Wake Forest Magazine, September 2004 - Past Issues - Wake ...
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A R O U N D T H E Q U A D<br />
New facet<br />
on the diamond<br />
THE ALL-TIME WINNINGEST<br />
coach of any sport in Kent<br />
State University history has succeeded<br />
the all-time winningest<br />
coach at <strong>Wake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong>.<br />
Rick Rembielak, head baseball<br />
coach at Kent State for the last<br />
eleven years, follows George Greer<br />
as head coach of the Diamond<br />
Deacons. Greer, who led <strong>Wake</strong><br />
<strong>Forest</strong> to ACC titles in 1998, 1999,<br />
and 2001 and was the fourthwinningest<br />
coach in conference<br />
history, stepped down in June to<br />
take a new position in the athletic<br />
development office.<br />
Rembielak, a former Miami<br />
(Ohio) University standout shortstop,<br />
played semi-professional<br />
baseball for several years and spent<br />
1985 with the Winston-Salem Spirits.<br />
After six seasons as an assistant<br />
coach at Kent State, he was<br />
named head coach in 1994 and led<br />
New baseball coach Rick Rembielak<br />
B RIEFS<br />
his teams to four Mid-American<br />
Conference regular season championships,<br />
three MAC tournament<br />
titles, and four NCAA appearances,<br />
while compiling an overall record<br />
of 373–251–1 (.597). Rembielak, 43,<br />
was named MAC Coach of the<br />
Year in 1996, 2000, and 2003.<br />
Law school awards<br />
THE SCHOOL OF LAW<br />
received awards this summer<br />
from the national and state bar<br />
associations. The American Bar<br />
Association presented the E.<br />
Smythe Gambrell Professionalism<br />
Award to the law school for its<br />
comprehensive effort to emphasize<br />
professional values and<br />
responsibility, ethics, and community<br />
service through curricular<br />
and extracurricular programs.<br />
The North Carolina Bar<br />
Association awarded the <strong>2004</strong><br />
Law Student Pro Bono Award to<br />
the school’s Domestic Violence<br />
Advocacy Center. Students Megan<br />
Fontana and Jessica Bell, along<br />
with faculty advisor and professor<br />
of law Suzanne Reynolds (JD ’77),<br />
accepted the award.<br />
Wilson (’43) receives<br />
honorary degree<br />
PROVOST EMERITUS EDWIN<br />
G. WILSON (’43) received an<br />
honorary degree from Campbell<br />
University and delivered the Commencement<br />
address at the university’s<br />
graduation ceremony in<br />
May. Wilson, who also served <strong>Wake</strong><br />
<strong>Forest</strong> as professor of English, dean,<br />
and vice president, received a<br />
doctor of humane letters from<br />
Campbell President Jerry M. Wallace<br />
and Vice President and Provost<br />
M. Dwaine Greene (MA ’82).<br />
Scholarship fund<br />
honors Corpening (’49)<br />
ASCHOLARSHIP FUND has<br />
been established in honor of<br />
Julius H. Corpening (’49), former<br />
assistant vice president for University<br />
Relations, who retired in<br />
June after thirty-five years with<br />
the University. The scholarship is<br />
for undergraduates from North<br />
or South Carolina, with preference<br />
to those from Burke County,<br />
North Carolina, and Lancaster<br />
County, South Carolina.The<br />
scholarship is being funded by<br />
friends of Corpening. In addition<br />
to Corpening, the scholarship<br />
honors his father, the late Julius<br />
Shakespeare Corpening (1892).<br />
8 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE
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