orest July 1990 Wake Forest University Magazine A Tribute To Provost Wilson orest Wake Forest University Magazine Volume 36, Number 5 July 1990 Features 2 Letters to the Editor 2 • Faculty Notes 3 Editor Jeanne P. Whitman • Student Values: After College, What? 4 Associate Editor • The Travels of David Bain 7 • Profile: Cherin C. Poovey Graham Martin {1912-1990) 8 • Book Staff Writer Bernie Quigley Shorts 9 Classnotes Editor Adele LaBrecque Design Debbie D. Harllee Mechanical Campus Chronicle 14 Lisa Kennedy Commencement: Library Wing Named for Typography Provost Wilson 14 • Eastern Europe Teresa B. Grogan 20 • Debate's Outstanding Pn"nting Colloquium Fisher-Harrison Corp. Season 21 • Law School Appointments 22 Photography- Front cover: • Medical School Promotions 22 • Students Ken Garrett; back cover: Susan Win National Scholarships 25 Mullally Clark. Charlie Buchanan: 28; Susan Mullally Clark: 6, 7, 14, 15 (top), 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 25; Pam University Departments 26 Corum: 5, 15 (bottom). Art: Laser Videodisc Replacing Slides 26 UPI/Bettman Newsphotos: 9, • Medicine: Bowman Gray Researchers 11. Report AIDS Breakthrough 27 • Law and Management: Hooding Ceremonies Mark WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE (USPS 664-520, ISSN 'Beginnings' 28 0279-3946) is published five times a year in September, November, February, April and July by Wake Forest Universi­ ty. Second class postage paid at Winston-Salem, NC, and additional ni Report 29 mailing offices. Please send letters to Alum the editor and alumni news to WAKE Capital Campaign Theme 29 • Campaign FOREST UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, Boasts Proud Leadership 30 • Volunteer 7205 Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. POSTMASTER: Send Leaders Named 31 • Henry Stokes Retires address changes to the WAKE FOREST -·............. .. • 35 • Report MAGAZINE, 7227 Reynolda Station, ........... 32 • Clubs 34 Classnotes Winston-Salem, NC 27109. .,,,·····--"~· ..... ...... From the Council President 41 ..........'·······~·, ...... ,, ' ~ ~--·.·::.~~~ti~ TTERS TO THE EDITOR The Teaching wake Forest will continue Conquering The Of Students to provide the leadership it Long Road Back has in the past of the . •'values which bear heavlly To the editor: upon the life of each in­ To the editor: dividual as well as the After reading the We read the recent arti­ maintenance of democratic February issue of the Wake cle regarding Shawn Kelly institutions which foster Forest Magazine, I was sur­ (''Conquering th~ Long freedom,'' as President prised and reli~ved. Your Road Back," April 1990). I Hearn said. articles concermng student was very impressed by the I am a teacher in the and educational values were article and gave it to my public school system and reassuring to say the least. I son to see. He was very see many students with keep in touch with various moved by it, and so we've declining values and selfish, personalities connected to written to Mr. Kelly. base interpretations of a. the Wake Forest campus My son was a red-shin pursuit of happiness - In­ and have become very con­ football player at the deed some of them do not cerned about the future University of Nonh seem to believe that there direction of the University Carolina and had a wreck is or can be happiness. and its administration, last November. He is also faculty, and students. They lack leadership at. on the long road back. in the commumty, The teaching of students home, Shawn Kelly gave my son and in an overwhelmed to think for themselves, to new hope that perhaps he, . look at the evidence, to public school system that too, can someday return to seems to send them conflict­ make sound decisions and school. ing messages, wh:ther or not to act responsibly on those be decisions, has made Wake intentional. Thts can john S. Braswell ('60} . found in the disadvantaged as Forest one of the best in­ High Point, North Carolzna Wake stitutions in our nation. It well as the elite. Will those is my sincere hope that Forest University join wake Forest will continue without time to teach values Children's Photos to make this contribution to our nation's youth? If so, what "common good" will of utmost imponance to To the editor: our society. come of the research con­ I seriously question the ducted? If the future for this I was shocked to view commitment to continue to University is one of ''publish pictures of children of pursue these purposes in a or perish,' ' will dear ol~ Wake Forest alumni in the "research" institution. I Wake Forest, as the alumm February issue Cl~sn~tes and the nation know and graduated with a M.S .Ed. section. This publicauon from an excellent research respect it, perish? has always been a source of university. While I gained pride for this 1964 Wake academic education in my Lisa]. Ward ('82) graduate; perh~ps thi~ is chosen area superior to Mebane, North Carolina why I was so dtsappomted many others (largely due to in the magazine's poor the discipline, drive and taste. desire I discovered as an Please return to your undergraduate at Wake high standards so that I can • _ Forest), there was little time continue to brag to my for the student to pursue or husband and sons that my the faculty to lead. I found magazine is far superior to this to be true for both those published by Nonh graduate and undergraduate Carolina State, UNC- students. There is a need Chapel Hill, ~d the for each type of institution University of Richmond. and I earnestly hope that Carolyn D. Setzer ('64) Dunn, North Carolina 2 Faculty Notes Terry D. Blumenthal, assistant professor ofpsychology, presented "Eli­ citation of the Startle Response in Adults With lDw Intensity Acoustic Stimuli" at the Conference on Human Development in Richmond, Virginia. Debra Boyd-Buggs, assistant professor of romance languages, received a Pew Summer Grant to develop a course in Mrican Studies. She is studying the feasibility of establishing an exchange program between the University of Niamey in Niger and Wake furest University. John R. Earle, professor of sociology, Catherine T. Harris, professor of sociology, and Philip J. Perricone, professor of sociology, presented "A Comparative Study of Student Values at Three Universities" at the annu­ al meeting of the Southern Sociological Society in I.Duisville, Kentucky. Ellen E. Kirkman, professor of mathematics, has been re-elected state director for Nonh Carolina of the Southeastern Section of the Mathe­ matical Association of America. Robin Kowalski, assistant professor ofpsychology, presented "Percep­ tions of Heterosocial Cues" at the Southeastern Psychological Association, Adanta, Georgia. David B. Levy, associate professor of music, presented "Toward the 'Double-Tonic' Complex: Wagner and Beethoven's Quartets," at a joint meeting of the College Music Society (Mid-Atlantic Chapter) and Ameri­ can Musicological Society (Southeast Chapter), UNC-Greensboro. Charles Lewis, professor ofphilosophy, read a paper entitled "Religious Belief, Paradox, and Interpretation," at the annual meeting of the Socie­ ty for Philosophy of Religion in New Orleans. Dale R. Martin, associate professor of accountancy, S. Douglas Beets, assistant professor of accountancy; and Ralph B. Tower, associate profes­ sor of accountancy, wrote "Improving the Recruiting Process" in journal of Accountancy (February 1990). Carlton Mitchell, professor of religion, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Ecumenical Institute, sponsored joindy by Wake furest and Belmont Abbey College. Henry M.W. Russell, instructor in Engltsh, wrote "The Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Rhetoric of Judgment," in Virginia Quarterly Review. Marcellus E. Waddill, professor of mathematics and computer science, has been elected to a three-year term as secretary-ueasurer of the Southeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America. 3 Peace and Pragmatism In Search of a Meaningful Society BERNIE QUIGLEY This year's college seniors bumper sticker boro, North Carolina. right now, and I don't were two years old when on the rear of a Johnson is a business major, know why they want to go four students died at Kent student's car and would like a career in ahead and get married," State. They were second­ which reads ''Be sports facility management said Johnson. "One partner graders when the last all that you can be. Work or academic administration. has a job in one pm--of the American helicopters lifted for peace,' ' tells much He is looking throughout country and the othet has a off the roof of the about Wake Forest seniors the United States for a job. job in another part of the American Embassy in who graduated this spring. Students nowadays are country.'' Saigon. They came of age Justin Latus of Seminole, conservative, said John R. ''The general trem:f,'' in the feel-good Reagan Florida, will go to Japan for Earle ('58), a Wake Forest said Liv Lundifi of St. Paul, years and entered college as a year to live with a family sociologist whQ stUdies col­ Minnesota, "is that most Walt Street was rocked by and work with a charitable lege studentsr- but not don't plan to marry until scandal. What lessons have organization similar to the necessarily in a shallow W1rf. the late 20s." they taken from their two YMCA. Elizabeth Bilyeu of Tb~y are not motwated by The women are more decades of ltfe? Peace-and Richmond, Virgiaia, would ideology, but by pragmatic concerned about balancing pragmatism. like to work for a f~ily concerns. Many of their family and career than are services organization~ and opiniops. and attitudes are the men and in finding a Mathew Banks of Jackso_n.. liberal- for instance regard­ career that wil!-gtv.e thet;n ville, North Carolina, ing women's issues - but the time to rear children. would like to work for often contradictory. Lundin haEC& a career in ''peace, justice and a more ''Although conservatjye advertising wilt do that.