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

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