September 1988 Wake Forest University Magazine
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orest September 1988 Wake Forest University Magazine orest Wake Forest University Magazine Volume 3 5, Number 1 September 1988 Campus Chronicle 2 Record Fund Raising • Medical School Grant • Music Scholarships • Easley Professorship • Biology Grant • Search for Babcock Dean • Construction and Parking • BGSM Annual Fund Features 6 Gladiatorial Match 6 • WFU Debate Team 10 • The Donegal Pictures 12 • Mary Wayne's Costumes 16 • Jonathan Christman: lights, Fantasy, Magic! 18 • SCTA Branches Out 20 • Memories 22 University Departments 24 Medicine: Parallel Curriculum 24 • BGSM Alumni Weekend 25 • Law: Training Young Leaders 26 • Athletics: Dianne Dailey 27 • Basketball Preview 28 • Football: Veterans and Vacancies 29 Alumni News and Classnotes 30 Club News 30 • Curtis Strange Wins 31 • Alumni Office Appointments 33 • College Fund 33 • Galloway School 34 • Classnotes 35 Jeanne P. Whitman Editor • Cherin C. Poovey Assistant Editor Adele LaBrecque Editonal Assistant and Classnotes Editor Design - Debbie D. Harllee • Mechanical - Lisa Kennedy Typography- Rachel Lowry • Pn'nting -Fisher-Harrison Corporation ON THE COVER: WRJ THEATRE'S JONATHAN CHRISTMAN AND MARY WAYNE, PHOfOGRAPHED BY SUSAN MULLALLY CLARK. WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE (USPS 664-520, ISSN 0279-3946) is published five times a year in September, November, January, April and June by Wake Forest University. Second class postage paid at Winston Salem, NC, and additional mailing offices. Please send editorial correspondence and alumni news to WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, 7205 Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE, 7227 Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. Campus Chronicle A Record Year School's annual study pro Museum of For Fund Raising gram in the Pacific Rim region. The program was Anthropology established by Luther. Receives Grant report published by Brockway is a second-year the Council for Aid to resident student at the Bab A he University's Education ranks Wake cock School. He received a Museum of Anthro Forest University among the B.S. degree from the Univer T pology has been awarded a nation's top 20 institutions sity of North Carolina at $10,400 grant from in fund raising. The Chapel Hill. the In stitute of Museum Services. University was first in the The institute category of comprehensive cited the museum staffs originality private institutions with and creativity in exhibits contributions totaling Medical School and public programming. $66,255,408, a figure that Award To Benefit The award is an institute reflects the donation of the general operating support former RJR Nabisco Inc. Gerontology Faculty grant and will be used for World Headquarters staff assistance in public Building valued at $40 $259,200 award from programming and in design million. the John A. Harford and publication of a "The former world head A Foundation will aid in museum brochure. quarters building is the faculty development in largest single unrestricted academic gerontology at the corporate gift in this nation's Bowman Gray School of history," said G. William Medicine. Joyner ('66), vice president Fletcher Foundation The goal is to develop a for University Relations. cadre of specially trained Funds Music gerontologists to care for Scholarships the burgeoning aging popu lation and to enhance scien Brockway Receives tific research on aging, said he AJ. Fletcher Foun Luther Grant Dr. WiJliam R. Hazzard, T dation of Raleigh has chairman of the Depart awarded $10,000 to the ment of Medicine and Department of Music. The enneth Andrew director of the]. Paul Sticht grant will provide tuition K Brockway of Pisgah Center on Aging. "There is assistance to exceptionally Forest, NC, has been a relative dearth of talented music students awarded the first Luther research," he said. "This during the 1988-89 aca Grant at the Babcock grant will help us begin to demic year. The scholar Graduate School of overcome this deficiency." ships range in value from Management. The K.A.N. Hazzard said the money $500 to $2,500. Luther Memorial Fund was will be used for partial sup Scholarship recipients established by Annette port of three teaching posi were selected through an Luther in memory of her tions at the junior faculty audition and review process husband, who died in 1987. level in geriatric psychiatry, conducted by music faculty He had been a Babcock geriatrics and gerontology, members. Eight students faculty member since 1983. and the epidemiology of were selected to share in Brockway will use the aging and disease the award, including up $2,000 grant, which will be preventiOn. perclass music majors as awarded annually, to par well as one sophomore and ticipate in the Babcock three freshmen. Grant Will Support Biology Department ake Forest has received Wan $800,000 grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that will support expansion of the school's undergraduate biological science research and curriculum. ''We seek to make a strong course of study even stronger," said Ronald V. Dimock Jr., professor and chairman of the biology department. "That's what the institute is striving for, to make the strong pro grams stronger so this coun try's next generation of doc tors and biological re searchers have the best Dr. john W. Angell (left) and Dr. john A. Easley. possible training." The five-year grant will Angell Named To Easley Professorship coincide with the physical expansion of the biology department under the uni versity's capital plan. A r. John William awarded the Medallion of of Wake Forest's most 30,000-square-foot addition DAngell has been Merit in 1972. cherished commitments and to Winston Hall, the named to the first John A native of Greenville, ideals," said Provost Edwin biology building, will be Allen Easley Professorship S.C., Easley received the G. Wilson ('43). "In honor complete in 1991. in the Department of B.A. degree from Furman ing him we honor a name, The funds will be used Religion. Angell, who has University and the Th.M. a person, a friend, a sym to purchase laboratory been on the Wake Forest degree from the Southern bol, and we establish a pro . eqmpment, to asstst faculty since 1955, is an or Baptist Theological fessorship as a living and modification of the cur dained Baptist minister. Seminary in 1918. He continuing reminder of this riculum, as financial Dr. Easley, professor undertook further study at man's life of deeds and stipends for undergraduate emeritus of religion, Harvard, Columbia and the servtce.. " student became pastor of Wake University of Chicago. Easley and Angell are researchers during the summer, Forest Baptist Church and In addition to serving as longtime colleagues, Wilson and for a pro gram chaplain of Wake Forest a religion scholar, Easley said, and the links between that will make more College in 1928. He became has achieved distinction in them have always been courses available at times accessible professor of religion in 1938 the fields of horticulture, strong. Both are devoted to public high school and later served as chair art history and painting. family men whose wives, science teachers who seek advanced degrees. man of the Department of "The name of John Allen children and grandchildren Religion until his retire Easley has represented are the center of lives of ment in 1963. He was certain rare qualities of order, music, dignity, and mind and heart and spirit love, he said. that are at the very center 4 I CAMPUS CHRONICL E Six University Administrators Are Promoted resident Thomas K. P Hearn Jr. recently announced the promotions of six University adminis trators. Dr. John P. Anderson is the new vice president for administration and budget. He was formerly vice presi Search Begins dent for administration and For Babcock Dean planning. Anderson will supervise Reynolda Campus operations including per r. Thomas C. Taylor, sonnel, physical plant and D recently named dean budget. John Anderson John Williard of business and manage John G. Williard, former ment, has resigned to ly vice president and . return to his duties as dean treasurer, 1s now v1ce presi- of the School of Business dent for financial resource and Accountancy. Taylor, management. He will who underwent major manage the University's surgery m June, requested a $290 mi llion endowment return to his previous posi and investment portfolio. tion. The U niversity will Kenneth A. Zick is the conduct a search for a dean new vice president for stu of the Babcock Graduate dent life and instructional School of Management. resources. He will supervise "Although he is on the student services, University way to fu ll restoration of libraries and Reynolda good health, Dean Taylor is Campus grants and con not certain that he will tracts. Z ick is former Kenneth Zick Harold Holmes have the considerable associate dean for academic energy that serving as dean affairs in the School of Law. of two schools will surely Harold R. Holmes has require ," said President been named dean of stu Hearn. dent services. He was direc "I am delighted that he tor of career planning and will remain at the helm of placement on the Reynolda our undergraduate business Campus. studies where he will con Julius H. Corpening, a tinue to make important member of the University contributions to Wake Relations staff since 1969, Forest," he s aid. has been appointed assis Hearn named Dr. Paul tant vice president for A. Dierks acting dean. University Relations. He will Dierks is associate dean and be responsible for develop associate professor of the ment planning for the Julius Corpening Robert Baker Babcock Graduate School of Center for Professional Management. Education. Baker joined the University tions and has served as Provost Edwin G. Wilson Robert T. Baker, former Relations staff in 1978 as development officer for the (' 43) will chair the selection assistant director of develop director of corporate rela- Law School, the Babcock committee.