Wake Forest College Alumni News [October 1945]

Wake Forest's Groves Stadium, Where WFC-DUKE will play October 13. IN THIS ISSUE: Deacons Play Duke October 13, Home-coming : One Hundred Twelfth Session Begins : Dr. Gulley Passes : $750,000 Pledged in Enlargement Program : Two New Dormitories Authorized : 373 Alumni Have Rela tives Enrolled : More Than One Thousand Paid-up Alumni Members : Alumni Lists Corrected in 800 Cities : DI RECTORY OF ALUMNI, BY CLASSES-FIRST INSTALLMENT : MEDICAL SCHOOL AND LAW SCHOOL NEWS NOTES : OLD-TIMERS MEET IN DURHAM, RALEIGH, ROCKY MOUNT. Vol. XV. No. 1. OCTOBER 1945 October Issue, WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS Page Two DEACONS PLAY DUKE HERE OCTOBER 13-HOME-COMING Twenty thousand football fans who'll be delighted to see you and are going to be on the campus to show you around. Saturday, October 13, if advance As this is being written, no sale of tickets for the WFC-Duke games have been played, but we football game is a fair indication. have the assurance from Coach Send your order and check to WFC Walker that his club this year DEPT. OF ATHLETICS, Wake "isn't going to be pushed around Forest, N. C. The price is $2.50, by any body." All of his starting including tax. Kick-off will be at 11 are back this year except two, 2:00p.m. and there is said to be some new Groves stadium, nestled down in recruits who can carry the mail. Rock Spring valley, 300 yards His club last year, by the way, north-west of the campus, a place won eight out of nine. where literary society orators used to practice their speeches, will be Nick Sacrinty of Reidsville, football a riot of color-not only the ladies' captain and as fine a chap as you SCHEDULE ever saw-a Phi Beta Kappan scho garbs but also the surrounding lastically and All-Southern in foot woodland. Many of the boys will Wake Forest 6, Tennessee 7. ball. Wake Forest-, Army-. be back from the wars the bands will play, and the cheer-leaders Oct. 13-Duke at Wake For- have another year of eligibility in est. (men and women) will exhort college If 20-N. C. State at Ra- ball. they should team their teams to "hold that line." It leigh (night). up again on a Wake Forest club, will be a happy occasion. Don't 27-0pen. it would be bad news for the op miss it. position. Nov. 3-N. C. Pre-Flight at The occasion will be HOME Wake Forest. COMING only in the sense that it 10-0pen. LATE BULLETIN will be a good football game that 17-U. N. C. at Chapel WFC TENN. a lot of old-timers will return to Hill. Score ................. _____ 6 22-U. S. C. at Char 7 see. No formal gatherings are First downs............ 17 lotte. 7 planned. Come early, however, if Passes completed __ 10 1 you can. Get your lunch at Miss Dec. 1-Clemson at Clemson, Passes tried _______ , ___ 16 8 s. c. Y ds. gained Jo's cafeteria, located just across ............ 254 149 the street from the church, and check by Wait Hall ( administra LITTLE WORLD Our team is being coached by tion building) . There will be a SERIES CHAMPS number of familiar faces there D. C. Walker, assisted by Murray Greason. B. E. "Pop" Simmons, '27, mod~ If you are in teres ted in profes est school principal at Mooresboro, sional football, look out for the stepped out of his school room last New York Giants. Elmer "Bullit" summer and coached Shelby's Barbour and Tony Gallovich, for junior American Legion baseball merly stellar backs for the Demon team to the national championship. Deacons, are on that club. His boys whipped Trenton, N. J., Pat Preston, AP All-American, in the finals after having played now in the Marines, was shot through the entire series without through the ankle at Okinawa. the loss of a game. Pop was a good He's out of the hospital now and twirler at Wake Forest during his on a recent visit to the campus he school days. was able to "navigate" all right. Walker says that Pat is the most Wake Forest has been repre capable lineman he has ever sented in the big leagues this sea coached. The best back produced son by Morris Aderholt (Boston by our coach, so he says, is John Braves), BuddJ Lewis (Washing Coach Douglas Clyde Walker, who has produced some top-flight Southern "Red" Cochran. He also is with the ton Senators), and Charlie Ripple Conference teams. Marines. Both Preston and Cochran (Philadelphia Athletics). Page Three October Issue, WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS Distribution of Students ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH SESSION BEGINS By Counties and States pastor of the Wake Forest Baptist Off to the races again, on the Alamance__ ________ 8 Nash __________________ 15 12th lap of her second century of church for this school year is Dr. Alexander ___ ____ _ 1 New Hanover_ ___ 8 '26, returned Allegheny ________ 3 Northhampton __ 6 Christian service, Wake Forest has Arthur Gillespie Anson ________________ 4 Onslow ______________ 2 begun another school year, the missionary to China, who replaces Ashe __________________ 2 Orange ------------·- 3 Rev. Eugene Olive '10, on a year's A very ---------------- 0 Pamlico ------------ 1 16th of the administration of Dr. Beaufort____________ 5 Pasquotank ______ 9 Thurman Kitchin as president. leave of absence to work as asso Bertie _____________ ___ 9 Pender ______________ 3 ciate director of the Enlargement Bladen ___ __________ _ 6 Perquimans______ 4 The enrollment, 952-counting Brunswick________ 2 Person -------------- 6 ody-is more than double Program. Buncombe ________ 11 Pitt ____________________ 10 everyb Randolph __________ 4 Burke ---------------- 7 that of last year. On the Wake 90 Counties-17 States Cabarrus _________ _16 Richmond ________ 7 Forest campus, there are 7 41. En Caldwell __________ 5 Robeson ____________ 15 The students come from 90 Carteret _ __________ 3 Rockingham ____ 16 rolled in the law school are 20 ; Caswell ___________ _ 2 Rowan ______________ 8 in the medical school, 191. North Carolina counties and 17 Catawba ___________ _ 6 Rutherford ______ 11 states. There are 530 men and Chatham __________ 6 Sampson __________ 16 There are almost exactly two Cherokee _______ ___ 1 Scotland ____________ 15 men to one woman. While several 211 women. Eighty-one per cent Chowan ____________ 1 Stanly ________________ 7 Cleveland ________ 16 Stokes ________________ 4 hundred women were denied ad of the students come from North Carolina, with Virginia, South Columbus ________ 11 Surry ---------------- 7 mission because of inadequate Craven -------------- 3 Swain ---------------- 2 Transylvania ____ 1 dormitories, all eligible men who Carolina, following in o r d e r Cumberland ____ 3 named. Currituck ________ 1 Union ---------------- 7 applied were accepted. Davidson __________ 15 Vance ---------------- 6 Davie ________________ 1 Wake _____ ___________ 69 Sixty-nine of the students are Duplin ______________ 11 Warren ____________ 3 war veterans who are enrolled Professions 681 * Students Desire Durham ____________ 18 Washington ______ 5 Summary: Men and Women Edgecombe ______ 12 Wayne ______________ 12 under the Gl college training pro '0 G>_. 1! orsyth ____________ 22 Wilkes --- ----------· 5 gram, financed by the government. ~<II Franklin __________ 16 Wilson -------------- 5 Profes- Choice .bJJ,.. o ..., Yadkin ______________ 7 <... Gaston -------------- 5 Dr. Kitchin, already older than sion First Second :<"' !:':- = .... ~~ Gates ---------------- 2 Yancey -------------- 1 any of his distinguished brothers Granville ---------- 1 Medicine> • ...... 244 69 557 31 Gulltoru ____________ 19 lived to be (He's 60), seems to be Ministry • • • ____ 117 28 262 15 654 Teaching -------- 67 107 241 13 Hahtax ______________ 8 Alabama __________ 1 gathering momentum as the years Business ___ _____ 82 66 230 13 Barnett ____________ 1 7 Arkansas __________ 1 Law ------------------ 53 32 138 8 Haywood __________ 9 Connecticutt ____ 2 pass. Last week in addition to his Dentistry -------- 41 17 99 6 Journalism ______ 24 17 65 4 Hertford____________ 7 Florida ______________ 9 regular work, he spoke at three Engineering ____ 16 21 53 3 Hoke __________________ 1 Georgia ____________ 6 Science ---------- 10 21 41 2 liyde__________________ 0 Illinois _____________ 1 alumni meetings, addressed the Physical Ed. ____ 3 7 13 1 Other Work ______ 24 33 81 4 Iredell -------------- 5 Kentucky_ _________ 3 student body at the formal opening Total ____ ________681 - 427---r.'7B9 100 Jackson -----------· 1 Maryland ... ------- 3 How to read the table: Thirty-one J ohnston ____________ 12 Mississippi__ ______ 1 of the college, and attended a per cent of the 681 students who Missouri ____________ 2 designated professional choices prefer Jones ---------------- 1 New Jersey ______ 9 faculty-student reception. At the medicine, etc. The "weighted total" Lee -------------------- 4 alumni meeting was computed arbitrarily by counting Lenoir ______________ 8 New York __________ 3 Nash-Edgecombe one's first professional choice twice as Lincoln ______________ 5 Pennsylvania ____ 5 important as a second choice. For ex in Rocky Mount he cleaned up a ample, take medicine: twice 244 equals McDowell _______ _ 3 South Carolina 14 sizable plate of barbecue (which 488, and 69 added equals 557, constitut Macon _____ ______ ___ 1 Tennessee ________ 4 ing 31 per cent of the group. Mad1son ____________ 1 Virginia ____________ 21 of • The total enrollment is 741 , but 60 in itself is right good evidence students listed no professional choices; Mecklenburg ____ 12 West Virginia__ 2 his physical comeback), a n d hence, the 681. Mitchell ____________ 1 • • Includes medical technology and Montgomery ____ 3 87 launched out on a speech that the pre-nursing. 2 • • • Includes religious education and Moore ________________ Grand TotaL .. 741 alumni roundly applauded. church secretaries. New professors include Major Professions 483 Men Desire C.

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