Wake Forest Magazine, March 2007 - Past Issues - Wake Forest ...

F EATURESEDITORCherin C. Poovey (P ’08), poovey@wfu.eduASSOCIATE EDITORKerry M. King (’85), kingkm@wfu.eduDESIGN / ART DIRECTIONUrena Design, durena@triad.rr.comPHOTOGRAPHERKen Bennett, bennettk@wfu.eduCLASSNOTES EDITORJanet Williamson (P ’00, ’03), williajm@wfu.eduCOPY EDITORKim McGrath, mcgratka@wfu.eduSENIOR WRITERDavid Fyten, fyten@wfu.eduPRINTINGThe Lane Press, Inc.Burlington,VermontWake Forest Magazine (USPS 664-520 ISSN0279-3946) is published four times a year inSeptember, December, March, and June bythe Office of Creative Services,Wake Forest University, P.O. Box 7205,Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205.It is sent to alumni, donors, and friends of theUniversity. Periodicals postage paid atWinston-Salem, NC 27109,and additional mailing offices.POSTMASTER: Send address changes toWake Forest Magazine Alumni RecordsP.O. Box 7227Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227.Volume 54, Number 4June 2007Copyright 200726 Back in TownBy Kerry M. King (’85)More and more alumni are discovering thatWinston-Salem is more than Wake Forest’s home;it’s also a pretty good place to make their home.36 Growing upBy Kim UnderwoodDoughnuts aren’t the only thing that Winston-Salemhas going for it today.2 A ROUND THE Q U AD46 C LASSNOTES76 H OMECOMING 2007WWW.WFU.EDU

38 Leveling the FieldBy Karilon L. RogersThe Heritage Scholarshipopens the door to WakeForest for students from theUniversity’s historic constituency,but the visionarybehind it remains a mystery.18 Fond FarewellsTheir life’s work inWake Forest’s classroomsinfluenced generations ofstudents; remembering thisyear’s class of the finest.E SSAYP ROFILES PORTS16 The Rise and Fallof Tony BlairBy David CoatesA noted expert on Britishpolitics reflects on thepromising start to thePrime Minster’s tenure—and its inglorious end.42 Modest ManBy Kerry M. King (’85)Porter Byrum (JD ’42)had rather be outhunting than sittingin the courtroom.44 Hall of FamerBy Leo Derrick (’50)Alan White (’62)built an athleticprogram with Class,with a capital ‘C.’C ONSTANT & TRUE76 A Soldier’s FortuneMajor General (retired)Richard Beale (’64) onprofessor Bob Helm,Pro Humanitate, and hisgreatest lesson learnedat Wake Forest.

Farewell, Class of 2007‘Success is something that happens through us,’ columnist Brooks tells graduates.Richard and Carole Minton, parents ofgraduate Stephanie Minton, and herbrothers.THE MINTON FAMILY fromConnecticut knows how todo graduations. Two hours beforethe 9 a.m. start of Wake Forest’s2007 Commencement on May 21,the family members of soon-tobe-graduateStephanie Mintonhad already claimed four rowsof seats—marked off by blackand-gold,triangle-shaped signswith her name on them—nearthe stage in front of Wait Chapel.“This is our (family’s) fifteenthgraduation since University ofVirginia in 1983, but the first timehere and the most southerlyschool we’ve been to,” said herfather, Richard Minton, leading agroup that included Stephanie’smother, Carole, brothers, andthirty other assorted cousins,aunts and uncles and grandparents,ranging in age from 3 to 84,from six states. Family membershad bottles of water with speciallyprinted labels with trivia questionsabout Stephanie or WakeForest. “She’s loved it here,”saidMinton of his daughter’s experiences.Stephanie Minton, a businessmajor, plans to work for aconsulting firm in Washington, D.C.She was among approximatelynine hundred undergraduatesand more than six hundred graduateand professional school studentsto receive diplomas on apicture-perfect day under cloudfreeskies. “It’s a very sentimental2 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DPresident Nathan O. Hatchmoment,” said Kunal Gupta, aneconomics major from Hagerstown,Maryland. “The four yearswent by very quickly. It’s sad thatI may never see some of thesestudents again. But it’s time tomove on to greater things.”Commencement speakerDavid Brooks, a columnist for TheNew York Times, told graduates inhis address, “The Hidden River ofKnowledge,” that success is notsomething that they will achieveindividually. “Success is notsomething that we do or thathappens to us. Success is somethingthat happens through us,”said Brooks, a former foreign correspondentfor The Wall StreetJournal who has written his twiceweeklycolumn for The New YorkTimes since 2003.He encouraged graduates toremember the examples set bygreat leaders, their parents, andothers who have come beforethem as they navigate the river ofknowledge. “They will remindyou of your place in the hiddenriver of wisdom. They’ll serve asmodels. They’ll give you an honestperspective on how you’redoing. They’ll remind you thatyour blessings don’t come fromyou but from those who camebefore you.”Honorary degrees wereawarded to Brooks; The Rev. J.Bryan Hehir, a noted Catholicpriest and a professor at HarvardUniversity, who delivered theBaccalaureate address on May 20;former U.S. Senator Dale Bumpersof Arkansas, who delivered theaddress at the School of Law’shooding ceremony; WolfgangSchutz, president of the MedicalUniversity of Vienna, who deliveredthe remarks at the School ofMedicine’s hooding ceremony;Harold L. Martin Sr., senior viceNew York Times columnist David Brookswww.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2007 3

A R O U N D T H E Q U A Dpresident for academic affairs atthe University of North Carolina;and Anne Firor Scott, a pioneeringscholar of women’s historyand professor emerita at DukeUniversity.Retiring faculty membersfrom the Reynolda Campus andthe Bowman Gray Campus alsowere recognized (see page 18).Inhis remarks, President Nathan O.Hatch encouraged graduates tobe wary of the allure of success.“It is a siren song that lures youto believe that a person’s worthis based strictly on your achievement,that success is the measureof all. I trust that your educationat Wake Forest reinforced a differentmessage…that your valueand meaning in life is worth infinitelymore than whatever credentials,promotions, and bonusescome your way.”Graduates and their familiesfilled some 12,000 chairs—2,000more than last year—that stretchedfrom the yellow- and white-stripedtent in front of Wait Chapel backtoward Reynolda Hall at the otherend of Hearn Plaza. It was thefiftieth anniversary of the firstCommencement held on the“new” campus since Wake Forestmoved to Winston-Salem in 1956,although Commencement wasn’theld on the Quad for the firsttime until 1966.Nichole Burnap, a financemajor from Mesa City, Arizona,said she was sad to see her undergraduateexperience come to anend. “It’s been amazing, I wishI had another four more years,”she said. “It’s so pretty here, whywould you ever want to leave.”Burnap will be back at WakeForest in the fall to complete hermaster’s degree in accountancyfrom the Calloway School andwill be back in the same spot nextMay, picking up her second WakeForest degree.— Kerry M. King (’85)4 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

For more stories and photographs onCommencement 2007, and the completetext of David Brooks’ address andPresident Hatch’s remarks, please visitwww.wfu.edu/wowf/commencementA R O U N D T H E Q U A DAmong those receiving honorarydegrees were noted Catholic priestthe Rev. J. Bryan Hehir (above) andpioneering Southern historian AnneFiror Scott (with Harold W. TribbleProfessor of Art Margaret S. Smith)www.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2007 5

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DWalsh steps down as School of Law deanSCHOOL OF LAW DEANRobert K. Walsh is steppingdown from the dean’s positionnext month after a remarkabletenure in which he not only transformedthe law school into one ofthe leading schools in the countrybut also rose to become one ofthe top leaders in American legaleducation. As announced lastsummer, he will take a one-yearsabbatical and then return to theclassroom.Walsh had a varied background—as a practicing attorney, a lawfaculty member at Villanova University,dean of the University ofArkansas at Little Rock School ofLaw, and finally a litigation partnerwith a law firm in Little Rock—that made him well-qualifiedin 1989 to become dean. Thefact that he’s served for eighteenyears—more than triple thenational average length of a lawdeanship across the country—shows that Walsh and WakeForest were a good fit, says JimWhite, who served for twenty-sixyears as the chairman of the ABA’slegal education section.“Bob’s been a remarkabledean,”said White, a faculty memberat Indiana University. “It’sfair to say he made Wake Foresta truly national law school. Beforehe came, it was certainly a goodschool, but it was regional. As Inow talk to people around thecountry, it’s clear that Wake Forestis one of the leading law schoolsin America. There is no doubtthat he’s considered one of thereal leaders in American legaleducation.”During Walsh’s tenure, thelaw school moved into the WorrellProfessional Center for Lawand Management; opened theLegal Clinic for the Elderly; beganthe Master of Laws degree programfor international lawyers;and started summer study programsin Vienna and Venice,where Wake Forest owns residentialstudy centers. He also led thedevelopment and completion oftwo long-range strategic plansfor the school and saw the schoolthrough two University-widecapital campaigns. Fundraisinghas increased student financialaid and supported the creationof four faculty chairs and threeendowed professorships.“He has tirelessly worked onbehalf of the law school and raisedthe profile of the school throughany number of activities,” saidBill Davis (JD ’66), a partner withBell, Davis & Pitt in Winston-Salem.“He’s expanded the schooland been able to attract excellentfaculty members. He’s spent alot of time with alumni. He’s justbeen an excellent dean.”Under Walsh’s leadership, theschool won a number of awardsand honors, including membershipin the prestigious Order ofthe Coif; the Emil Gumpert Awardfor Excellence in Trial Advocacyfrom the American College ofTrial Lawyers; and the E. SmytheGambrell Professionalism Awardfrom the American Bar Associationfor its three-year comprehensiveprofessional educationprogram. In 2004, National Juristmagazine named Wake Forestthe “best private law school forthe money” in the United States,based upon such factors as barpassage rates, placement rates,and student-faculty ratio.For fourteen of his eighteenyears as dean, Walsh taught acourse on federal courts. He ismost proud of having hired onehalfof the current tenure-trackfaculty. “The collegiality of thelaw faculty here is outstanding.They are national scholars butare still devoted to their teaching,”he said. “They are committedto educating students outsideof the classroom as well, alwaysgiving of their time to meet withstudents, to judge moot courtcompetitions, and to attend studentevents.“Wake Forest is built aroundthe idea of education that caresabout each individual student.There is a whole sense of communityhere that is very differentfrom other national universities.”— Ellen Dockham6 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

MorantMorant appointedlaw school deanBLAKE D. MORANT, an associatedean of the law schoolat Washington and Lee University,has been named dean of theWake Forest School of Law.A native of Virginia, Morantearned his undergraduate andlaw degrees from the Universityof Virginia. He attended Virginiaon a U.S. Army R.O.T.C. scholarshipand was commissioned asa second lieutenant upon graduation.He served several years asa captain in the U.S. Army JudgeAdvocate General’s Corps beforepracticing law in Washington,D.C., first in private practice andlater with the Washington MetropolitanTransit Authority.Since beginning his academiccareer in 1988, he has taught atAmerican University, the Universityof Toledo, the University ofMichigan, and the University ofAlabama. He joined the facultyat Washington and Lee in 1997and is currently associate dean foracademic affairs and the Roy L.Steinheimer, Jr. Professor of Law.Tiefenthaler named first female provostJILL TIEFENTHALER, professorof economics and consultant tothe president at Colgate University,has been appointed provost,the first female to hold that positionin Wake Forest’s history.Since joining the faculty at Colgatein 1991, she also has served aschair of the economics departmentand associate dean of the faculty.“Wake Forest is a first-rateinstitution with a wealth ofresources: a rich tradition, abeautiful campus, a warm community,quality students, and,of course, a dedicated faculty,”said Tiefenthaler, whose appointmentwas announced in lateApril. As provost, she will be theUniversity’s chief academic officer,with responsibility for academicprograms on the Reynolda Campus.She will succeed WilliamC. Gordon (’68, MA ’70), who isstepping down on August 1 afterserving as provost since 2002.A native of Iowa, Tiefenthalerearned her bachelor’s degreein economics in 1987 from SaintMary’s College in South Bend,Indiana, and her master’s anddoctoral degrees in economicsfrom Duke University. She hasspent her entire career at Colgate,a nationally recognized liberalarts university in Hamilton, NewYork. Her research interests havefocused on labor economics, economicsof the family, and developmenteconomics.“Liberal arts universities, likeColgate and Wake Forest, have aspecial character,” Tiefenthalersaid. “They provide students withthe opportunities of a researchuniversity and the intimacy andcommunity of a liberal arts college.They ask faculty to be productivescholars and committedteachers. But finding and maintainingthe right balance requiresthe care and attention of theadministration.”At Colgate, Tiefenthalergained experience in strategicplanning, enrollment management,curriculum development,and faculty development andscholarship. She also was activein various community groups inHamilton. She was a foundingdirector of the Upstate Institute,created to bring together theresources of Colgate with theneeds of the region. In 1991and 1992, she was a consultantto the World Bank and workedon female labor force participationand earnings issues in Brazil.TiefenthalerA R O U N D T H E Q U A Dwww.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2007 7

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DUniversity extends sympathy,support to Virginia TechWAKE FOREST JOINEDUNIVERSITIES across thecountry in offering sympathyand support to Virginia Techfollowing the shootings thereApril 16. Among the thirty-twokilled was a professor with tiesto the School of Medicine throughthe joint VirginiaTech-Wake ForestUniversity School of BiomedicalEngineering and Sciences.Kevin Granata, 45, a professorin the Department of EngineeringScience and Mechanics atVirginia Tech who taught in thejoint program, was among thosekilled in Norris Hall. The program’sdirector, Wally Grant, aVirginia Tech engineering professor,was among those injured.The joint program, which beganin 2003, has sixty-five students,twenty-two of whom are based atWake Forest. The students takeclasses on each campus and byvideo conferencing, but no WakeForest students were on the VirginiaTech campus the day of theshootings.Granata, who came to VirginiaTech in 2003 from the Universityof Virginia, was described bycolleagues as a gifted scientist.His research focused on muscleand reflex response and robotics,including control of lower backpain and computer simulationof walking and running. Hisdepartment chair described himas one of the top five biomechanicsresearchers in the countryworking on movement dynamicsin cerebral palsy. Granata is survivedby his wife, Linda, and threeyoung children.At a memorial service inWait Chapel two nights afterthe tragedy, President NathanO. Hatch said, “The authorJoan Didion in her bookThe Year of Magical Thinkingreminds us that ‘Lifechanges in the instant.The ordinary instant.’ Itis, perhaps, our familiaritywith the ordinary day ona university campus thatmakes this week’s tragedyat Virginia Tech intenselypersonal for each of us…On a university campus,where open doors andopen minds are honoredas powerful forces forStudents at a memorial serviceon Hearn Plazagood, we mourn the recognitionthat each event of this magnitudeerodes our freedom in ways bothsubtle and overt.”Hatch offered to send counselingfaculty and staff to VirginiaTech, and three counselingprofessors—Sam Gladding (’67,MAEd ’71), Laura Veach (’79,MAEd ’82), and Donna Henderson—spent two days on the VirginiaTech campus, beginning April 23when classes there resumed.In the hours immediately afterthe shootings, Wake Forest officialsbegan reviewing campussecurity measures. Wake Foresthas a crisis management plan thatis regularly updated. Through theyears, the University has takenvarious measures to enhancesecurity, including the additionof gates at the three entrances tothe Reynolda Campus; at night,one entrance is closed, while theother two are staffed by securityofficers.8 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Students receive Goldwater ScholarshipsTWO STUDENTS HAVE BEENAWARDED 2007 Barry M.Goldwater Scholarships, thepremier national scholarship forstudents majoring in mathematics,science, and engineering.Junior Chris Jackson, fromLebanon,Virginia, and sophomorePatrick Nelli, from Gastonia,North Carolina, were among 317students to earn the scholarshipthis year. Anne Fedders, a juniorfrom Beckley, West Virginia,received an honorable mentionin the scholarship competition.Jackson, who is majoring in Englishwith minors in neuroscienceand chemistry, plans to pursue amedical degree and a doctoratein neuroscience. He has doneextensive research with SusanFahrbach, Reynolds Professor ofDevelopmental Neuroscience,and at a behavioral neurosciencelaboratory in Canberra, Australia.Nelli, who is majoring inphysics, plans to seek a doctoratein biochemistry. His researchinterests center on developingand discovering molecules thatChris Jackson and Patrick Nellican be used in drug therapy anddisease detection.More than 1,100 students werenominated for the scholarshipthis year. The scholarship coversthe cost of tuition, fees, books,and room and board up to a maximumof $7,500 per year for oneyear for recipients who are juniorsand for two years for sophomorerecipients.A R O U N D T H E Q U A DUniversity appliesto host anotherPresidential DebateWILL THE ROAD TO THEWHITE HOUSE runthrough Wait Chapel again? Afterhosting presidential debates in1988 and 2000, Wake Forest hasapplied to host a debate in thefall of 2008. The Commission onPresidential Debates receivedproposals from nineteen sitesto host debates; typically, threesites are chosen for presidentialdebates and one site for a vicepresidential debate.The commissionexpects to select the sitesin October.Since the commission begansponsoring the presidentialdebates in 1988, Wake Forest andWashington University in St.Louis, which has hosted threedebates, are the only sites to havehosted more than one debate.All three of the sites which hostedpresidential debates in 2004—Washington University, ArizonaState, and the University ofMiami—submitted applicationsto host another debate, as didCentre College in Kentucky,which hosted a vice presidentialdebate in 2000.Other colleges and universitiessubmitting applications wereBelmont University, HofstraUniversity, Indiana University,Ohio State University, Universityof Central Arkansas, Universityof Cincinnati, University ofMississippi, Washington StateUniversity, Wesleyan University,and a group of universities fromNew Orleans. The state of Illinoisand civic groups in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania; Wayne County,Indiana; and Portland, Oregon,also submitted applications.Sites submitting applicationshad to pay a $7,500 applicationfee to the commission and must beprepared to pay about $1.4 millionin production costs to host a debate;Wake Forest has already begunlining up potential sponsors,should the University be chosen.The 1988 debate at WakeForest, between vice presidentGeorge Bush and MassachusettsGovernor Michael Dukakis, wasthe first sponsored by the Commissionon Presidential Debates.The 2000 debate, between VicePresident Al Gore and TexasGovernor George W. Bush, drewmore than 37 million televisionviewers worldwide.www.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2007 9

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DPhysics researcher wins prestigious NIH awardTO REWARD OUTSTANDINGRESEARCHERS and sustaintheir work, the National Institutesof Health occasionally awardwhat are termed MERIT (forMethod to Extend Research inTime) grants. If an NIH committeereviewing a grant-extensionapplicationconsiders theproject to beexceptionallyproductiveand promising,and if theresearcher’strack recordwith his or herprevious NIHgrants is stellar,the com-Kim-Shapiromittee can, atits discretion, extend the grant forup to ten years—double the normalmaximum time frame, worthan estimated $3.4 million.With the security of long-termfunding, recipients can concentrateon achieving outcomes thatmight require more time withoutthe distraction of reapplying foran extension after three or fouryears as is ordinarily required.Moreover, it’s a strong signal thatthe NIH, one of the leading scientificresearch funding agencies inthe world, has confidence thatone’s project is important andlikely to yield solid results.Not surprisingly, MERITgrants are seldom awarded. Therequirements are rigorous andeligibility is restricted to projectspreviously ranked in the top 10percent by their review committeesand among the top 5 percentof current renewal applications.Only 5 percent of all NIH grantrecipients receive one, and noone, to the best of anyone’s recollection,had received one on theReynolda Campus.But that changed this springwhen Professor of Physics DanielKim-Shapiro was notified that hehad received a MERIT Awardfrom the National Heart, Lung,and Blood Institute (NHLBI) tocontinue his pioneering researchon sickle-cell anemia. He is investigating,with collaborators thatinclude Bruce King of chemistryand Mark Gladwin, chief of theNHLBI’s vascular branch andamong the world’s foremostauthorities in the field, the effectsof nitric oxide in sickle-cell blood.Sickle-cell anemia, whichafflicts people of African descentdisproportionately and is debilitatingand often fatal, is causedby a mutation of the oxygencarryingmolecules in blood,called hemoglobin. Hemoglobinis carried through the bloodstreamby red blood cells, whichmust squeeze through vesselssmaller than they are to deliveroxygen to the body. In sickle-cellanemia, the red blood cells formrods and become rigid, whichprevents them from passingthrough the apertures they mustget through. Blockages form andtissues are deprived of oxygenand die.Symptoms and related maladiesinclude severe pain, stroke,pulmonary hypertension, gastricdiseases, infection, and ischemicrepefusion injury—the reintroductionof oxygen into oxygendeprivedtissues.Kim-Shapiro and his colleaguesare probing the pathology ofpoor nitric oxide availability inthe blood of sickle-cell sufferers.Nitric oxide acts as a relaxationagent that promotes free bloodflow. In sickle-cell patients, redblood cells tend to break openand release their hemoglobin,which consumes the nitric oxidein the bloodstream.In something of a breakthrough,the group has foundthat nitrite—the salt used topreserve sausages, which canbecome nitrosamines, a carcinogen,when ingested in certainquantities and conditions—is converted to nitric oxide inthe body. Its hypothesis, whichis controversial among somesickle-cell researchers, is thatnitrite could be used to generatenitric oxide and promote betterblood flow in sickle-cell anemiasufferers.Having already filed a patentfor the use of nitrite for treatingcertain cardiovascular conditions,the group seeks to understandmore thoroughly how the nitriteto-nitric-oxideconversion processworks and then to pursue possibleclinical applications of the saltin sickle-cell anemia treatment.—David Fyten10 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Try to rememberPsychologist Janine Jenningsstudies aging’s effect on memory.YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS:memory diminishes as timegoes by. Janine Jennings has aremedy: play it again, man orma’am. And again.Ever since Jennings, an associateprofessor of psychology, wasan undergraduate at the Universityof Toronto in her native Ontario,Canada, she has been fascinatedby memory, the human capacityto store and recall past information.Her work as a doctoral student,a postdoctoral fellow, and,since 1998, a faculty member atWake Forest, has touched on variousaspects of the field, such asfalse memory and the positiveand negative effects, respectively,of nicotine and anxiety on recollectiveability.Her major focus, however,is on aging’s effect on memory.With her research collaborators,she has devised and tested apromising instrument for trainingolder adults to strengthen theirpowers of remembrance. In herearliest studies, Jennings workedwith her doctoral studies mentorat McMaster University, LarryJacoby, who is now at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis. At WakeJenningsForest, she collaborates withdepartmental colleague DaleDagenbach as well as her students.According to Jennings, memoryhas two facets—familiarity andrecollection. The distinctionbetween them is best illustratedby an example. Suppose you arewalking down the street and spotsomeone you think you’ve seenbefore; that’s familiarity.Then, yourack your brain trying to identifythe person and the context inwhich you might have knownhim or her; that’s recollection.Although scientists aren’tquite sure why, it is this latterfacility—recollection—that tendsto diminish as we age. She wondered:could it be strengthenedthrough repetition and exertion,much as exercise can build thebody’s muscles and cardiovascularfunction?To test the hypothesis, she andher colleagues devised the followingstrategy. Elderly subjects,along with a control group ofyounger subjects, are shown oncomputer screen a list of thirtywords and are asked to studythem. Then they are shown asecond list that contains somenew words interspersed withwords on the initial list, and theyare asked to identify the newwords. Complicating the processis the fact that each of the newwords is repeated, causing subjectsto confuse them with wordsfrom the initial list.At first, says Jennings, oldersubjects have difficulty recallingthat a word is repeated, evenwith only a few intervening items.But by having them repeat asequence until they respondaccurately, and then graduallyincreasing the intervals betweenrepetition of a new word, Jennings’group documented definiteimprovement in the elderlysubjects’ recollective ability.How long do the effects ofthe training last? Jennings’ groupfound that many subjects stillexhibited positive effects fourmonths after they had the training.What remains unclear is theextent to which the effects canbe retained long-term. She’s nowapplying her findings to individualswith mild cognitive impairment,a precursor of Alzheimer’sdisease.—David FytenA R O U N D T H E Q U A Dwww.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2007 11

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DDistinguished panel discusses globalizationFOUR TOP BUSINESS EXECU-TIVES—all graduates of theBabcock Graduate School ofManagement—discussed thechallenges facing American businessesin today’s global marketplaceduring a panel discussionon campus in April.Narrated by Emmy Awardwinningjournalist Charlie Rose,the discussion,“Jumping the Sun:Creating Competitive Advantagein an Increasingly Flat World,”featured panelists Charlie Ergen(MBA ’76), founder, chairman,and chief executive officer ofEchoStar Communications/DISHNetwork; John Medica (MBA ’83),former senior vice president ofthe consumer product group atDell Inc.; KenThompson (MBA ’76),president and CEO of WachoviaCorporation; and Eric Wiseman(’77, MBA ’88), president andchief operating officer of VFCorporation.Trustees approvenew tuition, budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEEShas approved tuition ratesfor 2007–08 and a $289 millionbudget for the Reynolda Campus,an increase of 8.3 percent overthe current budget. Tuition forundergraduates will rise 6.8 percentfrom $32,040 to $34,230.Tuition increases in the graduateand professional schools will varydepending on the school andprogram.The new budget providesa 10 percent increase in fundsavailable for undergraduate facultysalaries, although actualraises will vary. Staff salarieswere also increased by varyingamounts, with those on the lowerend of the pay scale receivinglarger increases. Deans in thegraduate and professionalschools set salaries for facultyand staff in their schools.University sells Gettysburg paintingWAKE FOREST HAS SOLDthe Gettysburg cyclorama,the massive 1880s painting depictingthe epic Civil War battle, toa group of private buyers. Thebuyers, who were not identified,hope to resell the painting toan institution that can properlydisplay it to the public. TheUniversity did not disclose thepurchase price.The cyclorama, at one time thelargest oil painting in the world,has been in storage since it wasdonated to the University elevenyears ago by now-deceased localartist Joe King, who had purchasedit in 1965. A second Gettysburgcyclorama, by the same Frenchartist, Paul D. Philippoteaux, ison display near the battlefield inGettysburg, Pennsylvania.12 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

AngelouAngelou donatescollection toZSR LibrarySINCE 2001, REYNOLDSPROFESSOR of AmericanStudies Maya Angelou has donatedmovie scripts, drafts of plays,and other materials related to herwork in movies, television, andtheatre to Wake Forest. Angelou,who joined the faculty in 1981,was honored for her donationsat a reception this spring.Altogether she has donatedhundreds of thousands of pagesin the last six years. Many ofthe materials are handwrittenon legal pads or in notebooks;printed documents often includehandwritten margin notes orcorrections.Among the highlights arematerials related to the movie“Georgia, Georgia”(1972); thetelevision show “Sister, Sister”(1982); and the movie “Down inthe Delta”(1998). The materialsare housed in the Z. SmithReynolds Library and are availableto the public.Art professor’s workfeatured in magazinePAINTINGS BY Page Laughlin,professor and chair of art,were featured in the May issueof Traditional Home magazine.Laughlin’s large-scale oil paintingsare based on photos of roominteriors. One of her paintings,“Mirror, Mirror 2000” is in thepermanent collection at the NorthCarolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.Magazine ranksCalloway highlyUSINESSWEEK MAGAZINEBhas ranked the CallowaySchool of Business and Accountancy17th on its list of the top 50undergraduate business schoolsin the United States. To identifyits top schools, BusinessWeeksurveyed business students andundergraduate recruiters, andexamined several areas, includingteaching quality, facilities andservices, and job placement.Debate team wins JVNational ChampionshipTWO MEMBERS of the debateteam won the Junior VarsityNational Championship in March.Sophomore Lauren Sabino ofCanton, Ohio, and freshman KurtWoolford of Wichita, Kansas, wonthe tournament by defeating ateam from Binghamton Universityin the final round. Freshmanteammates Elise MacNamara ofMiami, Florida, and HannahRothman of Bronx, New York,reached the top sixteen.B RIEFSProfessor’s book traceshistory of VirginiaPROFESSOR OF HISTORYAnthony S. Parent, Jr., is oneof four authors to chronicle thehistory of Virginia in a new book,Old Dominion, New Commonwealth:A History of Virginia, 1607–2007(University of Virginia Press).Parent, who wrote the first threechapters of the book, traces thenatural history of the region andprovides an overview of someof its earliest inhabitants. “Fordecades, we have lacked a modernaccount of Virginia’s rich,tumultuous, and consequentialhistory,” said Nelson D. Lankford,editor of the Virginia Magazine ofHistory and Biography. “Now, wehave it.”Concert Choirperforms abroadTHE WAKE FOREST CONCERTChoir was scheduled to performfor the first time in Europelate last month, with several concertsin Austria. About forty students—includingrecently graduatedseniors—under the directionof Associate Professor of MusicBrian Gorelick, were expected tomake the trip.Correction In the article“Rhodes Run” in the March issueof Wake Forest Magazine, onepast winner of the Rhodes Scholarshipwas omitted: Paul Edgar Hubbell,class of 1912.A R O U N D T H E Q U A Dwww.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2007 13

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DUniversity Advancementannounces staff changesTHE UNIVERSITYRELATIONS officehas been reorganizedto better serve theneeds of alumni,parents, and friendsof the University. VicePresident James R.Bullock (’85, MBA ’95) Bakerannounced the followingstaff changesthis spring.Robert T. Baker,formerly assistant vicepresident and directorof development, hasbeen named associatevice president anddirector of University McNallydevelopment, withresponsibility for overseeingmajor gifts,planned gifts, andcorporation and foundationrelations.Minta AycockMcNally (’74), formerlyassistant vice presidentand director of Neesealumni activities andannual support, hasbeen named associatevice president anddirector of parent anddonor relations.Betsy Chapman(’92, MA ’94), formerlydirector of alumni andparent programs, has Absherbeen named directorof alumni communications. VadaLou Earle (’85), formerly traveland reunion director, has beennamed director ofalumni programs suchas Homecoming andclass reunions.Emily Neese (’81),formerly director ofadministration andplanning in the UniversityAdvancement office,has been named assistantvice president anddirector of constituentdevelopment. She willbe responsible for overseeingthe developmentprograms for all theReynolda Campus professionalschools andthe Reynolda CampusAnnual Funds.Blake Absher (’84),previously manager ofdatabase marketing atLorillard Tobacco Company,has joined theoffice as director ofthe College Fund andannual support.The Office of SpecialEvents is moving fromUniversity Advancementto the President’s Office.Jennifer Richwine (’93),formerly directorof special events, hasbeen named directorof University eventsand assistant to thepresident. BrandiCleveland, formerlyassistant director of specialevents, has been named assistantdirector of University events.WFU BMC adoptssingle-CEO structureTHE GOVERNING BOARDS ofNorth Carolina Baptist Hospitaland Wake Forest UniversityHealth Sciences have adopted anew, integrated organizationalstructure with one CEO who willoversee Wake Forest UniversityBaptist Medical Center.Baptist Hospital and HealthSciences, which includes the WakeForest School of Medicine, willremain separate entities, and noassets will change hands. Bothalso will retain separate boardsof directors; an existing MedicalCenter board will be enlarged.The new CEO will report to theenlarged Medical Center board,which will develop a unifiedvision and strategy for the entireMedical Center.Also, a new organization willbe created for the group medicalpractice, Wake Forest UniversityPhysicians, Inc., with its ownpresident reporting directly tothe Medical Center CEO. BothRichard Dean, the president ofWake Forest Health Sciences,and Len Preslar, the president ofBaptist Hospital, will remain inplace as the Medical Centeradopts the new structure.The move toward a single-CEO organizational model isbecoming more common at academicmedical centers and isalready in place at Johns HopkinsUniversity, New York University,and the University of Chicago.14 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Russ Hobbs (second from left) withhis wife, Barbara, and his parents.Russ Hobbs (’88)donates $1 millionfor entrepreneurshipRUSS HOBBS (’88), an entrepreneurand founder of BlueOcean Software, has donated$1 million to the Office for Entrepreneurshipand the Liberal Arts,the first major endowment gift tothe office.Hobbs, who lives in Tampa,Florida, established the RussellD. and Elfriede Hobbs Fund forEntrepreneurship and the LiberalArts in honor of his parents.Thefund will provide seed grants,internships, and other funds forundergraduates who want tolaunch socially beneficial organizations,including charitable,educational, scientific, and artisticenterprises. The gift will also fundmajor prizes for entrepreneurialventures each year.“Wake Forest’s innovativeapproach to entrepreneurial educationis unique in that it extendsbeyond the traditional definitionof entrepreneurship to encompassscientific, intellectual, social,and artistic value creation aswell as economic,” Hobbs said.“Combined with Wake Forest’sstrong liberal arts education andfocus on its motto, Pro Humanitate,I feel this program is leading theway in educating a new generationof entrepreneurs for thetwenty-first century.”After graduating from WakeForest with a degree in philosophy,Hobbs began working in theinformation technology departmentof a large company. In 1990,he started Blue Ocean Softwarewith $6,000, and within ten years,it had become a leading developerof help desk, PC inventory, andfull-featured systems managementsolutions. Hobbs sold thecompany in 2002 to Intuit.Bob McCreary (’63)gives $2.3 million toathletic programFORMER FOOTBALL PLAYER BobMcCreary (’63) has committed$2.3 million to the athletic department,including $2 million for DeaconTower, now under constructionat Groves Stadium. The main plazaarea around the tower will benamed the Bob McCreary Plaza.In addition, McCreary willcontinue his membership in theMoricle Society, the highest givinglevel in the Deacon Club. He alsohas committed for ten premiumseats in Deacon Tower, pushing histotal commitment to $2.3 million.“The scholarship that was providedto me and the education Ireceived enabled me to excel inbusiness and life,” said McCreary,owner of McCreary Modern Furniturein Newton, North Carolina.Construction on Deacon Towerbegan in January and is expected tobe completed in time for the startof the 2008 football season. Theseven-story $40 million buildingwill include private boxes, premiumseating, media seating, and thePresident’s Box.A R O U N D T H E Q U A DFreshman Patrick Russell from Lockport,New York, and sophomore ChristopherLangley from Suwanee, Georgia, receivedthe Reece Scholarship this past year.Scholarship honors Mark and Shirley ReeceTHE FAMILY OF THE LATEDEAN OF STUDENTS MarkReece (’49) is matching gifts to amemorial scholarship establishedin honor of Reece and his latewife, Shirley Parker Reece (’50).The Mark and Shirley ReeceScholarship Fund is a need-basedscholarship for undergraduates.Reece served Wake Forest formore than thirty years, the lasttwenty-five as dean of men anddean of students, before heretired in 1988. He died in 1997;Shirley Reece died last January.Gifts may be made to theReece Scholarship Fund, WakeForest University, P.O. Box 7227,Winston-Salem, NC 27109.www.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2007 15

E S S A YThe Rise and Fall of Tony BlairBy David CoatesWorrell Professor of Anglo-American StudiesTHE PRIME MINISTERSHIPOF TONY BLAIR effectivelyended in mid-May. His decisionto stand down in favor of a yetto-be-namedsuccessor closes astory of meteoric rise and spectaculardecline. It is not a storywell known or understood here,but it needs to be; for there areAmerican dimensions to it, andAmerican lessons to be drawnfrom the trajectory of so importanta political career.Tony Blair arrived in poweras the British equivalent of BillClinton, full of self-confidenceand promise. He leaves office asthe British equivalent of GeorgeW. Bush, full of bluster and tarnishedby defeat.Like Clinton, Tony Blair brokethe seemingly invincible grip onexecutive power exercised in the1980s by parties of the Center-Right: here by Reaganite Republicans;in London, by ThatcheriteConservatives. Like Clinton, hemade that unexpected breakthroughby first stealing and thensoftening conservative politicalclothes.With a self-confidence rare inyoung and untested politicians,Blair—in an uneasy partnershipwith the man most-likely to succeedhim, his finance ministerGordon Brown—remade theBritish Labor Party in MargaretThatcher’s image. Out went theprograms and symbols of oldstylesocialism and the close relationshipwith the trade unions.In came the endorsement ofglobalization, enthusiasm for privateenterprise, and an aping ofall things American. Blair andBrown even called their Americanstyle welfare-to-work programtheir “New Deal.” You don’t getmuch more American than that.From the outset of his yearsin power, Tony Blair positionedthe UK close to the US. The RAFpoliced the Iraqi no-fly zonealongside American jets. UKbombs, not just US ones, drovethe Serbs out of Kosovo; and,after 9/ll, Blair’s UK stood shoulderto shoulder with America asboth moved to defeat the Taliban.The confidence with whichTony Blair pulled the Labor Partyaway from old-style radicalism,positioning it in the very centerof UK politics, brought unprecedentedinitial electoral success.In 1997, the British ConservativeParty went down to its heaviestdefeat since 1832. In 2001, itentirely failed to dent Labor’shuge parliamentary majority.With two election victories of thatscale, Tony Blair seemed set forpermanence in office and a specialplace in the history books.Yet it was not to be. Humanfrailty and policy mistakes intervened.Blair the prime ministerbecame increasingly Blair thepresident. Self-confidence gaveway to hubris. Tensions betweenBrown and Blair intensified. Themove of Labor Government policyto the right continued unabated.Abroad, in 2002 Tony Blairbecame point man for GeorgeW. Bush in the demonization ofSaddam Hussein. In 2003, brookingno opposition, he took theUK into what quickly became anunpopular war. At home, Blairpushed Thatcher-like, marketbasedreforms into publicly providedwelfare services and turnedfor party funding to many of hismillionaire friends. Such foreignand domestic initiatives thendivided his once united party andopened up an electoral space onLabor’s left. Blair’s credibility asworld statesman was an earlycasualty of the continuing nightmarethat is Iraq.His popularity at home was anearly casualty of his unremitting16 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

E S S A Yenthusiasm for welfare reform.He and his immediate circle wereeven caught up in a corruptionscandal linked to party finance.All they lacked for total disasterwas a good sex scandal—and in2006 his deputy prime ministereven provided him with that.Outflanked on his left evenby David Cameron’s revampedConservatives, May 2007 thenbrought the final nail in theBlairite coffin: Labor’s defeatin local elections in Scotland.Scotland—the land of Blair’sbirth and long the bedrock ofLabor’s core constituency—isnow in the hands of a ScottishNational Party keen for independence.Whoever, in 1997,could have anticipated that!History will no doubt judgeBlair more kindly than currentlydo the majority of his contemporaries.In the 1990s he undoubtedlypulled UK politics awayfrom the excesses of Thatcherismonto the more center groundthat the majority of UK votersprefer. Indeed, it is a measureof the strengths of the man andhis project that the ConservativeParty, which Margaret Thatcheronce led, can now only regainpower by distancing itself fromher. The only route to power inthe UK for the Conservativesunder David Cameron is to out-Blair Blair himself. Yet that sucha route is both credible and availablein 2007, as it was not in 2001,also points to deep flaws in Blairthe man and Blair the project—flaws of pride in the man andflaws of conservatism in theproject—that may yet cost theBritish Center-Left dear, andfrom which the Democratic Partycould well learn.For if a David Cameron victoryin the next UK general election isTony Blair’s ultimate legacy to hisembattled Labor Party, and itmight very well be, then MargaretThatcher’s revenge will have beensweet indeed: which is why theremust be no long-term canonizationof Tony Blair. For all his initialsuccess, progressive politicson both sides of the Atlantic nowneeds more principled and lesshaughty leadership than he ultimatelyprovided.David Coates, a native ofEngland, has taught at WakeForest since 2000. He isthe author of a study of NewLabor’s domestic program,Prolonged Labour; theSlow Birth of New LabourBritain, and the co-authorof Blair’s War, a study ofthe UK’s involvement in Iraq.His latest work, A LiberalTool Kit: ProgressiveAnswers to ConservativeArguments, will be publishedby Praeger in August.www.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2007 17

FondFarewellsWake Forest bids farewellto four illustrious professorswho spent their entire careersat the University influencingfour generations of students.18 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Michael Sinclairprofessor of historyHE ROUTE FROM THE MOUN-TTAIN TOWN of Hendersonville inwestern North Carolina to Winston-Salem was serpentine in the late fifties,but it was a veritable crow’s flightcompared to the figurative route thatMichael Sinclair (’63) took from thereto here.It seems fitting, then, that the primarydestination of the journeys of themind on which the history professortook so many students over the yearswould be, for many Americans, theworld’s most inscrutable and inaccessible:China.Sinclair, who has retired fromteaching after spending nearly fourdecades on the faculty, was the firstfull-time faculty member inthe East Asian Studies programand for many years thehistory department’s onlyspecialist in China and Japan.As one who participated infaculty searches and workedwith those who came, he wasinstrumental in cultivatingthe increase in faculty andinterest in East Asia at theUniversity over the years.Sinclair wanted to go tocollege after graduating fromHendersonville High in 1958,but he didn’t have enoughmoney. So he enlisted in theAir Force. After attendingcryptology school, he wasassigned to the NationalSecurity Agency and spenttwenty-six months in the Philippines,setting aside four dollars for discretionaryspending every payday andbanking the rest.“Needless to say, I spent a lot ofmy off-duty time in the [base] library,”he says. “I also worked as an unpaidstaff member at the local Armed ForcesRadio and Television Service affiliate.I started as a disc jockey and workedmy way up to sports director, doingthe evening sports broadcast, a Saturdayspecial, and play-by-play of footballgames.” While on duty, a majorfocus of his work was China.Following his discharge in 1960,Sinclair enrolled at Wake Forest, butmoney was still in short supply, so heaccelerated his studies to graduate inthree years. He enrolled at StanfordUniversity on a Woodrow WilsonFellowship to study European history,but in his second year there, an opportunitycropped up that would sharplyalter the course of his career.“To counteract over-specialization[in academe] and encourage greaterexpertise in East Asia, the FordFoundation developed, with Stanford,a double doctorate program in eitherU.S. or European history, and Asianhistory—either Japan or China,” hesays. “I chose China, as so much moreconcentration, comparatively speaking,was being given to Japan. It was awonderful opportunity, because thebest history, as has been said, is comparativehistory.”Sinclair, whose Stanford programincluded four years of formal study ofthe exceedingly difficult Chinese language,completed his doctorate afterreturning to Wake Forest in 1968.Besides his teaching and scholarship,he did consulting and translating withlocal businesses and worked with thepublic school system in developingEast Asian programs.Sinclair, who retired from teachinglast year after being diagnosed withcardiac problems, recalls fondly themany students in whose lives he madea difference over the years. He stillmeets with students and continues hisresearch, hoping to find the time to doa lot of the writing he put off due toother commitments.—David FytenJUNE 2007 19

John Moorhouseprofessor of economicsHEN THE ECONOMICS depart-posted a message on its WmentWeb site in January asking formerstudents of professor John Moorhouseto share their memories of him for aretirement tribute, accolades poured infrom around the country. His life’s workin Wake Forest’s classrooms across fourdecades elicited tributes from scores ofgrateful former students—now attorneys,bankers, business executives,and university professors—on thedifference he had made in their lives.“His influence on his students onlybegan in the classroom,” says John D.Graham (’78), now dean of the PardeeRAND Graduate School of PolicyAnalysis in Santa Monica, California.“After each class there was usually acrowd of students surrounding him,both outside the classroom and at hisoffice. And to every student that Iknew, his door was always open to askquestions, raise issues, and continuethe dialogue.”Moorhouse retired last December asthe Archie Carroll Professor of EthicalLeadership after teaching at WakeForest for thirty-seven years. He continuesto live in Winston-Salem withhis wife, Fran. For many of the studentswho “majored in Moorhouse andminored in economics”—as one formerstudent put it—he was the mostdemanding professor and his classesthe most challenging, and the mostvaluable, they ever had. With his formalstyle in dress and demeanor—healways referred to students as “Mr.” or“Ms.”—he was an imposing figure inthe classroom.“In my opinion, his best teachingwas old-fashion lecturing, professorto student,” says Graham, who led thetributes for Moorhouse at a retirementdinner in February. “But others insistthat he was exceptional in using questionsto induce students to think in newways. Virtually every class would haveseveral extended Socratic dialogues.”His tough questions stimulatedmany a memorable classroom discussion,but pity the poor student whoshowed up for class unprepared—probably for the last time—once theyexperienced his soft-spoken, but directand often witty admonishment thatperhaps it would behoove them tostudy next time. “I remember him asa wit, a raconteur, a scholar of deepknowledge, and a teacher with aremarkable ability to make his knowledgeaccessible to students,” says JacobLyles (’05), an investment-bankinganalyst with Friedman Billings Ramseyin Arlington, Virginia.Students visiting his office on theeighth floor of the Z. Smith ReynoldsLibrary, or, for the last fourteen yearson the second floor of the old lawschool in Carswell Hall, could expectwise counsel and encouragement,and some stern advice if the situationcalled for it. His classes in microeconomictheory and monetary theoryprovided a solid foundation for studentspursuing careers in banking,finance, or other areas.“He set a standard for clarity inclassroom instruction that fewmatched during the remainder of myacademic career; he had a knack forbeing able to explain the complexitiesof the subject matter very directly,”says Jim Hogan (’71), senior vicepresident of Colonial BancGroup inOrlando, Florida. “Even today, I oftenfall back on the basic theories that Ilearned in his micro class.”Moorhouse had a wonderful rapportwith students, says Dave Felman(’79), a corporate attorney in Tampa,Florida, who helped raise donations toestablish a fund to support researchand lectures in the economics departmentin Moorhouse’s name. “Theremarkable thing about him was, studentswho had him decades ago wouldsay he was the one who put them onthe right course, and students who had20 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

him more recently would say that aswell. A lot of people can do somethingwell for four or five years; he did thatfor thirty-seven years.”A native of Pennsylvania, Moorhousegraduated from Wabash Collegein Indiana, a small liberal arts collegefor men—where he was a championdebater—and received his Ph.D. in economicsfrom Northwestern University.In 1969, he joined the Wake Forestfaculty as only the fourth professor atthe time to teach economics in theCharles H. Babcock School of BusinessAdministration, which was beginningits transformation into a graduateschool; undergraduate courses in economics,as well as accountancy andbusiness, were shifted into the college.Moorhouse received the University’sExcellence in Teaching Award in 1972.“He was legendary as a teachingprofessor,” says Professor of EconomicsDon Frey, who joined the faculty threeyears after Moorhouse. “He was alsoactively engaged in professional writingand research, which was not thenorm in the department or at WakeForest at the time. And he was steadfast;he kept that up over the years.”His research touched on a broadrange of interests, from housing andrent control, to insurance, electricutilities, and federal spending. BrentWanner (’03), a mathematical economicsmajor who plans to pursue a Ph.D.NICK BABLADELIS (’08)in economics, co-authored a recentpaper on gun control with him. “Hewas generous to include me in hiswork and in many ways made me feelas though I were a colleague collaboratingon the project instead of simplya student,” he says.In 1976, Moorhouse and nowretired mathematics professor JohnBaxley created the mathematical economicsmajor, one of the first programsof its kind in the country. Abouteight to twelve students graduate withthe degree each year. Baxley, who cotaughta mathematical economics seminarwith Moorhouse for years, says he“was one of the best classroom teachersI’ve ever seen. He had a convictionthat teaching and research should gotogether; his research influenced whathe did in the classroom and his teachinginfluenced his research.”As chair of the economics departmentfrom 1981 to 1985, Moorhouseled a restructuring of the economicscore curriculum that is still in placetoday. He created the Law andEconomics course and sent many astudent on to law school—which hehad once considered himself—promptingcolleagues to gently chide him thatmore of his students were pursingcareers in law than economics.One of his earliest students wasDan Hammond (’72), who, after earninghis Ph.D., rejoined his professor inthe department as a colleague in 1978.“John’s monetary theory course wasthe seed from which my entire scholarlycareer has developed,” saysHammond, now the Hultquist FamilyProfessor of Economics. “He expectedstudents to meet high demands. Hehad confidence that if students puttheir minds to it they could do it.”—Kerry M. King (’85)JUNE 2007 21

OWELL SMITH GREW UP in theHforties and early fifties in Farmersville,Texas, an onion-growing townof two thousand, thirty miles north ofDallas. Much of rural Texas, poor andlacking basic amenities, was captivatedback then by the liberal agrarian populismof politicians like Lyndon BainesJohnson. As a boy, young Howellpumped water, bathed in a No. 3 tub,trapped rabbits, did chores around thefamily farm, and attended a two-roomschoolhouse. His father and mother—schoolteachers as well as farmers—taught him the ways of a small farmtown while friends took him to DallasSymphony Orchestra concerts. Hissmall high school needed every one ofits male students to play football, soHowell signed up. “You didn’t have tobe good—just present,” he quips. Insummers he worked in Farmersville’sonion sheds side by side with migrantworkers and paid no attention to thefact that they were Mexicans. “I wasbrought up by parents,” he says, “whotaught me to respect everybody.”Those who would assess HowellSmith’s forty-two-year tenure on theWake Forest history faculty and thelegacy he leaves behind him on theoccasion of his retirement from fulltimeteaching might find clues in hisupbringing. He will continue to teachtwo courses in the fall for the nextfew years.A proponent of racial harmony,he initiated—and, for twenty years,taught—the University’s first coursesin African-American history. As a mentorto student organizers, he championedsymposia on the war in Vietnam,social change, and other contentioustopics in the late sixties and early seventies.During his time as chair from1987 to 1995, the department committedSOPHIE MULLINAX (’09)Howell Smithprofessor of history22 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

to diversification and a global perspectivein its curriculum and faculty, hiringwomen and an African-American,and experts in Latin-American,African-American, Middle Eastern, and Asianhistory. Being raised by schoolteachersand attending classical music concertshelped him become a learner who valuederudition, culture, and the life ofthe mind.Factor in his superior teachingskills, his years of service as pre-lawadvisor, and his accessible, avunculardemeanor and it is not surprisingthat more than a few alumni list himamong their favorite faculty members.After obtaining his bachelor’s andmaster’s degrees from Baylor and Tulaneuniversities, respectively, Smith enrolledas a doctoral student in twentiethcenturyAmerican history at the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison in 1961.A Rockefeller Foundation-fundedprogram that subsidized the graduatestudies of young scholars who agreedto teach in the South for several yearspaid for his expenses. Wake Forestqualified geographically, so in 1965,he accepted his first and only academicjob at the University.“When I joined the history department,it still had a large preponderanceof faculty members from the South andwho had come from the Old Campus,”said the burly and bearded Smith in arecent interview in his corner TribbleHall office that must be among WakeForest’s—how to put this—mostspace- and tidiness-challenged. “Thecurriculum was heavily weighted toSouthern history. Almost all of the facultybelonged to Wake Forest BaptistChurch and college matters wouldbe hashed out over church suppers.Departments were careful not toschedule events at times that wouldcompete with other events elsewhereon campus. Much of the faculty hadlived in Faculty Apartments. It was atrue community; a very cozy time.”Although progressive internal andexternal factors soon dissipated thatsense of coziness, the country’s changingcultural and political tenor resonatedwith Smith’s liberal instincts. In 1968,he developed and started teachingcourses in African-American history andlaunched, with the late English professorTom Gossett, January-term African-American study trips to Washington,D.C., and New York’s Harlem district.He also backed the efforts of studentswho sought to air the day’s mosturgent issues in forums and symposia.Across the decades, Smith designedand taught a host of provocative courses,among them, one he titled TheLast Decade of Optimism. “It coveredthe mid-fifties to the mid-sixties, whenAmericans still thought they could fixthings,” says Smith, who helped establisha Big Brothers/Big Sisters chapterin Forsyth County and served as statedirector of National History Day. “Youwon’t find too many who think thattoday. Forty-five or fifty years ago,people thought the [economic] piewould get bigger, and could be sharedequitably and justly with others withoutit costing you. That notion hadpretty much died by the late sixties.”A good many history faculty membersretired during Smith’s tenure aschair from 1987 to 1995, and in itshiring the department held to itscommitment to diversify its genderand racial composition and expandits global coverage. His appointmentsincluded Anthony S. Parent Jr., thedepartment’s first tenured African-American professor who assumed theteaching of African-American historyfrom Smith; Sarah Watts, an economichistorian whose research has delvedinto a host of political and culturaltopics; Simone Caron, a U.S. socialhistorian who developed courses inwomen’s history and medical historyand who has become the department’sfirst female chair; and Bill Meyers, anoted Latin-American historian. Toenrich faculty morale and cohesiveness,he took an office on the groundfloor of Tribble Hall’s B Wing, thoughtby some to be a less desirable location.Smith, who met his wife, Jeanette,at Baylor and has two grown childrenwith her, has served under four presidentsat the University and witnesseda lot of change over the decades. “Inthe past, our faculty were primarilyteachers,” he notes. “Now, our teacherscholarideal compels us to ask ourfaculty members to do more than theywould be asked to do elsewhere. Manyof them could be outstanding at institutionswhose primary mission is research.Our challenge is to find people whowant to be at a place where mindsgrow and to make the balance we askfor acceptable to them so they can feelcomfortable here for the long term.”He sees a different challenge confrontingstudents. “A lot of them comein all prepped and polished,” saysSmith. “Many of them already haveseats reserved for them on the otherside of the door of opportunity. WhatWake Forest can do is help them knowand understand how to leverage thatpower for their own benefit and thecommon good. We want them to beproud of what they have done with thepower they hold twenty years out.”—David FytenJUNE 2007 23

John Collinsprofessor of religionHEN PROFESSOR OF RELIGIONWJohn Collins arrived on theWake Forest campus in 1970, he wasthe only faculty member teaching areligious tradition other than Christianity.Today, students benefit from theknowledge of faculty members whoare experts in Buddhism, Hinduism,Islam, and in Near East studies. Professorswith Australian, Asian, and Africanethnicity complement what Collinsdeems a beautifully diverse department—one that Collins himself is largelyresponsible for fostering.“My function has been to makethe religion department more inclusiveand diverse. Thirty-seven years ago, Iwas the only person teaching anythingother than Christianity. Today, WakeForest is a global university, and thatwas my mission when I came here.”“John was the first scholar hired inour department who focused on Easternreligious traditions, so his hirewas a watershed for the department,”says Stephen Boyd, Easley Professorof Religion and chair of the religiondepartment. “He’s been with us duringSOPHIE MULLINAX (’09)a time when we have increasinglydiversified the department in termsof gender, race, nationality, ethnicity,and religious tradition.“He has mentored young facultywho have not always felt comfortableat Wake Forest, and therefore, hehas borne a great deal of responsibilityfor the kind of department we havebecome. It hasn’t always been easy,both inside the department and withinthe University, for us to grow this way.We are very grateful for his contribution,”says Boyd.24 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

A native of Knoxville, Tennessee,Collins completed undergraduate andgraduate school studies in physics atthe University of Tennessee. “I alwayswanted to be a teacher but didn’t wantto teach physics,” Collins says of hispath from science to religion. “I grewup in a Southern Baptist home withwonderful instruction in religion, so itwas natural that I’d be drawn to religion.After enrolling in a philosophy class inEastern traditions because it was theonly class in the whole school that hadanything to do with religion, I knew itwas exactly where I needed to be.”Collins’ teaching style has focused onmeeting the needs of each individualstudent and adapting his techniques tothe topic and individuals at hand. He’senlightened hundreds of students notby lecturing about ritual and communionbut by donning a Screamin’ Demonst-shirt. “We have a community here atWake Forest and we should identifyourselves as a community and think ofhow good we feel when we’re all yellingfor the same thing. In addition to thet-shirt, I would project the Universityseal on the screen and discuss its meaningto make sure my students understoodwhat Wake Forest is all about.”Over the years, computers, theInternet, e-mail, and blogs have broughtpeople and resources to Wake Forestfrom the other side of the world—bringing to students and professorsalike data and details that would havebeen onerous, if not impossible, tofind when Collins first started teaching.“Research used to be difficult,but now you can find a group of peoplewho are discussing your specificinterest with no problem, and this isone of the best things Wake Foresthas ever done—giving us easy accessto information.”As the faculty, curriculum, andaccess to information have changed,the students have changed too. “Thestudents who came to Wake Forest inthe ’70s were liberal students—notliberal in terms of world understanding,but liberal in terms of the Baptistworld. When I first arrived, my classeson Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoismwould fill up and I’d have to teach twosections. Our culture today, however,is much more pragmatic and interestedin the bottom line. One would expectthat students coming to Wake Forestwould have global consciousness, butmost don’t. They see themselves asRepublican, conservative, liberal,Baptist, or Catholic, but they don’tunderstand themselves as citizens ofthe world with a Pro Humanitate consciousness.Wake Forest is the perfectplace for them to develop that broadersense of who they are and what thiswonderful human existence is all about.”Though Collins says he’s excitedabout his new adventure and lookingforward to days without schedulesand definite plans, he has mixed emotionsabout retiring. “I hit the lotterywhen it came to a place to work andgrow,” he says, “and I’m going to missWake Forest.”— Kim McGrathRetirees from theWake ForestUniversity Schoolof MedicineWalter J. Bo, Ph.D.Professor of Neurobiology andAnatomyCarolyn Ferree, M.D.Professor of Radiation OncologyEberhard Mueller-Heubach,M.D.Professor of Obstetrics andGynecology, Maternal/FetalMedicineWard A. Riley, Jr., Ph.D.(Deceased April 27, 2007)Professor of NeurologyEdward V. Staab, Jr., M.D.Professor of Radiologic Sciences,RadiologyRobert L. Wykle, Ph.D.Professor of BiochemistryJUNE 2007 25

BackinTFor many26 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

OWNalumni, life is better back in Winston-Salem.By Kerry M. King (’85)WITH THEIR DEGREES INHAND, most members ofWake Forest’s Class of ’07will head far from Winston-Salem tomake their fame and fortune. Fewnewly minted alumni remain in theTwin City, and many of those that doattend graduate or professional schoolrather than start their careers here. Butat some point, as the years pass, theold college town starts looking betterand better, and many return. Abouttwelve percent of Wake Forest’s undergraduatealumni—almost 6,100—live in Forsyth County.Alumni moving back from NewYork, San Francisco, and Atlanta inrecent years have discovered thatthere’s no place like the “dash” (orthe “hyphen,” depending on whichterm you prefer), and nothing betterthan reconnecting with your almamater. “Overall, it’s just great to beat the heart of Deaconland,” is howone describes making his home inthe city Wake Forest has called homefor fifty years.JUNE 2007 27

NOT LONG AFTER HE RETIREDto Winston-Salem from Atlanta,Roger Mayhew (’68) joined PineBrook Country Club hoping to findsome other regulars for a round of golf.The golf pro suggested he might enjoyplaying with a group of other retireeswho played several times a week.Roger Mayhew (’68)and his wife, Susann, were contemplatingwhere they wanted to live after heretired. All three of their children areWake Forest alumni and were still inschool or living nearby when they moved,although each has since moved on:Marc (’95, MD ’01), who is completinghis cardiology fellowship at the Universityof Alabama-Birmingham; RobynWallace (’99), a former middle schoolteacher who lives inColumbia, Maryland;and Emily Groninger(’02), a financialthem in the right direction; after aclass dinner at the home of her religionprofessor, Charles Kimball, sherecommended his neighborhood.)A native of Lexington, North Carolina,Mayhew graduated from WakeForest with a degree in mathematicsand worked in managerial positions inaccounting, finance, and informationsystems with Southern Bell /AT&T/BellSouth for thirty-one years, the lastfifteen in Atlanta. “Winston-Salem hasone of everything that Atlanta has—except the Atlanta Braves,” he says.‘It’s just the perfect size city.’Mayhew (second from left) with professorsHenry Stroupe, Richard Williams, andJack Williams.He was pleasantly surprised to findthat the group included several retiredWake Forest professors, among themHenry Stroupe (’35, MA ’37) of history,whom he remembered as the father ofone of his basketball teammates, DavidStroupe (’68); his former physics teacher,Jack Williams; John Earle (’58) of sociology;Carlton Mitchell (’43) of religion;and retired vice president and treasurerJohn Williard; along with ReynoldsProfessor of Physics Richard Williams(’68), one of his classmates. It’s thosekinds of Wake Forest connections thatmake Mayhew glad that he returnedto Winston-Salem in 2000.It was family connections to WakeForest that brought him back when heTop five things you like about living in Winston-Salem1 Wake Forest activities/friends2 Extended family nearby3 Medical facilities4 Greenbrier Farm neighborhood5 Light trafficFavorite college hangout you miss the mostSimos BBQFavorite new hangoutHoops Room at Joel Coliseumanalyst who lives in Alexandria, Virginia,with her husband, Greg (’02).“While we liked Atlanta and had alot of friends there, we wanted a slowerlifestyle,” says Mayhew, who has sincereturned to work as controller forCharles D. Lowder Inc., a site-developmentcompany in Winston-Salem.“Our kids and all of our immediatefamily were in North Carolina,so Winston-Salem was prettymuch a slam dunk. Every timewe came up to visit the kids, wescouted out the housing scene tosee what was available.” (It wasRobyn who ultimately pointed“It’s just the perfect sizecity, a comfortable placeto live, and plenty to doregardless of what yourinterests are.”Mayhew, who waspresident of the Atlantaareaalumni club, wassurprised to learn thatthere wasn’t an alumniclub in Winston-Salem,but now he understands.“So much goes on hereanyway,” he says. “If you’re goingto football games in the fall, basketballgames during the winter,and baseball games in thespring, it’s a year-round thing.You don’t have to go out ofyour way to make the WakeForest connectionon a regular basis.You can’t go farin this town withoutrunning intosomeone with aWake Forest connection,and that’sa good thing.”28 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

MARGARET HOBBS COLLINS(’78) has come full circlesince graduating from WakeForest and pursuing a career in artsmanagement in Atlanta and New YorkCity. What started out as a move to thesuburbs of New York instead took anunexpected turn south four years agothat brought her back to the Twin Cityto promote the arts.“My husband had been wantingto leave New York for a long time, butI wasn’t willing to let it go,” she says.“I had a wonderful job and loved mycareer. But we had lived in New Yorkfor twenty years, and we decided as afamily that we would have a betterquality of life if we moved elsewhere.”A native of Shelby, North Carolina,Collins majored in music at WakeForest and earned a master’s in performingarts and arts management atAmerican University. After working infundraising for a chamber-music groupand a theatre company in Atlanta, she‘We’re putting down roots here.’Top five things you like about living in Winston-Salem1 Active arts scene2 Friendly people3 Growth of downtown4 Great lifestyle5 Minimal trafficBiggest change in Winston-SalemDowntown has come back to life and peopleare living there!Favorite college hangout you miss the mostSimos, Rose & Thistle, and Sam's restaurantsFavorite college hangout you’ve rediscoveredVillage TavernFavorite new hangoutBotta Bing, Burke Street Pizza, andDowntown ThaiBest Wake Forest connection since you’ve been backMargaret Hobbs Collins (’78)Collins, in the Stevens Center: From promoting the arts in the Big Apple topromoting the arts in the Twin City.and her husband, Ray Collins, a professionalactor and director, moved toNew York City.She built a successfulcareermanaging performing artists and bookingmusic, dance, and theatrical productionsat concert venues on the EastCoast. She eventually landed a plumposition at one of the largest talentagencies in the world, InternationalCreative Management (ICM).A decision to move closer to SUNY-Purchase, where Ray was then teachingtheatre, and to provide a better environmentfor their then nine-year-old son,Michael, led to some “soul-searching,”she recalls, and they decided to makea more drastic move—and lifestylechange. By coincidence, or some wouldsay, providence, the North CarolinaSchool of the Arts in Winston-Saleminvited Ray to interview for a newposition at about the same time. MargaretCollins describes it as the momentwhen she suddenly remembered herold college town. “Winston-Salemreemerged as a great place,” she says.“There are possibilities here, and peopleare open to change. You feel youcan make a difference.”Collins remained with ICM for ayear after she moved back, workingthe phones from her new home, beforebecoming development director forthe Winston-Salem Symphony. InFebruary, she joined the PiedmontTriad Partnership as director, CreativeEnterprise and the arts. She nowpromotes the growth of the creativeindustries and the arts throughoutthe twelve-county Triad region.Ray Collins is an adjunct professorin Wake Forest’s theatre departmentand a real-estate broker. Michael, now13, is thriving in school and enjoyingmore opportunities for after-schoolsports. “We were surviving in NewYork,” Margaret Collins says. “We’reputting down roots here and reallyenjoying the lifestyle.”Celebrating my 25th college reunion with agroup of classmates at my houseJUNE 2007 29

AFTER LIVINGIN CALIFORNIA for thebetter part of twenty-five years,Jocelyn Burton (’80) traded in a highprofileposition in the United StatesAttorney’s Office in San Francisco fora decidedly lower-key one as a privateattorney in Winston-Salem. Sheleft behind a busy office in the1960s federal courthouse in SanFrancisco’s Tenderloin district—which she generously describesas a “challenging” area—for thecozier confines of a stately 1912Tudor Revival mansion—oncethe home of industrialist P. HuberHanes and later a funeral home—along a tree-lined street inWinston-Salem’s West End area.JocelynBurton (’80)‘I never thoughtI’d come back here to work.’“I never thought I’d comeback here to work,” admitsBurton, who moved backto Winston-Salem aTop five things you like about living in Winston-Salem1 Welcoming and friendly people2 Winston-Salem Symphony3 Easy parking4 Wake Forest sporting events5 No lines at the checkout counter at CostcoBiggest change in Winston-SalemMore big community events downtownFavorite college hangout you’ve rediscoveredBell BrothersFavorite new hangoutThe Filling Station downtownBest Wake Forest connection since you’ve been backMy house has become the official hangoutspot for my Wake Forest friends when theyare visiting.year-and-a-half ago to practiceemployment law with KilpatrickStockton LLP. “My plan was toretire in North Carolina. For years,I had been telling my Wake Forestfriends that we needed to findsome property here so we couldbuild our own assisted-livingfacility and retire together,” shelaughs. “I definitely didn’t wantto retire in California; it’s toocongested, too expensive.”Burton grew up in Youngstown,Ohio, and Richmond, Virginia.After graduating from Wake Forestwith a degree in history, she earnedher master’s degree in public policyfrom the University of Texas atAustin and moved to Sacramento,California, where she worked for twoyears as a program analyst for the statelegislative budget committee. Sheearned her law degree from theUniversity of Chicago and returnedto California to practice law, first inprivate practice and then with theUnited States Attorney’s Office in SanFrancisco. After eleven years thereas deputy chief and chief of the civildivision, “I had done everything Icould do there,” she says. “You get tothe point where you have to decide‘am I going to be a permanent governmentlawyer or am I going to goback to private practice?’”A member of the University’sBoard of Trustees, Burton had frequentlyreturned to Winston-Salemfor trustee meetings, but hadn’t consideredmoving back until friendSteve Berlin (’81, JD ’84), a partnerat Kilpatrick Stockton, encouragedher to consider joining the firm. Itwas a drastic lifestyle change, sheadmits, but she returned to a vastlydifferent Winston-Salem than the oneshe left in 1980. Scores of restaurantshave opened downtown, and there’s amore vibrant social and cultural scene.And she’s traded in an hour-longcommute from Oakland, and parkingnightmares, for a twelve-minute driveand her choice of parking spaces a fewfeet from her mansion office. “I reallyspend less time at home than I did inSan Francisco, which most peoplewouldn’t believe,” she says. “Being ina smaller place, it’s much easier to getto know people. I never go anywherewithout running into someone I know,which is kind of weird after living in alarge city.”Burton left behind a hectic professional life for a slower lifestyle in Winston-Salem.30 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

‘There’s a tremendoussense of community herethat’s enhanced by Wake Forest.’Jay Helvey (’81)AFTER A GLOBETROTTINGCAREER in finance in NewYork, Tokyo, and Frankfurt,Jay Helvey (’81) now works outof an office in the guesthousebehind his home off StratfordRoad. “We had lived in big citiesand we had lived abroad, andwe thought wouldn’t it be nice toraise our family back in NorthCarolina.” Helvey, his wife, Jane,and their sons, Cole, 17, Jed, 15,and Walker, 13, moved from NewYork to Winston-Salem in 1999.“The quality of life is tremendoushere,” he says. “Sure I gaveup some professional opportunities.But it comes down to whatare your priorities in life?” ForHelvey, that means being able tospend more time with his family,more opportunities to be involvedwith his church, and the“appeal of Southern culture”—which he describes aseverything from the friendlinessof the people to thebeautiful weather to theproximity to the mountainsand coast. “There’s a tremendoussense of communityhere that’s enhanced byWake Forest,” he adds.A native of Lexington,North Carolina (his mother,Doris, is a 1952 graduate of WakeForest) and a political science andGerman double-major at Wake Forest,Helvey met his future wife, Jane, whileshe was a student at Salem College.After graduating, he received a FulbrightScholarship and studied at theTop five things you like about living in Winston-Salem1 Quality of life2 Access to mountains and coast3 Demon Deacon sports4 Christian community5 BBQ, Krispy Kreme, and Twin Lakes AirportBiggest change in Winston-Salem since you’ve been goneDowntown Winston-SalemFavorite college hangout you’ve rediscoveredGroves StadiumFavorite college hangout that you miss the mostOriginal Deke HouseFavorite new hangoutThe River Birch LodgeBest Wake Forest connection since you’ve been backThe Orange BowlHelvey traded in the skyscrapersof Wall Street for the guesthousebehind his new home.University of Cologne for a year andthen earned a master’s degree in internationalaffairs from Columbia University.He joined J.P. Morgan in 1985,lived in Asia and Europe for sevenyears—running the company’s derivativetrading operation—and thenmoved to New York, eventually risingto vice chairman of the company’s riskmanagement committee. But by 1999,he was pondering a change.During a visit to Winston-Salem fora meeting of the University’s Board ofTrustees he decided the time was right.“I got a little Lexington barbeque, the‘hot and now’ light was on at KrispyKreme, it was ACC Tournament time,and the azaleas were blooming,” herecalls. “I just knew there was moreto life than leaving the house at 5:30every morning to drive into lowerManhattan and then coming backhome at 8 o’clock at night.”He stayed with J.P. Morgan foranother two years, running fromhis home office a start-up onlinederivatives-service company until thedot-com bubble burst. In 2004, hemounted an unsuccessful campaignin the Republican primary to succeednow-U.S. Senator Richard Burr (’78)in the U.S. House of Representatives.Since then he’s become a partner in asmall hedge fund, CMT AssetManagement, based in Chicago.Now, rather than rush to hit theHolland Tunnel by 6 a.m., he can havebreakfast with his wife and take hissons to school before his three-minutecommute down his driveway to hisoffice. “I enjoy going back to NewYork,” he says, “but I’ve never onceregretted the decision to move.”JUNE 2007 31

WHEN TODD (’85) ANDKATHY BOURNE (’85)BORTON decided to leaveFlorida several years ago, they weren’tchasing a job. Unlike earlier in theirmarriage, when their careers took themto Chicago, Atlanta, and finally Weston,Florida, Todd Borton was in a positionto work essentially anywhere he wanted—and they chose to return to Winston-Salem.Top five things you like about living in Winston-Salem1 Ease of living2 Proximity to Wake Forest3 Public schools4 Proximity to beach, mountains, family,Lake Lure5 ClimateFavorite college hangout you miss the mostTodd: Safari Room, Kathy: SamplersFavorite college hangout you’ve rediscoveredVillage TavernFavorite new hangoutJoel Coliseum (for basketball and concerts)Best Wake Forest connection since you’ve been backHosting 20th reunion class party“We could choose where we wantedto go next and not let the job choose,”says Todd, who works out of his homeas an investment consultant; most ofhis clients are in the Southeast. “Weconsidered where we really wanted to beto raise our family and to stay put,” saysKathy. The Bortons have two children,Michael, now 14, and Chandler, 12.They set their sights on North Carolinabecause of family in the area, theweather, and close proximity to the mountainsand coast. Todd—an accountancyThe Bortons in Kentner Stadium, where they have the thrill of watching theirdaughter play field hockey on the same field as the Wake Forest team.major originally from Chicago—andKathy—a math major originally fromKingsport, Tennessee—had remainedactive with Wake Forest since theirgraduation and that led them to takea closer look at Winston-Salem. “Weasked ourselves, ‘where do we havesome known connections?’” Todd said.“That was Winston-Salem and WakeForest. There was a familiarity here.From the day we unpacked the boxeswe felt like this was a community webelonged in.”‘I can’t think of another placewhere we would be so happywith the whole package.’Todd (’85) andKathy Bourne (’85)BortonMuch of their life revolves aroundWake Forest sporting events, fromattending football, basketball, and fieldhockey games, to summer athleticcamps for the children. “We didn’tforesee the impact of all the sports programs,”says Todd, who played catcheron the Wake Forest baseball team in1982. “Where else would you have thatlevel of programs in your backyard.”They’ve been impressed with theWinston-Salem/Forsyth County schoolsand like the flexibility of being able tochoose their neighborhood school orother “themed” schools within a zone,as well as the various magnet and giftedprograms offered. “I can’t think ofanother place where we would be sohappy with the whole package,” Toddsays. “The city and University fit soperfectly with our lives.”32 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

McLain (’85, JD ’88) andMarybeth Sutton (’86) WallaceWhile some alumni move toWinston-Salem to get awayfrom the “big city,” McLain(’85, JD ’88) and Marybeth Sutton(’86) Wallace made the opposite decision,moving back from a small townin eastern North Carolina.“Because we had been studentshere and had such good memories andloved this campus and loved the city, itreally was the only place we wouldconsider pulling up roots and moving,”Marybeth says. “The quality oflife in Winston is prettyunbeatable. You get all theattributes of a larger metropolitanarea.”Marybeth—originallyfrom Richmond, Kentucky—and McLain—originallyfrom Buies Creek, NorthCarolina—had lived thelast sixteen years in RockyMount, North Carolina,about three hours east ofWinston-Salem. Marybethwrote grant proposals andtaught freshman compositionat North Carolina WesleyanCollege. McLain was a partnerwith Battle, Winslow,Scott & Wiley, where hewas general counsel forNash Health Care Systems.Two years ago, he was named generalcounsel at North Carolina BaptistHospital. “I very much liked representingthe hospital in Rocky Mount,so Baptist Hospital was one of thefew hospitals I would have consideredjoining in-house, largely because ofthe Wake Forest connection,” McLainsays. Marybeth has since renewed herown ties with Wake Forest and workson special projects for PresidentNathan Hatch.Top five things you like about living in Winston-Salem1 Being close to Wake Forest2 Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools3 N.C. Symphony, School of the Arts,Piedmont Opera, Little Theatre ACT for Youth4 Field hockey5 Village Tavern key lime pieFavorite college hangout you miss the mostOur girls never got to see the double-decker businside Darryl's.Favorite college hangout you’ve rediscoveredReynolda GardensBest Wake Forest connection since you’ve been backMcLain: Deacon football and haircuts by Lloyd(Howard, in the on-campus barber shop);Marybeth: reconnecting with Ed Wilson (’43)The move presented more educational,athletic, and cultural opportunitiesfor their daughters, CatherineStuart, 14, and Elizabeth, 11, than theycould have found in a smaller city.“The girls have had amazing teachersand some unique opportunities in theschools,” Marybeth says. “It’s stunningto me the possibilities, just at WakeForest, from hearing Supreme Courtjustices speak to a Chinese New YearCelebration to the Irish Festival. IFor the Wallaces, in Reynolda Village, movingto Winston-Salem felt like “coming home.”‘The quality of life ispretty unbeatable.’don’t know of any other city whereyou can watch NCAA Championshipfield hockey and ten minutes later beat the Stevens Center for La Boheme.”The biggest change since they leftWinston-Salem twenty years ago hasbeen the revitalization of downtown,where they enjoy music festivals, artgalleries, and the many new restaurants.They bought a home closeenough to campus that they can walkor bike to campus or ReynoldaGardens and Reynolda Village.“There’s something very familiar toride by and see Wait Chapel,” McLainsays. “The first year I was here, Iwould be riding down the road andit would hit me, I’m not just here fora ballgame and have to drive backto Rocky Mount. It’s now struck methat this is where we live.”JUNE 2007 33

Top five things you like about Winston-SalemDavid Valliere (’95)1 Great weather2 Excellent school system3 Cost of living4 Access to Wake Forest sports5 Affordable, year-round golf choicesFavorite college hangout you’ve rediscoveredMountain Fried ChickenFavorite new hangoutThe LoopBest Wake Forest connection since you’ve been backLearning a freshman year suitemate,Brent Wooten ('95), worked in my groupat HanesbrandsAfter living all over thecountry, Valliere says there’sno place like Winston-Salem.‘We’ve found everything that we’ve looked for here.’DAVID VALLIERE (’95) foundAnn Arbor, Michigan, too coldand Dallas, Texas, too hot, buthe’s found Winston-Salem to be justthe right place for his family, and notjust because of the weather. “I can’timagine a better place to raise a family—great schools, lots of parks, and anamazing cost of living,” says Valliere,who lives just outside Winston-Salem,in Clemmons, with his wife, Sarah,and sons, Alex, 3, and Ben, 1 1 /2. “Thisis my fourth stop since graduating, andthis is easily our favorite place to live.”Valliere has lived all over the country;his father was a salesman and hisfamily moved frequently when he wasgrowing up, from Michigan to theMidwest to Boston to Atlanta. “Havinglived all over the country as a childand as an adult and having experienceddifferent areas, I really appreciatethis area,” he says, “and know thisis where I want to be long-term.”A finance major at Wake Forest,Valliere worked in Charlotte for a fewyears before pursuing his MBA at theUniversity of Michigan in Ann Arborand then worked at Frito-Lay in Dallasfor several years. In 2004, he saw anopening for a position in marketing atone of Winston-Salem’s most iconiccompanies, Hanesbrands. “The movewas job-driven, but the location wascertainly a bonus,” he says. “Thedownside (of moving from a largercity) may be if you’re looking forsomething super specific and lookingfor ten choices, but we’ve found everythingthat we’ve looked for here.”34 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

‘Winston-Salem is starting to make a name for itself.’John Champlin (’06)JOHN CHAMPLIN, NATHANBYRD, AND ALEX REYES arebucking the norm; they’re allClass of ’06 graduates who didn’t leaveWinston-Salem. All three live downtownin the eighteen-story NissenBuilding, a 1920s office building renovatedseveral years ago into luxuryapartments. It’s but one example of therevitalization of downtown and, especially,the boom in downtown housing.With its rooftop pool (with views ofWait Chapel in the distance) andground floor bakery, sandwich shop,and restaurant with sidewalk seating,the building offers a hint of big-cityliving; George Clooney and RenéeZellweger filmed a movie scene in thebuilding in late April.“I chose to stay in Winston-Salembecause of my love for Wake Forestand so that I could keep up with allthe friendships I had made,” saysChamplin, who works in the humanresources office of Noble ManagementGroup, which owns the EmbassySuites and Marriott hotels across thestreet from his apartment. “I knew thatthe city itself was revitalizing and itneeded young people. It seemed likeJohn Champlin, Nathan Byrd,and Alex ReyesChamplin has a roof-top view of the revitalization of downtown.a good ‘starter’ city. It’s cheaper thanother big cities and has lots of eventsthat keep me busy.”Like Champlin, Byrd can walk downthe street to his office at Wachovia.Reyes, who just completed her firstyear in the Wake Forest School of Law,says she thinks students don’t realizewhat Winston-Salem truly offers untilafter they’ve graduated and movedaway. “As college students, we tend toisolate ourselves. Just because Winstonisn’t a bustling metropolis doesn’tmean there aren’t a ton of things todo here: plays at the Stevens Center,theater and film festivals, and Latindancing. I wish more students couldexperience that.”Reyes, who is originally fromTempe, Arizona, says it’s too early toknow if she’ll stay in Winston-Salemafter law school, but she is interning ata local law firm this summer. Champlinsays he’s had friends question why he’sstayed in Winston-Salem rather thanmoving to one of the larger cities thatattract large numbers of recent graduates.“It’s not Washington, D.C., NewYork City, Atlanta, or Charlotte, but itdoes have many of the attributes thatmake those cities great, just on asmaller scale,” says Champlin, the sonof Mike Champlin (’75) of Richmond,Virginia. “I think if more graduatesstayed in Winston-Salem it would bebeneficial for everyone—the city, localbusiness, other graduates, the University.Winston-Salem is starting to makea name for itself. Why wouldn’t youwant to be a part of that?”JUNE 2007 35

Growing upWinston-Salem haschanged withthe times,but thedoughnutsare stillhot now!By Kim UnderwoodIF YOUR IDEA OF A BIG NIGHT ON THE TOWN isstopping by Krispy Kreme for a couple of fresh,glazed doughnuts, well, Winston-Salem hasbeen your kind of town all along.If your idea of excitement requires somethinga touch more exotic, say, dinner at a downtownThai restaurant followed by taking in a band at abar housed in what was once an industrial garage,it’s true that things have looked pretty bleak inWinston-Salem at times.And, some days, it has felt as if the localeconomy was wobbly in the knees like a boxerwho had taken one too many blows to the head.But not these days. We have most of theamenities of a big city without most of the nuisances,and the economy is sound.When I moved back to Winston-Salem in1985–after getting out of town as quickly asI could after graduating from high school in1971–it was as if I were traveling back in time.Mundane treats such as fresh bagels that I tookfor granted in San Francisco were maddeninglytroublesome to come by here.And, in the years that followed, it began tolook as if home-grown businesses were cursedand the day might come when it was time to putup a billboard that read “Would the last personleaving please turn out the lights?”By 1985, Hanes had already been taken overby a company known for its cheesecake. The bigblow, though, came after R.J. Reynolds TobaccoCo. supposedly took over Nabisco. The next thingwe knew, Nabisco executives had staged a coup,and F. Ross Johnson was using “bucolic” as if thatwere a bad word as he moved the company out oftown in 1987.That same year, we watched USAir (nowUSAirways) envelop Piedmont Airlines. Its executivesbrandished the word “efficiency” in a waythat made it clear that Piedmont’s reputation forSouthern hospitality was of only marginal interestto them. Next, we pinned our hopes on Wachoviaas we watched it become a major national bank–despite having a name that newcomers invariablypronounce wrong– only to go through the ordealof a “merger” that was really a takeover and thatsent its headquarters to Charlotte.When people across the country started lining upunder the “Hot Doughnuts Now” signs, we thought,“Woo-hoo! This time it’s going to be different.”36 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Poor Krispy Kreme, it no longer looked as ifit would be building its new headquarters on thecorner of Fourth and Broad streets–where peopleused to buy their Chevrolets–after the Securitiesand Exchange Commission start muttering aboutaccounting irregularities in 2004.There have been smaller losses, too. In a blowparticularly devastating to Wake Forest studentswho believe that an ice-cold mug is essential toenjoying a beer, the man with thehatchet stopped chasing the pigafter the owners of Simos Barbecuecalled it quits. Thank goodness, J.S.Pulliam Barbecue is still around.But, lo and behold, positivedevelopments were taking place atthe same time as these reversals.For one, Wake Forest was growingup. Its medical center established a nationalpresence on its way to becoming one of Winston-Salem’s major employers. And the Universityexpanded its reach in other ways as it turnedGraylyn into a conference center and tookresponsibility for Reynolda House Museum ofAmerican Art.Other educational and medical institutions–including N.C. School of the Arts, Salem College,Winston-Salem State University, Forsyth MedicalCenter– also matured. Reynolds came back home.Wachovia kept more of a presence here than wefirst thought, and enough other businesses thrivedto keep the local economy on its feet.As for downtown Winston-Salem, gone foreveris the world familiar to those who grew up here inthe 1950s and ‘60s, when Sears and other majordepartment stores shared Fourth Street with movietheaters, eateries, Dewey’s bakery, and such localbusinesses as George’s Hobby Shop.The owner of one restaurant pegged downtown’sdemise to young people starting to havecars of their own. Certainly, the rise of shoppingcenters had much to do with it. When Sears andother stores left downtown for Hanes Mall whenit opened in 1975, that was pretty much that.Thank goodness, Sears gave thewonderful Nativity that once stoodon its roof to the Children’s Home sowe can still enjoy it at the holidays.During the Dark Ages ofDowntown came some notable missteps, such asthe Trade Street pedestrian mall. But by the mid-1980s, distinctly encouraging signs were emerging.Artists and others in the Sixth and Trade neighborhoodwere putting together the beginnings of anarts district. Sure, you had to squint a little whenwalking by the derelict buildings in between thestudios so that your fantasy of a being in abustling big city didn’t fall apart. But it was clearthat something real was going on. Today, TradeStreet is fully developed, and people have movedon to fixing up buildings on Liberty Street.In the mid-1980s, the music scene didn’textend far beyond Baity Street where you couldfind such places as Ziggy’s–little more than asmall house with a deck out back then. Thesedays, downtown is home toplaces such as The Garagewhere music can be heard onany given night. Plus, duringthe warm months, a lively downtownmusic program providesthree nights of music a week.And the dearth of big-cityamenities is no more. A friendwho moved here in 1969 wasappalled to discover that there was not a single,solitary Chinese restaurant to be found in all ofWinston-Salem. Now, with all the foreign-cuisineand fine-dining restaurants, you would have to goout of your way to find something to complainabout. What? No Ethiopian restaurant? Coffee aficionadoscan choose among such local coffee shopsas Chelsee’s and Sin or go with a national chain.So many old buildings are being convertedinto lofts and apartments and so many new onesare being built from scratch, including one at theModern Chevrolet site where Krispy Kreme had bigplans, that you can’t help but wonder where allthe people to live in them are going to come from.The Piedmont Triad Research Park is quicklyestablishing itself as a center for pioneeringresearch and product development and has putdowntown on the world’s biotechnology map. Andthe definition of downtown has been extended toinclude the western edge of downtown where anew baseball stadium is planned for the Warthogs.In other important respects, Winston-Salemhasn’t changed at all. Those of us who havecome back now appreciate traits that either wehadn’t noticed or didn’t care about when we wereyounger. Here, you can buy a house for a pricethat, in some cities, would get you nothing morethan the box a refrigerator came in. And, whenI left, I had no idea that I would one day findacres of free parking so exciting.What I have come to appreciate most is howwarm people around here are.Really, if it weren’t for the debilitating humidityawaiting us later this summer, we would have it made.Kim Underwood hasbeen writing forthe Winston-SalemJournal–his hometownnewspaper–for twentytwoyears. You canalso find his work atwww.hisdogness.comJUNE 2007 37

Levelinthe Fieldby Karilon L. RogersHeritage Scholarshiptargets Wake Forest’shistoric constituency.38 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

gHeritage Scholarship recipients(left to right) Jessie Yates, a risingjunior, Matt Fredericks (’07), andAaron Wolcott (’07)CARSON MOSELEY COMES fromthe “City of Smiles,” Greenville,Alabama. Population 7,728.He grew up playing football, basketball,and tennis and spending timewith his autistic younger brotherbefore graduating at the top of thelargest class in his school’s history—a class of forty-nine students.Moseley didn’t have the benefit ofadvanced-placement courses or other“big-city” resources, as he calls them,when he threw his hat into the ring forsuch esteemed scholarship programs asthe Coca-Cola National Scholars—orwhen he applied to Wake Forest. Likecream, however, he rose to the top.He landed in the elite top fifty of morethan 108,000 applicants nationwide forthe Coca-Cola competition and readilyqualified for admission to Wake Forest.But he needed financial help to attendthe private university of his choosing—more help than even the generousCoca-Cola award would provide.For Moseley and a total of fortynineother deserving students over thelast six years, help arrived in the formof the Heritage Scholarship, a prestigiousaward established in 2001 witha $4 million gift from an anonymousdonor. The award targets students bothwithin and beyond North Carolinawho meet the profile of Wake Forest’shistoric constituency—young scholarsfrom small towns and rural areas, highachievers from lower- and middleincomefamilies, and those who are thefirst in their families to attend college.“The Heritage Scholarship helpslevel the playing field for bright,accomplished students that fit ourhistorical constituency,” says PaulGauthier (’93), associate director ofmerit-based scholarships. “Withoutthis scholarship, I have no doubt thatmany of our current students wouldnot be here.”That is certainly the case for Moseley.“I couldn’t have come to Wake Forestwithout the Heritage Scholarship,” hesays. “It paved the way. In fact, whenI heard that I had received it, I wasecstatic and made the final decision toattend Wake Forest that same day.”Now a rising junior, Moseleyalready has spent a summer workingin a rural hospital and has set hissights on medical school. He wantsto both treat patients and work inbiomedical research. His goal is tohelp find the cause—and a cure—for autism.“My brother has shaped my lifeas much or more than anyone,” heexplains. “Being the older brother ofsomeone with autism is tough sometimesbut extremely rewarding. Thereis so much research being done onheart disease and cancer and diseaseslike that, which is wonderful andneeded, but society needs to put moreenergy and money into research foroverlooked diseases like autism. Weneed to find the cause of it and a curefor it. It is something I’m very passionateabout.”Moseley is at once very much likeand very different from the otherHeritage Scholarship winners. Likehim, all are fine young students whoranked at or near the top of their highschool classes, according to Gauthier.They also are demonstrated leadersand achievers, as well as individualswith a heart for serving others. As agroup, they tend to have lofty careeraspirations and action-driven hopes tohelp make the world a better place.Their hometowns span the globefrom Kijabe, Kenya, to Yarmouth, Maine,and from Shelby, North Carolina,to Plano, Texas. They study biology,economics, sociology, communication,and history, as well as internationalstudies, English, philosophy, andJUNE 2007 39

Carson Moseley, a rising junior, isfocused on attending medical schooland helping find a cure for autism.political science. Some plan to servein African war zones, in the PeaceCorps, or through Teach for America;others hope to make their mark injournalism, in working to improvehealth care in developing countries,or like Moseley, through discoveringthe cause of autism.Their greatest common denominatoris the opportunity provided to them bythe Heritage Scholarship, which madeit possible for them to attend WakeForest and pursue their passions.“The day I was accepted to WakeForest was probably the greatest day ofmy life, but the financial aid packagewas what made it real,” says juniorJessie Yates, an English major.The case of the anonymous donorWhen the Heritage Scholarshipprogram was endowed in 2001with one of the largest individual giftsin the history of Wake Forest, thedonor’s identity was a total mystery.And so it remains today.The University was notified of thegift by a Wall Street investment manager,and the gift was made througha transfer of stock. The donor wasdescribed only as “someone close tothe Wake Forest family for the lastdecade.”According to Bob Mills (’71,MBA’80),associate vice president for UniversityAdvancement, it is not unusual forthe University to work with benefactorswho request anonymity. However, hehas never encountered or heard of asituation in which a gift—particularlyone of this magnitude—has been madewith absolutely no one at the Universityknowing its source.In a statement to Wake Forest atthe time of the gift, the donor specifiedthat it be used for scholarshipsfor students who have “a record ofoutstanding academic achievementor potential; a high degree of intellectualcuriosity; the enthusiasm andcourage to take advantage of a collegeopportunity; a sense of service andsocial responsibility; and perhapsspecial talents in some aspect of theliberal arts.”With the donor’s approval, Universityofficials used those specificationsto establish the Heritage Scholarshipas a competitive, need-based programthat provides assistance to extremelybright students who cannot afford thefull cost of a private higher educationand who come from backgroundsmirroring the University’s traditionalstudent base.Bill Wells (’74), director of financialaid, says this type of scholarshipmeets a critical need at Wake Forest.The University is one of only twentyeightneed-blind institutions in thecountry sharing a more realisticapproach to defining a family’s abilityto pay for college.“We are committed to helpingevery student who wants to come toWake Forest, meets our criteria, and isa good match,” he says. “We want tobring in the very best students, regardlessof their families’ ability to pay.Creating the right mix of quality studentsprovides a rich experience for all.”The challenge is great, however.Wells explained that Wake Forest’sability to meet prospective students’financial-aid requirements with giftsis one of the lowest among the privateschools with which the Universitycompetes for students. Thus, a significantportion of need must be met withloans; average debt at graduation is$24,000 for those who are required toborrow to help finance their WakeForest education.Anticipated debt of this magnitudelimits the number of students whocan afford to select Wake Forest, Wellssays, as well as the career options—40 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

and dreams—of those who do. This isparticularly true for students who hopeto go on to graduate school or whofeel called to professions like teaching.Out-of-state students also are greatlyaffected because very limited scholarshipdollars are available for studentsliving outside of North Carolina.According to Mills, that is exactlywhat makes the Heritage Scholarshipso valuable.“Programs like the Heritage Scholarshipsallow us to reduce or eliminatethose loans for the most outstandingneed-based scholarship applicants,”he says, “which often makes the differencebetween a student coming hereand their going to a public university.”The Heritage Scholarship covers upto 75 percent of all expenses, dependingon a recipient’s level of need. Morethan $900,000 has been granted since2001. Nineteen students received thescholarship this year; most studentsretain the scholarship throughout theirfour years at Wake Forest.To this day, there still are few cluesto the anonymous donor’s identity; heor she has chosen to remain in the background,preferring the limelight to fallon the scholarship’s recipients instead.There is, however, absolutely no mysteryabout the great value of the gift.Scholarship dollars at workRebecca Cook (’05), who grew up inKijabe, Kenya, is adamant that shecould not have attended Wake Forestwithout the Heritage Scholarship andother assistance. She is equally convincedthat attending Wake Forest wasparamount to her selection as a 2005Rhodes Scholar and the opportunity tostudy at Oxford University.The biology major and internationalstudies minor already has completeda master of science degree in medicalanthropology at Oxford and now isstudying for a master of science inglobal public health. When she leavesEngland in mid-July, she will attendmedical school at Vanderbilt University.Cook is deeply interested in theHIV problem in Africa as well as in thehealth of war-affected populations. Sheplans to serve in the developing world.Aaron Wolcott (’07) is another Heritagerecipient with dreams of helpingin Africa. The son of American missionaries,Wolcott spent his youngestdays in Zaire. At the age of twelve, heexperienced the terror of evacuatinghis home overnight as his family fledthe violence of civil war. They eventuallysettled in Uganda.“I definitely would not be at WakeForest if it wasn’t for the HeritageScholarship,” he says. “I treasure theexperience of Wake Forest.”Although he was involved in manycampus groups, the highlight of Wolcott’sexperience came when he traveledhome to Uganda on a Pro Humanitategrant. The economics major spent asummer working to establish supportgroups for persons diagnosed withAIDS, as well as beginning to identifymicrofinance ventures to help thempay for needed medications and otherexpenses. He graduated in May withplans to use his degree working in anAfrican war-zone relief effort.Matthew Fredericks (’07) of Monrovia,Maryland, came close to missingout on his Wake Forest dream.“The first financial aid offer Ireceived from Wake was somethingthat my family would not have beenable to do,” he says. “My Dad andI got in the car and drove fourteenhours to Wake Forest to meet withthe financial aid office, which grantedus a last-minute appointment.”Fredericks said that, in the end, theHeritage Scholarship made it possiblefor him to attend Wake Forest. Hegraduated in May with a double majorin history and philosophy and plansto serve in the Peace Corps or Teachfor America before furthering his education.His ultimate goal is to becomea professor.Like so many other HeritageScholarship recipients, Fredericks hasbeen heavily involved in service bothon and off campus. He explained thatreceiving a gift like the HeritageScholarship “compels us to approachlife differently.”A mission-critical donationMoseley has one message for theanonymous donor: “Thank youfor recognizing people who come fromsmall towns and people who mighthave less advantageous backgrounds.”He acknowledges that his experienceat Wake Forest already has changedhis life and helped him grow—evenas it has made him appreciate hisroots and his small-town heritage.The program has done the same forthe University.“The Heritage Scholarship, as itsname implies, helps Wake Forest maintainits historical interest in educatingfuture leaders from small towns andfirst-generation families,” Gauthiersays. “These students feel the squeezeof the rising cost of higher education.Wake Forest’s commitment to thissort of student not only acknowledgesour history, but it is also mindful ofour future because we recognize howmuch these students enhance andwill continue to enrich our academiccommunity.”Karilon Rogers is a freelance writerand communication consultant basedin Clemmons, North Carolina.JUNE 2007 41

P R O F I L EModest manPorter Byrum (JD ’42)remains humbleabout his success.By Kerry M. King (’85)HEN PORTER BYRUMW(JD ’42) RECEIVED theSchool of Law’s highest honor,the Carroll Weathers Award, at alaw-alumni banquet last fall, heprobably would have preferred tobe out hunting or fishing insteadof wearing a suit and sitting in afancy country club. He’s not someonewho likes a lot of attentionor who puts on airs. He’d just assoon talk about the three-hundredpoundRussian boar he killed twentyyears ago as his career as a highlysuccessful attorney and businessmanin Charlotte.After opening his practice morethan fifty years ago to take whatevercases came through the door, Byrumspent much of his career workingwith only two clients, who not coincidentallybecame lifelong friends.He traveled around the world withone, buying and reselling airplanes.He helped the other develop one ofCharlotte’s first shopping centers,which he later bought.Byrum, 86, is only the seventhperson to receive the Weathersaward since it was first awarded toand named for Carroll W. Weathers(’22, JD ’23), who served as dean ofthe School of Law from 1950 until1970. Although he stopped practicinglaw five years ago, Byrum continuesto manage the shopping centerfrom a small, nondescript basementoffice, decorated with the mountedheads of two nine-point bucks andthe aforementioned Russian boarthat he killed on property he ownsnear Charlotte.He’s quick to attribute his successto the example set by his father,a Baptist minister. In 1998, he fundedthe John Thomas Byrum Scholarshipin the law school in memoryof his father, a 1908 graduate. The42 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

scholarship has supported twentyfivestudents since it was established.“I know that I didn’t pay my waywhen I went to Wake Forest,” saysByrum, who, along with three of hisbrothers, received free tuition toWake Forest because his father was aminister. “Given the circumstances,my daddy never would have beenable to have gotten four boys throughWake Forest, so somebody ought topay back the debt. And it makes mefeel good to do that.”Byrum’s oldest brother, Paul (’34,LLB ’42), was a teacher in Rowland,North Carolina, before his death in1978. Conwell “Cliff” (’37, MD ’41)was a doctor in Raleigh, North Carolina,who died last December. David(’47, JD ’51), 88, is a retired attorneyin Charlotte. John was the onlybrother not to attend Wake Forest—he graduated from N.C. State andwas an engineer and salesman forGeneral Electric; he died in May.Byrum was born in ForsythCounty and grew up in Wilmingtonand Edenton, North Carolina. Growingup during the Depression, hisfather never had much money, so heand his brothers learned to love theoutdoors. The boy who loved huntingand fishing grew into the manwho began buying land in the 1950sso he’d have a place to take hisdogs out on a Saturday and huntall day. For the last fourteen years,he’s leased about 250 acres outsideHuntersville, North Carolina, tothe Carolina Renaissance Festival,a medieval fair held every fall thatattracts tens of thousands of visitors.In recent years, he’s donated landin Union County, North Carolina,near Monroe, for a church and twoschools, Porter Ridge Elementaryand High School. “It makes me feelvery humble when those little kidscome in and thank me for what I’vedone,” he says. “I get a feeling thatI’ve done something good in theworld. I think back to the sermonsmy daddy gave years ago about beinga good steward of what you have.”Since his father had gone to WakeForest, it was a given that he andhis brothers would, too. “Daddy hadone ambition in life: to college educatehis five boys,” Byrum says. “Helived to see all five of us with collegedegrees. When I walked out of thechurch there in old Wake Forest, hesaid ‘Son, I’ve carried you as far asI can carry you, you’re on your own.’I remember looking at the diplomathinking how am I going to survive.”After he graduated from WakeForest into a world at war, Byrumsought a commission as an officer inthe Army and Navy, but was turneddown because he is colorblind. Thatdidn’t keep him from being draftedinto the Army, and he was soon sentto Europe. He served with distinction—oncepinpointing the positionof a German artillery battery that waspouring fire on American troops sothat it could be destroyed—andeventually received a battlefield promotionto lieutenant.He later served in Korea beforemoving to Charlotte, where he hungout his shingle, paying $10 a monthfor a small office in the law buildingin downtown Charlotte. “Everybodywho knew me thought I’d fail becauseI vowed I’d never work for anybodyelse,” he says, with his characteristicplainspoken candor. “I wasn’t goingto be anybody’s lackey. If I didn’thave but one client a year, at least itwould be mine.”He soon got his first client—fora divorce case—who paid him morethan his new suit cost, and he wason his way. When one of his earliestclients, Jenks Caldwell, needed somehelp to close the purchase of a governmentsurplus C54 fuselage, Byrumthought it sounded like a pretty gooddeal and put up $500 of his ownmoney. That was the start of his fiftyyearassociation with what becameCharlotte Aircraft Corporation andhis travels around the world to brokerdeals to buy and sell airplanes.Another client from the 1950swould also become a longtimefriend. When A.V. Blankenshipdeveloped Park Road ShoppingCenter in Charlotte, the first largeshopping center in the city when itwas built in 1956, he hired Byrumto help with the financing arrangements.When Blankenship decidedto sell the shopping center in 1967,he encouraged Byrum to buy itbecause no one knew the workingsof the business better than he did.The shopping center, with aHarris Teeter grocery store, GreatOutdoors Provisions Company,Blackhawk Hardware, and sixtyother stores, celebrated its fiftiethanniversary last November. ButByrum, in typical fashion, skippedthe grand celebration—he wasout hunting.Byrum, at right, gets “his first taste of home…an ice cold carton of milk” after returning tothe United States from Europe aboard the QueenMary following the end of World War II; thephoto ran with a National Dairy ad in TIMEmagazine in 1946.P R O F I L EJUNE 2007 43

S P O R T SHall of FamerFootball standout Alan White (’62) scores the ultimate touchdown.by Leo Derrick (’50)T WAS A LONG WAY from the six-football team in Elm City to Imanthe North Carolina Sports Hall ofFame, but Alan White (’62) madethe Herculean—but not especiallysurprising—jump with his installationto that exalted body of athleticrecognition in May.The Atlantic Coast Conference’sleading rusher in 1961 and recentlyretired athletic director at Elon Universityexcelled on the gridiron forthe Demon Deacons and in theclassroom, as a student and aninstructor, and still later as a collegeadministrator. Athletic talent,teaching and administrative capabilities,a genuine interest in youngpeople, a confident but self-effacingbearing, and Class, with a capital“C,” made his selection a natural.Hall of Fame executive directorReese Edwards said, “Alan andthe other inductees represent thefinest fabric of North Carolinasports, and he is a prime exampleof what the Hall is all about.”White retired in May 2006 aftertwenty-seven years as director ofathletics at Elon while jointly servingas professor of health, physical education,and leisure. He orchestratedtremendous strides in the athleticprogram, including planning andrenovating two gyms and adding astate-of-the-art fitness center/officecomplex; renovating the baseballfacility (Latham Park); and constructingthe first on-campus footballstadium (Rhodes Stadium). The Alanand Norma White Athletic Field wasbuilt in 2002 and named in honorof the couple’s contributions to thecollege and community. A bell towerin the center of the athletics complexalso bears his name.His football playing days were cutshort when he sustained two brokencollarbones with the professionalEdmonton team in the CanadianLeague. He was lightly recruited atbest while competing in six-mancompetition in small Elm City, buthe attracted the attention of WakeForest assistant Elmer Barbour, whoscouted his practices and severalgames. He was offered a scholarshipwithout ever visiting the school andplayed running back and occasionally44 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

cornerback on defense. Before thetwo-platoon system was introduced,he subbed on defense for futureprofessional luminary Norm Snead(’61). His senior performance garneredan invitation to the Blue-Graygame in Birmingham, Alabama, andAll-ACC and Academic All-Americarecognition.Under his leadership, Elon wonNational Association of IntercollegiateAthletics (NAIA) championshipsin football in 1980 and ’81, golf in ’82,and men’s tennis in ’90, in addition tofifty-six conference championships.Yet with all his success at the NAIAlevel, White’s idea of forward movementnever wavered when he felt theprogram should move up to DivisionII status and still later to Division I.He forsook personal accolades at thelower rung of competition for whathe perceived as increased attentionfor the university and its athletesthat come from competing at a muchmore difficult level. He was NAIADistrict Administrator of the Yearfour successive years and NationalAdministrator of the Year in 1988–89. More recently, he was namedNCAA Southeast Region AthleticDirector of the Year in 2004–05,and he is in the NAIA Hall of Fame.Elon was never cited for a majorrules violation under his supervision.“I never worried that Alan wasn’tgoing to do the right thing when itcame to our institutional values orthe welfare of our student-athletes,”said Elon President Leo M. Lambert.With typical modesty, White saidthe key to running a clean programis “hiring the right personnel…theright coaches, and recruiting theright student-athletes.”With all his involvement at Elon,he still maintained a distinguishedprofile within thecommunity, hischurch, and civicaffairs. He currentlyserves on the boardsof Alamance RegionalMedical Center, AlamanceYMCA, andAlamance Parks andRecreation, and he hasbeen president of theNAIA Athletic DirectorsAssociation, Alamance Rotary,and the South Atlantic Conference.After graduating from Wake Forest,White earned a master’s degree fromUNC-Chapel Hill in 1964 and a doctoratefrom Mississippi State in 1973.He was a teacher and coach at WestMontgomery High School in Mt.Gilead and later performed thosesame duties at Phillips Junior Highand Chapel Hill High School beforehis first association with Elon in1964 as assistant professor of physicaleducation and assistant footballcoach. While pursuing doctoral work,he was assistant football coach andpart-time PE instructor at MississippiState. He came back to Elon in 1974as full professor and departmentchair in PE and recreation, thenbecame athletic director in 1979.White met and married NormaMcKinney (’62) of Reidsville whileboth were students at Wake Forest,and they have one son, Kyle Alan(’88, MAEd ’94), who also playedfootball for the Deacs. Kyle, in commercialreal estate in Garner, andwife, Amy (’90), are parents to sonsTyler and Bryson.Leo Derrick is a media consultant andwriter living in Asheboro, North Carolina.S P O R T SWhite is the twenty-eighth athletewith a Wake Forest backgroundto enter the North CarolinaSports Hall of Fame. He joins:Bob Bartholomew (’57), football*Jack Murdock (’57), basketballBilly Ray Barnes (’57), footballMarvin “Skeeter” Francis (’42), sports information*Vic Sorrell (’28), baseball*Tommy Byrne (’66), baseballJim Clack (’69), football*Bill Dooley, football coachAl Dowtin (JD ’27), basketball, golf*Jim Duncan (’49), footballJesse Haddock (’52), golf coachDave Harris (’46), footballDickie Hemric (’55), basketballGene Hooks (’50), baseball, athletic directorBones McKinney (’56), basketball coach*John “Red” O’Quinn (’49, MAEd ’50), footballBilly Packer (’62), basketballArnold Palmer (’51), golfPat Preston (’43), football, athletic director*Jack Stallings (’55), baseballJim Staton (’51), footballJerry Steele (’61), basketballPeahead Walker, football coachJim Weaver, athletic directorLeon Brogden (’32), New Hanover High Schoolfootball coach*Bill Eutsler (’40), footballMurray Greason (JD ’26), basketball coach** deceasedJUNE 2007 45

Retiring Professor of History J. Howell Smith

If you have news you would like to share,please send it to CLASSNOTES editor, Wake Forest Magazine, P.O. Box 7205, Winston-Salem,NC 27109-7205. CLASSNOTES can be e-mailed to classnotes@wfu.edu or entered in anonline form at www.wfu.edu/magazine/classnotes. It is important that you include yourclass year(s) and degree(s) with each note. The person submitting information must providea telephone number for verification and accepts responsibility for the accuracy of the information.The deadline for CLASSNOTES is the 15th day of the month two months prior to the issuedate. For example, the deadline for the September issue is July 15.HOGEWOOD (’61, JD ’63) WHITE (’62)1920sLeon Pharr Spencer Sr. (’27) is 102-years-old and living in Raleigh, NC. Heis the father of Leon Pharr Spencer Jr.(’65) and Nancy Spencer.1930sForrest Allen Glass (’38) is a retiredteacher and football/baseball coach fromHopewell,VA. When he retired in 1976,a baseball field was named in his honor.He and his wife, Elizabeth, have beenmarried 61 years, and he is 92-years-old.They have four daughters and 11 grandchildrenand live in Richmond,VA.William Jeffress Senter Sr. (’38,MD ’40) turned 89 and had a fun year.Three grandchildren got married, threegraduated from college and law school,and two graduated from Wake Forest,Drew (’02, JD ’06) and Katherine (’07).1940sDouglas Carmichael McIntyre (’47)has been elected president of the residentscouncil and to the board of trusteesof Wesley Pines Retirement Communityin Lumberton, NC. He is also on theboard of trustees of United MethodistRetirement Homes.1950sRobert C. Lewis (’51) published hisfirst book, According to Sam (PublishAmerica).John Brock (’54) recently publisheda book, Southern Breezes Whistle Dixie,a commentary on Southern culture,www.southernobserver.com.Hervy B. Kornegay Sr. (’54, MD ’57)is a physician at the Mount Olive (NC)Family Medical Center. He received theLion’s Club Outstanding Senior CitizenAward for being one of Mount Olive’stop civic club volunteers.Fred Hill (’55) cheered on the Deaconsat the Citrus Bowl in 1979 and this yearwent to Jacksonville and the OrangeBowl with his daughters and grandsons.James H. Hayes (’57) retired from theU.S. Army in 1982 and retired as CEOof South Texas Organ Bank in 1997. Heis chairman of the board of directors ofApplied Measurement Professionals Inc.of Olathe, KS. He and his wife live inSan Antonio.Martin N. Erwin (’59) is with SmithMoore LLP in Greensboro, NC. He islisted as one of Chambers USA’s “America’sLeading Business Lawyers”in employmentlaw.1960sAshley L. Hogewood Jr. (’61, JD ’63)is with Parker Poe Adams & BernsteinLLP in Charlotte, NC. He was recognizedas a North Carolina “Super Lawyer”byLaw & Politics in real estate law.Larry B. Sitton (’61, JD ’64) is withSmith Moore LLP in Greensboro, NC.He has been named to Chambers USA’s“America’s Leading Business Lawyers”in litigation and named one of NorthCarolina’s “Super Lawyers”in businesslitigation.Richard N. Everett Sr. (’62) hasmoved to Queen Creek, AZ.Alan White (’62) is the retired directorof athletics at Elon University. He hasbeen inducted into the North CarolinaSports Hall of Fame (see story, page 44).James T. Williams Jr. (’62, JD ’66) isa partner with Brooks Pierce McLendonHumphrey & Leonard LLP in Greensboro,NC. He has been named one of thetop 10 North Carolina “Super Lawyers”in business litigation.Emily Herring Wilson (’62) and artprofessor Margaret Supplee Smith hadtheir book, North Carolina Women MakingHistory, released in paperback (UNCPress, February 2007).David Wheeler Allred (’63, MA ’77)and his wife, Mary Lou, live in Lambsburg,VA.He is a housing specialist withCenterPoint Human Services in Winston-Salem and a member of the commissionon the 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness.James W. Smith (’63) is retired after34 years with Schering Plough Corp. inKenilworth, NJ.C. Ben Williamson (’63) is a retiredprofessor and chair of the health,leisure and sports department at theUniversity of West Florida, Pensacola.He has an endowed scholarship namedin his honor.John J. Gaskill Jr. (’64) retired in 1998after 26 years as a special agent with theFBI. He was ordained a deacon in theEpiscopal Church in 2006 and is workingwith individuals with severe mental illnesses,their families and caregivers. Heand his wife, Donna, live in Beaufort, NC.48 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Bill Brettschneider (’72) is withOrbital Sciences of Columbia, MD,working from his home. He and hiswife, Tammie, live in Fleetwood, NC.His daughter, Leslie, is in college andchildren Olivia and Joshua are in elementaryschool.WILLIAMS (’62, JD ’66) MCGINN (’64, JD ’67) NORMAN (’66)HIBBERT (’70, JD ’72)M. Daniel McGinn (’64, JD ’67)is with Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey& Leonard LLP in Greensboro,NC. He has been named one of NorthCarolina’s “Super Lawyers”in employmentand labor law.Brenda C. Blackwelder (MD ’65)retired from teaching in 2003 and pursuedher passion of ballroom dancing.She competed in the first World Pro-AmChampionship in Buenos Aires, Argentina,and won second place with herinstructor in the rhythm division forage 50 and over.J. Donald Cowan Jr. (’65, JD ’68) iswith Smith Moore LLP in Raleigh, NC.He is one of Business North Carolina’s“Legal Elite”in antitrust law and is listedas one of Chambers USA’s “America’sLeading Business Lawyers”in litigation.He has also been named one of the topten North Carolina “Super Lawyers” inbusiness litigation.Gerard H. Davidson Jr. (’65, JD ’68)is with Smith Moore LLP in Greensboro,NC. He has been named one of NorthCarolina’s “Super Lawyers” in classaction and mass torts law.Ross Griffith (’65) and BettyTurnage Griffith (’66) are proudof their new grandbaby, JosephineElizabeth Carter, born 1/20/07 in LosAngeles.Thomas E. Norman (’66) was namedOutstanding Volunteer Fundraiser for2006 by the Charlotte Chapter of theAssociation of Fundraising Professionals.He is president of the Foundation forCentral Piedmont Community College.Ellen Bouldin Moore (’68) is managingdirector of Coldwell BankerCommercial Triad Realtors in Winston-Salem.M. Jay DeVaney (’69, JD ’71) practicescommercial real estate law andland-use litigation with Nexsen PruetAdams Kleemeier PLLC in Greensboro,NC. He has been named one of NorthCarolina’s “Super Lawyers” by Law &Politics.Gregg J. Smolenski (’69) is presidentemeritus of the Association of InvestmentManagement Sales Executives. He livesin Scottsdale, AZ.1970sStan Gryskiewicz (MA ’70) retiredafter 35 years from the Center forCreative Leadership in Greensboro, NC.The Positive Turbulence Fund was establishedby the Center to honor and continuehis legacy. Among his books andpublications are Positive Turbulence (1999)and Making Creativity Practical (2003).Robert Hannah (JD ’70) is deputyattorney general and chief counsel inFlorida’s attorney general’s office inTallahassee.Carl W. Hibbert (’70, JD ’72) is withKilpatrick Stockton LLP in Raleigh, NC.He was recognized as a North Carolina“Super Lawyer” in estate planning andprobate law.John A. Hyatt (’70) is a research professorof chemistry at East TennesseeState University in Johnson City. Heretired as a research fellow from EastmanChemical Co.Mark Planting (’71) retired as a senioreconomist from the U.S. Bureau of EconomicAnalysis in Washington. He andhis wife, Caroline, moved to Taos, NM.William Davis Waters (MA ’72)retired after 34 years with the N.C.Department of Cultural Resources. Hereceived the N.C. Governor’s Order ofthe Long Leaf Pine Award.Howard L. Williams (JD ’72) is withBrooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey &Leonard LLP in Greensboro, NC. Hehas been named one of North Carolina’s“Super Lawyers”in business/corporatelaw.Catharine B. Arrowood (’73, JD ’76)is with Parker Poe Adams & BernsteinLLP in Raleigh, NC. She was recognizedas a Top 50 Female North Carolina“Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics inbusiness litigation and named one ofthe “Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyersin America.”Lawrence N. “Chip” Holden (’73)is with Holden Mickey & Mickey Inc.in Winston-Salem. He has been recognizedas a leader in production withMassMutual Financial Group.Stephen D. Poe (’73) is with Bell Davis& Pitt PA in Winston-Salem and anadjunct professor at the Wake ForestSchool of Law. He has been named to theboard of advisors for the UNC School ofLaw Center for Banking and Finance.Edward “Ted” Waller (’73) and hisdaughter, Susanna, reached the summitof Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa, at19,342 feet.Peggy Welch Williams (’73) retiredfrom the U.S. District Court after serving33 years with the federal government.She is the development coordinatorat Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville,VA.Her husband, J. PageWilliams (’73), is a partner and practicesreal estate law at Feil Pettit &Williams PLLC. He is on the VirginiaState Bar Council.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2007 49

WILLIAMS (JD ’72)ARROWOOD (’73, JD ’76)HOLDEN (’73) PERKINSON (JD ’74) COSPER (JD ’75) MALMO (’75, MBA ’79)Robert C. Carpenter (MA ’74) isprincipal at Forestview High School inGastonia, NC. He presented a paper,“The Augsburg Confession War:Lutheran Confessional Beliefs, Rev.David Henkel, and Creation of theTennessee Synod,”at the LutheranHistorical Conference.Jane Warfford Handly (MA ’74)delivered the commencement address atLenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, NC,where she was a 1967 graduate. She hasbeen a professional speaker on servicequality and personal development for25 years and is in the Speakers Hall ofFame. She has authored two books, TheLife Plus Program for Getting Unstuck(Rawson & Assoc.) and Why WomenWorry and How to Stop (Prentice Hall).Ron Perkinson (JD ’74) has a practice,Perkinson Mediations, in Sanford, NC.He has been named one of “The BestLawyers in America”for alternative disputeresolution.Harvey L. Cosper Jr. (JD ’75) is withParker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP inCharlotte, NC. He was recognized as aNorth Carolina “Super Lawyer”by Law &Politics for personal injury defense, medical.Deborah Malmo (’75, MBA ’79) is abroker with Prudential Carolinas Realtyin the Winston-Salem Oakwood office.Roland H. Bauer (’76) is president andCEO of The Cypress Companies Inc.,which includes one distribution and fivemanufacturing businesses. He wasappointed to the board of trustees of TheUniversity of Akron. He and his wifehave three daughters and live in SilverLake, OH.Thomas Hill Davis Jr. (JD ’76) ison the board of directors for the WakeCounty Bar Assoc. and the 10th JudicialDistrict Bar. He is a partner with Poyner& Spruill LLP in Raleigh, NC, and hasbeen named a North Carolina “SuperLawyer”by Law & Politics and Charlottemagazines.Jim Jenkins (’76) has been withSyngenta Crop Protection Inc. for 30years and serves as head of CorporateAlliance in Greensboro, NC. He is presidentof the Mid America Crop LifeAssoc. He and his wife, Pamela, live inWest Des Moines, IA. They have threechildren, Susan Hooks Jenkins (’03),James W. Jenkins III (’05) and John,a sophomore at Guilford College.Denise Williams Koch (’76) lives inWilliamsburg,VA, where she is chairingthe Williamsburg–James City CountySchool Board.Dan Taylor (JD ’76) is with KilpatrickStockton LLP in Winston-Salem. He wasrecognized as a North Carolina “SuperLawyer”in business litigation.A. Grant Whitney Jr. (’76, JD ’79) iswith Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLPin Charlotte, NC. He was recognized as aNorth Carolina “Super Lawyer”by Law &Politics for real estate law.Stephen R. Briggs (’77) was inauguratedas the eighth president of BerryCollege in Rome, GA. The keynoteaddress was delivered by Debbie Best(’70, MA ’72), dean of the college andWilliam L. Poteat professor of psychologyat Wake Forest. He and his wife, BrendaMorgan Briggs (’78), have threedaughters, Morgan, Meredith andMaddy.Joslin Davis (JD ’77) is one of BusinessNorth Carolina’s “Legal Elite”and hasbeen named a North Carolina “SuperLawyer”in family law. She is a shareholderof Davis & Harwell PA inWinston-Salem.Jack H. Derrick (JD ’77) has retiredas senior counsel for Carolina Telephoneand Telegraph Co., Central TelephoneCo. and other Embarq Corporationcompanies in North and South Carolina.He and his wife, Dagmar, live in WakeForest, NC.David N. Farr (’77) is chairman, CEOand president of Emerson Electric Co. inSt. Louis. He has been named the 2007campaign chair of the United Way ofGreater St. Louis.Sallie M.H. Kellems (JD ’77) enjoyedtaking her granddaughter, Kaitlyn, toSouth America last year and is lookingforward to taking her grandson, Jack,to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islandsthis year.Curtis Strange (’77) has been votedinto the World Golf Hall of Fame. Hewon 17 PGA tournaments and the U.S.Open in 1988 and 1989.John Nelms (’78) is in his 30th yearwith State Farm Insurance Co. As anagent for 26 years, he has qualified forhis 24th Life Insurance Sales AchievementTravel Award. He and his wife,Debbie, will be going on a Mediterraneancruise.Ruth Ellen Werner (MBA ’78) appreciatessupport from fellow alumni inreturning to her career after recoveringfrom a temporary disability. She lives inSan Francisco.50 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

TAYLOR (JD ’76) WHITNEY (’76, JD ’79) DAVIS (JD ’77) FARR (’77)NELMS (’78) BERLIN (’81, JD ’84)Christine “Christy” L. Myatt (’79,JD ’82) practices bankruptcy, creditors’rights and workouts with Nexsen PruetAdams Kleemeier PLLC in Greensboro,NC. She is one of North Carolina’s “Top50 Female Super Lawyers” in Law &Politics.1980sNeal Brown III (’80) completed hisPhD in education administration atIndiana State University.Carole W. Bruce (JD ’80) is withSmith Moore LLP in Greensboro, NC.She has been named one of BusinessNorth Carolina’s “Legal Elite”in tax andestate planning and one of NorthCarolina’s “Super Lawyers”in tax law.Kimberley Coiner Hempen (’80)teaches English literature at a privateschool in Marietta, GA. She and herhusband, Ryan, have two sons, Jacoband Arthur. Jacob is a sophomore andone of the Deacon mascots.Kevin Nelson (’80) is a partner withHuddleston Bolen LLP in Charleston,WV, practicing employment law andgeneral litigation. He is coach of theCharleston Catholic High School girl’ssoccer team and was named the 2006West Virginia Region III Girl’s Coach ofthe Year.Linda Stowe Nelson (’80, MAEd ’91)has been appointed executive directorfor the N.C. Assoc. of IndependentSchools.Stephen R. Berlin (’81, JD ’84) iswith Kilpatrick Stockton LLP in Winston-Salem. He was recognized as a NorthCarolina “Super Lawyer”in environmentallaw.John Capps (’81) is with CaromontInternal Medicine, a primary-care practicewith four other doctors in Gastonia,NC. He has two children, Samantha (16)and Stewart (13). He reports he has successfullybattled testicular cancer withsurgery and chemotherapy.Johnny L. Dawkins (’81) is presidentof the N.C. Assoc. of Health Underwriters.He is a partner/broker withEbenconcepts Inc. in Fayetteville, NC.His wife, Donna Palmer Dawkins(’84), is pursuing her master’s inaccounting at N.C. State University.They have two children, Jay and Jill.David A. Senter (’81, JD ’84) practicesconstruction and surety, commerciallitigation and commercial collectionswith Nexsen Pruet Adams KleemeierPLLC in Greensboro, NC. He has beennamed one of North Carolina’s “SuperLawyers” by Law & Politics.Saturday, September 8Wake Forest vs. Nebraska football gamePresident’s WeekendSaturday, September 15 Wake Forest vs. Army football gameHomecomingSaturday, September 22 Wake Forest vs. Maryland football gameThursday, October 11Saturday, October 27Saturday, November 17David C. Smith (’81, JD ’84) is withKilpatrick Stockton LLP in Winston-Salem. He was recognized as a NorthCarolina “Super Lawyer”in businesslitigation.Andrew J. Sterge (’81) is CEO of A.J.Sterge LP, a hedge fund investing inreinsurance risks. He was profiled inHow I Became a Quant (J.Wiley & Sons).Robert L. Wilson Jr. (JD ’81) is withSmith Moore LLP in Greensboro, NC.He has been named a North Carolina“Super Lawyer”in health care law.Cynthia Collins Allner (JD ’82) isa partner at Miles & Stockbridge PC inBaltimore, MD. She has been electedchairwoman of the board of directors forthe Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond’sBaltimore office.Fall Weekends 2007(and Thursday nights, too!)Wake Forest vs. Florida State football gameWake Forest vs. UNC football gameFamily WeekendWake Forest vs. NC State football gameDetails about Homecoming and President’s Weekend will be available on the Alumni Website (www.wfu.edu/alumni) later in the summer; details about Family Weekend will beavailable on the Student Union Web site (http://su.wfu.edu/) later in the summer.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2007 51

SMITH (’81, JD ’84) ALLNER (JD ’82) JOYNER (JD ’82) WILSON (JD ’82) BRIDGES (’83) FOX (JD ’83)Jennifer Early Calvert (’82) publisheda book, BFFs: Best Friends Forever,a fictional novel following a group ofteenagers from middle school to adulthood.She contributed “Memories of MyMother”and “How I Met My True Love”to two anthologies (Xulon Press).Tom Heavey (’82) has been nameda managing partner of Grossman &Heavey, specializing in litigation, inBricktown, NJ.Maria Henson (’82) received theMary Morgan Hewitt Award for hercontributions to journalism and aJefferson Fellowship through the East-West Center in Honolulu. She willstudy globalization in China and India.Gary K. Joyner (JD ’82) is withKilpatrick Stockton LLP in Raleigh, NC.He was recognized as a North Carolina“Super Lawyer”in real estate law.Nancy Borders Paschall (’82, JD ’85)is a partner/attorney with MullenHolland & Cooper PA in Gastonia, NC.She received the 2006 ATHENA Awardfrom Citizens South Bank and TheGaston Chamber of Commerce.Doris Walters (MA ’82) published abook, The Untold Story: Missionary KidsSpeak From the Ends of the Earth (ChapelHill Press Inc., March 2007).Jill R. Wilson (JD ’82) is with BrooksPierce McLendon Humphrey & LeonardLLP in Greensboro, NC. She has beennamed a North Carolina “Super Lawyer”in education law.Susan Hockstetler Bridges (’83) isprincipal of A.G. Richardson ElementarySchool in Culpeper,VA. She was recognizedby President George W. Bush in52 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINEthe Oval Office for receiving the 2006-07National Distinguished Principal Awardfrom the Virginia Assoc. of ElementarySchool Principals.Margaret Shea Burnham (JD ’83)practices commercial real estate andlitigation with Nexsen Pruet AdamsKleemeier PLLC in Greensboro, NC. Sheis on the list of North Carolina’s “Top 50Female Super Lawyers” in Law & Politics.Sarah Wesley Fox (JD ’83) is withKilpatrick Stockton LLP in Raleigh, NC.She was recognized as a North Carolina“Super Lawyer”in employment andlabor law.Sharon Taylor Oliverio (’83) isoperations manager at Smith Optics.She and her husband, Tom, and children,Francesca (8) and Jack (5), live in SunValley, ID.Mickey L. Smith (’83, MBA ’91) is acertified financial planner and an independentfinancial advisor with SecuritiesAmerica Advisors Inc. in Winston-Salem.Laura Carlan Battle (JD ’84) isa colonel in the U.S. Air Force JudgeAdvocate General’s Corps. She is a staffjudge advocate at Lackland AFB, TX,specializing in environmental andcriminal law.Jennifer Dolby (’84, MD ’89) is apediatrician in a practice associatedwith Children’s Hospital of San Diego.Brian A. Gallagher (JD ’84) lives inCamp Hill, PA. He had a chapter,“HIPAAPrivacy in the Pharmacy,”published inthe Pharmacy Law Desk Reference.Walter C. Holton Jr. (JD ’84) openeda law office in Winston-Salem, practicingpersonal injury, wrongful death andworker’s compensation. His wife, Lynne,handles real-estate closings in his office.E. William “Bill” Kratt (’84, JD ’87)practices estate planning and probatelaw with Herring McBennett Mills &Kratt PLLC in Raleigh, NC. He was electeda Fellow of the American College ofTrust and Estate Counsel.Jennifer Mills (’84) left The GolfChannel to freelance and spend moretime with her family. She teaches fourthgradeEnglish and spelling part-time.She covered interviews at the Mastersfor Augusta National and NBC Sportsand is a spokesperson for The CliffsCommunities in the Carolinas.Ralph O. Mueller (’84) is a professorof educational research, public policyand public administration at The GeorgeWashington University in Washington.He has been named an AmericanCouncil on Education Fellow for the2007-08 academic year.Jim W. Phillips Jr. (JD ’84) is withBrooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey &Leonard LLP in Greensboro, NC. Hehas been named a North Carolina“Super Lawyer”in business litigation.Richard C. Price (MBA ’85) is seniorvice president of finance for Fruit of theLoom. He and his wife, Pat, have twochildren, Lauren and Richard. They livein Atlanta.Christopher L. White (’85) is generalcounsel, executive vice president andsecretary of AdvaMed of Cambridge,MA. He was the first recipient of thePricewaterhouseCoopers Award forLeadership in the Advancement of Ethicsin the Medical Device Industry.Randall D. Avram (JD ’86) is withKilpatrick Stockton LLP in Raleigh, NC.He was recognized as a North Carolina“Super Lawyer”in employment andlabor law.

BATTLE (JD ’84) KRATT (’84, JD ’87) PHILLIPS (JD ’84) WHITE (’85) AVRAM (JD ’86) PITKIN (JD ’86)James D. “Bert” Concepcion (JD ’86)is with the U.S. Army stationed in Tikrit,Iraq. He is the command judge advocatefor the 105th Engineer Group (Combat)National Guard unit from Winston-Salem.Bobby Ray Gordon (JD ’86) is ahumanitarian operations advisor atthe Center for Excellence in DisasterManagement and HumanitarianAssistance in Honolulu. He completedthe civil-military coordination staffcourse conducted by the UnitedNations Office for the Coordinationof Humanitarian Affairs in Geneva,Switzerland.Rob Pitkin (JD ’86) has been namedchairman of the Heart of AmericaChapter of Associated Builders andContractors. He practices constructionlaw and commercial litigation with Levy& Craig in Kansas City, KS.Kimberly H. Stogner (’86, JD ’94)has been elected a Fellow of theAmerican College of Trusts and EstatesCounsel. She is with Vaughn PerkinsonEhlinger Moxley & Stogner in Winston-Salem and has been named one of the“Top 50 Female Lawyers”in NorthCarolina by Law & Politics.Mark Cundiff (’87) is area generalmanager with Caraustar, a manufacturerand converter of recycled paper products,in Austell, GA. He has been there 16years. He lives in Douglasville, GA, withhis wife and two sons, Elijah (6) andEthan (4).The Start of Something BigAs graduates often hear,receiving a degree is a time to dream big.Over nearly 35 years, Wake Forest’s Babcock School has helpedmore than 6,000 graduates pursue their professional dreams,whether that has meant managing the sizable risksof an entrepreneurial start-up, tackling major projects fora growing business or leading in a corporate environment.Learn more about how our programs can help you realizeyour career dreams at www.mba.wfu.edu.Martha Greene Eads (’87, MA ’93)is professor of English at Eastern MennoniteUniversity in Harrisonburg,VA.Allen Frommelt (’87) is director ofpopulation analysis and measurementfor Cardium Health, a disease managementorganization, based in Farmington,CT.The Babcock School has been ranked among the top business schoolsin the world in each of the five major business school rankings -Business Week, Forbes, Financial Times,U.S. News & World Report and The Wall Street Journal.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2007 53

Master of EducationSylvia Rousseau (’68) is promoter of educationin and out of the classroom.By Scott HolterRousseauOR FOUR DECADES,Ffrom East Coastto West Coast, in highschools and colleges, asteacher, principal, andsuperintendent, SylviaRousseau (’68) hasbeen an ardent advocatefor education. At a timewhen she could be retiring,she instead has justentered her second yearas a teacher in the University of Southern California’sesteemed Rossier School.Her lifetime passion for education was ignitedlong ago. A native of Cincinnati, Rousseau wasstudying French at the University of Cincinnatiwhen she married a pastor and they soon movedto North Carolina. Rousseau appreciated the intimateenvironment she found at her new school—Wake Forest. “I appreciated the smaller environmentand that the professors were very engagedin making sure students had a rich experience,”she recalls. “A few of them lived near campus,and on Saturday nights we would go to theirhomes for great conversations.”She became the first African-American womanto graduate—with a major in English and a minorin education—from Wake Forest. Her first stopafter graduation was in Kokomo, Indiana, whereshe was a high-school English teacher at a schoolwith one black student and one black teacher(herself). Then came four years in Cincinnatiwhere she was hired after the merger of an allblackhigh school and a mostly white high school.But being a pastor’s wife meant life was allabout change. Just as she began to find her nicheat one school, it seemed it was time to move toanother. After Cincinnati, it was on to the nation’scapital for four years, and finally to Los Angeles,where Rousseau has made her home since 1978.In 2000, after seven years as principal at SantaMonica High School—where she raised academicexpectations and reduced the dropout rate by 8percent—she was appointed superintendent forLos Angeles Unified School District 7. There shewatched over eight districts and 82,000 studentsin South Los Angeles.While her resume also has included stintsat Loyola Marymount University and UCLA,Rousseau derives her passion from the publicschool system. “The problem with public schoolsis the attitude that people have about publicschools,” she says. “Public education is still thepillar of a democratic society, and alternatives arethe detriment of that society. If we don’t take careof public education, it hurts our future.”At USC, she is having a large impact on otherswho will serve as she has. “Faculty teaching faculty,”she calls it, classrooms made up of teachers, schooladministrators, physicians, assistant deans, andcommunity college instructors in pursuit of a doctorof education. “They’re all either seeking to goto the next level or get better at what they do.”Her latest classroom is a great distance fromWinston-Salem and Kokomo and Cincinnati andWashington, D.C. It’s poles apart from the positionof principal or superintendent or high-schoolEnglish teacher. But like all of those jobs in all ofthose faraway places, it’s all in the name of education.And that’s what keeps her from even consideringretiring.“I have such a passion that I ache over theneglect that some children experience in thedenial of their birthright to education,” she says.“Chiefly, I speak of children of color and thosefrom poor families. I want to help this nation continueto realize the treasures we have in publiceducation and continue to demonstrate what canbe done. I feel like I have a debt to pay.”Scott Holter is a freelance writer based in Seattle.54 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

STOGNER (’86, JD ’94) HAIR (’87) MALMO (MBA ’87) MCDOUGAL (JD ’87) WYATT (JD ’87) IOPPOLO (’88)Beatrice Dombrowski Hair (’87)has franchised the Salisbury TutoringAcademy Ltd. specializing in one-ononetutoring and teaching parents tohelp their children. She published abook, ADHD in the Classroom: A Powerful,Practical Solution, and was a keynotespeaker for the National Tutoring Assoc.Convention.Gerald M. Malmo III (MBA ’87) iswith Holden Mickey & Mickey Inc. inWinston-Salem. He has been recognizedas a leader in production with Mass-Mutual Financial Group.Gregg E. McDougal (JD ’87) is withKilpatrick Stockton LLP in Raleigh, NC.He was recognized as a North Carolina“Super Lawyer” in business litigation.Frank B. “Burk” Wyatt II (JD ’87)is senior vice president, general counseland secretary of CommScope in Hickory,NC. He has been elected to the boardof directors of the N.C. TechnologyAssoc. and named one of Business NorthCarolina’s “Legal Elite”in the corporatecounsel area.Kelli Chase Clark (’88) and her husband,Perry, purchased Allegra Print &Imaging, a commercial printing company,in Winston-Salem.Greg Conforti (JD ’88) is the 2007–08chair of the transportation practice groupfor the American Law Firm Assoc.Frank S. Ioppolo Jr. (’88) is a shareholderpracticing corporate and securitieswith Greenberg Traurig in Orlando.He is chairman of the board of directorsof the Seminole County RegionalChamber of Commerce and the SeminoleCommunity College Foundation.C. Douglas Maynard Jr. (JD ’88) iswith Maynard & Harris PLLC in Winston-Salem. He has been elected secretary tothe board of directors of the litigationsection of the N.C. Bar Assoc. and hasbeen reappointed to the education, legislativeand legal affairs committees ofthe N.C. Academy of Trial Lawyers.Janice C. Telfer (’88) is an assistantprofessor in the Department of Veterinary& Animal Sciences at the University ofMassachusetts Amherst. She receivedtwo grants for work on gene regulationin bone-marrow stem cells and moremature cells of the immune system.W. Neil Avent (’89) is in his secondyear as a Major League Baseball scoutfor the Oakland A’s. He and his wife,Christy, live in Greensboro, NC.Carol D. Conrad (’89) is a vice presidentand benefits administration managerwith BB&T in Winston-Salem.Jay Solomon Daughtry (’89) ispresident of Retirement Relocation,a consulting firm in Potomac Falls,VA.Anne Pollard Haywood (’89) is withNational Geographic in Washington, D.C.1990David Wayne Johnson Jr. (JD) iswriting and producing a documentaryabout instrumental music education andmarching bands. He lives in Los Angeles.Daniel O. Kennedy (JD) is in-housegeneral counsel for RLI Corp. in Peoria,IL. His wife, Cynthia Davis Kennedy(JD ’91), is with Powell Goldstein Frazer& Mur in Atlanta and works from home.1991Carl Harnett King is a UnitedMethodist pastor in Columbia, SC.W. Curt LaFrance is the director ofneuropsychiatry at Rhode Island Hospitaland an assistant professor of neurologyand psychiatry (research) at BrownMedical School in Providence, RI. Hehas been included in the 2007 editionsof Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Whoof Emerging Leaders.Christopher Nichols (JD ’94) is thefounding partner of Nichols Law Firm inRaleigh, NC. He edited and co-authoreda book, North Carolina Personal Injury LiensManual (LexisNexis).Mark Seifert received his PhD inanthropology from Brandeis Universityin Waltham, MA.Carolyn Repp Stikeleather and herhusband, Jeff, live in Cary, NC. She is astay-at-home mom for their three children,Ryan (7), Matthew (5) and Nathan (3).1992Frank S. Castor has been electedCounty Court Judge in the 15th judicialcircuit in West Palm Beach, FL. Hereports he is the youngest judge in PalmBeach County.Thomas C. Caves Jr. is special assistantto the Secretary of the N.C. Departmentof Crime Control and Public Safetyin Raleigh.Blaine Clotfelter is a consultant developingthe executive benefits practiceswith Clarity Benefits Consulting inAtlanta.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2007 55

Daniel Geijer and his wife, Allison,continue to work in humanitarian aidand development in Almaty, Kazakhstan.They are relocating to Thailand.John T. “Jack” Gilbertson (JD) iswith the life sciences and health careregulatory practice of Deloitte & ToucheLLP in Los Angeles.Melissa Tuttle (MBA ’02) is directorof store projects and business processmanagement at Lowe’s Home Improvement.She lives in Huntersville, NC.1993Lisa Angel (JD) practices family lawat Rosen Law Firm in Raleigh, NC. Shehas been named one of Business NorthCarolina’s “Legal Elite.” She is a memberof the board of directors of the WakeCounty Bar Assoc. and the Council ofthe Family Law Section of the N.C. BarAssoc.Kimberly Anderson Betz is in-housecounsel with INVISTA S.a.r.l., a subsidiaryof Koch Industries. She and herhusband, Pete, have a son, Alex (3), andare expecting a daughter.Eric H. Biesecker is a partner ofNexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier PLLCin Greensboro, NC. He has beenappointed counsel of the Triad Chapterof the American Subcontractors Assoc.of the Carolinas.William E. Burton III (JD) is withSmith Moore LLP in Greensboro, NC.He is one of Business North Carolina’s“Legal Elite”in environmental law.Albert Cedric Calhoun has beennamed executive director of theAcademy of Certified HazardousMaterials Managers, headquarteredin Bethesda, MD.Heather Sager Fedeli is a partner ofDrinker Biddle & Reath LLP in its SanFrancisco employment law group.Brian Rudel teaches fourth grade atJulian Gibson Elementary School inWinston-Salem. He received his NationalBoard Certification through the NationalBoard of Professional Teaching Standards.He and his wife, Sheri, have twosons, Connor (6) and Mason (4).Phyllis Stump (MALS) started a newcareer as a playwright, poet and performerafter retiring from the Thomasville(NC) city schools. She has spentseveral years researching and writingabout the life of a legendary midwife inVirginia, Orlena Hawks Puckett (1839–1939), who delivered more than 1,000babies, without losing a mother or child,in spite of having 24 pregnancies herselfwithout a surviving child. She has performeda monologue on Puckett morethan 40 times, including performancessponsored by the Friends of the BlueRidge Parkway and the National ParkService. Recently she published hersecond book of poetry: Walking theGunnysack Trail: A Mountain Journey, asan indirect tribute to Puckett.Allison Overbay Van Laningham(JD ’96) is with Smith Moore LLP inGreensboro, NC. She has been namedone of North Carolina’s Top 50 Women“Super Lawyers”in civil litigationdefense law.1994Patricia Clinard Alfing teachesan online course at Forsyth TechnicalCommunity College in Winston-Salem.She lives in Chesapeake,VA.Shannon Zazworsky Collins is astay-at-home mom. She and her husband,Randy, have two children, GraceElizabeth (6) and Dominic (1 1/2). Theylive in San Francisco.Hope Austin Laingen received theDorothy M. Flatley Award for outstandingservice to Navy families.Ian Mayville has been with AmeripriseFinancial Services Inc. in Boca Raton, FL,for 10 years and is working on his CFAcharter.Ken Sevensky (MS) and KristinHatcher Sevensky (MS ’95) havetheir own business, Gum Ridge Mill andFlying Pig Furniture, in Fleetwood, NC.They handcraft reclaimed wood fromthe N.C. mountains into custom furniture,floors, etc. They were featured inthe March 2007 issue of Southern Livingmagazine.David M. Smith (MA) is executivedirector of The Summit CounselingCenter in Alpharetta, GA.Rachel Kuhn Stinehelfer is academicpersonnel librarian at N.C. State UniversityLibraries, managing recruitment forlibrarians and professional staff.1995Africa D. Alston (JD ’98) is a lead consultant,litigation support services, withFirmLogic LLC in Winston-Salem.Duane A. Danner completed certificationwith the National Assoc. of CertifiedValuation Analysts. He is CFO withJohnson’s Modern Electric Co. Inc. Heand his wife, Jennifer, live in Clemmons,NC, with their daughter, Norah.Chad Davis is a real estate developerand president of East Coast Capital Inc.based in Winston-Salem.Jenny Lynn Hinson is a stay-at-homemom while in Cambridge, England, withher husband, Kevin Taylor (’94), whois pursuing a PhD in theology. At homein Albemarle, NC, she is an ER physician.They have a son, Cameron (1).Nathan A. Jones (MBA ’06) is presidentof Salem Benefits Group Inc., anemployee benefits consulting firm, inWinston-Salem.Jeanie Marklin Reynolds receivedher PhD in curriculum and instructionwith an emphasis on literacy and urbaneducation from UNC-Charlotte. She isdirector of English education at UNC-Greensboro.56 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Just grand!Elizabeth Holmes (MALS ’07)raises funds for piano at Casa Artom.By Karilon L. RogersHERE IS MUSIC EVERYWHERE,” a FrenchmanTis reported to have said in the 1600s aboutVenice. “In every home, someone is playing amusical instrument or singing.”Once known as the Republic of Music and recognizedas the birthplace of opera, Venice todayremains a magical city of music, as well as of artand architecture. It is just the type of place whereWake Forest students should go to immerse themselvesin history and culture—and they do. TheUniversity has owned Casa Artom on Venice’s storiedGrand Canal since 1971, and more than 1,100students have studied in the stately 1820s palazzothat once was the American consulate.But something has been missing. “We thoughtit would be nice to have a grand piano,” said Professorof Music Peter Kairoff, who also is coordinatorof the Venice program and a noted concertpianist with an international reputation. “But ourbudget was stretched thin. It seemed like an extravagancewhen we were trying to pay the bills.”Enter Elizabeth Holmes (MALS ’07), who wasborn into a family of musicians. Holmes studiedwith Kairoff at Casa Artom in the spring of 2005and returned home with a piano plan in mind. Forher, beautiful music was a necessity, not a luxury.“Casa Artom is a jewel in the University’s crown,”she said. “It is an incredible building that is centrallylocated—you can walk just about anywhereyou want to go. Casa Artom is superb; Venice isextraordinary. But something important was missing.Musical history goes back centuries in Venice.It is an important part of the culture. I thoughtthe house just cried out for a grand piano.”When Holmes discovered, in talking withKairoff, that the only thing standing betweenCasa Artom and the music she cherished was thecost of a grand piano, she put a plan into actionimmediately upon her return to the States.“I told my husband that I was going to raise$26,000 for a grand piano for Casa Artom,” Holmessaid, “and he said, ‘You’re going to do what?!’After talking with the fundraising office at WakeForest, I started smiling and dialing. I calledpeople I knew had an interest in music and inthe University. I began raising the money in May,and it was in the bank by December.”Kairoff selected a grand piano and installed itin Casa Artom in February 2006. “The piano certainlygives a splendid touch of elegance—a layerof sophistication and culture—to a room thatlooks out over the Grand Canal,” he said. “It givesus the opportunity to have wonderful music in thecity that is the home of so much wonderful music.I’m so grateful to Elizabeth and to all people likeher for their ongoing support of the house. Wecouldn’t do it without them.”The piano debuted at an informal surpriseconcert for Casa Artom students by a Venetianopera singer. It continues to get much play forpleasure, as well as being pressed into service formore formal concerts, such as one played byKairoff for President and Mrs. Nathan O. Hatchwhen they visited.Holmes, who graduated in May, found great joysimply in following her passion—for Venice andCasa Artom, as well as for Wake Forest and music.“Music has always played an important role inmy life,” she said. “I am delighted that Casa Artomnow has a piano, and it is my hope that in thecoming years it will serve to enhance the visits ofWake Forest faculty, students, alumni, and guests.”Elizabeth Holmesand Professor ofMusic Peter Kairoffwww.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2007 57

MindstormsTaylor Arnold (’94, JD ’05)follows his muse intothe creative world ofindependent inventors.By Scott HolterPHOTOS BY SCOTT PARKERSONN AN OUT-OF-THE-WAY WAREHOUSE INIDurham, North Carolina, L. Taylor Arnold’sbusiness markets and sells, among other items, acolor-changing gel ball, a throwing toy that’s partboomerang and part baseball, and a gadget thatallows the user to play a multitude of games justoff the tip of his nose.Hawking products with names like the YackleBall, the DogGone Opener, and the AirZookaKeychain, Controlled Mindstorms Inc. comesacross as an online resource for pop culture toysand unique gifts. But Arnold (’94, JD ’05), itspresident, who earned history and law degreesfrom Wake Forest, says his product design anddevelopment company is more about the inventorof the products than the products themselves.“Our focus,” Arnold says, “is to shine a lightupon independent inventors—to give them creditfor their hard work while giving the consumersome idea of what genius lurks behind (the inventors’)every day commodities.”Controlled Mindstorms does not help to fosterthe ideas of inventors, choosing instead to getbehind a product that is already in production.“We do not serve the role of invention broker, butfocus on what we know and how we can help onthe back end,” Arnold says. “The invention processis a difficult one, because after the idea andthe patent, you have to sell it.”It’s no coincidence that the 34-year-old Arnoldcreated such a format to assist inventors. Nearlya quarter of a century ago, as a fourth-grader, heconcocted a robot that walked around and entertainedhis classmates and teacher. “I guess youcan say that I’ve always been cursed with findingeverything interesting,” he admits. “As a child Iwould spend my summer vacations holed up inmy room just making things.”Arnold grew up in Kansas, but relocated toMatthews, North Carolina, just before highschool. His ingenious and inventive wit peakedin those high school years when he built a small58 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

hovercraft out of vacuum cleaner motors, plywood,and a shower curtain.But he had other interests, including history,biology, and industrial design, when he went lookingfor a college. “I had already moved enough soI didn’t have the same urge to leave the state asothers,” Arnold remembers. “I wanted somethingintimate, but with a reputation that preceded it.All it took was one loop around the Quad, and Iwas hooked.”By the time he left Winston-Salem with anundergraduate degree, Arnold recalls being “moreinterested in following my muse than thinkingof a practical application for it,” which led himstraight into mechanical engineering courses atN.C. State University in Raleigh. But two yearsinto that process, Arnold got the chance to lead astudent team that specialized in toy design. “Thegerm,” he says, “of where Controlled Mindstormsbegan.” His company was incorporated in 1999.Early on, the firm was used mostly as a launchingpad for Arnold’s own inventions, including one—perhaps his most recognized creation to date—that he owes to his own mother, who always storedher greeting cards in an old shoebox. The CardKeeper, which holds up to eighteen cards and allowsviewing without removal, has been featured in a halfdozennational publications and remains a big seller.And then there’s his Bubble Morph Squish Ball,a novelty item that Arnold says proves the inventiondoesn’t have to be revolutionary to createexcitement. When squeezed, the baseball-sizedball of gel—wrapped in a mesh netting—changescolor, from green to blue to magenta. “It becameso popular that the first production model I sawat a trade show was actually a knock-off of mine,”recalls Arnold, who says some even use the ballas a therapeutic device.Early on Arnold traveled the country, developingcontacts with executives looking to add neweritems and fresh blood into their product lines. Butby the end of 2001, with the economy going sour,he decided to formulate a backup plan and wentafter the law degree. Four years later, with thecompany still afloat, Arnold chose to focus not onwhat he had developed, but on inventors in general.“I was looking for those who were very eagerand very enthusiastic,” he says. “Getting behindtheir product was not only a gift to them, but agift to the customer.”A visit to Controlled Mindstorms’ online store(www.cmstorms.com) uncovers a virtual treasureTaylor Arnold: shining a light on inventorschest of extraordinary and eccentric products,including the Yackleball, a soft, X-shaped throwingtoy that Arnold says is “easier to catch than aball, but throws farther than a Frisbee,” and theitoPad, which goes under a laptop, keeping heataway from the lap and creating a more comfortableworking environment.Every product has a story of the person behindit, but none quite like that of Seattle’s PatrickTurner. Resting in his hammock one day, Turnerbrainstormed an assortment of toys attached tothe end of a stem protruding from a pair of plasticeyeglasses. Nose Aerobics was born, allowing itsuser to play basketball, wind through mazes, andsolve puzzles simply by moving the head. “That’sone that evokes contrarian reactions,” says achuckling Arnold. “It’s either, ‘Who would buythat?’ or ‘I gotta have that now.’”Arnold employs two others full-time and addsseasonal help when needed. He also relies on twounpaid “testers” for unbiased opinions of hisown inventions: his two sons.“I have a lot of stufflying around the house that turns out is morevaluable to play with than I thought,” he says.As for Controlled Mindstorms, Arnold envisionsa future where other forms of creative endeavors,such as art, music, or books, are added to the lineof products. But no matter what comes aboard,he’ll always market it with the creator in mind.“I want to continue building a network of successfulinventors and help them reach their goalof marketing their creation and telling theirstory,” he says. “I want them to be able to appreciatethat their product is not a static item butthe manifestation of a dream.”Scott Holter is a freelance writer based in Seattle.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2007 59

BANCROFT (JD ’98) TAYLOR (’98, JD ’01) WILLIAMS (JD ’98) BUMGARNER (’99) FORBES (JD ’96) GINN (’96, MD ’00)1996Margaret Feinberg published a book,The Organic God. She lives in Juneau, AK,with her husband, Leif.W. Ross Forbes (JD) is a partner inthe litigation section of Jackson WalkerLLP in Dallas. He has been named a2006 “Rising Star”and is listed in theTexas Monthly magazine.T. Adam Ginn (MD ’00) is an orthopaedichand surgeon for RoMedicalin Salisbury, NC. He lives in Winston-Salem with his family.John Green is on the faculty as atrauma and critical care surgeon atthe Washington University School ofMedicine in St. Louis.Christopher John Leonard (JD ’99)is COO and general counsel for ImageProducts Inc., a provider of rewards andincentive programs for banks and healthinsurance companies. He and his wife,Laura, and son, Jack, live in Wilmington,NC.1997Stephen Barnes received his MD fromSt. George’s University Medical Schooland has accepted a residency in anesthesiologyat SUNY Upstate Medical Universityin Syracuse, NY. He and his wife,Elizabeth McGill Barnes (’99),haveone daughter, Caroline Margaret (1-1/2).McKenzie Coco is director of momentumdevelopment at Keating MageeMomentum Marketing in New Orleans.Drew Davis (JD ’00) has been namedgeneral counsel to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education.Michael V. Lee (JD) is with SmithMoore LLP in Greensboro, NC. He isone of Business North Carolina’s “LegalElite”in real estate law.C. Aaron Mercer is senior directorof licensing for Sony/ATV Music publishingin Nashville. He will overseethe placement of Sony/ATV’s pop andcountry catalogs in commercials, filmsand television.Jill Archbold Sausser is an attorneyfor the Federal Aviation Administration.She lives in Peachtree City, GA.1998Nathan B. Atkinson is a senior attorneyat Spilman Thomas & Battle PLLC inCharleston, WV. He practices labor andemployment law and commercial litigation.Zachary Bancroft (JD) has beennamed a partner of Lowndes DrosdickDoster Kantor & Reed PA in Orlando, FL.W. Kevin McLaughlin Jr. (JD) hasbeen appointed general counsel of theN.C. Department of Administrationin Raleigh.George W. Sistrunk III (JD) is withHamilton Gaskins Fay & Moon inCharlotte, NC. He has been named toBusiness North Carolina’s “Legal Elite” intheir “Young Guns”category.Ronald Skufca (JD) is the managingpartner of Moretz & Skufca PLLC inCharlotte, NC.Craig A. Taylor (JD ’01) has beennamed a director of Carruthers & RothPA in Greensboro, NC. He is a participantin Leadership Greensboro’s 2006–07class.Kevin G. Williams (JD) is an attorneyand director with Bell Davis & Pitt PAin Winston-Salem. He has been namedone of the “40 Leaders Under 40” byThe Business Journal.1999Jennifer Bumgarner is a policy advisorin the office of the N.C. Governor. Shehas been named to the state advisorypanel of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundationfor a three-year term.Jonathan W. Dion (JD) has beennamed a partner in Parker Poe Adams& Bernstein LLP in Charlotte, NC. Hepractices commercial real estate andcommercial lending.Mary Graciano (MAEd) is pursuingher PhD in English and education atthe University of Michigan.Mark D. Boynton (JD) has beennamed to Business North Carolina’s“Legal Elite” in construction law. He isa partner with Pharr & Boynton PLLCin Winston-Salem.60 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINEKim Schutsky is program director atFerry Beach Ecology School in Saco, ME.She helped produce and publish aninnovative ecology curriculum guide,The ABCs of Ecology: An Educator’s Guideto Learning Outside, (www.fbes.org/Store.html).Ben Harris (MBA) is president ofHarris Contractors Inc. The familyownedbusiness was established in1957 and is celebrating its 50th year.David L. Holden is with Holden Mickey& Mickey Inc. in Winston-Salem. He hasbeen recognized as a leader in productionwith MassMutual Financial Group.

DION (JD ’99) HOLDEN (’99) PERSONS (MS ’00, PHD ’01) HOLMAN (JD ’02) WECHSLER (’02)Mark Sampson (JD) is with WombleCarlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC inGreensboro, NC, in labor and employmentlaw.Cynthia Cox Walsh is CEO of CoxWalsh & Assoc. in Charlotte, NC. Shehas been elected vice president of theCharlotte Jaycees. She serves as treasurerfor the Charlotte Chapter of the Assoc.of Fundraising Professionals and is amember of the board of directors forTeen Health Connection.2000Amelia Fulbright Howard receivedthe Pile-Morgan Fellowship for post-MDiv advanced studies from the AustinSeminary.Mary Suzanne Miller (MD) completedher internship and residency in obstetricsand gynecology at the Wake ForestUniversity Baptist Medical Center. She isa gynecologist with Greensboro (NC)Women’s Health Care.Timothy M. Persons (MS, PhD ’01)is the technical director and chief scientistfor the Disruptive Technology Officeat the Office of the Director of NationalIntelligence in Washington. He receivedthe Director of National IntelligenceFellows Award.Michael Sexauer (MBA) is directorof marketing and communications atPhipps Conservatory and BotanicalGardens in Pittsburgh. He and his wife,Diana, and their twin sons, Cameronand Nathan, live in Mt. Lebanon.Stephanie Fulton Terry received herMBA from the University of PittsburghKatz School of Business. She is a programdevelopment coordinator in globalresourcing at Lowe’s corporate office inMooresville, NC.Danielle Whren received her master’sin library science from the University ofMaryland. She is a digital access librarianat the Loyola/Notre Dame Library inBaltimore.2001Megan Anderson is a vice president inthe institutional equity sales division atBank of America in Chicago.Daniel Beavers received his master’s inbiostatistics from UNC-Chapel Hill. Heis pursuing a PhD in statistics at BaylorUniversity in Waco, TX.Kelly M. Jones earned her MDiv fromthe Campbell University Divinity School.She is director of admissions for theCampbell University Divinity School.Josey Harris Kasper is assistant directorof alumnae affairs at Peace College inRaleigh, NC.Hunt Mayo is a senior global marketingassociate with Eli Lilly & Co. inIndianapolis.April Beeman Metwalli (JD) is chiefof staff to congressman ChristopherCarney, PA. She and her husband, AdamMetwalli (’96, MD ’00), have a daughter,Ellen (2). They live in Washington.Kathryn Alston Robertson is businessmanager in sales and marketing forthe U.S., Canada and Mexico in the passengerlight truck replacement tire businessunit of Continental Tire NorthAmerica Inc. in Charlotte, NC.Alexander Roth (LLM) is a prosecutorin the office of the District Attorney inCoburg, Bavaria.Scott S. Ward (JD) is general counselof the Republican State LeadershipCommittee and has been elected generalcounsel and secretary of the District ofColumbia Republican Party.Robin Whitley is in the U.S. Navy. Shehas been deployed to Afghanistan for ayear.Xinyi “Sunny” Wu (LLM, MSA ’04)is a senior consultant in tax and businessadvisory services for the Beijing branchof Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CP Ltd. inChina.2002Sara Courtney Busch received herJD and MBA from the Case WesternReserve School of Law and WeatherheadSchool of Management. She has beenadmitted to the Pennsylvania Bar and isan associate in the corporate and securitiesgroup of Reed Smith in Pittsburgh.Andy Gruel is an environmental engineerat Ecology & Environment Inc. inBoulder, CO.William Holman (JD) has joinedMichael A. DeMayo LLP in Charlotte,NC. His focus is on civil litigation, personalinjury, wrongful death, workers’compensation, medical malpractice,nursing home negligence and SocialSecurity disability.Brandon Jones (MDiv) is a candidatefor the Mississippi House of RepresentativesDistrict 111.Amy Chastain Moore (PhD) receivedan American Cancer Society PostdoctoralFellowship. She will conduct researchon the molecular causes of acute myeloidleukemia at Vanderbilt University.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2007 61

University Advancement Career OpportunitiesAlumni DirectorThe Office of University Advancement seeks a strategicand collaborative leader to serve as its next Assistant VicePresident and Director of Alumni Activities. The directorreports to the Vice President for University Advancementand is responsible for directing and executing Wake Forest’sAlumni Activities program, which serves a constituency ofmore than 57,000 alumni throughout the United Statesand worldwide.The Alumni Director will be asked to maintain and enhancethe vital connections that alumni have to their friends andclassmates and to Wake Forest. S/he will have overallmanagement responsibility for alumni programs such asHomecoming and reunions, the robust network of WakeForest Clubs in the U.S. and abroad, merchandising andalumni communications. The director will work with theAlumni Council and other alumni volunteer boards togenerate new programs and strengthen existing ones.The director’s goal will be to set the standard for bestpractices in Alumni Activities among peer institutions andto identify and champion opportunities for increased alumniinvolvement in and satisfaction with Wake Forest.The ideal candidate must have experience in leading volunteeror constituent programs that are recognized for theirstrength and effectiveness. S/he will have skills in relationshipbuilding, stewardship, event-driven programming,communications and volunteer board management. Thedirector will also need personal warmth, charisma and theconfidence to serve as a key liaison between Wake Forestand its accomplished and highly diverse alumni population.The ability to travel frequently is essential.Major Gift OfficersThe Office of University Advancement is embarking on anambitious initiative to increase charitable giving and is lookingfor results-oriented, energetic and enthusiastic staffmembers to join the Office of University Development andMajor Gifts.Major Gift officers will be asked to increase Wake Forest’sfundraising capacity through the successful cultivation,solicitation and stewardship of a pool of prospective donorswith the capacity to make gifts in the $50K to $1M range.They will develop and execute prospect management plans,including solicitation strategies, draft proposals, ongoingcultivation and correspondence for prospects.Ideal candidates must have exceptional interpersonal skillsand a proven history of gaining the support and financialcommitment of others. They must demonstrate a clearunderstanding of Wake Forest University, its componentschools and programs and its strategic direction, and havea passion for communicating the University’s needs andpriorities. The ability to travel frequently is essential.For more information, visit the Human Resources Web site:www.wfu.edu/hr/careersWake Forest University is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Aaron Oyarce (LLM) is head of thecorporate department and academiccoordinator of the law school at SanMartin University in Peru. He returnedto the Wake Forest School of Law fora month as a visiting internationalresearcher on comparative corporategovernance.Elizabeth Rumble is the public relationsmanager for SELF magazine. Shelives in New York City.Drew Senter is an associate with Isom& Stanko LLC in Anniston, AL.Maria Toler is pursuing an MBA inmarketing and entrepreneurship at NewYork University’s Leonard N. SternSchool of Business.Maribeth C. Wechsler received her JDfrom Temple University. She practicesgeneral corporate, real estate and businessand finance at Obermayer RebmannMaxwell & Hippell LLP in Philadelphia.2003Ann Curby received her JD from theUniversity of Queensland. She is withClayton Utz in Brisbane, Australia. She isthe daughter of Jon and Vicki MorganCurby (’68) .Stephen M. Hawryluk received hismaster’s in public affairs from UNC-Greensboro. He is a budget analyst forGaston County in Gastonia, NC.Sarah Josephson graduated fromthe University of Louisville School ofMedicine and will begin a residency indermatology at the Medical College ofGeorgia.Jennifer Needham has been acceptedin the MBA program at George WashingtonUniversity’s business school.Jill Sahajdack Rainwater is programmanager of the continuing education andprofessional development department ofa college in Grand Rapids, MI. She alsohas a private practice as a psychotherapist,specializing in eating disorders andpersonal growth. She and her husband,Ben (’02), founded Atlanta Growth &Wellness Inc.Carolyn “Kit” Wilkinson Thomsonworks for the Department of Defensein Washington.2004Courtney Barksdale graduated fromthe University of Texas School of Lawand is a law clerk to a chief judge for theU.S. District Court in Winston-Salem.Mike Buddie is associate director ofdevelopment for major gifts in the WakeForest athletic department. He and hiswife, Traci Tucker Buddie (’95),havetwo children, Zachary (6) and Zoe (3).Young-Soo Chang (LLM) is the managerof the international service departmentof the Korea Securities Depository.Angel Carol Coldiron completed hermaster’s in community counseling, specializingin child and youth counseling,from UNC-Greensboro. She is a familycounselor with Youth Villages Inc. inGreensboro, NC.Charlotte Disher (MDiv) is youthcoordinator at Unity Moravian Churchin Lewisville, NC.Courtney Suzanne Johnson graduatedfrom the University of Florida LevinCollege of Law. She is with King &Spalding LLP in Atlanta.Brian Kulju graduated from theUniversity of Miami School of Law. Hewas a member of the International andComparative Law Review.Young Jo Lim (LLM) is senior engineerand in-house counsel in the intellectualproperty strategy office ofSamsung Electronics Co. in Korea.Kyle Richard Olson earned a master’sin global ethics from King’s CollegeLondon.2005Fusako Kirinuki (LLM) earned a secondLLM from WIPO/Turin UniversityLaw School and completed an internshipwith Societa Italiana Brevetti in Florence,Italy. She returned to Blakemore &Mitsuki in Tokyo.Christopher Daniel Lins (JD) is anassociate practicing business litigationwith MGLAW PLLC in Nashville, TN.Daniel Millares (LLM) is a legal analystin the Organization of AmericanStates’ Mission to Support the PeaceProcess in Colombia.Karen W. Neely (JD) is an associate inthe labor and employment practice groupof Powell Goldstein LLP in Atlanta.Kazuya Shiki (LLM) is manager of thelegal office and manager of the internalcontrol office at Mitsui Mining andSmelting Co. in Tokyo.Pascal Kremp (LLM) is an associateworking in labor and employment lawwith DLA Piper in Frankfurt, Germany.Taylor Materne co-wrote a novel, TheUpper Class (HarperCollins, 2007). Thebook explores the trials, tribulationsand temptations of behind-the-sceneboarding school life.Ashley Dutrow received her master’sin international relations from the Universityof Essex in Colchester, England.Nikeya Green won the 800 meters at the2007 USA Indoor National Championshipsin Boston. She lives in Reston,VA.2006Katherine Royal Bosken (JD) andher husband, Christopher W. Bosken(JD), are with Kilpatrick Stockton LLPin Winston-Salem.Sachiyo Nishie (LLM) is completingan internship at Mintz Levin Cohn FerrisGlovsky & Popeo PC in Boston.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2007 63

MarriagesAltha Smith Satterwhite (’45) andHarold Gallagher. 2/16/07 in Hawaii,according to a story in the Times-Newsin Hendersonville, NC.Elizabeth Hamrick (’82) and AlLeBrun. 12/28/06. They live in HermosaBeach, CA.Jennifer Dolby (’84, MD ’89) andRandall Smith. 12/4/05 in Cabo SanLucas, Mexico. They live in MissionBeach, CA. A reception was held in May2006 in San Diego. Attending wereMelanie Adams (MA ’85, MD ’89),Richard Cooper (MD ’89), Claudia ReynoldsHarris (’84) and Phil Wenzell (’84).Anne K. Pollard (’89) and KeeneHaywood. 11/2006. They live inWashington.Carl Harnett King (’91) and StacyLynn Wood. 5/28/06 in Columbia, SC.Alisha L. Hogue (’92) and Donovan S.Corneetz. 7/15/06 in Wait Chapel. Thewedding party included Paula Goodwin(’92) and Kwamine Simpson (’92). PamWard (’92) attended.Laurie Levie (’93) and Cary Estes.3/3/07 in Birmingham, AL. In attendancewere Greg Brondos (’90, MAEd ’93),Kristin DeHaven (’93), Chris Meta (’92,MA ’94), Rachel Godsoe Meta (’93), TinaHartsell Upshaw (’89) and Kim Walsh (’93).Jennifer Lynn Wheless (’93) andDavid Pearce Campbell Jr. 11/25/06 inRichmond,VA, where they live.Jeanie Marklin (’95) and JohnnyReynolds. 11/10/06 in Blowing Rock, NC.Attending were Jamie Vacca Chambliss(’94), Will Chambliss (’96), Jennifer Jones(’95), Will Marklin (’90) and AshleySimmons Thurmond (’94).Megan McLaughlin (’96) and LouisBeaubien. 10/21/06 in Halifax, NovaScotia. They live in Pawtucket, RI.Xandra Timmermans (’97) and TimMoran. 12/12/06 in Costa Rica. They liveoutside Philadelphia. Katie High (’97)attended.YOUR GIFT MAKES A DIFFERENCE!The Annual Funds—which include the College and Calloway Funds,Babcock, Divinity, Law and Medical Funds—provide unrestricted support toWake Forest. Unrestricted funds are used where the needs are greatest—inareas like student aid, faculty funds and study-abroad programs.HOW WILL YOUR GIFT HELP?Your gift will help Wake Forest continue to be one of only 28 schools thatoffer “need-blind” admissions — which means we do not consider a student’sfinancial status when making the admissions decision, and we committo meeting a student’s full financial need.Tuition does not cover the full cost to educate Wake Forest students. Privategifts to the University make up that difference. Your gift will help ensure thatthe students of today and tomorrow can continue to enjoy the same outstandingexperiences alumni had during their time on campus.Donor participation—or the percentage of alumni who give to theUniversity—is an important measure used in the annual U.S. News andWorld Report rankings. When you make a gift, you build our donor participationrate, which will impact our rankings.Your gift will have both an immediate and lasting impact. Please add yourname to the list of those who support the Annual Funds.Make your gift today at www.wfu.edu/alumni/giving or mail it to P. O. Box 7227, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227.For questions, please call 800.752.8568.the ANNUAL FUNDSCollege Fund • Calloway Fund • Law Fund • Babcock Fund • Divinity School Fund • Medical Alumni Association Fund64 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Ellen Stanley Cross (’98) and DanielMichael Feeney. 10/8/06. The weddingparty included Andrea Caro (JD ’01),Sheri Rights Marchiori (’98) and KristinMuzina (’98). Attending were JenniferGentile (’98) and Chantal Dilzer Mahon(’98).Richard T. Galinski (’99) and WendiL. Garrett (’03). 10/28/06 in Winston-Salem. The wedding party includedChrissy Davis (’03), Alan R. Dickinson(’98), Amy Bradley Dunning (’03), JustinE. Dunning (’02), Rebecca L. Ellington(MA ’02), Alicia Garrett McArthur (’98)and Jordan D. Wong (’99).Mary Graciano (MAEd ’99) andDaniel Mertsch. 8/06. They live inGermany.John Mark Sampson (JD ’99) andMary Suzanne Miller (MD ’00).10/21/06 in Pinehurst, NC. They live inGreensboro, NC.Jennifer A. Cianelli (’00) and John R.Cooper Jr. (’01). 6/18/06 in Newport,RI. They live in Charlotte, NC. The weddingparty included Aaron Baer (’01),Michael Capizzani (’02), Jannella Dash(’00), Derek DeGrass (’01), StephenHawryluk (’03), Rebecca Jones (’00), TylerMiddleton (’00), Anthony Nicastro (’01,JD ’05), Zachary Palmer (’01) and Jill“Spillane”Sutton (’00).Daniel Beavers (’01) and KristenBeam. 8/5/06 in Chapel Hill, NC. Theylive in Waco, TX. The wedding partyincluded Philip J. Beavers (’71), JenniferBeavers Bland (’03), Scott Cislo (’98) andTamara Beavers Cislo (’99).Andrea Doyle Brooks (’01) andRichard Charles Fuquay. 6/24/06 inDallas. They live in Denver. The weddingparty included Emily Chapin Lewis (’01),Brooke Woods McCollum (’01) andMatthew Drew Talley (’01).Ellison Susanne Craig (’01) andChristopher Edward Laskowski. 10/28/06in Doylestown, PA. They live in Washington.The wedding party includedAmanda Jackson Goodwin (’01), LibbyPhelps Langsdale (’02) and CameronGrant Smith (’01).Amanda Jean Getman (’01) andTimothy Cribbs. 7/22/06. The weddingparty included Laura Hurd Bilton (’01),Michelle Brack (’01), Chrissina GetmanBurns (’98) and Jessica Wolfing Morgan(’02).Dennis Healy (’01) and Jessica Ziady.3/3/07 in Miami. They live in Norwood,MA. The wedding party included JaredKlose (’01), Bradshaw Lentz (’01) andBrenton McConkey (’01). Attending wereMadeleine Bayard (’01), David Feldser (’00),Nathan Huff (’01), Betsy BreckheimerRussell (’01), Lawrence Tyler Russell (’01)and Shayne Tongbua (’02).Anna Binford Lake (’01) and BirdDaniel Blitch. 7/29/06 in Cashiers, NC.They live in Atlanta. The bride is thedaughter of Ralph Binford Lake (’67). Thewedding party included Emilie KatherineJohnson (’01), Elizabeth Lake Lovett (’98)and John Watkins Lovett (’98).Katie Gayle Potts (’01, MAEd ’03)and Geoffrey Scott Thompson. 12/16/06in Greensboro, NC. The bride’s mother isBarbara H. Potts (’74). The wedding partyincluded Paige Hunt Gialanella (’01),Melissa Bryce Perkins (’02, MSA ’02),Mary Elizabeth Pierson (’00) and KaraKam Hee Wallace (’01).Alexander Roth (LLM ’01) and Britta.8/06. The live in Bamberg, Germany.William “Will” Barrett (’02, MBA ’06)and Jessica Sumner. 8/19/06 in Boone,NC. They live in Winston-Salem. Thewedding party included Adam Foster (’04),Dustin Knutson (’02), Brian Shaw (’03,MSA ’04) and Jon Spivey (’02, MSA ’03).Craig Robert Brodersen (’02, MS ’03)and Christine Marie Manuck (’03).9/23/06 in Farmington, CT. They live inBurlington,VT. The wedding partyincluded Jennifer Schneider Camp (’03),Andrea Lavin (’03), Tracy Manuck (’99,MD ’03), Jeffrey Margevich (’03) and JohnRoyall (’02, MSA ’03). Attending wereCarolyn Conner (’03), Erin Lichtenstein(’03), Rebecca Lundin (’03) and DeborahShelton (’03).John Snowden Manning (’02) andVictoria Nicole Huntley (’02). 9/9/06in Charlotte, NC. The groom’s motherwas the late Carolina Hudnall Manning(MS ’80, PhD ’87). The bride’s father isDanny Edward Huntley (’73, MD ’77).The wedding party included MichaelCharles Bounds (’02), David RichardsonElliott (’76), John Poole Elliott (’73), ReidHarden Harris (’02), Mary Alice Mitchell(’97), Thomas Zimmerman Mitchell (’96),Chad Austin Pugh (’02), Laura ManningRiley (’93) and Justan Alan Treadway(’02).David McKenzie (’02) and AnnaChrietzberg (’03). 1/6/07 inJacksonville, FL. The wedding partyincluded Leslyn Cooper (’02), BuckyDohn (’02), Jessica Doss (’03), BrandtGoodwin (’03), Allen Hobbs (’02), TrippLumpkin (’02), Jennifer Meeks (’03),Bryson Powell (’02),Vanessa Vinsant (’03)and Bo Walker (’02).Andrew Gordon Pittard (’02) andLauren Bea Richardson. 10/28/06 inMount Pleasant, SC. They live inBrentwood, TN. The wedding partyincluded the groom’s father, William B.Pittard III (’68), brother and sister-in law,William B. Pittard IV (’96) and MelanieAngiollilo Pittard (’96), Nick Dahm (’02),Cary Hudgins (’03), T.J. Martin (’02), RyanNewth (’02) and David Ryan (’01).Jennifer K. Ream (’02) and AndrewPellegrin. 12/30/06 in Boston. They live inWichita Falls, TX. The wedding partyincluded Jamie Raudensky (’02), EmberRigsby (’02) and Beth Wehrly (’02).Caroline Kirby Tyson (’02) andBradley Ryan Cox (’03). 3/31/07 inPinehurst, NC. They live in ColoradoSprings, CO. The wedding party includedMary Claire Hodges (’02), Evan Kistler(’04), Jess McKay (’03), Sean Simons (’03),Bryan Watts (’02), Cristofer Wiley (’03,MAEd ’04) and graduate student JasonTyson. Attending were Noelle Cutts (’02),Bill Davis (JD ’66), Rusty Duke (’70,JD ’74), Lia Erickson (’99, MD ’03),Bonnie Fenton (’03, MSA ’04), JonathanFenton (’03, MSA ’04), Hal Goff (MBA’77), Mary Ellen Kistler (’04), TracyMcKay (’03), Erin Pearson (’02), Meaganwww.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2007 65

Seymour (’02), Anna Shaw (’06),Adrianne Thompson (’03), HunterThompson (’03), law students KarlAmelchenko and Jeff Kuykendall andmedical student Ashley Barber.Stan Browning (JD ’03) and AgnesLepine. 2/16/07. They live in Atlanta.John Colavincenzo (’03) and BethanyGiles. 7/1/06 in Pittsburgh. They live inWashington. The wedding party includedLucy Colavincenzo (’06), Chris Mauney(’03), Travis Vesel (’03) and Danny Vichot(’03). Attending were Brian Bochow (’03),Carol Collier (’06), Jon Harkey (’03),Alexandra Hull (’06), John Kiss (’03,MSA ’04), Will Pittman (’00, JD/MBA ’05),David Riedel (’03), Drew Ritting (’03,MD ’07), Eric Rumberger (’03, MSA ’04),Jessica Sams (’03) and junior Lisa Brett.Cynthia Ellen Szejner (’03) andJonathan Todd Gross. 10/14/06 inNashville, TN, where they live. The weddingparty included MBA student EmilyBlake Hinman (’03), Tricia Pribula (’03),Elizabeth Setterlin (’03) and Kristen Stutz(’03). Attending were Jennifer BeaversBland (’03), Emily Dolim (’03, MAEd ’05),Christine Dorney (’04), Kate Farber (’04),Laura Hall (’04), Lauren Magnetti (’03),Nicole Murphey (’03) and CarolineSatterfield (’05).Jennifer Leigh Watkins (’03) andJosh Anspach Hanson. 12/30/06. Thewedding party included Elizabeth Condo(’03), Anna Curnes (’03), Jessie Davis(’03), Mary Craven Hines (’03), KathleenStelling Hodgson (’03), Sarah Mastalir(’03), Carrington Rice (’03) and SarahWilson (’03).Joseph Adell McGowen (’04) andAshley Paige Weston (’05). 8/13/05in Winston-Salem. The wedding partyincluded Margaret Bussmann (’06),George Fleeson (’04), Justin Kamlade(’04), Jayme Persons (’05) and KarenRiddle (’05).Erin Elizabeth Wiseman (’04) andJim White IV. 5/27/06 in Orlando, FL.They live in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Thewedding party included Jocelyn Farmer(’04), Greer Raggio (’04) and Kiley Smith(’04). Hillary Poole (’04) attended.Lindsay Butler (’05) and JonathanOparowski (’05). 2/24/07 in Miami. Thewedding party included Emily Hedgpeth(’05), Kyle Kraner (’05), Paul Mayer (’05),Chris Meulemans (’05), Sarah Ross (’05),and Lauren Roedersheimer (’06) .Joan Fort Fraser (’03) and SethRhodes Poston. 7/1/06 in Roswell, GA.They live in Nashville, TN. The weddingparty included Emily Blake Hinman (’03),Kate Hitzhusen (’05) and MelanieMcMillan (’03).David Willingham Lentz (’03) andKelsey Raine Scofield (’05). 4/14/07in Mt. Pleasant, NC. They live in Charlotte,NC. The bride’s father is Robert J.Scofield (’74), and her uncle is DouglasH. Scofield (’78). The wedding partyincluded Justin Barius (’03), Jonas Blomqvist(’03), Zach Collings (’05), KristenBest Farrell (’05), Retta Franklin (’05),Dave Hanson (’05), Kenny Jacob (’02),Cassie Kirby-Smith (’05), Jessica Long(’05), Scott Newbern (’03) and CareyScheible (’04).Adam John Reilly (’03, MS ’05) andElizabeth Anne Perez (’03). 5/20/06 inBethesda, MD. They live in Silver Spring,MD. Father Jude DeAngelo officiated.The wedding party included JosephAntrosio (’05), Jessica Fegan (’03), BrianHeaton (’03) and Kelli Karasiewicz (’03).Carolyn “Kit” Wilkinson (’03) andMatt Neill Thomson Jr. 1/13/07 inNashville, TN. They live in Washington.The wedding party included VictoriaThatcher Wilkinson (’06). Attending wereAmanda Winston Monschein (’02),Jennifer Lynne Newman (’03, PA ’06),David Safer (’03), Laura Anna Sandy(’03), Nandana Surendra Shenoy (’02),Hillary Claire Thompson (’02) and EmmaJane White (’02).Heather Aimee Altenbern (’04) andKenneth Warren Poe Jr. (’04). 9/9/06in Charlotte, NC, where they live. Thewedding party included Emily Brown(’04), Scott Cleveland (’04), Anna Groos(’04), Rachel Harris (’04), Katie Mills (’04),Robbie Mills (’04), Grant Mitchell (’04),Jenny Pinkard (’04), Katie Rigby (’04),Douglas Saunders (’04) and PhillipSimson (’04).Carolynn R. Gebo (’04) andKristopher H. Majak (’04). 10/7/06in Wellesley Island, NY. They live inCharlotte, NC. The wedding party includedJoseph Bennett (’04), Robert Brooks(’05), Nathalie Davis (’05), AdriannaHenson (’05) and Meredith Laughridge(’04). Attending were John Cross (’04),Robert James (’05), Beth Laughridge (’71)and Digit Laughridge (’69).Hideyuki Kohata (LL.M ’05) andTomoe Yamaga. 9/18/06 in Hiroshima,Japan.Tara D. Watford (MBA ’05) andTimothy D. LeBlanc (MBA ’05). 3/3/07in Austin, TX. They live in Charlotte,NC. The wedding party included KevinCumbus (MBA ’05). Attending were KatieCumbus (JD ’06), Rodolfo Fernandez(MBA ’05), Adam Harrington (MBA ’05),Chris Hughes (MBA ’05), John Macrini(MBA ’05), D.J. O’Brien (JD ’06), MegO’Brien (MBA ’05), Lori Englebert Street(’00, MBA ’05), Chris Victory (MBA ’05)and David Webb (MBA ’05).Christopher W. Bosken (JD ’06) andKatherine M. Royal (JD ’06). 8/19/06in Winston-Salem. The wedding partyincluded Ann Arfken (JD ’06), BarbaraFitzgerald (JD ’06) and Amanda Zimmer(JD ’06). Attending were Mark Bentley(JD ’06), Kelly Gidcumb (’00, JD ’06), SaadGul (JD ’06), Heather McKinney (JD ’06),William Reavis (JD ’05) and Peter Zellmer(JD ’06).66 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Births/AdoptionsStephen Loftis (’82) and Lee BeasleyLoftis, Marshall, NC: a son, ColinGregory. 3/20/07Stephen G. Teague (JD ’83) andTuyen Teague, Greensboro, NC: a son,Jacob Andrew. 12/18/06Andrea Herring Morris (’87) and W.Castlen Morris Jr. (’88), High Point,NC: a daughter, Addison Elyse. 8/24/06.She joins her sister, Maren (9).Elisabeth Willis Paisley (’87) andTed Paisley, Roanoke,VA: a son, SamuelWorth. 1/26/06. He joins his brother,Breece (8).Peter S. Van Nort (’89, MBA ’94) andKelly Coll Van Nort (’92), Atlanta: ason, Peter “Edward.” 2/20/07. He joins hissisters, Alaina (8) and Chloe (5).David Dresser (’90) and Tracy Dresser,Annandale,VA: a son, James “Sam”Patrick. 2/19/07. He joins his sisters,Molly (3) and Delia Ann (3).Patrick Lemons (’90) and AllisonLemons, Charlotte, NC: a daughter,Caroline Selby. 6/13/06Peter Nielsen (’90) and Susan Nielsen,Summerville, SC: a son, Michael Paul.2/2/07. He joins his sisters, Kirsten (11),Megan (9) and Hannah (5).Paula Koutsogeorgas Duringer (’91)and Thomas A. Duringer, Charlotte, NC:a son, Wyatt Christian. 3/16/07. He joinshis brother, Lucas (3).Amy House (’91) and Ralph Gillies,Augusta, GA: a son, Owen Micah. 8/26/05Wiley Reed (’91) and Diane Reed,Denver: a son, Hannan. 5/31/06Rosalind Tedford (’91, MA ’94) andPatrick Morton (MA ’97, MBA ’02),Winston-Salem: a son, Sean Patrick.10/31/06. He joins his sister, Erin Nicole(3).Laurie Fischer Beck (’92) and JulianDavid Beck (’92), Atlanta: a son, OwenEdward. 8/13/06Emily Carter Dunton (’92) andStephen Dunton, Arlington,VA: a son,Samuel Christian. 12/30/06. He joins hisbrother, Harrison (3).Jennifer Eanes Foster (’92) andGreg Foster, Atlanta: a daughter,Eleanor “Ellie” Sarah. 6/7/06. She joinsher brother, Jack (3).Daniel Geijer (’92) and Allison Geijer,Thailand: a son, Nathanael Corban.1/21/07. He joins his brother, Joseph (5),and sister, Anna (3).Amy Goebel Henry (’92) and TravisHill Henry, Knoxville, TN: a daughter,Katherine Diane. 2/5/06Stefanie Rodwell Jones (’92) andJustin Jones, Clemmons, NC: a son,Elijah “Eli” Samuel. 2/1/07. He joins hisbrother, Jon David.Catherine Wisner Taylor (’92) andE. Derek Taylor (’93), Richmond,VA:a daughter, Annalee Ware. 10/3/06. Shejoins her sister, Abigail (5), and brother,Sawyer (2).Nancy Rodwell Tuohy (’92) andChris Tuohy (MD ’01), Nashville, TN:a son, William Gardner. 9/6/06. He joinshis brother, Patrick (3).Courtney Woods Baum (’93) andDavid Baum, Atlanta: a son, WilliamConnolly. 9/13/06. He joins his sister,Cameron Grace.Steven William Braskamp (’93) andCaroline Gupton Braskamp (’97,MAEd ’98), Allen, TX: a daughter,Sophia Grace. 8/8/06Kevin Cryblskey (’93) and LaurenCryblskey, Alpharetta, GA: a son, OwenBradford. 9/6/06. He joins his brother,Jack Edward.Deborah Stumpf Curtis (’93) andJason T. Curtis, Clayton, NC: a son,Nicholas Austin. 5/17/06. He joins hissister, Bailey Lynn (5).Merisue Huffman Donovant (’93,MBA ’01) and George David Donovant,Winston-Salem: a daughter, MorganReece. 1/1/07. She joins her sisters,Briana (11) and Meagan (5).Heather Sager Fedeli (’93) andAndrew Fedeli, Greenbrae, CA: a son,Nicholas Ray. 11/18/06Jennifer Dework Katz (’93) and JoelKatz, Newport Beach, CA: a son, SamuelDavid. 9/8/06. He joins his brothers, Max(4) and Nate (2).Laura Manning Riley (’93) and SeanRiley, Charlotte, NC: a son, Jackson “Jack”Patrick. 12/12/06Patricia Clinard Alfing (’94) andJoshua Alfing, Chesapeake,VA: a daughter,Roseanna Kay. 10/7/05K. Todd Barfield (’94) and Anna K.Barfield, Oceanport, NJ: a son, KevinChristopher. 6/26/06. He joins hisbrother, Griffin.Carolyn Armstrong Calkins (’94)and Brian Calkins, Cincinnati: a daughter,Kayla Lynn. 9/23/06Joseph W. Dickson (’94) and ElizabethDickson, Chattanooga, TN: a daughter,Molly Kate. 1/26/07. She joins her sisters,Emily and Morgan, and brothers, Jake,Aidan and Alex.Lisa Hedden Edler (’94) and RobEdler (’94), Lawrenceville, GA: a daughter,Dana Mae. 1/22/07. She joins her sister,Elisabeth (6), and brother, Scott (4).Hollis Singleton Marek (’94) andJoseph Marek (JD ’01), Matthews,NC: twin daughters, Julia and Effie.9/13/06. They join their sister, Sadie (2).Ian Mayville (’94) and RachealMayville, Boca Raton, FL: a daughter,Audrey. 2/11/06Cherie Van Der Sluys Nagel (’94)and Scott Nagel, Trumbull, CT: a daughter,Abigail Helen. 7/31/06. She joins herbrother, Nathan (2).www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2007 67

Will Nolan (’94) and Stephen Kaplan,Bogota, NJ: adopted a son, MichaelPatrick. 9/21/06Laura Whipple Dollyhigh (’96) andSamuel Dollyhigh, Detroit: a son, JackMonroe. 1/16/06Bryan Chitwood (’97) and JodiChitwood, Atlanta: a daughter, AllisonBrooke. 2/5/07Rachel Kuhn Stinehelfer (’94)and Danny Stinehelfer, Durham, NC:a daughter, Claudia Jane. 2/1/07. Shejoins her brother, Henry (2).David Scott Chapman (’95) and PeggyChapman, Charlotte, NC: a son, MatthewDavid. 2/2/07. He joins his sister, Lauren(2).Nathan A. Jones (’95, MBA ’06) andMonica Jones, Winston-Salem: a son,William Deacon. 3/13/07. He joins hisbrothers, Ian (5) and Henry (2).John Green (’96) and Andrea Green,Chattanooga, TN: a daughter, Caroline.2/6/07Jessica Wadkins Griege (’96) andCharles Griege, Dallas: a son, CooperWadkins. 3/21/07. He joins his brother,Charlie (5), and sister, Amelia Grace (3).William A. “Tony” Hooker (’96) andMelissa Hooker, Concord, NC: a daughter,Madelyn Youmei. 4/23/06, adopted2/26/07. She joins her brothers, Logan(4), Nate (1) and Andrew (1).Meredith Razook Granese (’97) andSteven Anthony Granese (’98), St.Petersburg, FL: a son, Carson Anthony.1/24/07James Edward Kelley II (’97) andSuzanne Anne Blakeney Kelley (’98),Charleston, SC: a daughter, BlakeneyElizabeth. 12/5/06.Amy Christine Glotzbach Moll (’97)and Charles Moll, Fenton, MO: a daughter,Brooke Leanne. 3/27/07. She joins hersister, Sarah (2).Jeffrey A. Kramer (JD ’95) andHeather Kramer, Far Hill, NJ: a son,Timothy Joseph. 4/27/06. He joins hissister, Sophie Elizabeth (4).Amanda Lane Long (’95) and AndrewLong, Greenville, SC: a daughter, StellaElise. 1/1/07Christopher John Leonard (’96,JD ’99) and Laura Curlee Leonard,Wilmington, NC: a son, Christopher“Jack”John Jr. 10/27/06Charlotte Dillon Little (’96) andRandy Little (’97), New York: adaughter, Reagan Gwyn. 2/28/07Matthew Shurts (’97) and SarahHovis Shurts (’97), Butler, NJ: a son,Nathaniel Thomas. 5/18/06Tricia White Sistrunk (JD ’97) andGeorge W. Sistrunk (JD ’98),Charlotte, NC: a son, Luke Gordon.1/17/06. He joins his brother, Garrett (3).Peter J. Mohler (’95) and NancyLeCroy Mohler (’94), Iowa City, IA:a daughter, Caroline LeCroy. 8/28/06.She joins her sister, Ella (2).Amanda Muelchi Price (’95) and JayPrice, Raleigh, NC: a daughter, SarahScarlett. 4/6/07. She joins her sister,Kaitlyn Marie (4).Toby Wells (MBA ’95) and FrancesWells, Pinehurst, NC: a daughter, LydiaLouise. 1/19/07David W. Alexander (’96) and AnnAlexander, Mt. Pleasant, SC: a son, JohnWilliam. 4/12/07. He joins his brother,David “Mac”McKnitt (1 1/2).Kelly Green Clay (JD ’96) andWilliam Clay, Raleigh, NC: a son, William“Liam”Charles. 12/16/06. He joins hissisters, Rebekah and Rachel.Michael DeFrank (’96) and JessicaThompson DeFrank (’97), Raleigh,NC: a daughter, Paloma Isabel. 12/26/06Kelly Bumgarner Trenchard (’96,MSA ’97) and Matthew Trenchard(’98), Clemmons, NC: a son, NoahMatthew. 9/18/06Norbert Woodruff Weldon (’96) andMary Weldon, Summit, NJ: a daughter,Abigail Jane. 2/20/07. She joins herbrother, Thomas (2).Helen Knapp West (’96) and KevinWest, Norcross, GA: twin daughters,Elizabeth Ruth and Allison Margaret.10/12/06. They join their brothers,Andrew (3) and Colin (2).Paul Becker (’97) and KristenGilbride Becker (’99), Hamburg, NY:a son, Cameron Martin. 4/15/06Frederick Way Booth III (’97) andKristin Booth, Hawthorne, NJ: a daughter,Kellen Farrell. 3/28/07. She joins herbrother, Connor (2).Owen C. Bouton (’97) and MerrieHatch Bouton (’97, MSA ’98),Dunwoody, GA: a daughter, HannahBlanche. 10/13/06. She joins her sister,Presley (3).Kaci Starbuck (’97) and M.S.M.Saifullah, Singapore: a son, Anas Ibn.1/13/07. He joins his brothers, Asadullah(born in India) and Yusuf (born in theU.K.), and sister, Rumaysa (born in theU.S.).Kimberly Alexander Bogert (’98)and Tim Bogert, Charlotte, NC: a son,Alexander “Xan.” 2/1/07Alex Brown (’98) and GeorgeannBrown, Cincinnati: a daughter, AnneliseDeVries. 10/2/06Matthew Gilley (’98) and JenniferGreer Gilley (’98), Spartanburg, SC: ason, Avery Garrison. 12/8/06. He joins hisbrother, Owen (3).David W. Joyner (’98, MSA ’99) andCaitlin Maier Joyner (’99), Nokomis,FL: a son, Austin David. 1/1/07Keith A. Krut (’98) and EmilieLapeyre Krut (’98), Kensington, MD:a son, Thomas Joseph. 12/1/0668 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Mark George Makovec (’98,MAEd ’99) and Allison Makovec,Virginia Beach,VA: a son, Mark “Austin.”1/2/07. He joins his brothers, MasonGarrett (4-1/2) and Morgan John (2).Andrew O. Mathews (’98) andWhitney Montague Mathews (’99),Richmond,VA: a son, Andrew Beauford.3/6/07Mike Riley (’98, MAEd ’00) andSummer Shaw Riley (’01), Winston-Salem: a son, Andrew Michael. 12/25/06.He joins the twins, Connor (2) andHannah (2).Leslie Shively Robinson (’98,MSA ’99) and Paul Robinson, Hanover,NH: a daughter, Charlotte Rose. 2/9/07.She joins her sister, Rebecca Kate (2).Ronald A. Skufca (JD ’98) and SilviaSkufca, Charlotte, NC: a daughter, LiaSummer. 3/8/07. She joins her brothers,Dane (6) and Alan (3).Elizabeth Thalhimer Smartt (’98)and Ryan Smartt, Richmond,VA: adaughter, Lyla Morgan. 2/19/07Douglas W. Thiessen (JD ’98) andSarah Thiessen, West River, MD: adaughter, Charlotte Rose. 11/16/06. Shejoins her sisters, Hannah (9) and Heidi(3), and brother, Taylor (7).Allyson Hilton Yanni (’98) and JasonYanni (’99), Charlotte, NC: a daughter,Caroline Marie. 2/15/07Christine Calareso Bleecker (’99)and David Bleecker, Laguna Niguel, CA:a son, Benjamin David. 2/11/07Jennifer Mermans Bruno (JD ’99)and Barry Bruno (MBA ’99), Princeton,NJ: a daughter, Aerin Elizabeth. 12/31/06.She joins her brother, Nicholas (2).Benjamin Eckert (’99) and AndreaMorrison Eckert (’99), Pennington, NJ:a son, Ethan Morrison. 2/27/07. He joinshis brother, Eli (2).Elise Murphy Forrest (’99) and JohnForrest, Chevy Chase, MD: a daughter,Maren Elisabeth. 3/8/07Steve Frasher (’99) and LindyKrzyzewski Frasher (’99), Durham,NC: a son, Spencer “Quin.” 7/26/06William Morrison Kennedy (’99)and Sarah Kennedy, Round Rock, TX:a daughter, Sloane McGill. 12/19/06Justin Lefevre (JD ’99) andMargaret Lunger Lefevre (JD ’00),Davidson, NC: a son, Ryan Charles.2/8/07. He joins his brother, Will (2).Kelly Wolff Lyman (’99) and DustinLyman (’99), Chicago: a daughter,Olivia Elizabeth. 1/5/07Leslie Rush Spurrier (’99) and MattSpurrier, Lititz, PA: a son, Simeon Cole.12/16/06Robert Yurkutat (’99) and BarbaraMathes Yurkutat (’99), Winston-Salem: twin daughters, Anna Graceand Caroline Joy. 8/3/06Karen Fort Bordas (’00, MSA ’01)and Matthew Bordas, Houston: a son,Ryan Matthew. 9/15/06. He joins his sister,Anna Kristine (1 1/2).Anne-Marie LeBlanc Davis (’00) andAaron Davis, Portland, ME: a daughter,Vivian Skye. 8/20/06. She joins her brother,Owen (3).Tiska Kennedy Farnham (’00) andKevin Farnham, Raleigh, NC: a daughter,Kennedy Ann. 8/1/06Erin Elizabeth Foley (’00) andMichael Lewis, Alexandria,VA: twindaughters, Blair Elizabeth and KirinReese. 12/25/06. They join their sister,Madelyn Grace.Jennifer McCarthy Kindy (’00) andJeremy D. Kindy (’01), Winston-Salem: a son, Timothy Aaron. 1/14/07. Hejoins his brother, Daniel Alexander (3).Jennifer Pollock Mueller (’00) andMatt Mueller, Timonium, MD: a daughter,Ann Stuart McEvoy. 5/31/06. Shejoins her sister, Hadley (1).Pamela J. Simmons (JD ’00) andJeremy Simmons, Jacksonville, FL: adaughter, Heidi Nicole. 11/8/06. She joinsher sisters, Kate Elizabeth (4) and LaurenEmily (2).Cheryl B. Smith (MBA) and BryanSmith, New Bern, NC: a daughter, PeytonSloan. 3/15/07Marc Andrew Snyder (’00) andRonda King Snyder (’00), Charlotte,NC: a son, Owen Patrick. 2/21/07. Hejoins his brother, Caleb Andrew (2).Stephen Arndt (’01) and JamieLemke Arndt (’01), Jacksonville, FL:a son, Thomas Stephen. 2/24/07Jennifer Warren Barnett (’01) andMark Barnett, Morrisville, NC: a son,Colin Charles. 7/19/06Sandra McCullough Bowen (MA ’01)and Jamie Bowen, Garner, NC: a son,Drake Edward. 11/1/06Jay Hemphill (JD ’01) and MelindaSeamans Hemphill (JD ’02),Pittsboro, NC: a son, Hayes Randolph.6/17/06. The grandparents are LauraThomson Hemphill (’71) and JamesLowell Hemphill (’69), and his auntLaura Turner Hemphill (’07).Klemens Keferboeck (LLM ’01)and Anna Keferboeck,Vienna, Austria:a daughter, Lili. 2/16/07Nicole True Cedarleaf (JD ’02) andKarl Per Cedarleaf, Webster, NY: a son,Gunnar Michael. 7/5/06Nicolas Mutis (MBA ’02) and SilviaMutis, Richmond,VA: a daughter, Olivia.2/9/07. She joins her sister, Sofia (2).Eric C. Trosch (JD ’02) and ElizabethThornton Trosch (JD ’02), Charlotte,NC: a son, Joseph Theodore. 4/1/07. Hejoins his brother, Alexander.Robyn Byrd Michalove (MDiv ’03)and Aaron Michalove, Fort Worth, TX:a daughter, Allison Ellen. 3/22/07www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2007 69

DeathsBill Haywood Kinsey (’35), Feb. 23,2007, Washington, NC. He went to veterinaryschool at Alabama PolytechnicInstitute and received his DVM in 1941from Auburn University.Herman Moorman Abbitt Sr. (’36),April 9, 2007, Louisa,VA. He served in theU.S. Army during World War II, operatedVillage Drug Store in Highland Springs,VA, and worked at the Appomattox (VA)Rexall Drug Store.Louis Ward Alexander (’37), Jan. 31,2007, Raleigh, NC. He was director oftransportation for the North CarolinaDepartment of Education, retiring after42 years.James V. Dooney (’38), Feb. 4, 2007,Galloway Township, NJ. He served in theU.S. Navy and retired as an inspectorafter 40 years with the Atlantic CityPolice Department. After retiring, hereturned to the department as a civilianemployee in the property and evidenceunit.Herbert Tallie Dupree (’39), Jan. 9,2007, Angier, NC. He served in the U.S.Marine Corps during World War II. Hewas assistant principal, coach and biologyteacher at Coats High School, retiringafter 33 years. He was owner of DupsAuto Parts in Angier for 59 years. He wasa member of the Educators Hall of Fameat East Carolina University.Guerrant H. Ferguson Jr. (’39), Feb.2, 2007, Penn Valley, PA. He was a retiredfamily practitioner.Frank Strong Parrott (’39, MD ’41),March 11, 2007, Salisbury, NC. He servedin the Army Medical Corps and completedhis surgical residency at BaltimoreCity Hospital. He was a surgeon at DavisHospital in Salisbury and had a privatepractice until his retirement in 1985. Heenjoyed 50 years in the Salisbury RotaryClub and was a Paul Harris Fellow. Afterretirement, he attended Rowan-CabarrusCommunity College and developed hishobby of making furniture.Ralph Copeland Harris (’42), March29, 2007, Rockingham, NC. He workedfor the Federal Crop Insurance Programof the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture in Washington.He established a Southern LifeInsurance Agency, taught adult educationclasses and was dean of eveningprograms at Richmond CommunityCollege. He retired as RCC’s first DeanEmeritus.James Baxter Turner Jr. (’42), March20, 2007, Raleigh and Banner Elk, NC. Hewas a former member of the University’sboard of trustees and a past president ofthe Deacon Club. He was the owner andpresident of Pender Mfg. & Supply Co.and the Turner companies in Raleigh andColumbia, SC. He served in the MarineCorps during World War II and Korea asa carrier and land-based pilot of F4UCorsairs in the Black Sheep Squadron,providing close air support to groundtroops in the South Pacific, and receivedthe Distinguished Flying Cross in eachconflict. He is survived by his wife, Ann,and four children, James BaxterTurner III (’73); Ann Merrick Turner“Dida” Parrott (’74, MBA ’79) andhusband Robert Johnson Parrott(MBA ’79); Frank Judson Turner(’77) and wife Lee; and Ruth DudleyTurner Camp (’84) and husbandRobert; seven grandchildren and threegreat-grandchildren.Joseph Garrott Browder (’43),Feb.12, 2007, Winston-Salem. He retired aslieutenant commander of the Civil EngineerCorps of the U.S. Navy Reserves after35 years. He was an assistant bridgeengineer with Southern Railway System,and superintendent, project manager,division chief engineer and site managerfor McDevitt & Street Co., retiring in1992. He is survived by his wife, Carlotta;and four children, Donna B. Moyer(’75), Becky B. Neustadt, Timothy M.Browder (’78) and Kevin L. Browder(’84); and five grandchildren.Thomas J.M. Burnett (’45, MD ’46),Feb. 9, 2007, Charlotte, NC. He was aretired radiologist and a generous donorto Wake Forest, who established a unitrustto fund scholarships in the college,medical school and divinity school.Following a tour of duty as a medicalofficer at U.S. naval hospitals in Tennesseeand Japan, he entered private practicein Greenville, SC. He joined MecklenburgRadiology of Charlotte in 1956and was also a radiology and nuclearmedicine specialist at PresbyterianHospital until retiring in 1985. He issurvived by his wife, Iris Willis (’44),and children, Dianne Sanchez (’70),Mike Burnett, Beth McGinley and TomBurnett Jr. (’81).Donald Floyd “Don” Bunn (’46),Feb.3, 2007, Richmond,VA. He served in theU.S. Navy and was a retired dentist.Frank Eugene Deese (’46), Jan. 29,2007, Black Mountain, NC. He was a chaplainand 29-year military veteran. Hereceived awards including the Legionof Merit, Bronze Star, Air Medal, MeritoriousService Medal with Oak LeafCluster,Vietnam Cross of Gallantry withPalm and Glider Badge. After retiringfrom the military, he had interim pastoratesin Kentucky and North Carolina.Memorials may be made to the PoteatScholarships, Wake Forest University,PO Box 7227, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227, the Frank Eugene Deese ScholarshipFund, Wingate University, CampusBox 3071, Wingate, NC 28174 or theKiwanis Foundation, PO Box 491, BlackMountain, NC 28711.Dewitt Dewey Phillips Jr. (MD ’46),Jan. 24, 2007, Charlotte, NC. He served inthe U.S. Air Force during the Korean Waras base surgeon at Pope Air Force Base.He was a physican for 43 years, retiringin 1989.Winifred Hollowell Shope (’47), Jan.24, 2007, Nashville, TN. She was a medicaltechnologist and head of the clinicallab at Central State Mental HealthHospital. She later served as secretaryand treasurer of Hart Hardware Co. Sheis survived by her children, Ruth AnnVeach (’77) and Frank N. Shope, andfive grandchildren, including freshmanBrad Veach.Sidney B. Schrum (’48), March 7, 2007,Goldsboro, NC. He served in the U.S. AirForce during World War II and practicedoptometry in Goldsboro since 1951.70 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Harry Lee Thomas (’48), March 20,2007, Greenville, SC. He was a professor ofpsychology at North Greenville Collegeand served on the Home Mission Fieldin Pittsburgh. He served in the U.S. Armyduring World War II and pastored Baptistchurches in Kentucky and North andSouth Carolina.OBITUARYThomas M. SteeleJoann Elizabeth Morgan Wedel (’48),Feb. 16, 2007, Charlotte, NC. She was amedical secretary for 20 years.George Horace Bass (’49), April 6,2007, Fayetteville, NC. He served in theU.S. Air Force. He was a teacher inStedman until re-enlisting in the U.S.Army, retiring as a command sergeantmajor after 30 years. He received theMeritorious Service Medal, Joint ServiceCommendation Medal and the BronzeStar.Ernest Woodward Boyette Jr. (’49),Jan. 19, 2007, Raleigh, NC. He served inthe U.S. Navy during World War II andwas owner/operator of the formerHenderson Furniture Co. for 52 years.Ray Esmer Burns (’49), March 3, 2007,Charlotte, NC. He served in the U.S.Navy during World War II. He workedfor Rosson & Richards for 20 years andowned Burns Pipeline Tools for over 25years.Anna Waller Carr (’49), Sept. 30, 2006,Rose Hill, NC. She was a retired elementaryschool teacher and a member of theDuplin County Retired Teacher’s Assoc.Clifford C. Mabry Jr. (’49), April 12,2007, Wilmington, NC. He served in the376th Heavy Bomber Group in Italyduring World War II. He retired as asenior vice president from WachoviaBank in 1986. He was a volunteer atOgden Elementary School and CapeFear Hospital and for the Boy Scoutsof America.Paul Spurgeon Wilson (’49), Jan. 28,2007, Red Springs, NC.PROFESSOR OF LAW THOMAS M.STEELE, who led the law school’slibrary into a new era with theopening of the Professional CenterLibrary, died on March 27, 2007.He was 58.Steele began his career at WakeForest in 1985 as the director of lawlibrary services and associate professorof law. He was named professor of law in 1991. He became directorof the Professional Center Library in 1993 when the School of Law andBabcock Graduate School of Management moved to the Worrell ProfessionalCenter for Law and Management. He continued as its directoruntil 1999.During his career at Wake Forest, he taught state and local government,insurance law, equitable and legal remedies, legal research and writing,torts, and English legal history. He published a case book, Materials andCases on Law Practice Management, in 2004. He recently received thelaw school’s 2006–07 Excellence in Teaching Award from the StudentBar Association.A native of Oklahoma, Steele graduated from Oklahoma State Universityand pursued a graduate degree in history at the University of Oregon,planning to become a history professor. But he was drafted into the U.S.Army during the Vietnam War and instead spent two years as a militarypoliceman at West Point, N.Y. After he was discharged, he earned hismaster of library science degree from the University of Oregon and hislaw degree from the University of Texas in 1977.He began his 30-year career in legal education as acting law librarianat Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He also taught and was thelaw librarian at the Franklin Pierce Law Center in New Hampshire andat the University of Mississippi before joining the law faculty at WakeForest in 1985.Steele is survived by his wife, LeAnn Steele, the registrar of theWake Forest School of Law, and four sons. Memorials may be made tothe Thomas M. Steele Research Scholarship in History Fund, OklahomaState University, OSU Foundation, 400 South Monroe, Stillwater, OK74074.Bonnie James “BJ” Moffitt (’50),Feb. 18, 2007, Raleigh, NC. He was ajazz trumpet player.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2007 71

OBITUARYWarren T. CarrTHE REV. WARREN CARR, the cerebraland often outspoken minister ofWake Forest Baptist Church from 1964until 1985, died on Feb. 24, 2007. Carr,who was 89, was a Southern Baptist ministerwho once described himself as “adenominational maverick” who enjoyedtaking on religious fundamentalists.Throughout his ministry, he spoke hisconvictions firmly, often as a champion ofcivil rights and an advocate for the poorand disenfranchised. His tightly crafted,eloquent commentaries made his congregation—largelystudents and faculty—think about religious issues, whether theyagreed with his strong opinions or not.A native of Lexington, Ky., Carr graduatedfrom Transylvania College. He hadonce wanted to be a lawyer, but went intothe ministry to honor his mother’s wishes.After graduating from Southern BaptistTheological Seminary, he spent severalyears at small churches in Virginia andWest Virginia before being called to WattsStreet Baptist Church in Durham, N.C.,in 1946. During his 18 years there, he wasan outspoken supporter of civil-rights.He also led his congregation to ordainthe first woman minister in the SouthernBaptist denomination.Carr received an honorary doctorof divinity degree from Wake Forest in1965. After retiring from Wake ForestBaptist Church in 1985, he served asinterim pastor of Unity Baptist Church inWinston-Salem and First Baptist Churchof Elkin.He is survived by four daughters,Ellen Carr Boone, Meredith Carr McIntosh,Martha Gail Carr and Deborah CarrLemus, eight grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren.Emory Marvin Musselwhite (’50),March 24, 2007, Wingate, NC. He servedin the U.S. Navy during World War II,was a Merchant Marine and a memberof the Navy Block Island String Band.He was a pastor, serving last at ProspectBaptist Church in Supply, NC.Troy Carson Bennett (’51),Feb.2,2007, Raleigh, NC. He served as a missionaryin East Pakistan, Lebanon,Zambia, Tanzania and South Africa. Hepastored Baptist churches in Fayetteville,Kinston and Winston-Salem, retiring in1991. He is survived by his wife, Marjorie,son, Stephen, daughters Rebecca Perryand Deborah Reynolds (’80) and fivegrandchildren.Gerald Lee Coates Sr. (’51), Feb. 15,2007, Greensboro, NC. He served in theU.S. Army. He began his career as ateacher at Littleton High School and latermoved to finance, retiring from BarclaysBank in Greensboro.William Joseph Eaker (’51, JD ’52),Jan. 17, 2007, Cornelius, NC. He servedin the U.S. Army during World War IIand was an insurance claims adjusterfor the General Adjustment Bureau.He practiced law for over 35 years inHuntersville, NC, and was instrumentalin establishing the Legal Aid Societyof Mecklenburg County, serving as itsfirst director. After retiring from his lawpractice, he worked for GAB Robbins asa litigator.J.D. Fulmer (’51), Feb. 27, 2007,Trussville, AL. He served in World War IIin the Army Air Corps and was retiredfrom PEMCO.James “Jim” Garry (’51), March 4,2007, McDonald, PA. He served in theU.S. Army during World War II. Heplayed football in the Gator Bowl whileat Wake Forest. He taught drivers’ educationand history at Fort Cherry HighSchool and coached football there for 45years, retiring in 2002. He was inductedinto the Pennsylvania Football Hall ofFame and the Tri-County Football CoachHall of Fame and was Conference Coachof the Year several times.Emmett O. Albright (’52), Jan. 9, 2007,Lawton, OK. He served in the U.S. Armyduring World War II, receiving themedals of American Defense, AmericanCampaign, Asiatic Pacific Campaign,Good Conduct and WWII Victory. He wasa records management officer for thecivil service at Fort Sill, retiring after 45years.Joseph Walter McGuire Jr. (’52), Jan.4, 2007, Asheville, NC. He served in theU.S. Air Force. He retired from theAsheville City Schools in 1984, havingbeen principal at Ira B. Jones ElementarySchool.William Joseph O’Brien (’52), Feb. 17,2007, Kernersville, NC. He worked withWachovia Bank as assistant vice presidentin the Kernersville Branch, retiringin 1985. He received the Man of the YearAward from the Jaycees and the MelvinJones Fellow Award from Lions ClubInternational. He served as president ofthe N.C. Eye and Human Tissue Bankand received the Kernersville Chamberof Commerce Community ServiceAward.John Vernon Blackwell Jr. (’53,JD ’55), Dec. 1, 2006, Fayetteville, NC.He joined his father and uncle at Blackwell& Blackwell and practiced law formore than 50 years. He was a formerpresident of the Cumberland CountyBar Assoc., a former district attorneyand a past member of the CampbellUniversity School of Law Estate PlanningCommittee. He also was involved withthe Wake Forest School of Law ContinuingEducation Program. He is survivedby his wife, Edna, and three children,Cheryl, Steven and John Vance.Charles M. Smith (MD ’53), March 14,2007, Rockmart, GA. He served in theU.S. Army Air Corps and interned atBaptist Hospital in Nashville, TN. Hemoved to Rockmart in 1955 and had ageneral medical practice, retiring in 1988.72 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Carroll Wayland Weathers Jr. (’53,JD ’55), Feb. 20, 2007, Hickory, NC. Hewas a retired attorney who practiced inNorth Carolina for more than 45 yearsand the son of longtime School of LawDean Carroll Weathers (’22, JD ’23).He is survived by his wife, Barbara;children William Charles Weathers,Harrison Blount Weathers and GraceW. Saydlowski (‘94); and sisters SueW. Kaloyannides (‘58), Katherine W.Petree (‘72) and Jane B. Weathers(‘70). Memorials may be made to theCarroll Wayland Weathers ScholarshipFund, Wake Forest University School ofLaw, PO Box 7206, Winston-Salem, NC27109.Kenneth Wells Gwynn (’54), Feb. 25,2007, Charlotte, NC. He worked as a CPAfor 47 years. He loved reading and woodworking.James D. Bobbitt Jr. (BBA ’55),Feb.15, 2007, Wilson, NC. He was the retiredowner of Bobbitt Appraisal & Realty Co.He is survived by his wife, Barbara JanBell Bobbitt (’56).Charles Thomas Preston (BBA ’55),Jan. 26, 2007, Winston-Salem. He is survivedby his wife, Joy Taylor Preston(’55), two sons and two grandchildren.Thomas Sherrill Wilson (’56), Jan. 26,2007, Charlotte, NC. He served in theU.S. Army during the Korean War. Hewas a retired claims interviewer for theN.C. State Employment SecurityCommission and a retired master sergeantof the U.S. Army Reserves.Hubert Ellis Lanier (’57), Jan. 28, 2007,Hampstead, NC. He was a SouthernBaptist minister for 35 years.Bynum Hargis Phillips Jr. (’58), April7, 2007, Kannapolis, NC. He retired in1992 from the Kannapolis City Schools,teaching at Cannon Junior High Schooland serving as principal at McKnight andShadybrook Elementary Schools andKannapolis Middle School.Bobby Ray Stuart (’58), March 17,2007, Greensboro, NC. He was retiredfrom Lorillard Corporation as a seniorpurchasing manager after 36 years.OBITUARYDavid A. HillsAVID HILLS, the gentle cli-with the wry sense Dnicianof humor whose whimsicalcartoons depicted his psychologystudents and life at WakeForest for three decades, diedon March 22, 2007. He was 75.Hills joined the University’snew counseling center in 1960and taught in the psychologydepartment until retiring in 1996. “His teaching was laced with the samesense of humor as his cartoons,” said Professor of Psychology Bob Beck.“His range of expertise was both broad and deep.” His humor—and creativity—evenextended to his tests: colleagues recall the statistics test withthe question that students had to answer correctly so that they would knowwhat room in Winston Hall to turn in their paper.His light-hearted cartoons—packing a wealth of information into a simpledrawing of a character or two accompanied by a clever phrase—endearedhim to colleagues and students. “He had a comic view of the world; he wasas good as any professional or editorial cartoonist,” said Beck, who had Hillsillustrate a book he wrote in the 1980s. “He had an uncanny ability to takea complex situation, reduce it to its essentials, twist it around in somehumorous way, and draw it.”For years, his cartoons enlivenedbrochures for Freshman Orientation,Parents’ Weekend and the course cataloguefor the now defunct January term.He would often sketch his students orguest lecturers as they presented theirresearch. Modest and self-effacing, heoften included himself in his cartoonsas the small, unassuming, bespectacledman in the corner.Hills grew up in Kansas and receivedhis bachelor’s degree in English at theUniversity of Kansas. After serving inthe U.S. Army during the Korean War,he earned his masters in experimentalpsychology and his doctorate in clinical psychology from the Universityof Iowa.At Wake Forest, he was assistant director and then director for the Centerof Psychological Services—originally part of the psychology department—from 1960 until 1974 and coordinator of student services for the Universityfrom 1974 until 1981. He was one of the founding members of the sectionon neuropsychology at the School of Medicine and was a consultant at theCenter for Creative Leadership in Greensboro.Hills was preceded in death by his wife, Barbara Behrens Hills, and issurvived by a son, Stuart, and two daughters, Karen and Kristin.— Kerry M. King (’85)www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2007 73

OBITUARYPaul S. RobinsonPAUL S. ROBINSON, a retired longtimeprofessor of music and Universityorganist, died Feb. 15, 2007, in Winston-Salem. He was 99.A native of Pennsylvania, Robinsongraduated from Westminster College in1929 and studied music at Curtis Instituteof Music in Philadelphia. After obtaininga master’s degree from Union TheologicalSeminary (where he later also earned hisdoctorate) in New York City, he was hiredas the organist for Centenary UnitedMethodist Church in downtown Winston-Salem in 1938. During World War II, heserved three-and-a-half years with the U.S.Army’s Third Armored Division as a chaplain’sassistant and traveled throughoutEngland, France and Germany, where heplayed a folding reed organ for services.He joined the Wake Forest faculty asacting head of the music department in1952, the same year as his future wife,Mary Frances McFeeters, professor ofRomance languages. For years, he wasorganist for University assemblies, suchas commencement, convocations and theonce-compulsory chapel services, and hewas accompanist for the Mozart Club’sannual presentation of Handel’s Messiah.He retired from the faculty in 1977. Healso was the organist for Wake ForestBaptist Church from 1956 until 1993.In addition to his wife, he is survivedby two daughters, Pauline McMahon andEllen O’Connor.Charles E. Summers Sr. (’58),Feb.8,2007, North Wilkesboro, NC. He workedfor Lowe’s Companies, retiring after 30years.Billie Pickett Carr (’60), March 29,2007, Winston-Salem. She was retiredfrom the Employment Security Commissionof North Carolina.Rodney Lee Todd (’61), Feb. 19, 2007,Tampa, FL. He served in the U.S. AirForce. He was with InternationalHarvester Credit Corp for 16 years andthen Verizon for 23 years.Eugene S. Tanner Jr. (JD ’62), Jan 24,2007, Greensboro, NC. He served in theU.S. Army and practiced law with WarrenCoble, which later became Coble Tanner& Grigg, in Albemarle, NC. He was presidentof the Stanly County Bar Assoc.and secretary-treasurer of the 20thJudicial District Bar.Charles Marion Upchurch (MD ’63),Feb. 20, 2007, Huntsville, AL. He servedin the U.S. Air Force as a pediatrician inAlabama and Japan. He practiced pediatricsfor 35 years with Huntsville (AL)Pediatric Associates. He served as chiefof pediatrics and chief of the medicalstaff at Huntsville Hospital.Susannah Taylor Wilds (’65), Jan. 23,2007, Blythewood, SC. She taught at theUniversity of South Carolina and wasemployed by Policy ManagementSystems before retiring.Cynthia Stafford Erickson (’66),April 13, 2007, Raleigh, NC. She wasowner of Application Systems Co. She issurvived by her husband, Walter, twosons, Geoffrey and Robert, a daughter,Kimberly E. Arnett (’94), and onegrandchild.Paul Mitchell Coble (’69), Dec. 7, 2006,Alexandria,VA. He served in Vietnam.He worked with the Federal ReserveBoard in Washington and was aninstructor with IBM.George Allan Ferre Jr. (’75), March25, 2007, Lutz, FL. He was a store managerof Drug Fair, regional vice president ofTrak Auto Parts, and a store manager atLowe’s in Naperville, IL.Hayden Russell Hensley (’75),Feb.27, 2007, Brasstown, NC. He was a juvenilecourt probation officer before completinghis JD at Samford UniversitySchool of Law. He retired as a federalprobation officer with the office of U.S.Courts in Bryson City, NC.Kent Alan Robertson (’75), Feb. 24,2007, Saint Cloud, MN. He earned a PhDin urban affairs and public policy fromthe University of Delaware and taught atState University of New York-Purchase.He joined St. Cloud State University in1983 as professor and director of theCommunity Development Program.Michele Donovan Wickham(MAEd ’75), Jan. 1, 2007, Raleigh, NC.She retired in 2006 as the executivedirector of the Prince William CountyPublic Schools Education Foundation.She received awards throughout hercareer for her contributions to educationand her community.Donald Meek Francis (’76), Jan. 2,2007, Marion,VA. He was a dentist inMarion for 20 years.Elizabeth “Betsy” ThornhillGammon (’76), Nov. 3, 2006, Cedar Park,TX. She is survived by her husband, CarlWilson Gammon (MS ’79), a son,Benjamin, and daughter, Emily.Henry “Hank” L. Hicks Jr. (’76),March 3, 2007, Winston-Salem. He wasan assistant principal at North ForsythHigh School and a former assistant principalat Mount Tabor High School. Anative of Erwin, NC, he was on the basketballteam at Wake Forest and was atri-captain in 1975-76. He earned hismaster’s degree from A&T StateUniversity.Evander M. Britt III (’77, JD ’80),March 3, 2007, Lumberton, NC. He practicedlaw in Lumberton from 1981 until2007 and was senior partner of Britt &Britt, practicing domestic, criminal/trafficand personal injury law. He was a directdistributor with the Amway Corp. and anindependent owner with The QuixtarCorp. He is survived by his wife, MaryHeaphy Britt (’83), and two children,Marilyn and Evander.74 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

David Nifong McDaniel (’77), April 2,2007, Charlotte, NC. He completed hisDDS from the UNC-Chapel Hill Schoolof Dentistry and was a dentist inCharlotte.Jeffrey David Jack (MS ’88), Jan. 1,2007, Goshen, KY. He was an associateprofessor of biology at the University ofLouisville and was named the TomWallace Professor of ConservationBiology. He is survived by his wife,Elaine, and daughters, Amanda andGracelynn.Scott Allan Pike (JD ’91), March 11,2007, Lisbon, OH. He was a project managerfor McCoy Associates in Allianceand an office manager in Warren.John Mark Bassir (MS ’99), Jan. 6,2007, Portland, OR. He worked for 20years at Oregon Health & ScienceUniversity and was a shop steward forthe American Federation of State, Countyand Municipal Employees Union.Kathryn Ferraris Taylor (JD ’06),April 7, 2007, Atlanta. She graduatedfrom Clemson University in 1999. AtWake Forest she was a member of theHonor Council, worked with the ElderLaw Clinic and studied in London andVienna. She married Keith Taylor on11/17/06.Friends,Faculty/StaffWalter Wray Baker Jr., March 4, 2007,High Point, NC. He was an attorney inHigh Point and an adjunct professor oftrial advocacy at the School of Law from1998-2005. He received his undergraduateand law degree from UNC-ChapelHill. He was president of the WesternN.C. American Board of Trial AttorneysChapter and a past president of the N.C.Academy of Trial Lawyers and the HighPoint Bar Assoc. He is survived by hiswife, Jane; a son, Walter W. “Trip”Baker III (JD ’03); and two daughters,Susan and Valerie.Jeanette Joyner Humbert, April 3,2007, Winston-Salem. She was a longtimeresident of the Faculty Drive neighborhoodand daughter of law alumnus JohnCouncil Joyner (’18, JD ’23), whoendowed a College scholarship and lawlibrary fund years ago. She is survived byher husband, Bill, two sons, William andJohn, a daughter, Nancy Sweeney(MBA ’93), a brother, John Joyner(’55, JD ’59), and a sister.Carolyn Vann Irvin, April 14, 2007,Williamsburg,VA. In 2006, at the age of101, she created a $300,000 annuity tofund a need-based scholarship in honorof the descendants of AlexanderRussia Vann (1847).Lynne Ellen Johnson, March 3, 2007,Winston-Salem. She was an assistantprofessor of art who specialized inRenaissance art, particularly the Baroqueperiod. She earned her undergraduateand master’s degrees from the Universityof Wisconsin in Madison and a secondmaster’s and PhD from the University ofMaryland. She also studied at ParisSorbonne and the University of Florence.She taught at Goucher College inMaryland for almost 20 years before joiningthe faculty at Wake Forest in 2004.She is survived by her husband, PeterBrunette, Reynolds Professor in FilmStudies and director of the film studiesprogram. A travel fund for art historystudents has been established in hername; gifts may be sent to: The LynneJohnson Memorial Fund, Wake ForestUniversity, PO Box 7227, Winston-Salem,NC 27109, or may be made online atwww.wfu.edu/alumni/giving.David Baker Olin, Feb. 2, 2007,Greensboro, NC. He was a physicianwith Carolina Kidney Assoc. and a generousdonor to the medical school,Deacon Club and WFDD. The Dave OlinBone Marrow Committee, although notfinding a match for Olin, did identifymatches for several others with lifethreateningdiseases and received aprestigious award from the NationalMarrow Bone Program for its efforts toincrease the registry. He is survived byhis wife, Julie, and two sons, Matthew(’93, MD ’98) and Jonathan.J. Paul Sticht, March 27, 2007,Winston-Salem. He was a former chairmanof R.J. Reynolds and a board memberand strong supporter of Wake ForestUniversity Baptist Medical Center. Themedical school’s Sticht Center on Agingwas named in his honor in 1987. A nativeof Pennsylvania, he graduated fromGrove City (PA) College. He was presidentof Campbell Soup Co. in the late1950s and vice president and president ofFederated Department Stores from 1960until 1972. He was named president ofReynolds in 1973, the first outsider in thecompany’s executive history, and becamechief executive in 1978 and chairman in1979. He retired in 1984 but remained aschairman of Reynolds’s executive committee.He later supported the leveragedbuyout of the company–which by thenhad become RJR Nabisco–by KohlbergKravis Roberts & Co., and he served asinterim chairman and chief executive in1989. He is survived by his wife, Ferne,and sons, David and Mark.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2007 75

C O N S T A N T & T R U EA soldier’s fortuneBy Richard E. Beale, Jr. (’64)C ONSTANT& T RUEROTC visionary Bob Helm (’39), front, with scholarship recipient Cameron Smith and, back row, left to right, MSG Frank Thomas,Dick Beale (’64), and LTC Keith CallahanHIS PAST NOVEMBER my wife,TWynne, and I attended WakeForest’s annual Stewardship Breakfast.I had the privilege of introducingthe first recipient of the RobertM. Helm Leadership Endowment,Cadet Cameron L. Smith, a sophomorefrom Colorado Springs, Colorado.Wynne and I established, withsome help from others, the HelmEndowment to assist deservingROTC cadets.The link between Dr. Bob Helm(’39) and ROTC dates to 1946.Upon his return to the Wake Forestfaculty following Army service inWorld War II, Dr. Helm workeddiligently to bring ROTC to thecampus by 1951. His vision hasgiven nearly 1,500 Wake Forestgraduates the opportunity to makea positive difference by servingtheir country. That is why we choseto honor Dr. Helm.76 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Because of ROTC, Wake Forestand the Army are inextricablylinked as two of six major buildingblocks that shaped the person I wasto become. The other four, you ask:my parents, my faith, my teachers,and Wynne (my most loving critic).Wake Forest has been constant andtrue to me in two obvious ways—first, in relationships built andnurtured, and second, in my liberalarts education.Many of my better traits wereborrowed from those with whom Iassociated at Wake Forest. The liberalarts curriculum was exactly theright balance of knowledge for onewho was to become a Jack-of-alltradesArmy officer. The third segmentof my constant and true journeyfocused on a single event andone other person. But it changedmy life forever.I was born in the nation’s capitaland grew up in Bethesda, Maryland.That makes me a Yankee althoughtwo of my great-great grandfathersfought in Lee’s Army of NorthernVirginia. But at Wake Forest in 1960,while geography made me a Yankee,society had not. The Washington,D.C., I knew growing up was a“Southern” city with segregatedfacilities. By the time I was in highschool, Washington and Marylandschools were integrated, but out of2,200 students at my high school,only six were African American. Ionly knew one by name. Duringmy time at Wake Forest, the onlyblack member of the Class of 1964I can recall is our now-distinguishedalumnus, Ed Reynolds.This brings me to a moment oftruth, and perhaps my greatest lessonat Wake Forest. I routinelyattended Sunday worship at WaitChapel. One Sunday I took a seatin an empty row toward the back.Just before the service began, EdReynolds sat down next to me andintroduced himself. Outside I triedto appear calm, but inside I wasmost uncomfortable. I had neverthought of myself as racially prejudiced,but I couldn’t explain myfeelings. Yet to this day, I thankGod that Ed Reynolds sat next tome one Sunday long ago. For itwas at that moment I was forcedto admit to myself prejudices Ihad never acknowledged. I knewI would never be the same.For one hour Ed Reynolds andI worshiped, praised, and prayed toGod Almighty. If we were equal inthe eyes of God, we had to be equalin the eyes of each other. I have oneregret—that I never thanked EdReynolds until now. So Ed, if youread this, even though you probablydon’t remember the circumstances,thank you for helping me turn abig corner early in my life. Is it notremarkable that the campaign toconquer racial prejudice in myyoung life began at a nearly allwhiteschool in North Carolina?Suffice it to say that Wake Foresthas been constant and true to me,but what about my scorecard? HaveI been constant and true to the ProHumanitate spirit of Wake Forest?I believe my wife and our sonswould say yes, but perhaps youshould ask them. I hope that thesoldiers with whom I served and ledfor thirty-two years (black, white,brown, yellow, and red) would sayI was competent, fair, just, compassionate,and left each unit a littlebetter off when I departed.One of my most treasured possessionsis a letter from the fatherof one of my soldiers, which Ireceived shortly after relinquishingcommand of a brigade in Germany.It read in part, “It was our son’sgood fortune that at a very criticaltime in his life he was able to find inyour person a role model whom heboth admired and respected. For thatI am greatly in your debt.”To me the spirit of Pro Humanitatehas always meant making apositive difference. That is why Ichose to remain a soldier for thirtytwoyears. It is why some chooseto be teachers, doctors, lawyers,engineers, business executives, orwhatever their calling—to makea positive difference.Richard E. Beale, Jr. (’64), graduatedwith a B.A. in economics. He wascommissioned in the Regular Army inJune 1964 and retired in 1996 at thegrade of Major General. He is now anactive volunteer living in MathewsCounty, Virginia, on the shores of theChesapeake Bay.To make a gift to the RobertM. Helm Leadership Endowmentfund, contact Cameron Meador (’01,MAEd ’02) at meadorcm@wfu.eduor(336)758-4834.C O N S T A N T & T R U Ewww.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2007 77

Thursday, September 13“Wait...Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, the oddly informative newsshow from NPR, will be broadcast live from Wait Chapel. Forticket information, visit www.wfdd.orgFriday, September 1410 a.m., Half-Century Club Gathering and PhotographReynolda Hall, Main Lounge (Green Room)Share special memories of your years at Wake Forest andcelebrate the induction of the Class of 1957 into the HalfCentury Club. Followed by Half-Century Club picture at11:30 a.m. $10 per picture.Noon – 6 p.m., Homecoming RegistrationReynolda Hall Main Lobby (Quad/Green Room level)For all alumni, except the Half-Century Club.11:45 a.m., Half-Century Club LuncheonBenson University Center, Room 401The Class of 1957 will also be honored as the first classto graduate from the new campus.$15 per person (no charge for members of theClass of 1957 or emeriti faculty)1 p.m., Alumni Admissions ForumBenson University Center, Room 410Alumni and their high school students are invited to join theAdmissions Office to learn how to conduct the college search.To register, contact Dawn Calhoun at calhoude@wfu.edu or(336) 758-5177.2:30 p.m., Return to the ClassroomBenson University Center, Room 407Professor of Physics Jacque Fetrow will lead a classdiscussion about pharmaceutical drug discovery and thebiotechnology industry. Register early, space is limited.4 p.m., Alumni in Admissions (AIA) TrainingWilliam G. Starling Hall (Admissions Office)For AIA volunteers and those interested involunteering. To register, contact Dawn Calhounat calhoude@wfu.edu or (336) 758-5177.5 – 7 p.m., Alumni, Faculty and Emeriti Faculty ReceptionReynolda Hall, Main Lounge (Green Room) and Magnolia Patio$5 per person; light refreshments, cash bar.7:30 p.m., Homecoming BonfireDavis FieldGet your Homecoming spirit off to a blazing start; featuring livemusic, food, the football team and Homecoming Court.Saturday, September 1510 a.m. – 1 p.m., Homecoming RegistrationThomas K. Hearn Jr. Plaza/The Quad9:30 a.m., Service of RemembranceWait ChapelA memorial service to honor alumni and faculty who havepassed away between October 2006 and August 2007.All are welcome.10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Festival on the QuadThomas K. Hearn Jr. Plaza/The QuadA Homecoming favorite for young and old alike with food,children’s games, music and much more!Two hours prior to kick-off, Deacon WalkGroves Stadium (in front of Bridger Field House)Come cheer on the Deacons as they prepare to take on Army.Two hours prior to kick-off, Pre-Game Alumni TailgateEnjoy a catered tailgate in the Red Lot at Groves Stadium.SPECIAL OFFER: You can purchase a “football game and tailgate”ticket for $40. If you already have football tickets, you canpurchase “tailgate only” tickets for $15. Football/tailgate ticketswill be provided in your Homecoming registration packet; notickets will be mailed. Children over 2 years of age must havea football ticket to enter the stadium; there are no youthprices available.TBD, Wake Forest vs. ArmyFor tickets to the game only, call 1-888-758-DEAC. In order tosit with your class, you need to purchase the package throughthe alumni office. Order tickets under one name if you want tosit with a group of friends.Post-Game PartyGroves StadiumImmediately following the football game, the fun continues withentertainment from the band The Fantastic Shakers.Homecoming2007

Homecoming 2007Events for Reunion Classes and Professional SchoolsAll reunion classes for undergraduate and professional schools willparticipate in the Pre-Game Tailgate and Post-Game Party at GrovesStadium on Saturday, September 15. See details under GeneralHomecoming Events. Although many events are free, please registerso we can plan each activity for the proper number of guests.Class of 1957Half Century Club EventsSee details under Half Century Club in the General Homecoming events6:30 p.m., Class Dinner, Old Town Club, $35 per personClass of 19626:30 - 8:30 p.m., Class Party at the home of Elms and Harriet Allen,513 Westover AvenueClass of 19677 p.m., Class Party at the home of Anne Kennedy Brock,4640 Cherryhill LaneClass of 19727:30 p.m., Class Party at the home of Keith and Lydia Vaughan,4440 Bent Tree Farm RoadClass of 19777:30 p.m., Class Party at Jack Welker’s Catered Affairs,$15 per personClass of 19828 p.m., Class Party at the home of David and Lisa Rowell,809 Arbor RoadReunion Class HotelsAsk for your Wake ForestClass Year/ProfessionalSchool blockHalf Century ClubClass of 1957Class of 1962Sundance Plaza Hotel and Suites3050 University Parkway(336) 723-2911$89.99Class of 1967Class of 2002Courtyard by Marriott(University Parkway)3111 University Parkway(336) 727-1277$99Class of 1972Fairfield Inn and Suites1680 Westbrook Plaza Drive(336) 714-3000$72 kings & doubles/ $119 suiteClass of 1977Residence Inn7835 North Point Blvd.(336) 759-0777$92 studio/ $139-2 bedroomClass of 1982Twin City Quarter425 North Cherry Street(336) 725-3500$119/ Marriott sideClass of 1987Comfort Inn Cloverdale110 Miller Street(336) 721-0220$80Class of 19878 - 11 p.m., Class Party at the home of Mari and Tom Valaoras,1853 Virginia RoadClass of 19928:30 p.m., Class Party at Diamondback Grill, 751 North Avalon RoadClass of 19979 p.m., Class Party, Shorty’s, Benson CenterClass of 20029 p.m. , Five-Year Reunion Kick-Off Party, Reynolda Hall, Lu LeakeFoyer (outside the Magnolia Room)Important Registration InformationA limited number of tickets for paid events will be available for purchaseat the door. We strongly encourage you to register now to guaranteeyour place.All prepaid tickets to events (including the special “football and tailgateticket” package) will be put in your registration packet; no tickets willbe mailed. General alumni registration packets will be available duringRegistration on Friday and Saturday.Campus OrganizationsMany campus organizations are planning their own Homecoming activities.Visit www.wfu.edu/homecoming and/or contact any groups with whichyou are affiliated (such as Greek organizations, service clubs, social organizations,religious groups, cultural groups, Women’s Studies, etc.) for details.Questions?Contact the Office of Alumni Activities (800) 752-8568Class of 1992Class of 1997Wingate Inn125 South Main Street(336) 714-2800$89Babcock SchoolHawthorne Inn420 High Street(336) 777-3000$79.99Law SchoolDivinity SchoolHoliday Inn Select5790 University Parkway(336) 767-9595$79General Alumni Hotels(Ask for the Wake Forest Block)Brookstown Inn200 Brookstown Avenue(336) 725-1120$89Hampton Inn1900 Hampton Inn Court(336)760-1660$89Hawthorne Inn420 High Street(336) 777-3000$79.99Holiday Inn Select5790 University Parkway(336) 767-9595$76.9980 Wake Forest Magazine

Please return this form by September 1 to the address below or register online atwww.wfu.edu/homecoming or fax to 336.758.4800Homecoming/Reunion 2007Office of Alumni ActivitiesP.O. Box 7227Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227Name ___________________________________________________________ (maiden) ____________________________ Class Year __________Address _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________City/State/Zip ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________Daytime telephone (with area code) _________________________________________ E-mail ____________________________________________Name of spouse or guest ________________________________________________________________________________ Class Year _________Please indicate the number of people attending the following events:GENERAL HOMECOMING EVENTS Number Attending PriceFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14Half Century Club Gathering _____________ No chargeHalf Century Club Picture($10 per picture) _____________ $_________Half Century Club Luncheon($15.00 per person; no chargefor members of Class of 1957or emeriti faculty) _____________ $__________Alumni Admissions Forum or Alumniin Admissions Training(call 336-758-4930 to register)Return to the Classroom _____________ No chargeAlumni Reception _____________ $__________($5 per person/cash bar)SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15Service of Remembrance _____________ No chargeFestival on the Quad _____________ No chargePre-Game Alumni Tailgate/Footballticket package “Football game andTailgate” ticket @ $40 per person _____________ $__________Tailgate ticket only @$15 per person _____________ $__________REUNION CLASSES AND Number Attending PricePROFESSIONAL SCHOOL EVENTSNOTE: Please sign up for the Pre-GameTailgate and Post-Game Party using theGeneral Registration Form (at left)Class of 1957 Dinner ($35 per person) _____________ $_________Class of 1962 Class Party _____________ No chargeClass of 1967 Class Party _____________ No chargeClass of 1972 Class Party _____________ No chargeClass of 1977 Class Party ($15 pp) _____________ $_________Class of 1982 Class Party _____________ No chargeClass of 1987 Class Party _____________ No chargeClass of 1992 Class Party _____________ No chargeClass of 1997 Class Party _____________ No chargeClass of 2002Five-Year Reunion Kickoff Party _____________ No chargeSUBTOTALRegistration fee (this fee is used so that we$_________can continue to keep the costs for events aslow as possible-or free-for alumni eventssuch as receptions, the Festival on the Quad,and more.) $5.00TOTAL$__________Method of payment:_____ Check enclosed (make checks payable to Wake Forest University)_____ Credit card (please complete the following information)Name (as on card) __________________________________________REGISTRATION FORMWake Forest vs. Army(call 888-758-DEAC forfootball tickets only)Post-Game Party atGroves Stadium _____________ No chargeMasterCard __________ Visa __________ AmEx __________Card number ______________________________________________Expiration date _____________________________________________Signature _________________________________________________

Double DeaconsAlton L. Absher Jr. and Alton L. Absher III,father and son from Winston-Salem, startedat Wake Forest School of Law three yearsago and graduated together May 21. “Itwas Dad’s idea,” said the younger Absher,who said his father had always wantedto be an attorney and when he retiredearly from an information technology job,started thinking about it more. After ayear, he called up his son and suggestedthe two of them start law school. Alton IIIwill work in patent law, while his fatherplans to practice estate law.