeley, rivers is one of the world’s most vile—a vast open sewer and his that is sickening and killing people in quantum numbers. top associ- Waterborne diseases such as amoebic dysentery, gas- ate, F. Bailey troenteritis, tapeworm infestations, cholera, typhoid, Green (’73, MA and viral hepatitis are common in the Ganges basin. ’75), are collaborat- According to the World Watch Institute, one person in ing with one of the region dies of diarrhea every minute, and eight of India’s most esteemed every ten people in Calcutta suffer from amoebic dysen- scientists (and a devout tery every year. More than 40 million workdays and mil- Hindu), Veer Bhadra lions of rupees of health services are lost each year due Mishra, on a wastewater to river-related sickness. treatment plan based on one of the As bad as the present situation might seem, the world’s simplest but most vital organisms: algae. Their future looks far worse. Roughly 500 million people— plan may well represent the last and best hope for the one out of every twelve on Earth—live in the basin of Ganges, for India—indeed, for most of the Third World the Ganges and its tributaries. With a population pro- and, ultimately, the Earth herself. jected to reach one billion in the next generation, India Oswald, one of the world’s foremost authorities on will overtake China as the world’s most populous algae and its use in sewage treatment, has pioneered an nation. This population-doubling will swell the daily engineered natural system technology known as flow of sewage into the Ganges to 2.5 billion liters, and Advanced Integrated Wastewater Pond Systems, or nearly double the industrial waste flow to more than AIWPS. The approach exploits the natural symbiosis two billion liters per day. With 20 percent of the world’s between bacteria and algae. After initial deep-pond sedi- population, India has only 4 percent of its fresh water mentation and fermentation by which most of the solids supply, and it is utterly dependent on the Ganges for are removed and converted to methane-rich biogas, the drinking water, agricultural irrigation, and other water waste flows by gravity into a shallow lagoon in which resource services. If current conditions go unchecked, the bacteria decomposes or oxydizes it into its basic ele- river might simply collapse ecologically in the next cen- ments. These plant nutrients are assimilated by algae, tury, engendering a catastrophe of unimaginable severity. one of nature’s most prodigious and efficient producers Besides religious beliefs and rituals, the inefficacy in of oxygen. This oxygen, in turn, feeds the bacteria as it India of highly complex technological solutions com- continues the decomposition process. After further set- pounds the challenge of cleanup. Modern sewage treat- tling and maturation in additional ponds, the effluent is ment plants run on electricity, which can shut down for clean enough to swim in, and safe for agricultural irriga- several hours each day in many cities. The monsoon sea- tion—and has been produced with minimal energy con- son also wreaks havoc on treatment systems. And the sumption and without the sludge byproduct of conven- infamous Indian bureaucracy, with its many-layered tional activated sludge treatment systems. approval processes, can slow the lumbering provision of As a doctoral student and senior research associate public works infrastructure to a halt. of Oswald, Green developed the means to recover But many in India and around the world see hope in methane-rich biogas from the primary treatment process. an organic waste treatment approach being championed This not only produces a usable energy source, but also by a Wake Forest alumnus and his mentor. William prevents the emission of methane, a potent greenhouse Oswald, a professor emeritus of civil and environmental gas. Among Green’s other contributions are processes engineering and public health at the University of for harvesting algae biomass and reclaiming water for

Green postponed his planned entrance into Yale

Divinity School to “take advantage of the wonderful English faculty” and earn a master’s degree in English under the direction of Germaine Brée. At Yale he contin- safe reuse. He and his ued to be active in the peace and environmental move- mentor have formed a ment, and he spent the second half of the seventies

consulting company, studying environmental theology and ethics at Yale. Oswald Green, and are Green’s path toward a career in environmental engi- working with a number of neering clarified in 1979-81, when he taught English

countries—among them, and ethics at Woodbury Forest School, an exclusive water-poor Saudi boarding school in Orange, Virginia. Finding its build- Arabia, which ings to be deplorably energy inefficient, he devised an presently dumps “environmental stewardship program” that drastically its untreated but cut campus energy consumption. He caught the atten- potentially recover- tion of an Atlanta environmental and energy consulting able waste water into the open desert—to design AIWPS company he had retained for the program, and went to facilities. work for the firm in 1981, devoting as much time as he Their greatest challenge by far is India. In fall 1994, could to environmental studies curriculum development a mutual friend introduced them to Mishra, a professor for secondary schools and peace and environment work of hydraulic engineering at Benares Hindu University for the Presbyterian Church. and the most esteemed and vociferous proponent of Then, in 1984, he had the opportunity to serve as a Ganges cleanup in India’s scientific and religious com- station engineer at a rural Presbyterian medical mission munities. Mishra embraced the AIWPS approach, and in Zaire—and the experience was an epiphany. the trio has developed plans for a pond system near “You can’t live in a developing country without it Varanasi. But they must cope with inefficient bureaucra- having a profound effect on your life,” Green said, his cies, competing technologies, special interests, and scarce warm face smiling. “You see the United States in such a resources, and the project is proceeding at a ponderous different light when you return. You appreciate what we pace. But proceed it does, through the patient applica- have here—relatively clean water to drink, relatively tion of judicious political pressure and help from envi- clean and plentiful food to eat, open spaces and pre- ronmental organizations. served areas. The struggle to survive is so much easier It would be hard to imagine a more worthy cause for here, and we take so much for granted. the spiritual and environmentally passionate Green than “In Zaire I saw firsthand the poverty, scarce the Ganges. Born and raised in Atlanta, he majored in resources, waterborne disease, infant mortality, slash- English and religion at Wake Forest. “It was the right and-burn agriculture,” he continued. “And I was witness school for me,” the burly but gentle Green said on a to the joyful culture of tribal peoples. Almost every night recent trip to Winston-Salem, where he had come to I heard the village drums celebrating the birth of a child, conduct business with Oswald Green’s attorney, Cris and several times a week I witnessed the mourning of Windham (’72, JD ’76) of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & another child who had succumbed to waterborne dis- Rice. “I was blessed with the finest mentors one could ease. I knew then what a privilege it was to work in a ever possibly have—Joe Milner, Ed Wilson, and Lee developing country.” Potter in English; Mac Bryan and Charles Talbert in reli- Green returned to the States and enrolled in the gion; Greg Pritchard in philosophy; Don Schoonmaker doctoral program of the interdisciplinary Energy and in politics. By the end of my junior year I had focused Resources Group at Berkeley. Soon he came under the on the intersection of literature and theology.” tutelage of Oswald, a brilliant scientist and beloved BACKGROUND: MICHELE BURGESS/THE STOCK MARKET

Bailey Green, with Varanasi as a backdrop. It would be hard to imag- ine a more worthy cause for the spiri- tual and environmentally passionate engineer than the Ganges. humanitarian. The two formed an uncommonly close bond, and from mentor and prize pupil they became business partners. Green said any river—even the Ganges—can be restored to health over time. But he issued a cautionary message. “In many developing countries there is a tragic hunger for technology,” he said. “They want what we have, and think they’ll be better off. But we are learning that what we have is non-sustainable. Our treatment systems are energy-intensive and capital-intensive. I’m not saying AIWPS is a panacea for all situations and climates, but pollution challenges can be confronted only with sustainable technology. That’s what we offer—not just for developing countries, but the U.S. as well.” WOMENIN LABBY AMY ANDREWS HERMAN WEEB A SMALL CORE IS ADVANCING THE CAUSE OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE AT WAKE FOREST.

der Wake Forest’s Women in Science program can Ellen Kirkman’s desk in Calloway Hall, a twelve- trace its origins to 1984, when Nina Stromgren inch mound of paper, books, and reports about Allen joined the biology faculty. Allen arrived N scarred from gender wars at Dartmouth College, women, science, and Women in Science blends in where she had gone to teach as an assistant profes- amidst other books and paperwork. sor in 1976, about the time the school went co- Somehow, it’s appropriate that the pile is easi- educational. Dartmouth had mandated the hiring of ly overlooked. Like it, the Women in Science pro- at least one woman in each science department, and gram at Wake Forest—designed to provide men- the awkwardness and tension over the transition to toringU opportunities, encouragement, and support mixed-gender education were palpable. to female science students and faculty—has gone Allen began organizing bag lunches for largely unnoticed in the University community. Dartmouth’s six women science professors so they The program, notes Kirkman, a professor of could give support to each other. Soon, they began mathematics and computer science who chairs the similar lunches for female undergraduate and grad- University’s Women in Science committee, lacks uate science students. The tension eased within a cohesiveness, funding, office space—pretty much few years, but ever since, Allen has been a strong everything except the dedication of a core of fac- advocate of women scientists meeting together for ulty, staff, administrators, and students. As she support and networking. explains it, Women in Science really is just one Allen didn’t blaze any new trails at Wake Forest: event here, another meeting there; a collection of four women scientists already were on the faculty. ideas put together in bits and pieces—and as time And by the late eighties, 40 percent of the under- permits—by people who already have full schedules. graduates majoring in math and science, and 32 To be sure, there are positives to be counted. percent of the graduate students in the sciences, at Half of all the biology graduates at Wake Forest Wake Forest were women. last spring were women, and 42 percent of those But Allen, who teaches now at North Carolina earning degrees in all the sciences were female. State, didn’t find the situation for women faculty Those compare favorably with national statistics, and student scientists entirely rosy at Wake Forest, which have been rising steadily over the past and early on she began organizing them and inter- decade-and-a-half. Nevertheless, many women still acting with the Women’s Studies program. “Our feel marginalized in the historically male-dominated goal wasn’t to bring in a zillion more science science world—and in need of programs like majors, but to try to work with the women we had Women in Science. and help them be more successful and work for the scholarships before the start of the fall semester, and those select- ed were placed in laboratories that matched their interests. The grant for the scholarship program was renewed the following year, and five freshmen and the sophomores who had received them the previous year were able to receive scholarships of $1,000 each. The situation was similar in 1996- 97, the third and final year for which funding was available. Ellen Kirkman thinks the key to guiding young Courtney Mull worked for two women to science is to reach them early. years with Paul R. Anderson, an associate professor of physics (see profile on page 28), studying black toward careers in science,” notes holes. The scholarship program did Kirkman, who had come to Wake not receive funding this year, but Forest in 1975 and supported Mull—now a junior—has continued Allen’s efforts. “Our feeling was working in a laboratory with Daniel that they major in science because B. Kim-Shapiro, an assistant profes-

Andrea Ward learned how disciplines they like it, but they weren’t getting sor of physics, helping to try to find interrelate from her mentor, Peter Weigl. the idea that they could have a out why a cancer-fighting drug, career in it. They needed role models, hydroxyurea, also has positive mentors, and opportunities.” effects in fighting sickle cell anemia. ‘THE PROGRAM GAVE Their efforts received a big boost Mull, who plans to attend med- in 1994. Allen had applied for a grant ical school after graduation, thinks ME A CHANCE TO from the Fund for Leadership and the Women in Science scholarships Ethics, established at the University by were good for her because they the Mary Reynolds Babcock introduced her to research opportu- FIGURE OUT WHAT I Foundation. Allen envisioned giving nities but didn’t require her, as a scholarships to first-year women who freshman, to pursue professors and WANTED TO DO VERSUS wanted to be paired with a professor ask for such a chance. “I don’t know for a year to do laboratory research if I could have been able to go up to on the Reynolda Campus or at the professors and ask about working in WHAT I THOUGHT I School of Medicine. Studies have their labs,” she says. found a correlation between under- In addition to opening her eyes NEEDED TO DO.’ graduates having research experience to exciting research possibilities, it and deciding to continue in the sci- gave her a chance to meet other stu- ences after graduation. dents in informal settings, such as at The grant request was approved, program-sponsored lunches or and the Women in Science program speeches. “I think it helped me a lot, received $10,000—$2,000 for each just giving me a starting ground,” of five freshmen. Students applied she says. Sophomore Andrea “Andi” on and develop their own projects. wants to go to Beijing after gradua- Ward last year received a scholar- But the security that the fellowships tion to study Chinese, then perhaps ship to work in Professor Peter offer for the Women in Science pro- earn a master’s degree in interna- Weigl’s biology lab. She had attend- gram excites Kirkman. “That is tional relations and do relief work. ed a science and math high school funding in perpetuity,” she says. She thinks she’ll be able to use her in South Carolina, where she had to For the 1998-99 academic year, science background in those pur- do independent research to gradu- seven female science majors have suits and is appreciative of the ate, and wound up speaking at a received fellowships. (A fewer num- research scholarship she received as science meeting and publishing a ber of applications were submitted a freshman through Women in paper. But Weigl’s work helped her than expected.) “Ideally I would like Science. “I think the program gave see how disciplines interrelate. Weigl rising sophomores [to have these],” me a chance to figure out what I had Ward help with an ongoing says Kirkman, “because our focus is wanted versus what I thought I project that master’s student Rachel on trying to get those women needed to do,” Reid says. Conroy and then-senior Julie Clark involved early on in collaborative sit- Weigl thinks the climate for were doing, working with live owls uations so they get a mentor, get to female science majors has improved to study the biomechanics and know graduate students, and get the greatly in the twenty-nine years anatomy of their talons, how they experience of actually doing science.” he’s taught at Wake Forest, and he affected their hunting behavior and Sue Reid, a biology major who finds that women and men work habitat. Ward did much of the com- graduated in May, received a scholar- well together in laboratories and puter work needed. ship to work with Weigl when she classrooms. He’s had a female Ward says she was glad to have was a first-year student. They were research assistant for the past three the support and mentoring of older studying the effects that a power years and has taken many stu- students and Weigl, and she contin- plant at Belews Lake was having on dents—male and female—to ued her work in Weigl’s lab her sec- pine growth. The warmer water had national science meetings and had ond year. “I was sad to see the pro- caused some twenty-year-old trees to them present their work. “To have gram go this year because it did a lot grow as much as fifty-year-old trees people around you who are inter- for me my freshman year,” she says. elsewhere would have grown, and she ested and who are learning, it’s the was doing the coring and dating of best thing you can do,” Weigl says. the trees. “You go with the people who are ther students say they too are disap- Reid says the experience was interested in what you do, and a pointed that the scholarships are no valuable because of the knowledge lot of them are female.” longer available but that they are she gained by doing research and The Women in Science program Ohappy with a decision by the facul- because it helped her form a rela- sponsors other events and programs ty last fall to devote ten of the 100 tionship with a faculty member. She open to both males and females Wake Forest University Research entered Wake Forest knowing that because its leaders felt that all stu- Fellowships, worth $2,000 each, to she wanted to major in biology, but dents needed more information the Women in Science program. she thought she wanted to go to than they were getting about The Wake Forest Undergraduate medical school. “Now I like science opportunities in science. A “Careers Plan calls for increasing opportuni- more for just pure science’s sake,” in Science” reception is held during ties for juniors and seniors to do she says. Reid also has volunteered orientation so that incoming stu- research with faculty. Unlike the for a semester at the American dents can talk to faculty or upper- scholarships first offered by the Museum of History’s research sta- classmen about the science pro- Women in Science program, these tion based in Arizona and spent a gram, which classes to take and fellowships won’t be for first-year summer as a back-country ranger in what order to take them in, and students, and students must decide a national park in Alaska. She continued on pg. 27 the Women in assessment of the academic cli- science majors—both male Science program mate for women at Wake and female—lacked necessary was getting its Forest, and the rest was used to information about professors’ Sscholarship program start an area-wide chapter of own research as well as

HERMAN WEEB underway, the the Association of Women in research opportunities for stu- University’s Office of Science (AWIS). That national dents and career opportuni- Institutional Research was fol- organization, founded in 1971, ties. And finally, but of great lowing up on a survey it con- has more than 5,000 members concern to women especially, ducted in spring 1994 of the in the life and physical sci- was how to juggle personal 838 alumni of the Class of ences, mathematics, social sci- and professional lives. “Both 1989. Of the 265 alumni, or ence, and engineering. male and female students and A32 percent of the class, Leggon organized focus faculty did realize that there is responding, an equal number groups of undergraduate stu- one issue that women have to of females and males —eigh- dents in science and mathe- grapple with that their male teen—majored in science or matics, who she described as counterparts do not, and that mathematics. “high achievers,” and conduct- is how to have a career and a Their responses indicated ed open-ended interviews with family,” Leggon says. that the women who majored faculty in the biology, chem- The report recommended in science were less likely to istry, physics, and mathematics that the University hire more be working toward or have and computer science depart- female faculty in the sciences, earned a graduate or profes- ments. The findings, she says, including senior women with sional degree. The women elicited five common issues. tenure; give female students had been less involved than She found, first, a schism more role models; establish the men in collaborative between science students and and coordinate an electronic research with Wake Forest fac- non-science students that she clearinghouse for career and ulty members, and only one and others believe reflects the research opportunities in sci- woman (compared to eleven larger society’s image of scien- ence; and encourage women men) had completed indepen- tists as antisocial or nerdy. majoring in science to develop dent study courses while at Second, there exists a schism a sense of community. (At the Wake Forest. between premed and non- time of the focus groups, the Those survey results raised premed science majors, with chemistry department had no questions, says Cheryl B. premed students being per- tenured or tenure-track female Leggon, an associate professor ceived as more intense and faculty; this year, it has two.) of sociology who followed up competitive, and with the sup- Faculty can encourage stu- on the findings. She wanted to port structure for premed stu- dents to major in science, know what accounted for dents perceived as being advise majors about research undergraduate females being stronger than for pre-graduate opportunities and advise less likely to conduct research, school students. Third, students women on combining a pri- what effect interaction with fac- praised the science faculty vate and professional life. ulty has on science majors’ overall but said that depart- Female science majors can academic experience, and to ments differed in the quality of become involved in the what extent there is a “chilly student-faculty interaction, Piedmont Triad chapter of climate” for undergraduate which is important to women AWIS, initiate interaction with women science majors. because they tend to be more faculty, pursue research oppor- The Alfred P. Sloan reluctant to talk to professors, tunities, form study groups, Foundation gave Wake Forest a especially about research seek out female role models, $30,000 grant for Leggon’s opportunities. and be a role model to study. Of that, $27,000 was Fourth, Leggon heard both younger female students. used to plan and conduct an students and faculty say that —Amy Andrews what career opportunities are avail- accomplishments. She also won one able for science majors. In January, of fifty-seven national fellowships there is an evening program on sum- for predoctoral studies in chemistry mer research opportunities led by from the National Science students who have had opportunities Foundation and is studying at the at venues such as the Mayo Clinic Scripps Research Institute in La and the National Institutes of Health. Jolla, California. It is part of the And in March, students can attend a University of California at San seminar where they talk to graduate Diego and one of the leading sites in students and faculty about graduate the world for biochemical research. education in the sciences and math. Stroupe credits her father, a chemist, and her brother, a bio- chemist, for giving her role models hrough the program on summer at a young age. She thinks that to a research opportunities, Sarah certain degree programs like Austrin-Willis, a sophomore from St. Women in Science will be unneces- TLouis who received a research grant sary one day because women have as a first-year student and is double- made and are making extraordinary majoring in mathematics and eco- strides in science. nomics, got a job working in summer So, is progress being made? 1997 in the statistics program at “Everything is really small scale, Sophomore Jessica Woodard received a Women in Pennsylvania State University. The and everything we’re trying to do has Science scholarship as a first-year student for her work ten-week program was part of the such a long time frame that it’s hard in the lab of Carolanne Milligan, assistant professor of research for undergraduates program to measure outcomes,” Kirkman neurobiology and anatomy at the medical school. sponsored by the National Science says. The five students who received Foundation. Her experience has led the scholarships the first year they her to think about going to graduate were offered only just graduated. But about twenty people attended a school. “I’m pretty sure I’m going to there have been developments that similar event. end up in a research career,” she many view as improvements: • A lounge and an office, where says. “I love the atmosphere of • An associate dean, Claudia N. tudents can relax, talk with each research, because you’re doing some- Thomas, has been assigned to assist other about their research and thing [that you choose and] you’re the program, and that has classes, leaf through a copy of a excited about.” improved communication of the science journal, or talk informally Margaret Elizabeth “Beth” program’s needs to the Dean of the with professors, has been ear- Stroupe, a 1997 Wake Forest gradu- College and led to more resources marked for the program in Winston ate, says she felt much support from for the program. Hall, the biology building, when her major department, chemistry, • Research fellowships have been renovations are completed in 1999. but little from the administration. designated for the program. Several of the Women in Science As a junior, Stroupe won the 1996 • An annual potluck dinner in visionaries say they hope the Iota Sigma Pi Undergraduate Award February sponsored by the area University hires an administrator for Excellence in Chemistry, which chapter of AWIS attracted about who can pull together the pieces. “If recognizes the most outstanding sixty people, most of them female we’re spending what we’re going to senior woman in the country. But students and perhaps a dozen of be spending on it,” says Kirkman, several people feel that more could them freshmen who had yet to “there ought to be more than just have been done to recognize her declare majors. The year before, somebody’s spare time spent on it.” Profile Profile

Associate Professor of Physics Paul R. Anderson Rare Air

by Frank Elliott loud and brash and proclaimed what To be one of the world’s best he has accomplished he would be PEND MUCH TIME talking with better well-known,” says James W. at something is to dwell at SPaul R. Anderson’s colleagues in York Jr., the Agnew Bahnson the rarified air of theoretical physics Professor of Physics at the University and you soon realize that this unas- of North Carolina at Chapel Hill high altitude. Paul Anderson’s suming associate professor, known to and a research collaborator who has many students for his courses on co-authored papers with Anderson. dwelling place is the curved astronomy, is nationally esteemed for “But that’s not Paul Anderson.” tackling one of physics’ more daunting Anderson’s work is so specialized tasks: Deciphering the confluence of that even Howard Shields, chair of space around black holes. quantum field theory and general rela- Wake Forest’s Department of tivity to better understand the curved Physics, confesses, “I cannot explain Few children dream of being the- space that surrounds black holes. his research, really. But I do find it oretical physicists when they grow Says William Hiscock, a physics fascinating.” up, and Anderson was no exception. professor at Montana State So, too, did the committee that As a youngster in Tomah, a small University who has collaborated with chose Anderson as a co-winner of this town of about 5,500 in west central Anderson, “In the field of quantum year’s Excellence in Research award, Wisconsin, Anderson wanted to be a field theory in curved space, the real- says Gordon Melson, dean of the forest ranger. “I guess that’s the ly interesting problems are exceed- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences equivalent of other kids wanting to ingly difficult, and there are only a and chair of the selection committee. be a fireman,” he says. few people who have the fortitude to Like Shields, the committee found Anderson excelled in math and attack them. Paul is one of them.” itself out of its league in trying to entered the University of Wisconsin Bei Lok Hu, a professor of judge the quality of Anderson’s intending to be a math major. “But I physics at the University of research. So it relied heavily on the decided fairly quickly that physics Maryland, calls Anderson “probably comments of his peers in the field, and astronomy were more interest- the world’s most accomplished such as Hiscock and Hu. “His work ing.” But he didn’t find his niche until expert on quantum fields in classical is theoretical and difficult for some of more than a year into his graduate curved spacetimes, especially in the us to grasp and understand,” Melson studies in physics, when two guest case of black holes, and how to cal- says, “but that’s why we go to the lectures focused his interest. One was culate them accurately.” expert reviewers. When they make on the Big Bang theory, and the other Not that you’d know it from comments like that [above] it carries a was on black holes. “Both of those talking with Anderson. “If he were lot of weight in our decision.” talks were extremely inspiring, and I Profile

decided that that was the kind of physics departments (about twenty- only research you can get focused on work I wanted to do.” five, Hiscock estimates), which limits very specialized theories. When This necessitated a transfer to the the opportunities. So in 1989 you’re teaching you’re always teach- University of California at Santa Anderson accepted a job with ing more general things than your Barbara, where Anderson could Mission Research Corp., a defense research is focused on. When teach- study under specialists in relativity. contractor in Santa Barbara, Calif. ing goes well, there’s a good amount With his doctorate in hand, Ander- He worked on the theoretical aspects of personal satisfaction.” son proceeded to the University of of short-wave radio communications. One of Anderson’s strengths, says Florida for three years of postdoc- It was a short exile in the corpo- Kyle Berquist (’98), is his ability to toral work in cosmology. This was rate world. After ten months at explain the higher math that is the followed by a year as a visiting pro- Mission Research, Wake Forest foundation of advanced physics. “He fessor at Montana State, where he offered him a job. The physics likes to derive the equations and began doing work on black holes. department wanted to strengthen its show the students how they originate The year in Bozeman turned into astronomy program, and Anderson’s from the first principles.” This, says three when Anderson then received a work in cosmology fit the bill. That Peter Groves, a second-year doctoral two-year postdoctoral fellowship at he was a specialist in relativity was a candidate studying under Anderson, Montana State. It also turned bonus, Shields says. “It was an easy makes it easier to follow the topic at Anderson into a married man. He choice,” Anderson says, “because I hand, be it the distribution of parti- knew I’d be much happier in acade- cles at the event horizon of black mia than in the corporate world.” holes, or how electromagnetism is He arrived on campus for fall propagated through a coiled wire. semester 1990, moving into a spacious “He’s not speaking in abstractions,” third-floor office in the Olin Physical Groves says. “He can perform the Building, and immediately set to work equations so you understand.” developing an astronomy course that For the uninitiated, however, sit- could fulfill students’ basic science ting through one of Anderson’s requirement. The trick, says Shields, advanced classes can be a confusing was to come up with the necessary lab jumble of Greek, calculus, and component. Anderson solved that trigonometry, such as this sentence challenge by sending the students up uttered during a recent class on to the roof of Olin on starry nights, to advanced electromagnetism: “So now gaze through telescopes and write up we have D squared E twittle equals their own observations. It has proved epsilon mu zero D squared E twittle to be a popular course: typically, 160 over D T squared plus mu zero D to 185 students enroll. squared twittle over D T squared.” A black hole, shown here in a NASA photo taken with a powerful satellite telescope. Curvature of light around the hole is apparent. Anderson taught the class for “It’s pretty hard,” says Groves. eleven semesters in a row before tak- “But math is a language you have ing a hiatus for the past five semes- to learn. Once you learn it, it’s not met his wife, Meg, while at Montana ters. He’s scheduled to resume teach- that bad.” State, and they were married there in ing the course this fall. He also Eight years after he arrived on July 1988. teaches advanced physics courses. the Reynolda campus, Anderson’s All this time a full-time teaching “I like to teach,” Anderson says. office still looks like he just moved position eluded him. There simply “It’s a nice complement to research. in. The white walls are bare save a aren’t that many universities that It gives you breadth that you don’t small white board filled with equa- have “relativity groups” in their otherwise get. When you’re doing tions, and a map of the solar system Profile

that is blocked when the door is On one occasion, Anderson math to prove that this conjecture open. There’s a half-filled book case, was wrong and included it in a and three desks arranged in a U paper he was preparing with proved Stephen Hawking around the far end: A work desk Hiscock. Hawking never fully con- under the window that looks out ceded the point, Anderson says, over the lawn where the band prac- wrong, a point Hawking although his collaborator did. tices, a smaller desk to the left with “They were doing a rather sim- a monitor into which he plugs his never fully conceded. ple-level calculation,” says Hiscock, laptop computer, and to the right, a “and the point is there are only a desk with an IBM workstation for few groups in the world that can do performing numerical computations. and the origins of the universe. “In these detailed calculations to check There are no snapshots of Meg, who the very beginning of the universe, in these speculations. If it weren’t for is a counselor in Statesville; no pic- the first moments the distance scales these couple of groups around the tures of the hiking trips he likes to were very small and yet gravity was world this stuff would sit out there take in the mountains; no boombox very strong,” Anderson says. “In the and people would think it was cor- for the jazz he listens to at home; no case of black holes, particularly near rect because they didn’t have the framed degrees. There are, however, the center, gravity is very strong and tools to check it out.” two postcard-size watercolors of the yet you’re looking at microscopic And what good does it do to old city in Jerusalem, acquired while distances, so you have to take both know whether an extreme black attending a relativity conference and of those (gravity and quantum hole has a temperature? “This is now perched on the window sill. mechanics) into account.” called basic research,” Anderson “He’s very well-organized,” says Says Hiscock: “Some of the says. “It’s research into the way the York, who has been in Anderson’s problems Paul has worked on have universe works. You can never be Spartan quarters. “Usually physicists literally involved years of work and sure what’s ultimately going to come who work in relativity have offices an enormous amount of computa- out of it.... When Einstein wrote that look like the wreck of the tions, and this is the area that most E=MC2 I don’t think he had in mind Hesperus. Paul is neat and systemat- people don’t have the guts to the atom bomb. He certainly didn’t ic, not only in his thinking but in his attack. The investment is so large envision that people would use it to way of organizing his business and in time and energy that most peo- produce power.... his teaching.” ple would rather go work on easier “There are important things in As to what Anderson does, it problems.” life that have no necessary economic helps to know a little about modern One of those people is Stephen consequences,” he goes on. “The physics. There’s gravity, which Hawking, the celebrity Oxford fact that the universe is expanding Anderson calls a macroscopic theory physicist who is the author of A has no economic effect directly on because it applies over large bodies Brief History of Time and popularly us. But in terms of our thinking and and distances. Then there’s quantum regarded as the leading mind in the way we view ourselves, it makes mechanics, which deals with the modern physics. Hawking co- all the difference in the world as to microscopic level. “One bridge authored a paper dealing with whether the world is static, and the between the two is quantum field “extreme” black holes. The paper way it is now is the way it always theory in curved space,” Anderson assumed, in order to address the was and always will be, or whether says. “There we’re taking gravity topic, that extreme black holes can the universe is expanding and has and describing how it behaves on a be assigned a temperature. “When I been around a finite time. That’s microscopic scale.” saw that,” Anderson says, “I was important too, to have a sense of And this is very interesting for a immediately suspicious because of where we are and who we are and physicist interested in black holes the work I was doing.” He did the where we fit into nature.” Essay

Repressive. Menacing. Unsophisticated. Dogmatic. Attributes of Muslims? No—of Western attitudes toward Islam. Unholy Warfare

Missed inform many Christians and Jews in Turkish prison understandings the West. This is particularly true in the case of Islam, the world’s second- How one Westernized democracy How our view of Islam is clouded largest religion. oppresses Islam by misconceptions and stereotypes The picture is further complicated by a confusing series of international by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross (’98) and by Charles A. Kimball developments involving Muslim indi- al-Husein Madhany (’98) viduals or groups visibly involved in HE RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE in political upheaval. In our increasingly ESUT SAGIR, who owns one Tthe U.S. is visibly changing. In interdependent world, we are all Mof the four thousand shops in addition to Christian churches and affected by political and military tur- Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, slumps Jewish synagogues, Buddhist and bulence and economic changes. against the counter and runs his fin- Hindu temples and Islamic mosques Now, perhaps more than ever, it gers through his hair as he speaks. are now fixtures in most metropoli- is vitally important that we come to “They say 97 percent of Turkey is tan areas. In the Chicago area today, a better, more accurate understand- Muslim, but probably only 5 percent for instance, there are more than sev- ing of Islam. Numerous speakers are now,” he explains, “because the enty functioning mosques. and visiting religious practitioners people who want to be Muslim Muslims in the U.S. now outnum- echoed this message at Wake Forest aren’t permitted to live like ber Presbyterians and Episcopalians. throughout the just-concluded Year Muslims.” Some demographers believe Islam of Religion in American Life. Turkey is a principal example of already has surpassed Judaism as the Renowned journalist Bill Moyers and a traditionally Muslim state whose second-largest religious tradition in Harvard professor Diana Eck were government has become secular. the country; others agree that this among the most prominent voices Sagir is just one of the hundreds of will be the case within a decade. The speaking to this pressing challenge. devout Muslims whom we met dur- cumulative effect of immigration, While this is no small task, it is pos- ing our ten-day stay whose everyday intermarriage, and religious conver- sible to begin the process. An ancient lives are affected by both the govern- sion in the last century is substantial. and famous Chinese proverb reminds ment’s anti-Islamic policies and latent Unfortunately, the growing us that “a journey of one thousand li prejudice among Turkish citizens, to awareness of religious diversity in (miles) begins with one small step.” whom the religion now seems our communities is rarely accompa- This simple yet hopeful proverb strange and dangerous. nied by increased understanding needs minor modification in this Turkey was secularized by Kemal across religious lines. Exotic, often instance. As we begin the journey Atatürk, who took power after stereotypical images continue to Essay JOSEPH DANIEL FIEDLER Essay

Missed understandings hundred years of the death of Why should our image of Islam continued from pg. 32 Muhammad in 632 c.e., Muslims be shaped by the actions of eleven controlled most of the land from World Trade Center bombers rather toward a better understanding of India through the Near East, across than the attitudes and actions of Islam, we must start with a step North Africa, and all of Spain. The hundreds of millions of Muslims liv- backwards. We, particularly astonishing military, political, and ing peacefully throughout the world? Christians in the West, bring a good religious advance of Islamic civiliza- For perspective, look at the deal more baggage with us to the tion challenged Christian assump- world from another point of view. point of departure than we realize. tions. Not only was Islam an obvious Imagine yourself as a Muslim living What are some of the most com- worldly success, it also presented in Pakistan. How might you perceive mon misunderstandings about Islam? puzzling and threatening new intel- Christianity today if your primary First, there is a widespread per- lectual positions. In short, Islam images were shaped by history books ception of Islam as somehow inher- posed the only real threat emphasizing the brutality of ently violent and menacing. This Christendom had ever faced once the Christian crusaders, the Inquisition, image is rooted in the turbulent his- Christian movement became estab- and exploitation of Muslim lands tory of Christian-Muslim relations. It lished as a major world religion. during European colonial rule and continues to be nurtured today as With a few notable exceptions, the hegemony of Western super pow- information related to Islam is fil- such as St. Francis of Assisi, Western ers? Or, more immediately, how tered through the lens of mass media. literature from the Crusades through would your negative images be rein- The origin of predominantly neg- Dante to Martin Luther reflects the forced by media reports focused on ative images is understandable when prevailing context of fear, prejudice, Serbian atrocities against Muslim contrasted with popular perceptions and hostility. The continuing associa- women and children, or on the of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and tion of Islam and violence is fed today Branch Davidian confrontation in other major religious traditions. The by media images of extremist individu- Waco, or on the mass suicide by Islamic movement burst onto the als and groups. Clearly, a number of members of Heaven’s Gate? scene in the mid-seventh century and violent groups exist in predominantly While we must acknowledge that was a remarkable success. Within a Muslim countries. Some have resorted these and other extremist actions by to terrorist tactics to draw attention to people who consider themselves their cause or attempt to achieve some Christians are part of the picture, we goal. However deplorable this is, it also know that it would be highly should not be equated with Islam. misleading to construct an image of The problem stems, in part, from Christianity in the absence of more the way the media work. The media information and contextual analysis gravitate toward the dramatic, the of these particular episodes. The violent and the sensational. When same caveat applies to our under- eleven people plot to blow up the standing of Islam. World Trade Towers or a misguided A second major misunderstanding teenager detonates a truck bomb, we is that Islam is backward, anti- must not assume this reflects the intellectual, and unsophisticated. This norm. On the contrary, the vast image quickly disappears in the face majority of Muslims are as offended of even a cursory survey of Islamic and horrified by such violent extrem- history. The error of this image is par- ists as Christians, Jews, Hindus, and ticularly ironic in view of the major Buddhists would be. Islamic contributions and influences that helped shape Western civilization. Essay

While Europe was languishing in are in all of the Middle Eastern the Middle Ages, Muslim scholars countries combined. There are more were advancing knowledge in a daz- Muslims in China (30 million) than zling array of disciplines: chemistry, there are in any Arab country except engineering, mathematics, medicine, Egypt. Islam is a world religion. astronomy, philosophy, architecture, Another widespread misunder- horticulture, and calligraphy. Mus- standing concerns Minister Louis lims founded the first university— Farrakhan. Many Americans assume Al-Azhar in Egypt—some three cen- this flamboyant leader represents turies before the founding of Oxford Muslims in our land. While he does Charles A. Kimball, professor and chair or Cambridge. have a sizable following, Farrakhan’s of religion at Wake Forest, holds a doc- A sampling of English words extremist views are anything but rep- torate from Harvard University with a specialization in Islamic studies and originating within Muslim cultures resentative. His followers comprise Christian-Muslim relations. The author provides a clue to the primary areas about 15 percent of the African- of three books and scores of articles on of influence: admiral, alcohol, alcove, American Muslim community. The Islamic and Arabic topics, he has made alfalfa, algebra, arsenal, assassin, large majority follows mainstream more than thirty-five trips to the Middle average, balcony, cable, candy, Sunni Islam under the leadership of East, meeting with political leaders rang- ing from Yasser Arafat to the heads of checkmate, coffee, cotton, divan, Wallace B. Muhammad. And, state of Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1979, elixir, frieze, gala, giraffe, guitar, jas- African-American Muslims comprise he was one of a handful of Americans mine, lemon, lute, magazine, mask, only a portion of the multinational who met with the Ayatollah Khomeini in mat, nadir, orange, rice, sapphire, Islamic community in the U.S. an effort to resolve the Iranian hostage sofa, sugar, syrup, tariff, zenith, zero. Once again, the media are largely crisis. This summer he will lead the entire Without question, our civilization responsible for this common misper- religion department faculty on a two- week study trip to the Middle East. is built on a Judeo-Christian-Islamic ception. Minister Farrakhan is, with- heritage. Although Islamic contribu- out question, an outspoken and highly tions in medicine, mathematics, philos- controversial leader. While his views ophy, and chemistry are well known resonate with a small minority of within those disciplines, the sophistica- American Muslims, his style and tion and love of learning within Islam provocative pronouncements draw has somehow eluded popular under- media attention unlike the quieter, cen- standing. Where do people think we trist approach of Wallace Muhammad got those Arabic numerals? or high-profile athletes like Kareem Third, Muslims are frequently Abdul Jabbar, Muhammad Ali, and equated with Arabs. Although the Hakeem Olajuwon. Islamic tradition is rooted in Arabia Together, Christians and Muslims and is the dominant religion in the make up nearly one-half of the Arabic-speaking Middle East, Arabs world’s population. The history of form only a fraction of the Muslim misunderstanding and antipathy community worldwide. Four of the between these children of Abraham five countries with the largest underscores the necessity for more Muslim populations are not in the positive relationships in the coming Middle East: Indonesia, Pakistan, century. Better understanding does Bangladesh, and India. In fact, there not eliminate differences or imply an are almost as many Muslims in easy path to political or theological Indonesia (over 160 million) as there agreement. But it is the first step. Essay

Turkish prison mosques were destroyed prior to Islam is not incompatible continued from pg. 32 Islam’s removal as the state religion. Anti-Islam policies have emphati- with the secular state, as becoming a national hero in the cally continued in the post-Atatürk 1920-22 Turkish War of era. Earlier this year Turkey’s educa- Independence. He felt that the tion ministry ordered teachers and long as the secular state Ottoman Empire’s sultanate had students to comply with strict secular- become obsolete, and he wished to ist bans on Islamic dress in schools, does not make itself lead the country toward what he which were introduced by Atatürk’s considered to be true democracy. The regime in the twenties. The secular Turkish government’s policies under code bans Islamic clothing, including incompatible with Islam. Atatürk included banning polygamy the head coverings worn by women, and the fez in 1925, instituting new in all but special religious schools. Somehow we thought that by travel- legal codes in 1926 that required Not only does the secular gov- ling to a predominantly Muslim coun- marriage to be a civil and not a reli- ernment fear those who practice try we would enter a more devout gious practice, and finally removing Islam, but so does the general popu- society, free from the problems of Islam as the state religion in 1928. lation. We were told that to wear greed, gluttony, and lust for the mater- These policies are in opposition to our kufis (hats worn to signify that ial. We were sorely disappointed. the shariah, which is Muslim one is a believer, similar to the Despite both the rampant materi- jurisprudence based on both the Jewish yarmulke) in public was to alism and intolerance of Islam, how- Qur’an and the practices of Prophet invite strange looks, or worse. A ever, there are a number of thriving Muhammad. Na’eem Abdullah, a man we met recounted his wife’s jamats, or Muslim communities, in Muslim living in Istanbul who was story. When his father-in-law found Istanbul. Some of them display their out that she had begun to wear the faith externally by dressing in the traditional Islamic head covering in manner of the Prophet, such as public, he beat her, and beat her Shaikh Mahmud Efendi’s tariqah, husband also when he tried to inter- which is one spiritual path among the vene on her behalf. many diverse ways of living Islam. Turkey at a glance is virtually One would not be able to discern indistinguishable from any other that members of many of Istanbul’s European country. Turkish people other jamats were Muslim at a glance. dress just like Italians or Western We spent the last two days of our Europeans; they stay abreast of the sojourn with a jamat that based its latest fashion trends, and many men study on the writings of the prominent and women clothe themselves with the Turkish Islamic scholar Bediuzzaman born in Indiana and educated at apparent purpose of attracting mem- Said Nursi, who lived from 1873 until Purdue University, says that the gov- bers of the opposite sex. Istanbul is 1960 and wrote a six-thousand-page ernment was even more oppressive to overrun by convenience stores whose treatise attempting to, according to Muslims during Atatürk’s reign than exteriors look like packs of Camel or Nursi’s A Guide for Youth, “explain a reading of the history books Marlboro cigarettes (an easy way to and expound the basic tenets of belief, reveals. “How many scholars were circumvent Turkey’s ban on cigarette the truths of the Qur’an, to modern executed in 1925, 1926, and 1927? advertising); billboards advertising man.” Members of the jamat dress How many Qur’ans were burned?” clothing, colognes, and cars; and the conservatively; not in the manner of he asks. A number of other residents same kind of materialism that has a the Prophet, yet their actions convey a estimate that around one thousand stranglehold on Western society. compassionate and deliberate Islam. Essay

The first time we stepped into one most important for us being freedom of their nightly meetings, which was of religion. Newsweek reported on held in a residential apartment, we March 16, 1998, “The United States found a room jam-packed with men is arguably the best place on earth to sitting on couches, on the ground, be Muslim. Multicultural democracy, peeking out of the kitchen and bed- with its guarantees of religious free- rooms, all focusing their attention on dom and speech, makes life easier for a single elderly man reading the Muslims than in many Islamic states words of Said Nursi intently in a low in the Middle East.” Often when voice. After the reading, a crowd of “democracy” replaces former theoc- people gathered around us, listening racies, it does not guarantee freedom as the university student who spoke and liberty to members of the new English with enough competency to secular state who remain devout. be our translator asked us questions Many scholars wonder if Islam is about what America was like, how incompatible with the secular state. difficult it is to be Muslim in Although America still has a long America, what we thought of Turkey. way to go, it is becoming increasingly Everybody in the room had sensitive to non-Christian religions. approached to shake our hands when Newsweek reported in the same arti- we arrived, and embraced us by cle that “Muslims pray daily in State virtue of our faith. One of the young Department hallways, in corporate men proclaimed in a thick, excited law firms, and in empty boardrooms Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, top, took his Turkish accent, “We are all broth- at Silicon Valley companies like shahadah to enter the fold of Islam in ers!” Instantly, we felt at home. Oracle and Adaptec.” Nike has also September 1997 in Rimini, Italy. His time Clearly, Nursi’s writings continue instituted religious sensitivity training at Wake Forest includes winning the to influence Muslims in Turkey. for employees and the American national championship in collegiate debate These jamats are growing in number Muslim Council has become a in 1997 and being published in both cam- pus and national literary journals more as more Turkish citizens feel unful- powerful lobby. than a hundred times. He will graduate in filled. Materialism, for them, is a The progress that America has December and hopes to work in a think- deadend, and Nursi’s writings contin- made in allowing a place for Islam in tank. Al-Husein Madhany, above, born and ue to revitalize the practice of Islam its culture proves that Islam and the raised a Muslim, will enter Harvard in an increasingly secular society. The secular state are not intrinsically at Divinity School in the fall with the hope of studying the role Islam can play in spiritual jamat itself preserves Prophet odds. Islam is not incompatible with healing. As a campus activist, he estab- Muhammad’s ideal of a Muslim the secular state, as long as the secular lished both the Islam Awareness community by striving to provide state does not make itself incompati- Organization and Asian Student Interest the best example to those around ble with Islam. Westerners with little Association. Their trip to Turkey over them, by being compassionate to exposure to Muslims may see the spring break was inspired by conversations others, by following the shariah, Turkish government’s policies as per- with the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey, who visited campus as part of the Year of and by sincerely seeking knowledge, haps unfortunate but necessary in the Religion in American Life program. both of their faith and also at the march toward democracy. It is easy to university level. label the outsider as a threat, but until Americans are understandably in we examine the oppressive atmos- love with democracy. As American phere in which Muslims are forced to Muslims we cherish many aspects of live in that country, we may not real- our democratic system, one of the ize the threats within ourselves. Sports

Jerry Haas is back and in the swing

Home link and I want to make these kids the Nike Tour for two years, players.” where he experienced great ERRY HAAS (’85) can’t And who better to teach success. Haas won three tour- J help but smile at the them that than Haas, a man naments and finished ninth opportunities life has given who has spent much of his on the Nike money list in him. Thirteen years ago, the life being ready for whatever 1994, requalifying for the head coach of the Wake opportunities life might bring. PGA Tour. A year later, how- Forest men’s golf The nephew of former ever, he found himself back team left the Masters champion Bob on the Nike Tour and at a University as a cele- Goalby and the younger professional crossroads. brated collegiate brother of PGA star and for- “I just wasn’t playing as golfer, embarking on mer Deacon Jay Haas, he well as I thought I should be,” a professional career began playing golf as soon as he remembers, “and I had a that would have its he was old enough to pick up little daughter who I was ups and downs. And a club. One of the nation’s missing very much. I started though he may not brightest junior golf stars, thinking of making a career have expected his Haas followed his older change, and coaching was journey to lead him brother to Wake Forest, something that was always in Jerry Haas, second from left, enjoys back to Winston-Salem, he enrolling in fall 1981. the back of my mind.” post-round repartee with some past Wake Forest players—including Billy couldn’t be happier with Haas enjoyed a stellar col- Haas left the Tour in 1997 Andrade, in white hat at right— where he sits right now. legiate career, winning his first and returned to his hometown following completion of the annual “I love Wake Forest,” tournament as a freshman and of Belleville, Illinois, where he Pro-Am event at Old Town Club in Winston-Salem April 20. Haas gushes. “I’ve got the finishing as a runner-up in the spent the year working as a best job in the country. I ACC Tournament twice. A commentator for the Golf came back into a great situa- four-time All-American, he Channel and as a teaching tion, and I think I can really qualified to play in The professional at a local golf make it better.” Masters as an amateur in club. He began doing some In his first year as head 1985, where he finished thirty- research on collegiate coach- coach of the Deacons, the first, and represented the U.S. ing, talking with friends in the thirty-four-year-old Haas has on the 1985 Walker Cup team. coaching ranks and studying injected new energy into the Haas spent nine years up on the rules in the NCAA Wake Forest program. playing professional golf and manual. Shortly thereafter, “I really feel that I can experienced something of a opportunity knocked again. help these kids,” he says. “At rollercoaster career. After two “I had heard rumors that my age, I’m young enough to seasons on the European Coach [Jack] Lewis was leav- still relate to them, and old Tour, he earned his PGA Tour ing,” he recalls. “It was a enough that I’ve been some card in 1990 and played for tough decision, but I definitely places. There’s a difference three years before losing his made the right one.” between a golfer and a player, exemption. He then went to —JEN H OOVER Sports

Kiddie core Antwan Scott, a native of season and a state champi- New Bern who spent his onship this season, averaging Five freshmen join already senior year on the nationally 19 points, eight rebounds, young basketball squad seventh-ranked high school and five assists per game. squad at Oak Hill (Virginia) The class also has an WAKE FOREST TEAM Academy. Scott averaged 14 international touch with the Athat was one of the points and six rebounds per addition of Darius Songaila, a youngest in the nation in game while shooting 65 per- Lithuanian who played this 1998 will be even younger cent from the floor. past year at the New next season as five talented Odom and his staff added Hampton School in New Jessica Hood (’01), a member of the Wake Forest women’s freshmen join Coach Dave two more signees during the Hampshire—the same school volleyball team, attends to a Odom’s squad. spring recruiting period. that sent Rafael Vidaurreta to youngster at the Special The 1998-99 Deacons Ervin Murray, a six-foot- Wake Forest. The six-foot- Olympics games held on campus April 27-29. Deacon athletes now figure to include eleven five all-state selection from nine Songaila has the ability assisted with the event for young freshmen or sophomores Teachey, North Carolina, pro- to play a post position or people with special needs and among their twelve scholar- vides this class with power forward, and even disabilities. ship players, with senior versatility, having experience work on the perimeter if guard Joseph Amonett the at small forward and both needed. He scored 24 points only upperclassman. backcourt positions. He led and grabbed 11 rebounds per This year’s recruiting class his team to a perfect 31-0 game this past season. has been touted as one of the best in the ACC—which translates into a similar rating nationwide. Point guard Broderick Hicks of Houston, Texas, who signed last fall, teamed with Deacon football recruit Ed Kargbookorogie in leading Strake Jesuit High to a state title—its fifth in six years.

One of the premier players at his position in the country, the six-foot-one Hicks aver- aged 22 points, seven assists, and four steals per game.

Craig Dawson, a six-foot- five forward from Kinston, North Carolina, averaged 29.4 points per game and is considered an excellent perimeter shooter.

The other fall commit- ment for the Deacons came from six-eight forward Alumni Report

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BOUT FOUR hundred Aand fifty Wake Foresters enjoyed the first Wake Forest Days programs this spring in Charlotte, Fayetteville, Greensboro, and Raleigh, North Carolina, and in 5 Washington, D.C., and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

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At the Greensboro reception, men’s basketball coach Dave Odom greets Jack (JD ’59) and Shirley Webster of Madison, North Carolina (1), while football coach Jim Caldwell says hello to Kyle Young (’65, MD ’69), far left, and other alumni (2). Costi Kutteh (’73) of Statesville, North Carolina, catches a ride around the Grandover Golf Course in Greensboro (3).

Divinity School Dean Bill Leonard, center, with R.T. (’57) and Martha (’58) Smith, spoke at the Fayetteville reception (4).

President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. and Joy Baldwin (’66) of Durham, North Carolina (5), were among those attending the Raleigh recep- tion, hosted by Ray Madry (’52, MD ’56) and Jim Stone (’70) (6). Alumni Report

Alumni notes In addition, new club presidents have been ◆ COLLEGE Homecoming named in three areas since President’s Column will be held October 2-4, the list was published: with the Deacons taking on Jeanne Wussler (’95), New Appalachian State Univer- York City; Mark Christie sity in the homecoming (’75), Richmond, Virginia; Family Weekend if you’re a football game on Saturday, and Richard Leader (’70), Wake Forest parent. October 3. Houston, Texas. Check out the Wake Classes that will be Forest Web site celebrating special reunions ◆ MORE THAN ninety (www.wfu.edu/alumni) for are those ending in “3” Wake Forest alumni, par- up-to-date information on and “8,” from the Class of ents, and friends turned Homecoming. You can 1948 to the Class of 1993. out for a reception at the even register for events Check out the alumni National Football League’s online now. (And be sure Web site (www.wfu.edu/ headquarters in New York to pay for events, and all alumni) in late summer for City in April. IF YOU’RE KNOWN by your other credit-card pur- the Homecoming schedule . The reception was the company you keep, chases, with the Wake sponsored by the Babcock then Wake Foresters have Forest-MBNA credit card. ◆ ONE ALUMNI CLUB was Graduate School of been in good company this Every time you use your accidently omitted from the Management and the Wake spring. card, Wake Forest benefits, list of Wake Forest Clubs Forest Club of New York. Hundreds of alumni, at no cost to you.) in the March issue of Jim Steeg (MBA ’75), parents, and friends of the Finally, my term as Wake Forest Magazine. vice president of special University have enjoyed Alumni Council president Husband and wife Dave events for the NFL, and club meetings across the will end at the Council’s Grundies (’73) and Diane Michael Humphrey (MBA country this spring, from summer planning meeting Schneider (’75) are co- ’97), director of special Boston to Tampa to San next month. I’m grateful presidents of the San events business develop- Diego and twenty places in for the opportunity I’ve Diego, California, club. ment for the NFL, helped between. had in the last year to organize the reception. About 450 others serve alumni and to get enjoyed Wake Forest cama- to know so many of you raderie at the first Wake personally. Forest Days programs in The new president and six areas. members of the Council While Wake Forest has will be announced in the come to you recently, soon next issue of Wake Forest it will be time for you to Magazine. See you on cam- come to Wake Forest. I pus this fall. hope you’ll make plans now to attend Homecoming GRAHAM W. D ENTON JR. (’67) (October 2-4 for College CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA alumni), one of the other six PRESIDENT, WAKE FOREST “Dinner with 12 Strangers” hosts Sally (‘48) and Marc (‘47, MD ‘51) Gulley greet home football games, or ALUMNI ASSOCIATION senior Heather Jones of Crofton, Maryland, far left, and sophomore Ellen Scarff of Clinton, North Carolina. The Gulleys and nine other alumni in the Winston-Salem area hosted students and professors in their homes in April during the third annual “Dinner with 12 Strangers” program. University Advancement

Living on brothers—Ben Sutton (’80, ‘It’s been a wonderful JD ’83), Thomas Bell (’80, Scholarship fund honors MBA ’83), and Ted Laporte late, beloved alum (’79, MBA ’83)—decided to channel for us to put start a scholarship in his IVE YEARS AFTER it was name and quickly raised our grief into doing Festablished, a scholarship $9,000. Since then, more than in memory of James W. “Jim” $60,000 has been given to the something positive.’ Fulton Jr. (’79, MBA ’83) is scholarship fund which, with still growing and comforting accumulated interest, now has his family and friends. an endowment of more than Forest, so what his friends did “The scholarship has $95,000. was a most fitting memorial. I helped us work through the “Jim had such a profound would recommend doing this tragedy,” said Lane Fulton, impact on all our lives,” said to anyone who’s lost a son or Jim’s mother. “It’s been a Sutton, who lives in Winston- daughter or friend who went wonderful channel for us to Salem. “He was one of the to Wake Forest.” put our grief into doing more popular and well-liked Unlike some memorial something positive.” people on campus. scholarships that attract an Shortly after Fulton died “We saw the scholarship initial flurry of donations that of a brain tumor in 1993, as a way for us to tangibly quickly dies down, the Fulton three of his former fraternity associate Jim with Wake Scholarship has continued to Forest in perpetuity. And, grow. Sutton said he expects frankly, it was good therapy the scholarship endowment to for us because we had lost top $100,000 soon and keep such a close friend.” growing. The scholarship, which “It’s unusual to see people provides partial tuition to one working at something like undergraduate annually, was this years later,” Sutton awarded for the first time in acknowledges. “But the circle 1995 to Michael Burns of of people (contributing to the Mooresville, North Carolina, scholarship) actually seems to who graduated last month. It be growing rather than will be awarded to a new shrinking. I think that’s recipient this fall. because Jim was such a Mrs. Fulton and her hus- unique individual. He was band, James, who live in High one in a million.” Point, North Carolina, hosted Donations to the Fulton a party in Winston-Salem last Scholarship may be sent to

Dr. and Mrs. James W. Fulton with Michael Burns (’98) of Mooresville, fall to thank those who have Sheila Massey, Office of North Carolina, recipient the last three years of the scholarship named in supported the scholarship University Advancement, P.O. their son’s memory. over the last five years. Box 7227 Reynolda Station, “It was so much fun being Winston-Salem, North with Jim’s friends,” Mrs. Carolina 27109-7227. Fulton said. “Jim cherished the years he had at Wake University Advancement

A friend to the creation of a scholarship for foreign students in Dyer’s the foreign name. They have contributed more than $30,000 to start International student fund the scholarship fund. honors Robert Dyer Joined by Woo Kyu Ahn, a native of South Korea who HILIP TSE hadn’t been attended graduate school at Pfurther from his home in Wake Forest in the late six- Hong Kong than mainland ties, they are appealing to China when he left behind other foreign students to add family and friends to enroll at to the scholarship fund. Wake Forest in the sixties. “My first two years, I was Dominic Chan made a the only Chinese student similar journey two years later here,” said Tse, now a physi- and found himself not only cist in Reading, Pennsylvania. adjusting to college, but also “When I felt lonely or inse- adjusting to a life where cure, Dean Dyer was the one Dominic Chan (‘70), left, everyone and everything was who helped me. He gave me missionaries in Japan when and Philip Tse (‘68, MS ‘69) have established different. love and confidence.” World War II broke out, were a scholarship for foreign Whenever they were lone- While there are about held in a Japanese internment students in honor of ly or homesick, Tse and Chan 125 foreign students from camp for four years. retired associate dean Robert Dyer, seated, a knew where to turn. They thirty-eight countries “After the war, we had to friend to foreign students found a friend, advisor, and enrolled at Wake Forest make a choice, between let- for twenty-seven years. father figure in associate dean today, Tse and Chan were ting that ruin our lives—being Robert Dyer, who helped hun- among only a handful of for- fixated with hate—or trans- dreds of foreign students eign students in the sixties. formed by our spiritual values adjust to life at Wake Forest They found a home away to overcome this,” Dyer said. in his role as international from home at the home of “We decided to dedicate our students’ advisor. Dyer, who Dyer and his wife, Mary. lives to serving needy people. joined the Wake Forest faculty “I can remember going to “We couldn’t serve in in 1956 to teach religion, his home and helping him Japan or the Orient because retired in 1983. trim the roses in his yard,” of our health, so we came “I know a lot of students Tse said. “He took me to home and opened our home whose lives were touched by civic and church meetings and lives to needy people on Dean Dyer,” said Chan, now and on trips with his family. our doorstep.” chairman of a software com- He called me his Chinese Contributions to the Dean pany in Nashua, New son. He was like any good Robert Dyer Scholarship Hampshire. “Giving was his friend; we enjoyed each Fund may be sent to James way of life.” other’s company.” Bullock (’85, MBA ’95), Tse (’68, MS ’69) and What made the Dyers’ Office of University Chan (’70) said they have kindness to foreign students Advancement, P.O. Box 7227 never forgotten Dyer’s kind- even more remarkable was Reynolda Station, Winston- ness, and they returned to their background. The Dyers, Salem, North Carolina campus in March to announce who were serving as Baptist 27109-7227. University Advancement

Star power eighteen STARS internships— Sisters, Hospice, and United five this summer, eight next Way—and at non-profit agen- Fund boosts non-profits’ summer, and five in the year cies in Charlotte, Greensboro, technological know-how 2000—and provide housing and Raleigh, North Carolina, and travel allowances for and Atlanta, Georgia. HE JESSIE BALL some of the students. The duPont gift is funding TDUPONT FUND of “This is pioneering new five of those internships; Wake Jacksonville, Florida, has ground,” said Nancy Crouch, Forest and an anonymous committed more than the University’s director of donor are funding the other $135,000 to make Wake technology outreach. “The five. Another ten STARS have Forest students STARS for the students will be doing what summer internships in busi- next three summers. they do during the year, but nesses. Last summer, there were The $137,300 gift, to be instead of helping our faculty, two internships in non-profit paid over three years, is fund- they will be using their tech- organizations, funded by Wake ing a unique nical and teaching skills Forest and the anonymous internship pro- learned through the program donor, and four in businesses. gram that to teach non-profits how to Lisa Holleman, director of extends the use technology.” community services for Student Andrew Foster-Connors, Hospice of Winston-Salem/ Technology who manages the Electronic Forsyth County Inc., said AdvisoRS Networking Alliance for the there’s a huge need for the (STARS) pro- Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation internship program. gram beyond the in Winston-Salem, said many Most non-profits don’t classroom and non-profit organizations need have the staff with the exper- into the non- help learning how to use the tise or time to do much more profit sector. Internet and desktop publish- than keep the computers oper- Students in ing; purchasing hardware and ating, she said, or the money the STARS pro- software; and designing Web to bring in outside help. gram, which was pages and data bases. “At non-profits, you wear established last “We have found that, so many different hats, it’s year, receive almost without exception, impossible to get everything Rising junior Jessica Woodard advanced technology training (non-profit) organizations done that needs to be done,” of Spring Hope, North Carolina, seat- ed, is helping Hospice’s Lisa Holleman and then work one-on-one lack the necessary training she said. “This is a great develop creative ways that Hospice with faculty members to and support to accomplish opportunity to access technical can use technology to fulfill its mission. develop ways to use technolo- goals that utilize technology,” skills and to bring in someone gy in the classroom. Foster-Connors said. “The who’s young and creative and Ten STARS are spending STARS program is one way who has fresh ideas.” their summer helping non- of helping non-profits carry There were thirty-four profit organizations find ways out their missions more effec- students in the STARS pro- that technology can be used tively and efficiently through gram in the 1997-98 academ- to improve communications, the use of technology.” ic year; adding freshmen and provide services, and in other STARS are working at six a few upperclassmen to the ways to help the organization non-profit organizations in program in the fall will fulfill its mission. Forsyth County this summer increase the number to about The duPont gift will fund —including Big Brothers/Big fifty next year. University Advancement

Start-up capital 1995 to fund internships for four years, funded two Gifts fund internships in internships last summer. entrepreneurship “Small business owners often need assistance develop- WO ORGANIZATIONS ing business plans but don’t Tand a local businessman have the financial resources to have given more than bring in the expertise our stu- $120,000 to the Babcock dents will offer,” said R. Graduate School of Charles Moyer, dean of the Management to provide Babcock School. “With the internships for fifteen MBA grants, we can offer that students in entrepreneurial expertise to them as a service businesses this summer. and give our students experi- The internships are being ence at small businesses. funded by a $70,000 gift from “The Kauffman Center the Kauffman Center for funded only twenty-one of the Entrepreneurial Leadership, ninety-one proposals they based in Kansas City, Missouri; received, and our gift was one a $42,000 gift from the Price of the largest, so that speaks Institute for Entrepreneurial well to what we are doing,” Studies, based in New York Moyer said. City; and a gift from Don C. The gifts cover $6,000 of Angell of Clemmons, North the $8,000 each intern is

Carolina, a member of the paid as well as related Fifteen Babcock students have school’s Board of Visitors. expenses; participating busi- summer internships funded by nesses pay the remainder of private gifts at small businesses this summer. ‘Small business their intern’s salary. Most of the internships are at new start-up companies, owners... don’t have the many with less than fifteen employees. Three interns are financial resources to helping researchers at the Wake Forest School of Medicine bring in the expertise develop business plans for potential medical products. The internships, and other our students will offer.’ programs for small businesses, are being coordinated through The Price Institute, which the Babcock School’s new has funded internships for Center for Entrepreneurship Babcock students the last and Family Business. Ninety- five years, funded five five percent of Babcock stu- internships last year. Angell, dents typically have summer who pledged $100,000 in internships. University Advancement

Giving Briefs

The gifts will be used The new Divinity to fund student intern- School annual fund had ships, guest speakers, stu- received unrestricted gifts dent research projects, and of $215,000 as of April 22 research equipment. toward its goal of Wake Forest has $225,000. offered a minor in Environmental Studies ◆ EIGHT insurance firms since 1996. The program have given $5,000 each to draws perspectives from support the Risk Manage- various disciplines— ment Center at the Wayne including the physical sci- Calloway School of ences, geography, history, Business and Accountancy. government, and anthro- The firms include AIG pology—to study such top- Insurance of New York ics as pollution, popula- City; AmerUs Life Insur- tion growth, and resource ance of Des Moines, Iowa; management. CIGNA of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; C.N.A. ◆ WITH LESS than a month Insurance of Chicago, to go before the end of the Illinois; Kemper Insurance fiscal year, the Reynolda of Long Grove, Illinois; Campus annual funds are Medical Mutual Insurance making their final push to of Raleigh, North Members of Student Govern- ◆ THREE CORPORA- meet their goals. Carolina; and Royal ment’s Committee on the Environment plant a tree beside TIONS have made gifts to As of May 1, the Insurance of Charlotte. Johnson Residence Hall on Earth the Environmental Studies College Fund had received AON Risk Services of Day. The tree was purchased Program, an interdiscipli- $1.76 million toward its Winston-Salem also gave with funds from the Environ- mental Studies Program. nary approach to the study goal of $2.4 million. As of $5,000 and pledged an of environmental issues May 1 last year, the College additional $5,000 per year and policies. Fund had received $1.6 for the next four years. The Coca-Cola million on its way to a final The gifts will fund Foundation of Atlanta, total of $2.3 million. summer internships for stu- Georgia, contributed The Law Fund had dents in the insurance field, $25,000; the Whirlpool raised $371,000 as of symposia on current issues Foundation of Benton May 1 toward its goal of in financial services, and Harbor, Michigan, $475,000. student research projects. $15,000; and Waste The Babcock Fund was Management Corporation at $362,000, up about ◆ THE HOBBY FAMILY of Oak Brook, Illinois, nine percent from May 1 Foundation of Houston, $5,000. last year, toward its goal Texas, has given $37,500 of $400,000. for the second year in a University Advancement

row to support the originally funded by the Golden gift receive preference for the William Louis Poteat foundation in 1996. scholarship. Scholarship. The founda- Minority enrollment in the ’48 alum makes generous The Woodalls are natives tion’s gifts are being used executive program is about first gift to the University of Mecklenburg County but to start an endowment for 11 percent. have lived in Atlanta since the scholarship. “Many outstanding IFTY YEARS after graduat- 1954. Mecklenburg County is “Building an endow- minority candidates, espe- Fing from Wake Forest, a small, rural county in south ment means that we won’t cially those in the public and Thomas W. “Woody” Woodall central Virginia just over the have to depend as much on not-for-profit sectors, lack decided recently to make his state line from North the University’s general employer support to offset first gift to the University. And Carolina. operating budget to fund tuition,” said R. Charles what a first gift it was. “Nancy and I really want- the scholarships,” said L. Moyer, dean of the Babcock Woodall (’48) and his wife, ed to do something for Wade Stokes (’83), director School. “Aggressive market- Nancy, of Atlanta, Georgia, Mecklenburg County,” of development for the ing of the Coca-Cola have donated stock worth more Woodall said. “Some of the divinity school, who coordi- Scholarships to these candi- than $1 million that will even- students there don’t have a lot nates fundraising for the dates has and will continue tually be used to fund under- of opportunities, and hopeful- scholarship. to have a profound positive graduate scholarships. ly this will enable them to Poteat Scholarships impact.” “I’ve always wanted to do obtain a quality education were awarded to sixty-nine something for Wake Forest that would have been other- students last year at a cost ◆ A STUDENT travel fund because of what Wake Forest wise unobtainable.” of almost $500,000. Gifts has been established in did for me,” said Woodall, a Woodall returned to from North Carolina honor of Professor Emeritus retired attorney. “Wake Forest Mecklenburg County after Baptist churches covered of Theater Harold C. was very meaningful to my graduating from Wake Forest about 10 percent of the Tedford, who retired last life. The liberal arts program and taught school there for cost, with the University month after teaching at was the best training I could two years before leaving to funding the remainder. Wake Forest for thirty-two have received. In addition to a serve in the Army during the Diana Poteat Hobby, a years. good education, the professors Korean War. He later moved trustee of the Hobby The fund will be used taught me even more about to Atlanta where he earned his Foundation, is a grand- to help theater majors with how to live. They were a great law degree from Woodrow daughter of William Louis travel costs, such as to influence on my life. Wilson College and then Poteat. London on the theater “I wanted Wake Forest to began his law practice in department’s annual trip. know that I was grateful and 1957. Nancy worked with ◆ THE COCA-COLA Tedford established the tra- that I had not forgotten them.” him from 1964-1972. He Foundation, based in dition in the 1960s of tak- The Woodalls’ gift was retired in 1993. Atlanta, Georgia, has given ing students to London made in the form of a charita- “Although Mr. Woodall $25,000 to the Babcock during Christmas break to ble remainder unitrust, which graduated fifty years ago, it’s Graduate School of see a number of plays. will provide them with retire- clear that he still cares deeply Management to continue its Contributions should ment income for the rest of about Wake Forest,” said support of a minority schol- be sent to John E.R. their lives. After their deaths, President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. arship program. Friedenberg, Theater the unitrust will be used to “Because of his and Mrs. Nine minority students Department, P.O. Box fund the Thomas W. and Woodall’s generosity, students in the Babcock School’s 7264 Reynolda Station, Nancy Jeffreys Woodall from their hometowns in Executive MBA program Winston-Salem, North Scholarship. They have desig- Virginia will have the oppor- have received the Coca-Cola Carolina 27109-7264. nated that students from tunity to experience what Mr. Scholarship since it was Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Woodall did at Wake Forest.” Class Notes

guest of the “Hot Topics in Vivian Butler Overstreet (’57) is tee of the Conference of County Neonatology” conference held supervisor of Memorial Square Bar Leaders and in the House in Washington, DC. He is pro- Laboratory in Springfield, MA. of Delegates of the Pennsylva- fessor and chairman emeritus of She and her husband, Robert nia Bar Association since 1993. the department of pediatrics at Overstreet (’56), have two mar- Alvin Hunter Hartness (MD the University of Louisville, KY. ried sons and three grand- ’65) is involved in a medical Norwood W. Pope (’53) retired daughters. mission project to Vietnam in May 1997 as executive vice sponsored by the Hawaii Frank (’61) Gentry (’61) president of First Hawaiian 1960 Baptist Association. Bank. He relocated from John Heydt will retire this July Col. Alfred A. McNamee (JD) 1930s sons and two granddaughters. Honolulu, HI, to Scottsdale, after working 28 years at the has a legal practice in AZ, and now runs his own mar- Monmouth County, NJ, Robert W. South (’37) and his Okeechobee, FL, where he does 1950s keting consulting firm. Division of Social Services. For wife, Margaret, will spend the pro bono and a limited amount the past 15 years he has been a summer in Northfield, VT, Robert O. Reid (’52) moved to Joseph Bailey Stokes Jr. (’54, of other legal work. He retired senior administrative analyst in where he will serve as the rector Greensboro, NC, to be closer to MD ’58) has retired after 33 from the U.S. Army in 1978 the document control unit. of St. Mary’s Church in July. his family after living in years as a urologist with McIver and retired from state employ- Charlotte for 24 years. Urological Clinic in Jacksonville, Russell Stephenson Jr. is the ment in Florida in 1995. FL. In February he participated new president and CEO of 1940s Billy F. Andrews (’53) spoke to in a medical mission trip to Stephenson Millwork in Wilson, 1962 H. Kent Bennett (’48) retired in the Irish and American Ecuador. He is currently a NC. Previously he was a senior July 1995 from his obstetrics/ Paediatric Society this fall on Blan V. Minton has retired, trustee of Regent University in vice president for Wachovia gynecology practice of 43 years. “How Did Informed Consent after 30 years of service, from Virginia Beach, VA; City Reserve Bank NA. In his position as for Children Arise.” In his positions of faculty member Ivan Lacy Holleman Jr. (BS ’49, Mission in Jacksonville, FL; and president, he replaced his father, November he spoke on “How of the University of North MD ’53) retired from the facul- Florida Christian Coalition in Russell Stephenson Sr., who to Look at a Newborn” at the Carolina School of Medicine ty of the Wake Forest School of Orlando, FL. started the company in 1945 Perinatal Society of Thailand. and social work administrator Medicine on June 30, 1996, and developed it into one of the He then traveled to the James L. Becton (’56) received in the social work department after 36 years as a member of largest millwork companies on Philippines where he spoke to the Distinguished Alumnus at the University of North the faculty. He and his wife, the East coast. the Philippine Pediatric Society, Award from Georgia Southern Carolina Hospitals. He and his Marjorie F. Edwards, reside in among several other groups. In University in February for wife are spending a year in Winston-Salem and have three December he was a special achievements in biology. As part 1961 England. During the trip, they of the ceremonies, he presented Gilbert L. Frank was named one are performing volunteer work a paper entitled “Applied of seven judges for the North in Scotland, and he is involved Anatomy of the Hand as Carolina Quality Leadership in genealogical research. Upon If you have news you would like to share — Viewed by an Orthopedic Award. He is retired from R.J. their return to the United promotions, awards, honors, announcements Surgeon.” He resides in Reynolds Tobacco Co. in States, they will relocate to Augusta, GA, where he prac- Winston-Salem. Asheville, NC, where he will of marriage, births, adoptions, deaths, etc.— tices orthopedic surgery. practice elder, family, and W. Richard Gentry (LLB) was please send it to Andrew Waters, classnotes health law. Major B. Harding (’57, JD ’59) elected vice president of the editor, Wake Forest Magazine, P.O. Box 7205 has been named chief justice- Pennsylvannia Conference of Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, NC elect of the Florida Supreme County Bar Leaders. He is a 1963 27109-7205. Internet: [email protected]. We Court for a two-year term start- member of the West Chester, Larry K. Arnold assumed com- ing July 1, 1998. He has been a are sorry, but we cannot publish third-party PA, law firm of Buckley, Nagle, mand of the 1st Air Force, Florida judge since 1968, first in Gentry, Brion, McGuire & headquartered at Tyndall Air news unless the person submitting it provides the juvenile court, followed by Morris LLP. He was president Force Base, FL, in December. a telephone number for verification and an elevation to circuit court in of the Chester County Bar He also was promoted to the accepts responsibility for the accuracy of the 1970. He was appointed to the Association in 1992 and has rank of major general. The 1st Supreme Court in 1991. information. served on the executive commit- Air Force is comprised of Alumni Profile

Ted Stone (’56)

Hard miles try a variety of jobs. He you two Tylenol and told thank you to the people was taking his life as a you to shut up.” of this country for twenty- ED STONE (‘56) let- businessman pretty serious- After being free of one years now for giv- Ttered in cross-country ly when he decided to try drugs for several months, ing me a second at Wake Forest, but he something else. his mind began to clear. chance.” never dreamed he “A friend at Wake But taking responsibility for One way Stone would use his college Forest had once offered what he had done took a gives thanks is by telling athletic experience forty me an amphetamine [at little longer. his story eight to ten years later walking the time they were called “You know, people times a week at church- across America diet pills] when we were like to make excuses, like es and schools. to share the studying for exams, but I if they’d been brought up “I go anywhere lessons he has turned it down. But when I in a nice family or gone to anytime and speak learned along was presuming to run all the right schools, this whether they have the hard miles these businesses, a friend would never have hap- money or not,” he says. of his life’s high- told me amphetamines pened. But I went to the “Instead of joining a way. keep you alert and give right schools. I had the speakers bureau where Now sixty- you lots of energy. It right family.” you get x-amount of four, the older, sounded good to me.” While serving four money every time you wiser version of In the early seventies, years of his term, Stone speak, I promised the that young man Stone went from taking made two choices— to Lord I would go any- who was speed twice a day to fif- never do drugs again, where anytime.” among the last teen times a day in just and to make things right Another way he class to gradu- over a year. “It changed with God. shows his gratitude is ate from the my personality,” he says. “I “I had always thought walking cross-country Old Campus is became a very violent per- of God as a guy who and speaking about the ‘When I hit rock bot- on his second cross- son, bought my first gun lived up on a fluffy white dangers of drug abuse. country tour, telling the and eventually shot a man cloud,” he says, “but when He began his most tale of his youthful ambi- in a robbery of a conve- I hit rock bottom and there recent walk in San tom it was like God tions, and how drugs nience store. I was arrest- seemed to be no hope for Francisco just after and crime corrupted ed. I was in and out of me, it was like God came Easter and is walking them, to any audience psychiatric hospitals and I down to Earth just for Ted an average of twenty- came down to Earth willing to listen. was diagnosed as psy- Stone to teach me what five miles a day to end “I had a lot of high- chotic because of my drug love was all about. I think I up in Norfolk, Virginia, floating dreams about dependency.” found out something about on October 17. to teach me what being special,” he says. Finally sentenced to fif- success and that elusive The father of three “To me, that meant being teen to twenty-five years for dream of mine; that there daughters, Stone is the love was all about.’ big with money, popular- seven counts of armed rob- is nothing wrong with hav- husband of Ann Fuller ity, and power. I went to bery, Stone was locked up ing money or success or Stone (‘54). “She gradu- Southeastern seminary. in prison where he came power if you use those ated summa cum But the profession I had down off drugs cold things in a right fashion. I laude,” he says. “I grad- chosen didn’t seem to turkey. “Prisons weren’t found a devotion not only uated summa cum luck.” offer me those dreams.” equipped to deal with to God, but also to other —KATHRYN WOESTENDIEK Stone got out of the drug problems back then,” people. I’ve been saying ministry and went on to he says. “They just brought thank you to God and Class Notes

11,000 Air National Guard Mike Overcash received an Carolina has ever held the posi- Patricia J. Hay and her hus- Elementary School Counselor members at 17 locations MRE degree from the New tion in one county. band, James T. Hay, celebrated of the Year for 1997-98 by the throughout the United States. Orleans Baptist Theological the birth of their second grand- North Carolina School Lonnie Harper (JD ’66) retired Seminary in 1972. Since that 1965 daughter in September 1997. Counselor Association. She is from the practice of law in time he has served churches as Richard Fisher was recently Hope Knight McKee has retired school counselor at Etowah November 1997. minister of music, education, appointed by the Alamance in Scottsville, VA, after 26 years Elementary in Henderson and administration in County, NC. Fred Gilbert Morrison (JD) County, NC, Commissioners to at Bell Atlantic. She and her Lancaster, SC; Lake Worth, FL; received his MDiv from a 4-year term on the Board of husband, Mac McKee, are try- Brentwood, TN; and Franklin, 1967 Southeastern Baptist Theological Trustees of Alamance ing to tame 40 acres of pines TN. He also served the Baptist Seminary in 1990. He has served Community College. and hardwoods into a retire- William R. Mark is a minister in Sunday School Board in as member, deacon, elder, and J. Michael Schilder was named ment dreamland. They hope fel- the United Church of Christ, Nashville, TN, from 1981 to Sunday school teacher at First senior vice president at Robert low alumni in the area will currently serving as the pastor 1993. Currently he is team Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, W. Baird & Co. Inc. in contact them. of two churches in Northbridge, leader of the information ser- NC; a member of the Board of Schofield, WI. Charles Benton Williams pub- MA. He is also a field education vices team for the executive Trustees of the Synod of the Mid- lished an article titled supervisor for the Harvard board of the Tennessee Baptist Atlantic; and a member and past 1966 “Carolina 1796, ’. . . d’un nou- Divinity School in Cambridge, Convention. moderator of the criminal justice veau Magnolia” in Magnolia: MA, and is chaplain for the Herb Baker will retire as the committee at the Presbytery of Journal of the Magnolia Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1964 superintendent of Yadkin New Hope. Additionally, he is a Society. The article is about the Boston Division. He served as a County Schools on August 1. member and past chairman of Eugene Price (JD) retired in discovery and naming of a new chaplain in the U.S. Army He has served as superintendent the North Carolina Justice December as the Forsyth magnolia in North Carolina by Reserve until 1994, retiring with for the past two years and in the Fellowship Task Force and a County attorney. He served in the French botanist-explorer the rank of full colonel. Yadkin County School System member of the North Carolina that position for 27 years, Andre Michaux. for 31 years. Robert C. Stephens (JD ’70) longer than any other full-time Advisory Committee on Barbara Bradley Wilson was received the George Williams county attorney in North Religious Ministry in Prisons. selected North Carolina Award from the Metropolitan YMCA of Greater Charlotte for lifetime support of the YMCA. He has been a YMCA volunteer for three decades and formerly ince the stock market has soared to record highs the last few years, there’s no better time chaired the Uptown YMCA’s S than now to consider giving long-term appreciated stock to Wake Forest. Benefits include: Board of Managers. He is a partner in the law firm of • A charitable income tax deduction for the fair market value of the stock Horack, Talley, Pharr & • Avoidance of capital-gains tax that would result from an outright sale of the stock Lowndes in Charlotte, NC, The example below shows the cost effectiveness of donating stock worth $10,000 (with a cash where he resides with his wife, basis of $2,000) instead of a cash gift of the same amount. (Assumes donor is in the highest Claire, and two children. income tax bracket and 20% capital-gains tax bracket.) 1968

CASH STOCK Jerome B. Friedman (JD) was sworn in as a federal judge for Value of gift $10,000 $10,000 the Eastern District of Virginia Income tax savings 3,960 3,960 in Norfolk in December. He Capital-gains tax savings 0 1,600 previously had been a judge in Total tax savings $3,960 $5,560 Take Virginia Beach for 13 years, both in the juvenile and domes- Cost of gift to donor $6,040 $4,440 Stock tic relations district court and the circuit court. For additional information concerning gifts of appreciated Courtney Garton has written a property, either outright or to fund one of Wake Forest’s life of your book titled Napkins: Lunch income plans, please contact: Allen H. Patterson Jr. (’72) options Bag Notes From Dad, which is Director of Planned Giving published by Perry Publishers. P.O. Box 7227 Reynolda Station The book consists of a series of Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227 notes, written on napkins, that Or call (336) 758-5284 or 1-800-752-8570 he included in his daughter’s lunch bags over the years, as Class Notes

well as his commentary on the Heart Association. He is a 15 consultant for various groups. notes and on fatherhood. year veteran of the news team He resides in Bloomington, IL, John Schaffer is an executive at KTRK-TV in Houston. with his wife, Debbie; step- consultant in medical diagnostic Leon Wynne (MBA ’79) is a vice daughter, Alayna; and two sons, imaging for Berlex Laboratories president in the special assets Jake and Chuck. in Camden, SC. In 1997 he group at The First National received the consultant of the Bank of Maryland. He is on a 1973 year award for the Southeast. special assignment to review, Ken Blanton is a physician Candith Krueger Pallandre is an coordinate, and implement new assistant at a private medical Fowler (’73) Frye (’78) instructor of English as a for- commercial loan risk ratings. practice in Wilmington, NC. He February. He is the fifth-leading Reynolds Tobacco Co. He eign language at Georgetown has two children, Alex (9) and scorer in Wake Forest basketball joined the company in 1978 University in Washington, DC. 1971 Meredith (8). He previously was history, a three-time All-ACC and most recently served as Carl Peterson (JD ’74) was an instructor at the Wake Forest performer, and a two-time All- director-public issues. 1969 named chief legal officer and University Medical Center. American honorable mention. Mama Tapo (MBA) is general Milt Gold is president of Amital corporate secretary for Mike Fowler has joined Brown Charles “Chip” T. Hagan III manager of Ashanti Mali, a Spinning Corp. in New Bern, Prudential Property and Investment Properties, Inc. in (JD) is chairman of the subsidiary of Ashanti NC. Previously he held manager- Casualty Insurance Company, its Greensboro, NC. His position is Greensboro, NC, Area Goldfields Company Ltd., and ial and engineering positions with subsidiaries, and affiliates. He is vice president, brokerage. He Chamber of Commerce for has served as advisor to the Burlington Industries, Monsanto responsible for all legal affairs of also is currently the president of 1998. prime minister of the Republic Company, and J.P. Stevens. the company, which is one of the the Greensboro Regional leading insurers of homes and Realtor Association. of Mali. Rebecca Green Price has trans- autos in the United States. 1978 ferred to Western Rockingham 1974 Manlin M. Chee (JD) has 1979 Middle School in Madison, NC, Doug Waller covers foreign poli- received certification as a legal Thomas M. Brinkley (MBA) is where she teaches exploring cy, defense, and intelligence for Nolan Pittman is a staffing specialist in immigration law. a partner in the Charlotte, NC, careers to sixth graders and Time magazine. Previously he manager with Randstad Staffing She delivered the keynote executive search firm of exploring life skills to seventh was a correspondent for Services in Nashville, TN. speech at the Pro Bono Coleman Lew & Associates, and eighth graders. Previously Newsweek. He is also the author Leadership Forum in Asheville, Inc. Previously he was senior she coordinated services at the of five books, the most recent of 1975 which, Air Warriors: The Inside NC, this March. She is in the vice president of human high school level. Shelley Dick Carey is a Sunday Story of the Making of a Navy private practice of law with resources with Oakwood James H. Smelley is pastor of School teacher and gardens with Pilot, was published by Simon offices in Charlotte, NC, and Homes Corp. in Greensboro, Berea Christian United Church special-needs adults in Virginia & Schuster this month. Greensboro, NC. NC. of Christ in Suffolk, VA. Beach, VA, where she resides Mitchell T. Frye was named to Ruby Warren Bullard (JD ’81) Previously he was pastor of St. with her husband, Ben, and 1972 the Board of Examiners for the is working part-time as an Matthew United Church of their two children, Annie and North Carolina Quality attorney in Fayetteville, NC, Christ in New Orleans, LA. He Richard Anson is an operations Ellen. She received a bone mar- Leadership Award. He is a and enjoying spending time and his wife, Rev. J. Denise advisor/portfolio manager for row transplant in 1995 and has human resource consultant for with her son, Robert (3). Smelley, have also served the World Bank in Nairobi, recovered successfully from her Duke Energy Corporation in churches in North Carolina and Kenya. This is his second field third bout with cancer. James Palmer Cain (JD 84) was assignment for the World Bank, Charlotte, NC. Indiana. They have 3 sons: Peter A. Donelan has been listed elected chair of the Eastern where he has been employed for Russ, Stephen, and Mark. in “The Best Doctors in Terri L. Gardner (JD ’81) was Center for Regional 20 years. America, Southeast Edition” named an equity partner at the Development. He is an attorney 1970 Randall D. Ledford has joined and “Who’s Who in Medicine Raleigh, NC, law firm of Smith with the firm of Kilpatrick Debnam Narron & Myers, LLP. Stockton in Raleigh, NC. William Angle recently relocated Emerson Electric Co. in St. and Healthcare, First Edition.” Her practice areas are corpo- from Asheville, NC, to his home- Louis, MO, as senior vice presi- Anne Elizabeth Banks Coldiron rate reorganizations, workouts, town of Youngstown, OH, where dent and chief technology officer. 1976 has won a National Endowment and creditor’s rights. he works in a program that helps Scott Olbert is cofounder of the Kevin M. Firquin is the princi- for the Humanities Fellowship high school dropouts receive Limina Institute for pastoral pal of Central Davidson Senior Randolph B. Screen was named for College Teachers for her their GEDs or job training. psychotherapy, education, and High School in Lexington, NC. chairman of the Sunnehanna research in Renaissance litera- Amateur Tournament for ture. She received her PhD from Don Kobos (MA ’74) was chair research. An ordained Lutheran Champions, one of the most the University of Virginia in of the 1997 Annual Paul “Bear” pastor, he has been in private 1977 practice as a pastoral psy- prestigious amateur golf tour- 1996. Bryant College Coach of the Skip Brown had his basketball chotherapist for the past six naments in the country. Judith Pazdan Lytle graduated Year Award Banquet in jersey number (#15) officially years. Previously he had served Randolph C. Tompson (MBA) from the Boston University Houston, TX. The event raised retired by Wake Forest three congregations and was a was promoted to director-leg- School of Medicine in May. She $125,000 for the American University in a ceremony in islative support for R.J. resides in Newton Centre, MA, Class Notes

Office of University Advance- November of 1987. He is ment. He will continue his currently the pastor at Stony responsibilities as Wake Forest’s Creek Presbyterian in director of media relations, Burlington, NC. He is also a managing the University’s news musician and storyteller. bureau, and serving as a University spokesperson. He 1982 joined Wake Forest in 1990 as a James J.S. Johnson wrote the Tompson (MBA ’78) Cox (MA ’81) Johnston (MBA ’81) media relations officer. He was lead article in the Spring 1998 promoted to assistant director edition of Jones Law Review. with her husband, Bob, who is an Interactive Broadcasting. He resident at North Carolina of media relations in 1992, act- He is an attorney, hearing ophthalmologist, and their two and his wife, Andrea Roy, have Baptist Hospital in the ing director in 1995, and direc- examiner, and adjunct professor children, Joe (12) and Julia (6). relocated to London, England, Comprehensive Cancer Center tor in 1996. at LeTourneau University and Rudy L. Ogburn (JD ’82) is a with their two children. and Neonatal Intensive Care Ann A. Johnston (MBA) was Dallas Christian College in shareholder with the Raleigh, Robin L. Young has been named Unit for one year. She is currently promoted to vice president of Dallas, TX. head of the rare books and man- NC, firm of Young Moore and general manager for IBM Global human resources for R.J. Mark Johnson is managing edi- uscripts department and team Henderson PA. He also is serv- Network Services, EMEA. Reynolds Tobacco Co., where tor of Preaching Magazine in leader for special collections at ing as chair of the 1997-98 Previously she was executive she has worked since 1988. She Jackson, TN. He is also an the Wake Forest’s Z. Smith Estate Planning and Fiduciary assistant to Dennie Welsh, currently serves as chairman of assistant professor of Christian Reynolds Library. She serves as a Law Section of the North senior vice president & group the Reynolds Carolina Federal studies at Union University and volunteer chaplain with Hospice Carolina Bar Association. executive, IBM Global Services. Credit Union board of direc- interim pastor of the Ashland of Forsyth Co., Forsyth tors, a position she has held for Karl T. Weist and J. Ellison Baptist Church in Jackson. He Memorial Hospital, and North five years. Garvin (’79) were married in 1980 received his MDiv from Carolina Baptist Hospital, and is March 1996 after 15 years as Lawrence Delaplaine is the Laurie Barnes Kiernicki is a Southwestern Seminary in 1985 an active member of Wake Forest transcontinental pen pals. They assistant credit manager at The special projects consultant with and a PhD in Christian homilet- Baptist Church. reside in Portland, OR, with Roof Center in Bethesda, MD. AH Enterprises in Atlanta, GA. ics from Southern Seminary in She works part-time so she can Louisville, KY. Ellison’s daughter, Carol Bennett. Jerry T. Myers (JD ’84) was 1981 spend more time at home with Gregory B. Williams is pastor of named an equity partner at the Gail S. Margerum (MD ’86) has Lt. Col. Alan G. Bourque and her daughter Chloe (17 mo.). Bethany Lutheran Church in Raleigh, NC, law firm of Smith relocated her emergency med- his family moved in May 1997 Hickory, NC, and is the coordi- Debnam Narron & Myers, Sydney W. Kitson has been ical practice to the Washington, to Fort Irwin, CA, where he is a nator for the Catawba Valley LLP. His practice areas are named president of The Gale, DC, area at INOVA Mt. combat trainer at the United Lutheran Family Services creditors rights, commercial liti- Wentworth & Dillon Group, a Vernon Hospital. She and her States Army National Training Support Group, which organizes gation, and collection law. residential real estate develop- husband, Michael Sullivan, Center. His duties include and involves congregations to ment firm headquartered in reside in Centreville, VA, with Karen A. Raschke (JD) has left training field artillery battalions support two group homes for Bedminister, NJ. Previously he their three boys: Ryan (9), full-time employment with on effective methods of combat youth in Catawba County. He is was the company’s senior vice Connor (6), and Sean (4). Planned Parenthood of operations. He is also the also serving a second three-year president of new business devel- Virginia and now represents operations officer for the Francisco Forest Martin is pres- term as the “Head Spiritual opment. He resides in New them as counsel at Macaulay “Werewolf” Fire Support team. ident of Rights International, Providence, NJ, with this wife, Director” for the Western North Lee & Powell in Richmond, The Center for International Sara Joe Busse is secretary of Diane, and their two children. Carolina Via de Cristo VA. She is also outside Human Rights Law, Inc. in the congregation council and Secretariat, an organization pro- counsel for the Center for W. Everette Murphrey IV (JD Coral Gables, FL. The organi- chairman of the education com- moting a spiritual renewal Reproduction Law and Policy. ’84) was made a partner at the zation has a international mittee at Trinity Lutheran movement. He and his wife, In 1998 she was the recipient firm of Wood & Bynum LLP in human rights case docket span- Church in Charleston, WV. Brenda, served for five summers of the Richmond YWCA’s Winston-Salem. ning four continents. He has as directors of the North Randall Combs was nominated “Outstanding Woman Jane Murphy Oberholtzer published the leading interna- Carolina Synod’s “Servant by the Cabarrus County, NC, Award.” recently quit her job as a hospi- tional human rights law case- Camp with the Differently Bar Association to fill a judge- book and will publish three Sharon Snow (MA ’97) received tal social worker at Vanderbilt Abled,” a one-week experience ship in Cabarrus District Court. more books on international her MA in religion from Wake Children’s Hospital to be a that brought mentally and phys- He is a partner in the Kanna- law next year. He also is one of Forest in May 1997. Her focus stay-at-home mom to Grace (4) ically handicapped adults polis, NC, law firm of a few people in the world to was pastoral care and theology, and Benton (20 mo.). together with teenagers. The Williams, Boger, Grady, Davis have litigated cases before all with her thesis emphasizing spiri- Richard S. Wurst received a couple has two children, Rachel and Tuttle. the major international human tual and religious dimensions of (13) and Elliott (11). doctor of ministry degree from Kevin P. Cox (MA) has been rights courts and tribunals. death and dying for terminal Union Theological Seminary in Harold F. Wolf III was named named assistant vice president cancer patients and their care- 1986 and was ordained as a Michele Kress Morris works at operations director for British in the Wake Forest University givers. She was a chaplain Presbyterian minister in the hospital of the University of Class Notes

Pennsylvania in Philadelphia as elected a member of Sullivan & Armando Berguido was elected a clinical audiologist. She has Cromwell. He resides in Hong secretary of continuing educa- two children, Kevin (7) and Kong. tion of the Asociación Odontoló- Kelly (4). gica Panameña (Panamanian Tommy J. Payne (JD) was pro- 1983 Dental Association) for the moted to senior vice president Maj. Glenn Ayers is operations 1998-99 period. of external relations for R.J. officer for the 3-321st Field Joal Hall Broun (JD ’86) is an Reynolds Tobacco Co. in Artillery Battalion at Fort assistant public defender in Winston-Salem. Previously he Bragg, NC. This summer he Chatham and Orange Counties, Payne (JD ’82) Leonard (MS ’83) was vice president of govern- will join the Army’s Psycholo- NC. She is also the chairman of ment affairs in the company’s gical Operations. He and his the Orange County Water and 1984 daughters, Alyssa (3) and Gabrielle (2). Washington, DC, office. wife, Melanie Price, have two Sewer Authority. William F. Bennett was induct- Harriet E. Jennings Swor was children, Rachel (7) and Jack V. Leonard (MS) was elect- ed as a fellow of the American Robert E. Pike (MBA ’92) was inducted into the Omicron Olivia (2). ed executive vice president of Academy of Orthopaedic elected senior vice president of Delta Kappa leadership and Robert Gregory Bailey (JD ’86) Wachovia Bank, N.A. He is Surgeons during ceremonies in Wachovia Bank, N.A. He serves scholarship society and the was named a partner in the based in Columbia, SC, where New Orleans this March. as senior portfolio manager in the asset management group Pinnacle Honor Society for Washington, DC, law firm of he serves as chief credit officer Kevin L. Browder (’84) was and is based in Winston-Salem. Nontraditional Students. She Holland & Knight LLP. He has for South Carolina. promoted to director of service received a master’s degree from been with the firm since 1994 Jeanne K. Matthews received an infrastructure for American Mark W. Townsend is manag- Cumberland University in May. and focuses his practice on feder- MDiv degree from Princeton Express TRS Co., Inc. He is ing director at Nationsbanc John D. Young Jr. (JD ’90) was al tax, labor, and securities laws. Seminary in 1986 and a PhD in based in the company’s Montgomery Securities LLP in religious and theological studies Greensboro, NC, operating Charlotte, NC. from Northwestern University in center and resides in Richard Karl Watts Jr. has 1992. She is currently a profes- Lewisville, NC. served as pastor at Rickard’s sor of religion at Warren Wilson Maj. Victore “Vic” Evaro was Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church in FIFTH ANNUAL College in Asheville, NC, and is selected to attend the Army’s North Wilkesboro, NC, for the also an ordained minister in the Command and General Staff past 10 years. Presbyterian Church USA. She College in Fort Leavenworth, recently received two grants: one KS. He and his family will 1985 from the Presbyterian Church Arnold Palmer depart Texas in June and will Jennifer Weatherspoon Creech for teaching creative methods in GOLF ACADEMY FOR WAKE FOREST ALUMNI remain in Kansas until June is a full-time mother to her four the area of biblical studies; the 1999 before being reassigned. children: Ashley (12), Courtney other from Harvard University Heidi Inderbitzen-Nolan (MA (7), Alex (2), and Kelsea (1). and the Ford Foundation to At Bay Hill Club ’86) is an associate professor of She resides in Garner, NC, with study religious pluralism in the psychology at the University of her family and husband, Ryan Orlando, Florida Asheville area. Nebraska-Lincoln. She recently Creech. Her e-mail address is September 20-25 Steven P. Miner (JD) is a share- received the College Rlc68@aol. holder in the firm of Metzger Distinguished Teaching Award, Marc Todd Dallanegra served Wickersham in Harrisburg, PA. one of the most important as associate pastor at the He engages in a general practice $1,895 per person teaching awards given at UNL. International Christian of law with an emphasis in Beth Switzer MacMonigle Fellowship in Geneva, includes five days of golf business law and bankruptcy. completed her MS in informa- Switzerland, from 1991-93. instruction and accommoda- Andy Seay has been promoted tion systems at George Mason This June he will receive an MA to controller of Gillette France tions, with breakfast and lunch University in 1996. In 1997 she in intercultural studies from the and has moved from London, and her husband, Bruce, moved School of World Mission at daily ($550 for non-playing England, to Annecy, France. He to Nottingham, England, where Fuller Theological Seminary in and his wife, Lisa, recently had Pasadena, CA, and he recently spouse covers accommodations she works as an independent twin daughters and are looking security consultant. completed a pastoral internship forward to life in the Alps. at the Desert Springs Church in and some meals) Patrick Noud is the chairman Palm Desert, CA. He and his Deirdre Parker Smith won a sec- of the Department of Anesthes- wife have joined the staff of ond place in criticism in the 1997 iology at the Palmerton Hos- Church Resource Ministries, a North Carolina Press Association pital in Palmerton, PA. He For additional information, mission agency based in Contest. She is the copy desk resides in Schnecksville, PA, call 1-800-523-5999 Anaheim, CA. Later this year chief at the Salisbury Post. with his wife, Mary Anne, and Alumni Profile

Jana Harrell Daley (’88)

Change agent tell you how test scores projects that change the for her a simple desire to have risen in every community. I think you can do “something useful” has AY IT ONCE: “There Columbia school where really break down social turned into a more pro- Sis a problem with City Year works. She will barriers through that found lesson. “City Year today’s youth; they don’t talk about the 1,700 resi- process,” she says. “At the has taught me how much care about their commu- dents who participate in end of the year, the corps help we can all be to the nity, and they don’t care City Year’s annual Serve-a- members have become community,” Dowling about their future.” Say it Thon. And she will tell you friends, even soulmates, no says. “You don’t have again, and it about the dedication of matter what their back- more or less to give to the becomes famil- corps members like ground was.” community depending on iar. Say it a Elizabeth Dowling (‘96), Daley brings her own what you have. It’s your thousand who has turned her interest unique background to City commitment that makes a times, and it in acting into a theater- Year. After graduating from difference.” becomes true. based substance abuse Wake Forest, she received Ironically, in a society Say it to a prevention program. her law degree from which bemoans the state City Year She could tell you UNC-Chapel Hill and of its young people, one corps member. about City Year’s national worked as a commercial of the challenges the City Now you are success and of the pro- litigation attorney in Year program faces is talking to a gram’s almost eleven chap- Atlanta for several years. gaining recognition for young person ters. City Year corps But a personal goal was the commitment of its between the members have given near- always in sight. “I always members. “I’d like to see ages of 17 ly two million hours to turn knew I wanted to do a change in thinking, so and 24 who 230 vacant lots into com- something that could make that a year of service is has devoted munity gardens, rehabili- the world a better place,” as important as a college ten months to tate 300 units of she says. “When I went to education, job, or intern- ‘We all have a full-time community ser- affordable housing, and law school, I intended to ship,” Daley says. vice. This person repre- serve over 38,000 school learn how to formulate Daley hopes that sents a rainbow of colors children. And through arguments and solve prob- City Year’s influence will responsibility to and is just as likely to be donations and government lems so that I could make affect society in another a high school dropout as support, the program gives change.” way. She points to the a college graduate. Find each of its corps members Her Wake Forest years Serve-a-Thon project as a make our community one of these corps mem- up to $4,725 in post-ser- nurtured her desire to make way the program bers working in a vice awards for college a difference. “There are a extends its philosophy to school, or building a tuition, job training, and lot of people at Wake a wider audience. “We a better place.’ park, or earning a GED, other career opportunities. Forest who care about peo- all have a responsibility and say to this person The program’s effect ple and the world,” says to make our community a that young people don’t on participants is, howev- the Winston-Salem native. better place, and we care. This person will er, equally profound. “City “As a Wake Forest student, need to see some cre- say, “But look at me.” Year is about teaching you learn from those peo- ative solutions from soci- Or say it to Jana young people the role they ple that part of your respon- ety on how that is going Harrell Daley (‘88). She can play in making sibility is to take what they to happen,” she says. is the executive director change. The program taught you and do some- And she can say it of City Year in brings together people thing positive with it.” again. Columbia, South from all different back- Elizabeth Dowling felt —ANDREW WATERS Carolina, and she will grounds to work on that same responsibility, but Class Notes

they plan on moving to Tours, Jamie Yates Reynolds is a claim 1986 for Humanity International. He Donna Roberson Willis (’86) is France, where they will be specialist with State Farm is currently residing in Sri a housewife and homemaker in LeeAnn Bethel resides in involved in leadership develop- Insurance Company. She will Lanka. Charlotte, NC, where she Lexington, NC, with her hus- ment and church formation. be working in the firm’s resides with her husband and band, Ira, and their three chil- Jeannette Sorrell was recently Mathews, NC, office upon her two children. Danielle Bordeaux Fink was dren: Anna (4), Sarah (2), and featured in an article in The return to work in June follow- promoted to contract sales Jonathan (8 mo.). She is a stay- Plain Dealer Sunday for her ing the birth of her child, 1987 manager for North and South at-home mom and is preparing work as the founder and artis- Lyndsey Caroline. Carolina for Masland Carpets. to homeschool her children. tic director of Apollo’s Fire, a Sheila R. Cotten received her She has relocated to Rock Hill, Byron L. Saintsing was named baroque orchestra in PhD in Sociology from North James F. Lang became the first SC, with her husband, Murray, an equity partner at the Cleveland, OH. Carolina State University in attorney to file an official docu- and daughter, Madeleine. Raleigh, NC, law firm of Smith December 1997. That month ment over the Internet in a stan- Bim Tudor (MBA) was desig- Debnam Narron & Myers, she and her husband moved to Mark B. Kent was appointed dard law suit. He is an attorney nated as one of the best employ- LLP. His practice areas are Arlington, MA. She now is to serve a four-year term on the in Cleveland and filed the docu- ee benefits lawyers in the United commercial litigation, collec- working on a postdoctoral fel- South Carolina Board of ment through a new electronic States in the 1997-98 edition of tion, creditors rights, and con- lowship in health services Health and Environmental system being tested nationally Best Lawyers in America. struction law. research at the Center for Control. He is president and at four federal district courts Linda Wastyn is director of Health Quality, Outcomes, and CEO of Kent Manufacturing in Mark West has been appointed and five bankruptcy courts. research and grants in the uni- Pickens, SC. principal of Turkey Creek Economic Research at the Arthur Orr resigned last year versity relations office at St. Middle School in Tampa, FL. He Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial John S. Mori is vice president as a partner in the law firm of Ambrose University in and his wife Laura (’86) reside in VA in Bedford, MA. of Mori Luggage & Gifts in Harris, Caddell, and Shanks in Davenport, IA, where she lives Tampa with their two sons, Josh Terri Johnson Harris was elect- Atlanta, GA, where he resides his hometown of Decatur, AL, with her husband, Ron (MA (5) and Christopher (2). ed a partner in the law firm of with his wife, Anne. to take a position with Habitat ’88), and son, Matthew (18 mo.). Smith Helms Mulliss & Moore, Cool summer THE SEIKO WAKE FOREST WATCH has a three-dimensional re-creation of the accessories University seal on the dial finished in 14 kt. gold. Available in four styles (from left): women’s and men’s leather strap watch, $200; and men’s and GREENSBORO ARTIST women’s two-tone bracelet WILLIAM MANGUM, watch, $265; plus $7.50 well-known for his paint- postage and handling for ings of North Carolina’s each watch (plus sales tax natural beauty and land- for residents of PA). marks, depicts one of the most beautiful views of THE WAKE FOREST Wait Chapel in this limited- SOLID BRASS LAMP also edition print. Image area is features a richly detailed 15” x 22” on 20” x 26” three-dimensional stock. re-creation of the University seal finished in 950 signed prints-$100 pure 24 kt. gold on the each plus $7.50 postage base of the lamp and a and handling (plus sales tax solid black shade with gold for NC residents) trim. Each lamp is $175 To order the watch or lamp, plus $8.50 shipping and call: 1-800-523-0124 To order, call: handling (plus sales tax Ask for operator F36GU for Carey-Mangum Gallery for residents of IL, MN, the watch and operator (336) 379-9200 or TN, and TX). 700BA for the lamp 1-800-887-5380 Class Notes

1988 director of media relations in the Baltimore/Washington, DC Police Executive Research the Wake Forest Office of area, where Timothy is in Forum, a think tank in Bill Boles is the faculty advisor University Advancement. sales/marketing for Coca-Cola Washington, DC, where she for Darkness Visible Radio Previously she was assistant Enterprises in the Columbia, resides with her husband, Theatre, a weekly radio show director of media relations. She MD, office. Karin works in Nicholas Greiner. on the campus radio station at joined the news bureau staff in organizational efficiency for Rollins College in Winter Park, Suzanne Fortune Nash resides 1989 as a media relations spe- Bell Atlantic in Arlington, VA, FL, where he is an assistant in Charlottesville, VA, with her cialist and was promoted to and frequently travels to New English professor. husband, Bev Nash, and daugh- York. They have one son, Walker (’88) media relations officer in 1994, ter, Phoebe Laurel (2). Laura Howard Hembree is a acting assistant director of Nicholas Evan (3). Jay Richard Rowley has moved LLP, in Greensboro, NC. Her robotics flight controller in media relations in 1995, and Susan White Frazier is a project to the Atlanta suburbs with his practice is concentrated in the NASA’s Mission Control Center assistant director in 1996. manager in market research for wife, Kristina, and son, areas of health care, administra- in Houston, TX. Deborah A. Weissenburger is a the National Geographic Nicholas (2). tive law, and general litigation. Greg King has accepted a posi- career missionary with Africa Society in Washington, DC. Her Leigh Waller is international Karen Edwards McLean is a tion in Tokyo, Japan, as a glob- Inland Mission, an internation- responsibilities often include marketing manager at Windsor graduate of Columbia al program manager for his al, interdenominational organi- production and promotion of Industries, Inc. in Englewood, Theological Seminary in current company, AMP Inc. zation under the auspices of the the society’s televsion and video CO. Decatur, GA. She and her hus- Global PC Division. He and his African church. She is a teacher projects. She also manages the wife, Jean, leave for Tokyo in assigned to Rift Valley Aca- World magazine junior adviso- band, John, were ordained as 1990 ministers in Presbyterian July and graduate from demy, the second-largest ry board. Previously she held a Church (USA) in August 1990. Northeastern University’s part- Christian missionary children’s position in European research Starr Davis was promoted to They have served as co-pastors time MBA program this June. school in the world, in Kijabe, at the United States Information relationship manager at in West Virginia and associate David Smith received his MDiv East Africa. Previously she Agency. NationsBank in Charlotte, NC. She is responsible for project pastors in South Carolina from Yale University Divinity taught at the Rethy Academy in Brian L. Johnson is a seventh management and training for before moving to Waynesboro, School in 1991. Since then he northeastern Zaire. grade social studies teacher and the Associate Development VA. They have two children, has served under appointment athletic director in Cheltenham, Department. Suzanne (5) and Katherine (2). as an ordained United 1989 PA. His wife of six years, Lezley Lesley Slusher Schaeffer and her Methodist pastor. He currently Timothy Evans and Karin Dale (’91), is a middle school Seth Kahn-Egan received his husband relocated to Atlanta, is serving the Bethesda United Kohlenstein Evans recently relo- special education teacher. MA in English composition and Methodist Church in Durham, rhetoric this spring from Florida GA, in July and are enjoying cated from Richmond, VA, to Jennifer Wade Greiner is direc- NC, which had undergone a State University. His wife, home ownership. tor of development for the substantial period of growth Vicki Schmidt Soni was promot- over the last two years. He has ed to northern Virginia claims a daughter, Juliana (3). market manager for Nationwide Insurance. Her husband, Shawn Bruce Thompson (JD ’94) has CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES…. Soni (MBA ’89), is the network joined the Raleigh, NC, law manager for Milliman & firm of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein. Come On! Robertson in McLean, VA. They reside in Centreville, VA, and Amy Van Oostrum-Engler is have a daughter, Kaitlynn (6). the executive director for HOMECOMING ’98 Professional Educators of Treva Davis Stack is a OCTOBER 2-4, 1998 research/evaluation specialist North Carolina. Previously she for the Maryland State was executive director of Teach There’s a party going on at Wake Forest in October Department of Education. She for America in North Carolina. and you’re invited. Join your classmates for the has a MS in applied psychology, She resides in Cary, NC, with Alumni Reception on Friday night, and the Carnival and her primary research inter- her husband, son, and shep- on the Quad, the Alumni Tailgate, and the Wake est is in education technology. herd-mix puppy. Forest-Appalachian State football game on Saturday. She presented an evaluation Ed Triplett is the corporate design for Maryland’s director of finance at Service Plus, there’ll be special class events for the Half “Technology in Maryland Experts, Inc., the leading Century Club and the classes of ’48, ’53, ’58, ’63, Projects” at the American provider of residential HVAC ’68, ’73, ’78, ’83, ’88, and ’93. Check out the alumni Evaluation Association service and replacement. Web site (www.wfu.edu/alumni) and watch your mail in August for more details. Or call the Alumni Office, Conference in San Diego, CA. Cheryl Van Riper Walker has She and her husband, David, been promoted to associate (336) 758-5941, for more information. reside in Baltimore, MD. Class Notes

Chrys, received her PhD in mass advancement for Columbia communication this spring. Theological Seminary in Michael S. Watson completed Decatur, GA. his doctorate coursework at Donald Paul Gunther Jr. (MBA) Suddenly Ohio State University and has is a senior consultant for the accepted a position with Learning & Development it hit you Andersen Consulting in their Group, which develops execu- process competency group. tive training programs and con- John J. Wilson will finish his sults on change of management, like a ton residency in physical medicine organizational development, and and rehabilitation at the performance management. He resides in The Woodlands, TX. of bricks! University of Kentucky College of Medicine in June. He was Courtney Brooks Hallock chief resident over the past year. resides in Kansas City, MO, You forgot to order your brick for the new ‘spirit walk.’ Following his residency, he will with her husband, Jeff Hallock, fulfill his military obligation on who is group manager for inter- active duty in the Army. net marketing for Sprint There’s still time! The new courtyard between Consumer Division, and their But wait! 1991 son, Brooks. Their daughter, Tribble Hall and the Benson Center is finished, but there’s still a brick waiting for your name and class year. More than three Ben Boyd is director of public Grace, was born on December relations for Barnes & Noble, 23, 1997, and passed away that thousand alumni, parents, and friends have already left their mark. Inc. in New York, NY. same day. At only $50 per brick, you can celebrate your graduation, Previously he was with Hill and Darin Jay “DJ” Hill was app- honor a favorite professor, or remember your fraternity or Knowlton Worldwide Public pointed vice president of sales & sorority. Each brick has space for up to three lines of copy with Relations Agency for three marketing for Spectrum 14 characters (counting spaces and punctuation) per line. years. CompWorks and Medical Kathy Chism (MS ’93) graduat- Centers, a managed care organi- So don’t fall a brick shy of a great memory. Call (336) 758-5264 ed from UNC School of zation and medical clinic compa- ny based in Raleigh, NC, where or visit the alumni Web site (www.wfu.edu/alumni) for details Medicine in May 1997. She is on how to leave your mark at Wake Forest. in her first year of residency in he and his wife, Laura, reside. family practice at the University Susan K. Hunter is the opera- of Tennessee at Knoxville. tions manager at Dedicated Carl King received his MDiv editor at Callaloo: A Journal of Kevin Cokley is a doctoral can- Professional Resources, Inc. in 1992 Winston-Salem. Previously she from Duke Divinity School in African-American Arts and didate in counseling psychology John T. Earwood (JD/MBA ’97) was an employment specialist 1995 and his STM degree in art Letters. at Georgia State University and is an associate on the labor and with the company and a man- and religion from Yale Divinity is on internship at the Coun- employment team with the law Michael Kelly has been named ager for customer marketing at School in 1996. Ordained as a seling and Testing Center at the firm of Hunton & Williams in an executive director of the Nabisco. deacon in the United Methodist University of Georgia. He will Raleigh, NC. Tampa Bay Organizing Church, he is currently associate be starting a tenure-track posi- April Schwarzmueller Johnson Committee for the 1999 NCAA minister of Haymount UMC in Michele Gibson was promoted tion as assistant professor of received her PhD in develop- Final Four. He is also director Fayetteville, NC. His e-mail to senior account executive at counseling psychology at mental psychology from Emory of athletic operations and facili- address is [email protected]. the advertising firm of BBDO Southern Illinois University at University in May 1997. She is ties at Wake Forest University. Chicago. She works on the Carbondale, IL. now assistant professor of psy- Mary “Dee” Hurley Shoemaker Dominick’s Finer Foods and Jane Wiseman Magriexe left her chology at the Mississippi is the corporate relations man- Christopher T. Copeland grad- Shedd Aquarium accounts. position as senior accountant at ager and adjunct faculty for the uated in May 1997 from the University for Women in Arthur Andersen LLP to be a division of adult and continuing Eric Ashley Hairston is complet- law and religion program at Columbus, MS. stay-at-home mom to her two education at Bluefield College in ing his dissertation in American Emory University in Atlanta, Jeff Johnson is the sports infor- daughters, Katherine Grace (2) Bluefield, WV. literature at the University of GA, with a JD and MDiv. At mation director for the and Madeline Ruth (4 mo.). Virginia in Charlottesville. He graduation he received the Mississippi University for William C. White was promoted has presented excerpts of his Gina Norwood is an attorney Brittain Award for “significant, Women in Columbus, MS. to autocad operator at Bay work at Oxford University. He with the law office of Russell L. meritorious, and devoted ser- Previously he was director of Pointe Engineering in Pt. is also assistant to the dean of McLean in Waynesville, NC. vice to the university and com- public and media relations for Pleasant, NJ, where he resides the College of Arts and Sciences She practices in the areas of munity.” He was ordained by the Atlanta Glory of the with his wife, Jamie, and their at the University of Virginia, criminal defense, civil litigation, the Oakhurst Baptist Church American Basketball League. daughter, Haley Jessica (18 and contributing and advisory and family law. and now works in institutional mo.). Class Notes

Elisabeth “Betty” Gasparini is Russian and East European in her second year at the Institute in August 1998. University of South Carolina 1995 School of Law in Columbia, SC. This summer she will be George Clifton Banks was clerking for McNair Law Firm named head basketball coach in Columbia and Kennedy, at South Brunswick High Covington, Lobdell and School in Southport, NC. He Hickman in Rock Hill, SC. Wilks (JD/MBA ’93) Armstrong (’96) Corbett, III (’96) has just concluded his first sea- Alan Goodman was accepted son as the youngest head bas- to the Culinary School of Paris, Jennifer Slawinski (MA ’94) Donn Bullock is a product mar- Florida Atlantic University in ketball coach in school history. received a dissertation fellow- keting manager for Compaq Boca Raton, FL. one of the most respected culi- Timothy L. Gupton is a proba- ship from the University of Computer Corp. in Houston, nary school’s in the world. Eddie Pearson was promoted to tion/parole officer in Franklin Florida. The award will help TX. He received an MBA from Erik Lisher is an investment territory manager for S.D. County, NC. her finish her PhD in develop- Vanderbilt University in May. Warren Co. He resides in banking analyst in the high Sean Moran and his wife, mental psychology this summer. His e-mail address is donn_bul- Orlando, FL, with his wife, yield group at J.P. Morgan & Susan, will move in September Andrew Soukup received his [email protected]. Robin Pearson (’93), and their Co. in New York City. 1998 to Okinawa, Japan, MSIA in May from Carnegie- Cherry Chevy is finishing her son, Eddie Nicholas. Debbie Robson is pursuing a where Susan will serve the Air Mellon University in intern year in psychiatry at the master’s degree in occupational Blair Lynn Whitley is a first- Force as a pediatrician at Pittsburgh, PA. University of Virginia Health therapy at Tufts University in grade teacher in Richmond, VA. Kadena ABS. They are expect- Services Center in Charlottes- Boston, MA. Kevin Truesdel (MBA) is a busi- J. Whitfield Wilks (JD/MBA) is ing a child in July. ville, VA. In July she will contin- ness analyst for Duke Energy a vice president at the North ue her residency at Duke Kathryn Seni received her 1997 International in Jakarta, Carolina Trust Co., a private University Medical Center. MAEd in school counseling Indonesia. Christy Lynn Goff is a first- trust company with offices in from Wake Forest in May. She Catherine Flynn Coats was year medical student at Indiana Pete Walls joined the preferred Greensboro and Charlotte. He began work as a full-time coun- elected assistant vice president University School of Medicine. financial services division of provides investment planning selor in an elementary school in of Wachovia Corporate She spent last summer doing The Prudential in Richmond, services to clients in the January and will be married to Services, Inc. in Winston-Salem. clinical pediatric research in VA. He has entered an acceler- Charlotte area, where he also Rex Brewer this summer. ated, one-year training program She is a team leader in the Trust resides. Fort Wayne, IN. and Retirement Service Group. in comprehensive financial 1996 Beverly Carol Huffstetler is planning leading to licensing as Robert Cooke has lived in 1994 assistant director of school sup- Heather Nunez Armstrong was a certified financial planner. Malawi, Africa, for the past port at Summit School in Ben Davis will receive his JD named banking officer of This spring he sold the two two-and-a-half years working Winston-Salem. from Yale Law School in June Wachovia Bank N.A. in restaurants he had co-owned with Habitat for Humanity. He 1998 and has been assigned to Greensboro, NC. She serves as Keil Mello is assistant director for two years to his partners. will soon return to the United the Office of the Army General loan administration officer in of development at the Bermuda Neil Alan Willard is a graduate States, where he plans to spend Counsel at the Pentagon in regional corporate loan admin- High School, a private day of Yale Divinity School and a four months working in the Washington, DC. istration. school in Bermuda. priest of the Episcopal Church. northern wilderness of Ian Mayville is a financial advi- Katrina Conley was promoted Nathan Tilman is a first-year He has served as bishop’s clerk Minnesota before returning to sor with American Express in to technical writer for Ad- dental student at the Baltimore in the Episcopal Diocese of his home in Virginia. Boca Raton, FL. vanced Systems Technology, College of Dental Surgery, Virginia in Richmond, VA, and Gregg W. Jewett received his Jordana R. Sternberg received a government contractor in which is part of the University as priest-in-charge of the MBA degree from Temple her JD from the University of Orlando, FL. In the last year, of Maryland at Baltimore. He Episcopal Church of the University and now is Texas and has accepted a posi- she has travelled to Germany, was commissioned an ensign in Resurrection in Surfside Beach, employed at Purchasing Group tion in the Atlanta, GA, office Mexico, New York, California, the Naval Reserves Dental SC. He is now the curate at All Inc., a consultant firm based in of Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP. and Las Vegas. Corps in May 1997 and is Saints Episcopal Church in the Philadelphia, PA, area and attending dental school on a Hilton Head Island, SC. specializing in strategic cost Jason C. Vuic is attending the Leon H. Corbett III is an asso- four-year Navy Health reduction. University of Novi Sad, ciate at the Winston-Salem Professions scholarship. Yugoslavia, on a Rotary office of Ralph Simpson & 1993 Carla A. Martin received her Ambassadorial Scholarship. He Associates, a full-service public Jason T. Adair is a chemist with master’s degree in urban and received an MA from the relations firm. Previously he Novartis Crop Protection, Inc. regional planning from the University of Richmond in was a marketing consultant at in Greensboro, NC, where he University of Iowa in May. 1996 and will be a PhD candi- Computer Training and also resides. Justine Mayville is working on date at Indiana University’s Resources in Jonesville, NC. her PhD in nueroscience at Class Notes

Marriages Todd Beiger (MBA ’97) and NJ: daughter, Lauren Sara. Lisa Miller. April 1998 4/1/98 1970s Danielle Bordeaux Fink (’85) Births and Robert C. Baker (’71, MAEd and Murray Fink, Rock Hill, Adoptions ’73) and Diane Jackson. SC: daughter, Madeleine Mae. 12/28/97 2/28/98 1970s Beverly Elaine Tate (’75) and Jamie Yates Reynolds (’85) and Rudy Ogburn (’79, JD ’82) and Roger W. Cooper. 8/29/97 C. Scott Reynolds, Charlotte, Deb Ogburn, Raleigh, NC: son, NC: daughter, Lyndsey Do you know Carolyn Nash (’76) and Mark David Rudolph. 1/2/97 Caroline. 1/30/98 Query. 7/5/97 David Robertson (’85) and 1980s 1980s Kimberly Robertson (’87), Richard S. Wurst Jr. (’81) and Winston-Salem, NC: daughter, where your Joal Hall (’83, JD ’86) and Anne Hall, Burlington, NC: Lydia Caroline. 12/14/97 Jonathan E. Broun. 7/5/97 daughter, Katherine Chapline Melynda Dovel Wilcox (’85) John Mori (’85) and Anne Hall-Wurst. 7/17/97 and David W. Wilcox, Tarbutton. 4/19/97 Patricia Bell (’82, MD ’86) and Alexandria, VA: twin daughters, children are? John Wade Myers (’88, William Painter, Dunwoody, Amanda Frazier and Laura JD/MBA ’92) and Eryn Leigh GA: daugther, Kathryn Anne. Flanagan. 2/6/98 Thacker. 11/8/97 12/8/97 Todd David Auch (’86) and Jim Wheaton (’82) and Laurie Christine Auch, Columbus, OH: 1990s Weinel Wheaton (’83), son, Owen Gottfried Auch. IF YOU’RE THE PARENT of a Robin Elizabeth Giles (’90) and Chesapeake, VA: daughter, LeeAnn Bethel (’86) and Ira recent graduate, help us keep in David E. Elliot. 12/27/97 Hannah Elizabeth. 2/27/98 Bethel, Lexington, NC: son, touch with our newest alumni. As Erin Sullivan (’90) and David Sara King Chappelow (’83) and Jonathan David. 10/29/97 Maurer. 11/8/97 Craig Chappelow, Greensboro, your child sets off into the world, Rob Canfield (’86) and Laura NC: twin sons, Andrew Katherine Brown (’92) and Canfield, Foxborough, MA: send us his or her new address. We’ll William and Benjamin Blair. Antony Seppi (’92). 6/7/97 daughter, Madeline Farrell. see to it that the Wake Forest 12/12/97 8/19/97 Karen Scharett (’92) and Magazine?follows them wherever Jeanne Kye Matthews (’83) and Michael Secor. 5/10/97 Richard L. Harkey (’86) and Rudi Sommer, Swannanoa, NC: Glenn A. Brown (’93) and Melanie Herman Harkey (’84), they go so they can keep up with daughter, Hannah Kye. 7/13/97 Deborah Brendle. August 1996 Pfafftown, NC: daughter, Anna all the campus news and news Andy Seay (’83) and Lisa Seay, Dixon. 3/29/98 Mason Holt (’93) and Chris Annecy, France: twin daughters, from their classmates. And, as a for- Bell. 10/11/97 Tracey P. Rich-Perez (’86) and Rachel and Nicole. 11/8/97 Lee Perez, Greensboro, NC: mer Wake Forest parent, you’ll James M. Peters (’93) and Lynn Lancaster Waggoner (’83) son, Joseph Peter. 3/16/98 Pressley Harris. 4/18/98 continue to receive the magazine for and Tommy Waggoner, Rural Donna Roberson Willis (’86) Jennifer Middleton (’94) and Hall, NC: daughter, Hannah at least the next two years. Please and Charles Arthur Willis Jr., Keith Zonts. 1/18/98 Rose. Charlotte, NC: daughter, send address changes to: Jennifer Baker Breazeale (’95) Susan Vick Jameson (’84) and Hunter Catherine. 3/16/98 and Chris Young. 5/30/98 John Fahey Jameson (’81), Kimberly Owen Barnes (’87) Prince Frederick, MD: daugh- Office of Alumni Records Eric D. Hughes (’95) and and Robert Barnes, Winter ter, Erin Angela. 2/22/97 Jennifer L. Smethers. 3/7/98 Park, FL: daughter, Bethany P.O. Box 7227 Donna Michele Johnson (’95) Beth Switzer MacMonigle (’84) Grace. 3/27/98 Reynolda Station and Bruce MacMonigle, and Benjamin L. Hutchens. Laura Lawson Ives (’87) and Nottingham, England: son, Winston-Salem, NC 9/6/97 Bill Ives, Charlotte, NC: twins; Brian Robert. 8/2/97 Carol Sue Owens (’95) and Ben daughter, Celine Nicole, and 27109-7227 Brown. 11/15/97 Christopher Chafin (’85) and son, Pearson Bainbridge. 1/9/98 Or call 1-800-752-8567 Elizabeth Isley Chafin, Raleigh, Brittany Carolyn Plunkett (’96) Andrea Herring Morris (’87) NC: daughter, Alexandra Or by e-mail: [email protected] and John Michael White. and William Castlen Morrris Jr. Preston. 2/3/98 11/22/97 (’88), Winston-Salem: daughter, Jack Davidson (’85) and Maren MacPhail. 1/6/98 Heather Davidson, Ocean City, Class Notes

Robert N. Wilson Jr. (’87) and daughter, Anna Elizabeth. 1990s Laura Klutz-Wachsmuth (’90) son, Christopher Nicholas. Mary M. Wilson, Ayer, MA: 9/22/97 and James Wachsmuth, 9/19/97 Terry Shuping Angelotti (’90) son, Bennett Robert. 1/14/98 Claremont, NC: daugther, Tim Crater (’89) and Debby and Neil J. Angelotti, Chicago, John Hackworth (’92) and Jenna Lauren, 1/9/96, and son, Anne Shumate Gordon (’88) Crater, Lenexa, KS: daughter, IL: daughter, Emily Ives. Tricia Hackworth, Winston- Jared Alan, 1/11/98 and Garry R. Gordon, Zoe Emerson. 3/13/98 11/7/97 Salem: son, Keaton Barnes. Harrisonburg, VA: son, John Rob Wilson (’90) and Dianne 3/2/98 Sandy Sutton Larmore (’89, Lisa Herring Ciatti (’90) and Phillip. 2/11/98 Biondi Wilson (’91), MAEd ’90) and Rob Larmore, Brent Ciatti (’90), Charlotte, Jane Wiseman Magriño (’92) Springfield, VA: son, Brooks Laura Howard Hembree (’88) Smyrna, GA: Roland Robert NC: son, Nathan Dante. and Darryl Magriño, Carter. 1/27/98 and Michael Hembree, Larmore IV. 11/9/97 11/25/97 Lawrenceville, GA: daughter, Houston, TX: daugther, Jessica Bob Sar (’90) and Zanny Madeline Ruth. 2/5/98 Sam McHan (’89) and Patricia Sara Sitton Crawford (’90) and Carol. 1/11/98 Caldwell Sar (’90), Raleigh, McHan, Raleigh, NC: son, Matthew S. Crawford (’88), Robin Barreau Richardson NC: son, Robert Allen Sar Jr. Amy Van Oostrum-Engler (’88) Noah Samuel. 1/8/98 Greensboro, NC: son, Matthew (’92) and Ted Richardson, 9/17/97 and Ray Engler, Cary, NC: son, Christa Moyer Voy (’89) and Starbuck Jr. 1/15/98 Chapel Hill, NC: son, Jeffrey Peter Van Oostrum. 12/13/97 Michelle Fournier Ingle (’91, Thomas. 1/29/98 David W. Voy, Trinity, NC: two Laura Hudak Daniel (’90) and JD ’94) and Dennis D. Ingle, Kristin Cole Tytus (’88) and daughters, Lindsay Nicole, Pete Daniel, Atlanta, GA: son, Joanna Thomson Sullivan Mount Pleasant, SC: daughter, John B. Tytus (’88), Cincinnati, 10/23/96, and Danielle Ashlee, Charles Peter. 9/19/97 (’92) and Charles Sullivan, OH: daughter, Sara Katherine. 1/6/98. Hannah Fournier. 1/12/98 Medford, MA: daughter, Christine Winfree Darnell (’90), 9/11/97 Linda Donelan Langiotti (’91) Deborah Grace. 10/28/97 C. Andrew Wattleworth (’89) South Lyon, MI: daughter, and Kevin Langiotti, Tampa, Walter R. Martin (’88) and and Dorothy Bryan Alexandra Lee. 6/2/97 John Landreneau (’93) and Sarah Rachel Martin, Atlanta, Wattleworth (’90), FL: son, Kyle Allen. 12/8/97 Jennifer Leigh Sterns, Bo Iler (’90) and Lisa Iler, GA: son, Watson Jesse. 3/13/98 Birmingham, AL: son, Mary “Dee” Hurley Lexington, SC: Baleigh Fisherville, VA: son, Garrett Benjamin Thomas. 1/5/98 Shoemaker (’91) and Chris Christine. 12/28/97 Bill Bunn (’89) and Margaret Carlson. 12/9/97 Holt Bunn (’89), Raleigh, NC: Shoemaker, Bluefield, WV:

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Robin Pearson (’93) and Eddie the North Carolina Board of Pearson (’93), Orlando, FL: Examiners; chairman of the son, Eddie Nicholas. 10/11/97 Governor’s Highway Safety Michael W. Waddell (MBA ’93) Commission; and board mem- and Christina Waddell, ber of Wilkes General and Davis Monroe, NC: son, David Hospitals. He was co-owner of Michael. 5/10/97 the Forest Furniture Co. and was director emeritus of Lowe’s Dorothee Appel (’97) and Company. He is survived by his Thomas Appel, Munich, wife of 55 years, Douglas Plonk Germany: son, Markus. McElwee; two sons, William 12/31/97 Henry McElwee III and John Plonk McElwee; two daughters, Deaths Elizabeth M. Cannon and Dorothy M. Shartzer; and eight Alumni grandchildren. Bettye and John Davis, on spirit walk near family bricks. Edward L. Spivey (’23) January Thomas Leonard Umphlet 21, 1998, Windsor, NC. He (’32, MD ’32) December 18, received his master’s of theolo- 1997, Cary, NC acquaintance of the Davis family after gy degree from Southern A dear diary Robert H. Burns Jr. (’33) May Baptist Theological Seminary in the war, was a sergeant in a North 28, 1997, Whiteville, NC 1927 and went on to hold pas- AKE FOREST’S spirit walk, in Carolina regiment stationed around torates in Kentucky and North Wilson Jefferson Morris (’34) Wthe courtyard between Tribble Kinston. Marion Leslie Davis, who was February 8, 1997, Hiawassee, and South Carolina. He was Hall and Benson University Center, “by all accounts the history authority, the secretary of state missions GA represents more than a pleasant stroll without peer, of Carteret County, if not for the North Carolina Baptist T. Lynwood Smith (JD ’34) down memory lane to John D. Davis Convention for 24 years and January 24, 1998, High Point, of a wider area,” acquired the diary in was responsible for the organi- NC. He was the corporate (‘47). For him, the walk’s inscribed the thirties and intended to publish it zation of over 700 new mis- attorney and vice president of bricks trace the path of much of his himself. “That was during the sions and churches. He is Adams Millis Corp. in High family’s history over the past century. Depression, though, and it was impossi- survived by a son, Edward Point. He was a North The names of nineteen family ble for him to publish it,” Davis explains. Lowell Spivey Jr.; two daugh- Carolina state senator, a high- ters, Jane Earl Hall and Lydia way commissioner, and chair of members, including many in his wife’s Davis and his wife, Bettye Crouch Williams; six grandchildren; the North Carolina Economic family, are memorialized on the Davis (‘47), spent years researching, eight great-grandchildren; and Development Board. He is sur- bricks, and Davis can recount colorful transcribing, and writing notes for the a great-great-grandchild. vived by his wife, Betsy stories about them. However, none of diary’s publication. Their hard work John M. Arnette Jr. (’24) Armfield Smith; a daughter, the names means more to Davis than December 15, 1997, Asheville, Dee Smith Pell; a son, Thomas paid off when the book was finally NC Lynwood Smith; six grandchil- that of his father, Marion Leslie Davis published in 1997. “This was some- dren; and eight great- Thomas J. Edwards (JD ’29) Sr. (‘06). Davis has further honored his thing that my wife and I really wanted grandchildren. February 24, 1998, father’s memory by publishing one of to do, even if we don’t get remunerat- James Spencer Wilkinson (’34, Rutherfordton, NC. He prac- the family’s most important heirlooms, ed in any way,” Davis says. “It was a ticed law in Rutherfordton for MD ’36) January 4, 1998, the Civil War diary of Henry S. Lee. labor of love to memorialize my 55 years, before retiring at age Raleigh, NC The book, titled simply A Civil War 80. Edward Chester Chamblee father.” The book can be ordered by William Henry McElwee Jr. (JD (’36) January 7, 1998, Raleigh, Diary, describes a period from 1863 contacting Davis at (704) 669-7690 ’30) March 30, 1998, North NC. He was a pastor and to 1864, when Lee, who was an or [email protected]. Wilkesboro, NC. He was a served as director of missions lawyer in Wilkes County for 60 for Wilmington Association. years, interrupted only when he He is survived by his wife, Homer H. Price (’36, MD ’36) Weeks; and 4 grandchildren. educator in Union County, served in the Army’s Judge Prandy J. Chamblee. September 25, 1997, Adolphus Drewry Frazier (’38) Montgomery County, Durham, Advocate Division from 1942- Oscar Willis Carter (’36, MD Martinsville, VA. He is sur- July 20, 1997, Atlanta, GA. and High Point schools. In 45. He was a past president of vived by his wife, Frances C. 1957 she opened the Montlieu ’40) February 8, 1998, Georgia Griffin Thayer (’40) the North Carolina Bar Price; 2 daughters, Patricia P. School in High Point and Nashville, TN March 2, 1998, Winston- Association; board member of de Rohan and Margaret P. served as its principal until Salem. She was a professional Class Notes

ciates, and he was a state certi- fied real estate appraiser. He Remember how proud you felt on Graduation Day? was an active member of the You can pass on that special feeling to future First Baptist Church and taught SHARE the PRIDE. generations of students with your gifts to the at Fayetteville Community College Fund. The College Fund – which includes College. He is survived by his wife, Joann Watkins Walters; the Calloway School Fund – helps provide Wake three sons: Ed Walters, Rob Forest’s professors and students with the best Walters, and Chris Walters; tools for teaching and learning that exist. And that’s two daughters, Beth Matthews something you can take pride in supporting long and Susan Puryear; and eight grandchildren. after your graduation. Robert T. Mauney (’54) September 3, 1997, Albemarle, Show your pride by making NC a gift to the College Fund Vestal Willis Parrish Jr. (’55) before June 30. January 8, 1998, Macon, GA. He was a faculty member of The College Fund Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Wake Forest University and a faculty member at the P.O. Box 7227 Reynolda Station Medical College of Georgia. He Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227 retired in 1987 as a professor (336) 758-5264 of medical sociology and assis- tant dean of health services www.wfu.edu/alumni administration at Mercer School of Medicine. He had the honor of being selected a fellow in the Royal Society of Health. retiring in 1977. After her of Professional Journalists and Henry S.M. Uhl; and three Carrington, Patrick Carrington, He is survived by his wife, retirement she was active in the in 1981 received the lifetime sons: Mitchell Clifford, George and Paul Carrington. Wilma F. Parrish; and son, High Point Woman’s Club. achievement award from the Clifford, and Jack Clifford. James Monroe Tolson (’48, Charles O. Parrish. Virginia AP Broadcasters. He is Charles Stewart Wilkins (’41) James C. Burris (’48) October MD ’51) March 10, 1998, Horace Benjamin Ledford survived by his wife, Ida S. June 11, 1997, Greensboro, 13, 1997, Plantation, FL. He Raleigh, NC (’59) November 2, 1997, Gallimore; and two sons, R. NC. He was the retired presi- began working for Rubbermaid Robert Ray Howren Jr. (’50) Shelby, NC. He was vice presi- Steve Gallimore and Gary S. dent of the J.D. Wilkins Co. Inc. in 1958 and served that September 5, 1997, Chapel dent of Western Carolina Gallimore. James Hubert Sevier (42) company until his retirement. Hill, NC. He taught in the Industries. He was a decorated December 27, 1997, New Maxey Jefferson Crowder Jr. He was an ordained deacon English department at Wake veteran of the Korean War and Castle, DE (’46) February 6, 1997, and charter member of the First Forest during the late fifties and served as director of numerous Thomasville, NC Baptist Church in Plantation. Robert S. Gallimore (’43) early sixties before taking a service organizations, including He is survived by three chil- January 3, 1998, Lively, VA. Nancy Easley Uhl (’46) January positon at the University of the Shelby Rotary Club, the dren: James Currie Jr., Virginia He was a journalist who direct- 29, 1998, Winston-Salem. She Iowa in 1962. At Iowa he was United Fund, the Greater Lee, and Mary Candice; and ed the Associated Press’ opera- was a teacher on the faculty of founding chair of the linguistics Shelby Chamber of Commerce, five grandchildren. tions in Virginia for nearly two several high schools and col- program before moving to and the American Cancer decades. He served in the Army leges. She also served as a case James Baxter Hobbs, Jr. (’48) UNC-Chapel Hill, where he Society. He also worked with for four years during WW II worker for the Women’s Prison January 18, 1998, Shreveport, served as chair of the the Girl Scouts, Boys Club of and began his journalism career Association in New York City LA. He was a retired director Department of Linguistics and America, and Girls Club of with the Asheville, N.C., and as the director of the of buildings for Shreveport and Non-Western Languages. America. For his work with Citizen-Times. In 1950 he YMCA in Omaha, NE. As a a consultant for Civic Center John Lauchlin Bethune (’51) mentally handicapped children, joined the AP as a newsman in marriage and family therapist, Operations. He is survived by December 13, 1997, Cary, NC he was awarded the Order of she worked at the Christian his wife, Mary Jean Mitchell the Long Leaf Pine by Gov. Jim Huntington, WV, and went on Thomas Harold Walters (’52) Home Assoc. in Council Bluffs, Hobbs; a daughter, Jan Hobbs Hunt. He is survived by his to work for the organization in February 5, 1998, Fayetteville, IA, and at a number of training Oliver; a son, James Baxter wife of 41 years, Shirley P. Kansas City before being pro- NC. A veteran of World War II, centers in the Midwest. She is Hobbs III; and four stepsons: Ledford; and a daughter, Lisa moted to bureau chief in he was the owner and operator survived by her husband, Michael Carrington, John Ledford Wassén (’81). Richmond. He was a past presi- of Harold Walters and Asso- dent of the Richmond Society Class Notes

Ruth B. Jameson (’62) March Saints and one with the Dallas Nadine Hagerty Layton Northwestern Universities and 13, 1998, Newport News, VA. Cowboys. Diagnosed with dia- February 17, 1998, Pfafftown, was considered the foremost She was a third grade teacher betes in 10th grade, he died of NC. She was a charter member authority on Woodrow at Trinity Lutheran School for kidney failure. of Wake Forest Baptist Church Wilson. His crowning achieve- 25 years and had formerly and worked in the acquisition ment was the editing of the 69- taught in the Virginia Beach Faculty, department of Wake Forest volume Papers of Woodrow and Newport News public Staff, and University Library, retiring in Wilson, published between schools. She is survived by her Friends 1990. She was active in many 1966 and 1994. In 1992 he husband, Perry H. Jameson; university clubs and events, was named Historian of the Claude Nash Herndon March Duckett (’82) daughter, Laura Jameson and was the wife of the late Wake Forest University Baptist 29, 1998, Winston-Salem. He Bevins; and son, Dr. Perry Melvin Q. Layton, a former Medical Center. for Public Affairs. She is sur- was professor emeritus of med- Jameson III. head groundskeeper at the vived by her husband of 54 ical genetics and senior associ- Helen Louise Peters Moses University. She is survived by years, Carl C. Moses, a retired Richard W. Pavlis (’66, MA ate dean for research and March 26, 1998, Winston- two daughters, Meldine professor of politics at Wake ’67) February 12, 1998, development emeritus at the Salem. She was employed at Layton Lee and Carolyn Forest University; a son, Carl Baltimore, MD Wake Forest School of Wake Forest University from Layton; and six grandchildren. Owen Moses; a daughter, Amelia Johnson Steele (MBA Medicine. When he retired in 1978 until her retirement in Sarah Moses Tomaka; and ’75) March 18, 1998, 1989, he was the only remain- Arthur S. Link March 26, 1990, at which time she was three grandchildren. Statesville, NC. She was a past ing faculty member who had 1998, Advance, NC. He was a Assistant to the Vice President president of the Arts and been on the staff of N.C. historian at Princeton and Science Center and a past Baptist Hospital when Wake board member of the Iredell- Forest Medical School moved Statesville YMCA. She was to Winston-Salem to become active in the First Presbyterian Bowman Gray School of Church of Statesville and the Medicine. In 1946, he became Statesville Montessori School. the first director of the hospi- She is survived by her hus- tal’s Outpatient Department; Babcock Graduate band, John Shelton Steele later he served as chairman of (MBA ’75); and three sons, the now-defunct Department School of Management Shelton Weeks Steele, Charles of Preventive Medicine and McDonald Steele, and James Genetics. He is survived by his Henry Steele. wife, Margaret Caldwell; a WAKE FOREST MBA PROGRAMS daughter, Dr. Anne Herndon; a Larry Leo Jones (MAEd ’76) son, Nash Herndon; and two January 24, 1998, Mocksville, grandchildren. NC. He was an educator in Davie Co., NC, for 25 years, Vernon A. Jobson January 22, most recently as principal of 1998, Lewisville, NC. He was Pinebrook Elementary and an associate professor of GYN- Wm. R. Davie Elementary oncology with the Bowman schools. He is survived by his Gray School of Medicine from wife, Linda Manz Jones; 2 1979 to 1984 and went on to a daughters, Meredith Leigh successful private practice in S TARTING Jones and Anna Manz Mercier; Winston-Salem. HERE, and a son, Matthew Sean James Laprade April 4, 1998, Jones. Walkertown, NC. He was Anything Kenneth W. Duckett (’82) retired from the facilities man- IS POSSIBLE April 15, 1998, Winston- agement department, where he Salem, NC. A former Reynolds was a foreman at the power High School football star, he plant. He is survived by two lettered four years at Wake daughters, Nancy Joan With our nationally recognized MBA programs, Forest, leading the Deacons Laprade Little and Carol how far you go is up to you. with 50 receptions and 12 Laprade Hutchens; a son, touchdown catches—still a James Wayne Laprade; eight Call today! school record—in 1980. grandchildren; eleven great- Winston-Salem 336.758.4584 or Charlotte 704.365.1717 Drafted by New Orleans, he grandchildren; and one great- www.mba.wfu.edu played three seasons with the great-grandchild. The Last Word

Emily Brewer (’98)

Worlds without walls As I close the book on my senior year, I find that the manna of my education at Wake Forest has not emanated from the myriad hours I have amassed inside the halls of Tribble, Carswell, and Winston, though they are important. And while I’ve at times found the contours of the library more familiar than those of my bedroom, it is not the time that I have spent buried in books and research that will endure most vividly in my memory after the excitement around graduation lulls.

URING THE PAST FOUR YEARS, the Wake Forest education has been my semester DUniversity has opened its arms to the abroad at the University house in Venice. wisdom of William Rehnquist, James Art history was educational, but seeing Earl Jones, Tony Campolo, and the Byzantine mosaics in Ravenna Harold Kushner; the music of was inspirational; studying interna- Itzak Perlman, George Winston, tional politics was engaging, but They Might Be Giants, and the witnessing an Italian Communist Indigo Girls; the greatness of Party gathering was spellbinding; Diane Sawyer, Ted Koppel, A.R. studying the Renaissance was Ammons, Alec Baldwin, and our interesting, but touring Florence own Maya Angelou; and the nation- was singular and vivifying; conjugat- ally renowned talent of our basketball ing Italian verbs was tedious, but inter- and debate teams. Life has been rich. acting with Italian-speaking peers was While getting to know professors in the class- exhilarating. And I learned how it feels to be the room setting has been rewarding, one-on-one outsider in a community. discussions outside of class have been invalu- Before coming to college, I had visions of stu- able. Without the aid of my notes, I may not dents in furious debate on the lawn, impromptu remember individual lectures, but I will remem- musicians playing under a tree, and professors ber Dr. Olga Valbuena taking our Shakespeare and students sharing coffee and dialogue class to see The Winter’s Tale at the North together in a café. And although I’ve not found Carolina Shakespeare Festival, or Dr. Barry today’s campus to match this image, I have Maine having our seminar class over to his found the opportunities offered here to be opu- home for paper presentations, or Mr. Justin lent and abundant, my education brimful and Catanoso meeting our investigative reporting invigorating, and my life forever enriched. class at a local coffee house to discuss journalis- tic ethics in All the President’s Men. English major Emily Brewer (’98) of Asheville, North While I would not trade my days on the cam- Carolina, will spend next year as an editorial fellow pus in Winston-Salem, the pinnacle of my with The Philanthropy Journal in Raleigh. Editor: David Fyten Associate Editor: Cherin C. Poovey Art Director: Samantha H.E. Hand Class Notes Editor: Andrew Waters Assistant Editors: Emily Brewer (’98), Kim McGrath Sports Editor: John Justus University Advancement Writer: Kerry M. King (’85) University Photographer: Ken Bennett Printing: The Lane Press, Inc.

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