Download: Wake Forest University Magazine [June 1985]

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ) c g c ~ c ffi" It 's an annual r~te of spring. Members a! the SOPH Sac1ety celebrate Spr~ngfest with high sp1rits-and loaded water balloons and water p1stols. 90HZ Mag~ . JN ' W3l~S NO!SN:M June/1985 ~~roo ~llnJv~ c£oc 9NO.:~Hlt1:;8 9 r1 "!10 Maya Angelou tells 1,054 graduates that cOurage is the key to their destiny At commencement exercises on May 20, Cotton Growers Association Roy H. Park and Reynolds Professor of American Studies Maya Vernon Jordan Jr., former chief executive officer of Angelou (LHD '77) told 1,054 graduates that their the National Urban League, received honorary destiny 1s "to develop the courage to dare to love, Doctor of Laws degrees. Reporter and writer Helen to dare to care, to dare to be significant." Hill Miller received an honorary Doctor of Humane Angelou told the seniors that they are fortunate Letters. Harold Clark Bennett, executive secretary in the place and time of their birth because their treasurer of the Southern Baptist Convention, futures are not oppressed by the political, religious, received the honorary Doctor of Divinity and and economic struggles oppressing much of the President of the Association of American Medical world. She told them that they have the honor Colleges John Allen Dicks Cooper received the and the opportunity-to make the country more honorary Doctor of Science degree. than it is today, more than what James Baldwin As is traditional, retiring faculty members from calls "these yet to be United States." She urged the both the Reynolda and Hawthorne campuses graduates to make their actions significant so that received citations recognizing their contributions the sacrifices their families made ·to educate them and service to the University. Provost Edwin G. and the teachings of their professors will mean Wilson ('43) presented citations to Germaine Bn!e, something. She told the audience to think of Kenan Professor of Humanities, and to Claud H. destiny as a wheel with responsibility at its hub and Richards Jr., professor of politics. R1chard she wondered whether this generation of graduates Janeway, vice president for health affairs and dean will be the one which establishes a viable, of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, permanent good neighbor policy, which ends the presented citations to Richard C. Proctor, famine in Africa, which eradicates the threat of professor of psychiatry, and to Horatio P. Van nuclear disaster, and which ends racism, fleshing Cleve, associate professor of family medicine. Ruth out the dream inherent in the words "all men are O' Neal, associate professor of pediatrics; James T. created equal." McRae, assistant professor of surgery; Angus C. University President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. told Randolph, professor of psychiatry, and Louis the graduates that the business of the University is deSchwemitz Shaffner, professor of surgery the celebration of the life of the mind. He urged received their citations in absentia. them to translate that celebration into useful lives On Sunday, May 19, Warren T. Carr (DD '65), which reflect the spirit of Pro Humanitate-lives retiring pastor of the Wake Forest Baptist Church, which brighten the name of Wake Forest as well as gave the baccalaureate sermon. He told a capacity the name of the individual. audience in Wait Chapel that an alliance between Before the baccalaureate degrees were Christians and secular humanists would improve conferred, President Hearn awarded five honorary the chances of solving worldwide problems. "I degrees. Entrepreneur and founder of the Farmers would urge you," he said, "to do one thing Maya Angelou (LHD 77) told graduates to make the Exchange and the North Carolina reintroduce the grace of God to the world." Cooperative constants'" their liues "death, taxes, courage, and laue. · Honorary degree citation: Vernon E. Jordan The life of Vernon E. Jordan Jr. illustrates the story of the civil rights movement of the last twenty-five years. Born in Atlanta, educated at DePauw University (where he was the only black student in his class) and at Howard University, he entered the practice of law in 1960. One year later he personally escorted Charlayne Hunter through an angry crowd toward a court-ordered registration at the University of Georgia. The historic struggle against segregation was well under way. During the 1960s Vernon Jordan moved from one dramatic assignment to another. He was field secretary for the Georgia branch of the NAACP and led a boycott against Atlanta stores that Vernon E. Jordan Jr. receiued his hood from Professor of Englrsh Lee H. Potter and his Doctor refused to hire blacks. He was director of the of Laws diploma from President Hearn. Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council. He was an attorney for the United States responsibilities, and the decision-makrng in every Office of Economic Opportunity. And at the end of the sector of our common society." He prophesied decade he became executive director of the United correctly that the battle for human progress had Negro College Fund. moved from the streets to the board rooms. For most of the 1970s and into the early 1980s Vernon Jordan is now a Washington attorney. Vernon Jordan was the chief executive officer of Still young, he is a man of grace and power who the National Urban League. When he assumed this can look bilck with satisfaction to the remarkable position, he announced his-and the League's achievements of his past but who is ever seeking dedication to the "restructuring of America's new ways to enlarge this nation's commitment to economic and political power" so that blacks could democracy, justice, and equality. He IS presented have "their fair share of the rewards, the for the degree Doctor of Laws. June/1985 Wake Forest University Magazine Honorary degree citation: Roy Hampton Park Born and ra1sed on a farrn m the beautiful hill country of S ur ry Co unty, not far from where we have come together th is morning, Roy Hampton Park is among those senior Americans whose lives remind us of what is p ossible in this nation for the truly dedicated perso.1 . Having entered No rth C arolina State University WAKE FOREST at a very young age, Roy Park soon demo nstrated UNIVERSITY a love for the world of journalism, a h 1gh degree of imagination, and an extraordina ry capacity for hard work. Those who know Mr. Park well confirm that Magazine these attrib utes persist wit h the m an into his seventy-fift h year. Mr. Park received a business degree f rom North Carolina State University and became involved, at Terry Hydell, Editor the age of twenty-three, in the founding of the Farmers Cooperative Exchange and the North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association. Dean of the Babcock Sc hool Robert W Sh1uely Volume 31, Number 6 These activities led to new opportunities in Ithaca, made Roy Hampton Park a Wake Forest alumnus. WAKE F OREST Umuersity Magazme is New York, where he first worked in advertising for pubhshed s1x times a year m September, the Grange League Federation under the December, February, March, Apnl , and June by mentorship of H.E. Babcock. He soon moved together in the lobby of a Raleigh hotel to see what Wake Forest University. Send editorial forward on his own. In a bold stroke of imaginative the latest editions of the area's newspapers would correspondence, changes of address, and alumni entrepreneurship, he persuaded Duncan Hines to have to say about news to 7227 Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, some issue or event they were NC 27109 Second class postage paid at Winston· lend his name to a line of food products. Later, following . In what was perhaps the final interview Salem, NC USPS 664-520. ISSN 0279-3946. upon the sale of this successful venture, Mr. Park that he was able to give prior to his death last POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The was able to begin the acquisition of a chain of month, Senator Ervin said of his friend Roy Park: Wake Forest University Magazine, 7227 Reynolda newspapers and radio and television broadcasting "He's one of the finest human beings the good Station , Winston-Salem, NC 27109. stations that now spans the small towns and cities Lord ever created . and one of the smartest. Typography by type/ d esign of North Carolina and the nation. And he has one of the most important It may well have been a young Morganton characteristics of all-understanding heart." Among those providing information for attorney who sparked Roy Park's long-term It is for all these reasons that Roy Hampton Park articles in this issue we re interest in local, state, and national politics, for it is is presented here today for the degree Doctor of Russell Brantley ('45), known that he and Sam Ervin often waited Laws. Director-of Communications Lorinda G. Burgess, News Bureau S ecretary Mary Nell Burke, Development Office Assistant Honorary degree citation: Helen Hill Miller Lyne Gamble, Development Office r Suzanne Hodges, Helen Hill Miller is a native of Illinois who News Bureau Staff Writer received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Bryn Bill Joyner ('66), Mawr College in 1921, studied thereafter at Oxford Vice President for University Relations University, and in 1928 was awarded a PhD by the Molly Welles Linebe rger ('82), University of Chicago. Director of the Co ll ege Fund She is, in her own words, a "reporter" with a Bob Mills ('7 1, MBA '80), "preference for the first -hand story," and the Director of Al umni Activities articles and editorials she wrote for Newsweek, the Jane Roberson ('81), New Republic and the London Economist are Assistant Director of Commumcations evidence of her close observation of political and Claudia St1tt, economic affairs.

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