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With this edition, Wake Forest SUMMER 2011 | VOLUME 58 | NUMBER 3 Magazine offers a range of features that celebrate the Pro Humanitate spirit, from ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT AND EDITOR-AT-LARGE Maria Henson (’82) Coach Tom Walter’s sacrifice for Kevin Jordan to the quest EDITOR Cherin C. Poovey (P ’08) for a new Sudan championed

DEPUTY EDITOR by the Braggs of Charlotte. Janet Williamson (P ’00, ’03) Among the stories is a piece by

PHOTOGRAPHER Edwin G. Wilson (’43), provost Ken Bennett and professor emeritus, describing the February day that Reynolds Professor DESIGNER of American Studies Maya Angelou received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Julie Helsabeck a new honor for a Wake Forester. The Wake Forest community in Washington, INTERN D.C., marked the event with a luncheon to pay tribute. Liz Keating (’11) PRINTING Maya Angelou is a person with tremendous presence and a certain charisma. It The Lane Press, Inc. comes from the power of her mind, her experience, her poetic way with words and her insight into whatever she is describing. Her impromptu remarks were deeply moving, particularly her deep appreciation of Wake Forest. It was a quintessential Wake Forest University Magazine (ISSN 0279-3946) is published three times a year in the Spring, Summer Wake Forest moment, reflecting our University’s motto. and Fall by Wake Forest University, P.O. Box 7227, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227. It is sent to alumni, I see Pro Humanitate very broadly. It is a powerful orientation to serve. Our donors and friends of the University. lives are to be given to purposes broader than ourselves. The classical notion [email protected] encompasses the central purposes of the University, which is thinking and then magazine.wfu.edu www.twitter.com/wfumagazine doing. “For humanity,” in a sense, is to exalt that which is best and most noble www.facebook.com/wakeforestmagazine about being human, and it certainly involves taking care of the less fortunate. It involves building communities in which human dignity can flourish. Excel- Send address changes or cancellation requests to: Wake Forest Magazine Alumni Records lences of the mind, the heart, the soul and the hands — I don’t like the word P.O. Box 7227 “balance” because it sounds bland — those kinds of creative tensions are the Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227 highest form of Pro Humanitate. [email protected] 1.800.752.8567 I do think on a number of fronts we are learning new facets of Pro Humanitate. © 2011 Our concern for educating the whole person is not only to have students learn sub- jects but also to be able to reflect meaningfully about “Why am I here?” and “What are my gifts?” The big, ultimate questions of how one wants to contribute in life.

We seek to offer strategies to help students come to terms with those larger issues, and, in doing so, that suggests a wonderful outlook for Pro Humanitate. Students will not just blindly accept the currency of our culture, which is that material acquisition and living the good life are the Holy Grail. Pro Humanitate — it gets into why does one live. It’s not for self-gratification. It’s for higher, more important purposes.

I hope this issue of the magazine offers you a sense of how the spirit of Pro Human- itate endures for the Wake Forest community — in Winston-Salem and beyond.

Warm regards,

On the cover: Baseball Coach Tom Walter and outfielder Kevin Jordan Photo by Ken Bennett A voice FOR victor

2 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES Victor Pauca sits at a small table with his speech therapist, who asks him what he wants to do: play with Dora the Explorer or Spiderman?

No blackboard interaction here. Instead, her chalk is an iPod Touch. On the screen she shows Victor images of each toy, encouraging him to make his choice by touching the appro- priate “button.” Victor, who has limited speech and motor skills, curiously eyes the screen and touches Dora. He waves his arms triumphantly as she sets the toy spinning around the table.

A voice FOR victor by cherin c. poovey (p ’08)

photographed by ken bennett

SUMMER 2011 3 Anne Grant, The Village Photographer / www.grantphoto.com Photographer Village The Anne Grant,

“happiness is a choice we left: A software application helps Victor and his father, Paúl, communicate. right: The Pauca family (right): Paúl, seated, with make. we could choose to Victor (left) and Francesca; Sofia (standing, left) and Theresa. be bitter or to be better. we chose to be better.

n victor’s classroom at Winston- child who communicates through an engaging smile, Salem’s Children’s Center for the Physically sounds and hand gestures. Disabled, dictionary-sized assistive and aug- mentative communication devices (AACD) “Having your child diagnosed with something es- with four-figure price tags have been set aside in favor sentially ‘incurable’ is one of the hardest things a par- of something more adaptable and less expensive: ent can go through,” says Pauca, who came to Wake touchscreen technology. Victor’s teacher, Chris Sladky, Forest as an undergraduate from Peru. “It’s like going holds help in the palm of her hand. through a really deep valley where you are isolated from the rest of the world. But we pull through it On this day Victor finds his voice through a software with hard work and determination.” Says Theresa, “It application based on matching images with phrases. helped us realize that happiness is a choice we make. But this isn’t just any app: it is the brainchild of his fa- We could choose to be bitter or to be better. We chose ther, Wake Forest Professor Paúl Pauca (’94, MS ’96), to be better.” and his students; and it is named Verbal Victor for one dark-haired, charming little boy. It was Theresa — a former special education teacher whose father, Reynolds Professor of Mathematics and Pauca, associate professor of computer science, and Computer Science Robert Plemmons (’61), intro- his wife, Theresa, sensed something was not right with duced her to the man she would eventually marry their son early on when he fell behind in his develop- — who proposed the idea to her husband of pursuing mental milestones such as crawling, sitting, walking a more adaptable, affordable AACD to improve life and speaking. At age two-and-a-half he was diagnosed not only for Victor but also for others. Thus began with Pitt Hopkins Syndrome (PTHS), a rare genetic an ongoing labor of love uniting professor, students, disorder affecting his muscle control, speech and teachers, speech therapists and parents of PTHS chil- overall development. Now 5, Victor is a curious, active dren worldwide.

4 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES Younger sister Francesca, who is teaching Victor how to cook, helps him navigate the front steps to their home.

SUMMER 2011 5 auca and his software engi- neering students first did their homework: what had been previously imple- mented and what improvements might they make? Once they found a niche they worked in two- week cycles, developing the program, sharing it with users and refining the product based on feedback. “We can do something to help many people along the way and integrate it with our students’ education. It’s a benefit for many people, not just the children.”

victor makes it easy for us because he is the hardest working kid. he has achieved things we didn’t think he could.”

Tommy Guy (MA ’09, MS ’10), a former graduate student of Pauca’s and now a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto, was lead programming engineer. He says the team was looking for basic functionality with a simple interface using camera and microphone to enable customization. “And we wanted it to be affordable,” says Guy, who received funding from Wake Forest’s Center for Entrepreneurship to develop a prototype including new features.

Verbal Victor has a dynamic display with customized image “buttons” accompanied by phrases that express the user’s desired action, such as “I want to eat” (a lunchbox) or “I want to play” (toys). It is simple to download on the iPhone/iPad and convenient for teachers and parents to adapt by adding pictures and recording new phrases. Best of all, it’s currently $6.99 on iTunes. As of mid-spring the app had been down- loaded over 1,100 times worldwide.

Pauca and team are working on a new version featur- ing page locking, image editing and the ability to combine buttons to make complete sentences. Devel- opers are also looking at online button-sharing.

Tommy Guy (MA ’09, MS ’10), lead programming engineer for Verbal Victor (top), says the development team wanted a simple, practical interface. The app uses photos and sounds to communicate with Victor (center). Paúl Pauca says the app has the potential to benefit many people with communication disabilities.

6 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES Pauca is researching grants to further develop Verbal around the country. The second annual Race for Victor Victor. His goal is to use his expertise, mobile technol- and PTHS is scheduled for Oct. 1 at Tanglewood Park. ogy and knowledge regarding speech and communi- cation to develop better and more affordable ap- As the Paucas forge ahead with PTHS awareness and plications for people with disabilities such as autism, research, the family mission of being better, not bit- Parkinson’s disease and stroke. ter, is heartwarmingly personified in Victor’s sisters, Sofia (11) and Francesca (8). They are their brother’s He acknowledges he hasn’t invented anything new; biggest advocates, reading to him, playing with him he’s just tailored something for a particular type of and bragging about his achievements. Francesca has child. His own child. “Victor makes it easy for us be- “cooking lessons” for him every Tuesday and sets cause he is the hardest working kid. He has achieved therapy goals for them to accomplish together. things we didn’t think he could.” Once Sofia and her father were discussing genes When Victor was first diagnosed, his parents searched and DNA when she expressed interest in becoming the Internet and found one other family whose child a scientist who could work on those things. Pauca had PTHS. They formed an international support encouraged her to learn more about PTHS and maybe group that now numbers over 100 families and count- even discover a cure. ing. The Paucas organized a local faith-based support group for parents of children with disabilities, created Sofia said she would like that, but she wasn’t sure the Pitt Hopkins Syndrome Fund under the Winston- about finding a cure. “Because then,” she said, “parents Salem Foundation and the Pitt Hopkins Syndrome In- might just bring their kids to me and say, ‘Fix the ternational Network. Together with other families they problem,’ and never learn the wonderful things their have raised $15,000 to fund research through 5K races children could teach them.”

An active, curious boy, Victor enjoys a swing as his grandparents, Reynolds Professor Robert Plemmons (’61) and Mary Jo Plemmons, enjoy watching him (left).

SUMMER 2011 7 WASHINGTONIANS

WAKE Washington introduces students to the landmarks, monuments, politics and players that make the capital city hum

By Susannah Rosenblatt (’03) photographed by rod lamkey

8 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES IT’S TOUGH KEEPING UP WITH ANYONE IN WAKE FOREST’S PRESTIGIOUS SEMESTER-IN-D.C. PROGRAM — PARTICULARLY AUBREY VAUGHAN AND HER FAST-PACED FOOTSTEPS. THIS SPRING, THE JUNIOR POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR IS IN THE MIDST OF THE JUGGLING ACT OTHERWISE KNOWN AS WAKE WASHINGTON.

Vaughan, from rural Versailles, (pronounced Ver-sales) Ky., spends most of her days working at a full-time in- ternship where she creates civics education materials and does media outreach for nonprofit Rock the Vote. The rest of the time she’s thinking on her feet in criminal law class, listening to war stories from a panel of veteran “The University had this fabulous history of study Aubrey Vaughan campaign managers or touring the White House. And abroad — really had been an early leader in all of that saw the Washington that’s just Mondays. — and understood the importance of experiential Monument at age 3 and always wanted learning,” said former Alumni Association President to return. “It sounds really nerdy,” Vaughan said, “I’m just con- Nancy Kuhn (’73). Washington was only a few hours stantly politically starstruck.” from campus, yet “we didn’t have any presence here.”

The WAKE Washington program, now in its fifth year, So Kuhn, director of external relations for the Busi- offers motivated undergraduates the chance to live in ness-Higher Education Forum, spearheaded an in- the nation’s capital and work full-time at the competitive depth investigation of programs run by other universi- internship of their choice while completing a course ties in the city. Through that research, The Washington through the University’s affiliate organization in Center emerged as the ideal partner to help launch the city, The Washington Center. On top of that, WAKE Washington. The respected nonprofit has students must conduct an independent study helped connect college students with outstanding and write a major paper with the guidance of a internships for more than three decades, and every Wake Forest professor. The rigorous program of- semester it offers dozens of challenging courses taught fers students across every major a real-world taste of by top-tier instructors. government, politics, think tanks and nonprofits, and a chance to hobnob with high-profile power brokers. Unlike Wake Forest study abroad programs such as Casa Artom in Venice, where students live with one another WAKE Washington students “see this big world that’s right as well as a professor, the WAKE Washington student in Washington, D.C.,” said Associate Dean of the College lifestyle is more independent. Participants room with Paul N. Orser (’69, P ’01), who directs the program. students from schools around the country and the globe. Many live in the Center’s new, 95-unit Residential and For years, members of the Board of Visitors, trustees and Academic Facility, where students attend Washington some Washington alumni had been contemplating how Center classes in the basement, which also houses a best to forge a Wake Forest-Washington connection. In lounge, computer lab and fitness center. Others might 2006, the University began formally exploring ways to live in properties managed by the Center in nearby Ar- establish an institutional presence in D.C., a city that had lington, Va., or Bethesda, Md.; everybody commutes by long attracted growing numbers of young graduates. Metro. Many students report that their internships,

SUMMER 2011 9 courses, Washington Center activities and independent study research keep them so busy they hardly encounter other WAKE Washington students.

The Center works with more than 500 colleges and universities across the “THIS CITY EMBRACES, country, provides intensive advising, and organizes a full slate of enrichment opportunities for participants including meeting face-to-face with a member of Congress, hearing from panels of distinguished speakers and engaging in EMBODIES THAT SPIRIT community service. Students select a concentration, such as International Af- fairs, Media and Communication or Advocacy, Service and Arts, and choose OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP.” their internship. WAKE Washington alumni have interned with the Federal Trade Commission, INTERPOL, the NAACP, the Peace Corps, the Republi- - Michael b. smith, can National Committee and Voice of America, among other organizations. president of the washington center “For students interested in being a good citizen, becoming a contributor to society … this city embraces, embodies that spirit of good citizenship,” said The Washington Center President Michael B. Smith.

Vaughan, 20, felt that pull early. She’s been in love with D.C. since she saw the Washington Monument for the first time — when she was three. From the beginning, she says, she was a wonk: “I grew up watching the news instead of watching cartoons.” She bounced straight from a semester in Paris to rooming with three young women from China, Iowa, and New Jersey at The Washing-

“It’s quite a change of pace from the Wake Forest bubble,” Andy Bunker says.

10 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES ton Center’s sparkling new residential-academic facility The Studio Art minor is soaking up every minute. She in northeast D.C. Living in the nation’s capital fulfilled a might be dashing to the National Portrait Gallery court- long-held dream. yard to cram in LSAT preparations, or research the paper on youth voting she is writing for Associate Professor of Every morning Vaughan walks four blocks or so to the Political Science John Dinan, or filling up on the famous Metro; this semester, she is grateful to be navigating the hot dogs from Ben’s Chili Bowl. There’s something new to subway in English rather than French. In five stops she’s discover at all hours: she and a group of Washington Cen- at Rock the Vote’s office. Most mornings she grabs a Venti ter friends found themselves walking the National Mall iced green tea and banana nut bread from the building’s after midnight one warm Friday night, strolling miles Starbucks, fuel for scanning websites for political news (she from the Capitol past the Lincoln Memorial and moonlit was assigned to the entertainment beat, including Perez- war monuments, finally collapsing into a taxi at 2 a.m. Hilton.com) and blogging about youth civic engagement. Next project: getting a card for the Library of Congress.

Vaughan and a fellow intern might find lunch from one “It’s cool to feel like I’m actually part of the city,” of D.C.’s fleet of gourmet food trucks in nearby Farragut Vaughan said. Square. Most Monday afternoons, Vaughan rushes to a Pentagon tour or other event organized by The Washing- But WAKE Washington isn’t exactly a relaxing break ton Center. By 6 p.m., it’s time for criminal law class, taught from campus life. Rather, Orser requires applicants to the by Melvin Hardy, an Internal Revenue Service attorney. elite program to write two essays and interviews them; Hardy conducts his course like a law school professor, participants’ average GPA is 3.7. That makes sense, as peppering Vaughan and her 10 classmates with Socratic WAKE Washington students must have time management questions on the finer points of the Fourth Amendment. down to a science to balance a full-time job, a three-credit course, a directed study, plus the professional portfolio and constant events required by The Washington Center.

Students “don’t go up there with rose-colored glasses thinking, ‘This will be a nice party semester,’” said Deb- bie Best (’70, MA ’72), William L. Poteat Professor of Psychology and former Dean of the College who helped oversee the program’s creation. “It’s probably the hardest semester they’ve spent. But boy, do they come out of there knowing they can conquer the world.”

The intensive combination of challenging academics and meaningful professional experience in a metropolis of- fers students something they can’t find on campus.

Junior political science major Andy Bunker joined House Speaker John Boehner’s office in the spring, where he helped field the deluge of constituent calls after President Obama’s State of the Union address: “Getting to see how it all comes together is pretty wild.”

While her friends back in Winston-Salem were wrap- ping up exams and packing during their last week of college, communications major Jackie McConville (’07), was working for the Washington, D.C., bou- tique public relations firm Swanson Communica- tions, which sent her ringside in Las Vegas to help

“I do one day want to work in the federal government,” Vaughan says.

SUMMER 2011 11 “What our alumni tell us, survey after survey: ‘This experience transformed me,’” Washington Center Presi- dent Smith said.

The University’s enhanced connection to Washington has proved a boon to faculty scholarship as well. The Upton Foundation, which has lent crucial financial sup- port to the WAKE Washington program, also provided Wake Forest political science department Professor and Chair Katy Harriger the opportunity to dissect Supreme Court desegregation decisions through researching justices’ papers at the Library of Congress. Harriger approves coursework undertaken by political science majors during their time in D.C.; so far, she’s been im- “I’ve always loved promote the Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather pressed by the quality of students’ academic work. D.C.,” says Vaughan. fight. “What better way to get my foot in the door and test drive what I wanted to do than work in “In terms of getting some experience and building some D.C.?” said McConville, a former senior coordinator credentials in the Washington environment, I don’t think of special events for The Washington Center. “I’m the program can be beat,” Harriger said. really glad I was able to get an inside view of the world of PR before I graduated college.” Formalizing the link between Wake Forest and Washing- ton, a city with innumerable opportunities and full of During WAKE Washington’s inaugural semester in young professionals, just makes sense, Orser said: “If you spring 2007, Ryan Taggett (’09) had a front-row seat can’t find something meaningful to do in Washington, to the Democrats’ midterm sweep while working in D.C., you’re either dead or comatose.” Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s office. “As much as I loved Wake — and I really did love Wake And Vaughan is a testament to getting the most out of — the semester in D.C. was probably the best of my every moment. She still has a few items to check off her entire undergraduate experience,” said Taggett, now must-do list: see every room in every art museum. Try a second-year law student at the University of Vir- a fancy cupcake from every bakery she can find. Get off ginia. He attributes his time on the Hill with helping the metro at a random stop to discover a restaurant she steer him toward law school. can call her own.

Visiting embassies and attending congressional She’s learned to curb the urge to make eye contact and hearings as a representative of nonprofit Leader- smile at passing strangers, and she’s had to keep tabs ship Africa USA, Sarah Hines (’10) learned as much on her friends and the campus parties she’s missing via about herself as she did about global advocacy. Facebook. But living in D.C. through WAKE Washing- “Pretty much every corner you turn in D.C., you’re ton, Vaughan doesn’t feel as though she’s missing out: “I going to meet someone interesting who has some- wouldn’t turn it down for the world.” thing relevant to say,” said the philosophy major from Winston-Salem. “When I came back I had so Susannah Rosenblatt (’03) is a former journalist with the Los much to say, I felt a lot more confident,” said Hines, Angeles Times, a Michelin travel guide co-author and works as now studying social work at the University of Texas a Senior Project Director with KSA-Plus Communications in at Austin. “One of the reasons I am where I am now Arlington, Va., specializing in education communications. is because of the opportunity.”

12 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES “Every weekend my friends and I, we always try to go to at least one museum and one monument and explore until my feet hurt,” says Vaughan.

WAKE WASHINGTON LAW SCHOOL EXTERNSHIP VITAL STATS This spring Wake Forest School of Law launched a new program in Washington, D.C. The Metropolitan Year launched: 2007 Externship provides third-year students with the opportunity to spend a semester in practice in a Student alumni: 79 diverse legal environment under the supervision of Majors represented: 18 experienced attorneys. Minors/interdisciplinary minors represented: 12 Students spend approximately 35 hours per week THE WASHINGTON CENTER interning in a government agency or non-govern- mental organization. Placements include Executive Founded: 1975 Branch offices such as the Departments of Justice Alumni: More than 43,000 or State, or independent agencies such as the Fed- Spring and fall enrollment: 400-500 students eral Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, or Federal Elections Commission. Summer enrollment: 650-750 students Non-governmental groups include advocacy groups, Universities represented each semester: 100-200 human rights organizations and trade associations. International students: about 15 percent International organizations, such as the IMF or World Bank, are also included in the program. Wake Forest enrollment: about 10 students a semester, putting it in the top 20 schools of participating students, according to The Washington Center In addition to the practice component, students attend a weekly class taught by Adjunct Professor FOR MORE INFORMATION ON WAKE WASHINGTON David J. Gottlieb, who also organizes the project, and they complete journals. For more information, AND TO READ AUBREY’S BLOG, GO TO: go to dc-externship.law.wfu.edu/ college.wfu.edu/wake_washington SUMMER 2011 13 UNDER THE DOME

Rep. Donna EdwardS (’80), D-Md.

Rep. Donna Edwards’ devotion “Wake Forest allowed us to see the world in a larger context to public service blossomed than just our own community or our own campus.” toward the end of her freshman year, alongside her hallmates Her connection to the University was immediate the first time she from the Bostwick A-side base- visited: “I remember the moment standing on the middle of the ment. Edwards and friends vol- Quad: I looked around and I said, ‘This is going to be my home.’” unteered with Big Brothers Big Sisters, bringing young women Edwards considers her undergraduate years a touchstone in to campus to experience college life, occasionally accompany- her personal and professional life, which included co-founding ing them to class. and heading the National Network to End Domestic Violence, before she began representing Maryland’s 4th Congressional “It really was that experience that told me all along I wanted District, near Washington, D.C. In her second full term after to do something that was related to public service, to build- her initial victory in a 2008 special election, Edwards is ing community, strengthening communities,” said Edwards, focused on helping create what she terms “21st century” jobs. the first African-American woman to represent Maryland in Regardless of major or career aspirations, every student can Congress. She still maintains friendships with the freshman benefit from experience in D.C., Edwards said. women she oversaw as a resident adviser. “You learn a lot about how government works, the ways that it Edwards considers a semester in Salamanca, Spain, a pivotal doesn’t work so well. It gives us an opportunity to understand moment that helped awaken a more global perspective. the complexity of our system — and the beauty of it,” she said. “It’s a great gig if you can get it.”

SEN. KAY HAGAN (JD ’78), D-N.C.

First-term N.C. Sen. Kay Hagan Back home, Hagan has worked since 2009 to bring jobs to North couldn’t have avoided a life in Carolina and support small business owners. Her goal is to help politics if she’d wanted to. Her kick-start the slumping U.S. economy, what she deems one of uncle was Lawton Chiles, a the biggest challenges facing the country. Florida governor and U.S. sena- tor. Her father served as mayor of It’s the “talented professors” that spring to mind when Hagan Lakeland, Fla. As a state senator recalls the School of Law. Even more memorable than her in North Carolina, and now U.S. outstanding legal education, Wake Forest law school is where senator, Hagan has kept the family business going. Hagan met her husband, Chip (JD ’77). They’re still in touch with law school friends, a group she’s traveled to Argentina with The summer after graduating from Florida State University and saw recently at the wedding of a friend’s daughter (bride before beginning law school at Wake Forest, Hagan interned in and groom were both Wake Forest grads, too). Chiles’ Capitol Hill office. There, she said, she put her political science classes to work. Her solution for the WFU basketball team? It’s right there at home. “I look at North Carolina as the basketball hotbed of the She urges students to take advantage of the manifold profes- nation,” Hagan said. “We need to recruit more North Carolina sional opportunities: “You’re at the seat of power in Washington, basketball talent. I want to see the Demon Deacons in the Final D.C. It’s a very vibrant city. There is always so much going on.” Four next year.”

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Rep. Larry Kissell (’73, P ’12), D-N.C.

Rep. Larry Kissell, a native of Biscoe, majored in economics. The congressman believes a Wake Forest N.C., in his second term, says his History education, coupled with Washington work experience, can open stu- of the South course with legendary Dr. dents’ eyes to the workings of government and the value of service. David Smiley always stuck with him. He Education is one of Kissell’s policy priorities, along with shoring up drew inspiration from Smiley, as well American jobs and advocating for textile workers and veterans. as other history and politics professors, when he left a decades-long career in the A proud Deacon, Kissell has worn a Wake Forest shirt on more textile industry to teach high school social than one trip to Afghanistan, sparking conversations with troops. studies — and represent the state’s 8th Congressional District. Hanging in his Capitol office is a photo of Randolph Childress (’95) hitting the game-winning jump shot that earned the Deacons an “We flocked to that class,” Kissell said. “It was not the information that ACC championship victory over Carolina. made it so appealing, it was the way Dr. Smiley taught. He made history real. He didn’t teach facts … he taught [us] where we came from.” A true fan, Kissell has faith that the basketball program will rebound. Maybe not before his daughter Jenny, a fellow Deacon and junior biol- Kissell’s progression toward public service, his desire to make ogy major, graduates, but soon: “They’ll be back,” Kissell says. a difference, has its roots in his time at Wake Forest, where he

SEN. RICHARD BURR (’78), R-N.C.

Sen. Richard Burr believes Besides valuing the breadth of his Wake Forest education, Burr working in Washington is not has carried other lessons into five terms in the U.S. House of that different from a Wake For- Representatives and two in the Senate. His father, a Presbyte- est liberal arts education: learn rian minister, instilled in Burr a sense of responsibility to the a bit of everything so you’re community. And his time wearing No. 38 as a strong safety prepared to do anything. for the beleaguered Deacon football team taught Burr “how to overcome adversity.” “I don’t think you can get this education anywhere,” Burr said of spending time in the nation’s Now, the senator is focused on sparking economic growth, capital. “It’s about people skills. It’s about crisis management. creating jobs and tackling the national debt. It’s about the functions of government that have a direct impact on any career.” When he’s back home in Winston-Salem, you might spot him at Diamondback Grill or explaining why patience is required for any These days many employers, Burr said, respond well to fan of Deacon basketball. “The last guy I’m going to second-guess is students with a wide range of experience and expertise — not Ron Wellman (P ’98, P ’04), because he’s usually right,” Burr said. simply a specialized graduate degree. “We’re one great player away from having a sensational year.”

WAKE FOREST PARENTS IN CONGRESS:

Greg Walden (P ’12), R- Ore. (Parents’ Council) William “Mac” Thornberry (P ’11), R-Texas Fred Upton (P ’10), R-Mich. (served on Parents’ Council)

SUMMER 2011 15 ILLUSTRATIONS by HAYES HENDERSON BY ANNE BOYLE

he Scholar sits down to write, and all his years of meditation do not furnish him with one good thought or happy expression; but it is necessary to write a letter to a friend, — and, forthwith, troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves, on every hand, with chosen words.1 TRalph Waldo Emerson was probably not exaggerating when he described those “troops of gentle thoughts” that came to him when he sat down to write a friend. Indeed, letter writing inspired him so much that it took more than 30 years for edi- tors Rusk and Tilton to publish the hundreds of pages found in 10 volumes of Emerson’s letters.

What accounted for the amazing capaciousness of his epistles? The thought of an absent friend? The time spent in solitude with pen and paper? We know that Emerson’s habit of letter writing was not remarkable. From the 18th through the 20th centuries, we have rich access to history and feeling through letters that chronicle lives across race, class and cultures. So many participated in the epistolary tradition — lovers, war- riors, businessmen, the leisure class, immigrants, the bereaved and slaves, like Harriet Jacobs, petitioning for freedom.

As a graduate student in the 1980s, before the advent of digital literacy, I became immersed in the lives of two prolific letter writers who shaped my career. The graduate director at my university asked me and a female friend to help an elderly woman, with failing eyesight, write letters to those who sent condolences after her husband’s death.

1Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship,” Essays: First Series. Emerson: Essays and Poems. New York: Library of America Edition, 1996.

SUMMER 2011 17 Rather reluctantly, but greatly in need of a second job, difficulty reading cursive. As we email, blog, tweet or I mulled over whether I should accept such “feminized” post, we sometimes act with the immediacy of our labor. But I soon realized I had a remarkable oppor- medium and send messages we wish we could recapture. tunity. Although she had been known as a prominent doctor’s wife, Mrs. Kohn lived a rich life of her own; We share our lives with our social networks, rather than under her maiden name, Sally Wood, she had been a writing individual friends. As scholars, we will soon World War I nurse, an activist, a novelist and a transla- turn toward digitized documents and scan newspapers tor. Transcribing letters at her dining room table, I and public records to analyze our past. But we may miss realized Mrs. Kohn grieved not only for her husband, the ease and inspiration Emerson felt as he wrote his but also for her close friend, Caroline Gordon, who was letters. We may never share Emily Dickinson’s ritualistic dying in Mexico. The two women were often separated, reading of hers: but faithfully exchanged letters. Kohn had Gordon’s let- ters spanning decades in her attic. The Way I read a Letter’s – this ‘Tis first – I lock the Door – Because a collection of Gordon’s short stories had been And push it with my fingers – next – recently published and many of her novels were being For transport it be sure – reissued, Wood thought that Gordon’s letters would provide “young feminists” an understanding of the And then I go the furthest off complex life led by women writers of the early 20th To counteract a knock – century. At first, Gordon resisted having her letters Then draw my little Letter forth made public, but finally permitted her friend to edit a And slowly pick the lock – volume. The very first letter I transcribed, dated 1924, powerfully described Caroline Gordon’s anguish at – (“636”, excerpt) losing not only Wood’s company, but also her infant daughter, whom Wood helped deliver a few weeks Emerson, Gordon, and, particularly, Dickinson had time earlier. Familial and economic pressures led Gordon to to withdraw, to reflect, to narrate their lives through send her daughter to her mother in Kentucky, while she letters, but each experienced the absence of others so and husband, Allen Tate, struggled to become writers keenly they had to use words to maintain both their lives in New York City. Over the next months, Mrs. Kohn and their friendships. In the digital age, we friend with told me stories of her friend’s life as she debated which a click and interpret fragments letters should be shared; I typed, listened carefully and across the screen. wrote my dissertation on Gordon. Anne Boyle, Ph.D., is professor Writing practices change over time and we, as writers of English. Her teaching and re- and scholars, have to consider how new technologies search interests include women’s affect our sense of history, our scholarship, our sense of and gender studies, women privacy and community. We rarely depend on the postal in literature and writing and service to keep in touch with friends. We rarely hold technology. letters in our hands, and my students tell me they have

We rarely depend on the postal service to keep in touch with friends. We rarely hold letters in our hands, and my students tell me they have difficulty reading cursive.

18 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES BY DAVID PHILLIPS

’ve been thinking a lot these days about how the tion when it senses that it is depending on outmoded forms way we interact is mediated through interfaces of communication? How did those who came before me feel such as Twitter, Facebook and instant messaging. when email messages replaced the old-fashioned letter and On first learning of these tools, I wondered how the computer replaced the typewriter? Were there qualita- anything meaningful could be communicated in such tive and perceptual shifts that took place in communication shorthand. I read with consternation newspaper articles styles and modes of interaction, or has new media simply speculating about the effect of heavy use of the Internet altered the form of our written and spoken utterances? on children’s ability to process complex thoughts and to hone social interaction skills. Will the sound bite and the Like many of my colleagues, I have started thinking about IInternet post replace what for me seem intrinsically to be the quality of interactions that take place in such abbrevi- deeper forms of engagement? ated formats. Recalling how my sense of community is so intimately tied to direct encounters, I can’t imagine a world Mulling over these questions, I wonder if such speculation is where I am unable to relish the serendipity of a conversation alarmist. Could I be among the millions of individuals expe- over a cup of coffee or a spontaneous get-together. riencing the separation anxiety that comes to every genera- Perhaps I am unfairly characterizing the move to new digital formats for transmitting information. Maybe the “tweets” and online postings aren’t a substitute at all, but merely a way of supplementing current forms of communication. In the same way, the hours that my students and younger col- leagues spend surfing the Web, reviewing news items on RSS feeds or reading the Facebook walls of friends, are equally enriching in reinforcing a sense of community. For isn’t that what, at its heart, communication enables? The shared Latin root comm_ni(s) for the words “community” and “commu- nication” means “common," and it embodies the concept of a shared, meaningful experience.

As I contemplate this topic, I realize that there is an inherent danger in substituting face-to-face contact with relation- ships that exist almost entirely in the digital domain. The essence of our “selves” is in some ways reduced in the latter case. What makes an individual feel inherently more comfortable texting in a situation where they are simulta- neously interacting with a live person, or prefer listening to a presentation rather than interacting with someone directly in a two-way dialogue?

As both a teacher and a trained planner, I am reminded in this debate of the dialogue during the past two decades in the realm of urban planning. Theories of smart growth and New Urbanism have trumpeted the importance of the design features of Main Street that made urban

SUMMER 2011 19 experiences meaningful for previous generations of ing panoply of options in our modes of communication. Americans, featuring design elements that encourage the Yesterday’s chat is not supplanted by today’s tweet, but types of interaction that give our lives a personal sense of stands alone as a key tool in our verbal and digital arsenal. connection to the world around us. Rather than isolating Although Descartes claimed, “I think, therefore I am,” in us in our cars, our suburban homes and our workplaces, today’s world it appears that proof of existence extends such design encourages a shared sense of place that en- beyond thinking to speaking, tweeting and texting. courages interaction. The question I keep asking in the face of these develop- Although critics claim these goals are unrealistic, it seems ments is not “Where are we going with all of this?” but to me that, in recasting earlier notions of community “How are we being changed by these advances?” and “What design, planners have identified a basic need. Such a can we do to ensure that humanistic values are upheld in development is parallel to the rediscovery of the qualities all forms of communication?” of good conversation in an era of quick, nonpersonal, digitally mediated forms of communication. David Phillips, Ph.D., is associate professor of the There is no denying that a revolution is taking place in our program in humanities. approaches to communication. I envision a renewed appre- He was project director ciation for the humanities, live conversation and Socratic de- for the grant from the bate in an era that tends to value the convenience and wealth National Endowment for of choices available with digital forms of communication. the Humanities which sup- ports the University’s new Rather than assuming a replacement of the old with the Humanities Institute (see related story, page 46.) new, we can appreciate the availability of an expand-

began this reflection on Feb. 16, the day that Borders Books and Music filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Details followed via an emailed statement from Borders CEO Mike Edwards, which I read on the small screen of my Blackberry. “Borders pioneered the in-store experience, providing customers with a vast assortment of books in a warm, relaxing environment,” he wrote, “and we intend to build on this. Our stores will continue to be commu- Inity gathering places.”

Feb. 16 was also the day that the owners of Special BY MELISSA JENKINS ('01) Occasions, a Winston-Salem landmark for 27 years and one of the largest black-owned bookstores in the South, declared the need to close their doors. Co-owner Ed McCarter said to a Winston-Salem Journal reporter, smell of a vintage hardback or the weight of a large “Technology is great until it interacts with your business newspaper spread out across my lap. But, I have to admit or your job.” that I am part of the problem.

Later that day, I absentmindedly flipped through the In my four years as an undergraduate at Wake Forest, and virtual pages of an e-book while watching breaking news my three years as an assistant professor, I entered Special unfold on cable TV. I already feel nostalgia for the musty Occasions exactly twice. The first time was to buy my books

20 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES I already feel nostalgia for the musty smell of a vintage hardback or the weight of a large newspaper spread out across my lap.

for “The Sociology of the Black asked to write this reflection. The Experience,” taught by former statistics about American read- Wake Forest Professor Cheryl ing practice paint a grim picture Leggon. Leggon wanted her shel- that goes beyond the question of tered undergraduates, used to “paper or plastic.” Reading scores collecting textbooks under Taylor are dropping within our primary Hall, to go into East Winston and and secondary schools, even as patronize a locally owned book- postgraduate study becomes a store. There was much weeping crucial indicator of an individual’s and gnashing of teeth, I assure long-term economic well-being. you. (These days, students would have sidestepped the assignment The National Endowment for via Amazon.com). the Arts released reports in 2004 and 2007 that provide sobering The second time I entered Special statistics (view the full summary Occasions, it was to collect at www.nea.gov/news/news07/ enough Obama gear to get me TRNR.html). For example, the through the 2008 campaign. average American, aged 15-24, The store was already starting to watches television for two hours feel more like a gift shop than a per day but reads for only seven bookstore, a model for continued minutes per day. In 2002, only 52 viability already discussed among Borders executives (“Build- percent of young people, aged 18-24, read a non-required a-Bear” workshops, anyone?). book for pleasure. Twenty percent of 17-year-olds categorized themselves as “non-readers” in 2004; and in 2005, only 35 One way of thinking about the “Future of the Book” is to percent of high school seniors were “proficient” in reading. focus on the decline of the bookstore and the future of the Even college graduates have shown marked declines in the material book. The buildings and their contents may suc- quality and amount of daily reading. cumb to the immediacy of the Internet, the tablet revolu- tion, the conveniences of online shopping, and the lost Such statistics matter because, notes the report, “Literary “aura” surrounding complete and unabridged works that readers are more likely than non-readers to engage in posi- has also plagued the music and home video industries. So, tive civic and individual activities — such as volunteering, maybe we’re just talking about a transition away from paper attending sports or cultural events and exercising.” Thus, as – an evolution in reading that will repopulate a few hundred we negotiate the new marketplace for books in the United forests and make our bags lighter at airports. States and elsewhere, we should not lose sight of the real stakes behind the real debate. Instead of worrying about the The buying and reading of books may become a more iso- future of the material book, we should just hope that young lated experience, with fewer “happy accidents” leading us to people don’t abandon reading in all select an unexpected title from a shelf packed with possibili- of its forms. ties. Or, maybe not. Perhaps online browsing, and online book ratings, can approximate the in-person experience, and make Melissa Jenkins (’01), Ph.D., is assis- reading communities larger and more diverse as a result. tant professor of English. Her teach- ing and research interests include So far, so good. Yet, if the packaging, transport and sale of nineteenth century British literature books were the whole story, I probably wouldn’t have been and the history of the novel.

SUMMER 2011 21 BY JOHN LLEWELLYN

here is a recurring narrative of modern are in mists of pre-history as a bevy of scholars will tell life that suggests again and again that the you. As a mode of greeting, it signals equality, mutual “next new thing” will make all of the other acceptance and displays the absence of weapons. The “things” obsolete. Why do we take all of these fact that the handshake is nearly automatic is not a sign prognostications seriously? Indeed, we cackle when we of its lack of significance but rather of the depth to look back to the ’50s and ’60s and revisit their predic- which it is engrained in our social exchanges. tions that our 21st century travel would be by jetpack and monorail and we’d all be living in the world of If you doubt it, consider the restraint necessary to T“The Jetsons.” withhold one’s hand when another offers his or hers; that withholding could be explained only by a serious This essay ruminates on the future of the handshake, personal injury to one’s self or as a categorical rejec- as literal act and as metaphor for direct human contact tion of the other party. Recall the significance attached versus technological substitutes. Even now, is Steven to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s handshake with Jobs hunkered down somewhere in Silicon Valley Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed in 2009. Before developing the iHand so that we might replace this the meeting, the “will he or won’t he” speculation was venerable mode of exchange with something shiny rife; with that one act the Somali leadership reached from Apple? No matter; human touch, and its most out to the modern world and rejected the position of ubiquitous franchise, the handshake, are here to stay. Islamist extremists that men have no physical contact with women unrelated to them. The profound meaning The most substantive human and societal challenges of that handshake is not something that Twitter and its are represented by the handshake. Its precise origins 140 characters can touch.

Indeed, we cackle when we look back to the '50s and '60s and revisit their predictions that our 21st century travel would be by jetpack and monorail and we'd be living in the world of “The Jetsons."

22 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES there is always videoconferencing via Skype to allow you to see the new grandchild. No real need to travel there and actually hold the baby, is there? In both cases you want face- to-face contact rather than via a microwave signal; you want to see them, hug them, and be in their presence. The new technology is a help to be sure, but you have no doubt there is something deeper and richer in face-to-face interactions. What is true in your family is all the more true in the wider world.

While it appears simple, the handshake is actually a subtly coordinated coopera- tive act. We notice this feature only when something goes awry with this “automatic” activity, and we have to unwind the mo- mentary awkwardness. Consider the special coordination and playfulness that go into the handshake/salute routines displayed by some basketball and baseball players after a notable play. They have taken the basic art form of the handshake and customized it to give it a larger and idiosyncratic meaning. The fact of the matter is that the perennial human In this sense, there is a grammar of the handshake that problems are encountered in human face-to-face inter- establishes both what is normal and how the ritual can actions; that is the mode for their solution as well. The be made unique and memorable. legendary media scholar Marshall McLuhan (origi- nator of the concepts of “Global Village” and “The Courtesy of new technologies, we are told we live in a Medium is the Message”) argued that media function world of virtual realities. The pivotal point is the word as extensions of our senses. So a light bulb is a medium “virtual.” Its advocates want you to think of the term and becomes an extension of our eyes. By that logic, as meaning “nearly real.” The central reality is that that the media can help us to do important human things which is sold to us as “nearly real” is most assuredly not with greater speed or reach — and we value those ben- real. Do you want to see that grandchild via Skype or efits — but the core issues of our lives and of society hold her in your arms? You know the difference. remain face-to-face and human.

John Llewellyn, Ph.D., is I’ll offer evidence from your own experience: if you associate professor of com- have a student at Wake Forest now, the chances are munication. His teaching great that both of you have cell phones and use them and research interests to communicate several times a week (per day?). Since include public speaking, this technology is so effective, there is no need for organizational communi- that child to come home for a weekend or at semester cation, urban legends and break, right? You are current with each other’s lives, freedom of speech. what else is there? If your kids are a bit older, then

SUMMER 2011 23 James Lubo Mijak “I can’t believe his spirit was not broken by what he endured,” says Leslie Bragg.

24 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES Wake Foresters and a Lost Boy wage ‘peace through education’ for the new Sudan

By Maria Henson (’82) Photographed by Chris Record

SUMMER 2011 25 CHARLOTTE – When the Lost Boys of Sudan fled for their lives, away from torched huts and murdered parents, dodging government militia from Khartoum, swimming deep underwater to avoid the unblinking gaze of crocodiles, inching past lions in thorn-tree scrublands and suffering such thirst that at times urine sufficed for water, Phillips Bragg (’93) knew nothing of their plight. He finds it astonishing that in 1991 he was busy choosing his English major at Wake Forest while Lost Boy James Lubo Mijak was strug- gling to survive in a southern Sudan camp for displaced persons called Pochalla.

To this day Phillips has never been to Africa. But In January southern Sudanese voted to secede. The for him to ignore Sudan is unthinkable now. Lubo Republic of South Sudan, where Lubo and the Braggs brought Africa and its injustices to him. “He’s like a have set their sights, is due to become independent brother. I’ve known him for a decade, probably spent and the world’s newest country on July 9. more time with him outside of my family than with anyone else,” Phillips says. For all practical purposes, In the second civil war, an estimated 2 million people Lubo has become family, a gentle presence frequently died and 4 million were displaced as violence raged at the Braggs’ farm in Huntersville, N.C. “He’s enrich- between the mostly Arab and Muslim government ing our lives. What he’s giving to our children is way forces in the north and separatists in the beyond what we’re giving,” says Phillips’ wife, Leslie south, where Christianity and tribal McLean Bragg (’91). religions prevail.

Together they aim to fulfill Lubo’s dream of build- Lubo became one of the ing permanent primary schools in southern Sudan. displaced, one of the 30,000 “From education comes wisdom,” Lubo says, “and Lost Boys named after from wisdom comes peace.” And with the help of the band of orphans from Wake Forest alumni and parents inspired by the “Peter Pan.” The first attack Braggs in this, the 10th anniversary of the Lost Boys’ on his village, Nyarweng, arrival in the United States, the dream called Raising in southern Sudan, came in Sudan is becoming a reality. 1984. Soldiers marauded and confiscated some of his family’s livestock. It was his childhood duty as a youngster to tend his A country one-quarter the size of the United States father’s cattle, 334 sheep and 37 goats. and marked by the Nile River and its tributaries, When the final attack came, in 1987, he left his vil- Sudan has known little peace since its independence lage and the remaining flock behind, running for his from Britain in 1956. Two civil wars followed, the life, never again to see his parents. Eventually he came most recent from 1983 to 2005, ending thanks to a upon a procession of other desperate orphans and peace agreement and the promise of a referendum. displaced people. They trekked hundreds of miles

26 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES Lubo has provided a deeper cultural understanding, says Leslie Bragg: “It’s taken away ‘the other’ and the ‘them’ and replaced it with ‘us.’”

Left to right: Claude (9), Leslie, Lubo, Phillips, John (5), Kirby (11) and, in front, Ernie the dog.

SUMMER 2011 27 to camps in Ethiopia, southern Sudan and Kenya, ever It was Martha Kearse, now minister to children and on the run from war, with no one to call brother but families at St. John’s Baptist Church in Charlotte, who each other. noticed the gangling young men in Harris Teeter with “big bags of chicken legs” and “huge bags of rice” “Lion attacks. Crocodiles. Disease. Most of the Lost in their carts. “They were clearly African, and they Boys lost their lives,” Lubo told a reporter for NBA were also completely lost,” she says. With purpose she TV last year. He regards Pochalla as the worst camp, complimented one on his wildly colorful African shirt where he and the other children fended for them- — she wanted to help them check out — and then selves, surviving on some days by eating roots and invited them to her church. “I had been reading about leaves. It was a year later, in 1992, that the orphans them in The New York Times Magazine,” she says. “I evacuated to Kenya, becoming “refugees” in the eyes just remember thinking, ‘Bless their hearts to have of the United Nations and able to receive rations moved from Kenya to Fargo.’” Or to Charlotte. from the international community. It was in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya where Lubo “learned under Lubo remembers the ride from the airport when the trees” in class and began dreaming about estab- he strained to no avail to see the tops of high-rises lishing a school in his village. “When you go to school Uptown. “Wow, this is the home,” Lubo remembers you learn,” says Lubo. “You know the value of others thinking. The food was different from his simple and the value of everything — how to be respectful fried bread and beans: “Everything was salty; ev- and to serve other people.” erything was sweet.” On the day in February when we meet, Lubo appears thin, soft-spoken, quick to At Kakuma after an exam and interviews, Lubo flash a smile broad as a moonbeam despite bleak became one of 3,800 Lost Boys whom the U.S. memories. He wears a pressed red-striped shirt and government invited to resettle across the country, black dress shoes polished to a gleam that matches from Fargo, N.D., to Boston and places in-between. his skin. He recalls his first Charlotte home. It was The process granted Lubo an official birthday — mysterious, potentially dangerous: “We were told ‘Be Jan. 1, 1982 — because the actual date is unknown, careful of electricity. When you are bitten by electric- but Lubo thinks it’s closer to 1979 or 1980. At the ity, you might be shocked and killed.’ We were scared. assigned age of 19 in June 2001, Lubo made his way Electricity was everywhere in the apartment.” Church to Charlotte and, eventually, to the Braggs. friends later calmed the Lost Boys by explaining how

28 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES “We went to the farm, and we were walking around and (Lubo) picked up a big stick,” says Phillips Bragg. “In Sudan they all carry large sticks. And he asked me if we had any cats, and we said, ‘Yes, we have some little cats.’ And I said, ‘Wait. What do you mean cats — you mean like lions?’ And he said, ‘Yes.’ And I said, ‘No, we don’t have lions.’”

the electric wires aren’t exposed. “It’s not wireless,” distinctly complicated terrain — the DMV and they told them. insurance forms. Lubo succeeded at Central Piedmont Community College and at UNC Charlotte, where he While Lubo wasn’t among the grocery shoppers, he did earned a bachelor’s degree. He works two jobs, one as become one of the 47 Sudanese faithful at St. John’s. an assistant to the portfolio manager at the family’s Members there were quick to lend a hand. Carl Phil- investment management firm, founded by Frank Bragg lips (’56) and his wife, Nina, were retirees — they had (’61), Phillips’ father, and at Presbyterian Hospital, owned an equipment rental/special events business where he sterilizes surgical equipment. — with time to spare and love to give. They mentored the refugees, created a scholarship fund and opened their home as a gathering spot and computer train- ing ground for the young men. They are lauded as “I JUST REMEMBER THINKING, ‘BLESS THEIR exemplary volunteers, but Carl downplays the notion. HEARTS TO HAVE MOVED FROM KENYA TO “When you know the story, it’s just hard not to help.” FARGO.’” OR TO CHARLOTTE. When the church call went out for mentors one Sunday, Leslie and Phillips Bragg simply looked at each other in the sanctuary and agreed. “There was no Lubo credits Phillips with guiding him “to prepare need to debate it,” says Leslie, an assistant teacher in a me to be a good citizen with the love of this country.” ninth-grade English class in Davidson. At the time a He is now an American citizen with an appreciation stay-at-home mom, she and Phillips, a wealth manager for the “very wonderful” Bragg family of parents, at his family’s firm, Bragg Financial Advisors Inc., did siblings and in-laws (with 11 Wake Forest degrees not hesitate. among the immediate family) “whereby everybody sticks together.” Frank Bragg, the patriarch (P ’88, ’90 They, too, minimize how much they helped the inde- and ’93), says, Raising Sudan “fits with our philoso- pendent Lubo. They gave him lifts to community phy to do whatever we can to make it a better world.” college on rainy days, taught him to cook (his favorite is soup), taught him to drive (a harrowing under- Lubo says, “In the African culture if somebody worry taking) and coached him on navigating America’s about you, care about you … he’s a good friend; he’s

SUMMER 2011 29 Phillips, who turns 40 in August, tells his buddies, “Don’t throw me a party. Build me a school!” Here with son John and Lubo at the Huntersville farm.

RAISING SUDAN “Groups like mine help a dreamer…,” says Patricia Shafer, found- “They’ve done something very unique to collaborate together,” er and executive director of Mothering Across Continents. In Shafer says. They have joined dreams to build two schools, one the case of Raising Sudan, several dreamers. this year in Lubo’s village and, with ground-breaking tentatively set for fall, the next in Aliap. The Lost Boys and their advocates James Lubo Mijak and the Braggs dreamed of a permanent rely on Mothering Across Continents to consult, coach and mentor school in Lubo’s village of Nyarweng. In Atlanta Lost Boy Ngor them and on World Relief, the nonprofit with ample experience in Kur Mayol had the same vision: a permanent school for his vil- Africa, to oversee the construction projects on the ground. lage of Aliap, about an hour away from Nyarweng in southern Sudan’s Ruweng County in the Unity State, among the most im- To learn more, see: poverished places in a country the size of Texas with only about www.motheringacrosscontinents.org/ 25 miles of paved roads. Raising_Sudan.html

30 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES a brother.” Of Phillips and Leslie, he says, “I have been a witness to their care and love since I came.” Leslie’s memories of Lubo are of his being “shy and gentle and smiling from day one” and especially caring and playful with the Braggs’ three little boys. “It could be a glimpse of how children were treated in his village,” she says.

The Raising Sudan project arose from Lubo’s first visits home in 2007 and 2008 to talk with villagers about their needs. Food. Medicine. Clean water. The list was daunting, but education was prized above all. Lubo was pre- pared to live up to his name, which means “responsibility.” He returned to find the Braggs ready to help with the cause.

Phillips enlisted the expertise of Mothering Across The Bragg boys Continents, a Charlotte nonprofit that works as a sold art to relatives catalyst shepherding dream projects that can serve at Thanksgiving for as sustainable global models for change. The goal: Raising Sudan, including two schools to serve 300 children apiece with four this Wake Forest ‘logo’ classrooms, eight latrines, teacher accommodations, for 30 cents. “We didn’t a water source, a kitchen, desks and equipment for make that much money, a total of $375,000. “Nothing crazy. Just solid and but I guess every permanent structures with well-trained teachers,” little bit counts,” says the Braggs and Lubo wrote in their first fundraising 9-year-old Claude. letter last summer. On many of the letters addressed to friends from Leslie’s Christmas card list Phillips Phillips has been the most active individual fundraiser added two handwritten words in closing. “‘Pro Hu- for Raising Sudan, and his fellow Wake Foresters have manitate,’” he tells me, “knowing they would know answered his and Leslie’s call: Of the money Phillips exactly what I meant: ‘If not us, then who?’” has raised, more than 50 percent has come from members of the Wake Forest alumni community. Patricia Shafer, founder and head of Mothering Across The quest is about more than money for the schools, Continents, says building in a post-conflict society in a Phillips adds. It’s about “momentum,” providing a remote location without infrastructure is “like building model for other Lost Boys to duplicate, and it’s a gift on the moon.” But Phillips has been “strategic” and for Lubo, who now has a family in his homeland after “relentless in the best sense of the word” in pursuing marrying and becoming a father of twins. the dream of Raising Sudan. “Here is where the light of Phillips shines,” she says. “If he is not an example of Pro “The upside is enormous in this brand new country, Humanitate, I don’t know who is.” and further, without the right investment in education right now the downside is enormous. This is the time By mid-March construction was under way for the to feed the fire of education, peace, reconciliation, school in Lubo’s village, with $160,000 raised toward democracy,” Phillips says. “This is our village. These school construction with the goal to complete the kids belong to all of us in Charlotte and to everyone. buildings before the rainy season begins this summer. I’m going to see that their school is built.”

SUMMER 2011 31 by STEVE DUIN (’76, MA ’79)

photographed by KEN BENNETT

32 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES Baseball Coach Tom Walter and Kevin Jordan, one of his players, reunite at Wake Forest Baseball Park just five weeks after the transplant procedure.

SUMMER 2011 33 An example of life for all. When I will become father, I will tell your history to my sons. – IVAN MERLI (FROM ITALY) E bellisimo … quel coac e un angelo. – da rosario

This is why I love Wake Forest. Pro Humanitate. – amelia knight

As people struggled spring of 2010, doctors at Emory University Hospital Pro Humanitate. on the Wake Forest in Atlanta finally discovered why the Columbus, Ga., website and various sports blogs to find the words, in baseball star was losing strength and weight: ANCA vas- any language, that summed up the humbling exchange culitis, a nasty autoimmune disease that had crippled his between Deacon baseball Coach Tom Walter and his kidney’s ability to function. centerfielder, Kevin Jordan, many found sanctuary in the University’s motto. Between those daunting first-semester classes, Kevin was spending 11 hours a day handcuffed to a dialysis It’s not a bad place to land when you’re wrestling with a machine. He’d lost 40 of his 198 pounds, and most of his story that will, I believe, forever change the way a great power and speed, when he and his parents sat down in many people think of Wake Forest. For a little perspec- August with Coach Tom Walter at the Wake Forest Bap- tive, however, Pro Humanitate is not the Latin phrase tist Medical Center to hear Dr. Barry Freedman describe that inspired or unnerved the generation that arrived on Kevin’s health issues. campus in the mid-’70s. Keith Jordan remembers worrying the Deacons would No, that would be, “In loco parentis,” the admonition pull his son’s scholarship: “Most schools probably that the University felt compelled to serve as the chap- would have. Here’s a kid coming to school and he can’t erone, alcohol monitor and curfew enforcer we were so help my team.” desperate to avoid. What does Tom Walter remember? “Looking at our train- In place of a parent. er (Jeff Strahm) with my mouth hanging open. I couldn’t In loco parentis. That pledge was so believe what this young man had gone through.” ominous then … and sounds so different And he couldn’t stomach what Kevin would have to deal now for those of us with unless he received a kidney transplant. “The wait time who’ve brought chil- on the donor list is a minimum of three years,” Walter said. dren into the world “Fifteen people die every day waiting for a kidney.” and released them into the wild. Keith At the end of Freedman’s candid update, Walter didn’t Jordan, Kevin’s father, hesitate. “I wanted to be tested,” he told the Jordan family, speaks for many of us: “because I think I might be a match.”

“Sending him “I think we have it covered,” Keith Jordan said. seven hours away from home, we were heart- He didn’t know how wrong, nor how right, he was. sick. We’d never been Coach Walter with Kevin’s parents, Keith separated that long. It Walter — in his second year coaching the Deacons — and Charlene Jordan. was pins and needles. grew up in Johnstown, Pa., and survived one of the great But you have to have that faith, that understanding that floods that deluges the town every 50 years or so. And he everything happens for a reason.” was coaching at the University of New Orleans, on the rim of Lake Pontchartrain, when the floodwaters of Hur- Kevin Jordan had far more of the unreasonable on his ricane Katrina swamped the city in 2005. plate last year than the average freshman. In the late

34 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES what does tom walter remember?

“looking at our trainer with my mouth hanging open. i couldn’t believe what this young man had gone through.”

SUMMER 2011 35 His Privateers spent the next six months practicing and When Kevin’s mother, Charlene, and his brother did playing at New Mexico State and South Alabama before not qualify as a donor match, the Jordans turned to his finally returning to New Orleans in early February 2006. coach. After the tests were complete and the transplant The baseball field remained the eye of their storm. “We was scheduled, Walter called his parents, who now live called it ‘The Alamo,’” Walter said. “Everything around in Virginia. us was devastated, but the flag was always flying in cen- terfield. It was our sanctuary, no matter how bad things “Are you okay with this?” his mother, Anne, remembers were around us.” him asking.

Walter always believed he was meant to be in New That she’d raised a son who was willing to make that Orleans when the hurricane hit. He felt a similar sense kind of sacrifice? Yes. She was okay with that. of intervention and the divine when he realized Kevin could not find similar sanctuary at Wake Forest, even as “All I could think of was Charlene, Kevin’s mother. All I the freshman was slowly drained of energy and hope. could do was put myself in her place,” Anne Walter said,

36 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES “the look on their faces, particularly charlene.

i was holding her hand. i get teary-eyed thinking about it.

she was unbelievably happy.”

“and think how I would feel if it were the other way Few of us do. That’s why around.” we turn to the Latin.

There were two surgeries on that February morning at In loco parentis. Emory University Hospital. Dr. Ken Newell operated on the 42-year-old donor and Dr. Alan Kirk on the The belief, the hope, the 19-year-old recipient, and it’s safe to say the immeasur- promise that another able gap between giving and receiving vanished in the parent — or community private waiting room reserved for their families. of parents — will care for your son or daughter Tom Walter’s parents were there with Keith and Char- with the same devotion lene Jordan. They sat together through that anxious that you do. morning, and there was nothing, Anne Walter said, quite like the moment when Kirk arrived to say the new kid- Some of us are lucky. We ney was in and — e bellisimo! — working like a charm. happened upon Wake Forest, often by chance, “The look on their faces,” Anne said, “particularly Char- and when we’re asked lene. I was holding her hand. I get teary-eyed thinking why we love the place, about it. She was unbelievably happy.” we remember Sunday mornings on the Quad, “You live in faith. You have to understand that piece of Saturday nights at the

it,” Keith Jordan says, two months later. He is still get- stadium and Wednes- Shutt Steve by photo ting calls from people who want to talk about his son day afternoons with the Said Kevin Jordan after the surgery, “I’m just and the kidney they have decided to donate. romantic poets. really thankful.”

Tom Walter still struggles a bit to catch his breath when But everyone else? This is the story they will remember. he climbs a flight of stairs, but he’s back at the local When they hear the words “Wake Forest,” they will cel- Alamo with the Deacon baseball team, hitting fungos ebrate the kidney that passed from Tom Walter to Kevin and tending the flock. Jordan, a gift as big as life.

And Kevin Jordan — who is back up to 185 pounds and And when they become fathers, this is the history they will be back on campus for summer school in July — is will tell their sons. working out again at Momentum Physical Therapy and Northside High School in Columbus. Steve Duin (’76, MA ’79) is metro columnist for The (Port- land) Oregonian. He is the author or co-author of six books, “It’s pretty tough to do a sit-up,” he admits. “The area the latest “Oil and Water,” a graphic novel illustrated by where the surgery was is real sore. But swing a bat? I New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler and to be published don’t feel it. Run at full speed? I don’t feel it.” this fall by Fantagraphics.

He and the original owner of his kidney talk every week.

Not long after he emerged from surgery, Kevin Jordan said this: “I’m just really thankful. I don’t think I have the words for it in my vocabulary.”

SUMMER 2011 37 due issued to

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Earlier this year, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library received the 2011 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award, given annually by the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Maria Henson (’82) of Wake Forest Magazine talked with the library’s dean, Lynn Sutton, about how the library gar-

nered the award and why ZSR is the place to be on campus. REYNOLDS

Z.SMITH LIBRARY:

Its special collections include N.C. Baptist history and manuscripts of such luminaries as former Esquire editor CHECK Harold T.P. Hayes (’48) and Wilbur J. Cash (’22), author of “The Mind of the South.” Following are IT OUT! edited excerpts from the conversation.

Congratulations. Tell me about the award. ‘Sure. If that’s what you think you need.’ We said it’s I jokingly said it was the NCAA championship for not about us and when we want to work. It’s about the libraries. The usual winners are big research libraries. students and when they need to come in and study. So we changed the hours so that we’re open 24 hours, For example? five days a week. It started this back and forth, very Last year’s winner was Indiana University. Year comfortable relationship with the student body here, before that was Minnesota. Previous winners were unlike I’ve ever seen at any other university. Cornell, Virginia, N.C. State, Georgia Tech. For us to compete at that level and come out on top, it’s really Tell our readers about games like Capture a testament to everyone here. I was pleased to see the Flag happening here. that the awards committee recognized that a smaller The way I put it is we love our students, and our library could make contributions at the same level students love us. And they can come to us with a as some of the other libraries, just in different ways. wacky idea, and they won’t be turned aside. Our motto They said where we stood out is that our mission is is to think of a way to say yes before you have to say no. so closely aligned with the mission of the University. The mission of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library is to There are things happening here that are help our faculty and students succeed. very social. Usually library missions are ‘We’re going to select, A couple of years ago I did a research study with my collect, acquire, organize (and) provide access to colleague from UNC Greensboro to see essentially why print and digital resources.’ Our mission: We com- students use the library. What is important to students pletely flipped it around. And what we say is, ‘It’s all about the library? What is the library brand? There had about you. It’s all about you, the user.’ previously been a (national) study saying globally what The first year I got here (students) came to me and is the library brand; and the answer to that — which said, ‘Could you possibly extend the hours to 1 a.m.?’ is probably about four years ago — was that books are They were very timid about asking me that, and I said, still the library brand. When you go to the person on

38 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES the street in Seattle or in Germany (and ask) what do you think of when you think of a library? They say books. But we replicated the study with our students here at Wake Forest and at UNCG, and what we found was the students — they want a quiet place to study, they want people to help them as they go about their work — and it was more about the place. And it was about their experience in the place as opposed to the products. That was very enlightening. What I tell people when they ask why do students come to the library when they could study in their dorm or when they could study anywhere else, it is because they want to feel surrounded by people who will help them if they need help. It’s a real comfort to know I’m here in the atrium, I have my laptop open, I have my textbook, but if I need any- thing I know there’s somebody on the fourth floor who’s going to help me.

What is the attendance? The daily attendance last year went from 1,765 to 1,939. But look at the website daily visits. We have more people visit us virtually than (in person).

Visitors to Starbucks — do they count? I hope so. That was our hidden agenda. I wanted Starbucks because library directors across the country told me the single brand that will bring people to your building is Starbucks. First of all, there’s a good match

between books and coffee or reading and coffee, right? And libraries have ZSR OVER THE YEARS pretty much lost the fear of spills. (Laughing.) Our food policies have pretty much loosened up so we will accept people eating and drinking. Our goal was to bring people into the library, and Starbucks did that. Soon after we opened we did a study and learned that 10 percent of the people who come through the front doors go only to Starbucks and then leave. But overall our attendance has increased by about 10 percent within the library, not just at the library door. The other thing we wanted to do was also a spectacular success, which was get students, faculty, families, parents, everybody together in one place. Besides getting more people in the library, Lynn Sutton: ‘Our role in society is to see the future.’ one of the things was to provide a place for people to be in community together. And from that first day, it happened. The president meets with students in Starbucks. Every campus visit ends in the library, and families go out in Starbucks. All you have to do is walk in there today, and you will see a cross-section of the University, and that’s very gratifying.

SUMMER 2011 39 In my day we had the Zoo. It was downstairs and the only place you could talk and maybe take a Diet Coke. Is there even a Zoo anymore? No, there’s not a Zoo anymore.

The whole library can be the Zoo! (Laughing). Well, when I first started (in 2004), we had a guard at the front door, and he inspected you to see if you had any liquids on you. And I went to the staff after about a year, and I said, ‘Let’s talk about this. Do you want to really continue keeping all those students out and all those drinks out?’ And they said, ‘No.’ What we’ve gained is the trust and gratitude of our students, which in turn has contributed to the whole relationship we have with them.

What should readers The way I put it is we love know about special collections? our students, and our stu-

ZSR TODAY First of all, anything I said dents love us. And they can about a relaxed food and come to us with a wacky drink policy doesn’t apply to special collections because this idea, and they won’t be is one area where we do have turned aside. Our motto is unique things. Having the only to think of a way to say yes copy of one thing in the entire world gives you a certain re- before you have to say no. sponsibility, and that respon- sibility is to preserve it in the format it was originally created. We have very rich special collections. We haven’t been as showy about them as some other universities. We are trying very hard now to organize it internally and, to the extent we can, present it externally and have more people know about it.

In the bricks and mortar sense, are libraries here to stay? I think ours is for at least the foreseeable future because we have seen our attendance rise in the last five to 10 years and because we go beyond just the product and concentrate more on the experience.

Do you think you will see less space devoted to ZSR’s tan- gible products? Yes, that I do. That is a natural outcome of the digitization of infor- mation. The primary format for journals is digital. Monographs, however, are a much different animal. And in the last year or two e-readers have gotten traction finally. In the early days people tried to guess what is the platform that will succeed. And we as librarians said platforms will come and go; readers will come and go; people’s preferences will be different, so it’s our job to make the content available in whatever form that people want to read it. We have seen in this library — reluctance might be too strong of a word — but there has not been a groundswell for us to acquire e-books, but we as librarians see that that is the future. So many times we feel that our role in society is to see the future and help people move along.

40 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES ‘I am a Wake Forest alumna.’

Poet and Professor Maya Angelou honored with Presidential Medal of Freedom

by edwin g. wilson ( ’43)

arly in the afternoon of February 15, at a ceremony Dr. Angelou, who had arrived to a prolonged ovation, then in the East Room of the White House, President spoke in a way that was heartwarming and inspirational, Barack Obama honored 15 Americans with the stressing our common humanity and our need for humility EPresidential Medal of Freedom. One of them was Maya and courage, and also assuring us that she does “belong” to Angelou, Reynolds Professor of American Studies. Wake Forest. She reminisced about her years at the Univer- sity and ended by saying, “I am a Wake Forest alumna. You “Out of a youth marked by pain and injustice,” Obama said, can’t beat that.” We stood again and applauded at length. “Dr. Maya Angelou rose with an unbending determination to Everyone present, I am sure, was cheered and touched by all fight for civil rights and inspire every one of us to recognize of us having been together. and embrace the possibility and potential we each hold. With her soaring poetry, towering prose and mastery of a range of art forms, Dr. Angelou has spoken to the conscience of our nation. Her soul-stirring words have taught us how to reach across division and honor the beauty of our world.”

From our hotel room a few blocks away, my wife Emily (MA ’62), my daughter Sally and I watched the White House ceremony on television, eagerly awaiting the mo- ment when Dr. Angelou would appear. We had come to Washington to pay tribute to a Wake Forest colleague and friend, and then – much to our delight – there she was with the President. And the caption on the screen told us that she was “Professor at Wake Forest University.” with her soaring poetry, towering prose and mastery of a range of art forms, dr. angelou has spoken to the conscience of our nation.

The next day, at noon, in response to a suggestion made by Alumni Council member Elliot Berke (’93), 40 or so Washington-area alumni gathered at the Hay-Adams Hotel for a reception and lunch in Dr. Angelou’s honor. Vice President for Advancement Mark Petersen presided, and Assistant Provost Barbee Oakes (’80, MA ’81) gave the invocation. I reviewed elliot berke (’93) with honoree maya angelou. Dr. Angelou’s years at Wake Forest – her first visit to the campus, her honorary degree from the University, President Nathan Hatch, who had flown to Washington that her appointment as Reynolds Professor of American morning to be with us, offered a toast to Maya Angelou, and Studies – and went so far as to say that, though she we left with the happy awareness that a Wake Forester had “belonged” to America and indeed to the world, I thought been given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. that she also, in a special way, “belonged” to Wake Forest, hoping that she would not think I was exaggerating. Edwin G. Wilson is provost and professor emeritus. His latest book is “The History of Wake Forest University, Volume V, 1967-1983.”

SUMMER 2011 41 by Cherin C. Poovey (P ’08)

What compelled you to write this book? How were you able to gain access to figures such as Reagan-era National Security Adviser John Poindexter? After Sept. 11, 2001, this refrain emerged that the Did you ever feel you might be exposing information government had “failed to connect the dots” about that threatened national security? the attacks. The agencies like the CIA, the FBI and the NSA, which had been tracking various pieces of the Before Poindexter and I ever met, he’d read some emerging plot, never put their heads together to make of my work about him, which he thought was thor- sense of the whole picture. ough and fair. After he left the government and was free to talk to journalists, he decided it might be As a journalist covering the government’s response worth his time to talk to me. We ended up conduct- to 9/11, I got to know a number of officials who were ing more than a dozen interviews for the book. trying to predict the next attack, and who were pro- posing some very innovative and controversial ideas I didn’t think that what I was writing about could about how to do that. I felt that no one had told the jeopardize national security. It might improve story about this secret and deeply important work. I security because it points out what the government wanted to know if these ideas would work — if they’d is doing wrong and suggests ways to fix problems. actually make the country safer — or if they were a I gave officials in the government the chance to threat to all our civil liberties, maybe even on a scale convince me that my writing could be harmful, that we couldn’t comprehend. and they couldn’t. I never showed them what I was writing but whenever I came upon a classified or The more I got to know the people involved in these sensitive subject, I always asked for official com- efforts, I learned that many of them were personally ment and reaction. Since the book came out, several connected to each other, and they’d been involved in this former government officials whom I didn’t interview work for years before 9/11. I realized there was a gripping contacted me to say they thought the book was personal story there. I didn’t want to write a policy book. accurate and fair. I wanted to write a book about people, a nonfiction spy thriller. To me, that was the best way to illuminate the complex, abstract issues of security and liberty.

42 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES Why is this an important read for Americans? read people’s emails. Nor are The Watchers motivated by a desire to squelch political dissent, as was the Our government has developed an extraordinary case during the intelligence abuses of the 1960s and capability to collect information on just about anyone, ’70s. The people I write about in my book are deeply whether through your travel records, your personal motivated by a desire to protect the country. But I communications, practically anything you do in the think that sometimes their best intentions can blind digital world. But by and large, the agencies that are them to the real damage they can do to liberty. The in charge of preventing another 9/11-type event aren’t best of The Watchers — and to be sure, they don’t all very good at making sense of all of this information. come across glowingly in this telling — realize that

what they do is essential, and also that it’s dangerous. I think it’s important to understand our government’s They’re constantly mindful of keeping a balance, and capabilities and its limitations. To do that, I think you they acknowledge they’ll never strike it perfectly. have to put yourself in the shoes of the people who’ve been fighting terrorism for a quarter-century and who Should we be wary of online shopping and social are today on the front lines of this secret war. When networking? you look at the world through their eyes — which is what I do in this book — things become a lot clearer, We should be mindful and sensible. I shop online and often, more troubling. You realize that we’re really probably every day — buying books, office supplies, not doing enough to keep the country safe — from even pet food. I also use social networks like Face- terrorists or from the government itself. book and Twitter, mainly to keep up with friends and to interact with other journalists. There’s great Do you think most Americans are naïve when it comes convenience in all of this. to surveillance? Are they aware of The Watchers? But I’m also realistic about my expectations of I think most Americans have a vague sense that privacy — I don’t have any — and I recognize that they’re being “watched,” but they don’t realize the anything I do or write in the digital world leaves an extent of the government’s capability to collect indelible trace. I think that if you navigate online information about them. And I think they’d be very with the constant realization that you’re not alone, surprised to find out that nearly all of this surveil- that there’s always someone or something watching, lance is legal; much of it wasn’t a decade ago. you’ll generally make good choices. I also think they don’t understand what motivates The Watchers. It’s not some voyeuristic yearning to

“‘THE WATCHERS’ USES SMART TECHNICAL ANALYSIS AND CRISP WRITING TO PUT THE READER INSIDE THE ROOM WITH THE WATCHERS AND TO HELP BETTER UNDERSTAND THE MINDSET THAT GAVE RISE TO THE MODERN SURVEILLANCE STATE.” – The New York Times

“HARRIS SIFTS THROUGH A CONFUSING ARRAY OF ACRONYMS, FASCINATING CHARACTERS AND CHILLING OPERATIONS TO OFFER AN ABSORBING LOOK AT MODERN SPYING TECHNOLOGY AND HOW IT IMPACTS AVERAGE AMERICANS.” – Booklist

SUMMER 2011 43 people who worked in the national security commu- nity just before the attacks, and who were reading “I THINK MOST AMERICANS HAVE A VAGUE the daily intelligence reports about an increased threat from Al Qaeda, practically right up until SENSE THAT THEY’RE BEING “WATCHED,” Sept. 11, 2001. They are some of the smartest and most selfless people I know. I honestly don’t know BUT THEY DON’T REALIZE THE EXTENT OF if they could have prevented the attacks with all the THE GOVERNMENT’S CAPABILITY TO COLLECT right information, but I know that if anyone could have, it would have been them. They know it too. INFORMATION ABOUT THEM.” They’ll be haunted for the rest of their lives about what they might have done.

What were the highlights of your Wake Forest experience? You say that The Watchers have done a good job of I was a politics major. (This was back when it was collecting the dots but not the best job of connecting called politics, not political science.) The dominant them. Is the current administration improving the influence on my professional writing career was “connecting” process, and is that essential to the war writing and performing with the Lilting Banshee on terrorism? Comedy Troupe and with the WFU Theatre and the I don’t think the Obama administration is doing Anthony Aston Players. I had extraordinary op- enough to connect the dots. The intelligence and portunities to write, and extraordinarily forgiving security agencies need to focus their efforts on bet- instructors! ter analytic technology and better coordination. It’s frustrating to have this assessment 10 years after Most of what I do now is nonfiction narrative, so 9/11, because this is exactly what experts were saying my experiences writing fiction for the stage were immediately after 9/11. foundational. Nonfiction narrative has a lot in com- mon with a stage or screenplay. You have characters, As recent failed attacks have shown, when the gov- you have a story arc, and at the base of all of it, you ernment doesn’t make important connections that have conflict. I also took screenwriting courses from might point towards a plot, it’s because there’s too Mary Dalton (’83) (communication), who, to this much information in the system — we can’t find the day, has done more to teach me about the craft of signal in the noise. We can’t prevent every attack, writing than any professor. Two of my politics pro- but right now, we’re not doing enough to improve fessors, Kathy Smith (P ’06) and Hank Kennedy, also our chances. The administration and Congress also had a profound effect on the way I look at the world aren’t considering how to improve privacy laws and and process information. update them for the 21st century. In some ways, this is an even bigger concern. We haven’t had enough Did Wake Forest teach you to be curious, ask questions, sensible, public debates about security and privacy. and work for the common good? If we wait until the next attack to have that national Absolutely. I can’t remember many professors who conversation, history tells us that our leaders will weren’t curious themselves, or who were more in- make poor choices. terested in finding answers than in asking questions. My best professors were risk-takers. They weren’t Do you believe 9/11 could have been prevented if afraid to challenge convention or to let students the dots had been connected? experiment. They also weren’t afraid to let us fail. I This is the big question for everyone who writes learned as much from my failures as my successes, about or works in counterterrorism. Here’s how and my professors never faulted or praised me too I look at it. I’ve gotten to know some of the key much for either.

44 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES Seats in the Kulynych Auditorium A WELCOMING CENTER

260 See related story, page 56

“DESIGN A BUILDING that will help teenagers talk openly and honestly about themselves, their talents and their goals,” was the challenge Dean of Admissions Martha Allman (’82, MBA ’92) presented architects two years ago. On March 22, the University formally opened its new 23,000-square-foot Welcome and Admissions Center, and, says Allman, “This building is the physical representation of our approach to admissions.”

On-campus THOUSAND Center’s expected LEED designation for interviews expected high-performance buildings designed to this year limit environmental impact

THOUSAND 5 Additional interviews GOLD via Skype or 4 written Q&A

PREVIOUSPREVIOUS ADMISSIONS ADMISSIONS BUILDING Number of visitors STARLING HALL to the admissions built as the president’s house in 1956, office in 2010: converted for admissions in 1991 THOUSAND

Dean of Admissions Martha Allman’s “NEVER UNDERESTIMATE advice for pro- ‘GUT FEELING’ AND spective students 16 PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS considering CAMPUS PERSONALITY.” college visits: and their families for a total of

PROMINENT PORTRAIT UPSTAIRS: THOUSAND

the late WILLIAM G. STARLING (’57), former director of admissions and financial aid. He was 40 one of the longest serving admissions chiefs in the country, overseeing the enrollment of 30,000 first-yearDemon Deacons. SUMMER 2011 45 46 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES Wake Forest, long proud of its liberal arts tradition, is strengthening its commitment to the heart of the University experience. Autumn brought the estab- lishment of the Wake Forest Humanities Institute to support humanities scholarship and collabora- tion. In December, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a five-year, $500,000 grant to challenge University donors to match the grant threefold, for a total of nearly $2 million to endow the institute. It is the largest NEH grant Wake Forest has ever received. With the establishment of the institute, look for more faculty seminars, collaborative research across disciplines, public engagement projects, guest speakers, symposia and creative methods to link faculty and students across campus.

The institute arose from a grass-roots initiative On why humanities matter among a group of faculty that received a planning grant from Provost Jill Tiefenthaler’s office in 2007. Franco: The speed with which information comes at Four professors who led the effort sat down with Ma- all of us today, humanities become that check against ria Henson (’82) of Wake Forest Magazine to discuss instant reception. Humanities give you the oppor- the initiative. They are the institute’s director, Mary tunity to ask why, how, where does this come from, Foskett, associate professor of religion; David Phil- what’s the meaning? lips, associate professor of the program in humani- ties; Dean Franco, associate professor of English; and Foskett: That’s my argument for why this is more Sally Barbour, professor of Romance languages. Here vital now than ever. Given the information age, it is are edited excerpts from the conversation. so easy to just go to application and innovation for its own sake. Humanities give you a chance to slow down and ask the question what is the human? Who are we DEFINING THE HUMANITIES serving with this education? Who is the whole person? Franco: The humanities on one hand has tradi- How do we become who we are? What are the narra- tionally been defined by the humanistic disciplines: tives that have shaped our lives? literature, religion, history, philosophy and the study of languages. Outside of that disciplinary construct, Phillips: I think the (national) crisis in the humanities, the humanities are those roads of inquiry that seek to if you flip the coin, is the potential for human develop- find the underlying value and meaning or recurring ment. By asking those questions and having the tools to questions for any given object of study. understand where to look to get context, to get narra- tive, that becomes the starting point.

SUMMER 2011 47 Foskett: The process is the thing. We’re in the age (in On the institute’s benefit for which) we’re often looking for products. We’re often looking for some endpoint. But the process to equip students and faculty students with the right questions — they’re never Phillips: One of our challenges is how do we involve going to go away in their lifetimes. It’s going to be students in public engagement through the humani- change after change after change they are encounter- ties? I’m attempting to put together an online archive ing. So we need to equip them. in digital humanities for North Carolina culture that would be a collaborative effort with faculty across Wake Forest and hopefully other local and regional institutions. It would allow students to go out in the field and interview artists, politicians and community leaders. It would give them the tools to record that, look at it, analyze it … as something that builds on the knowledge that they have in the classroom.

Franco: I’d sum up for faculty that it’s not just in terms of the quantitative amount of productivity but qualitative. You’re going to find richer, deeper scholar- ship for interdisciplinarity, for the collaboration.

Barbour: And in teaching. The scholarship is always bleeding into the teaching. You’re coming away from (faculty) seminars with other points of reference that you didn’t have access to when you were stuck in your department.

Franco: We’ve seen very clear connections between the faculty seminars that have been meeting and individual scholarship — scholarship that has either been significantly enhanced methodologically by the conversations or in terms of specific articles that have spun out of the seminars or in some cases actual col- laborative publication has come from that.

Barbour: My colleague in English and I, we’re both senior faculty. (Young, tenure-track faculty) have gotten our support across generations. What we’ve been doing this semester is reading one another’s work, helping them brainstorm about where to place their work, how to bring their own subjectivity into what they’re writing about.

48 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES Foskett: And we’ve administration — in particular Mark Welker (vice provost) heard from senior and Jill Tiefenthaler — believed in the faculty. I think the faculty that this is institute, if it’s anything it represents that kind of mutual great because it’s faith in one another between faculty and the University. energizing to be inter- acting with younger Foskett: This is very much at the center of the admin- faculty and to be istration’s vision. The president was completely be- learning about newer approaches hind this endeavor and really cheered us on when we from them. put together the NEH grant. We consulted with him. He read over the draft and gave us some feedback because he’s had lots of experience with NEH. They On how the humanities remain are completely in tune with this. We wouldn’t be here relevant in the 21st century without all of their support. Franco: Our students are coming in increasingly think- ing pre-professional as instrumental, and the humani- ties help slow that down and remind them why they’re in a university. The humanities give these students the opportunity to think about the meaning underriding their professional goals and being alive in the world.

Barbour: A senior in one of my classes has just been to an interview with UBS Bank. He’s a classics major, and he got the job. And the students were all so impressed: “You’re a classics major, and you’re going to work for a bank!” That just shows you can do what you want in college. He followed classics because he loved reading them. It enriched him as a person, and he’s now going into another field, but he’s carrying all that with him.

On the quest for the institute Left to right: Mary Foskett, David Phillips, Sally Barbour and Dean Franco. and the NEH grant Foskett: What really works for faculty is ongoing Barbour: It’s a seed grant, what we have. It’s giving us support that’s going to let faculty spend time together the beginnings of the endowment. talking, learning from one another and developing plans over the long haul that arise from conversation, Phillips: As an NEH grant, it has laid down a chal- which is distinct from a group that comes together lenge to alumni and affiliated individuals to help fund with a specific question that they’re going to solve. the future of the Humanities Institute through the That works very well for other disciplines. What the establishment of this endowment. humanities needed was something different — an infrastructure for continuing intellectual engagement, Foskett: And retain the heart of a Wake Forest education. community building, and from that would come the generation of collaborative scholarship. Franco: Because the grant — the NEH — says not only do we believe in Wake Forest, it specifically says Franco: One thing I would like to emphasize is that we believe in Wake Forest donors. We believe you can when we were planning this originally, the faculty raise this money. believed in Wake Forest. They believed in the teacher- scholar ideal and Pro Humanitate. And when we Foskett: It’s really helping Wake Forest be its best self. appealed to the administration for support, the

SUMMER 2011 49 FORTY YEARS after the movie “Brian’s Song” Luke’s funeral, and then how those football games put Wake Forest in the national spotlight, a film that gave us something to look forward to.” opened this spring also combines football and adver- sity, and it presents the close-knit community What started as a quiet tribute to Luke among the of Demon Deacons. Abbate family — when Jon would hold up five fingers to his parents and siblings in the stands — grew as “The 5th Quarter” features the 2006 Wake Forest the season progressed. (Luke had worn the number football season — when the Deacs were predicted five on his football and lacrosse team jerseys and Jon to be in last place but ended up ACC Champions — had adopted it as his jersey number at Wake For- as a backdrop for a more personal story. Defensive est.) Fans who heard about the story, even those for player Jon Abbate (’10) lost his younger brother Luke opposing teams, started holding up five fingers at in an auto accident at home in Marietta, Ga., before the beginning of the fourth quarter. Because of the the season began. The movie depicts the family’s symbolism, each game’s fourth quarter became struggles with grief, but also how the team’s suc- “the fifth quarter.” cesses on the football field gave them something to rally behind. After learning about the Abbate story, writer/director Rick Bieber flew to the Orange Bowl in Miami to meet Jon’s mother, Maryanne Abbate (P ’10), believes the with Jon and other members of the family to discuss Wake Forest community helped the family begin to turning the story into a feature film.Bieber’s experi- heal during that difficult time. “It was the best of times ence in the movie business (“Radio Flyer,” “Man- and the worst of times for us, but I will always have dela”) allowed him to cast major performers: North fond memories of Wake Forest,” she says, “how Carolina resident Andie MacDowell plays Maryanne, so many people from the University came down to with Aidan Quinn taking the role of Steven Abbate.

50 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE FEATURES Ryan Merriman (“Final Destination 3” and “Pretty organ donation — the portrayal of Wake Forest as a Little Liars”) portrays Jon Abbate. caring community will be poignant for graduates, says Bieber. “What the movie ‘Rudy’ was for Notre Dame, we Wake Forest has a big role in the movie, too, both hope ‘The 5th Quarter’ will be for Wake Forest.” behind-the-scenes and in front of the camera. Former Deacon football player Bob McCreary (’61) partnered Jon Abbate is proud that the movie shows his alma with Bieber to fund the movie, believing it an impor- mater as a nurturing place. After Jon spent some time in tant chapter in the University’s history. “There were the NFL, he returned to finish his degree at Wake Forest two reasons I wanted this movie made: the Abbate in 2010 and now works in Raleigh, N.C., in medical sales story itself, but also for my love of Wake Forest and for orthopedic equipment. Jon credits the University what that season meant to us,” says McCreary. with believing in him — academically and athletically — over the years, including helping him find a career path Bieber worked with University officials to gain access to fit his background. to several areas of campus, as well as BB&T Field, for filming. Footage from actual football games appears “The professors have always been incredible, the first in the movie, as do scenes filmed during and after the time I was there and when I came back.” As for the 2006 WFU-Duke game. football team and how the movie portrays that period of his life: “It was a magical season,” he says. “We were a Along with the dramatic issues addressed in the good team to start with … no doubt about it, but there movie — reckless teenage driving, family tragedy and was just something else special that’s hard to explain.”

Lisa Kline Mowry (‘82) of Atlanta is a contributing editor to Better Homes & Gardens, Traditional Home, Renovation Style, Atlanta magazine and Southern Living.

Andie MacDowell (left) and Aidan Quinn as Maryanne and Steve Abbate From the Abbate family album: Maryanne and Rachel (seated) with (standing, left to right) Luke, Steven, Jon and Adam

BRIAN'S SONG AT To first-year students at Wake Forest, After earning a spot on the Chicago Piccolo’s legacy endures at Wake Forest. the name Piccolo might first bring to Bears as a free agent, he developed Two of his three daughters are gradu- mind a residence hall, but many alumni a close friendship with fellow Bears ates: Lori Piccolo (’87) and Traci Piccolo remember Brian Piccolo (’68) as the sub- running back Gale Sayers. Piccolo died Dolby (’89). The annual Brian Piccolo ject of one of the all-time great sports of embryonal cell carcinoma at 26 in Cancer Fund Drive that students estab- movies. The 1971 ABC Movie of the Week 1970. The movie — which starred James lished in 1980 continues to raise money “Brian’s Song” told the story of “Pic,” a Caan as Piccolo and Billy Dee Williams as for treatment and research for the Com- Wake Forest football Hall-of-Famer who Sayers — dealt with the timely subject of prehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest was ACC Player of the Year in 1964. race relations in the ‘60s. Baptist Medical Center.

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1 Provost and Professor of program number one in the nation for dents,” said David Cox (’11). “I can think Economics Jill Tiefenthaler, steps academic quality and among the top 20 of no other University where this sort of down on June 30 to become the thirteenth programs overall for the third consecutive event would have worked. Our school’s president of Colorado College in Colorado year in its “The Best Undergraduate Busi- small size and strong sense of community Springs. She joined Wake Forest in 2007 ness Schools” ranking report released this made the campout successful.” as chief academic officer with responsi- spring. The program ranked 19th overall bility for supervising and administering among 139 eligible programs. With regard 4 Wake Forest Schools of Business the academic programs and plans of the to job placement, it was 11th among the will move its Charlotte executive Reynolda Campus. Among her many ac- top 50 undergraduate business schools, education programs into the former In- complishments over the last four years, she with 92 percent of May 2010 graduates ternational Trade Center downtown. The led the implementation of the University’s accepting employment within three months building will be renamed the Wake Forest strategic plan and key initiatives, including of graduation. University Charlotte Center and will diversity in admissions and enrollment, as house all current and future Wake Forest well as new faculty development, recruit- 3 The beautiful lakes and mountains Charlotte executive education programs, ment and retention efforts. Under her in the region offer numerous camp- including its nationally ranked Evening leadership, the University established the ing options. But in March some Wake and Saturday MBA degree programs. Institute for Public Engagement and the Forest students found a camping spot that Humanities Institute, as well as a number was walking distance from campus: the 5 Several alumni professors, coaches, of research centers, providing new models home of President Nathan Hatch. More athletes, journalists and authors, at Wake Forest for enhanced interdisci- than 50 students, selected through a regis- including basketball great Rodney Rog- plinary research and collaboration. “We tration process to represent each class, set ers (’94) and novelist Emily Giffin (’94), are deeply indebted to her for her vision, up tents on the president’s lawn for a new were featured speakers at the Losing to energy and contagious enthusiasm and event called Pro Humana Tent-a: The Win conference on race and intercol- will miss her greatly,” said President President’s Campout. Students had a legiate sports. The April conference was Nathan Hatch. (For more about Tiefen- chance to play games, share meals, watch a organized by Earl Smith, professor of thaler’s legacy, see magazine.wfu.edu) movie and talk with the president and his sociology, and Tim Davis, professor wife, Julie Hatch. “Yet again, the strong of law. It brought together academics, 2 Bloomberg BusinessWeek ranked sense of community that Wake Forest athletics administrators, journalists, ath- the Undergraduate Business maintains has prevailed to serve its stu- letes and other professionals to explore

52 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE AROUND THE QUAD issues related to college sports including nary tubes) and successfully replace dam- “The economy — and the direction financial sustainability, the graduation aged tissue. An article first published in 11 of the economy — always shapes rate gap between African-American and The Lancet medical journal said the team, the election,” said Al Hunt (’65, P ’11), Caucasian student athletes, and recruit- led by Dr. Anthony Atala, replaced dam- executive Washington editor of Bloomberg ment and other improprieties of college aged segments of urethras in five boys. News. Hunt and his wife, “PBS NewsHour” coaching staffs. co-anchor and former White House cor- 10 Presentation of three outstanding respondent Judy Woodruff (P ’11), en- 6 Meditation produces power- senior orations, faculty awards and gaged in a conversation with their audience ful pain-relieving effects in the the Medallion of Merit highlighted Found- at an April 13 Voices of Our Time event brain, according to research published ers’ Day Convocation on Feb. 17. The three moderated by President Nathan Hatch. in the Journal of Neuroscience by Fadel senior speakers, whose orations were cho- “If the unemployment rate is 9 percent in Zeidan, a postdoctoral research fellow at sen by faculty committee, were Catherine October (2012), the president is in trouble. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. “This (Cate) Berenato (’11) of Blacksburg, Va., If it’s 8 percent, that’s a slight plus. The is the first study to show that only a little “Building Bridges at Home and Abroad”; role of government and spending priori- over an hour of meditation training can Ashley Gedraitis (’11) of Peru, Ill., “Ap- ties will also be key issues, and the state dramatically reduce both the experience plication for the Class of 2011”; and Ava of the wars — if Afghanistan escalates, if of pain and pain-related brain activation, Petrash (’11) of Kensington, Md., “To Iraq goes south, if Gadhafi is still there (in said Zeidan. Research showed meditation Understand the World ….” Life Trustee Libya), that’s going to create problems for produced a greater reduction in pain than K. Wayne Smith (’60) received the Obama,” said Hunt, a Wake Forest trustee. morphine or other pain-relieving drugs. University’s highest honor, the Medallion They agreed the political environment in of Merit. Smith served four terms on the Washington is decidedly less civil than 7 A team of undergraduate students University’s Board of Trustees, including 40 years ago and the proliferation of 24/7 from the Schools of Business earned two years as chair, before being named a cable news shows has fueled the negative the world championship title at the life trustee in 2010. He has also served on atmosphere. “The media has played into KPMG International Case Competi- the Medical Center Board of Directors. that food fight,” Woodruff said. “It makes tion in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 8. Wake Smith had a distinguished career in gov- more drama if you’ve got two sides going Forest, representing the United States, ernment, as director of program analysis at one another.” defeated the Czech Republic, Russia and for the National Security Council, and in Sweden in the final round of competition. business, as CEO of World Book, Inc., and Rising senior Cheyenne Woods The Wake Forest team is accountancy ma- Online Computer Library Center. In 1992, 12 fired a bogey-free three-under jor Megan Petitt (‘11) of Orlando, Fla.; he established a scholarship for Wake 68 to seal her first ACC individual finance majors Tim Rodgers (‘12) of Cor- Forest students, and he has occasionally women’s golf championship on April rigan, Texas, and Swayze Smartt (‘11) of taught courses in economics, politics and 17. Woods finished the 54-hole event at Dallas, Texas; and business and enterprise business. Faculty awards were presented 5-under par, seven shots better than Allie management major Afton Vechery (‘11) to Professor of Political Science Helga White of North Carolina. She becomes of Woodbine, Md. This was the second Welsh, Jon Reinhardt Award for Distin- just the third player in school history to consecutive year that a Wake Forest team guished Teaching; Associate Professor shoot three under-par rounds at the same captured the world title. of English Jessica Richard, Reid-Doyle tournament. Her five-under par total set a Prize for Excellence in Teaching; Associate school-record at the ACC Championships. 8 A polymer solar-thermal device Professor of Political Science Michaelle developed by researchers at the Browers and Associate Professor of Phys- 13 Harold Pace has been named Center for Nanotechnology and ics Fred Salsbury, Award for Excellence Assistant Provost for Academic Molecular Materials will heat your in Research. Professor Emeritus of Political Administration and University Regis- home and save you money, said David Science Jack Fleer, Donald O. Schoon- trar, effective July 1. He succeeds Dot Carroll, the center’s director and profes- maker Faculty Award for Community Sugden (MA ’85, P ’93, ’97), who is sor of physics. “It’s a systems approach to Service; Ben King (MBA ’07), professor retiring. Pace has served as University making your home ultra-efficient because of practice in the Schools of Business, Registrar at Notre Dame since 1991 and the device collects both solar energy and Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa was previously registrar at Louisiana Tech heat,” said Carroll in Science Magazine. Award; Assistant Professor of Urban University and assistant registrar at Texas “Our solar-thermal device takes better Ministry Douglass Bailey (’60), Bill J. A&M University. He has a Ph.D. in edu- advantage of the broad range of power Leonard Distinguished Service Award Pro cational administration from Texas A&M delivered from the sun each day.” Fide et Humanitate; and Professor of Law University, a master’s degree from East Ahmed Taha, Joseph Branch Excellence Texas State University (now Texas A&M 9 Researchers at the Institute for in Teaching Award. Waddill Excellence in University at Commerce) and his BS de- Regenerative Medicine at Wake Teaching Awards were presented to alumnae gree from Southern Arkansas University. Forest Baptist Medical Center are the first Amy Talley (MAEd ’06), elementary level, team in the world to use patients’ own and Melanie F. Huynh-Duc (MAEd ’05), cells to build tailor-made urethras (uri- secondary level.

SUMMER 2011 53 OF ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS

COMMENCEMENT 2011 (clockwise from top): Graduates cheer as the ROTC commissioning ceremony begins; cadets are commissioned as officers in the U.S. Army; graduate Oreofe Olutimilehin of Lagos, Nigeria, and her family and friends; PepsiCo CEO and keynote speaker Indra Nooyi; retiring faculty members; Paula Aduen (’11) lines up for the Baccalaureate service; Wake Forest’s newest alumni toss mortarboards in the air; President Nathan Hatch congratulates a degree recipient. To see more photos, visit the magazine website at magazine.wfu.edu or find us on Facebook at facebook.com/wakeforestmagazine.

Photos by Ken Bennett and Scott Brown

54 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE COMMENCEMENT They may have received their diplomas on May 16 but Commencement speaker Indra K. Nooyi urged graduates not to close the books on learn- ing. Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, gave the Class of 2011 three pieces of advice for success: never lose your childhood curiosity, view everything as an opportunity and approach life with a positive outlook.

“Nurture that can-do attitude that Wake Forest has instilled in you,” said Nooyi, who addressed graduates and their families on a cloudy, cool morning on Hearn Plaza. “I want you to step out into the world with the firm belief that you can make a difference.”

Nooyi, who joined PepsiCo in 1994 and served as president and chief financial officer before succeeding Wake Forest’s current dean of business, Steve Reinemund, as CEO in 2006, received an honorary doctor of laws degree.

Rebecca Chopp, president of Swarthmore College, delivered the Baccalaureate address May 15 in Wait Chapel. She received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. Other honorary de- grees were presented to Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court William K. Suter, doctor of laws; and Andrew C. von Eschenbach, former di- rector of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, doctor of science.

During the ceremony retiring faculty were recognized. From the Reynolda Campus: Fred L. Horton Jr., Albritton Professor of the Bible, Department of Religion, 41 years; Robert W. Ulery Jr., professor of Classical Languages, 40 years; Donald E. Frey, profes- sor of economics, 39 years; Margaret S. Smith, Harold W. Tribble Professor of Art, 32 years; Sarah L. Watts, professor of history, 24 years; Patrick E. Moran, associate professor of Chinese, 22 years; Wayne King, associate professor of journalism/Department of English, 18 years; Douglass M. Bailey (’60), assistant professor of urban ministry/School of Divinity, nine years; and John P. Anderson (MAEd ’00), professor of counseling, 27 years total including vice president for finance and administration (1984-2006), followed by full-time teaching.

From the Bowman Gray campus: David A. Albertson, associate professor emeritus of surgical sciences-general surgery, 31 years; Robert E. Bechtold, professor emeritus of radiologic sciences- radiology, 26 years; Judy K. Brunso-Bechtold, professor emerita of neurobiology and anatomy, 27 years; David W. Busija, professor emeritus of physiology and pharmacology, 20 years; William B. Lorentz, Jr., professor emeritus of pediatrics, 36 years; Zakariya K. Shihabi, professor emeritus of pathology, 38 years; Jimmy L. Si- mon, professor emeritus of pediatrics, 36 years; and Sara H. Sinal (’67), professor emerita of pediatrics, 35 years.

SUMMER 2011 55 UNIVERSITY HONORS KULYNYCH, LIFE TRUSTEE AND BENEFACTOR

Life Trustee Petro “Pete” Kulynych was and served four terms on the board before honored for his 40 years of service to Wake being named a Life Trustee in 1995. He also Forest by the University’s board of trustees served on the Wake Forest Baptist Medical during the board’s meeting Feb. 3. At the Center board of visitors. He received an same meeting, Kulynych’s daughter, Janice honorary degree from Wake Forest in 1997. K. Story (’75), a trustee, announced a major gift to the University to name the Janice K. Story lives in Atlanta, Ga. PHILANTHROPY auditorium in the new Admissions and Kulynych’s other daughter, Brenda Cline, Welcome Center in honor of her father. is a past member of the Medical Center’s board of directors. She and her husband, Pete Kulynych (seated) with his family The new admissions building opened in Dale (MBA ’76), have two children who March. The 260-seat auditorium is used for graduated from Wake Forest, Luke Cline late wife. He has also funded research in presentations to prospective students and (’99) and Laura C. Berry (’94). cardiology, interdisciplinary cancer re- their parents, as well as lectures, perfor- search, leukemia, urology and other areas. mances and other campus activities. (Read Kulynych has made numerous gifts to the more about the new building on page 45.) University and endowed several scholar- Provost Emeritus Edwin G. Wilson (’43) ships, including the Roena B. and Petro was among those recognizing Kulynych’s “It is a pleasure to honor Pete Kulynych,” said Kulynych Scholarship for undergraduates devotion to Wake Forest. “His wise coun- President Nathan O. Hatch. “His name has from Avery and Wilkes counties, N.C.; the sel to presidents (James Ralph) Scales, become one of the most recognizable among Janice Kulynych Story Tennis Scholarship (Thomas K.) Hearn, and now Hatch, Wake Forest philanthropists, but he is also a for a member of the women’s tennis team; his tireless work on trustee and Medical dear friend and wise counselor who has lived and most recently, with Janice Story’s fam- Center committees, and his remarkable a life in the spirit of Pro Humanitate.” ily, the Kulynych-Story Family Fund for philanthropy made Pete among the great- students who are the first in their family est University leaders over these last 40 Kulynych, 89, who lives in Wilkesboro, to attend college. He has also funded the years. I am particularly glad that he is a N.C., is a retired founding director Kulynych Faculty Support Fund. champion of students who have financial emeritus of Lowe’s Companies, Inc. He need, and that through the scholarship first became involved with Wake Forest in He has generously supported the Medical fund he has for many years supported the mid-1970s when he served as chair- Center, including funding for the Roena students from the two mountain counties man of the Parents’ Association. He was Kulynych Center for Memory and Cogni- where he makes his home.” elected to the board of trustees in 1976 tion Research, named in memory of his

TANG SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORTS MARCHING BAND

Their son’s enriching experi- participation in the marching band,” said ence inspired alumna Dina Howard Tang. “We decided that it would (’71, MT ’72, P ’11) and be good to contribute to a scholarship Howard Tang (P ’11) of grant to any deserving outstanding senior Rocky Mount, N.C., to establish who might not have been able to complete a fully funded scholarship to his or her college dreams because of finan- benefit an outstanding senior cial constraints. With our contribution we Left to right: Dina, Anthony and Howard Tang in the Wake Forest Marching hope that deserving student will realize his Anthony Tang’s involvement in several ex- Band. The scholarship eventually will be or her dreams.” tracurricular activities at Wake Forest meant endowed through a planned gift. his parents had many opportunities to join in “We are excited that Anthony will be work- campus activities, and that was meaningful “Wake Forest has been a rewarding experi- ing as an admissions counselor,” Tang said. for them. Anthony, who graduated in May, ence for his mom, and now Anthony has “ We feel that for a new graduate there is no was the Marching Band’s drum major and a had an enriching four years on the campus. better place to work than at Wake Forest.” member of the orchestra and wind ensemble. This has been possible due in main from his

56 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE PHILANTHROPY CASA DINGLEDINE DEDICATED Casa Dingledine, Wake Forest’s new department focusing on tropical conser- conference center in Managua, Nicaragua, vation that culminated in a week of study was dedicated on Feb. 25. Funded by a at a biological field station in Nicaragua generous gift from Trustee Tom Dingle- during spring break. dine (MBA ’78) and his wife, Karyn, the center is home to the Nicaragua Nexus In 2006 Dingledine made a $1 million program and is a training and service gift to establish the Thomas A. Dingle- center for not only Wake Forest faculty dine Fund for Responsible Business. and students but also for those in the local The endowed gift helps faculty mem- community. (Read firsthand accounts by bers create new content for their classes, Wake Forest Fellow Rachel Cook and Dean provide funds for research in these areas of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Lynn and devise new experiential learning op- Sutton on the University website.) portunities for students. He also pledged $175,000 over the next five years to assist Programs at Casa Dingledine include a the school with current operations. He weeklong summer program launched said he hoped the gift would play a role by the Provost’s Office for Global Affairs in elevating awareness about how to called LENS (Learning, Experiencing, conduct business in a way that recognizes Navigating, Solving) designed to prepare responsibilities to the greater good. Nicaraguan high school students for leadership roles in business and society; In 2008 Karyn, a landscape painter, and interdisciplinary summer service-learning Tom endowed the Karyn Dingledine Art trips focusing on global health, nutrition Scholarship Fund for students planning and communication in developing coun- to major or minor in studio art. tries; and a course offered by the biology Above: Members of the Wake Forest delegation at Casa Dingledine Below: Tom and Karyn Dingledine FARRELL HALL ON TRACK

Farrell Hall, a new home for the Wake Its name derives from the $10 million cash and inspire business students through Forest University Schools of Business, commitment made by Mary and Mike exposure to industry leaders. continues to garner financial support for Farrell of Summit, N.J., parents of Michael its construction across from Poteat Field, Edward Farrell (’10). They are honor- Adjacent to a central “Founders Living near the Polo Road entrance to campus. ing Mike Farrell’s late father, Michael John Room” will be the Reynolds American Farrell, a maintenance Foundation Terrace and Gardens, extend- engineer who worked ing into a naturally wooded area and for the New York City allowing collaborative space in the build- Transit Authority. (See ing to flow outdoors. The Bern Beatty “Honor Thy Father” at Colloquium, an innovative space for magazine.wfu.edu in learning and meeting, faculty presenta- the Spring 2011 issue.) tions and small lectures, will be named for a longtime professor of management. The building will include a 400-seat Broyhill Au- The majority of the estimated $53 million ditorium funded by the needed to complete Farrell Hall has been Broyhill Family Founda- raised. The building is expected to open tion. It will be home to in July 2013. the Broyhill Leading Out Loud Executive Lecture Series, created to educate

Mike and Mary Flynn Farrell

SUMMER 2011 57 one lawyer. one entrepreneur. one teacher. all distinguished alumni.

Three separate careers by three different strate the core values of the University ties, became a top administrator within people, all bound together through success through extraordinary service to their the Los Angeles school system and is now and a profound willingness to help others. field of expertise, to society and to their a professor of education at the University The recipients of the 2011 Distinguished alma mater. of Southern California. Alumni Award reflect the spirit of Wake Forest’s mission of Pro Humanitate, work- Byrum has distinguished himself in the At a ceremony on Feb. 18, they joined a ing for the betterment of humanity. legal and business community in Char- group honored since the award’s incep- lotte, one of North Carolina’s fastest de- tion in 1959. Nominations come from Each year the University recognizes the veloping metropolitan markets. Leonard’s within the Wake Forest community. The outstanding contributions of graduates. work as a developer helped Myrtle Beach, Executive Committee and the Volunteer This year’s honorees — Porter B. Byrum S.C., emerge as a national tourist destina- Identification Committees of the Alumni (JD ’42), Donald D. Leonard (’65, P ’89, ’92) tion. Rousseau spent decades working to Council, which represents the Wake Forest and Sylvia G. Rousseau (’68) — demon- ensure students had equitable opportuni- Alumni Association, select finalists.

PORTER BYRUM (JD ’42) Charlotte, N.C. found himself following his father’s path, of a small office in downtown Charlotte. enrolling at Wake Forest. As the son of a His legal work introduced him to key minister, tuition was free for Byrum, and members of the business community, he has long expressed gratitude for the which led to his involvement in real opportunity to get an education at Wake estate development and the Charlotte Forest, where three of his brothers are Aircraft Corporation, a company that also graduates. bought and sold airplanes.

“I know that I didn’t pay my way when Byrum went on to become the owner of I went to Wake Forest,” said Byrum in a the Park Road Shopping Center and sup- 2007 interview with Wake Forest Maga- ported many charitable efforts, includ- zine. “Given the circumstances, my daddy ing the donation of land to the Union never would have been able to have County School System for three elemen- gotten four boys through Wake Forest, tary and three high schools. so somebody ought to pay back the debt. And it makes me feel good to do that.” Byrum created two Wake Forest schol- Byrum arships. The Porter B. Byrum Athletic Byrum, who served in the European Scholarship offers financial aid to out- Porter Byrum comes from humble theater after graduation and was awarded standing student-athletes. The John T. beginnings. His father was a Baptist min- the Bronze Star, launched his legal career Byrum scholarship is among the most ister and a 1908 graduate of Wake Forest. after returning to North Carolina. He prestigious at the School of Law and is When Byrum decided upon college, he took on any case he could, working out named in honor of his father.

58 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS Leonard Rousseau

DON LEONARD A steadfast Wake Forest fan, Leonard’s instruction and through services provided (’65, P ’89, ’92) support was integral to renovations at that students are the number one priority.” Myrtle Beach, S.C. BB&T Field and Deacon Tower. Nearly four decades ago, Don Leonard Describing herself as a leader who prefers left a bank vice president’s position and He has been chairman of the Myrtle compromise over battles, Rousseau was moved to Myrtle Beach when he realized Beach Chamber of Commerce, served the first African-American and first the region’s potential. He started working on several advisory boards and in 1997 woman to serve as principal at Santa out of a spare bedroom in a rented beach received South Carolina’s highest civilian Monica High School. She is credited with house. Success soon struck in a market ripe honor, the Order of the Palmetto. lowering the dropout rate, increasing the with opportunities. Leonard’s involvement number of students going to four-year in numerous projects helped the Grand universities and getting recognition for Strand become a top tourist destination. SYLVIA ROUSSEAU the highest number of students passing (’68) the Advanced Placement exams. Gradu- Inglewood, Calif. Leonard, a member of the board of ation rates among minority students trustees, sponsors the Pro Humanitate When Sylvia Rousseau first stepped into increased, and she earned a reputation as Honor Roll Program established in 2010 a classroom, she knew it was where she peacemaker, taking the ideals of social jus- to recognize the charitable and commu- belonged. Rousseau, the second African- tice and incorporating them into teaching nity service work of students. He credits American woman to graduate from Wake and organizing schools. the University with instilling in him, and Forest, has spent four decades in class- others, important lessons, including the rooms, running schools and teaching teach- Her success led to a superintendent’s posi- importance of teaching people early in ers, and she credits her college experience tion within the Los Angeles United School life that giving back is vital. for setting her on the right career path. District from 2001-05. She is now on the faculty at the University of Southern Cali- “Wake Forest teaches us to focus on hard “I experienced at Wake Forest what it fornia, but her ties to Wake Forest remain work and persistence to overcome chal- means to be a student on a campus small strong, especially now that her grand- lenges,” said Leonard, who is chairman of enough for each student to matter,” Rous- daughter, Taylor, is a rising sophomore. the South Carolina Transportation Infra- seau said. “I have carried that influence structure Bank. “Wake is a ‘boot camp’ for into my career as a teacher, principal “She had several options, but when she life, where you will find a caring adminis- and even superintendent. In all of these went to Wake Forest for a visit she felt tration, a tough love faculty and an athletic positions, I have attempted to make sure friendliness and a warmth that she just program with an underdog’s tenacity.” schools were organized to convey through fell in love with,” Rousseau said.

To see videos of the three winners, go to the alumni website, alumni.wfu.edu

SUMMER 2011 59 CLASS NOTES 60 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE . alumni.wfu.edu/clubs new ones. andmeet college friends with upcoming events ison of the A listing Alumni website at I hopeyou are, become, or will your anactive Club. local member of It isagreat way to reconnect It successful includes examples Club of events andcontacts andisavailable to events. thoseplanningfall “Deaconfest,” anannual summer picnic. Resource The Guide isanevent-planning tool to assistClub leaders. a network for alumni andparents have who theirbusinesses own —andtheChicago started Club’s proposals have approved: been theCharlotte Club’s “Entrepreneurs Forum” —whichto seeks provide InnovationThe Fund invites Clubs to apply for innovative fundingto support ideas. programming Two Innovation Fund andtheResource Guide. Development Committee fosters creative for programming Wake Forest andisworking on two initiatives: the University, returnedalumni to andmet from campusfor meetings around thecountry. National The Program Hi, I’m Taylor. Sarah Since joining the Alumni Council in2004, Ihave reconnected the with to upcoordination ramp among theUniversity anditsClubs: for theNational thelast two years of aschairperson Program Development Committee I’d like to introduce Taylor Sarah Cleveland, (’79)of Ohio, hasworked who diligently University stronger inthedays andyears ahead. alumni, groups of parentsWake inthenameof andfriends Forest only make will our Wakenetwork of Forest andtheworld. Clubs throughout thecountry together Bringing the initiative PlanistoAnAlumni important better of Council develop Strategic our distinguished/nomination website at alumni.wfu.edu/awards/ for Alumni form on consideration,complete nomination the please the Award? to submit aname you If would like Alumni Distinguished for the youDo candidate apossible know council members who joined us at the gala and served Volunteer the year’sthank Committee. with We recipientscooperation this Identification in aswork selecting in ambassadors for our past awardees. hard his N.C., (’71, for P’06) all of Campen Raleigh, member Henry Council to Alumni grateful personally I am of Pro Humanitate. spirit the in you” for service “thank hearty another and pin acommemorativelapel with awardees Alumni Distinguished awards/distinguished/videos/. at alumni.wfu.edu/ videos inspirational their on view stories page 58 and compelling youI encourage to read their (’68) Rousseau (’65, Sylvia S.C., and Beach, ofDon P’89, Leonard P’92) of Myrtle Inglewood, Calif. ’42) (JD Porter Byrum of alumni: Charlotte, honored outstanding three Association, Alumni N.C, of the on behalf Council, Alumni The Awards Gala. Alumni Distinguished inaugural the and Back here at Wake Forest, we had a great celebration at our Winter Alumni Council Meeting community and the spirit of Pro Humanitate. hold you in its thoughts and prayers. We hope Wake the Forest community totragedy.that close you know from Please have spared those been that you have been touched by courage, thatand in youis recent hopemonths. It our disasters natural by horrific who have affected been my condolences to Wake globe by offering the column Foresters around to open this I would like President Association (’86), Orr Alumni Arthur CLASS NOTES . In addition to our three new award recipients, we honored more than 30 of our past recipients, award new we honored of 30 past to three our addition our In more than wake forest alumni association President’s Column President’s Orr Taylor Goodell and is co-chairman of the NFL’s general managers’ committee. Submission Joe R. Beachum Jr. (’63) works at Socastee High Guidelines School in Myrtle Beach, SC, and is active at Timberlake Wake Forest Magazine welcomes Tew Hyde Sitton Bissette Baptist Church. CLASS NOTES submissions from (’57, MD ’61) (’60) (’61, JD ’64) (’65) alumni. There are three ways to submit W. Louis Bissette Jr. (’65, information: P ’94) is president of McGuire Al Proctor (’58) was inducted 1940s Wood & Bissette PA in • Standard mail: CLASS NOTES editor, into the North Carolina Sports Victor Michael Cresenzo Sr. Asheville, NC. He has been Hall of Fame. He was a student Wake Forest Magazine, P.O. Box (’40, MD ’43) was a member elected to serve a four-year trainer at Wake Forest from 7205, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205 of the first graduating class term on the UNC Board of 1955 to 1958. of the Bowman Gray School Governors by the N.C. Senate. • Email: [email protected] of Medicine in 1943. He is 92 • Online: www.wfu.edu/magazine/ and lives in Reidsville, NC, William K. Davis (JD ’66) is 1960s classnotes with his wife, Frances. His son, with Bell Davis & Pitt PA in Mark (MD ’81), followed in his Betty-Bruce Howard Hoover Winston-Salem. He has been footsteps and practices inter- (’61) and a group of women on named a N.C. Super Lawyer nal medicine in Reidsville. His the 50th reunion committee in business litigation and a three other sons: Vic Jr. (’67) for the Class of 1961 met in member of Business North Submissions guidelines: is a retired dentist, Bill (’67) Winston-Salem to begin plans Carolina’s Legal Elite Hall of is a CPA and Randy (JD ’76) for reunion activities for Home- Fame. • The Class Note must be about, and is a lawyer. Read more on coming 2011. Attending were submitted by, the alumnus/a who is the magazine website at Carolyn Williams Ashburn Michael J. Lewis (’67, JD ’70) the subject of the item. magazine.wfu.edu. (’61, MDiv ’08), Elaine Byassee is with Mike Lewis Attorneys Bailey (’61), Anna Ruth in Winston-Salem and Greens- • The person submitting the item is D.E. Ward Jr. (’43, MD ’45, Current (’61), Jeane Daniel boro, NC. He has been named responsible for its accuracy. Wake P ’70, P ’72) is a Wake Forest Dennis (’61), Jane Greer Hill one of The Best Lawyers in Forest is not responsible for content Life Trustee. He has retired at (’61), Judy Parker Edwards America in personal injury and nor does posting of the information eminent domain and a N.C. the age of 90 after 57 years of (’61), Mary Stowe (’61) and constitute an endorsement. treating patients in Robeson Ann Yongue Williams (’61, Super Lawyer for the third County. He was featured in P ’88, P ’91, P ’94). year in a row. • Email and website addresses submit- The Robesonian, his local ted in Class Notes will be printed. newspaper. Ward began his Jeanette W. Hyde (‘60) is Don Maddox (JD ’67) is Since any information submitted to president of the J.F. Maddox career at Baker Thompson a Wake Forest Life Trustee. Wake Forest Magazine is available Memorial Hospital and moved She received the Heritage Foundation in Albuquerque, to the public, the University is not to what is now Southeastern Award from the North Caro- NM. He received the 2011 Dis- responsible for how this information Regional Medical Center with lina Baptist Foundation in tinguished Leadership Award his office at the Lumberton recognition of her exemplary from Leadership New Mexico. may be used. Wake Forest does not Clinic of Surgery PA. support of the School of publish phone numbers. Divinity and the Wake Forest James E. Snyder Jr. (’67, • Please include your class year(s) and Baptist Studies Program. JD ’70, P ’91) is an attorney in 1950s Lexington, NC. He published degree(s) with each submission. Larry Sitton (’61, JD ’64, a book, “Bones, Dean and William H. Smith (’57) • Please include a telephone number P ’90) is with Smith Moore Me,” in the fall about his time practiced law in Danville, and email address so that we may Leatherwood LLP in Charlotte, as a college basketball recruit, VA, for 35 years and was a verify the information. NC. He has been named a when he “showed up at the certified trial advocate. He N.C. Super Lawyer. right time and place as the • Class Notes regarding events will be received the Patrick Henry stars aligned.” He decided Award from the Governor of published in the next issue following David N. Smith (’62, MD ’66) to donate book royalties to the Commonwealth of Virginia the date of the event. retired as chief medical the Deacon Club. Read more for his commitment to good officer/vice president of about the book at magazine. • Submissions may be edited for length government and justice. He medical affairs from Rowan wfu.edu. and clarity. is the member/manager of a Regional Medical Center in commercial real estate com- Salisbury, NC. He plans to Nick Fountain (JD ’68) is with • Because of space considerations we pany, William H. Smith and continue volunteering with the Young Moore & Henderson PA are able to accept digital individual Assoc. LLC. Community Care Clinic and in Raleigh, NC. He has been head shots only. Photos must be at hopes to play some golf and named a N.C. Super Lawyer. least 2x3 inches at 300 pixels per inch John M. Tew Jr. (’57, MD ’61) travel with his wife, Wanda. was honored by the Cincinnati (600 x 900 pixels). USA Regional Chamber as a Ernie Accorsi (’63) has retired 1970s Great Living Cincinnatian. after 35 years with the National He is a neurosurgeon with the Zebulon V. Kendrick (MA ’71) Football League as executive Mayfield Clinic and clinical has been named vice provost vice president and general director of the University of in the Office of Graduate manager of the New York Cincinnati Neuroscience Education at Temple Univer- Giants. He lives in Manhattan, Institute. sity in Philadelphia. is a consultant to the NFL and to Commissioner Roger

SUMMER 2011 61 Review. He is a member of Rudy Ogburn (’79, JD ’82) the N.C. Academy of Superior is with Young Moore & Hen- Court Mediators. His son, derson PA in Raleigh, NC. He Alex Ward (’09), is a second- has been named a N.C. Super year Wake Forest law student. Lawyer and one of Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite. Thomas H. Davis Jr. (JD ’76, P ’05, P ’08, P ’10) is a partner Terri L. Shelton (MA ’79) is Holden Campbell Chapman Loomis with Poyner Spruill LLP in vice chancellor for research (’73) (’80) (’81) (JD ’81) Raleigh, NC. He has been and economic development elected to the board of for the University of North Philip May (MA ’71) is a Forest Baptist Medical Center, directors of the N.C. Supreme Carolina at Greensboro. She sociology professor and a to the board of the WFBMC Court Historical Society. received the Carol Jenkins professor of family and Research Park and chairman Mattocks Distinguished

CLASS NOTES CLASS community medicine at The of the United Way of Forsyth J. Anthony Penry (’76, JD ’79) Professorship, is the author University of New Mexico County. is a partner with Penry or co-author of more than 50 and a principal investigator Riemann PLLC in Raleigh, NC. journal articles and co-author for the Center on Alcoholism, Thomas W. Bunn (’75) retired He was elected to the board of a book, “Assessing Attention- Substance Abuse and Addic- as vice chair of KeyCorp in of trustees of the Lawyers’ Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.” tions. He has been selected 2009. He has joined the board Committee for Civil Rights to deliver the University of of directors of SquareTwo Under Law. New Mexico’s 56th Annual Financial of Denver and the 1980s David N. Gill (’77) Research Lecture, one of the board of directors of Southern has been Howard L. Borum (JD ’80, named chief financial officer of highest honors bestowed on Weaving Co. of Greenville, SC. P ’08) is with Carruthers & INC Research in Raleigh, NC. its faculty. He is on the senior operating Roth PA in Greensboro, NC. He and his wife, Diane (’77), advisory board of Sound He has been named a N.C. live in Wilmington, NC, and Walter W. Pitt Jr. (JD ’71) is Harbor Partners in New York. Super Lawyer in real estate have two grown children and a with Bell Davis & Pitt PA in law. Winston-Salem. He has been Anthony S. di Santi (JD ’75) is new grandson. named a N.C. Super Lawyer with di Santi Watson Capual & Robert R. Campbell Jr. (’80, Kay Killian (’77, JD ’80) in bankruptcy and creditor/ Wilson in Boone, NC. He was P ’11, P ’14) is with Waller and her family established debtor rights and one of installed as the 76th president Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP conservation easements with Business North Carolina’s of the N.C. State Bar. in Nasvhille, TN. He has been the Catawba Lands Conser- Legal Elite. named Lawyer of the Year in vancy for their property in Michael C. Miller (MBA ’75, real estate law by The Best Gaston and Lincoln counties. Doug Waller (’71, P ’03) has JD ’78) has been named the Lawyers in America. published a book, “Wild Bill ninth president of Pfeiffer She wants to conserve farm and forest lands. Donovan: The Spymaster Who University, a United Methodist- Deborah Farmer Minot (’80) Created the OSS and Modern related institution in North has been appointed district Susie Gibbons (’78, JD ’81) American Espionage” (Free Carolina. He is an attorney associate judge for the Sixth is with Poyner Spruill LLP in Press, Feb. 2011). Read more and former president and Judicial District of Iowa over Raleigh, NC. She has been on the magazine’s Deacon CEO of CommunityOne Bank the criminal and juvenile named one of Business North Blog at go.wfu.edu/hgy. based in Asheboro, NC. He courts in the Johnston County Carolina’s Legal Elite in and his wife, Donna, have Courthouse. She and her employment law. Catharine Biggs Arrowood three adult children: Michael, husband, George (’81), live in (’73, JD ’76, P ’05) is a part- Lisa and Jake. Iowa City and have two sons, Roger R. Pearman (’78, ner with Parker Poe Adams & Tanner (22) and Walker (17). Bernstein LLP in Raleigh, NC. Teresa Brown Wallendjack MAEd ’81) has revised and released his first book, “I’m She was the “Top Vote- (’75) and her husband, Mark Kevin A. Nelson (’80) is Not Crazy, I’m Just Not You,” Getter” in the antitrust Wallendjack (’76), and their with Huddleston Bolen LLP which was published in 1996. category and will join Business children, Ellen (’07), Diane and in Charleston, WV. He was His son, Lukas, is a Marine in North Carolina’s Legal Elite Clare, were selected as the named one of The Best Law- Afghanistan and his daughter, Hall of Fame. She was among 2010 U.S. Tennis Association’s yers in America in labor and Olivia, is in Honduras with the the Top 50 female lawyers and Tennis Family of the Year for employment law. He led the Peace Corps. the Top 100 lawyers in North the Mid-Atlantic Section and Charleston Catholic high Carolina. the Maryland District. Terri and school girls’ soccer team to its Michael Jac Whatley (’78, Mark were playing captains on third consecutive state title in P ’11) is the prospect research Lawrence “Chip” Holden the USTA 7.0 senior mixed 2010, ranking the team nation- manager in the Advancement (’73, P ’99) is with Holden doubles team which won the ally for the first time in the Department of Berry College Mickey & Mickey in Winston- national title in April 2010. school’s history. Salem. He was recognized for in Mount Berry, GA. 35 consecutive years of quali- J. Randolph Ward (’75, Steve Owens (JD ’80) had a Carolina Lehoczky Fernandez fying with the Million Dollar JD ’78, P ’09) is a workers’ private practice in Kansas (’79) is a registered indepen- Round Table. compensation litigator and City for 26 years and became dent investment adviser mediator in Cary, NC. He general counsel for the aligned with Source Capital R. Michael Wells Sr. (JD ’74, completed four years as chair University of Missouri System Group of Westport, CT. She P ’04) is with Wells Jenkins of the N.C. Bar Foundation’s in 2008. He has been named served on a panel, “Should Lucas & Jenkins in Winston- Trial Practice Curriculum interim president to oversee Women Rule the Investment Salem. He has been elected Committee and served on the the four-campus system. to the Academic Affairs N.C. Industrial Commission’s World?,” at the Cornell Club Committee of the Wake Committee on Utilization in New York City.

62 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES Boy Scouts Honor Badgett (’87) For His Tireless Dedication

Nearly thirty years later, Ken Badgett (’87) still recalls those daily pop quizzes in Professor Richard Zuber’s American History class. They were challenging but in- spiring, he says. There was no choice but to keep up with the reading. Badgett traces his strong passion for current events, as well as a desire to dig into our country’s past, back to his undergraduate experience. It is no surprise that he graduated with a bachelor of arts in history and chose to make the study of history his life’s work.

What did surprise Badgett was his induction into the Ken Badgett (second from left) has been inducted into the National Boy Scouts of America’s 100th Anniversary National Hall of Leadership. Hall of Leadership last August. Badgett was one of 310 Scouts and Scout leaders nationwide honored by the BSA for making a significant difference in the life of years later in Mount Airy, NC. Badgett’s extensive work another through their extraordinary service and the resulted in a $100,000 federal grant to fund the museum. Scouting virtues they have modeled. When he’s not volunteering as the Old Hickory The Old Hickory Council of Boy Scouts in Winston- Council’s official historian, Badgett works as an Salem singled out Badgett for his tireless dedication to independent scholar in the Winston-Salem area. Most the council’s history, museum and camp. Charles Griffin, recently, he was chosen to work with the immediate president of the Old Hickory Council’s Historical Associ- family of Stanley Harris Sr., one of the founders of ation, said, “Badgett is a remarkable individual and a real the Boy Scouts of America. Harris created the first all- asset. He is an historian 24/7, 365 days a year. Not only is African-American Boy Scout troop in 1916. In 1942, he a leader, but a doer as well.” Griffin added, “He is like he received an honorary doctorate by the Tuskegee a walking textbook on Boy Scouting history.” Over the Institute, an historically black university, for his work last 20 years, The Old Hickory Council has highlighted in helping African-Americans. Badgett has spent the Badgett’s devotion to the preservation of Scouting his- last decade researching Harris’s work as the head of the tory, honoring him with numerous awards including the BSA’s Interracial Service from 1926-1947. Raven Award and Roy M. Hinshaw Memorial Award. Badgett considers his research on Harris to be the most Boy Scouting has always played an integral part in interesting and rewarding of his career. His historical Badgett’s life. He began as a Cub Scout in 1973 in Dob- findings culminated in the erection of a North Carolina son, N.C. While attending Wake Forest he volunteered Highway Historical Marker in Boone, N.C., in Harris’s locally and worked as a counselor at Camp Raven memory last November. “Most importantly, my work Knob during his summers. Wake Forest’s unique ties to resulted in locating and making available a set of Scouting have always been of interest to Badgett. “From primary historical documents that had previously been students volunteering as Scout leaders in the town of of little interest to national Boy Scout officials and to our Wake Forest since 1913, to the Old Hickory Council National Scouting Museum, mainly because of [Harris’s] holding its annual awards banquet in Reynolda Hall’s work in the difficult subject of race relations,” said Magnolia Room in the ’70s and ’80s, Wake Forest has Badgett. Numerous publications, including the Winston- not been without its Scouts since the organization was Salem Journal and the North Carolina Historical Review, founded in 1910,” said Badgett. have cited Badgett’s historical findings about Boy Scouting as well as local history. Following his time at Wake Forest, Badgett co-founded the Old Hickory Council’s Historical Association in – Liz Keating (’11) 1994, as well as the Raven Knob Boy Scout Museum four Wake Forest Magazine intern

SUMMER 2011 63 Presson (’82) Hartsema (’83) Rodgers (’84) Avram (JD ’86) Langley Osborn Summers (’87) Palacek (’86, JD ’92) (’87) (JD ’92)

Karen Britt Peeler (JD ’80) member of Mainstreet Cleve- Doug Hartsema (’83) is senior assistant professor in the is with Herring Mills & Kratt land and the United Way of vice president and director Department of Surgery at the PLLC in Raleigh, NC. Her Bradley County. of treasury management with Saint Louis University School

CLASS NOTES CLASS practice focuses on the needs Huntington Bank of Columbus, of Medicine. of disabled children and the D. Anderson Carmen (JD ’82, OH. He has been named elderly. P ’09) is with Bell Davis & Pitt chairman of the board of Rhonda K. Amoroso (JD ’85, PA in Winston-Salem. He has directors of the combined P ’97) practiced law in New Scott Chapman (’81) is a been named one of Business financial operations of Inter- York and is a former admin- professor of mathematics and North Carolina’s Legal Elite in national Accounts Payable istrative law judge. She has scholar-in-residence at Sam construction law. Professionals, International been elected chairwoman Houston State University in Accounts Receivable Profes- of the New Hanover County Huntsville, TX. He has been Jeff Dunham (’82) celebrated sionals, The Association for North Carolina Republican appointed editor of The the 50th birthday of Gil Rob- Work Process Improvement Party. American Mathematical erts (’82) with Scott McEwan and the National Association Monthly, a journal published (’81) and Al McMillian (’84) in of Purchasing and Payables. P. Kevin Carwile (JD ’85) is by the Mathematical Associa- Sonoma County, CA. chief of the U.S. Department tion of America. J. Stanley Atwell (JD ’84) is of Justice’s Capital Case Unit Ramon Presson (’82) is a with Carruthers & Roth PA in in Washington. This unit Leah Durner (’81) had a one- counselor, author and news- Greensboro, NC. He has been assists the Attorney General’s person art exhibition of her paper columnist in the Nash- named a N.C. Super Lawyer in Review Committee on Capital new works on paper. The New ville, TN, area. His newest estate planning and probate. Cases in its evaluation of po- York City exhibit was accom- book, “When Will My Life Not tential death penalty matters. panied by an alumni reception Suck? Authentic Hope for the David Duke (JD ’84) is with and panel discussion led by Disillusioned,” has been Young Moore & Henderson PA Tony D. Newman (’85) wrote art critic David Cohen. Read released by New Growth Press in Raleigh, NC. He has been a book about overcoming more at go.wfu.edu/bgb. (www.lifechangecs.org). The named a N.C. Super Lawyer. adversity, “I Rise: The Trans- third chapter references a formation of Toni Newman.” Doris Phillips Loomis (JD ’81) pivotal moment in his life while Paul R. Eason (’84, P ’12, is with McGuire Wood & at Wake Forest. P ’15) is an internal medicine Randy Avram (JD ’86) is with Bissette PA in Asheville, NC. physician with Carilion Clinic Kilpatrick Townsend & Stock- She has been named one of Dominick J. Salemi (JD ’82) is in Martinsville, VA. He has ton LLP in Raleigh, NC. He has Business North Carolina’s a trademark attorney with the been elected to the board of been named one of the Top Legal Elite in tax and estate Department of Commerce in directors of the Harvest Foun- 100 N.C. Super Lawyers. planning. Arlington, VA. He and his wife, dation. His daughter, Rachel Charlene, are raising funds for (’12), spent a semester at the David Fricke (JD ’86) is with Joseph E. Root (JD ’81) is the Organization for Autism Worrell House and his son, Poyner Spruill LLP in Raleigh, founder of QualiPat LLC in Research with a June blues Stephen, will be a freshman. NC. He has been named one Montara, CA, devoted to festival in Colonial Beach, VA. of Business North Carolina’s training patent drafters. He William W. Pollock (’84) has Legal Elite in real estate law. published a book, “Rules of Rob Turner (JD ’82) is of joined the Ragsdale Liggett Patent Drafting: Guidelines counsel for the law firm of law firm as a partner in the D. Beth Langley (’86, JD ’92) from Federal Circuit Case Protogyrou & Rigney PLC of litigation department. He and practices labor and employ- Law” (Oxford University Press, Norfolk, VA, and has a private his wife, Maggie, and their ment and business litigation January 2011). practice concentrating on children, Alex and Anne, live with Hagan Davis Mangum traffic, criminal and personal in Raleigh, NC. Barrett & Langley PLLC in David Warren (’81, JD ’84, injury in Southeastern Virginia. Greensboro, NC. She has P ’13) is with Poyner Spruill He and his wife, Jocelyn, live Walt Rodgers (’84) is vice been named a N.C. Super LLP in Raleigh, NC. He has in Norfolk. president of human resources Lawyer and one of Business been named one of Business at RelaDyne, an equipment North Carolina’s Legal Elite. North Carolina’s Legal Elite in James J. Wheaton (’82) is reliability management bankruptcy law. general counsel and vice company in Sharonville, OH. Ken Badgett (’87) has been president of legal and govern- named to the Boy Scouts of Jeff Zierenberg (’81) is mental affairs for Liberty Tax Betsy Tuttle-Newhall (’84, America’s 100th Anniversary manager of human resources Service in Virginia Beach, VA. MD ’88) is a transplant National Hall of Leadership. and training for the new surgeon at the Saint Louis (See story, p. 63.) manufacturing site being built John P. Winicov (’82) and his University Hospital’s Center in Cleveland, TN, for Wacker wife, Brenda, along with David for Abdominal Transplant Edward Bonahue (’87) is Polysilicon NA, a company of (’82) and Mari-Ann (’86) Allen, Surgery. She serves on the provost and vice president for Wacker Chemie AG of Munich, celebrated John’s 50th birth- Wake Forest College Board academic affairs at Santa Fe Germany. He is a board day in Key West, FL. of Visitors. Her husband, College in Gainesville, FL. Philip Newhall (’92), is an

64 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES W. Russell Adams (’89) teaches David W. Johnson Jr. (JD) left history and government at the law profession in 2006. He 1992 Laney High School in Wilming- helped produce a documen- Marty Langley is training to ton, NC. He has been named tary about music education be a financial adviser with his the N.C. 2011 American and is pursuing a master’s in father and sister, Susanna History Teacher of the Year special education at Arizona Robinson (’87), in Raleigh, by the National Society of the State University. NC. Sons of the American Revolu- Ramseur Johnson (’93) tion. He received the Tom and Christopher H. Martin is Jane Wiseman Magrino was (’92, JD ’95) Betty Lawrence American with Printpack, a privately a stay-at-home mom for 13 History Teacher Award. held packaging company in years and is now a grants Atlanta. accounting specialist for the John M. Flynn (’87, JD ’90) is Joe Austin (JD ’89) is with University of Georgia. She with Carruthers & Roth PA in Young Moore & Henderson PA Ricky Proehl is a consultant lives in Athens with her Greensboro, NC. He has been in Raleigh, NC. He has been working with the Carolina husband, Darryl, and three named one of Business North named a N.C. Super Lawyer. Panthers wide receivers in children: Grace (14), Maddy Carolina’s Legal Elite in envi- Charlotte, NC, following a (13) and David (6). ronmental law. Chris Bowman (JD ’89) has career as a NFL wide receiver. joined the sports and enter- He was inducted recently into Diana Palecek (JD) is a John H. Holt (’87) lives in tainment practice group of the North Carolina Sports partner with Smith Moore Scottsdale, AZ, with his wife, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP in Hall of Fame. While at Wake Leatherwood LLP in Charlotte, Mary, and two children, Cincinnati. Forest from 1986-89, he let- NC. She graduated magna Garrett (5) and Sarah (3). tered and still owns several cum laude from Erskine He owns a computer services Sarah Jon Fullenwider football records. College with a BA in English firm. (JD ’89) has been appointed in 1989. She was inducted into city attorney for the City of Eric Wilson (MA ’90) is the Erskine College’s Academic Ernest A. Osborn (’87) is Fort Worth, TX. She has been Thomas H. Pritchard Professor Hall of Fame as the “best of senior vice president of The with the city’s law depart- of English at Wake Forest the best” in academic achieve- Osborn Berrier Group at ment since 1997 and is the University. He is the author ment, support and service. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney first female appointed to this of “My Business is to Create: in Winston-Salem. He was position. Blake’s Infinite Writing” Robert J. Ramseur Jr. (JD ’95) named among the Best of (University of Iowa Press). is a partner and chair of the Best financial advisers attend- Dean W. Hollandsworth real estate department with ing Barron’s Winner’s Circle (JD ’89) has been named Ragsdale Liggett PLLC in Ra- Top Advisors Summit. senior staff attorney at the 1991 leigh, NC. He has been named New Hanover County Depart- Anna Windsor Eagle is the one of Business North Caro- Mike Summers (’87) has ment of Social Services. He faculty and staff wellness lina’s Legal Elite. been named vice president of has been a DSS attorney for coordinator at Davidson recruiting and business devel- 15 years. He and his wife and College in Davidson, NC. opment with The HR Group in two sons live in Wilmington, She is also a personal trainer, 1993 Greensboro, NC. NC. fitness instructor and wellness Lisa M. Angel (JD) is with and nutrition educator in the Rosen Law Firm in Raleigh, Jeff Chamberlain (’88) is Christine M. Ryan (JD ’89) Charlotte and Lake Norman NC. She has been named chair head of the Electrochemical is with Herring Mills & Kratt area. of the membership committee Energy Storage Group at the PLLC in Raleigh, NC. Her prac- of the N.C. Bar Association Argonne National Laboratory, tice focuses on elder law and Neil D. Kodsi (’91) has formed (www.rosen.com/lisa/). a lab sponsored by the U.S. estate planning for families the law firm of Alderman & Department of Energy. He is with special health care needs. working to develop lithium ion Kodsi, a litigation boutique Richard Becker has been specializing in commercial named president of Target batteries to improve electric Charlot F. Wood (JD ’89) is and personal injury in Miami Analytics, a Blackbaud Co. vehicles. Read more in the with Bell Davis & Pitt PA in Shores, FL. offering data enrichment to magazine Deacon Blog at Winston-Salem. She has been nonprofits. He will be based in go.wfu.edu/c57. named a N.C. Super Lawyer in Thomas Carroll Pope III is Cambridge, MA. civil litigation defense. Mark P. Del Mastro (’88) was with The Cone Company, an professor of Spanish at The insurance brokerage firm. Elliot S. Berke is a partner Citadel in Charleston, SC, for 1990 He received a professional and co-chair of the political 18 years. He is professor and insurance designation, law group of McGuire Woods chair of Hispanic studies at William Graham Blair is Chartered Property Casualty LLP in Washington, DC. He the College of Charleston. senior vice president with Underwriter. He and his wife, has established the Evil Turner Sports heading up Amy, and children, Emma and Empire Speech Memorial Wimberly Beth Thompson sponsorships and advertising Evan, live in Auburn, AL. Foundation to memorialize (’88) is a licensed clinical sales. He is based in New York President Reagan’s address social worker and director City. James Woolery has been in Orlando (evilempirespeech. of school-based behavioral named co-head of North org). He is president-elect of health services at Cherokee Donald L. Bobbitt Jr., of American mergers with the Wake Forest Alumni Health Systems. She and her Charlotte, NC, is chief finan- JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New Council and lives in Arlington, daughter, Emma Binh (3), live cial officer of Campus Crest York. VA, with his wife, Lindsey, in Knoxville, TN. Communities, a student and two children, Julia (5) housing real estate invest- and Collin (2). ment trust.

SUMMER 2011 65 Massing (’95) Feinberg (’96) Irwin (’97) Sutton Fanning Marty Hutchens Pantazis (JD/MBA ’97) (JD ’98) (JD ’98) (’99) (JD ’99)

Christin Essin will begin a M. Benjamin Jones has been Westray Veasey (JD) is with Pat S. Robison (JD) was a faculty research position as a named senior managing direc- Poyner Spruill LLP in Raleigh, partner with Caldwell Helder theatre historian at Vanderbilt tor of Conway Del Genio Gries NC. He has been named one Helms & Robison PA in

CLASS NOTES CLASS University this fall. & Co. LLC, a restructuring, of Business North Carolina’s Monroe, NC. He has been turnaround management and Legal Elite in tax and estate appointed district attorney David L. Johnson has been M&A advisory firm in New planning law. for Union County in North named vice chair of the labor York. Carolina. and employment department of Miller & Martin PLLC in Jeffrey D. Patton (JD) is a 1996 Nashville, TN. member in charge of the Daniel L. Briggs is in funeral 1997 Winston-Salem office of home and furniture businesses Stephen LeRoy Barnes is a Russell Smith received an Spilman Thomas & Battle in the N.C. Triad. He was fellow in cardiothoracic anes- MPhil in ancient cultures fom PLLC. He has been named one appointed a commissioner on thesiology at the Texas Heart the University of Stellenbosch. of Business North Carolina’s the three-member board of Institute in Houston. He and his family celebrated Legal Elite. the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage 10 years of ministry at historic Control Commission by Sandra S. Benson is an insur- Covenant-First Presbyterian Joe Zeszotarski (JD) is with Gov. Bev Perdue. He and his ance marketing and product Church in Cincinnati (www. Poyner Spruill LLP in Raleigh, wife, Laurie Long Briggs (’97, manager for the Latin America covfirstchurch.org). NC. He has been named one MSA ’98), and their four Region with Chartis Insurance. of Business North Carolina’s children live in Lexington, NC. She and her husband, Nicola Wade Tollison is the global Legal Elite in criminal law. Carro, live in Miami and are senior product marketing William John Cathcart Jr. is expecting their first child. manager in the automation a partner with Brown Crump and control solutions business 1995 Vanore & Tierney LLP in Renee Davis Benton is director with Honeywell International Joshua W. Dixon has been Raleigh, NC. of program services at the in Golden Valley, MN. He and elected a partner with Parker Make-A-Wish Foundation of his wife, Stephanie, have three Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP in Margaret Feinberg published Illinois. children: Ella (8), Jack (7) and Charleston, SC. a book, “Hungry for God: Sam (7). Learning to Hear His Voice” Matthew Borgman is a pedi- Stephanie Neill Harner has (Zondervan) (margaretfeinberg. atric intensivist and major in been inducted into the com). the U.S. Army. He is stationed 1994 National Golf Coaches Hall of at Brooke Army Medical Chad V. Blankenburg is the Fame as the 56th member of Ross Forbes (JD) is with Center in San Antonio, TX. N.C. sales manager for an the Players Hall of Fame. Jackson Walker LLP in Dallas. insurance brokerage firm, The He has been named a Texas Stephen Vincent Higdon (JD) Cason Group, with operations Raymond Reitzel Hutchins III Monthly Rising Star. has been appointed by N.C. in the Carolinas and Georgia. is a pricing analyst for Balteck Gov. Bev Perdue to serve as a He is president of the N.C. Inc. in High Point, NC. Jason James is with Poyner district court judge in Union Association of Health Under- Spruill LLP in Charlotte, NC. County. writers. Tiffany Massing has been He has been named one of named project coordinator for Business North Carolina’s Judson N. Hollifield (JD ’01) Joseph DeArmond Cantrell The Fairmount Group, a com- Legal Elite Young Guns. is chairman and CEO of Rine- is chief financial officer of munications and marketing hart Racing, a global motor- Kings Creek Plantation LLC firm in Cleveland Heights, OH. Rachelle Fasen Kuramoto sports company specializing in Williamsburg, VA. (MA ’98) is a co-founder of in performance exhaust Scott Travasos (MBA) has kigo footwear, a line of shoes applications for NASCAR and Mark E. Edwards (JD ’97) is a been named chief financial (www.kigofootwear.com). Harley Davidson. board certified specialist in officer for the Blue Shield of Founded on Pro Humanitate, elder law with Fields & California Foundation. He kigo footwear supports William Kyle Irwin is senior Cooper PLLC in Nashville, NC. serves on the board of the efforts to put shoes on people manager of The North High- He was elected to the board Bay Area Sports Organizing who need them. She and her land Company, an interna- of directors of the Baptist Committee and lives in husband, Kenji (’95), live in tional consulting company. He Joint Committee in Washing- Walnut Creek, CA, with his Atlanta with their two and his wife and daughter live ton, D.C., which advocates for wife, Jenni, and two children, children, Sam (8) and Stella (6). in New Hope, PA. the separation of church and Collin (10) and Anna (7). state. Also with the Baptist Tate Ogburn (JD/MBA) is Roberta B. King (JD ’02) is Joint Committee is K. Hollyn with Poyner Spruill LLP in with Bennett & Guthrie PLLC Hollman (’89), general counsel Charlotte, NC. He has been in Winston-Salem. She has for religious liberty. named one of Business North been named a N.C. Super Carolina’s Legal Elite in Lawyer Rising Star in civil construction law. 66 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES litigation defense and one Shane Harris is a senior writer Andrea Dacquino is director Nicole Runyan has been of Business North Carolina’s at Washingtonian magazine. of international business named a partner in corporate Legal Elite Young Guns. She He wrote “The Watchers: The development at the Global and investment management was named a 2010 Women Rise of America’s Surveillance Health Center of Cincinnati with Stroock, Stroock & Lavan Extraordinaire recipient by State” highlighting the gov- Children’s Hospital. LLP in New York. Business Leader Media, and ernment’s surveillance strate- she is chair of the N.C. Bar gies since 9/11. It was named Hilton Hutchens is an associ- Kelly Williams Wilkinson is Association’s Young Lawyers one of the best books of 2010 ate attorney with Hutchens a freelance director who has Division. by The Economist. (See story, Senter & Britton PA in lived in London for 11 years. pp. 42-44) Fayetteville, NC. He has This spring she was on the Norman F. Klick Jr. (JD) is been selected to the inaugural Reynolda Campus to conduct a litigation attorney with Rondolyn “Trice” Hickman class of the N.C. Bar Associa- acting and directing work- Carruthers & Roth PA in (MALS) has three self- tion Academy. shops with theatre students Greensboro, NC. He has been published novels being (go.wfu.edu/493). named vice president and re-released by Kensington Andrew Lampros (JD) is with general counsel of Proehlific Publishing Corp. She won the Cook, Hall & Lampros LLP in Park and named to the board 2008 African-American Liter- Atlanta. He has been named a 2000 of directors of The P.O.W.E.R. ary Award for Romance. She Georgia Super Lawyer. Tim Gunter (MBA) is general of Play Foundation and the gave the keynote address at manager for Crown Nissan in Greensboro Cerebral Palsy the Black History Month pro- Elizabeth McCullough (JD) Greensboro, NC. Association. He is one of Busi- gram and reception for the is with Young Moore & ness North Carolina’s Legal Patterson Branch Library in Henderson PA in Raleigh, NC. Karen Potvin Klein (MALS) is Elite Young Guns and a N.C. Lubbock, TX. She has been named a N.C. a medical editor and associate Super Lawyer Rising Star in Super Lawyer Rising Star. director in the Office of personal injury defense and Dina Marty (JD) has been Research at the Wake Forest medical malpractice. promoted to counsel in the Annemarie Pantazis (JD) School of Medicine. She was legal department at Wake was recognized as a 40 Under named the 2010-11 adminis- Ann Sheridan is a noninvasive Forest University. 40 by the Charlotte Business trator of special projects for cardiologist at Kaiser San Journal and as a Rising Star in the American Medical Writers Francisco. She is a senior phy- John Schneider is vice presi- workers’ compensation for Association. sician (partner) and director dent of sales at Federated the second year by Super of curriculum for the cardiol- Media in Manhattan. Lawyer’s Magazine. ogy fellowship program. She writes she is grateful for a Craig A. Taylor (JD ’01) is Wake Forest education to with Carruthers & Roth PA in help find balance in these Greensboro, NC. He has been challenging roles. named one of Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite Young Frank M. Sutton Jr. (MD/ Guns in business law and a MBA) has joined Asheville N.C. Super Lawyer Rising Star Anesthesia Associates in in business/corporate law. Asheville, NC. Kevin G. Williams (JD) is Jennifer Trafton published with Bell Davis & Pitt PA in her first novel for children, Winston-Salem. He has been “The Rise and Fall of Mount named a N.C. Super Lawyer in Majestic” (Penguin/Dial). civil litigation defense.

1998 1999 Paul A. Fanning (JD) is with Lewis R. Beatty (MBA) is TRAVEL THE WORLD Ward & Smith PA. He and his chief financial officer of First wife, Leigh, and three chil- Hope Bank in Northwestern dren, Collins (4 1/2), Zadoc New Jersey. He has been WITH WAKE FOREST (3) and Georgia (3), live in named a New Leader in Bank- Greenville, NC. He has been ing by NJ Bankers and NJ named one of Business North Banker magazine. He built his Carolina’s Legal Elite, a N.C. house and is busy with home Super Lawyer and one of The improvement projects in his The Wake Forest Travel Program. Best Lawyers in America. spare time. Gregory David Habeeb Galen G. Craun III (JD) is Explore. Learn. Relax. Whatever you’re (JD ’01) has been elected into with Bell Davis & Pitt PA in Virginia’s House of Delegates Winston-Salem. He has looking to do, we can help. Just pick a to represent the 8th District. been named one of Business destination and we’ll take care of the rest. North Carolina’s Legal Elite in business law. For more information, or to book your next voyage, please contact Pat Boone in the Alumni Services Office at 336.758.4278 or [email protected], or visit alumni.wfu.edu/programs. Derek J. Gilliam practices labor and employment law at Quarles & Brady LLP in Milwaukee. He has been appointed to the board of directors of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

Tennille Young Raspet Trosch Singleton Baxter Monica R. Guy (JD) is with (’01) (JD ’01) (JD ’02) (JD ’02) (’03) (JD ’04) Bell Davis & Pitt PA in Winston-Salem. She has been Cary Savage Lawrence is Elise Morgan Whitley (JD) Jill Raspet (JD) has been named a N.C. Rising Star in director of business develop- is a partner practicing family named a partner with Smith family law and one of Business ment and operations with law with Tash & Kurtz PLLC in Moore Leatherwood LLP in North Carolina’s Legal Elite SocialCode, a Washington Winston-Salem. She has been Wilmington, NC. She special- Young Guns. CLASS NOTES CLASS Post Company. named one of The Best Law- izes in estate planning and yers in America and a Super probate law. Nick Hernandez is vice presi- Helen Losse (MALS) has Lawyer/Top Young Lawyer dent of Indiana and South published her second book of in family law. She and her David Saye (JD) is a partner Florida operations with poems, “Seriously Dangerous” husband, Cameron, have two with Mayer Brown LLP in Oncure Medical Corp. in (Main Street Rag, Charlotte). children, Wren and Milo. Charlotte, NC. Tampa, FL. She lives in Winston-Salem and is the poetry editor for Maria Papoulias Wood (JD) Drew Senter has a general Katherine Houle was selected an online literary journal, The has been named a partner business practice focusing on to participate in the U.S. Dead Mule School of Southern with the civil litigation law firm real estate with Isom Stanko & Department of Housing and Literature. of Yates McLamb & Weyher Senter LLC in Anniston, AL. Urban Development’s 2011 LLP in Raleigh, NC. Class of Emerging Profession- Luke Sbarra (JD) is a David R. Styka (MBA) has als. The program provides partner with Hedrick Gardner Court Young (JD) is a partner been with Family Dollar since opportunities to advance Kincheloe & Garofolo LLP in at Poyner Spruill LLP in 2008. He has been named vice knowledge, skills and abilities. Charlotte, NC. He practices Charlotte, NC. She has been president of finance. She has been with the agency civil and commercial litigation. named one of Charlotte Busi- five years. ness Journal’s 40 Under 40 Eric Trosch (JD) is a board Dawn Sheek (JD) is a certified and one of Business North certified family law specialist Sarah Kate Noftsinger is the specialist in family law and a Carolina’s Legal Elite Young with Conrad Trosch and Kem- first commissioner of the Elite dispute resolution commission Guns. my PA in Charlotte, NC. Clubs National League, a girls family financial mediator prac- youth soccer league in the ticing in Thomasville, NC. United States. 2002 2003 Paul Singleton spent two 2001 John Claude Barden is a Matt Dixson received his years in the Teach for America paralegal with Hamilton MAEd from Salem College program with the Baltimore Stephen Arndt is completing Westby Antonowich & and is pursuing an educational City Public schools and a fellowship in orthopaedic Anderson in Atlanta. specialist degree at Appa- received his JD from the foot and ankle surgery at the lachian State University. He College of Law at Arizona Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Tushar Chikhliker (JD) is with has been named principal of State University. He is an Nexsen Pruet LLC in Columbia, Southwest Elementary School associate in the labor and Galen Baggs received his SC. He is a South Carolina in Clemmons, NC. He and his employment law practice of MBA from the University of Lawyers Weekly Emerging wife, Rebecca (’02), have two Baker & Daniels LLP in South San Diego. He was appointed Legal Leader. children, James (3) and Mary Bend, IN. director of finance for the San Woodall (11/2). Diego-based real estate Inter- Melissa Whitenack Gunter David Willhoit is a vice net marketing firm of Z57 Inc. completed a residency in Jill Frankfort (MAEd) was president in investment bank obstetrics and gynecology at selected a fellow in the marketing and communica- Gavin B. Parsons (JD) is the University of Rochester Education Ventures Program tions for J.P.Morgan in New with Troutman Sanders LLP and joined a private practice through the Kauffman Foun- York City. in Raleigh, NC. He has been in Rochester, NY. dation. The fellowship will named a Law and Politics and support her work to launch Dion L. Williams (MBA) is a Charlotte magazine Super Mariana Alvare Kallivayalil an educational technology president and CEO of Lawyer Rising Star in business is the owner of MAK Photog- solution to help students Del-One (Delaware Federal litigation. raphy and has a studio in graduate from college on Credit Union) in Dover, DE. the Marina district of San time. Mary Craig Wilson Tennille Francisco. has been named vice presi- Alexandra Lee Snyder Garcia 2004 dent of Excalibur Advance- Ellen Persechini (JD) is a received her master’s in nurse ment Services, a firm providing partner with Hedrick Gardner anesthesia from the Medical Greg Auerbach (MBA) is vice strategic communication and Kincheloe & Garofolo LLP in University of South Carolina. president for marketing with development solutions for Wilmington, NC. She practices She is a nurse anesthetist with ADS, a national coalition of educational institutions and civil and commercial litigation, Trident Anesthesia Group in dental practice transitions and nonprofit organizations, based community associations and Charleston, SC. brokerage firms in Bradenton, in Winston-Salem. corporate and business law. FL.

68 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES Teachable moments

In case you missed it during your morning rush hour, Karen Corvino (’00) appeared on NBC’s “Today” show in February as a featured teacher in a segment on Teach for America. Contributing correspondent Jenna Bush Hager, herself a teacher, reported on the national teaching corps that recruits top college graduates to teach for two years in the most impoverished areas of the country.

“Teach for America is on the front lines battling for educational equality and excellence for all children,” said Hager. The segment highlighted Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS) as Karen Corvino (’00) and students on the “Today” show. a successful example of progressive education with an improving graduation rate. Among WHEELS’s teachers is Corvino, who told Hager, “You can have high expectations and still have a really supportive culture, and I think that’s what makes WHEELS different.”

College banners line the walls of WHEELS, and Corvino, a three-year veteran at WHEELS, made sure to hang Wake Forest’s flag above her classroom.

When she was accepted to Wake Forest, Corvino knew her career path would be education but was unsure where it would take her. In her classes she was shocked to learn about inequities and inadequacies in the American educational system. Her talks with Joseph Milner (P ’90, ’92, ’95), an education department professor, inspired her to join Teach for America.

“My experiences at Wake Forest are what helped develop my commitment to social justice and cemented my decision to choose a career in public service,” Corvino told Wake Forest Magazine. She founded SEAC (Student Environmental Action Coalition), inspiring students to fight for environmental protection, and joined the Women’s Issues Network. Phi Beta Kappa, the academic honor society, inducted her. After graduating summa cum laude with honors in English and a minor in education, Corvino moved to New York for her Teach for America commitment in Washington Heights. Then came two more master’s degrees.

Eventually she landed at WHEELS, the first New York City Outward Bound school for grades six through 12 and where virtually all of the students are born into poverty. Half of the teachers at WHEELS and Principal Brett Kimmel are TFA alumni. “Karen is a truly phenomenal teacher, in every sense of the term,” he said. “She is a lifelong learner who always seeks to improve her already outstanding teaching. These qualities have led to tremendous and unprecedented success for the students.”

Her English-Language Arts class of 90 students began seventh grade, on average, at a fifth-grade reading level. After two years in her class, students were back on track, Corvino said, reading at the eighth-grade level. She said with positive encouragement and hard work, every one of her students has the potential for this kind of growth.

To see the "Today" clip, go to elschools.org/press-center/wheels-featured-today-show

– Liz Keating (’11) Wake Forest Magazine intern

SUMMER 2011 69 CLASS NOTES 70 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE 28. April on awards the made magazine Carolina North Business and Center Business Family Business of Schools Wake Forest University The business. asuccessful building for tips their Year to share the of Awards Business Family Carolina North the of winners asked Wake Forest Magazine Family for Business Building aSuccessful Tips 1 3 2 a work force of 40, including three family members. with boarding and daycare doggie in specializing Winston-Salem, ofOwner Ruff of Housing transparency, safety, value). (convenience, customer the on Focus (recruit carefully, train,reinforce). Build astaff thatshares thevision future intechnology, infrastructure, etc.). Take along-term view(investforthe 1 family business withemployees. 120 a third-generation architectural millwork CEO of always follow. follow. always quality ofourproducts, sales would the on concentrated we if that us good feedbacksystem. a have you sure make Then targets. be responsible formeeting those will who those from input includes process that sure make and performance of standards and goals the successofcompany. to contributions specific employee’s each for appreciation verbalized a and conditions, working comfortable and safe with unit, family the well-beingofemployee’s programs thatare concernedwith You demonstratethiswithbenefit employees aspartofthefamily. 3 2 needs to regard all all regard to needs business family successful A my dad, always reminded reminded always dad, my The founderofourcompany, realistic Set measure. can’t you what Youmanage can’t Stephenson Millwork Co. CLASS NOTES

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Baker Roofing Co. of Raleigh, third largest U.S. roofing company and Truly care forouremployeesandcustomers. and qualityinstallations. service customer world-class delivering focus Customer Employ andretain qualitypeople(whoweare). 1 3 2 which hasfour family members amongits80employees. Vice president of Winston-Salem-based customers. our to productivity and efficiency of level higher a bring we sure make to technology latest the in invest continually we Weand hard work customers. our for especially and us for profitability to lead relationships long-term Loyal, workforce. the of stability the and company the both improve to opportunity an is economy global a in prices lower and times lead quality, shorter better for demands of ourfamily. part become quickly who people motivated smart, working conditions.We surround ourselveswith they are giventheproper tools,equipmentand create, alwaystakecare ofourcustomerswhen they successes the for respect with treated are who successful, be to want who People Best. The urgency thatexceeds ofyourcustomer. of sense a with time, first the right it do And job. closely.every Plan Listen communication. of lines open are there if minimized or avoided be can customers and to employees. Most problems problems Most employees. to and customers to frequently and clearly Communicate is a privilege. Meeting customers’ escalating escalating customers’ Meeting privilege. a is customer Every Takecustomers. the of care put, simply with, worked have to lucky been have I people. great with yourself Surround

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Kezia McKeague is director Chris Nilan focuses on of government relations at the distressed debt and invest- Council of the Americas, an ing opportunities with Equity international business Group Investments in Chicago. organization with offices in He won a regional table tennis New York, Washington, DC, championship in his free time. and Miami. Damien R. Savoie (JD) is an Nowak East Savoie associate in the commercial (JD ’04) (MBA ’06) (JD ’06) 2006 litigation group with Murphy & King Professional Corpora- Steven Andrade received his tion in Boston. He lives in Leigh C. Bagley (JD) has been Ben Worley is a financial MD from St. George’s Univer- Burlington, MA. named a director of Bell Davis representative with North- sity in Grenada, West Indies. & Pitt PA in Winston-Salem. western Mutual Life Insurance His residency in OB/GYN is at John Seung-Hoon Yi received She practices commercial real in Greenville, SC. He received the University of Tennessee in his PhD in immunology from estate and banking law. Northwestern’s Bronze Award Memphis. for highest producer of first- the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is a postdoc- Peter J. Baxter (JD) has been year agents. Jessica Devaney (MA) is the toral fellow at Duke University named a shareholder with communications and produc- Medical Center in Durham, Strong & Hanni PC in Salt Lake Mike Zajac (MBA) and his tion manager at Just Vision, NC. City, UT. He represents clients wife, Kelly, purchased a nonprofit that researches in medical malpractice and Tudor House Tea, a seller and documents and creates media health care law. distributor of loose leaf tea, about Palestinian and Israeli gourmet foods and tea ware civilians working nonviolently 2007 Elspeth Beauchamp received (www.tudorhousetea.com). to resolve conflict. She was Jason McCarty completed her PhD in tumor biology from the associate producer and the financial adviser training Georgetown University. Her assistant editor of the docu- program at Morgan Stanley dissertation related to the 2005 mentary “Budrus” (2009), Smith Barney. He focuses on treatment of pediatric cancer. Jill Bader is senior public the story of an unlikely com- retirement planning and risk She continues her research at policy and communications munity organizer. Jessica lives management with the Jordan Georgetown and postdoctoral adviser for the Washington, in Brooklyn and returned to Group in New York. research at Philadelphia DC, office of Girl Scouts of Wake Forest for the campus Children’s Hospital. the USA. documentary film screening. Neal Robbins (JD/MBA) is with Robbins Kreider PLLC Kristie Schavey Gentry Emily Page Culp received her Tony East (MBA) has been in Winston-Salem. He was received her doctorate of JD from the UNC-Chapel Hill named vice president of elected to a seat on the N.C. physical therapy from the School of Law. operations with Amarr State University Young Alumni University of Alabama at Garage Doors in Winston- Council. He has been named Birmingham. She works in Kate Rigby Dings (JD) prac- Salem. one of Business North Caro- acute care at Trinity Medical tices employment law with lina’s Legal Elite Young Guns Center in Birmingham. Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak Alison Shermeta Gentry and a Super Lawyer Rising & Stewart PC in Boston, MA. is executive pastry chef at Star in business law. LeRoya Chester Jennings Dewey’s Bakery in Winston- (JD) has opened a private Ryan Dings (JD) is the direc- Salem (go.wfu.edu/84n). Susie Sewell (JD ’10) is a law practice in Atlanta specializing tor of business development Her husband, Cagney Gentry clerk at the N.C. Court of in criminal and DUI defense, and associate counsel for Blu (’06), is pursuing a graduate Appeals for the Honorable family law and wills and Homes Inc. based in Waltham, degree in film at UNC Greens- Sam J. Ervin IV in Raleigh, NC. estate planning (www. MA. boro. chesterjenningslaw.com). Joel Sharrer (JD) is an energy Elie Johnsey Foy (JD) is with C. Will McEwen is a project conference producer with Bradley Nowak (JD) is with Young Moore & Henderson PA manager with Brice Building Electric Utility Consultants Williams Mullen in Washington, in Raleigh, NC. She has been Company LLC in Birmingham, Inc. in Denver. DC. He has been named one named a N.C. Super Lawyer AL. of Washington SmartCEO Rising Star. Ellen Wallendjack received magazine’s Legal Elite. Jennifer Justice is an attorney her master’s in criminology Anna Price Heyer received with Maynard Cooper & Gale and criminal justice from the Jennifer Prall is an assistant her MAEd from the University PC in Birmingham, AL. University of Maryland. She program director with of Arizona and teaches AP is with the Department of AmeriCorps National Civilian biology, biotechnology and Catharine McNally received Homeland Security, Customs Community Corps in Missis- advanced biotechnology at the Paul G. Hearne Leadership and Border Protection, in sippi. She develops community- Flowing Wells High School in Award from the American Washington, DC. She is also based service projects Tucson, AZ. KOLD News 13 Association of People with part of the 2010 U.S. Tennis throughout the Southeast did a “teacher tribute” about Disabilities. The award Association’s Family of the with a special focus on Gulf Anna (go.wfu.edu/v4p). recognizes her advocacy and Year for the Mid-Atlantic Sec- Coast recovery. leadership efforts through her tion and the Maryland District. John T. Kraper is with Booz company, Keen Guides (www. Bemetra Simmons (MBA) has Allen Hamilton in McLean, VA. keenguides.com), to create been named one of Atlanta more mainstream, inclusive Business League’s 100 Most arts and museum experiences Influential Women in Business. for people with disabilities (go.wfu.edu/6hr).

SUMMER 2011 71 She will participate in the Dallys-Tom Medali (MSA) is Kristen Gadd (’97) and Bookmarks Book Festival in grateful for the outstanding Matthew Williams. 12/31/10 in Winston-Salem in September quality of the faculty and the Asheville, NC. They live near and in a panel discussion dedication of staff during his Atlanta. about Springsteen at the Wake Forest experience. Rocky Mountain Modern Lan- Julie Annette Loggins (’97) guage Association in Arizona. Vince Roche (MBA ’10) is and Clay Proctor Weir. 7/30/10. moving to the Silicon Valley to They live in Huntsville, AL. She Barnes Adamson Halley Sheffieldhas been work on a start-up company, is now a stepmother to twins, (JD ’09) (JD ’10) named the marketing manag- BoostCTR.com. William David and Walker er at 451 Marketing in Boston. Belmont (5). Neubia L. Williams (JD) is a 2008 staff attorney with Legal Aid John Schneider (’98) and Erica Lunsford Goodnight 2009 of North Carolina in Fayette- Amanda Jones. 5/8/10 in received her master’s in ville. Palm Beach, FL. They live in

CLASS NOTES CLASS LaTosha R. Barnes (JD) has Manhattan. health administration with a opened The Law Office of L.R. concentration in gerontology Barnes PLLC in Durham, NC. Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt (’00) from UNC Charlotte. She is She specializes in employment Marriages and James Paul Argenta (’01). the director of marketing and law, Social Security disability Michael Morro (’87) and Lori 6/5/10 in Richmond VA. They operations at Union Grove law and civil litigation (www. Musumeci. 10/23/09 in Wood- live in Berkeley, CA. The Lumber, a national wholesale lrbarneslaw.com). bury, NJ. lumber brokerage firm. She bride’s mother is Norma N. lives in Statesville, NC. Michael Gary Melkonian Murdock-Kitt (’69). Ten siblings, including Anne Argenta (’03) 2010 (’94) and Karly Lynn Schultz. and Chris Argenta (’92), were Darren Lindamood is a third- 12/18/10 in Albion, MI. They Regan K. Adamson (JD) has in the wedding party. year law student at Wake For- live in Ann Arbor, MI. est. He was elected executive joined Wall Esleeck Babcock LLP in Winston-Salem. Allie Brown (’02) and Chris- editor of the Wake Forest Law Hatai Sinthusek (’94, MD ’01) topher Lebonitte. 11/13/10 in Review. and Eric Barrett. 11/27/10 in Bianca D’Agostino was Fairfield, CT. They live in New Tucson, AZ. Lisa Weir Mangiapani is with drafted to play women’s York City. The wedding party professional soccer with the included Jennie Fuller (’02), the Duke University Law D. James Casey (’96) and Tara Philadelphia Independence. Lizzie Wellons Hartman (’02), Alumni and Development Delaney. 8/7/10 in Charlotte, They took 24 players out of Megan Carr Henry (’02) and Office in Durham, NC. NC, where they live. The wed- 900 applications. Mike Henry (’02). ding party included Anil Atluri Linda Randall (MA) is a (’99), Jeff Baxter (’96), Jim Caitlin Farrell was drafted Rebecca Lynn Ellington counselor at DOL Job Corps Divito (’99) and Jeff Miller (’96). teaching “World Perspectives to play women’s professional (MA ’02) and Kevin Dollinger. soccer with the Philadelphia 1/15/11 in Winston-Salem. on Religion” for the Empire Matt Borgman (’97) and Independence. They live in Jamestown, NC. State College Center for Dis- Kristie Young. July 2010 tance Learning in New York. The wedding party included Toni J. Grace (JD) is a mem- Rich Galinski (’99), Wendi She spoke at Wake Forest Renee Wheeler Davis (’97) ber of the public sector law Garrett Galinski (’03), Lauren about her new book, “Finding and Troy Benton. 10/23/10 in team of Roberts & Stevens in Likosar Green (MAEd ’00), Grace in the Concert Hall: Scottsdale, AZ. They live in Asheville, NC. Rebecca Maier (’01, MAEd ’04) Community and Meaning Chicago. Among Springsteen Fans.” and Robert M. Paynter (MD ’98).

Calling Wake Forest writers Calling all alumni/ae who make or have made their livelihood by the pen, typewriter, computer keyboard or phone text pad. On March 23-24, 2012, the University will host a national symposium to celebrate Wake Forest writers and all who love the written word in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, reporting, criticism, social networking and other genre.

Professor of English Emeritus Ed Wilson (’43) and Tom Hayes (’79), son of former Esquire Editor Harold T.P. Hayes (’48) will lead a retrospection of Wake Forest writers and inaugurate the Wake Forest Writers Hall of Fame. Panels, readings and book signings by alumni/ae authors will be part of the weekend of literary homage to our liberal arts and creative heritage. For information please write to Tom Phillips, director of Wake Forest Scholars, at [email protected].

72 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES Jenny Cross (’03) and Toby man (’76), Theresa Justine Call Jason McCarthy (’06) and Joel Sharrer (JD ’07) and Senff. 1/29/11 in Richmond, VA. (’04), Jennifer Mickle Cooper Katy Talley (’06). 11/6/10 in Lindsay Boudreau. 10/2/10 in They live in Washington, DC. (MD ’10) and Meredith Brooke Boston. The wedding party Parker, CO. The wedding party The wedding party included Jolly (’05). included Chas Andreae (’06), included Ashlee Vaughan Jamie Faulkner (’03). Kelly Andreae (’06), Dave (JD ’07) and Carter Vaughan John T. Kraper (’05) and Desiderio (’06), Al Rattacasa (JD ’07). Sarah Ann Mastalir (’03) and Emily Page Culp (’05). 9/18/10 (’05), Meredith Sterling Swain John Evan Kellner. 12/4/10 in in Wilmington, NC. They live (’05) and Chris Vellano (’06). Terri Young (’07) and Donté Denver. The wedding party in- in Arlington, VA. The wedding McGuire (’08). 9/18/10 in Fort cluded Elizabeth Condo (’03), party included Casey Beal C. Will McEwen (’06) and Fisher, NC. Mary Craven Hines Dawkins (’05), Carrie Bloch (’05), Jennifer M. Justice (’06). (’03), Sarah Wilson Fenton Kenneth Clark (’06, MSA ’06), 5/29/10 in Mobile, AL. They Elizabeth Mason Cox (MA (’03), Jennifer Watkins Hanson James Dingivan (’05), Sean live in Birmingham, AL. The ’08) and John Eric Franklin. (’03), Kathleen Stelling Hodg- Dolan (’05), Creighton Stewart wedding party included Mary 7/31/10 in Winston-Salem. son (’03) and Carrington Rice Hartanov (’05), Julia Koplewski Kathryn Bumgarner (’06, PA They live in Durham, NC. Wendell (’03). Sheaffer (’05), Stephen Tatum ’09), Rachel Clagett (’06), (’05), Matthew Walters (’06, David C. Coons (’06), Jonathan Lisa Weston Weir (’08) and Margaret Leigh McKenzie MSA ’06) and Meg Quinlan C. Crawford (’06), Sarah Hoey Daniel S. Mangiapani. 1/15/11. (’03) and William Thomas Walters (’06, MA ’07). Crawford (’06), Sara Beth They live in Durham, NC. Whatley. 12/11/10 in Birming- DeLisle (’04), Ben Hearnsberger ham, AL. They live in Mont- Cassiel Smith (’05) and (’06), Emily Johnson (’06), Jeb Paige Fitzgerald (’09) and gomery, AL. The wedding Tamara Pickett (’06). 11/9/09 M. Justice (’02), Jay Lockwood Chad Barefoot. 3/26/11 in party included Gretchen in Winston-Salem where they (’06), Chris Nilan (’06), Paul Wake Forest, NC. The wed- Crook Bauer (’02), Meredith live. The wedding party Silivos (’07) and Jonathan ding party included Mary Beth Carroll McSwain (’03), Chrissy included Cotelia Bond-Young Tauber (’07). Lambert (’09), Maddie Martin Engle Raver (’03), Susannah (’07), Marcus Ingram (’99, (’09), Ellen Page (’10) and I. Rosenblatt (’03) and Sarah MDiv ’06), Porsche Jones (’06), Jane Marriott Beasley (’07) Courtney White (’09). Jones Wingfield (’03). Donté McGuire (’08), Keon and Joseph Griffin Duncan. McGuire (’08), Terri Young 3/5/11 in Winston-Salem. Glenn Thomas Hough Jr. Jennifer Needham (’03) and McGuire (’07), Aaron Miles They live in Charlotte, NC. (’09, MSA ’10) and Chelsea Jay Scanlan. 2/12/11 in Playa (’09), Jason Pratt (’05), Cory The bride’s parents are Jennie Given Spangler. 6/19/10 in del Carmen, Mexico. They Randolph (’05, JD ’10), Jacqui Bason (’75) and Earl Beasley Winston-Salem. They live live in London. The wedding Springer Tisdale (’06), Gavrielle (’73). The wedding party in New York. The wedding party included Leslyn Cooper Washington (’09, MAM ’10) included Amanda Brannan party included Wil Cooper (’02), Darcy Foertch Escher and Delvon Worthy (’08). (’07), Meredith Freed (’07), (’09), Matt Keller (’09, MSA (’03), Laura Funke Loftin (’03), Lorah Hoft Henry (’06), ’10), current law student Brad Jessica Russell MacLean (’03), Kelli Marie Wilkerson (’05) Samantha Mann (’07), Kate Knott, Tom Knott (’09, MAM Tiffany Needham (’05), and Adam Ross Polon. 9/25/10 Yandell Reece (’07), Hilary ’10), Mark Melvin (’09), Allison Danielle Binder Passingham in Chevy Chase, MD. They live Wathern (’06) and CarolAnn Spangler (’05) and Trevor (’03), Annie Schlapprizzi (’03), in Arlington, VA. The wedding Henline Wiggs (’07). Taylor (’09). Kristin Wieneke (’03) and party included the bride’s Leigh Zick (’03). sisters, Amy Wilkerson (’11) and Stephanie Wilkerson Courtney Elissa Lee (’04) and Yoder (’98). Kirk Reynolds. 10/30/10. The FOLLOW WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE wedding party included the Chad Crockford (JD ’06) and bride’s father, J. Clark Lee Danielle Walther (JD ’06). (’74), Cullen Lee (’00), Kristin 5/1/10 in Charlotte, NC. The Schmitter-Webster (’04) and wedding party included Read Wake Forest Magazine alumni news and The Deacon Blog Kristin Karnap Walsh (’04, Jessie Cohan (JD ’06), Kevin online every day at magazine.wfu.edu MD ’08). Rust (JD ’06) and Joshua Steele (JD ’06). On Facebook at Kristie Schavey (’04) and www.facebook.com/wakeforestmagazine Adam Gentry. 12/11/10 in Jennifer Marie Folsom (’06) Montevallo, AL. They live in and Mitchell Cameron Currin Birmingham, AL. The wedding (’07). 10/23/10 in Winston- On Twitter at party included Marsha Ander- Salem, where they live. The www.twitter.com/wfumagazine son (’03) and Courtney Dickey wedding party included Maria (’04). Del Re (’07), Dustin Frye (’06), Care to write a letter to the editor or share a story idea? Lolly Hemphill (’07, MA ’09) Email [email protected] Ryan Dings (JD ’05) and Kate and Annie Young (’06). Rigby (JD ’05). 12/4/10 in Have a submission for Class Notes? Sanibel Island, FL. They live in Mark McCarthy (’06) and Email [email protected] Cambridge, MA. Christine Books (’06). 10/1/10 in Atlanta. They live in Boston. Submit online at magazine.wfu.edu/classnotes Mary Kathleen Goodman (’05) The wedding party included and Brad Lovoie. 12/18/10 in Lindsay Larson Kolasa (’06), Want to update your mailing address, cancel your subscription or Athens, GA. They live in Kelly McGlaughlin (’06) and reduce the number of magazines delivered to your household? Nashville, TN. The wedding Rachel Nice (’06). Write, call or email: party included the father of Wake Forest Magazine Alumni Records the bride, John Phillips Good- P. O. Box 7227 Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227 1.800.752.8567 [email protected] SUMMERSUMMER 20112011 7373 Dear Ms. Cragwall ...

“I want to go to Wake Forest because I here that they are the best college … ” begins Rajae’s letter to his fourth- grade teacher, Carrie Crag- wall (’07). “I will study math and history in Wake Forest.” CLASS NOTES CLASS Wake Forest Magazine asked Cragwall about what has been happening in her class.

“Wake Forest literally defines the classroom culture for my students,” writes Cragwall. “I teach at Potomac Lighthouse Public Charter School in D.C., where the vast majority of students are low-income and minority. To expose our students to college early on, teachers in our charter network/school name their classrooms after their alma mater. Maybe it’s because Wake Forest is so near and dear to my heart, but my class and I get a bit carried away.”

“We abide by our own honor code, have meetings on the ‘Quad’, and read books in the ZSR Library. Since D.C. is so rich with alumni, I’ve invited several to come read to the class. One such alumnus and former soccer player, Lyle Adams (’08), connected us with Coach Jay Vidovich, who in turn donated an entire class set of Wake Forest T-shirts. Today we took the first part of our high-stakes state assessment. Many students were nervous, but once they placed their Wake Forest shirts over their school uni- forms, they were calm, focused and ready.”

Carrie Cragwall and her fourth grade students in their “Wake Forest” classroom.

74 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES Stephen Estes Smith (’09) Steven H. Levin (JD ’92) and Joe Grimpel (’94) and Carl Beck (’96) and Sarah and Sarah Elizabeth Cooper Jill Levin, Baltimore, MD: a Marybeth Grimpel, Forest Boxley Parrott Beck (’02), (MAEd ’09). 12/19/09 in son, David Blake. 8/9/10. He Hills, NY: a son, Matthew Richmond, VA: a son, William Birmingham, AL, where they joins his sister, Julia Shelly (3). John. 11/17/10. He joins his Wendell. 11/15/10 live. The wedding party sister, Kathryn Shea (3). included Samuel Edmond Traci Suzette Cook East (’93) Scott William Bunn (’96) and Ford (’10), Jonathan Doyle and A. Anthony East (MBA M. Benjamin Jones (’94) and Jenny Harrison Bunn (’98), Glass (’07), John Alexander ’06), East Bend, NC: a son, Shayna Sampson-Jones, West Asheville, NC: a son, Levi Mentel (’09), Cynthia Osborne Magnus Ryan. 9/14/10. He Orange, NJ: a son, Aiden James. 11/15/10. He joins his Smith (’79) and Michael joins his sisters, Kayden Matthew. 2/8/11 sister, Stella (3). Douglas Smith (’77, JD ’80). McKenzie (8), Rachel Emory (6) and Madelyn Adair (2). Tracy Ann Seiler Wilson (’94) Carl J. Daniels (’96) and and Derek Wilson, Winston- Lindsay Daniels, Franklin Michael A. Sellers (’93) and Salem: twins, daughter Anna Lakes, NJ: a son, Nathan Births/Adoptions Kristin Sellers, Richmond, VA: Grace and son Zachary John. Joseph. 12/15/10. He joins his Nadine L. Stensland (’79), a son, Barkley Andrew. 9/8/10 8/31/10. They join their brother, brother, Will (4), and sister, Manasquan, NJ: adopted Andrew Trenner (2). Ellie (2). daughter, Meghan Elizabeth. Peter L. Ballard (’94) and 11/17/10 Stefanie Ballard, Atlanta: Julie Polson Frey (’95) and Michael D. DeFrank (’96) and a daughter, Reese Lynne. John Frey, Denver: a daughter, Jessica Thompson DeFrank Troy Jackson (’82) and 10/2/10. She joins her sister, Lydia Carlson. 11/9/10. Her (’97), Raleigh, NC: a daughter, Kristie Jackson, Raleigh, NC: Riley Margaret (2). aunt is Ashley Polson Holt Sofia Virginia. 5/17/10. She a daughter, Parker Lynn. (’98). joins her sister, Paloma Isabel 10/30/10 Joseph DeArmond Cantrell (4). (’94) and Melissa Thomas Shannon Stokes Sale (’95) Michael Morro (’87) and Lori Cantrell (’94), Williamsburg, and Rick Sale, Atlanta: a son, Lisa Locke-Downer (’96) and Morro, West Deptford, NJ: VA: a son, Samuel James. James Frederick. 1/10/11. His Jason Downer, Charlottesville, a son, Derek. 12/2/10 2/22/11. He joins his sister, grandparents are Julia (’66) VA: triplets, Abigail, Lucas and Laura (9), and brothers, Jake and James Stokes. Zoey. 3/25/10 Allison Young Zabransky (5) and Thomas (2). (’91) and Doug Zabransky, Bethesda, MD: a daughter, Abby Adelynn. 12/10/10. She joins her sister, Ava (2).

DEVELOPING WHOLE LEADERS REQUIRES WHOLE PEOPLE.

Ellie Poole is one of those people. She’s a history major with aspirations of becoming a teacher, which she credits as a reflection of the educators who have inspired her. She believes that in order to effectively motivate others, she must first actively pursue life experiences that keep her inspired. That means studying harder than the next person, supporting her beloved Demon Deacon basket- ball team, pushing herself in pursuit of a six-minute mile, and never giving up on her quest to experience the perfect latte. It also means finding time in a full schedule to give to others. Whether it means counseling at a girls camp, working with the Reformed University Fellowship, or through her sorority and the Make-A-Wish foundation.

Ellie’s not looking for a medal, she just wants an opportunity to challenge herself. You can help provide that opportunity.

Your gift to The Wake Forest Fund makes it possible for the people who belong at Wake Forest to find the way here, and ultimately, to find themselves here. alumni.wfu.edu summer 2011 75 Jeffrey S. Miller (’96) and Mary Leigh Cherry (’97) and Beau Waddell (’97) and Emily Hoagland McNamara Kim Miller, Long Beach, NY: Tony de los Reyes, Los Angeles: Suzanna Waddell, Henderson- (’99) and Paul Joseph McNa- a son, Daniel Raymond Bryan. a son, Dario. 12/21/10. He ville, NC: a son, Henry Kruzan. mara (JD ’03), Wilmington, 9/21/10. He joins his sister, joins his sister, Aurora (2). 12/3/10. He joins his brother, NC: twin daughters, Anna Cate (6), and brothers, Jack (5) Deke (2). Viktoria and Madeleine and Timmy (3). Claire Maddrey Driscoll (’97, Veronika. 2/19/10 MAEd ’99) and T.J. Driscoll, Meredith Taylor Berard Melissa Boddy Rareshide St. Louis: a son, Timothy (JD ’98) and Michael Berard, John Holland Moore (’99) (’96) and Steve Rareshide, Joseph III. 7/11/10. He is the Raleigh, NC: a son, John and Ruth Moore, Savannah, Advance, NC: a son, Ian grandson of Libby and Joe Austin. 1/9/11 GA: a son, Wesley Holland. Spencer. 3/18/11. He joins (’64, JD ’67) Maddrey. 9/1/10 his sister, Olivia (18 mos). Michael Cartwright (’98, Elaine Khatod-Chilom (’97, MD ’02) and Sarah Lieber Kate Millett Rojas (’99) and Stephen LeRoy Barnes (’97) MD ’01) and Marius Chilom, Cartwright (MD ’02), Fernando Rojas, Charlotte, and Elizabeth McGill Barnes Atlanta: a daughter, Caroline Winston-Salem: twins, NC: a daughter, Mary Frances CLASS NOTES CLASS (’99), Syracuse, NY: a son, Niculina. 5/12/10 Alex David and Emma Rose. James. 10/5/10. She joins her Charles Henry. 2/27/11. He 10/11/10. They join their sister, Anne (2). joins his sister, Caroline Ann Sheridan (’97) and Joe brother, Adam (5). Margaret (5), and brother, Miller, San Francisco: a son, Alecia Chandler Wilder (’99) Harrison James (2). John Peter. 12/15/10 Lisa Andries D’Souza (’98, and Matt Wilder, Ridgecrest, MAEd ’99) and Timothy CA: a daughter, Abigayle Brian Berklich (’97) and Ted Tseng (’97) and Heather D’Souza, Southborough, MA: Jane. 10/15/10. She joins her Amy Barnett Berklich (’98), Tseng, Denver: a daughter, a son, Luke Oliver. 1/9/11. He brother, Jeremy (2). Durham, NC: a daughter, Stella Jane. 3/1/11. She joins joins his brother, Ryan (2). Nora Kate. 11/14/10. She joins her sister, Violet Mei (2). Katherine Thalhimer Adam- her brother, Graham (2). Kimlani Murray Ford (JD ’98) son (’00) and John Adamson, and David Ford, Charlotte, Richmond, VA: a daughter, NC: a daughter, Rachel Rose. Caroline McCaskey. 3/9/11. 10/29/10. She joins her brother, She joins her sisters, Katie (6) Mason (3). and Shepard (3).

Tyler Gates (’98) and Sheri Maggie Moore Basu (’00) and Gates, Williston, VT: a daughter, Anjan Basu, Greensboro, NC: Ila Elizabeth. 10/5/10 twins, Amir Nikhil and Leela Esther. 9/30/10 Jake Jelinek (JD ’98) and Erin McFarland Jelinek (’98), Valerie Nestor Colvin (’00) Winston-Salem: a son, Quinton and Otis Colvin, Louisville, KY: Lee. 9/3/10. He joins his sisters, a daughter, Natalie Michelle. Dyllon (6) and Mattie (3). 12/27/10. She joins her sister, Anna Marie (1). Christy Auburn Moore (’98, MAEd ’00) and William Jake Larkins (’00) and Kerry “Tripp” Moore (’99), Charlotte, O’Hagan Larkins (’00), NC: a son, Samuel Edward. Atlanta: a daughter, Elizabeth 6/6/10. He joins his brothers, Hagan. 2/11/11. She joins her Will (9), Ben (6) and Charlie (4). brother, Knox (2).

Brian Ostasiewski (’98) and James Russell White (JD ’00) Maghna Baliga Ostasiewski and Katie White, Raleigh, NC: (’00, MS ’05), Winston-Salem: a daughter, Barrett Katherine. a son, Janak Rohan. 1/15/11 8/27/10. She joins her sister, McLean. Kathleen Biddick Smith (’98) and Christopher Smith, Carrie Richardson Winterhoff Centreville, VA: a daughter, (’00) and Mark Winterhoff Hannah Margaret. 3/19/11. (’02), Greenville, SC: a daugh- She joins her sister, Mallory (2). ter, Leah Grace. 1/4/11. She joins her brother, Luke (2 1/2). Stacey Thurman Bradford (JD ’99) and Franklin Bradford, David C. Anderson (’01) and Birmingham, AL: a son, Thomas Ashley Futrell Anderson Walker. 6/1/10. He joins his (’01), Greensboro, NC: a son, brothers: Frank (5), Bill (2) and Michael Hampton. 12/4/10. He John (2). joins his brother, Luke.

Nathan Myers Hull (JD ’99) Stephen Arndt (’01) and and Lauren Bennett-Ale Hull Jamie Lemke Arndt (’01), (’99), Charlotte, NC: twin Cleveland, OH: a son, Henry sons, Griffin Talmage and James. 1/20/11. He joins his Lawton Myers. 6/22/10. They brothers, Thomas (4) and join their brother, Conard William (2). Waddington (2).

76 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES Erin Valenti Bawa (’01) Kellie Lee Caggiano (JD ’02) Ryan Beaver (’03, JD ’06) Drew Harston (’06) and and Sameer Bawa, Denver: and Steve Caggiano, Tallahas- and Emily Conrad Beaver Carol Collier Harston (’06), a daughter, Addison Ria. see, FL: a daughter, Caroline (’03), Charlotte, NC: a son, Louisville, KY: a son, James 11/24/10 Grace. 1/18/11. She joins her Yorke Conrad. 2/2/11. He Phillip. 10/28/10 brother Jack (6), and sister, joins his sister, Charlotte (3). Jeff Braintwain (JD ’01) and Samantha (2 1/2). Katherine Merritt (’06) and Tracy Cobb Braintwain Emily Miller Otto (’03) and Sean Merritt, Ventura, CA: (JD ’01), Atlanta: a daughter, Garrett W. Colby (’02) and Robert Otto, Ardmore, PA: twin sons, Miles John and Finley Gray. 12/13/10. She Elaine M. Colby, Kailua, HI: a a daughter, Molly Elizabeth. Oliver Driggs. 3/30/11 joins her sister, Frazier (5), and daughter, Marie Grace. 1/4/11 11/19/10 brother, Eli (2). John Yi (’06) and Quinn Yi, Melissa Whitenack Gunter Brian Pearce (JD ’03) and Durham, NC: a daughter, Colin Edwards (’01) and (’02) and Christopher Todd Caroline Pearce, Greens- Ellington Ji-Min. 2/8/11 Anne-Ross Edwards, Atlanta: Gunter, Rochester, NY: boro, NC: a son, Charles a daughter, Mary King. a daughter, Amelia Grace. Frederick. 12/27/10 Jonathan Friel (JD ’07) 7/16/10 12/5/10 and Candace Friel (JD ’07), Joshua T. Riley (’03) and Rural Hall, NC: a son, Henry Carol Cooley Hickey (’01) and Jonathan Helms (’02) and Abigail Ahearn Riley (’03), Wyatt. 11/25/10 Matthew Hickey, Charlotte, Sarah Wray Helms (’02), Midlothian, VA: a son, John NC: a son, Ian Daniel. 8/26/10 Chapel Hill, NC: a son, Richard. 9/20/10 James Shannon Gatlin (JD Jackson Robert. 2/24/11 ’08) and Shannon Ahearn Josey Harris Kasper (’01) and Helen King Stockstill (’03) Gatlin, Fulshear, TX: a Todd Kasper, Raleigh, NC: Mariana Alvarez Kallivayalil and Adam Stockstill, Char- daughter, Fiona Kay. 2/20/11 a son, John Philip. 1/11/11 (’02) and Shawn Kallivayalil, lotte, NC: twin sons, Austin San Francisco: a son, Julian Noble and Blake Daniel. Erica Lunsford Goodnight Fairley Washington Mahlum Alvarez. 6/6/10 Born 12/24/10 in Fort Worth, (’08) and Josh Goodnight, (’01) and David Mahlum, TX. Statesville, NC: a son, Gage Raleigh, NC: a daughter, Greg Langsdale (’02) and Preston. 8/26/10 Annabel Grey. 11/11/10 Libby Phelps Langsdale (’02), Tracy Herrmann Teel (’03) Arlington, VA: a son, Asher and Ryan Teel, Marietta, GA: Rich McPherson (JD ’10) Marcia Stafford Manz (’01) James. 10/27/10. He joins his a daughter, Katherine and Janet McPherson, Char- and Jonathan Manz, Lyons, brother, Griffin Wyatt (2). Rebecca. 2/21/11 lotte, NC: a son, Thomas CO: a son, Jackson David. Richmond IV. 7/22/10 11/2/10 Rebecca Ham Ormsbee (’02) John Leland Ammons (’04) and Benjamin Ormsbee, Cary, and Laura Hall Ammons Elizabeth “Elly” Robie NC: a son, Hunter Shaw. (’04), Waynesville, NC: a Deaths 1/18/11 daughter, Susan Palmer. Perdue (’01) and James Evans John Kelly Lewis Jr. (’34), 11/2/10. Her grandfather is Perdue, Winston-Salem: a son, Feb. 18, 2011, Gastonia, NC. Faith Glavey Pawl (’02) and Larry R. Ammons (’65), and James Alexander. 12/14/10 He spent 14 years playing Timothy Pawl, St. Paul, MN: a her aunts are Beth Ammons baseball with the Washing- daughter, Beatrice Katherine. (’99) and Allison Hall (’07). Jason Shaw (’01) and Ashley ton Senators. Lewis served 11/9/10. She joins her brother, Buchanan (’01), Parker, CO: in the U.S. Air Corps during Henry (4), and sister, Mary (2). Christina Ellen Del Gaizo a son, Henry Buchanan. World War II and received (’04) and Andrew Del Gaizo, 10/22/10 the Distinguished Flying Elisabeth Pfohl Sasser (MBA Scottsdale, AZ: a son, Cross before returning to ’02) and Kevin Sasser, Raleigh, Jackson Kenneth. 12/12/10 Brian Taylor Sumner (’01) and the Senators. He retired NC: a daughter, Madeleine Louise R. Sumner, Arlington, from baseball in 1949 and Bechtel. 4/1/11 Scott Francis (’04, MSA ’05, VA: a son, George Pendley. returned to Gastonia to run MBA ’06) and Meredith 11/25/10. He joins his brother, a Ford dealership for 35 Brian Schimpf (’02) and McCormack Francis (’04), Henry (2). years. Lewis was inducted Jennifer Schimpf, Eden Prairie, Hoboken, NJ: a son, Graham into the N.C. American Le- MN: a daughter, Amara Michael. 10/13/10 William Jesse Teague Jr. (’01) gion Baseball Hall of Fame, Michelle. 10/26/10 and Katherine Duke Teague the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame Kristopher Majak (’04) and (’01), Raleigh, NC: a son, and the Gaston County Margaret McCollough Carolynn Gebo Majak (’04), William Russell. 11/23/10 Sports Hall of Fame. The Schottler (’02) and Jeremy Charlotte, NC: a son, Carter City of Gastonia named the Schottler, Vienna, VA: a son, Hudson. 10/21/10 Rachel Esther Dunn Throop baseball field at Sims Legion Mitchell McCollough. 5/4/10 (’01) and Kevin Neumann, Park the John K. “Buddy” Kristy Meares Sides (JD ’04) Austin, TX: a daughter, Abigail Lewis Jr. Field in his honor. Esther. 7/1/10 Drew Senter (’02) and and Derek Sides, Raleigh, Jennifer Whelan Senter NC: a daughter, Elizabeth Arthur Calvin Broughton (’03, MAEd ’04), Oxford, AL: Anne. 1/5/11 Richard Preston Wendell Jr. (’35), Jan. 25, 2011, a daughter, Noelle Elaine. (’01) and Sarah Dixon Raleigh, NC. He had a family 11/22/10 Douglas James Hutton (’05) Wendell (’02), Mt. Pleasant, medical practice in Raleigh and Cassandra Hutton, SC: a son, Houston Taylor. for 45 years and was direc- Amy Belflower Thomas (’02) Matthews, NC: a daughter, 6/14/10 tor of medicine for the N.C. and Jeremy Thomas, Farm- Addison Marie. 1/8/11 Department of Corrections ville, NC: a son, Jackson Luke. Leigh Anne Shepherd Wray from 1954 to 1980. Brough- 12/7/10 Kathryn Cox Tribble (’05) (’01) and Walter “Hal” Wray ton enjoyed golfing and and Craig Tribble, Reidsville, III (MD ’07), Durham, NC: a hunting after retirement. son, Oliver Davis. 12/3/10. He NC: a daughter, Anna Grace. joins his sister, Lillie (4), and 1/5/11 brother, Elliot (2).

SUMMER 2011 77

Obituary

Dolly McPherson: Remembering a professor and pioneer

Professor Emerita of English Dolly A. McPherson, the first full-time African-American female faculty member at Wake Forest, died Jan. 19 in Brooklyn, N.Y. For 27 years, from 1974 until her retirement in 2001, she was a lively presence in the classroom. She was remembered as a unique person and a demanding teacher at a memorial service in Wait Chapel on Feb. 19. CLASS NOTES CLASS “There are a lot of students who owe a lot to Dolly McPherson, and not just black students,” said Professor of Biology Herman Eure (PhD ’74), who was also hired in 1974 as the first full-time African-American male faculty member. “But she was particularly good with those black students early on who didn’t see things in themselves that she would pull out of them, with tweezers if she had to,” Eure said. “Many students would be really frightened of her at first, because she was very demanding and held them to what they were supposed to be doing. But what they found out later was that she would be a great advocate for them.”

At a dinner honoring McPherson in 1995, Professor Emerita of English Elizabeth Phillips, who died in 2008, said McPherson had enriched the University by her “faith, forthrightness and diversified interests, her passionate devotion to American literature, scholarship, teaching, racial justice and gender equality, and above all, her students.”

McPherson recalled her early years on the faculty in a story in “Window on Wake Forest” in 1991. “For a black woman of a particular age to be a successful pioneer in the South on a predominantly white campus requires much. Certainly strength, and humor, and a bit of arrogance, and the ability to either confront or ignore unpleasant behavior stemming from racism.”

When she retired in 2001, she reflected on how much racial attitudes had changed during her 27 years on the faculty — and how much work remained to do. “We’re all made out of the same stuff,” she said. “There are black people who are prejudiced, and white people who are prejudiced, and polka-dotted people who are prejudiced. We must all continue to grow and reach out.”

A native of New Orleans, McPherson received a bachelor of arts degree in English from Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., and a master of arts in English from Boston University. She earned her Ph.D. after coming to Wake Forest, from the University of Iowa. McPherson’s research interests were in African-American literature and the American autobiography. She taught classes in British literature, African-American fiction and autobiographical voices. A fund in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library was established in her honor several years ago to purchase materials to support African-American studies.

She taught at Lincoln University in Missouri in the 1950s before spending a year as a Fulbright lecturer in American literature and language at the University of Amsterdam. She taught briefly for the University of Maryland as a lecturer in English in Frankfurt, Germany, and at Virginia State College. She worked at the Institute of International Education from 1962 until 1973 and taught at the City University of New York for one year before joining the Wake Forest faculty.

Her lifelong friendship with poet and author Maya Angelou led Angelou to join the faculty in 1982 as Reynolds Professor of American Studies. She later wrote a book on Angelou, “Order Out of Chaos: The Autobiographical Works of Maya Angelou,” published in 1994.

“Wake Forest is a better place for having had Dolly McPherson,” Eure said. Gifts to a memorial fund in her honor may be sent to Wake Forest University, P. O. Box 7227, Winston-Salem, NC 27109.

78 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES James David Wellons (’35), during World War II and Jaycees and the Merchants Estates of Asheville, NC; Mars Feb. 19, 2011, Smithfield, NC. retired as a captain in the U.S. Association. He was preceded Hill College, P.O. Box 6677, He served in the U.S. Army Naval Reserves in 1981. He in death by his wife of 56 Mars Hill, NC 28754; or Wake during World War II under received three Bronze Stars. years, Margaret; two sisters; Forest University, Office of General Patton. Wellons re- He was a trust officer at and a brother, Charles W. University Advancement, P.O. tired as assistant fire chief Wachovia Bank in Durham, Cheek (’41, P ’81, P ’90). He Box 7227, Winston-Salem, NC after 30 years with the De- NC, and in 1961 he became is survived by five children, 27109. partment of Defense at Fort vice president and general including Lewis Alexander Bragg. He was preceded in trust officer of First National Cheek (’73, JD ’76); 11 grand- Joseph Farrior Edwards Jr. death by his wife, Frances; Bank in Charleston, SC. In children, including John Lewis (’42), Dec. 1, 2010, Raleigh, four brothers, Hugh, Charles, 1963 Cheek became the Cheek (’00); and seven great- NC. He served during World Edmund (’35) and Frank (’47); managing trustee of the H. grandchildren. War II in the Glen L. Martin and two sisters, Sophie and Smith Richardson Family Co. engineering department Molly. Wellons is survived by Trusts in Greensboro, NC. He Fred Jackson Eason (’41, producing airplanes. In 1973 his son, Mike, and a grand- was president of Piedmont MA ’50), March 11, 2011, Edwards founded Quality daughter. Financial Co., president of Youngsville, NC. He served in Builders of Raleigh. Richardson Corp., president the U.S. Navy during World Benjamin Harvey White Sr. and chairman of the board of War II and received a Bronze William Mortimer “Buck” (’38), April 4, 2011, Raleigh, Lexington Management Co. Star. Eason taught English Fowlkes Jr. (’42, MD ’44), NC. He was a teacher in and a member of the boards and was an administrator Jan. 9, 2011, Raleigh, NC. Franklin County, NC, a county of directors of Richardson- in the Raleigh City Schools. He completed his residency supervisor for the Farm Merrell, the Reinsurance From 1949 until 1960 he was at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Security Administration and Corp. of New York and Pacific the principal of Elizabeth City Portsmouth, VA, and served worked for Albers Milling Co. Fidelity Life Insurance. Cheek High School. Eason helped two tours of duty as a medi- until 1955. White was county and his wife, Betty, endowed develop the N.C. system of cal officer. Fowlkes practiced supervisor in Pitt County for scholarships at UNC Greens- community colleges and was general medicine in Enfield the Farmers Home Administra- boro and Campbell University, the founding president of and Wendell, NC, before com- tion, a real estate loan officer along with the John M. Cheek Isothermal Community pleting a psychiatric degree. in the FHA state office in Ra- Memorial Fund at Wake College of Spindale, NC. He He was head of the Forsyth leigh, NC, and then in the loan Forest and the Cheek Fund retired in 1978 and moved to County unit of John Umstead division in Washington, DC, for Craniofacial Disorders at Youngsville. Hospital and was regional until his retirement in 1973 the Wake Forest Baptist commissioner of the Western as director of the Resource Medical Center. He was Clarence Edgerton Bridger N.C. Department of Mental Management Association Divi- preceded in death by his wife, (’42, MD ’46), Nov. 23, 2010, Health. sion of FHA. He received two Betty. He is survived by three Albany, GA. He served as a Superior Service Awards and children, Mary C. Cartner, captain in the U.S. Army Medi- John Truett Lennon (’42), a Certificate for Outstanding Catherine C. Applewhite cal Corps. Bridger was chief July 14, 2010, Ivor and Accomplishment. White was (MBA ’81) and Alex Cheek pathologist and director of Richmond, VA. He was preceded in death by his wife, (’90); three grandchildren; and laboratories at Phoebe Putney preceded in death by his wife; Nellie; two brothers, Wingate one great-grandchild. He was Memorial Hospital in Albany a son; and a brother, Joe and Vernon (’29); and two survived by a brother, John M. until his retirement in 1986. Lennon (’39). Lennon is sisters, Elizabeth and Ophelia. Cheek Jr. (41, MD ’45), who He established the American survived by a daughter; a He is survived by two sons, died March 30, 2011. Association of Blood Banks in granddaughter; and a brother, Benjamn Jr. (’65, JD ’68) and Georgia and was the Dough- Samuel Lennon (’43). William; four grandchildren, John Merritt Cheek Jr. (’41, erty County Medical Exam- including Benjamin III (’98, MD ’45), March 30, 2011, iner. Bridger was a pilot and William Allan Powell (’42), JD ’02); and three great- Durham, NC. He was a Wake a sports car enthusiast and Dec. 21, 2010, Deltaville, VA. grandchildren. Forest Trustee Emeritus. helped establish the Albany He received a PhD in analytical Cheek served in the U.S. Skeet and Trap Club. chemistry from Duke Univer- George W. Mathis (’39), Navy in Philadelphia and sity and was a supervising Dec. 2, 2010, Trent Woods, then Asheville, NC, where William Thomas Duckworth chemist for Alcoa Aluminum NC. He served in the U.S. he served as assistant chief Jr. (’42), Jan. 23, 2011, during World War II. Powell Army Air Corps during World of surgery at the Veterans Asheville, NC. He served in was a professor and pre-med War II. Mathis was a service Hospital. He was an assistant the U.S. Army during World adviser and then chair of the manager with Gregory Poole professor of surgery and chief War II and was a real estate Chemistry Department of the Equipment Co. in New Bern resident in surgery at the agent and appraiser with his University of Richmond. He and was retired from civil ser- University of Pennsylvania’s father at the W.T. Duckworth retired in 1986 with 34 years vice with the Marine Corps Air Graduate Hospital. Cheek Co. He was the first Realtor to of service. The Dr. W. Allan Station at Cherry Point, NC. practiced general surgery in be awarded a life membership Powell Chemistry Lectureship Durham, NC, from 1952 until on the Asheville Board of was established in his honor. Charles Wall Cheek (’41), his retirement. He was an Realtors. Duckworth was Feb. 27, 2011, Greensboro, assistant professor of surgery preceded in death by his wife NC. He served many years for Duke Medical School from of 67 years, Mary Watson, as chairman of the finance 1957 until 1984 and on the and a granddaughter, Lindsay committee of the Wake Forest Wake Forest Board of Trust- Revell Breed (’01). He is University Board of Trustees, ees from 1970 to 1979. In 1982 survived by a daughter, was named a Life Trustee, Cheek was named Father son-in-law and three grand- and in 1981, he received the of the Year by the Durham children. Memorials may be Distinguished Alumni Award. made to First Baptist Church Cheek served in the U.S. Navy of Asheville, NC; Givens

SUMMER 2011 79 Walter James Douglass Jr. into the Wake Forest sister, Margie Campbell; and a Etna Palmer McCullough (’43), March 11, 2011, Colfax, University Sports Hall of brother, Jack Norman Grose (’48), Nov. 19, 2010, Oak NC. He served as a meteorol- Fame, was a former Alumni Sr. (’57). Ridge, TN. During her early ogist during World War II and Council member and received medical career, McCullough lived in Baltimore for more the Distinguished Alumni James Curtis Lyles (’47), worked in many locations, than 30 years teaching math- Award in 1959. March 29, 2011, Asheville, NC. including the Emergency ematics at Johns Hopkins He served in the U.S. Army Polio Clinic in Hickory, NC, University and working in Benny Laster Perry (’43), during World War II. during the disease outbreak defense research at Johns Jan. 22, 2011, Zebulon, NC. in 1944. She was a clinician Hopkins and Whittaker He served in the U.S. Army Douglas Carmichael at Oak Ridge Institute of Corporation. Douglass was during World War II and McIntyre (’47), Jan. 21, 2011, Nuclear Studies from 1953-68, preceded in death by his received three Bronze Stars. Lumberton, NC. He served in at Anderson County Family wife, Elsie. He is survived Perry is survived by his wife the U.S. Navy during World Planning Clinic from 1972-74, by a brother, Donald Perry of 63 years, Hilda; a daughter, War II. McIntyre received with Planned Parenthood Douglass (’50, MD ’53); three Anelia Brady; a son, Frank an optometry degree from Associates of the Southern CLASS NOTES CLASS children, Robert, David and (’74); seven grandchildren; Northern Illinois College of Mountains from 1975-79, and Susan; four grandchildren; a and eight great-grandchildren. Optometry and held many a staff physician at Oak Ridge great-grandchild; two nieces, community positions, includ- National Laboratory from Elizabeth Douglass Walsh Robert Wilson Crapps (’46), ing service on the Lumberton 1977-85. McCullough was a (’80) and Carol Lowe; and a Dec. 30, 2010, Greenville, SC. City Council from 1971-76 and specialist in hematology, was nephew, Donald P. Douglass He was the Reuben B. Pitts mayor pro tem in 1975. He inducted into the Catawba Jr. (’88, MBA ’93). Professor of Religion Emeri- was preceded in death by a College Hall of Fame and tus and chair of the religion brother, Eli Regan McIntyre received the Dedicated Tidal Boyce Henry Jr. (’43), department at Furman Univer- Jr. (’41). Service Award from Planned Nov. 24, 2010, Harwich Port, sity. Crapps served churches Parenthood. MA. He served in the U.S. in Salem, IN, and Hickory, NC, A.L. Williams Jr. (’47), Army during World War II and was a chaplain at Kentucky March 9, 2011, Augusta, GA. Jesse Elbert O’Connell (’48, received a Purple Heart. State Hospital in Danville, KY, He served in the U.S. Army Air MS ’49), Jan. 1, 2011, Sanford, Henry worked with Liberty and a consultant to the Corps during World War II and NC, and Washington, DC. He Mutual Insurance Co. in Commonwealth of Kentucky was a German prisoner of war served in the U.S. Navy during Boston and New York and on Mental Hospital Services. for 16 months in Stalag 17B. World War II. O’Connell was received his LLB and LLM He was a co-author of “People Williams completed his Wake head of the science depart- from New York University of the Covenant: An Introduc- Forest education after the ment at Chowan College Law School. He joined the law tion to the Hebrew Bible” war and joined the Academy until 1950 when he joined the department of Liberty Mutual and “Introduction to the New of Richmond County in 1948. botanical department at N.C. and was later named litiga- Testament.” He served as teacher, coach, State University. He received tion council at Electric Mutual athletic director, assistant his PhD in botany in 1955 from Liability Insurance Co. Henry Lela Peterson Prevatte (’46), principal and principal before UNC-Chapel Hill and joined became vice president, gen- March 28, 2011, Rocky Mount, retiring in 1983. Williams was the biological sciences eral counsel and secretary and NC. She was office manager inducted into the Georgia department at the University retired in the early 1990s. at Farris Motors and retired in Dugout Club Hall of Fame and of Idaho. In 1959 he joined the 1993 after 42 years of service. the Georgia Sports Hall of National Science Foundation Harvey M. Jones Jr. (’43), Fame. The A.L. Williams Park and was assigned to the Tokyo Dec. 14, 2010, Wake Forest, John Lawrence Warwick Jr. was named in his honor. office as deputy chief scientist NC. He served in the U.S. (’46), March 31, 2011, Harts- and later as head of the Latin Marines during World War II. ville, SC. He worked in the Clarence S. Barnes Jr. (’48), American and Pacific Section. Jones is survived by his wife personnel and labor relations March 25, 2011, Wake Forest, O’Connell retired from the of 61 years, Geraldine James field for more than 35 years NC. He was retired from the NSF in 1983 and was honored Jones (’49); a daughter, and was the retired human N.C. Employment Security by the Embassy of Japan in Barbara J. Adcock; and a resources director for the City Commission with 38 years of 1999 for his role in managing son, Fred. of Greenville, SC. service. Barnes is survived by scientific cooperation two daughters, Anne Marie between Japan and the William Joseph Patton (’43), Maurice Clayton Capps Jr. and Kathy B. Willis; a son, United States. Jan. 1, 2011, Morganton, (’47), Jan. 1, 2011, Raleigh, Clarence S. Barnes III (’67); NC. He served in the U.S. NC. He served in the U.S. five grandchildren, including James Vance Sharp (MD ’48), Navy during World War II. He Army during World War II and Stephen William Willis (’98); Feb. 23, 2011, Green Cove worked with Hardwoods of was a retired insurance agent and one great-grandchild. Springs, FL. He served in the Morganton and was later a with Nationwide Mutual U.S. Navy Reserves and had a self-employed lumber broker. Insurance Co. Posey E. Downs Jr. (’48, private practice in Reidsville, Patton had a passion for golf MD ’52), Feb. 21, 2011, NC. Sharp entered the U.S. and claimed titles at three William Rayford Grose Sr. Matthews, NC. He served in Navy in 1964 and received Carolina’s Amateurs, three (’47), March 21, 2011, Bermuda the U.S. Army during World the Joint Service Commenda- North/South Amateurs and Run, NC. He served in the U.S. War II. His postgraduate tion Medal. He was a veteran two Southern Amateurs and Army during World War II and studies in obstetrics and of World War II, the Korean was a four-time member of recalled on many occasions gynecology were at Georgia War and the Vietnam War the U.S. Walker Cup team. He the Battle of the Bulge. Grose Baptist Hospital and Charlotte and received the Legion of just missed being the “first, was a cost accountant with Memorial Hospital. Downs Merit with Combat “V.” Sharp and only, non-professional Western Electric Co. for 38 had an OB-GYN practice in retired from the Navy in 1985 winner at Augusta National” years and retired in 1985. He Charlotte for more than 34 and was chief of surgery for in 1954 and then played in is survived by his son, William years and retired in 1989. the V.A. Hospital in Lake City, 13 consecutive Masters’ tour- Rayford Grose Jr. (’77); a FL, and a clinical professor of naments. Patton was inducted surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine.

80 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES He is survived by his wife of instructor in the Department 56 years, Gwen Roberts of Dental Ecology at the UNC- Obituary Sharp (MS ’53, MD ’55); Chapel Hill School of Dentistry four children; and four grand- until 1999. He and his wife children. served as dentistry missionar- ies. Kanoy is survived by his F.M. Kirby, philanthropist Elwood C. Dockham (’49), wife of 62 years, Ann Lominac Dec. 4, 2010, Denton, NC. He Kanoy (’48); three sons, Bur- and friend served in the U.S. Army and rell Edmund, Kenneth Drake worked with the U.S. Postal (’79) and Michael Brooks; and Service for 32 years. Dockham four grandchildren. was postmaster of the Denton Past president of the F.M. Kirby Post Office for 16 years and Ira Gordon Early (MD ’50), Foundation, former chairman and an agent for Nationwide April 4, 2011, Winston-Salem. CEO of Alleghany Corporation and a longtime supporter of Mutual Insurance Co. In 2010 He served in the U.S. Army he was inducted into the during World War II and was Wake Forest, Fred M. Kirby II of New Vernon, N.J., died Feb. 8 South Davidson Sports Hall of a medical officer in the U.S. at the age of 91. Fame. Dockham was preceded Air Force during the Korean in death by a son, Michael. He War. Early was a physician in “Fred Kirby’s wise and generous interest in higher education is survived by his wife, Opal; Winston-Salem for more than a son, Jerry (’72); and two 33 years and on staff at For- has made an invaluable impact on teaching and learning at grandsons, Andrew (’98) and syth Memorial Hospital, N.C. Wake Forest,” said President Nathan O. Hatch. “Along with Matthew (’05). Baptist Hospital and Medical his wonderful family, we will miss him. We are grateful to have Park Hospital. James Hampton Duncan known Mr. Kirby and know that this University is a better place (’49), Jan. 5, 2011, Sunset Malcolm B. Grandy (’50), because of his philanthropy and his family’s involvement here.” Beach, NC. He served in the Nov. 13, 2010, Raleigh, NC. He U.S. Navy during World War was on the baseball and foot- II. Duncan played football ball teams at Wake Forest and The Kirby Foundation impacted Wake Forest through the at Wake Forest and earned played in the 1946 Gator Bowl. establishment of the F.M. Kirby Chair of Business Excellence, All-Southern Conference Grandy received his law de- the F.M. Kirby Faculty Fellowship and with the construction honors his final three seasons. gree from Mercer University of Kirby Hall. Wake Forest presented him with an honorary He played with the National and practiced criminal law in Football League’s New York Raleigh until his retirement. doctor of laws degree in 2002. Giants for six years, was ex- ecutive director of the Wake Lacy Stewart Hair (’50, After graduating from Lafayette College, Kirby enlisted and Forest Deacon Club, head JD ’52), Jan. 10, 2011, football coach at Appalachian Fayetteville, NC. He served served in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II and at State University, assistant in the Judge Advocate Office the conclusion of the war he attended the Harvard Graduate coach for the Saskatchewan during the Korean War and School of Business. After several entrepreneurial ventures, Roughriders and head coach began a private practice in of the Calgary Stampeders. Fayetteville in 1955. Hair was he succeeded his father in 1967 as chairman and CEO of Duncan had a career in sport- a solicitor of the Cumberland Alleghany Corporation for more than 39 years. He served on ing goods sales and as a PGA County Recorder’s Court and numerous corporate and nonprofit boards and received many golf professional, working at a district court judge until honors and awards, including honorary degrees from Drew Morehead City Country Club his retirement in 1988. He in Morehead City, NC. He was chairman of the board of University, Lafayette College, St. Joseph’s University and received the Wake Forest directors of the Cumberland Wake Forest. Distinguished Alumni Award County Rescue Squad (Emer- in 1972, and as his classmate, gency Medical Services) for Bill Hensley (’50), put it, “he 37 years. He was a pilot, motorcyclist, sailor, fisherman, tennis player, was one of the best players foxhunter and had excursions scuba diving and hang gliding. Wake Forest ever produced ... Claude Meredith Hamrick He got his motorcycle license at age 63 and his wife gave him was in the Wake Forest Sports (JD ’50), Nov. 29, 2010, th Hall of Fame and the N.C. Winston-Salem. He served in a jet ski on his 85 birthday. Sports Hall of Fame.” Duncan the U.S. Army during World was also inducted into the War II and received medals Kirby’s daughter, Alice Kirby Horton, is a member of the Appalachian State University including the Asiatic Pacific University’s Board of Trustees and three of his 10 grand- Athletic Hall of Fame. with a Bronze Star and the Philippine Liberation Ribbon children are Wake Forest alumni: Laura Horton Virkler (’95), Burrell Edmond Kanoy Sr. with a Bronze Star. After law a member of the College Board of Visitors; Ward Kirby (’49), Dec. 6, 2010, Durham, school Hamrick re-entered Horton (’98); and Ashley Horton Freedman (’01). He is also NC. He was an Eagle Scout the Army as a first lieutenant and a member of the marching in the JAG Corps, serving at survived by his wife of almost 62 years, Walker; three sons: bands at his high school and the Pentagon and in Europe Fred M. Kirby III, S. Dillard Kirby and Jefferson W. Kirby; and at Wake Forest. Kanoy served until 1952 and then in the U.S. seven great-grandchildren. in the U.S. Navy Medical Army Reserves. He practiced Corps during World War II and corporate law with Spry graduated from the Medical Hamrick & Doughton in Win- College of Virginia School of ston-Salem and served three Dentistry in 1953. He retired terms in the 1960s in the N.C. from his private dental prac- House of Representatives. In tice in 1991 and was a clinical 1977 he became vice

SUMMER 2011 81 president, general counsel and recently celebrated his Chimney Rock Baptist Church and Leslie Eva Tayloe; a son, and secretary with McLean 60th reunion at Wake Forest. from 1955 to 1958. Garrell Hinton Lee Tayloe Jr.; four Trucking Company. Hamrick Williams is survived by his wife, retired as chaplain in the U.S. grandchildren; and a brother, returned to private practice Betty Jo; two daughters, Lisa Army in 1976, having served Gordon Bennett Tayloe Jr. in 1991 and retired in 1995. W. Phipps and Kim W. Tay- in the Korean War and the (’58, JD ’61). He is survived by his wife lor (’79); four grandchildren, Vietnam War, and received the of 53 years, Lena; two sons, Claire, Rachel, William and Legion of Merit. He was John Carson Wells (’53), Kent (‘80) and Mont; and four Katherine Leigh Taylor (’11); associate pastor of First Feb. 4, 2011, Palm Bay, FL. A grandchildren. and a great-grandson. Baptist Church of Columbia. memorial service was held in Clemmons, NC. Edgar Mayes Harris (JD ’50), Paul Clifford Bennett Jr. Robert Peary Stutts (’52), Feb. 1, 2011, Stone Mountain, (’51), Jan. 8, 2011, Goldsboro, Feb. 1, 2011, Burlington, NC. Hazel Stevenson Branch GA. NC. He served in the U.S. He was president of the Bank (’54), Dec. 29, 2010, Greens- Army and had a residency in of Eden and Burlington boro, NC. She was retired John Winslow “Doc” internal medicine and pediat- National Bank and was retired from Branch and Company PC. CLASS NOTES CLASS Ledbetter (’50, MD ’53), rics. Bennett opened a family as city executive for CCB in Branch served the community March 3, 2011, Asheville, NC. practice in Goldsboro in 1959 Burlington. through the YWCA’s Y Ma- He studied neurology at the and served the area for 34 trons and helped with the Boy University of Michigan and years. William Parrish Gilbert (’53), and Girl Scouts of America, served in the U.S. Air Force. Jan. 17, 2011, Winston-Salem. DeMolay and The Rainbows. Ledbetter was a neurologist John Sterling Gates Jr. (’51), Memorials may be made to She is survived by her hus- with Van Blaricom and McKeel March 15, 2011, Sneads Ferry the Wake Forest Baptist band, Howell William Branch in Asheville before forming and Raleigh, NC. He served in Medical Center, Cardiopulmo- (’58); a daughter, Betsy B. Mountain Neurological. He the U.S. Air Force and attended nary Rehabilitation Program, Lewis (MBA ’83); a son, W. was named Outstanding Officer Candidate School. Medical Center Blvd., Steve Branch; four grandchil- Physician of the Year in 1979 Gates was a floor manager at Winston-Salem, NC 27157. dren; and a great-grandson. and a James E. West Fellow Hudson Belk in Raleigh and by the Boy Scouts. later in corporate sales with Jean Shannonhouse Nolan Carolyn Dunagan Cowan Textron. He retired in 1985. (’53), Feb. 17, 2011, Elizabeth (’54), Jan. 28, 2011, Charlotte, Linzy Price Megginson Jr. City, NC. She was a teacher’s NC. She was a social worker (’50), Jan. 8, 2011, High Point, John Thomas Hammack (’51), assistant with the Elizabeth for the Rutherford County NC. He served in the U.S. Army Feb. 27, 2011, Bethesda, MD. City public schools for more Department of Social Air Corps and taught math and He served in the U.S. Army than 20 years. Services. science for one semester in and had a career at Walter Shelby, NC. Megginson Reed Hospital and with the Norwood Wesley “Red” Margaret Davison Cox (’54), received his doctorate of dental National Institutes of Health Pope Sr. (’53), March 8, 2011, Dec. 25, 2010, Selma, AL. She surgery from the UNC-Chapel until his retirement. Scottsdale, AZ. While in col- lived and worked in Europe Hill School of Dentistry and lege he was a drummer with in the 1960s. Cox was with was a dentist in High Point for Robert Channing Rouse (’51), “The Southerners” and wrote Equitable Insurance Co. in the 55 years. He is survived by Jan. 18, 2011, La Grange, a book, “The Dance Band from New York City area, worked his wife, Mary Grace; five NC. He served in the U.S. Deacontown,” about their in Petersburg, VA, and later children, Margaret, Mary, Navy during World War II as adventures. Pope’s career be- moved to Selma. Michael, Susan and Penny a gunner’s mate aboard the gan in New York with Bozell & (’81); and ten grandchildren. USS Brister. Rouse began his Jacobs and in advertising with John Jackson Edwards Jr. career with Texas Oil Co. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (’54), Jan. 6, 2011, Scotland Charles Forbes Parker (’50), then for 42 years was a sales before entering bank market- Neck, NC. He attended the Dec. 8, 2010, Greensboro, NC. representative with the Clark ing in 1959. He was with First Southern College of Optom- He served in the U.S. Air Force Grave Vault Co. in Columbus, Citizens Bank, Sun Banks of etry in Memphis, TN. Edwards during World War II. Parker OH. He was a funeral director Florida, Valley National Bank opened an optometrist prac- was a retired loan officer with with Rouse Funeral Home, a of Arizona and First Hawaiian tice in Scotland Neck in 1957, the Federal Housing Adminis- council member with the Town Bank. Pope wrote a market- and he and his wife, Shirley, tration. of La Grange and was named ing column for The American worked there for 50 years. the La Grange Citizen of the Banker newspaper for 13 years He retired in 2008. Harry Truman Williams (’50), Year. and was selected an original March 19, 2011, Kinston, NC. member of the Bank Market- Mack Glenn Barrett Jr. (’55), He was a native of Wilming- Clifton Pierce Wayne (’51), ing Hall of Fame. He was the March 15, 2011, Lakeland, ton, NC, and served in the Nov. 12, 2010, Whiteville, NC. son of Elbert Norwood Pope FL. He was commissioned a U.S. Army Air Forces. Williams He served in the U.S. Army (’21). Memorials may be made second lieutenant in the U.S. spent two years with the Atlan- during World War II. Wayne to the Wake Forest College Army and served as a security tic Coast Line and then retired had more than 50 years in Birthplace Society, P.O. Box officer for the Edgewood after 34 years with Dupont. the life and health insurance 494, Wake Forest, NC 27588; Arsenal. Barrett worked for First Baptist Church, Kinston, business with Liberty Life The N.C. Zoological Society in Amoco Chemical Corp., was named a Sunday School class Insurance Co. and then his Asheboro, NC; or Hospice of a business and sales manager in his honor. Williams served own insurance agency in the Valley in Phoenix, AZ. for Alpha Chemical Corp. and on the board of trustees of Whiteville. was a retired real estate agent Lenoir Community College, Hinton Lee Tayloe (’53), with Regal Real Estate. He is the N.C. Baptist Foundation Hubert Garrell (’52), Dec. 7, 2010, Anderson, SC. survived by his wife, Martha and the Rotary Club. He was Jan. 16, 2011, Columbia, SC. He was retired from Eastern Copple Barrett (’55); three a member of the Wake Forest He received his MDiv from Airlines. Tayloe is survived by daughters; and two grandchil- Poteat Scholarship Selection Southeastern Baptist Theo- his wife, Fran; two daughters, dren. Committee for Lenoir County logical Seminary and pastored Caron Lorraine Tayloe (’79)

82 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES John James Johnson (’55, of the PGA and a member of JD ’59), Feb. 3, 2011, Yadkin- the Golf Course Superinten- Obituary ville, NC. He served in the U.S. dents Association of America. Army. Johnson’s law career He was head golf pro at Cape was with State Farm Insurance Fear Country Club in Wilming- and then Integon Insurance, ton, NC, and in 1973 he built Phil Hanes (LLD ’90), where he retired after 31 and operated Echo Farms Golf years as vice president and and Country Club. Wiechman philanthropist, general counsel for property served as pro at courses in benefactor and casualty companies. North Carolina and West Vir- ginia and was inducted into Joanne Till Littleton (’55), the Chapmanville High School Philanthropist Phil Hanes Jan. 4, 2011, Haddon Town- Hall of Fame. ship, NJ. She is survived by (LLD ’90), a friend and her husband of 55 years, Howard Lee Woodlief (’57), benefactor to Wake Forest who was internationally Lowell A. Littleton (’56); Dec. 19, 2010, Savannah, GA. known for his contributions to the arts, entrepreneurship three children, Patricia, Arthur Woodlief served in the U.S. and Marjorie; six grandchil- Army for 15 years, was a and conservation, died Jan. 16 at the age of 84. dren; a brother, Frank R. Till terminal manager for Estes (’65); and a sister, Sandra. Transportation and was retired In 2001, The Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery was from McLean Trucking Co. He named for Hanes and his wife in recognition of their Walter Sawyer Jones (’56), was the owner of Woodlief Jan. 14, 2011, Buies Creek, Transportation for 20 years. contributions to the arts. The 3,600 square-foot gallery in NC. He graduated from Scales Fine Arts Center has featured faculty, student and Southeastern Baptist Theo- Margaret Selman Cathell alumni exhibitions as well as work by Pablo Picasso and logical Seminary and served (’58), Feb. 5, 2011, Lexington, in the U.S. Army during the NC. Andy Warhol. Korean War. Jones pastored several churches in North Car- Robert “Pug” Greene (’58), “Phil Hanes has been a good friend to Wake Forest, and olina and Virginia and retired Jan. 26, 2011, Blowing Rock, as director of missions after NC. He served in the U.S. Air it was a pleasure to know him as a friend and neighbor,” 18 years with the Columbus Force and graduated from said President Nathan O. Hatch. “His passion for the Baptist Association of Colum- Southeastern Baptist Theolog- arts and for his hometown was inspiring. Wake Forest is bus County. After retirement, ical Seminary in 1964. Greene he served as interim pastor for pastored churches in North honored that his name graces our fine arts gallery and six North Carolina churches. Carolina, Ohio and Germany that his advocacy for our city has created such strong and was a missionary in connections on the campus.” Bob Wilson Lawing (’57, Taiwan for 23 years. After JD ’60), Dec. 14, 2010, retiring to Blowing Rock, he Gastonia, NC. He had been served as interim pastor for Hanes, who received an honorary doctor of law degree practicing law in Gastonia churches in Watauga County. from Wake Forest in 1990, wore many hats including since 1960. those of philanthropist, board member, founder, Hubert Preston Griffin (’58), Joseph M. Sanders (’57), Nov. 25, 2010, Fairbanks, AK. consultant, art collector, publicist and policymaker. Jan. 11, 2011, Stuart, FL. He He served in the U.S. Army attended Southwestern Reserves and in 1974 became He and his wife routinely invited Wake Forest art Baptist Theological Seminary a haul road inspector in Fair- and was an assistant to the banks. Griffin retired in 1999 students to their home to view their personal collection chaplain in the U.S. Army. as a road designer from the and donated three works of art to the University. Sanders served as pastor of Alaska Department of Trans- Oteen Baptist and Second portation. Baptist of Shelby, NC, and In addition, Phil and Charlotte Hanes donated their 1820s Nuuanu Baptist in Hawaii. He William Pert Lee (’58), plantation-style house to Wake Forest. In 1988, Hanes’ served as an interim pastor in Feb. 17, 2011, Inman, SC. mother, Dewitt Chatham Hanes, donated her home for Florida after retirement. He was personnel manager use as the Wake Forest president’s residence. for Burlington Industries Harold Wayne Voss (’57), before moving to Spartan- Jan. 7, 2011, Clemmons, NC. burg County to go into the He served in the U.S. Army barbecue business with his and was retired from R.J. brother. Lee is survived by his Reynolds Tobacco Co. with wife, Beebe Davis Lee (’62); 30 years of service. two daughters, Meredith L. Chapmon (’87) and Emery L. Philip Steven Wiechman Sr. White; a son, William Lee III; (’57), Jan. 12, 2011, Beckley, and eight grandchildren. WV. He served in the U.S. Army and played golf for the Army and Air Force teams. Wiechman was on the Wake Forest golf team with Arnold Palmer, was a Class A member

SUMMER 2011 83 Richard Oldham Avery (’59), Charles Roland Goss (’60), John Henry Gray III (MD ’61), with Brindley Beach in Duck. March 8, 2011, Morganton, March 28, 2011, New Bern, March 5, 2011, Winston-Salem. Marsh is survived by his wife NC. He was a former member NC. He taught in the public He served as a senior assistant of 43 years, Veronica; two of the Wake Forest Univer- schools in Carteret County surgeon in the Medical daughters, Virginia Marsh and sity Board of Trustees. Avery in Eastern North Carolina Reserve Corps. Gray began Elizabeth M. Vantre (’94); was a U.S. Army veteran and for more than 20 years. an internal medicine practice and six grandchildren. served in the Reserves. He Memorials may be made for in 1968 and practiced for worked for the First National the benefit of future teachers 30 years in Winston-Salem. Harry Suttle Walker (’62), Bank of Atlanta, helped start to Wake Forest University, March 13, 2011, Shelby, NC. the Avery-Norvell Co. and P.O. Box 7227, Winston-Salem, Dwight Luther Pickard Jr. He received his PhD from the worked with the Richardson NC 27109. (’61), March 3, 2011, Lexington, University of Hawaii at Hilo. Corp. Avery developed and NC. He was a Hankins Scholar Walker was a retired clinical managed property in Morgan- Gerald Bernard Huth (’60), at Wake Forest, editor of pastoral education supervisor ton, Blowing Rock and South- Feb. 11, 2011, Las Vegas. He The Student Magazine and and chaplain. port, NC. He is survived by his was inducted into the New a contributing writer to the CLASS NOTES CLASS children: Richard Cornwell Albany Senior High School Old Gold & Black. Pickard Avery Colburn Bordeaux Avery (JD ’93), Anna Lynn Hall of Fame in 2007 and into was a graduate of the U.S. (JD ’64), April 5, 2011, Raleigh, Avery (’90), Daniel Morgan the Wake Forest Sports Hall Navy Officer Candidate NC. He worked with the U.S. Avery and Robert Oldham of Fame in 2010. Huth served School, editor of Motor Trend Treasury Dept., National Avery; a stepson, Christopher; in the U.S. Army and played magazine, contributing writer Banks, First National Bank of and four grandchildren. football for 31 years at New to Entertainment magazine Martinsville, VA, Marine Bank Albany, Wake Forest, the U.S. and director of communica- and Trust of Tampa, FL, Gene Reid Carter (’59), Army, and in the NFL with tions for Universal Medical Palmer First National Bank Oct. 22, 2010, Kill Devil Hills, the New York Giants, the Services in Philadelphia. He of Sarasota, FL, Jefferson NC. He owned and operated Philadelphia Eagles and the was preceded in death by his Standard Life Insurance Co, Seaside Screens in Kill Devil Minnesota Vikings. After parents, Mildred Ledbetter the N.C. Department of Hills. Carter was a sales repre- retiring from the NFL, he was and Dwight Pickard Sr. (’28). Human Resources and, in sentative for Ace Hardware in a claims specialist for State Pickard is survived by two 1977, he opened a law firm in Corolla, NC. Farm Insurance in California daughters, Macon and Rachel; Leland, NC. In 1985 Bordeaux where he retired after 27 two grandchildren; and a returned to Raleigh, NC, to Durrow Curtis Hall Jr. (’59), years of service. Huth is sister, Mary Martin Niepold continue his real estate and Dec. 12, 2010, Monroe, NC. survived by his wife of (’65), senior lecturer in English bankruptcy practice. He was a retired medical 52 years, Diane; four children; at Wake Forest and founder of technician with Presbyterian and seven grandchildren. The Nyanya Project. William Swinton Dove III Health Care. Hall was pre- (’64), Dec. 28, 2010, Sherrills ceded in death by his wife, Rae Carroll Padgett (’60), Robert Carroll White (’61), Ford, NC. He was in the Patricia Littleton Hall (’60). April 30, 2011, Taylorsville, Jan. 2, 2011, Edenton and automobile business with He is survived by a daughter, NC. He served in the U.S. Erwin, NC. He served in the Dove Motor Co. in Kannapolis two grandchildren and one Army during the Korean War U.S. Army and graduated from and started an auto brokerage great-grandchild. and received a master’s in Southeastern Baptist Theolog- firm, Five Doves. Dove is botany from UNC-Chapel ical Seminary. White served as survived by his wife of 40 Boyce Rogers Wilson Sr. (’59), Hill. Padgett taught at the pastor at Clyde’s Chapel years, Bonnie; two daughters, Feb. 23, 2011, Clemmons, NC. Charlotte Catholic High in Wendell, Connaritsa and Holly and Heather; and a son, He was retired from Lucent School and in the Charlotte Horton’s in Aulander and Travis William Dove (’04). Technologies and was Mecklenburg school system. Fountain Baptist in Fountain, involved in financial planning NC. After retirement he Mary Kirby Parker (’65), with the N.C. Baptist State Jeanne Sims Caldie (’61), served as interm pastor and March 19, 2011, Winston- Convention. Wilson was pre- April 23, 2011, Eagleville, chaplain for the American Salem. She was a juvenile ceded in death by two broth- PA. She taught German and Legion in Edenton. White court counselor and a voca- ers, Eugene and Keith (’62). English in Yardley, PA, and served on the board of minis- tional rehabilitation counselor. He is survived by his wife of German at Elon College in ters for Campbell University Parker retired after 27 years 54 years, Patsy; a daughter; a Elon, NC. Caldie taught Ev- and was a trustee of Bertie as a school social worker in son; and four grandchildren. elyn Wood Reading Dynamics Memorial Hospital in Windsor. the Winston-Salem/Forsyth and worked in advertising in He was preceded in death by County schools. She is John Franklin Bergner Jr. Winston-Salem and Syracuse, two sisters and two brothers, survived by her husband, (’60), Nov. 22, 2010, Cumming, NY, before moving to Green including Watson Earl White Earl Ray Parker (’52); two GA. He was retired from the Bay, WI, to work for Manage- (’42). He is survived by his daughters, Sarah P. Ander- U.S. Navy Medical Service ment Recruiters. In 1980 she wife of 47 years, Ann Tumblin son and Elizabeth P. Horton Corps with 28 years of ser- started a recruiting firm; in White (’55); four children; and (MDiv ’02); four grandchil- vice. Bergner was dean of the 1986 she moved to Raleigh, five grandchildren. dren; and a sister. School of Health Sciences and NC, to work in retail sales and Services at Western Carolina then moved to Richmond, William P. Marsh III (’62), Barbara Lee Smith (’65), University. He was professor VA, to work in an orthopedic April 14, 2011, Duck, NC. Feb. 27, 2011, Winston-Salem. of health sciences and health sports medicine clinic. Caldie He was a captain in the U.S. She worked for the Winston- services administration, retired in 1998 from a medical Army Signal Corps stationed Salem Police Department director of gerontology and transcription company in Tra- in Europe, Vietnam and South and the State Department in professor emeritus of health verse City, MI, where she lived Korea. Marsh received the Washington, DC, and in sciences at the University of for 17 years before moving Realtor of the Year award Tehran, Iran. Smith was retired Central Florida. Bergner was to Audubon, PA. She is sur- in 1990 and the Jaycees’ from Western Electric Co. named the 2003 Florida vived by her husband, Scott; Man of the Year award from After retirement, she was a Businessman of the Year. a son; three daughters; eight the Montclair chapter. He guide at The Museum of Early grandchildren; and a brother, moved to the Outer Banks Southern Decorative Arts. Andrew Thomas Sims (’66). in 1991 and was a broker

84 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES Bonnie Schmidt Young (’65), Thomas Willis Haywood Richard Palmer McCotter Allyn Moore Staton (’75), Feb. 13, 2011, Burnsville, NC. Alexander (JD ’68), Dec. 31, (’71), April 25, 2011, Winston- Dec. 21, 2010, Carrboro, NC. She received her MS from 2010, Raleigh, NC. He served Salem. He served in the He was assistant director of Appalachian State Teacher’s in the U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Army National Guard. admissions for Hardbarger College and taught mathemat- Reserves. Alexander was a McCotter was a Certified Business College and later the ics in community college and clerk for Chief Justice Parker Public Accountant with his director of financial aid for in high school. Young retired of the N.C. Supreme Court, own firm in Winston-Salem. the School of Communication from Mountain Heritage High was an assistant district at- He is survived by his wife of 38 Arts. Staton was preceded in School in 2003. She is survived torney for Wake County and years, Dinah White McCotter death by his father, William by her husband, William I. a defense litigator for Maupin (’73); a daughter, Shannon; Wayne Staton (’38, JD ’41). Young (’63); a daughter, Taylor in Raleigh. His interests and a son, Trent. He is survived by his wife, Christina; a son, Steven; and included historic preservation, Diane. two grandchildren. volunteering with Hospice of Michael Moore Sheffield Wake County and operating a (’71), Feb. 19, 2011, Norcross, Mark Gregory (Samsen) Ranford Alan Haselden (’66), ham radio. GA. He received his JD from Walsen (’75), Jan. 30, 2011, Jan. 9, 2011, Sumter, SC. He Emory University. Sheffield Bellevue, WA. He received his served churches in Kentucky, Walter Roland Shelton (’69), was assistant district attorney MS in economics from North- North Carolina and South March 1, 2011, Winston-Salem. for DeKalb County before western University and had a Carolina, including Alice Drive He served on the USS Ben- starting a private criminal career in software engineer- Baptist in Sumter. Haselden nington during World War II defense practice. ing. Walsen worked with a retired as director of advise- and had three tours of duty. software development team ment and counseling from the Shelton entered college in Bentley B. Anderson at Intermetrics and Microsoft. University of South Carolina 1958 at the age of 38, while (MA ’72), March 30, 2011, He started Notation Soft- Sumter. working full time, and gradu- Virginia Beach, VA. He was ware, a company to develop ated 11 years later. He is sur- professor emeritus of theatre software for transcribing Pamela Metcalf Highsmith vived by his wife, Rachel, and and speech communications musical notation from a midi (’66), Jan. 15, 2011, Greens- three sons: David (’70), Philip at Virginia Wesleyan College. keyboard. boro, NC. She was a legal and Charles. Anderson was an actor, secretary and assistant office director and set designer and Jimart Lee Rhinehart (JD ’76), manager with the law firm of Patricia Flynt (MA ’70), at Virginia Wesleyan for Jan. 24, 2011, Wilmington, NC. Smith Moore Smith Schell & Jan. 28, 2011, Rural Hall, NC. 34 years. He helped design He practiced law in Wilming- Hunter for 14 years. Highsmith She was retired from the the Hofheimer Theater. ton until he retired in 2006. is survived by her husband, Winston-Salem/Forsyth Jerry Myers Highsmith (’65), County school system with John Linder Barber Sr. Frederick W. Bruce (’77), and brother, David Metcalf 30 years of service. (JD ’72), March 13, 2011, Dec. 1, 2010, Mechanicsburg, (’60). Winston-Salem. He practiced OH. Vaughn Edward Jennings Jr. law for 20 years with Petree Elizabeth Wham Wacker- (’70, JD ’73), Jan. 24, 2011, Stockton Robinson & Maready Forrest Wesley Goldston (JD hagen (’66), March 14, 2011, Winston-Salem. He was an before joining Krispy Kreme as ’77), April 16, 2011, Raleigh, Pfafftown, NC. She retired in assistant state district attor- general counsel. Barber later NC. He was an attorney in 1988 as a teacher in the ney for the 23rd Judicial joined Smith Helms Mullis & Rockingham County before Winston-Salem/Forsyth District, an assistant U.S. Moore in Greensboro, went to returning to Raleigh to serve County school system. attorney in the Middle District Wells Jenkins Lucas & Jenkins as a prosecuting attorney in Wackerhagen is survived by of N.C. and in private practice PLLC in Winston-Salem and the Secretary of State’s Office. four children and nine grand- for more than 30 years. was most recently a partner children, including Brian Jennings was preceded in with Robinson & Lawing LLP. George Thomas Tate III (’77), Dimmick (’97). death by his parents, Ethel He was a former member of April 3, 2011, High Point, NC. and Vaughn Edward Jennings the Wake Forest Law Alumni He worked for the High Point Barbara Ann Gordon (’67), Sr. (’31). He is survived by his Council. Fire Department for 23 years. Feb. 5, 2011, Baltimore, MD. wife, Mary Ellen Nanney Tate was captain for 10 years She taught social studies at Jennings (’72); two sons, Thomas Julian Long Jr. (’72), and retired in 1999. Southern High School and Vance E. Jennings (’01) and April 20, 2011, Elizabeth City, history, from 1974 until she Vaughn Jennings III (’04); NC. He was branch manager Ann Farley Warren (MAEd retired in 1997, at Lake a daughter, Kimberly Ellen at East Carolina Farm Credit. ’77), Nov. 6, 2010, Freehold, Clifton-Eastern High School. Jennings; two grandchildren; Long was a past president NJ. She worked in the field of After retirement Gordon and a sister, Ida Grace of the Ruritan Club and was educational psychology and volunteered at the Towson Jennings Roberts (’73). named Ruritan of the Year. suffered from multiple sclero- branch of the Baltimore sis for 30 years. County Public Library. She Douglas L. Rogney (MD ’70), Geoff Alan Gaebe (’74), visited 114 countries during March 26, 2011, Wytheville, Dec. 26, 2010, Mapleville, RI. William G. “Billy” Edwards her lifetime. VA. He practiced family He taught English and eques- (JD ’78), Jan. 17, 2011, Jame- medicine at Wythe Medical trian skills in Central Asia stown, NC. He practiced law Herman Webster Zimmerman Associates in Wytheville for and worked in building and in Jamestown for 32 years. Jr. (JD ’67), March 31, 2011, 36 years. Rogney served as carpentry in Rhode Island. Prior to law school, Edwards Lexington, NC. He served in chief of the medical staff at Gaebe was manager of served in the U.S. Marine the U.S. Army. Zimmerman Wythe County Community Addieville East Farm, a wildlife Corps, was with the Greens- was a district attorney from Hospital, chief of medicine, preserve in Mapleville. He was boro Police Department for 1970 until 1994 when he was chief of pediatrics and chief of named Conservation Farmer 12 years and was a general elected superior court judge long-term care. He received of the Year and the NESCA contractor building homes for the 22nd Judicial District. the Physician of the Year Sportsman of the Year. and commercial properties in Award in 2008. Jamestown. He is survived

SUMMER 2011 85 by a son, Scott Edwards, and College in Winston-Salem. and Olivia (5); his brother, June White Aycock Foley, a daughter, Laura Edwards After completing law school, Eric Eubank (’86); his sister, April 18, 2011, Huntsville, (’04). Memorials may be made she had a private practice for Alicia; his parents; and his AL. She was a graduate to School of Law Develop- 10 years before retiring to grandmother. of Vanderbilt University ment, Wake Forest University, pursue personal interests. She School of Medicine and had P.O. Box 7227, Winston-Salem, was preceded in death by her Susan Elizabeth Knowles a residency at N.C. Baptist NC 27109 or to Habitat of husband, Sidney L. Kelly Jr. (MD ’91), Jan. 6, 2011, Hospital. Foley was assistant Greensboro, P.O. Box 3402, (MAEd ’90), on Jan. 18, 2011. Modesto, CA. She completed director of student health on Greensboro, NC 27402. her anesthesiology residency the Reynolda Campus from Jeff Todd Harris (’90), at UCLA and had a family 1957 to 1959 before joining Donald Edward Pullease Dec. 2, 2010, Birmingham, AL. practice in Modesto. Knowles various medical practices in (MBA ’79), Dec. 14, 2010, He practiced law in Alabama, was a single parent to two Huntsville. She retired in 1992. Asheville, NC. He was a Colorado and North Carolina, adopted children from Russia. Foley is survived by two sons, corporate staff member and most recently with Harbert James (’64, JD ’73) and Bruce, entrepreneur of high-tech Management in Birmingham Harriet Milsted Doty (MALS and two grandchildren. CLASS NOTES CLASS marketing in California for and EnProIndustries in Char- ’93), Dec. 10, 2010, Winston- 26 years before moving to lotte, NC. Harris is survived by Salem. William Dow Glance, Asheville. his wife, Anna Meade Harris March 4, 2011, Winston-Salem. (’90), and three sons: Mac, Henry Clay Wall (MBA ’93), He was the director of infor- Charles David Dickenson Sam and Ben. Dec. 17, 2010, Matthews, NC. mation and public relations at (’80), April 8, 2011, Raleigh, He was retired from Clariant the Wake Forest Baptist NC. He received an MS from Sidney L. Kelly Jr. (MAEd and enjoyed golfing, reading Medical Center for 32 years. N.C. State University and was ’90), Jan. 18, 2011, Winston- and landscaping. Glance received the Distin- co-owner and president of Salem. He retired after 30 guished Merit Award from Engineering Services PC in years as professor of religion Joseph N. Altman (JD ’04), the Association of American Garner, NC. and philosophy at Salem March 31, 2011, of Baltimore, Medical Colleges in 1980 and College. He was active in MD, and Lancaster, PA. a Lifetime Member Award Quentin Bradford Ellis (’81), the community and wrote a in 1994. He was preceded in April 3, 2011, Manhattan memoir, “A Strange and Way- death by his parents and a Beach, CA. While at Wake ward Life.” His wife, Beatrice Friends, Faculty, son, Jason. Glance is survived Forest he was on the swim Ackenbom-Kelly (JD ’86), Staff, Students by his wife of 56 years, Bette team and was commissioned died two days later. Winchester Glance (MAEd a second lieutenant in the U.S. Tyrus Vance Dahl Jr., ’86); two sons, William and Army Reserves. Ellis was a Steven Paul Key (MD ’90), Jan. 6, 2011, Winston-Salem. Jonathan; and seven grand- systems engineer for SAIC, a March 22, 2011, Bent Moun- He was an adjunct professor children. senior consultant for BAH and tain, VA. His general surgical at the Wake Forest School of director of business develop- residency was at Vanderbilt Law. Dahl was a partner in the Ernest W. Machen Jr., ment for DBA (a subsidiary of University and his cardiotho- litigation group of Womble March 10, 2011, Charlotte, NC. SAIC). He studied at George racic residency was at the Uni- Carlyle Sandridge & Rice from He was an associate professor Washington University and versity of California, San Fran- 1984 until his retirement in of law at Wake Forest College George Mason University, and cisco and Stanford University. 2005. from 1953 to 1956. Machen he received an MS and PhD Key had plastic surgery fellow- served in the U.S. Navy during from the University of Vir- ships at Stanford University, Mary Motsinger Evans, World War II and was assistant ginia. Ellis founded QB Inc. in The University of Mississippi Jan. 8, 2011, Greensboro, NC. director at the Institute of 1993 and served as CEO and and the Buncke Clinic in San She taught biology in East Government until 1953. chairman until 2002 and was Francisco. Bend, NC, before her mar- founder of Ellis & Associates, riage to Ray L. Evans (’30). Barrett “Dickie” Maxwell, a provider of software devel- Larry Ashley Stroud (MD ’90), While he was in the military Jan. 9, 2011, Winston-Salem. opment and media services. March 23, 2011, New Bern, during World War II, she He served in the U.S. Army NC. He completed his resi- started a part-time job with and retired from Litton Indus- Katherine Haymore Faucon dency at the University of Esso (now Exxon) which lasted tries before starting Maxwell (PA ’82), Feb. 20, 2011, Alabama Hospitals and a 35 years. Evans was an Jewelers in 1984. Maxwell Covington, LA. cardiology fellowship at the emerita trustee of Guilford and his wife, Ginger, retired in Wake Forest Baptist Medical College and helped raise 2006 and started Life Source John Mark Heavner (JD ’84), Center. Stroud was a funds for Friends Homes Medical. He was a fan of Feb. 21, 2011, Gastonia, NC. co-founder of The Heart Guilford, where she lived and Wake Forest athletics. He was an attorney with Center of Eastern Carolina in served on the board of direc- Maxwell is survived by his Mullen Holland & Cooper in New Bern. He is survived by tors. She and Ray endowed wife, Ginger; his mother, Gastonia. his wife, Jacqueline; a daugh- scholarships at Guilford Nellie; and brothers-in-law, ter, Wake Forest sophomore College, UNC Greensboro Rick D. Puckett (’82) and Beatrice L. Ackenbom-Kelly Rachel Ann; and a son, James and Wake Forest. In her Roger R. Puckett (’69). (JD ’86), Jan. 20, 2011, Walter. husband’s memory, the Ray Winston-Salem. She taught L. Evans Scholarship fund at Robin Stokes McManus, elementary school, was a Robert Alan Eubank (’91), Wake Forest was established Jan. 7, 2011, Stow, OH. She foster parent and co-founder Feb. 25, 2011, Charlotte, NC. in 1997 to provide for under- was 53 and a fan of Wake and director of Camp Friend- He was with Tech Solutions graduate students from North Forest football. McManus was ship and a Home for Children. and was co-founder and presi- Carolina who have declared a a member of the Angels for Ackenbom-Kelly received her dent of ettain group. Eubank major in biology. Life Relay For Life Team. She PhD in special education from is survived by his wife, Kory is survived by her husband, the University of Virginia and Deblit Eubank (’91); three Jerry (’78); three children, was a professor at Salem children, Ryan (12), Luke (9) Kelly (’06), Ryan (’10) and Katie; and two brothers.

86 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES Robert Gettys Lesslie Mary Emma Rhodes Wingert, Mueller, April 7, 2011, March 20, 2011, Winston- Obituary Pawley’s Island, SC. He was Salem. She graduated from a junior majoring in history the N.C. Baptist School of and a member of Kappa Alpha Nursing and was a pediatric Fraternity. A memorial service nurse and supervisor. Wingert Professor of for Mueller was held in Wait was with Dr. Garrison and Chapel on April 14. Memorials Dr. Henry when they set up Chemistry Paul may be made to Wake Forest the Student Health Service Magnus Gross Jr. University, Chaplain’s in Wake Forest’s move to Emergency Fund, P.O. Box Winston-Salem in 1956. She 7204, Winston-Salem, NC is survived by her husband, 27109. Harold E. Wingert. Theirs was Paul Magnus Gross the first wedding held in the Jr. died March 17 in George Wilson Murphy, WFBMC Davis Chapel. Memo- March 16, 2011, Winston- rials may be made to the Edna Winston-Salem at Salem. He served in the U.S. Heinzerling Fund for Nursing the age of 91. He Navy during World War II and Excellence, Wake Forest Bap- taught at Wake Forest retired from RJR Tobacco tist Medical Center, Medical Co. in 1980 after 42 years of Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, from 1959 until 1987 service. Murphy was proud of NC 27157-1021 or to First and, for nearly 20 years, he was the coordinator of the his 30-year membership in the Presbyterian Roof Mortgage, University’s interdisciplinary honors program. In 1982 Deacon Club. He is survived 300 N. Cherry St., Winston- by a daughter, Becky Murphy Salem, NC 27101. he served on the first Reynolds Scholarship Committee Tesh (’74), and son-in-law, that selected the first recipients of the University’s most Clark Tesh (’76, MBA ’84). prestigious scholarship.

Mary Parks Bell Weathers, Feb. 1, 2011, Winston-Salem. Professor Emeritus of History Jim Barefield, who She received her BS and MS taught honors courses with Gross and succeeded him from UNC Greensboro and as coordinator of the program, recalled that Gross had taught in the Kannapolis, Albemarle and Shelby high wide-ranging interests, particularly in art and literature schools. Weathers did and would invite prominent guest speakers to meet with research for the Rockefeller the students. Foundation at Duke Hospital, was senior nutritionist at the N.C. State Board of Health Gross taught courses in general and physical chemistry. and an active member of the “He was an advocate for research at the graduate and community. She was dedicat- ed to the staff and students undergraduate level,” said Professor of Chemistry Willie of the Wake Forest School of Hinze, who joined the faculty in 1975. He remembered Law. Weathers was preceded Gross as a caring and generous person who frequently in death by her husband, for- invited students to his home for dinner and offered the mer Dean of the School of Law Carroll Wayland Weathers Sr. use of his beach house to colleagues. (’22, JD ’23), and her stepson, Carroll W. Weathers Jr. (’53). Gross graduated from Duke University in 1941 and She is survived by two daugh- ters, Jane Bell Weathers (’70) received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Brown University in and Katherine Weathers 1948. He was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Petree (’72); a stepdaughter, Institute of Technology, a research assistant at Harvard Sue Weathers Kaloyannides (’58); five grandchildren: Chip Medical School, taught at the University of Virginia Petree (JD ’97), Stacy Petree and was a National Science Foundation Science Faculty Davis (’95), Charles Weathers, Fellow at Cambridge University before coming to Wake Harrison Weathers and Grace Forest. Weathers Saydlowski (’94); seven great-grandchildren; and three sisters. Memorials A memorial service for Gross was held at the Wake may be made to the Carroll Forest Welcome Center on April 3. and Mary Parks Weathers Scholarship Fund at the Wake Forest University School of Law, P.O. Box 7227, Winston- Salem, NC 27109.

SUMMER 2011 87 The Artist’s Way of Metaphorically Seeking By Mary Tribble (’82) TRUE have smashed my driver’s rehab, surgery and more rehab, I vir-

& side door and sent me spin- tually abandoned my company. The

ning while it rained glass resulting drop in business, combined inside my car. with the recession, brought the oppor- tunity for change to a head. A key After two or three dizzy- employee was ready to buy. And finally, ing spins, the car came to I was ready to sell. a stop. A wave of white- hot pain shot through my Almost everyone experiences a sub- CONSTANT body. Something was terri- tle hunger for more meaning. We all bly wrong. I couldn’t move. have the ability to make a change at any Mary Tribble I was pinned in the car, time, of course; but sometimes we need the driver’s seat wrapped a nudge. It may come from an illness, s an art major at Wake around me like a straight jacket. an accident, a layoff or a meaningful Forest, I spent countless hours retreat. And when we’re nudged, we be- A in a dimly lit classroom examin- Through it all, as I was taught in yoga, gin to examine life like an art historian, ing famous works. Bathed in the glow of I counted my breaths. I watched while peeling back the layers, searching for the slides projected on the wall, I began drivers slowed, wondering if they knew meaning — trying to understand life in my education in the art of metaphor. that my life was about to take a mean- terms of life’s events. ingful turn. We spent weeks studying Manet’s “Le In hindsight, it’s easy to say the crash déjeuner sur l’herbe” as our professor After graduating from Wake Forest, I was a metaphor for change. But how prodded us to search deeper and deeper spent a brief stint at a museum. Then many times do we miss the smaller, less for the artist’s intent. Why were the fig- I moved to Charlotte and opened a painful life events that gently guide us in ures arranged the way they were? Why is special event company. For the past an untaken direction? How many times the woman naked while the men are ful- 25 years, while I’ve enjoyed my work, do we ignore the connections of two ly clothed? What is the meaning of the somewhere in the back of my mind I’ve seemingly different events as we blindly bather in the background? felt there might be something more. press on, down a comfortable path? Like many others, I spent time staring at My training as an art major contribut- the ceiling, wondering, “Is this all there I’m exploring the wide-open options ed to who I am and how I look at life. It is?” My life, on balance, was happy and that are spread out in front of me. taught me to seek meaning in the seem- fulfilled, but I often felt a bit empty, as I haven’t decided what my next step ingly mundane. It trained me to step out if I’d skipped a meal. But then I would will be. I am trying to be flexible and of my comfort zone, find metaphor in shake off my hunger for more and direct open to possibility. And I’m definite- life’s events, and appreciate connections my attention to the task at hand. ly looking both ways when I come to a where there seem to be none. So, when decision intersection. a large U.S. Postal Service truck t-boned I had thought about making a change me on my way to yoga class Christmas for many years. I had offers from buy- With eyes and ears opened to life’s Eve 2008, one of my first thoughts was, ers that I rejected, letting opportunities metaphors, thanks to my time at Wake “I wonder why this happened?” for transformation flitter away. Every Forest, the unknown, as uncomfortable time I stood at the precipice, looking as it may seem, becomes a comfort The postal truck was a metaphor impos- into the unknown, I stepped back. The after all. sible to ignore. If I had left my house a risk seemed too great. The familiar, no few seconds earlier, or had lingered at matter how uncomfortable, can still be Mary Tribble (’82) is a descendant of a stop light a few moments longer, or a comfort. Samuel Wait, the minister who founded hadn’t gone to yoga at all, I wouldn’t Wake Forest College, and grandniece of the have been in that intersection at the mo- For five months after the accident, late Wake Forest President Harold Tribble. The Charlotte Chamber Entrepreneur ment the truck came barreling through a I tried to get my life back to normal. Award winner sold her pioneering Tribble red light. The grill of the truck wouldn’t While I mended my body through Creative Group in December.

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“Dear Ms. Cragwall … I will study math and history in Wake Forest. So if you watch me and I see you at my graduation I will wink at you.” Read the story of Carrie Cragwall’s fourth-grade Demon Deacons, page 74.