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Locklair
Bach, Brahms, and Locklair
ALONGSIDE SUCH NAMES as
Bach, Brahms, Haydn, and
Beethoven in the list of composers
whose musical selections were
performed at the June funeral
of former President Ronald
Reagan was Wake Forest’s Dan
Locklair. An organ composition
by Locklair, professor of music
and composer-in-residence, was
performed as part of the “organ
prelude”at the service at National
Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
Locklair’s composition, “The
Peace may be exchanged,” was
from “Rubrics,” a five-movement
suite for organ he composed in
1988. Several compositions from
”Rubrics”have been performed
around the world, and “The Peace
may be exchanged”has been
recorded by a variety of artists.
“Rubrics”is available on the CD
“Contemporary Organ Music,”
released by the Gasparo label.
All about Blair’s war
IN ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS
to critically examine the arguments
for going to war
with Iraq, Worrell
Professor of Anglo-
American Studies David
Coates details the events
and policies that led
British Prime Minister
Tony Blair to back the
Coates
Honoring the Promise
WAKE FOREST LAUNCHED
its “Honoring the Promise”
campaign in April 2001 with a
goal of $450 million. Given initial
success, the goal was increased a
year later to $600 million. Weathering
even the recent difficult economic
climate, the campaign
remains ahead of schedule and at
the end of the 2003-04 fiscal year
had raised nearly $519 million,
over 86 percent of the goal.
As part of this campaign,
nearly 250 scholarships, professorships,
and programs have
been created or augmented.
In the area of undergraduate
student financial aid, over $76
million has already been given
for need- and merit-based aid,
and some $45 million has been
contributed for endowed faculty
and program support, which
includes the creation of several
new endowed positions for
existing faculty, as well as departmental
enhancement funds.
United States’ invasion of Iraq in
March 2003. Blair’s War was cowritten
by Coates and Joel
Krieger, the Norma Wilentz Hess
Professor of Political Science at
Wellesley College. Coates taught
at the University of
Manchester before
coming to Wake
Forest in 1999.
“Tony Blair took
the U.K. to war alongside
the United States
because by his public
Contributions have also supported
traditional brick-and-mortar
expansion, with nearly $52 million
raised for new facilities.
In retrospect, more resources
have been cultivated under the
leadership of President Thomas
K. Hearn Jr., than at any other
period in the school’s history.
Two years after President Hearn
arrived, in 1985, the endowment
stood at roughly $146 million.
Five years later, in 1990, this figure
more than doubled to $310
million. Jumping ahead another
five years, in 1995 another roughly
35 percent increase pushed the
endowment to $422 million. In
2000, the endowment reached
nearly a billion dollars, hitting a
benchmark of $970 million. While
the endowment has fallen victim
to recent market devaluation, it
is still some 450 percent stronger,
at over $800 million, than when
President Hearn first arrived.
statements he had locked the
U.K. onto a path of confrontation
with Iraq, by standing alongside
the U.S. in its condemnation of
the Iraqi regime,”write Coates
and Krieger. “It was not a path
from which escape was then possible
without imperiling the relationship
with the United States.”
Blair’s War is available at bookstores
and on Polity Press’ Web
site at http://www.polity.co.uk.
A R O U N D T H E Q U A D
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