Wake Forest Magazine September 2002
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The Women’s Athletic Program Wake For e st M A G A Z I N E Volume 50, Number 1 September 2002 Editor: Cherin C. Poovey, [email protected] Associate Editor: Kerry M. King (’85), [email protected] Design: David Ureña, M Creative, and Sonya Peterson, [email protected] Classnotes Editor: Janet Williamson, [email protected] Photographer: Ken Bennett, [email protected] Contributing Writer: David Fyten Printing: The Lane Press, Inc. Wake Forest Magazine (USPS 664-520 ISSN 0279-3946) is published four times a year in September, December, March, and June by the Office of Creative Services, Wake Forest University, 1834 Wake Forest Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205. It is sent to alumni, donors, friends, faculty and staff of the University. Periodicals postage paid at Winston-Salem, NC 27109, and additional mailing offices. Send letters to the editor ([email protected]), classnotes ([email protected]), change of address ([email protected]), and other correspondence to the e-mail addresses listed or to Wake Forest Magazine,P.O. Box 7205 Reynolda Station, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205. Telephone: (336) 758-5379. You can access the Web site at http://www.wfu.edu POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Wake Forest Magazine Alumni Records, P.O. Box 7227 Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227. Volume 50, Number 1 Copyright 2002 Wake For e st M A G A Z I N E Features 12 A League of Their Own By Ellen Dockham In 30 short years, academic and competitive excellence have propelled the women’s athletics program from small-time to the top. 20 Pro Humanitate By David Fyten Is there incongruity between service to others and the material rewards of professional life? A new Center will guide students on their journey to vocational discovery. 25 Corapeake By David Fyten Alumni filmmakers join creative forces to capture a town that time forgot. Page 20 28 Power of the Press By Kay Allen Curiosity, integrity, and service inspire journalists to zealously guard the public’s right to know. Profile Departments 34 Woman of Substance By Kay Allen 2 Campus Chronicle Libba Evans’ success may be a surprise to some, but not to many. Page 25 37 Sports On the Map 46 Midwest Deacs 40 Alumni Report Alumni in America’s heartland maintain a place in their hearts for their alma mater. 48 Class Notes Volume 50, Number 1 September 2002 2 Letters to the Editor I also remember stopping 1965 graduate, I had the to gaze at one particular paint- opportunity to study journal- ing for several minutes each ism under Dr. Edgar E. Folk. day of camp. You can’t imag- Among other things he held ine how pleased I was to find sacred were Wake Forest and a photo of that painting, its rare book committee, on Frederic Church’s Andes of which he served. Charles Ecuador, in your article. It is Babcock had an extraordinary exciting to know that Reynolda collection of rare books and House and Wake Forest will sat on that same committee. continue the tradition of com- Story had it that the group munity involvement shared by would meet to consider the both institutions. purchase of a rare first edition. Mr. Babcock would say, “Let MiChelle Jones me check at home during Nashville, Tennessee lunch.” Then he’d return with WHAT A THRILL it was to through before sending it on. his copy of the desired book, see the cover of the WFU I must confess, however, that which not only exhilarated but Magazine for June 2002. The I made a point of sitting down THE JUNE ISSUE of Wake also frustrated the committee. original 1922 watercolor of to read the June 2002 issue. Forest Magazine arrived today. Not only did the members Reynolda House was done by I grew up in Winston-Salem Thank you for a delightful, want to know the contents of my great-aunt. As a 1968 attending Wake Forest football informative and entertaining Babcock’s collection, they graduate of Wake Forest and games, cheering on the basket- magazine; I especially enjoyed wanted him to leave it to Wake having grown up in Winston- ball team, and counting many the feature article, “Home for Forest (which he did, in 1973). Salem, I felt a real thrill seeing “faculty brats” among my a House” by Kerry M. King. One day I decided to ask a place I know well. Unfortu- friends; therefore reading your A visit to the Reynolda House Mr. Babcock to let me do a nately, Mrs. Graham’s name magazine is like a quick trip will be on the “must-see list” story on his collection. There I was incorrectly listed under home. when we bring our son, Mark was in a library worth millions. the picture. My great-aunt’s The Reynolda House story (Class of 2006), down for his Mr. Babcock had the only name was Margaret Nowell brought back wonderful mem- freshman year in August. existing Shakespearean port- Graham. As a side note, Mrs. ories of summer art camp at folio in its original vellum Lee S. Eisenacher Graham’s grand-nephew, the museum. I remember hav- binding. There were oodles New Canaan, Connecticut Charles Frost, just finished his ing free-reign over the house — of first editions, manuscripts, freshman year at Wake Forest. we didn’t of course, but we and Bibles. had a lot more access than For days afterward, I Mary Frost Hoey (’68) the general public, afternoons THE ARTICLE, “Home for would get calls from Dr. Folk, Columbus, Ohio spent playing in the bowling a House,” in the June 2002 such as “What about Mark alley, and making a particularly issue reminded me of my only Twain? Was there a first edi- detailed chalk drawing of one experience with Charles H. tion of Huckleberry Finn?” EVERY NOW AND AGAIN of the evening gowns (along Babcock, who with his wife, I don’t know, I’d reply. a copy of your magazine ends with its coordinating forest Mary Reynolds, donated the Carol Miller (’65) Krause up in my mailbox, and I usual- green velvet cape) from the land for the Winston-Salem Newport News, Virginia ly take a few minutes to flip costume collection. campus of Wake Forest. A Wake Forest September 2002 3 Campus Chronicle Med school at 100 in 1998. Venter left Celera in nation will meet at the medical performed by Dr. James A. January and is now starting school next spring to discuss Koufman, director of the Genomics pioneer will two new institutes — the TIGR the latest uses of technology in Center for Voice Disorders at kick off Centennial Center for the Advancement medical education. WFUBMC and one of the of Genomics, a policy institute, A Centennial website, with world’s leading experts on he Wake Forest University and the Institute for Biological an updated calendar, is avail- voice rehabilitation surgery. TSchool of Medicine will cel- Energy, which is studying able through the University The procedure — laryngo- ebrate its Centennial year with the possibility of genetically homepage (www.wfu.edu) and plastic phonosurgery, or plas- an opening address by one of engineering microbes to pro- the Medical Center homepage tic surgery of the larynx to the nation’s foremost scientists duce energy and help clean (www.wfubmc.edu). reposition the vocal folds and and various other events to the environment. Founded in 1902, the med- alter the voice — is used to highlight the school’s ical school moved to Winston- restore the voice in patients history and the future Salem in 1941— fifteen years who have lost all or most of of medicine. before the rest of the College their voice due to vocal cord The Centennial followed suit — and joined paralysis, cancer, or trauma. observance — “The with North Carolina Baptist About 2,000 laryngoplasties Legacy of Yesterday, Hospital to form what is now have been performed at the the Promise of Tom- known as Wake Forest Univer- Center for Voice Disorders orrow”—will take sity Baptist Medical Center. A over almost two decades. Fol- place throughout the book on the school’s history, lowing the procedure, more 2002–2003 school One Hundred Years of Medi- than 80 percent have either year. Events will cine: Legacy and Promise, a normal or near-normal voices. include nostalgic recol- hardbound collection of more “You don’t know how lections of the first one hun- Other highlights of the than 400 historical photos important your voice is until dred years and glimpses into Centennial year include public dating back to the early days it’s gone,” Koufman said. the future of medicine and tours of the medical school in of the medical school, will be “Voice problems have serious medical education. October and a “Mini-Medical published this fall. social and professional con- Centennial events begin School” for the general public sequences. Voice surgery has next month at the University’s featuring programs on genetics, evolved tremendously in the Opening Convocation with radiology, cancer, cardiology, New voice past twenty years, and the an address by Craig Venter, and physiology and pharma- Center for Voice Disorders the pioneering pacesetter in cology. Programs with nation- Surgery broadcast has had a leadership role the race to decode the human ally recognized speakers are around the world nationally and internationally.” genome. Venter will speak planned for medical profession- The latest procedure fol- on “Sequencing the Human als in obstetrics/gynecology, he Medical Center recently lows the April broadcast of Genome: Gateway to a New diabetes management, neurol- Tbroadcast its second live a procedure to stimulate the Era in Science and Medicine,” ogy, pediatrics, otolaryngology, surgical procedure over the brain of a patient suffering on October 10 in Wait Chapel.