LASSNOTESDeathsJohn Caldwell Lake (’23), April 20, <strong>2003</strong>.Grover L. Griffin (’31), June 15, <strong>2003</strong>.Wilbur L.Vaught (’34), July 15, <strong>2003</strong>.John Robert “J.R.” Bradshaw (’35),April 13, <strong>2003</strong>.John Calvin Markham Jr. (’36),July 11, <strong>2003</strong>.Claude Francis Pickett (’38),May 22, <strong>2003</strong>.David M. Harris (JD ’39),May 16, <strong>2003</strong>.Robert F. Summey Sr. (’39), March 26, <strong>2003</strong>.Tom Ivey Davis (’40), July 5, <strong>2003</strong>. He was aretired newspaper publisher, educator and politicalconsultant. A native of Beaufort, NC, heattended Campbell College for two years beforefinishing at <strong>Wake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong>. As an undergraduate, hewas known as “Boredface,” was head cheerleader,business manager of the Old Gold & Black, and amember of the debate team. After attending<strong>Wake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> law school for one year, he servedin the U.S. Navy during World War II and sawaction at Iowa Jima, Leyte Gulf, the Philippines,Guam, Saipan, Pelilu and Okinawa. In 1951 hepurchased The Johnstonian-Sun,a weekly newspaperin Selma, NC, which he and his late wife,Janet T. Davis, operated until 1992. Active inDemocratic Party politics throughout his life, heserved as Executive Director of the stateDemocratic Party from 1960 to 1964 and managedHubert Humphrey’s 1968 presidential campaignin North Carolina. He was the SpecialAssistant for Public Information to state schoolssuperintendent from 1969 until retiring in 1985.He is survived by two brothers, Rev. John D.Davis (’47) and R. Dowd Davis; two sons,Tom I. Davis, Jr. and Mike Davis (’71); andfour grandchildren.James Marvin Pleasants Jr. (’41),June 27, <strong>2003</strong>.Thomas Leary Cashwell Jr. (’42),May 15, <strong>2003</strong>.William Dexter Moser Jr. (’44),May 7, <strong>2003</strong>.Charles “Glenn” Sawyer (MD ’44), April 3,<strong>2003</strong>. He was retired chief of cardiology at <strong>Wake</strong><strong>Forest</strong> University Baptist Medical Center. Afterfinishing with the first class to graduate from thethen Bowman Gray School of Medicine followingthe medical school’s move to Winston-Salemand expansion to a four-year program, he servedin the U.S. Navy and completed his residency inBoston. He joined the faculty at Bowman Grayin 1951 and helped start the medical school’scardiology section. He served on the AmericanHeart Association’s national board and was presidentof the N.C. Heart Association and theForsyth County Medical Society. He retired in1989. Survivors include his wife, Betsy IveySawyer, four children and 11 grandchildren, anda sister, Lucille Harris, instructor emerita in music.Carlton McKenzie Harris (’45, MD ’47),May 24, <strong>2003</strong>.James Thomas “JT” McRae (MD ’45),July 11, <strong>2003</strong>.Edward Shirley Bivens (MD ’46),June 17, <strong>2003</strong>.Anne Johns Corey (’46),Jan. 7, <strong>2003</strong>.S. Richardson “Dick” Hill Jr. (MD ’46), July4, <strong>2003</strong>. He was the second president of theUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham. Hereceived the <strong>Wake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> Distinguished AlumniAward in 1967.John Coffield Blanton Sr. (’47), June 30,<strong>2003</strong>.David Stone Jackson Sr. (’47),May 12, <strong>2003</strong>.In addition to his wife,Violet, he is survived by ason and daughter-in-law, David S. Jackson Jr.(’69, MD ’73) and Susan M. Jackson (’70),adaughter, Donna J. Gordon, and several grandchildrenincluding Julia Jackson-Newsom (’94).Emily Olive Rankin (’49), June 14, <strong>2003</strong>.Theodore Edward Gaze (’50), Oct. 22, 2002.William Oliver Harris (’50), June 26, <strong>2003</strong>.He taught English literature at <strong>Wake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> from1957 to 1960, and at the University of California-Riverside for 27 years before retiring in 1991.Charles Alexander Kincaid (’50),April 25, <strong>2003</strong>.James F. Porter Sr. (’51), March 28, <strong>2003</strong>.Glenda Johnson Moody (’55),May12, <strong>2003</strong>.Trelonnie Arthurway Jordan Jr. (’56),July 1, <strong>2003</strong>.Daniel Watson Fouts (JD ’58), June 2, <strong>2003</strong>.He was on the <strong>Wake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> Law Board ofVisitors.Ruth Woodlief Myer (’58),May 4, <strong>2003</strong>.William Lonnie Revels Sr. (’58),July 10, <strong>2003</strong>. (see page 56)Bettye King Ferguson (’62),May 15, <strong>2003</strong>.Kluenter Wesley Lacy Jr. (’65),May 13, <strong>2003</strong>.Anne Cannon Forsyth (’66),May 11, <strong>2003</strong>.She was a prominent philanthropist in Winston-Salem and the mother of Lloyd P. (Jock) Tate, amember of the <strong>Wake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> Board of Trustees.She received an honorary degree from <strong>Wake</strong><strong>Forest</strong> in 1972 for her work to integrateSouthern college preparatory schools. At thattime she was supporting more than 100 studentswith scholarships. She attended <strong>Wake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> andDuke University and served on the Board ofVisitors of the Medical School and the Board ofDirectors for Reynolda House and was vicepresident of the Z. Smith Reynolds FoundationBoard. She and her husband, Dr. H. FrankForsyth, who headed the Orthopedics Departmentat the Medical School and died in 1988, supportednumerous educational, artistic, political andhumanitarian causes.James O. Brawley III (’75),May 5, <strong>2003</strong>.William C. Livingston (’75), March 2, <strong>2003</strong>.Albert Franklin “Bert”Walser (JD ’77),May 7, <strong>2003</strong>.Larry E. Harrison Jr. (’79),May 20, <strong>2003</strong>.Hewas a four-year letterman on the basketball teamfrom 1976-79 and was the starting center on the1977 team that reached the finals of the MidwestRegional before losing to eventual championMarquette. He still ranks third in school historyfor blocked shots, trailing only Tim Duncan (’97)and Anthony Teachey (’85).He had suffered froma rare neuro-muscular disease, Machado-Joseph,for a number of years and died from pneumoniain his hometown of Baltimore, MD.Robert David Nurenberg (MBA ’85),June 14, <strong>2003</strong>.Faculty, Staff, FriendsShirley Griffin Berry, June 6, <strong>2003</strong>.She retiredfrom <strong>Wake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> after 27 years of service.James A. Gray Sr.,May 26, <strong>2003</strong>. He was onthe Reynolda House Board of Directors.Elizabeth “Lib” P. Griffin, June 4, <strong>2003</strong>. Shewas the widow of professor George Griffin, whotaught religion from 1948 until 1981. She was afamiliar face, along with Lucille Aycock, formany years at the information desk, then locatedin Reynolda Hall.Isadore Meschan,May 30, <strong>2003</strong>. He served aschairman of the radiology department at theBowman Gray School of Medicine from 1955 to1977 and as professor emeritus of Radiologyuntil his retirement in 1993. He is survived byhis wife, Rachel Farrer Meschan (MD ’57),and four children.62 <strong>Wake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>
Constant&TrueRemembering a campus architectAn unidentified worker puts the finishing touches on the law school eaglethat Biebigheiser designed in this photograph that he took in 1956.Jens Frederick Larson is recognized as the architect for <strong>Wake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong>’s “new”campus, but the contributions of another architect—largely forgotten fora half century—are now coming to light.Lloyd Winchell Biebigheiser was an architect in New Jersey who came to Winston-Salemin 1936 to work on renovations to Reynolda House (now the <strong>Wake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong>-affiliatedReynolda House, Museum of American Art) and was later hired by Larson to work on thenew campus because of his skill in ornamental design.He designed many of the most recognizable architectural features of campus buildingsincluding stone carvings and the wrought iron “WFC” found on many railings; light fixturessuch as the chandeliers in the Rare Books Room in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library; the altarin Wait Chapel; and a large eagle in the old law school courtroom in Carswell Hall. He livedin Winston-Salem until this death in 1961.Biebigheiser (pronounced bee-bee-high-sir) was also a photographer who documentedhis work as well as the campus under construction. His granddaughter, Sarah Turner ofWinston-Salem, recently donated to the University Archives more than eight-hundred colorslides he took from the groundbreaking in 1951 to the first Convocation in Wait Chapel in1956. An online exhibit (www.wfu.edu/Library/special/biebigheiser.html) of the collectionhas been created with the help of another granddaughter, Lee Schlatter of Randolph,New Jersey. Enlarged and matted copies of his photographs are available for purchase on theWeb site; proceeds will help maintain the University Archives.<strong>September</strong> <strong>2003</strong> 63
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