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Humphrey gift benefits study-abroadWake Foreststudents whomay not have otherwisebeen able totravel abroad haveHubert B. Humphrey,Jr. (’48) to thank forHumphrey making possible whatmany describe as a life-changing experience.Humphrey, a former trustee andGreensboro attorney who died March18, left $750,000 to the study-abroadfund he established in his name in 1996.Students participating in programs atall three of Wake Forest study abroadcenters—in London,Venice, andVienna—are eligible for support fromthe Hubert Humphrey Studies AbroadFund. It was during a visit to WorrellHouse in London and Casa Artom inVenice that Humphrey first becameimpressed with Wake Forest’s studyabroad programs. Shortly thereafter heresolved to create a scholarship fund foroverseas study.Holly Howell (’02),a Winston-Salemnative who had never traveled outsidethe United States prior to her spring2001 trip to London, said, “Everyday Ihad the chance to learn, to be challenged,to be adventurous, and to marvel at theworld I had just then begun to see.” AHumphrey scholarship allowed her totravel with Worrell classmates to Greece,Italy, Austria, Germany, Belgium, andthe Netherlands during an eighteen-daysemester break.Travel was among many lifelonginterests which Humphrey pursuedenthusiastically. His life was eulogizedby Trustee James T.Williams (‘62, JD‘66), his law partner of thirty years. Hedescribed Humphrey as “an original andcomplex piece of human art” and a“keeper of the flame of excellence.”“Those of you who negotiated dealswith him thought him to be a tough andsingle-minded negotiator; those of youwho tried cases with him thought himto be a relentless and brilliant courtroomattorney; those of you who knew him asa client thought of him as a caring, hardworkingadvocate and valued advisor;and those of you who worked for himthought he could challenge your intellectand judgment like no one else,” wroteWilliams (read the complete eulogy online athttp://www.wfu.edu/administration/rbh.html).“Those of you who were his lawpartners thought him to be extremelyfocused, the keeper of the flame ofexcellence and a person with a clearvision for the law firm; those of you whomet him only in a professional settingprobably thought, he never stopped tosmell the roses; those of you who hikedor skied with him thought him to be anincredibly exuberant and adventurousperson. And those who knew him reallywell, thought of him as surprisinglymodest for one so successful.“Well, you were all correct in holdingthose views about Hugh. Hugh wasunique. He was a true renaissancelawyer and man. He was brilliant. Hehad extraordinary judgment. He wasarticulate. He was compelling. He wasfocused. He was tenacious. He wascompetitive. He was funny. He was loyal.“He was, in a word, a force. But thisforceful and remarkable man also had anincredible capacity to stop in the middleof something and smell the roses. Hughwould want us all to be happy when wethink of him. In fact, he would arch thoseincredible eyebrows and insist on it.”DEACON DIGESTThe University’s Graduate CounselorEducation Program, long a part of the educationdepartment, has become a separatedepartment. Professor of Counselor EducationSamuel T. Gladding (’67, MAEd ’71), who is alsoassociate provost, is chairing the new department.The department is separate from theUniversity Counseling Center, which providescounseling services to students, but CounselingCenter staff will serve as adjunct faculty in thedepartment.For the fifth time in as many years, a team ofWake Forest students has taken top honors inan International Math Competition. The 2003team—none of them math majors—created asolution for the best way to handle baggagesecurity claims at airports in the annualMathematical Contest in Modeling.The Wake Forest team was comprised ofDana Lindemann, a senior physics major fromPleasantville, New York.; Robert Haining, ajunior computer science major from Atlanta;and Neal Richardson, a junior political sciencemajor from Chester, Virginia. AssistantProfessor of Mathematics Hugh Howards,who coached the team, said Wake Forest’scommitment to a well-rounded liberal artseducation gives its students an edge.“To win the competition you have tosolve an open-ended problem, you have tomake an argument and support it, and thatis where our teams excel,” Howards said.“They are well-rounded enough to not onlysolve the problem, but also to explain itclearly. Our students are perfect for this competition.”Wake Forest has received a $50,000 grantfrom the Ewing Marion KauffmanFoundation to develop a proposal to expandentrepreneurial programs. Fourteen otheruniversities received similar grants; inDecember, the Kauffman Foundation willselect five to seven universities to receive upto $5 million grants to fund their initiatives.Page West, Benson-Pruitt AssociateProfessor of Business and director of theCalloway School’s Center for UndergraduateEntrepreneurship, says expanding programs isimportant to meet growing student interest.“I have had students from economics,psychology, physics, and the arts come to mefor advice about starting up their own newventures,” he said. “In fact, many entrepreneurialendeavors are centered on the liberalarts disciplines, such as staging a new theaterproduction or museum event, creating publicpolicy to encourage economic development,creating new educational programs targetingat-risk students, or leveraging scienceresearch into practical applications. So,entrepreneurship is no longer relegated tobusiness programs alone.”September 2003 5