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Features 10 Heads of the Class by Jeff Miller (’93) Wake Forest’s Master Teacher Fellows program applies the princi- ple that a profession is mastered best through mentoring by masters. Meet four of its finest protégés.

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Departments Page 10 22 ACC Mixed Marriages 2 Campus Chronicle by Jay Reddick It’s always interesting when you sleep with the opposing fan you sit 38 Sports next to. 26 Making Sense of 39 Alumni Report the Dollars by Louis R. Morrell

43 University Advancement The bottom line of the higher cost of higher education. Page 22

49 Class Notes Essays 31 Continental Drift 64 The Last Word by Carey King (’99) and Laura Florio (’00) In separate essays, two students report on the changing status of women and sacred tribal space in Africa.

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Course links students with alumni experts worldwide

‘networking American Institute of Pakistan embassy bombings in Africa, Studies, and Runde, head of the retaliations in Sudan and HE TEN STUDENTS in the International Center for Afghanistan, the debate in TCharles H. Kennedy and Computer Enhanced Learning Congress about the United Craig Runde’s first-year at Wake Forest, were the States’ contribution to the seminar in fall semester went architects of the seminar, IMF, and so on. far beyond class time and titled “Globalization and In between class time, the space in their study of global- Diversity: Whither the State?” students were given on-line ization and diversity. “The first-year seminar is assignments and questions to The students did a way of introducing students address. Runde and Kennedy the standard readings, to college, teaching them to took turns posting on-line papers, and class dis- write and think and showing questions related to the materi- cussion. But they also them how to participate in al and class debates. Alumni chatted regularly with small groups,” Kennedy said. and other guest participants a Wake Forest alum- “What we have here that sets also posted questions, refer- nus who works on the us apart [from other similar enced related reading material, House International courses] is the technology and gave feedback on student Relations Committee component—a process set up comments, all of this accessing staff about current so that people from around the class Web site to update topics like the the world can enter com- the discussion database. Then International ments. Everyone in the class the students wrote back with Monetary Fund, and has access [through their lap- their comments, reacting to the with a former Wake top computers].” questions and to each other. Forest MBA student The class began the semes- The running electronic now working in ter discussing the origin and commentary kept the class- Craig Runde: developing a course that could become a Prague, Czechoslovakia, about nature of states, expanded to room discussion going non- model for alumni participa- his corner of Europe. Other topics such as clashes of civi- stop. “It expands geomet- tion worldwide. alumni from Bolivia, lizations and the effect on rically,” Kennedy said. “There Switzerland, Pakistan, and states of international organiza- is more interaction than a Washington, D.C., also chimed tions like the IMF, the United normal course. In the first in on classroom discussions by Nations and international three weeks we could feel it using the Internet twenty-four courts, and went on to cover expand dramatically.” hours a day. ethnic conflicts, environmental Bethany Dulis, a freshman The course’s innovative issues, and communications. from Washington, Pennsyl- use of subject matter, technol- Throughout the semester, vania, said she enjoyed the ogy, and guest expertise may the world provided the multi-leveled approach. “In make it a model for others. professors and their students class, discussion can move Kennedy, a professor of with plenty of discussion quickly and you might not politics and director of the material—the American think right away how you

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and Megan Reif, a Wake Forest graduate and Fulbright scholar who taught in Pakistan in 1996-97 and works now in Washington, D.C., for an Afghanistan foundation. Robert D. Mills, associate vice president of university advancement, helped Kennedy and Runde contact the alumni involved in the course. “This is an opportunity to get one- on-one with people regardless Charles H. Kennedy, right, detected more interaction than in a conventional of where they live or in what course. ‘We could feel it expand dramatically,’ he said. time zone,” Mills said. “This is just the beginning of some- want to say something,” she the concept is really a splen- thing very dramatic in the said. “Being able to write com- did concept. If it is an exam- way that alumni and other ments in between class allows ple of what Wake Forest is friends interact with the more time to think through doing for its students today, University.” Wf opinions and respond. those of us who are alumni —ANN C. HOPKINS “[The alumni] really and those of us who are par- brought an interesting perspec- ents can be awfully pleased.” tive,” she continued. “You Other participants includ- tend to get caught up in col- ed Brian S. Piper (MBA ’88), lege as if college is the world. who went to Czechoslovakia “We read so many differ- as a volunteer in 1992 and ent things about culture, eco- stayed on, forming his own nomies, politics, and it was all company, IBDA, an advisory related. It’s interesting to see firm in business and trade the comments because people development; Rasul Baksh in the class have such diverse Rais of Islamabad, Pakistan, interests.” who taught at Wake Forest as Robert M. Hathaway, a Fulbright scholar in 1997- (’69, MA ’73), who works on 98; Bill Harshbarger (’74) , the professional staff of the who is working in Switzer- House International Relations land for DiAx Telecommu- Committee, participated sev- nications; Rodrigo Bedoya eral times. “The level of (’94) of La Paz, Bolivia, a for- Wake Forest President Thomas K. Hearn Jr., center, with Board of Trustees interest and sophistication is mer student of Kennedy; chair John G. Medlin Jr., left, and former UNC president and public televi- sion host William Friday prior to a dinner held in Hearn’s honor October 1 far removed from what I and Kennedy’s daughter, Shannon on the occasion of his fifteenth anniversary as president. Hearn’s tenure is by my fellow freshmen were Poe-Kennedy (’98), who is a far the longest in the ACC and one of the longest in the nation, more than looking at years ago,” graduate student in anthro- doubling the current national average length of presidencies at single institu- tions. For more on Hearn’s tenure, see ‘The Last Word’ on page 64. Hathaway said. “I think that pology at Cornell University;

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Back-door attack Health recently awarded manage a disease. And it is Kim-Shapiro, a biophysicist not without side effects.” A novel approach to by training, a $460,000 grant Kim-Shapiro is concen- sickle-cell treatment to continue his research trating on understanding through January 2003. “It the process of how cells N A NONDESCRIPT LAB just seemed like a question “unsickle” when restored to I on the second floor of Wake that had not been answered,” high-oxygen conditions in the Forest’s Olin Physical Labora- Kim-Shapiro says simply lungs. “If we could speed up tory sits the obligatory coun- when asked what led him to how fast the cell unsickles, tertop contraption comprising investigate this “back-door” that would be a new pathway syringes and tubes and black approach. for treatment,” he says. boxes. The whole thing is Normal red blood cells His chief tool is a rapid hooked up to the obligatory are donut-shaped and flexible scanning monochromator computer whose monitor dis- in order to squeeze into that is hooked up to a plays the obligatory minuscule capillaries and stopped-flow apparatus. The multicolored squiggly deliver their life-giving oxy- instrument allows Kim- lines. But appearances gen to body tissue. But people Shapiro to infuse sickled cells can be deceiving, for with sickle-cell disease have with oxygen under controlled this research station is red blood cells that cannot conditions. Two detectors in anything but conven- always flex. As the oxygen in the mixing chamber measure tional. the cells is depleted, long how much oxygen has Since arriving at aggregates called polymers bonded to the hemoglobin Wake Forest two form inside the cells, deform- and to what extent the cell years ago, Assistant ing and stiffening them. has unsickled. Professor of Physics Unable to flex, these cells get Even if Kim-Shapiro’s Daniel Kim-Shapiro trapped in small blood ves- research never leads to a new has been running sels, causing severe pain and treatment for sickle-cell dis- samples of blood and tissue damage that can lead ease, all his efforts will not be hemoglobin through to cardiac and neurological for naught, he says. “There is the device in order to complications and death. a basic-research aspect to gain a better under- There is no cure for the this,” he points out. “There standing of the basic disease, which afflicts one in are other diseases with biophysical processes every 400 people of African processes that involve aggre- of sickle-cell disease. descent born in the United gation. Alzheimer’s disease, Straightforward States. About 75 percent of one that most people would Kim-Shapiro in his laboratory: enough. But whereas the bulk those with the disease be familiar with, involves an Could recovery, and not pre- vention, be the key to conquer- of sickle-cell research has respond to some extent to a aggregation of a protein. So if ing sickle-cell disease? focused on preventing the drug called hydroxyurea that we better understand the deformation, or “sickling,” of prolongs the time it takes for process [of aggregation] itself cells, Kim-Shapiro is investi- a cell to sickle, Kim-Shapiro it could help us with these gating how quickly cells can says. “In trials it will reduce other diseases.” Wf be restored to normal. the painful crises in those —FRANK E LLIOTT It’s a sufficiently novel patients about 50 percent,” approach to the disease that he says. “This is good, but the National Institutes of it’s not a perfect way to

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Way Back When by Kim McGrath

Dating at Wake Forest ◆ A scintillating evening in issued the following warn- way back when: 1920. A couple “yearning ing: “You know how fussy for the bright lights, the boys are about appear- ◆ The way to meet a man in swaying music and the ances, so be sure to slip on 1909. The all-male student waxed floor” might have a scarf for those unsightly body at Wake Forest had set off to Raleigh, “the city rollers” when using the just passed the 300 mark. of culture built on seven community telephone. Students would be at the hills,” for an evening of station to meet the train dancing. ◆ Serenading in ’70. The from Raleigh, called the Women’s Government “Shoo-Fly.” The arrival of ◆ The rules of the game in Association Handbook the train was the big event 1945. The student hand- offered these words of of the day. Ladies needed to book defined dating as advice for ladies receiving carry a beautiful handker- “being in the presence of a serenades: “Serenades are chief, because students boy for more than fifteen very special occasions to liked to collect them. When minutes.” Dating was not coeds. In order for it to be a man had collected permitted in the evenings in meaningful, proper dress enough, his mother made parked cars. No student and relative quiet are in them into a bedspread. was allowed to spend the keeping...one extra hint: night in town after attend- it is considered in bad ◆ The way to meet a woman ing a dance, and no student taste to clap at the end in 1918. The “Of Local was allowed to leave cam- of a serenade.” Interest” section in the Old pus for a date without Gold and Black included being accompanied by important information on another couple. The the arrivals of young 1945-46 Social Standards ladies, such as: “Miss Bulletin, published by the Minnie Belle Riddick is vis- Wake Forest Women’s iting Mrs. J. Richard Government Association, Gozier,” or “Miss gave the following rule for Elizabeth Royall has double dating: “Two girls returned from a visit to on a foursome movie date South Carolina.”Knowing should be a sandwich filling where the ladies were made between two boys.” inviting one to chapel much easier. ◆ Telephone etiquette in 1964. The Women’s Government Association Handbook

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Treasure trove Reynolds Library, desktop ‘We have one of the publishing can be applied to Library houses rare books masterpieces of literature, first editions of the by Virginia Woolf’s press hand-printed by one of this century’s most important N THE ELECTRONIC writers. most influential poem I AGE, anyone with a com- In 1917, author Virginia puter can be a publisher. Woolf and her husband, of the century. That’s Desktop publishing programs, Leonard Woolf, a talented e-mail, and the Web make it writer and editor himself, possible to distribute words to bought a used printing press worth something.’ hundreds and thousands more to publish their own works easily than ever before. and those of their colleagues. Sharon Snow, with books from library’s Hogarth Press collection: But at the Rare Books Dubbing their two-person “To have Two Stories is a One of the most significant of its Room in the Z. Smith operation the Hogarth Press, high point for any special kind in the world. after the Hogarth House, their collection.” residence in Richmond, Two Stories would be England, they set up the print- notable even if the Hogarth ing press in their dining room Press never published again. and published 150 copies of a Happily for bibliophiles, the thirty-one-page pamphlet Woolfs’ went on to publish titled Two Stories, featuring a many more important books, story by each Woolf. including works by T.S. Eliot, Today one of those 150 E.M. Forster, and of course, copies hides like buried trea- Virginia Woolf. Success forced sure on the shelves of the Rare the Hogarth Press to seek pro- Books Room. Hand-sewn and fessional printing for many of wrapped in faded Japanese its titles, yet the Woolfs con- grass paper, the unassuming tinued to hand-print books volume is considered priceless, intermittently, adding up to a sapphire-blue lifeline to a lit- thirty-four of the 525 books erary genius. they eventually published. “To be able to look at the And like all works of art, the work they did and know the hand-printed books’ idiosyn- Woolfs held this [Two Stories] crasies complete the picture: in their hands as they put it the orange cover of Leonard together on their dining room Woolf’s Stories of the East table is something special,” features an almost childlike says Sharon Snow, curator of illustration of a tiger; an origi- rare books, noting that Two nal typed invoice and packing Stories is probably the rarest label lie inside the front cover piece in the library’s interna- of the library’s copy. Other tionally renowned Hogarth hand-printed Hogarth Press Press collection, which books have their own unique includes hundreds of books. features.

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Wake Forest entered the Virginia Woolf was another Hogarth Press story in the benefit. “At a time when sixties. Through the generous women’s studies came into Almanac donations of Charles H. prominence, it was good to A miscellaneous compendium of news and facts Babcock, Nancy Reynolds, have a collection of books about Wake Forest University and others, the library’s rare identified with one of the books department began to most important women ◆ Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has develop a significant collec- writers of modern times.” launched a $100 million capital campaign emphasizing tion in English literature from The collection has grown endowment development for education, research, and the last hundred years, includ- through the years and is now patient care. “Sustaining the Miracle: the Campaign for ing authors such as Eliot and considered one of the most the Medical Center” has already garnered $64 million in Forster who were published significant in the world. pledges. The campaign will conclude in June 2001. by Hogarth Press. Richard “The collection is one of the Murdoch, the rare books best,” says Murdoch, who ◆ Wake Forest fell one place—to twenty-ninth among librarian at that time, and adds it is particularly notable national universities—in the latest U.S. News & World others, including then-Provost for its T.S. Eliot titles. “An Report rankings of colleges and universities. Edwin G. Wilson (’43) and Eliot scholar said to me it’s Library Director Merrill one of the best Eliot collec- ◆ Last year's seniors at Wake Forest gave their undergraduate Berthrong, decided it was tions he had seen.” education high marks in a survey conducted by the Higher important to continue to In fact, the collection has Education Data Sharing (HEDS) Consor-tium. Fifty percent collect rare books by these reached a point where there of Wake Forest respondents indicated they were generally authors. is little that can be added to satisfied with their undergraduate education, and 45 per- “The idea of relationships it. “I’ve looked for Hogarth cent indicated they were very satisfied. The seniors also left was basic to me,” says Mur- Press titles, but the things the University with positive memories. Asked how they doch, who is now archivist/ that are available, we remember their college years, 53 percent replied most registrar at Reynolda House, already have,” says Snow. enjoyable and 33 percent replied happy. describing his book-collecting Wilson mentions the first philosophy. “There were a English edition of T.S. Eliot’s ◆ Two “town hall” meetings were held on campus this fall to number of relationships in our masterpiece, The Waste address moral and ethical topics related to the Starr report. collection that made it of inter- Land, and notes that Time est to collect the Hogarth magazine recently proclaimed ◆ Wake Forest’s freshman retention rate—the percentage of Press. . . . It was obvious that Eliot the most influential first-year students who return to the University for their having a fairly complete poet of the twentieth century. sophomore year—was 94.3 this fall, the highest level in Hogarth Press collection would “If you accept that T.S. Eliot recent years. tell a bigger story.” was the most influential poet Wilson agrees with of the twentieth century and ◆ Warning of a “consumer” movement that is sweeping Murdoch’s account of that The Waste Land his greatest higher education—in which colleges and universities are developmental period. “We poem . . . then we have one being evaluated like “dishwashers” by prospective stu- said at the time that, because of the first editions of the dents and their parents, and in which the best students are we have this great collection most influential poem of the “up for auction to the highest bidder”—President Thomas from this period of English twentieth century,” he says. K. Hearn Jr. has requested a special study of Wake literature, the Hogarth Press “That’s worth something.” Wf Forest’s financial aid and student recruitment policies to belonged in this collection,” —ANDREW WATERS ensure that the University does everything it can to attract he recalls. Wilson adds that top students, regardless of their economic circumstances. the press’s connection to

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Tender loving care Gradually, through her friend- oversee construction and ship with the Hanes family replanting, and she engaged Laura Hearn tends to and through her own interac- Paul Faulkner “Chip” Presidential House garden tions with the garden, she Callaway of Greensboro. Like restoration came to know and love it. many of Shipman’s gardens, And, as she learned of the his- this small formal garden was AURA HEARN ARRIVED torical significance of the gar- surrounded by tall brick walls, L at the Wake Forest den, she became determined to separating it from a “wild President’s House in 1992, preserve and restore it. area” or woodland. Trees and shortly after her marriage to The garden adjacent to the large shrubs were planted President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. President’s House, designed for around the outside of the Immediately she felt drawn to Mr. and Mrs. Hanes in 1928, wall. A decorative brick dove- the walled garden adjacent to was one of more than 600 gar- cote was incorporated into a the house. She was curious dens designed by landscape corner wall, and two about the remnants of earlier architect Ellen Shipman Chippendale-style gates planting and intrigued by the between 1914 and 1946. Her marked an entrance to the charm and beauty of the aged clients were among the leading garden from the front of the walls and walks. Her firsthand industrialists of the day, includ- home and an entrance from knowledge of plant life in the ing the Ford, Astor, and du the lakeside. Callaway found upper South was limited, but Pont families. Her client list that most of the oversized she realized that gardens in was impressive, but Shipman handmade brick used for Winston-Salem, North became prominent in her own paving and walls was intact Carolina, behave quite differ- right through her many pro- and structures were sound. ently from those in Birming- jects throughout the country. Meanwhile, he undertook a ham, Alabama, where she had During a period when almost study of the original plans. learned about gardens and gar- all landscape architects were It quickly became apparent dening from her parents, male, Shipman and her all- to Mrs. Hearn and Callaway Arline and C. Whitten Walter. female staff stood out, not only that they would not be able to She began a year-long observa- for their gender but also for recreate the plantings exactly tion of the garden, watching the high quality of their work. because many of the plants on and tending it, taking note as As she learned more about the original plan were no perennials, shrubs, and trees the garden, Mrs. Hearn real- longer on the market. Callaway put on their individual displays ized what a challenging task called upon horticulturist and through all four seasons. lay before her. She knew that Winston-Salem native Lee During this period of restoration of the garden Potter Rogers to help determine learning and observation, she would be an important gift to the nature of the original plants became acquainted with the University’s future, and and to advise on possible DAVID ROSEN DAVID descendants and other rela- she also recognized she must substitutions. Above: Mrs. Hearn dedicated her restoration work to the memory of tives of the original owners, be very sensitive to the intent By the time the restoration her parents. Opposite page: The the late Mr. and Mrs. Ralph P. of the original plan. activities began in 1993, the President’s House affords a view of lovely flower beds restored to Hanes. She heard stories of Mrs. Hearn realized the garden, once open and sunny, Mrs. Hanes’ original conception. the role the garden had played importance of working with had become deeply shaded. in the lives of family members an established landscape Workers removed trees that and guests. She learned which architect who could examine encroached from the perimeter plants were special to them the structure of the garden, and also removed other plants and why they were special. help research plans, and then within the garden itself that,

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through age and deterioration, had become a liability. Plants that were to remain in the fin- ished restoration were lifted out and put aside while soil in the plots to which they would later return was renourished with organic matter. Today, with restoration work complete, the garden appears very similar to pho- tographs of the garden designed by Shipman. Each of four small garden areas again includes two rose standards, one lilac stan- dard, and one flowering crabapple tree. Stepping stones in each of these plots, like those Shipman specified for many of her gardens, again invite guests and gardeners into the garden. The entire garden is full once again of perennial plants— hostas, astilbe, Dutch iris, phlox, jack-in-the-pulpit, and others that were features of the early garden. For the original owners, the garden served as a private area for the enjoyment of fam- ily and guests. Plantings were geared for spring, when the family was certain to be in residence. Today, however, the garden serves many visitors of larger weeping cherry trees of important people in the and has quickly become a near the fountain in the early Hearns’ lives and in the life of popular gathering spot during plan, add beauty and structure the garden. “We dedicated the University functions in the to the area while freeing space garden restoration to the warm months. To add beauty for large numbers of guests to memory of my parents, who to the gardens throughout the move through the garden were avid gardeners in year, Mrs. Hearn and comfortably. Birmingham,” says Mrs. Callaway have chosen to add Today, although the gar- Hearn. And in tribute to the plants like roses and asters for den is often used for public family who first owned the summer and fall display. purposes, it is also once again garden, some special plants Another substitution, small a private retreat for a busy were added. Wf Styrax japonica trees in place family. It is full of reminders —CAMILLA W ILCOX

Wake Forest December 1998 HEADS OF THE CLASS■ E who despair of the state of Y ■ public school teaching, take hope in Wake Forest’s Master Teacher Fellows approach.

N certain circles in this country, cynicism about public I ■ secondary education seems to be the most fashionable stance in public policy. According to critics, schools are unsafe, undisciplined, and presided over by teachers who routinely pro- mote students who can’t read, write, or do arithmetic. Some, believing it beyond redemption, would scrap the public education system altogether. On the ground floor of Tribble Hall’s east wing, however, is a coterie of education professors who think differently—who believe that public education, though in need of reform, still holds great promise. And to judge by the caliber of secondary teachers they are training through Wake Forest’s Master Teacher Fellows (MTF) program, they may be right. Now in its tenth year, the MTF program is based on the principle that teachers, like other professionals, learn their best practices through observation of a variety of top mentors. In medical school, the principle is applied through the time-honored tradition of clinical rounds. The MTF approach can be described as “teaching rounds.” by Jeff Miller (’93)

Wake Forest December 1998 Mary Beth Braker: ‘I feel very fortunate for the friendships I’ve developed with some extraordinary young people.’

Wake Forest December 1998 The teaching rounds concept dif- relationship between schools and to provide $4,000 to each of sixteen fers from the traditional student- universities. “I’d been thinking a Master Teacher Fellows and $8,000 teaching model in that, rather than good bit about my wife’s work in to each of four minority Master concentrating on a single teacher, a medical education at [Wake Forest Teacher Fellows. “Along with a cur- student observes a number of differ- School of Medicine],” says Milner. riculum concept that was new and ent classrooms before beginning his “One thing that really struck me pretty solid, a very strong methods or her student-teaching experience. was the notion of diversity, of faculty, and Wake Forest’s reputation “The best way to find out about the seeing different professionals’ as a school on the move, this one act classroom is to be in the class- approaches to practice, so I came moved the program from unknown room,” says Tina Hefner (’91), who up with the medical model of status to a nationally competitive formerly taught at Winston-Salem’s clinical rounds. I believe that very stance,” says Milner. North Forsyth High School and bright people do not want to be So competitive, in fact, that it mentored MTFs and is now pursu- apprenticed; they want to be attracts students away from tradi- ing a master’s degree in education at offered an intellectual survey of tional scholastic powerhouses. Wake Forest. “When [Master the territory and pick out the best “When the letter came from Harvard Teacher trainees] go into student pieces of all the models. In the end, saying, ‘We accept you and you owe teaching, they’re much more pre- it sold the program.” us $20,000,’ and the letter from pared because they’ve seen not one, But having an innovative concept Wake Forest said, ‘We accept you but a variety of teachers.” is only half the challenge, for, as and we’ll pay you,’ there wasn’t In 1988, Joseph O. Milner, pro- with any new program, it needed much of a decision to make,” says fessor and chair of the education funding. The state had provided a Marcy Leonard (MAEd ’93), a social department, responded to a call for generous amount of start-up money, studies teacher at Wilde Lake High proposals by the North Carolina but Milner saw a need for funds to school in Howard County, Department of Public Instruction. attract African-Americans and other Maryland. “I had a lot of fun writ- The state was interested in creating minority teachers. When public ing the rejection letter to Harvard.” teacher training programs that funding hit a snag, Wake Forest’s Teaching, unlike law or medicine, is would foster a closer working administration stepped in and agreed not a profession where one can continued on page 15

Mary Beth Braker (’91, MAEd ’95) affect the world wasn’t going to cut it for me,” she says. “I missed living in literature and having that be my daily work.” Braker learned about the Master Teacher Fellows program from O■ S■ A LIFE F LETTER Linda Nielsen of Wake Forest’s faculty. “She said to me, ‘You know, it seems you’re thinking of teaching; why not contemplate teaching at the high school level?’ I looked into the program and, As an undergraduate at Wake Forest, Mary Beth Braker had no by the time I applied, it was something I desperately wanted.” intention of becoming a teacher. “I took a practicum course in edu- Now in her third year of teaching all levels of senior English at cation, and after a semester of classroom observations decided Walter Williams High in Burlington, North Carolina, she knows that teaching definitely wasn’t for me.” However, after three years she made the right decision. “I really feel very fortunate for the of working in the historian’s office of the U.S. Postal Service, she freedom I have when I close my classroom door and the friend- had a change of heart. “I enjoyed what I was doing, but realized ships I’ve developed with some extraordinary young people,” she that a job where I just went in, did my work, and didn’t really says. “There aren’t many careers that offer that kind of human

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Braker: ‘You have to keep pushing, because you never know what a child will connect to.’

interaction. Just being able to work in literature, my lifelong pas- achievements go unnoticed by those outside the classroom. “Last year, sion, is a gift.” I had a student who for six months said nothing in my classroom,” In Braker’s classroom, one should not expect to sit in a desk Braker recalls. “I felt I didn’t know this child at all. As a pre-reading and take notes all period. “We do a lot of small group collabora- exercise for Hamlet, part of a unit on identity and self-analysis, I asked tion on an almost daily basis whether it be sharing with a partner the students to find song lyrics that, for them, captured the notion of the something they wrote in a journal at the beginning of class, debat- search for identity and which they would later play for the class. This ing an issue, or more intricate peer-teaching activities,” she student didn’t bring in a song. Instead, he brought in a poem by explains. “I truly believe that the exploration of language is the gift Matthew Arnold called “Self-Dependence,” a poem that I really didn’t of the English classroom, so you’ll see language explored through a know. He came right up to the front, which surprised me, and read it. number of ways.” For him to choose a Matthew Arnold poem and read it as clearly and These skills in the classroom have been noticed—in 1996, she strongly as he did ... I remember sitting there in a student desk crying. won the Sallie Mae First Year Teacher of the Year Award for It reminded me that you have to keep pushing, because you never Alamance-Burlington schools. Still, many of a teacher’s greatest know what a child will connect to.”

Wake Forest December 1998 4 BILLY HOWARD

Alice Sy: ‘They go above and beyond for me, and I’ve also shown them I’m willing to do the same.’

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expect to pay off student loans bachelor’s degrees in their subject education. “The emphasis is not on quickly from one’s salary. Offering areas and later decided to embark on an endless number of education students a full scholarship as well as teaching careers at the secondary courses. Over the long haul, we think a $4,000 stipend to help with living level. Training is offered in five sub- a deep knowledge of subject matter expenses is often the deciding factor ject areas: foreign language, math, is essential. I think there will be for many prospective students. science, social studies, and English. increasing demands on education Of course, the structure of the The approach features a distinctive departments to offer more courses.” program is also a strong selling blend of classroom training and con- Wake Forest especially excels at point. Students begin the program in tent work. “I think we’ve maintained one of these demands—technology early June and, after an intense thir- a very strong commitment to the lib- training. Associate Professor Leah teen months of coursework, research, eral arts in the face of increasing McCoy teaches a course in which stu- and student-teaching, enter the class- demands for professional educational dents work with the latest educational room the next year licensed and in preparation,” says Scott Baker, an software, investigate Internet possession of a master’s degree— assistant professor who specializes resources, and build their own Web ideal for those who had earned in the history and philosophy of pages. At the end of the program, continued on page 18

Alice Sy (MAEd ’95) see throughout all her classes. “The first quarter is an astronomy project called the Scientific Mars Proposal where students have to E E E come up with an experiment that could be done on Mars or on the TH ■ HALL L ■ SS TRAVEL ■ D way to Mars,” she says. “They write a scientific proposal explain- ing what should be done, how it should be accomplished, and why it’s important. Since these proposals were submitted in formal form After graduating from a program with as strong a reputation as to the National Science Teachers Association and also to NASA, Wake Forest’s and being certified to teach in such a high-demand they had to learn all about Mars, its atmosphere, what makes it dif- area, Alice Sy had her pick of schools. But her choice defied con- ferent from Earth, and what studies had been done before so they vention. “I purposely chose a job where I’d be teaching students didn’t repeat anything. That’s what I really want to do, learning who are not often represented in physics,” she says. “I wanted to that’s not driven by knowing this fact or that fact, but by critical be working with minorities and increasing their involvement in the thinking, by making a meaningful argument. Without Dr. [Robert] field.” She has that opportunity at Westlake High School in Fulton Evans and the learning cycle, I wouldn’t have been willing to do County, Georgia, a district in which most schools are virtually all- that. I would have wanted to teach them all about Mars first.” white or all-black. When asked about the rewards of teaching and her accom- In Sy’s classroom, expectations are high and students rise to the plishments, Sy replies, “I’m not sure it’s anything really tangible at challenge. “A lot of students, especially those in advanced place- all. It’s parents of graduating seniors who come up to you saying, ment, find it’s the hardest class they’ve had, but I’m there to help ‘You will be here when my younger son comes up, won’t you?’ Kids them do the work and the students are totally willing to come in for who say, ‘This was the hardest class I’ve ever taken, and I didn’t after school help or come in on a Saturday to do a four-hour prac- like physics when I came in, but you made it as good as it could tice class,” she says. “They go above and beyond for me, and I’ve have been.’ Seniors who give me prom pictures with messages on also shown them I’m willing to do the same. There are some after- the back saying, ‘I’ll never forget you.’ Those make me prouder school afternoons when I’ve got more than half the class in there.” than ... well, it’s not like there are lots of accolades for teachers. In other classes, where the curriculum is not as rigidly pre- Still, though my accomplishments are anecdotal, they’re more determined, Sy is able to create the kind of curriculum she’d like to meaningful than this or that award.”

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the state finals, we lost. On the bus ride home, the cheerleaders, Brian Johnson (’90, MAEd ’92) 90 percent of whom were black, were complaining about racism in our school. Verbally, it was getting pretty hostile so I and another E AS O TH ■ CLASSROOM ■ C ■ MMUNITY teacher, who was white, went to the back to calm them down. I said, ‘Listen, why don’t you use this constructively and elect a representative?’ Over the next couple of days, we met, and they Brian Johnson has a knack for bringing the world into his schools. began to list their concerns. When they presented them to the In his first year, for example, he transformed an episode that many board, they not only approved all the points, but also gave us five teachers would have quickly forgotten into a huge opportunity for thousand dollars for the heritage day the kids had asked for. the students. “My first two years in teaching were at a high school “The festival was a huge success,” he continues. “We had an in Ewing, New Jersey,” Johnson says. “It was kind of like a international buffet with cards explaining the history of each item, “Rosanne” working class district with a motor parts factory—the old flamenco dancers, a local African-American dance troupe, Irish jigs, fashioned kind that are ten acres big and always in danger of a Caribbean entertainment group that told stories through dance, closing down. I was coaching basketball and, though we went to motion and music, and a reggae band from New York City.”

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Brian Johnson: ‘I like to do more hands- on stuff since, basically, I’m a kid in a thirty-year- old body.’

Having spent the last five years teaching seventh grade social students.’ And when I was depressed about my thesis, which I studies in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, Johnson feels right at home understand they no longer have, Dr. McCoy and I went out to din- teaching twelve-year-olds. “My teaching style was more conducive ner and discussed it. She was a real support with just day-to-day to this age,” he says. “I like to do more hands-on stuff since, basi- stuff; I could always just stop by to get some candy and say hello.” cally, I’m a kid in a thirty-year-old body.” It’s this sense of the school as a community that cares for and Johnson attributes much of his success in the MTF program to watches over one another that gives education its staying power for John Litcher and Leah McCoy. “Since I was red-shirted for football, Johnson. It carries over into his classroom. “There’s this one family I was approaching college burnout after six years,” he says. “Dr. where I’ve taught all three daughters,” he says. “The other day, the Litcher was in my face. I think he figured that I was tired. He first daughter, who’s now a junior in high school, called me reminds me of myself today. If you have the potential and aren’t because she was concerned about her little sister’s project. At the quite getting there, he gets in your face. To this day, I call him once end of the conversation she said, ‘By the way, Mr. Johnson, I’m or twice a year for advice or just to say hello. That shows how looking at majoring in history or law because of you.’ It’s good to much I respect him. If I turned something in and didn’t do simple know that you do have an effect.” things, he’d say, ‘You know, you wouldn’t accept this from your

Wake Forest December 1998 students create a multimedia teaching cousin in such and such county, it’s first,” explains Evans, “so that once portfolio using the software program not going to happen.” they get to the teacher’s explana- PowerPoint, which incorporates Milner has good reason to be tion, they not only understand it, video, graphics, and sound. “The concerned about districts that hire they care about it. Before learning portfolio,” says McCoy, “is modeled untrained teachers. Studies show about the concept of velocity, for around the National Board Standards. that, without teacher training, example, you would experience Graduates conclude their program by teachers generally teach as they velocity. In the old-fashioned way of presenting it to a committee of faculty themselves were taught, meaning doing things, a teacher would lec- and public school representatives as that students often receive the same ture about a topic and then give a an exit interview. It’s a structured tired diet of lecture and test they’ve lab to—what?—prove it? We don’t reflection on their individual teaching endured for the last century. But teach that way any more, or at least beliefs and practice.” study after study has shown that we shouldn’t. We’re advocating Increasing demands have put students retain little when only pas- authentic experimentation rather some pressure on graduate education sively listening, and rarely rise to than cookbook lab routines so that programs nationwide to expand to higher levels of critical thinking. kids eventually get to the place two years, but, as Milner points out, In contrast to the traditional lec- where they can design their own “The results of our surveys of former ture format, the MTF program experiments to get those answers.” students are always the same: ‘Don’t trains teachers to involve students Encouraging student discovery push it beyond one year.’ At some actively in learning and discovery. In isn’t just an educational fad; it gets future time when teaching pays more science, for example, Associate results. Elizabeth Koopman (MAEd and the working conditions are more Professor Robert H. Evans teaches ’95), for example, used a computer supportive, there will be a stronger an approach called the learning program in her math classes at desire in the country to do whatever cycle, also known as discovery Winston-Salem’s R.J. Reynolds High it takes, but when you can just walk learning. “Students explore the phe- School to model the graphs of conic in off the streets of Los Angeles and nomena through hands-on manipu- sections. Students could change the land a job because you are someone’s lations or mind’s eye considerations values in the equations and continued on page 20

1998 Marshall taught at Salem Acadamy, a secondary school for Karen Marshall (MAEd ’96) girls in Winston-Salem. At Salem, she brought her fun-loving sensi- A O bility into her pre-calculus classes. “As they’d come into class, we’d PRIV ■ TE DEV ■ TION joke around,” she says. “I’d keep my distance but, at the same time, I wasn’t afraid to get personal. At Salem, I felt like I could open up and be myself; I wasn’t just their teacher, but their role model and Karen Marshall knew that she had to be a teacher when, after their friend. I had an opportunity to affect their lives, to change their returning to Davidson College from working at a summer camp on notion of math. To them, a math teacher or a mathematician was the Carolina coast, she began to feel seriously “kid-deprived.” usually a male nerd with a pocket protector. These kids knew that I “Being with kids all summer,” says Marshall, “I began to realize that loved my job. That, in and of itself, sends a strong message.” I’d like to do that all the time. By May, I was so looking forward to Marshall chose to work in the private school arena because she camp where I could be around kids and be silly all the time.” didn’t want to become a statistic, among the 35 percent who leave Though she now teaches at Durham Acadamy, a private co- teaching before their fifth year. “When you’re the new teacher in a educational K-12 school in Durham, North Carolina, until June public school, they give you these huge classes filled with the most

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Karen Marshall: ‘I had an opportunity to affect their lives, to change their notion of math.’

seasoned students, the ones who have become experts at driving search. “Wake Forest made me very aware of issues in education, teachers out,” she notes. “A lot of teachers don’t even have their overall and in my subject area,” she says. “In that class with Dr. own classroom—they travel around pushing carts. I chose to teach Milner where we had to abstract a gazillion articles in ten days in places where I’d have kids in a situation ready to learn. At Salem time, while I hated it then, I was learning a lot. The technology class and Durham, my average class sizes have ranged from twelve to made me aware of Internet usage and how to make a Web page. fourteen kids. I’ve had no discipline problems whatsoever. I mean, Because of classes I took at Wake, I now try to incorporate as much the worst thing I had in my two years at Salem was someone talking writing into my math assignments and tests as possible. It’s one thing when I didn’t want them to be, and from what I’ve seen in my short to be able to add two complex numbers or to find the derivative of time at Durham Acadamy, the situation will be the same here. The the function, but it’s quite another to explain what’s going on. In all minute the period begins, my kids are ready to go, and maybe two the interviews I did—and I did a lot of interviewing—there was out of all my kids don’t have their homework. Everyone is college never a question that came up that I didn’t feel able to answer, bound. Everyone is there for a solid education.” whether it was gender issues in the science and math classroom or The Master Teacher Fellows Program, Marshall believes, pre- special education or addressing different learning styles. During the pared her well, not only for the classroom, but also for the job interview process, I realized how well prepared I was.”

Wake Forest December 1998 Above left: Tina Hefner immediately see how these changes they also enjoy it. “When I was stu- (’91) was inspired by the affected the graph. “It gave them a dent-teaching,” says Andy Clifton multiple-mentor approach. really strong understanding of the (MAEd ’98), “I had some of the stu- Above right: Marcy relationship between the equation and dents, students who previously had Leonard (MAEd ’93) was the graph,” says Koopman. “When done nothing in any class, tell me, enticed by the program’s students had to draw graphs on their ‘You know, your anatomy class is the financial incentives. own, they had a much better grasp only class I’ve gone to all day.’ While intuitively of what it would look like I’m not happy they were skipping before they ever started to draw it. other classes, I was glad that they felt Usually, students have no clue comfortable with me and were because, when taught traditionally, engaged and interested in what we they’re just memorizing rules to fol- were doing.” low. As a result, they performed much But no teacher, no matter how better on the final test than those who skilled and knowledgeable, can be didn’t get to experiment first.” effective without the ability to con- Students not only perform better nect with students. “Dr. McCoy had when taught in an active manner; a poster on her desk that says, ‘They

Wake Forest December 1998 won’t care how much you know program’s reputation isn’t just con- until they know how much you fined to North Carolina, either. care.’ To me that is the epitome of “With the nationwide shortage of teaching,” says Leonard. “If I’m just teachers, especially in foreign lan- a fountain of knowledge spouting at guage,” notes Redmond, “more and them, if they don’t know where I’m more often, places are calling in coming from, they won’t listen to it. March and April asking for gradu- Only when they know that I’m ates. Kansas City called sight unseen going to work with them can I and wanted all of my students.” begin to teach.” Schools in North Carolina, as The value of caring is modeled well as the rest of the nation, face a by the faculty. “The size of the pro- number of difficult challenges: class gram helps,” says Mary Lynn sizes need to be smaller, fragmented Redmond, an associate professor curricula need to be woven into a who heads the foreign language sec- coherent whole, and young teachers tion of the program. “I have the need better mentoring and guidance opportunity to be with my students, from the schools in which they talk on the phone, and spend time work—and better pay to encourage with them after an observation.” them to stay in teaching. Still, pro- Adds McCoy: “Hardly anywhere fessors at Wake Forest remain opti- else do faculty members actually go mistic. “People are very concerned out and do observations. We all see about education right now,” says our students in the classroom on a Mary Beth Braker (’91, MAEd’95), weekly basis.” an English teacher in Burlington, School officials are taking note. North Carolina. “We’re in the mid- “Let me put it to you this way,” dle of an economic boom, the num- says Marlita Diamond, assistant ber of students in public schools is The education faculty members who make it principal at Reynolds High. “If increasing, and a huge number of possible. Top, left to right: Joseph Milner, they’re looking for a job, and there’s adults have children in school. If Leah McCoy, Robert Evans. Above, left to an opening in that area, they’re we’re going to create and restruc- right: Mary Lynn Redmond, John Litcher, hired. With Leah McCoy and the ture schools for the next millenni- Scott Baker. others over there turning them out, um, now is the time to do it.” Wf these graduates do a good job.” The

Jeff Miller received his bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest in 1993 with a double major in French literature and philosophy and is also a graduate of the MTF pro- gram, completing his course work in 1995 and defending his thesis in 1996. For two years he taught middle school French and English in Mooresville, North Carolina, then taught seventh-grade English at the Downtown Middle School in Winston-Salem. He has since left teaching to pursue a career as a freelance writer.

Wake Forest December 1998 M I X E D MARRIAGES

LIFE’S JOURNEY TOGETHER CAN BE A BIT MORE BUMPY FOR COUPLES ON TOBACCO ROAD.

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L O V E may mean never having alk into Groves Stadium on any to say you’re sorry, but W football Saturday, and you’ll see your share of old gold-and-black-clad does it also mean never Wake Forest fans in the west stands. taunting your spouse However, there’s always a healthy contin- gent of enemy rooters across the way. after a satisfying victory? Most of the time, those other fans are nameless and faceless, and though you mean no ill will to them personally, you hope they go home unhappy after a Wake Forest victory. But what if the rival fans aren’t way over there? What if they’re sitting next to you? And what if you have to go home with them after the game, win or lose, as husband and wife? Love may mean never having to say you’re sorry, but does it also mean never taunting your spouse after a satisfying victory? At least for three couples in North Carolina, where a Wake Forest fan has found lifelong happiness with a graduate of another ACC school, a friendly rivalry has been a key to marital bliss. Grudgingly or not, each supports the other’s alma mater until the two teams play each other. Then it can become more of a struggle. BY JAY REDDICK

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vs (Will and Celeste Pittman)

ith all the bitter feelings and rivalry, there is obviously no way a Wake Forest-North Carolina union W could ever last, right? Well, Celeste and Will Pittman of Rocky Mount have been proving that wrong for years. Celeste graduated from Wake Forest in 1967, the same year Will got his degree from North Carolina. They didn’t meet until sev- eral years later, leaving plenty of time to build a love for their alma maters—their undergraduate alma maters. “I got my master’s degree at Carolina,” Celeste says, “but I usually leave that part out. Don’t play that up, please.” “She should be proud,” replied Will, jokingly. Will has developed a love for the Deacons through his wife and two children, Nell (’97) and Will Jr., a Wake Forest junior. “It [the rivalry] has given us some good times over the years,” Will says. “We both pull for the other’s team when they’re not playing each other, and as for our kids, if they couldn’t see the true blue light, they picked a good second best.” Will, who grew up in Wilson, says he never realized the intensity of the Wake Forest-UNC rivalry until after he was in a relationship with Celeste. “I never saw it when I was there,” Will says. “It was always Duke this and Duke that. But it’s become bigger over the past few years.” Celeste, a Laurinburg native, had seen the rivalry grow and fester almost since birth—her father was a Wake Forest graduate. “Nell always wanted to go to Wake Forest, but Will Jr. waited until the last minute,” Celeste says. “But I swayed him.” Celeste and Will have seats together at Joel Coliseum, and they sit together for all the games they attend—even the Wake-Carolina games. “I used to yell so hard for Carolina at those games, it would drive Julie Griffin crazy,” Will said, referring to the Wake Forest Varsity Club director who is always among the most fervent Deacon supporters at any event. Having been a part of such a pairing for twenty-nine years now, Will thinks he knows the key ingredient to making it work. “The key to a good mixed marriage is a comfortable couch,” Will joked. “If things get too hot and heavy at a game, the loser sleeps out there the next night.”

vs (Erein and Jim Booker)

ou have to pick and choose your spots,” says Jim Booker (MBA ’87) of Winston-Salem, whose ”Y wife, Erien, is a Clemson graduate. “With your soulmate, you have to think of it in a long-term sense, because there will be many more ballgames in many sports for her to get me back.” “Dancing up the sidewalk is not okay,” Erien Booker chimed in. The Bookers traveled to Clemson in September for the Deacons’ football victory over the Tigers. Erien didn’t go to the game, and didn’t even know who had won—until she saw the look on Jim’s face when he got home. “He’s humble about winning, but he really came in beaming after the game,” Erien says. The Bookers, married for nearly sixteen years, actually have about half the ACC covered when you bring in the rest of the family. Jim, a Winston-Salem native, got his undergraduate degree from N.C. State and is a strong supporter of that school as well, and his parents are Duke graduates.

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You might notice, though, a lack of baby-blue paraphernalia around their home. “The one thing we have in common, fan-wise, is a healthy dis- like for Carolina,” Jim Booker says. “My ten-year-old son, Kyle, is thinking about going to school in Chapel Hill, and I was joking with him that he could do that, if he didn’t mind us disowning him for at least three Saturdays each fall.” You’ll find Jim and Erien sitting together on the Wake Forest side of the field most weeks, and Erien, though her “blood runs orange,” as Jim put it, will be cheering for WFU right along with her husband. But when Jim is at work at First Travelcorp, Erien spends time trying to sway Kyle and seven- year-old Alexandra. “I get a lot more time to have an influence on them during the day,” Erien Booker says with a laugh. “I wear orange and play ‘Tiger Rag’. I’m a Clemson mom, and hopefully it rubs off.”

vs (Cindy and Jeff Christopher)

indy and Jeff Christopher of Winston-Salem are each very comfortable supporting Wake Forest to the C utmost. Cindy (’81) played tennis for the Deacons, while Jeff, a Duke graduate, grew up in Winston- Salem and might have stayed in town for college if Duke hadn’t recruited him more heavily for football. “I have a real place in my heart for Wake Forest,” Jeff says. “When I was young, I watched Brian Piccolo single-handedly take Duke apart in 1964, and I’ve always been a fan. Fate just led me elsewhere.” You might even see Jeff in the stands at Groves Stadium in black and gold...but not as much as his wife. “We go to a lot of Wake Forest games together,” Cindy says. “I’ll get decked out in Wake Forest colors. But I’ll admit, I’m not as vocal as Jeff can get at Duke games. Especially at home, if it’s close, he can get pretty loud. But we’re respectful.” “I took her to Cameron Indoor Stadium to see Wake Forest and Duke in basketball,” Jeff says. “That was quite an experience.” “We won, and I was a good sport about it,” Cindy says. “I like Duke, and I pull for Duke. I just don’t hate Carolina like Jeff does. That’s the funniest thing about this—he just doesn’t know how I can tolerate it.” Cindy Christopher grew up in Chapel Hill, and therefore wouldn’t mind it all that much if their daughter, Courtney, a senior at Reynolds High School, opted to go to UNC-Chapel Hill. “That’s the only real point of contention,” Jeff joked. “Cindy will pull for UNC.”

All the couples jokingly like to talk their schools up when they’re together, but when it comes down to it, loving each other means loving each other’s alma maters...or at least tolerating them. “We have a whole wall of Duke stuff in the playroom from when Jeff played football,” Cindy Christopher says. “It’s nice, and I like looking at it...but I keep trying to put more Wake Forest stuff around, so it’s a little more even.” Wf

Wake Forest December 1998 Yes, college is ith tuition expensive. growing at a Here’s why— faster pace than both household median and why it’s W income and inflation, policymakers, the worth it. media, and the public are concerned about the affordability of private high- Making er education. A survey of college fresh- men conducted in 1995 by the Cooperative Institutions Research Sense Program (CIRP), in conjunction with the American Council on Education and the University of California at Los Angeles, revealed that 70 percent of of the university freshmen had some concern about college affordability. The compa- rable concern level in 1965 was 63 per- Dollars cent. Another study has revealed that 58 percent of adults worry that a good education is becoming too expensive. The College Board recently announced that in 1998-99 tuition and fees at institutions of higher education

by Louis R. Morrell

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Wake Forest December 1998 rose approximately 4 percent to an t Wake Forest, average of $14,508. Nationally, the administrators rate of tuition increases has been and governing slowing but still outpaces inflation. board members Between 1975 and 1995, private are increasingly institutions raised tuition at an concernedA about rising tuition. Part average annual rate of 8.8 percent. of the University’s response, like During that same period, inflation those at most institutions of higher averaged 5.5 percent. One can legiti- education, has been to increase the mately argue against the practice of budget allocation for financial aid. comparing the rate of increase in col- For most colleges and universities, lege tuition with the rate of increase spending for student aid has been in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). the fastest growing segment in the The CPI is based on a market basket operating budget. Nationally, from of goods and services purchased by a 1990 to 1993 total operating typical consumer in the United expense rose 17 percent in contrast States. Universities spend their funds to an increase of 49 percent for on many items not included in the financial aid. Financial aid funding CPI and in different proportions for comes from three primary sources: those items common to both. The gifts restricted for aid, income from Higher Education Price Index (HEPI), endowment designated for aid, and which is calculated by Research unrestricted institutional funds The reasons why college Associates of Washington, reflects the which are, for the most part, tuition real (inflation-adjusted) prices paid by revenue. Therefore, from a revenue has become so expensive colleges and universities for the items standpoint, the granting of financial they purchase. Such an index has risen aid in excess of monies received range from expansion of six-fold between 1961 and 1995—a through gifts and restricted endow- rate of increase much higher than the ment income is a form of tuition technology and student Consumer Price Index. discounting, so that the effective life amenities to the A recent article in the Washington rate of tuition increase is lower Post reported that parents are paying than the stated rate of increase. inherent labor intensity a steadily declining share of their That is, the institution does not children’s higher education bills. benefit from the full amount of the of higher education. Although in absolute terms parents tuition revenue to its operating are paying more, they are paying less income as it refunds some of its when inflation is factored in. The gap incremental income in the form of is being covered by increased student higher levels of financial aid. borrowing and increased levels of With tuition costs rising so institutional financial aid. According rapidly, parents and others continue to the National Association of Indep- to wonder why a college education endent Colleges and Universities, has become so expensive. tuition covers only 60 percent of the cost of private higher education. The balance comes from endowment income, gifts, and other revenue.

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environments. The number of Consider these explanations: square feet of campus building space per student has risen sharply, adding to operating Quality enhancement is expensive. colleges and universities to laws and maintenance expense. It is At Wake Forest, enhancements relating to disability, waste man- estimated that each $1 million of have included the introduction agement, sexual discrimination, new construction cost adds of smaller classes, expansion of age discrimination, and general $75,000 in annual operating faculty and curriculum, adding employment. While such laws are expense. With space growing and expanding seminars for first- necessary and proper, they do more quickly than enrollment, an year students, opening of interna- result in increases in the cost of added burden is placed on the tional programs, and expansion operations and administration. operating budget. of honors programs. The application of technology in Library resources expense is an Federal funding for higher education education, which greatly example of a cost that is escalat- has been declining, resulting in a enhances the information ing in line with the knowledge revenue shortfall that must be resources and communication explosion. As new information covered from other sources. Since possibilities open to students and becomes available at a faster rate, 1976, public support per student faculty, has been exceedingly periodicals increasingly are need- has stayed even with inflation, expensive. The costs include ed to supplement books. The cost while real costs per student have not only equipment but major of such periodicals continues to grown by more than 40 percent. investments in networks and rise sharply, far above the infrastructure. Obsolescence Consumer Price Index. Private sector support from alumni, continually adds to the cost. friends, corporations, and foun- Safety issues are growing in impor- dations, while rising in absolute Student services expense doubled tance. College campuses have terms, has held steady at 8 per- between 1982 and 1994. become targets for crime, forcing cent of higher education revenue Counseling and career placement administrations to add security since 1975. expense has risen as a result of forces and make changes to their increased efforts to support stu- facilities by building vehicle entry Colleges and universities are labor dents adjusting to college life and point stations, adding enhanced intensive. The introduction of aiding graduating seniors in lighting, installing new fences and machines to replace people is far career development activities. In a barriers, and so forth. Schools less productive in higher educa- related manner, most institutions also are adding and improving tion than it is in the corporate operate centers to assist students fire detection and suppression world. Many institutions are in the further development of systems in residence halls. enhancing their academic pro- basic writing and reading skills. grams through the use of technol- Facilities renovations, to eliminate ogy, but teaching and advising Quality-of-life issues have become deferred maintenance and avoid remain a person-to-person increasingly important to stu- higher future operating expense, process. dents. To be competitive, institu- have added to cost as the backlog tions must provide such amenities of deferred maintenance is Federal regulations, which at one as sports facilities, student cen- addressed. time had little applicability to ters, food courts, recreational higher education, now subject buildings, and beautified campus

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ake Forest programs, higher-return auxiliary attain, such as creativity, critical University is operations, joint purchasing pro- analysis, interpersonal skills, ability influenced by all grams, and so forth. There is, how- to understand causes and effects, of these factors. ever, a danger that sharp reductions written and oral expression, and WIt continues to constrain cost in tuition income would have a teamwork provide a college gradu- increases while enhancing the value direct impact on academic quality. ate with essential characteristics to of its educational program. A recent While cost control and efficiency, achieve success in a rapidly chang- example was the Plan for the Class combined with greater efforts to ing world. As Ben Franklin said in of 2000, now called the Wake raise money from non-tuition Poor Richard’s Almanac, “An Forest Undergraduate Plan. Its sources, must intensify, the risk of investment in knowledge pays the introduction resulted in a one-time tuition increase reductions leading best interest.” increase in tuition of $3,000. In to lower academic quality is, in a From a social standpoint, higher return, the educational program sense, as great as the risk of pricing education provides enrichment. As was significantly enhanced through oneself out of the market. the late president of Smith College the implementation of ubiquitous On the benefits side, parents and Thomas C. Mendenhall once said, computing and the addition of forty students must consider the value of “A liberal arts degree makes one a new faculty positions, which low- an education. Higher education pro- much more interesting person with ered the student-teacher ratio and vides both social and financial bene- whom to spend the rest of his or her enabled smaller class sizes, as well fits to graduates. The most recent life.” Students at Wake Forest, like as the introduction of a mandatory figures from the U.S. Census Bureau those at other high-quality educa- seminar for all first-year students. reveal that as the income gap in tional programs, are exposed to a In higher education, as in many America widens, so does the impor- broad range of cultural activities other activities, there is a correlation tance of a college education in terms that lead to individual opportunities between cost and benefit. One of income and the probability of for fulfillment. widely used gauge of relative value finding a meaningful job. With Money magazine recently listed among schools is the U.S. News & service-sector jobs now dominating Wake Forest among twenty schools World Report annual survey. In a the workplace, a college degree is that are “costly but worth it.” The section titled “Schools That Offer essential for employment success. University will continue to offer one the Best Value,” Wake Forest placed America remains a society where of the very best values in higher well within the top fifty schools intergenerational mobility is the education by not compromising aca- cited. The category is intended to norm and not the exception. The demic quality while making every advise students and parents where Council of Economic Advisers effort to constrain tuition charges. Wf they get the most for their money. estimates that workers gain 4 to 6 Institutions continue in their percent in income for every year of Louis R. efforts to control costs and enhance college that they complete. The Morrell is vice non-tuition income through selected single most critical factor in deter- president for investments staff reductions, elimination of mining a person’s income level is the and treasurer deferred maintenance, lower-cost level of education. From 1970 to at Wake Forest energy substitutions, application of 1990, the earnings of males with a University. technology, introduction of labor college education have kept pace saving devices, curriculum reform, with inflation; those with a high early retirement programs, lower school education have lost 18 per- borrowing costs, higher endowment cent. Real wages of high school returns, improved cash management dropouts have fallen by 25 percent. systems, enhanced fund raising The skills that college graduates

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Winds of change—fair and ill—are sweeping sub-Saharan Africa Continental Drift

The selling of years ago the people of the hinter- The restoration of the slave caves land of Ghana were struggling to the female’s place survive in a world ravaged by vio- Will tourism profane this sacred, lence, panic, and fear, a world where In Benin, women are reclaiming long-secret tribal space? a loved one could be snatched away their pre-colonial status. and never heard from again. We are by Carey King (’99) ignorant of the five-feet-thick defense by Laura Florio (’00) walls communities built to shut out NTIL THIS PAST FEBRUARY, invaders, the rusty chains that still N PRE-COLONIAL TIMES rela- Uin my mind the continent of hang around trees in old slave mar- Itionships between African men and Africa lay far away, hazy and kets, and riverbanks where captives women were balanced. Although uncharted, misshapen like the maps had their last baths before being sold they had different duties within their drawn by unknowledgeable explorers to the highest bidder and boarded on communities, men and women were in the first days of European expan- boats. We have not heard the elders’ valued and respected equally. Both sion. Slavery was about cotton fields, tales of brave ancestors, nor the genders were integral to the harvest- auction blocks, plantation houses, songs, dances, and festivals that ritu- ing of crops and the spinning, dying, and Negro spirituals, not slave cas- alize that past. and weaving of thread into cloth. tles, tribal marks, raped villages, and One of the reasons for our igno- Both took active roles in trading thousand-mile marches to the sea. To rance in America is that the written their wares. In gender relations, many of us, what happened on the record of these stories is quite slim. African society was ahead of the continent of Africa lies dormant In the communities where most male-dominated cultures of Europe. under an unquestioned shroud of slaves were taken, knowledge is not However, when European pow- silence. It boggles my mind that stored in million-volume libraries or ers began to invade and colonize America, a nation so entangled by instantly accessed on the Internet. Africa, they brought with them tech- the traps of its history, could so easi- There, history is oral; it requires nology and patriarchal values that ly forget the roots of its pain. Our interaction between people. To severed the interdependency of history books omit the wars of resis- untangle the enigma of the slave African men and women. Women tance waged against slave raiders trade and its legacy in Africa meant saw their role and status deteriorate who attacked with guns and mighty finding a community that would share as men stepped up to receive what horses, urged to violence by greedy its stories with me; it meant seeking little education, money, and employ- white men who sat safely in their out the elders, chiefs, imams, and ment the colonial governments pro- castles by the sea. We are insulated priests responsible for maintaining vided. Even after African states from the fact that only one hundred continued on pg. 32 continued on pg. 35

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Slave caves of Sankana captured on a postcard. In the late brew, and my quest to unravel their continued from pg. 31 nineteenth century, when slave web of stories would begin. raiders wreaked havoc over the hin- It was not uncommon for the this knowledge. Sankana, a village terlands of Ghana, Sankana’s four whole circle to erupt with cries of twelve miles northwest of the city of square kilometers of stones and outrage and incredulity whenever Wa in the upper west region of caves became their only hope for Majeed finished translating whatever northern Ghana, turned out to be survival. When under attack, the I’d said. During the first interview, I such a place. wombs of the cave nursed the queried about the spirit that lives in Sankana is a village of flat, women and children, while the crag- the caves, and two fellows got up square, clay compounds. About six gy ridges provided lookout points and stormed off, saying they couldn’t hundred people live there, along with and launching sites for bows and go deep into such issues. If I wanted one Peace Corps volunteer who is arrows aimed at invaders. Dates are to know about that, I’d have to buy running a nursery project. The roads difficult to assign, but it is certain a sheep or fowl and sacrifice it. are dusty earth; bikes and feet are the that Sankana had several run-ins During the second time they agreed most common forms of transporta- with the armies of the most notori- to meet me, I asked how the people tion. Water is drawn from mecha- ous slave raiders of the time, Babatu of Sankana came to know the god in nized boreholes and hand pumps. of the Zabarima, and Samori Toure. the cave, and one feisty old man There is one primary school, one Before I’d ever set foot in started pointing at me and talking junior secondary school, one mosque, Sankana territory, almost everyone I fast. “You are a child,” he said. one Catholic church, one Baptist asked about its history pleaded “When God created the earth, he put church, and scores of Pentecostal faulty memory, saying that the folks big rocks at the bottom of the moun- ones. The market day rotates, and on I should ask were the village elders. tain and little rocks on top. You are the day it falls, thatched structures in In African folktales, the wise old vil- just a small rock; you can’t know the center of town pulse with people, lage elder appears so regularly that what’s beneath you.” Majeed tried to smocks, beancakes, meat, and man- he is archetypal, the source of all console me by saying that the goes. There is a man-made dam near- knowledge, the link between past answers to the questions I was ask- by for fishing. About 75 percent of and present. Their ages are almost ing are extremely precious. Outsiders the people are farmers, planting fields mythic, marks of endurance past are not allowed to unravel the mys- of yam mounds, cotton, millet, or ninety and usually one hundred. By tery of Kalibi, the god of the most shea nut when the rainy season Western standards, they are mentally sacred cave, who on the day raiders comes in April or May. Harvest time quick and acrobatically sprite for first attacked roared so loudly and comes from August to December, their years. The way the elders of heavenly that the ground shook vio- depending on the crop. The yield is Sankana appear both in their own lently. After being crouched in a bat- gathered with hoe and cutlass; the stories and in actual village life is no tle position for centuries, Sankana is food output compared to the work different. So when Majeed—my not ready to reveal to strangers the input is low. translator—and I first motor-biked secret location of its most precious By this description, Sankana in, the necessary first stop on our caves. The elders display their could be a great many villages; like itinerary was to pay a visit to these fathers’ bows and arrows with pride, everywhere else in the district, its ornery old sages to get their but never give the recipe for the poi- low flat land stretches away indefi- approval for our mission in the vil- son concoction smeared on the tips nitely, dotted by green trees and lage. Each of the times the elders of the arrows that, it is said, rained white boulders. What separates convened under a large tree in the down like bees on the invading Sankana from the rest, however, is market to speak with me, the Zabarima. An ever-present siege that its rocky environment is not women would fill our calabashes full mentality dictates that foreigners merely another pretty view to be of pito, the traditional alcoholic continued on pg. 34

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Slave caves of Sankana The complicity of their relation continued from pg. 32 to the rocks has been made all the more difficult by recent outside inter- cannot immediately be trusted with est in promoting Sankana as a tourist their story, the foundation that strains attraction. Under the umbrella of out of their collective conscious the UNESCO’s Slave Route Project—an sources of strength on which the international, multidisciplinary study community depends. organized in Benin in 1994—tourism From the tales they did tell, development in Sankana is but one accounts of great-grandfathers part of the plan to preserve a multi- snatched away and entire villages tude of points around the world that betrayed, it is evident that one hun- are significant to the transatlantic dred years has been too short a slave trade. United Nations promot- healing time for the depths of ers hope to encourage a “more Sankana’s grief. Trapped by physical dynamic approach to presenting and poverty, ambushed by years of colo- interpreting the history of slavery” nial domination, they’ve never had by establishing links between Africa the breathing space to come to full and various Diasporan communities. terms with their tragedy. The way From what I saw at Sankana, this community currently relates to however, the people’s experience with the rocks that hold its past is a com- tourism proposals has been filled plex matter: while the caves are with nothing but disappointment. such a sacred spot that I was never The elders said that the first person allowed to even hear the name of to approach them with a tourist the place that the god Kalibi inhab- strategy was a white lady who came its, women go there daily to dry around 1992, promising to build Top: tribal elders, the keepers and transmitters of sacred truths, in traditional regalia. Above: tribal members in their corn and millet on the hot, guest homes around the caves. Given Western dress crouch with visiting students at the entrance sun-baked rocks. While villagers the potential profits to be generated to one of the caves. Photos by Carey King. insist the caves are central to their by poor villagers, everyone got excit- history, little boys are no longer ed, and the community collected allowed to explore too deep because 92,000 cedis, or about forty U.S. they’ve filled up with sand, snakes, dollars, to have surveyors from Wa and scorpions. People talk of their conduct the necessary land studies. pride in Kalibi, but the last time the To date, however, the woman has village celebrated the Kalibi festival not been seen again. Since then, at the caves in a grand way was bureaucrats from the Ghana Tourism over ten years ago. Their ambiva- Board have made numerous visits, lence towards how to treat the caves projecting the many receipts to be is not unlike an old soldier’s disposi- generated from the pockets of travel- tion towards a scar earned in battle: ers, especially African-Americans. while the mark may serve as a Their plans include not only histori- source of pride, signifying strength cal recognition of the sacred caves, and endurance, the memories of the but blueprints to develop Sankana wound’s initial pain may be too for hiking, rock climbing, and rock much for the victim to bear. skiing. One elder admitted with

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anger, “we are tired of people com- stung by the words of Elie Wiesel: Women of Benin ing to ask questions. We are tired of “The executioner always kills twice, continued from pg. 31 being disappointed.” the second time by silence.” Over the past few years, the elders Breaking the silence is vital, but it is received their independence, African have learned what to do to make a a daunting task for a people plagued women’s place in society continued buck. When the chief’s son and a few by famine and clothed in Salvation to spiral downward. others offered to show me their bows Army handouts. Today there are hopeful signs and arrows, I thought they’d simply Scheming tourism scouts have that the spiral is reversing. This past bring them out and let me have a strained Sankana’s relationship with spring I was fortunate to be able to look. But after they rushed me its caves: the village now sees that go to Benin, a small developing through our last interview and led me neither yams nor cloth nor bush- country in West Africa. There I outside the chief’s compound, I was meat can be marketed to the world observed women’s daily lives first- suddenly attacked by five people, as profitably as its painful history. hand. Slowly but surely, Beninese dressed up, dancing and hooting, My prayer for Sankana is that the women seem to be emerging from swinging cutlasses, and shooting silence of global neglect not be sim- oppressive and sometimes violent arrows. A bare-breasted old woman ply swapped for the garish noise of male domination to recognized in a grass skirt ran around them, wail- crude crowds and souvenir hawk- self-sufficiency and participation in ing battle songs. “Hurry up and take ers. Sankana must not be proffered realms outside of the domestic. pictures!” they shouted. Ten minutes like a penny peep show. My prayer One of the most important later, they had packed Majeed and I for the world is that Sankana’s story aspects of our stay in Benin was the back on the bike to send us on our of struggle and survival be as hal- time we spent with host families. My way. Even though Majeed explained lowed and heeded as the circle of host mother’s name was Joelle. If my student status, the old woman’s elders who have preserved it. Wf anyone exemplifies the changing role face twisted in disgust at the small of women in Benin, it is she. Joelle is amount of pito money I gave. It was a divorced mother of two daughters as if I’d witnessed some circus side who is self-sufficient and lives in her show and was being punished for not own house. The fact that Joelle has paying full fare. custody of her children is an excep- My biggest dilemma as a short- tion: the father normally is granted term researcher was the nagging custody. This is part of the reason notion that I was part of the problem why divorce is so uncommon in causing Sankana’s weariness. Benin. Joelle was seeing a man, but Throughout my sojourn in Ghana, as he was already married. He wanted I traced the slave route from the dun- Joelle to become his second wife and geons of coastal castles, to the rivers take care of all his children. She told where slaves were washed, to him that her daughters come first— Sankana’s caves, my gut reaction was Carey King (‘99) of New Bern, North she wanted to make sure they were Carolina, a Poteat Scholar and religion always to pack away my camera, properly cared for and educated major minoring in anthropology, spent throw down my pen, and fall to my spring 1998 studying the roots of the before she would marry again. knees, humbled by the sacredness and transatlantic slave trade in Ghana, Joelle is one of many self- sorrow of these spots. Asking too West Africa. sufficient women in Benin. In recent many questions about such unbeliev- years Beninese women have obtained able horrors seemed not only obnox- increased access to credit from banks ious, but irreverent and exploitative. and what are called Non Government But as the semester progressed, I was continued on pg. 37

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Women of Benin also offers women schooling in basic And there is a new Code des continued from pg. 35 business and numeracy skills and the Personnes et de la Famille, which not teaching of trades. only sets forth the basic rights of Organizations (NGOs). This access to One of the critical human rights every Beninese citizen but also is credit has allowed women to expand issues that the Women’s Promotion specifically dedicated to gender equal- their economic activities and to Site is working to change is the male ity and improving the status of become more productive and efficient perception of women as property. women. Some of the NGOs we stud- in their businesses. For example, Men in rural areas will pay a sum of ied have incorporated the code into while our group was in Benin, we vis- money known as a “bride price” in their education programs. The more ited several NGO sites that promoted order to marry a woman. The trans- women are educated and made aware micro-credit loans. With the aid of action not only implies that a woman of their human rights, the more these loans, some women were able can be bought, but also that her empowered they will be to deal with to pay for transportation so they worth lies in her ability to be mar- inheritance, marriage certifications, could sell their wares in the city, with ried. This thinking has contributed to legal processes, and other issues. its larger base of consumers. They many women’s lack of education. Some traditions and customs also were able to send their children Parents believed that it was more undoubtedly will take many years to to school and provide better health beneficial to educate the sons in their glean from the Beninese culture. and nutrition for their families. families, rather than the daughters, Female circumcision—the removal Many NGOs also emphasize the because the sons were the ones who of the clitoris, often by the woman importance of basic nutrition, litera- would stay and support the family. herself, due to the common supersti- cy, and numeracy skills for women. The site also speaks out against tion that if a child’s head touches it Research has shown that when polygamy, or multiple marriages, in childbirth, the child will die—is women possess these skills, they are which is condoned by two of the three still common, as is polygamy. But able to pass them on to their chil- major religions in Benin: Islam and clearly, Beninese women are growing dren, a key factor in stabilizing and voodoo (the third, Catholicism, pro- in awareness and beginning to realize sustaining economic improvement. hibits polygamy). Many times, women their strength, worth, and integral One of the sites we visited, Mother, in polygamous marriages are the sole importance to their society. Wf Child, Health (MCH), conducts baby providers for themselves and their chil- weighing sessions and cooking dren, even though they live with their demonstrations in an effort to curb husbands and play a submissive role in the 30 percent rate of malnutrition the marriage. There also is the ques- among Beninese children. For forty tion of inheritance: some wives and cents a month, participants receive their children may be left with nothing food supplies and literacy training when the husband dies. that enables them to read nutrition Along with the benefits they are labels on food boxes. deriving from NGO programs, In the northern Beninese town of Beninese women are taking more Parakou we visited another local active political stances than ever NGO called the Women’s Promotion before. Women have always participat- Laura Florio, a junior from Charlotte, Site, which emphasizes women’s ed peripherally in Benin’s political life, North Carolina, was one of six Wake issues and human rights. Over 80 but now they are forming their own Forest students who participated this percent of the women this NGO political parties and are being elected summer in a four-week program in Benin, conducted by Sylvain Boko and works with are considered illiterate, to government offices. Conceptia Perry Patterson of Wake Forest’s so the site provides five-week literacy Oiunsou Liliane, president of Benin’s economics faculty, on issues faced by workshops and refresher courses. It Constitution Court, is one example. small developing nations.

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Sports

Basketball squad will be talented but green.

Amonett has been in the pro- points per game as a high with rebounding and shot- gram more than one year. school senior and is consid- blocking skills, and Darius O’Kelley emerged quickly ered an outstanding perimeter Songaila was one of the coun- as one of the premier players shooter. Up front, Antwan try’s most sought-after spring in the ACC last winter. Scott is an athletic big man recruits. Wf Scoring with equal proficien- cy from long range and on quick bursts to the basket, he Sports briefs ranked among the top ten players in the ACC in four A stellar season statistical categories and Fall was an excellent season for Wake Forest’s Olympic became the highest-scoring sports programs, with four teams earning national rankings. freshman at Wake Forest in The women’s cross-country team rose as high as sixth in forty-five years. the national poll while winning four of five regular season

MARK MCINTYRE Two other rookies stood meets. Janelle Kraus, a 1997 All-American, won her sec- Robert O’Kelley will be counted on to out in the front court. Six- ond consecutive ACC championship. In a rebuilding year, power the Deacon offense this season. foot-five Niki Arinze proved the men’s team placed sophomore Stephan Pro on the all- to be an exceptionally athletic conference team. A sixth-place finish ended its ten-year small forward, and six-foot- streak of first- or second-place league finishes. Youth will nine center Rafael Vadaurreta The women’s soccer team, which was ranked as high as be served was one of the league’s most fourteenth in the country, won four conference games dependable rebounders and under ACC Coach of the Year Tony da Luz. The men’s AST SEASON Wake Forest defenders by season’s end. squad, which rose to twelfth in the rankings, received L parlayed a starting lineup Another freshman, Josh national acclaim after defeating top-ranked Washington. featuring four freshmen into a Shoemaker, started most of Deacon field hockey finished twentieth in the final fourth-place ACC finish and the season at the other for- rankings. The team compiled a 10-8 regular season mark, an NIT invitation. This year ward and contributed signifi- with seven of its eight losses coming to nationally ranked will see more of the same— cantly on the defensive end. opponents and three of its victories over Top 20 teams. youth, and plenty of it. Joining the returnees are The volleyball team, which had won only one ACC Last year’s frosh quartet, five gifted freshmen. Broderick match during their first two years, defeated five different led by ACC Rookie of the Year Hicks was one of the most league opponents this fall on its way to a 20-win season. Robert O’Kelley, is back, heralded point guards in the joined by another gifted high school ranks last season. Shining in Switzerland recruiting class that has been Six-foot-five Ervin Murray Former Wake Forest cross-country and track standout rated as high as fifth-best in played point guard as a Patrick Phillips (‘95) successfully competed in the World the country. The squad will prep junior before moving to Half-Marathon in Switzerland in September. Phillips, a include eleven freshmen and forward last year. Small four-time All-ACC star, was the fourth American finisher in sophomores among its twelve forward-big guard Craig the competition, running a career-best time of 1:05.50. top players. Only senior Joseph Dawson averaged nearly thirty

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Alumni Report

‘net gain The on-line directory is an up-to-date listing of alumni, President’s Column On-line service for alumni, parents, and friends with friends, parents debuts home and business addresses WHILE FALL IS TYPICALLY the time of year when alum- and phone numbers and name ni return “home” to campus—for President’s Weekend, HE WAKE FOREST of spouse (if applicable). Any Homecoming, football games, and other events—winter TInformation Network, information that you don’t and spring are when Wake Forest comes to you. offering an array of new want released or that needs At the Alumni Council meeting in September, mem- Intranet services tailored to updating can be blocked or bers reviewed a busy slate of activities starting with alumni, parents, and friends, updated easily. The directory Career Forums next month. Forums will be held in is now on-line. can search for alumni by city Washington, D.C., on January 4 and in New York City Services already available and by class year. on January 5. Please call Josh Kellett through WIN include an on- E-mail for life is a perma- in the Alumni Office, (336) 758-5263, line directory of alumni, par- nent e-mail forwarding if you’re interested in talking to stu- ents, and friends; e-mail for- address that will be in the dents about your career. warding for life; and change alumni directory. E-mail sent This spring, Wake Forest Days will of address/personal informa- to your WIN address is auto- be held again in Charlotte and Raleigh, tion forms. matically forwarded to your North Carolina, and in four other WIN, which had been home or business e-mail cities: Winston-Salem; Asheville, North tested by a small group of address. With a permanent Carolina; Richmond, Virginia; and alumni since July, can be e-mail address through WIN, Atlanta. If you live in one of those cities, watch your mail accessed from the alumni you won’t have to notify for more information once the dates have been finalized. home page, www.wfu.edu/ friends if your work or home Of course, Wake Forest Club events will be held in many alumni. There is no charge e-mail address changes other cities across the country. Check out the alumni Web site to use WIN, but all users —simply notify WIN of your at www.wfu.edu/alumni to find the club nearest to you. must register first, following new address. Finally, it’s the time of year to nominate new members for the directions on the WIN WIN also includes other the Alumni Council. Council members are chosen to repre- home page. information, such as class sent the cross-section of alumni. New members are selected at “This is a service to help schedules and campus the Council’s meetings in February and July, and they join the alumni, parents, and friends announcements, that is acces- Council at the fall meeting. If you would like to nominate stay in touch with Wake sible only to faculty and stu- yourself or someone else, please send a letter to the Office of Forest and with their Wake dents. Services that may be Alumni Activities, P.O. Box 7227 Reynolda Station, Winston- Forest friends,” said Tim added to WIN include chat Salem, North Carolina 27109, or use the form on the alumni Snyder (’88), director of rooms, bulletin boards, and home page under volunteer opportunities. advancement technologies. live broadcasts of cultural “There are not many other events and football and men’s DIANA MOON ADAMS (’78) schools that offer this, and basketball games. Wf BARTLESVILLE, OKLAHOMA even fewer that offer it at no PRESIDENT, WAKE FOREST ALUMNI ASSOCIATION charge.”

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Heads of of Fort Defiance, Virginia, career in law, but decided to she earned a master’s in edu- pursue a teaching career after their class cation from the University of spending a semester at North Carolina at Charlotte Worrell House in London 1985 grads named winners while teaching in Charlotte with Professor of History of Waddill teaching awards full-time. She also taught at a Buck Yearns. He is married Department of Defense and has two sons. WO CLASSMATES from school in Sasebo, Japan, and “When you’re dealing Tthe Class of 1985 have at schools in La Jolla and El with 14- and 15-year-olds, been awarded the Marcellus Cajon, California, before set- history isn’t their top priority, Waddill Excellence in tling in San Diego in 1992. so you have to compete Teaching Awards for “If you don’t enjoy the somehow,” said Pittard, who 1998. children every single day, you teaches Advanced Placement Katie Carter need to look for something European history and 10th Zimmer, a fourth-grade else,” said Zimmer, who is grade world history. “My teacher in San Diego, married and has two sons. “I solution is old-fashioned, but, California, and Kevin enjoy fourth grade because I think, still the best—I tell Pittard, a high school they’re still young enough to stories. Students need charac- history teacher in love you, but old enough to be ter and plot to grasp the tide Covington, Georgia, independent and confident of information that is history. were honored during enough to learn on their own.” They must see history as the Opening Convocation In recommendation let- ideas and actions of living, September 17. Each ters, Zimmer was praised as a breathing men and women.” received a $20,000 teacher who meets the needs Two of Pittard’s former cash award. of all her students. “She has students are at Wake Forest “Katie displayed the incredible talent to extend now and a third former stu- great energy in the lessons to enrich the learning dent graduated last year. “Mr. classroom and chal- for the very capable students, Pittard’s lectures were color- lenging activities that and modify the lessons to ful stories that made historic engaged her students in ensure the important concepts figures come alive,” said serious learning,” said are understandable to stu- freshman Bryan Johnson. Joseph O. Milner, pro- dents with disabilities,” wrote “They were easier to learn fessor and chair of edu- Katherine Orrell, who teaches and remember because they cation and chair of the with Zimmer at Carmel were real people, not merely President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. selection committee. “Kevin Creek School. names in a book.” presents the 1998 Waddill Awards to Kevin Pittard (’85) and was exemplary in the way he The winner of the Waddill The Waddill Awards are Katie Carter Zimmer (’85). personalized history with his Award on the secondary level, given each year to outstand- storytelling.” Kevin Pittard has taught at ing alumni teachers in public Zimmer, a member of the Newton High School in or private schools. The award tennis team as an undergrad- Covington, Georgia, since is named for Professor uate, decided she wanted to earning his master’s in educa- Emeritus of Mathematics be a teacher after her fresh- tion from the University of Marcellus Waddill and fund- man year when she spent the Georgia in 1988. A native of ed by his son, David. Wf summer teaching children Stone Mountain, Georgia, how to play tennis. A native Pittard originally considered a

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A venerated man YOUTH AND CULTURE, Scholarship honors longtime a collection of speeches by chaplain Christman and wife former Wake Forest President William Louis HE WAKE FOREST Poteat, has been repub- TMinisterial Council is lished with an introduc- establishing a scholarship in tion by Randal L. Hall honor of longtime University (’94), who has extensively Chaplain Edgar D. Christman studied the life of Wake and his wife, Jean Sholar Forest’s seventh president. Christman. Hall, assistant scholar- “So many of us Wake ships officer in the Office Forest graduates are so grate- of Undergraduate ful for all that Ed and Jean Admissions, wrote a bio- Christman have meant to us,” graphy of Poteat for his said Rev. Charles D. Edwards doctoral dissertation at (’57), president of the Rice University. Poteat Ministerial Council and pastor served as president of of College Park Baptist Wake Forest from 1905 Church in Winston-Salem. until 1927. “Ed and Jean have befriended Dr. Richard Groves, and guided many students senior minister of Wake over the generations. We invite Forest Baptist Church on others to join us in sponsoring campus, wrote the fore- An undergraduate scholarship will honor University Chaplain Ed Christman (‘50, the scholarship.” ward for the new edition JD ‘53) and his wife, Jean (‘51). The Ministerial Council, of the book. Youth and composed of thirty alumni Culture was originally ministers and other ministers, Christman graduated from “I feel that the inclusion of published in 1938. has pledged to raise $25,000 Wake Forest in 1951. my name on this scholarship is Proceeds from the sale for the scholarship. The Rev. “God has given me a gift a very high honor and signifies of the book will benefit Edgar Douglas and Jean that I did not earn or deserve,” that women recipients are a the Poteat Scholarship Sholar Christman Scholarship Ed Christman said. “I was vital part of the Poteat Fund. The book is avail- will be awarded to an under- given the opportunity to serve Scholarship Program,” Jean able for $25, plus shipping graduate chosen through the the students and faculty here, Christman said. and handling, from the William Louis Poteat and it has been a joy to do the Contributions to the schol- Poteat Scholarship Office, Scholarship program. The best job that I could. I should arship can be made through P.O. Box 7233 Reynolda Poteat Scholarship is awarded hope (this scholarship) would the Poteat Scholarship Station, Winston-Salem, to twenty North Carolina inspire its recipients to take Program, P. O. Box 7233 NC 27109-7233, or by Baptist students each year. full advantage of the opportu- Reynolda Station, Winston- calling 1-800-752-8570, Christman (’50, JD ’53) nity and to be grateful for the Salem, NC 27109-7233 Wf extension 5225. began his career at Wake bountiful banquet table that —LIZ S WITZER Forest in 1954 as assistant has been set before them.” chaplain and director of the Baptist Student Union. Jean

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Homecoming 1998

Alumni and Deacon fans of all ages turned out October 2 and 3 for Homecoming ’98. Opposite page, top and middle left: The weekend began with the annual Alumni Reception, which featured a salute to Wake Forest’s storied golf tradition. Retired golf coaches Jesse Haddock (’52) and Marge Crisp, with Kendra Beard Graham (’85), were honored for their long service to the University. Opposite page, bottom: This large group was among the many alumni who enjoyed the Carnival on the Quad and the pep rally led by the Demon Deacon marching band. This page, bottom: About 125 students and seventy-five alumni participated in the annual Run with the Deacs which raised more than $4,000 for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive. Below and left: Tables piled high with food and photo albums attracted many old friends to a tailgate party hosted by Robert and Lynette Harrell, parents of Jana H. Daley (’88), prior to the Wake Forest-Appalachian State football game.

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distinguish academic medicine date,” said campaign chair Sustaining as the pacesetter for excellence John C. Whitaker Jr., chair- a miracle in medicine,” said Dr. Richard man and CEO of Inmar H. Dean, senior vice president Enterprises Inc. “We have Medical center kicks off for health affairs and director received fifteen contributions $100-million campaign of the Medical Center. of $1 million or more, more One area of emphasis, than 75 percent of the $42.5 HE WAKE FOREST twenty-first century patient million goal has been raised TUniversity Baptist care and research initiatives, for the Initiatives for Medical Center’s $100 mil- will build endowment sup- Excellence in Education, and lion capital campaign, port in areas in which the more than $18 million in “Sustaining the Miracle,” Medical Center has estab- planned gifts has been has secured $65 million in lished a reputation for excel- pledged.” contributions and pledges. lence—aging, cancer, cardio- The campaign derives its The announcement was vascular disease, molecular title from a history of the made at the public launch of medicine, neuroscience, nutri- Medical Center, The Miracle the campaign on October 9. tion, pediatrics, rehabilita- on Hawthorne Hill, written The Wake Forest University Baptist The campaign, which will tion, and trauma care. by Dr. Manson Meads, former Medical Center’s $100 million cam- continue through June 2001, Specific initiatives for dean of the medical school paign is being led by seated, left to right: honorary chair James K. Glenn, emphasizes endowment devel- Wake Forest University and director of the Medical chair John C. Whitaker Jr., and hon- opment for education, School of Medicine include Center from 1972 to 1984. orary chair Dalton L. McMichael Sr. research, and patient care. funding for endowed profes- The phrase “miracle on and, standing left to right: Ann Lewallen Spencer, Victor I. Flow Jr., “Our goal is to secure the sorships; scholarships for the Hawthorne hill” has been Stanley Frank, J. Zeb Green, Dr. Jean future for the education and most highly qualified student attributed to a local journalist B. Brooks, Petro Kulynych, Dr. Richard research components of our applicants to the School of writing about the rapid Janeway, and Ann S. Hanes. Not pic- tured: Robert S. McCoy Jr., L. Glenn mission, the things that Medicine, as well as to the growth of the Medical Center Orr Jr., and A. Tab Williams Jr. Graduate since its founding in 1941. School for study “The original ‘Miracle on in the basic Hawthorne Hill’ happened medical sci- because leaders from the col- ences; and sup- lege of Wake Forest and plemental fund- Winston-Salem had the fore- ing through sight and the courage to make endowed clini- it happen,” Dean said. “We cal fellowships are grateful for those who to assist resident have already contributed to physicians dur- the campaign. Their generosi- ing years of spe- ty will help us not just to sus- cialty training. tain the miracle but perhaps “We are to give it a whole new life.” Wf very pleased to —STEVE MCCOLLUM note several key elements con- tributing to our progress to

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Land grant

Davis family donates homeplace to University

FAMILY WITH long his- Atorical ties to Wake Forest has given the University a valuable piece of property near campus. Egbert L. Davis Jr. (’33), Thomas H. Davis (LLD ’84), and Pauline Davis Perry, all of Winston-Salem, have donated their interest in their family’s homeplace and 6.2 acres of land about a mile from campus. Their father, Egbert L. Davis, a longtime member of the University’s businessman, he helped bring Egbert L. Davis Jr. Scholarship ‘We would like Board of Trustees, built the about Wake Forest’s move to for undergraduates. house in 1925. Winston-Salem in the 1950s. “We are grateful to the The University has not Davis Residence Hall is Davis family for this latest [Sunnynoll] to be put to determined how it will use the named in his honor. example of their generosity to “Sunnynoll” property, located Davis’ two sons, Egbert the University,” said President a beneficial use for the at the corner of Polo and and Tom, also became influen- Thomas K. Hearn Jr. “The Reynolda roads. Much of the tial members of the Board of Davis name is one of the most property already has been Trustees. Two years ago, they prominent in Wake Forest University.’ developed into office buildings were joined by Perry in making history.” and two retirement homes. a $1 million challenge gift for Tom Davis, the founder “It was named ‘Sunnynoll’ the Divinity School. Tom Davis of Piedmont Airlines, served by our father because it is the and Perry also established a five terms on the Wake Forest highest point in the area and scholarship in Egbert Davis’ Board of Trustees from 1963 was an open field,” said name in the Divinity School. until 1988 and was named a Egbert Davis Jr. “We would During the Heritage and life trustee in 1989. Egbert like the residence and grounds Promise campaign, Tom Davis Davis, retired president of to be put to a beneficial use funded a professorship in the Atlas Supply Company, for the University.” Wayne Calloway School of served three terms on the The Davis family ties to Business and Accountancy. In board between 1969 and Wake Forest date to the early 1985, Egbert Davis created the 1984 and chaired the board 1900s. Davis’ father, who died Eleanor Layfield Davis Art in 1977. He received the in 1974, graduated from Wake Scholarship, in memory of his Medallion of Merit,Wf the Forest in 1904. As a member wife, for undergraduates inter- University’s highest honor, in of the Board of Trustees and a ested in art. And in 1989, fam- 1971 and was named a life prominent Winston-Salem ily members established the trustee in 1986. Wf

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Business capital Students will benefit from a faculty fellowship in the gifts as well, Wilkerson information systems and Numerous gifts benefit said, as professors bring the technology. Assistant Calloway faculty, students results of their scholarship and Professor of Business professional development Gordon E. McCray (’85), HE CALLOWAY activities—new technology, who joined the Calloway TSCHOOL of Business and new teaching methods, and faculty in 1994, has been Accountancy has received new ideas—into the classroom. named the first BellSouth more than $500,000 in gifts That’s one of the expecta- Mobility Technology recently to support the tions behind a $150,000 gift Faculty Fellow. school’s faculty. from Exxon Corporation to ◆ The James S. Kemper The gifts are funding a create the Exxon-Wayne Foundation of Long Grove, new professorship and several Calloway Faculty Fellowships. Illinois, has committed faculty fellow- The fellowships will be award- $125,000 to establish a ships and will ed to two young faculty mem- professorship in the area of provide more bers in their first three years in risk management. Professor money for fac- the Calloway School. of Business John S. ulty scholar- “We are particularly inter- Dunkelberg, a member of ship and pro- ested in improving student the Calloway faculty since fessional learning through faculty 1983, has been named the development research into how college-age first Kemper Professor. endeavors, the students learn and how that ◆ Citibank, based in New school’s top research can influence curricu- York City, and Coca-Cola, funding prior- lum and pedagogy,” said based in Atlanta, have given ities, said Jack Edward F. Ahnert, manager of $50,000 each to create fac- E. Wilkerson contributions for Exxon, based ulty funds in memory of Jr., dean of in Irving, Texas. “We expect Calloway. The Citibank/ the Calloway that a significant part of the D. Wayne Calloway Faculty School. professional development activ- Fund and the Coca-Cola “The ities supported by these fellow- Faculty Fund will help pro- Calloway ships focus on these areas.” fessors pursue professional Calloway School Dean Jack Wilkerson, at right, recently appointed John School places a high priority The fellowships are named and scholarship activities. Dunkelberg, center, the first Kemper on undergraduate instruc- in memory of the school’s The Calloway School also Professor at the school, and Gordon tion,” Wilkerson said. “But I namesake, Wayne Calloway received another $53,000 in McCray the first BellSouth Mobility Technology Faculty Fellow. don’t want a young scholar to (’59). Calloway was chair of memorial gifts for Calloway think that he or she cannot the University’s Board of from other corporations come here and excel as a Trustees and former chairman and individuals. scholar as well as a teacher. and CEO of PepsiCo Inc. ◆ General Electric Company We don’t want a lack of funds The Calloway School also of Louisville, Kentucky, has for their scholarship activities has received major gifts given $10,000 to support to be a stumbling block to recently from: the Calloway School’s mar- attracting those people and keting program. Wilkerson helping them grow into strong ◆ The BellSouth Corporation said the gift likely will be teachers and scholars.” of Atlanta, Georgia, has used for an executive-in-res- given $150,000 to establish idence, an outside expert in marketing and advertising. W f

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Team player undergraduates from Tennessee. Six students Morris memorial trust will received the Amos Arthur fund basketball scholarship Swann Scholarship this year and last year, the first year it SCHOLARSHIP FOR the was awarded. Amen’s basketball team has Swann was a retired been named in memory of farmer who lived his entire longtime Deacon Club mem- life in the house he was born ber Dr. Leslie M. Morris. in on his family’s farm. His Wake Forest will receive farmland grew in value—to about $585,000 for the athlet- about $4 million—because of ic program from a charitable development spurred by the lead trust created by Dr. Dollywood theme park in Morris’ widow, Mary Alice nearby Pigeon Forge. King Morris, and son, Leslie Since he was single and Morris Jr. (’67). A portion of had no close heirs, he decided the gift has been designated to The Swann Scholarship was awarded this year to six students from Tennessee, to leave his estate to his church the Deacon Club and the including freshman Sasha Cole, senior Nick Roberts, and junior Kevin Sprouse. and several colleges, said his Touchdown 2000 Campaign, attorney, alumnus Richard but most of it will be used to Sedgley (’67). Because of fund the scholarship. Morris made numerous Generous Sedgley’s ties to Wake Forest, “I decided to do this for gifts to the athletic program, Swann was open to including Wake Forest because of Les’ the College, and the Medical volunteer Wake Forest in his will. love for Wake Forest,” said School, starting in the 1960s Tennesseean with no WFU “He advised me that he Mrs. Morris, who lives in and continuing throughout his ties bequeaths $1.1 million wanted to give away his entire Gastonia, North Carolina. Les lifetime. He and his wife estate to individuals who had Morris Jr. lives in Pawleys established a tennis scholar- T’S NOT OFTEN that a uni- the ability to succeed in col- Island, South Carolina. ship three years ago in memo- Iversity receives a $1 million- lege but would be unable to “Wake Forest was a way ry of his brother Ray (’42), a plus gift from someone with do so because of economic of life for us,” Mrs. Morris member of the Wake Forest no ties to the school, but hardship,” Sedgley said. “He said. “So many of our friends tennis team. Amos Swann made such a gift never had the opportunity to came from Wake Forest, espe- “Dr. Morris was one of when he included Wake Forest obtain an education, but he cially from Bowman Gray our most ardent alumni,” said in his will. had helped various relatives (School of Medicine), whom President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. Swann, who died in attend college and had seen we have kept up with through “His volunteer service to the January 1997 at the age of 82, how education benefited them. the years.” University was an indication left $1.1 million to Wake “He had no contact with Morris (’41, MD ’43), of his strong loyalty to his Forest and another $3 million any institutions of higher who died in May 1997, was a alma mater. His generosity to his church and three col- learning and was open to sug- radiologist in Gastonia. He and caring spirit are greatly leges in Tennessee. Swann gestions,” Sedgley added. served on the Alumni Council missed by his friends here and lived outside Knoxville, “After some discussions, he from 1972-75 and 1977-80, in Gastonia.” Wf Tennessee, in the small town decided that he would divide and chaired the Gastonia of Kodak. his estate among several insti- regional drive for the Heritage His gift is funding need- tutions, including Wake and Promise campaign in the based scholarships for Forest.” Wf early 1990s.

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On board

Trustees welcome four new, three returning members

AKE FOREST WUniversity’s Board of Trustees welcomed four new members at its fall meeting October 1-2. Attending their first meet- ing following their election in April were Leslie M. “Bud” Baker Jr., of Winston-Salem, Baker Smith president and chief executive officer of Wachovia Hyde Corporation; Carlyn J. Bowden (’74, MBA ’76) of Greensboro, office manager at R. Steve Bowden & Associates; James R. “Jay” Helvey III (’81) of Summit, New Jersey, managing direc- tor of J.P. Morgan; and the Rev. Roy J. Smith (’53) of Raleigh, retired executive director of the Baptist State Helvey Bowden Convention. Former members re- LeRoy elected to the board last spring who were on hand at the October meeting were Ronald E. Deal (’65) of Hickory, chairman of Wesley Hall, Inc.; Jeanette W. Hyde (’58) of Raleigh; and Dee Hughes LeRoy (’57) of Charleston, South Carolina.

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1930s latest book of poetry, titled Cleveland County, and in vari- Glare, was published in 1997. ous other civic roles. He and his James E. Peters (’33) recently He previously has been award- wife, Loretta Hamrick, have received the Beckham ed a MacArthur Fellowship, the two daughters and four grand- Medallion from Ferrum College Bolingen Prize, and the children. in Virginia. He received the National Book Award twice, medallion, the school’s highest Betty L. Siegel (’52) was award- among many other honors. He alumni honor, for his civic ed the Outstanding Alumni of teaches poetry at Cornell career and volunteer achieve- Kentucky (OAK) Award, pre- University and is a former visit- ments, including his outstanding sented by the Kentucky Andrews (’53) Chestnutt (’50) ing professor at Wake Forest. accomplishments as a Lions Advocates for Higher Club Eye Bank volunteer in Education. She is the president 1950s director at the Neuroscience 1962 Salem, VA. He has personally of Kennesaw State University in Institute, Mayfield Professor signed up over 33,000 eye James L. Chestnutt (’50) was Kennesaw, GA. Bruce Biggs (JD) has been and chair of the University of donors for the bank. inducted on November 10 into appointed by Governor Jim Billy F. Andrews (’53) was Cincinnati Department of the Packaging Hall of Fame, Hunt to the bench of North appointed visiting fellow of Neurosurgery, and a nuerosur- 1940s which is sponsored by the Carolina’s 24th District Court, Green College, University of geon at the Mayfield Clinic. Packaging Education Forum. covering Avery, Madison, Will D. Campbell (’48) is the Oxford, England, where he was He has 37 years of packaging Vern Pike (’58) has retired from Mitchell, Watauga, and Yancey author of And Also With You, a special guest last February. In experience, most recently as business in the Washington, DC, counties. He is a former state published by Providence House March he presented the First president of Packaging area and relocated to Pinehurst, senator. Publishers. He is the author of Alumni Foundation Lecture on Consultants Inc. NC, where he and his wife have several other books, including Leadership in Medicine at Duke Lucia Pollock retired in June built a home. He is enjoying Brother to a Dragonfly, The Eugene F. Allen (’52) recently University. He was professor after 20 years at the National teaching history and interna- Glad River, and Forty Acres and was named Citizen of the Year and chairman to the Department Gallery. tional relations at Sandhills a Goat. for 1998-99 by the Shelby, NC, of Pediatrics at the University of Community College. Lion’s Club. He is a retired Louisville School of Medicine 1963 A.R. Ammons (’49) was award- educator who has served as and chief of staff at the Kosair E. Lamar Houston (’59) was ed the 1998 Tanning Prize. The Steve Glass (JD ’66) has opened chairman of the Cleveland Children’s Hospital from 1969 appointed assistant vice presi- $100,000 award was given for the firm of Glass & Vining in County Community Action to 1993. He officially retired on dent of research and director “outstanding and proven mas- Cary, NC. Agency, president of the June 30, 1998, but will remain of research services at the tery in the art of poetry.” His Fred G. Morrison Jr. (JD) Mental Health Association of on the faculty part-time. University of Georgia. Research services is a ten-department con- recently was presented a key to Eugene Boyce (’54, JD ’56) sortium of core support services the city of Newport, TN, and recently steered a class-action for sponsored research grants. recognized as one of its out- lawsuit that netted state and standing former citizens for his federal retirees a settlement of If you have news you would like to share — 1961 work as the senior administra- $799 million in refunds and promotions, awards, honors, announcements tive law judge for the State of restored $3.2 billion in future Larry B. Sitton (JD ’64) recently North Carolina. In June he com- of marriage, births, adoptions, deaths, etc.— benefits from the government of was elected president of the pleted Harvard University’s pro- please send it to Andrew Waters, classnotes North Carolina. In the case, he North Carolina Bar Associa- gram of instruction for lawyers. editor, Wake Forest Magazine, P.O. Box 7205 successfully claimed that public tion. He is an attorney with William Reginald Sigmon Sr. Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, NC pensions were illegally taxed the firm of Smith Helms Mulliss from 1989 to 1997. & Moore in Greensboro, NC. (JD) is a member of the 27109-7205. Internet: [email protected]. We He also has served on the board Hickory, NC, law firm of John M. Tew Jr. (’57, MD ’61) are sorry, but we cannot publish third-party of directors of the Greensboro Sigmon, Clark, Mackie, Button was the honored guest speaker Cerebral Palsy Association, & Harvey, which recently relo- news unless the person submitting it provides at the annual meeting of the the board of trustees at North cated its offices to the old a telephone number for verification and Congress of Neurological Carolina A&T University, library building in Hickory’s Surgeons, held this October in accepts responsibility for the accuracy of the and as legal counsel for the historic Oakwood section. Seattle, WA. He is medical information. United Way.

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1964 1970 John Rosenthal is a photogra- Walter Frank Rose Jr. resides in pher and writer living in Ahoskie, NC, with his wife, Chapel Hill, NC. A collection Penny. His daughter Laura is a of his photographs of New freshman at Wake Forest this York City, titled Regarding year. His son, Chip, has bought Manhattan, was recently pub- a house in Ahoskie, while his lished by Sunapee Editions. He daughter Taylor is at is also a frequent commentator Woodberry Forest School in on National Public Radio’s All Virginia. Things Considered. 1971 1965 Mary Irvin Plummer resides in Ross Griffith presented a paper Concord, NC, where she is on “Connecting Students and involved with alternative edu- Faculty Through Technology, cation and adult illiteracy Collaboration and Globali- progams. Her husband, Randy zation” at the international D. Steele, is a principal in conference of the Society for Cabarrus County Schools. College and University Planning held in July in Vancouver, 1972 Canada. He is director of insti- Kathie deNobriga (MA ’74) Venice reunion participants included front row, left to right, Perry Becker, tutional research and academic was selected to participate in Jim Barefield, Joe Carpenter, and, second row, left to right, Dorothy Douglas administration at Wake Forest the Rockefeller Foundation’s Westmoreland, Don Fritts, June Sabah, Jim Fitch, Sandy Pugh, John Gillon, University. Next Generation Leadership Sue Hutchins Green. Walter W. Pitt Jr. (JD) has been program, which assists leaders selected as chair of the bank- in developing new skills to ruptcy section of the North strengthen their work. She is a Back to the canals Carolina Bar Association. He is free-lance consultant for small a partner at the Winston-Salem arts organizations, state arts INE WAKE FOREST ALUMNI celebrated a special reunion this June. The firm of Bell, Davis & Pitt, PA. agencies, and the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. Ngroup, all partcipants in the Venice program during the winter term of 1966 1973, returned to Venice, with spouses and children, to mark the twenty-fifth Michael S. Greene retired after 1973 anniversary of their unforgettable time at Casa Artom. 30 years of service with the Carol Moody Edwards has “Most of us hadn’t seen each other in the twenty-five years,” comments United States Army and the accepted the position of town Sandy Pugh (‘74), “. . . but once we returned and were embraced by that United States Department of planner for Hanover, NJ. She common bond, we recognized the significance of our stay in Venice.” The Agriculture. He and his wife, telecommutes to her new posi- Ann, reside in Ft. Pierce, FL. tion and continues to be a alumni who shared that bond with Pugh were Dorothy Douglas Allan B. Head (JD ’69) recently technical writer for Tufts Westmoreland (‘74, JD ‘79), Don Fritts (‘74), June Sabah (‘73, MBA ‘77), Jim attended the American Bar Health Plan. Fitch (‘73, MA ‘83), John Gillon (‘76), Sue Hutchins Greene (‘74), Perry Association’s Leadership Susan A. McDonald has Becker (‘73), and Joe Carpenter (‘76). Institute in Chicago, IL. He joined Right Management One of the highlights of the trip was spending time with longtime Venice is executive director for the Consultants in Charlotte, NC, North Carolina Bar as the senior vice president of Coordinator Jim Barefield, who had been with the group during their original Association. client services consulting. trip. “We saw a spectacular city through the eyes of a gifted teacher and his- Nancy Norbeck Jones was Previously she was manager of torian, Dr. Barefield, who helped us appreciate not only the uniqueness of selected as one of 31 attendees consulting with Omega Venice but also the uniqueness of our opportunity,” recalls Pugh. “We returned from across the continent to Consultants. She recently was licensed in North Carolina as a to find that, joyfully, Dr. Barefield is as young at heart as ever, that we really attend the Slavery Seminar held at Stratford Hall and Virginia counselor and became a deacon could recognize everyone despite a few pounds and even fewer gray hairs, Commonwealth University. She at Myers Park Baptist Church that Venice and our home on the Grand Canal had changed very little and also was elected vice president in Charlotte. was still full of memories and brimming with laughter.” of the South Carolina Social Edward A. Tupin has accepted Studies Council. a new position as senior health

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physicist/radiation science spe- and appeared on over 200 radio William “Bill” Wheeler (JD) cialist with the Agency for Toxic and TV programs. A profes- and his law firm were recently Substances and Disease sional speaker for the last 16 named general counsel for Lees- Registry, part of the Public years, she is a member of the McRae College by its Board of Health Service of the United National Speakers Association’s Directors. He is a managing States Department of Health Speakers Hall of Fame. She and partner with the High Point, and Human Services. He recent- her husband, Robert Handly, NC, law firm of Wyatt Early ly was promoted to commander live in Dallas, TX. Harris & Wheeler, LLP. in the Commissioned Corps of Linda Vining has joined the Capone III (JD ’77) Randall (JD ’78) the Public Health Service. Due legal division of Wachovia 1976 to his new position, he has relo- Bank. She is located in the Reginald Combs (JD ’78) 1977 magazine and information cated to Atlanta, GA. Atlanta area. attended the American Bar services business. Lucien “Skip” Capone III (JD) Association’s Leadership was appointed to the North Julia Virginia Jones (JD) has 1974 1975 Institute in Chicago, IL. He is Carolina Grievance Resolution retired from the bench as a Elmore Alexander III has been president-elect of the Forsyth William J. Senter is vice presi- Board, which makes policy rec- superior court judge. appointed dean of the School of County Bar Association. dent of rates and regulatory ommendations to the state sec- Business Administration at affairs for Western Kentucky Cmdr. Rynn B. Olsen recently retary of corrections. He is 1978 Philadelphia College of Textiles Gas Company, a division of completed a six-month deploy- University counsel at UNC- Mel Joseph Garofalo (JD) has & Science. Previously he was Atmos Energy Corporation. ment in the Mediterranean Sea Greensboro. been appointed to the board of associate dean for graduate He maintains offices in both and Arabian Gulf aboard the Robert B. Crosland III is man- the North Carolina Association and academic affairs at The Brentwood, TN, and Owens- USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. aging director at AdMedia of Defense Attorneys. American University. boro, KY. He resides in Brent- During the deployment, he par- Partners Inc., an investment Jo Ann Sager Gilley is a senior Jane Carter Warfford Handly is wood, TN, with his wife, Terri, ticipated in Exercise Matador banking and strategic advisory vice president at JamTV, the the author of two books, and daughter, Katherine. His Livex, which was designed to service to media, advertising, Internet music company that Getting Unstuck and Why son, Drew, is a freshman at enhance carrier battle group and marketing services compa- operates The Rolling Stone Women Worry. She has been Wake Forest this year. interoperability. nies. He has spent over 20 Network. She resides in the profiled in several magazines years as an executive in the Chicago, IL, area with her hus- band, Ron Gilley. Kathryn A. Lee received a law degree from Temple University espite the recent volatility in the stock market, stocks and other long-term appreciated School of Law in May. She is D property remain excellent assets to give to Wake Forest. Benefits include: currently taking a leave of absence from her teaching posi- • A charitable income tax deduction for the fair market value of the stock tion to clerk for Justice Charles • Avoidance of capital-gains tax that would result from an outright sale of the stock Z. Smith of the Washington The example below shows the cost effectiveness of donating stock worth $10,000 (with a cash State Supreme Court in basis of $2,000) instead of a cash gift of the same amount. (Assumes donor is in the highest Olympia, WA. income tax bracket and 20% capital-gains tax bracket.) Gary L. Long is serving as a program director in the division

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relations for the New Jersey Sea and the Arabian Gulf as 1981 Watauga Medical Center in areas of business development, Sports and Exposition Authority. part of the 22nd Marine Expedi- Boone, NC. Her e-mail address marketing, and finance. Carol Barbee won first prize She is the outgoing state banking tionary Unit. is [email protected]. in the Diane Thomas Screen- Melissa Exum was named dean and insurance commissioner for writing Awards, sponsored by Ellis Branch “Bo” Drew III (JD) of students at the University of New Jersey. 1980 Dreamworks SKG and the has joined the law firm of Wells North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Louis B. Meyer III (JD ’83) UCLA Extension Writer’s Jenkens Lucas & Jenkens in where she will supervise student 1979 attended the American Bar Program, for her feature film Kernersville, NC, as a partner. conduct and other issues related Gardner Campbell won the Association’s Leadership script “Madonnas of the Field,” He concentrates in business and to student life. Previously she 1998 Mary Washington College Institute in Chicago, IL. He is which tells the story of two commercial litigation, product was associate vice president of Outstanding Young Faculty president-elect of the Wake female photojournalists during liability, and construction law. student affairs at Ohio Member Award. He was also County Bar Association. the Depression. She lives in Los Terry Hammond Jr. recently University in Athens, OH, selected as a contributing editor Terry W. Nall was named vice Angeles with her husband, passed his CPA exam. where she had been employed for the New Variorum Edition president and regional manag- Carlos LaCamara, and sons, since 1989. of John Milton. He resides in er for the group employee ser- Lucas (5) and Diego (1). 1982 Ben Freeman is the president of Fredericksburg, VA. the South Carolina High School vices division of Merrill Lynch. Mark A. Crabtree is the mayor Lisa Simon Dadouris is director Football Coaches Association Sharon Long is a writer on He is responsible for the com- of Martinsville, VA. He also of business development for for the 1998-99 school year. Appalachian heritage and cul- pany’s business retirement was appointed by Virginia Global Crossing Development The head football coach and ture. She has temporarily moved plans and employee benefit Governor Jim Gilmore to the Company, a leading indepen- athletic director at Pelion High to Arlington, VA, with her hus- services in seven Southeastern Board of Visitors of Longwood dent provider of undersea fiber School in Pelion, SC, he also band, Gary Long (’78), and their states. He and his family have College in Farmville, VA. optic telecommunications sys- two children, Jessica (15) and relocated to Atlanta, GA, serves on the board of directors Niki Whitley Craig graduated tems. Previously she worked Nathan (13). where his son, Adam, began for the South Carolina Athletic from nursing school in May for AT&T and Lucent kindergarten in September. Coaches Association, which Lt. Col. Gary L. Williamson and passed state boards in June. Technologies, where she held a serves more than 3,000 mem- recently completed a six-month She is working in the intermedi- number of key positions in the bers statewide. deployment to the Mediterranean ate care/pediatric unit of the

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Gary K. Joyner (JD) has been associate professor of psycholo- is involved in liver, pancreas, Cavalese, Italy, killing 21 for- Mead Corporation. She appointed to the executive com- gy at the College of Charleston, and kidney transplants, and is eign nationals. received a master’s degree in mittee of the firm of Kilpatrick SC, and was elected chair of the also surgical critical care attend- Russell Shilling was recently human resource management Stockton. faculty senate. She earned a PhD ing. She is married to Philip promoted to lieutenant com- from the University of North Rena Zeya-Golden has been in developmental psychology Newhall, who is an urology mander in the United States Florida. She resides near promoted to vice president of from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1993. resident at Duke. Navy. He serves as Navy aero- Columbus, GA, with her hus- programming at CNN She and her husband, J. Brett space experimental psycholo- band, David, and their children, International, based in Atlanta, Bennett (’84), have two chil- 1985 gist, director of research, and Kyle and Kristen. dren, Lydia (5) and William (3). GA. She has been employed at Robert M. Blend (JD) has start- chair-elect of the Department of James E. Meadows (JD) is now CNN since 1985. She resides in Rick Fuller moved to Rich- ed his own law firm, The Blend Defense Human Factors an attorney with the firm of Roswell, GA, with her hus- mond with his wife, Carol, and Law Firm, PC, in Dallas, TX. Engineering Technical Advisory Alston & Bird LLP in Atlanta, band, Rob, and children, Adam son, Sam, in September 1997 Group, while conducting GA. His practice focuses on G. Scott Carpenter recently cele- (6) and Sabrina (4). for two years of pediatrics resi- research in simulation and vir- technology law, including elec- brated his tenth anniversary at dency training at the Medical tual environments. He and his tronic commerce and outsourc- Ralph Simpson & Associates, a College of Virginia. wife, Elaine, are both assistant ing matters. 1983 Winston-Salem-based public professors in the department of Armando Berguido was given Glenn H. Hurlbert is an associ- relations firm, where he is a vice Peter B. Rodes is manager of behavorial sciences and leader- the title of “Fellow of the ate professor of mathematics at president. He and his wife, strategic marketing for ship at the United States Air Academy of General Dentistry” Arizona State University. He Lara, have one daughter, Channelpoint, Inc., a startup Force Academy. in a ceremony in July. He is the resides in Phoenix, AZ, with his Chandler, and are expecting a software company in the health only dentist in the Republic of wife, Karen, who is a computer baby in January. His e-mail Robert W. Stansell Jr. (MBA) is insurance industry. He and his Panama to have achieved the training officer for the Arizona address is scarpenterrsa@mind- the executive director of Barium wife, Alison, live in Colorado title. Child Protective Services, and spring.com. Springs Home for Children in Springs, CO, with their son, their daughter, Sallie (14). Barium Springs, NC, which Maxwell Terry (1). Taizo Fujki is on a sabbatical Maj. John M. Gaal is executive provides specialized residential study leave from Seiwa College, Todd A. Mooradian (MBA) officer for the 115th Field Russell John Schumacher (JD) group care service and on-cam- Japan. He is spending the year received the College of William Hospital in Fort Polk, LA. His has joined the law firm of pus schooling for youth with as a part-time faculty member and Mary’s Alumni Fellowship wife, Kim, teaches fourth grade Rand, Algeier, Tosti & significant social, emotional, in the physical education Award, presented by the at South Fort Polk Elementary Woodruff PC in Morristown, and academic problems. He department at Whitworth school’s Society of the Alumni. School. NJ. He continues to practice in He is an associate professor and resides in Statesville, NC, with the areas of education law and College in Spokane, WA, where Peter Jennings (JD) has accepted director of the undergraduate his wife, Peggy, and labor relations. he is joined by his wife, Emiko, a position with Dow Chemical program in the college’s school daughter, Neely. and three sons. Company Legal Department in David M. Trebing (MBA) was of business administration. John Newton Taylor Jr. (JD Lewis B. Gardner (JD) is a part- the Pacific area. He and his fam- appointed director, finance and ’88) was named partner at the ner at the firm of Brown Joseph David Morrow is a pilot ily relocated to Hong Kong in administration, for Chrysler firm of Robinson & Lawing et McCarroll in Austin, TX. with Delta Airlines as of March August. Taiwan Co., Ltd., a wholly 1998. al in Winston-Salem. owned subsidiary of Chrysler Brian D. Knauth is a trial attor- Russell A. Mansfield is a certi- Corporation. He resides in ney with Brown & Tarantino Suzanne Moyers teaches fied financial planner with A.G. 1986 Taipei, Taiwan. LLP in Buffalo, NY. He resides English and works as a grant Edwards in Charlotte, NC. specialist and program officer Harriet L. Kolmer is a clinical in Cherry Park, NY, with his Howard W. Reeves has been at St. Philip’s Academy, a assistant professor of internal 1987 wife, Kathleen, and three chil- named director for children’s Newark, NJ, school that serves medicine for a University of dren: Brianna (9), Patrick (7), books and senior editor at Edie Castor is assistant director, bright inner-city children Virginia clinic in Staunton, VA. and John (5). His e-mail address Harry N. Abrams, Inc. account management, with regardless of financial need. She She resides in Standardsville, is [email protected]. Previously he was an executive CIGNA Group Insurance. She is responsible for developing VA, with her husband, J. David William B. Reingold (JD) and editor at Hyperion Books For works in the northeast region, the school’s individual sponsor- Forbes, and their son, Andrew. the Domestic Violence Children/Disney. which includes New York, ship program. Rosemary Hondros Martin is Boston, and Philadelphia. Advocacy Center of the Forsyth Michael B. Shaw has been Daniel S. Mynatt has coau- the director of development and Previously she was a senior County Bar Association recalled to active duty for six thored The Masorah of Biblia public relations for Legal underwriter, life and accident received the 1998 Harrison months with the Navy JAG Hebraica Stuttgartensia, pub- Services of Southern Piedmont products, for the company. Tweed Award for outstanding Corps. He will be stationed at lished by Eerdmans. His e-mail in Charlotte, NC, where she leadership in pro bono legal ser- the United States Embassy in Susan Forbes Donahue has address is [email protected]. resides with her husband, John. vices, presented by the Rome, Italy, representing the been promoted to manager, American Bar Association. Janet E. Tuttle-Newhall (MD United States in all matters aris- Laura F. Davis Mayer is an clinical operations, at Piedmont ’88) is on the faculty at Duke ing from the February 1998 administrative and human Medical Research Associates in 1984 University Medical Center in incident where a Marine Corps resource manager for Mead Winston-Salem, NC. Her hus- Trisha Folds Bennett (MA ’86) the department of surgery. She jet cut a gondola cable in Coated Board, a division of band, Robert M. Donahue was recently promoted to (’87), recently accepted a new

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1989 management and leasing ser- Ralph M. Kitley II received an vices company. She holds an MA in school administration Cynthia Lee Bates and her hus- MBA degree from American from Gardner-Webb University band, Thomas C. Bates (’89, University. in August. After teaching world JD/MBA ’93), reside in history at R.J. Reynolds High Greensboro, NC, with their Russell B. Rogers is assistant School in Winston-Salem for daughter, Maggie. Thom works athletic director at Stevens the last five years, he has in the estate planning division Institute of Technology in accepted a position as assis- of The Todd Organization. Hoboken, NJ. Previously he was tant principal at Northwest Gilbert (’88) Pierce (’89) Cindy is a senior market ana- campus recreation director and Guilford High School in lyst with corporate marketing men’s tennis coach at the school. Greensboro. position as vice president of Paul Gilbert is on the Board of for Oakwood Homes. Capital City Industrial in Directors of United Cerebral 1990 Matthew Moore resides in La Mary Beth Beasley has received Pineville, NC. Palsy of Middle Tennessee in Crescenta, CA, where he and his a two-year fellowship in clini- Jonathon Albright has joined Nashville, TN. He is an attor- wife, Amy, are both teachers. Rob Hounshell has recently cal and surgical pathology at Coca-Cola Bottling Company ney with the Nashville firm of moved to Raleigh, NC, with his the Armed Forces Institute of Consolidated as vice president Waller, Lansden, Dortch & 1991 wife, Andrea, and children, Pathology. She will spend one and treasurer. He has relocated Davis. Kelsey (4) and Jacob (2). He is year at the Walter Reed Army to Charlotte, NC, with his wife, Robert C. Daniel is the manag- vice president and portfolio Mark Ginn (MA ’90) is an Medical Center in Washington, Karen, and daughter, Caroline er/recruiter of the Prudential in manager at NationsBank. assistant professor of mathe- DC, and one year at the (16 mo.). Asheville, NC. matics at Appalachian State Travis Triplett McBride National Institute of Health in Donnie Bobbit is vice president Tommy Eggleston (MS ’92) University in Boone, NC, recently completed a postdoc- Bethesda, MD. She received her of finance at Texas Motor received an MBA from the where he resides with his wife, toral research fellowship in MD from Tulane University Speedway, the second-largest University of Tennessee and is Karen Eikeland Ginn (MA ’90), Australia. He is now an assis- Medical School in 1993. sports facility in the world. He now employed at Volunteer and their two children, Sidney tant professor in exercise and Tina M. Burleson received an and his wife, Lisa, reside in Fabricators, a contract furni- and Justin. sport science and director of MD degree from East Carolina Flower Mound, TX. ture manufacturing company in Tommy Mayes is the eastern the strength and fitness centers University School of Medicine Ed Clark was recently sworn in Morristown, TN. He and his region market manager for at the University of Wisconsin in May and was elected to the as an assistant attorney general wife, Kathryn Eggleston (’90), Wachovia Private Financial at La Crosse. Alpha Omega Alpha Medical in Lexington, KY, where he reside in Knoxville, TN, with Advisors in the Hampton Kris A. Persinger was named Honor Society. She began her resides with his wife, Erika. their sons, Luke and Scott. Roads area of Virginia. He residency in pediatrics in vice president, investments, for F. Elizabeth Clement Coss (JD) C. Lynn Patterson Gargis (JD resides in Virginia Beach, VA, Charleston, SC, in July. the investment boutique of has joined the trusts and estates ’94) joined the firm of Womble with his wife, Susan, and their Robert W. Baird & Co., which Jason C. Buss is in his first year practice group at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice son, Thomas. is a member of the North- of medical school at the Carlyle in Charlotte, NC. PLLC in Winston-Salem. She is western Mutual Life family Allen Ramsay and his wife, University of Pittsburgh School an associate attorney in the Marnie Mullen Crumpler has of companies. He resides in Terry Ramsay (’88), are relo- of Medicine. His e-mail address trusts and estates practice been named the Dr. William Clearwater, FL. cating from Winston-Salem to is [email protected]. group. She and her husband, Crompton Bennett Chaplain at Burlington, VT, where he is Neil Gargis (’92), reside in Rob Wood is a financial advi- J. Wesley Casteen resides in Peace College in Raleigh, NC. the chief financial officer for Clemmons, NC. sor for Prudential Securities in Clinton, NC, and recently was She is a former assistant chap- Champion Jogbra, a division of Richmond, VA, where he named shareholder in the law lain at Princeton University and Paula Durst Gillis (JD) has Sara Lee Corporation. The cou- recently relocated with his wife, firm of Ludlum and Casteen, most recently was associate become a member of Spilman ple has a daughter named Trish, and their three children: PA, located in Warsaw, NC. pastor at First Presbyterian Thomas & Battle, PLLC. She Ashley. Connor (5), Ellis (3), and Paige works in the firm’s Charleston, Christopher Kurtz recently Church in Houston, TX. (8 mo.). Harley Ruff and his wife, WV, office. completed his training in Ray Gurganus is a computer Carol Clayton Ruff, reside orthopaedic surgery at consultant with Reliacom Gina Hodge (PA ’93) is a surgi- 1988 in Beaufort, SC, where he Allegheny General Hospital in Community Services, an orga- cal physician’s assistant at practices tax and estate Margot Ackermann has joined Pittsburgh, PA. He and his nization dedicated to using Northeast Cardiovascular in planning law. Deloitte and Touche Consulting wife, Tena, will spend the next technology creatively to sup- Concord, NC. She recently pur- Art Washburn received one of Group/ICS as a senior consul- three years in Okinawa, Japan, port organizations and individ- chased her first home in Prudential Securities’ tant in the SAP service line’s where he will be stationed as an uals with critical social, Kannapolis, NC. “Community Champion” educational services practice. orthopaedic surgeon at the environmental, and Laura Lilard received an MLIS awards for volunteer service in She resides in Richmond, VA, Okinawa Naval Hospital. educational concerns. degree from UNC-Greensboro and is getting married in September. He and his wife, Michelle Marie Pierce was David Hall has a Web page ded- in August. In September she December. Sondra, reside in Glen Allen, VA. named a development associate icated to Wake Forest sports at began work as an education at JPI, a Dallas-based property www.pilot.infi.net/~davehall.

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reference librarian at Texas runner-up last year with an 11- engineering and environmental MBA ’91) have moved to 3450 manufacturing in the golf prod- A&M University’s Sterling C. 2 record. consulting firm in central Transou Road, Pfafftown, NC ucts business unit of Rain Bird Evans Library. Brooke Wimbush has accepted Florida. 27040. Their phone number is Sprinkler Manufacturing in Los Henry A. Mitchell III (JD) has a position as field consultant, Betsy Brakefield Funk is a (336) 922-3969. Angeles, CA. Previously he was opened the firm of Solomon & concentrating in software qual- physical therapist in Nashville, Galen Johnson is a first-year senior corporate recruiter for Mitchell PLLC in Durham, ity assurance, with Best TN, where she resides with her student in the PhD program in the company. He has just start- NC. Consulting in Seattle, WA. She husband, Samuel P. Funk (’93). religion at Baylor University ed the Fully Employed MBA program at UCLA. He and his G. Kenneth Orndorff has is planning a May 1999 wed- John C. Hackworth was named while simultaneously serving as wife, Kristen Shaw (’92), reside accepted a position as real ding to Kevin Huey of Seattle. head men’s soccer coach at the pastor of the Blue Ridge in Sherman Oaks, CA. estate development manager University of South Florida Baptist Church in Marlin, TX. for Harris-Teeter Grocery 1992 in July. Jonathan Lehman has returned Alan Smith was inducted into the “Order of the Feather” in Stores. Jenna Fruechtenicht Butler (JD Scott Hagaman is the associate to Wake Forest to study for an recognition of his 10 seasons Darren Phillips has accepted a ’95) works in the law firm of minister of youth and family at MAEd in counseling. He lives with the outdoor drama Unto position as athletic director and Ward and Smith, PA, in First Baptist Church in in Winston-Salem and works These Hills in Cherokee, NC. head football coach at Rocky Wilmington, NC, where she Statesville, NC. Previously he part-time at Wachovia. The ceremony took place on Mount Senior High School in resides with her husband, was associate minister of edu- Stephen E. Loftis began work August 22 during the drama’s Rocky Mount, NC. Previously Algernon L. Butler III. cation and youth at First in July on a doctor of ministries final show of the season. he was athletic director and Kevin Connor received his Baptist Church in Whiteville, degree at Baptist Theological head football coach at master’s degree in zoology from NC. He and his wife, Hanna Seminary in Richmond, VA. He Julie Swan has accepted a posi- Hargrave Military Academy in the University of South Florida Sims Hagaman (’95), are expects to graduate in 2001. tion as assistant vice president, marketing director, and compli- Chatham, VA, where he led the in Tampa, FL. He is project expecting a child in November. Eric Shaw was promoted to ance officer at OBA Federal football team to three straight manager for environmental Gregory D. Henshaw (JD) and senior production manager conference titles and was state and ecological services for an Mary Wray Henshaw (BA ’89, responsible for all second-shift making a difference

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Marc Blucas (’94)

Prime-time When Blucas returned The first year in taken just a day to film. to the U.S., he still had no California, Blucas—who The director of the player idea which direction his still drives the 1988 Jeep movie, apparently sens- CTING NEVER life should take. But he Wrangler he had in high ing potential in Blucas, A was high on the landed a small part as a— school, even though it asked him to stick list of probable careers surprise!—basketball play- now has 180,000 around. Again, the six- for Marc Blucas (‘94). er, in the movie Eddie, miles—lived on money he foot-three Blucas was After all, the only audi- which starred Whoopi had saved while playing cast as a basketball ences he had played to Goldberg and was in part basketball in England. As player, an all-too-com- in his life—except for filmed in Winston-Salem. he tried to decide if acting mon situation that ‘It’s performing under during his third-grade The acting bug bit. really was his new pas- makes him laugh. But class’ presentation of Now, Blucas is living sion, he went to auditions, he says the experience in Santa Monica, shook hands with as many was invaluable. pressure, in the Hansel and Gretel— were basketball fans. California, refereeing, people as possible, and “I needed to have But the former coaching, and leading started studying and tak- happen what hap- spotlight. That’s what guard for the Demon clinics for youth-league ing acting classes. pened,” Blucas says. “I Deacons didn’t think his basketball while trying to Since then, his resolve met the right people, Hoop Dreams days build an acting career. to act has strengthened. He and those people have gives most athletes would continue much “It’s performing under reads as many scripts and gone to bat for me.” after college, and he pressure, in the spotlight,” auditions as often as he Recently, he has especially didn’t think the twenty-six-year-old can, frequently attends been filming the NBC the rush.’ he would get a chance Blucas says of acting. movies, and he has started miniseries The ’60s, to play in the NBA. He “That’s what gives me the to book jobs in advance. In which is scheduled for pondered his rush. That’s what gives March, Blucas hired his first broadcast in late future. most athletes the rush.” manager and agent, and February 1999. Blucas Blucas, who Blucas moved to the he has landed small parts is cast as the college- came to Wake Los Angeles area in April in movies, the HBO come- bound best friend of a Forest from 1996 to pursue his new- dy Arliss, and an NBC small town high-school Girard, Pennsyl- found direction, and one miniseries. He has signed quarterback who is sent vania, had been of his former teammates at a holding agreement with to Vietnam to fight. accepted to the Wake Forest—Rodney Fox that will give him After The ’60s, it’s Wake Forest Rogers, a forward for the opportunities to audition for back to unemployment. School of Law Los Angeles Clippers— roles in their new television But Blucas isn’t discour- but deferred his was a source of help in shows. And he says he aged. He says he feels decision for a those early days. Rogers feels like he’s meeting the fortunate to be able to year so he could allowed Blucas to stay at right people. make a living in Los go to England his home for a couple of He spent more than Angeles, even if part of and play profes- months until he could get two months working on that living comes from sional basketball. While on his feet in Los Angeles, the set of Pleasantville, a moonlighting on the there, he decided he and Blucas says that was movie which opened in basketball court. After didn’t want to become important in a town where theaters in October, after all, it, too, is a passion. a lawyer, but that didn’t he knew few people and he originally was cast for —AMY A NDREWS resolve his dilemma. competition is fierce. a part that would have

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Savings & Loan Association in Carolina. He invites alumni to Mark Schrope is attending the Germantown, MD. visit the station when in Myrtle science journalism program at William Vanderbloemen is the Beach. His e-mail address is University of California at Santa senior minister for Memorial [email protected]. Cruz, where he resides with his Presbyterian Church in Samuel P. Funk practices law in wife, Shannon, and their two Montgomery, AL, where he the litigation department of children. resides with his wife, Melissa, Sherrard & Roe, PLC, in Rob Sigmon was promoted to and their children, Matthew Nashville, TN, where he resides general sales manager for three and Mary. He graduated from with his wife, Betsy Brakefield radio stations in Denver, CO. He Knox (’93) Blankenburg (’94) Princeton Seminary in 1995 Funk (’92). is also planning an Israeli manager at the bank’s Cary Renae Gillis is a student in the and previously was at First Regina Robinson Gillespie (JD) tourism business/ministry and MacGregor office in Cary, NC. MBA program at the University Presbyterian Church in has a solo law practice special- would enjoy hearing from alum- of Texas at Austin. After gradu- Hendersonville, NC. izing in real property, criminal, ni with a heart for Israel. His e- Gregory M. Boulton (MBA) is ation, she hopes to pursue a and domestic law, with offices mail address is [email protected]. a PeopleSoft systems implemen- 1993 career in brand management. in Mount Airy, NC, and Roderick Swan has accepted a tation consultant. He and his Lisa Marie Angel (JD) was rec- Dobson, NC. position as assistant vice presi- wife, Bonnie, have created Joseph M. Koufman is store Webmanna Associates, an manager of Eddie Bauer in ognized by the Raleigh News Tom P. Halliday received a dent, strategic planning, and Internet-based business at Jackson Hole, WY. He moon- & Observer for her work orga- DVM degree from Ohio State information systems officer at dwp.bigplanet.com/boulton418. lights on Sunday nights as a DJ nizing Project Together, which University. He is a veterinarian OBA Federal Savings and Loan on Jackson Hole’s 96.9 FM trains volunteer lawyers to in a small animal practice in Association in Germantown, Jeff Bradsher is president of KMTM. handle domestic violence cases Columbus, OH, and is engaged MD. Bradsher Properties, a property for free. to be married in November. Stacy Yoder (JD) is an assistant acquisition and development Katherine M. Kruse (MD ’98) firm in Charlotte, NC. The began a residency in pediatrics Bradley Barnes is a youth direc- Linda Harman (JD) has become district attorney in North company is currently building a at Georgetown University tor for Christ Community a partner in the Elizabeth City, Carolina’s 23rd Judicial District. day care center in east Hospital in June. Her husband, Church in Franklin, TN, where NC, firm of Trimpi, Nash & Charlotte. He was recently David Kruse (MD ’95), com- he resides with his wife, Meda Harman, where she has worked 1994 Barnes (’93), and their son, appointed to the community pleted a residency in emergency since 1993. She is the attorney Deborah D. Alexander (MAEd Benjamin. development corporation board medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill for the Albermarle child sup- ’98) is teaching English at for the Wilmore community and in June and is now an ER physi- Glenn A. Brown is an associate port agency’s guardian ad litem Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, to the Charlotte community cian at Alexandria Hospital in in the banking, finance, and program and also is a member NC. In August she received her relations board. Alexandria, VA. property practice group of the of the paralegal advisory com- master’s degree in English edu- Atlanta, GA, office of the law mittee at the College of cation from Wake Forest. Prior Justin Choulochas has joined Andrew “A.J.” Lewis (MD ’98) firm of Womble, Carlyle, Albemarle. to her graduate study, she the Seiko Epson Corp. as a graduated from Wake Forest translator at their world head- University School of Medicine Sandridge, & Rice. Jill Sanders Headley resides in taught English for three years at quarters in Suwa City, Japan. and has started a residency in A. Cedric Calhoun has been the San Francisco bay area, East Forsyth High School in Previously he worked for the obstetrics and gynecology at the promoted to membership devel- where she is director of adver- Kernersville, NC. Her e-mail organizing committee for the Wake Forest University Baptist opment director for the Council tising for Internet Shopping address is dalexander@raven- Winter Olympic Games in Medical Center. for Advancement and Support Network. scroft.org. Nagano, Japan. John S. Meroney is under con- of Education, a not-for-profit Rob Knox was promoted to Billy F. Andrews has been Heather Hutchens Deskins tract as a feature writer for education association located in manager in the audit depart- named one of 17 Luce Scholars graduated from West Virginia Forbes FYI, a supplement to Washington, DC. ment of the Raleigh office of for 1998-99 and will spend a University Law School in 1997. Forbes magazine, and was Ashe Cribbs is performing Deloitte & Touche LLP. He spe- year as a fellow at the Institute After serving as a clerk at the recently made associate editor research on prenatal alcohol cializes in the manufacturing of Southeast Asian Studies in West Virginia Supreme Court of of the American Enterprise syndrome at the Medical industry. Singapore. Appeals from 1997-98, she magazine. University of South Carolina in Chris Berry and Laura Cline Kara Lynn McMahon is an became an associate at the firm Charleston, SC. She hopes to be Berry (’94) reside in Charlotte, Brian Miner has joined the firm English teacher at Centennial Jr. of Bown & Levicoff, PLLC, in accepted into medical school NC, with their two sons, Lance of Pepper Hamilton LLP in High School in Montrose, CO. Beckley, WV, where she resides for the 1999 class. (2) and Cameron (1). Chris is an Philadelphia, PA, as an associ- Heather M. Sager is an attorney with her husband, John ate in their tax department. He Greg Everett is president/owner investment broker with A.G. with a national employment Andrew Deskins. is pursuing his LL.M. degree in of WFXB, Fox 43, a Myrtle Edwards & Sons. firm in San Francisco, CA. Lisa McKinnon Freeman works taxation from Villanova Beach, SC, television station Chad V. Blankenburg was elect- Previously she worked at a civil at CEFCU, a credit union in University. serving the Myrtle ed banking officer for Wachovia litigation firm in Los Angeles, Peoria, IL. Her husband, Paul, is Beach/Florence/Lumberton Bank, N.A. He is branch Jon Quigley has been promoted CA, where she also was a pro- a news director for a CBS-affili- areas of North and South to lead portfolio manager and fessional actress. ated television station in Peoria.

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research analyst for all strategic Convention and Visitors asset allocation products at Bureau on how to attract trav- LBS Capital Management. elers and businesses to Winston-Salem. Doomsday Deacons Elizabeth Warner lives in Raleigh, NC, where she is Katherine C. Gordon is in her HIS SUMMER, a mutant virus invaded director of volunteer recruit- third year of law school at the THigh Point, NC, and several Wake ment for the 1999 Special Brandeis School of Law at the Forest alumni and students were there to Olympics World Summer University of Louisville, KY. Games, which will take place After graduation in May, she catch it all on film. The virus wasn’t real, June 26 through July 4. She will clerk in Louisville for the of course, but was part of the plot for the encourages Wake Forest alumni Hon. Boyce Martin, United movie Doomsday Man, which was shot who would like to volunteer to States Court of Appeal for the in the area over a three-week period in call her at (919) 835-4228. Sixth Circuit. July and August. Jennifer McCough Watson is a Jennifer M. Jackson has worked student in the clinical psycho- as a script/development assistant Elizabeth Skladany (‘98) spent the logy PhD program at the to director Walter Hill (whose shoot serving as a location manager, University of Memphis, TN. films include 48 Hours and while Robert Johnson (‘98) was a camera Wild Bill). Her recent duties assistant intern and Chris Carter (‘90) worked in the wardrobe department. 1995 include coordinating script revi- sions on Supernova, a sci-fi Current students who worked on the film included Aaron Fallon, production Amy Kathryn Barnard is a thriller scheduled for relase in first-year medical student at the assistant; Devin Smith, assistant accountant; Geoff Proud, art department; Spring 1999. University of North Carolina at Willie Lam, grip; and Edward Childress, pyrotechnics. Chapel Hill. Andrew Johnson is a banker in Movie magic takes hard work, leaving little time for a Wake Forest reunion the Atlanta, GA, office of a William C. Brewer (JD) has Canadian firm. He resides in on the set. “All the Wake Forest people were in different departments, so there joined the law firm of Stokes & Atlanta’s Buckhead community, wasn’t too much hanging out being done,” says Skladany, who worked Bartholomew as an associate. where he is member of his fourteen-hour days, six days a week scouting and arranging locations. “It’s Jeanine L. Certo received a church’s softball team and a incredibly grueling.” She began working saner hours in fall as an office master’s degree in genetics from vocalist in a traveling choral manager at a film and video production company in Alexandria, VA. West Virginia University in group. December 1997. She resides in Jeffrey A. Kramer (JD) has Johnson was in New York City studying cinematography at New York Morgantown, WV, and is joined the firm of Lowenstein University when he learned employed with Merck & Sandler, PC, in Budd Lake, NJ. about an opportunity to work Company, Inc. as an acute care He is an associate in the litiga- hospital representative. on the film. “Next thing you tion department. Nathalie Dalton is employed at know, I’m flying home and am Sara L. Martin has entered the the World Bank in the at the shoot at 5:00 a.m. the master of music in musicology Economic Development program at the University of next day.” Institute. She is a member of Maryland. Her e-mail address Johnson, like the other the education team, which is [email protected]. Wake Forest students and works to improve the quality and effectiveness of education Alen McKnight is a contracts alumni, was happy to be a part in anglophone and francopho- manager for Aerotek in of Doomsday Man, even ne African countries. Raleigh, NC, where he resides with his wife, Kimberly, who though he admits the film prob- Chadwick D. Davis is the vice works as a second-grade ably won’t be a blockbuster. president of real estate develop- teacher in Chapel Hill, NC. “A good way for students to Elizabeth Skladany, top, and Robert Johnson ment at D.L. Davis and logged long but rewarding hours on the set. Amanda Muelchi received a learn is to work on low-budget Company, Inc. in Winston- Salem. He oversees the renova- master’s degree in experimental shoots,” comments Johnson, tion of several buildings and psychology from the University who currently is pursuing freelance film work in North Carolina and considering the construction of 50,000 of Tennessee, Knoxville, in a move to Los Angeles. “Working on a film like Doomsday Man is a nice way square feet of new buildings in May 1998. She currently is in her first year of the counseling to get your foot in the door.” Winston-Salem. He recently participated in a forum spon- psychology PhD program at the sored by the Winston-Salem University of Tennessee.

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Paul M. Navarro received a JD Chad Curry received an MBA from the University of Virginia in May 1998 and works for School of Law and is now Security Capital Group REIT in working in Charlotte, NC, with real estate acquisitions in the firm of Smith Helms Mullis Dallas, TX. home for the hol- & Moore, LLP. M. Leah Hudson (JD/MBA) has Patrick Phillips was selected to joined the corporate and securi- the United States National cross- ties group of the Texas-based, country team, which competed international law firm of Akin, THE SEIKO WAKE FOREST WATCH has a in the World Half-Marathon Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, three-dimensional recreation of the University Championships in Zurich, LLP, in its Washington, DC, seal on the dial finished in 14 kt. gold. Available Switzerland, in September. He is office. in four styles (from left): women’s and men’s a counselor in the Wake Forest leather strap watch, $200; and men’s and Philip S. 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Nathan W. Tilman recently University. He develops content University in June, 1997. She is Jenny Hobbs is an upper Kerry Espinola Parks is employed completed the United States and Internet public relations an assistant athletic trainer at school math and science at First Union in Raleigh, NC, Navy’s Officer Indoctrination and marketing strategies for the Jacksonville University in teacher at Wayne Country Day where she resides with her hus- Course in Newport, RI. school’s website. Jacksonville, FL. School, a private school in band, Daniel Parks Jr. June Turner-Piscitelli received a Matthew J. Gilley is attending Tasha Cox is in her first year of Goldsboro, NC. This winter Amy Raphael is working on a master’s degree in August 1997. Emory University School of graduate school at the she will coach the school’s JV master’s degree in counselor She is employed as a full-time Law in Atlanta, GA. His wife, University of Texas at Dallas. girls basketball team. She education, with a specialty in English instructor at a private, Jennifer C. Gilley (’98), is She is working toward’s a mas- resides in Goldsboro with her student development in higher two-year college in Florida. employed at the Norrell ter’s degree in speech-language husband, Ernie Hobbs (’94). education, at the UNC- Corporation. pathology. Greensboro.

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Erin Graves received the 1998 presented “Faculty Workload Harley Ruff (’85) and Carol Jenna Fruechtenicht (’92, JD Shannon Adele Teague (’94) Governor’s Award for her four Study-Methodology, Results, Clayton. 4/29/95 ’95) and Algernon L. Butler III. and John Lomnet Watters III years of work with the and Analysis” at the Southern Tina M. Burleson (’89) and 7/25/98 (’95). 7/11/98 American Red Cross while an Association for Institutional Christopher Stewart. 5/30/98 Elizabeth Brandenburgh (’93) Aaron Gallagher (’95) and undergraduate at Wake Forest. Research Conference in Sarah Lancaster Cave (’89) and and Trefor Thomas. 5/9/98 Alexandria McLintock. 6/6/98 She currently teaches in New Savannah Georgia. Nils Domenic Onsager. 7/18/98 Ann Blair Janak (’93) and John LaShonda Lawrence (’95, York City as a member of the Marcia Pennefather (JD/MBA) Carolyn Frances Geiger (’89) Christopher Bagley. 9/19/98 MAEd ’97) and Bobby Teach For America program. has joined Wachovia Bank in and William Stacey Moore III. Kennedy. 7/11/98 Elizabeth Chenault Gray is a the legal division’s commercial Kara Lynn McMahon (’93) 9/27/97 member in good standing of practice group. and Andrew A. Mueller. 7/4/98 Alen McKnight (’95) and Omicron Delta Kappa. Her Vivian M. Roebuck (’89) and Regina Robinson (JD ’93) and Kimberly Loomis. 6/27/98 name was inadvertently left of Marriages Bernard K. Smith. 8/1/98 James Davis Gillespie. 7/11/98 J. Paige Teague (’95) and the Omicron Delta Kappa Jean Sutton (’89, JD ’98) and Jill Sanders (’93) and Thor Roger N. Walser Jr. 9/7/96 membership list in the 1998 1970s Gilmer Martin II. 9/5/98 Headley. 6/6/98 Emily Clere Jones (’96) and Baccalaureate/Honors & Edward T. Frackiewicz (’75) Gregg Boulton (MBA ’94) and Erik Alan Chaikin. 8/15/98 Awards program. 1990s and Lisa Karas. 5/10/97 Bonnie Lynn Jones. 4/18/98 Kerry Espinola (’97) and Yihong Gu (MS) has been pro- Ed Clark (’90) and Erika Jo Ann Sager (’78) and Ron Jodi Marcussen (’94) and Daniel B. Parks Jr. 8/1/98 moted to associate director of Hayden. 8/8/98 Gilley. 11/8/97 Stewart M. Coulter. 7/11/98 Mary Alice Manning (’97) and institutional research at Wake Elizabeth Anne McPherson Tommy Mithcell (’96). 8/15/98 Forest University. In January Lisa McKinnon (’94) and Paul 1980s (’90) and Paul Raymond she presented “The Role of Freeman. 5/30/98 Emily Meyers (’97) and Daniel Penelope Humphrey (’83) and Andresen (’92). 4/25/98 Assessment Data in Evaluating Katherine Meares (’94, MD Dudley Munn (’94, MS ’96). David Hulbert. 1/10/98 Matthew Moore (’90) and Amy the Wake Forest Strategic Plan” ’98) and David Kruse (MD 9/19/98 Apodaca. 6/26/98 at the Higher Education Data Glenn H. Hurlbert (’84) and ’98). 5/3/97 Laura Nicole Passiment (JD Sharing Consortium Winter Karen A. Koonce. 6/27/98 Elizabeth Rivers Hall (’91) and Meredith Roberts (’94) and ’97) and Alan Huntley Stokes Conference in Clearwater Robert James Sparks Jr. 8/29/98 Russell Shilling (’85) and Elaine Michael Lane Branch. 7/4/98 (’93). 8/29/98 Beach, FL. In October she Wohlgemuth. 8/1/98

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Jennifer Greer (’98) and Matthew J. Gilley (’98). 7/4/98 Amanda King (’98) and Chris ALUMNI-IN-ADMISSIONS VOLUNTEERS Potocky (’97). 7/11/98

Birth and Adoptions n this season of sharing, Wake

1970s Forest University would like to Steve A. Disker (’74) and K. thank the Alumni-in-Admissions volun- Lynn Disker, Jacksonville, FL: son, Christopher Sean. 7/9/98 teers who have shared their time and efforts N. Roger Reece (’77) and Marla Reece, Gainesville, FL: on its behalf throughout the year. Our son, Donald McKinnon. 7/1/97 warmest wishes for a joyful holiday go out to Anne Cody Turpin (MBA ’78) and Claude C. Turpin IV, the more than 400 alumni who have assisted Houston, TX: daughter, Catherine Anne. June 1998 with recruitment efforts by attending college 1980s fairs, contacting prospective students, and hosting Edward J. Blake (’81) and Karin-Leigh Spicer (MA ’81), receptions. Their efforts ensure that Wake Forest will Centerville, OH: daughter, continue to enroll the best and the brightest students. Jordan Lyubov, adopted. (Born 9/24/92) Donna Snipes Schoettmer (’81) and Steve Schoettmer, Dallas, TX: son, Michael Andrew. Raleigh, NC: daughter, Amelia Raleigh, NC: daughter, (’86), Winston-Salem: daugh- Michelle Whicker Price (’88), 9/21/98 Hope. 8/19/98 Elizabeth Jennings. 6/30/98 ter, Jane Brethauer. 6/29/98 Cary, NC: son, Mitchell Wayne Price. 5/28/98 Kelly Deaton Braxton (’82) and Theresa Mosso Kral (’83), David Bernat (’86) and Clare Flanagan Cusato (’87) Ken Braxton, Charlotte, NC: Randolph, NJ: daughter, Michelle Bernat, San Diego, and William Oldfield Cusato, William Arthur Washburn III daughter, Lindsey Nicole. Rachel Victoria. 4/15/98 CA: daughter, Tatum Sophia. Signal Hill, CA: son, Evan (’88) and Sondra Stefursky 8/6/98 John Richardson (’83) and Sue 4/11/98 Raymond. 7/5/98 Washburn, Glen Allen,VA: son, Zachary Tyler. 8/18/98 Ann Baldwin Harris (’82) and Richardson, Winston-Salem: David M. Eldridge (JD ’86) Susan Forbes Donahue (’87) Worth Harris, Raleigh, NC: son, Quinn Alexander. 7/8/98 and Connie Eldridge, and Robert M. Donahue (’87), Cynthia Lee Bates (’89) and daughter, Georgia Craven. Dan Ruble (’84) and Sandi Knoxville, TN: son, Paul Winston-Salem: son, Sean Thomas C. Bates (’89, 8/10/98 Ruble, Round Rock, TX: son, Ventress Crockett. 6/2/98 Michael, 1/10/94; daughter, JD/MBA ’93), Greensboro, Robin Elizabeth, 7/8/98 NC: daughter, Margaret Clara. Karen MacFadden Hinkley Micah Joseph. 5/1/98 Elizabeth Hutcherson (’86) and 2/2/98 (’82) and Wayne Hinkley, Valerie Coe Lowder (’85) and James P. Hutcherson (’83, JD Mike Frenzel (’87) and Julia Yakima, WA: son, Ian Joseph. Patrick Doyle Lowder (’85), ’89), Advance, NC: daughter, Frenzel, Charleston, SC: son, Sharon Harris Devenney (’89) 8/26/98 Raleigh, NC: son, Nolan Campbell Elizabeth. 4/27/98 George Pinckney. 6/15/98 and Charles F. Devenney (’89), Charlotte, NC: son, Reece Christine Lee Hofstetter (’82) Carlos, adopted. (Born 2/3/98) Harriet L. Kolmer (’86) and J. Paul Gerrard Houston (’87) Palmer. 7/23/98 and Thomas Hofstetter, Staten Kenneth S. Lucas Jr. (JD ’85) David Forbes, Standardsville, and Laura Houston (’87), Island, NY: daughter, Kirsten and Beth Lucas, Greensboro, VA: son, Andrew Kolmer. Middletown, NJ: son, Samuel Ingrid Kincaid Gentry (’89) Anne. 7/8/98 NC: son, John Paul. 3/22/98 3/5/98 Peter. 6/30/98 and Lewis Gentry (’90), Louisville, KY: daugther, Lily Frank D. Whitney (’82), Russell A. Mansfield (’85) and Laura F. Davis Mayer (’86) and R. Scott Herman (’88) and DeSpain. 7/25/98 Charlotte, NC: daugther, Melissa Mansfield, Charlotte, David D. Mayer, Columbus, Amy Herman, Winston-Salem: Frances Huntley. 8/1/98 NC: daugther, Anna Katherine. GA: daughter, Kristen daughter, Anna Silver. 5/29/97 Stephanie Patillo Hermes (’89) Elizabeth. 6/26/98 and Jerry Hermes, Mt. Holly, Paul T. Flick (’83, JD ’86) and 6/11/98 Tommy Mayes (’88) and Susan NC: daughter, Savannah Lauren Rockwell Flick, George H. Armstrong (’86) George M. Cleland IV (’87) Mayes, Virginia Beach, VA: Katherine Elaine. 7/10/98 and Melanie Armstrong, and Melissa Brethauer Cleland son, Thomas. 3/5/98

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Anne-Marie Nathanson Morris Laura Doggett Stowers (’90) AFB, CA: daughter, Abigail Leanne Jackson Link (’95) and chancellor emeritus of the (’89) and Brian P. Morris, and Mark Stowers (’89), Charlotte. 9/12/98 Bryan Link, Winston-Salem: University of Richmond. Under Matthews, NC: daughter, Raleigh, NC: son, Luke Al Yonkovitz (’91) and Lark daughter, Emma Christine. his leadership, the school expe- Catherine Olivia Morris. Alexander. 7/13/98 Yonkovitz, Bluefield, WV: 3/17/98 rienced an unprecedented peri- od of growth. A lifelong 5/30/98 Susie Bock Verrill (’90) and daughter, Kacey Tegan. 9/1/98 Paige Teague Walser (’95) and educator, he received his mas- William Y. Rice III (MD ’89) Dave Verrill, Matthews, NC: Kevin Connor (’92), Tampa, Roger N. Walser Jr., ter’s and doctoral degrees in and Karen Halverson Rice, son, Christopher David. FL: daughter, Jessica Rose. Thomasville, NC: daughter, economics from Princeton Winston-Salem: triplet daugh- 1/16/98 7/12/98 Brooke Nichole. 5/30/98 University. He taught at ters: Allison Lewis, Julia Karen, Robert C. Daniel (’91) and Mimi M. Jones (JD ’92) and Deaths Princeton and Rutgers and Kathryn Helene. 8/15/98 Allison Daniel, Weaverville, Jeff Jones, Harrodsburg, KY: University before coming to Melissa Heames Weresh (’89) NC: son, Robert Mitchell. daughter, Darby Rose. 7/28/98 Alumni University of Richmond. He and Matt Weresh (’87), Akron, 4/29/98 Heather Gould Smith (’92) and also was a member of several OH: son, Henry Ryne. 8/24/98 John Alexander Ellis (’21) July Hank Garbee (’91) and Sarah Scott Randolph Smith (’92), professional and charitable 19, 1998, Winston-Salem. He Garbee, Asheville, NC: son, Winston-Salem: son, Ethan organizations. 1990s worked at Reynolds Tobacco Thomas Henry. 1/28/98 Alexander. 4/24/98 Company for 44 years and Ellis Nassif (’30) September 6, Marnie M. Crumpler (’90) and G. Kenneth Orndorff (’91) and Meda Barnes (’93) and Bradley retired in 1962 as an assistant 1998, Wake Forest, NC Mark Hunter Crumpler, Apex, Tiffany Raley Orndorff (’91), Barnes (’93), Franklin, TN: factory manager. He is survived Henry Dewey Young (’30) NC: son, John Hunter. 1/22/98 Charlotte, NC: son, Raley son, Benjamin Henry. 7/23/98 by his daughter, Ann Sheek; September 9, 1998, Raleigh, Kathryn Eggleston (’90) and Kenneth. 11/7/98 Amanda McMakin-Rader (’94) two grandsons; and one great- NC Tommy Eggleston (’91, MS Darren Phillips (’91) and and Dustin Rader, Knoxville, granddaugther. Albert Kearney Dickens (’32) ’92), Knoxville, TN: son, Luke Elizabeth Phillips, Rocky TN: Hannah Caroline. 6/29/98 Fred B. Helms (JD ’22) August July 8, 1932, Spring Hope, NC. Alexander. 7/7/98 Mount, NC: son, Bryce Hunter. Shawn Burns (’95) and Wes 25, 1998, Charlotte, NC He was a retired postmaster Cindy Johnson Schwefel (’90) 6/4/98 Burns (’93), Marietta, GA: George Modlin (’24) October with the United States Postal and Jim Schwefel, Indianapolis, Allison Coffey Richter (’91) daughter, Victoria Dauphine. 4, 1998, Richmond, VA. He Service. He is survived by his IN: son, Alex James. 6/19/98 and Chris Richter (’91), Beale 3/28/98 was the fourth president and

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daughter, Florence Dickens and was a professor of mathe- McDonald, and two grandsons. matics at Louisiana College in Pineville, LA, from 1952 to Richard H. Moore (’32) May 1, 1958. From 1958 to 1980, he 1998, Brevard, NC served at McNeese State A.V. Washburn (’33) December University in Lake Charles, JANE COTTLE JOYNER died unexpectedly 12, 1997, Nashville, TN LA, where he was a professor on Thursday, October 22, at her home in Daniel Byron Teachey (’34) and head of the mathematics March 17, 1998, Rose Hill, NC department and later dean of Pinehurst, NC. She was the wife of G. Oscar Willis Carter (’36, MD the school of sciences. At his William Joyner Jr. (‘66), former vice presi- ’40) February 8, 1998, retirement in 1980, he was dent for university relations at Wake Forest, Nashville, TN named dean emeritus of the school of sciences. He is sur- Chevis F. Horne (’36) June 24, and a friend to many members of the vived by his wife, Billie Faye 1998, Martinsville, VA Wake Forest community. She was born in Spencer; two daughters; a son; Claude P. Sherman (’36) and four grandchildren. Raleigh, North Carolina, to Mr. and Mrs. September 4, 1998, Charles Maddry Freeman Martinsville, VA. He was a Oran James Cottle. A graduate of St. Mary’s High School and (’42) August 6, 1998, Silver medical officer in the United Salem College, she had volunteered much of her time to the Spring, MD States Navy during World War Brenner Children’s Hospital at the Wake Forest University Baptist II and was discharged as a Murray Lane Goodwin (’42) Lieutenant Commander in January 24, 1998, Edenton, Medical Center and to the Wake Forest University Club, where she NC 1946. After military service, he had served as president. She was also an active volunteer with the practiced orthopedics in Joseph Stradley Evans Jr. (’44) Martinsville until his retirement April 13, 1997, Henderson, Junior League of Winston-Salem, the Centenary United Methodist in 1986. He was a former presi- NC Church, and the North Carolina Museum of History Associates. She dent of the Lions Club and was Samuel James Calvert (’47) a member of numerous medical is survived by her husband; a son, George William Joyner III April 2, 1998, Salisbury, NC. associations and societies. He is survived by his wife, (JD/MBA ‘96); a daughter, Sara Peyton Cottle Joyner (‘96); and Charles Louis Sykes Sr. (’36) Grey; two daughters, her mother, Sara Cottle. August 12, 1998, Mount Airy, Elizabeth Calvert and Anne NC Calvert Thorne (’87); and two Donald Nash Whitaker (’37) grandsons. Albert Jerome Arnette (’55) Jan Pressley Huggins (’63) June During his 28 years of military September 4, 1998, Raleigh, Jessie Ruth Bridges Canter (’47) May 13, 1998, Columbia, SC 26, 1998, Schertz, TX. He was service, he was awarded the NC August 13, 1998, Moravian Ralph William Brewster (’58) operations manager of Texas National Defense Service John M. Sykes (’39) January 1, Falls, NC July 16, 1998, Brandon, MS Public Radio in San Antonio, Medal, the Good Conduct TX, and president of the Wake Medal, Navy Commendation 1998, Ashland, KY Ernest C. Chappell (’47) March JoAnn Mask Rollins (’58) July Forest Club of San Antonio. He Medal, Defense Meritorious Hubert Bryce Gentry (’40) 30, 1998, Cary, NC. He was 19, 1998, South Windsor, CT. is survived by his wife, Johnida Service Medal , Navy and August 16, 1998, Winston- chaplain with Polk Youth She received a master’s degree Huggins. Marine Corps Overseas Service Salem. He was an inspector for Center and pastor of Fuller in library science from Southern Ribbons, and the Officer of the the Forsyth County Health Memorial Church in Raleigh, Connecticut State University W. Douglas Watson (JD ’64) Secretary of Defense Insignia. Department for 31 years. He NC. During World War II, he and was employed as a library March 2, 1998, Boulder, CO He is survived by his son, was a member of Ardmore served in the United States media specialist for AI Prince William Earl Dale (’67) August Douglas Fish. Baptist Church, where he Navy. Tech. of Hartford, CT. She is 7, 1998, Westport, CT Catherine Stockton Shields served in many capacities. He is Allen Gray Cooper Jr. (’49) survived by her husband, George Mitchell McCormick (’92) August 2, 1998, Seattle, survived by his wife of 66 years, September 8, 1997, Nashville, William R. Rollins. (’76, MD ’85) September 2, WA. She received an MS degree Bertha Clayton Gentry; a son, NC Carrie White Goodwin (’59) 1998, Pinehurst, NC H. Bryce Gentry Jr.; two daugh- from Auburn University and Mamie Faulk Kelly (’49) March 17, 1998, Alexandria, Eileen Elizabeth Hartsoe (MD ters, Page Deardorff and Nancy was employed at the Woodland August 27, 1998, El Cajon, CA. VA ’80) June 28, 1998, Smith; seven grandchildren; and Park Zoo in Seattle. She is sur- She was a retired school teacher Mary Elizabeth “Betsy” Morristown, NJ four great-grandchildren. vived by her husband, Jerry who had resided in El Cajon Freeman Hard (’61) June 1998, Stanley Lane Fish (MBA ’90) Shields. Stephen M. Spencer Jr. (’40, since 1953. Salisbury, NC. She is survived May 30, 1998, Goldsboro, NC. MA ’48) October 1, 1997, Lake Christian Cappelluti (’97) Edwin E. Salley (’53) August by her husband, Ed, and son, He was a retired U.S. Navy Charles, LA. He received a PhD August 2, 1998, Rome, Italy. 17, 1998, Conway, SC Matson. Commander and a managing from Duke University in 1951 He was pursuing a career as a partner at The Virtual Group. songwriter in Europe.

Wake Forest December 1998 4

The Last Word

President Thomas K. Hearn Jr.

Family Value About having completed now fifteen years as your president, I hold two contradictory beliefs with equal clarity and con- viction. My first belief is that my arrival here was just yesterday. My second belief is that I have been here forever. I owe an extraordinary debt to the faculty and administration, the trustees and students, the alumni, the parents, and the friends of the University for making this such a congenial place to serve, and for providing me with the support and resources which have made this job truly wonderful.

VER THESE YEARS I have had a grow- Those leaders invested us with a magnificent Oing appreciation for the distinctive acade- opportunity, but our obligation is to build a mic culture that is Wake Forest. It greater Wake Forest, not to just become amounts to a set of personal, com- another good school. munal, academic, moral, and even In maintaining our academic cli- spiritual ideas and ideals. In large mate and culture, the work you do measure, they are the legacy of in class and out of class is the sin- Old Wake Forest, and these gle ultimate important fact. The things collectively give this place learning that matters in securing its soul. They are all summarized academic and personal growth is in our aspiration to be a commu- never purely intellectual or discipli- nity that lives and practices educa- nary, it is personal and relational. It tion Pro Humanitate. In a certain occurs when you enable a student to strange and even paradoxical way, the see that he or she can do or become some- greatest threat to that culture, the removal to thing that the student had heretofore not recog- Winston-Salem, became in one sense the means nized. If we achieve these experiences with and for its perpetuation. We pondered the question for our students, we give them the very best edu- of institutional identity as perhaps no other cation possible and we secure their grateful par- university, for we had the question of the Old ticipation in the work of Wake Forest for a life- Campus graduates: “Is Wake Forest our old time. I am honored and grateful to be at Wake school in a new place, or is that a new school Forest where these ideals are our heritage and, I with only the old name?” Those leaders who hope and pray, will remain our legacy. Wf brought the school here attempted to make cer- tain that we had memory as well as vision, and The preceding is excerpted from President Hearn’s that we knew and would remember our her- State of the University address on October 1, his itage that is written into our architecture. fifteenth anniversary at Wake Forest.

Wake Forest December 1998 Also in this issue:

Sub-Saharan shift

Change, for good and otherwise, comes to Africa. Page 30

Worldwide web

Alumni come, virtually, to the classroom. Page 2