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Features 12 ¿Cómo saldrá tu futuro, Cuba? by Ellen Dockham “How will your future turn out, Cuba?” Many, including members of a Wake Forest entourage that visited the still-outcast island last summer, are not especially sanguine. 22 Men on a Mission by Dan Collins Can Jim Grobe and his longtime staff do what so many others have failed to do—make Wake Forest a consistent winner in football? Page 22 Page 12 Essay The Hunt for Big Red Departments 28 by Douglas C. Waller (’71) 2 Campus Chronicle What the author, Time magazine’s diplomatic correspondent, learned while spending more time aboard 36 Alumni Report a Trident nuclear submarine than any journalist before him.

40 University Advancement Profile 32 The Man Who Page 28 46 Class Notes Loves Storms by Georgann Eubanks The same candor and keen powers 64 The Last Word of observation that made Russell Brantley something of a gadfly in his years as communications director and presidential consultant at Wake Forest are manifestly evident in his new volume of poetry.

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WFU Press, America’s premier publisher of Irish poetry, turns twenty-five

Silver and golden represents one of the prestigious primarily in the story of the and important models in the Wake Forest University Press RISH POETRY, WROTE humanities that a liberal arts and the Irish Poetry Series; in IW.B. Yeats, has always been education has to offer, accord- his having conceived and given closely tied to magic. So it ing to Edwin G. Wilson (’42), birth to the Press and in his seems in the case of the Wake senior vice president and pro- having nurtured it for twenty- Forest University Press, which fessor of English who has five years and in his having— celebrates its twenty-fifth played an important role in the throughout—applied impecca- anniversary this month during life and success of the Press. ble standards in the selection the University’s annual Irish Johnston conceived the of authors and works and Festival. idea in 1974 after realizing, design and typography. The through his own research, just Press, I think, is one of the how few titles of contempo- most enduring humanities rary Irish poetry were avail- achievements of modern Wake able in the U.S. He went to Forest, and Dillon is entitled Wilson, who was provost at to most of the credit.” the time, and pitched his plan. If Johnston is to be credited After some fine-tuning, Wilson as the Press’ founding father, and the University administra- he says Wilson is its midwife tion accepted the plan. and Candide Jones (MA ’79), The Press began to roll in who has managed the Press 1976, publishing works by since 1990, its governess. Jones, Austin Clarke, Ciaran Carson, founder and director of the and John Montague. It was an Wake Forest University Irish Candide Jones and Dillon Johnston: excellent start, topped off with Festival, is as sprightly and a grand enterprise combining In its short but stellar life, a positive review by The New keen as Johnston is soft-spoken ‘scholarship and soul.’ the Press, one of the smallest— York Times. and deliberate. While Johnston if not the smallest—university “Students have spoken of turns his energy more toward presses in the country, has Dillon Johnston as a teacher: acquisitions, Jones—his former earned a reputation of nearly his wide-ranging knowledge, student—is heavily involved mythic proportion as the major his skill in interpretation, his in the financial and accounting publisher of contemporary high expectations—and also aspects of the business. She deals Irish poetry in North America. his generosity,” says Wilson. also with the printers and free- Founded in 1976 by Eng- “Colleagues here and else- lance designers and her work lish Professor and Irish scholar where know his scholarship has resulted in the Press receiv- Dillon Johnston, the Press also and admire his judgement and ing acclaim not only for the critical insights. My own quality of what is published but admiration for him is grounded

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also for the quality of its books, titles each year bring as many Ancient wisdom but Ulery is helping to spread including some hand-sewn volumes of poetry to the idea through presentations editions. Jones also works with American readers as major Classical languages still alive at various professional meet- the poets on timetables and publishers do. after all these years ings and work on textbooks getting the manuscripts in To date, titles include that would apply the idea to hand, and she arranges reading some ninety books by poets HEY SAY LATIN IS A reading the ancient authors. tours throughout North such as Thomas Kinsella, Tdead language. Don’t tell “If you use Latin as a con- America for the Press’ poets. Peter Fallon, John Montague, that to the students in Profes- versational medium, your read- “Wake Forest University Michael Longely, Nuala Ní sor Robert Ulery’s courses, for ing can be more fluent,” Ulery Press has played a vital role in Dhomhnaill, Rachael Geise whom Latin is very much said. “The simple repetition of the growing awareness of Irish and noted critic Seamus alive and well. Ulery’s students the questions and answers leads poetry,” says Paul Muldoon, Deane, as well as the first ever not only have to decipher the eventually to comprehension. Oxford University Professor of anthology of Irish women’s complicated grammar, but And it is comprehension either Poetry and the Howard G.B. work, The Wake Forest Book they also have to speak it. in the thought of the language Clark Professor in the Humani- of Irish Women’s Poetry, “I was quite frightened at itself, or in a simultaneous ties and Director of the Creative 1967-2000, which contains an the beginning when I found out mental English. The important Writing Program at Princeton unusually large number of we were going to have to speak thing is to keep the English University. Muldoon’s poetry poems. The anthology is criti- Latin in class. I wasn’t sure if from being written down, has been published by the cally important because it is I’d be able to figure out what memorized or otherwise fixed.” Wake Forest Press. “It is the the first such collection to give he was saying, but now I’m Using Latin as the medium only press to have published voice to Irish female poets, a pretty used to it,” said Michelle of instruction is one way fac- Irish poetry almost exclusively, very recent trend even in Buckius, a freshman from ulty members in the Depart- and Dillon Johnston is to be Ireland that the Press has Long Island, New York, who ment of Classical Languages commended for the sophistica- deliberately sought to nurture. took intermediate Latin with are working to make their tion and single-mindedness he “I have had certain difficul- Ulery in the fall. “When you subject matter more engaging has brought to the enterprise. ties with my British publishers translate, you read the sentence and more accessible to students. A large part of the successes of and certainly I fell out with and plug in all the words to The professors see it as their the Press is due to the combi- them over my work,” says make it make sense. When mission to be “stewards and nation of Dillon’s scholarship poet Medbh McGuckian. “My you’re just talking to someone, transmitters of the legacy that and ‘soul.’” poems would be a bit more it forces you to think faster.” has come down to us from As a small independent explicit about my allegiances That’s exactly the effect antiquity,” according to depart- publisher and two-person office and my ancestral feelings. So I Ulery is hoping to achieve ment chair John Andronica. subsidized by the University, find it refreshing to deal with with his experiment to replace “It is our responsibility to the Press has experienced small Dillon and the Wake Forest translation of the Latin read- master the corpus, and then, but steady increases in sales people. They understand poets ing into English with a series as best we can, to pass it on over the years, to the point as individuals. We are a weird of questions and answers in unimpaired to our successors,” where it sold 6,000 books last lot. We can’t just produce poet- Latin. Students aren’t so much he said. “In the classroom year. Its titles are distributed to ry at the drop of a hat. We are learning ordinary conversation what is needed are efforts to Barnes and Noble and Borders very sensitive and Wake Forest as they are learning to read and be creative in the use of new and are available through on- understands that, and I think interpret using Latin instead pedagogical and technological line sales and through the Press’ they understand the Irish situa- of English. Only a handful of developments to keep alive the Web site. tion in a way others don’t.” professors around the country texts and their spirit, and to By publishing poetry exclu- —Liz Switzer are attempting this method, explore as much as possible sively, the Press’s four to six the ancient world and much

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about the modern that may “The high-minded At Wake Forest, the com- serve to illuminate the texts approach, which I happen to mitment to the discipline and be illuminated by them.” agree with, is that the study of remains strong although stu- Once the core of higher classics and indeed of all the dent interest has waned over education, classics—the study liberal arts is inherently good the years. “Some of Wake of Latin and Greek and the and you don’t need to justify Forest’s outstanding students world they served—has taken it further,” Powell said. “But have done a great deal of a backseat to courses of study there’s a practical argument work in the Department of that some would consider more for studying classics also. Classical Languages,” said Employers are saying that in Paul Escott, dean of the col- this rapidly changing techno- lege. “The value of the classics logical world, it’s impossible for a liberal arts education to train students specifically remains great, and the ques- because the technology will tions addressed by the major be outdated by the time they Greek and Roman writers graduate. What the employers have abiding significance.” need are people who are intel- When Wake Forest first lectually engaged, who know opened, all students were how to think analytically and required to study Latin and to learn. Then they can teach Greek for all four years. By them the specifics.” 1869, those requirements had Not all students are a hard been relaxed, and 66 percent sell. Tim Williams, a sophomore of the students studied Latin, Latin and history major from while 37 percent studied Classical languages faculty (left to Blacksburg, Virginia, said Greek. Those numbers have right) Patricia Marshall, Robert Ulery, practical. When the first Ameri- studying the language has steadily declined so that now John Andronica, James Powell, and Mary Pendergraft: making the ‘dead’ can colleges were formed in made him a better writer and only 5-6 percent of Wake come alive. the seventeenth and eighteenth analytical thinker. “People Forest students study Latin, centuries, classics ruled the always say they can’t believe and 1 percent study Greek. curriculum, said Associate I’m a Latin major, that I’m This year, seven students are Professor James Powell. Now never going to make any money majoring in Latin, Greek, or it has disappeared entirely from at that,” he said. “But I’m classical studies; seven are many colleges. Some reasons doing something that challenges minoring in those subjects. for the shift include the explo- me and brings me enjoyment, Additional students take sion of knowledge that has and I think that’s what’s courses in the department, of produced more disciplines and important in life. It’s making course, and one of the more the democratization of higher me a more well-rounded indi- popular courses, taught by education with its accompany- vidual, and I don’t think the Powell on mythology, has ing increase in numbers of stu- whole point of college is to eighty-five students enrolled for dents. But it’s also a matter worry about what job you’re the spring semester. of a fading interest in the going to get after graduation. “The current generation study of anything that doesn’t I think it’s finding something has been shaped by video and appear practical and oriented that interests you and seeing music. We suspect today’s stu- toward helping a student find where that leads you.” dents have a decreased ability a job after graduation. to process certain kinds of

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knowledge if they are not different story,” Powell said. How women think “The interviews suggest packaged in those formats,” “The brain is in the wrong that economic need is only Ulery said. “Much of the work shape to learn at this age, and Book explores factors behind one of a host of factors which in Latin requires memorization, the two-year language require- women’s work-or-home choices determine the labor force and for many of these students, ment is not as long as it seems participation of mothers with it’s the first time they’ve been when you want students to HEN MOTHERS OF young children,” said Hattery. asked to do that.” learn to read something as soph- Wyoung children decide The data illustrate that The faculty members hope isticated as Virgil and Plato.” to stay in the work force or mothers resolve the job-family that being aware of these pro- Associate Professor Mary stay at home, their beliefs conflict in four different ways pensities will help them infect Pendergraft is working on a about the appropriate roles for based on their beliefs about students with their passion project through the Joint Com- mothers can be as important motherhood or their “mother- for Latin and Greek. “The mittee on Classics in American as economic factors in the hood ideology,” Hattery said. appeal of studying the classics Education that will detail what decision, says Angela Hattery, She identified four types of is the sheer intellectual thrill each state requires of its high assistant professor of sociology mothers: conformists, non- of encountering an author school Latin teachers. There is at Wake Forest. conformists, pragmatists and across the gap of centuries in a shortage of qualified Latin Her new book, Women, innovators. that author’s own language,” teachers, and even those who Work and Family: Balancing “I hope people can find Ulery said. meet requirements are often and Weaving, examines the ways themselves in these pages and Part of the difficulty in strapped for time as they must mothers with young children feel validated,” Hattery said. getting students interested in pack mythology, culture, and resolve the job-family conflict. “A lot of women feel that they Latin and Greek begins long civilization along with the Sage Publications published are the only ones doing it this before they reach the college language into their classes. the book in January. way. So this is a way of vali- level, Powell said. Latin isn’t “Teaching is a spectrum,” Hattery interviewed thirty dating multiple options for exactly the most popular for- Pendergraft said. “We are married women, including ten balancing work and family.” eign language course in high partners with the high school mothers who stayed schools, aside from those teachers, and any support we at home full-time, ten students who study it to help can give to them is good for mothers who were increase their verbal scores on the education of our students.” employed full-time, the SAT. The number of public For those who do catch the and ten mothers who high school students who bug, the study of the ancient were employed part- enroll in Latin actually has languages can be a satisfying time. She selected increased in recent years, but experience. “Latin has taught women from various a nationwide survey by the me English,” said Julie Richard- economic groups American Council on the son, a senior Latin major from with various numbers Teaching of Foreign Languages McLeansville, North Carolina, of children, but each found that the number of stu- who plans to become a physi- of the women had an dents taking Latin was only cian’s assistant. “I think I eighteen-month-old 189,000 in 1994–95, up from write better. My grammar and child at the time of 164,000 in 1990–1991. composition is much better. the interviews. “Teaching language to Anything you translate that’s adults is a difficult proposition in Latin is scholarly material, because the brain is wired to and the more scholarly material learn language as a child. If we you read, the more scholarly Angela Hattery: ‘Economic need is only one factor.’ were starting at age nine like you write.” in the old days, it would be a —Ellen Dockham

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Conformists believe that the their husbands, they conduct a at home full-time felt guilty only way to be a good mother cost-benefit analysis weighing about not contributing finan- is to stay at home. This model the pros and cons of working. cially to their families and of intensive mothering developed Some decide to work, while about not pursuing the careers in the late forties in post-World others decide to stay at home. they had worked so hard to War II America, Hattery said. The pragmatists tend to ideal- attain. Those pragmatists who Although moms were often ize fulfilling, well-paying were employed full-time felt home with their children before part-time employment, Hattery guilty about not spending then, they were not able to said. But, many are frustrated more time with their children. devote themselves primarily about not being able to attain “Satisfaction with work ‘I would love it to childrearing. that goal. situation has more to do with “The work of running a The innovators accept the what you think you should be if women who go household without the help stay-at-home mother ideal, too, doing than what you actually of modern appliances and but reject the standard methods are doing,” the Wake Forest convenience foods prevented of achieving a balance between professor discovered. to work would women from focusing com- work and family. Options for child care pletely on their children,” “Innovators create new played a significant role in understand better Hattery said. But, by the fifties, ways of meeting the demands of employment decision-making women began “not staying at both their roles as caretakers particularly for the pragma- home being housewives, but and economic providers for tists, Hattery said. She devotes those who stay being mothers.” their families,” Hattery said. a book chapter to the various The conformists are likely Strategies they use include ways child care strategies are at home, and that to stay at home even when this working shifts that do not selected and created in order requires tremendous financial overlap with their husbands’ for mothers with young sacrifice. or working from home. Some children to weave work and women who stay The non-conformists reject of the innovators in the study family together as seamlessly the intensive motherhood ide- who worked considered them- as possible. at home would ology, believing that they can selves stay-at-home moms In her interviews with work and still be good moth- because they did not use out- mothers, Hattery also found ers. They feel a responsibility side childcare. They balanced that employed mothers and better understand to provide economically for schedules with fathers and stay-at-home mothers were the family, feel entitled to pur- found ways to work without critical of each other’s choices. that choice.’ sue their own career interests compromising what they saw She hopes the book will help and believe professional child- as their duties as mothers. bridge the divide between care benefits their children. The conformists, the non- these women. The pragmatists, although conformists, and the innova- “I would love it if women they tend to subscribe to the tors were happy with their who go to work would under- stay-at-home mother model decisions to either stay at home stand better those who stay popularized in the fifties, make or to work despite the financial at home,” she said, “and that their decisions about employ- stress or time pressures they women who stay at home ment based on practical con- faced. The pragmatists, whether would better understand that siderations. With input from they chose to work or not, were choice.” the most dissatisfied with their —Cheryl V. Walker situations. Pragmatists staying

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Safe sex, Dogfennel is easy to spot in moth-style pastures, says Conner, because the cows eat all the grass Biologist learns how mating around it, but leave the tall insect wards off predators toxic plant standing. The male moth extracts AFE SEX FOR SCARLET- toxins called “pyrrolizidine Sbodied wasp moths means alkaloids” from the plant. avoiding being eaten by preda- “He lands on the plant, regur- tors while mating. So, the male gitates on the plant to dissolve moth, in order to protect his the alkaloids and then reim- intended during courtship, bibes the toxin-rich liquid,” covers her with a bridal veil says Conner. of poison, says William Conner, The small red and black professor of biology. The moths moth stores the toxins in a Conner, with graduate student Raeleen Wilson: ‘The link between chemical are immune to the toxin, but special pouch. The pouch, defenses and sex appears to be a strong one.’ the poisonous cloud prevents located on his underbelly, is predators from spoiling the filled with fibers that have a Instead of eating the moth, the wedding of the insect pair. cotton candy consistency. spider released the moth by The scarlet-bodied wasp Once he has ingested the cutting it free from its web. moth, native to Florida, is the toxin from the plant, the male As part of their analysis of only insect known to transfer is no longer tasty to his com- the transfer of the toxin from a chemical defense in this way, mon predators, particularly the male to the female, Conner says Conner. He discovered spiders and bats. After gather- and his research assistants the moth’s distinctive behavior ing the poison, the moth goes have recorded videos of the while conducting research at in search of a female. When male releasing the toxins the Archbold Biological Station he finds his insect bride, they before mating. near Lake Placid, Florida. mate for nine hours. But, The research sheds light on Conner’s study was pub- just before mating, the moth the evolution of sexual signals lished in the Proceedings of the releases the toxin like a cloud in insects, says Conner, who, National Academy of Sciences of miniature confetti that with his wife, Mindy, and sev- in December. His findings were sticks to the female. The toxin eral students, has been work- the subject of a cover story in protects her while she is mat- ing on the project since 1996. the most recent issue of the ing and while she lays her “The link between chemical newsletter of the Entymological eggs. The female moth then defenses and sex appears to be a Society of America. passes the toxin to her eggs. strong one,” he says. “Just as As a caterpillar, the insect The toxin deters egg-eating early human females probably feeds on a non-toxic plant, insects like ants and ladybugs preferred males that could help climbing hempweed. Then, from devouring her young. defend them and their house- when it becomes a moth and is To test whether the toxin hold, it makes sense for female ready to mate, the male changes was effective in protecting the insects to choose males that his eating habits. As darkness adult moths, Conner and his can provide a good defense for falls on his big night, he visits Wake Forest student assistants them and their offspring.” the poisonous dogfennel plant. placed the moth in the web of —Cheryl V. Walker a golden orb-weaving spider.

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Mouth of a vocal expression. I sing, and Before the majority of the the South so it became very challenging population had a mobile phone to me to learn how to do it,” strapped to their hip, people Jasper said. “It has taken me kept up with their neighbors Wake Forest staffer wins three years to learn how to do using a good, throaty holler. National Hollerin’ Contest these hollers. I found it diffi- One of those was what Jasper cult to try to emulate at first.” calls the “gettin up” holler. HEN KEVIN JASPER All his hard work paid off. “Each farmer would have Whollers at someone, he’s He placed second the second a trademark holler. When they not looking for an argument. time he entered the contest, and got up each morning, they This analyst programmer in the in June he was named winner would holler to the neighbor Wake Forest Information Sys- of the thirty-second annual to let the neighbor know they tems department is just sharing National Hollerin’ Contest. were up and doing OK and Kevin Jasper: ‘I holler with my a folk tradition that is near and Johnny Carson had long since the neighbor would holler windows up.’ dear to his heart. He is one of retired, but Jasper found him- back,” Jasper said. “I’m sure a small contingent of people in self being interviewed by David they had some friendly compe- falsetto register of the voice.” North Carolina who still prac- Letterman, Regis Philbin, and tition to see who could wake As the person who is hollerin’ tice the art of hollerin’. Jasper many newspaper reporters and the other households up first.” shifts from a full voice to is committed to preserving the radio personalities. People all over the world falsetto, it sounds a bit like folk tradition that is unique to “I received several nice holler for communication. yodeling. The Tarzan holler is the Sampson County area. voicemails and e-mails from Different types include: expres- another example of a full voice Jasper’s interest in hollerin’, Wake Forest employees who sive hollers, distress hollers, breaking into the falsetto. which is more a musical expres- heard me on [locally syndicat- functional farm hollers and Though the tradition sion than a yell, was sparked ed] radio shows,” Jasper said. communication hollers (which reaches beyond how loud or back in the mid-seventies when “I’ve done over eighty over-the- includes the “gettin up” holler). long one can holler, Jasper the winner of the National phone interviews with radio “The kind of hollerin’ admits that it can take a lot Hollerin’ Contest appeared on stations, including two in they’re trying to preserve with out of you to belt out four The Tonight Show with Johnny Canada, two in New Zealand the contest is the expressive minutes of hollers—that’s the Carson. In 1997 the hollerin’ and one in Sydney, Australia.” hollerin’. That’s what’s unique time limit set in the contest. bug bit him again, and Jasper Practice makes perfect, and to that area of North Carolina. “In my acceptance speech,” began training for competition. Jasper had lots of time to prac- Most people don’t realize that Jasper said, “I told the crowd, He called the founder of tice during his hundred-mile it’s a folk art form,” Jasper ‘Y’all don’t try this at home the contest, Ermon Godwin, round-trip commute each day said. “There’s a fellow at UNC unless you’ve got a licensed and was introduced to record- between his home in Burlington [The University of North respiratory therapist nearby ings made in the mid-seventies and the Wake Forest campus Carolina at Chapel Hill] who who can help get your lungs of winners dating back to in Winston-Salem. did a master’s thesis on hol- back into shape, because it’ll the first National Hollerin’ “I’m sure there are times lerin’, believe it or not. In his wear you out.” Contest, which has been held when people can see me doing research, he can’t find any —Christine Underwood in Spivey’s Corner, North odd things in the car,” Jasper evidence of another tradition Carolina since 1969. said. “I tell everybody that a of this style of hollerin’.” “What interested me most lot of people in the big cities Jasper describes this style about it was the fact that it is yell at each other with their of hollerin’ as “a high-pitched windows down, but I holler sort of thing that involves the with my windows up.”

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Credit for hours system instead,” Escott said. complete to graduate. Students convenience that the credits “It has led to a lot of compli- may, on average, have to take system stayed in place,” University changes its cations and confusion through one more course to graduate Kairoff said, “but it created a academic credit system the years, especially when a under the hours system. headache for the faculty student takes a course at a Claudia Thomas Kairoff, because most other universities N A MOVE ADVOCATED university near home over the chair of the curriculum review use hours. The faculty in gen- Iby many faculty members for summer or when a student for committee and associate dean eral feels that the hours system years, Wake Forest will switch any reason transfers credit in. of the College, said Wake is a more accurate and honest from the academic credits sys- The conversions aren’t clear, Forest had an hours system up representation of what we’re tem to an hours system. The and the student might end up until the seventies, when the doing, and it should avoid a move, which occurs in fall with less credit than he or she University briefly experimented lot of those headaches. In this semester, will bring the Univer- or even the department expect- with a schedule that included a age of globalization when stu- sity in line with most other ed. This will put us more in January term that necessitated dents are encouraged to do institutions in the country. line with what is typical in using credits. When the Univer- some of their coursework New students who enter American higher education.” sity returned to the semester abroad, for example, the hours the University in Fall 2001 Escott said the conversion format used today, it was a system will make it much less will earn hours instead of from credits to hours will technological nightmare for complicated.” credits for their coursework. not make a substantive change the registrar’s office to change —Ellen Dockham In general, a class that meets in the curriculum or in the from the credits system. “It three hours per week will be amount of work students must was more for the University’s worth three hours toward the total of 112 hours required for graduation, said Paul D. Escott, Dean of the College. Students who have already begun their coursework under the credits system will remain on that system until they grad- uate. Both systems will run concurrently for up to six years until the transition is complete. “For many years, we have been in a somewhat anomalous position compared to other institutions. Most other insti- tutions have a system of hours, and we are one of the compar- atively few schools on a credit

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher delivered the Broyhill Series lecture in Wait Chapel February 16.

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

◆ TWO DISTINGUISHED WRITERS with Wake Forest potential to continue their studies for two years at any connections were honored by President Bill Clinton and British university. Trammell, who along with fellow Wake First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington, D.C., Forest senior Jessica Posner also was recognized in Febru- in December. Maya Angelou, poet, writer, and Reynolds ary as a USA Today All-USA College Academic Team win- Professor of American Studies, was one of twelve recipi- ner, plans to study at the London School of Economics and ents of the National Medal of Arts. Will Campbell (’48), Political Science in the nationalism and ethnicity program. preacher, social activist, and author of Brother to a Dragonfly, received the National Medal of Humanities. ◆ JIM NEWMAN, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER and president of DJ Pharma in San Diego, California, donated ◆ VICTOR I. FLOW JR. (’52) thousands of bottles of medicines in January to support a (right), automotive executive and Wake Forest service project in Honduras. The shipment Wake Forest benefactor, received arrived just as eleven Wake Forest students began a ten- the University’s highest award for day service effort under the auspices of the Honduras service, the Medallion of Merit, Outreach Project and Exchange (HOPE) Scholars Program at Founders’ Day convocation to work in the Agalta Valley, a remote mountainous region February 8. In other awards pre- devastated by 1998’s Hurricane Mitch. Newman, whose sented at Founders’ Day, Angela daughter, Jennifer, is a Wake Forest sophomore, decided to Hattery, assistant professor of donate the medicine after hearing about Wake Forest stu- sociology, was awarded the dents’ annual domestic and international service projects. Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award for Contribution to Student Life; Nina Lucas, director of the ◆ A WAKE FOREST ALUMNUS HAS PUBLISHED a dance program in the theater department, was awarded the history of Deacon basketball. Titled Demon Deacon Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching; Kathleen Hoops, the 245-page hardcover book traces, in text and Kron, assistant professor of biology, and James Schirillo, photographs, Wake Forest basketball from its inception assistant professor of psychology, received the Award for in 1906 through 2000. For information on how to obtain Excellence in Research; Patricia J. Roberts, a law professor, a copy, contact its author, Barry Lawing (MA ’84) at was presented the Joseph Branch Excellence in Teaching [email protected] Award; and Ajay Patel, associate professor of finance in the Babcock School, was presented the Kienzle Teaching Award. ◆ THE FINANCIAL TIMES OF LONDON has ranked Wake Forest’s Babcock Graduate School of Management ◆ DIANNE DAILEY, HEAD WOMEN’S GOLF COACH number fifty-five among the world’s 100 best graduate at Wake Forest, has been inducted into the National Golf business schools. Coaches Association Hall of Fame. ◆ TWO FORMER DEMON DEACON FOOTBALL ◆ ALAN TRAMMELL, A SENIOR AT WAKE FOREST, players competed in this year’s Super Bowl. Mike McCrary has been selected to receive a Marshall Scholarship. The (’93) started at defensive end for the champion Baltimore prestigious scholarship, financed by the British government, Ravens, while Thabiti Davis (’98) was a backup wide provides an opportunity for forty American students who receiver for the New York Giants. Ernie Accorsi (’63) is have demonstrated academic excellence and leadership general manager of the Giants.

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¿Cómo saldrá

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rá tu futuro,

by Ellen Dockham

T’S ONLY AN HOUR FROM Miami to Havana by air, a short enough distance that many Cubans A country that was frozen in 1959 is poised to thaw. have attempted to traverse it in Will its contents spoil in the fever heat of commercialism? rickety boats to seek asylum on American soil. So close, but thanks to forty years of U.S. sanctions, so far away. Cuba shows up as a blip on the radar screen for most Americans—save those in Miami— only on infrequent occasions of major news like the Cuban Missile Crisis or Elian Gonzalez. In fact, much of what Americans know about the neighboring country can probably be traced to a series of characters known mostly from television, movies, and theater: Fidel Castro, Fulgencio

©LORNE RESNICK Batista, Che Guevara, Elian Gonzalez,

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THERE’S INCREDIBLE BEAUTY, THE WAKE FOREST GROUP SAYS, IN THE ARCHITECTURE AND TOPOGRAPHY THAT ALLOWS VIEWS OF THE WATER AT EVERY TURN, IN THE VIBRANT PAINT OF PEOPLE WHO THRIVE DESPITE THEIR LACK OF BASIC RESOURCES.

even Ricky Ricardo. Throw in some the American picture of Cuba. because Cuba is a fascinating place images of cigars, salsa dancing, That’s an unfortunate conse- ripe for discovery, according to a gambling, and maybe some baseball, quence of the political situation, group of Wake Forest professors who

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There’s incredible beauty, they say, in Wake Forest has been in the vanguard the architecture and color of Havana, of growing U.S. academic interest. in the topography that allows views Wake Forest was one of only three of the water at every turn, in the American universities with a presence vibrant painting and dancing and at the University of Havana when Linda writing of people who thrive despite Howe, assistant professor of Romance their lack of basic resources. Most languages, first set up the summer Americans can’t witness this in per- program three years ago. Now, son, due to the 1963 “Trading with according to The Chronicle of Higher Education, universities across the U.S., including UC-Berkeley, Duke, Tulane, Harvard, and Butler, are working on Cuban exchange programs. In Wake Forest’s six-week summer program, students take courses in Afro-Cuban culture and Cuban literature as well as work on commu- nity projects with Havana schoolchildren. They take the children on tours of

©LORNE RESNICK Havana’s historic district, discussing in Spanish the the Enemy Act” that makes it illegal culture and architecture, and then for Americans to spend money in help the children paint, draw, and Cuba unless they obtain a license talk about their experiences. Wake from the U.S. government. But with Forest students also prepare readings the passage of the 1992 Cuban in Spanish for eight-year-olds, who Democracy Act in which the U.S. then discuss the works and perform Congress encouraged academic skits. As a group, the University stu- exchanges, American academics find dents travel on weekends to outlying it easier than ever to get that permis- areas and take salsa dancing lessons sion. That is, as long as they’re will- for a taste of Cuban culture. ©LORNE RESNICK ing to wade through complicated lay- “I thought it would be interesting ers of paperwork, schedule a charter for our students to see another reality, COLOR OF HAVANA, IN THE flight from Miami, and stand in line to break down the stereotypes of the for hours at the airport waiting for third world,” says Howe, who has G AND DANCING AND WRITING everything to be checked. been traveling to Cuba for ten years The Wake Forest group was more for her studies of cultural production than willing to leap those hurdles for in Cuba after the 1959 revolution traveled there last summer in hopes the experience of visiting Cuba and that brought Castro to power. “It’s a of creating more Cuban study oppor- making contacts with colleagues at chance for them to have an eye-open- tunities for students and faculty. the University of Havana, where ing experience and to see that Cuba is

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still going, that you don’t have to “We can be part of the movement University of Havana told Howe have all the amenities to function.” toward exchange of ideas rather than about the low point reached after the It was Howe’s vision that led six perpetuating the political problems. collapse of the Soviet Union, which Wake Forest faculty members— Through academics, we can be left Cuba’s economy in dire straits. Pia Wood, director of international bridges between the two countries.” “There was no gas, so the dean had studies; Jack Wilkerson, dean of the Students and faculty alike are to ride her bike twenty miles just to Calloway School of Business and amazed at the perseverance of Cuban Accountancy; Herman Eure, chair of academics under working conditions ‘WHAT STRUCK ME MOST WAS biology; Candelas Gala, chair of the that would be unacceptable at Wake WOULD THINK THE REV OLU Romance languages department; Forest or any other U.S. university, Earl Smith, chair of sociology; and Howe says. Besides the fact that their ABOUT CHE GUEVE RA LIKE Margaret Supplee Smith, chair of the salaries of $20 to $30 a month are art department—to join her in Cuba less than what Cuban taxi drivers get to the university to make sure the at the end of last summer’s program. make, faculty at the University of classes could go on,” Howe says. “I wanted more people at Wake Havana lack the most basic “These people are incredibly dedicated, Forest to see the opportunities for resources, such as paper and pens. and that kind of sacrifice is hard for exchange in Cuba,” Howe says. The dean of arts and letters at the us to understand. They must have a

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real vision for their students to con- tinue to work in spite of all the prob- lems, to know that you can’t run a country on taxi drivers alone.” Candelas Gala came away with the same admiration for the Havana faculty. “They have dismal working conditions. I met with the dean of humanities in an office that had no air conditioning and no paint in years. She had a pile of grocery bags under her desk that I assumed she kept because everything can be used. Would you imagine a dean here with bags under the desk?” Gala says. “She spoke French and English and had an enviable spirit. She was doing miracles with what she had. It is the life of the mind versus horrendous social conditions. They don’t have a thing and they keep doing it. I have to give them credit.” Gala, who was born in Spain, remembers that Castro’s revolution was welcomed in her native country. “People believed that Cuba needed social change,” she recalls. “I have realized that it was a good dream that never materialized, but what struck me most was that the young people in Cuba are repeating the ideals of the revolution. You would think the revolution would have been accepted as a total failure, but they are still

talking about Che Guevara like it ©LORNE RESNICK was yesterday.”

THAT THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN CUBA ARE REPEATING THE IDEALS OF THE REVOLUTION. Y O U N WOULD HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED AS A TOTAL FAILURE, BUT THEY ARE STILL TALKING WAS YESTERDAY.’

As a scientist, Herman Eure was in Cuba is unattainable. “The people their ability to do as much as they particularly amazed when he visited are ingenious,” he says. “They take do with such few resources. There the biology faculty in Havana and nothing and make it work. They would be a great outcry at Wake saw the work being done in a field are making the things they need to Forest if we couldn’t buy the things that depends on technology that do research. I was impressed with we do.”

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Eure is working with the biology but about learning how to approach whoever gets the paint contract on department at Havana to arrange a problems and how to solve them.” that city will make a fortune. There possible faculty exchange and per- Students could benefit in Cuba, are ritzy hotels but two blocks away haps a future summer program for as in other foreign study programs, there’s the low-rent district where biology students patterned after from seeing that the rest of the world Howe’s language program. “There’s a doesn’t necessarily live like Americans, ‘THE PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL whole world south of us that we Eure believes. “You can’t put a dollar THERE ARE RITZY HOTELS don’t know much about. Education is value on what students learn in foreign about more than sitting in a class- study,” he says. “It changes who they CLOTHES. THEY AREN’T EVEN room; I’d like our students to see life are as people.” from the perspective of someone who Eure had that experience himself people don’t have clothes.” Eure says isn’t a majority,” Eure says. “Biology on the Cuba trip. He said he was he was angered by the fact that every- is all about diversity, and in science amazed at the contradictions he saw day Cubans don’t have access to we ask questions designed to make there. “The weather is beautiful but the amenities provided for tourists. life better. What better place to go brutal. The people are beautiful but They aren’t even allowed to enter than Cuba to accomplish that? It’s also browbeaten and broken down. the tourist hotels, restaurants, and not just about learning the biology Havana is beautiful but crumbling— beaches unless they work there, he

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said. And even if they could get in, the devastation they wouldn’t be able to afford any- created by the thing because of the two-tier econo- blockade, the my in which dollars and pesos both Cuban people have function. Cubans receive state salaries not only survived in pesos that make it impossible for but have made them to afford the tourist amenities progress in their charged in dollars. lives with what The highlight of the trip for Eure they have to work was being invited to the home of a with,” Smith says. Havana faculty member for a party “What I also saw with other Cuban educators. “They was that this place had food and drink and good conver- is devastated. It is sation for us, and we had a good one step away from time,” he says. But the evening was sinking—you can another example of contradictions. A see that in the friend of the host kindly offered to architecture, in the drive the Wake Forest guests back to transportation, in their hotel, but he had to keep a log the people’s faces— in his car to show that he had justifi- but it is also one cation for being on that road in case step away from he was stopped by police. “He was U.S. capitalism just doing us a favor but he had to coming in 300 per- worry about being caught,” Eure says. cent. Creeping cap- Earl Smith attended that party italism is ready to with Eure and says it was also the pounce the minute

trip’s highlight for him. “We got to Castro is gone. ©LORNE RESNICK visit with them in their home with no This is a country script. We were welcomed as mem- at the brink.” out of reach for most, as are parts for bers of the family. We ate, drank, Because the U.S. blockade pre- old cars that break down. Most of danced, and were very warmly vents the free flow of goods that the Cubans who do have material received,” Smith says. “The warmth would keep prices down, most goods get them from family members

UT ALSO BROWBEATEN AND BROKEN DOWN. HAVANA IS BEAUTFUL BUT CRUMBLING. UT TWO BLOCKS AWAY THERE’S THE LOW-RENT DISTRICT WHERE PEOPLE DON’T HAVE LLOWED TO ENTER THE TOURIST HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, AND BEACHES.’

we received with all Cubans we came Cubans can’t afford or get access to who live in the U.S., and that’s why it in contact with was wonderful.” things that Americans would consider takes so long to board a charter flight Smith says one of the reasons he basic, like Tylenol. The Wake Forest to Cuba. Cuban-Americans traveling wanted to visit Cuba was to get a group observed refrigerators being to see their families are loaded down first-hand view of how the embargo sold for a thousand dollars when with bags of medicines and toi- had destroyed the ability of Cuba to many Cubans live on less than forty letries—Earl Smith even saw someone advance. “I would say that in light of dollars a month. New cars are also carrying tire rims—and all those bags

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have to be weighed and checked crime-free society. Smith is working an increasingly global economy and before the flight can leave. on a possible exchange program and cross-cultural ethics issues. “Business Despite these difficulties, Smith is excited about the prospect of tak- in a Third World country is a whole says the people seemed happy. “We ing his own professional interest in different mindset. Illegal bribery is a didn’t see people waiting to escape. sports to Cuba. “How can such an way of business life in some countries, We saw people going to work and impoverished nation produce so and students who may end up working taking their kids to school, walking many great athletes?” he asks. “My in these situations need to be aware of and shopping in the market. We students would benefit from new that,” he says. Wilkerson hopes to could have been in Chicago or Los knowledge obtained about sport in arrange short-term study tours during Angeles; people were just going about underdeveloped countries and why Christmas or spring break. He would their daily lives,” he said. places like Cuba and Kenya are out- also like to arrange for Cuban faculty As a sociologist interested in distancing athletes from the devel- members to visit Wake Forest. “It’s a poverty, Smith sees great possibilities oped world. We know very little crying need of their faculty members for study in Cuba. He’s interested in about this.” to go to places where they can use the the socialism experiment in Cuba that Wilkerson said Cuba is also the resources,” he notes. creates difficulties for people on one perfect place for business students to A business study tour would level but also provides free health- learn about business issues in a devel- almost certainly include a tour of a care and education and a virtually oping country, foreign investment in cigar factory, one of the places the

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Wake Forest group visited. “It was a sweatshop,” says Pia Wood. “They had horrendous working conditions. Long hours, no breaks, no air condi- tioning, no fire escapes. They’re paid by the cigar, so they’re under pressure to work quickly in this environment.” Wood says that despite the poor conditions the group witnessed, they also saw great beauty. “I was aston- ished by the beauty of Havana, even though it is deteriorating,” she says. “I was also surprised by the friend- liness of the people. There was no hostility toward Americans and they seemed genuinely interested in talking to us.” Wilkerson was surprised by the

nineteen-fifties feel of Havana. “I ©LORNE RESNICK felt like I was in an episode of I Love Lucy. The bands had that Ricky increasing commercial interest and that will almost certainly be lost once Ricardo sound, the waiters had linens retain its soul.” the country is open to capitalism. We and were dressed in suits, the cars As an architectural historian, Americans take for granted the boun- were all from that era,” he says. Smith was of course intrigued by ty of a consumerist society. Long ago, The feeling that time had stopped Havana’s architecture. The buildings, we accepted the trade-off of a visually in 1959 was also what struck Peggy designed in the seventeenth, eighteenth, polluted society. Interestingly, many Smith, who had visited Cuba as a and nineteenth centuries, incorporate Americans who have visited Cuba child and found that not much had arcades and courtyards to cool the recently say the same thing: aren’t we changed. “Other places have had the Caribbean climate. Colors of turquoise, lucky to see the country before it’s last forty years of commercial pink, gold, and ochre abound. The spoiled.” tourism, but there’s none of that in scale of the buildings—from four to Cuba. No McDonald’s, no billboards seven stories—is very human, she said, except those about the virtues of the and trees and plazas add to the pleas- revolution, very few cars,” she says. ant feel. Smith plans to include some “All of this makes Havana more dis- of what she learned about Cuba’s tinctive. Whatever you want to say architectural and urban history in a about Castro, he has saved Cuba seminar she’s teaching this spring, from homogenization. Except for the and she hopes to bring an exhibit by revolution, Havana would look like Cuban artists to Wake Forest. Las Vegas, Miami, and Nassau. It is In a newspaper editorial published clear capitalism is poised to enter the in August, Smith wrote: “In a strange country, and I would wish the Cuban twist of fate, the lack of market pres- ©LORNE RESNICK government has some plans in place sures in Cuba under communism has to control and shape it. The big ques- maintained an authenticity in its his- tion is, can Havana accommodate toric, natural and visual environment

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ET THE ANNALS SHOW THAT eight followed almost immediately in said cannot be done. They came to Lin mid-December of the first year of two vehicles, slipping and sliding make Wake Forest a consistent win- a new century, nine men left Athens, along the icy highways and byways ner in football. Ohio, determined to change the for more than eight hours before Way back in 1892, the year before course of college football history. reaching their destination of Winston- five-year-old Knute Rockne emigrat- The leader, who grew up in Hunting- Salem, North Carolina. ed with his family from Norway to ton, West Virginia as the son of a Theirs was a hard journey to Chicago, the fifth intercollegiate foot- policeman, flew ahead with his wife tackle a hard job, but they arrived ball team ever fielded at Wake Forest to secure the appointment. The other determined to do what many have beat Asheville Athletics, Washington

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M EN ON A M ISSION

by Dan Collins

Jim Grobe and his squad of eight have come to do the improbable: make Wake Forest a consistent winner in football. Doing the improbable is nothing they haven’t done before.

& Lee, Richmond, and Tennessee century under Douglas Clyde fledging affiliation know as the and tied Virginia Military Institute “Peahead” Walker, who over 14 falls Atlantic Coast Conference and the to finish a dazzling 4-0-1. coached 77 victories and nine win- rest is some pretty dismal gridiron The next century—during which ning teams. But the sun set after history. For in the 48 years since, Wake Forest won 347 games, lost Walker, denied a $500 raise, migrated the Deacons have won 91 games, 542, tied 31, and enjoyed just 28 north after the 1950 season to coach lost 233, tied 10, celebrated 10 winning seasons—was largely down- in the Canadian Football League. winning seasons and finished above hill from there. The Deacons did Three seasons later Wake Forest break-even in conference play just have their day in the middle of the cast its intercollegiate lot with a six times.

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Of all the universities to ever play won 17 games. In the six years under Tech as the all-time winningest coach NCAA Division I football, only Kent Grobe, they won 33 and lost 33 and at both schools). State has compiled a winning percent- finished with winning records in the “I look back on it and I say, age lower than that of Wake Forest. Mid-American Conference five ‘Gosh, Cal Stoll and John Mackovic And of the nine schools in the ACC, straight seasons. and Al Groh and Bill Dooley.’” said eight have won more than they’ve lost. “I had more friends call me and Gene Hooks, Wake Forest’s Athletics The Deacons, meanwhile, have tell me that I’d lost my mind when I Director from 1964 through 1992. won fewer than two out of five. Their went to Ohio University,” Grobe “We’ve had good coaches.

‘It’s not just quality of life,’ says a long-time assistant of Grobe. ‘It’s the fact that you believe in the man. You believe in what he stands for.’

all-time winning percentage, through recalls. “They really thought that I “It’s a hard job.” the 2-9 season of 2000, is .395. had committed career suicide. We One difference with Grobe is he’s Jim Grobe has heard, and duly were ranked, at Ohio University, not tackling it alone. Following him noted, all the admonitions that he is 108th in the country among 1-A from Athens were eight assistants, most attempting the impossible. The advice, teams, and I think there were only of whom have worked with him for while generally well-intentioned, is 107 teams. It was bad. years. The only member of his staff nothing he hasn’t been told before. “When I went to Ohio University to stay was Brian Knorr, who was Accordingly, Ron Wellman, the everybody thought that I had bitten named head coach to succeed Grobe. director of athletics at Wake Forest, off more than I could chew. And after “It says a lot about Coach Grobe didn’t hire Grobe as the Deacons’ I came here, everybody is calling and that he brought eight guys down head football coach because Grobe is saying ‘Hey that’s the perfect fit.’” here,” said assistant Dean Hood. a solid, honest, and driven man easy The question that followed “But if Coach Knorr had not gotten to like and even easier to respect— Grobe all the way from Athens was that job, Coach Grobe would have though those who know him best how he can succeed where so many brought nine guys down here. seem to appreciate those qualities in others have failed. In the last 30 “That not only says something him most. Wellman hired Grobe years, Wake Forest has counted for him that he brought everybody, it because of what Grobe had done in among its list of football coaches also says something for him that we his six years at Ohio University. It such notables as the late Cal Stoll all wanted to come. There’s a lot of was there Grobe turned one of the (who, in 1970, won the school’s guys on our staff now who have been most abysmal programs imaginable only ACC championship), John offered jobs over the years. A lot of around and set it right. Mackovic (recently hired as head guys. And for more money and for In the 10 seasons before Grobe coach at Arizona University), Al quote-unquote, ‘higher’ jobs in better left his assistant’s position at the Air Groh (recently hired as head coach conferences than the Mid-American Force Academy to become Ohio at Virginia), and Bill Dooley (who Conference. And we have stayed with University’s head coach, the Bobcats left both North Carolina and Virginia Coach Grobe.

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have to be in with that person— be done at Wake Forest and it will before you realize who they really are. be done at Wake Forest.” But that’s not the way with Jim Grobe.” An intensely competitive man Still, let a lineman keep missing a himself, Wellman has spent his block, or a running back keep fumbling nine years as the Deacons’ director a ball, or an assistant coach keep of athletics attempting to find showing up late for meetings, and a solution that has eluded him they’ll see an edge to the man honed and his predecessors of the last by years spent in such hardscrabble 50 years. locales as Huntington and Ferrum And not even the most recent Junior College. “Jim is a tough per- evidence derived from the eight son and a tough coach,” said years the program was coached by DeBerry, his mentor from Air Force. Jim Caldwell—Wellman’s first hire After all, Grobe didn’t come to for the position, who won 26 games Wake Forest to win a popularity con- while losing 63—has deterred test. He came to win football games. Wellman from his conviction that “I can snap once in awhile,” the Deacons one day soon will Grobe said. “I don’t get stirred up join Northwestern, Kansas State, very often; then my coaches and my and Oregon State on the list of kids know that something is really one-time football fodder that learned Wellman’s responsibility is to find screwed up. But the thing is, my to give better than it got. the right man as head coach, and then coaches and my kids know that I “We aren’t that far away,” help line up the support it will take love them to start with, and I’m not Wellman said. “We really aren’t. to tackle what has been called the going to do one thing in the world It’s just a matter of getting a few toughest job in college football. For to hurt them. Everything I do is to more good kids, a few more great as hard as a man is willing to work— help them get better.” athletes and the right type of and no one ever worked harder than Grobe’s predecessor, Jim Caldwell—he Mention the conventional wisdom that Wake Forest can’t get it done by himself. will never win consistently in football, and one can see “The biggest thing, the shadows of fire emanating from Ron Wellman. I think, is, do people here want football to be good?” Grobe observed. “If people didn’t care about football it would be different. But I don’t Mention the conventional wisdom approach to coaching and think that’s the case. I think that Wake Forest will never win con- we’ll get over this hump. I’m people care and want to see foot- sistently in football, and one can see absolutely convinced of that. ball succeed. That’s the first thing. the shadows of fire emanating from “Our history is not one of win- “And then it’s just the challenge Ron Wellman’s naturally calm and ning consistently, but there are a of doing something people say you collected demeanor. lot of schools emerging today as can’t do.” “That’s bogus,” Wellman said. winning programs whose history has “That is just absolutely bogus. It can not been much better than ours.”

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Essay

The Hunt for Big Red Inside a nuclear submarine—still armed and prowling, even in peace.

by Douglas C. Waller (’71) Trident has twenty-four long-range themselves off from family and missiles with about 120 highly accu- friends for months of lonely patrols? HE UNITED STATES and Russia rate nuclear warheads, whose explo- Submarines are shrouded in mystery Tare practically allies, albeit wary sive power is twice as much as what and danger, their steel skins keeping ones. Their soldiers serve together in was detonated by all the conventional tons of water and death from rushing the Balkans. Moscow now has a weapons in World War II. And locked in (or not, as Russia’s Kursk discov- rowdy press, and American political in safes aboard each Trident are top- ered tragically last year), their sub- consultants have trekked to the capi- secret targeting plans for those war- mariners cultivating a rakish image tal to advise candidates on how to heads to reduce Russia or any coun- (in World War II sub captains were manage political campaigns in free- try the United States might consider considered barely a step above war wheeling elections. The Soviet Union hostile to radioactive rubble. criminals because they sank ships exists no more, shattered into fifteen while hidden under the sea). I set countries, most of which have a out to write a book about the per capita gross domestic product most fearsome of these underwa- no larger than the Dominican ter beasts and asked the Navy to Republic’s. The great Red Army is let me aboard one of its Tridents. a shell of its former self. Most The doors didn’t open quick- Russian nuclear submarines ly. I had written several books on remain tied to piers; nearby vil- the armed forces that had been lagers donate potatoes and vegeta- well received in military circles, bles to keep the crews fed. but that didn’t give me a free pass But one routine in the United with the submarine service, which State Navy has changed little The USS Nebraska sets sail on another patrol is secretive and doesn’t warm to since the end of the Cold War. in the Atlantic. outsiders. But eventually I was Every two weeks, an American granted more access to a Trident Trident nuclear submarine still slips Why do these Armageddon than any journalist had ever had. The quietly away from its pier and sinks machines still lurk beneath the ocean? boat I was allowed to chronicle was deep into the dark sea to relieve one Why do the Navy’s best and brightest the USS Nebraska, a $1.8-billion of the ten ballistic missile subs that sailors still volunteer to sail in these Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine remain on constant patrol in the “boomers” (the service’s nickname home ported at the King Bay Naval Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Each for its ballistic missile subs), cutting Base along the Georgia coast.

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The USS Nebraska surfaces briefly in the Atlantic.

That explains the book’s title— they’re treated like royalty. Visit much room inside that it has a pool BIG RED: Three Months On Board Nebraska and its folks will tell you and aviary for the crew.) The only a Trident Nuclear Submarine. “Big there are three things they’re proud time I felt cramped was lying in my Red” is the nickname for the Univer- of: corn, a football team, and a sleeping compartment, a box measur- sity of Nebraska and the submarine Trident sub named after their state. ing twenty-seven inches wide, eighty adopted it for its own. In fact, the The first thing I noticed when I inches long and twenty-one inches Trident and the state have adopted climbed into the Nebraska was that high, with a fan blowing in cool air. one another. The sub is filled with I didn’t feel claustrophobic, which It felt like an air-conditioned coffin. University of Nebraska memorabilia— shouldn’t have been too surprising. The fifteen officers and 147 pennants, helmets, framed game The 18,750-ton vessel is 563 feet enlisted men aboard the Nebraska photos, glass-encased footballs from long. Stood up, it’s taller than the were young. The average age of these championship seasons. Nebraska Washington monument. At its center, men entrusted with blowing up their citizens are routinely invited to the the sub is over four stories high and part of the world was just twenty- sub for day cruises and the Big Red wider than a three-lane highway. four (women, who can serve on Navy Sub Club of Nebraska often flies the (Russia’s Typhoon-class missiles sub, surface ships and in combat planes, boat’s sailors to the state where incidentally, is even bigger, with so are still barred from subs). The captain

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was just thirty-nine when he took command of the sub. The submariners were a far cry from characters out of U-571. Most were introverts who’d And as in a family, been techno-nerds in high school. The Nebraska’s officers were top students everyone knows in their college classes, many with advanced degrees. Almost all the chiefs had at least a bachelor’s degree everyone else’s and most of the sailors working under The author, left, with the captain of them were working toward one. the USS Nebraska, Commander business aboard a I found their world so different David Volonino. from the one I left on land, beginning Trident. Everyone with their circadian cycle. On patrol, BIG RED tells the story of one the men lived by an eighteen-hour three-month patrol aboard the day instead of the twenty-four-hour Nebraska. Powered by a nuclear watches everyone else. one I was used to: six hours on watch, reactor with a uranium core no six hours working in their depart- bigger than a subcompact car, the For good reason. ments, and six off. Their officers boat could steam under water for and chiefs were almost lily-white. decades. But a patrol lasts about Minorities mainly were in the eighty days because the boat doesn’t enlisted ranks. Most of the crew have enough room for food to feed came from broken or troubled the crew much past that. Eighty days homes, a phenomena found in other is also about as much as the crew subs. The men in this steel womb can stand being cooped up in a giant become the family they never had black pipe staring at the same faces. growing up. The days are spent conducting And as in a family, everyone endless drills training to fight World knows everyone else’s business War III and to deal with emergencies, aboard a Trident. Everyone watches such as fire or flooding or combat everyone else. For good reason. A with an enemy attack sub. Only the screwball no one pays attention to is President of the United States can too dangerous to have aboard a ves- authorize the use of America’s sel that carries nuclear weapons. In nuclear weapons. That order, written addition to their top-secret security in a special code, would be transmit- clearances, crewmen who work with ted by low-frequency radio signal to With crew members carefully watching, the author the Trident’s missiles, which cost $50 the Nebraska. The movie Crimson takes his turn driving the boat. million apiece, have their financial Tide, in which a Trident almost and medical records, even their per- begins an accidental nuclear sonal lives, regularly screened. The exchange, was a scary Hollywood sub routinely conducts counter-ter- drama. In a real Trident, elaborate rorist exercises to test how the crew safeguards are in place to make sure would react to one of its members that the submarine captain receives a going berserk and trying to take over legitimate order from the President, the weapons. and to keep a rogue captain from

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launching the missiles on his own. intercepted by American F-15’s over Four crewmen in different parts of Iceland. Atomic weapons cannot be the sub must turn keys or pull a trig- uninvented. The men of the Nebraska ger to launch the missiles. And one of still believe their silent sentinel is the keys is locked in a safe, to which needed. Each time their submarine no one on board has the combina- sets sail they take grim pride in the tion; it comes with the launch order fact that it becomes the sixth-largest from the President. nuclear power in the world. It may be hard for outsiders to fathom, but practically every man aboard the Nebraska fervently believed that the sub’s mission— nuclear deterrence—was still critical. They might grumble about the chow in the crew’s mess or about silly rules in the Navy. Around holidays, they would complain about being away from loved ones. Why does the Navy insist on keeping Tridents underwater on Christmas when both the United States and Russia now celebrate it? The politicians may be friends, but the generals aren’t. Russia still conducts mock attacks against the West with its strategic forces. Russian The Nebraska crew goes to battle stations to simulate war with the enemy. subs may be tied to the pier but they can still fire their ballistic missiles in port. China has a small nuclear arse- nal as well and hostile nations such as Douglas C. Waller (’71) is Time Iran and Iraq are eager to build them. Magazine’s diplomatic correspondent. The Nebraska’s crew had trou- Before joining Time, he was a defense bling reminders during its patrol that and foreign policy correspondent for the world around them could still be Newsweek magazine. He also has a dangerous place. The day the sub served as a legislative assistant on set sail in May 1999, NATO war- the staffs of Congressman Edward planes were bombing Serb forces in J. Markey and Senator William Kosovo. The month before, Russian Proxmire. A member of the Wake President Boris Yeltsin had warned Forest Board of Visitors, he lives in that his country might drawn into the Annandale, Virginia with his wife, conflict, which could lead to “a Judy, and has three children, one of world war.” During the Nebraska whom now attends Wake Forest. patrol, NATO jets accidentally His sixth book, BIG RED: Three bombed the Chinese embassy in Months On Board A Trident Nuclear Belgrade and two Russian strategic Submarine, is scheduled for release in bombers on a military exercise were March by HarperCollins Publishers.

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Profile

The Man Who Loves Storms The most devoted among us are those who tell it like it is, unadorned. So it was with Russell Brantley throughout his long career as communicator and presidential counsel at Wake Forest, and so it is with him now, as a poet.

by Georgann Eubanks in his home on Faculty Drive skirting to Winston-Salem. Taking that insti- the south side of campus. “I think tutional risk appealed to Brantley, N 1953, RUSSELL BRANTLEY the outside figure they gave was six himself a risk taker. This is the man I(’45) was on journalism’s fast track. months.” He laughs. who rode a Harley Davidson in the He had already served as city editor The bet is still unresolved. Though nineteen-sixties, took up rock climb- of the Concord Tribune, worked as he retired from his official post as ing in his late fifties, mastered the dif- night editor for the Associated Press Wake Forest’s director of communica- ficult cliffs of the High Sierras, and in Charlotte, and had recently been tions in 1987, Brantley continues as all the while faced down Wake promoted to managing editor of the special consultant to Thomas K. Hearn Forest’s sharpest critics and the Durham Morning Herald. Only two Jr., the third Wake Forest president inquisitive press. years before he had married Elizabeth who has benefited from his counsel And now Brantley has stepped Jones (’44), a reporter for the Raleigh and craftsmanship with words. to another edge. He has exposed his Times and daughter of legendary “I went to work at Wake Forest most personal joys and disappoint- Wake Forest professor Broadus Jones only because I wanted to see a college ments in a book of highly accom- and his energetic wife, Nannie. move,” Brantley claims, speaking in plished poems titled Fetch-Life, issued And now here was Brantley’s characteristically measured phrases. last fall by Stratford Press. In this col- alma mater presenting yet another What Brantley could not have antici- lection, which poet Isabel Zuber has opportunity. The College wanted him pated, however, was just how far the characterized as “strong, intense, and to serve as its news bureau chief dur- College would move—not only geo- haunting,” Brantley begins with an ing the transition from the original graphically, but in reach and stature. unblinking account of his boyhood campus in Wake County to its new While most of the world’s most fantasies, his short-lived innocence, home in Winston-Salem. distinguished colleges and universities and what would become a lifelong Russell Brantley’s co-workers at are identified over long years by their attraction to inclement weather— the Durham newspaper—mostly locations—the architectural landmarks meteorological and otherwise: Carolina alumni—couldn’t imagine that host generations of faculty and why he’d even be interested in the students, the signature landscapes He believes there are no worms on job. “They had a pool going about that stir proud memories among the tree, how long I would last,” Brantley alumni—Wake Forest took a bold Only blossoms and their promise says now, sitting at the kitchen table risk in pulling up roots and moving of apples.

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The enemy comes closer— and he also got an early dose of the freely from the slightest scrape, wind and rain, hypocrisy of otherwise pious adults Brantley’s mother discouraged him eels of lightning, great slams when his mother came home from work from physical activity. Instead, young of thunder. telling stories of illicit liaisons she over- Russell became the boy who lives He believes they know what they are heard as a local telephone operator. on books and whimsy, as he explains doing Brantley’s father, a graduate of in Fetch-Life. Brantley consumed and they are wicked. But he is Oak Ridge Military Academy, was a Tarzan, the Hardy Boys, and Mark Bomba, traveling drug salesman, who, Brantley Twain. The latter is still a favorite. prince of the jungle who fears no evil says, “was very imaginative and Brantley always believed he was and is powerful in his slabbed fort wrote beautifully—both his words bound for college, but when the time and khaki shorts… and his penmanship.” Brantley’s came, he found that his father had penchant for well-wrought words some definite ideas. “You can’t go to Born in rural Zebulon, North Caro- was most likely inherited from his Duke,” he told him. “They’re too lina, Russell Brantley had a reformist’s father, but his long-term love affair expensive and too snooty. You can’t streak from the beginning. He chal- with books was kindled by his mother. go to Carolina; you already like to lenged his Baptist Sunday School Because of an unusual blood condi- party too much. If they’ll take you up teachers’ renditions of Bible stories, tion that caused him to bleed too at Wake Forest, then we can talk.”

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The campus, circled by a low rock wall was a writer and a journalist first— with its ancient buildings screened Brantley’s first and always forthright and honest.” by ancient trees, “The faculty probably never had is another make believe to him, an adequate notion of how much its brief intellectual excitements only novel scandalized work he did,” says Thomas Mullen, to be indulged with cultivated scorn. who served as Dean of the College many Baptist leaders. of Arts and Sciences from 1968 to With a twenty-five-dollar scholar- 1995. “He never sang his own praises.” ship, Brantley was admitted to Wake Likewise, says Mullen, Brantley Forest, where he lived in the basement College seem such a perfect fit with refused to use superlatives or to over- of Professor A.L. Aycock’s house. That the early events that shaped him. As state Wake Forest’s accomplishments Brantley had his own private entrance the behind-the-scenes analyst of dis- to the press. Even during the storms was a blessing, he says, following so putes ranging from free speech on of controversy with the Baptist State many late-evening parties. “I pledged campus to the regulation of student Convention, Brantley was surefooted. one fraternity and then asked for my behavior, the wordsmith would help Nevertheless, his most serious pledge money back so that I could take pioneer a path toward greater ecu- trial by fire on the job was, in part, a trip to the beach instead.” Brantley’s menism and the protection of acade- one of his own making. grin is full of mischief. “I’m afraid I mic freedom. Weaving his clear, dis- When the Baptist-appointed wasn’t a very good fraternity man.” passionate prose through countless trustees of the College voted to allow Neither was he a particularly moti- press releases and news stories, Russell dancing on campus in 1957, the State vated student. It would be some years Brantley brought an unswerving Baptist Convention moved to rescind before he came to recognize the value belief in the importance of objectivity. the decision. The rhetoric soon heated of his English major and the powerful As it turned out, says Hearn, up sufficiently to gain the attention influence of his professors. “Russell Brantley has lived his whole of Time magazine. Brantley says that After graduation, Brantley under- adult life in dialogue with Wake while the convention argued on, “I took a variety of assignments as a fresh- Forest, and he has been an agent in was sitting around with some news- man newspaper reporter, finding only shaping how we have understood our paper guys, and we decided somebody more fodder for his skeptical view of challenges and our institutional cul- ought to do a funny story about the religious extremism and his awareness ture.” Such distinguished service has whole thing.” The result was Russell of the fallibility of human nature. led to his informal designation by Brantley’s first and only novel, The many campus observers as the con- Education of Jonathan Beam, pub- He polishes his cynicism science of Wake Forest University. lished in 1962 by Macmillan. The and loves watching the bald man “The most admirable thing about book went into a second printing hand out snakes Russell Brantley is the way in which nationwide and scandalized many to his Christ-bitten followers he never let his official responsibilities Baptist leaders. in this usedtobe neighborhood grocery get in the way of his integrity as a Brantley’s youthful parody of piety next to an empty tobacco warehouse…. journalist,” says Edwin G. Wilson stirred things up just as President (’43), a revered English professor and Harold Tribble’s bold but beleaguered The people hiss and shout and come former dean and provost whose long administration had begun to settle apart career at Wake Forest has covered in on the new campus. In a called and the boy remembers he is a news- the same period. Long before the meeting, the trustees voted to take no paperman term “spin doctor” was coined, action against Brantley. However, a who believes he seeks reality. Brantley was helping Wake Forest group of ministers then called for the present itself and its future vision to selection of a new slate of trustees for Only from hindsight does the the public. “But he was not an image the college, citing Brantley and his job Brantley took with Wake Forest maker,” Wilson explains. “Russell book among other complaints.

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For his part, Brantley never moments in Fetch-Life, a term considered resignation. “I’m that refers to the spirit sent to stubborn,” he says. “They were fetch the life of a dying person. going to have to fire me. But Losing a child, particularly in because they didn’t, I felt I had full bloom, is something from an obligation to stay.” which no parent ever quite He stayed through the recovers. Lib and Russell Tribble years and for the entire Brantley lost their eldest son, tenure of President James Ralph William Russell Brantley (’71) Scales, a highly literate man who to melanoma at the age of shared Brantley’s love of words. thirty-three in 1983. Brantley And then, when Thomas Hearn came writes obliquely about the aftermath to the helm, Brantley was one of the As a ‘deliverer of the of this loss and dedicates the collec- chief bearers of institutional memory tion to his late son. Sales from the and a valuable interpreter of the truth unvarnished,’ book are being applied to the purchase political landscape on campus at the of library books in his memory. time. He was, as Hearn says, “the Now as Lib fights lung cancer herself, deliverer of the truth unvarnished.” he became known as Brantley’s celebratory poems about Brantley would also serve as one their marriage are all the more of the key architects of the formal the conscience of Wake poignant as well. disengagement of Wake Forest Most days, Brantley still runs University with the State Baptist over to campus for a meeting or two Convention in fall 1986, a project he Forest University. while Lib does volunteer work in relished. Brantley believed that the town. They treasure their visits with institution had simply spent too much son Ben, chief drama critic for The energy haggling over policy issues in time to put together a book. Fellow New York Times, and daughter the name of conflicting religious posi- poet and longtime neighbor Emily Robin, who is executive assistant to tions. His attraction to the Baptist Herring Wilson sees it as something Richard H. Dean, director of the viewpoint was and still is the doctrine more significant: “Russell has always Wake Forest University Baptist of the free church and the indepen- provided Wake Forest with a radical Medical Center and the University’s dent priesthood of believers—a impulse, and now with his turn to senior vice president for health notion, he suggests, that ought to poetry he has also extended our tradi- affairs. When the weather warms, embrace divergent views rather than tion of the word—literary, historical, they’ll likely head for their mountain attempt to enforce a rigid vision. and autobiographical.” retreat in Virginia. Brantley admits it It is true I love storms better than can be difficult to write up there, the most, Brantley writes in Fetch-Life. I spend my days window-shopping view from the fifty-some windows in And today the storms rage on. Most my past, their frame house is a huge distrac- recently, he was called upon to serve Collecting times for last-minute tion. But he already has nearly as resource person to the president’s assays…. enough poems for a second book. committee considering University The man who loves storms plans policy on same-sex unions in Wait I rail at the incremental to keep throwing his carefully chosen Chapel, a debate that would have been assassinations of old age. words at the world—some like light- unspeakable when Brantley began his ning bolts and others more gentle. work nearly a half century ago. In addition to his recollections Perhaps fetch-life will give me a Of his most recent role as a cam- from boyhood and his early career, scare/ he writes, and old age swindle pus poet, Brantley says it was simply Brantley delves into his darkest me toward greener pastures.

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Founders’ Day recognition

Opening Convocation last Class distinction fall. Newson has taught at Charlotte Country Day NGLISH TEACHER Mary School since 1985. EBeth Pucciano Braker (’91, Newson and Braker are MAEd ’96) received the 2000 serving on the selection com- Marcellus Waddill Excellence mittee for the 2001 awards. in Teaching Award at The committee is currently Founders’ Day Convocation evaluating materials from the last month. forty-three teachers nominat- Braker, who teaches at ed and will soon select three East Chapel Hill High School to five finalists on each level. in Chapel Hill, North The two winners will be Carolina, received the Waddill named in May. Nina Lucas receives the Reid-Doyle Prize from Dean of the College Paul Escott. Award on the secondary level. The deadline for the 2002 Braker worked for the Waddill Awards is December 7. Pupils prize Greensboro. In 1986, the Postmaster General in To nominate yourself or some- award was named the Reid- Washington, D.C., for several one else, send a letter of no Doyle Prize in recognition of years before returning to more than one page describing HEN ASSISTANT the generosity of Wilbur Wake Forest to earn her mas- the nominee’s strengths as a WProfessor of Dance Doyle (’48) of Martinsville, ter’s degree in education. teacher to Dr. Joseph O. Nina Lucas received the Reid- Virginia, who endowed the Martha Williams Newson Milner in the Wake Forest edu- Doyle Prize for Excellence in prize in honor of A.C. Reid (’84), a fifth-grade teacher in cation department or complete Teaching at Founders’ Day (’17, MA ’18), his philosophy Charlotte, North Carolina, the online form at www.wfu. Convocation in February, it professor. Reid, who died in received the primary award at edu/alumni/events/waddill.html marked the 30th anniversary 1988, was chairman of the

President Hearn presents the Waddill Award on the secondary level to of the award, named for two philosophy department for Mary Beth P. Braker (’91, MAEd ’96). alumni. forty-six years. The award, which A committee of former includes a cash prize, was recipients, students of the first given in 1971 to David nominees, and administrators K. Evans in Anthropology select the recipient, who has and John M. Reinhardt in to be at or below the rank of Politics, both of whom went assistant professor. The award on to have long distinguished is also supported by the careers at Wake Forest. Alumni Council and the The award was originally Alumni Association. funded by the University and the First Baptist Church of

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President’s Column You’ll get mail

Electronic newsletter provides THIS SPRING, Wake Forest will host a of $2.625 million. I want to thank everyone up-to-date WFU news record number of alumni and friends for a who has supported the College Fund to date. Volunteer Leadership Conference. Members Annual, unrestricted gifts are critical to HE OFFICE OF University of the alumni councils and boards of visitors providing money for scholarships and finan- TAdvancement has created a from the College, Calloway School, and all cial aid, but they also benefit Wake Forest in monthly electronic newsletter, the professional schools will meet for a joint other ways. One of the components used by What’s New @ WFU, to bring conference in conjunction with the public U.S. News and World Report to rank col- the latest Wake Forest news kickoff for the “Campaign for Wake Forest: leges is percentage of alumni giving. Wake directly to you via e-mail. The Honoring the Promise” on April 26. Forest already has a very impressive alumni newsletter is designed to pro- One of the great strengths of Wake giving percentage—second among ACC vide a sampling of news and Forest is its network of dedicated volunteers, schools and thirteenth overall among the athletic stories, features on fac- including the more than seven hundred nation’s top fifty colleges—but we can still ulty and students, and stories alumni and friends who serve on various improve. I urge all alumni to make a gift— on the graduate and profes- boards. We are grateful to all those who no matter what the amount—to help us raise sional schools to quickly bring serve the University, whether on a board, or our alumni participation rate even higher! you up-to-date on all parts of representing Wake Forest at a college fair, or There are numerous Wake Forest Club the University. helping students find jobs, or in other impor- events and Wake Forest Days coming up. Be What’s New @ WFU is tant ways. sure to sign up for the events in your area. “delivered” around the 6th of I hope you have seen the new electronic And it’s not too early to start planning for each month. A message titled newsletter, What’s New @ WFU. The e- Homecoming 2001. Mark your calendars for “What’s New @ WFU” will newsletter is a quick and easy way to have October 26-27 and make plans to travel appear in your e-mail inbox news from Wake Forest sent straight to you back to Winston-Salem for and can be opened and read once every month. If you are not currently a wonderful weekend! like any other e-mail message. receiving What’s New @ WFU, see the accom- Each issue has a table of con- panying article for details on how to sign up. Bobby Burchfield (’76) tents that provides a brief We are about three quarters of the way President, Wake Forest description of each item in that through the University’s fiscal year, and I am Alumni Association month’s newsletter, so readers pleased to report that the College Fund is can quickly scan the list to find well on its way to meeting its 2000/01 goal those items of most interest to them. Many of the items pro- vide links that will quickly Hear Bones McKinney’s take you to the full stories on the Wake Forest Web page. hilarious tales once If you do not currently again receive What’s New @ WFU Enjoy one hour of Bones’ stories on a cassette and wish to subscribe, visit tape for only $10 each. Or read his tales in the alumni Web site at “Bones—Honk If You Love Basketball” ($20 www.wfu.edu/alumni and each) and “Don’t Buy Me Any Green Bananas” look for the link for What’s ($15 each) New @WFU in the “More Plus $2 per item shipping Information” column. To order, please call Garland Atkins,

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Lexington Roanoke OTHER SOUTHERN CLUBS Wake Forest Robin Team (’77) Richard Goodpasture (’95) Birmingham, Alabama Mt. Airy Williamsburg Laura Levie (’93) clubs and TBA Mark Ellis (’74, JD ’77) Mobile, Alabama/ presidents North Wilkesboro Charleston (West Virginia) Pensacola, Florida Tom Ogburn (’52) Scott Long (’80) Suellen A. Hudson (’70) Pinehurst New Orleans, Louisana OR THE LATEST listing of Wade Liner (’88) GEORGIA Becky M. Currence (’61) Fclub activities, visit the Raleigh Atlanta Alumni and Friends Web site Sonia Bauer (’97) Lisa Snodgrass (’95) MARYLAND/WASHINGTON, D.C. (www.wfu.edu/alumni) and Raleigh young alumni Atlanta young alumni Baltimore Richard Gardner (’96) and Joe Koufman (’94) Daniel Corley (’84) look under “Regional Club Harriet Stephenson (’91) Augusta Washington, D.C. Organizations,” or call the Reidsville Mary Gail K. Nesbit (’61) TBA Office of Alumni Activities, Jack Webster (JD ’59) Savannah Washington, D.C. young (336) 758-4278. Rocky Mount Clark Floyd (’84) alumni McLain Wallace (’85, JD ’88) Rebecca Gentry (’95) NATIONAL CLUBS CHAIR Siler City FLORIDA Carol S. Stefany (’80) John Grimes (’65) Jacksonville NEW YORK Tampa, Florida Statesville Carolyn Blue-Mikell (’83) New York City Costi Kutteh (’73) Orlando Laine Thomas (’93) NORTH CAROLINA CLUBS Wilmington Mark Oldham (’87) New York young alumni Ahoskie Jay Corpening (’76, JD ’79) South Florida (Miami) April Arden (’97) Larry Overton (’74, JD ’77) Winston-Salem Steve Hyatt (’83) Rochester Asheville Greg Hunter (’92, MBA ’97) Tallahassee Doug Lyon (’78, MBA ’82) Frank Todd (’71, JD ’74) Roger Crawford (’67) Charlotte OUT-OF-STATE CLUBS Tampa PENNSYLVANIA David Winslow (’94) Carol S. Stefany (’80) Central Pennsylvania Charlotte young alumni SOUTH CAROLINA West Palm Beach (Hershey) Joe Wall (’95) Charleston Bill Sned (’68) Frankie W. Walters (’71) Clinton Bryan Hassell (’64) Philadelphia Lisa H. Turlington (’84) Charleston young alumni TENNESSEE Jabin White (’89) Durham/Chapel Hill Scott Commins (’96) Chattanooga Pittsburgh TBA Columbia Robert Keller (PhD. ’00) Michael (’89) and Mary Elizabeth City Jim Apple (’75) East Tennessee (Johnson City) Dee A. (’93) Smith Don Prentiss (’77, JD ’81) Greenville/Spartanburg Susan B. Epps (’88) Fayetteville Tom Mills (’60) Knoxville OTHER NORTHERN CLUBS Bo Jones (’86) Myrtle Beach Amanda M. Price (’95) Boston/New England Gastonia Donald Leonard (’65) Memphis Emily Culp (’97) David Furr (’80 JD ’82) Kacey Hickey (’93) Hartford, Connecticut Goldsboro VIRGINIA/WEST VIRGINIA Nashville Susan W. Smith (’66) Charlie Snipes (’57, JD ’60) Charlottesville Sam (’93) and Betsy B. Greensboro Tony Brooks (’79) (’92) Funk TEXAS Elizabeth P. Summers (’89) Danville Austin Greenville TBA KENTUCKY Katie Quigley (’99) Dallas Clark (’65, JD ’68) Martinsville Lexington Dallas Hickory Wilbur Doyle (’48) Jay (’89) and Susan C. Lyn S. Johnston (’77) Jeff Arditti (’83) Norfolk (Tidewater area) (’89, JD ’95) Gentry Dallas young alumni High Point John Matson (’70) Louisville Courtney Hallman (’98) Skip Queen (’70) Richmond Hal (’89) and Heidi B. and Chantal Chapman (’98) Laurinburg/Lumberton Mark Christie (’75) (’88) Helmers Houston Hew Fulton (’74) and Richmond young alumni Richard Leader (’70) Jerry Johnson (’76) Clay Hilbert (’96) San Antonio Jack Pitts (’56)

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OHIO Cincinnati Richard Loflin (’71) Cleveland TBA Columbus David Shouvlin (’74, JD ’79)

OTHER MIDWESTERN CLUBS Chicago, Illinois Catherine L. Gemrich (’88, MAEd ’91) Join fellow Wake Foresters for fun and fellowship Detroit, Michigan in a city near you! Wake Forest Days are back for the fourth year in a row in 21 Mark Durell (MBA ’93) cities in April and May. Come out for a full day of events including golf and tennis Fort Wayne, Indiana Ross Samchalk (’98) outings, evening alumni receptions, programs for professional school alumni, and Indianapolis, Indiana receptions for newly-admitted students. Speakers include President Hearn, Senior Jeff Sheehan (’92) Vice President Ed Wilson (’43), Divinity School Dean Bill Kansas City, Missouri Leonard, Director of Athletics Ron Wellman, new football Sid Crawley (’79, MBA ’83) coach Jim Grobe, and basketball coach Dave Odom. St. Louis, Missouri Ginny R. Lawson (’83) Check out the alumni Web site (www.wfu.edu/alumni) for Milwaukee, Wisconsin the date and details of the event closest to you. Ellen Bylsma (’94) Minneapolis, Minnesota TBA IN-STATE OUT-OF-STATE CALIFORNIA Asheville Atlanta, Georgia Los Angeles Mark Maxson (’96) Charlotte Columbia, South Carolina San Diego Greensboro Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas Taylor (’75) and Amy H. Lexington Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina (’75) Beattie San Francisco North Wilkesboro Houston, Texas Karen K. Victor (’87) Raleigh Nashville, Tennessee Rocky Mount New York City OTHER WESTERN CLUBS Phoenix, Arizona Wilmington Orlando, Florida TBA Winston-Salem Richmond, Virginia Denver, Colorado Hans Albertsson (’94) and Roanoke, Virginia Meredith Miller (’97) St. Louis, Missouri Seattle, Washington Tampa, Florida Joe Neal (’73) Hawaii (Honolulu) Genie R. Brainerd (’84) For a complete schedule, visit the Alumni and Friends Web site (www.wfu.edu/alumni) or call the Office of Alumni Activities, (336) 758-4278.

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associated with,” said “This will help us attract a President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. group of students whose num- “The donor is deeply commit- bers are declining at private ted to helping deserving stu- schools across the nation,” dents have the opportunity for said Bill Wells (’74), director a Wake Forest education. He of financial aid. “These are clearly understands the need students who cannot afford for scholarships at private uni- the full cost of private higher versities and knew that schol- education, but who have not arships are the top priority of traditionally qualified for sig- our capital campaign.” nificant amounts of financial While University officials assistance. We will now be in often work with donors who a much stronger position to request anonymity, what help bridge the financial gap makes this gift unusual, espe- that keeps many students from cially considering the amount, pursuing their dreams of is that no one at the University studying here.” knows who the donor is, said The scholarship will cover Robert D. Mills (’71, MBA up to 75 percent of all expens- ’80), associate vice president es, depending on a student’s for University Advancement. financial need. Mills was contacted several In a statement to the An equal months ago by the donor’s University, the donor specified opportunity donor investment manager at a Wall that the scholarship recipients Street firm. should have “a record of out- Gift endows scholarship fund The donor, identified only standing academic achieve- for the low and middle income as someone close to the Wake ment or potential; a high Forest family for the last degree of intellectual curiosi- N ANONYMOUS donor decade, recently transferred ty; the enthusiasm and Ahas given $4 million— stock valued at approximately courage to take advantage of one of the largest individual $4 million to the University. a college opportunity; a sense gifts in the University’s history Unless he decides otherwise, of service and social responsi- —to endow a scholarship fund his identity will remain secret bility; and perhaps special tal- for lower- and middle-income for his lifetime and that of his ents in some aspect of the lib- students and other students spouse, Mills said. eral arts.” from the University’s tradition- The donor asked that his “To me, what he is defin- al student constituency. gift be used to fund scholar- ing is what we like to think of The Heritage Scholarship ships. With his approval, as our traditional students, will be awarded to as many as University officials created the those who may not have had a thirty-two new and returning Heritage Scholarship for stu- lot when they came here, but students for the fall 2001 dents from lower- and middle- who had a hunger to learn and semester. income families, those from a desire to make the best of a “This is one of the more small towns and rural areas, college education,” Mills said. remarkable acts of philan- and those who are the first in thropy that I have ever been their families to attend college.

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Global economist said. “The targeted expertise and curriculum and promote of the endowed professorship study abroad.” Farr gift endows post in is based on our keen interest There are currently twelve international economics in international finance and faculty members in the eco- economics given our careers nomics department. Sixty to AVID (’77) AND LELIA J. and global experience.” seventy students major in eco- DFarr (’77) of St. Louis, “Supporting Wake Forest nomics and mathematical eco- Missouri, have made a $1.5 has always been an important nomics each year. The depart- million commitment to endow priority for us,” David Farr ment already has several a professorship in international added. “Aside from great courses that focus on interna- economics. Their gift will be memories of our years there, tional economics, including used to hire a new professor in including meeting each other economic development, inter- Senior Michael Shantz of Englewood, Colorado, graphs a solution to a question the economics department who freshman year, the outstanding national finance, and interna- in his international finance class. could also teach in the education we received at Wake tional trade. Calloway and Babcock schools. Forest has been a fundamental “The study of economics is “We are extremely grateful building block of our careers becoming more important at to the Farrs for their generosity and life success.” the world level, certainly with and for helping strengthen our The Farr’s gift may initial- international trade and other faculty in such a significant ly be used to bring a distin- issues,” said Professor and way,” said President Thomas guished visiting professor in Chair of Economics Allin K. Hearn Jr. “Faculty support, international economics to Cottrell. “And we have a high along with student support, is campus before a new profes- level of student interest in the priority of the capital cam- sor is hired. The professorship international economics. A paign, and I appreciate the will enhance the salary for the number of our students study Farrs’ willingness to make an position as well as provide abroad and come back with early commitment.” funds for books, supplies, an interest in international David Farr, chief executive travel, and research. The pro- economics.” officer of Emerson, was a fessorship may eventually be chemistry major at Wake converted into a University Forest, but has spent all of his Chair, which would provide career in business. Lelia Farr, additional financial support an economics major, was most and allow the hiring of a recently the managing director nationally or internationally of management consulting ser- known scholar. vices at Pricewater- “The economics depart- houseCoopers in the compa- ment is one of our strongest ny’s Cleveland, Ohio, office. departments, distinguished by She currently serves on the the quality of its teaching, its Wake Forest Alumni Council. research, and its variety of “We have chosen to endow scholarly perspectives,” said a professorship based on our Dean of the College Paul desire to honor the tremen- Escott. “The emphasis of this dous impact that quality professorship on international professors had on our Wake economics aids our efforts to

Forest experience,” Lelia Farr internationalize our campus David (’77) and Lelia J. (’77) Farr

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The tie that binds awarded to one or more stu- since tuition is no longer quite dents next fall. so inexpensive. Beth and Digit Family with deep WFU roots Six generations of Eddins’ Laughridge live in Campobello, funds undergrad aid program family have attended Wake South Carolina. Forest, beginning with his “For children of teachers ITH FAMILY TIES to great-great uncle, John Catre and ministers, those from WWake Forest dating Scarborough (1869), followed Wake Forest’s traditional con- back almost to the by his grandfather, Edgar stituency, that (tuition) is a University’s founding, Dr. Freeman Eddins (1885), and lot of money,” Laughridge George Edgar Eddins Jr. (’42) his father, George Edgar Eddins said. “The school has been of Albemarle, North Carolina, (’17). His daughter, Beth (’71, able to do a nice job of pro- is reaching out to future gen- MA ’75), married a classmate, viding need-based aid, but it erations of Wake Foresters by W.J. “Digit” Laughridge III is our hope that this scholar- establishing a major under- (’69), and their daughter, ship will go further in helping graduate scholarship program. Meredith, is a freshman. those students from middle “My grandfather (Edgar income families.” Freeman Eddins) had a defini- There seemed to be no tion of wisdom,” said Dr. question for Meredith Eddins, who is retired from Laughridge that her college general practice in Albemarle. career would take her down the “‘Wisdom is the accumulation well-worn path to Wake Forest. of knowledge, the understand- But it wasn’t until she and her ing of knowledge, and the parents arrived for move-in day proper use of knowledge.’ The last fall that she realized she family’s commitment to educa- would occupy the same room tion, and our desire to see it in Babcock Residence Hall that continue to be available to her mother did. everyone, is the reason I felt “She started to put her key endowing this scholarship was in the door and I said ‘Wait a important.” minute. We have to talk,’” Dr. Eddins said he was for- Beth Laughridge said. “I was tunate not to have to worry dating her Dad when I had about paying for his educa- her room, and I remember sit- tion. “When I came to Wake ting where my daughter’s bed Forest, I never paid any is now having no idea that I

“Digit” (’69) and Beth (’71, tuition,” he recalled. would ever have a child, much MA ’75) and their daughter Eddins recently made a “Something was said about less one at Wake Forest, much Meredith, the sixth generation cash gift to establish the me being a fourth-generation less one in my room!” of the Eddins family to attend Eddins Family Scholarship student, and I received a schol- Meredith Laughridge said Wake Forest. Fund and will add to the arship. Of course, it was only she is not worried about living endowment through an estate $50 a semester then.” up to the standards of her for- commitment. Details of the As a Wake Forest parent, midable family history. “It scholarship are still being Eddins’ daughter, Beth feels just perfect to be at Wake finalized, but it should be Laughridge, said she can appre- Forest,” she said. “I couldn’t ciate the need for scholarships see myself anywhere else.”

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What one gives, high school, but by the time one gets back she came to Wake Forest, she knew that she would need a Scholarship gives handicapped stronger listening device to students a helping hand succeed in college. She received funds from IGHTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD the Burns Scholarship Fund to ELib Burns firmly believes pay for a new type of assistive that one gets back the good- listening device from the will that one puts forth in life, Wake Forest University a belief strengthened by her Baptist Medical Center. The experience as a scholarship device significantly improved donor at Wake Forest. her ability to hear her profes- Burns, who has been hear- sors. After Harmon wrote ing-impaired for most of her Burns to thank her, a friend of adult life, endowed a need- Burns, John Wolfe (JD ’70), based scholarship for handi- wondered if the new device capped students in 1989. In would help her as well. the last few years, even as her Wolfe, who also lives in scholarship was making it pos- Kernersville, took Burns to the sible for disabled students to medical school, where she was attend Wake Forest, her hear- fitted with the same device. ing was declining to the point She has experienced the same that she rarely left her house in positive results as Harmon, Lib Burns Kernersville, North Carolina. and for the first time in years students in her graduating But the recipient of her schol- she can enjoy hearing the birds class with a perfect 4.0 grade arship changed all that. sing during the day as well as point average, now works as a Cynthia Harmon (’00), a the faucet drip at night. rehabilitation technician in a native of Claremont, North “This has been such a joy group home for mentally Carolina, received numerous to me to see this happening,” retarded teenagers near her scholarships to attend Wake she said of Harmon’s improved hometown. She plans to do Forest, including the Lib and ability to hear as well as her graduate work in the next cou- Joyner Burns Scholarship. The own. “I have had the world ple of years and would like to scholarship—named for Mrs. opened back up to me.” eventually work with hearing- Burns and her late husband of Burns has gone back to impaired people. 30 years, who died in 1973— church now at Kernersville “I try to help other hear- provides partial tuition to one Moravian Church and can ing-impaired people whenever or more students each year; even enjoy phone conversa- possible and am always happy four undergraduates and one tions since she doesn’t have to to see them do well,” she said. law student are receiving the rely on reading lips anymore. “This instance, however, was scholarship this year. “I just wish Joyner were here particularly gratifying to me Harmon had been hearing- to see this,” she said. “He because of the great positive impaired since kindergarten would just be so happy!” influence Mrs. Burns’ scholar- and became legally deaf during Harmon, a psychology ship had on my life.” high school. She excelled in major and one of only two —LIZ S WITZER

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After graduating from bring noted biblical scholar- Wake Forest College in 1857, ships to campus every three Albritton worked as an educa- years. The fund also provides tor, publisher, and Baptist min- support for Horton’s archaeo- ister in eastern North Carolina logical work in the Middle until his death in 1906. He East and the acquisition of ministered to Confederate sol- research and instructional diers during the Civil War. materials. The papers were donated “The donation of the by Albritton’s great grand- Albritton diaries broadens the daughter, Nettie Byrd family’s already significant Newman of Goldsboro, North legacy to the University,” Carolina. Horton said. “I would like to “Preserving and sharing see the right student use this history, especially my family’s material for a thesis in religion history, has always been very or history. The diaries are par- important to me,” she said. “I ticularly interesting because have enjoyed these wonderful they not only cover the Civil diaries for many years. By giv- War but continue on into ing them to Wake Forest, I Reconstruction and the early hope more people may enjoy twentieth century.” them as much as I have.” Horton, an Episcopal Albritton Professor of the Bible In 1919, Albritton’s chil- priest who joined the faculty Fred Horton and John Woodard Dear diaries (’61), University archivist and dren donated $25,000 to in 1970, was named Albritton head of the N.C. Baptist Albritton papers preserve Wake Forest to establish a Professor of the Bible in 1991, Historical Collection, review 19th-century history chair in biblical studies in the third faculty member to materials from the personal papers collection of John their father’s name. The hold the professorship. Thomas Albritton (1857). LMOST A CENTURY Albritton Fund continues to —LIZ S WITZER Aafter his death, Wake Forest alumnus John Thomas Albritton, a Baptist historian, preacher, and teacher, contin- ues to reach students and researchers through his person- al papers, recently donated to the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. The collection consists of biographical information; his personal diaries dating from 1860-1877 and 1896-1906; scrapbooks containing letters support the Albritton and other items; and copies of Professorship—currently held articles he wrote for newspa- by Professor of Religion Fred pers, including the Biblical L. Horton Jr.— and the Recorder. Albritton Lectures, which

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1950s in Wake Forest, NC. Another sports marketing firm in of chaplaincy services for Wayne is director of teacher novel, “The Candidate, the Winston-Salem. He is an active Memorial Hermann Healthcare education for Campbell Bill F. Hensley (’50) of Commies and the World’s member of Irving Park United System in Houston, TX, for 10 University, having retired from Charlotte, NC, has been elected Longest Camel” (Xlibris, a Methodist Church in years. Prior to that, he served as the N. C. Department of Public to membership in the Carolinas Random House affiliate) is set Greensboro and a volunteer associate director at Memorial Instruction in 1995 after 32 Golf Hall of Fame. A veteran in Winston-Salem. He has also with Truliant Federal Credit Hermann for 14 years. The years as a state employee. writer and promoter, he was signed a contract with the Union. He has six children and Southwest Region of the cited for his numerous contribu- Claude S. Sitton (JD ’63) of University Press of Kentucky five grandchildren. Association for Clinical Pastoral tions to the game during a 50- Burke County was elected presi- for a nonfiction work called Education, Inc. bestowed its year career. He was named to Lloyd F. Baucom (’57, JD ’61) dent of the N.C. Conference of “The Last Days of the Big Distinguished Service Award on the North Carolina Journalism was elected chairman of the Superior Court Judges for 2001 Grassy Fork: Old Winston and the Rev. Bratton in September. Hall of Fame in 1997. He was Board of Law Examiners. He is and was elected vice president the New Patriarchs.” This will He served as the Association’s the first sports information a member of the Charlotte, NC, of the N.C. Bar Association for make a total of 11 books he has regional director for the south- director at Wake Forest. law firm of Baucom, Claytor, 2000-2001. published or is in the process of west from 1984 until 1989, and Benton, Morgan & Wood, P.A. Joe Clontz (’64) retired after 33 Ray K. Hodge (’50) and Joyce publishing. served at various times in other He has been a member of the years working in the area of Harrell Hodge celebrated their leadership capacities. He and Ben Sutton (’56) has retired N.C. Board of Law Examiners campus ministry with the golden wedding anniversary his wife, Colleen, have two after seven years of service to since 1990. He is a member and Baptist State Convention of with a dinner on Saturday, Nov. grown children and three grand- Greensboro College. He was past president of the North Carolina. In 1967 he 11, 2000. The dinner was given children. They have established the chief financial officer from Mecklenburg County Bar went to Western Carolina by their three children and their their retirement home in 1994-1996 and since then has Association, a member of the University as Baptist campus spouses, Mark and Joy Hodge Dalton, GA. worked closely with officials on N.C. Bar Association, the N.C. Blashaw, Ben (’81) and Kate minister. In 1971 he and his plans for several remodeling State Bar and the American Bar Hodge and Donna Ariosa. 1960s family moved to Chapel Hill, projects at the college. Before Association. He is involved in a During Wake Forest NC, where he served as co- joining Greensboro College he number of church and civic W. Richard Gentry (JD ’61) Homecoming 2000, Hodge was Baptist campus minister for 13 held the position of chief finan- activities. He and his wife, Joan, resigned as partner in the West inducted into the Half-century years. From 1984-2000 he was cial officer at Chowan College live in Charlotte. They have two Chester, PA, law firm of Club and was named as a a student ministry consultant for 30 years and at Fork Union children, Jennifer and Jay, and Buckley, Nagle, Gentry, Brion, Trustee Emeritus. and director of volunteer stu- Military Academy in Virginia two grandchildren. McGuire & Morris and accept- dent ministries for the Baptist Hunter James (’54) has pub- for three years. He plans to Douglas A. Graham (’58) ed a position as counsel to the State Convention. lished an online book titled spend retirement working with Blue Bell, PA, firm of Kaplin, retired as professor and depart- Charles A. Osolin (’64) is direc- “The Rosary” (Boson Books), his son’s business, ISP Sports, a Stewart, Meloff, Reiter & Stein. ment chair in August after 32 tor of communications and pub- which is set on the old campus He joins the firm’s real estate years teaching botany at Barton lic affairs for the National Safety department and will limit his College. He and his wife will Council, Itasca, IL. He lives with move this spring from Wilson, practice to land use matters. If you have news you would like to share — his wife, Mary, and son, Ryan, NC, to Lake Norman to find a Lowell McKinster (’61) has in Downers Grove, IL. promotions, awards, honors, announcements new venture and to play tennis. retired after 30 years in the A. Doyle Jr. Early (’65, JD ‘67) of marriage, births, adoptions, deaths, etc.— They have a 3-year-old grand- Army and a nine-year second was honored with the son who lives in Durham, NC. career as business administrator please send it to Christine Underwood, class Centennial Award by the High at Reid Memorial Presbyterian notes editor, Wake Forest Magazine, P.O. Box Ray W. Benfield (’59) is part- Point Bar Association. He has Church in Augusta, GA. He has time chaplain of the Baptist contributed to High Point civic 7205 Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, NC returned to Wayne, WV, to live Retirement Community, Prince activities since joining the bar in 27109-7205. Internet: [email protected]. near his 92-year-old father. Nursing Care Center in 1967 and has been honored We are sorry, but we cannot publish third- Winston-Salem and is interim C. Wayne Dillon (’63) and his numerous times for his law party news unless the person submitting it pastor of United Baptist wife, Peggie Dillon, have moved accomplishments, including provides a telephone number for verification Church, also in Winston-Salem. into a new home in Fuquay serving as president of the 18th Varina, a suburb of Raleigh, and accepts responsibility for the accuracy of Don Bratton (’59) has retired Judicial District Bar Association from active ministry after 38 NC. Peggie works for the N.C. the information. years of service. He was director Department of Insurance and

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Major B. Harding (’57, JD ’59)

Eye of the of public and press inter- law, which is generally wished, but expected, est, the historic case was what courts are called that we would be true to storm the most unusual he has upon to do. However, the law,” said Harding. considered during his thirty- court decisions involving “The allegiance to the T ISN’T OFTEN THAT a two years on the bench. election issues were still profession and the courts Ipresidential election Though he has made characterized by the pub- has been and still is the isn’t decided on Election decisions in several high- lic as expressing political reason we have such Day, and it is profile cases, Harding said preferences by the Court,” great freedom and pros- perhaps more he was somewhat sur- he said. perity in America.” unlikely that a prised by the public clamor In addition to the Justice Harding was university might the Bush vs. Gore rulings intense media attention, appointed by Governor find itself with generated. “The intense another challenge facing Lawton Chiles in 1991 ties to the reactions that greeted the the justices was that the and began a second six- drama in more decisions of any of the court’s decision had to be year term in January ways than one. courts involved in the elec- rendered expeditiously. 1999. He served as Two-thousand tion cases were far greater Harding considered his Chief Justice from July was that kind of than anything I have ever preparation for oral argu- 1998 to June 2000. He year for Wake experienced,” he said. “I ments to be extremely began his tenure on the Forest. First, am pleased that the rule of important, and he was Florida bench with his candidates law prevailed and the ulti- determined that the short- 1968 appointment as a George W. mate decisions of the ened time frame not under- Duval County juvenile Bush and Al courts have been the final mine the clarity of the court judge. In 1970 he Gore debated in Wait answer.” opinions or the rationale was appointed to the cir- He thinks decisions Chapel on October 11. Often courts are called for the decision reached. cuit bench in the Fourth At that time, who could upon to rule in matters that “I had to balance the com- Judicial Circuit, and was have foreseen a second have political overtones, peting goals of issuing elected chief judge in rendered in the connection to the unfold- said Harding, who lives in speedy, yet reasoned, 1974 and 1975. At the ing saga—this time Tallahassee with his wife, decisions,” he said. time of his appointment through an alumnus who Jane Lewis Harding (’58), Harding said his expe- to the Supreme Court, he election controversy just happened to be a whom he married during rience at Wake Forest was the dean of the justice on the Florida his last year of law school. School of Law provided a Florida Judicial College Supreme Court. But he thinks decisions ren- wonderful foundation for and chair-elect of the seemed to be As controversy sur- dered in the election con- his professional life as a Florida Conference of rounding the vote troversy seemed to be lawyer and a judge, and Circuit Judges. viewed only through a viewed only dragged on into that he still enjoys the “There is a bumper December and ultimately political lens by the public friendship of some of his sticker which states, to the country’s highest and the media, who often former professors. “While ‘Election 2000—What a through a political court, key rulings on dan- seemed to lose focus of our class was amused at great civics lesson!,’” gling chads and dangling the legal issues involved. “I Dean Weathers’ sugges- said Harding. “I agree. fates fell to judges on the am certain that this and tion in ethics class that we The election was truly an lens by the public Florida Supreme Court. other courts approached not establish a law office opportunity for the public One of those, Major B. the cases as seeking a res- over a fish market, I recog- to see the branches of Harding (’57, JD ’59), olution of conflicting nize that he and the other government at work.” and the media. says from the standpoint statutes or principles of professors not only —CHERIN C. POOVEY

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site: http://www.alltel.net/ Shalom Day School in address is healingnaturally Harry Arsenault (’69) is an ~maraford. Greensboro. She and her hus- @yahoo.com Episcopalian priest, Rector of band, Ed Bowles (’64), live in Church of the Resurrection in John S. Barr (’67) has been William H. Freeman (’67, JD Jamestown with their son, New London, CT. He is named chairman of the board ’74), Resident Superior Court Brad, a student at Jamestown divorced and his son, Ross, was of the Richmond (VA) Judge, has retired after 24 Middle School. Their daughter, married in June. Metropolitan Division of the years on the bench. He plans Heather, graduated from Duke American Heart Association to start a new career as a medi- Stancil Campbell (’69) has University in May 2000 and is for 2000-2001. He has been a ator and arbitrator. accepted an appointment as living in Los Angeles, where Barr (’67) board member for the past James S. Knight III (’67) was professor of theatre at the she is an assistant to movie three years and formerly co- awarded Fellowship in the American University in Cairo. producer Martin Ransahoff. He moved there after several and being named as one of chaired the Richmond divi- American College of Dentists. Anne B. Buchanan (’67) has years of teaching and designing America’s best lawyers from sion’s Cardiac Arrest Program. Fellowship is by invitation and published her first book, in Canada and in West Africa. 1998-2000. He is a partner with the mission of the American McGuireWoods L.L.P and “Healing in His Wings,” daily College of Dentists is to pro- Each summer, he continues to Shuford Smith (’66) and Mary practices in the firm’s labor and devotions for healing. An mote excellence, ethics and work at the Colorado Helen Smith’s latest book, employment department, spe- ordained minister and Ph.D. in professionalism in dentistry. Shakespeare Festival, where he “101 Secrets for a Great cializing in business and com- natural health, she has a natur- has served as technical director Retirement,” has been released Richard D. Herbert (’68) has mercial trial work. al health ministry in Charlotte, for 21 years. nationally by NTC/ been named director of student NC. She serves as vice presi- Stephen Dolinger (’69) was Contemporary Books. This Nan Bell Bowles (’67) received activities at The Bolles School dent and director of Carolina named Georgia School holistic approach to retirement her Ph.D. in curriculum and in Jacksonville, FL. He spent Natural Health Institute, Inc., Superintendent of the Year. In complements their previous teaching at the University of three years as dean of students which provides correspondence addition to his duties as super- book, “The Retirement North Carolina at Greensboro before accepting the new courses teaching people how to intendent of Fulton County Sourcebook.” More informa- in December 2000. She is the appointment. be healthy according to God’s schools, he serves on the board tion is available on their Web middle school director of B’nai plan and design. Her e-mail

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of directors for many educa- University of Singapore, Vaughn Perkinson Ehlinger of Cultural Resources for tional and civic organiztions. University of Malaya and the Moxley & Stogner, L.L.P. law North Carolina by Gov. Mike As Georgia’s Superintendent of University of Ljubljana in firm, a practice that will con- Easley. She is the CEO, direc- the Year, he represents the state Slovenia. In summer 2001, he centrate on estate planning, tor and sole shareholder of in the National Superintendent will be a visiting professor at wills, trusts, taxation and rep- West Third Street Management of the Year program. He has the University of Melbourne. resentation of closely held Company, a real estate man- been superintendent of Fulton His son, George Brian Kester, businesses. Perkinson joined agement consulting company. County schools since 1995. began his MBA studies at the Kilpatrick Stockton in 1996 as She is also president, director Walter E.Dorsett Jr. (’69) has Babcock School in August, a partner and prior to that he and majority shareholder of Perkinson (‘71, JD ‘81) joined the staff of The Sun in making him a “fourth genera- was a tax partner wtih Ernst & West Third Street, Inc. and Baltimore, MD, after six years tion” Demon Deacon. His Young, L.L.P., an international Clark, Evans and Tate, Inc., 26th year teaching and coach- with The News & Observer in grandfather, John M. Kester Jr. accounting firm. He is a mem- two real estate holding compa- ing in South Carolina. He Raleigh, NC. Before that, he (’39) and his great-grandfather, ber of the N.C. Bar nies. She is an active member recently purchased a new home had spent 27 years in journal- John M. Kester (’12) attended Association’s Tax and of her community and has at 510 Sedgefield Drive, ism, working for the Winston- Wake Forest as well. Fiduciary Law section, the served as the chairman of the Columbia, SC 29210. American Institute of Certified Winston-Salem Arts Council Salem Journal, the Lexington Alex Sink has retired from her James R. Schulz has joined the Public Accountants and the and on the boards of many (KY) Herald, The Florida work at Bank of America as firm of Ragsdale, Beals, N.C. Association of Certified organizations, including the Times-Union in Jacksonville, president of the Florida bank- Hooper & Seigler in Atlanta, Public Accountants. Board of Trustees of Wake the St. Petersburg (FL) Times ing group. She is working on a specializing in complex civil lit- Forest University and the and Gannett Suburban number of projects for her igation and bankruptcy. 1972 Board of Visitors at the North Newspapers in Westchester favorite organizations: Wake Formerly he was an assistant Carolina School of the Arts. County, NY. Forest, the Nature Conserv- Mary Easley (JD ’75) is mak- U.S. Attorney for the northern She is married to James T. Bob Ervin (’69) has been pro- ancy and United Way. She and ing history as the first first lady district of Georgia. Lambie and has three step- moted to associate vice presi- her husband, Bill McBride, are in North Carolina to work daughters. dent for learning technologies the parents of two teen-age outside the home. She is a law 1976 children. professor at North Carolina at Fayetteville Technical Bob Melton has been promot- Central University and the wife 1975 Community College in ed to professor of aerospace 1971 of Gov. Mike Easley. Taylor Beattie is a captain in Fayetteville, NC. He has been engineering at Penn State the U.S. Navy Reserves. He has the dean of business at the col- Eunice Doman Myers was University. He was also recent- 1973 assumed command of Naval lege since 1989. He is responsi- named Spanish division coordi- ly elected vice president-techni- Air Station North Island in San ble for all the distance learning nator at Wichita State Jeff Triplette has been promot- cal of the American Diego, CA. His decorations initiatives, the Web presence University after serving as ed to vice president, insurance, Astronautical Society. and all media and library sup- graduate coordinator for 16 for Duke Energy. He joined the include the Navy Commenda- Kevin Quinley is the author of port services. years. She is the co-editor of company in 1974 and was tion Medal (two), Navy “Dodging the Bullet: Risk four volumes of proceedings appointed assistant treasurer in Achievement Medal, Meritor- Management Tactics That 1970 from the Wichita State 1998. He holds the rank of ious Unit Medal (two) and the Work,” a recently-published University International colonel in the U.S. Army Battle E. He is a pilot with Richard A. Honeycutt heads book focusing on medical mal- Conference on Foreign Reserve and served in the Federal Express and has been his own firm, EDC Sound practice risk management pub- Literature, which she orga- North Carolina Army National living in San Diego for the last Services, which provides lished by SEAK, Inc., nized for 12 years. She is work- Guard for more than 26 years 20 years. He is married to the acoustical consulting and Falmouth, MA. It is his seventh ing on a book on the Spanish and during the Persian Gulf former Amy Hardwick. sound-system design and book. He is senior vice presi- contemporary author Rosa War. He was awarded the Al Gurganus has been promot- installation. He is A.B.D. in a dent at MEDMARC Insurance Montero. Bronze Star. He serves on the ed to professor of German at Ph.D. program in electroa- Company, Fairfax, VA. coustics at the Union Institute. Larry E. Penley (MA ’72) has board of advisors for the The Citadel and appointed to a World Captive and Alternative five-year term as head of mod- Melvin Scales has been George W. Kester has joined been elected chair of AACSB, Risk Financing Forum, the ern languages. appointed to a four-year term the faculty of Washington and The International Association Wake Forest University Alumni on the Board of Trustees to Lee University as the Mamie for Management Education. William Scott Jumper has Council and is a referee for the Brevard College, a four-year Fox Twyman Martel Professor He is dean of the Arizona State taught American Government National Football League. He liberal arts institution in of Finance and head of the University College of Business and coached women’s fastpitch and his wife, Laurie, have a Brevard, NC. management department. He and is the holder of the Bob softball at Lexington High son and a daughter. Craig V. Seaver is the senior was formerly the William H. Herberger Arizona Heritage School in Lexington, SC, for director of licensing with Zak Dunkak Professor of Finance Chair. the past 11 years. His teams 1974 Designs and has been elected at Bucknell University. He has John R. “Jay” Perkinson Jr. have earned three state AAAA to a three-year term on the held visiting faculty appoint- (JD ’81) has joined with four Lisbeth C. “Libba” Evans (’74, titles and two runner-up finish- national board of directors for ments at the National other attorneys to form the MBA ’78) has been named es. His overall record is 279 Secretary for the Department wins and 69 losses. This is his the licensing industry’s trade

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association. He lives in Dorsett serves on the executive Atlantic, Norfolk, VA. He Board certification and renewal Lou Tilley was named vice Spokane, WA, and can be committee and the emerging graduated from Marine Corps requirements. He is an inde- president of sports for CN8, reached at [email protected]. issues committee for the N.C. Officer Candidate School in pendent fee-based financial the Comcast Television State Bar. He has also been a 1981 and served on active duty planner specializing in compre- Network. Headquartered in 1977 state bar counselor representing as an attorney until 1992 when hensive financial planning. He Philadelphia where he has been he left active duty to write. He a broadcaster for 15 years, Charles F. “Chic” Dambach the 10th Judicial District since lives in High Point, NC, with has been active in the Reserve Tilley hosts “The Lou Tilley (MBA) attended a ceremony in 1991 and served two terms as his wife, Sharon. since 1993. Sports Connection,” a nightly Algiers on Dec. 12, 2000 for chairman of the grievance com- one-hour sports magazine. He the signing of the treaty that mittee. He has served on many Mark Robinson (MBA ’79) has 1978 is in charge of all sports pro- ended the war between different state bar committees moved from Raleigh, NC, to Bob Bilbrough has received the duction and programming for Ethiopia and Eritrea. He was in the past. He served two become group creative director inaugural Georgia Technology the regional network. He han- part of a team of citizen diplo- terms as a director of the Wake at Creative Alliance in Leadership Award. Bilbrough is dles the play-by-play duties for mats who worked with the County Bar Association and Louisville, KY. His wife the founder and president of all college football and basket- leaders of both countries to has served on several of its Kathleen, a Louisville native, Quality Contract Manufactur- ball events that air on CN8. He promote the peace process. He committees and on other and two children, Liam, 7, and ing, L.L.C., also known as began his sportscasting career is chairman of the Coalition for Raleigh-area committees and Breck, 4, are enjoying their Qualcon. He is married to calling the Demon Deacon America Leadership Abroad, an boards of directors. He is a new home. Mark remains Catherine Watson Bilbrough football and basketball games advocacy network of 40 inter- member of White Presbyterian active as a musician and song- (’83), who is the daughter of after a knee injury ended his national affairs organizations. Church. He and his wife, writer with his church. John Watson, a member of the Wynn, and their four children, football career as a senior at James K. Dorsett III (JD) has William “Bill” R. Savage Jr. Board of Visitors of the Babcock Elise, 12, Rush, 10, James, 8, Wake Forest. Tilley is winner been elected to the office of has been authorized by the School of Management. and Grace, 2, make their home of 11 regional Emmy Awards vice president of the N.C. State Certified Financial Planner George McCanless has been in Raleigh. for broadcasting. He and his Bar. A partner with Smith, Board of Standards to use the named vice president/finance wife, Diane, live with their two Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Charles A. Jones was promoted marks CFP, Certified Financial for the News & Observer in children in Devon, PA. Mitchell & Jernigan, L.L.P., to colonel in the Marine Corps Planner, and CFP with flame Raleigh, NC. Reserve at Marine Forces, logo in accordance with CFP

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1979 1980 Gary Bolick wrote “A Chris Larsen has settled into Snowman in July” (Creative his new home in Media, PA, Arts Book Company). The just outside of Philadelphia book is set in rural North with his wife, Kyle, and chil- Carolina in 1921. It is distrib- dren, Eric and Alex. He was uted nationally and can be promoted to president of SAP ordered at major internet America. booksellers. Nathan Sikes started a soft- Carolina Fernandez (MBA ’81) ware development company has been offered a contract on serving clients in the Piedmont her book project, “Planet and Research Triangle Park Motherhood,” (Lifeline Press) areas of North Carolina in due to be released this year. The October 1999. JAR Systems nonfiction work offers creative represents the names of his and innovative ideas for moth- three children, Jonathan, Alex ers who want to encourage cre- and Rebekah. The family is ativity in their children. She has active in homeschooling and also published two stories, one the home church movement. in Kay Allenbaugh’s upcoming Joe West moved to North “Chocolate for a Teen’s Soul 2” Myrtle Beach, SC, from (Simon & Schuster) and the Charlotte, NC, where he had Get connected with Wake Forest friends second in Kathy Lamancusa’s resided for the past 20 years. upcoming “Flowers Are For He has opened a financial ser- and classmates through Love” (Simon & Schuster) both vices office for the American with a 2001 release date. She General Financial Group. He is the Wake Forest and her husband, Ernie, and engaged and planning a May their four children, Nick, Ben, wedding. Cristina and Victor, have relo- Information Network (WIN) cated to Ridgefield, CT. Ernie 1981 accepted a promotion with Cindy C. Christopher is execu- IBM as executive assistant to a tive vice president of WIN IS YOUR FREE CONNECTION TO: senior group vice president at Commercial Carolina, corpo- IBM headquarters in White rate real estate services. The The Online Alumni Directory Plains, NY. company recently opened a Glenn Elizabeth “Beth” Greensboro/Winston- E-mail Forwarding For Life Maxwell Pharr is executive Salem/High Point office. director of Project Horizon, a Robert Wrenn is a roving golf non-profit organization dedi- Personal Information Form for change of address reporter for CNBC, broadcast- cated to reducing dating, sexu- ing mostly Senior PGA Tour al and domestic violence. events and interviewing the AND MORE SERVICES COMING IN THE FUTURE! Myles Taylor says his history likes of former Deacons major “finally bore fruit” Arnold Palmer, Jay Sigel, ▲ ▲ when he was elected president Lanny Wadkins, Joe Inman of the Lincoln Group of the and Leonard Thompson. District of Columbia. Last Previously he spent 12 years on year he co-founded Wellspring the PGA Tour as a player and VISIT THE WIN Advisors, a donor advisory four years as a roving golf firm that works with individu- reporter with ESPN. HOME PAGE TO SIGN-UP als, family and private foun- dations. He and his wife, 1982 Jacqui, live in Rockville, MD, AND SAY HELLO TO Stephen F. Davis assumed com- with their two children, Olivia mand of the guided missile and Myles. FRIENDS @ WFU. frigate USS KLAKRING (FGG 42) in June and spent four

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months this fall circumnavigat- Financial Advisors and has James J.S. Johnson completed a solo practitioner, part-time Ariel F. Sallows Professor in ing South America as part of a been promoted to vice presi- an interdisciplinary studies judge and college professor. Human Rights at the dent, sales, with the Principal program involving history, multinational task force. He Francisco Forrest Martin has University of Saskatchewan Financial Group. He lives in geography, bioclimatology, and his family have relocated published “Challenging College of Law. Raleigh with his wife, Lisa philology and international to Mayport, FL. Human Rights Violations: Motts Jackson (’83), and their studies, earning a doctor of Troy Jackson has been elected Using International Law in 1983 three children Katie, Trey and arts and sciences degree. He is president of the N.C. U.S. Courts” (Transnational J. Craig Bradfield has been Reid. Association of Insurance and Publishers, 2001). He is the promoted to vice president at BB&T Leasing Corp., in Atlanta. He is a regional sales manager and has been with BB&T since 1988. He is a cer- thethe tified leasing professional with the United Association of Equipment Leasing and is a member of the Atlanta chapter PerfecPerfec of the National Funding Association. He and his wife, gif Katy, reside in Alpharetta, and have two children, Allison, 4, Wake Forest University and Connell, an infant. Raul S. de la Vega, who com- pleted his residency in diagnos- tic radiology and nuclear radiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, has been named as a fellow of the American College of Radiology. He is president of the North Carolina Chapter of the American College of Radiology and is a member of Shelby Radiological Associates PHOTOGRAPHED BY in Shelby, NC. KENNETH GARRETT Give the gift of memories John Passacantando is execu- tive director of Greenpeace to your graduating son or USA, based in Washington, Free shipping D.C. He co-founded Ozone Action in 1993 and recently and handling daughter. This superb joined it with Greenpeace. His for all orders wife, Lisa Guide, is acting photographic tribute to assistant secretary of the placed before Department of the Interior for Wake Forest is beautifully Policy and Budget. They have Commencement two daughters, Sophia Rose, 5, showcased in a 112-page and Mollie Maria, 2. $ 39 .95 plus $4.25 1984 shipping and handling large- Jeffrey W. Harris moved from (plus 6% sales tax for Jacksonville, FL, to Charlotte, residents of Kentucky) format book that is sure NC, to join a newly-formed To order, please call commercial real estate devel- to become a treasured opment company named 800/809-9334

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Trinity Capital Advisors, Laura F. Davis Mayer was pro- wills, trusts, taxation and repre- L.L.C. As a partner in the firm, moted to labor relations sentation of closely held busi- he is responsible for structuring manger for Mead Coated nesses. Stogner holds the acquisitions and the develop- Board, a division of Mead Certified Financial Planner des- ment of commercial and Corporation. Laura, her hus- ignation. Prior to her law mixed-use real estate projects. band, David, and two children, career, she worked for He and his wife, Janet, have Kyle, 4, and Kristen, 2, live in Wachovia Bank in Winston- two children. Phenix City, AL. Salem and Greensboro and for John D. Phillips is engaged to Continental Bank in Vega (’83) Stogner (’86, JD ‘94) 1986 Courtney Freeman of New Philadelphia. She is a member Richard Benya (MD) is director York City. He has asked Kevin of the N.C. Bar Association and Paradigm Genetics, Inc., a the company. He has been with of the division of gastroenterol- Gregg (’87) to be Best Man for its Fiduciary Law section, the functional genomics company. Wolf Camera since 1993. He is ogy, hepatology and nutrition the Nov. 11, 2001 wedding. Forsyth County Bar Association He joined Paradigm from The married to the former Anne at the University of Florida in John is teaching in and the Winston-Salem Estate Monsanto Company, where he Maher, a lawyer with Powell Gainesville. Poughkeepsie, NY. He taught Planning Council, where she is was director of business devel- Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy. a past board member. opment for the nutrition sector. They live in Buckhead with Robert Gorham accepted the at the Central European Previously, he was director of their two children. position of quote strategy man- University in Budapest, 1987 business development for ager for America’s East Coast Hungary, from 1996-1999 in Ernest A. Osborn has been Monsanto’s Designer Fibers. and Canada. He has been with the Department of Robin Roy Ganzert (MBA ’91) named a senior investment Avnet electronics for more than International Relations and finished her PhD in higher edu- Stephen M. LaMastra has been management consultant with 12 years, having worked in European Studies. He was a cation administration from the elevated to the position of exec- Salomon Smith Barney’s southern California, Boston visiting lecturer in internation- University of North Carolina utive vice president and general Consulting Group. He is a and, since 1996, out of Avnet’s al economic relations at Cuza at Greensboro. Her doctoral counsel of Wolf Camera, based member of the firm’s corporate headquarters in University from 1994-1996. dissertation title was ‘The in Atlanta. This came just 14 Winston-Salem office and is Phoenix, AZ. Kimberly H. “Kim” Stogner Effects of Financial Stress on months after his promotion to one of fewer than 150 of the Higher Education.’ She is the senior vice president at the more than 11,000 Salomon Jack LoCicero (MAEd) com- (JD ’94) has joined with four assistant dean for finance and company. He is a member of Smith Barney financial con- pleted his Ph.D. in counselor other attorneys to form the administration at the Babcock the company’s six-member sultants authorized to use this education in 1999 at Vaughn Perkinson Ehlinger Graduate School of executive committee and its designation. He earned the Mississippi State University. He Moxley & Stogner, L.L.P. law Management. board of directors, and he over- title after successfully com- is an associate professor of firm, a practice that will con- sees both the legal department pleting a rigorous career Hospice education at Madonna centrate on estate planning, Ken Hunt (JD/MBA ’93) is vice and several business units of development program. University in Livonia, MI. president of marketing at Improve your game at the eighth annual golf academy for Wake Forest alumni. PGA professionals provide daily instruction on Arnold Palmer’s home course. Call early to reserve your preferred week.

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also received Prudential’s House, the book hit the stands Community Champion award in January. for the third consecutive year. Sandra K. Danitschek graduat- ed from the Virginia 1989 Commonwealth University Phillip Agee (MA) has been School of Nursing at the named president of SCANA Medical College of Virginia in Energy Marketing, Inc., the December 1999 with a master’s Osborn (’87) Griffin (’88) Maynard (JD ’88) non-regulated energy market- of science degree and became ing unit of Comumbia, SC- licensed as a pediatric nurse Benjamin B. Peeler received a support personnel within the Christopher M. Hines is con- based SCANA Corp. He had practitioner (PNP) in May. She MD from Vanderbilt University Federal Aviation Administra- vention and special events spe- previously served as director, has relocated to northern School of Medicine in 1991. tion’s Office of Chief Counsel. cialist at Headquarters, U.S. business development and oper- Virginia, where she is working From 1991-1998 he completed The members of the bargaining Army, Europe in Heidelberg, ations, for Sonat Public Service as a PNP at Ashburn Pediatrics. his general surgery residency unit also appointed him to rep- Germany. He is engaged to Co., L.L.C., a joint venture he She is living in Falls Church and from 1998-2000 he was in resent them in the ongoing con- Brigitte Steinberg of Sao helped found between Public with her former college room- a cardiothoracic surgery fellow- tract negotiations. He is also a Paulo, Brazil. The couple Service Co. of North Carolina mate, Jill Weiskopf (’90). ship at the University of major in the U.S. Marine Corps plans a civil wedding in and Sonat Marketing Co., L.P. Jim Fagan and Beth Fagan (’92) and serves as an adjunct faculty Virginia. He is in a vascular Germany in May followed by Susan White Frazier was pro- have moved back to Charlotte, member of the Marine Corps surgery fellowship at the a June church wedding in moted to director, interactive NC, with their 2-year-old University. He teaches Law of University of Virginia from Aiken, SC. and international research, for daughter, Lindsay. Jim is one of War, international law and 2000-2001 and a pediatric Rick Lucas married Michelle the National Geographic the managing partners of JDH human rights. He also hosts a heart surgery fellowship at Zaldivar on Aug. 8, 1998. On Society in Washington, D.C. In Capital, a commercial real local television show titled Emory University, 2001-2002. Dec. 29, 2000, she gave birth to this capacity, she is responsible estate development company. “Community Commitment.” He plans to return to the twins, Robert and Giselle. Rick for all business and marketing Beth has already bought University of Virginia in sum- is vice president, administration research for nationalgeograph- Lindsay her first basketball goal mer 2002 as assistant professor 1988 at Everhard Products, Inc. ic.com, the Society’s CD-Roms, in the hopes to continue the tra- of surgery. Mark Allen is a musician who C. Douglas Maynard Jr. (JD) of and research coordination with dition of Lady Deacon basket- John “Jay” Waters has com- has been busy for the past three The Maynard Law Firm has international partners. ball players in the family. pleted a one-year assignment as years working on Music Row in been reappointed chair of the Margaret McManus is an assis- LeeAnne S. Stiffler (MAEd) is a an exchange officer with the Nashville. He will soon release legislative committee of the liti- tant professor in the Depart- visiting instructor in the educa- U.S. Navy at the Naval War a solo album titled “American gation section of the N.C. Bar ment of Ocean Sciences at the tion department at Wake Forest College in Newport, RI. An in the 21st Century,” which is Association. He has been reap- University of California Santa for the spring semester. She is Army major, he earned an available online at pointed to the legislative com- Cruz. Her research focuses on teaching science methods for advanced degree in national http://www.al-nmusic.com. He mittee of the N.C. Academy of waves and tides in the coastal elementary school. strategy and decision making. married Elizabeth Castleman Trial Lawyers and named Legal ocean and is in several areas of After graduation, he and his (’88) on June 3, 2000. Affairs Chair (Amicus Curiae) the United States, the San Juan 1991 wife, Anna, and children, of the auto torts section of the Susan Sullivan Bush lives in Islands, the Gulf of Mexico and Jennifer Scherer McCollum left Albert, 6, Sarah, 4, and Eric, 2, N.C. Academy of Trial Marietta, GA, with her hus- Monterey Bay. her role as communications were transferred to Maine. Lawyers. band, Mike, and two daugh- Robert B. Richbourg (JD ’89) director at EzGov, an e-govern- Waters is the commanding offi- ters, Emma, 5, and Ally, 2. She Jennifer Kim Plybon Penberthy was appointed by Georgia Gov. ment technology company, to cer for the Portland Maine recently re-started her environ- (MA ’91) is an associate profes- Roy E. Barnes as solicitor-gener- start IntraVision, a learning Military Entrance Processing mental consulting career, work- sor in the Department of al of Tift County. He will contin- skills consulting company. Station. The station covers all ing part-time for R.W. Beck’s Psychiatric Medicine at the ue to practice as partner at joint military accessions for Mara Murdoch graduated in Orlando office from her home. University of Virginia Health Carter & Richbourg, L.L.P., in Maine, New Hampshire and 1995 with a master’s degree in Daniel Griffin has been pro- System. She lives in addition to his duties as solicitor. northern Massachusetts. He architecture from N.C. State moted to senior financial con- Charlottesville, VA, with her and his family live in Yarmouth University School of Design. sultant with First Citizens husband, David Penberthy, who 1990 and his e-mail address is porc- After a three-year internship, Investor Services in Fayetteville, is a radiation oncologist at [email protected]. C. Lynn “Lynnie-B” Beahan she completed the architecture UVA, and their 5-year-old NC, where he is also a vice co-authored “Let’s Elope! The licensing exam in 1999. In J. Thomas Waters (JD) was daughter, Jennifer Morgan. president. He is responsible for Definitive Guide to Eloping, 1998, a house/studio renova- reelected to serve a second term assisting individual consumers Art Washburn was voted “Top Destination Weddings, and tion project for which she was as president of AFSCME Local with planning to reach their 40 Under 40” by Richmond’s Other Creative Wedding the project architect with the 3290, AFL-CIO. Local 3290 financial goals. Inside Business publication. He Options.” Published by firm Read & Company, won an represents staff attorneys and Bantam, a division of Random AIA Baltimore Design Award.

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Elizabeth Morriss Srinivasan (JD ’88)

Law of the “Sometimes getting a said. “I didn’t think anything was as a Legal Aid attor- restraining order is not the could be as exciting as being ney,” she said. “I had protection best course of action in the courtroom, but this has obtained a protective because it might increase topped it.” order for a client, all the LIZABETH Morriss the risk,” she said. Fresh out of law “t”s were crossed, the ESrinivasan (JD ‘88) is “Advocates must listen to school in 1988, she “i”s dotted, it was a per- thrilled to be asked the battered woman and worked with the Atlanta fect file, and then she about her work because see what works in her Legal Aid Society. “I was murdered by her it provides an opportuni- particular situation; she worked with some real husband. A protective ty to champion her knows the abuser better heroes in civil action cases order is just a piece of ‘I had obtained a deepest passion. than anyone. and class action suits and paper. That’s why we do For the previous two “Sometimes the system experienced an incredible safety planning and so years, she had directed takes over and the bat- sense of fulfillment in help- many kinds of other train- protective order for legal services for the tered woman becomes a ing people,” she said. “I ing: because sometimes, Domestic Violence witness for the state in made $19,000 a year, despite the best efforts, Center of Chester prosecuting the defendant. and I don’t regret one the abuser wins. Once a client, and then County, in West While it may be a very minute of it.” you have a client die, Chester, Pennsylvania. good thing to do, this has After marrying a med- you never look at any she was murdered Last September, her serious ramifications for ical scientist, Alagarsamy case the same after that.” interest came fully into her and her children; she Srinivasan, in 1989, she Srinivasan and her bloom when she was needs to have someone in followed him to West husband have two by her husband. A named senior attorney her court, in her corner.” Chester County, Pennsyl- sons, and she seems to for the Battered Central offices are vania and worked in the have no problem man- Women’s Justice Project, based in the Pennsylvania private sector. She turned aging the whirlwind of protective order is a national program Coalition Against to public interest law after career and family. housed in Harrisburg, Domestic Violence, which being bewildered by the “Certainly, this work Pennsylvania. was established in 1976 number of clients who is difficult emotionally, just a piece of “Domestic violence as the first state coalition in needed help and couldn’t but I think that’s a good is a bipartisan issue,” the country. Srinivasan’s afford it, particularly bat- thing. It definitely touch- work ranges from advising es the soul,” she said. “I paper.’ she said. “Everyone tered women. should be concerned advocates and others who “I once had a judge would encourage stu- about the safety of call with questions to writ- tell me, ‘It only takes two dents to follow their women and children.” ing manuals and and a half minutes to pre- heart and find some- And the issue is brochures covering topics pare a protective order in thing they’re passionate more complex than one such as how to select an an abuse case.’ But that’s about. We all want might imagine. It’s no attorney, why or when to not true: you have to get to material comforts, but if simple matter to success- use mediation, and sup- know the client, and she you ever get to the point fully protect a victim from port for the children has to have a rapport with where you aren’t an abuser. Srinivasan involved in such cases. her attorney so she can touched by the people deals with protection The work is challeng- speak freely. It is about the you come in contact orders, separation vio- ing and she approaches it intricacies of her life, it is with, it’s probably time lence, divorce, custody, with genuine zeal. not about getting a piece- to look for another arbitration, mediation, “I’m lucky to be working of paper. career.” confidentiality issues, with some of the nation’s lead- “For me, the life chang- —SHERIDAN H ILL and safety planning. ers in domestic violence,” she ing moment in my career

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language and religious services and her husband, Jeff, have a defense firm in Sherman, TX, in online in “The Weekly program reinstated after the daughter, Shannon Brynn, who the medical malpractice section. Walker.” Free subscriptions can INS suspended it. He said was born Aug. 25, 1999. She married Reid Fady on be obtained at charles1169@ refugees spend months in the Tony Wyche lives in March 6, 2000 in Maui, HI. yahoo.com. He received a mas- center awaiting admission into Washington, DC, where he is Christian J. Kenefick has ter’s of fine arts from The the country. Coley started the communications director opened an accounting firm, University of Georgia, Athens, working with refugees while for U.S. Senator Jean Carnahan Kenefick & Co., CPAs, P.A., in in 1997 and had an alumni studying at Oxford University of Missouri. Charlotte, NC. exhibition titled “Kings They in England. Hang” at Scales Fine Art Vann (’93) Leah Rebecca Kunzer is a finan- Center last year. Frederick Joseph “Fred” 1993 cial aid counselor at Embry- She is working with the archi- Hegner is engaged to Jennifer F. Douglas “Doug” Banks (JD) Riddle Aeronautical University tecture firm Cho Benn Holback 1994 Gouge of Houston, TX. is a partner in the law firm of in Daytona Beach, FL. She & Associates in Baltimore, Jennifer is a sales associate for Poyner & Spruill, L.L.P. He received the Presidential Award Brad Bradley left MD, and recently completed Dillard’s Department Stores. practices in the areas of insur- for Innovation for her effort in PricewaterhouseCoopers in work on the Towson University Fred is the claims manager for ance subrogation, construction transitioning financial aid ser- Charlotte, NC, in 1999 after Field House and Stadium pro- AIG International Services, an law, products liability and com- vices to online access. She was five years as an auditor and ject. She is currently working insurance subsidiary of mercial litigation. Since joining also recognized by her depart- human resource manager. on an office design project with American International Group, the firm in 1999, he has partici- ment as Employee of the Year. During the summer, he worked the Annie E. Casey Foundation based in New York. Both plan as the associate director of con- pated in the development of Greg Matthews has joined the and an elementary school to make Houston their home servation for the Boy Scouts of national subrogation programs law firm of Joines & Greene, located in the suburbs of for the next few years. America at the Philmont Scout for several insurance carriers. P.L.L.C. He is engaged to Washington, D.C. Ranch in New Mexico. In Christopher C. King is an asso- He also regularly represents Annah Neely and the couple Wiley Reed has been elected August 1999, he began gradu- ciate equity analyst covering closely-held businesses in litiga- plan to marry on Oct. 6, 2001 partner at Denver Investment ate studies at Colorado State the telecommunications sector tion and employment matters. in Wait Chapel. Advisors, L.L.C. for Legg Mason in Baltimore, He practices out of the University for a master’s degree Roderick Swan was promoted in natural resource manage- John Saad earned CLU, ChFC MD. He will receive an MBA Charlotte, NC, office and can to EVP/COO at OBA Federal ment with a specialization in designations from the American from the University of be reached at (704) 342-5287 Savings and Loan Association wilderness and protected land College in Bryn Mawr, PA. He Maryland in May. or at dbanks@ in Gaithersburg, MD. His wife, management. In addition to the continues to work as a regional Brad Mattson is key market poynerspruill.com. Julie Swan (’92), is the VP/mar- career change, he spent the director for a major insurance manager for North Carolina Debran Margaret Beavers is a keting at OBA Federal. She summer training for his first company in Atlanta and can be with Rain Bird’s golf division. real estate agent in the works part-time from home so marathon. He entered and contacted at jmsaad@ Rain Bird is a manufacturer of Georgetown Pardoe Real Estate that she can be with their chil- completed the Dublin 2000 yahoo.com. irrigation products. He has office in Washington, DC. She dren, Ashley, 3, and Cameron, Marathon in Dublin, Ireland, relocated to the Charlotte area is licensed in Maryland, Larry Schack (Ph.D.) and his 1. The couple is expecting in October. He can be reached and looks forward to catching Virginia and Washngton, DC. wife, Tara, have moved to the another baby in July. at bbradley@lamar. metro-Seattle area. Larry has up with friends and alumni in Ann Burns has joined the intel- Price Thompson graduated colostate.edu. taken a senior position with the Carolinas. He can be lectual property and technology from Vanderbilt Law School in Marc Palmieri is a writer and Microsoft’s Corporate Research reached at bmattson@earth- department of the Houston, May and recently passed the actor living in Manhattan, NY. division. All Bags and Kappa link.net. TX, office of the international Tennessee bar exam. He is As a writer, his play, “Poor Alphas are encouraged to drop Daniel “Scott” Smith received law firm of Fulbright & working in Nashville, serving a Fellas,” ran for four weeks in by if they ever visit the Great a Ph.D. in chemical engineer- Jaworski, L.L.P. She received one-year clerkship with U.S. June at the Bosakowski Theatre Northwest. ing from Georgia Tech in June the J.D. from The University of Magistrate E. Clifton Knowles. in midtown, and was recently 1999 and married Chantal Texas School of Law in 1999, Kristen Vann has been elected a published by Dramatists Play 1992 Jouret in May 2000. He where she was Notes Editor for vice president of First Citizens Service. As an actor, he will be works for Michelin North The Review of Litigation. She Will Coley has been named a Bank, Raleigh, NC. She is the appearing in Ferdinand America, Inc. and left in was admitted to practice law in recipient of the 12th annual supervisor of credit scoring and Bruckner’s play “Race” at the January on an expatriate Texas in 1999. Reebok Human Rights Awards. portfolio analysis in the retail Classic Stage Company in New assignment in France. He is director of the Jesuit Dana Lynn Morgan Fady grad- risk management department. York City. He is the lead in the Refugee Services’ program at Jill Folske Sweeney is a share- uated from Texas Tech School critically-acclaimed feature film Charles Walker is an artist liv- the Immigration and holder at Sutin, Thayer & of Law, cum laude, in May “Too Much Sleep,” which ing, working and exhibiting his Naturalization Service deten- Browne in Albuquerque, NM, 1998. She was assistant county recently was acquired for a artwork in Los Angeles and tion center in Elizabeth, NJ. A where she practices in the areas attorney in Grayson County, national theatrical distribution southern California. He also leading national advocate for of corporate and public finance, TX, for two years and recently deal with Shooting Gallery, Inc. writes and publishes his obser- reform of INS detention policy, securities, state and local gov- accepted a position with Palmieri is engaged to Kristen vations of life in Los Angeles he fought to have his English ernment and university law. She Cooper & Scully, an insurance

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Ann Barthel. The two plan to 1995 Kathryn S. Haines has been Banc Alex.Brown. The couple Northwestern University’s marry in July 2001 in Shelter married to Matthew Brooks plan to live in Winston-Salem. Medill School of Journalism. Steve Bumgarner has been Island, NY. Haines for two years and the Her concentration is magazine promoted to marketing direc- couple resides in Chicago. She 1996 journalism. Her e-mail address Amanda McMakin Rader lives tor at the Winston-Salem has completed her master’s in is rachel.sheedy.96@ in Knoxville with her husband, headquarters of Krispy Kreme Michael H. Kauffman (JD ’99) urban planning and policy at alumni.wfu.edu. Dustin, and two children, Doughnuts, Inc. He joined the has joined the St. Louis, MO, the University of Illinois, Hannah, 3, and Jackson, 1. She company in 1995 and has law firm of Armstrong Jennifer B. Thomas (JD) has Chicago, and began her Ph.D. is a senior account executive at served Krispy Kreme in a Teasdale, L.L.P. He is a mem- joined the law firm of Bell, in urban planning and policy WVLT-TV, the local CBS affili- number of marketing and ber of the American Bar Davis & Pitt, P.A. as an associ- analysis at the university in ate. She was recently named to communications capacities, Association (member of litiga- ate. Her practice will concen- January. one of the boards with the most recently as marketing tion and antitrust sections), the trate in commercial transac- American Cancer Society and manager. He is a member of Patrick Murphy and Hayley Illinois State Bar Association tions. Prior to joining Bell, is serving on the Knoxville City the Centenary Methodist Davis (’92) are engaged and and The Missouri Bar. He Davis & Pitt, she was an asso- Ballet Guild and other service Church Chancel Choir and is planning a May 2001 wedding joined the firm’s litigation ciate in the Raleigh, NC, law organizations. She can be active in the Winston- on the island of St. John. department. firm of Howard, Stallings, reached at WVLT_ARader Salem/Forsyth County Arts Patrick is a research scientist in Sarah Elizabeth Little (JD ’99) From & Hutson, P.A. Before @yahoo.com Council and United Way. He the regulatory affairs depart- lives in Charleston, SC, where entering private practice, she Eric Taylor is in Thailand with and his wife, Heather, live in ment, research and develop- she is a junior associate prac- served as judicial clerk to N.C. COERR, a Catholic organiza- Winston-Salem. ment division, of RJ Reynolds ticing civil defense in the litiga- Court of Appeals Judge Ralph Tobacco Company; he is also a A. Walker. tion. He is teaching English to Jocelyn Gilmour was promot- tion department of Clawson & general partner of Gamble refugees and will be there until ed to manager at the CPA firm Staubes, L.L.C. John Willis completed training Oak Equity Partners, L.P., a summer. Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, Rachel L. Sheedy moved from at the International Winston-Salem-based hedge L.L.P. Atlanta to Evanston, IL, to Snowboard Academy in fund. Hayley is an associate of begin her master’s degree at Boone, NC. While he will con- the brokerage firm Deutsche tinue to perform sales manage- ment for a quality assurance

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Tim Rogers is a journalist/edi- tor in Costa Rica. He spent the end of last year covering the Colombian peace talks, met the presidents of Spain and Argentina, the president of the ss,,VViirrggiinn Russian Duma, and several ee iiaa U.S. congressmen. YY Kennedy (‘97, JD ’00) Haney (MBA ’98) Valerie Williamson was a con- there’s a testant on Jeopardy! during the testing organization in Atlanta, Bank and Jennifer works for Jan. 8, 2001 broadcast. After his weekends will be spent in DLJ Direct. staging an impressive come- Wake Forest the foothills of North Carolina Wake Forest Amy Shenansky is finishing her back, she was tied with the training younger instructors. master of physical therapy returning champion at $8,000 license plate His e-mail address is degree from Elon College this going into Final Jeopardy!. The [email protected]. spring. She plans to pursue a category was “1999 Art for you, too. career as a physical therapist in News,” and the question was 1997 North Carolina. about the cow statues that had Christine Bergren is a licensed been placed in a major financial advisor at 1998 American city. The answer was Chicago. Valerie answered PaineWebber in Beverly Hills, Jacqueline “Jacki” Ball gradu- New York. She came in second Show the Wahoos who’s CA. She had previously ated from the University of with $4,000. Her second-place worked in pharmaceutical sales Florida with a master’s degree prize was a week-long trip to really who in Virginia. for Abbott Laboratories and in exercise and sport sciences AstraZeneca. Los Cabos, Mexico. Sign up now to reserve one of the first state and is working as manager of Courtney Dennis-Pratt received marketing services for the 1999 of Virginia Wake Forest license plates. Call a master’s degree in school psy- United Soccer Leagues in chology from James Madison Tampa, FL. Sarah Brooks and Scott Chestnut are engaged and the Virginia DMV at 804/367-0538 or Jim University and in July received Jill Deisler and Robert Rodgers planning a June 2001 wedding an educational specialist degree (’96) are engaged. The wed- in Winston-Salem. Fitzpatrick (’00) in the Wake Forest Alumni from JMU. She married Terry ding is planned for Jan. 12, Pratt in October and lives in 2002. Troy D. Cahill (JD) has joined Office, 336/758-5263, or contact him by Brunswick, GA. She is a school the law firm of Bell, Davis & Seth A. Haney (MBA) has been psychologist in Brantley Pitt, P.A., as an associate. His named general manager of The e-mail at [email protected]. Cost is $25 per County Georgia. practice will concentrate in Timken Company’s Lincolnton general civil litigation. After William K. Kennedy (JD ’00) Bearing Plant in Lincolnton, year. Production will begin once 350 orders graduating from law school, he has joined the labor and NC. A 20-year Timken associ- served as law clerk to the Hon. employment law department of ate, his most recent position was have been received. Frank W. Bullock Jr., U.S. the law firm of Montgomery, project manager in automotive District Court Judge for the McCracken, Walker & package bearings in the middle district of North Rhoads, L.L.P. , in Lincolnton plant. He and his Carolina. Philadelphia. wife, Mary Jane, have three chil- Helen Lafaye is attending the dren, Seth II, Emily and Caleb. Christopher Corrado has been promoted to full manager of University of South Carolina’s Jennifer Denise Jenkins the Greensboro, NC, masters in international busi- received a master of science Abercrombie and Fitch stores. For the North ness program in Columbia, SC. degree in educational psychol- The new position gives him She will be working in South ogy from Georgia State Carolina Wake Forest responsibility for both the kids America from May through University and is a first-year and adult stores. license plate, call the December 2001. law student at the University of Joseph Michalski and Jennifer Chicago. Matthew K. Lung (JD) has taken an associate position NC Department of Motor Vehicles, Harrison (’00) became engaged Morgan Poteat is engaged to with Womble, Carlyle, on Nov. 16, 2000. They live in Brian Corbett (JD ’00). The 919/733-7510 Sandridge and Rice in their Charlotte, NC, where Joseph wedding is scheduled for June products liability group. He is works for First Union National 2, 2001 at Lake Gaston, NC. in their Research Triangle Park

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office in Raleigh, NC. He and 1980s Kay Draper Hutchinson (’88) his wife and children moved and Marcus Hutchinson, Paul J. Kennedy III (’82) and from Charleston, SC, where he Atlanta: a son, Elias “Eli” Michelle “Shelly” Kennedy, was in practice with the Hood Draper. 2/16/00 Winston-Salem: a son, William Law Firm. “Brooks”. 11/7/00 Steve Matthes (’88) and Paige Jonathan Neil Perry is a first- Matthew, Hershey, PA: a son, Lisa Ashburn Collins (’84) and year law student at Norman Alexander Gordon. 8/10/00 Sammy Collins, Pilot The Wake Forest College Adrian Wiggins School of Law Mountain, NC: a son, Samuel Jeff Slosman (’88) and Debra at Campbell University in Buies Dalton. 7/13/00 Slosman (’88), Fairview, NC: a Creek, NC. After graduating daughter, Carson Olivia. Birthplace Society Chris White (’85) and Mary from Wake Forest, he spent one 12/18/99 year as a sixth grade science Beth White, Annapolis, MD: a Scott A. Browning (’89) and and social studies teacher in daughter, Camille Christine. cordially invites all Amy R. Browning, Mobile, AL: Mount Airy, NC. 8/18/00 a son, Thomas Alton. 8/23/00. Trevor Leigh Bailey (’86) and Mark Rabuano is a second-year Thomas joins his twin sister and alumni and friends to the William Allan Blake, student at the University of brother, John and Meredith, 5, Laytonsville, MD: a daughter, Pennsylvania Law School. He and brother Will, 2. Scott has Elizabeth Alena. 10/31/00. dedication of the historic will be working as a summer accepted membership in the law Trevor works at the National associate at the national law firm firm of Johnstone, Adams, Human Genome Research of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer Bailey, Gordin & Harris, L.L.C. Institute at the National old well and the unveiling & Feld in Washington, D.C. in Mobile. He continues to Institutes of Health in Sara Stick (JD) has joined the develop a transactional practice Bethesda. firm of Smith, Gambrell & devoted primarily to real estate, of the Old Campus Russell, L.L.P. in Atlanta and is Page Kane Conway (’87) and corporate law and commercial practicing in the area of com- Paul Conway, Raleigh, NC: a transactions. son, Alexander Blackwell replica mercial real estate. J. Scott Case (’89) and Scott “Wells”. 8/16/00. Wells has a Elaine Case, San Francisco: a 3-year-old sister, Shawen. 2000 daughter, Blake Katherine. Lauren Choi (MD) married Melinda Crouse (’87) and Todd 5/19/00 R. Crouse, Cary, NC: a daugh- Philip W. Chung in June. They Melanie Privette Caudron (’89) ter, Elizabeth Maureen. Saturday, April 21 are both doing their residencies and Tristan Caudron, Bethesda, 7/28/00. Melinda spent the at Loma Linda Medical Center. MD: a son, Benjamin Tristan. past year and a half as a stay- 7/12/00. Ben’s brother Will is 2. 3 p.m. Births and at-home mom to Elizabeth and Laurie Jackson Draper (’89) Adoptions Nicholas. She returned to work in January doing tax work for a and Reed Draper, Atlanta, GA: on the grounds of the a son, Dylan Jackson. 9/25/00 1970s CPA on a part-time basis. Craig N. Current (’87) and Kathy Snell Duffin (’89) and Elizabeth Bagby Robinette Calvin Jones House Susan Current, Atlanta: a Terry Duffin, Westminster, CO: (’77) and Keith Robinette, daughter, Caroline Russell. a daughter, Kasey Leigh. Winston-Salem: a son, Seth 1/2/01 3/22/00. Kathy is a manager in Alexander Bagby. adopted Wake Forest, communications and high tech 3/14/00. Seth Alexander was Charles C. Hull Jr. (’87) and for Accenture in Denver, CO. born May 15, 1999 in Vidnoye, Kristin Hull, Atlanta: a son, Eric C. Hines (’89) and Heidi North Carolina Russia. Stephen “Taylor”. 3/17/00 Hines, Cincinnati, OH: a son, Michael R. Langley (’79) and Karen Kostick Victor (’87) and Christian Langenderfer. 6/6/00. Mary Langley, Richmond, VA: Steven Victor, Pleasant Hill, The couple reside in Cincinnati, a daughter, Michaela Grace. CA: a daughter, Kristina Marie where Eric is a district sales 1/31/00. Michaela has a big sis- Florence. 1/9/01 manager for Nortel Networks ter, Rachel. Michael is the man- John F. Bragg III (’88) and eBusiness Solutions. ager of the molecular Catherine Carlton Bragg (’90), Steve Killian (’89) and Clare diagnostics laboratory at MCV Davidson, NC: a daughter, Remarks by Edwin G. Wilson Killian, Towson, MD: a daugh- Hospitals. Martha Katharine “Martha ter, Madeline Clare. 10/18/00 Kate”. 10/3/00

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Would you like to help point prospective WFU students in the right direction?

The Alumni in Admissions (AIA) program is look- ing for alumni to help with college fairs, assist with receptions and contact prospective students in their local areas. The program particularly needs help in the following states: Arkansas, Hawaii, Indiana, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.

If you are interested in joining or obtaining more information contact Jim Clarke, AIA Coordinator

Wake Forest University Alumni in Admissions contact Jim Clarke at [email protected] or 336/758-4930 Visit our website at wfu.edu/alumni/AIAform.html

Page Grant King (’89) and Jak 1990s 9/1/00. Emma Madeline has a Hinton Raleigh Taylor (’92) Mary Greenwold Milano (’93) King, Raleigh, NC: a daughter, brother, Brooks, and sister, and Tracy Strickland Taylor and John Milano, Ellicott City, John W. Brown (’90) and Blair Michaux. 9/3/00. She has Lilly. (’92), Winston-Salem: a daugh- MD: a daughter, Elizabeth Nicole F. Brown, Spartanburg, a brother, Thorne, 5, and sister, ter, Sarah Jenkins. 8/16/00 Grace. 4/2/00 SC: a daughter, Lindsay Kate. Gretchen Zinn Seymour (’91) Darden, 3. 8/11/00 and Jim Seymour, Lake Bluff, Rod Webb (’92) and Garnett Matthew D. Olin (’93) and Michael Lamphier (’89, MBA IL: a daughter, Hadley Zinn. Jones Webb, Raleigh, NC: a Rina Natalie Olin (’93), Amanda K. Williams (’90) and ’94) and Danielle Penturf 1/22/00 son, Greear Arthur. 12/9/00. Durham, NC: a daughter, Tony Pellegrin, Edina, MN: a Lamphier (MBA ’96), Winston- He falls asleep in appreciation Anna Catherine. 8/26/00 son, Henry Alden. 9/30/00. Elizabeth A. Smith (’91) and Salem: a son, Nicholas Patrick. of “Dear Old Wake Forest.” The couple has a 3-year-old John Matthew Smith (’88, MD Russell Smith (’93) and 11/6/00 daughter, Caroline. ’92), New Bern, NC: a son, April Corn Whitehurst (’92) Tammy Smith, Casselberry, FL: Michael Lavelle (’89) and Michael Thomas. 8/24/00 and Sam Whitehurst, Winston- a daughter, Sarah Grace. Rob Wilson (’90) and Dianne Audrey Lavelle, Matthews, Salem: a son, Chase Davis. 11/2/00. Russell completed the Biondi Wilson (’91), Kevin Connor (’92) and Diana NC: a daughter, Kristen 9/24/00 master of divinity program at Springfield, VA: a daughter, Connor, Tampa, FL: a son, Cameron. 10/13/00 Reformed Theological Tessa Grace. 12/4/00. The cou- Nicholas Ryan. 10/18/00 Amy Davidson Bryant (JD ’93) Seminary in Orlando, FL, and Eli Powell Niepoky (’89) and ple has two older children, Mom, dad, baby and big sister and Marc Bryant, Weston, CT: is a candidate for ministry in Mark Niepoky, Atlanta: a Brooks and Braden. are doing well. sons, William Weston and daughter, Molly Louise. Christopher Kyle. 7/5/00. Amy the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. Mark Brereton (’91) and Kelly Woodward Griffith (’92) 1/11/00 continues to work as vice pres- Allen Avera Taylor (MBA) and Judith Brereton, Cincinnati, and David Griffith (’92), ident of Davidson Capital Gillian Pike Taylor, Atlanta: a Susan Prout (’89) and Dan OH: a daughter, Elizabeth Virginia Beach, VA: a daughter, Group, L.L.C., based in daughter, Margeret Avera. Prout (’88), Marietta, GA: a Carol. 8/21/00 Caroline Elizabeth. 10/5/00 daughter, Caroline Anne. McLean, VA. 10/6/00. Margaret has an older Jeff Hallock (’91) and Catherine Mayes Knowles 4/23/00 Timothy McDermott (JD ’93), brother, Andrew. Allen’s e-mail Courtney Brooks Hallock (’92) and Jay Knowles, Clive, IA: a daughter, Courtney address is allen_a_taylor@ (’91), Kansas City, KS: a Nashville, TN: a daughter, Elizabeth. 10/23/00 yahoo.com. daughter, Emma Madeline. Caroline Parke. 4/21/00

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John Charles “Jay” Weber Jr. third wedding anniversary. Marriages Susan Elaine Webb (’91) and Church, VA. Don is a consul- (’93) and Merritt Weber, Shannon is on maternity leave Henry Taylor Meador of tant with Booz, Allen and Durham, NC: a daughter, from her job teaching elemen- 1980s Richmond, VA. 10/21/00 Hamilton, a consulting firm in Peyton Graham. 11/28/00 tary school Spanish. Manuel is a Brooke Wimbush (’91) and Mclean. Their house is in John D. Madden (JD ’83) and Meredith Hart Barnette (’94) conference services manager Travis Shumaker. 8/27/00. The Sterling, VA. Robyn D. Leipert. 9/9/00 and Van Barnette (’92), with The Ritz-Carlton Naples. couple married on the beach at Betsy Cracker (’94) and Raleigh, NC: a son, Henry Cameron Butler (Marshall) St. Nelson J. Squires III (’83) and Cannon Beach, OR. Richard David Kauffman of Janice L. Kasumovic. 7/29/00 Vance IV. 11/11/00 Clair (’95) and Scott St. Clair, Nicole Anatol (’92) and Lambertville, NJ were married in Bethlehem, PA. Chris Berry (’94) and Laura Cincinnati, OH: a son, Stephen Robert Baker. 8/4/00 on Nov. 18, 2000 at Fourth Cline Berry (’94), Charlotte, Jonathan Price. 3/25/00 Charlotte Kimbrough Clark in Toronto, Canada. Presbyterian Church in (’85) and John Ward Knight. Bethesda, MD; they honey- NC: a son, Cooper Young. Patricia Jones Thompson (’95) Jennifer Bergelin (’92) and 10/2/99. John is president of mooned in Tuscany, Italy. The 9/28/00. His older brothers are and Jason Hoyt Thompson David E. Chaney of Durham, Knight Holdings, Inc. The cou- couple lives in Chicago, where Lance, 4, and Cameron, 3. (’95), Seattle, WA: a daughter, NC. 4/15/00. Jennifer is a ple resides at 2303 Haven Rick attends medical school at Chris is in commercial real Abigail Grace Cody. 10/10/0 graphic designer/production Ridge Drive, N.W., Atlanta, Midwestern University in estate with CB Richard Ellis, James H. Benson (JD ’96) and coordinator for The Robert GA 30305. Charlotte resigned Downers Grove, IL, and Betsy specializing in office tenant Paula Jean Yates Benson, Bergelin Co. (a family-owned her position as partner in the is job searching in the mort- work for technology compa- Atlanta: a daughter, Zoe furniture company) and David law firm of McLain & Merritt, gage banking field. Betsy can nies. Laura is busy at home Elizabeth. 1/8/01 is a mechanical design engi- P.C. in March and formed her be reached at rkauffman4 with their three children. neer for Pliant Systems, Inc. Missy Zetick Sheptak (’96, MS own law firm of Chambers & @juno.com, (630) 322-9251 or Matthew Dymmel (’94) and The couple reside in ’97) and Stephen Sheptak, Knight, L.L.D., specializing in 1012 Williams Street, Apt. 36, Jessica Dymmel, Charlotte, Clemmons, NC. Pittsburgh, PA: a son, Cyril the areas of family law and Westmont, IL 60559. NC: a daughter, Lauren Raymond. 12/3/00 Chris Samuelson (’92) and domestic relations. On Nov. Razan J. Fayez (’94) and Tariq Elizabeth. 7/20/00 Katherine Bradley of Chicago. Christina Weber Whitney (’96) 13, 2000, she gave birth to Haddad. 9/2/00. Razan has Lisa Hedden Edler (’94) and 12/16/00. Chris is a director of and Andrew Whitney, Boston: a their first child, John Ward graduated from the University Robert Edler (’94), national accounts with Verizon daughter, Luisa Weber. 1/6/01. Knight Jr. of North Carolina at Chapel Lawrenceville, GA: a daughter, Avenue Communications. He Lesley Vauclain Lloyd (MBA Allen Frommelt (’87) and Tara Hill School of Law and is a Elisabeth Danielle. 6/22/00. Lisa received a graduate degree ’97) and Winston Pendergrass Beth Mulvey. 9/9/00. Allen is staff attorney at Piedmont is a business planning specialist from DePaul University in Lloyd (JD ’95), Raleigh, NC: a an epidemiologist for Army Legal Services in at Motorola, consumer prod- 1994 and his CPA certification son, John Martin Lloyd III. Medical Surveilance Activity, Charlottesville, VA. ucts division, in Suwanee, GA. in 1996. 10/23/00 part of the U.S. Army Center Robert Gayle (’94) and Paige Bryan Edwards (’94) and Julie for Health Promotion and Alan T. Smith (’92) and Mary Connie Boerkoel (MBA ’98) McLean (’97). 11/4/00 in Hallock (’94), Augusta, GA: a Preventative Medicine. It is the Jane Littlejohn. 11/11/00 and Rick Boerkoel, Columbus, Lumberton, NC. Wake Forest daughter, Anna Elizabeth. central epidemiological OH: a daughter, Clarissa Ann. Norman Michael Archer (’93) alumni in the wedding party 7/17/00. Anna has a 17-month- resource for the Army. 7/13/00 and Gräinne O’Flynn Johnson. included Steve Gillmor (’94), old sister, Mary Margaret. Anne Givens (MBA) and 8/28/99 Jeff Hendrix (’94), Jason Bryan is a third-year orthope- Michelle L. Hess (JD ’99) and Andrew Grimson. 10/7/00 at Jennifer Dework (’93) and Joel Henson (’94), Parker McLean dic surgery resident at the Jason S. Hess, Raleigh, NC: a the Brick Presbyterian Church Katz. 7/8/00 Hendrix (’94), Allison Lawson Medical College of Georgia in son, Holden Scott. 8/1/00. His in New York City. Anne is a (’97), Laurie McGuckin (’97) Augusta. big brother, Hayes, is 2. Netasha Spivey (’93) and vice president of consulting and Polly Ruettgers (’97). The Melvin McLawhorn of Kellie Reed Rush (’94) and Shaida Jarrahi Horner (JD ’99), with McGuire Performance couple lives in Winston-Salem. Greenville, NC. 11/25/00. Matthew Weston Rush (’95), Winston-Salem: a daughter, Solutions, Inc. and works from Netasha is in her third year of Kirsten Radler (JD ’94) and Charlotte, NC: a daughter, Yasmin Jarrahi. 12/7/00. She home in Okemos, MI. Andrew residency at the University of Christopher T. Waack. Virginia Reed. 12/25/00 has been working with is a mechanical engineer with 10/14/00 in Poland, OH. Carruthers & Roth, P.A. in Rochester in the Department Palinda Carrington Belcher Basell. Kirsten is an associate attorney Greensboro, NC, since gradua- of Obstetrics and Gynecology. (’95) and H. Christopher with Christensen & Ehret in tion. Her practice is concentrat- She graduated from East Belcher, Newport News, VA: a 1990s Chicago and Chris is an associ- ed in business and tax law. Carolina School of Medicine son, Christopher Austin. Judy C. Chen (’91) and in 1998. ate attorney specializing in cor- 10/21/00 Gentle Hernandez Arnez (’00) Michael V. Gamboa. 9/23/00. porate health care with and Marco Arnez, Cary, NC: a Martina Clark (’94, MAEd Shannon Mathers Deisen (’95) The couple reside in San Gardner, Carton & Douglas in son, Noah Israel. 11/15/00. ’95) and Don Goss. 11/18/00 and Manuel Deisen, Naples, FL: Francisco where Judy is Chicago. Gentle is an information spe- in Great Falls, VA. Martina is a daughter, Madeleine McClurg. employed by Charles Schwab Amber Rice (’95) and Brian cialist at the CDC National an international baccaulareate 11/15/00. Madeleine was born & Co., Inc. and Michael is a McCracken. 9/16/00 at St. Immunization Program in biology teacher at George eight weeks early but spent only dentist. John’s Episcopal Church in Research Triangle Park, NC. Mason High School in Falls one week in the hospital and Washington, D.C. Sarah Hunt came home on her parents’

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(’95) served as maid of honor. Will Burns (’97) and Deborah Andrea Barreto (’98) and Amber is an accountant super- DeBruhl. 7/10/99. Will has Michael Sherk (’98). 8/12/00. visor with Hill and Knowlton, started evening MBA School in The couple lives in Mebane. Public Affairs Worldwide in the Babcock Graduate School Mike is pursuing a master’s Washington, D.C. Brian is a of Management. degree in physical therapy at project manager for Morris- Patrick E. Clark (’97) and Erin Elon College and Andrea is Day Design in Arlington, VA, Murdock (’96). 10/14/00. working toward a Ph.D. in where the couple makes their They reside in Baltimore, MD, pharmacology at Duke home. where Erin works in the mar- University. Greg Cran (’96) and Kara keting department of a small Caroline Barritt (’98) and Campisi (’96). 8/19/00 in internet company. Patrick Matt Chambers. 6/10/00. The Chicago. The couple reside in graduated from the University couple lives in South London, England, where Greg of Maryland School of Law in Hamilton, MA, where they is the lead options trader for May and is performing a one- attend Gordon-Conwell Botta UK and Kara is a techni- year clerkship for the Hon. Theological Seminary. cal recruiter for eLoyalty. Arrie W. Davis of the Court of Brian Webb (’98) and Keely Jamie Koterba (’96) and James Special Appeals of Maryland. Dempsey. 6/24/00 in Carmel, M. Clark. 10/21/00 in Boston. Charee E. Duncan (’97) and IN. The couple reside in Harry Pastuszek (’96) and Marty S. McConchie (’97). Indianapolis. Brian attends Elizabeth Ann Pascucci. 8/19/00 medical school and Keely 5/13/00. He is a December Amy Janette Haddix (’97) and attends law school at Indiana 1999 graduate of the George Kristan Richard Temkin were University. Mason University School of married in Ponte Vedra Beach, Shauna Noell Carter (’99) and law and works as a social FL. 11/11/00. The couple will Kyle David Bachmeier (’99). development consultant for the reside in Charleston, SC. 6/10/00 in Atlanta. CALLING International Finance Katherine Jane High (’97) and Dawn Michelle Shoultz (’99) Corporation, the private sector Brian Christopher Harhai and Ryan Benjamin Opel (’99) investment arm of the World (’95). 11/4/00 at Lake married Oct. 14, 2000 at Duke Bank Group. He and Elizabeth, Junaluska, NC. Alumni in the University Chapel in Durham, ALL VETERANS a freelance graphic designer, wedding party included Katie NC. Many Wake Forest alum- have settled into their new Brown (’97), Mindy Marhai ni and faculty were in atten- This year marks the 50th anniversary home in Alexandria, VA, with (’97), Kristin Winkle (’97), dance. Among the wedding their dogs, Guinness and Ryan Bifulco (’95), Ryan party were Andrew Burton Barley, and their cat, who shall McNally (’95), A.J. Rollins Parker (’99), Andrew Harris of the ROTC program at Wake Forest, remain nameless. (’96) and Brian Whirrett (’97). Robertson Brown (’99) and Heather Saunders (’96) and The couple resides in Atlanta, Kevin Russell Carter (’99). and we’d like to honor all Wake Forest Larry Grimsley. 9/9/00 where Katie is a consultant Dawn is a second-year law stu- Jessica Wadkins (’96) and with Accenture and Brian is an dent at the University of North veterans at Homecoming 2001. Charles William Griege Jr. assistant vice president with Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ryan 9/30/00. The couple resides in SunTrust Bank. is a second-year law student at If you’re a veteran, please let us New York City. Deb Murphy (’97) and Jones Duke University, where he is also pursuing a master of arts know your name, class year, branch Holcomb (’96). 9/23/00. The in psychology. The couple of military service, and dates of 1997 couple resides in St. Louis, MO, where Jones is a finance resides in Durham. service. Please let us know of any Kristen Bauer (’97) and Jason manager for Emerson Electric Anna Spaugh (’99) and other alumni or deceased family Zaks (’96, MBA ’00). 6/24/00 in Annapolis, MD. Company and Deb is a consul- Christopher Michael Pulliam members who were veterans also. tant for Deloitte & Touche, (’99). 9/2/00 at Wait Chapel. Kelly Elizabeth Boblett (’97) L.L.P. Jones is a MBA student The Pulliams reside in and Gareth Edward Griffith at Washington University. Wahiawa, HI. (’88). 7/15/00 in Wait Chapel. Send your information to: Among the attendants at the Gareth is a high school English wedding were Amy Carroccia 2000 Office of Alumni Activities teacher at Greensboro Day (’97) and Tycely Williams (’97). Katherine Winfield Barber (JD P.O. Box 7227 Reynolda Station School and Kelly is finishing Benjamin Parker Mustain (’97) ’00) and Trent Eugene Jernigan Winston-Salem, NC 27109 her master’s degree in physical and Rebecca Adlyn Quinn in (JD ’00). 8/26/00 or by email at [email protected] therapy. The couple reside in Greensboro, NC. Columbia, SC. 12/2/00

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Deaths He practiced general medicine of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity desk for a number of years. He Charles Byrd Wade III (’79), in Canton, NC, where he was and was later a founding mem- was a member of St. Leo’s Jan. 20, 1998. Alumni a member of First Baptist ber of the Alumni Board of Catholic Church. James Denning Bissette (’80), Church. He was the first radi- N.C. Sigma Phi Epsilon Howard D. Carroll (’28), Jan. Robert Milton “Bob” Chesney Oct. 31, 2000. ologist in the Piedmont and Chapter. He was a former 10, 1997. Jr. (’57), December 1990. Randall Ray Combs (’81), practiced radiology in member of Forsyth Country Ernest Raymond Alexander Jr. August 2000. Walter Williams Cohoon (’29), Asheboro, Siler City, Club, Twin City Club, (’60, JD ’65), Dec. 31, 2000. Dec. 10, 1999. While a student Thomasville, Lexington, Troy Piedmont Civitan Club and the Deaths at Wake Forest he was a mem- and Southern Pines. He was a Jaycees. He is survived by his Pansy Muriel Martin (’60), ber of the Golden Bough, vice member of the Randolph wife, Phyllis R. Frazier. Nov. 22, 2000. president of the Student Faculty, Rotary Club. Surviving are Fred M. Upchurch (’53, JD James Pratt “J.P.” Carter (’61), Council, member of the inter- Staff and daughters, Jayne Parker and ’58), Dec. 5, 2000, Dec. 19, 2000. collegiate debate team, Nancy S. Owen; a son, Charles Friends Greensboro, NC. He practiced Ann Thomas Echols (MD ’61), anniversary debator and ora- F. “Chip” Owen III; and six law in Greensboro from 1958 Nov. 14, 2000. John Devlin Clark Sr., Dec. 6, tor, chief marshall, winner of grandchildren and one great until his retirement in 1993. 2000. the Junior Oratorical Medal, grandchild. Memorials may be Betsy Dotson (JD ’77), April 8, He was a member of Kappa Ralph E. Dennison, Nov. 24, representative from Wake made to The Wake Forest 2000. Alpha Order, Omicron Delta 2000. Forest College to Inter-State Deacon Club, 499 Deacon Kappa and other organiza- Andrea Mitchell Metzler Oratorical Contest (winning Kathryn S. Foy, May 25, 2000. Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC tions. He was an ardent sup- (MBA ’79), Nov. 10, 2000, second position among col- 27105. porter of Wake Forest, San Francisco. She was Margaret Hines Griffiths, leges of the southwestern John Wesley Lambert Sr. (’35), particularly the athletic pro- founder and president of April 24, 2000. states, Senior Class Orator, Oct. 9, 2000. gram. His favorite was the Highway One. She started the S. Bryant Kendrick Jr., Nov. Class of 1929, and President Deacon football team. He is business in 1983 to provide 13, 2000. He was a member of Philomathesian Literary James C. “J.C.” Bunn (’37), survived by his wife, Judith full-service marketing commu- the faculty at the Wake Forest Society. Following graduation, March 2000. Golden Upchurch. nication services to the West University School of Medicine. he practiced law in Elizabeth Thomas J. Fulk (’38), June Coast. Highway One became John Francis Parker (’54), Jan. Laurence B. Leinbach Sr., Dec. City, NC, and served as a 2000. one of the West’s largest and 14, 2000. 17, 2000. He was a retired county prosecuting attorney. Donald F. Jordan (’38), June 7, most successful marketing member of the faculty at the He was elected 1st District 2000. John Elbert Hall Sr. (JD ’55), agencies, culminating in its Wake Forest University School Solicitor in 1948, a position he Jan. 2, 2001, North recognition as one of the coun- William Charles Twiddy (’39), of Medicine. held unopposed for 17 years. Wilkesboro, NC. After receiv- try’s Ten Best Agencies by Dec. 3, 2000, Liberty, NC. In 1965 he was appointed resi- ing his law degree, he served as PROMO Magazine. In 1994, Nicholas Worth “Nick” dent court judge of the 1st Eleanor Rodwell (MD ’40), clerk to U.S. Judge Johnson J. the company was acquired by Mitchell Sr., Nov. 23, 2000. April 3, 2000. Judicial District and held that Hayes. He was assistant U.S. D’Arcy Masius Benton & Max Lashmit Satterfield, Dec. position until his retirement in Alfred Rowland Pittman Jr. District Attorney in the mid- Bowles, a unit of The Bcom3 6, 2000. 1974, serving as an emergency (’42), Oct. 25, 2000. 1950s and was a practicing Group, and became part of the Sandford Hale “Sandy” Smith, judge until 1977. At the time attorney for 45 years. He was D’Arcy worldwide marketing Ray Lee Greene (’45, MA ’48), Nov. 27, 2000. of his death he was 91 years a member of the North Dec. 10, 2000. services group. Prior to found- old and the oldest living Wilkesboro Elks Club, Wilkes ing Highway One, Metzler was Margaret Templeton Southard, Coit Ray Troutman Jr. (’47), Superior Court Judge in the County Bar Association, N.C. group product director for Oct. 12, 2000, Forsyth Oct. 11, 2000. state. He is survived by his Bar Association and Liberty RJR Nabisco. She was high- County, NC. She retired from wife of 58 years, a son, a Lawrence Richard Nichols Masonic Lodge #45. He served lighted in Who’s Who in Wake Forest as a librarian daughter, four grandchildren (’48), Aug. 20, 2000. on the board of directors of American Business and Who’s after 30 years of service. and four great-grandchildren. Elster Howell “Hal” Greene Jr. the Wilkes County Vocational Who in International Business Fred Albion Stone Sr., Nov. 28, Harold W. Webb (’29), Oct. (’49), Nov. 21, 2000. workshop and Legal Services and was a member of the San 2000. of the Blue Ridge. Francisco Chamber of 24, 1998. Frank Simmons Nash (’49), Joyce Warren, Dec. 9, 2000. Sarah Riecke Cox (’56), Commerce. She was also an William Edward “Bill” Nov. 22, 2000. Hubert Wooten, Dec. 19, November 2000. elder in her church. She is sur- Morgan (’31), Nov. 16, 2000. 2000. Betty Wall “Bette” Kokiko vived by her husband Craig Allyn Douglas Gibson (’56), Charles Fletcher Owen Jr. (’32, (’51), Dec. 28, 2000. Metzler (MD ’82); a daughter, May 1998. MD ’34), Jan. 6, 2001, Bernie L. Frazier Jr. (’52), Dec. Jenn, and son, Bryce. She is Asheboro, NC. He played 7, 2000, Winston-Salem. He William Dunning “Bill” also survived by her parents, football at Wake Forest and was the owner of Bernie Holoman Jr. (’56), Dec. 30, Bill and Joan Mitchell of was the captain of the 1933 Frazier Construction Co. At 2000, Richmond, VA. He was Lexington, NC: and her broth- basketball team. He was a Wake Forest, he was a member retired, having worked at the er, Peter Mitchell, of Winston- graduate of the University of Reynolda Hall information Salem. Pennsylvania Medical School.

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The Last Word

Martha Blevins Allman (’82, MBA ’92)

The eternal cycle Admissions officers understand the cycle. Winter has become spring. A fresh new season approaches. Last year’s freshmen are newcomers no more. They are at home in the library and residence hall, they call professors friends and roll the quad with confident exhuberance. They are Wake Foresters. Part of the family. The seniors we admitted four years ago stand eager to use their skills in life beyond Wake Forest. They will go and new ones will come to take their places, eager shining faces, full of anticipation and hope. The cycle continues.

E HAVE READ the essays on We look for those who exemplify the Wacademic passion, honor, combination of wisdom and goodness and social responsibility, marveling that our forbears valued—character, at the energy and optimism of honesty, kindness. Pro Humanitate. youth. We have read glowing let- Wake Foresters share much in ters from teachers, ministers, and common but value our differences. friends. We have read of tragedy Artists and athletes, urban and rural, and faith and human frailties. black and white, male and female Surrounded by the applications of together have made us unique. We seek those who long to attend Wake Forest and new students who will share their diversity, those whom we long to enroll, we seek to make enriching the whole of Wake Forest. the decisions that will affect so profoundly these We know our history. We have read of the students and this institution that we love. We giants of Wake Forest who preceded us and we know our responsibility is great. are guided by our memories of our days as stu- Our applicants boast impressive transcripts. dents. The faces have changed but the character Objective measures suggest they will be well and the beauty, the heart, and the soul remain suited to the rigors of our classrooms. Yet in constant. This is a very good place, but not seeking those future alumni we strive to look one of complacency. Each new year we strive beyond the numbers for intellectual curiosity, to enroll a class that will appreciate our those who simply love to learn. Those who will heritage while reaching higher and farther. discuss and debate, who will open their minds How hopeful we are, and how fortunate that and energize Wake Forest by their presence— the cycle continues. they are the ones we seek. We remain a community of scholars and yet Martha Blevins Allman is associate director of the life of the mind is not our singular pursuit. admissions at Wake Forest.

Wake Forest March 2001