2001-2002 Honor Roll of Donors Wake For e st M A G A Z I N E Volume 50, Number 2 December 2002 Editor: Cherin C. Poovey, poovey @wfu.edu Associate Editor: Kerry M. King (’85), [email protected] Senior Graphic Designer: Jessica Koman, [email protected] Graphic Designer: Sonya Peterson, [email protected] Photographer: Ken Bennett, [email protected] Class Notes Editor: Janet Williamson, [email protected] Contributing Writer: David Fyten, [email protected] Development Writer: Michael Strysick, [email protected] Printing: The Lane Press, Inc. Wake Forest Magazine (USPS 664-520 ISSN 0279-3946) is published four times a year in September, December, March and June by the Office of Creative Services, Wake Forest University, 1834 Wake Forest Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205. It is sent to alumni, donors and friends of the University. Periodicals postage paid at Winston-Salem, NC 27109, and additional mailing offices. Send letters to the editor ([email protected]), classnotes ([email protected]), change of address ([email protected]) and other correspondence to the e-mail addresses listed or to Wake Forest Magazine,P.O. Box 7205, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205. Telephone: (336) 758-5379. You can access the Web site at http://www.wfu.edu POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Wake Forest Magazine Alumni Records, P.O. Box 7227, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227. Volume 50, Number 2 Copyright 2002 Wake For e st M A G A Z I N E Features 12 Their Journey by Kerry M. King (’85) What lies ahead for eight freshmen? Follow them on their journey to 2006. 22 Federal Case by Tom Nugent Regulatory czar John Graham ('78) leads the government's charge against waste and inefficiency. 26 Constant and True by Bruce Buchanan (’93) A man of vision and versatility, Doug Maynard ('56, MD '59) has always answered when Wake Forest called. Interview 28 T. Davis Bunn (’74) Here we go: an inspirational author crosses over. Essay 31 In Memoriam by John R. Betz ('91) Page 12 Anyone who has known James O’Flaherty must know that Wake Forest recently lost one of its greatest scholars and gentlemen. Departments On the Map DC Deacs 2 Letters 34 Alumni with an absolutely capital connection Campus Chronicle 3 52 Honor Roll of Donors 40 Class Notes Letters to the Editor Thank you for the best issue Your September 2002 issue I have ever seen (September 2002). You is the best one of all. Why? Because of the have captured the heart and spirit and article on “Corapeake.” I suppose Brenda hopes and dreams and historical roots and Parker Hunt and I are the only two in decades of fruits that characterize Wake Wake Forest history whose roots were Forest College and University. solidly established in or near that tiny Having taught archaeology at the town. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, I Thanks for calling it a town. During was offered a position as associate professor my youth I could stand in our front yard, of religion at WFC in the summer of look north, and, but for a curve in the 1946, and my years there were delightful. road and a thicket, the whole town was It meant, though, that I would not be visible. Sara (’53) and I plan to be on cam- moving to Winston-Salem because I was pus for the ’52 law class reunion. We shall asked to be the professor of archaeology thumb a ride to the Hanes Gallery and and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the view Kendall Messick’s photography of my new seminary before going to Stetson hometown. University in Florida, where I retired after 22 years. You have done me a great favor Gerald F. White (’49, JD ’52) by publishing this issue. Elizabeth City, N.C. Marc H. Lovelace Winston-Salem, N.C. Wake Forest Magazine plans a tribute to retiring Chaplain Ed Christman (’50, JD ’53). If you have a memory or brief anecdote to share, please write to Cherin C. Poovey, P.O. Box 7205, Winston-Salem, NC, 27109, or e-mail [email protected]. 2 W ake Forest Magazine Campus Chronicle President Hearn, Jonathan Milner; Hearn and Jackie Rogers; Dean Paul Escott and Professor Katy Harriger Ettin, Harriger honored Waddill awards also presented at Convocation. Professor of English Andrew V. Ettin Jonathan Milner (’90), the secondary Milner taught at schools in Texas and and Professor of Political Science Katy winner, teaches AP politics and European Virginia before returning to Winston-Salem Harriger were among those honored during history at the Career Center in Winston- four years ago. He is the son of two educa- the University’s Opening Convocation in Salem. tors–his father, Joe, is chairman of Wake October. Genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter, Rogers and Milner were chosen from Forest’s education department, and his a leader in the race to decode the human among 59 nominees for the award by a mother, Lucy, teaches in the education genome, was the keynote speaker during selection committee chaired by Associate department at Salem College. He and his the program, which kicked off the School Provost Sam Gladding (’67, MAEd ’71). students started an exchange program sev- of Medicine’s Centennial Celebration. The Waddill Award is presented annually eral years ago that has brought several stu- Ettin, who joined the faculty in 1977, by the Office of Alumni Activities and the dents from Bosnia to the Career Center. He received the Donald O. Schoonmaker education department. Each winner receives has gone from teaching some of the poorest Award for Community Service. He has par- a $20,000 cash award, one of the largest students in Texas to more affluent ones in ticipated in social and religious activities as monetary prizes of any teacher award pro- Winston-Salem, but he said both experi- a board member of the Union of American gram in the country. ences have taught him the importance of Hebrew Congregations, as the spiritual Rogers, a native of Maryland, wanted to communicating hope for the future to leader of Temple Israel in Salisbury, N.C., teach underprivileged children after she young people. “I’ve also learned that my as the acting rabbi at Temple Emmanuel in graduated from Wake Forest, so she ended most successful lessons are student-cen- Winston-Salem and as the Jewish chaplain up at P.S. 38, which draws most of its stu- tered, dominated by student discussion and at the Blumenthal Home for the Aged. dents from surrounding housing projects interaction and questions.” Harriger, who joined the faculty in and homeless shelters. The school had been The Waddill Award was established in 1985, received the Jon Reinhardt Award under state review for failing to meet basic 1994 by David Waddill of Rye, N.Y., to for Excellence in Teaching. The former stu- standards for 12 years, longer than any other honor his father, Professor Emeritus of dents who nominated Harriger praised her elementary school in the state, but she and Mathematics Marcellus Waddill. The for spending a great deal of time advising other teachers succeeded in raising test deadline for the 2003 awards is Dec. 16. and working with students, especially on scores and getting the state review lifted. For information, visit their writing. “I try to teach my class the way that I www.wfu.edu/alumni/events/waddill. The Marcellus Waddill Excellence was taught,” she said, “not to dwell on the in Teaching Awards were also presented. terrible circumstances surrounding my stu- Jackie Rogers (’98), who received the award dents’ lives, but to treat them as children on the elementary level, is a fifth grade who have minds waiting to be filled with teacher at P.S. 38 in East Harlem, N.Y. exciting information.” December 2002 3 Campus Chronicle Management Center fifth in new Southeastern Baptist Stepping down the country and sixth in the Theological Seminary, which Babcock Dean Charles Moyer world. The Angell Center for had opened on the old campus will return to teaching. Entrepreneurship was ranked in anticipation of the college’s 22nd by Success magazine. move to Winston-Salem. He During Moyer’s tenure, also began working part time as Babcock School Dean R. the full-time faculty has director of the Baptist Student Charles Moyer will step down grown from 26 to 40 profes- Union. After Wake Forest next August after five years as sors. A new 17-month Fast- moved to Winston-Salem in dean to return to full-time track Executive MBA program 1956, he served as director of teaching and writing at the started in 2001, and a new the Baptist Student Union school. Moyer, who is also two-year Evening MBA pro- under J. Glenn Blackburn and GMAC Chair in Finance, End of an era gram started in 2001. The as assistant chaplain under L.H. joined the faculty in 1988 and school has started three new Chaplain Ed Christman will Hollingsworth. He continued was named dean in 1997. international study programs retire in July. to work with the BSU but also Moyer said business and developed partnerships became known for reaching out schools need to be re-energized with schools in Vienna, Ed Christman, the University’s to students of other faiths. In with new leadership every five Austria; Moscow, Russia; spiritual leader for more than 1963, he secured office space in to eight years. “The Babcock Lyon, France; and Stuttgart three decades, will retire as the library for part-time chap- School is well positioned for a and Koblenz, Germany. chaplain next summer. lains from the Methodist, period of substantial future Moyer came to Wake Christman, 72, counseled gen- Presbyterian and Episcopalian progress,” he said.