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Features 10 A Grand Old Party by Jennifer Bays (’01) and David Fyten With all the boisterousness of a circus bandwagon, the presidential debate stopped for a second show at Wake Forest. And quite a spectacle it was. 20 Fast and Furious by Pete Daniel (’61, MA ’62)

The down-and-dirty early days Page 20 of stock car racing were rooted in the cultural transformation of the postwar South.

Page 10 Profile 28 Resurrective Vision Departments by Amy Andrews Hoogervoorst Like the mythical Phoenix, 2 Campus Chronicle James Blackburn—the celebrated prosecutor of Jeffrey MacDonald who became the prosecuted— 34 Sports is rising from his own ashes.

Essay 36 Alumni Report Page 28 31 The Winds of Change by Ashley Twiggs (’01) 45 Class Notes Should we be accountable when our culture encroaches on another, threatening its obliteration? 64 The Last Word

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ZSR gift is largest-ever long-term pledge to Wake Forest

In perpetuity campaign: scholarships for The most prestigious of Wake students from middle-income Forest’s faculty honors, the N THE FIRST COMMIT- families and salary supplements Reynolds Professorships were Iment of its kind to any for faculty.” funded in 1982 with support organization, the Z. Smith The largest percentage of from the foundation. Reynolds Foundation of the gift—25 percent—will The remaining 20 percent Winston-Salem has pledged a fund scholarships for North of the gift will be used for perpetual gift of 3 percent of Carolina students from middle- special undergraduate programs The largest its annual income to Wake income families. Since Wake and needs. During the capital Forest University. Forest was founded in 1834, campaign, this money may percentage of In the first year, that gift is undergraduates from North be used to match gifts from predicted to be approximately Carolina have outnumbered individuals for endowed schol- $750,000 and is expected to those from any other state. arships for the College. the gift will fund grow each year thereafter. The Twenty percent of the The University’s partner- new gift is similar to adding commitment will support ship with the foundation began scholarships for $15 million to the University’s Joseph G. Gordon Scholarships in 1946 when Wake Forest endowment. Earnings from and 15 percent will support accepted the foundation’s $15 million in endowment Nancy Susan Reynolds proposal to move it from North Carolina would generate approximately Scholarships, both funded ear- the town of Wake Forest to $750,000 for the University lier by the foundation. Winston-Salem. Since that students from each year. “We are pleased to invest time, Wake Forest has received The pledge is the largest in the formation of young more than $63 million from long-term commitment ever lives and ultimately the future the foundation. middle-income made to Wake Forest by a of our state and region,” said This recent commitment foundation. It will be applied Jock Tate, president of the Z. comes in addition to a $1.2 families. toward the University’s capital Smith Reynolds Foundation. million annual grant the Z. campaign, which will have “We hope this partnership Smith Reynolds Foundation its public kickoff in April. will continue Wake Forest’s currently gives to Wake Forest. “I thank and commend efforts to empower students The foundation’s last gift to the Z. Smith Reynolds who want to use their educa- the University—$200,000 Foundation for its support tion to make the world a bet- annually to fund Zachary of our students and faculty,” ter place.” T. Smith Scholarships for said Thomas K. Hearn Jr., Another 20 percent of the North Carolina students— president of Wake Forest. foundation’s commitment will was in 1996. Wf “With this gift, the University be used for salary supplements will be able to address the top for promising young faculty two priorities of our capital members and to establish new Reynolds Professorships.

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A state graced “I’ve never gotten lost,” The foundation has both Lambeth said recently as he responded to the needs of The breadth and depth of was driving to Charlotte to organizations seeking its grants Tom Lambeth’s mission meet with representatives of and begun initiatives where its organizations who are seeking trustees and advisory boards OME YEARS AGO, TOM grants from the foundation. have seen a need. Of its annual SLambeth, executive direc- The same could be said of him disbursement of roughly $20 tor of the Z. Smith Reynolds when it comes to issues affect- million, about $1 million goes Foundation, and Ed Wilson Jr., ing North Carolina and the to projects initiated by the a fellow at the foundation, foundation’s progressive aims foundation. The remaining drove on Highway 64 from in addressing them. $19 million is awarded in Murphy in the extreme west- The foundation was begun response to grant proposals. ern tip of North Carolina to with the inheritance of the sib- It has focused its grants Manteo on Roanoke Island lings of Z. Smith Reynolds, in broad areas such as race near the Outer Banks. The the youngest son of tobacco relations, women’s issues, nearly five-hundred-mile trip, magnate R.J. Reynolds and economic development, public which took twelve hours, Katharine Smith Reynolds. education, and the environ- allowed them to take the full “We have had great freedom ment. This year it has initiated measure of the state, from and flexibility,” Lambeth says studies on the hog industry winding mountain roadway, of the trustees that govern and and smart growth, helped ‘It has been a through the rolling Piedmont the staff that runs the founda- establish a voter education and the long sandhill straight- tion’s daily activity. “You real- project, and sponsored Bill constant learning aways east of Rocky Mount, ly only had one founder who Moyers’ speech in Raleigh to to the coast. lived long enough and whose North Carolina’s leaders on In some ways that trip was personality had great influ- campaign finance reform. experience, a a metaphor for Lambeth’s ence, and that was Nancy When Lambeth announced tenure at the foundation, which Susan Reynolds [who served his plans to retire earlier this constant geography will end when he retires Decem- on the board for half a centu- year, the Charlotte Observer ber 31. Much of his twenty-two ry before her death in 1985]. ran a story about him, sug- years with the foundation has She had a sense of what her gesting that his job was the lesson, a been spent on the roads of mother would have wanted.” second most important job in North Carolina. The foundation Katharine Smith Reynolds North Carolina, second only psychology class.’ was established “for the people was very progressive and phil- to the governor. “There are of North Carolina,” and all of anthropic. During her lifetime clearly people who think that its funds must be awarded to she built a model farm and just our saying something is non-profit organizations in the dairy, she established schools important and has a lot of state. Since its establishment in on the Reynolda estate for the impact on others,” Lambeth 1936, it has made no fewer children of all of its employees, said. “It’s a little immodest to than three grants in each of black and white, and she served say that, but I think that’s North Carolina’s one hundred in various elected offices of possibly true.” counties, and Lambeth has the local YWCA, which had a Early in the life of the traveled in all of those coun- great impact on young women foundation, board members ties, logging about 25,000 who had left their farm homes decided Winston-Salem need- miles a year and more than as jobs were becoming more ed a university to enhance its half a million overall. plentiful in Winston-Salem. cultural and economic life. It

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was these leaders who per- as administrative assistant to Preacher teacher suaded Wake Forest College Sanford for four years, being to move to Winston-Salem, at that time the youngest prin- Brad Braxton’s lectures are and it is the Z. Smith cipal assistant to a governor in sermons in themselves Reynolds Foundation that the nation. He worked for the has helped sustain Wake Smith Richardson Foundation OME MIGHT SAY there’s Forest as it has grown in and as administrative assistant Sa fine line between teach- reputation during the last half to Congressman Richardson ing and preaching, but for of the twentieth century. Preyer before becoming exec- Brad R. Braxton there maybe Gifts to the University’s tive director of the Z. Smith is no line at all. endowment from the founda- Reynolds Foundation in 1978. “Lord, we love you,” tion support professorships, Judge Thomas W. Ross, Braxton’s voice resonates as salary supplements for faculty, director of the Administrative he leads a dozen second-year and scholarships. Recently, the Office of the Courts in Raleigh, divinity students in song dur- foundation announced it will will assume the foundation ing a moment of worship. increase its annual commitment directorship in January. Lam- “Lord, we praise you.” to the University by pledging 3 beth says he has told Judge The students—complete percent of its income to Wake Ross he’ll like the changes in with Bibles, notebooks, and Forest in perpetuity (see related responsibility that his new job handouts—sing along and story on page 2). Initially this will bring. “You deal with then bow their heads in will increase the foundation’s people’s problems,” he says prayer: “Remind us, God,” annual gift to Wake Forest from he told Ross. “I deal with Braxton intones, “that the $1.2 million to $1.95 million. people’s dreams.” When he church you died to redeem is The Z. Smith Reynolds Founda- retires, Lambeth says he will a work in progress. Speak tion is the largest donor to the “hang out in my basement,” to us and through us in this University, with gifts exceeding but he also will have volunteer moment of learning.” $60 million since 1936. responsibilities with the National Unsuspecting visitors Lambeth has served in a Center for Family Philanthropy might think momentarily that critical role as liaison between (which he helped found), the they’d taken a wayward turn the foundation’s board and the Kenan Institute for the Arts, and wound up in the midst of University through the transi- the UNC-Chapel Hill Alumni a chapel service. But this is the tion of Wake Forest presidents Association, and the board of start of a class on preaching Scales to Hearn and during the North Carolina Community for second-year divinity school the University’s split with the Colleges Foundation. students, and this is classic Baptist State Convention. Born “[The Z. Smith Reynolds Braxton—fervent, bouncy, in Clayton, North Carolina, Foundation directorship] may energetic, emphatic. Lambeth was no novice when be the best job over a sustained At thirty-one, he is the it came to the politics of period in North Carolina,” Jessie Ball duPont Assistant change. In 1960, just three Lambeth says. “It has been a Professor of Homiletics at years after graduating from constant learning experience, the Wake Forest University the University of North a constant geography lesson, a Divinity School. He left his Carolina at Chapel Hill, he psychology class; always stimu- position as senior pastor of joined the campaign of guber- lating and very rewarding.” Wf a six-hundred-member, ecu- natorial candidate Terry —Martha Shore Edwards menical, historic church in Sanford. He went on to serve Baltimore, Douglas Memorial

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Community Church, this Braxton describes his own summer after serving there work as an outgrowth of his for five years. parents’ identities and said he And right now, he says, grew up in an incredibly sup- Wake Forest is the perfect portive home in which the place for him to be. concept of family was not so Braxton reviews the previ- much preached as demonstrat- ous class with his students and ed. His friends, he recalls, then, slicing the air with his would get money for making hands and vigorously nodding good grades, but it was clear his head to emphasize his from the beginning that such a words, launches into the day’s trade would not occur in the teaching. He exhorts the Braxton home. “We put a roof would-be preachers in his class over your heads and sacrifice to, through their sermons, for you,” he recalls his par- incite people to action. It is, ents’ philosophy, “and you almost, a sermon in itself. work hard and do the things Brad Braxton: 'Words are all we have.' “Words are all we have,” you’re supposed to do. That’s Braxton says as he continues what it means to be family.” days of examinations at the on a roll, “and words are all Braxton made the marks, end. “For two years, I ate and we need. If you don’t believe from grade school throughout. drank the New Testament.” in the power of the word, and He graduated with distinction In 1993, he received his I mean that literally with a in 1991 from the University of master of philosophy degree in capital ‘W’ and a little ‘w,’ you Virginia, with a bachelor’s New Testament Studies from should get out.” degree in religious studies, and Oxford and went to Emory to Then he stops, looks at was ordained by his father’s pursue a doctorate in New the students sitting in front of church before he went to Oxford Testament Studies. This fall, the him, and smiles. “The fun University as a Rhodes Scholar. Society of Biblical Literature is thing about this is, you don’t “Oxford, intellectually and publishing his dissertation on know when I’m teaching and culturally, was my wilderness “1 Corinthians 7:17:24: The when I’m preaching.” The stu- experience,” he says. It was a Tyranny of Resolution.” dents laugh and smile, too, as difficult place to be as an A year after going to Braxton notes that the same African-American, because Emory, Braxton noticed a job tension exists in the pulpit: the the culture is very different announcement in the graduate blurring of the lines between from that in America, he adds. lounge: a pastoral position at proclamation and instruction. Fortunately, his Rhodes Scholar- Douglas Memorial in Baltimore. It’s a comfortable place for ship afforded him a natural Braxton was twenty-five, and Braxton, who grew up in a home community, and a place to focus. Douglas had a reputation as a in Salem, Virginia, in which pro- “I don’t think there will be “silk stocking” church. But he clamation and instruction were another time in my life when put a resume in anyway, never freely combined. His father there will be that kind of singu- anticipating as much as a tele- has been a preacher for more lar intellectual focus,” he says, phone call. But call they did. than forty years; his mother is, recalling poring over the Greek For thirteen months, the he says, “the world’s greatest New Testament and preparing church flew him back and kindergarten teacher.” for his only grades, the two forth between Atlanta and

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Moving imagist Baltimore, so he could com- “That was God’s provi- plete his education during the dence at work in my life,” week and lead meetings and Braxton says. Artist’s career is preach on the weekends. “Up He says he believes that a study in synthesis until (my) time at Douglas Wake Forest is where God Church, leadership was just a wants him to be now and that ICTOR FACCINTO HAS notion to me,” he says. he and his wife of three years, Vtwo careers that nurture Braxton says his father Lazetta, feel a wonderful sense each other. As the director of was clear that he didn’t want of openness at the University the Wake Forest University his son to walk in his foot- and particularly in the divinity Fine Arts Gallery, he finds and steps just for the sake of doing school. “It’s the perfect place mounts exhibits. On his own it. “I genuinely have my own for me,” Braxton says. “There time, he continues his thirty- ‘If I ever sense of call in my life,” are few places where I could year artistic career. When he Braxton says, “and my parents put [interests in] New scouts for art for the gallery, he hear you say, continue to have an awesome Testament and preaching often finds inspiration for his Christian witness.” together.” own work, and the relation- He also celebrates growing Back in the classroom, the ships with other artists help ‘I don’ know up in Salem—which declared hour is fast fading. Braxton is him to bring the best in con- August 29, 1993, as the “Rever- talking about “preaching and temporary art to Wake Forest. what to preach,’ end Brad R. Braxton Day,” in the cosmos” now, encouraging The last year has been honor of his outstanding civic his students to go into the a fruitful one for Faccinto, and academic achievements— world and step on toes, tackle who won a 2000 Visual Artist I’ll shoot you.’ and in First Baptist Church of social injustices, agitate peo- Fellowship in Filmmaking Salem. The church, built by ple. Social injustices are from the N.C. Arts Council, slaves in 1867 and the place always sermon fodder for his third arts council fellow- where his father has served as preachers, he says, quickly ship in twenty years. Past pastor, is where Braxton first ticking off the injustices of fellowships were for work in heard the Gospel story and today by the handful. sculpture and painting. where he preached his initial “If I ever hear you say ‘I Faccinto’s excitement sermon in 1988 at age nineteen. don’t know what to preach,’ about his newest work is pal- As a high school student, I’ll shoot you,” he tells his pable. He calls it multiscreen he had wrestled with a call to students, after checking his projection performance and ministry. Within weeks of watch. “The problem is, there describes it as a culmination answering “yes,” he said, he is too much to preach and of his work in film, sculpture, was offered the Jefferson not enough time to get it and painting. Scholarship—a full ride to the done.” The same, apparently, The project grew out of University of Virginia. With is true in the classroom. performance art he created his parents bringing home “See ya,” he dismisses the with two other artists in the teacher and preacher salaries, students, as they applaud. Wf late eighties and early nineties. the gift was a welcome one. —Amy Andrews When the other members of And it wasn’t the last. He Hoogervoorst the group moved away, he never paid a penny to attend turned to creating solo perfor- Oxford or Emory, either. mance art with film. He discovered the tech- nique that is the basis for the

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work when he was making There is always a narrative backgrounds for group perfor- base to his art, which explores mance pieces. “I was experi- personal psychological terri- menting with projecting film tory, but Faccinto doesn’t in the background. I picked require that viewers understand up a mirror. It split the image.” the work the way he intended. Then he split the image again He just wants the viewer to and created four images from walk away with an experience one projector. The more they remember. “That’s good projectors he used, the more enough, as far as I’m concerned.” images he could project. Faccinto performed his The technique evolved until latest work at the Wisconsin he had five projectors and Film Festival in April, and he sixteen images. He designed had performances planned in film loops, short film reels and San Francisco in November central video projections that and at the University of Victor Faccinto: ‘I’m like an explorer or a research scientist.’ work together and separately Tennessee in Knoxville in for a viewing experience in early 2001. “You’re welcomed into the perpetual motion. “I began to His career began when a artist’s studio with a very design pieces that interacted. film he made at California warm greeting. You get to It’s almost like a painting— State University at Sacramento know the artist right away.” more like a painting in (M.A., 1972) was included in a When computers became a motion,” he said. series at the Whitney Museum part of University life, Faccinto’s “There really isn’t anybody in New York. “I discovered position went from three- who is doing this. That’s what my work could compete in quarter time to full time. He I find so exciting,” he said. New York,” he said. He soon brought production of the “I’m like an explorer or a moved there and found a job gallery’s publications in-house, research scientist. I can apply as an assistant at the Nancy using scanners and layout all the experience in the other Hoffman Gallery. software, and he is exploring media in this new territory.” He lived in New York digital photography. In collaboration with from 1974 to 1978 and It’s one more instance of model Laura Lu Hedrick, enjoyed the early days of how his job and profession a 1981 graduate of Wake SoHo. “It was kind of a nice feed each other. As an artist, Forest’s art department and time to be there. Things were he said, “you can’t set out 1986 graduate of the law fresh and accessible.” for where you want to go school, he has shot 25,000 Then Marvin Coats, who because you never know feet of film, 500 of which has since retired from Wake where you can go. It’s like appear in the performances. Forest, approached Faccinto panning for gold.” Wf Sound is another crucial about directing the Wake —Laura Moretz element of his performances. Forest gallery. Since he began In addition to a soundtrack, work at Wake Forest in 1978, Faccinto counts the sound of Faccinto has traveled to his projectors as part of the artists’ studios across the experience of pieces such as country several times a year. “Hear the Noise.” As a gallery director, he said,

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the undergraduate courses committee to enhance Latin at Wake Forest are accepted American Studies, and he by Georgetown toward the spent four weeks abroad this master’s degree, and two of past summer establishing the four Georgetown classes networks for academic are taken in Chile or Mexico. exchanges and internships. “It is an incentive for stu- Siavelis received a doctor- dents who might not have con- ate in political science from sidered going to graduate school, Georgetown, where he also and Georgetown benefits by earned a master’s degree after getting the best students from completing undergraduate Wake Forest who are interested work at Bradley University. in Latin America,” Siavelis said. His academic distinctions For the Introduction to include receiving a Fulbright- Latin American Studies course Hays doctoral fellowship for he is teaching this year, Siavelis research in Chile in 1992-93. has tapped a cross-section of “I fell in love with the country,” faculty from music, anthropol- he said. “I only came back Peter Siavelis: ‘A very rich literature rises from countries ogy, art, and literature. because the money ran out.” that are grappling with political crisis.’ “I want students to see Siavelis is author of one that art is political, that Latin of the few books about post- Across borders American music does not exist authoritarian Chile, The apart from history and poli- President and Congress in Prof’s ties lead to joint tics,” he said. “Often, students Post-Authoritarian Chile: Latin American program taking courses in one disci- Institutional Constraints to pline don’t make the connec- Democratic Consolidation, RMED WITH TWO tion between what happens in used as a graduate-level text. Ayears of Spanish and a a literary movement because Published this past March, the barrel of curiosity, Peter Siavelis of politics. A very rich litera- book arrives at a crucial time spent his junior year of high ture rises from countries that in Chile’s history as it moves school in Spain, following the are grappling with difficult from an authoritarian to a end of authoritarian regime in issues in political crisis.” democratic regime. that country. The trip sparked Along with academic cross- During two years of research what has become a lifelong cultural adventures, there will be in Chile, he interviewed one- interest in political change in some fun: at least one evening fourth of the members of both Latin America, which he pur- will involve Latin American sides of congress at the dawn sues now at Wake Forest. cooking at Siavelis’s house. of democratic government. Siavelis, an assistant Since arriving at Wake “Gaining access was hard,” professor of political science, Forest in 1996, his major he said. “Some days I would has established a joint Latin focus has been to enhance sit in the congress building American Studies program the profile of Latin America waiting for the interview I had with his graduate school alma on campus while furthering carefully scheduled, and at the mater, Georgetown University, his research into legislative last minute it would be can- through which students receive and presidential politics, celled. Other days I might be a master’s degree in political principally those of Chile. talking to a senator who science in five years. Some of Siavelis serves on a University would be very forthcoming

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and would introduce me to Almanac someone else. It is a politically A miscellaneous compendium of news and facts divided country; people are so about Wake Forest University far apart on the political spec- trum that I had to hide my ◆ WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY RANKS twenty-eighth for own political orientation in the second consecutive year among national universities in the order to get more interviews.” new edition of U.S. News & World Report’s guide, “America’s Siavelis’ articles on Latin Best Colleges.” The annual guide gives Wake Forest high marks American politics, including for its small classes, low student-faculty ratio, high graduation electoral reform, voting behav- and retention rates, financial resources, and alumni giving. ior, and democracy, have been The Calloway School of Business and Accountancy also ranks published in numerous text- twenty-eighth among the nation’s best undergraduate business books and journals and programs in the guide. presented at national and international political and ◆ FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW, Calloway students academic assemblies. His achieved the highest passage rate in the country for their per- expertise in Latin American formance on the CPA exam. Of the twenty-five Wake Forest politics brought him consult- students taking the exam, twenty-two, or 88 percent, passed ing roles in the private sector all four parts the first time. The closest university competitor, and with the U.S. State Virginia, was more than 17 percentage points behind. Department’s Bureau of Intelli- gence Research, which hired ◆ IT HAS BEEN THIRTY-SIX YEARS SINCE Arnold Palmer him to brief several U.S. won his last major golfing championship, but he is still king in ambassadors to Chile. the eyes of the golfing public. Palmer, a former Deacon great, “I don’t think institutions topped a field of fifty in a “Golf Personality Index” published make everything happen, but in the September issue of Golf World Business. With a score they are very important in of 76.3 on a 100-point scale, Palmer beat out Jack Nicklaus shaping decisions,” he said. (73.2) and Tiger Woods (67.6) for the top spot in the rank- “My research tries to get at ing, designed to measure the relative appeal of golf figures. how social movements interact with the institution of con- ◆ ALLEN MANDELBAUM, THE W. R. KENAN JR. Professor gress, the president, political of Humanities at Wake Forest and the Professor (per chiara parties, electoral systems, and fama) of the History of Literary Criticism at the University trade unions—and where we of Torino in Italy, is widely regarded as the world’s leading might find the balance between translator of Dante. For that distinction, he has received the them. For instance, if the pres- Gold Medal of the City of Florence, which he accepted in ident is too powerful and mar- a ceremony on June 3 as part of festivities honoring the ginalizes the congress, that has 735th anniversary of the great poet’s birth. According to an impact on how people are Mandelbaum, this was the first time a translator of Dante represented, how democracy had been so honored by the city where Dante was born and is allowed to live. I am inter- lived. In addition to his Dante translations, Mandelbaum has ested in how to enhance the received the National Book Award for his Aeneid translation, representative capacity of and he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his these institutions.” Wf translation of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. —Sheridan Hill

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ull of sound and some fury, a presidential debate in 1988 per- signifying something, the ceived stark contrasts between the Fpresidential debate band- events. Whereas twelve years ago wagon rolled back to Wake Forest the few hundred journalists who on Wednesday, October 11, drawing covered the debate between then- behind it a media circus. Despite the Vice President George Bush and few inconveniences and logistical challenger Michael Dukakis fit into glitches that are inevitable in an The Pit cafeteria in the basement of event of this magnitude, it was a Reynolda Hall, this time around the successful show, and the throngs that multilevel Benson University Center converged on and around campus was hard-pressed to accommodate found it to be quite a spectacle. the hordes of reporters. And where- Observers who were on hand as security in 1988 was sufficiently the first time the University hosted unobtrusive that ticket-holders

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could walk right up to the Wait audience. Inside, the chapel’s stage back on the Quad from the chapel. Chapel door, the campus this fall was transformed into a studio-style On the Magnolia Quad south was more of a camp, with, for set (backdropped by a television- of Reynolda Hall, more than four example, prior security clearances friendly blue cyclorama) where hundred students, faculty, and required of every volunteer. the candidates and moderator Jim staff—many of them with young Everything about this year’s debate Lehrer sat around a table and children— spread out on blankets was bigger and more boisterous. engaged in a free-flowing, talk-show- and watched the debate on a huge Months of intensive preparation style discussion. Outside, legions of rear-projection TV screen. The by scores of staff members and stu- security personnel and chain-link sense of pride and community was dents preceded the ninety-minute fencing around the perimeter of the palpable, with cheers erupting faceoff between Texas Governor chapel area kept everyone but tick- when Lehrer intoned at nine o’clock George W. Bush and Vice President et-holders at a distance. And the sharp, “From Wait Chapel on the Al Gore before a full house in Wait ticket-holders had to pass through campus of Wake Forest Univer- Chapel and a national television metal detectors positioned halfway sity....” After the debate ended,

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students rolled the Quad with red, them were shoehorned into Room cated and journalists worked fever- white, and blue streamers. 401 Benson when the coverage ishly to file their stories by deadline. The busiest hive of activity began. A phone system failure a The logistical planning and was the Benson University Center, few hours before the debate caused infrastructure alterations that had the media hub. The Fourth Estate quite a lot of consternation—and preceded the event were awesome. essentially commandeered the threats by some reporters to vacate New power lines and a substation entire facility, right down to the the premises—but the problem was were installed next to the chapel, food court and Shorty’s. More than fixed by eight o’clock. After the and seemingly everywhere—in 280 media organizations compris- debate, Benson was a bustle of hallways, on the Quad, through ing some 2,100 working journalists elbows and a cacophony of chatter, holes bored in doors—there was were credentialed for the debate, cell-phone conversations at elevat- communications cable; miles of it. and (other than the networks, ed decibel levels, and the click-click For the five days up to and includ- which occupied much of the second of computer keyboards as pundits ing the day of the debate, parking floor of Reynolda Hall) most of and campaign spin doctors pontifi- on campus by practically every-

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body not directly affiliated with the or more, and some late-working science department suspended event was prohibited, and an elab- reporters didn’t get to their cars classes so that students could orate satellite parking and shuttle until after one in the morning. attend an extensive “Conference on system was devised. Despite the From the very day in January Debatable Issues in the Presidential occasional grumble, the plan was that the Commission on Presidential Campaign” the week before the supported in a spirit of cooperation, Debates (CPD) had announced debate. Among the specially and it worked well on the whole. Wake Forest’s selection as a debate designed courses this semester The one major glitch came on debate site, President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. were “Great Teachers: Presidential night, when a camera bag left next emphasized it as “an extraordinary Debates,” taught by associate to a gate by a television reporter educational opportunity.” Academic professor of communication Allan prompted the bomb-suspicious schedules were altered to accom- Louden; “Debates and Campaigns,” Secret Service to order a key cam- modate speakers, political panels, taught by political science professor pus entrance to be locked. That and discussion groups focused Kathy Smith; and a first-year delayed shuttle buses for an hour around the debate. The political seminar, “Ways of Thinking About

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Presidential Campaigns,” taught by the AP program, in which students hospitality, and technical support economics professor David G. Brown. earn college credit for taking high- to tours and language translation. The University’s redoubtable level courses during their junior and First-year student Matt Hinson technological capabilities also were senior years. Participants took said he had no idea what to expect used to good scholastic advantage. online polls and contributed to when he registered to volunteer. In a project titled “Linking discussion groups while studying Before he knew it, his whole night Debatable Issues,” some 2,200 campaign issues such as foreign was booked with various volunteer Advanced Placement students at policy, education, immigration, jobs. He was even lucky enough more than seventy high schools telecommunications regulation, and to get into the chapel as a photo nationwide studied the presidential U.S. trade and economic policy. runner during the debate. “I wasn’t campaign through the Internet. During the debate, more than overly enthused prior to volunteer- Wake Forest faculty members wrote eight hundred Wake Forest students ing, but as soon as I started I got the project’s curriculum to fit within served as volunteers in capacities caught up in the moment,” said the College Board’s guidelines for ranging from catering assistance, Hinson. “It’s been a great experience.”

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Sophomore Susanna Rosenblatt On-campus protesting was party candidate Ralph Nader— worked with NBC. “I feel lucky that restricted to a cordoned area on marched from Polo Park to the I have a part to play in this,” said the playing field across from the Wingate Road gate to campus, Rosenblatt. “I’m interested in jour- Worrell Professional Center. A smat- arriving shortly after eight o’clock. nalism and it’s been fun to see how tering of additional sign-carriers They were greeted by a phalanx of the media works behind the scene.” supporting causes ranging from police with helmets and shields, The advancement office used the immigrant rights to the ethical treat- and their sheer numbers blocked occasion to show its appreciation to ment of animals milled in front of traffic. Although some of the protes- friends of the University. Alumni the University Parkway entrance, tors heaped invective on the police, and friends were hosted at special their efforts orchestrated by rhyth- the situation stayed cool, and there events the night of the debate, mic percussion and chanting by a were no incidents. including a discussion by a panel group of Hare Krishnas. Meanwhile, Wait Chapel was charged with of journalists attended by about more than five hundred protestors— an energy and excitement of its 450 in Brendle Recital Hall. most of them supporters of third- own. The crowd was dotted with

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prominent local and national emerged onstage he announced the and the bandwagon and circus political figures, including congress- entrances of Laura Bush and Tipper had pulled out of town, headed for men, former President Jimmy Gore. Within moments the lights of St. Louis. All that was left was the Carter, and General Colin Powell. the chapel dimmed, and thirty sec- cleanup. Within a week, there was Before the debate began, the audi- onds before the debate began the scant evidence that this gargantuan ence was welcomed by President voice of NBC’s Tom Brokaw echoed event had ever taken place at all— Hearn, Student Government through the chapel as he began his except for the vibrant memories President Amanda Carlson, and broadcast from the balcony. of the hundreds who had helped Student Trustee Jonathan Kelly. Suddenly, shockingly, it was make it happen. Wf Lehrer joked with the crowd and over by the following morning. The briefed it on protocol (applause was Quad and Benson Center had been For more on the debate’s significance, allowed only twice—at the start of stripped of banners, posters— prac- see “The Last Word” on page 64. the debate and the conclusion). A tically everything with the debate few minutes before the candidates logo on it—by memento-seekers,

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uring the middle decades of the D twentieth century, an unlikely renaissance swept through Southern society, generated primarily by the working class. As World War II broke down rural isolation, savvy race promoters and record producers would recognize the talent and explosive energy embodied in the Southern working class. Southern by Pete Daniel (’61, MA ’62) music and stock car racing, two outlets for this energy, not only gained cultural significance but also The commercial engine provided release for the enormous of today's NASCAR was started tension generated by urbanization and the civil rights struggle. after the Second World War by characters The postwar years witnessed vast changes in Southern society, and as who were anything but gentlemen. prosperity lifted them to respect- ability, more working-class Southerners

acquired mainstream manners and F SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA avoided comportmental outrages. Still, a large element remained untamed, ignoring conformist pres- sure to acquit themselves in a way that made respectable people com- fortable. In the dense, loud, and sexu- ally charged dance halls and the wild and frenzied infields and grandstands at stock car races, they found the space to reclaim their wildness. Postwar working-class Southerners manifested an inordinate interest in automobiles. Many of them bought their first cars with defense earnings or soldier’s pay. They subscribed to the notion that an automobile largely defined its owner, and they modified their cars to reflect their particular vanities. With aggressive drivers, fast cars, and wild fans, automobile racing would become the ultimate working-class sport.

The 1950 Southern 500 at Darlingtom Motor Speedway— Driver Joe Weatherly was as fast off the track as on. the first race at the South's first paved stock car track. INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY CORPORATION/NASCAR SPEEDWAY INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY W.D. WORKMAN JR.; W.D. WORKMAN JR. PAPERS, MODERN POLITICAL COLLECTIONS, SOUTH CAROLINIANA LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY O CAROLINIANA LIBRARY, MODERN POLITICAL COLLECTIONS, SOUTH WORKMAN JR. PAPERS, JR.; W.D. WORKMAN PHOTOGRAPHS BY W.D.

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The men and women involved ence as full-time racing mechanics. tales of promoters who “would hang in stock car racing were tough and Smoky Yunick, one of the best, the green flag out” to start the race resourceful. “It was rough and observed that before money dominat- and then leave with the gate receipts. rowdy,” South Carolina driver Jack ed the sport, “mechanics wanted to The race would continue until the Smith recalled. “It was a lot of boys race each other to see who could drivers realized it should have been just getting out of the service—they build the fastest car.” over, “and so they’d stop and find out had been over there four or five years In the post-World War II South, there was no money for them.” in them wars.” He estimated that racing fans were men and women Bill France would bring order to 70 percent “had been involved in who had grown up hard and were the chaos. France arrived at age twenty- what we called trippin’ whiskey, making a transition from farm to city, seven in Florida from Washington, haulin’ whiskey, maybe makin’ a from sun-time to clock-time, and D.C., in 1935, opened a service sta- little bit of whiskey.” Smith himself from family-centered rural communi- tion in Daytona Beach, and occasion- hauled liquor for the thrill as much ties to chaotic urban neighborhoods. ally drove in local races. After World as the financial return. They may have appeared tame during War II, he saw the possibilities of Trippers needed fast cars to out- the workweek, but their weekend organizing the outlaw races that were run the law. Many drove 1939 or activities could never be harnessed. springing up throughout the South. 1940 Fords, cars that not only could For stock car fans, every race week- On December 14, 1947, three dozen be fitted with readily available racing end became a carnival of drinking, men met at France’s invitation at the parts but also had ample trunk space eating, and debauchery. The farther Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach for liquor. Driving souped-up cars on people moved from the country and agreed to form a sanctioning mountain roads and matching wits and its cycles into hourly work and body for stock car racing. Red Vogt, with the law honed trippers’ driving consumer culture, the more they a respected Atlanta mechanic, sug- skills and nerve and gave them needed a fix of racing, wildness, fun, gested they call it the National immense experience in driving fast. and laughter. Association for Stock Car Auto Losing a race with the law meant They found their idols in the Racing—NASCAR, for short. France, going to jail. Legends grew about drivers and mechanics. As a rule, the an imposing, charismatic man who trippers’ speed and tactics. Children men behind the wheels and under had been helping promote races since from the Georgia mountains turned the hoods were not well-educated or the late thirties, became president. the game of cowboys and Indians well-mannered, but all were proud, Before 1950, most race cars had into trippers and revenuers; the trip- many were extremely resourceful, substantially modified engines and pers were the good guys. and some were brilliant. They intimi- suspensions to increase speed and The people who turned their dated competitors, abused their auto- improve handling. Most of the attention to automobile racing were mobiles, drank both on and off the NASCAR races involved such modi-

In the early days, races had an air

unusually skilled mechanics and dri- track, flirted with women, fornicated, fied cars, but in June 1949, France vers. A handful of mechanics who and fought over any slight. In the sponsored a 150-mile race at could build engines and tune suspen- early days, races, many of which were Charlotte for new “strictly stock” sions created a legacy that in many held in cow pastures, had an air of cars, and 13,000 fans showed up. ways parallels that of the drivers. frontier lawlessness about them. The “strictly stock” race was quickly Some mechanics roped off a bay in Drivers would bet against each other, renamed the Grand National, a term their filling stations and reserved it with up to $20,000 changing hands. borrowed from elite British horse rac- for race preparations. Others had Others were willing to pay to watch. ing. France’s showroom series trans- national reputations and vast experi- Retired driver Ned Jarrett recalled formed automobile racing. Grand

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The godfather of NASCAR, "Big Bill" France, center, with mechanic Red Vogt, left, and driver Red Byron.

National stock cars, resembling the to his son William Clifton France in competed in three races a week. Ned automobiles fans owned, suggested 1972, NASCAR was sanctioning Jarrett recalled that most races were respectability, unlike the older but 1,600 races in thirty-four states and hundred-mile events on short dirt or faster modified cars which were some in Europe. paved tracks. He would arrive at four linked to the rowdy past and hauling The Daytona race, which used in the afternoon, practice for a few liquor. A fan who saw a Ford or the beach and the parallel highway, hours, and race at eight. He might Chevrolet victory on Sunday might anchored France’s empire, but in 1948, race at Columbia, South Carolina, be moved to buy a similar car on South Carolinian Harold Brasington on Thursday night, Charlotte on Monday, a temptation not lost on went to the Indianapolis 500 and Friday, and Hickory, North Carolina, the automobile industry. The con- returned to Darlington with a dream on Saturday. As late as 1955, the sumer potential proved enormous. for a paved stock car track. The circuit NASCAR Grand National tour Over the years, Bill France’s that emerged lacked Indianapolis’ length included only three paved tracks— empire spread across the country, but exuded its own asymmetrical mile- Darlington, Raleigh, and and he became the czar of stock car and-a-quarter charm. On September 4, Martinsville, Virginia.

of frontier lawlessness about them.

racing. He tolerated no disloyalty. 1950, Darlington hosted a 500-mile Promoters in the fifties encour- Cajoling, threatening, and punitive, Grand National race, and 20,000 fans aged any gimmick that might attract “Big Bill” brilliantly mixed the smile, cheered Johnny Mantz to victory in a the crowds, and they eagerly embell- the handshake, and the clenched fist. 1950 Plymouth. He won $10,510. ished rumors of driver feuds, wild With the help of sponsors, France Darlington was the only completely behavior, fights, and crashes. One of hammered at drivers’ rough edges, paved NASCAR track in 1950, the Tim Flock’s car owners, Ted Chester, discouraged their public fighting, and first Southern superspeedway. bought him a monkey whom he generally kept them on a short leash. To make a living in the late forties named Jocko Flocko, and he con- When France turned the empire over and early fifties, drivers sometimes vinced Tim to let the monkey ride

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Sara Christian was a competitive woman in a man’s competitive world.

with him in the number 91 Hudson. They installed a tiny seat on the passenger side so that Jocko Flocko could look out. During a race at Raleigh, Jocko escaped from his seat belts, panicked, and ended up on Tim’s shoulder. Two of Tim Flock’s bothers, Bob and Fonty, raced, as well as his sister, Ethel Flock Mobley. Although most women of the era stood by their men, several joined Mobley as race car drivers. Sara Christian competed on equal terms with men. In 1949, she won NASCAR’s Woman Driver of the Year award, completing the year thirteenth in the points standing, and she won six of the seventeen races she entered. Louise Smith’s father and brothers were auto mechanics, and she learned to drive by the age of seven. When racing started around her hometown of Greenville, South Carolina, she entered a race, and her reputation as a fast driver spread. She not only drove fast but also drank, cursed, and fought with men. But as NASCAR races became more organized in the fifties, women disappeared from the cars and eventually were banned from the pits. Various sources claim that women were excluded because of unspecified safety concerns, because they were a distraction, or because of jealousy. In the fifties South, “decent” women did not rub shoulders with uncouth men. Their exclusion from competition paralleled other attempts to marginalize women: their only official role in racing became that of race queen. The garages, pits, and tracks became a male preserve. African American driver Wendell Scott brought another kind of diversi- ty to NASCAR. When a race promot-

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black driver to lure fans, a local From the time he was ten until he policeman recommended Scott, who broke his arm at fourteen when a farm was on probation for hauling liquor. tractor overturned, he learned base- Scott was at home in the culture of ball under the tutelage of a retired racing, but because he was black, he professional pitcher. After he could was taunted by white fans at his first no longer pitch because of the pain in race at the Danville fairgrounds in his arm, he concentrated on learning 1947. Drivers’ reactions varied from to drive, studying it as seriously as he acceptance to outright hostility and had studied baseball. When the North violence. At least one track, Darling- Wilkesboro Speedway opened near ton, refused to allow him to compete. his home, he began racing. Scott learned to endure whatever Johnson was known as a fearless torment came his way without resort- driver. In a close race, other drivers ing to fighting. He did well on the knew that he would summon his

dirt tracks across the South, and in nerve and never back off. In 1959, CENTER HISTORY OF THE ATLANTA PHOTOGRAPH BY BILL WILSON. COURTESY the early sixties he moved into while racing Lee Petty for the lead at Fearless driving and bootleg liquor were Grand National racing. Although Charlotte, Johnson was forced off the the legendary Junior Johnson’s hallmarks. he never secured a major sponsor, track with a flat tire after Petty inces- year after year he put together a santly banged his bumper. Johnson drivers of the era. Tragically, in respectable effort. pitted, changed the tire, and after May 1964, Roberts crashed at the A handful of fifties drivers became returning to the race deliberately Charlotte 600, and his car burst into legends. Towering among them were forced Petty into the wall. The incident flames. He died from burns on July 2. Junior Johnson, Curtis Turner, Fire- brought out the Charlotte police. Curtis Turner was born in 1924 in ball Roberts, and Joe Weatherly. Even as his racing career was the southwestern Virginia mountains. Junior Johnson was born in 1931 flourishing, Johnson was arrested in His father owned a sawmill, made in Wilkes County, North Carolina. June 1956 for firing his father’s liquor, and earned a reputation as a His father, Robert Glenn Johnson Sr., liquor still, and he served eleven tripper. By the time he was ten, Curtis like many of his neighbors, farmed months in federal prison. In retro- had learned to drive, and at fourteen, and made liquor. When Junior was spect, Johnson considered prison he dropped out of school. By saving four years old, federal agents found “one of the best things that ever hap- the money he made hauling his father’s 1,113 cases of illegal liquor in the pened to me,” in that it taught him liquor, Turner bought several sawmills Johnson home. In 1953, federal discipline. He retired from racing in of his own. (Over the years, he would agents found 1,200 pounds of sugar the mid-sixties when he was thirty- display a knack for investing and then near the Johnson home and brought four and became a car owner. Until losing money.) In 1946, he began rac- bootlegging charges against Junior, 1995, when he sold his racing team ing at Mount Airy, North Carolina. Fred, and Glenn Johnson. Found and retired, Johnson’s cars won 139 Over time, he became perhaps the best guilty and sentenced to eighteen races and six championships. dirt track driver of his era, although months in prison, they appealed, and Roberts earned the nickname he was as likely to crash as to win. By a three-judge panel overturned the “Fireball” as a baseball pitcher in his “throwing his car sideways and spin- convictions. Even as they fought the teens. Introverted, moody, preoccu- ning the wheels and throwing up charges, the family continued making pied, and contradictory, he drove in rooster tails,” Jarrett observed, and transporting liquor. modified and Grand National races, Turner awed fans at dirt tracks and Junior Johnson quit school in the and in 1958, he won both the Rebel the famous beach course at Daytona. eighth grade, by which time he con- 300 and the Southern 500 at Darling- Turner had rugged good looks, sidered himself grown. He did not ton. In Jarrett’s estimation, he was stood six-feet-two, and weighed 220 start out planning to race automobiles. one of the most gifted and smartest pounds. He dressed in silk suits,

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1922. After serving in World War II, relations, some of the drivers were he raced motorcycles before turning “just classy barbarians.” He was to stock cars in the early fifties. In especially leery of Turner and 1953, he won fifty-two races and the Weatherly. He wanted to tame them, modified championship. Turner and to make them predictable, pre- Weatherly often relaxed together off- sentable. Tamed, articulate, and suc- track, and their outrageous behavior cessful drivers could sell cars and became part of the folklore of stock plug sponsors. Over time, sponsor car racing. Turner recalled that on one dollars forced drivers to resist the race weekend, they basically destroyed temptation to curse publicly or blame two “U-Drive-it” cars, one of which other drivers, and heavy fines dis- Weatherly drove into a motel swim- couraged fighting. Perhaps the ulti- ming pool. Then they went from mate sign of taming came in the sev- room to room until they found one enties when NASCAR sanctioned a unlocked and vacant, went inside and preaching service before the races.

PHOTOGRAPH BY BILL WILSON. COURTESY OF THE ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER HISTORY OF THE ATLANTA PHOTOGRAPH BY BILL WILSON. COURTESY bolted the door, and spent the night Once the untamed part of racing Talented but moody Fireball Roberts in someone else’s room. During the died, drivers became icons of capital- came to an ironically tragic end. Daytona Speed Week, Turner and ism, identified as much with the Weatherly threw parties at which dri- product as with their own names. drove a Lincoln Continental, hung vers and crews reputedly consumed Many race fans in the fifties mir- out with Hollywood stars, and $5,000 worth of liquor, goaded top- rored the drivers in that they had claimed that in the mid-fifties he spent less dancers, and violated several of grown up hard, had country creden- $6,000 a month. Before one race, a the Ten Commandments. Weatherly tials, and worked at filling stations or group of drivers, with Turner in the won the Rebel 300 at Darlington and other low-paying jobs. Attending lead, paid a farmer $100 to borrow the National 500 at Atlanta, and in races reaffirmed their status as out- his mule and then pushed it up the 1962 and 1963, he won the Grand siders, outlaws. They were rude, vio- steps of a motel to the second-floor National championship. He died in lent, uncouth, and proud of it. balcony, where it greeted surprised 1964 in an accident at Riverside Attending races provided an outlet guests. Unlike many of his generation, Raceway in California. for behavior that was becoming ever Turner rarely fought. He would knock The Charlotte Motor Speedway more unacceptable in polite society. competitors out of the way on the joined the updated Daytona track, Since the first Darlington Labor Day track and then disarm them after the which opened in 1959, and Southern 500 in 1950, the infield race by inviting them to a party. Darlington as NASCAR’s superspeed- crowd became the annual yardstick Turner and promoter Bruton ways, and the trend toward larger of wildness, and each year, the crowd Smith developed the mile-and-a-half and larger spectacles was well under concocted some new outrage to com- Charlotte Motor Speedway, which way. By 1960, NASCAR’s Southern pete with the past. The most recent opened with the World 600 in June tour included eight paved tracks. stabbings, shootings, fights, seduc- 1960. They ran into numerous prob- With racing’s growing commercial tions, and drinking bouts were lems during construction, and when potential, pressure built to clean up embellished to match former narra- the earth-moving contractor demanded the drivers’ act and make the sport tives. An infield jail detained the most payment and blocked the unpaved appealing to a wider audience. Jacque savage among the revelers. portion of the track with his machines, Passino, who headed Ford’s racing The wild stories continue, but Turner appeared with a shotgun and program, had problems with unruly now they spill from motor homes, cleared the track. drivers. From his corporate point of apartment-sized rental trucks, and Joe Weatherly, Turner’s sidekick, view, which focused on winning races recreational vehicles whose owners was born in Oak Grove, Virginia, in and gaining good press and public are far removed from lowdown cul-

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High-living, hell-raising Curtis Turner was perhaps the best dirt track driver of his era.

ture. The Darlington infield has been vers have gained national and inter- Wilmington and the University of divided into an Azalea Terrace (at national fame. The cars still go in a Tennessee, as well as a legislative aide to five hundred dollars a ticket), the circle, but nearly everything else has former North Carolina U.S. Senator President’s Suite, and a Fourth Turn changed. Drivers and fans in the Robert Morgan. A native of Spring Hope, Club which features a gigantic corpo- fifties bent culture to suit their pur- North Carolina, Daniel is the author of rate hospitality tent. The very land- poses, but as NASCAR closes smaller five books, including Breaking the Land: scape of racing has changed so radi- tracks and cuts ever bigger deals, The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco cally that whatever lowdown commercialism bends lowdown cul- and Rice Cultures Since 1880, which won “purity” existed in the early days has ture to purposes of its own. After a two of historical scholarship’s most presti- largely vanished. Modern grand- 1988 interview, Junior Johnson gious awards. The preceding article was stands boast not only adequate paused along the pit road at the adapted from a chapter in his most recent restrooms and numerous concession Dover, Delaware, track. After survey- book, Lost Revolutions: The South in the and T-shirt stands but also executive ing the decaled cars, flashy sponsors, 1950s, published by The University of suites. Two hundred and fifty corpo- and executive suites, he shrugged his North Carolina Press. He was co-curator rations support the racing teams as shoulders and said, “It’s all been of an exhibit titled “Rock ’n Soul: Social well as 15.4 million fans and a televi- tamed now.” Wf Crossroads” which opened recently in sion audience of 130 million. Memphis, and he is curating an exhibit on What started out as informal Pete Daniel (’61, MA ’62) is a curator in stock car racing titled “Speed and Spirit: races in pastures by trippers has The Division of the History of Technology NASCAR in evolved to the point that NASCAR at the National Museum of American America,” tenta- racing is indistinguishable from History, Smithsonian Institution. A cura- tively scheduled to advertising. Facilities have improved, tor at the Smithsonian since 1982, Daniel open in February more fans come from the middle holds a doctorate from the University of 2002 at the class, drivers speak articulately, tele- Maryland and has been a faculty member Atlanta History vision carries all of the races, and dri- at the University of North Carolina- Center.

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Resurrective vision James Blackburn has gone from serving as a highly public prosecutor, to serving his ego, to serving time, to serving tables. Now he’s serving a new cause.

by Amy Andrews Hoogervorst depression, and his road to recovery. were brutally murdered on February And he’s touring the state, looking 17, 1970, in their Fort Bragg home. AMES L. BLACKBURN KNOWS for audiences who will hear his MacDonald, who said he was home Jthe sweet taste that comes from story—bar associations, bookstore at the time of the murders, main- winning a high-profile case—his 1979 customers, and church groups. tained that intruders broke into his prosecution of U.S. Army doctor “It’s all in showing up,” says house and killed his family. A military Jeffrey MacDonald for the murder of Blackburn, fifty-five, of his recovery court hearing in 1970 didn’t disagree. MacDonald’s pregnant wife and two and sharing. “You have to be out front. The case, which became the subject small daughters. He also knows that I wrote this book primarily because I of a best-selling book, Fatal Vision, the taste of success does not linger thought I had learned something.” by Joe McGinness and a subsequent long. In the past decade, it has been Blackburn, the son of a former made-for-television movie, originally replaced by the sourness of public chaplain at Wake Forest College, was supposed to be tried in federal and internal pressures for greater vic- graduated from law school at the court in 1975 but a last-minute stay tories, the bitterness of a very public University of North Carolina at of the proceedings delayed the trial. downfall and humiliation, and the Chapel Hill in 1969 and found his By the time it came up again in 1979, blandness of hospital and prison food. first job in the office of the new state the veteran prosecutor who had been Now, Blackburn (’66) is on a attorney general, Robert Morgan (JD in charge of the case was dead of a quest to share the flavor of what he’s ’50). In 1977, on Morgan’s recom- heart attack. tasted but to discourage others from mendation, Blackburn took a posi- Blackburn now was at the helm. such a diet. He’s written a book, tion as an assistant U.S. attorney, The trial lasted seven weeks, with Flame-out: From Prosecuting Jeffrey directing the criminal section. Less MacDonald being convicted on three MacDonald to Serving Time to than two years later, he was leading counts of murder and sentenced to Serving Tables, which he published the prosecution against MacDonald, three life sentences in federal prison. himself this past summer. In it, he immersed in the first murder case he More than twenty years later, takes readers through his role as lead had not only tried, but even seen. MacDonald still maintains his inno- prosecutor in the MacDonald case, Murder charges are very rare in fed- cence and Blackburn remains con- his quest for more dramatic accom- eral court, and the MacDonald case vinced of MacDonald’s guilt. plishments following that victory, the galvanized the nation’s attention. Blackburn says that even after forgeries and embezzlement that led MacDonald’s pregnant wife and the trial ended, it shadowed him. For him to prison, his bout with severe their five- and two-year-old daughters years afterward, he was introduced

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by acquaintances as “Jim Blackburn, those years, I developed an unnatural was made a partner. Going into busi- the man who prosecuted Jeffrey and unreasonable expectation of ness with a firm should have taken MacDonald,” as if he and the case myself and what I could accomplish some of the load off, he says, but were inseparable. And when his for my clients,” Blackburn writes in he still felt tremendous public and downfall came, he knows, it was his book. “I never wanted them to internal pressures to live up to his made all the more public because he lose or be unhappy with the result of past success. He gradually began had sent MacDonald to prison. their case. I developed tremendous slipping into depression, with his Following the MacDonald case, difficulty with telling some clients the behavior changing bits at a time so Blackburn spent two more years as a bad news that they had no chance of that it went relatively unnoticed. federal prosecutor, then went into pri- winning a settlement or staying out of Then, on January 13, 1993, his vate practice specializing in criminal prison. I believed, sometimes unrea- life began to unravel publicly. He was defense. His winning streak in jury sonably, that there was always hope.” confronted that day by his Smith Helms trials became relative: it was regarded In 1987, he closed his private colleagues with charges of stealing as a victory to get clients probation practice and went to work at the law from the firm, which he first denied instead of prison time, or misdemeanor firm of Smith Helms Mullis and Moore but finally admitted. He resigned and convictions instead of felonies. “In in Raleigh, North Carolina. He quickly committed himself to the psychiatric

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wing at Duke University Medical forced me to get out in public and see Center for treatment of depression. ‘I’m very much people, to stand on my own two feet, The law firm’s internal investigation, to do something and do it well. You meanwhile, led to a criminal investiga- confront all of your inner demons. tion and felony indictments against at peace. I just don’t “Having done that, I’m very much Blackburn. He turned in his law license at peace. I just don’t have any fear left.” voluntarily and later was disbarred. have any fear left.’ He says he has repaid all of the In November 1993, he pleaded money he owed his former firm—a guilty to multiple counts of forgery, matter of principle that many people, fraud, embezzlement, and obstruction or comments he received were, including himself at times, thought of justice and was sentenced to three “What’s the fresh fish tonight?” and never would happen. And although years in prison. He reported for prison “Did he (MacDonald) really do it?” he was eligible in 1998 to reapply for on January 3, 1994, and wound up Friends he used to buy drinks for at his law license, he has not done so serving three-and-a-half months. the restaurant when he was a high- and isn’t sure if he will. Right now, When Blackburn became eligible profile lawyer now called him up he’s dedicating himself to promoting for work release, he began working in and asked if he could get them a his book and calling attention to the law office of his mentor, Morgan, good table on a busy night. the illness of depression, which he who by this time had served as a U.S. Sometimes, Blackburn says, his and others believe is widespread in senator and had returned to private father visited the restaurant when he the legal profession. His Web site practice in Raleigh. Blackburn’s psy- was waiting tables. His mother shel- (www.jamesblackburn.com) includes chiatrist had suggested he do some tered him when he needed to get a link to a free, confidential screening writing, and he was working on the away from all of the publicity after test for depression. beginnings of a book. But he says he was released from Duke. His wife At a recent book signing in that so many of his friends told him it and children visited him in prison Raleigh, Blackburn observed how was “terrible” that he put it aside. In and courageously faced friends and two men who were standing in the 1999, he picked it up again, when he acquaintances at school and in their crowd—the Hon. I. Beverly Lake Jr. could focus better and write more daily lives. He recalls his son, Jeff, (’55, JD ’60) and another man known conversationally. “I was determined to filling out an application that asked simply as “Rags”—represented the write a book that was more upbeat” his father’s occupation. “Waiter,” extremes of his life. Blackburn has and not preachy, he says now. Jeff wrote. His daughter, Stacy, now known Lake, an associate justice on Blackburn says his true recovery a senior at Wake Forest, wrote an the N.C. Supreme Court, since child- began when he was released from essay on courage for her admission hood, and he worked with him at the prison and started working in 1995 application to the University and state attorney general’s office thirty at 42nd Street Oyster Bar in Raleigh, wouldn’t let her father read it until years ago. Rags was an inmate at which he had frequented as a cus- after she’d mailed it. His family, he says, Wake Correctional Center when tomer during the heyday of his law was loyal and supportive through- Blackburn was imprisoned there, and career. Back then, it was where he out—and sometimes amazingly so. when Rags severely injured his hand had gone to celebrate, to relax, to For the past three years, Blackburn while on work release, Blackburn socialize. After prison, it was where has worked as the assistant to the helped him find a surgeon. he pulled his life back together and director of the state retirement systems. The pendulum of his life had earned some money for his family, He is off probation and no longer is in swung from one extreme to another first as a host and then as a waiter. therapy, though he still takes medica- in less than a decade. But now, with Once customers got past the ini- tion for his depression. And he says Lake and Rags standing before him, tial shock of seeing Blackburn direct- he is at total peace with himself now. it seemed to be at rest. And so was ing diners to a table or bringing them “I think it really began coming when James Blackburn. Wf drinks, the most frequent questions I was waiting tables,” he says. “It

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The Winds of Change

No part of the world is above modernization—not even its roof.

by Ashley Twiggs (’01)

(Editor’s note: Ashley Twiggs, a senior the Himalayas. Her trip was funded ADAKH IS PART OF THE English major from Raleigh, North by the Richter Scholarship program, L north Indian state of Jammu- Carolina, spent part of her summer in which provides stipends for indepen- Kashmir, a strategically critical Ladakh researching and photograph- dent study projects by Wake Forest stretch of land which lies between ing cultural change and the status of students. Following is a report of her Pakistan and the border of Chinese- women in this once-isolated region of impressions:) occupied Tibet. Its name comes from the word “La,” meaning, appropri-

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ately, “land of high mountain passes.” nated to plan funerals and care for At an elevation of 14,000 feet, with the household when a family member peaks reaching as high as 24,000 feet, dies so that the family has time to this arid country is one of the highest grieve. Any social disputes are inhabited places on earth. Approxi- resolved by a council elected by the mately 175,000 inhabitants populate village. Until recent years, no atten- its 245,000 square miles. tion was paid to social, economic, or Due to the border conflict gender status, and jealousy, while not between India and Pakistan, travel to unheard of, was extremely rare. the area was prohibited until thirty Winds of change are blowing years ago. Today, it is an object of through the valleys of Ladakh, how- fascination to outsiders for many rea- ever, and its traditional ways of life sons. Ladakhis are descen-

dants of nomadic tribes from Kashmir and Tibet; its culture has are toppling in the gusts. This region retained so many of its Tibetan char- of the world, like so many others, is acteristics that it is often referred to subject to irresponsible “moderniza- as “little Tibet,” and scholars are tion.” Through advertising, media, interested in the Tibetan Buddhism “education,” and pop culture, that remains intact. Mountain Ladakhis are being told that their climbers come to brave the altitude lives are not sophisticated enough, and scale the peaks. Indian families fast enough, or important enough in flock to the capital city of Leh from our technological world. June to August to escape the oppres- The workload on the farm is not sive heat and rain of southern India decreasing, but the work force is. while Nepali, Sikkimi, and Kashmiri Men are leaving to work as trekking men arrive in June seeking employ- guides, run small shops in Leh, and ment created by the swelling tide fight in the ongoing war against of tourists. Pakistan. Their greatest enticement to Traditionally, farming has been leave, however, comes from the the staple of Ladakhi life, with focus flashy, inviting images from the on the group instead of the individ- West—the Nike sneakers, the fast ual. Every village has a group desig- cars, the laptop computers, the cell

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We may have the phones, the fancy trekking gear and desirable Western women of brought by tourists. The children are which they see images. Barbie dolls technology that sent to schools set up by the Indian have arrived in the windows of government, where they are taught Ladakh’s toy store, setting a standard the importance of modernization that, if unrealistic for Western girls, is allows us to contact through textbook lines like, “Now utterly impossible for Ladakhi girls. my father goes far away to work in a Ladakhi women have been described people across oceans, bigger, better place so we can have as having “hands like shovels,” an bigger, better things.” Less than half accurate reflection of their strength of the students pass the test needed and power but hardly consistent with but our neighbors are for admission to India’s higher educa- the ideal for Western women. tion system, so as teenagers they are There are groups attempting to often strangers. shut out of the world they are taught reinstill the value of sustainable,

to strive for, yet are disenchanted localized living in Ladakh, but much with agricultural life. damage has already been done. When Women are left alone on the I told one man that I had come to farms to raise the livestock and tend study Ladakh, he said regretfully, to the crops. Western companies dis- “You have come too late, madam, tribute fertilizers and pesticides— Ladakh is gone.” It is wrong for three-fourths of which have been any culture to judge the desires of banned in developed countries— another, but we do have a responsi- promising they will make life easier. bility to present a realistic picture of But of course they do not, and the what a “modernized” country is like. women’s days are long and physically We may have technology that allows exhausting. And as they work harder, us to contact people across oceans, their social status goes down. but our neighbors are often strangers. Practicality was the constant I We may have the wealth to visit other found most reliable in Ladakhi places, but often it comes at the price women, but their practical nature is of being too busy to enjoy our own no match for the colorful portrayals homes. There is a spirit in Ladakh of Western living. Many women feel that name-brand clothing might not that their lives are backward com- be able to kill, but dishonesty about pared with those of the glamorous where “progress” can lead could. Wf

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Last year’s late-season drive fuels optimistic prospects of deep and talented men’s basketball squad.

High five who entered his twelfth season earned a spot on his native at Wake Forest third on the Lithuanian national team HEN WAKE FOREST school’s all-time victory list which captured the bronze Wbeat Notre Dame in with 221, just one behind Carl medal at the Olympic Games. the championship game of the Tacy. “The learning experience In two near-upsets NIT last March, capping an we went through last year, of the USA’s Dream Team‚ 8-1 run to conclude the season, combined with the [NIT] Songaila scored 16 and 12 emotions were mixed. Although championship, should provide points, respectively. O’Kelley, there was disappointment us with confidence heading a senior guard with 84 career in not making the NCAA into this year.” starts, was only the third tournament, playing its best Wake Forest received bad Deacon to accumulate 1,000 basketball of the season in news in late September when points through his sophomore March, winning 22 games, it learned that senior center season, and he began this year and capturing a postseason Rafael Vidaurreta may miss ranked 14th on the Wake national tournament was nice part of the season. The 6-9 Forest career scoring chart consolation. The late-season Vidaurreta, the team’s leading with 1,508 points. run—coupled with the return rebounder last season, sustained Sophomore Josh Howard of all five starters and four an osteochondral defect, or a (9.2 ppg., 4.7 rpg.) is a rising

Junior forward Darius Songaila, key reserves—has generated fracture to the bony cartilage star. The 6-6 forward turned it shown here sporting his bronze medal optimism surrounding Deacon of the right knee. He was to on the second half of his rook- won as a member of the Lithuanian basketball in 2000-01. be reevaluated in November. ie season, averaging nearly 12 Olympic team, is a prime candidate The Deacons, 22-14 a year Senior center Josh Shoemaker, points and six rebounds per for postseason honors. ago, began to gel in late Febru- 6-9, averaged 4.8 ppg. and game the final 19 games. ary with a win over Georgia 5.2 rpg. last season. He has Howard, who started 34 of 36 Tech. From that point through 37 career starts to his credit, games, dished out 64 assists, the end of the season, the team’s and could be asked to do led the team with 44 steals, only loss came to then-top- more while Vidaurreta recovers and added 33 blocked shots ranked Duke in the semifinals from injury. last season. of the ACC tournament. Its On the bright side, two Junior guard Ervin Murray NIT appearance marked the of the nation’s top players— moved into the starting lineup tenth consecutive year Wake senior guard Robert O’Kelley Feb. 15 and was a spark plug Forest has been invited to and junior forward Darius in the team’s late-season postseason play. Only North Songaila—headline a long list success. He shot better than Carolina has a longer current of talented returnees. Songaila 50 percent from the floor last streak in the ACC. (13.7 ppg. and 5.5 rpg.) was a season and, at 6-5, poses “We’re very pleased with third-team All-ACC selection problems for smaller opposing the way we ended up last sea- as a sophomore. Over the point guards. Craig Dawson, son,” said coach Dave Odom, summer, the 6-9 Songaila also a junior, was one of the

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best sixth-men in the ACC last year. The athletic 6-5 swing- man averaged 9.1 ppg, shot 83 WAKE FOREST BASKETBALL 2000-2001

percent from the line and 36.0 M en’s Schedule

percent from three-point Nov 3 Friday GLOBAL SPORTS (Exhibition) 7:30pm Nov 8 Wednesday LITHUANIAN ALL-STARS (Exhibition) 7:30pm range, and chipped in 51 Nov 16 Thursday MT. ST. MARY'S (BCA Classic) T B A 3RD PLACEGAME (BCA Classic) Nov 17 Friday or TBA assists. Two other members of CHAMPIONSHIP GAME (BCA Classic) Nov 20 Monday @Richmond 7:30pm RSN* a deep and talented junior Nov 25 Saturday CAMPBELL 7:30pm Nov 28 Tuesday @Michigan (ACC Big 10) 7:00pm ESPN class—forward Antwan Scott Dec 2 Saturday SOUTH CAROLINA STATE 7:30pm Dec 7 Thursday KANSAS 7:00pm ESPN and guard Broderick Hicks— Dec 16 Saturday GEORGIA 8:00pm RJ* Dec 18 Monday RADFORD 7:30pm FSNS* also are being counted on. Dec 21 Thursday @Temple 7:00pm ESPN Dec 29 Friday NAVY 7:00pm FSNS* Scott (4.7 ppg., 2.5 rpg.) 6-8, Jan 2 Tuesday VIRGINIA 7:00pm RSN* Jan 6 Saturday @North Carolina 9:00pm ESPN contributes tremendous offen- Jan 9 Tuesday FLORIDA STATE 8:00pm RJ* Jan 13 Saturday @Georgia Tech 8:00pm RJ* sive skills; he made 13-of-24 Jan 17 Wednesday @Maryland 9:00pm ESPN Jan 21 Sunday CLEMSON 1:30pm RJ* field goal attempts in the NIT. Jan 24 Wednesday @Duke 9:00pm RJ* Jan 27 Saturday @Cincinnati 1:00pm ABC The versatile Hicks (3.8 ppg., Jan 31 Wednesday NC STATE 7:00pm ESPN Feb 3 Saturday @Virginia 8:00pm RJ* 52 assists) can be a solid back- Feb 6 Tuesday NORTH CAROLINA 9:00pm RJ* Feb 10 Saturday @Florida State 12:00 Noon RSN* up at point guard or a factor Feb 14 Wednesday GEORGIA TECH 7:30pm Feb 17 Saturday MARYLAND 1:30pm RJ*/ESPN-2 in a three-guard lineup. Wf Feb 21 Wednesday @Clemson 7:00pm Feb 24 Saturday DUKE 1:00pm CBS Mar 4 Sunday @ N C State 1:30pm RJ* Mar 8 – 1 1 Thurs –Sun ATLANTA (ACC Tournament) T B A All Home Games in Bold. All dates & times subject to change due to TV scheduling. *HTS - Club offers ACC Home Team Sports; RJ – Raycom Jefferson ACC Network;

ticket opportunity W omen’s Schedule

Nov 4 Saturday SMOKEY MTN SWARM (Exhibition ) 7:00pm OR THE FIRST TIME Nov 10 Friday DYNAMO KIEV (Exhibition ) 7:00pm Nov 19 Sunday @Appalachian State 2:00pm Fsince 1989, the ACC men’s Nov 25 Saturday WESTERN MICHIGAN (DH) 5:00pm Nov 27 Monday @High Point 7:00pm basketball tournament will be Nov 30 Thursday @Richmond 11:30am Dec 2 Saturday COPPIN STATE (DH) 5:00pm held outside North Carolina Dec 5 Tuesday LIBERTY 7:00pm Dec 9 Saturday VIRGINIA** 2:00pm this year—at the Georgia Dec 17 Sunday NEW ORLEANS 3:00pm Dec 19 Tuesday @Quinnipiac 7:00pm Dome in Atlanta. With the Dec 22 Friday @Connecticut 2:00pm Dec 30 Saturday @Arizona State 3:00pm dome’s much larger capacity, Jan 2 Tuesday @Duke* 7:00pm Jan 4 Thursday NORTH CAROLINA* 7:00pm the Wake Forest Deacon Club Jan 7 Sunday @ N C State* 2:00pm Jan 11 Thursday @Clemson* 7:00pm expects to be able to offer Jan 14 Sunday FLORIDA STATE* 3:00pm Jan 18 Thursday @Maryland* 7:30pm each of its members an oppor- Jan 22 Monday COASTAL CAROLINA 7:00pm Jan 25 Thursday GEORGIA TECH* 7:00pm tunity to purchase ACC Jan 28 Sunday @Virginia* 2:00pm Feb 1 Thursday DUKE* 7:00pm Tournament tickets. Feb 4 Sunday @North Carolina* 2:00pm Feb 8 Thursday N C STATE* 7:00pm All active Deacon Club Feb 11 Sunday CLEMSON* 1:00pm RSN Feb 15 Thursday @Florida State* 7:00pm members as of Dec. 31, 2000 Feb 19 Monday MARYLAND* 7:30pm RSN Feb 25 Sunday @Georgia Tech* 1:00pm will receive a ticket application Mar 2 – 5 Fri –Mon ACC Tournament TBA

All Home Games in Bold. All game times are Eastern. * – denotes ACC to the ACC Tournament. If Contest. *** – played in Reynolds Gym. you are interested in joining DEACON CLUB MEMEBERS CALL FOR TICKET INFORMATION the Deacon Club or in purchas- ing tournament tickets, call 1-888-758- 1-888- All members are eligible to purchase 2001 ACC Tournament tickets. www.wakeforestsports.com (336) 758-5626. Wf

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Alumni, friends feted at debate

Political Doug Waller (’71) with Time gathering magazine in Washington, D.C.; and Bob Rosenblatt with the Los Angeles Times

EVERAL HUNDRED in Washington. Rosenblatt ▲ members of the University and his wife, Faye Setzer Elms (’62, MD ’66) and Harriet S Allen of Winston-Salem Gift Clubs and various volun- Rosenblatt (’67), and Waller teer boards enjoyed a pre- and his wife, Judy, are also debate reception and a panel Wake Forest parents. discussion on the election before watching the debate on a large screen television in

Brendle Recital Hall. ▲ President Hearn with panelists The panel discussion fea- Mike Riley (’81), Maria Henson (’82), tured Mike Riley (’81) with Doug Waller (’71), and Bob Rosenblatt The Roanoke (Virginia) Times; Maria Henson (’82) with the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman;

Carl (’68) and Linda Tucker of Pageland, South Carolina, and Roger (’68)

and Susann Mayhew of Winston-Salem ▲ ▲

(right) Glenn and Ruthlee Orr of Winston-Salem and D.E. (’43, MD ’45) and Sara Ward of Lumberton, North Carolina

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Class selections Newson was recognized must rise to the during convocation and at a challenge of Newson, Braker named program with Wake Forest’s effectively Waddill Award winners education majors; Braker was teaching and unable to attend, but will be managing var- WO TEACHERS from recognized during Founders’ ied personalities TNorth Carolina were hon- Day Convocation in February. in my class- ored for their exemplary work Newson graduated from room by in the classroom during Wake Wake Forest with a double remaining a Forest’s Opening Convocation major in education and com- lifelong learner in September. munications and earned a myself.” Martha Williams Newson master’s degree in education Braker, an (’84), a fifth-grade teacher in from the University of North English major, Charlotte, and Mary Beth Carolina at Charlotte. She left a career President Hearn congratulates Pucciano Braker (’91, MAEd. taught at a middle school in with the U.S. Postal Service to Martha Williams Newson (’84) ’96), a high school English Atlanta for one year before return to Wake Forest to earn teacher in Chapel Hill, received joining the faculty at Charlotte her master’s degree in educa- this year’s Marcellus Waddill Country Day School in 1985. tion in 1996. She taught in Although the dead- Excellence in Teaching Awards. “Martha approaches each Burlington, North Carolina, line for the 2001 They were selected from day with an obvious joy for for several years before joining Waddill Awards has among thirty-seven nominees teaching,” said Gilbert G. the faculty at East Chapel Hill already passed, for the seventh annual awards, Webb, head of the middle High School last year. nominations may be sponsored by the Wake Forest school at Charlotte Country “Mary Beth is that rare submitted now for education department and the Day. “Extensive preparation is jewel a school discovers every the 2002 awards. alumni office. Each received a at the heart of her success; she once in a while,” her principal, Any Wake Forest graduate $20,000 cash award from a provides both challenge and David J. Thaden, wrote to the who is currently a full-time fund established in 1994 by extra support for the gifted or judges. “Her classroom struc- classroom teacher in grades businessman David Waddill in struggling learner. It is that ture, her concern for student K-12 (in public or private honor of his father, Professor personal touch that makes her achievement, and her content schools), with at least three Emeritus of Mathematics students feel secure and suc- expertise are outstanding.” years teaching experience, Marcellus Waddill. cessful in her class.” In her philosophy of educa- is eligible. “Both Martha and Mary In her nomination packet, tion, Braker wrote of the To nominate yourself or Beth use a highly participatory Newson explained the necessi- importance of maintaining a someone else, send a letter style to intellectually engage ty of adapting her teaching balance between preparation of no more than one page and involve their students,”said methods to her students’ and flexibility in her class- describing the nominee’s Joseph O. Milner, chair of needs. “To be an effective room. “I must offer a frame- strengths as a teacher to Dr. Wake Forest’s education teacher requires me to reinvent work, spark an interest, and Joseph O. Milner in the department and the Waddill myself and my teaching style set a tone of curiosity and dis- Wake Forest education Awards selection committee. each year depending on the covery. From that point, stu- department. Call the educa- “From the videos and other ‘clientele’ that marches into dents need the opportunity to tion department (336-758- materials the judges evaluated, my classroom each August,” grapple with a subject on their 5341) for a brochure or it was clear that both bring she wrote. “Our students and own for a while. My willing- visit the alumni Web site outstanding preparation and a their learning styles do not ness to adapt, to follow the (www.wfu.edu/alumni/ love of teaching to their class- stay the same year after year, movement of the class into events/waddill.html) for room.” so why should our teaching richer territory is crucial in this more information. methods remain stagnant? I stage of the learning process.” Wf

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Alumni Notes

Al and Lola Pierce of McLean, ◆ THE HISTORIC OLD WELL dozen freshmen and their par- Virginia, parents of first-year student on the old Wake Forest cam- ents who attended an alumni/ Brigette Pierce, study a display for Aramark food services in the Benson pus will soon have a new new student reception during Center during Family Weekend in home beside the Calvin Jones Freshman Orientation. October. The display was one of House, home of the Wake several set up by campus offices Forest Birthplace Society, in ◆ ALUMNI IN New York City and organizations for the fall Parents’ Council meeting. Wake Forest, North Carolina. and Washington, D.C., are Southeastern Baptist needed to share the secrets of Theological Seminary, which their business success with Wake has occupied the campus since Forest students during Career the College moved to Winston-Salem in Forums in those cities in early January. 1956, donated the well to the Birthplace The New York forum will be held on Society in July. The well was once just January 8, followed by the Washington that, a simple well in the center of campus forum on January 9. that supplied water to students and faculty During Career Forums, alumni talk during the College’s early days, before the with students about their jobs, their career class of 1911 donated funds to build the paths, and opportunities in their field, and structure. what it’s like to live and work in their city. Alumni interested in participating should call Jim Fitzpatrick (’00) in the alumni office, (336) 758-5263, or contact him by e-mail at [email protected].

◆ MISSING AN OLD YEARBOOK from your college days? Copies of many past editions of the Howler, dating back to 1974, are now available through the year- book office. An archive of books available can be found at the Howler’s Web site (http://howler.wfu.edu). Each yearbook costs $40. “We constantly hear from alumni who ◆ EIGHTY CHILDREN OF ALUMNI would like an old yearbook from when enrolled at Wake Forest in August, includ- they fell in love with Wake Forest, and ing (above) Mary Moffett, daughter of now we can make that happen,” said Toby and Myra DeLapp (’73, JD ’76) Howler business manager Garyen Moffett of Washington, D.C., and Scott Denning. Francis, son of Jerry (’71, MBA ’82) and For more information, call the Howler Dottie Soper (’71, MAEd ’72) Francis of office at (336) 758-5289. Winston-Salem. They were among several

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New hires activities office as assistant Ambassadors EXEMPLARY director of alumni programs. SERVICE Six new staff members join Earle, a former elementary Alumni represent WFU at advancement team and pre-school teacher, is presidential inaugurations responsible for planning NEW DIRECTOR of the alumni events and programs, AKE FOREST ACollege’s annual fund- such as class reunions and the Wexpresses its gratitude raising drives has been named, alumni travel program. to the following Wake and several other persons Jim Fitzpatrick (’00), a Foresters who have represent- hired recently to fill positions member of last year’s NIT ed the University at recent in the Office of University championship basketball presidential inaugurations at WAKE FOREST Advancement. team, joined the alumni office the following institutions: NEEDS YOUR e Paul J. Kennedy III (’82), as assistant director of the HELP IN previously a major gift officer Wake Forest Clubs program UNC-Chapel Hill RECOGNIZING for the University’s upcoming after graduating in May. He is Hugh Humphrey (’48) THE capital campaign, has been responsible for planning Chairman, Wake Forest UNIVERSITY’S named director of Annual events for alumni clubs Board of Trustees MOST Support and will oversee vari- around the country and work- OUTSTANDING ous fund-raising efforts, ing with young alumni. UNC-Asheville ALUMNI. including the College Fund Santford Garner has been Louis Bissette (’65) and the University Gift Clubs. named director of MBA Nominations are being Kennedy was an account rep- Annual Programs for the Bucknell University sought for the 2001 resentative with BellSouth Babcock Graduate School of Linda Craven Elliott (’66) Distinguished Alumni Award. Advertising in Raleigh before Management. Garner, who Presented to one or more individuals at Homecoming joining the Wake Forest staff was previously with Centura Pepperdine University each year since 1959, the in 1999. Bank in Winston-Salem, is Charles L. Branch Jr. Distinguished Alumni Award Emily Smith Cockerham responsible for the Babcock Associate professor, recognizes alumni who have (’90) has been named associate Fund and planning events for School of Medicine provided exemplary service director of Annual Support and Babcock alumni. Wf to the University or their communities. Wake Forest is responsible for the College veterans will be honored at Fund telethons and fundraising Homecoming 2001—the for College reunion classes. 50th anniversary of the Cockerham was previously ROTC program at Wake with Duke Power Company in Forest—so special considera- Winston-Salem. tion will be given to alumni who have distinguished Daryle Bost, formerly a themselves in military service private banker with Wachovia or in other areas of service and Centura banks, has Kennedy (’82) Cockerham (’90) Bost to the country. replaced Kennedy as a major gift officer for “The Campaign DEADLINE IS JANUARY 31 for Wake Forest: Honoring the Please call (336) 758-4237 Promise.” The campaign will for an official nominating begin publicly next April. form if you know an alumnus Vada Lou Meadows Earle who should be recognized. (’85) has joined the alumni Earle (’85) Fitzpatrick (’00) Garner

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November 3 and 4 ▼ Calloway School Dean Jack Wilkerson welcomes back Calloway School alumni, from left, Jackie Adams (’96, MSA ‘97) of Charlotte, North Carolina; Mark Davis (’91) of Alexandria, Virginia; and Christine Ullom Richardson (’96, MSA ‘97) of

Cary, North Carolina. ▼ Elizabeth Gordon (’80), John Gordon (’80), Cathy Wall Thomas (’80), and Jocelyn Burton (’80)

enjoy the post-game reception on the Magnolia Patio. ▼ No visit back to campus would be complete without going by the Deacon Shop, as Jack Boston (’55) of Roanoke, Virginia, proves. 36-43wake 1/10/01 10:24 AM Page 41

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Lynn Singleton Howland (’80), Sharon Valji Deal (’80), Jayne Moore Weiss (’80), and Pat Bumsted Shafer ▼ ▼

Susan Powell Brinkley (’62), president of the Wake Forest Birthplace Society, explains to Joe Barkocy (’52) the relocation of the old well to the Calvin Jones House; see story, page 38.

Bob (’70) and Dale Nixon of Concord, North Carolina, enjoy tailgating with their daughter, Hollis, a Wake Forest senior.

▼ ▼ Chaplain Ed Christman (’50, JD ’53) with Harriet Chapman (’90) of Cleveland, Ohio, and Justin Latus (’90) of Washington, D.C. ▼

Fred (’42, JD ’48) and Betty Turnage of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Raymond (’50) and Rachel Stone of Kittrell, North Carolina, at the Friday night Alumni Reception in Bridger Field House.

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New Alumni Council members President’s Column

GREETINGS FROM the council is comprised of Homecoming, there are Stephen R. Berlin (’81, JD ’84) Wake Forest Alumni about sixty members who many other ways to be Winston-Salem, North Carolina Association. The Wake work with the University involved with Wake Forest Marc P. Blucas (’94) Santa Monica, California Forest Alumni Council held to support the annual giv- this fall and winter, right Patricia Alphin Boyce (’54) its fall meeting on campus ing campaigns, student where you live—whether it Raleigh, North Carolina during Homecoming week- recruitment, and alumni is through the Alumni-in- John F. Bragg III (’88) end and welcomed twenty- events held on campus and Admissions program, sup- Davidson, North Carolina one new members who will throughout the country. porting the College Fund, Jimmy Broughton (’90) serve three-year terms (see Alumni interested in attending a Wake Forest Washington, D.C. accompanying list). One of serving on the Alumni Club event, participating in Bridget W. Chisholm (’86) the highlights of the meeting Council or nominating a the upcoming Career Memphis, Tennessee was the announcement by fellow alumnus should Forums in New York or Marc Eric Dalton (’92, MD ’97) Charleston, South Carolina the University and the Z. review the nomination form Washington, D.C., or simply Smith Reynolds Foundation on the Alumni Web site at by staying in touch with the Stephen P. Darnell (’70, MBA ’74) Raleigh, North Carolina of the foundation’s expand- www.wfu.edu/alumni Alumni Office via the alum- Michael Jay DeVaney (’69, JD ’71) ed financial commitment to (choose the Volunteer ni Web site, a phone call, or Summerfield, North Carolina Wake Forest, great news Opportunities link). We aim a visit to campus. Kelly Timberlake Ellis (’81) that is covered elsewhere in for a diverse membership Wake Forest is a strong Richmond, Virginia this magazine. that matches the overall institution because of the Lelia Brown Farr (’77) The Alumni Council alumni body in terms of support of our alumni and Ladue, Missouri acts as a link between the geographic representation friends, and I encourage Rosalyn V. Frazier (’93) University administration and class years. you to be an active member Morrisville, North Carolina and approximately 35,000 Another highlight of the of the Wake Forest family. Chip Holden III (’73) Winston-Salem, North Carolina undergraduate alumni. The council meeting was the pre- James W. Judson Jr. (’80) sentation of a documentary Roswell, Georgia video, made by Presidential Notie Vay White Meadows (’56) Scholar Rob Holland (’01), Rocky Mount, North Carolina on the preparations for the Willis E. “Doc” Murphrey III Presidential Debate. (’52, JD ’57) Hopefully, you will have a Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina chance to see this video at a R. Keith Shackleford (’92, JD ’96) Wake Forest, North Carolina Wake Forest Club meeting Bobby Burchfield (’76) Mitesh Bharat Shah (’91) or some other event, so you, President, Wake Forest Alpharetta, Georgia too, can enjoy this behind- Alumni Association Thomas H. Shelton (’74) the-scenes look at the Calistoga, California debate and especially the Philip J. Smith (’68) extensive involvement by Asheville, North Carolina students. Edwin Bruce Woodward (’72) If you weren’t able to Atlanta, Georgia make it back to campus for New Alumni Council members

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President’s Weekend

EVERAL HUNDRED MEMBERS of the University Gift SClubs returned to campus on September 8 and 9 for the annual President’s Weekend events, highlighted by the tradition- al Friday night reception on the Magnolia Patio. ▲ Jennifer Giffen and Erik Vadersen (MBA ’98) of Savannah, Georgia, and Kevin (MBA ’98) and Stephanie Bender of Winston-Salem

▲ Kenneth (’66) and Winnie Swing of Asheville, North Carolina

▲ President’s Aides junior Matt Lindberg of Dublin, Ohio; senior Kara Wallace of Atlanta, Georgia; and junior Shea Foley of Weston, Connecticut

Former “New” Dorm roommates Pam Powell Lutz (’76) ▲ of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Bev Beebe (’76) of Morrisville, North Carolina ▲ “Doc” Murphrey (’52, JD ’57) of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, with Dewey (’47) and Virginia (’45) Hobbs of Winston-Salem

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Prices are per person, London Escapade Ness. This educational journey March 12 - 20, 2001 will take you from the depths of based on double occupan- Loch Ness to the heights of the cy; various departure cities Experience all that London has to misty Highlands. (Alumni offer! Explore the old city on Holidays International) From available. For more informa- your own and then enjoy optional $2,595 (from Atlanta, all- tion, or to place your name excursions to Stratford-Upon- inclusive) Avon, Bath, and Stonehenge. Six Treasures of the on the waiting list for the nights accommodations at the Seine Tuscany trip, call Vada Lou Five-Star Royal Garden Hotel and May 15 - 26, 2001 breakfast each day are included. Meadows Earle (’85), Office (Alumni Holidays International) This 12-day program combines of Alumni Activities, From $1,495 (from Atlanta) two of the world’s great cities and one of the most historic Alumni College in regions in Europe. Begin your Scotland exploration in London before crossing the English Channel to May 9 - 17, 2001 France to begin your cruise along Journey into the heart and high- the world’s most lands of Scotland from Stirling, romantic river the ancient capital. You’ll be and through the immersed in the culture of the heart of Scottish town, where you’ll Normandy. You’ll be meet and mingle with friendly pampered in high French Scots. Day-long excursions will style aboard M/S Normandie, take you to Stirling Castle, a deluxe river cruise designed Bannockburn, Edinburgh, the expressly for navigating the Scottish Highlands, and the Loch Seine. At the end of your journey, Paris, the “City of Lights,” awaits. (Alumni Holidays International) From $3,795 (from Atlanta, all-inclusive) Alum Alumni College in Tuscany June 19 - 27, 2001 Discover Italy’s beautiful Tuscany region. Wander through Trav verdant countryside. Sample fine Chianti wines. Marvel at stunning works of art and ancient edifices that have survived virually 200 untouched for thousand of years. Excursions to Florence, Siena, Montepulciano, and the Umbrian Wake Forest University jewels of Perugia and Asisi com- plete the perfect educational and travel experience. (Alumni Holidays International) From $2,495 (from Atlanta, all- inclusive) Alumni College in Provence July 31 - August 8, 2001 Enjoy picturesque southern France from the historical capital of Provence, Aix-en-Provence. From there, you’ll explore the scenic Mediterranean fishing vil- lage of Cassis; the mountain region of Les Luberon with its ancient churches, fortresses, and hilltop villages; and Avignon, with its fortress-like Papal Palace and 44-61wake 1/10/01 10:32 AM Page 45

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1930s International Publishing Group to coincide with the airing of Robert W. South (’37) is in the PBS documentary “God’s negotiations with Woodhaven Will” in August. Campbell is Publishing in Greenville, NC, to the author of several books, as republish a humorous book he well as the subject of the PBS self-published a number of years documentary. He lives on a ago. farm in Mt. Juliet, TN. Robert “Bob” Helm (’39), George James (’49) retired Worrell Professor of Philosophy Helm (’39) Hendrix (’52) Barrows (’67) approximately five years ago at Wake Forest, was honored at after 27 years of service in the International Symposium of supervisory pharmacology in Calvin H. Miller (’53) serves as near his son, Mark, daughter-in- Pamela Sue Geisinger (’65) Philosophy in Greece. Inscribed the new drug section of the adjunct faculty student teacher law, Heather, and granddaugh- retired in August 1999 after 32 on the award is “The Greek Food and Drug Administration. supervisor in the College of ter, Carson, age 3. years with the U.S. Customs Democracy and the Municipal- He and his wife reside in Lady Education at Appalachian State Fred Gilbert Morrison Jr. (JD Service in Norfolk, VA. When ity of Zacharo honor Dr. Robert Lake, FL. University. ’63) attended the Program of not traveling, she is enjoying her M. Helm for his contribution to R. F. Smith Jr. (’53) retired in Instruction for Lawyers at retirement living in Virginia the science of philosophy and 1950s June 1999 after 20 years in min- Harvard Law School in June. Beach with her two English set- the cultural development of istry at Fifth Avenue Baptist He is senior administrative law ters. Greece.” Helm continues to William “Bill” G. Hendrix Church and 47 years in ministry judge in the N.C. Office of Conrad A. Barrows (’67) of serve as an honorary member of (’52)was honored with a all total. He had five Baptist Administrative Hearings. Plymouth, WI, received an the committee for the Lifetime Achievement Award churches in North Carolina, MBA from Lakeland College in International Symposium. during Southern College of Thomas P. McNamara (JD ’64) was active in the state and Sheboygan, WI. Following 30 Optometry’s Fall Homecoming has been appointed by the Southern Baptist Convention, years in sales and marketing for 1940s and Continuing Education judges of the Fourth Circuit and wrote two books: “Looking the plastics industry, Barrows Weekend. This award honors Court of Appeals as Federal Will D. Campbell (’48, Doctor Homeward” and “Sit Down accepted the position of director alumni who have demonstrat- Public Defender for the Eastern of Humanities ’88) is the God, I’m Angry.” He is married of planned giving at Lakeland. ed exemplary leadership skills District of North Carolina. He author of “Brother to a to Faye T. Smith (’55). His responsibilities include and made outstanding contri- had been in private practice in Dragonfly,” which was re- enlarging the college’s Founder’s butions to the profession Holland Victor Moore (’59) has Raleigh for 24 years after serv- released in a 25th anniversary Society and aiding in the writing and/or the college. retired after 27 years as chief of ing as U.S. Attorney from 1972- edition by Continuum pediatric cardiothoracic surgery 1976. He has the distinction of of grant proposals. He has a at the Medical College of being the second person in the daughter, Emily, a PA residing in Georgia. history of the United States to Rockford, IL, and a son, Alan, employed by the Wisconsin If you have news you would like to share — have served as both U.S. Attorney and Federal Public Department of Natural promotions, awards, honors, announcements Resources and living in Elkhart 1960s Defender. Lake. of marriage, births, adoptions, deaths, etc.— Manning L. Smith (’64) retired Fred L. Coward III (’60) is please send it to Christine Underwood, class as dean of student services of James L. Graham (JD’67) was president of Navigant Garrett Community College in elected president of the North notes editor, Wake Forest Magazine, P.O. Box International—Southeast, a McHenry, MD. He is now serv- Carolina Association of County 7205 Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, NC public company trading on ing as rector of St. James Attorneys in July 2000 for a 27109-7205. Internet: [email protected]. NASDAQ under the symbol Episcopal Church in one-year term. FLYR. We are sorry, but we cannot publish third- Westernport, MD, on a part- Don Maddox (JD’67) has been Benjamin Lawrence Honeycutt party news unless the person submitting it time basis, commuting from his appointed to a vacancy on the (’60) retired and was named Mountain Lake Park home District Court bench in Lea provides a telephone number for verification professor emeritus of French at three days each week. His e- County, New Mexico. and accepts responsibility for the accuracy of the University of Missouri, mail address is stjames@gcnet- Columbia, MO. He plans to the information. mail.net. continue to reside in Columbia

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ouldn’t it be nice to receive a check from Wake Forest each quarter for the rest of your life? A Wgift to Wake Forest in exchange for a charitable gift annuity is an exciting way to make a differ- ence at your alma mater and receive annual income as long as you live. It’s a way to make your gift to Wake Forest work for you. In addition to lifetime income, you may also benefit from: • A higher return on your investment • An immediate charitable income tax deduction • Partial tax-free income on gifts of cash • Reduced capital gains liability on gifts of appreciated property a • A reduction of estate taxes • Professional investment services example: gift Gift of $50,000 cash made by an individual age 65 Gift to Wake Forest $50,000 Annual income at 7.0% return 3,500 that Tax-free income 1,512 Ordinary income 1,988 Charitable income tax deduction 19,917 gives

For more information about this and Allen H. Patterson Jr. (’72) other planned giving opportunities, Director of Planned Giving back please return the envelope in the front P.O. Box 7227 Reynolda Station of this magazine or contact: Winston-Salem, NC 27109 Or call (336) 758-5284 or 1-800-752-8570

Dan Ferezan (’68) has joined Circuit Court in Pontiac, MI. 1971 Triangle Business Journal and 1974 Burdeshaw Associates, Ltd. as Robert has been married to his the Raleigh Chamber of Ronald P. Townsend is com- Malcolm Wheeler Jones wrote vice president, Army ground wife, Elizabeth, for 24 years. Commerce, honor women in manding officer of the Strike the lead articles for two weeks systems. A retired colonel, he They have three children: the Triangle area that have Fighter Squadron 22 Fighting running in Newsweek during served 28 years in the Army Nathaniel, 20, Benjamin, 17, shown leadership in business. Redcocks. He has accumulated the month of July. The articles and three years in private and Emily, 15. Arrowood was nominated by 2,800 flight hours and more were on the Harry Potter book industry. the Wake County YWCA. She Ken West is professor and than 650 arrested landings. His series. is a partner in the Raleigh Stancil Campbell (’69, MA ’74) director of the Center for awards include the Defense office of the law firm of Parker, moved to Egypt to accept an Family Education at Meritorious Service Medal, the 1975 appointment as professor of Lynchburg College in Virginia. Poe, Adams & Bernstein, Strike Flight Air Medal, the John David Reeder has been performing and visual arts at His new book, “The Shelbys L.L.P. and is a commercial liti- Joint Service Commendation installed as president for 2000- the American University in Need Help! A Choose-Your- gator in the firm’s commercial Medal, and the Navy 2002 of his medical group, the Cairo. Own-Solutions Guidebook for contracts practice group. She is Commendation Medal. He has Clinical Magnetic Resonance Parents” has been published by also a member of the firm’s been married for more than 18 Society. He is co-author of 1970 Impact Publishers. He is also management committee. years to Renee. They live in “MRI Atlas of the Joints,” the author of “Parenting Edward A. Tupin was promot- Robert “Bing” Bingham is the Hanford, CA, with their two which was published in 1992 Without Guilt” and “The 21 ed to Captain (O-6) in the chief adult probation officer in children. by Williams and Wilkins. Deadly Myths of Parenting” Marion Superior Court in commissioned corps of the U.S. and has written a newspaper Phil Thrailkill is pastor at Indianapolis, IN. His probation 1973 Public Health Service. He is a column in Lynchburg’s News senior health physicist working Duncan Memorial UMC in career has spanned 30 years. Catharine Biggs Arrowood (JD & Advance for 15 years. at the Agency for Toxic Georgetown, SC. He gave bib- Most recently, he served as ’76) received one of the Substances and Disease lical lectures on James and Family Division Administrator Triangle Business Journal’s 25 Registry, a sister agency to the Luke in California and North for the Oakland County Women in Business Awards. Centers for Disease Control in Carolina this summer. His son The awards, presented by the Atlanta.

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Daniel is a golf pro and a stu- Jernigan, L.L.P. in Raleigh, he 1978 dent at Campbell University. practices in the area of civil lit- Bob Bilbrough is founder, igation with a concentration in chairman and CEO of 1976 business and commercial cases, Qualcon. The company was the products liability and personal Allen Holt Gwyn (JD) has recipient of the 2000 Pacesetter injury matters. He, his wife, completed his term as chair of Award as “Atlanta’s Fastest Wynn, and their four children, the American Bar Association Growing Private Business.” It Elise, 12, Rush, 10, James, 8, Forum on the Construction receives international recogni- and Grace, 3, make their home Industry. The forum is the tion for its pioneering practice Townsend (’71) Cain (’77) in Raleigh. nation’s premier construction of continuous flow manufac- law group, with over 6,000 David N. Farr, senior executive turing in the electronics manu- hold this position for one year for the Angel Project, a local members. Gwyn is the first vice president and chief operat- facturing service provider and preside over the bankrupt- Tokyo fundraising project for North Carolinian to serve in ing officer of Emerson Electric industry. Bilbrough was named cy council, which is the gov- women and children. Her this capacity. Co., has been elected chief finalist for the inaugural erning body of the section. The husband is the treasurer of bankruptcy section has in Exxon-Mobil Japan. Kenneth R. Jacobson (JD) is executive officer of Emerson Georgia Technology Leadership excess of 540 members. chief financial officer and gen- and appointed to the compa- Award presented by Georgia Gardner is a certified bank- 1980 eral counsel for Reynolds ny’s board of directors. He Gov. Roy Barnes at Atlanta’s ruptcy specialist by the N.C. Smith and Hills, Inc., a 500- joined the company in 1981. SciTrek in October. Bilbrough C. Forrest Faison III and his State Bar Board of Legal person architectural, engineer- Ellen Hemphill (MAEd) was is married to Catherine Watson family have moved to Specialization and the ing and planning firm one of 13 choreographers, Bilbrough (’83). Okinawa, Japan, where he has American Board of headquartered in Jacksonville, visual artists and creators of Powell Bland received a master assumed duties as the group Certification. She is also a FL. He accepted the position in film, audio or video from the of arts in Christian education surgeon for the 3rd Force Chapter 7 panel trustee in the December 1999 after 23 years Triangle area who were recipi- from Union Theological Service Support Group of the Raleigh Division of the U.S. in private practice in ents of N.C. Arts Council Seminary and Presbyterian United States Marines. He is in Bankruptcy Court for the Greensboro. He and his family Fellowship Awards. Awardees School of Christian Education charge of medical care for over Eastern District of North live in Ponte Vedra Beach. received $8,000 for each pro- in Richmond, VA. 6,700 active duty marines and Carolina. Gardner is a partner ject. Hemphill will study sailors on Okinawa and Korea. Jill Murray is a regional sales Stephen D. Coggins has been with the Raleigh, NC, law firm European theater choreogra- Rodney R. Goodman (JD) has representative for the mid- named Pro Bono Attorney of of Smith Debnam Narron phy. She is the artistic director been designated chief District Atlantic region for The Lane the Year by the N.C. Bar Wyche Story & Myers, L.L.P. of Archipelago Theatre and is Press, printer of Wake Forest Association. The award recog- Court judge of North Carolina becoming known for her Thomas O’Toole has been Magazine. nizes lawyers who contribute to judicial district eight. He has unique approach to movement named college sports editor of the community by offering pro served as a District Court in theater across the nation. USA TODAY in Arlington, VA. 1977 bono legal assistance to citizens judge for Greene, Lenoir and She is on the faculty of the He is in charge of directing the Wayne counties since 1980. Charles L. Cain has joined of North Carolina. Coggins is a American Dance Festival in newspaper’s coverage for all He and his wife, Cathy, have Banner Pharmacaps Inc., a partner in the Raleigh office of Durham and has conducted college sports. He previously two children, Laura, 17, and leading developer and manu- the law firm of Parker, Poe, workshops in France, had been sports editor of John, 14. They reside in facturer of soft gelatin capsules Adams & Bernstein, L.L.P. and Switzerland, Denmark, Scripps Howard News Service Kinston and attend Queen for the nutritional and phar- is a member of the torts and Holland, Spain, Japan, Mexico in Washington, D.C. Street United Methodist maceutical markets, as senior insurance practice group. He and throughout the United Church. vice president, global legal and serves as voluntary legal coun- States. She is also a playwright 1979 public affairs. He is a former sel for the AIDS Service Agency Karen Ann Jaenke completed and director. Douglas J. Reynolds is a prac- partner with the law firm of of North Carolina. her dissertation “Personal Ben Kilgore and his wife, tice fellow at the Financial Wyatt, Early, Harris and Johnny K. Foster has been Dreamscape as Ancestral Rachel, live in Raleigh, NC, Accounting Standards Board in Wheeler in High Point, NC, named president of SkyTech, Landscape” at the California with their three children, Ben Norwalk, CT, on assignment and has served as principal Inc. (skytechinc.com), a general Institute of Integral Studies in V, 11, Rebecca, 10, and from Grant Thornton, L.L.P. in local counsel for Banner for aviation sales and service orga- San Francisco and is on the George, 6. Kilgore works as a New York. He meets his wife, the past three years. nization with home offices in adjunct faculty at CISS and senior associate with CB Catherine, on weekends in John F. Kennedy University in James K. Dorsett III (JD) was Baltimore. He has been with Richard Ellis as part of their Osterville, Cape Cod, MA, and Orinda, CA, teaching classes in selected by the nominating the company since 1980, fol- investment property group. CB is a motorcyclist and certified narrative research and dream committee for election to the lowing a two-year stint with Richard Ellis is the largest flight instructor. studies. She also serves as a office of vice president of the the Baltimore Colts. commercial real estate compa- Nancy Young Wechsler lives dream consultant to private North Carolina State Bar. A Terri L. Gardner (JD ’81) ny in the world. in Tokyo, Japan, with her clients. partner with Smith, Anderson, became chairman of the bank- husband, Gregg, and daugh- Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & ruptcy section of the N.C. Bar ter, Elizabeth Ashley, 19 Association in June. She will months. She is chairperson

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Alumni Profile

Cameron Kent (’79)

Novel Kent had thirty pages week. But a week before Make Me Disappear, a of a family drama in hand production, a new execu- young adult novel, pub- approach when he arrived in L.A. He tive killed the project. Then lished by Royal Fireworks soon learned that the the executive gave him the Press in 1994. He devel- HEN Cameron fastest way to sell is to idea for Seduced and oped the idea for his cur- WKent (’79) was write suspense thrillers. Betrayed, which aired as rent book,When the thirty, he had two pas- Hank Davies (’80), a an NBC Movie of the Ravens Die (Silk Label sions that he couldn’t Sigma Chi fraternity broth- Week in 1995. Books) in 1990 during a shake—movies and er and then a sergeant in Just as his writing two-week trip to Great writing. He was a vice and narcotics for the career started to take off, Britain. Before long, he sports anchor for WXII, Culver City (California) family life led Kent in a knew it wasn’t a screen- Winston-Salem’s Police Department, new direction. He got to play. “I wanted to write television station, advised Kent on his sus- know Sue Satrom (’78) something a little more and loved his pense thrillers. The first when they played together epic,” he says. work, but he week Kent was in L.A., on a softball team. The Finally, in 1995, the wanted to try screenwriters went on two, who had been novel started to come to screenwriting. strike, which Kent consid- acquaintances at Wake life during early morning So he started ers a blessing. He wrote Forest, married in 1990. sessions after the 11 talking to screen- ten hours a day and When their son, Colin, p.m. newscast. It took writers and read began to make contacts. was born in 1992, Sue three years to finish. all he could. He He finished three screen- Kent kept her job selling Writing was a great borrowed a plays before he felt pres- computer software. Kent release after the stress of screenplay from sure to submit his work. stayed home to write. his television job. “The his old journalism He lived on savings When a second child, hardest part,” he says, professor, Bynum the first year. Later, he Lauren, was born in 1994, “is to shut off the com- Shaw, to learn the earned a living writing for the family was ready to puter and go to bed.” form. Finally, he comedians he met at The leave L.A. With young chil- In the novel, an asked himself, Comedy Store, The dren, the Kents couldn’t American professor, How hard can it Improv, and The Laugh enjoy the perks of big-city adopted as an infant, be? Factory. He met Jimmie life anymore. The news traces his roots to “I took a big Walker of TV’s “Good anchor job at WXII England and discovers a Times,” and together they ‘I just didn’t want to gulp, walked in, and quit opened, and they moved tie to the royal family. The my job. I sold my house. wrote five screenplays, back to Winston-Salem. discovery threatens the My dog and I packed four of which were Kent loves working as a crown prince, who is look back and up and moved to Califor- optioned and one of news anchor. The only loosely modeled on nia.” That was in 1988. which was produced. downside is that he doesn’t Prince Charles. “I’ve had Now, back in The first of Kent’s have much time and energy dreams of Harrison Ford think, ‘Golly, I wish Winston-Salem as the screenplays to become a for creative writing. But starring in it,” Kent said, news anchor for WXII, movie was Nightrangers, when he does, he is free adding that Emma he has seen two of his which he co-produced with from the constant pressure Thompson would be well- I’d tried this.” scripts published as a student director at the of writing to sell. cast as the princess royal. made-for-TV movies and American Film Institute. Novels aren’t sure mon- Who knows? As a novel he has written That success brought anoth- eymakers, but they allow Kent has learned, some was published in er. He was hired by NBC the writer a broader can- dreams do come true. November. to write a movie of the vas. Kent had already seen —LAURA M ORETZ

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Lynne C. Kaye and her hus- Alexandria,VA. They celebrat- Conference in 1996 and 2000. recognized firm with a staff of gand, Leo E. Subler, are found- ed the birth of their daughter, The North Carolina nine. ing The Rider’s Edge, a sports, Anna Grace, on Aug. 11, 2000. Conference awarded her its information and shopping Web They live in Occoquan, VA, Significant Achievement in 1983 site for equestrians. The com- where Pierce is the deputy Race Relations award in 1996. Randy Belcher (MA) has pany was just admitted to county executive of Prince Liz Brown Kyle has been joined Doner as a senior vice eHive, a technology incubator William County. Stacy is on inducted to the Butte College president, creative director. In headquartered in Middleburg, leave from her job as a manage- Hall of Fame. She transferred this position, he is responsible VA. The couple invites anyone ment and organizational devel- to Wake Forest from the for supervising creative for the Belcher (MA ’83) who is an equestrian or sup- opment consultant with the California college. She has agency’s direct response ports an equestrian to call national headquarters of the been promoted to principal of accounts including Sylvan 1984 (540) 554-8740, visit 20110 American Red Cross, which she northeastern California’s Fall Learning Centers, ADT Home John B. Burgess Jr. (MD ’88) Woodtrail Road, Round Hill, joined in 1998. That same year, River Junior/Senior High Security, Cintas and Teligent. has been promoted to the rank VA, 20141 or send an e-mail to she received a master’s in School and is active in the Prior to joining Doner, Belcher of Commander in the U.S. [email protected]. human resource development California Interscholastic worked as a creative director Navy. He has assumed the Deni McIntyre and her hus- from George Washington Federation, which governs high for The Martin Agency in position of staff physician, band, Will, have traveled the University. school athletics in the state, Richmond, VA, on the GEICO emergency department, Naval globe as a freelance photogra- Jane Murphy Oberholtzer and is on the board of man- Auto Insurance, Advance Auto Hospital at Camp Pendleton. phy team, shooting in more moved with her family to agers and executive committee Parts, Homebytes and FMC He is single and lives in than 50 countries on assign- Preston, CT, where she is a for the northern section. accounts. Encinitas, California. ment for corporations, national stay-at-home mom to Grace, 7, J. Wesley Thompson has R. Stephen “Steve” Hyatt has magazines and advertising and Benton, 4. She and her hus- joined a new HIV/ID and been named vice president of 1985 agencies. Their destination band, Chris, are expecting a internal medicine practice in corporate development at Deryl Davis and his wife, images are showcased in their baby in early January. She’d Charlotte, NC. He has prac- AutoNation, Inc. Steve, his Whitney Warren, have moved new book, “All Over the Map: love to hear from any alumni in ticed medicine for 13 years, wife, Paige, and two young to Washington, DC, where he Travel Photographs & the the area. the last seven of those with children live in Fort has taken a job as religion edi- Stories Behind Them.” Kiser Permanente, before Lauderdale, FL, where tor with the PBS program Published by Loose Ends Press, 1982 joining the Jemsek Clinic. He AutoNation is headquartered. the book is available from the “Religion & Ethics Ben Freeman is head football invites everyone to visit their Neal R. Jones completed his McIntyre’s own Web site, Newsweekly.” coach and athletic director at Web site at http://www.jem- pre-doctoral internship at the www.macfoto.com, as well as John McCamie DeArmon III is Pelion High School in South sekclinic.com or drop by to University of South Carolina from booksellers nationwide. CEO of Xo3, a European com- Carolina. He has been named say hello. Wes and Trey live in Counseling Center and grad- The couple resides in Winston- pany specializing in building president of the S.C. Athletic North Carolina with their uated with a Psy.D. from Salem. software for the development Coaches Association for 2000- two Schnauzers, Berkeley and Baylor University in August. of complex web sites. He is the Thomas J. Smith III was 2001. Maximillian. Trey works for He is a psychologist for the installed as president of the IBM in Charlotte. This former SUN Microsystems Edith Gleaves has joined the Pastoral Counseling Center of Monmouth Bar Association in November, Wes and Trey will EMEA managing director. staff of the General Board of the S.C. Baptist Hospital in May. He is a partner in the firm celebrate their 15th anniver- Global Ministries as deputy Columbia, where he resides Rhett Herman received the of Smith and Shaw in West sary. general secretary for mission with his wife, Toni. Radford University College of Long Branch, NJ. He resides in Arts and Sciences Distin- personnel. Her responsibilities Mary Tribble was awarded the Mercedes Teixido has been Howell Township with his wife guished Teaching Award dur- include the recruitment, selec- Entrepreneur of the Year promoted to associate profes- and three children. ing the May 2000 tion, training, assignment and Award by the Charlotte (North sor of art and granted tenure commencement ceremony. nurture of nearly 2,000 United Carolina) Chamber of at Pomona College, where she 1981 Herman said of the distinction: Methodist mission personnel Commerce. Tribble, owner of has been a member of the fac- “Since we commonly teach as Mark Crabtree has been elected around the world. Before join- the event management and ulty since 1995. She teaches we have been taught, this is a to a second two-year term as ing the staff of the mission marketing firm Tribble Introductory Drawing, very direct reflection on the mayor of Martinsville, VA. board she was pastor of Creative Group, won the Advanced Drawing, Issues in teaching I received during my Bob Humphries (JD ’89) was Resurrection United Methodist award in the 1-20 employees Contemporary Drawing, and years at Wake.” promoted to the position of Church in Durham, NC. A category from a field of nomi- Installation: Art and Context. assistant chief counsel of the two-term director of the Board nations garnered from Her art has been shown in solo Ben McDonald has completed U.S. Customs Service. He is in of Ordained Ministry and chair throughout the city. Her recog- and group exhibitions the Army command and gener- charge of the chief counsel’s of its evaluation and morale nition comes after 15 years of throughout the world. al staff officer course and is office in El Paso, Texas. committee, she has served on building a business from a one- assigned as an instructor at the several bishops’ task forces and person shop to a nationally Special Warfare Center and Stacy L. Luks married Pierce was a delegate to the School at Fort Bragg, NC. Homer Oct. 9, 1999 in Southeastern Jurisdictional

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Jay Scribner is assistant profes- responsible for the legal needs 1987 Gregg E. McDougal (JD) has 1988 sor of educational leadership of the various Habitat pro- moved from the Augusta office Brian Bouchelle has accepted Stephanie Casto Gregory, her and policy analysis at the grams in over 20 countries. He of Kilpatrick Stockton, L.L.P. the job of director of catering husband Dan, and their daugh- University of Missouri- resides with his wife, Amy, in to co-lead the litigation section and meeting services at the ters, Zara, 2, and April, 5 Columbia. He is a 2000-2001 Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. for the law firm’s Raleigh Wyndham Orlando Resort. He months, have relocated to National Academy of office. He joined Kilpatrick Steve Reeder has been promot- and Barbara are building their Overland Park, KS. Stephanie Education Fellow. He lives in Stockton in 1987 and became a ed to senior vice president at first house in the Orlando area. has chosen to stay home with Columbia, MO, with his wife, partner in 1995. He was hon- BB&T. Having joined the bank He has been in hotel catering the girls while Dan continues Lisa, and sons, Pierce and Jay ored with the J.W. Fanning in 1992, he is benefits manager sales for the last nine years and his career at Sprint. Bowman. for BB&T’s compensation and Fellow Award in 1999 for his has worked for Marriott, Travis Knowles (MS) received benefits department. He and his outstanding service and dedica- Sheraton and Doubletree. the 1999-2000 Award for 1986 wife, Michelle, reside in tion to civic leadership. John Holt has been named the Excellence in Teaching at Donna Stevens McCurry is Winston-Salem and have two C. Howard “Ward” Nye was chief information officer of Francis Marion University in working at home in her role as children, Andrew, 3, and named president of Hanson American Wood Moulding in Florence, SC. This was the controller for Rolane Factory Natalie, 1. Aggregates East, Inc., head- Hanover, MD, the largest award’s inaugural year. He was Outlets so she can spend more quartered in Research Triangle Michael G. Sebesta has been manufacturer of wood mould- also promoted to the rank of time with her two daughters, Park, NC. Hanson Aggregates elected a senior vice president ing in the United States. assistant professor of biology. Ashley, 4, and Hannah, 20 of Wachovia Bank N.A. He is East is a subsidiary of London- Before joining AWM, Holt Jennifer Kim Plybon Penberthy months. Hannah was diag- based in Winston-Salem, and based Hanson PLC. Nye was the director of sales and (MA ’91) is a clinical psycholo- nosed with juvenile diabetes serves as a senior fixed income joined Hanson in October marketing for a computer gist and assistant professor in just after her first birthday, but portfolio manager in the asset 1993 as the general counsel for software and services compa- the Department of Psychiatric everyone is adjusting well. management/institutional client its construction materials hold- ny that specializes in intellec- Medicine at the University of Arthur Orr is staff attorney for services group. ings in the eastern United tual property management. Virginia in Charlottesville. She Habitat for Humanity States. is married to David Penberthy, International in the a radiation oncologist at UVA, Asia/Pacific area, where he is

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and has a 5-year-old daughter, Russell Rogers has been named Jennifer Morgan. the director of athletics, physi- Renee Roy is working in col- cal education and recreation at lege relations at the headquar- Stevens Institute of Technology ters of Wachovia Bank in in Hoboken, NJ. In this role, Winston-Salem. She and Ben he will oversee the school’s 18 are engaged and planning a varsity athletic teams, which wedding for spring 2001 in compete on the NCAA Winston-Salem. Division III level. He joined Reeder (’86) Sebesta (’86) McDougal (JD ’87) Stevens in 1995 as director of Elizabeth Morriss Srinivasan is campus recreation and head Adams. His practice concen- Vicki retired from her district Wake Forest and USC Law, senior attorney for the Battered men’s tennis coach. In 1998 he trates in the area of labor and manager position with MetLife Blackmon received a master’s Women’s Justice Project in was promoted to the position employment law, representing to raise Will and their second degree in English and worked Harrisburg, PA, having of assistant athletic director employers. He lives in child, due in December. for Wachovia Mortgage. resigned as director of legal ser- and sports information direc- Charlotte with his wife, Meg, vices for the Domestic Violence Robert G. Spaugh (JD), a solo Jody L. Jones received an tor. He is married to the for- and two sons, George, 4, and Center of Chester County, Inc. practitioner in Winston-Salem, appointment as an assistant mer Mary Jane Lawler. They Charles, 1. in West Chester, PA. has been elected chair of the clinical professor of medicine reside in Branchburg, NJ, with Thomas W. Britt (MA) has ethics and grievance committee through the UNC School of S. Judson “Jud” Waites II has their two children, Bryan, 3, started a tenure-track position for the Forsyth County Bar Medicine, Department of moved his law practice to 145 and Camryn, 7 months. as assistant professor in the Association for 2000-2001. Gastroenterology. She is a clin- Church Street, Suite 110, Jabin White has accepted a psychology department at ical psychologist on the Marietta, GA 30060. His Mark Taylor (JD) is with the position with Unbound Clemson University. abdominal transplant team, phone number is (770) 420- firm of Stoll, Keenon & Park, Medicine, a technology com- where she participates in the 6566. He practices in the states Stuart A. Brock graduated with L.L.P. in Lexington, KY. He is pany focused on clinical soft- evaluation and treatment of of Georgia and Alabama and honors from the evening pro- in charge of the patent law ware applications for liver and kidney recipients. She continues to handle state and gram of the N.C. Central group at the Kentucky firm. physicians. His wife, Meg joins Wake Forest alumna Eva federal litigation and dispute University School of Law in Mark lives in Lexington with Moreland White (’88), is direc- Powell (’90), a social worker resolution in the areas of con- May and has joined the law his wife, Lou Ann, and their tor of digital business develop- with the liver transplant team. tracts, business/commercial firm of Womble Carlyle son, Steve. ment at Lippincott Williams & concerns, employment, Sandridge & Rice, P.L.L.C. as William White is a road Wilkins, a division of Wolters employment discrimination, an associate in the insurance, 1991 designer in the transportation Kluwer. She also serves as pres- sexual harassment, personal governmental and tort section department of Birdsall ident of the board of directors Mark A. Becker was promoted injury/wrongful death, unem- of its Winston-Salem office. Engineering, Inc. in Belmar, of the American Medical to lieutenant colonel in August ployment benefits and criminal NJ. He and his wife, Jamie, Publishers’ Association. They Nancy A. Daniels received an at a ceremony at the Pentagon defense. have two children, Haley live in Phoenixville, PA, with MBA from Gardner-Webb where he works for the Chief Jessica, born Nov. 18, 1996, their daughter, Kate, and bea- University and is working at of Staff of the Army in the 1989 and Kyle William, born April gles, Larry and Chief. Their e- Sara Lee as a manager of com- Program Analysis and 28, 2000. Mary Paige Forrester is manag- mail addresses are pensation and benefits. Evaluation Directorate. In this ing the Child Support [email protected] and Scott Miller is a field adjuster capacity, Becker helps develop, D. Brian Williams completed Enforcement Client Services [email protected] with North Carolina Farm forecast and implement the his post-dental school tour of Call Center in Everetts, NC. $450-plus billion Army Future duty in the U.S. Air Force in Sabina C. Widner (MA) was Bureau Insurance Company in North Carolina is the first state Years Defense Plan. October and moved to promoted to the rank of asso- Greensboro, NC. His wife, to implement this federal man- Charlotte, NC, where he ciate professor at Augusta Christa Miller (’91), is the cor- Alison Chilcott has resigned date and open a facility to sup- joined the practice of Dr. Perry State University. She was also porate controller for Champion from her position as a proper- port the calls for child support Sowell D.D.S. granted tenure. Industries in Winston-Salem. ty manager to travel and work enforcement. She leads two call They have one son, Benjamin, in Europe. Laura M. Williams has been center operations managers and 1990 who was born Jan. 16, 1997. Blackmon Huckabee finished named a Fellow of the 80 support staff and child sup- Casualty Actuarial Society. She G. Bryan Adams III, formerly a Kurt Nelson and his wife, law school at the University of port administrators. was awarded the fellowship partner at Waggoner, Hamrick, Vicki, live in Memphis, TN, South Carolina in May. He is Kurt M. Ribisl is an assistant designation by successfully Hasty, Monteith and Kratt, with their 19-month-old son, married to Sheila Brieges professor in the department of completing 15 examinations P.L.L.C., has joined the Will. Kurt handles leasing and Huckabee and they have a 1- health behavior and health edu- that are administered by CAS Charlotte, NC, law firm of development in Memphis and year-old daughter, Ashby Cate. cation at the UNC School of twice each year. She also com- Van Hoy, Reutlinger & Taylor, Denver for Industrial Sheila is an instructional spe- Public Health. His research pleted the required CAS course the firm’s name changing to Developments International, a cialist with the Rock Hill School focuses on tobacco control pol- on professionalism. Williams is Van Hoy, Reutlinger & national real estate developer. District and Blackmon is an icy and Internet-based health associate with Murdock Law an assistant actuary at Liberty education strategies. Firm in Rock Hill. Between Mutual Group in Boston.

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1992 Cherry Chevy is engaged to Ashley Hairston (’92). The Patrick Day left the pastorate couple plans to wed in the to accept the position of direc- University Chapel of the tor of community and adminis- University of Virginia in the tration at Wellness House, an spring. Chevy is a resident psy- independent non-profit outside chiatrist at Duke University Chicago which provides sup- and Hairston is a doctoral can- port for cancer patients and didate at the University of their families. He remains an Virginia and is on the Sweet ordained minister in the Briar College faculty as a Presbyterian Church (USA). DuPont Fellow. Friends can On May 11, 2000, his wife, contact the two at hair- Katie, gave birth to a son, [email protected]. Galvin Joseph. The family lives in Naperville, IL. Ken Darty (JD) has resumed his practice as a solo practi- Christy Henson was promoted tioner in the Law Offices of to director of store support in Kenneth B. Darty, P.L.L.C. He the financial planning and has received more than 25 suc- analysis department at Lowe’s cessful verdicts in the over 50 Companies, Inc., based in superior court and federal jury Wilkesboro, NC. She has been trials for which he has served with Lowe’s for five years, hav- as counsel. Though his primary ing received an MBA from Get connected with Wake Forest friends focus is criminal law, he has Appalachian State University one of the largest civil practices in 1995. and classmates through in his hometown of Statesville, Mary Peace McRae graduated NC, having won one of the- the Wake Forest with a doctor of pharmacy largest civil (personal injury) degree from the Medical verdicts in Iredell County in Information Network (WIN) College of Virginia in the last 10 years. He is the Richmond and has begun a father of two children, Jordan, Ph.D. program in pharma- 8, and Kaleigh, 6. cotherapy at UNC-Chapel Harold Greeney began the WIN IS YOUR FREE CONNECTION TO: Hill. Yanayacu Biological Station The Online Alumni Directory Neil Hunter Raiford is a senior and Center for Creative Studies project manager with Capital in the cloud forest of eastern One Financial Services in Ecuador. He lives there full E-mail Forwarding For Life Richmond, VA. time while continuing research David Styers has been promoted on butterflies, birds and other Personal Information Form for change of address to director of volunteer center tropical organisms, as well as development at the Points of developing his drawing and Light Foundation, where he has painting skills. He welcomes AND MORE SERVICES COMING IN THE FUTURE! worked since January. He over- visitors, volunteers, students, sees technical assistance, capaci- artists, writers and researchers, ▲ and plans to teach joint biolo-

▲ ty building and leadership development for the nation’s gy/art retreats in the future. 450 volunteer centers. To find Greeney invites anyone inter- VISIT THE WIN out about volunteer opportuni- ested in more information on ties in your area, call 1-800- this and other projects in VOLUNTEER or visit Ecuador to e-mail him at HOME PAGE TO SIGN-UP www.VolunteerConnections.org [email protected] Holly J. Guest (JD) has accept- AND SAY HELLO TO 1993 ed the position of senior coun- Elizabeth Barron is teaching sel at Hasbro, Inc., practicing FRIENDS @ WFU. French at Wake Forest while licensing, intellectual property completing a Ph.D. from and entertainment law. UNC-Chapel Hill. 44-61wake 1/10/01 10:33 AM Page 53

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Greg Harrington moved from School of Medicine, where he family’s construction and distri- two-year, permanent-status University of South Carolina Charlottesville, VA, to received a Board of Governors bution business in Orlando and appointment with a state in May and is an investment Sacramento, CA, for a post- Scholarship. He did his resi- Fort Lauderdale. He completed agency. Upon completing the banking associate in the doctoral research position at dency in internal medicine at a 12-week internship in the appointment, the Fellow healthcare group at SG Cowen UC-Davis Medical Center. Moses Cone Health System, business development group of receives permanent employ- Securities in New York. Foodtrader.com, an Internet ment in a state agency. Baker Dorian R. Kuropas completed where he was chief resident. Matthew Rush and his wife, start-up based in Miami. He graduated from UNC-Chapel his MBA at Lenoir-Rhyne He is a member of “Doc Kellie Reed Rush (’94) have can be reached via e-mail at Hill with a master of public College in August and accepted Jocks,” a basketball team of moved to Charlotte, NC. He [email protected]. administration degree and is a a sales position as Northeast physicians who play games to received an MBA in May from fellow at the N.C. Department account manager for Corning raise funds for various local Elizabeth Inabinett has been the Darden Graduate School of of Health and Human Cable Systems. His market charities. named tax director at the Business at the University of Services. responsibilities are the emerg- Winston-Salem headquarters of Virginia and is working for ing carriers. He has relocated to 1994 Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. Jason M. Conley is staff coun- First Union Securities as an Newport, RI. Margaret “Peggy” Beach (MA) She was a tax manager at sel for ITS America in associate in the mergers and PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P. Washington, DC. He is active- acquisitions group. Adnan Shariff graduated from is the special events coordina- in Greensboro before joining ly engaged in legislative and Temple University in 1997 with tor and writer for the N.C. Erin Harzinski Russo has com- Krispy Kreme. She also served policy advocacy with respect the degree of doctor of podi- Community College System in pleted her master’s degree in as senior tax accountant for to intelligent transportation atric medicine. In 1999, he Raleigh. guidance and counseling at Fieldcrest Cannon in systems. He resides in completed his residency at the Elizabeth Rief Cheek has The Sage Graduate School in Kannapolis. She lives in Arlington, VA. Veterans Hospital in received an M.Ed. in Latin Troy, NY. She is a guidance Lexington. Washington, DC. He is married from UNC-Greensboro and is Brian Flagler has joined the counselor at The Delaware and working in the West Palm teaching at Summit School. She Michael R. Marino and his law firm of Davis Wright Academy, a public high school Beach, FL, area as a podiatrist. is teaching Latin to junior high wife, Elana M. Scheiner, have Tremaine L.L.P. in their in Delhi, NY. She and her hus- opened their own private prac- Portland, OR, office as a later- band, Tom Russo, live in Jayson Sowers (JD) has joined students and drama to third tice, Family Eye Care of Apex, al attorney, where his practice Fonda, NY. the law firm of Riddell graders. She and her husband, in Apex, NC. focuses in the area of intellec- Williams as an associate prac- Alex, will celebrate their fourth Robert Smith has completed a tual property, including copy- ticing in the areas of insurance anniversary in April. Jon Quigley joined Advanced two-year judicial clerkship and right, trademark, trade secrets, coverage, corporate and com- Beth Oelrich Clark received Investment Technology, Inc. as accepted a position as an assis- privacy, electronic commerce plex litigation. Prior to joining her master’s degree at North a portfolio manager for all U.S. tant district attorney with the and technology licensing. Prior Riddell Williams, he spent three Carolina State University in quantitative investment portfo- Fulton County, Georgia, dis- to joining the firm, Flagler was years as a litigation associate at Raleigh and moved to Reston, lios. AIT was recently named trict attorney’s office. He lives an IP/electronic commerce Betts, Patterson & Minds, P.S. VA, where she served as vice by Pension and Investments in Duluth, GA, and can be attorney with Troutman in Seattle, WA. He is admitted president of an interactive web Magazine as the fastest grow- reached at deacnatl@ Sanders L.L.P. in Atlanta and a to practice in Washington, DE, firm Glynn Interactive, in ing money manager in the mediaone.net. part-time instructor of intellec- the Third and Ninth Circuits of Arlington, VA. She recently United States. He also recently David L. Starmer has accepted tual property at Clayton the U.S. Court of Appeals, and moved to Richmond with her became a CFA charterhold. a position as corporate manag- College and State University. the U.S. District Courts of husband, Bill, as he pursues his Karen Gilliam Raiford is in her er of information technology He received his JD from the Western Washington and MD at MCV. Clark is the new third year of an OB/GYN resi- for The Environmental University of Virginia in 1998. Delaware. manager of interactive services dency at MCU Hospitals in Company, an international Melissa Gratias has earned a J. Wade Tollison Jr. is a district at CommuniQuÉ Marketing in Richmond, VA. environmental consulting firm Ph.D. in psychology from sales manager for the Toro Richmond. headquartered in Charlottes- Virginia Tech. She has Company, covering the Pacific K. Carter Cook (JD/MBA ’98) 1995 ville, VA. His wife, Janet returned to work with Houchens Starmer (’96), is a West. He lives with his wife, has joined the law firm of Greg Angilly and Julie Cruit Protective Life Corp. of high school teacher in the Stephanie, in Woodbury, MN. Parker, Poe, Adams & (’95) are engaged and planning Birmingham, AL, where she is Louisa County public schools. Friends can reach him at Bernstein, L.L.P. as an associate a June 16, 2001 wedding in an organizational development David’s e-mail address is [email protected]. in its Charlotte, NC, office. Virginia Beach. Greg is project associate in human resources. [email protected]. Allison Wagner is the president Cook completed a one-year director for ZipRealty.com in Her husband, Eric Gratias of artcanyon.com which recent- clerkship in 1998-1999 with the San Francisco and Julie is pro- Julianne Surface is working in (MD ’98) is in his third year of ly joined the American Society Hon. John B. Lewis Jr., North gram director for the Charter Cary, NC, as a department edi- residency in pediatrics at of Interior Designers. Carolina Court of Appeals. Schools of California. tor for two sections at Children’s Hospital of New2USA.com, a Web site Illya L. Wilkerson has joined Stephen Dettor has relocated Ursula Baker is a member of Alabama. They reside in and community for people Greensboro Medical to Philadelphia, PA, where he the Governor’s Public Birmingham. moving to the USA. Associates, P.A. He earned his has started his first year in the Management Fellows. This is Rebecca Richards received her medical degree from the Wharton MBA program. He the third Governor’s Fellow master’s degree in internation- University of North Carolina spent the last six years working class. Fellows are employed in a al business studies from the in a variety of positions at his

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Daniel Kirk graduated from 1997 1998 Westminster Theological Nicole Blackmer is at the Michael R. Burns has begun his Seminary in Philadelphia in University of Washington fin- second year working for May and began working on a ishing a master’s degree in vocal Goizueta Business School at Ph.D. in New Testament in the performance. She was sched- Emory University in Atlanta. He graduate school at Duke uled to graduate in December has transferred from his job as University. and plans to devote her life to Web developer for the entire Candace McCain graduated performing. This summer she school to a position in the execu- Inabinett (’94) Burns (’97) number one in her class with a participated in two in-depth tive education department of the 4.0 grade point average at masterclasses with Portland business school, which conducts Stacia Pleva Vaughn graduated working as a physician assistant Clark Atlanta University. She Opera and Seattle Opera. She continuing education programs from the University of Texas- at the Augusta Medical Center. was inducted into Beta Gamma had the pleasure of working for executives. Houston in May with a mas- Sigma National Honor Society. John S. “Jay” Cole IV received with some of the foremost Brock Clary was given the ter’s degree in human McCain took her new MBA a M.D. (with high distinction) coaches in the opera world such responsibility of briefing molecular genetics. She and her degree and accepted a market- from the University of as Joan Dornemann, Bill Hicks, General Hugh Shelton, chair- husband, Michael W. Vaughn ing position with Ford Motor Kentucky College of Medicine Deb Birnbaum, Phil Kelsey and man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (’95), lived in Houston for Company in Michigan. in May. He was elected to Elizabeth Moore. of the United States Military, three years before relocating to Alpha Omega Alpha medical Robert Neely is the Charlotte Will J. Burns Jr. has joined the highest ranking military Greensboro, NC. Michael is a honorary society. He is com- sports bureau reporter for the Wachovia Mortgage as a loan officer in the U.S. armed forces, DNA sequencing manager at pleting a surgical internship at Spartanburg (SC) Herald- consultant in Winston-Salem. on his tour of the post. Clary is MWG Biotech in High Point Tripler Army Medical Center in Journal. His primary responsi- He assists real estate agents and stationed in Kosovo. and Stacia is an analytical pro- Honolulu, HI. At the conclu- bility is covering the NFL’s builders in the Winston-Salem duction engineer at Konica Brad Evans and Liz Watson sion of his internship, he will Carolina Panthers. He was pre- area. He joined Wachovia in Manufacturing USA in (’99) are engaged. The wedding begin a neurosurgical residency viously an editor at Pro January 1998 as a closing coor- Whitsett. Michael’s e-mail is scheduled for June 23, 2001 at the University of Kentucky. Football Weekly in north sub- dinator in the commercial real address is mvaughn@mwg- in Charlotte, NC. Amy McMahan Crawford (JD urban Chicago. estate documentation unit of biotech.com. Kerry Gilsenan has started her ’99) completed a master’s of Jessica Peterson (JD ’99) has the credit services division. final year in graduate school at law in taxation at the been admitted to the North 1996 Glendon Mark Dunn accepted Virginia Commonwealth University of Florida in July. Carolina Bar and is working in a position with Deutsche Banc Valerie Barth is engaged to Ben University/Medical College of She has joined the law firm of the Charlotte office of the law Alex. Brown in New York. He Applebaum (’97). The two Virginia. She is studying physi- Van Winkle, Buck, Wall, firm of Kennedy Covington is an associate with the global have been dating since they met cal therapy. Starnes & Davis, P.A., in Lobdell & Hickman, L.L.P. investment bank specializing in as undergraduates at Wake Kevin Maxwell has worked for Asheville, NC. Her main prac- Working in the corporate corporate finance/m&a oppor- Forest, about five years ago. the international law firm of tice areas are estate planning department, she focuses her tunities for specialty finance The wedding is scheduled for Skadeen, Arps, Slate, Meagher and probate. practice in health law and gen- companies and financial institu- September 2001 in Virginia. & Flom, L.L.P. (the world’s Chad Curry married Melissa eral corporate law. Her e-mail tions. He can be reached at The couple lives in Atlanta, largest New York-based law Dent in Baltimore, MD, and address is [email protected]. [email protected]. where Ben works for a small At Wake Forest, she served as firm) since graduating from resides in Orlando, FL, where Robin Merrell graduated from advertising agency and Valerie Notes and Comments editor of Wake Forest. He began work- he runs his own investment the University of North works in healthcare. ing at the firm’s headquarters in management company called the Law Review. Carolina School of Law and New York as a research analyst Jennifer Braden graduated CCI Group. Burns Malone Wetmore (JD joined the staff of Pisgah Legal for the Econ-Group (part of the from University of Cincinnati ’99) is an assistant solicitor for Tria Daniels graduated from Services in Asheville, NC, as a firm’s antitrust department) in College of Medicine in May the Ninth Judicial Circuit of the University of Georgia housing attorney. September 1998. He has lived after spending a month travel- South Carolina, serving School of Law in 1999, passed Geoffrey Michael received a JD and worked in Hong Kong ing around Australia. In July, Charleston and Berkeley coun- the Bar, and is working as a law from the Yale Law School in SAR, the firm’s hub for Asian she started a pediatric residency ties. clerk for Judge Burroughs, State May and is clerking for one program at the Medical affairs, since March 2000. He is Court of Hall County, Georgia. Wayne Wilson is a client ser- year for the Hon. Samuel A. University of South Carolina in the senior corporate legal assis- vices manager in AltaVista Alito Jr. in the United States Charleston. Lauren M. Kirby is the box tant in the Hong Kong office office and operations coordina- Company’s business develop- Court of Appeals, Third and he deals primarily with Emily Jones Chaikin received tor for the Annapolis Sym- ment group. He is responsible Circuit. He lives in northern major equity and debt transac- her master’s degree with honors phony Orchestra in Maryland. for identifying and developing New Jersey and works in tions, including a number of from the Baylor College of She also serves on a play-read- e-business opportunities with Newark. initial public offerings for non- Medicine physician assistant ing committee for a local the- enterprise partners. U.S. companies based in the program in December 1999. atre group, selecting plays for Asia-Pacific Region. She lives in Charlottesville, VA, the 2001-2002 season.

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Angela McElreath graduated magna cum laude from Virginia Polytechnic and State University with her second degree in biology in December 1999. She lives in Richmond, VA, and is in her first year at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry. She was elected vice president of the dental class of 2004. Chad Peshak is living in Chicago and working for a human resources consulting firm. Amanda Sachs has relocated Wake Forest University from Frankfurt, Germany, to Philadelphia with Alcoa Mill Products (alumnium sheet and plate) as an account manager for distribution and aerospace sales in northeast New England and Canada. Will Watson is an account executive with GM Voices, which provides professional The power of photog- voices for various voice appli- raphy cations (for more information, visit www.gmvoices.com). He PHOTOGRAPHED BY is also teaching seventh/eighth KENNETH GARRETT can take you back to a place close to your heart. grade Sunday School and They were some of the best years of your life, and now directing a men’s a capella you can experience the wonder and beauty of Wake Forest again through ensemble. Abbie Young completed her this timeless collection of photographs. Remember the special times master’s degree in teaching in August and moved to Nashville, TN, where she is FREE SHIPPING A N D HANDLING FOR teaching third grade.

ALL ORDERS PLACED BEFORE D ECEMBER 31 1999 Cristina Carlucci and William $ 39 .95 plus $4.25 shipping and handling Ashworth (’98) are engaged (plus 6% sales tax for residents of Kentucky) and planning an August 2001 wedding. They are both sec- To order, please call 800/809-9334 ond-year law students at the University of Texas at Austin. Stephen M. Kroustalis founded Steven McCallister left the mail users to raise funds and from the Middlebury College September, she began a doctor- the Internet e-commerce com- practice of law to take the awareness for a charity or School of Languages. She was a al program at the University of pany iWebMart.com. He is the position of vice president of non-profit organization they candidate in the intensive lan- Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. president and chief executive corporate development with support when they send their guage immersion program at It is a five-year program in officer. The company is based Kuzi (www.kuzi.com), an ordinary e-mail. Middlebury, VT, and completed which she was awarded the on a business-to-consumer Internet start-up company in Catherine McCandless earned her studies during this past year Max Kade Fellowship for model and delivers such ser- New York City. Kuzi provides a master’s degree in German at the Johannes Gutenberg— German studies. vices as offering an array of a unique service that allows e- Universität Mainz, Germany. In

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locations throughout the analyst. Lloyd & Company is a roommate, Martha Otto Ard Erika Queen Friedel (’87) and Northeast, Southeast and boutique investment banking (’80) and Bostwick Basement B Evan Friedel of Winston-Salem: Midwest conducting psycholog- firm that advises middle-market friends Joy Storms Grady (’80) a son, Alexander Kendrick. ical assessments of autistic chil- companites on mergers, acquisi- and Dawn Golden DePerrior 5/13/00 dren and their extended tions and corporate finance. (’80). Freshman hallmate Mary Robin Kowalski (’87) and Tom families. Rebecca Suits attended the Boone (’80) was unable to join Britt (’90), Waynesville, NC: Jennifer Wentzel is traveling the 2000 Republican National them due to the deadline for twin sons, Noah and Jordan. continental United States gath- Convention in Philadelphia. She publishing her fourth book. 5/15/00 Rogers (JD ’99) ering stories and experiences to was chosen to be the David M. Norwood (’80) and Jill Daugherty Shipman (’87) serve as fodder for her first Republican representative for Kitty Li, Guangzhou, China: a and Jim Shipman, Raleigh, NC: consumer products as well as book. Driving a “big rig” for Wake Forest at the convention daughter, Elizabeth Li Yi, a son, Andrew James. 10/24/99 up-to-the-minute news, flight, Estes Trucking allows her to through the Washington Center, 6/29/00 Pauline Bearden Simonowich car and hotel reservations and travel and pay the bills. She an internship program. She is in Nicholas G. Chmil III (’85) and (’87) and Robert Simonowich, stock trading. plans for her book to explore her first year of law school at Jill Chmil, Greensboro, NC: a Greenville, NC: a daughter, the discrepancy in pay, prestige the UNC-Chapel Hill. Jonathan Meyers (JD) passed son, Matthew Thomas. Lindsay Larkins. 5/17/00 the New Jersey and New York and respect for young women Katherine “Kasey” Cook 8/25/00. The couple has anoth- Michael Usan (JD ’87) and Bar exams and has joined in blue-collar jobs compared to Wagner is engaged to Brian er child, Nicholas George IV, Charlotte Usan, Fort Alpert, Butler & Sanders of men. The book is tentatively David Hall (’98). The couple born Aug. 21, 1996. titled “Don’t Stop Believing: Lauderdale, FL: twins, son West Orange, NJ, a firm spe- plans to marry on Dec. 30, Christopher L. White (’85) and The Journey to Equality.” She Jacob Samuel and daughter cializing in commercial litiga- 2000 in Lakeland, FL. Wagner Mary Beth White, Annapolis, also volunteers regularly at Naomi Leigh. 7/21/00 tion and Internet law. He also is a paralegal for Womble MD: a daughter, Camille soup kitchens and shelters. Michael Joseph Valchar (’87), received a Pro Bono Service Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, Christine. 8/28/00. Camille, Natalie and Katie Valchar of Award for assisting low-income Joe Zelenka is living in P.L.L.C. in Winston-Salem and Maeve, 5, and Emma, 3, and Winston-Salem announce the persons with their federal tax Ashburn, VA, with his wife, plans to attend law school in their parents live in Annapolis. returns as an IRS volunteer. Rebekah Demshar Zelenka the fall of 2001. Hall is birth of Grace Elizabeth on Mark Alexander Hall (’86) and (’97). He plays for the employed by Wachovia Bank in June 16, 2000. Mark Rabauno spent the sum- Carole Dyer Hall (’88), Winter Washington Redskins, after Winston-Salem as an operations Leslie Tate Boles (’88) and mer clerking at the Mayor’s Park, FL: a daughter, Kathryn having spent his rookie season officer. William Boles, Orlando, FL: a Office of Labor Relations after McKenzie. 8/3/00 finishing his first year at the with the San Francisco 49ers. daughter, Emma Grace. Tracey Parks Rich-Perez (’86) University of Pennsylvania Law Rebekah spent the last three Births and 8/15/00 years teaching in the Ashtabula and Lee C. Perez, Jamestown, School. Next summer, he hopes Adoptions Michael Carr (’88) and Laura area city schools in Ohio. NC: a son, Neal Rocco. 6/30/00 to gain a position as a summer Suzan Ayers Antin (’78) and Carr, Hampstead, MD: a associate in a large firm in Jon Antin, Greensboro, NC: a J. Andrew “Andy” Talbert (’86) daughter, Madeline Elizabeth. 2000 Washington, DC, doing labor, son, Jonathan Ayers. 9/2/00. and Kimberley Skidmore 8/17/99 telecommunications or legisla- Brad Gilmore has been award- Talbert (’88), Pensacola, FL: a Jonathan has a 4-year-old Stephanie Casto Gregory (’88) tive law. ed a Mortar Board National daughter, Daisy Caroline. brother, Cory. The Antins’ new and Dan Gregory, Overland Foundation Fellowship in the 2/21/00 Andrew J. Rogers (JD) has address is 1807 Bearhollow Park, KS: a daughter, April amount of $1,500 for the 2000- joined the law firm of Blanco Road, Greensboro, NC 27410. Mark “Frosty” Aust (’87) and Danielle. 3/10/00 2001 academic year. He is pur- Tackabery Combs & Forrest “Fuzzy” Faison (’80) Ann Hobbs Aust (’88), suing a master’s degree in Kathryn Mallory Justis (’88) Matamoros, P.A. He was a and Michelle Denise Faison, Winston-Salem: a son, Graham public affairs and Latin and Peter Justis, Charlotte, member of the Honor Council Washington, DC: a daughter, Robert “Gray”. 9/15/00 American studies at the NC: a daughter, Abigail. 6/5/00 at the Wake Forest University Mackenzie Michelle. 7/7/00. Kaye Hendrickson Bjur (’87) University of Texas at Austin. Greg King (’88) of Harrisburg, School of Law. Before joining Mackenzie Michelle was born and Brian Bjur, Seattle, WA: a He was a member of the Wake PA: a son, Daniel Joseph. Blanco Tackabery Combs & at the National Naval Medical daughter, Anna Maren. 8/8/00 Matamoros, he was associated Forest University Tassels chap- 5/2/00 Center. In August, the Faison Meredith Lee Chapmon (’87) with the law firm of McNamee, ter of Mortar Board. Thayne Conrad (’89) and Eve family moved to Okinawa, and Brian Chapmon, Durham, Hosea, Jernigan & Kim, P.A., in Jennifer S. Lue (JD) has joined H. Conrad, Atlanta: a daugh- Japan, where Fuzzy took over NC: a daughter, Jacy Brooks. Greenbelt, MD. His practice the regulation of business and ter, Grace Morgan. 4/17/00 as group surgeon for the 3rd 3/17/00 will be concentrated in business. governmental relations depart- FSSG Marines. Karl Greeson (’89) and Jenny Kletzin DiBiase (’87) and Kristine VanDoran graduated ment in the Charlotte, NC, Heather Rotondi Greeson Mary Moorman Holmes (’80) Thomas A. “Tad” DiBiase from Boston University with a office of the law firm of Parker, (’94), Tampa, FL: a daughter, and John Holmes, Fayetteville, (’87), Washington, DC: a master’s degree in psychology in Poe, Adams & Bernstein, L.L.P. Emily Margaret. 3/24/00 NC: a daughter, Marian daughter, Sophie Marie. May. She works at UNC- Annemarie K. Milton has “Covey” Covington. 8/15/00. 1/23/00. Sophie has a big sister, Rob Hoysgaard (’89) and Julie Chapel Hill as part of a nation- joined Lloyd & Company in In May, Mary enjoyed a visit in Joanna, who is 3 years old. Hoysgaard, Clarendon Hills, IL: wide autism study with Greensboro, NC, as a financial Fayetteville from her college a son, George Philip. 8/6/00. Their first son, Will, is 1.

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Mary Beth Jorgensen Jackson Cara Lee Delpino Turner (’90) Amy Chance Buckingham (’92) www.mba.wfu.edu (’89, JD ’93) and Steve Jackson and Franklin “Trey” Turner, and Blake Buckingham (’93), (JD ’92), Gaithersburg, MD: a Columbia, SC: a son, Jackson Brookeville, MD: a son, Trevor. daughter, Jorgen Marie. Clark. 8/27/00 10/26/99. The couple has 8/13/00. Jorgen has a 2-year- Jon J. Wilson (’90) and Kelli another son, Drew. old brother, Jack. Johnson Wilson, San Antonio, Beth Heflin Cauvel (’92) and Sarah Meadows Johnson (’89) TX: a son, Davis Jon. 6/22/00 Hank Cauvel (’94), Nashville, and Wayde Johnson, Durham, Amy Graham Burzinski (’91) TN: a daughter, Kathryn NC: a daughter, Anna Louise. and Mark Burzinski, Virginia. 6/13/00 3/17/00 Hagerstown, MD: a daughter, David E. Inabinett (’92, JD ’96) Julie Lemoine Lesjak (’89) and Emily Kate. 9/8/00. Big brother and Elizabeth Hawkins Robert Lesjak, Arlington, VA: a Max is 3. Inabinett (’94), Lexington, NC: son, Oliver Lemoine. 3/22/00. Ursula Henninger (JD ’91) and a son, William Blake. 7/4/00 The couple had relocated from Jim Stroupe, Winston-Salem: a Neil Hunter Raiford (’92) and San Francisco to Arlington just daughter, Jordan Elizabeth. Karen Gilliam Raiford (’94), two months earlier. 4/27/00. Ursula was voted a Richmond, VA: a son, Beth Dawson McAlhany (’89) member at the Winston-Salem Benjamin Hunter. 6/19/00 and Ben McAlhany, office of Womble Carlyle Jennifer Kurzmann Reno (’92) Greensboro, NC: a son, Sandridge & Rice. and Howard H. Reno II, Benjamin Franklin IV. 5/26/00 David Scott Hood (’91) and Kennesaw, GA: a son, Peggy Lantz Messenkopf (’89) Melanie Starnes Hood (’91), Benjamin Richard. 8/3/00 and Rich Messenkopf (’90), Charlotte, NC: a son, John Robin Barreau Richardson (’92) 1. Clemmons, NC: a daughter, Rodgers. 10/15/99 and Ted Richardson, Chapel Wake Forest’s University’s Leah Page. 11/25/99 Elizabeth Martin Jarvis (’91) Hill, NC: a son, Brian Douglas. Babcock Graduate School William Y. “Billy” Rice (MD and Kevin Jarvis, Lexington, 6/20/00. Robin is a senior sys- of Management ’89) and Karen Rice, Winston- KY: a daughter, Kennedy tems analyst at Glaxo Wellcome Salem, NC: a daughter, Sarah Laine. 7/10/00. Kevin played in Research Triangle Park. is ranked among American’s Grace. 1/13/00 the 2000 baseball season for Meda Barnes (’93) and Bradley top MBA schools by Tom Siffringer (’89) and his the Colorado Rockies. Barnes, Franklin, TN: a son, Business Week, Forbes wife Leah welcomed their new Michelle Sigmon Jones (’91) Jacob McNeir “Mac”. 6/13/00 and daughter, Hallie Elisabeth, into and Craig Jones (’91), Cheryl Powell Fischer (’93) and U.S. News & World Report. the family on May 1, 2000. Charlotte, NC: a son, Andrew Brian Fischer, Arlington, VA: a Her sister, Jenna Arlene, 7, and Hal. 5/23/00 son, Craig Powell. 6/8/00. brother, Brendan Cain, 3, are Kara Caister Senn (’91) of Park Cheryl is the international pric- very proud of her. City, UT: a daughter, Siena ing manager for U.S. Airways. Michael C. Smith (’89) and Ashley. 8/23/00 Laura Woodside Hartness (’93) Mary Dee Andrews Smith Amy Hendrix Southern (’91) and Jonathan Hartness (’92), WAKEFOREST (’93), Sewickley, PA: a daugh- and Eric Southern, Mocksville, Winston-Salem, NC: a son, UNIVERSITY ter, Madison Ryall. 9/7/00 NC: sons, William Charles and Matthew Woodside. 5/5/00. Jennifer Jordan Taylor (’89) Benjamin Monroe. 5/26/00 Laura is a full-time stay-at- B ABCOCK G RADUATE S CHOOL of M ANAGEMENT and Eric Taylor, Winston- Susan Horsewood Stines (’91, home mom and Jonathan is Salem: a son, Matthew Eric. MAEd ’93) and Reid Stines, working in the financial aid 2/2/00. Matthew’s big brother, Bettendorf, IA: a daughter, office at Wake Forest. Jackson Alexander, was born Carly Erin. 7/4/00 Jamey Peters (’93) and Pressley Full-time, Evening and Dec. 16, 1995. Catherine Caldwell Wells (’91) Harris Peters announced the Fast-Track Executive MBA programs Hal Walker (’89) and and Robert A. Wells (JD ’96), birth of a daughter, Julia Gray, and Institute for Executive Education Kimberly Walker, Alpharetta, on June 16, 2000. Jamey has Greensboro, NC: a daughter, Charlotte and Winston-Salem GA: a son, Cameron Joseph. Virginia Catherine. 7/22/00 accepted a job with Southern 6/23/00 Energy, Inc. in their external Katherine Baxley Boone (’92) affairs and public relations Call today! 336.758.5422 or 800.722.1622 Steven Brent McRae (’90) and and Thomas Boone, Winston- organization. Elizabeth Gillespie McRae Salem, NC: a daughter, (’89), Cullowhee, NC: a Hannah Elise. 4/21/00 Tonya Bunn Powell (’93) and daughter, Katherine Elizabeth. Glevin Powell, Pleasant 12/21/99 Garden, NC: a son, Davis Matthew. 6/11/00

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Jody Wooten Binkley (’94) and Marriages copy editor in the sports Michael Binkley, Wilkesboro, department of the Greensboro Peyton Hatcher (’87) and NC: a daughter, Allie News & Record and also Andrew N. Hart. 10/23/99. Makenna. 6/22/00 writes for Gold Rush, the The couple married in Wake Forest alumni sports Robert Nunzio Capizzi (’94) Danville, VA, and have moved newspaper. His e-mail address and Sallie Sartor Capizzi, to Indianapolis, IN. iir is [email protected]. ss,,VVrggii Winston-Salem: a son, Robert ee nn Lou Ann Sellers (’88) and ii Harry. 7/19/00 Charlene L. Warren (’93) and aa Thomas S.E. Herwig. 6/26/99. Y Shelton Avery Davis were mar- Y Matthew Roy Dymmel (’94) They are living in Duisburg, ried Sept. 9, 2000 in Snow there’s a and Jessica Dymmel, Charlotte, Germany, where Lou Ann is a Hill, NC. Charlene is a captain NC: a daughter, Lauren minister in the protestant in the U.S. Army working as a Elizabeth. 7/20/00 German church. Wake Forest pharmacist at Walter Reed Lisa Hedden Edler (’94) and Dianne Timblin (’88) and Army Medical Center in Robert Edler (’94), Jamie Lewis. 8/22/99. She Washington, DC. Avery is a license plate Lawrenceville, GA: a daughter, graduated from George Mason major in the U.S. Army and a Elisabeth Danielle. 6/22/00 University in May 1999 with second-year resident of physi- for you, too. an M.F.A. in English and is the for you, too. Nicole Wellman Werner (’94) cal medicine and rehabilitation and Steffen Werner, Moscow, senior marketing writer at at Walter Reed Army Medical ID: a daughter, Lena Scott. MarchFirst in Herndon, VA. Center. The couple resides in 2/25/00. Nicole and her family Jane Mee (JD ’91) married Silver Spring, MD. relocated to Idaho in August, George Cibik in October 1999. Nicole Jacqueline Dorthe (’94) Show the Wahoos who’s where Steffen is an assistant She is the director of govern- and Christopher Weller mar- professor of psychology at the really who in Virginia. mental relations for the State ried Sept. 9, 2000 in Knoxville, University of Idaho. Nicole will Board of Worker’s Compensa- TN. She is originally from complete her Ph.D. in child Sign up now to reserve one of the first state tion in Georgia and mediates Massachusetts and Ty is origi- psychology from the University all issues concerning workers’ nally from Kansas. They both of Minnesota in December. of Virginia Wake Forest license plates. Call compensation cases. George is reside in Knoxville, where Ty is Brent Watkins (’95) and a physician in private practice. a PGA golf professional and the Virginia DMV at 804/367-0538 or Jim Rebecca Clemens Watkins The couple resides in Atlanta. Nicole is both a PGA and (’95), Rocky Mount, NC: a Erin Marie Laverty (’92) and LPGA teaching professional. Fitzpatrick (’00) in the Wake Forest Alumni son, Jacob Nicholas. 7/12/00 Timothy Neil Wohlnick were Andrew J. Lewis (’94, MD Office, 336/758-5263, or contact him by William Brent Wooten (’95) married May 27, 2000 in St. ’98) married Kathryn “Diane” and Stacy Ann Saladin Wooten Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Bradford on Sept. 9, 2000 at e-mail at [email protected]. Cost is $25 per (’95), Thomasville, NC: a Islands. Davis Chapel at the Wake daughter, Katherine “Katie” Jocelyn Davis (’93) and Brian Forest University Baptist year. Production will begin once 350 orders Grace. 6/27/00 Wesley Furr. 10/9/99 Medical Center. After a week Thomas Adam Ginn (’96, MD Kevin Lloyd (’93) married Julia honeymooning in Jamaica, the have been received. ’00) and Rebecca Ginn, McLaughlin on Jan. 7, 2000. couple returned to their home Winston-Salem: a daughter, He is in his third and final year in Winston-Salem. A.J. is in his Katharine Bailey. 12/11/99. of episcopal seminar at third year of residency in Thomas is in residency in Virginia Theological Seminary obstetrics and gynecology at orthopedic surgery at the Wake in Alexandria, where he is the medical center and Diane is For the Forest University School of working toward a master’s in a third grade teacher for the Medicine. divinity. Julia graduated from Winston-Salem/Forsyth North Carolina Kelly Maguire Simeon (’97) VTS with a master’s in theolo- County Schools. Wake Forest and Richard Simeon, Raleigh, gy in May 2000 and is a chap- Ursula Baker (’95) married Jerry NC: a son, Ryan Patrick. lain-in-residence at Hairston Jr. on Sept. 23, 2000 in license plate, call the 3/21/00 Georgetown University, her Durham, NC. undergraduate alma mater. Karen White Willard (’97) and Amy Kathryn Barnard (’95) NC Department of Motor Vehicles, Rich Willard, Ellicott City, James Franklin “Jay” Reddick and John McCaskill Hughes MD: a son, Colin Alexander. (’93) married Janet Ann (’96) were married July 1, 2000 919/733-7510 8/13/00 Brindle on April 22, 2000 in in Radford, VA. Other alumni Greensboro, NC. He has in the wedding party included worked for four years as a

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Anne Barnard (’91), Caroline recruiter for eLoyalty. The cou- Amy Elizabeth Bumgardner Ashley Polson (’98) married remained in the medical corps Gupton (’97), David Ahn (’95) ple resides in Chicago. (’97) and David Matthew Dr. Andrew Holt, son of Dr. until 1946, attaining the rank and Brian Prestes (’97). Virginia Galloway (’96) married Jackson (’96) were married on Raleigh A. Holt Jr. (’58) and of major. He served in Hawaii, Ringbearers were David and Peter S. Gentles on Oct. 21, Oct. 7, 2000, in Rocky Mount, Elaine Towe Holt (’61), on the United States and the John Gorelick, sons of Brian 2000 in Toronto, Ontario. VA. David works for Carolina April 1, 2000. Philippines. After leaving active Gorelick, director of choral Before moving to Toronto, First Bank as a branch manager Donna Robin Dobbins and duty, he remained in the inac- ensembles at Wake Forest. Virginia worked for three years and loan officer. Amy received Daniel William Tedder. tive reserves for six years. In Palinda F. Carrington (’95) and on Capitol Hill, first as a legisla- a master’s of art in education 6/10/00. Donna is working 1946, he opened a general med- H. Christopher Belcher. 9/3/00 tive assistant to Rep. Jay Dickey from Virginia Commonwealth toward a master’s degree in ical practice in Waynesville. In University in Richmond and 1947, he “covered” the Canton Erin Harzinski (’95) and Tom (R-AR) and then as a budget physical therapy at the UNC- taught art in a Richmond mid- practice of his older brother, Russo were married at the analyst for the House Budget Chapel Hill School of dle school before becoming a Dr. Charles Owen. Meanwhile, Beardlsee Castle in Little Falls, Committee. She is now a senior Medicine. Daniel is with the freelance artist. The couple he established his own practice, NY, on July 8, 2000. Wake policy adviser for Ontario’s Durham police department. resides in North Myrtle Beach, the Owen-Smith Clinic, with Forest grads in attendance Ministry of Education. Donna is the daughter of SC. Dr. A. Heyward Smith. In included Allison Pierce (’95), Amy McMahan (’96, JD ’99) Harriet Dobbins (’67). 1962, he was elected to the Jordan Rose Calaway (’95), and David James Crawford. Rebekah Lynn Demshar (’97) Jennifer Rutler Rapp and Scott North Carolina Board of Liesl Meyer Rose (’95) and 5/13/00 and Joseph John Zelenka (’99). Henries Shelton. 7/8/00 Medical Examiners, serving for Maureen Tobin (’95). 7/8/00 M. Kyle Thompson (’96) mar- six years including the last year Heather Hartman (’97) and Christine E. Keeley (’95) and ried Christie Matthews of Tipp as president. Dr. Owen’s career William Achurch. 6/18/00 Deepak Vijayathilakan were City, OH, on Aug. 19, 2000. spanned the time when he Deaths married June 24, 2000 on the The ceremony was held in Josh Kellett (’97) and Brandi could not get a new car because Davidson College campus. Greenville, SC, where the cou- Bingham (’00) were married of wartime conditions and he Kristen Hicks Hilty (’95) was ple now resides. Kyle graduated June 10, 2000 in Harriman, Alumni was paid with chickens and the matron of honor and her from the University of South TN. The Kelletts reside in Curry T. Haynes Sr. (’30), Jan. wood to present-day medicine, husband, Daniel Hilty (’95), Carolina School of Law in May Winston-Salem and work for 11, 2000. which utilizes computers, lasers was a reader. They honey- and is the law clerk to the hon- Young Life of Forsyth County. Andrew Fenner Collins (’34), and high-tech surgical proce- mooned in Ireland and now orable Larry R. Patterson, cir- Mary Catherine McElwee (’97) March 6, 2000. dures. He was a member and reside in Charlotte, NC. cuit court judge of the and Brian Hardy Mendenhall. founding fellow of the W. Boyd Owen (’38, MD ’40) W. Andrew Martin (’95) and Thirteenth Judicial Circuit in 5/20/00 American Academy of Family Aug. 20, 2000, Winston-Salem. Lori Ann Grant (’97) were mar- Greenville. Practice, life member of the Heather M. Shnider (’97) and He was born in Haywood ried June 3, 2000 in Roswell, Elizabeth Timmer (’96) and North Carolina Medical Wolfgang Derek Preston Van County on Aug. 16, 1918, to GA. Andy is working for Christopher Doty were married Society and the North Carolina Beber III were married Aug. 26, the late Charles Fletcher and Lehman Brothers in London July 10, 1999 in Wilmington, Academy of Family 2000 at Walt Disney World in Gay Boyd Owen. Dr. Owen and Lori for First Union’s DE. They live in Brooklyn, NY, Practitioners. Dr. Owen had Florida. Among the bride’s was the youngest of three Capital Markets Group. where Elizabeth is in an editori- been a member of the Wake attendants were Catherine R. physician brothers in a medical al position at Workman Forest Board of Trustees since Amanda Muelchi (’95) married Jones (’97), Jill Archbold family that spans several gener- Publishing in Manhattan. 1954, longer than any living Jay Price on Aug. 5, 2000, in Sausser (’97), Fiorella Speziani ations. He attended Canton member. He served on the Wilmington, NC. The couple Jennifer Woodall (’96) married (’97) and Heather J. Bentley public schools before entering Trustee Athletic Committee as resides in Knoxville, TN, where Hampton Howell (MD ’00) on (’98). The couple lives in Wake Forest College. In 1939, chairman and was also on the Amanda is a third-year gradu- June 17, 2000. The couple Marietta, GA, where Heather is he played for Wake Forest in executive committee. In 1991, ate student at The University of resides in East Grand Rapids, in the real estate business. Their the very first post season Dr. Owen was made a life Tennessee, earning her Ph.D. in MI, where Jennifer is a physi- e-mail address is heathersh- NCAA Men’s Basketball trustee. For 20 years he counseling psychology. Jay is a cian assistant and Hampton is a [email protected]. Tournament. He was a first- belonged to the Wake Forest computer programmer for resident in plastic and recon- team choice of the sportswriters Jennifer Smith (’97) and Jeff President’s Club and worked as iPath software. structive surgery. for the first NCAA tournament. Hendrickson (BS/MSA ’99). class agent for several medical After graduation, he entered Brian Christian Brady (’96) and Jill C. Archbold (’97) married 6/23/00 classes. Dr. Owen was the pres- Wake Forest Medical School, Lisa Peeler of Gaffney, SC. Scott R. Sausser, a classmate at Jenny R. Harrison (’98) and ident of the Bowman Gray later transferring to the 10/7/00 University of Florida Law Scott W. Bunn (’96). 7/29/00 Medical School Alumni and University of Pennsylvania Greg Cran (’96) and Kara School, on July 22, 2000 at earned a citation for distin- Amy Izzo (’98) and Brian Medical School, where he Campisi (’96) were married Coral Gables Congregational guished service. In 1989, he Milkes. 7/8/00. The couple earned his medical degree at Aug. 19, 2000, in Lake Forest, Church in Florida. Her atten- chaired the Medical Center moved from Boston, MA, to age 23. Dr. Owen interned at IL. Greg is a CBOE stock dants included Heather J. Board, which encompasses the Jacksonville, FL, in August. Philadelphia General Hospital options trader for Botta Bentley (’98) and Heather M. School of Medicine and the Catherine Anne Kendrick (’98) and then entered the U.S. Army Trading and Kara is a technical Shnider (’97). North Carolina Baptist and William Christopher Medical Corps in 1943. 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Robert Ray “Bob” Martin Carolyn Ann Allen Hunter retired in 1996. She was born Deaths Legion Post 290 and a member (’53), Feb. 14, 2000. (’59), Sept. 2, 2000. and raised in Winston-Salem, of the Forsyth County Robert Louis “Bob” Brown William Keith Stamey (’59), and was an active alumna at Faculty, Beekeepers Association. (’54) , Sept. 23, 2000. June 17, 2000, Winston-Salem. Wake Forest University, having Staff and John DeWalden Eller Jr., Oct. served on the Board of Visitors. Howard Arnold Dean Jr. (’56), He operated his family’s barbe- Friends 1, 2000. cue business for more than 30 She is survived by her husband, Jan. 17, 2000. William John “Bill” Brame, Harold Orbeck Goodman, years, including the restaurant James A. Goodyear, who J. L. Dawkins (’57), May 30, Aug. 29, 2000. Aug. 2, 2000. He was a mem- across from the Greensboro attended Wake Forest in 1960. 2000, Fayetteville, North ber of the faculty at the Coliseum that bears his family’s Her civic interests included John H. Bremer, July 25, 2000. Carolina. He had served as Medical School. name. He was president of serving on the board of the Robert M. Browning, June 13, mayor of Fayetteville since Willard A. Gortner, Sept. 25, Stamey’s Inc. at the time of his South Baltimore Learning 2000, Utica, NY. He was a 1988, the longest tenure in the 2000. death. Stamey’s became a popu- Center, the collection commit- professor emeritus of German city’s history. Although he lar pre-game hangout for tee of the Walters Art Gallery, at Hamilton College. From Peter Andreas Hofmann, Aug. spent years in banking, insur- Deacon fans attending Wake and as a member of the board 1941-1943 he taught at Wake 14, 2000, Pfafftown, NC. At ance and real estate, he was Forest’s home basketball games of the South Baltimore Forest. the time of his death, he was a better known as a dedicated at the Coliseum in the 1980s Learning Center. member of the staff of Wake public servant who spent a David Broyles, Aug. 22, 2000. and for ACC Tournament David Sherrill “Dave” Monk Forest’s financial and account- quarter century tirelessly work- He was a retired professor of games and other events since (’60), Sept. 24, 2000. ing services. He is survived by ing to improve the quality of politics at Wake Forest. then. He was a member of the his wife and two children, ages life for Fayetteville residents. Mary “Molly” Withers Kelley Nancy Cash, June 24, 2000. Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity. 8 and 6. He was elected to the (’62), March 14, 2000. He served in the Army for 10 Edward K. “Ed” Crawford, William Kaufman, Aug. 24, Fayetteville City Council in Karl Sweetan (’63), July 2, years after graduation, includ- Sept. 24, 2000. 2000. 1975 and never lost an election 2000. ing four years stationed in John F. Dimmick, Sept. 26, after that. After serving six Dallas L. Mackey, Sept. 6, Naples, Italy, before joining the Davis Samuel Gilbert (’65), 2000, Winston-Salem. He terms on the council, he was 2000. He was the former head family business. He was very Oct. 14, 2000. served more than three years in elected mayor in 1987 and re- of development at the Wake active in alumni activities, serv- Marvin Gray Arrington (’70), the armed service, 30 months elected a record six times, Forest University School of ing on the Alumni Council June 30, 2000. of that time being spent over- included a landslide victory last Medicine. from 1992-95, and was a char- seas with the 123rd Infantry of year. During his tenure, he led Samuel Henry “Sam” Long III Miriam Mitchell, July 14, ter member of the Founders’ the 33rd Division in Hawaii, the revitalization of the city’s (’70), June 17, 2000. 2000. Circle, the University’s highest New Guinea, the Philippines once-notorious downtown and Patricia “Patty” Heiges Brown giving club. He is survived by and Japan. He received the Thomas Owen “Tom” Moore was affectionately dubbed (’72), Sept. 19, 2000. his brother, Charles American Campaign Medal, Jr., Sept. 24, 2000. “mayor for life.” In April Stamey(’56), sister-in-law, Timothy O. “Tim” Lincoln Asiatic-Pacific Theater Ribbon 1999, the city dedicated a por- Thomas Olive, Sept. 14, 2000. Patsy, and several nieces and (’73), Sept. 1, 2000. with two Bronze Battle Stars, tion of downtown’s Hay He was a professor emeritus of nephews. Philippine Liberation with one Street—home to City Hall and Wesley Everett Brett (’77), June biology at Wake Forest. Bronze Star, Meritorious Unit the city’s police station—as J.L. Patricia O’Neil Goodyear (’60), 1, 2000. Ray J. Queen, Sept. 5, 2000. Award, World War II Victory Dawkins City Plaza. After his Sept. 9, 2000, Baltimore. A John Chester “Chet” Cagle Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Muriel Qua Staton, Aug. 2, death, the Fayetteville Observer retired vice president of corpo- (’85), Aug. 7, 2000, New York Expert Infantry Badge, 2000. commented, “Fayetteville has a rate communications at T.Rowe City. Combat Infantry Badge and Theodore L. Weatherly, Aug. hole in its heart… On his Price, she joined the money Richard Martin “Dick” Dally Driver’s and Mechanic Badge. 4, 2000. watch, Fayetteville began a management company in the (’86), Sept. 14, 2000. He received his doctorate in metamorphosis, from tawdry mid-1960s as an executive sec- Margaret Templeton Southard, Natalie Jane Hoffman (’88), animal physiology from the and tattered military outpost retary. After she was promoted Oct. 12, 2000. She was a for- June 26, 2000. University of Illinois in town, into modern metropoli- to vice president of corporate mer staff member at Wake Champaign-Urbana and taught tan area with a rejuvenated communications, she estab- Forest. lished the Shareholder at Wake Forest University in downtown and a blossoming Larry Tittsworth, July 31, Communications Department, the Department of Biology for economy.” He is survived by 2000. more than 19 years. He was an his wife, Mary Anne, and two which produces quarterly active member of Maple children, Johnny Lee Dawkins reports and other communica- Springs United Methodist III (’81) and Dawn D. Caison, tions sent to shareholders. She Church, a volunteer in the and four grandchildren. resource center at Wake Forest University Baptist Hospital, a member of the American

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Alumni Profile

Paul Sinal (’67, JD ’75)

Class action desire to teach, Sinal is dis- Forest in 1975. While at coral as part of our les- covering that the realm of Wake Forest he studied son. A few days later I adolescent ambiguity—a piano with the late found out that one child SLENDER ten-year- world of spitballs, paper Christopher Giles and now- had given his coral to Aold girl scoots airplanes, and sticky retired Lucille Harris. the science teacher. I back from her kid-sized candy—is a long way from Courses he has taught local- said, ‘That was gener- A national teacher oak chair, crosses the the Forsyth County court- ly include mythology, family ous of you,’ and he brightly colored class- rooms and offices where law and contract law. said, ‘And courteous, room to the teacher, he spent the past ten years. As assistant county too.’ I made him the stu- shortage has given and speaks softly. “Mr. “Teaching involves attorney, he appealed tax dent of the week.” Sinal, something came much more behavior man- notices, enforced county His is the lot of many up from my stomach agement than I ever imag- ordinances, and advised teachers. At the end of rise to creative into my throat, and I ined,” he says. “It does county commissioners and the day, he goes home swallowed it.” seem like a very artificial the county’s two dozen exhausted to grade Pause. environment to take twenty- departments. Although his homework and written incentives such as “Why don’t you go five kids and shut them up days now are spent with class work and to create get a drink of water? in a room for six hours people considerably lesson plans. The pay is the one that That might help.” As she every day.” younger and smaller than low. He worries that the leaves the classroom, A national teacher his former colleagues, some state curriculum stifles Paul Sinal (’67, JD ’75) shortage has given rise to of the skills required are the creativity and imagina- allowed Sinal into shakes his head at a vis- creative incentives such as same—organizing, reason- tion. Nevertheless, so itor and observes, “You the one that allowed Sinal ing, persuasiveness. Still, far, he finds the work have to be all things to into the classroom. The lat- there have been surprises. rewarding. the classroom. all people.” eral-entry program allows “Lawyers are pretty “I often represented It is the kind of professionals with a bache- rational,” Sinal notes. “I try kids in delinquency court scene that hap- lor’s degree to teach while to get my students to give or in cases where they pens every day they are taking college me reasons: Why did you were neglected or in America, but courses to earn their teach- find that interesting? What’s abused by their parents,” what has ing certification. Sinal, important about that? How he says. “That is when I brought televi- who retired as assistant do you make decisions understood that interven- sion cameras county attorney in May, based on pros and cons? tion must come at an and newspaper will be taking educational “I have been surprised early age. I hope that reporters into courses at Salem College by the sheer physical ener- what I am doing helps. Sinal’s class- for the next three years to gy of the kids,” he contin- Teaching plays out many room is the complete the seven courses ues. “They seem to be of the values that were irony that a fifty- needed for certification. tireless. This class has a nurtured in me at Wake five-year-old During that time, he will budding sense of humor, Forest. It was the very lawyer, linguist, work with a mentor, an and sometimes they’re real- best of a liberal arts edu- holder of a doc- experienced fifth-grade ly sweet. On the first day I cation. My teachers torate, and teacher across the hall. spoke to them about cour- were as fine as any in longtime assis- In 1971, Sinal left tesy. I don’t want to give the country. They gave tant county attorney Cornell University with a them a list of rules, do’s so much to me; I would would retire early to master’s and doctorate in and don’ts, but I do want love to give a little back.” teach fifth grade. As he linguistics, then received a courtesy. One day, I gave —SHERIDAN H ILL brings to life a long-held law degree from Wake each of them a piece of

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The Last Word

Sandra C. Boyette

Why the debate? A frequently asked question from reporters during the late summer and early fall was, “Why have a presidential debate at Wake Forest?” When the Commission on Presidential Debates again selected Wake Forest, many in the news media speculated about the extent of publicity that the University would receive.

LEARLY, INTERNATIONAL media center—the Benson Center— Crecognition is a known posi- they walked “spin alley” and inter- tive effect of producing one of the acted with the “doctors” interpret- world’s most-watched events. But ing those messages. In classes, they most veterans of the 1988 debate contrasted the candidates’ positions agreed that there are other effective on the environment and the budget. means of telling the Wake Forest On the Quad, they listened as Colin story that do not demand upheaval Powell and George Stephanopoulos went and all-consuming preparation. through the same exercise. At forums, they What, then, was the deciding factor, and heard experts critique debate strategies. In Wait what were the results? Chapel, more than two hundred of them became President Hearn answered the first question part of the live audience. at the beginning of the process: the only reason If education was the point of our hosting the to take on an effort of such complexity is educa- debate, the ultimate benefits of that decision will tion. The second question, of course, has the be evaluated as are other components of a Wake same answer. Forest education. The lessons will play out in Direct experience had proved that a debate the lives and careers of these soon-to-be alumni. would offer our students an extraordinary labora- If any of them become more enlightened voters; tory in politics and communications, a new perspec- if they choose to participate in government at tive from which to consider questions of law, any level; if they decide that the system needs ethics, business, health care, and the other issues. change and devote themselves to changing it; if In the weeks leading up to October 11, more they find through this experience an issue or than eight hundred student volunteers worked even a career about which they are passionate, with networks, the Commission on Presidential then hosting the debate will have been a great Debates, and the candidates’ organizations. decision for Wake Forest. Wf Others were involved in course work developed around the debate. Vice President for University Advancement Sandra C. In their classes, students discussed how each Boyette was instrumental in securing and coordinating contender’s message would be translated. In the both of Wake Forest’s presidential debates.

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Also in this issue:

Back from the bottom

The redemption of a fallen prosecutor. Page 28

Bedrock foundation

The beneficence of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. Page 2