Wake Forest Magazine September 2003 - Past Issues - Wake Forest ...

Signature facilityCalloway School moves in to the new Kirby Hall.Calloway School faculty membersreturning from summer vacationin early August found a much-anticipatedpresent waiting for them: a new building.“It was kind of like Christmas, wewere so excited to move in,” said JackE.Wilkerson, Jr., dean of the CallowaySchool of Business and Accountancy.“Bricks and mortar don’t make a businessschool, but they certainly canstrengthen the work at the heart of abusiness school—the teaching andscholarship work of the faculty.There’sno question that this building will makea big difference, directly and indirectly.One powerful indirect benefit—somethingthe Calloway School has neverhad, at least in my experience—is a visiblesignature facility; this is very clearlythe home of the business school.”The five-story building—added ontothe back of Calloway Hall and with asmuch space as the original building—will be called Kirby Hall, in recognitionof the F.M. Kirby Foundation ofMorristown, New Jersey, which contributed$5 million toward the $14.5million construction cost.The mathematicsand computer science departments,which previously shared spacewith the Calloway School, will occupymost of the space in the old building—temporarily being called West Hall—once renovations are completed laterthis fall.The entire building will becalled the Calloway Center for Business,Mathematics and Computer Science.Kirby Hall has thirteen classrooms,including an eighty-seat technologicallyadvanced classroom; about forty facultyoffices; a technology lab; student andfaculty lounges; and “breakout rooms,”where students can work together onteam projects.The main entrance, aDean Jack Wilkerson: All our programs are in one place.two-story atrium that links the newbuilding with the original building, isreached by a bridge from the ReynoldaHall parking lot.The “Four Chairmen’sBridge” was given by two past chairmenand the current chairman of PepsiCo,Inc., in honor of another formerPepsiCo chairman and the school’snamesake,Wayne Calloway (’59).“We’re not building for (future)growth, although it’s certainly a recognitionof the growth that’s taken place,”Wilkerson said. “This puts all our programstogether in one place. It’s thefirst time that we’re able to provide allthe space that the faculty need for allthe things we want our students to do.”September 2003 3