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DECEMBER 2007Fourin Fruition……Fourin FormationThe Quarterly Magazine ofWake Forest University

F E A T U R E SED I T O RCherin C. Poovey (P ’08), poovey@wfu.eduA S S O C I AT E E D I T O RKerry M. King (’85), kingkm@wfu.eduD E S I G N / AR T D I R E C T I O NUrena Design, durena@triad.rr.comPH O TO G R A P H E RKen Bennett, bennettk@wfu.eduCL A S S N O T E S ED I T O RJanet Williamson (P ’00, ’ 03 ), w i l l i a j m @ w f u . e d uC O P Y E D I T O RKim McGrath, mcgratka@wfu.eduSE N I O R W R I T E RDavid Fyten, fyten@wfu.edu20 Four in Fruition…By David FytenA b ove the complex ecosystem that is biology at Wa keForest is an ove r a r ching canopy of venerable faculty:Jerry Esch, Ray Kuhn, Pete Weigl, and Ron Dimock.PR I N T I N GThe 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 27109-7227.26 …Four in FormationBy David FytenThe expansion of the University’s tenure-trackfaculty has brought a remarkable infusion ofgifted young teacher-scholars whose academicstars are on the rise.2 A R O U N D T H E Q U A D52 C L A S S N O T E SVolume 55, Number 2December 2007Copyright 2007W W W. W F U . E D U

32 Pursuing Their PassionsBy Kerry M. King (’85)What do the creators of T-shirts,children’s books, and yarn havein common? Support from TheFifth-Year Institute for youngentrepreneurs.44 Turning Funnyinto MoneyBy Jane Bianchi (’05)Business savvyplus a healthy sense of collegehumor equals a multimilliondollarcompany for Ricky VanVeen (’03) and Zach Klein (’04).Q & AE SSAY40 Beads of HopeBy Ali Carroll (’08)An Americanwoman offers hope to Africanwomen through jewelry thatbridges cultures.P ROFILE46 CrossroadsBy Arthur Nelson (’07)For scholar and scientist ChrisJackson (’08), academics havealways been interdisciplinary.48 Joe Lawson (’90)takes his adcavemen toHollywood.50 Carol Barbee (’81)writes a new episodein her life.C ONSTANT & T RUE78 Nomads No MoreBy David FytenWhen the dean whohired Elizabeth Phillipsasked what she couldcontribute to a ‘goodBaptist college,’ shereplied, ‘Criticism.’

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington spoke on “The Future of Freedom” at Opening Convocation in October.Kirkman, Carter honored with faculty awardsWAKE FOREST HONOREDtwo faculty members andtwo alumni during Fall ConvocationOctober 30 in Wait Chapel.The annual recognitions weremade prior to a keynote addressby James H. Billington, the librarianof Congress.Professor of MathematicsEllen Kirkman received the DonaldO. Schoonmaker Faculty Prize forCommunity Service in recognitionof her commitment to theWake Forest and Winston-Salemcommunities since joining the facultyin 1975. The award is namedin memory of the late DonaldSchoonmaker, a political scienceprofessor who died in 1993.Stewart Carter, professor ofmusic and department chair,received the Jon Reinhardt Awardfor Distinguished Teaching. Carterjoined the faculty in 1982. Nominationsfor the Reinhardt Awardare made each year by alumniwho are celebrating the tenthanniversary of their graduation.2 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

The award is named in memoryof Jon Reinhardt, a political scienceprofessor who died in 1984.President Nathan O. Hatchpresented the Marcellus E. WaddillExcellence in Teaching Awardto Sally Smith (’75), of Greensboro,North Carolina, and JaredRashford (MAEd ’00), of Woodstock,Georgia. Each received a$20,000 cash award.Smith, who graduated with adegree in psychology, went on toearn a Master of Education degreefrom the University of North Carolinaat Greensboro. She teachessixth-grade language arts andsocial studies at Kernodle MiddleSchool in Greensboro.Rashford teaches science andSpanish and serves as the chairof the gifted education programat Alpharetta High School inGeorgia. He is currently a doctoralcandidate in science educationat Georgia State University.The Waddill Award is givenannually to two alumni, onewho teaches on the elementarylevel and one on thesecondary level. The awardis funded by David Waddillof Rye, New York, in honorof his father, ProfessorEmeritus of MathematicsMarcellus Waddill.In his remarks, Billington,the librarian of Congress forthe past twenty years, linked thefree flow of knowledge to thespread of freedom around theworld. “The digital revolution hascreated new possibilities for universalizingthe Jeffersonian idealof knowledge as the basis fordemocratization,” he said.Billington, the author of TheFace of Russia, called that country“a vital test case for the future offreedom. It has become, for thefirst time in its modern history, anation-state rather than an empire,and formally at least, a democracyrather than an autocracy, but itis still the Wal-Mart of weaponsof mass destruction.”A former history professorat Princeton andHarvard universities,Billington led the creationof the “AmericanMemory” NationalDigital Library, whichmakes freely availableonline nearly 11 million Americanhistorical items from thecollections of the library andother research institutions.Recently, the Library of Congresshas teamed up with UNESCOand libraries from around theworld to launch the World DigitalLibrary, modeled after the“American Memory”project.A R O U N D T H E Q U A DPresident Hatch presents the Waddill Awardto Sally Smith (’75), above, and JaredRashford (MAEd ’00), below. Professorof Mathematics Ellen Kirkman, at left,received the Schoonmaker Faculty Prize.Dean of the College Deborah L. Best (’70,MA ’72) presents the Reinhardt Award toProfessor of Music Stewart Carter.www.wfu.edu/wowf DECEMBER 2004 3

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DPeril and promiseImmigration conference co-organizerDavid Coates, Worrell Professor ofAnglo-American Studies, far right,with panelist Robert Rector of theHeritage FoundationConference speakers explore both sides of the immigration issue.PROMINENT FIGURES fromeither side of the politicalfence converged at one borderpoint as keynote speakers at athree-day conference on immigrationheld at Wake Forest inearly October: that immigrationmay be fraught with peril, but isalso filled with promise.Ray Marshall, Audre and BernardRapoport Centennial Chairin Economics and Public Affairsat the University of Texas-Austin,and U.S. Senator Richard Burr(’78), a Republican from NorthCarolina, delivered sobering yethopeful messages at the openingand close of the symposium.“Immigration: Recasting theDebate,”part of the University’sVoices of Our Time series of lecturesand symposia on importantissues of the day, featured a hostU.S. Senator Richard Burr (’78)of leading experts on the topic inpanel discussions October 3–5.The conference was organizedby David Coates, Worrell Professorof Anglo-American Studies,and Peter Siavelis, associate professorof political science. Audioand video transcripts of theconference can be accessed atwww.wfu.edu/voices.Marshall, who served as Secretaryof Labor during the CarterAdministration, noted that theUnited States will experiencezero percent growth in its nativebornwork force over the nexttwenty years. “In order to grow[economically],” he said, “we musthave immigration.”Ideally, immigrant labor shouldcomplement the skills of nativeworkers, he said. But, contrary topopular belief, “many illegals arecompeting with native low-wageworkers and displacing them.”To remain competitive in theglobal marketplace, he went on,“we’ll need well-educated workers.But as it stands, [America’s]immigrants are mostly at thelower literacy end of the spectrum.”Marshall noted that illegalimmigration undermines one ofour foundational principles—therule of law—and said our senseof national unity, which will becrucial to our continued ability togovern ourselves effectively, willdepend on how well we assimilateimmigrants into the mainstreamof national life.Among the steps Marshallproposed for extracting us fromthe immigration morass are totighten the controls on documentationlegitimacy; inauguratetougher sanctions against employerswho hire illegals; adjust, on aone-time-only basis, the status ofunauthorized immigrants; implementstrong border controls; andmount an international effort tostrengthen the “fundamentallyflawed” Mexican economy and itsinadequate judiciary and educationsystem so that the Mexicanpeople have viable employmentoptions in their home country.Burr, who pinch-hit on shortnotice for scheduled speaker MelMartinez (R-Florida) whose flightwas cancelled, said globalizationand its Siamese twin, immigration,is impacting every nationon earth. Noting that countrieswith annual indigenous birthrates of less than 2 percent losepopulation, he said Japan (with4 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

A R O U N D T H E Q U A Dits 1.32 percent birth rate), andthe European Union (1.68 percent)must import several hundredthousand immigrants each yearto sustain any kind of economicgrowth.With its 2.11-percent-anddecliningbirth rate, Burr asked,can the U.S. sustain its 3.5-percentannual economic growth rate tenyears into the future? “ThankGod,” he said, “that we’re still theplace people want to come to.”In building its vibrant hightecheconomy, North Carolinahas been fortunate in attractinga critical mass of “immigrant” talentfrom California and abroad,Burr said. With its populationprojected to increase some 58percent over the next eighteenyears, he said, the state is distinctivelywell-positioned to attract“the best and the brightest,”CBS News’ legend Bob Schieffer signedcopies of his book before his Voices of OurTime address in October.and would be making a “terriblemistake” if it did anything to discourageforeigners who want toattend college here.Burr said Congress’ failure topass an immigration bill almostwas a foregone conclusion, giventhat immigration “is just too hotpolitically.” If Americans trulywant to reform the system, hesaid, it’s in their hands. “If thisissue is to be resolved,” he said,“this has to be a groundswell.”—David FytenImmigration conferencekeynote speaker RayMarshall, Secretary ofLabor under PresidentJimmy CarterSPRINGEVENTSSpeaker: Daniel EllsbergJanuary 24FORMER MILITARY analyst wholeaked the top-secret PentagonPapers to The New York Times. Presentedin conjunction with the Secrest ArtistsSeries presentation (January 17–18) ofthe radio drama “Top Secret: The Battlefor the Pentagon Papers,” by L.A.Theatre Works, starring Stacey Keach.“Why Work: Business, Professionsand the Common Good”March 27-28Opening keynote speakerDavid Brooks, The New York Times columnistATWO-DAY CONFERENCE about thechallenges that face Americanstoday in business and in the professionsof law and medicine.“College of the Overwhelmed”April 7Keynote speaker: Richard Kadison,co-author of College of the Overwhelmed:The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What toDo About ItAONE-DAY FORUM about variousaspects of campus mental healththat must be addressed by collegesand universities.For more information, visit www.wfu.edu/voiceswww.wfu.edu/wowf DECEMBER 2007 5

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DSix sophomores have startedtheir own company to pursueideas they developed in a freshmanseminar class. They hopeto use the animated “character”myosin (below) for a Web siteand a cartoon or video game.Inspired by seminar, studentscreate BioBotz start-up companyAFTER TAKING A FRESHMANSEMINAR designed to fosterentrepreneurial thinking, six studentshave started their own nonprofiteducational entertainmentcompany to teach children aboutcell biology. “We want to take thecomplexities inside a cell andmake them fun for kids to learn,”says sophomore Mike Metzmaker,from Rutland, Massachusetts.The students were classmateslast year in a freshman seminaron biophysics, “Harnessing Life’sMolecular Machines: From AIDSTests to Hydrogen Cars,” taughtby Assistant Professor of PhysicsJed Macosko. In the course,Macosko encourages students tolook at the molecular level of cellsfor ideas that can be developedinto entrepreneurial ventures.The six students—Metzmaker;Sara Branson of Princeton, WestVirginia; Ashley Edwards of Dallas,Texas; Michael Epstein ofOrange, Connecticut; Jane Leeof Little Ferry, New Jersey; andElizabeth Newman of Cincinnati,Ohio—have created a startupcompany named BioBotz. Theyhave received some funding fromthe Office of Entrepreneurshipand Liberal Arts and from a privatesupporter, but they are stillraising additional capital.They plan to create a picturebook, an animated televisionseries, anda video gameto get kidsexcited aboutthe inside of the cell. “Every kidgoes through a stage where theyknow all about dinosaurs, orspaceships, or, more recently,Pokemon. Why not things insidethe cell?” asks Branson.Student artists WilliamBrown of Nashville,Tennessee, and JessicaVogel of Metairie, Louisiana,both seniors, havedrawn a few charactersketches for the companyand designed a Gumbyinspiredprototype toy.Thestuffed toy is modeled afterkinesin, the molecularmotor that walks aroundinside the cells of humans, plants,and animals carrying bubble-likecargo from place to place.Each student works on differentaspects of the project, fromfinance to creativity to marketresearch, and they all cooperatedon developing a storyline forthe picture book.“We have a veryexciting storyinvolving our maincharacters, kinesin, myosin, anddynein, saving the cell from aninvading virus,” explains Metzmaker.“You’ll just have to readit to find out how.”6 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Atomic detector raises the barin ‘nuclear forensics’PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRYBrad Jones is leading a teamof researchers at four institutionsto develop the first handheld,field instrument capable of detectingand identifying radioactiveparticles at the site of potentialcontamination.The device will enable authoritiesto quickly test dust, soil,water, and crops in the event ofa terrorist attack such as a “dirty”bomb. Jones, who specializes increating spectroscopic instruments,saw the potential to adapta design he originally conceivedyears ago to permit rapid fieldtesting for lead in blood samples.“The proposed device representsa new way of thinking inthe field of nuclear forensics,” hesays. “Atomic emission spectrometryis traditionally a laboratorybasedtechnique using very large,very expensive instruments. Withimmediate on-site results, residentscould be given timely informationabout a potential threator reassured that none existedrather than waiting for samplesto be transported to laboratoriesfor analysis.”Portability may also lead tonew applications of atomic spectrometryin the field such as testingfor contamination by pesticidesand other pollutants.Jones’ “Tungsten Coil AtomicEmission Spectrometer” is constructedusing the metal coilfilament from a standard slideprojector bulb powered by a12-volt battery, such as the typeused to start boats or automobiles.Environmental samples ofsuspect particles are dissolvedin liquid, and droplets are placedon the coil. The samples are driedat low voltage and the residuevaporized at 3,000 degrees, producinga flash of light. Eachmetal displays a unique colorsignature, which is captured by afiberoptic sensor connected to alaptop computer. Test results arecharted on a graph showing eachsample’s wavelength and intensity,allowing scientists to identifyBrad Jones: identifying sparksspecific elements and amountsof radioactivity.Jones notes that the radioisotopeslikely to be stolen frommedical or industrial facilitiesand used by terrorists are alsothe most brightly emitting elementsin atomic spectrometry.Instrument manufacturerTeledyne Leeman Labs is interestedin the production and marketingof the device once Jones’research group perfects theirprototype. The three-year projectis being funded by the NationalScience Foundation in conjunctionwith the Department ofHomeland Security.A R O U N D T H E Q U A Dwww.wfu.edu/wowf DECEMBER 2007 7

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DRandy Rogan: The use of cyberspace by radical factions is disarming.Dynamics of terrorismCommunication professor Randall Rogan makes eye-opening trips to Israel.TWO TRIPS TO ISRAEL HAVEBROUGHT HOME for communicationprofessor and chairRandall Rogan how terrorismhas changed and will continueto change world relations.For his first trip, Rogan attendedthe “Defending Democracy,Defeating Terrorism” fellowshipprogram, hosted by the Foundationfor Defense of Democracy—a nonpartisan policy institutecreated in response to 9/11 tofight the ideologies that driveterrorism. That these doctrinesare disseminated using easilyaccessible mass communicationstrategies fits Rogan’s interestand expertise.The foundation invited Rogan toapply for an academic fellowshipin part because of his interests interrorism and communication.He attended a ten-day conferencethat included briefings by intelligenceanalysts, many with experiencedealing with groups suchas Hamas, Hezbollah, or Fatah,and site visits to key conflictareas, police operations headquarters,and a prison housingconvicted terrorists.“We had access to the highestlevel of Israeli government. Wewere briefed on suicide bomber’sactivities in Israel and viewedfootage from a three-hour filmthat Iran provided Hezbollahand Hamas on how to constructa suicide bomb vest,” says Rogan.“Seeing how Israel managesto exist as a democracy whileunder siege on a daily basis wasenlightening. I came away fromthe visit with a much deeperand broader understanding andknowledge about the MiddleEastern conflict and its connectednessto global terrorism.”During a second trip to Israelfor the International Institute forCounter-Terrorism’s conferenceon the global impact of terrorism,he attended several workshopsincluding “Combating the IdeologyBehind Islamist Terrorism”and “Cyberspace as a Platformfor Global Jihad Terrorism.”How film, television, and theInternet are used to spread theinfluence of militant Islamists bypromulgating hatred, killing, anddeath is an issue Rogan says wecan’t afford to ignore. Americansaccept that the freedom that comeswith open access to the WorldWide Web means that people willcreate sites used for subversivepurposes—but should terroristWeb sites be hosted in the U.S.?“The use of cyberspace byradical factions to promote terroristactivity is disarmingbecause our culture generallydoesn’t give a lot of thought tohow Internet sites are used,”Rogan says. “Researchers andintelligence analysts estimatethat approximately 60 percentof terrorist Web sites are hostedon U.S. servers. And while theinstinct is to shut them down, it’sa Catch-22 because although thesites are used to recruit young,8 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

often marginalized Muslims tojihad, they also provide intelligenceresources where investigatorscan learn about and trackthese radical organizations.”Though held in Israel, neitherconference specifically addressedthe Arab-Israeli conflict itself,but instead centered on the useof terrorism as a tactic. “Perhapsmost disheartening and disturbingis how children are beingindoctrinated into believing thatthey should kill and die for theirstruggle, to not value life nor towant to live, and that their religionnot only justifies such thinkingand actions but that it alsorequires it of them,” Rogan says.“There exist myriad examples ofvideo footage from Middle Eastmedia outlets in which cartoontypecharacters teach school-agechildren disrespect for others,anti-Semitism, animal cruelty, andthat the death of non-believersand the use of martyrdom tobring it about are glorious.”A skewed perspective exists—at times fostered by the media—that these kinds of extremistcommunications come as a resultof oppression and that terrorismis somehow mitigated or validatedbecause of it. A blurred line existsbetween terrorist actions and theidea that people have the rightto fight for what they feel is right.Rogan says this asymmetrybetween the terrorists and thoseterrorized needs to be addressed.“Americans hold themselvesand their allies highly accountablefor the actions of their soldiers,but we do not hold ouropponents to the same kind ofscrutiny. We are highly critical ofour own actions— trying to determineif we are doing the rightthings for the right reasons —but we often fail to engage inthe same level of analyses of thegroups that we are in conflictwith. Radical extremists strive toframe their actions as retaliationfor political actions, foreign policies,and oppression. If, however,a group admitted to committingterrorist acts for religious domination,we’d explore it further.But if we believe the acts havetaken place in retaliation for ourown or our allies’ political actions,we somehow view terrorismdifferently, and this makes it difficultto find resolution,” he says.“Political and social grievancescertainly do exist. Yet, radicalIslamists are advancing a conspiracytheory that Islam is underattack from the West as a meansto appeal to a broad base of Muslimsand to motivate them to actsof violence. Most people agreethat this distorts the true natureand philosophy of Islam.Regardless of one’s motivation orcause, terrorism is a criminal tacticof targeting civilians.”Participating in counterterrorismefforts and traveling to Israelhas supplemented Rogan’salready extensive knowledgeand experience in hostage crisisnegotiations. He has workedwith the FBI’s Critical IncidentResponse Group in the crisismanagement unit, and for himhostage negotiation and terrorismare directly linked. “Basicto dealing with terrorism is communicationand negotiation.Understanding the communicativedynamics of terrorism is centralto working toward resolution.I hope to learn more about howto communicate and negotiatewith terror groups, and if negotiationis even possible in certaincontexts, such as with suicidebombers. Given the proliferationand potential threat of radicalIslamic terrorism in the U.S. andWestern Europe, understandingthe dynamics of terrorist negotiationis essential.”Visit www.wfu.edu/magazine foronline exclusives including a photogallery and audio presentation ofProfessor of Communication RandallRogan’s experiences in Israel.—Kim McGrathA R O U N D T H E Q U A Dwww.wfu.edu/wowf DECEMBER 2007 9

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DTransitionHelen Akinc retires from the Calloway School after a career of putting students first.AFTER A STELLAR TWENTY-YEAR CAREER, Helen Akinc,the assistant dean of student professionalaffairs at the CallowaySchool of Business and Accountancy,is saying farewell to WakeForest. But if ever “retirement”were a misnomer for what comesafter full-time employment, it isin Akinc’s case. With characteristicenergy and enthusiasm, she’slooking forward to achieving personalgoals.“When I hit the speed limitand turned fifty-five, I realizedthat if I were going to pursueother interests I’d have to startnow, and part of this means takingbetter care of myself so thatI can pursue my dreams formany years to come.”Akinc joined the CallowaySchool in 1987 as an adjunct professorto teach organizationaltheory and behavior. She latertook on her most prominent roleas a student liaison—helpingbusiness and accounting gradsprepare for a post-Wake Forestlife. She’s worked closely with theOffice of Career Services to helpstudents prepare for the transitionfrom academic to professionallife — developing methods thathave become a model for otherschools and departments withinthe University.“Helen always exhibited greatinterest in individual students andhas an appreciation not only forbusiness, but business groundedin a liberal arts perspective,” saysdirector of Career Services BillCurrin (’60).Akinc’s other contributionsinclude her leadership of theSummer Management Program,a crash course in business basicsfor non-Calloway majors thatexpanded from twenty-five tosixty students during her tenure;her dedication to the KemperScholarship program; and hercommitment to advising students.She received the Excellence inAdvising Award in 2001.“Dr. Akinc was a source ofsupport to me,” says sophomoreJannah Obaid, who came to WakeForest from Saudi Arabia. “I hadHelen Akinc with a painting byNoreen Walsh Treadway (’03).many problems my first year,from feeling homesick to failinga chemistry test. Dr. Akinc wasthere to talk to me and believe inme. I would not have passed myfreshman year without her.”Wake Forest’s students’ successin competing for the KemperScholarship—one of the nation’spremier scholarship programsto prepare liberal arts studentsfor leadership and service inbusiness fields—is testimony toher commitment to the program.Wake Forest has had two winnersin each of the past two years.“She’s a champion for her students,”says Kemper Scholar IanAfflerbach, a senior political scienceand English major. “She’sglad to do whatever needs to bedone, and if she can improve onsomething, she will.”Akinc’s patience and understandinglikely stem from theunique experiences she hasshared with her husband, UmitAkinc, who holds the ThomasH. Davis Chair of Business in theCalloway School. The Akincs metwhile both were at UNC-ChapelHill and, after marrying, theymoved to Turkey. (She is nearlyfluent in Turkish and plans to publisha cookbook of Turkish recipesin both English and Turkish.) Butwar and terrorism in Turkey madeit impossible for Umit to teachthere, so they returned to America.10 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

“When you’ve lived in anothercountry, it changes you,” she says.“You’re never completely comfortablein either culture.You’realways looking for ways to incorporateparts of one culture intoyour life when you’re living in theother.You have to learn to bridgedifferences and bridge cultures,and what I’ve learned in bridgingcultures works in bridging othersituations.”Though no longer in her Callowayoffice, her friends knowwhere to find her. Noreen WalshTreadway (’03), who was a businessmajor and art minor, recallswhen Akinc purchased one ofher paintings. “It was a sign tome that she cared about my personaland artistic ambitions andnot just my place in Calloway.Helen and I no longer talk aboutjobs. We talk about our sharedinterest in knitting and crocheting,family life, and many otherthings that friends talk about.It’s clear to me that Helen hasbeen so valuable to Wake Forestbecause she recognizes the uniquequalities in every person andembraces them.”Send Helen Akinc best wisheson her retirement at www.wfu.edu/magazine.—Kim McGrathJack Fleer: Examining gubernatorial contributions.N.C. governors speak in Fleer’s new bookPROFESSOR EMERITUS OFPOLITICAL SCIENCE JACKD. FLEER examines the politicallives and accomplishments ofNorth Carolina’s governors overthe last forty years in the mostcomprehensive look at theirtenures ever published in hisnew book, Governors Speak(University Press of America).Fleer conducted extensiveinterviews with five of the lastsix North Carolina governors(omitting Dan K. Moore, whohad already died when he beganthe book): Terry Sanford (1961–65), Robert W. Scott (1969 –73),James E. Holshouser Jr. (1973–77), James G. Martin (1985 –93),and James B. Hunt Jr. (1977– 85and 1993–2001). He was the lastperson to interview Sanfordbefore his death in 1998.Fleer examines each governor’stenure in two broad areas: whatcontribution they made to theOffice of Governor itself (did theystrengthen the position) andtheir policy achievements. Healso looks into how they wonthe office — their political ambitionsand campaigns—and howthey dealt with the legislature, theexecutive branch, and the public.“The Office of Governor, notonly in North Carolina but alsoin many other states, is not a verywell-known office,” says Fleer,who retired in 2002. “The waythe office has evolved has madethe individuals who occupy itparticularly important.”While the book focuses onNorth Carolina governors, it alsoexamines the importance anddevelopment of the office nationwide.“Four of the past five U.S.presidents [previously] served asgovernors; through U.S. historyalmost one half of U.S. presidentsserved as governors,” Fleer notes.—Kerry M. King (’85)A R O U N D T H E Q U A Dwww.wfu.edu/wowf DECEMBER 2007 11

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DStyle and substanceSociologist Saylor Breckenridge studies the relationshipbetween comic books and popular culture.Saylor Breckenridge: Consumers wanted crime and got superheroes.IF, AS SOME CRITICS SAY, THESTORY OF AMERICAN cultureis the conflict between censorshipand freedom of expression, thenyou can find everything you’dever want to know about it incomic books.According to a faculty authorityon the subject, the comicsindustry—much like film, videogames, and other forms of artand entertainment—evolved inthe second half of the twentiethcentury through the struggleof its youth-oriented purveyorsto loosen constraints on theircontent and subject matter.Their ultimate triumph, achievedthrough a combination of subterfugeand an if-you-can’t-beat-’em-join-’em mentality, extendednot only their literary style andtopical substance, but also theirreach, into the adult market.Comic books are among themany popular-culture interestsof associate professor of sociologySaylor Breckenridge. Breckenridge,who joined the faculty in2001, counts among his researchsubjects the funeral home industry,the North Carolina wineindustry, and the impact of theintegration of Major League baseballon the sport’s popularity. Hedevoted most of his attention tocomics last spring in preparing apaper on the subject.Breckenridge notes that inresponse to the graphic crime andhorror comics being published inthe early fifties by, among others,the iconoclastic William M. Gaines,who also published the notoriousMad magazine, Congress in 1954threatened to regulate the contentof comics, much like films werecontrolled. But instead of fightingthe move, the industry implementeda code of its own, whichexcluded the words “horror,”“death,” and “crime” from titles;banned violence, sex, profanity,scenes of kidnappings, dark andcynical endings, etc.; and mandatedhappy endings in whichthe “good guys”and cops alwayswon. Romance comics, anotherpopular genre of the day, couldn’tshow unmarried couples kissing.“Effectively, the code drovemany publishers out of business,”Breckenridge points out. “All that12 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

A R O U N D T H E Q U A Dwas left was that notable Americanphenomenon, the superheroes—Superman, Batman, the JusticeLeague, the Fantastic Four, etc.,with their all-powerful title charactersand idealized notions ofgood and evil. Elsewhere in theworld, comics were seen as legitimatevehicles of expression formainstream stories and characters.In Japan, for instance, soapoperas and politics are popularcomic-book subjects.“America’s experience is aninteresting example of the impactthat regulation of the arts orentertainment industry can haveon formation of a culture,” headds. “Consumers wanted thecrime, the romance, and the horror,but instead got the superheroes.The culture was createdby the regulatory process.”Breckenridge notes that incipientcracks in the comics codestarted to appear in 1971, whenfederal authorities asked MarvelComics publisher Stan Lee toincorporate an anti-drug messageinto his Spiderman series. WhatLee wrote didn’t pass code review,but Lee went ahead and publishedit anyway. It was a watershedevent. “It opened the dooronly a crack, but it was very important,because it began to encouragea variation of topics and emboldenindependent publishers whoworked and distributed outsidethe confines of the code,” saysBreckenridge. “Starting in theseventies, comics with pretty audaciouscontent like Heavy Metal,Conan, and Vampirella circumventedthe code successfully by publishingin larger formats and inblack-and-white, thereby claimingthey were magazines and notcomics. Regulators found the worksof underground cartoonists likeRobert Crumb difficult to controland impossible to withhold fromdistribution with the rise of specialtycomics shops [in the lateseventies and early eighties].Because of its growing powerlessness,the code was diluted twice.By the mid-2000s, only two publishers—ArchieComics, andDC— even bothered to considerit, and in cursory fashion at that.”It was in the eighties and earlynineties, according to Breckenridge,that the code door was kickeddown for good by a wave of independentunderground publishersof high-quality literature in graphicformat. For example, Maus, ArtSpiegelman’s powerful metaphorof the Holocaust, is a graphic novelthat won a rare Pulitzer Prize SpecialAward for Letters in 1992.Foremost among the new waveof publishers was Fantagraphics,which released the modern EightBall, Hate, and Love and Rockets.“These were immensely popularamong teens as expressions ofGeneration X ennui,” Breckenridgenotes. “It was in the eighties thatcomics returned to telling realstories. As a result, comics becameincreasingly okay for adults, tothe point where today mainstreammagazines like Time and Slatereview comics and graphic novels.”—David Fytenwww.wfu.edu/wowf DECEMBER 2007 13

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DEarly interventionResearcher develops programs to help cancer survivors.IF ONE WERE TO DISTILL TOtwo concepts Shannon BozoianMihalko’s (’92) lifelong associationwith Wake Forest, “earlyintervention”and “sports andexercise”would sum it up nicely.The early intervention camefrom her parents, Dick (’71, MA ’72)and Sandra Buchanan (’70)Bozoian, who met while theywere students at the College.“Growing up, I would visit campuswith them, and I was alwaysstruck by how friendly everyonewas,”she recalls. “It was a strikinglydifferent kind of place.”As for sports and exercise, herdad had played on the 1970 ACCchampionship football team. Asan undergraduate, she majored inhealth and sport science, knownnow as health and exercise science.As a graduate student atIllinois, where she earned threedegrees, she met her future husband,Ryan Mihalko, who hadplayed football at Notre Damein the late 1980s and early 1990s,when the Irish won a nationalchampionship.Now, back at her alma materfor the past eight years as a facultymember in her major department,she is still engaged in earlyinterventions and exercise, albeitof a different kind. She does pioneeringwork with older adultswho’ve had cancer, encouragingthem to begin an exercise regimenimmediately after their surgeriesand treatments to restoretheir bodies and spirits.Mihalko, an associate professorwho teaches health psychologyand health statistics, developswith her collaborators — whoinclude departmental colleaguesStephen Messier, Gary Miller,and Paul Ribisl, along with RogerAnderson of the Division of PublicHealth Sciences and EdwardLevine of Surgical Oncology onthe Bowman Gray Campus —strategies to promote confidencein older adults suffering fromchronic diseases to participate inrestorative physical activity earlierthan is customary.In one study titled RESTORE,she had women who had undergonebreast cancer surgery doingwalking and upper-body weightlifting as early as four weeks aftertheir operations. “Physical activityas part of cancer rehabilitationis a novel approach,” she notes.“But if a surgical patient is notphysically active at the start, shecan lose flexibility, strength, andrange of motion fairly quickly.“We’ve found that exercisehas a positive impact on theirpsychological state as well,” saysMihalko, who received her doctoraldegree in health psychology.“We conduct group behavioralsessions with the subjects sothat they figure out for themselveswhy physical activity isimportant. [Exercise] naturallyhelps with their emotionalrecovery and helps them buildthe confidence to get back intotheir regular daily activities.”Shannon Mihalko: Exercise contributesto psychological well-being.Mihalko recently launched anew study with Suzanne Danhauer,a researcher and clinicianat the Comprehensive CancerCenter of Wake Forest University,and Heidi Klepin, a geriatriconcologist at the School of Medicine.The study will focus on olderadults who have been diagnosedwith acute leukemia, a virulentand usually fatal form of cancerrequiring six to eight weeks ofhospital-based therapy, and willinclude in-hospital physical interventions,including walking,stretching, and strength training.“These will be tools they cantake home with them,” Mihalkosays, “and perhaps prepare themto withstand and endure moreintensive therapies to come.”—David Fyten14 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Split personalityTo understand the mind, whether ill orwell, you need philosophy as well aspsychiatry, in George Graham’s view.SO YOU THINK MENTAL ILL-NESS AND other mysteriesof the mind have become hypermedicalizedand excessivelypharmacologized? Well, maybeyou don’t. But you might if youperused the Diagnostic and StatisticalManual of Mental Disorders.Published by the AmericanPsychiatric Association, the DSMis a reference book for mentalhealth professionals that lists differentcategories of mental disordersand the criteria for diagnosingthem. When it was first publishedin 1952, the manual was 130pages long and contained 106 categories.Its 1994 edition, the mostrecent, is 886 pages and lists 297disorders. Unofficially, that figurehas risen to more than 400, andsome think the next edition, slatedfor publication in 2012, could containas many as a thousand distinctcategories of mental illnesses.George Graham bemoansthis obsession with the chemicalbiologicalside of the mind-brainproblem and our belief that everypsychological aberration, howeverslight, can be treated with adrug. It wasn’t always this way,he notes. Once, not long ago, theworld’s great psychiatrists—menlike Karl Jaspers and SigmundFreud—were philosophers as wellas scientists who looked beyondtraditional medical-clinicalGeorge Graham: helping philosophy and psychiatry to reassume their traditional partnership.approaches toward metaphysicsto understand the mind’s workings.Conversely, influential philosopherslike Immanuel Kantand John Locke wrote on mentalhealth topics from a psychiatricperspective and are consideredseminal in bridging the disciplines.In his capacity as A.C. ReidProfessor of Philosophy at WakeForest, Graham strives, throughhis writing, editing, and teaching,to do his part in helping philosophyand psychiatry reassumetheir traditional partnership inprobing the puzzle of what constitutesnormal and abnormalmental function. He is co-authorand co-editor of The Oxford Textbookof Philosophy and Psychiatry,that is used widely in the trainingof mental health professionalsin England, and co-editorof Reconceiving Schizophrenia, acompendium of articles thatchallenge a purely psychiatricapproach to the phenomenon ofschizophrenic delusion. AndRoutledge Press has invited himto write a book on the philosophyof mind and mental illness thathe will title The Disordered Mind.Graham, who came to WakeForest in early 2003, traces thedissolution of the link betweenphilosophy and psychiatry backto the “hypermedicalization”ofthe latter in the second half of thetwentieth century, when socialfactors and the emergence ofmanaged care began mandatingmore specific diagnoses. Hencethe growth of the DSM list.Another factor is at work aswell. Graham notes that to get anew drug on the market, a pharmaceuticalmanufacturer mustidentify a specific disorder that itwill treat. “Eventually, the drugcan be used for ‘enhancement’ bysomeone who is well but wants tobe better,” he says. “Or, it may beused for conditions other than itsinitial target. Anti-depressants,for instance, sometimes are usedfor conditions such as compulsionand obsession. The drug’smarket has expanded.”—David FytenA R O U N D T H E Q U A Dwww.wfu.edu/wowf DECEMBER 2007 15

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DWORRELL PROFESSOR OFAnglo-American StudiesDavid Coates has written a newbook, A Liberal Tool Kit: ProgressiveAnswers to Conservative Arguments(Praeger). The book outlines aseries of hot political issues, andhow progressives can respondto conservative arguments oneach issue. Coates, a native ofEngland, is also the author ofProlonged Labour; the Slow Birth ofNew Labour Britain and the coauthorof Blair’s War, a study ofthe UK’s involvement in Iraq.Jacquelyn S. Fetrow,Reynolds Professorof ComputationalBiophysics and directorof the graduate trackin structural and computationalbiophysics,has been appointed byFetrow the National Institutesof Health to a four-year termon a panel that reviews the scientificmerit of grant applications.Fetrow joined the departmentsof physics and computer sciencein 2003.BUSINESSWEEK profiled CallowaySchool professor BillMarcum on its Web site in Septemberfor its ongoing series onF ACULTYB RIEFSfavorite business professorsas identifiedby students. “Marcumbrings an uncannyenergy to his lectures,”one studentnoted. “After taking Marcumhis rigorous classes, Ifeel absolutely confident that Iwill succeed after college.” Marcum,an associate professor offinance, joined the Calloway facultyin 1996.FIVE SYMPHONIC WORKS bycomposer-in-residence andprofessor of music Dan Locklairare included on a CD releasedthis fall by record label Naxos.Naxos, one of the world’s mostcomprehensive catalogues ofclassical music, selected Locklairfor its “American Classics”series.The CD includes “Phoenix andAgain,”which was composed in1983 to celebrate the 150thanniversary of the foundingof Wake Forest, andfour other compositions,performed by the SlovakRadio Symphony Orchestra(Kirk Trevor, conductor).COMMUNICATION SCHOLARMichael J. Hyde was chosento deliver the prestigious CarrollC. Arnold Distinguished Lectureat the National CommunicationAssociation’s Annual Conventionlast month. Hyde, the UniversityDistinguished Professor of CommunicationEthics, joined the facultyin 1994. He is the author ofmore than sixty scholarly articlesand five books, and is currentlyat work on another book.THE DEPARTMENT OF COUN-SELING HAS BEEN NAMEDthe “Outstanding Masters CounselorEducation Program for2007” by the Southern Associationfor Counselor Educationand Supervision. The programoffers a two-year Master of Artsdegree in counseling. In 1999,Wake Forest was recognized bythe Association for CounselorEducation and Supervision forhaving the “Outstanding CounselingProgram” in the nation.16 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Trible Lecturesfocus on interfaithfeminismTHE PHYLLIS TRIBLE LEC-TURE SERIES, named forinternationally known biblicalscholar and University Professorof Biblical Studies Phyllis Trible,will be held March 4–5 at theDivinity School.“The series offers the communityan opportunity to hear intellectuallystimulating presentationsand engage in meaningfuldialogue with some of the foremostfeminist theologians andreligious studies scholars at workin the U.S. today,”says MaryDeShazer, professor of Englishand founding director of theWomen’s and Gender Studiesprogram. “Wake Forest’s annualsponsorship of such a majornational forum indicates theUniversity’s strong, ongoingsupport of feminist interdisciplinaryscholarship.”The 2008 lecture series,“Interfaith Feminisms: Jewish,Christian, and Muslim,” followsup the 2004 lecture series theme,“The Children of Hagar andSarah,”which led to the publicationof the book, Hagar, Sarah,and their Children: Jewish, Christianand Muslim Perspectives.This year’s conference will bethe first since the death of SylvaBillue, who endowed the lectureseries in 2001 (see page 77). Fora full conference schedule,visit divinity.wfu.edu/trible-lectures.htmlor contact the DivinitySchool at 336.758.5121.P ROFESSIONALTHE SCHOOL OF LAW isbeginning a DNA InnocenceProject in cooperation with theForsyth County Bar Association.The bar association has begunidentifying prisoners who mightbenefit from DNA testing todemonstrate their innocence.Law students will work withdefense attorneys, prosecutors,and law enforcement officersto identify cases that qualify forDNA testing. District AttorneyTom Keith (JD ’70) has agreedto request testing for cases thatthe students and attorneys recommend.SUPREME COURT JUSTICERuth Bader Ginsburg willteach in the School of Law’sSummer Abroad Program atCasa Artom in Venice next July.Justice Ginsburg will teach acourse on Personal Autonomyand Equality in a ComparativePerspective with Professor ofLaw Suzanne Reynolds. Herhusband, Georgetown UniversityProfessor of Law Martin Ginsburg,will teach Comparative Tax Systemswith Professor of Law JoelNewman. The law school willalso hold summer classes atWake Forest’s houses in Londonand Vienna.S CHOOLSTHE BABCOCK GRADUATESCHOOL of Managementranked second among the nation’stop regional business schools inthis fall’s annual survey by TheWall Street Journal/Harris InteractiveBusiness School Survey.Also this fall, the Babcock Schoolwas ranked one of the top MBAprograms in the world and No. 40among U.S.-based schools in TheEconomist’s sixth annual internationalranking of MBA schools.The school was ranked 30th bythe Aspen Institute for its commitmentto integrating socialand environmental issues intoits curriculum.THE NEWEST RESEARCHBUILDING in the PiedmontTriad Research Park in downtownWinston-Salem has been namedin honor of Dr. Richard H. Dean,retired president and CEO ofWake Forest University HealthSciences. The Richard H. DeanBiomedical Research Buildinghouses the Wake Forest Institutefor Regenerative Medicine andthe Lipid Sciences ResearchProgram. The five-story building,built in 2006 at a cost of $72 million,was formerly known asBiomedical Research Facility 1.A R O U N D T H E Q U A Dwww.wfu.edu/wowf DECEMBER 2007 17

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DGraduate schoolassociate deansappointedTWO FACULTY MEMBERShave been named associatedeans in the Graduate Schoolof Arts and Sciences. Professorof Biochemistry Linda McPhail(MS ’73, PhD ’76) was appointedto a three-year term as associatedean of graduate programs onthe Bowman GrayCampus. Sincejoining the facultyin 1984, she hasserved as directorof the biochemistrygraduate programand co-directorof the molecularMcPhailmedicine graduateprogram.Associate Professorof PsychologyCecilia Solano wasappointed to aone-year term asassociate dean ofgraduate programson the ReynoldaSolanoCampus. She alsowill continue asdirector of the master’s programin liberal studies. Solano, whojoined the psychology facultyin 1977, had served as associatedean of the Graduate Schoolsince 1999. She was interim deanfor a year following the retirementof Gordon Melson in June 2006until the appointment of LornaMoore as dean this past June.Burch (’96) named directorof Alumni Activities officeAWAKE FORESTALUMNA hasbeen named to overseealumni programs,and several othershave been hiredrecently to fill positionsin the alumniand UniversityAdvancement offices.Kristin TyrrellBurch, who graduatedin 1996 with a degreein sociology, has beennamed assistant vicepresident and directorof alumni activities.Minta AycockMcNally (‘74), formerlyassistant vice presidentand director ofalumni activities andannual support, earlierwas named to anew position as associatevice presidentand director of parentand donor relations.Burch will overseealumni programs,both on campus andnationally. She hadpreviously worked atGeorgetown University,first as assistantdirector of developmentfor the LombardiComprehensiveCancer Center, and,since 2005, as directorof alumni relations.BurchBooneThompsonYandellAlso in the alumnioffice, Patricia Boone hasbeen named alumniaffinity programs officer.She will be responsiblefor the Alumni Association’smerchandising andaffinity programs andthe alumni continuingeducation program. Shewas previously associatedean of continuing studiesat Salem College.Georgia Thompson(’05) has been namedalumni programs officerfor the professionalschools. She was previouslya project coordinatorfor Water MissionsInternational, a reliefagency based in Charleston,South Carolina.Kathryn “Kate”Yandell (’07) has beennamed assistant directorof alumni programs.She will be responsiblefor programs such asHomecoming and classreunions.In the UniversityAdvancement office,Debbie Miller has beennamed assistant vicepresident for prospectdevelopment. She waspreviously director ofprospect development atThe Nature Conservancy.18 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINEMiller

One dean will lead two business schoolsWAKE FOREST’S TWO BUSI-NESS SCHOOLS will soonbe led by one dean. The realignmentof the Calloway School ofBusiness and Accountancy andthe Babcock Graduate School ofManagement under one deanwill take place next summer.“Our University planningprocess has revealed that interdisciplinarystudies and crossschoolcollaborations are criticallyimportant to our success in doingwhat liberal arts universities dobest—developing thoughtful,ethical leaders in all professions,whose critical thinking skills areinformed by a broad range ofdisciplines,” said Provost JillTiefenthaler, who announced themove in September. “A powerfulfirst step in creating such a collaborativeenvironment acrossthe University can begin with theBabcock and Calloway schools.”Wake Forest is one of only afew national universities—alongwith the University of Virginia —that still administers undergraduateand graduate businessprograms separately. CallowaySchool Dean Jack Wilkerson andBabcock School Dean Ajay Patelwill continue to lead their respectiveschools until a new dean isselected and then return to teaching.A national search is underwayto fill the position.Tiefenthaler said that bothWilkerson and Patel supportedthe move, and she expressedappreciation to them for theirleadership. “During their tenures,both Babcock and Calloway haverealized many achievements, garneringnational and internationalrecognition,” she noted.Wilkerson joined the Callowayfaculty in 1989 and has served asdean since 1996. Patel joined theBabcock faculty in 1993 and hasserved as dean since 2003.Entrepreneurshipprograms amongnation’s bestORTUNE SMALL BUSINESSFmagazine has recognizedWake Forest’s entrepreneurshipprograms for being among thebest in the nation. In “America’sBest Colleges for Entrepreneurs,”published in the Septemberissue, Wake Forest was includedin a listing of twenty-four collegesrated best for cross-campusentrepreneurship education.Wake Forest was also includedin a listing of the twenty-sixbest graduate business schoolsfor “blending real-world smallbusinessknow-how with topacademics.” Schools were notranked numerically.“Our goal is to weave entrepreneurshipinto the fabric ofthe University and to makeentrepreneurship an integralpart of the culture,” said ElizabethGatewood, director of theOffice of Entrepreneurship andLiberal Arts.At the Babcock GraduateSchool of Management, morethan 90 percent of the school’sfull-time students take an entrepreneurshipelective.The emphasison entrepreneurship is thesecond most popular reason studentscite for enrolling, said StanMandel, director of the AngellCenter for Entrepreneurship.A R O U N D T H E Q U A Dwww.wfu.edu/wowf DECEMBER 2007 19

IF WAKE FOREST’S BIOLOGYDEPARTMENT were an ecosystem,it would be classified ascomplex—one that teems withmarvelous and diversified organismson its faculty.Flourishing in its fecund habitatare a primordial species (ErikJohnson); an established genusearly into the most productivestage of its life cycle (Miles Silman,Miriam Ashley-Ross, Brian Tague,and Clifford Zeyl); a family a bitfarther still along the evolutionarypath (Gloria Muday, James Curran,Dave Anderson, chair KathleenKron, and William Conner); anorder of advanced specimensthat have migrated to the system(endowed chair holders WilliamSmith and Susan Fahrbach);a class with deep roots (WayneFour in Fruition…Above the complexecosystem that isbiology at WakeForest is an overarchingcanopy—the venerableaward-winningquartet of JerryEsch, Ray Kuhn,Pete Weigl, andRon Dimock.By David FytenSilver and Robert and CaroleBrowne); and a mature and venerablephylum (Herman Eure andHugo C. Lane). Their domainsrange from molecular genetics toevolutionary ecology—a diversityrarely found today in the kingdomof university biology departments,which tend toward homogeneityon the molecular branch.Biology at Wake Forest is likean old-growth forest. It was thefirst department on the ReynoldaCampus with a doctoral program,and its home for forty-five years,Winston Hall, remains unchartedterrain to many, with its bewilderingwarren of halls and roomnumberingillogic. There are thosewho believe it is sacred ground,

suffused as it is with the spirit ofthe late, longtime, and much-lovedprofessor Charles M. Allen.And above the forest, at its veryapex, is an overarching canopy ofJerry Esch, Ray Kuhn, Pete Weigl,and Ron Dimock.Few departments at WakeForest—or elsewhere, for thatmatter—can boast of such a venerablequartet. Collectively, theyhave 157 years of experience inthe department, but the respectthey are accorded by their colleaguesand students is not afunction of longevity alone. Inrecent years, each has receiveda major national award, at thenomination of their formerstudents, recognizing theirmentoring and teachingcontributions. All of themhad little or no familiaritywith Wake Forest beforethey were hired, but withina couple of years none ofthem would have eventhought of leaving. Today,at ages ranging from sixtyfourto seventy-one, theyremain as active in theirlaboratories, field stations,classrooms, and officesas ever, with retirementdecidedly on the backBunsen burner.To be sure, they’re different.Esch and Kuhnare extroverted characters;Weigl and Dimock are moreon the subdued and seriousside (although not withoutwit). But, as in any family,blood runs thicker thanwater. “These guys are likebrothers to me,” Esch says.“I grew up with them.”GERALD W. E SCH: A “labor of love”F JERRY ESCH WERE ANY HAPPIERI …well, there’d have to be two ofhim to hold it all. Nestled in the comfylookingupholstered armchair in hiscrammed-with-memorabilia office, theCharles M. Allen Professor of Biologystill can’t quite believe his good fortunein landing at Wake Forest forty-twoyears ago.Brought up in Wichita, Kansas, Eschattended Colorado College in ColoradoSprings, where he majored in zoology(that’s ZOE-ology—not ZOO-ology, ashe’s quick to note) and met his futurespouse, Ann, herself from small-townKansas. Then it was off to the Universityof Oklahoma for a doctorate and tothe University of North Carolina-ChapelHill on a post-doc.“I’d never heard of Wake Forestbefore I came to North Carolina in1963,” he says. “When I first camehere, I thought I would die professionallyif I stayed. But in my first threeGerald W. Esch: “Idon’t know of very manypeople who’d work fornothing, but I might.”years, I had offers from the Universityof Tennessee and Pitt and turned themboth down. There was a feeling atWake Forest in those years that I don’tquite know how to describe. I think itwas due to people like [former deansof the College] Ed Wilson (’43) andTom Mullen. They cultivated anatmosphere of family.”Esch pursued ecological parasitologyas his field of specialty and became wellknown in it. For ten summers he taughtat the prestigious Kellogg BiologicalStation in Michigan and for the pastfourteen years he has edited the Journalof Parasitology. The most recent of theseven books he has written or edited,Parasites and Infectious Diseases, recounts,through personal interviews Esch conductedwith eighteen researchers, manyof parasitology’s most important discoveries.“It was a labor of love,” is his descriptionof it. A painting by his daughter,a gifted artist, adorns the cover.DECEMBER 2007 21

Over the years Esch has mentoredscores of graduate students, many ofwhom have gone on to distinguishedacademic careers of their own. It wasthey who nominated him in 1998 forthe coveted Clark P. Read MentorAward given by the American Societyof Parasitologists each year. Esch hadno inkling he had won and, due toillness, missed the meeting at whichit was announced. But several of hisformer students who were there madesure he knew about it by placing callsto him at home. He was presentedthe award the following year.Esch and Ann have started downsizing; they’ve sold their house andmoved into a condo on Paschal Drive.Eventually, they’ll retire to a cabinthey own in Green Mountain Falls,Colorado, at the foot of Pike’s Peak.But the venerable professor is in norush to retire, even at seventy-one.“There’s just something about thisplace,” he says. “I don’t know ofvery many people who’d work fornothing, but I might.ITH HISWSUSPENDERSAND CASUALCLOTHING thatlooks tailor-madefor manual labor;his countrifiedhumor, expressions,Raymond E. and penchant for storytelling;and enough SouthKuhn: oncea truck driver,in his mouth to add analways animmunoparasitologist.William L. Poteat Profes-extra syllable to any word,sor of Biology Ray Kuhncould easily pass for an auto mechanicor a truck driver in rural Georgia.Which is precisely what he wasbefore taking a hard turn towardwhat would become a forty-yearsand-countingcareer as a universityimmunoparasitology teacher, researcher,and mentor.The story of Kuhn’s first self-reinvention(there has been at least onemore) is a classic, even among themany classics in his legendary repertoireof tales tall and short. Raised inCobb County, Georgia, northwest ofAtlanta, back when it had a populationof 3,000 (it’s now over 400,000), heworked as a mechanic and then atruck driver after high school with nointention of going to college. But whenhe was passed over for a promotion infavor of a guy who had a year of college,he decided it might be a goodidea after all, and enrolled in a remedialclass at Georgia Tech.Kuhn did poorly at first, but he garneredthe attention of his instructor,who was about as different from him,politically and culturally, as he could bebut who saw potential in Kuhn that Kuhnhadn’t seen in himself. “You ought togo to college,” the instructor told him,so Kuhn packed his car and arrived onthe campus of Carson-Newman Collegein Jefferson City, Tennessee, on June 3,RAYMOND E. KUHN: Good old boy1962. (At this point, Kuhn embellishesthe story with the details of how thecollege’s admission officials didn’tknow who he was when he showed upbut let him stay anyway because theyneeded warm bodies, but we’ll leavethat for him to tell.)Kuhn took a liking to biology andgraduated from Carson-Newman inthree years. His pastor thought he’dmake a good missionary and encouragedhim to go to medical school. Hewas accepted by a handful of schools—including Wake Forest’s BowmanGray School of Medicine—but by thenbiology was in his blood so he enrolledin a doctoral program at the Universityof Tennessee and finished his Ph.D. inthree years.When Kuhn arrived at WakeForest—then in its infancy as a universityand the smaller school withresearch potential he was seeking—in the fall of 1968, he was a developmentalbiologist (or, in older parlance,embryologist). At the time, Esch wasusing a larval tapeworm in somedevelopmental research he was doing.22 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Collaborating with Esch on his project,Kuhn became interested in the immunologicalfeatures of host-parasite relationships.Around the same time, Eschdiscovered that he was doing the samething with his parasite that anotherscientist had done with a different parasitefive years earlier. By then he hadbeen teaching for some years at theKellogg Institute and had acquired aninterest in ecological parasitology. Soboth of them retrained themselves(Kuhn by reading virtually everythingthat had been written in immunologysince 1928) and went on to prosper intheir new disciplines. So accomplisheddid Kuhn become in immunoparasitologythat he has edited journals in bothimmunology and parasitology and hasforged close personal and professionalrelationships with many of the country’sleading researchers in the field.Some of those relationships led tothe formation and longevity of whatwill certainly be one of his primarylegacies—the Fancy Gap ImmunoparasitologyWorkshop. Begun byKuhn in 1974 and held in a Universityownedlodge off the Blue Ridge Parkwayon an October weekend ever since,the workshop is a one-of-a-kind eventbringing together scientists from Harvardand other top schools and WakeForest graduate and undergraduatestudents for three days of science presentationsand merriment, includingdancing, gourmet cooking, and amarathon poker tournament with anidiosyncratic consolation prize for theloser. Above all, it is a fertile venue fornetworking, with a number of the studentparticipants winding up as postgraduateresearch assistants in the labsof senior scientists they had met atFancy Gap.Networking and mentoring—ina broader sense, people—is Kuhn’sgreatest talent and passion. Blessedwith near-total recall, he can recite thenames and circumstances of virtuallyevery student he has ever had andrecite with pride the productive careersonto which many have gone, oftenwith his assistance. “A week doesn’tgo by that one of my former studentsdoesn’t call me,” Kuhn says. He evenkeeps a golf club by his office doorin case one in particular who likes toswing it should show up. Small wonderthat a campaign mounted by EdRoland, his very first doctoral student,to generate supporting letters fromalumni for his nomination of Kuhnfor this year’s Read Award should yielda flurry of effusive missives. Kuhn’sacceptance speech was titled, “We AreScientists, But We Are In the PeopleBusiness.”Students haven’t been the onlybeneficiaries of Kuhn’s mentoring.For many years, he and his seniorcolleagues have helped guide thedepartment’s junior membersin honing their teaching skills.“I remember telling DaveAnderson [today a full professorand one of biology’s mostesteemed teachers and researchers]when he first started teaching,and was a little stiff, to justthrow away his damn notes,”Kuhn says. “Suddenly, he relaxedand got on top of it.”Having recently guided a classof students in developing apatentable product for the testingof diseases in fish-farm populations,and with a laboratory full of studentsabout to begin a project to study thedecline of amphibians due to fungaldisease, Kuhn, at sixty-five, feels noinclination toward calling it quits.“As long as I do good work, attractpassionate young people, and feelas good as I do now,” he says with agrin, “no telling how long I’ll stay.”PETER D. WEIGL: A man about the worldETE WEIGL BEARS THE BATTLEPSCARS of a life as an ecologist insome of the planet’s most rugged andinhospitable places. The Amazon, theAndes, the Galapagos Islands, Africa,Borneo, the mountains of Poland…you name it, he’s explored it. Tuckedin the corner of his office are a copyof Vermeer’s The Girl with a PearlEarring and a medieval Crusader’shelmet that one might surmise hadbeen scavaged on some swashbucklingadventures. On his journey, he’s beenbitten, lacerated, stomped, and scrapedand has logged enough hard hikes andfalls to warrant the knee replacementprocedure he underwent recently.Somehow, this sort of soldierof-fortuneexistence seems slightlyincongruous for a man with hisscholastic pedigree and eclectictastes and talents.Williams College,then on to Duke for hisDECEMBER 2007 23

doctorate; a rich and resonant bassvoice with a solid command of theclassical choral repertory; keeper of athirty-eight-acre wooded lot and fruitand-nutorchard; an insatiable readerand self-described “book addict” whofinished most of the requirements foran English major as an undergraduate…Indiana Jones, or perhaps RichardBurton, the Victorian-period explorerand Renaissance man, might occur tothe imaginative mind as comparisons.Weigl, of course, would have noneof that nonsense. As direct and down-toearthas he can be, he’ll tell you he’s justa regular guy whose most cherishedmemories are not of exotic escapades,but of his colleagues and students.Weigl’s coming to Wake Forest, likethose of all of his contemporaries, was“My adviser was not thrilled, but Iliked the atmosphere at Wake Forest,” herecalls. “There was a quality to it, afriendly place where communication waseasy. It was during that era under Wilsonand Mullen when the quality of the relationshipsamong faculty and studentscame to the fore. I enjoyed teaching,and I could do all the research I wanted.”Over the years, Weigl has taken untoldnumbers of students on field tripsto farflung parts of the globe. And notjust biology students: some of his fondestrecollections are of trips with travelstudy groups—non-experts who combinesightseeing with a deeper studyof political, cultural, and other topicson their travels to exotic localities. Oneof his most memorable journeys wasto South America and the GalapagosPeter D. Weigl: a world explorer with a down-home devotion to students.serendipitous. He was all lined up fora post-doctoral position in Australia in1968 when his funding suddenly fellthrough. Without a job, he acceptedan offer from Wake Forest (whichliked his diversified expertise in physiology,animal behavior, vertebrateecology, and environmental biology)and joined Kuhn as newcomers to thebiology faculty that fall.Islands with a group of Master of Arts inLiberal Studies students who observedfirst-hand the flora and fauna thatfamed nineteenth-century naturalistsCharles Darwin and Alexander Humboldthad recorded in their journals.In his leisure time, Weigl and his wife,Ann, have accompanied travel studygroups others have led to Turkey, Norway,and Central Europe.Not surprisingly, Weigl is a passionateand politically active conservationist.Among the ecologically sensitive areashe has helped preserve are the longleafpine forests of the coastal plains ofeastern North Carolina. Currently he isactive in helping conserve the famous“grassy balds” hills of the SouthernAppalachians, endangered due to landuse changes in the mountains. Weiglhas been as effective in the cause ofconservation as he has largely becauseof the time and patience he has investedin developing long-term relationshipswith those in a position to decide thefate of threatened areas of the localitiesin question.Over the course of his career, Weiglhas received four of Wake Forest’s fivemajor faculty awards: the Reid-DoylePrize (1972) and Jon Reinhardt Award(2003), both for excellence in teaching;the Award for Excellence inAdvising (1992); and the Donald O.Schoonmaker Faculty Award forCommunity Service (1999). The onecategory in which he has not won isfor excellence in research, which iswhy he was gratified to receive theJoseph Grinnell Award for excellencein training student researchers at thissummer’s meeting of the AmericanSociety of Mammalogists.Weigl is teaching half-time under aphased retirement he began this fall,but that doesn’t mean he’s out to pasture.“If I retired, I could write for fiveyears without gathering any moredata,” he reports. But he has an optionto extend the phased arrangement, andat sixty-seven, he’ll take his sweet timeto decide if and when he’ll hang up hishiking boots for good. “If I’d have tochoose one aspect of mycareer as mylegacy,” he says,“it would be the students. It isreally why I’m in no hurry.”24 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

RONALD V. D IMOCK JR.:No landlubber heO WHAT’S A MARINE BIOLOGISTSDOING IN the North CarolinaPiedmont, anyway? Good question.Ron Dimock wondered about that himselfback in 1970, when he acceptedWake Forest’s offer. A native Bostonianwho earned his master’s degree atFlorida State and his doctorate at theUniversity of California-Santa Barbara,Dimock had always been within figurativeshouting distance of salty water.But after thirty-seven years, he’s grownfond of rolling countryside and hasn’tlet his landlocked status prevent himfrom pursuing all things aquatic.“When I was at Florida State, weplayed Wake Forest in football,” recallsthe Thurman D. Kitchin Professor ofBiology. “I’d never heard of the school,but it kind of stuck in my mind. Then,as I was completing my doctorate atSanta Barbara, my advisor compiled ajob-placement letter for three of us whowere finishing up and asked each of usto list any institutions to which heshould send it. I put down Wake Forestonly because of that football game.“A while later, I was interviewing inMaryland and my wife called to tell meWake Forest wanted me to come toWinston-Salem to check out the biologydepartment,” he continues. “I told herto tell them I wasn’t interested, but [thendepartmentchair] Ralph Amen persistedand said they wanted to fly me down.I said okay— and liked it. Esch andKuhn were instrumental in my decision.I was impressed with how the two ofthem combined and balanced their teachingand research. Still, there was somecultural transition at first, and I thoughtI would stay for only two or three years.But we really grew to love it here. Mywife [Joyce] would work for theChamber of Commerce if she could.”Ronald V. Dimock Jr.: sending in the marine.Because of his location, Dimockshifted the focus of his research tofreshwater mussels while retainingsaltwater field trips as an integral part ofhis teaching. He has taught for twentyyears at Duke’s marine lab in Beaufortand has taken groups of students onextensive field trips to the Atlanticcoast, the Galapagos Islands, and theBaja California peninsula, where theycamped out for a month. “The qualityof our students has been, and continuesto be, outstanding,” he says.Dimock also is proud of the manygraduate students he has mentored overthe years. His current doctoral studentis doing promising research on the useof freshwater mussels as biomarkersfor stress from contaminants and globalwarming. Seven or eight of his studentsare on college or university faculties,and it was them, along with others,who nominated him for the MeritoriousTeaching Award he received from theAssociation of Southeastern Biologistsa couple of years ago.Dimock spent this fall as housemasterat the Worrell House in London.Most of the fifteen students in residenceat the house were biology majors, andfield trips naturally werepart of their experience.They spent four days at amarine lab in Wales, visitedLondon’s world-famousNatural History Museum,went to Oxford Universityfor a presentation on scientificpublication, and traveledto Cambridge University for abehind-the-scenes tour thatincluded viewing many ofDarwin’s original specimensfrom the Galapagos Islands. Asa bit of delightful serendipity,the Dimocks’ daughter andfamily lived a five-minute walkfrom the Worrell House this fallwhile her husband was on temporaryprofessional assignment.Dimock’s hobbies include(surprise!) scuba diving, woodworking,reading, traveling toa place he and Joyce own onEmerald Isle, and seven grandchildren.Retirement? “The wordhas come up,” admits Dimock,at sixty-four a relative youngsteramong the quartet. “Maybe inthree or four years.”DECEMBER 2007 25

…and Four in FormationProfiling a quartet of rising stars in the Wake Forest College faculty fermament.By David Fyten26 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Since the turn of the millenium, the tenured or tenure-track undergraduatefaculty at Wake Forest (not counting the Calloway School of Business andAccountancy) has grown by 10.3 percent—from 261 to 288 positions.The expansion has brought a remarkable infusion of gifted young teacherscholarsas both occupants of new positions and replacements for retirees.Here are profiles of four whose careers display exceptional promise.DECEMBER 2007 27

Lynn Neal: romance for women tryingto get closer to God.LYNN N EAL:Romance for the religiousT’S FUNNY HOW EASILY STEREO-ITYPES CAN BE CONFOUNDED.Would we expect, for example, womenwho are evangelical Christians to readromance novels? Heavens no! And yet,they do—avidly.But these novels are not your gardenvarietyswashbuckling bodice-rippers.No steamy passion or sex—certainlynone outside marriage—here. Infusedwith biblical tenets, they dramatize thechallenges of Christian relationshipsin a secular world and serve as inspirationthat helps their readers maintaintheir faith in a profane culture.The little-known but vital literarysubgenre of religious romance novelsis a research focus of Assistant Professorof Religion Lynn Neal.Neal, who holds a master’s degree intheological studies from Duke DivinitySchool and a doctorate in Americanreligious history from UNC-ChapelHill, served as a visiting professor from2003 to 2005 and returned as a tenuretrackfaculty member last fall after ayear at Appalachian State.Besides her current research on religiousintolerance, her primary scholarlyinterest is the interface between Christianityand gender and popular cultureissues. For her doctoral dissertation,she examined religious romance novels,interviewing twenty authors and fiftyreaders. UNC Press has published itas a book titled Romancing God: EvangelicalWomen and Inspirational Fiction.“I wanted to pursue a study thatquestioned the stereotypes of evangelicalism,”says Neal, who characterizesthe movement by its emphasis on theauthority of the Bible, a personal conversionexperience, and witnessingthat experience to others. “It’s a studyof women in evangelicalism—of howone sustains her faith on a daily basisin the face of doubt and the distractionsposed by popular culture.“The novels are effective for thesewomen on a spiritual level,” sheexplains. “They’re for, by, and aboutwomen, and insofar as the pulpits of[evangelical] churches are restricted tomen, they constitute a form of women’sministry in a cloaked and covert way.They’re fun to read, yet they stay withinthe bounds of the evangelical faithby upholding conservative sexual andgender values, for example. The womenwho read these books are trying to getcloser to God, and by depicting animage of a nurturing and forgiving Godmore than one of judgment and wrath—the titles suggest a God who isromancing humanity—they help theirreaders recover their feelings of faith.”According to Neal, first-generationreligious romance novels dealt onlywith religious experiences, dramatizingthe conversion of one or both membersof a couple, for example. “Now, they’veopened up, portraying the full range ofchallenges in a marriage today—eveninfidelity,” she notes. “If one thinks ofevangelicalism as permeating life, theneverything—the anger felt toward anunfaithful husband, for instance—is aspiritual problem, and the true natureof forgiveness is explored in that light.In these novels, the tensions within amarriage are always religious in nature.And the message they impart is, thecloser the couple gets to God, the closerthey get to each other.”Neal is co-authoring, with JohnCorrigan of Florida State University, ahistory of religious intolerance in theUnited States, concentrating her effortson the twentieth century. “It’s a toughtopic to teach because our nationalideology of religious freedom and toleranceis so ingrained in us,” she says.“Intolerance is just not part of ourframework, but it is a vital part of ourhistory.” She currently is at work on achapter on anti-semitism, which shesays was at its worst in the last century,28 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

and will dedicate another chapter tothe Branch Davidian massacre at Waco,Texas, with the view that it cloakedreligious intolerance in the mantle ofpolicing the secular transgressions ofDavid Koresh and his followers.D ONALD H ELME ANDS TEVEN G ILES:‘Sensationalism’ incommunicationONALD HELME AND STEVENDGILES have more in commonthan having earned their doctoraldegrees at the University of Kentuckyand their current posts as assistantprofessors in the Wake Forest Departmentof Communication. Both alsohold joint appointments in the Departmentof Social Sciences and HealthPolicy at the School of Medicine andhave collaborated on grant proposalsand research manuscripts. And theyboth specialize in communication asa health intervention tool for adolescentsand young adults.To be sure, they have their differences.Helme concentrates primarilyon adolescent smoking while Gilesfocuses mainly on disordered eatingand problem drinking among collegestudents. Helme specializes in designingand evaluating media messagesthat can attract and hold the attentionof at-risk adolescents while Giles specializesin identifying how peer normsand networks can influence college studentsto make poor behavioral choices.But essentially, they are more alikethan different. Both embrace a commonpurpose: to parlay their knowledgeinto strategies to deter at-riskadolescents and young adults fromengaging in risky and self-destructivebehaviors.Before joining the Wake Forest facultyin 2003, Helme was a scientistfor a cancer research center in Denver,Colorado, where he sought to determinewhich features of public serviceannouncements (PSAs) are most effectiveat discouraging teens from usingtobacco and marijuana.“We’re all hard-wired for needingcertain amounts of excitement, andhigh sensation seekers, who are most atrisk for engaging in [perilous] behaviorslike drug abuse and unsafe sex, need alot of excitement to keep from gettingbored,” Helme says. “This stronglysuggests the kinds of PSAs that mightbe effective in persuading high sensation-seekersto assume healthier attitudesand behaviors. The PSAs need tobe stimulating, fast-paced, and packedwith action, but also contain a strongstory line.”One particularly effective TruthCampaign PSA that Helme tested wasfor a fictitious beverage called Splode.The opening shot is of three teenspoised to bungee-jump from a bridge.The first two do wild and thrillingjumps, but the third hits the gorge bottomand explodes. Then comes the realmessage: only one product actuallykills one-third of its users—tobacco.Follow-up studies conducted byHelme showed the PSAs to be quiteeffective in changing attitudes towardSteven Giles (left) and Donald Helme: communication for high-sensation seekers.and usage of tobacco among Coloradoteenagers. “An extra bonus was thatlow sensation-seekers also liked thePSAs,” Helme says. “We got doublebang for the buck with our [spots].”While the rate of smoking adoptionis falling among the high school studentpopulation, it is on the rise among collegestudents—a trend Helme attributesto a shift in marketing strategy bythe tobacco companies. “Unable tolawfully direct its advertising to teensand pre-teens, the [tobacco] industrynow tries to grab them when they reacheighteen with giveaways and otherDECEMBER 2007 29

promotions,” says Helme, whose otherresearch interests include strategiesfor developing and supporting antitobaccocoalitions for the benefit ofnative American and minority populationsas well as physician-patientcommunication as it relates to patientsatisfaction and compliance by diabeticsand other chronic disease suffererswith prescribed treatment regimens.“We need to develop campaigns thatare targeted specifically at the collegeagepopulation. The challenge is thatcollege students consume differenttypes and amounts of media than doteens and pre-teens, making it morechallenging to reach them with healthrelatedmessages. But until we developsome special strategy, we’ll need tocontinue using television.”Giles, who was an adjunct instructorin the communication departmentfor four years prior to joining the facultyfull-time in fall 2002, previouslywas a research associate at TanglewoodResearch Inc., a Greensboro-basedcompany that was launched by Dr.William Hansen, formerly of the Divisionof Public Health Sciences at theSchool of Medicine. There, he obtainedgrant funding from the National Institutesof Health (NIH) to create educationaldrug abuse prevention materialsand to develop a continuing educationteacher-training course.In the past three years, Giles hasturned his attention to another subject:the social and environmental factorsinfluencing college students’ eatinghabits.“I asked one of my classes in thespring of 2004 what the number onehealth problem on college campuseswas,” Giles recalls. “I thought theywould say drinking, or drinking anddriving, but the top response was eatingdisorders. Another class confirmedthat perception.“That really put it on the map forme,” he goes on. “It opened the floodgates.One student came into my officeand told me it was a serious problemfor his girlfriend. In their minds, eatingdisorders were a universal expectation—part of being a popular and successfulcollege student.”While only 1 to 5 percent of collegestudents report having been diagnosedwith an eating disorder such as anorexianervosa or bulimia nervosa, studiesindicate that anywhere from 20 percentto 80 percent of all college studentsengage in some form of disordered eating,such as vomiting, the use of laxativesor diet pills, self-starvation, orobligatory exercise. Women who fit acertain profile—white; middle to upperclass; highly competitive and perfectionistic—havetraditionally been seenas the highest-risk group, but recentresearch indicates that eating disordersare on the rise among African Americans,Latinas, and even white males.From data he gathered from firstyearand upperclass students throughsurveys, focus groups, and other instruments,Giles gleaned some insightsinto the social norms and environmentalfactors behind the behavior. “Socialnorms included one’s perception ofits prevalence and acceptability andthe extent to which one’s peers thinkthinness is important,” he notes.“Among the environmental factorswere body-esteem, media influences,and parental attitudes.“Mixed messages are a challenge,”he continues. “Sororities will servecookies and pizza at social functionsbut communicate to their membersthat thinness is important for theimage of the chapter and the campusas a whole. Parents’ comments andattitudes about weight also can havea negative influence on a child’s bodyesteem and is often a precursor todisordered eating behavior. We evenhear stories about mothers engagingin weight loss competitions with theirdaughters to see who can wear thesmallest clothing size.”Giles also has collaborated withscientists in the Department of SocialSciences and Health Policy at theSchool of Medicine to study the relationshipbetween eating and alcoholconsumption. “We found that 32 percentof college women reported restrictingcalories on days they planned todrink, and that 24 percent of thesewomen did so because of weight concerns,”Giles notes. “Restricting calorieson days they planned to drink wassignificantly associated with bingedrinking and getting drunk. Clearly,many of the ways that college studentscompensate for potential weight gaincan have terrible consequences.”Giles thinks that many of theunderlying causes of disordered eatingare also related to other problembehaviors such as smoking, drinking,or unsafe sex. He has co-authored apaper with Helme and another departmentalcolleague, Marina Krcmar,which examines this issue in depth.“In my opinion, at the root of it all isheart rot,” Giles says. “These studentsare trying to fill the hole inside withwhatever they think will give themvalue among their peers.”D AVID YAMANE:A scholar withCatholic interestsAS A RESEARCHER, DAVIDYAMANE FOCUSES on what’sright in front of him. Take Catholicism,for example. He is a convert to thefaith, and he spent five years on thefaculty of Notre Dame, so it stands30 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

to reason that the Roman CatholicChurch would command a portionof his professional attention.But as they would be for any goodscholar, personal connections alone arenot sufficient justification for his interestin the subject. Fascinated by therelation between religion and otherdomains of society, Yamane connectstrends such as the Church’s decliningconversion rates and numbers ofpriests and nuns in the United Statesto changing social norms on marriage,sex, and the roles and status of womenin this country.Yamane, an assistant professor ofsociology who also is a faculty associatein the religion department andteaches the sociology of religion inthe Divinity School, is a specialist inthe interface between organized religionand secular institutions and culture.Among his topics of research isthe lobbying of state legislatures byconferences of Catholic bishops oneducation, abortion, capital punishment,immigration, and other issues.Brought up in what he calls the“religiously indifferent” culture ofsuburban northern California, Yamaneconverted to Roman Catholicismwhen he was a graduate student at theUniversity of Wisconsin. Like manycontemporary converts, he was introducedto the faith by his wife-to-be.“Most people convert because ofwell-established network connectionsor for other mundane reasons, suchas a marriage or the birth of a child,”he points out. Although, as he notes,over 150,000 Americans converted toCatholicism last year, the long-termtrend is downward. “The traditionalreason why most non-Catholics converted—itwas their spouse’s religion,and unanimity was thought to beimportant for child-rearing—is muchless important now, with more optionsand fewer sanctions for religiouslymixed marriages.”ContemporaryAmerica is experiencinga rise in “seekerspirituality,” but fewof these seekers opt forCatholicism. Part ofthe reason, as Yamaneobserves, is that Catholicdoctrine is selfconsciouslyout ofstep with present-dayculture. Nowhere isthis more evident thanin the Church’s teachingon sexuality andthe role of women,which is related tothe drastic decline inCatholic religiousDavid Yamane:Catholicism in crisisand facing choices.vocations. “American culture is notwelcoming of celibacy and the banningof women priests,” he states. “Also, aswomen’s societal status has risen overthe past half-century, the number ofnuns has dropped precipitously. Bycontrast, vocations to the priesthoodin Asia and Africa are booming andhelping to fill the shortage of priestsin the U.S. The priesthood’s economicand social status can make it an attractiveoption in the developing world.It will be interesting to see whethervocations in Asia and Africa declineas well once the standards of livingon those continents rise.”Yamane believes the Church eventuallywill be forced to change its centuries-olddictates against married andwomen priests. “Catholicism has tochoose if it will continue to requirethese non-essential characteristics ofpriests, which threaten the viability ofthe priesthood and the Church, or if itwill come into line with contemporarynorms to save what is essential aboutthe Church: the sacraments,” he says.“The shortage of priests is bad enoughthat it could bring about incrementalchange—first, welcoming back formerpriests who are now married; then,permitting married laymen to enterthe seminary; and, finally, allowingordained priests to get married. I don’texpect it all to happen in my lifetime,but I think it will come.”Yamane, who with his wife, MeganPolzer, has three children ages 12 andunder, is anticipating his next researchsubject. “My projects always emergefrom my personal experiences,” hesays. “Certainly, for my work on theChurch, it was fortuitous that I was atNotre Dame. Now that I am at WakeForest, I wonder what will strike meas interesting locally. The rise of theCatholic South, perhaps?”DECEMBER 2007 31

Pursuing Their PassionsWake Forest’s Fifth-Year Institute provides postgraduate supportWHEN WAKE FORESTRECEIVED a $2.16 millionmatching grant from theEwing Marion Kauffman Foundationin late 2003 to develop programs topromote entrepreneurship in the liberalarts, it was hailed as the boldestnew initiative at the University in years.One of the most innovative goals wasto create a “Fifth-Year Institute” toprovide support to a select group ofstudents for a year after they graduatedso they could continue to developtheir entrepreneurial ventures.Four years later, the Fifth-YearInstitute is thriving. In May, the programreceived a $22,000 grant fromthe James S. Kemper Foundation.Students selected for the highly competitiveprogram receive a stipendto help cover their living expensesand seed money to develop theirbusiness. They can also take up tothree classes for two semesters free ofcharge; most take entrepreneurship,business, or marketing courses inthe Calloway School of Business andAccountancy and the Babcock GraduateSchool of Management. And perhapsmost importantly, the studentshave access to a network of facultyand alumni mentors and staff in theOffice of Entrepreneurship and LiberalArts (OELA).The first student in the program,biology major Sarah Yocum (’05), isnow CEO of Aqualutions Inc., a startupcompany that emerged from researchconducted with biology professor RayKuhn. Aqualutions, which recentlyreceived a grant from the North CarolinaBioTech Center, is developing productsfor disease detection in commercialfish-farm populations.Last year’s recipients, theatremajors Matt Gutschick (’06) andBen Whiting (’06), used their fifthyear to develop MagicMouth Productions,a nonprofit, educational theatrecompany. Gutschick is now educationdirector for The Little Theatre of32 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

to budding entrepreneurs.Stories by Kerry M. King (’85) Photographs by Ken BennettWinston-Salem. Whiting is an actorand magician in Chicago. They arecurrently developing their secondshow, a comedy titled “Rubber Doves,”which they hope to premiere in Chicagonext year.The three students selected forthe program this year—MarthaNapier, John Pyle, and Laura Bullins—frequently use the word “passion”when describing their entrepreneurialventures. Napier is creating a line ofhand-dyed, custom-embellishedwomen’s knit tops. Bullins is trying tocarve out her niche by offering highquality,hand-painted yarn for knittingand crocheting. And the Fifth-YearInstitute isn’t only for students developinga for-profit business; Pyle hasformed a nonprofit organization toprovide character-education programsto elementary schools.“For students who are developingventures with high potential, it is areal benefit to be able to stay at WakeForest for an additional year,” saysBetsy Gatewood, director of the OELA.“They may not have taken an accountingcourse or a marketing course, soit’s a chance to build some crucialfunctional skills. And it’s also a chanceto have faculty and alumni advisersprovide feedback on their ventureideas or business or marketing plans.”The Fifth-Year Fellows are not theonly students starting new ventures.Five sophomores have started theirown nonprofit educational companyto teach children about science, basedon ideas they developed in a freshmenseminar class (see page 6).Senior Ali Carroll, who has receiveda New Venture Seed Grant from theOELA, is partnering with women ina Kenyan village to make jewelrywhich she sells in the United States;she’s now the proud owner of a pieceof land in Kenya and has ambitionsof building a factory there to providesteady employment to villagers (seepage 40).DECEMBER 2007 33

Martha Napier:Justees: for JusticeENTREPRENEURS HAVE TOTAKE CHANCES, and MarthaNapier (’07) took a big one lastfall. She wasn’t really an entrepreneurthen; she was just a college senior whoneeded some money to pay for a servicetrip to Vietnam. A budding fashiondesigner, she had just finished a summerprogram in fashion design at theprestigious Parsons School of Designin New York City and was eager to putto work what she had learned there.Some sample tops she had made atParsons were drawing rave reviewsfrom friends, so she decided to makemore of them to sell to raise moneyfor her trip. Selling the tops wasn’t aproblem, but making them was anarduous process: first she had to takeapart a couple of extra-large men’swhite tee shirts, then dye the fabric asolid or tie-dyed color, then stitch thefabric back together to create a femininetop, and finally add the finishingtouches such as lace or silk trim, buttons,and straps.That chance she took? She reallydidn’t know how to sew. With her34 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

udimentary skills, it was taking herabout a day-and-a-half to make eachshirt. So she did what any good entrepreneurwould do: she realized herlimitations and hired a seamstress tofill the fifty orders she had received.“That’s part of being an entrepreneur,figuring things out,” she says.A year later, she’s figured out a lot,and through the coursework, funding,and mentoring offered through theFifth-Year Institute, she’s turned herpassion into a business, Justees: forJustice. “It turned out to be an alternativeway of getting to my end goal ofbeing a designer,” she says. “I’ve beenput into a position where I haven’teven gone to design school, and I’malready in a position to build my ownclothing line.”Her initial foray into the businessworld was supposed to be a one-timeventure. She planned on returning toParsons this fall for the one-year associate’sdegree program in design, butdeferred her admission until next yearwhen she was accepted into the Fifth-Year Institute. After graduating fromWake Forest last May, she moved backhome to Hinsdale, Illinois, for thesummer and used a grant from theKauffman Foundation to take sewinglessons and develop her business plan.“When you’re in college, you thinkyou have to follow a certain path tobe successful,” says Napier, who hadoriginally considered attending Parsonsor the Fashion Institute of Technologybefore choosing Wake Forest afterreceiving a Presidential Scholarshipin art for her talent in painting. (Shemajored in studio art, with minors inart history and journalism.) “At theend of my senior year, I realized thatthere might be a different way to get tomy goal of becoming a fashion designer.I had to learn to be more open-mindedto see other opportunities.”This fall, operating out of the diningroom of her Winston-Salem apartment—whichdoubles as her office/studio/production area—she workedon the logistical issues of rampingup production. She hired someonelocally to do the time-consumingwork of making the shirts, resistingsuggestions, so far, to take the productionoverseas. She’s still buyingher raw material—the tee shirts—from Wal-Mart and the Hanes’outlet in Winston-Salem and knowsshe needs to finda better supplychain, butcash flow isa problem.Initially,she’s sellingher tops through her Website (www.justeesforjustice.com)and through friends at Wake Forest.Customers can order from about adozen different styles and colors oftops in her “ready-to-wear” line ororder custom-made tops. Next, she’dlike to land space in a few boutiquesin Winston-Salem and line up what shecalls “ambassadors” at other universitiesin the state to promote her tops.She plans to form an advisory boardto help guide her business, and eventually,if all goes well, she’d like tohire someone to handle thebusiness end of the operation,so she can concentrateon what inspired her to startthe venture in the first place:designing clothes.Since all this began asa way to raise money for aservice project, she decidedto give away 10 percentof her profits to a charity:“making just tees the justway for a more just filled world,”is the slogan on her Web site. Shechose to support the Be Bright PinkFoundation (www.bebrightpink.com),an organization that focuses on youngbreast-cancer survivors, for personalreasons—her mother is a breastcancersurvivor—and for businessones—her target market is youngwomen. “I’ve come to realize thatbreast cancer is not just my mom’sor her generation’s cause; it’s goingto affect me, my friends, women myage,” Napier says. “I can feel ethicallygood about building the business,and the customercan feel good aboutpurchasing an item.”The mentoringshe’s received from herprofessors and othershas been invaluable instarting her business, shesays. “I really debated aboutwhether to do the Fifth-Year Instituteor go to Parsons. Looking back, Icouldn’t have made a better decision.One of my main reasons for pickingthe fifth-year (program) wasn’t necessarilythe classes or the grant to buildthe business; it was having access tomentors. I love hearing stories aboutother people’s successes and mistakes.If I can learn from someone else’s mistakebefore making it, obviously that’sthe best thing that can happen.”DECEMBER 2007 35

John Pyle:Character Resources FoundationJOHN PYLE (’07) WAS ALREADYA SEASONED ENTREPRENEUR BYthe time he graduated from WakeForest. In high school, he startedhis own lumber business selling firewoodin Rhode Island, where he thenlived. He did well enough to hire anotherperson to help out with the business.Later, when his family moved to Missouriwhile he was in college, therewasn’t much of a market for firewood, sohe started a deck-maintenance business,cleaning and staining decks. He didwell enough at that to hire two people.Since graduating last May, his entrepreneurialstreak has taken him in atotally different direction. He’s formeda nonprofit organization, the CharacterResources Foundation, dedicated topromoting character development inyoung children. “Too many childrendon’t receive positive encouragementtoday,” explains Pyle, who creditshis mother, a high-school specialeducationteacher, as his inspiration.“Our goal is to provide schools withthose resources they need for theircharacter-development programs toraise kids with values, who put otherpeople above themselves, to exhibit thesame things we do at Wake Forest.”One of the resources he provides toschools is a booklet he wrote, “BeingMy Best: What the Animal World CanTeach Me,” which uses animals toteach young children character traitssuch as courage, kindness, diligence,and humility. The Golden Retriever,for example, shows loyalty, and childrencan be loyal too, he writes, bybeing obedient to adults and beingloyal to their friends “even if they are36 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

not as popular or cool as other kids.”The mongoose shows courage, a goodlesson for children to realize that theyhave “the strength to overcome (their)fears and worries.”So far he’s donated about sixhundred booklets to two elementaryschools in his hometown inMissouri, with the help of acouple of small businessesthat funded the cost. Hehopes to donate about5,000 booklets toschools in Winston-Salem this year.Schools can use thebooklets however theywant, whether in a classroomdiscussion or simply sendingthem home with the students.Eventually, he would like to providespeakers, inspirational posters, andother resources. “My long-term goal—in five to ten years—is to be a consistentresource for schools to get theircharacter-development materials, forschools that don’t have the budget topurchase books and supplies.”On his Web site (www.charactertraits.org),he has posted words ofencouragement that would appeal toadults as well as children, on “makingyour life count” and “keeping yourhope alive.” Pyle, himself, seems tohave gotten where he is today by takingthese messages to heart. A nativeof Georgia, he came to Wake Foreston an ROTC Scholarship and hadintended to become a career armyofficer. But after a medical conditioncaught up with him (he’s deaf in hisleft ear, the result of a bout with meningitiswhen he was one), his aspirationsto join the military ended, and he hadto find a new dream.He felt a nudge toward nonprofitwork following a semester in CostaRica, where he lived with a local family.During his time there, and in visits toNicaragua and Panama, he saw thecrushing poverty in the region as hevolunteered in schools and with Habitatfor Humanity. “I saw kids whodidn’t have a lot, who wereso thankful for theattention they got.You could brightentheir day, theirlives, just byshowinga little concern.That was a maturingexperience. Itreally opened my eyesto the things that do last,the effect you can have on other people’slives.”He majored in communication witha minor in entrepreneurship and socialenterprise, and he had three job offers— in broadcasting and consulting andas a financial adviser—his senior year.“I had these offers, but I just wasn’tenthusiastic,” he says. “I was comingback from Charlotte (from a jobinterview), kind of dejected,wondering if I was ever goingto find something that I’mpassionate about. I’m passionateabout helping people improvetheir lives. So I thought, why nottry something different insteadof going the traditional route.”He started his foundationand registered it last Marchas a nonprofit organization inMissouri. He was acceptedinto the Fifth-Year Instituteshortly after that, and hewrote his booklet over thesummer. This fall, he worked ongetting his program into local schools,and he took several business andentrepreneurial classes in the Babcockand Calloway schools. For one class,he wrote a case study on the successof one of his predecessors in the Fifth-Year Institute, Sarah Yocum (’05).Pyle’s short-term strategy is clear—to attract sponsors so he can providehis program to additional schools —but he’s not sure what the future holds.“I haven’t thought too far ahead. Instartups, you often can’t plan ahead.You hit walls and redirect your path.You’re never going to have a directshot. It changes so much. No matterwhat happens, we’ve still done a lotof good,” says Pyle, who yes, is apositive, upbeat sort. “This yearwe’ll provide 5,000 kids with booksthat they can take home.”DECEMBER 2007 37

Laura Bullins:The Unique SheepWHO KNEW THAT HIGH-END YARN was such a hotproduct? Laura Bullins (’07)did, and she’s carving out a niche as aprovider of high quality, hand-paintedyarn with help from the Fifth-YearInstitute. “It’s a funny thing to getinto because of some of the misconceptionsthat people have about knittingand fiber arts,” she admits. “Butpeople are willing to spend big buckson special yarn. If you think abouthow long it takes to knit something,it makes sense to make it out of somethingnice.”Bullins, whose family lives inWinston-Salem, is operating her business,The Unique Sheep, out of thebasement of her parents’ home. (Herfather, Spencer, is a 1973 graduate ofWake Forest.) Ever since her mother,Jan, taught her to sew when she wasyoung, she’s been into what she calls“fiber arts”— sewing, weaving, knitting,and crocheting. She attendedWake Forest on a Presidential Scholarshipin theatre/costume design andoriginally considered a career in thefashion industry. But a summer spentworking at a bridal boutique changedher mind and sent her in a differentdirection where she could combineher love of fiber arts with her interestin art and design.Working at a yarn shop in Winston-Salem called Knit Picky, she knewthat the industry was undergoing arevolution of sorts following a boom38 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

in interest in knitting and then theinevitable bust. But she saw the downturnas an opportunity. “A lot of thepeople who learned how to knit duringthis big boom continued to knit,but they transferred their focus fromthe basics to the more advanced techniques,”she explains. “And theyswitched from using novelty yarnsto using animal fabrics and higherquality yarns. The focus switched fromthe craft stores that carry the cheaperyarns in bulk to the chic yarn shopsthat carry more expensive, higherqualityyarn. Along with this has beena greater focus on hand-dyed yarnsand the independent artist, which iswhere I come in.”She started The Unique Sheep lastspring and sells her specialty yarnsover the Internet (www.theuniquesheep.com)and to shops such asKnit Picky and a few others.She also sells un-dyed yarn,knitting and sewing accessories,and patterns forseveral items. (Shedisplays a fewsample productsmade from her yarnon her Web site, butdoesn’t plan on offeringfinished pieces for salebecause of the time involved inmaking them.) “It was slow at first,”she admits. “When you start a newbusiness like this without any reputation,it takes time. I’m getting myname out there more and more.”Bullins buys largequantities of undyedyarn, dyes itby hand, and packagesit into skeinsfor sale. She hasabout fifteen differentcolor-combinationsof yarns available,but will also make custom-dyedyarn. She gets ideas for her colors(we’re not talking solid blues andreds here) from photographs submittedby customers. A photograph ofan autumn day in New York’s CentralPark, for instance, was the inspirationfor “Autumn in the City,” a yarn dyedin strands of reds, greens, oranges,and yellows. A photograph of a sunriseover Washington’s Mt. Rainier inspired“Daybreak,” with yellows, purples,and pinks.Soliciting the photographs startedas a way to get inspiration for her colors,but it’s also become a clever marketingtactic. “I think it’s a good businessstrategy,” Bullins says. “Not onlydo I get these great photos from allover the place, the people who sendtheir photos that are turned into yarnhave a real connectionwith the shop. Itbecomes theircolor, so they’remore likelyto goout andpromotethe shop.”Bullins isintense about customerservice, one of themany things she learned in whatyou could call her apprenticeship atKnit Picky. “I learned a lot there aboutthe fiber and yarn industry, the trendsin the industry, what people werelooking for, what was out there, whatwasn’t out there. What’s vitallyimportant to a shop of that natureis customer service and formingrelationships with your customers.”An anthropology major withminors in theatre and women’s andgender studies, Bullins heard aboutthe Fifth-Year Institute right afterstarting The Unique Sheep andright before graduation, so thetiming was perfect. This fall, she’staken several classes in the Babcockand Calloway schools, and sheplans on taking some accountingand marketing classes in the spring.Working with faculty mentors hasgiven her a firmer foundation forher business, she says, by forcingher to think more intentionallyabout business plans and finances.Seed money through the programhas helped with marketing costs.“I’m beginning to feel prettyconfident that I can make enoughto live off of, a modest income” shesays. But The Unique Sheep probablywon’t be her last venture. Shehas a passion for small businessesand can see herself as a consultantto small-business owners—or theowner of another small businessherself. “I’m a serial entrepreneur.I think within the next year I’ll startsomething else.”DECEMBER 2007 39

E S S A YBeads of HopeBy Elizabeth Alig “Ali” Carroll (’08)HE STRIKING BEAUTY OFTEASTERN AFRICA belies aworld of contrasts: skies bluer thanany I’ve ever seen, unmarred by telephonewires, cover a land of deepgreen fields interrupted only by reddirt footpaths. Clusters of villagesare dotted throughout the land withbrightly colored storefronts and richlycultivated gardens, and each villagecarries a feeling of self-sufficientsolitude. The very factors that createsuch awe-inspiring scenes are someof what makes life for the Africansextremely difficult. The night sky isbrilliant with stars gleaming fromone horizon to the other becausethere is no electricity for milesaround. The footpaths are traveleddaily by barefoot men, women, andchildren, looking for food, water, orfor some type of paid labor. Theseclusion of the villages makes emergencymedical care very difficult,and women die in childbirth dailywithout proper medical care.Last summer, I was awarded oneof Wake Forest’s Pro Humanitatescholarships to teach English to awomen’s cooperative in the town ofMoshi, Tanzania. Moshi is a smalltown at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro.On my early morning walk to work,I often looked up from my paththrough the wide, green cornfields tosee Kili’s majestic peak rising out ofthe clouds.I taught a group of female tailorsin a tiny classroom made of cementblocks, with crude openings for thewindow and door. All of the womenI taught had been unable to finishschool but wanted to learn English.They sat daily, side by side, on ahandmade wooden bench, eagereyedand ready to learn. The womenranged from the ages 17 to 45, andall were married with families.The women invited me into theirhomes and prepared traditionalTanzanian cuisine: fried bananas,chapattis, beans, and fresh fruit. Theytaught me traditional Swahili songsand dances, and they welcomed meinto their lives and culture.After my project ended in Tanzania,I joined a lifelong friend,Eleanor Campbell, and together wetraveled to Kenya. We stayed withour dear friends, Susan Kaburu and40 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

her two daughters, Anne and Njeri,in a farming village called Ndathi.This was Eleanor’s first time inKenya. It was my second.The Kaburus are members of theKikuyu tribe, and I met them nearlytwo years ago through a mutualfriend. Susan is a true African woman:regal, hardworking, soft-spoken, andwise. She is a nurse-midwife whoruns her own clinic, often workingsixteen-hour days to serve 20,000patients around the village of Ndathi.Their convivial yet crampedhome is made of sheet metal andconcrete blocks, and the living areais brightly decorated with picturesfrom magazines and calendar pages.They have no running water andno access to electricity, so we drewour water from a tank and cookedour meals over a propane stove.Much of their food was grown intheir gardens, and we often hoedpotatoes or carrots for our meals.The Kaburus’ nightly routine consistsof eating together, reading,singing, and, when the sun goesdown and the natural light is gone,going to sleep. The nights werepeaceful, as we were so far removedfrom any cities, but we were oftenawakened by the sound of elephantstrampling through the gardens.During my time in the village,I was struck by the able-bodied,willing women who have almostno profit-generating opportunity.The majority of Kikuyu womenspend their time gathering firewood,knitting goods to sell, or farming.The women are vivacious, talented,and inspiring. Many of them carefor orphaned relatives in additionto their own immediate family.Building bridges between women in two countries and providing jobs for Kenyan women.I encountered several women whohad given up their own beds, shoes,or food to provide for the childrenin their household. They are driven,determined, motivated, creative, andhardworking. They are simply inneed of opportunity and direction.Two of my Kenyan friends, NjeriKaburu, with whom I lived, andEsther Gathigia, a friend and neighborwith an entrepreneurial spirit,have started micro-lending groupsshaped after Nobel prize-winnerMuhammed Yunus’s model for theGrameen Bank. I had the privilegeof seeing first-hand how the womenin the community were beginningto reap benefits from the use of theirloans. Even still, I thought that morecould be done in the wayof providing an employmentopportunity.❈Let me back up. Inthe summer of 2006, Ivisited Kenya for threeweeks with my family. I was distressedby all the poverty. I saw itsdepth for the first time. While I wastraveling cross-country in a Matatu,I struggled with my experiences inKenya. I’d been to the slums, I’dbeen inside the mud huts, I’d spenttime with the children who wereorphaned by AIDS. But why was Ithere? Certainly not simply for thethrill of experiencing things that previouslyhad only existed to me asphotos in a National Geographic. Ihad to act, to do something to assistthese people, however marginal myefforts may be.A few days later, we visited abead factory in which single Kenyanmothers were handcrafting ceramicE S S A YA Dhow, or Tanzanian fishing-boat, cominghome from a day at sea in Zanzibar.

E S S A YChildren at the primary schooljust down the road from our homein Ndathi, Kenya.beads. The vibrancy of their colorswas unparalleled with any preciousstones I’d ever seen, and my artisticeye was immediately attracted tothe beads. I began mentally arrangingthe beads into jewelry designs.An idea came to me: I might be ableto sell the jewelry to friends backhome, both spreading the wordabout the people I had encounteredand raising money to help relievetheir poverty. With these hopes inmind, I bought five hundred beads,a sizeable investment for a pennypinchingstudent, but I was convincedthat these beads held hopeand promise.Back home in Nashville, Tennessee,I went to a craft store andbought the tools necessary for makingjewelry. After studying some ofI believe that everyonehas the potential to bea social entrepreneur,whether an opportunitypresents itself acrossthe Atlantic or simplydown the street.my own earrings and necklaces, Itaught myself how to create differentpieces. It did not take long for thebeads’ popularity to grow within mygroups of friends. One person wouldbuy a pair of earrings, others wouldadmire them, and the orders begancoming in more quickly than I couldfill them. In less than a week, I hadtaken in over $1,000 in revenue.I decided to return the money toKenya through African Leadership,an organization dedicated to trainingleaders across the continent and thensupporting the projects that Africanleaders develop, allowing Africa tobe strengthened from within.When I returned to Wake Forestin the fall, I began to take steps tolearn more about business, and I waswell-assisted by the entrepreneurshipoffice. I was counseled by othermore experienced entrepreneurs andreceived a New Venture Seed Grant.I developed a name for the jewelry,Adia, which means “valuable gift”in Swahili, and I began marketingthe pieces to friends. Within theyear, their popularity exploded. Myjewelry was being worn throughoutthe campus, and the reception ofthe jewelry at Wake Forest made merealize: This jewelry could be marketedand sold in other places, too.❈Now, I must explain what happenedin Kenya this past summer.As I began to understand the hardshipsthe Kikuyu women face andtheir need for employment, I beganthinking. What if I were to movethe manufacturing of the beads andthe production of the jewelry tocentral Kenya? I needed employeesto create the pieces of jewelry, andthe Kikuyu women needed profitgeneratingwork. Through providingthe women with a dignifiedemployment opportunity, I couldhelp to improve their standard ofA Kenyan woman spinssheep’s wool into yarn.42 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

living, strengthen their households,and allow them to earn the funds toeducate their children.I wanted to train these women tocraft the beads and assemble theminto finished pieces, so I met with awomen’s cooperative in the village. Ishowed them the beads I had beenworking with and some of the jewelryI had created. They were thrilled.They loved the idea of creating suchbright and beautiful beads, and theycertainly loved the idea of havingsteady employment.As I began playing with theidea, my friend Eleanor becamemy enthusiastic business partner.Together, we started brainstormingabout what we would need in orderto make this venture work. We hadthe idea, we had willing laborers,but, among many other resources,we needed land. We knew we wouldneed flattened land that had accessto electricity and piped water, aswell as access to the main road incentral Kenya. Miraculously, aKikuyu friend found a plot of landAli Carroll, proud co-owner of Plot 97 in Mbiriri, Kenya.that fit exactly what we neededimmediately after we started looking.Because of the scarcity of runningwater and electricity in the centralprovince, this land was rare andvaluable, and, after much thought,we bought it.I am now the co-owner of Plot 97,Mbiriri, Kenya. Though I have somegood resources to startwith, I have a great dealto learn about startinga business. The entrepreneurshipoffice offerspractical courses thatare designed for projectslike mine, and I amusing that as a startingblock for building thebusiness. I am currentlystudying New VenturePlanning, FinancialKnowledge for Entrepreneurs,and Sales.I am hoping to bea messenger, bringingfresh, uniquely-styledjewelry to women herein the United States,enabling them to appreciate, honor,and reward the labor of Kenyanwomen, while also providing jobs forKenyan women and working towardsustainable development in Ndathi,Kenya. I must stress that I am notenormously gifted; I was simplygiven an opportunity to create change.I believe that everyone has thepotential to be a social entrepreneur,whether an opportunity presentsitself across the Atlantic or simplydown the street. The jewelry providesa bridge between cultures,through which women of each cultureare able to give a considerablegift to the women of the other. I amso blessed to share in the lives ofboth Kenyan and American women,and I have begun to see how oneperson’s willingness and creativitycan aid in bringing about change inthe world.Elizabeth “Ali” Carroll, a senior fromNashville, Tennessee, is majoring incommunication and studio art.E S S A YDECEMBER 2007 43

Ricky Van Veen (right) and Zach KleinTurning FunnyInto MoneyUsing business savvyand a sense of humor,Ricky Van Veen (’03)and Zachary Klein (’04)transformed a Web siteinto a multimilliondollar company.NOAH KALINABy Jane Bianchi (’05)When Zachary Klein (’04) was a littleboy, grown-ups sometimes askedhim what he’d do if he had a million dollars.His answer: He’d build a sophisticated tree house.And he and his business partner, Ricky Van Veen(’03), have done just that.It all started in 2000 when Van Veen createda Web site called CollegeHumor.com with a buddyof his from the University of Richmond. They postedfunny photos, videos, and articles online, andthen convinced friends at their respective schoolsto add content, promoting the site via InstantMessenger and by placing ads above urinals inbathrooms (“viral marketing in its truest sense,”says Van Veen). Soon word spread to other colleges,advertisers took interest, and a businesswas born.Van Veen handled the editing, and his partnertook care of the business negotiations. “But to runa Web site, you also need a designer and a programmer,”says Van Veen, who majored in businesswith a concentration in information systems.Enter Klein, a studio art major and photographerfor the Old Gold and Black, whom Van Veenmet through a friend. At the time, Klein was busyrunning his own Web site called ReptileShack.com,through which he sold exotic animals. But he didsome side projects for Van Veen and impressed himwith his artistic abilities.“Zach can make anything look good,” saysVan Veen, who asked him to join the team as thegraphic designer, along with another student fromthe Rochester Institute of Technology to be incharge of site development. Hiring fellow studentsand developing ideas at Wake Forest, says VanVeen, was one of the keys to their success.“College is the perfect place to start a business,”says Van Veen. “If you fail miserably, yougo back to being a kid with a meal plan.” Havingno overhead allowed the boys to survive when the44 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

ubble burst in the dotcom market. But anotherthing that helped: avoiding temptations thatseemed too good to be true.Six months after launching the site, they wereoffered $9 million to sell the business to a companycalled eFront (which has since been plaguedwith scandal), but turned it down because it soundedfishy. Van Veen still carries around that offer asa reminder to keep things in perspective.After graduating, the foursome had to decidewhere to base their business. “The beauty of runninga Web site is that you can do it anywhere,”says Van Veen. So they settled on San Diego. Butafter living next door to a house full of San DiegoState sorority sisters on a street just a few blocksaway from the beach, the guys found it difficult toconcentrate. So in 2004 they moved to New York,“a city that matched, if not exceeded, our ambition,”says Klein.When they landed in the center of the mediaworld, that’s when things took off. “In California,we had to explain ourselves a lot,” says Klein. “Butin New York, when you say you work for a dotcomthat has an audience of six million unique users amonth, people understand—and they pay attention.”Soon they were written about in such well-respectedpublications as The New York Times and the NewYorker magazine, and deals with major companies,such as Penguin and Paramount, followed.Before they knew it, the Web site spawnedmultiple offshoots. CollegeHumor.com was nolonger just a Web site— it was a brand. They publishedtwo books: The CollegeHumor Guide toCollege and Faking It. Plus, they scored a moviedeal. A screenplay is currently being developedby two of the writers from the NBC sitcom “TheOffice,” which will be about what a college kidexperiences when he comes home for winter break.And that’s not all. The business, which hasgrown from the original four partners to over fiftystaffers, now also includes a clothing line calledBusted Tees (shirts that display jokes developed bystaffers), a live comedy tour that travels to collegecampuses across the country, and a video-sharingWeb site called Vimeo.com.The company, which has evolved into so muchmore than just CollegeHumor.com, is called ConnectedVentures (CV for short) and in 2006, the partnerssold a majority stake to media mogul Barry Diller’sInterActiveCorp, which allowed them to move to abrand new 17,000- square-foot office in the covetedUnion Square area of Manhattan. When faced withmultiple investment offers, choosing IAC was a nobrainer.“Editorially, they let us do our own thing,”says Klein. “But they help us make transactionsbecause they have so much clout and access.”But don’t think for a minute that these quickaccomplishments have eclipsed what triggered allof this in the first place: the guys’ sense of humor.“Ricky is twenty-six going on twelve,” says SarahSchneider (’05), a former member of the LiltingBanshees comedy troupe and a media planner forCV. “One minute, he’s on the phone with an executive,and the next, he’s sending a mass e-mail inwhich three quarters of the words are abbreviated.”Goofing around is nothing new for Van Veen,the class clown of his Timonium, Maryland, highschool who was once sent to the principal’s officefor dressing up like Where’s Waldo in a seniorphoto (administrators alleged that his cane couldhave been used as a weapon).So it’s important to the guys that the companyculture remains playful. Since there is no dresscode at the office, instead of a “casual Friday,”the guys enforce an occasional “formal Friday” forfun. They also created the “Thursday Night Hang,”where the staff gets together after work for anin-house happy hour to play ping-pong, listen tomusic, and chat.“CV is more than just a company; it’s a lifestyle,”says Klein. “Most of our employees are friends witheach other, and a good number of them live together.”And some weekends, they even throw CV parties,which often have themes. For instance, thereis a Rubik’s Cube party in the works. The gist: eachguest must arrive wearing six different colors— ared shirt, blue pants, a yellow hat, etc.— and eachmust leave wearing a single color.But what these twenty-somethings haveachieved is no joke—and their experience at WakeForest, to which they both applied “early decision,”helped foster their talents. “It was the perfect incubator,because if you showed even a hint of passionin a particular area, like entrepreneurship, professors,such as Page West, would go out of their wayto form personal relationships with you,” says Klein.Wake Forest also taught them how to protecttheir pennies. “Professor Thomas Goho’s ‘milliondollarlecture’ on how to invest was the most usefulthing I ever learned,” says Van Veen.Money management is yet another reasonthey’re living large — they only spent what theycould afford. “When we started, every expense wasa group decision,” says Klein, who was once chidedat dinner with his partners for ordering spring rollswith his meal, breaking the team’s entrée-only rule.Now that they have some breathing room, theguys do order appetizers now and then. They alsospend money on others. Klein recently purchased apainting by author Dave Eggers as a fundraiser forhis publishing house, McSweeney’s, and is consideringbuying apartment space for burgeoning artistsin his hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana, so theycan work on projects without worrying about rent.Klein is never short on ideas. He has so many,in fact, that he’s decided to leave the company asa partner, but remain tethered to it as a consultant.“I’m content with my achievement at CV,” saysKlein, “I just want that ‘startup’ feel again.”But it won’t be a tearless goodbye. “One of theunanticipated and stinging side-effects to buildinga stable business is that when you leave, it goes onwithout you,” says Klein.Luckily, Van Veen will still be there to steer theever-growing CV ship, and he hasn’t lost sight ofwhat initially attracted their audience. “When kidsused to come home from school, they’d turn on theTV, but now they go straight to the computer,” saysVan Veen. “So our goal is to base their entertainmentexperience around CollegeHumor.com. If wekeep it up, I don’t see why we can’t become thenext Comedy Central.”The only thing stopping them might be gettingevicted from their offices, which they share withmore established tenants who don’t wear denimquite as often. Van Veen and Klein recently got anangry letter from their landlord, who asked themto “cease certain behaviors,” such as spinning toomany times in the lobby’s revolving door. But whenyou’ve built a sophisticated tree house, you can’tforget to play in it once in a while.Jane Bianchi (’05) is the associate health editor atFamily Circle magazine in New York City.DECEMBER 2007 45

S T U D E N T P R O F I L ECrossroadsFor senior Chris Jackson,academics have alwaysbeen interdisciplinary.By Arthur J. Nelson (’07)OCATING SO NEBULOUS ANLintersection as that of scienceand literature can seem taxing, ifnot incongruous. Navigating andsynthesizing the disciplines evokesa whole other set of tasks, difficulties,and to some, even contradictions.Surely successful forays includesci-fi authors such as Isaac Asimov,but even then is the author andmetaphor really accurate? Yes. Infact, it is all too befitting. Asimovin addition to being a prolific author,was, after all, a professor of biochemistry.It is then even more appropriatethat Chris Jackson navigate thisintersection of the fictional and theempirical with a degree of excellencethat illustrates what comprises theDNA of a Wake Forest student.To Jackson academics havealways been interdisciplinary. English,his major, can coalesce with neuroscienceand chemistry, his minors,to create one seamless pursuit,whether it be penning a thesisor studying the cerebral cortex.Take, for example, Jackson’s studyof English. Rather than examinethe subject finitely, he approachesit as a malleable discipline, exploringmatters such as the psychologicaland neurological constructionof memory in T.S. Eliot’s “The WasteLand,” W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, andMarcel Proust’s Swann’s Way. Heconstantly challenges and bends hisfields of study in new and insightfulways, and his excellence in Englishhas earned him the H. Broadus JonesScholarship.In keeping with his interdisciplinarynature, Jackson is also therecipient of both the Carswell andSullivan scholarships. A grant fromthe Carswell program in 2006 fundedhis summer in Australia withShaowu Zhang at the Australian46 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

S T U D E N T P R O F I L ENational University in Canberra.Together they experimented withthe Apis mellifera, commonly knownas the honey bee, to observe visuallearning and navigation. Jackson’swork at Canberra built upon thebody of research he, along withReynolds Professor of Biology SusanFahrbach, have collaborated uponwith respect to memory and learning.This past summer Jackson continuedhis research in neuroscienceat the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. Sponsored by Amgen,an international biotechnology companyheadquartered in California,he collaborated with the brightestof academia to study candidateplasticity genes and dendritic arborremodeling in mice. Shoulder toshoulder with physicists, electricalengineers, chemists, and biologists,Jackson explored how the architectureof interneurons of the visualcortex changes in response to sensorydeprivation. This type of researchsheds new light on how the brainresponds and rewires to environmentalstimuli. Jackson’s contributionsto, and passion for, scienceearned him the prestigious BarryM. Goldwater Scholarship in thespring of 2007.Nestled in his mosaic of collegiatepursuits, Jackson has madevaluable room for a long-time passion:the outdoors. With Lebanon,Virginia, as his home, it is only naturalthat the outdoors be a favoritepastime. Nestled in the majesticAppalachians, his backyard leaveslittle for the fisherman or hiker todesire. Perhaps it is because ofVirginia’s absence of a professionalteam, or because of Brett Favre’s“gunslinger style” as Jackson termsit, that the Green Bay Packers arehis team of choice. Having playedquarterback in high school, footballis as familiar to him as the writingsof Samuel Beckett.These simple but sincere passionsare certainly reflective of Jackson’srelaxed and contemplative disposition.As his English advisor BarryMaine so aptly put it, “For all histalents and accomplishments in thestudy of science and the humanities,Chris is a modest, soft-spoken,and unassuming young man.” Evenmore to the point, as Maine said,“You ask him a question and hereally takes off with it.” Perhaps itis Jackson’s approach to academiathat has contributed to this balancedand thoughtful character, or perhapshumility and inquisitiveness are preciselywhat led him to his uniquepursuit of academia, and success, atWake Forest.DECEMBER 2007 47

Q & AAd man Joe Lawsontakes his cavemen to HollywoodAdvertising executive JoeLawson (’90) created theiconic cavemen televisioncommercials to promoteinsurance company GEICO’sWeb site —“So easy, a cavemancan do it.”— whileat The Martin Agency inRichmond, Virginia. Nowhe’s taken his cavemento Hollywood as the cocreatorand co-executiveproducer of “Cavemen,”which premiered on ABCin October.By Kerry M. King (’85)Q. So you must have a pretty glamorouslife now in Hollywood?A. Right now I live alone, in a mangyapartment near UCLA that feelslike a rehab center. But I’m neverthere so it doesn’t matter. Myclothes live there. My wife, Sheri,and our daughter, Harper, movedback to Richmond at the end ofthe summer so Harp could startschool. We can’t really commit toeither place until we know what’sgoing to happen with this showand/or my writing career. It’sgreat, the uncertainty of it all.I haven’t slept in months.Q. How did Wake Forest prepare youfor what you’re doing now?A. I majored in economics; I thoughtI was going to be a stockbrokeror business person of some sort.I didn’t think it through as muchas I probably should’ve. By thetime I realized what I wanted todo with my life, college was wayover. I didn’t take a theater or actingclass until the last semester ofmy senior year, but I really lovedthem and obviously wish I haddiscovered that whole arena earlier.Q. Was there anyone at Wake Forestwho was a mentor?A. Wake Forest seems to breed orexacerbate a positive expectationfrom life. At least it did for me.Or maybe that’s just the type ofstudents it attracts. Either way, Ileft there feeling I could do anythingonce I figured out what thatthing was. Of course, if this showbombs, then I’ll realize I was wrong.48 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Q. What did you do after graduation?A. I took a job in a managementtrainingprogram at a big pharmaceuticalcompany. Then I heldvarious jobs in various places untilfinally ending up at the PortfolioCenter in Atlanta. I joined theMartin Agency in 1998 and resignedwhen ABC bought the show.Q. You’re obviously well known forthe GEICO commercials, but whatwere some of your other successfulcampaigns?A. GEICO has certainly been themost rewarding creatively. TheNASCAR campaign, “We wantto race the truck. People lovethe truck,” has been very effectivefor UPS. The “Reward YourCuriosity” campaign for VanillaCoke helped sell a ton of thatstuff when it launched. Someweird campaigns for PING golfclubs. It was all fun.Q. How did you develop the cavemantheme to sell car insurance?A. It just sort of popped out one daywhile working on a new TV campaignfor GEICO.com. We werejust sort of fed up with how politicallycorrect the culture hadbecome and how difficult thatmade it to do our jobs well. Sowe insulted cavemen, just to getit out of our system.Q. What inspired you to take thecharacters from a 30-secondcommercial to a sitcom?A. We just liked the characters andwanted to spend more time exploringthe different shades of theirpersonalities. We wanted the challengeof taking them from being abunch of grumpy furballs to a teamof underdogs. If we succeed, it willbe because the audience related tothe cavemen on a human level,which is a strange thing to say, buttechnically makes sense. I think.Q. In the online bios for the threecavemen, you give their alma matersas Carnegie-Mellon, Penn State,and the University of Pittsburgh—what, no love for Wake Forest? Butwait, one of the cavemen’s favoriteWeb sites is collegehumor.com.Hmmm, do you know those guys?(See page 44.)A. The only one that could’ve gotteninto Wake is Andy, but he chosePenn State because he wanted tostay close to home. I don’t knowthe College Humor guys personally,but I’m a fan of the site andNick Kroll, the actor who playsNick the caveman, is friends withthem. Or at least he says he is.Q. Do you know Carol Barbee (’81),who’s the executive producer of“Jericho”?A. I don’t know Carol, but I Googledher and she seems very nice. I’dlove for the cavemen to appear on“Jericho,” especially since that fanbase is so rabid. Plus, it makesperfect sense—cavemen areincredibly resilient. If they cansurvive the Ice Age, why not anuclear attack? For now, let’s justhope they survive the critics.Q. Any resemblance between thecavemen and any one you knewat Wake Forest?A. I didn’t know him personally,but the Demon Deacon is notuncavemanlike.Q & APHOTOS COURTESY ABC MEDIADECEMBER 2007 49

Q & APrime TimeMONTY BRINTON/CBSVeteran television writer and producer Carol Barbee (’81)oversees the lives of the residents of a small town in Kansasas they struggle to survive in the aftermath of a nuclearattack in the CBS drama “Jericho,” which premiered lastyear. The show, cancelled after its first season, is nowscheduled to return this winter with seven new episodes.Barbee, the show’s executive producer, lives in Santa Monica,California, with her husband, actor and playwright CarlosLaCamara, and their two sons, Lucas (14) and Diego (10).By Kerry M. King (’85)Q. How did Wake Forest prepare youfor a career in Hollywood?A. I was lucky enough to be a partof the theatre department in thenew/current theater arts building.Dr. [Harold] Tedford, Dr. [Don]Wolfe, and Ms. (Caroline)Fullerton were wonderful teachers,mentors, and friends. Dr.Wolfe had the greatest, mostgenerous laugh, and Dr. Tedfordtold the funniest stories. Ms.Fullerton was instrumental inmy going to UCLA. The fact thatshe thought I could get an MFAin acting made me feel I could.I loved the Wake Forest theatredepartment. I felt at home there.Q. How did you break into acting?A. After I graduated from UCLA, Idid a lot of theater in Los Angelesand joined a theater companycalled City Stage, of which I amstill a member. An agent signedme from a play and I startedworking in television (and a littlebit of film). I worked mostly inone-hour dramas. The format justseemed to fit me. I could do thedramatic, emotional material but Iwould always try to find a way tobring a little humor to the scene.When I began writing, the onehourformat came naturally to me.Q. You had guest parts on ’90s hitssuch as “LA Law,” “The FreshPrince of Bel-Air,” “Blossom,”“Northern Exposure,” “Ellen,”and “JAG,” so why did you decideyou had a better future behindthe camera?A. I was always meant to be a writer,from an early age. I wrote poetryand stories, songs. But I knew thatfirst I needed to have an interestinglife. I needed life experienceso I’d have something to writeabout. Ten years of being an50 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

actress gave me that. When Ifinally found a story I wanted totell, I was ready. I took classes inthe writing program at UCLAExtension until I completed myscreenplay. That screenplay wonan award UCLA gave in conjunctionwith DreamWorks Studio.Q. Then you got your first majorwriting gig on “Providence”?A. They were having a hard timefinding female writers for“Providence,” which had not yetpremiered. The producers likedmy material and hired me to writea script. The show premiered togreat numbers, they put me onstaff, and I was there for fiveyears. When “Providence” wascancelled, I was hired onto thestaff of “Judging Amy.” The nextyear, I was asked to run the show,and I had one of the best creativeexperiences of my life there. Ilearned so much about running awriting staff, arching out a seasonof stories, handling networknotes, and creative collaboration.Q. How did you land on “Jericho”?A. I did a year on a Bruckheimercrime drama (“Close to Home”)just to see if I could tell thosetypes of stories. When that seasonwas coming to a close, CBS askedme to run one of their pilots. Ichose “Jericho.” I loved the smalltown of it. The characters. Ordinarypeople in extraordinary circumstances.And I’m a bit of asci-fi geek. I loved the speculativefiction aspect. I also thought itwould be a hit and I was excitedto do something so different thanwhat I had done.Q. What does an executive producer do?A. The executive producer is theboss, and in television, the EP isalso the head writer. I spend timein the writers’ room hearing storypitches; reading scripts, and givingnotes; popping into editing towatch a cut or work on particularscenes; fielding calls from thenetwork and the press—thenheading to the set to watch filmingto be sure the director ismaking his day (shooting all ofthe scenes scheduled for that day)and getting the coverage and performanceswe need. I also checkthe pages to be shot the followingday and rewrite them if necessary.Q. “Jericho” is heavily layered, sohow do you keep it all straight?A. When we sit down to arc out aseason, we talk about the bigideas for the run of the series,then the big ideas for the currentseason. Once we figure out howfar we want the story to go in thenumber of episodes we havebeen given, we begin to arc outspecific episodes. Writers areassigned individual episodes andfrom that point on, my job is toread the scripts, give notes and,if necessary, rewrite the scripts.Q. The season finale ended with achilling shot of a new U.S. flag.Will the new season give moreclues as to what’s happening outsideJericho?A. The flag of the new Cheyennegovernment is seen in “Why WeFight.” That flag, with its verticalstripes and twenty-one stars, willbe explained in the season twoopener and yes, this season willopen up our world and showwhat’s going on in the widercountry. The audience will findout who attacked us and why, andwhat Hawkins had to do with it.The seven episodes tell a completestory, have an amazing and satisfyingending and will let the audienceknow where we’ll be headingif we get a season three.Q. Growing up in Concord, NorthCarolina, did you have somethingagainst New Bern, NorthCarolina, since you chose thatname as Jericho’s nemesis?A. I can’t take credit for naming thewarring town ‘New Bern.’ Some ofthe writers came up with it. I haveno animosity toward the town ofNew Bern, North Carolina, in factit’s lovely there.Q. Do you know Joe Lawson (’90),who helped create ABC’s“Cavemen” show?A. I do not know Joe Lawson but Iapplaud him for getting a showon the air. That’s a major achievement.Also, I love those Geicocommercials, so, well done, Joe.For more with Carol Barbee and JoeLawson, visit www.wfu.edu/magazine.Q & ADECEMBER 2007 51

W AKE F OREST A LUMNI A SSOCIATIONPresident’s ColumnThe Christmas and holiday season is upon us. It is a time for togetherness with familyand friends and for reflecting on the things for which we are thankful. I hope WakeForest holds as special a place in your heart as it does in mine. We are all part of the WakeForest family and family means so much, particularly at this time of the year.In this season of giving, there are many ways that alumni can make a meaningful contributionto Wake Forest. It does not matter if you live in Winston-Salem or far away, thereare many, many ways you can help support our family.The members of the Alumni Council developed this list of “25 Ways You Can HelpWake Forest,” which provides 25 ways that you can help advance the mission of WakeForest through your time, experience, and/or resources. Some of these ideas require verylittle time or effort, but can bring tremendous benefit to our alma mater.Take a look at the list below and I ask that you make it your New Year’s obligation toengage yourself more deeply and purposefully in Wake Forest in 2008. Working together,we can make a difference!C L A S S N O T E SRod Webb (‘92)Alumni Association President25 Ways You Can Help Wake Forest1. Make an annual gift to The College Fund (including The Calloway Fund). Every gift,regardless of size, helps.2. Help recruit future Wake Foresters and encourage a prospective student to visit campus.3. Hire Wake Forest students and graduates.4. Mentor current students. Participate in Alumni Career Networking Forums and theAlumni Career Assistance Program.5. Support Wake Forest athletics. Attend and cheer loudly at games!6. Attend a Wake Forest Club event in your area, and take a fellow Wake Forester with you.7. Host a Wake Forest event. (Events include student receptions and alumni gatherings.)8. Update your mailing address, e-mail address, job information, birth of children, etc.by visiting the Alumni Web site or by calling 800.752.8567.9. Act as an ambassador and share your love of Wake Forest.10. Stay educated about Wake Forest; share what you know with others.11. Register for WIN (Wake Forest Information Network), e-mail forwarding for life andthe online directory.12. Visit campus.13. Wear Wake Forest clothing and display Wake Forest paraphernalia at home and at work.14. Be sure your local high school is well informed about Wake Forest. Offer to meet withcounselors, and/or join AIA (Alumni-in-Admissions).15. Subscribe to What’s New @ WFU, Wake Forest’s electronic monthly newsletter (atwww.wfu.edu/alumni) and Window On Wake Forest daily headlines at www.wfu.edu/wowf.16. Help the records office locate “lost” alumni. Encourage alumni to keep records up to date.17. Identify potential donors for scholarships, endowments and naming opportunities.18. Recruit five new College or Calloway Fund donors.19. Write a letter of recommendation for a student applying to Wake Forest.20. Identify future leaders for the Alumni Council and other volunteer boards/councils.21. Attend and promote Wake Forest cultural activities.22. Remember Wake Forest in your will and estate plan.23. Read the Wake Forest Magazine and share it with a friend when finished. Visitwww.wfu.edu/magazine.24. Contact a former professor and say thanks for his/her teaching and mentoring.25. Encourage friends and classmates to attend Homecoming and their class reunions.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2005 1www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 53

Submitting a Classnote?Wake Forest Magazine welcomes CLASSNOTES submissions from alumni. There are three waysto submit information:Standard mail: CLASSNOTES editor, Wake Forest Magazine, P.O. Box 7205, Winston-Salem,NC 27109-7205.E-mail: classnotes@wfu.eduOnline: www.wfu.edu/magazine/classnotesSubmissions guidelines:• Please include your class year(s) and degree(s) with each submission.• Please include a telephone number and e-mail address so that we may verify the information.• Because of space considerations we are able to accept individual head shots only.Photos must be at least 2x3 inches at 300 pixels per inch (600x900 pixels).• Person submitting the item assumes responsibility for its accuracy.• Submissions may be edited for length and clarity.• We’re sorry, but we cannot accept items submitted by a third party.Deadlines:• The deadline for CLASSNOTES submissions is the 15th day of the month two months priorto the issue date. For example, the deadline for the March issue is January 15.1930sWade E. Brown (JD ’31) celebratedhis 100th birthday in November with hisfamily. He is a trustee emeritus, formergeneral counsel for Appalachian StateUniversity and former head of the N.C.Parole Commission. He established theWade Brown Law Scholarship.1940sRobert L. Vann (’42, MD ’45) andhis son, John M. Vann (’80), establishedClinical Trial Management Services inBristol, TN, with offices also in Winston-Salem, in 1990. CTMS was named oneof the “Top 25 Best Employers inTennessee”by Business TennesseeMagazine.Will D. Campbell (’48) received the2007 William Sloane Coffin Award forPeace and Justice from Yale University.Betty Duncan Hall (’48) lives inAsheville, NC, and would love to hearfrom classmates and friends.William Bryce Hunt Jr. (’48, MD ’53)retired in 1995 as director of cardiopulmonaryservices at Craven CountyHospital and the practice of pulmonarydisease and critical care in New Bern,NC. He retired on his 80th birthday astuberculosis consultant for the CravenCounty Health Department in New Bern.1950sRobert S. Murphy (’53) retired afterteaching high school mathematics for 33years in Somerset, KY, and as an adjunctinstructor at Somerset (KY) CommunityCollege. He lives in Hampstead, NC, andis an adjunct mathematics instructor atCape Fear Community College inWilmington, NC.Frank P. Meadows Jr. (JD ’56) is withPoyner & Spruill LLP in Rocky Mount,NC. He has been named one of the “BestLawyers in America” in tax law.Ronald C. Dilthey (’57, JD ’60) is asenior partner at Patterson Dilthey &Clay in Raleigh. He was inducted into theDelaware Valley (PA) Hall of Fame andwas named one of the “Best Lawyers inAmerica” and a “North Carolina SuperLawyer.”VANN (’42, MD ’45) DILTHEY (’57, JD ’60)Nancy “Jo” Smith Thomas (’58)wrote a book, Moravian Christmas in theSouth (published by Old Salem, distributedby UNC Press).Martin N. Erwin (’59) is with SmithMoore LLP in Greensboro, NC. He wasnamed one of the “Best Lawyers inAmerica” in labor and employment.Murray C. Greason Jr. (’59, JD ’62)is vice chairman of the board of directorsof Wake Forest University Health Sciences.1960sSidney S. Eagles Jr. (’61, JD ’64) iswith Smith Moore LLP in Greensboro,NC. He was named one of the “BestLawyers in America” in appellate law.Larry Sitton (’61, JD ’64) is withSmith Moore LLP in Greensboro, NC.He was named one of the “Best Lawyersin America” for the 10th year.Emily Herring Wilson (MA ’62)received the 2007 John Tyler CaldwellLaureate, the state’s top humanitiesaward, from the N.C. HumanitiesCouncil. The award was presented atReynolda House Museum of AmericanArt following the Caldwell Lecture inthe Humanities.Bill Shendow (’63) stepped down asdirector of the John O. Marsh Institutefor Government and Public Policy atShenandoah University in Winchester,VA. He will remain chair of the undergraduateprogram in political scienceand coordinator of the public managementgraduate certificate program.54 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

ERWIN (’59) SITTON (’61, JD ’64) SHENDOW (’63)COWAN (’65, JD ’68)Skip Queen (’70) received the DickKnox Distinguished Service Awardfrom the N.C. High School AthleticAssociation for his service as a trainerand referee for swimming. He was thefirst recipient of the newly created SkipQueen Volunteer of the Year Award fromthe High Point (NC) Community SwimAssociation.Allen J. Casey (’64, MA ’65) is thesecond vice president of the N.C. Councilof the Blind and the council’s legislativerepresentative. He was appointed by thegovernor to the N.C. Commission for theBlind.Mary Beth Packard (’64) was ordainedan elder in the United Methodist Churchand appointed senior pastor of NorlandUnited Methodist Church in MiamiGardens, FL.David Zacks (’64, JD ’67) is withKilpatrick Stockton LLP in Atlanta.He was selected to the 2007 edition ofChambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyersfor Business.J. Donald Cowan (’65, JD ’68) is withSmith Moore LLP in Greensboro, NC. Hewas named one of the “Best Lawyers inAmerica” for the 10th year.Harry A. Arsenault (’69) is rector atChurch of the Resurrection in Norwalk,CT.1970sGrover A. Carrington (’70, JD ’74)is with White Peck Carrington LLP inMt. Sterling, KY. He was recognized asa “Kentucky Super Lawyer” for generallitigation by Law & Politics.David Heymann (MD ’70) of Geneva,Switzerland, is assistant director ofcommunicable diseases at the WorldHealth Organization. He is a co-recipientof the 13th annual Heinz Award inHuman Condition.David H. Coates (’71, JD ’78)practices law in Hightstown, NJ. Heserved on the board of the Mid-JerseyChapter of the Juvenile Diabetes ResearchFoundation and as vice president ofgovernmental relations. He has beenactive in the effort to foster stem cellresearch in New Jersey. He and his wife,Suzanne, have three children: Henry,Malcolm and Charlie.Walter W. Pitt (JD ’71) is with BellDavis & Pitt PA in Winston-Salem.He has been named one of the “BestLawyers in America” for bankruptcyand creditor-debtor rights.Dwight W. Allen (JD ’73) is withSmith Anderson LLP in Raleigh. Hereceived the Distinguished ServiceAward from the N.C. TelecommunicationsIndustry Association.Barbara Ann Bennett Leonard (’65)is associate dean of High Point University’sSchool of Education.Joe Carazo (’66) was captain of the1965 Deacon football team and first teamAll-ACC. In 2006 he was named to theNational Football Foundation andCollege Hall of Fame, Lehigh ValleyChapter. He and his wife, Phyllis, live inPhoenix. They have a daughter and twogranddaughters.William Kearns Davis (JD ’66) iswith Bell Davis & Pitt PA in Winston-Salem. He has been named one of the“Best Lawyers in America” for bet-thecompany,commercial and personalinjury litigation, and medical malpractice.Graham Denton (’67) is chairman ofthe board of directors of Wake ForestUniversity Health Sciences.Wes Hatfield (’41)turns his writingtalents to mysteriesNow in his late eighties, Weston P. Hatfield (’41)can look back on a life rich with diverse interests andexperiences. Having served with distinction duringthe Second World War as a radio correspondent,criminal investigation agent, and “denazification”officer, he attended Harvard Law School and served in a number of philanthropiccapacities in Winston-Salem, including five terms as chair of WakeForest’s Board of Trustees, of which he is a life member.But that doesn’t begin to tell the whole story. A passionate student ofmedieval history, Hatfield has written a biography of Joan of Arc—travelingover all the ground in France that Joan had trod in her brief life—as well asarticles on the lives and musical theater of Gilbert and Sullivan.Now, over the last couple of years, he has turned his authorship talents tothe mystery genre, writing and publishing three novels—Murder at First Baptist,The Governor’s Choice, and Where There’s a Will—that have created a buzzamong those on campus who have read them.For more information on the books and how to obtain copies, contactHatfield at wphatfield@aol.com.www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 55

WIDGEON (’74, MAED ’75)STARLING (JD ’75)TAYLOR (JD ’76) WISEMAN (’77, MBA ’88) WILKIE (’78) BORUM (JD ’80)Cathy Walker Johnson (’73) isassociate dean of arts and sciences atAlamance Community College inBurlington, NC. She is co-author of fourmath textbooks. Her husband, RobertF. Johnson (’70, JD ’73), is districtattorney for Alamance County.Linda McPhail (MS ’73, PhD ’76) is aprofessor of biochemistry at Wake Forest.She has been named to a three-year termas associate dean of graduate programson the Bowman Gray Campus.Jane Warfford Handly (MA ’74) hasbeen named the National Woman of theYear for Delta Zeta Sorority.George A. Parker (’74) is director andCFO of Leasing Technologies InternationalInc. in Wilton, CT. He was elected treasurerof the executive board of the Eastern Associationof Equipment Leasors. He wroteseveral e-books including Using VentureLeasing as a Competitive Weapon and 101Equipment Leasing Tips. He lives in NewRochelle, NY.Tracy L. Trotter (MD ’74) practicespediatrics with the San Ramon Valley (CA)Primary Care Medical Group. He and hiswife, Anne, have two children, Kelly andBrett, and live in Lafayette, CA. He hasbeen appointed to a four-year term onthe advisory committee on heritable andgenetic diseases in newborns and childrenby the secretary of the Department ofHealth and Human Services.Betty Rankin Widgeon (’74,MAEd ’75) joined the National ArbitrationForum’s panel of independent andneutral arbitrators and mediators.William S. “Bill” Cherry Jr. (JD ’75)is with Poyner & Spruill LLP in Raleigh.He has been named one of the “BestLawyers in America” in real estate law.H. Ray Starling Jr. (JD ’75) receiveda presidential nomination and was confirmedby the U.S. Senate to major generalin the Air National Guard and as areservist in the U.S. Air Force. He is theAir National Guard Assistant to the JudgeAdvocate General of the U.S. Air Force.In civilian life, he is a managing partnerfor several Hawaii-based energy serviceand consulting businesses. His wife of 33years, Pamela T. Garrison (’75), is anattorney. They live in Kailua, HI.John D. Sykes Jr. (’75) is a professorof English at Wingate University inWingate, NC. He published a book,Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and theAesthetic of Revelation (University ofMissouri Press).Mark S. Thomas (’75, JD ’78) is withWilliams Mullen Maupin & Taylor PA inRaleigh focusing on ERISA and employeebenefits litigation. He has been namedone of the “Best Lawyers in America” inlabor and employment law.Michael D. Thornton (’75) retired ashuman resource director with the NorthCarolina public schools. He received TheOrder of The Long Leaf Pine for 30 yearsof public service to the state of NorthCarolina.Phil Thrailkill (’75) is pastor ofDuncan United Methodist Church inGeorgetown, SC. He published a book,Mary: Lessons in Discipleship From Jesus’Earthly Family (Bristol House, 2007). Hissermons on the Lord’s Prayer and theGospel of Matthew, “The Message ofHope,”are being translated into Serbianto be broadcast in the former Yugoslaviathrough Trans World Radio.Margaret Smith “Peggy” Abrams(’76, JD ’80) is president-elect of theN.C. Academy of Trial Lawyers. She livesin Raleigh with her husband, Doug (’76,JD ’79), and their four sons. Their lawpractice is Abrams & Abrams PA.Marty Brown (’76) is president ofPower Brands, a beverage-brand developmentcompany in southern California.He and his wife, Jane, and sons, Kyle (22)and Blair (14), live in Villa Park, CA.Dan Taylor (JD ’76) is with KilpatrickStockton LLP in Winston-Salem. He wasselected to the 2007 edition of ChambersUSA: America’s Leading Lawyers forBusiness.Victoria Noble Igoe (’77) teacheseighth and ninth grade Spanish atHarmony Intermediate School inLeesburg,VA.Mitchell Lewis (’77) is a lieutenantcolonel in the U.S. Army and serves asthe command chaplain for the 19thSustainment Command in Daegu, SouthKorea.Jack Nichols (JD ’77) is a 2008Democratic candidate for the N.C. Senaterepresenting District 16, Wake County.Curtis Strange (’77), a two-time U.S.Open champion, was inducted into theWorld Golf Hall of Fame. He played atWake Forest in the mid-1970s on whatwas probably the best college team of alltime,with Jay Haas (’76), Bob Byman(’77) and David Thore (’78). He wonthe individual NCAA title in 1974 and theDeacons captured the NCAA championshipin 1974 and ’75. After turning professional,he won back-to-back U.S. Opentitles and was a five-time Ryder Cupselection.56 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Eric Wiseman (’77, MBA ’88) hasbeen named president and chiefexecutive officer of VF Corporation inGreensboro, NC. He is on the board ofvisitors of the Babcock Graduate Schoolof Management.Thomas L. Crouch (’78) is presidentand CEO of Young Transportation inAsheville, NC. The family-ownedbusiness includes partners HankGarbee (’91) as chairman and RalphYoung (’53) as executive vice presidentand COO. Young Transportation receivedthe 2007 National Motorcoach Operatorof the Year Award.Susanna K. “Susie” Gibbons (’78,JD ’81) is with Poyner & Spruill LLP inRaleigh. She has been named one of the“Best Lawyers in America” in labor andemployment.Louis Moore (’78) is region grouppresident for BB&T. He and his wife,Teresa, and sons, Colby and Josh,relocated to Charlotte.Nancy Joie Wilkie (’78) is a projectofficer at the National Institute of Allergyand Infectious Diseases. She providesoversight for the MVA smallpox vaccinedevelopment and production contractsas part of Project BioShield. She lives inBrookeville, MD.James Bradley Wilson (JD ’78)received his MA from Duke University.Carolina Lehoczky Fernandez (’79)is a financial advisor and financialplanning associate at Smith Barney inStamford, CT. She has been appointed tothe Advisory Council of the FairfieldCounty Community Foundation. She andher husband and four children live inRidgefield, CT. Their oldest son, Nicolas,is a sophomore at Wake Forest.1980sMartha Davis Akin (’80) teacheselementary physical education atLandmark Christian School in theAtlanta area. She and her husband,Daryl, and daughter, Molly (6), live inPeachtree City, GA.Dan A. Boone (JD ’80) and a partneropened a real estate development entity,Cabernet Holdings LLC, in Concord,NC. Their first project is a hotel andrestaurant at Childress Vineyards inLexington, NC.Howard L. Borum (JD ’80) is withCarruthers & Roth PA in Greensboro,NC. He was named one of the “BestLawyers in America” in real estate law.Stephen J. Owens (JD ’80) has beenappointed general counsel of theUniversity of Missouri.Stephen M. Russell (JD ’80) is withBell Davis & Pitt PA in Winston-Salem.He has been elected president-elect ofthe Forsyth County Bar Association andnamed one of the “Best Lawyers inAmerica” for commercial litigation andlegal and professional malpractice.John M. Vann (’80) and his father,Robert L. Vann (’42, MD ’45),established Clinical Trial ManagementServices in Bristol,TN, with offices also inWinston-Salem, in 1990. CTMS was namedone of the “Top 25 Best Employers inTennessee” by Business Tennessee Magazine.Right now, there is a new generation of Wake Forest students walking thesame paths we did. Sitting in the same classrooms and being inspiredby the highest caliber scholar/educators.These students depend on us because providing an outstanding Wake Forestexperience is made possible in part by the generosity of caring alumni. Yourdonation to The Annual Funds—whether small or large—helps us continue ourtradition of academic excellence at Wake Forest.Contributions to The Annual Funds allow Wake Forest to do many critical things:hire world-class faculty, provide tremendous educational resources for ourstudents, and maintain one of the nation’s most magnificent campuses.Give back to honor all Wake Forest has done for you.Please join me and make a gift today.Rich Leadem (’86), College Fund National ChairMake 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 • Babcock Fund • Divinity School FundLaw Fund • Medical Alumni Association Fund

VANN (’80) BERLIN (’81, JD ’84) IRVING (’81) SCHULZ (’81) WILSON (JD ’81) TRIBBLE (’82)Stephen R. Berlin (’81, JD ’84) iswith Kilpatrick Stockton LLP in Winston-Salem. He was selected to the 2007edition of Chambers USA: America’sLeading Lawyers for Business.Alan G. Bourque (’81) completed athree-year tour as chief of staff of theCorps of Cadets, U.S. Military Academy,at West Point, NY. He has been deployedto Baghdad to the Multi-National Corpsheadquarters as the anti-terrorism andforce protection chief for all coalitionunits.Cyrus E. Gwyn Jr. (’81) is a colonel inthe U.S. Army. He assumed command ofthe Defense Information SystemsAgency CONUS during a change ofcommand ceremony at Scott Air ForceBase. His decorations and awards includethe Defense Meritorious Service Medal,Meritorious Service Medal, Joint CommendationMedal, Army CommendationMedal, Army Achievement Medal,National Defense Service Medal withBronze Star, Kuwait Liberation Medal, andJoint Meritorious Unit Award.Gary W. Hall (MA ’81) is director ofathletics at Barton College in Wilson, NC.He retired from coaching college soccerafter 27 years. He was an assistant coachat Wake Forest and head coach atCampbell University, Lenior-RhyneCollege, and for the past 18 years atBarton College. He and his wife, Jean,have two children, Andrew (13) andAshley (9).Ben Hodge (’81) served in Iraq with theU.S. Army’s 105th Combat EngineerGroup and earned the Bronze Star. He isglad to be home with family and friends.Alfred S. Irving Jr. (’81) is a superiorcourt magistrate judge, hearing civilcases, in the District of Columbia.Bradley N. Schulz (’81) is a triallawyer at Mast Schulz Mast Johnson &Wells in Smithfield, NC. He is on theboard of governors for the N.C. Academyof Trial Lawyers and has been appointedchair of the law practice managementsection of the N.C. Bar Association.Robert L. Wilson Jr. (JD ’81) is withSmith Moore LLP in Greensboro, NC. Hewas named one of the “Best Lawyers inAmerica” in health care law for the 10thyear.B. Scott Burton (’82, JD ’86) hasjoined the corporate practice group ofSutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP inAtlanta.Gary K. Joyner (JD ’82) is withKilpatrick Stockton LLP in Raleigh.He was selected to the 2007 edition ofChambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyersfor Business.Patricia McHugh Lambert (JD ’82)is with Hodes Pessin & Katz PA inBaltimore. She has been named oneof the “Best Lawyers in America” forinsurance.Francisco Forrest Martin (’82)published a book, The Constitution asTreaty: The International LegalConstructionalist Approach to the U.S.Constitution (Cambridge UniversityPress, 2007). The book demonstrates thefederal court’s authority to review theconstitutionality of federal and state lawbased on international law.Don McDuffie (’82) is a colonel in theU.S. Army. He is an optometrist andofficer-in-charge of the Medical andDental Inprocessing Clinic at the BasicCombat Training Center in Fort Jackson,SC.Mary Tribble (’82) is founder andpresident of Tribble Creative Group inCharlotte. She was inducted into theEvent Industry Hall of Fame by EventSolutions Magazine at the SpotlightAwards in Miami.Jill R. Wilson (JD ’82) is with BrooksPierce McLendon Humphrey & LeonardLLP in Greensboro, NC. She has beennamed one of the “Best Lawyers inAmerica” in education law.Dan M. Boyd IV (’83) is an executivevice president with Citizens South Bank.He and his wife, Amy, have three sonsand live in Gastonia, NC.Cynthia Edwards (’83) is a professorof psychology and associate vicepresident for academic programs atMeredith College in Raleigh.C. Frank Hilton (JD ’83) practicesprofessional malpractice and personalinjury litigation with Wharton Aldhizer& Weaver PLC in Harrisonburg,VA. Hehas been named to Virginia’s “LegalElite,” the list of “Super Lawyers” andthe “Best Lawyers in America.”Chester M. Jones (JD ’83) opened asolo practice in Franklin, NC.Jacquelyn Wortman Reynolds (’83)is medical staff coordinator for CaldwellMemorial Hospital in Lenoir, NC.58 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

George Harry (’84) and his wife, Kara,Matt Redshaw (’85) and his wife,Brenda, and Scott Walters (’85) andhis wife, Kris, live in Metuchen, NJ. Theyare fraternity brothers and coach the“Demon Deacon” flag football teams inthe Metuchen Recreation Flag Footballleagues. They keep the Wake Forest spiritalive with other alums in Metuchen likeRich Weber (’84) who serves on theBorough Council, and attorney RichMongelli (’85).David Lerner (JD ’85) is withLitchford & Christopher PA in Orlando,FL. He was recognized with an “AV PeerReview Rating” by Martindale-Hubble,the highest distinction assigned by thelaw directory.Elwin Dale Melton (’85) is associatevice president for seminary relations atLouisville (KY) Presbyterian TheologicalSeminary.Curtis R. “Randy” Sharpe Jr. (JD ’85)joined Pendleton Pendleton & Deaton PAof Lincolnton, NC, to open a branchoffice in Denver, NC.Elizabeth Anne Hester (’84) is anaccounting manager at Sunrise SeniorLiving’s international headquarters inMcLean,VA. She and her two children,ages 12 and 16, live in Sterling,VA.Montrose Streeter (’84) is the associatedean of campus safety and studentconduct at Hobart and William SmithColleges in Geneva, NY.Janet E. “Betsy” Tuttle-Newhall(’84, MD ’88) has been on staff in thesurgery department at Duke UniversityMedical Center for 11 years specializingin solid organ transplants. She and herhusband, Philip M. Newhall (’92), livein Durham, NC.David D. Daggett (JD ’85) is managingpartner at Lewis & Daggett in Winston-Salem. He qualified for the fifth time tocompete in the Hawaii Ironman WorldChampionships. He and his wife,Cynthia, have three children.Deryl Davis (’85) is director of “TheSunday Forum”at Washington NationalCathedral and a faculty member inreligion and drama at Wesley TheologicalSeminary in Washington. He is publishinghis first book in 2008, A Spiritual Guide toDante’s “Divine Comedy.” He and his wife,Whitney Warren Davis (MAEd ’97),have three children, twins Nate and Eliza(3), and Caroline (1).Reed Haywood (’85) is a shareholderin Dickie McCamey & Chilcote PC, basedin Philadelphia and also working out ofHaddonfield, NJ. He concentrates onpharmacy, premises and products liability,aviation, automobile negligence andinsurance coverage, professional liability,insurance fraud and general liabilityclaims.Playing well with othersisn’t just for kidsWe emphasize teamwork for a simple reason: To succeed in business,you must work effectively with a broad range of people.Rafting in teams at Charlotte’s U.S. National Whitewater Centeris just one of many ways our students learn to build collaborativeworking relationships. And better teamwork skills make forbetter business leaders.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.Learn more about how our programs can helpyou succeed at www.mba.wfu.edu.Full-time, Evening, Saturday and Fast-Track Executive MBA Programsand a Master of Arts in Management Program,Winston-Salem and Charlottewww.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 59

1990TREBING (MBA ’86) DIBIASE (’87) HARRIS (’87)Bo Dempster (JD) is managing partnerof Poyner & Spruill LLP in Raleigh. He ison the board of directors of The Boys &Girls Clubs serving Wake County, and hehas been named one of the “BestLawyers in America.”Randall D. Avram (JD ’86) is withKilpatrick Stockton LLP in Raleigh.He was selected to the 2007 edition ofChambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyersfor Business.Kevin Beeson (’86, MBA ’91) is seniorvice president of First Horizon CorporateFinancial Services in Winston-Salem. Hehas been selected for the 2007-08 class ofLeadership North Carolina.J. Nicholas “Nick” Ellis (JD ’86) iswith Poyner & Spruill LLP in RockyMount, NC. He has been named oneof the “Best Lawyers in America” incommercial litigation.Nancy Atkinson Linton (’86) is aprofessional counselor currently workingas campaign manager for a FairfaxCounty School Board member. She andher husband, David, and daughter,Lauren (8), adopted a son, Alexander (3),from Russia.Russell S. Palmer (JD ’86) has aprivate practice in Middletown, CT. Hehas been reappointed by the governor tothe Board of Pardons and Paroles. Hewas named one of the “Best Lawyers inAmerica” in DWI defense.Peter A.W. Swain (’86) completed hisMD from the University of MiamiMedical School. His residency is infamily medicine at Bayfront MedicalCenter in St. Petersburg, FL.David Trebing (MBA ’86) is director ofU.S. State and Canadian Policy at SASInstitute in Cary, NC. He has joined theboard of directors of Curamericas GlobalInc. in Raleigh.Thomas A. “Ted” DiBiase (’87) hasjoined the construction litigation firm ofShapiro Lifschitz & Schram in Washington.Ann Gromada Flynt (’87) received hermaster’s in educational administrationfrom UNC-Greensboro.Terrill Johnson Harris (’87) is withSmith Moore LLP in Greensboro, NC.She was named one of the “Best Lawyersin America” in health care law.Gloria Cabada-Leman (’88) isowner/operator of Carolina Sauce Co.,an online retailer of specialty foods witha focus on N.C. products. She recentlylaunched “Operation Sauce Drop”(carolinasauce.stores.yahoo.net/opsadr.html)to deliver a taste of home to U.S. militarypersonnel stationed abroad. Militarypersonnel with an APO or FPO addresscan choose from among seven free giftboxes of hot sauces, BBQ sauce and more.Robert P. Shafer (’88, MD ’01) is astaff anesthesiologist at the U.S. NavalHospital in Okinawa, Japan, and is servingas the director of pediatric anesthesia. Heand his wife, Wendy, and three daughters,Libby, Haley and Eagan, live in Okinawa.Amy K. Smith (JD ’88) is with BellDavis & Pitt PA in Winston-Salem. Shehas been named one of the “BestLawyers in America” for trusts andestates.Charlot F. Wood (JD ’89) is withBell Davis & Pitt PA in Winston-Salem.She has been named one of the “BestLawyers in America” for commerciallitigation and workers’ compensation.Carol Woodfin (MA ’89) is an associateprofessor of history at her undergraduatealma mater, Hardin-Simmons University,in Abilene, TX.Doug Douds is a lieutenant colonel inthe U.S. Marine Corps. He commands anF/A-18 fighter squadron and his unit willdeploy to Iraq next fall. He and his wife,Anne, have two sons, Gus (8) and Sam (5).J.C. Huggins is manager of Webengagement for Blue Cross and BlueShield of Minnesota. He and his wife,Melanie, have three children, Adeline,Lila Rose and Shepard. They live inSt. Paul.John S. Penton Jr. is a partner atKnoblock Kim Coxhead & Penton PAin Miami, FL. He specializes in aviationproducts liability and internationalaviation law. He and his wife, Natasha,and two children, Anastasia and Colin,live in Cutler Bay, FL.Matthew Stevens has been named tothe Columbus, OH, “Forty Under 40” byBusiness First magazine. Franchise Timesmagazines and Business Planet radioconsult him regarding franchise businessactivities and perceptions.1991Christopher T. Copeland is theminister for leadership and congregationallife for the Alliance of Baptists inWashington. This association of progressiveBaptist congregations and individualsis committed to inclusiveness, partnershipand justice.Paula L. Durst (JD) was named aleading lawyer in environmental law inWest Virginia by Chambers USA.1992Anna P. Cooke is a professional dancerin the “Sirens of T.I.” show at TreasureIsland in Las Vegas. She is also a freelanceaerial artist.60 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Lois McCracken Gardner is owner ofand instructor at “Fitness For Her” inWinston-Salem. She and her husband,Casey Gardner (’94), have threechildren: Chase (7), Grant (3) and Lila (2).Chuck Meacham and his wife, KarenO’Connor Meacham (’93), and theirthree children plan to spend the springsemester at Harlaxton College inGrantham, England. They will be teachingclasses, traveling and learning about lifein the UK.Neil Alan Willard is rector of theEpiscopal Church of St. Stephen theMartyr in Edina, MN.Paul Wingate is a major gift officer inthe Wake Forest University advancementoffice.1993Jason W. Botts (’93) completed hisMBA, with an emphasis on finance andstrategy, at the UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School.Samuel P. Funk is a partner withSherrard & Roe PLLC in Nashville, TN.He was named one of the “Best Lawyersin America.”Kimberley C. “Kacey” Hickey hastraveled to Hawaii, Boston and New York,completed two triathlons and is engagedto be married. She lives in Arlington, TN.Bruce M. Jacobs (JD) was named aleading litigation lawyer in West Virginiaby Chambers USA.Donna R. Johnson is a secondary mathsupervisor and STEM coordinator withthe Carolina County Board of Educationin Dover, DE. She is working with thecounty’s middle and high school teachersto develop curriculum.Make sure Wake Foresthas your e-mail address!If you aren’t receiving e-mails from Wake Forest, we’re missing you—andyou’re missing out! Without an e-mail address on file with Wake Forest, hereare some of the services you’re not receiving:• E-mails with important University announcements and updates• What’s New @ WFU, our monthly e-newsletter that brings news andinformation from all areas of the campus around the 5th of each month• Reunion Class information and Homecoming information• Newsletters and updates from academic departments, Greek organizationsand more• Local club event announcements, such as game-watching events, lectureseries, networking luncheons and seasonal parties• Invitations to special events like the Alumni Admissions Forum (held eachJune for Wake Foresters with high school aged children), Lifelong Learningclasses, the Wake Forest Travel Program and more• Ability for classmates to contact you via e-mail addressPlease make sure to keep your e-mail address—as well as your other contactinformation—up to date. You may update your e-mail and contact informationat http://www.wfu.edu/alumni/updates.php.

Jessica Leigh Breen is director offinancial and identity protection productsat The Affinion Group in Norwalk,CT. She also has her own business,www.jesseleighjewelry.com.EZZELL (’95) OXENDINE (PA ’95)Kevin Lloyd is rector at St. Matthew’sEpiscopal Church in Jamestown, RI. Heand his wife, Julia, have a son, Harry (4).Sherri McDaniel Sealey (MBA ’01) isthe benefits administrator for Inmar Inc.in Winston-Salem.Patrick Sullivan (MBA ’03) isassistant director of career services atWake Forest. He received the Award forAdministrative Excellence at NewStudent Convocation.1994Eric W. Iskra (JD) was named aleading lawyer in labor and employmentlaw in West Virginia by Chambers USA.Joseph E. “Joe” Zeszotarski Jr.(JD ’84) is with Poyner & Spruill LLP inRaleigh. He has been named one of the“Best Lawyers in America” in criminaldefense.1995Brian James Cornell and his wife,Katherine Vickers Cornell (’95), areministers at Christ Church in Gastonia,NC. They have three children, Michael(3 1/2), James and Paul (both 21 mos.),and are expecting their fourth.Aimee Ezzell joined the real estatedevelopment practice of Smith MooreLLP in Wilmington, NC.Bob Goglia (MBA) is a national marketmanager for Syngenta. He relocated toJamestown, NC.FORBES (JD ’96)Ann G. Haywood-Baxter completedher chaplain board certification with theAssociation of Professional Chaplains.She is a United Methodist ministerserving as pediatric chaplain at MassachusettsGeneral Hospital in Boston.She and her husband, Richard Baxter,celebrated their second anniversary.They are active in Harvard-EpworthUnited Methodist Church in Cambridge.Shannon Joseph (JD) is a litigationpartner with Smith Moore LLP inRaleigh. She has been named anadministrative law judge by the State ofNorth Carolina.Lisa Huggins Oxendine (PA)published a book, The Pink BegoniaSister’s Caribbean Retreat. Her book waschosen as a “giveaway”and she wasgiven a scholarship to attend a conference,“Changing Patterns of Cancer inNative Communities: The Power ofPartnership,” in Minneapolis. She is anadjunct faculty member in the Health/PE Department at UNC-Pembroke.Laura Layman Stickler is an assistantprofessor at the Medical University ofSouth Carolina in the Department ofObstetrics and Gynecology.1996Kristen Helms Bassick (MBA)launched a line of natural, fun skincarefor children, “Stuff for Sprouts,”www.stuff4sprouts.com. She and herhusband, Mike Bassick (MBA ’96),and their children, Amanda (8) and Jack(5), live in Chester Springs, PA.Ronda Michelle Bryant (MAEd ’99)is assistant vice president for studentdevelopment-student success at MountOlive (NC) College.Kristin Burch is assistant vice presidentand director of alumni activities at WakeForest.W. Ross Forbes Jr. (JD) is a partner inthe litigation section of Jackson WalkerLLP in Dallas. He has been selected forthe Leadership Dallas class of 2007-08.Christopher S. McDonald completeda degree in athletic training at theUniversity of North Florida. He is anathletic trainer with the Los AngelesDodgers and lives in Vero Beach, FL.Quentin Tremayne McPhatter isdeputy city manager for the city ofKingsland, GA. He and his wife, Michele,and daughter, Kendall (10 mos.), arerelocating to Georgia.Katina Parker is a visual artist in LosAngeles. She has launched a grass roots,multi-media, public awareness campaign,“New Orleans: A Labor of Love,” tomobilize 5,000 volunteers to participatein reconstructing New Orleans during2008 (www.nolaboroflove.com).1997Kelly Lynne Barham (MD ’03) is adermatologist with Davie Dermatologyin Advance, NC. Her husband, KellyW. Baird (MD ’05), is a residentanesthesiologist at Wake Forest UniversityBaptist Medical Center. They haveone son, Sidney (1), and live in Lewisville,NC.Kerry Rotondi Bianchi (MD ’01) is aninternist at Kannapolis Internal Medicinein Davidson, NC. She and her husband,Jess, and daughter, Camryn, live inDavidson.62 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Sean Cole (JD) is a partner withMartin & Jones in Raleigh focusing oncatastrophic automobile and truckingcollisions. He wrote a chapter,“Automobile and Trucking Complaints,”and edited the second edition of NorthCarolina Manual of Complaints inconjunction with the N.C. Academy ofTrial Lawyers for LexisNexis.Christopher Rogers Gaskell(MAEd ’95) has transferred from theMiami field office of the U.S. SecretService to the Presidential ProtectiveDivision in Washington.Ginger Lohr Milne is a researchassistant professor in the Department ofMedicine at Vanderbilt University inNashville, TN.Nancy Prager (JD) published aperspective on the impact of piracy onindependent music, “It’s About Piracy,Not Privacy,” on News.Com. She providesintellectual property and corporatecounsel to technology and entertainmentclients and maintains a blog(nancyprager.wordpress.com).Doug Radi (MBA) is vice presidentof marketing at Charter Baking Co. inBoulder, CO, where U.S. marketingbrands include Rudi’s Organic, TheBaker and The Vermont Bread Co. Heand his wife, Kathleen, and their threesons live in Golden, CO.Beverly Huffstetler Savinsky(MAEd ’02) completed her PhD in psychologyat the University of Tennessee,Knoxville and is employed by SouthwesternUniversity. Her husband, ChrisSavinsky (’96, MBA ’01), is employedby Dell Inc. They live in Austin, TX.Sarah Hovis Shurts completed herPhD in modern European history atUNC-Chapel Hill. She defended herdissertation, “Redefining the ‘Engage:’Intellectual Identity and the FrenchExtreme Right, 1898-1968.” She teachesat Montclair (NJ) State University.Elizabeth Thomas is a lieutenantcommander in the U.S. Navy MedicalCorps. She is a family physician assignedto the Naval Surface Warfare Center inDahlgren,VA. She is serving her seconddeployment as a member of the ExpeditionaryMedical Facility Kuwait.2007 HONOR ROLL OF DONORSTO BE ONLINE IN DECEMBERWake Forest gratefully acknowledges the support ofalumni, parents, friends, corporations, foundations,churches and other organizations that made giftsto the University during the 2006−07 fiscal year(July 1, 2006−June 30, 2007).The 2006-2007 Honor Roll of Donors will be onlinebeginning in late December. The online format willfeature searchable lists of donors by both name andclass year. The Honor Roll is accessible throughWIN (the Wake Forest Information Network).TO ACCESS THE HONOR ROLL:• Log into WIN at www.wfu.edu/alumni/win• Once you are in WIN, click on the Info Central tab• Then click on the Forms and Documents library• Then click on folder icon to the left of Alumniand Friends• You will see the Honor Roll lists in PDF format. Toview one of the Honor Rolls, click on the PDF iconto the left of the Honor Roll you wish to view.NOTE: Access to WIN is restricted to membersof the Wake Forest community; this information isnot accessible publicly. WIN is a free set of onlinetools and services for Wake Forest alumni, parentsand friends. For more information, or to sign upfor WIN, please visit www.wfu.edu/alumni/win.(In addition to the Honor Roll, WIN providesaccess to e-mail forwarding for life, the AlumniDirectory and more.)NOTE: Accessing PDF files will require AdobeReader, which is freely available fromwww.adobe.com.We hope you’ll look at the Honor Roll to see thenames of those who give generously to makeWake Forest a premier institution.www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 63

Patricia Thomas lives in NorthernVirginia and is an educational adviserfor the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation,providing guidance and scholarshipsupport for gifted students with limitedfinancial means. She is completing aPhD in educational studies from EmoryUniversity. Her research focuses onrepresentation of U.S. Latino culture inSpanish language textbooks.1998Holly A. Litle Berndt completed theinternal medicine residency program atthe Emory University School of Medicine.She is the only practicing internistat Chatuge Family Care in Hiawassee,GA. She and her husband, Karl, live inYoung Harris, GA.Kristen Eppley is a visual artist andbassist for a funk band, “Hunkamama,”in Los Angeles.Carmen Vaughn Ganjehsani is anattorney focusing on civil appellatelitigation at Carpenter Appeals and TrialSupport LLC in Columbia, SC.David M. Grubb is director ofcommunications for community andgovernmental relations for the AlgiersCharter Schools Association in NewOrleans.Jason Lowe (MBA ’02) is assistantwomen’s soccer coach at EmoryUniversity in Atlanta.Elizabeth O’Donovan is one of thefinalists for the Sue Alexander MostPromising New Work Award given by theSociety of Children’s Book Writers andIllustrators.Douglas W. Thiessen (JD) is generalcounsel of the Maryland RepublicanParty. He and his wife, Sarah, and fourchildren live in West River, MD.1999Jennifer Bahus is the communicationsmanager at the Morehead-Cain Foundationat UNC-Chapel Hill.Jonathan Neil Perry is a vicepresident and managing director of trustand investment management for FidelityBank, headquartered in Fuquay-Varina,NC. He and his wife, Paige, anddaughter, Parker, live in Wendell, NC.Michael Dale Warren is an instructorin clinical pediatrics in the Departmentof Pediatrics at the Vanderbilt UniversitySchool of Medicine in Nashville, TN. Heis pursuing a master’s in public health aspart of an Academic General PediatricsFellowship.Joe Zelenka is in his ninth season inthe National Football League, seventhwith the Jacksonville Jaguars. He playedhis 100th consecutive game for the Jags,marking a franchise record. He is avolunteer in hospitals, camps, the armedforces, the United Way and HabiJax. Heserves on the board of Coaches Honor, alocal ministry, and has been added to theroster of All Pro Dads. He and his wife,Rebekah Demshar Zelenka (’97),have twins, Grace and Benjamin (16 mos.),and live in Jacksonville, FL.2000Andrew M. Ciccarelli (MD) completedhis radiology fellowship at the Universityof California San Francisco. He and hiswife, Ann, work at Cooley DickinsonHospital in Northampton, MA.Emma Claggett is an editor/translatorwith the English services division of theBank for International Settlement inSwitzerland.Brian C. Doyle (JD) joined Farrell FritzPC as counsel in Bridgehampton, NY.Rebecca Suits Hartsough is a stay-athomemom preparing for the N.C. Bar soshe can practice law part-time. She andher husband, Jason, moved from Atlantato Charlotte.Stuart Hipp teaches English at CalvaryBaptist Day School in Winston-Salem.Kristen Franke Johnson wascommissioned as a second lieutenant inthe U.S. Army through OCS at FortBenning, GA. She and her husband,William, are completing Signal Corpstraining at Fort Gordon, GA.Jocelyn Liana Womack received herMA in African-American studies fromColumbia University. She received herJD from the University of PennsylvaniaLaw School, where she was editor-inchiefof the Journal of Labor andEmployment Law. She is a federaljudicial clerk in the Eastern District ofPennsylvania.2001Charles Douglas Brown II (JD ’06)is an associate practicing commercial realestate lending in the capital marketsgroup of Womble Carlyle Sandridge &Rice PLLC. He and his wife, CarolineSheffield Thomas Brown (’03,MD ’07), live in Winston-Salem.Robert E. Ferguson is president anddirector of online services for AlliedDistributing Inc., an online wholesalerand specialty retailer of entertainmentand household products, in Charlotte.Victoria Levy Gelfeld is the HowardBorn Memorial Scholar in the MBAprogram at Georgetown University inWashington. She was a summer intern inthe vaccines division at Merck and herconcentration is in marketing.Kate Mason Michalek is a pediatricphysician assistant in Denver.Robert O’Kelley is assistant men’sbasketball coach at Crichton College inMemphis, TN. He has experience withunderprivileged youth through theMemphis Athletic Ministries and as anassistant coach for White Station HighSchool. His basketball team of 12-yearolds,the Memphis Demon Deacons witha motto of “Pro Humanitate,” finished itsfirst season in the top 20 in the country.64 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

KORNEGAY (MBA ’05) ROBBINS (JD/MBA ’07)Tucker Ryan Pearson is a veterinarianat Carmichael Road Animal Clinic inMontgomery, AL.Shannon “Missy” SumerellSpainhour (JD) is an associate in theemployment litigation department ofKennedy Covington Lobdell & HickmanLLP in Charlotte.Elise Morgan Whitley (JD) receivedher certification in family law and hasbeen named a partner of MorrowAlexander Porter & Whitley PLLC. Sheand her husband, Cameron, and son,Milo, live in Winston-Salem.Douglas Pulse received his master’sin foreign service from GeorgetownUniversity. He is a presidentialmanagement fellow at the U.S. Agencyfor International Development and isengaged to be married.Brandon Walters received his JD fromthe New York Law School.2003Caroline Sheffield Thomas Brown(MD ’07) is a resident in pediatrics atthe Wake Forest University BaptistMedical Center. She and her husband,Charles Douglas Brown II (’01,JD ’06), live in Winston-Salem.Sean Patrick McGuire is pursuing anMBA at Vanderbilt University in Nashville,TN. He was elected to the Nashville MetroCity Council and reports he is the youngestof the 40 members.2004Steven Ray Elliott is pursuing amaster’s of public affairs at UNC-Greensboro.Sam Simmons (MD/MBA) is completinghis final year of pathology residency atthe University of Kentucky and willbegin a forensic pathology fellowshipwith the North Carolina office of theChief Medical Examiner.2005Ana Kornegay (MBA) is global marketingmanager for Southern Comfort with Brown-Forman Corporation in Louisville, KY.Annie Lausier received her master’s indigital media from Georgia Tech. She isan interaction designer at Yahoo! inSunnyvale, CA.Charlie C. Yang (MD) has joined theteam of surgeons at Triangle OrthopaedicAssociates PA in Durham, NC.2002Cindy DiTiberio is an associate editorat HarperSanFrancisco Publishers. She iscelebrating five years in the Bay Areaand is engaged to be married.Melissa Joyal (JD) is with MorrisManning & Martin LLP in Atlanta.Molly Mattingly received her MDivfrom the Vanderbilt University DivinitySchool in Nashville, TN. She is pursuinga JD at the University of LouisvilleBrandeis School of Law in Louisville, KY.Joe Parker is a captain in the U.S.Army. He took command of the EchoForward Support Co., 215th BrigadeSupport Battalion, 1st Calvary Division inBaqubah, Iraq.Courtney Pieczynski received herMBA from the University of Virginia. Sheis a healthcare consultant at AvalereHealth in Washington.Alumni find success with the PGAWake Forest has long been well known for its golfing tradition, and now that traditionextends to behind the scenes, as well as on the course. Four Deacons hold administrativepositions with the PGA Tour at its corporate headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.Last year, Ross Berlin (’78) rejoined the PGA Tour as senior vice president of playeraffairs after working with the William Morris Agency and Michelle Wie as her playeragent. Berlin works with the players (many of whom are former Deacon standouts) on initiativessuch as the new FedExCup season, player benefits, retirement programs and thenew anti-doping program. Previously, he was vice president of corporate marketing andtitle sponsor relations for the Tour.Jim Clarke (’95, MALS ’07) was recently named a project manager for golf courseproperties. He is currently working with the Tournament Players Clubs across the countryto implement a talent management program.Todd Achilles (’01) was recently named coordinator of business development incorporate marketing. He helps identify sponsor prospects and supports PGA Tour titlesponsorship sales efforts. He was previously a marketing assistant on the accountsmanagement side.Mack Horton (’06), who began working at the Tour as an intern after his junior year,now works with the Tour’s chief marketing officer on major events.www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 65

Erica Pigott received her MS ininternational studies from the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology.Allison Scanlan served in Rwanda,Africa, with a team from Trinity Churchof Greenwich, CT. The team served inmany areas including one of WorldVision’s development projects. Theyhelped restore a clinic with Partners inHealth, and they built a playground forchildren who had never seen one.2006Bill Morgan (JD) is an associate in thelitigation group of Patrick Harper & DixonLLP in Hickory, NC. He won a MetrolinaTheatre Award for Outstanding Performanceby a Supporting Actor in the roleof Lockwood’s slapstick sidekick CosmoBrown in the Hickory Community Theatreproduction of “Singin’ in the Rain.”Marshall Reffett is the legislativecorrespondent for Congressman DaveReichert in Washington. He is pursuing amaster’s in national security and strategic?studies at the Naval War College.2007Christopher M. Czarnecki received atwo-year U.S. Golf Association Fellowshipin leadership and service. He willwork in the Western United States.Candace S. Friel (JD) has joinedNelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLPin Winston-Salem.Patrick M. Kane (JD) is an associate inthe litigation practice group of SmithMoore LLP in Greensboro, NC.Hey, theatre folks! We’re planning aget-together and want to hear from you.Were you in a show?A dance concert?A musical? Backstage?In the shop? Costumes?Lights? Box office?Pick up your cue and drop us a line or give us a call and let usknow where you are and what you’re doing.We’ll let you know what’s up with us (and your classmates)and keep you posted on plans for a Fall ’09 get-together.Department of Theatre & Dance336.758.5294PO Box 7264, Winston-Salem, NC 27109www.wfu.edu/theatretheatre@wfu.eduSign up for the theatre alumni listservwfutalum@lists.wfu.eduhttp://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/wfutalumJERFriedenberg, director of theatrejerf@wfu.edu 336.758.599566 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

William Scott Mannear completed theadvanced Mandarin language course at theMonterey Institute of International Studiesin Monterey, CA. He teaches English as aforeign language at the Nanchang Instituteof Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province,China. He is journaling his experience atsinoscott.blogspot.comJ. Neal Robbins (JD/MBA) is anassociate in banking and finance withCarruthers & Roth PA in Greensboro, NC.Anne Wood is working in customer serviceand marketing at Serena and Lily inSausalito, CA. Serena Dugan (’94)started this company of high-end linensand bedding.MarriagesHarry A. Arsenault (’69) and ValerieM. Shepard. 12/23/06 in Danbury, CT.They live in Norwalk, CT.Daniel K. Cook (’78) and Heather C.Perkins. 11/18/06 in Elkridge, MD. Theylive in Columbia, MD.Lillian Hill Pinto (’80, JD ’83) andRobert L. Watson. 10/14/06. They live inGreensboro, NC. Her son, Andrew, is aWake Forest sophomore.Brian “Zeke” Johnson (’89,MAEd ’91) and Laura Anne Shubilla.8/07. They live in Philadelphia.Tom Legan (’89) and Brian Dean (’89).3/6/07 in Scotch Plains, NJ.Thomas R. Rubino (’92) and ChristineElizabeth Dow. 8/25/07 in Birmingham,AL. They live in St. Louis.August John Gering (’93) and AnneM. Enenbach. 8/12/06 in Durham, NC.The wedding party included R. LawtonJordan III (’93) and Brandon Pemberton(’93). Attending were Scott Killingsworth(’93) and Corey Witt (’93).Pete Ballard (’94) and StefanieWhitaker. 10/6/07 in Atlanta.Sharon Anita Sikorski (’94) andBrian Sofield. 8/3/07. They live inTaylors, SC.William Kirkpatrick “Kirk” Sanders(JD ’95) and Ashley Stowe Hayden.4/28/07 in Winston-Salem.Valerie L. Hodge (’96) and Tab J.Mathis. 6/16/07 in Huntington, WV.The wedding party included HeidiReckord (’95).Christopher B. Savinsky (’96,MBA ’01) and Beverly C. Huffstetler(’97, MAEd ’02). 8/12/06 in Gastonia, NC.They live in Austin,TX.The wedding partyincluded Shannon Cosart (MBA ’01), KevinJohnson (MBA ’01), Ashley BunnellLivingston (’97), Ginger Lohr Milne (’97),Jennifer Richwine (’93) and Joe Weeks (’95,MBA ’01). Attending were Nan FallsBridgeman (’71), Charity Burnette (’96), EdClayton (’90, MBA ’00), Margaret MakeClayton (’89), Beth Frey (JD ’02), DougHoogervorst (MBA ’01),Travis Howell (’97),Susan Kwolkoski (MBA ’01), AlysonBunnell Miller (MBA ’96), Cynthia Moore(MBA ’99), Jeff Owen (’97, JD ’00), Lisa CortOwen (’95), John Powers (MD ’98), LeonaTrombly Taylor (’98) and Brian Uzwiak (’96).Sean Cole (JD ’97) and Sharon K. Dow.1/27/07 in Key West, FL. They live inRaleigh, NC.Carlos Edward Jane’ (JD ’97) andAshley Caroline Kinney. 11/11/06.They livein Winston-Salem.The wedding partyincluded Scott M. Adams (JD ’97), Corey D.Buggs (JD ’97), Matthew S. Cheney (JD ’97)and John T. Earwood (’92, JD/MBA ’97).Attending were Frank Bell (JD ’77), AmyWashburn Cheney (’89, MAEd ’94),J. Calvin Cunningham (JD ’74), Paul Ekster(JD ’99), Dale Graham (JD ’83), Charles H.Harp (JD ’72), Laura Lu Hedrick (’83,JD ’86), Bobby McCroskey (JD ’99), RoyMcDonald (JD ’00), Jimmy L. Myers (’75),Jon W. Myers (’88, JD/MBA ’92), J. RodwellPenry (’67, JD ’71), Phyllis Sturdivant Penry(’71, JD ’75),Theodore S. Royster (’68),Dawn Sheek (JD ’00), Jimmy Snyder (’67,JD ’70), Jeffrey Sodko (’93, JD ’97),B. Carlton Terry (JD ’96), Wendy Joyce Terry(JD ’97), Derek Wagner (JD ’97) and ChuckWall (’70, JD ’72).Tiffany Noel Mitzman (’97) andBenjamin Harvey White III (’98,MA ’98, JD ’02). 10/6/07 in Greensboro,NC. They live in Winston-Salem.Amy Beth Raphael (’97) and RichardDiepenbrock. 5/20/07 in Fort Lauderdale,FL. They live in Pembroke Pines, FL.Courtney Page Foley (’98) and GabeByars. 7/8/07 in South Lake Tahoe, CA.They live in Durham, NC. Attending wereDeniz Akinc (’98), Kristin Wontka Longo(’98), Allison Reid (’95), Cary Schaefer (’98)and Brooke Beebe Woody (’98).Michele O’Connor (’98) and RobertRieb. 7/21/07 in Staten Island, NY. FatherJude DeAngelo officiated. Attendingwere Elise Murphy Forrest (’99),Kayamma Lewis (’99), Erin LoganMurphy (’99), Terri Gillispie Walling (’99)and Corinne Zadik (’01).David Romhilt (’98) and BethKaleida (’98). 8/25/07 in Duck, NC. Theylive in New York. The wedding partyincluded Tom Callahan (’98), Blake Gayle(’98), Julie Muir Harlan (’98, MSA ’99),John Hocutt (’98, JD ’01), CatherineMitchell Jaxon (’98), Megan DeardorffLecky (’98), Sara Hicks Malone (’98),Andy Mathews (’98), Amy Stribling Rees(’98), Jennifer Kristen Salyer (’98), DavidSmith (’98, JD ’01), Jessica DreisbachStanfield (’98) and David Wilkins (’98).Nathan Andrew Anderson (’99,MBA ’02) and Elizabeth Swanson Perry.7/28/07 in Clinton, NC. They live inGreensboro, NC. The wedding partyincluded Phil Hodes (’99).Timothy David Cashdollar (’99) andMaria Yumibanda. 8/19/07 in Westport,CT. They live in Valencia, PA. Thewedding party included Jeff Flowe (’99).Kimberly Elizabeth Dynan (’99) andAlbert Aviles. 7/27/07 in Tarrytown, NY.They live in Los Angeles. The weddingparty included Megan Lavin Powell (’99).Attending were Challice Lee Bonifant (’99),William Reece Burns (’99), AllisonMilunic Hennessey (’99), AndrewCharles Hennessey (’98) and GrayWilson Powell (’98).www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 67

Margaret Stuart Brooks (’00) andMatthew Edward Snyder (’02). 9/8/07in Winston-Salem. They live in Charlotte.The father of the bride is George EvansBrooks (’71). The wedding party includedParker Brooks (’97), Melanie Donnelly(’00), Ben Duckworth (’02), Claire StrangFarver (’00), Drew Frazier (’02), CourtneyDocter Gable (’00), Emily Jacobs (’00),Charlotte Hartzog Kermode (’00), WilLavender (02), Pat Lonning (’02), IndiaPerry (’00), Rob Poidomani (’02), SaraPrice (’00), Jonathan Snyder (MD ’04),Meredith Brooks Sorrell (’99), MargaretTurner (’00), Brooke MacPhail Ueberroth(’00) and Reed Walden (’02).Emma Louise Claggett (’00) andPeter Zachary Gehret. 10/14/06 inRaleigh. They live in Basel, Switzerland.The father of the bride is Stephen R.Claggett (MA ’81). Attending wereJordana Soyke Barclay (’00), Dee Clarke(’00), Laura Jeanne Teeter Dildine (’00),Sara Hunt (’00), John Leonard (’00) andSusan Myers (’81).Kristen Marie Franke (’00) andWilliam Lee Johnson. 9/1/07 inChambersburg, PA. Attending wereSarah Yaramishyn Nolin (’00), LaurenRule (’00) and Danielle Whren (’00).Stuart Hipp (’00) and StephanieVartanian. 1/14/07 in Simmsbury, CT.They live in Winston-Salem.Tiffany Dawn Kassab (’00) andFreddie Lee Williams II. 8/11/07 inGreenville, SC. The wedding partyincluded Amine Tharrington Seifert (’00).Attending were Tim Bennett (’02,MALS ’04), Megan Dowdy (’01), MegGoodman (’00) and Sam Seifert (’99).Sheereen Miller (’00) and AhmadRussell. 9/1/07 in Charleston, SC. Theylive in New York City. Attending wereCandrice Heath (’00), Shannon Johnson(’03), Jocelyn Womack (’00) and BrandiWubbena (’00).Brendan Christopher Reichs (’00)and Emily Grace Quimby (’01).7/28/07 in Westborough, MA. They livein Charlotte. The wedding party includedLisa Marie Biedrzycki (’01), MelissaWellman Norman (’01, MAEd ’04),Robert Anthony Rinaldi (’00) and AllisonDale Taylor (’01).Geoffrey William Warren (’00)and Meredith Mieczkowski. 6/26/06 inColumbus, OH. They live in Ashburn,VA. The wedding party included AndyArcher (’00), L. Chris Bustamante (’99),Dave Celello (’00), Charlie Compton (’01),Jon Gambill (’00), Rich Graves (’00), NeilJenkins (’00) and Adam Ward (’00).Vicki Levy (’01) and Todd Gelfeld.7/14/07 in Arlington,VA. The weddingparty included Claire Boetticher (’01),Katherine O’Brien (’01), Melissa Vorselen(’01) and Mary Burroughs Yuill (’01).Kate Mason (’01) and Mark Michalek.9/7/07 in Steamboat Springs, CO. Thewedding party included Winston IrwinMarosek (’01). Attending were AnnaLake Blitch (’01), Emilie Johnson (’01) andErin Leahy (’01).Lisa Tucker Ryan (’01) and Jon DavidPearson. 6/9/07 in Montgomery, AL,where they live. The wedding partyincluded Anna Kuhn (’02).Jason Timothy Shaw (’01) andAshley Megan Buchanan (’01).7/14/07 in Sedalia, CO. They live inParker, CO. The wedding party includedMarguerite Corvini (’01), Stacia Harris(’01) and Jeanne Lynch (’02). Attendingwere Kevin Cahill (’01), Lacye HuffakerCahill (’00), Caroline Clore (’01), LaurenKlopacs (’01), Courtney Sellars Pepper(’01) and Whitney Kinlaw Shevlin (’00).Keyshorn Smith (’01) and DiedreWashington (’02). 8/4/07. The weddingparty included Kito Gary (’99),Christopher McCoy (’01), David Moore(’00) and Kristin Washington (’04).Paul M. Browning (’02) and EmmaJane White (’02). 8/11/07 inMassachusetts. They live in Cary, NC.The wedding party included AmandaWinston Monschein (’02).Jason Patrick Cofone (’02)and Solange Blaschke. 5/26/07 inSouthampton Parish, Bermuda.Bethany Johanna Dulis (’02) andNadeem Dallal. 7/1/07 in Westwood,KS. They live in Kansas City, MO. Thewedding party included Tamara Dunn (’02)and Shannon Reibel (’02). Attendingwere Christina Bruggeman (’01), DorothyKuykendal (’02) and Emily WilsonSumner (’01).Rebecca Lindsey Ham (’02) andBenjamin Shaw Ormsbee. 6/9/07 inWashington. They live in Rockville, MD.The wedding party included Julia Ham(’04), Kristin Koop (’02) and KimberlyStorer (’02). Attending were EleahGamble (’02), Tyler Koop (’02), GusKryder (’04), Scott Mann (’01), CaleighMcElwee (’02), Eve-Marie Welch (’02),Sarah Wildrick (’03), Margaret Williams(’02) and Jessica Zazworsky (’02).Mary Claire Hodges (’02) and JohnDavid Hall. 10/6/07 in Winston-Salem.They live in Fort Worth, TX. The weddingparty included Caroline Tyson Cox (’02),Faith Glavey Pawl (’02), Christie MarzahnStump (’02), Kara Wallace (’01) andValerie Patrick Zaryczny (’02).Aaron Winter (’02) and SusannahRosenblatt (’03). 6/23/07 inMitchellville, MD. They live in LongBeach, CA. The bride’s mother is FayeSetzer Rosenblatt (’67). The weddingparty included Gerald Barbee (’02), IanJames (’02), Margaret McKenzie (’03)and Brian Palank (’02). Attending wereKatie Beck Agress (’03), Peter Banks (’03),Gretchen Crook Bauer (’03), LorenBiggs (’01), Aaron Bokros (’02), JustinCatanoso (MALS ’93), Tori Countner (’03),Alison Delaney (’04), Jeff Feintech (’03),Elizabeth Bland Glynn (’04), PhilGlynn (’03), Lisa Hoppenjans (’03),Meredith Carroll McSwain (’03), JacobMontgomery (’02), Justin Parker (’02),Liz Eads Parker (’01), Chrissy EngleRaver (’03), Todd Raver (’02), Adam Wells(’01), Jon Willingham (’03), Sarah JonesWingfield (’03), Will Wingfield (’03) andadjunct professor James Barefield.68 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Michael George Altieri (’03) andDanielle Margaret VanSice (’06).7/7/07 in Winston-Salem. They live inCharlotte. The wedding party includedBen Boyd (’98), Catherine Chinlund (’06),Jay Morgan (’02), Bethany Novak (’06)and Ryan Peiffer (’02).Meredith Anne Carroll (’03) and BrynWalker McSwain. 3/31/07 in Wilmington,NC. The wedding party included KatieBeck Agress (’03), Gretchen Crook Bauer(’02), Ann McAdams Bumgardner (’00),Margaret Leigh McKenzie (’03), ChristineEngle Raver (’03) and SusannahRosenblatt Winter (’03).Connie Fleming (’03) and AndrewWright. 10/13/07 in Pinehurst, NC.They livein Raleigh.The wedding party includedJordan Simpson (’04) and Kate Turnage(’04). Attending were Emily Conrad Beaver(’03), Ryan Beaver (’03, JD ’06), DanielleBinder (’03), Elizabeth Gandy Hall (’03),Jonathan Hall (’01), Anna ChrietzbergMcKenzie (’03), David McKenzie (’02),Chris Schneider (’03, MSA ’04) and EmilySaunders Schneider (’03).Tracy Lee Herrmann (’03) and RyanTeel. 9/22/07 in Big Canoe, GA. They livein Atlanta. The wedding party includedErin Lunn (’03). Attending were JenniferSchneider Camp (’03), Will Clough (’03),Melissa Jordan (’03), Tracie McDonald(’03, MSA ’04) and Christie Witzig (’03).Anna Elizabeth Holt (’03) and CharlesBurns Upton II. 8/18/07 in Charlotte.Theylive in Tallahassee, FL.The wedding partyincluded Caroline Thomas Brown (’03,MD ’07),Traci Kelly Cherry (’06), AnnaWarburton Coffin (’03), Lindsey StergiouGuenther (’03), Amy Wilson Hale (’03),Melissa Erin Jones (’03), Ashley TrueLang (’03) and Emily Walters Langley (’04).Morgan Emily Mann (’03) andRichard Scott Meador. 8/11/07 inRichmond,VA. The wedding partyincluded Karen Trapnell (’03). AshleyBaker (’03) attended.Aaron Mayo (’03) and Betty AshtonAndrews. 8/11/07 in Roanoke,VA. Thewedding party included Hunt Mayo (’01)and Sean McGuire (’03). Attending wereCary Hudgins (’03), John Martinez (’03)and Tommy O’Reardon (’03).Alexandra Lee Snyder (’03) andLeonardo Andres Garcia. 9/8/07 inCharleston, SC. The bride’s uncle isLaurens John Snyder (’84). The weddingparty included Katherine HollingsworthBrown Gelatt (’03), Kristen Rita O’Kane(’03), Kathleen Blaire Overly (’03) andKelly Anne Ross (’03). Attending wereBrett Francis Bechtel (’03, MD ’07),Spencer Dunlap Bolln (’04), StephenMichael Hawryluk (’03), NicholasAnderson Jeffries (’03), Lindsey RushingKueffner (’03), Kathryn Ann Larson (’03),Jennifer Elizabeth Martin (’04) andStephanie Jean Pavlis (’03).Jamie Lyn Whittaker (’03) andJoseph Addonizio. 9/7/07 in Meredith,NH. The wedding party includedBreanne Collins (’03), Tanis Smith (’03)and Marc Whittaker (’01). Attendingwere Andy Bologna (’03, MSA ’04),Cher Jacques (’03) and Erin Tully (’03).John Leland Ammons (’04) andLaura Whitney Hall (’04). 9/2/07 inLouisville, KY. They live in Waynesville,NC. The wedding party included LarryRogers Ammons (’65), Allison Page Hall(’07), David Michael Irvine (’04) andJennifer Marie Paschal (’04). Attendingwere William Joseph Allegra (’05),Elizabeth Ann Ammons (’99), ShaunnaElizabeth Bailey (’04), James David Baird(’65),Vicente Jose’ Bastidas (’04), LinetteMarie Capitano (’04), Susan Pei-ShanLynne Cheng (JD ’07), William MacklinCobb (’04), Jeffrey Juergens Conklin (’04),Gregory Scott Connor (’04), JasonMichael Davin (’04), Kristin JohnsonDavin (’03, MAEd ’04), EmersonGoodwin Dickey (’04), Kristy DianeFletcher (’04), Maureen Theresa Flynn(’04), Michael Joseph Gorman (’04), RyanArthur Green (’04), senior ThomasWilliam Haberstroh, Rebecca AlstonHamilton (’04), Courtney Carolyn Hicks(’04), Julia Lynn Hutcheson (’04), Jean-Marie Joel (’04), Sarah Elizabeth Johnson(’07), James Patrick Kelly (’04), RichardSteven Kozell (’04), Letitia Marie Lanier(’04), Lily Parsons Melton (’04), WilliamBoyd Owen (’67, MD ’71), Uma VijayPatwardhan (’04), Whitney Young Pennell(’04), Garrett Wheler Redmond (’04),Brooke Elizabeth Shepherd (’04), WesleyDavid Sherman (’04), Casey KennedyTealdi (’04), Alyssa Leigh Veselick (’04),Janssen Kyle Kimmel Vis (’04), JoannaRose Weinberg (’04), and Layne GraysonWilson (’04).Josh Edwards (’04) and AlisonPomeroy (’06). 7/21/07 in Durham, NC.They live in Arlington,VA. IngramHedgpeth (’76) officiated. The weddingparty included Jared Cardwell (’04),Larissa Cyran (’06), Andrew Glassick(’03), Diana Harrison (’06), Julie McKenna(’06), senior Annie Murphy, Blake Smith(’04) and Dayton Vielguth (’04).Steve LeFaivre (’04) and CatherineFortin Major (’04). 7/14/07 in Ottawa,Canada. The wedding party includedAdralyn Wendel (’04). Attending wereJamie Athas (’01), Nick Blue (’04), RyanHubbard (’03) and Erin Keating (’04).John William Lettieri (’04) andCarrie D’Ann Grady (’04). 8/18/07 inWinston-Salem. Tripp Harrington (’98)was photographer and Brett Allen Harris(’04) provided special music.The weddingparty included Scott Ralph Cleveland(’04), Morgan Taylor Fordham Jr. (’04),Kelly Lauren Gamble (’04), RebeccaWilson Harris (’04), Molly Elizabeth Hunt(’04), Mary Ellen Kistler (’04), JoannaFrances Lee (’04), Robert Henry Mills(’04) and Gregory David Schutt (’04).Sam Simmons (MD/MBA ’04) andAlixanne Davis. 8/07. They live inLexington, KY.Lauren G. Beyer (’05) and currentmedical student Brian C. Werner.8/10/07 in Lancaster, PA. They live inWinston-Salem. The father of the bride isFrederick C. Beyer III (’73, MD ’76), andher aunt and uncle are Mary SimpsonBeyer (’75) and Richard W. Beyer (’74,JD ’76).Aaron Patrick Nam Blades (’05) andMargaret Elinore Bussmann (’06).6/16/07 in Hyannis Port, MA.The weddingparty included Larissa Cyran (’06), MattEnglish (’05), Louise Louthan (’05),Ashley Weston McGowen (’05), RichardNance (JD ’06), Dayton Vielguth (’04) andAaron Wolcott (’07).Saud Rahman (MD ’05) and HumaAnsari. 8/14/05 in Palatine, IL. 8/20/05 inBaltimore. They live in Glen Allen,VA.www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 69

Kyle Scott Erickson (’06) and IreneCaitlin Webb (’06). 7/7/07 in Winston-Salem. They live in Chicago. The weddingparty included Charlene Afable (’05),John Cooley (’06), Kari Erickson (’04),Frank Oroszlan (’06) and Chris Rose (’06,MSA ’07).Andrew Dale Irby (JD ’06) and MeganElizabeth Bennett (’06). 7/14/07Baxter McGuirt (’06) and MaggieSimmons (’06). 5/12/07 in Clemmons,NC. They live in Winston-Salem.J.C. Huggins (’90) and MelanieHuggins, St. Paul, MN: a son, ThomasShepard. 7/6/07. He joins his sisters,Adeline (8) and Lila Rose (2).Angela Lewellyn Jones (’90) andDavid M. Jones, Hillsborough, NC:a son, Samuel Benjamin. 4/4/07. Hejoins his sister, Tea Hope (3).Alison Teresa Chilcott (’91) andMichael Gary Lyon, Estes Park, CO:a daughter, Kathryn Rose Alexandra.6/30/07Jimmy Hendrix (’94) and Alli Hendrix,Oviedo, FL: a son, Palmer William. 4/3/07.He joins his sister, Lily (5), and brother,Campbell (18 mos.).Michelle Dupont Mitchell (’94) andBrian Mitchell, Atlanta: a daughter,Zoe Alexandra. 6/28/07Scott Vantre (’94) and ElizabethMarsh Vantre (’94), Glen Allen,VA: adaughter, Elizabeth “Ella”Scott. 5/1/07.She joins her brothers, Nicholas Porter(6), Steele Thomas (4) and Drew Scott (2).Ashley Griffin Pollock (’06) and ScottWesley Sutton (MA ’07). 6/30/07 inTopsail Beach, NC. They live in Henderson,NV. The wedding party includedKatie Chinlund (’06), Mallory Kinlaw(’06), Nancy Muir (’05), Harold Pollock(JD ’78), Rhett Pollock (’02), Claire Sellner(’06) and Martha Woodrum (’05).Births/AdoptionsDean Coulopoulos (’82) and MariaCoulopoulos, Great Falls,VA: a son,Dimitri William. 5/10/07. He joins hissister, Sophia Irini (3).Linda Boone Bartlett (’85) and BillBartlett, Greenville, SC: adopted son,James (Jae) Robinson. 2/20/05 in SouthKorea. He joins his sister, MariaElizabeth.David Blick (’87) and Patricia Blick,Annapolis, MD: a daughter, AnnCampbell. 7/4/07David Krell (’88) and Andrea GoochKrell (’91), Matthews, NC: a daughter,Caroline Carter. 7/15/07. She joins herbrothers, Evan (9), Jason (6) and JohnCarter (2).Suzanne Eileen Generao (’89) andJaime Dickerson, Sacramento, CA: adaughter, Gigi Elizabeth. 8/22/07Brian Christopher Arthaud-Day(’90) and Marne Lynn Arthaud-Day(’92), Manhattan, KS: a son, HoldenTimothy. 1/14/07. He joins his brother,Koen (4).Anthony Lewis Amos Jr. (’92) andKimberly Head-Amos, Decatur, GA:a daughter, Anne Beaty. 8/18/07Laura Blood (’92) and Michael Hill,Washington: a daughter, Meredith.9/19/07. She joins her brother, Ethan (2).Kory Barrett (’93) and Julia Barrett,Severna Park, MD: a daughter, LynnElizabeth. 10/17/07. She joins her sister,Reese (6), and brother, Owen (4).August John Gering (’93) and AnneGering, Durham, NC: a son, Angus JohnAugustus. 9/5/07Rusty Painter (’93) and Carrie Painter,Durham, NC: a son, William Landry.8/22/07Rusty Ray (’93) and Kerry Feldmann(’95), New York: a daughter, Zoe Gaither.6/28/07Sherri McDaniel Sealey (’93, MBA ’01)and Danny Sealey, Winston-Salem: a son,Justin David. 8/6/07Jennifer More Stauffer (’93) andMarc R. Stauffer, Tampa, FL: a son, DavisAnthony. 4/17/07. He joins his brothers,Grady (5) and Henry (3).Joshua Wade Harrison (’94) andJanet Faris Harrison (’95), Norcross,GA: a daughter, Mary Caroline Graves.7/5/07. She joins her brother, Miles (2).Amy Young Harwood (’94) andDavid Harwood, West Orange, NJ: ason, Cooper Bruce. 8/4/07. He joins hisbrothers, Tyler (2) and Jack (2).Carol Owens Brown (’95) and Ben C.Brown, Charlotte: a daughter, HannahMcKenzie. 9/1/07. She joins her brothers,Aaron (4) and David (2). She is the granddaughterof Joyce and William F. OwensJr. (’59) and niece of Frank Welder(MBA/PhD ’04) and Cathy Owens Welder(’90).Gregg Fernstrom (’95) andKatherine Bresette Fernstrom (’96),West Orange, NJ: a son, Owen Lars.4/5/07. He joins his sister, Chloe (3).Tracey Parrington Jones (’95) andJeff Jones (’96), Charlotte: a daughter,Sophie Grace. 5/10/07. She joins hersister, Sarah (2).Christine Rose-Cavallo (’95) andFrank Cavallo, Hackensack, NJ: twodaughters, Allexia and Alyssa. 12/31/06Shelby Wallach Schultz (’95) andFred Schultz, Naperville, IL: a daughter,Catherine. 10/2/07. She joins her brother,Matthew (5), and sister, Elizabeth (2).Laura Layman Stickler (’95) andDavid Stickler, Mount Pleasant, SC: ason, Paul Bowen. 7/22/07. He joins hisbrothers, Andrew Evan (5) and BennettKennedy (2).Derek Van Zandt (’95) and JenniferLee MacNeill Van Zandt (’97), NewYork: a daughter, Hayden Lee. 9/21/07Charles Curry (’96) and Melissa Curry,Orlando, FL: a daughter, Georgia Grace.8/16/0770 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Heather Saunders Grimsley (’96)and Larry Grimsley, Sykesville, MD: ason, Colin Allen. 6/7/07. He joins hissister, Kate (5), and brother, Kyle (3).David Matthew Jackson (’96) andAmy Bumgardner Jackson (’97),Roanoke,VA: a son, William Nolan.8/4/07Randall Kirsch (’96) and Amy LewisKirsch (’96), Atlanta: a daughter, Cheryl“Callie”McAlister. 6/5/07. She joins herbrother, Miles Walker (2 1/2).Shannon Meeker Marrujo (’96)and Daniel Marrujo, Apex, NC: a son,Christian West “CW.” 3/21/07. He joinshis brother, Max (2).W. Chris O’Neal (’97) and CatherineKendrick O’Neal (’98), Atlanta: a son,William Kendrick. 8/22/07Keith Siegner (’97, MSA ’98) andCarissa Siegner, Stamford, CT: a son,Cole Robert. 7/17/07Susan Reid Burns (’98) and BarryBurns, Enterprise, AL: a son, ReidHolden. 3/23/07. He joins his brother,Bryant (4).Morgan Poteat Corbett (’98) andBrian F. Corbett (JD ’00), Raleigh:a daughter, Louise McNeill. 10/13/07.She joins her brother, Charlie (4), andsister, Essie (2). She is the granddaughterof Robert M. Poteat (’68).Stephanie Wilkerson Yoder (’98) andAlex Yoder, Winston-Salem: a daughter,Ava Catherine Elizabeth. 2/6/07Julie Ashe Ball (’99) and Joe Ball,Winston-Salem: a son, Donovan Hayes.7/5/07. He joins his brother, Riley (3).Tanya Glosson Floyd (’99) andMichael Floyd, Charlotte: a daughter,Addison Nicole. 4/22/07Thomas H. Hawk III (’99) andElizabeth Canfield Hawk, Atlanta: adaughter, Chambless Louise. 10/5/07Elizabeth Katherine Crumley Kinast(’99) and Matt Kinast (’99), Ithaca,NY: a daughter, Maura Elizabeth. 7/24/06Carrie Maletta Rusche (’96) andPaul Rusche, Liberty Township, OH:a daughter, Angela Christine. 6/21/07Rebecca Childress Turner (’96) andCharles Turner (’96), Houston: a son,Benjamin Charles. He joins his sister,Julia Claire (2).Caroline Coln Wall (’96) and MarshallWall, Raleigh: a son, Frank Brewer.5/31/07. He joins his brother, AngusJones.Kim Dallas Busby (’97) and BartBusby, Atlanta: a daughter, ClaireElizabeth. 8/9/07. She joins her brother,Patrick (2).Karen West Baker Chippendale (’97,MSA ’98) and William Chippendale Jr.,Issaquah, WA: a daughter, AddisonParker. 7/25/07. She joins her brother,Will (2).Patrice Carpenter Dyckes (’97,MBA ’05) and Jason Dyckes, Charlotte:a son, Parker Owen. 7/31/07Christopher R. Gaskell (’97,MAEd ’98) and Leslie Gaskell,Leesburg,VA: a daughter, MarleeRyenne. 7/18/07. She joins her sister,Kylie (3).Ginger Lohr Milne (’97) and StephenBruce Milne, Brentwood, TN: a daughter,Carol Elizabeth. 4/30/07.E. Bradley Evans (’98, JD ’02) andElizabeth Watson Evans (’99),Greenville, NC: a daughter, ClaraElizabeth. 9/13/07. She joins her brother,William Meade (2 1/2).Carmen Vaughn Ganjehsani (’98)and Warren Ganjehsani, Columbia, SC:a daughter, Arianna Elizabeth. 10/16/06Suzanne Willeers Hlavacek (’98)and Jim Hlavacek, Gainesville, GA:a daughter, Emily Grace. 4/15/07.She joins her brother, Andrew (2).Marin Shaughnessy Knight (’98) andEric Knight, Charlestown, MA: a son,Hale Hampton II. 7/26/07Rebecca Muyres (’98) and JeffreyMuyres (’99), Matthews, NC: a son,Colin Audric. 5/1/07. He joins hisbrother, Ethan Michael (2).William R. Pekowitz Jr. (’98) andKaren Pekowitz, Ossining, NY: adaughter, Alexandra Marianne. 7/20/07.She joins her sister, Julia (20 mos.).Travis Holmes Perry (JD ’98) andHolly Perry, Fruita, CO: a son, NathanHolmes. 7/28/07. He joins his brother,Lucas Holmes (3).Patricia Marie Barattini Taylor (’98)and Gregory Taylor, East Northport, NY:a daughter, Maggie Lynne. 6/11/07Stephen Kroustalis (’99) and NicoleKroustalis, Winston-Salem: a daughter,Elaina Caroline. 7/18/07. Grandparentsinclude Otis (’66) and Carole Chilton andChris (’67) and Kia Kroustalis.Elizabeth Graff Luekens (’99) andMichael Timothy Luekens (’99),Kittery, ME: a son, Evan Jeffrey. 8/4/07Amy Cahoon Malasky (’99, MAEd ’01)and Damon Malasky, Raleigh: a son,Seth Reynolds. 7/25/07. He joins hisbrother, Paul (2).Ryan J.T. Patrick (’99) and LauraSayers Patrick (’00), Austin, TX: adaughter, Martha Kathryn “Mary Kate.”4/2/07Lawton Pearson (’99) and LanierDefnall Pearson (’00), Perry, GA:a daughter, Adeline Lanier. 8/11/07Jonathan Neil Perry (’99) and PaigePerry, Wendell, NC: a daughter, ParkerSimpson. 8/21/07Andrew Rush (’99) and RebeccahRush, Winston-Salem: a son, Henry Jack.8/13/06Allyson Fayard Sonntag (’99) andDavid Sonntag (’00), Alexandria,VA: adaughter, Anna Calleigh. 5/29/07. Shejoins her brother, Asher (2).www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 71

Carter Sorrell (’99) and MeredithBrooks Sorrell (’99), Charlotte:twin daughters, Brooks McLeod andLaura Parker. 4/24/07Wendy Marie Schriever Vogl (’99)and Tom Vogl, Winston-Salem: a son,Joshua Frank. 2/25/07Megan Johnson Whelen (’99) andJim Whelen, Winston-Salem: a son,Colin James. 6/9/07Andrew M. Ciccarelli (MD ’00) andAnn Ciccarelli, Amherst, MA: a daughter,Eva Lindsay. 11/24/06Rebecca Suits Hartsough (’00) andJason Hartsough, Charlotte: a son,Jackson Andrew. 7/13/07Steven C. McRae (JD ’00) andAnn Macon McRae, Graham, NC:a daughter, Flora Haddock. 1/18/07Jeremy William Rupon (’00) andKeira Brooke Bard Rupon (’00),Boston: a son, Quentin Joseph. 8/2/07Scott Bernard Watson (’00) andMegan Watson, Charlotte: a son,James Ian. 4/20/07Jennifer Rader Windley (JD ’00)and Lance Windley, Raleigh: a son,Grayson Thrasher. 5/19/07Rebecca Todd Bell (’01) and LeeDavid Bell Jr. (’03), Memphis, TN:a son, Riley McClain. 6/13/07James L. Caldwell II (’01) andShantha Hyman Caldwell, Winston-Salem: a son, James III “Trey.” 5/6/07Jason Rajtar (’01) and Karen Rajtar(’01). Bellevue, WA: a daughter,Alexandra Rose, and a son, Jax Deacon.9/29/07Ira Williams Jr. (’01) and LamayaCovington Williams (’01, MALS ’05),Winston-Salem: a son, Ira III “Tres.”5/6/07. He joins his sister, Amira (6).Christopher F. Brislin (JD ’02) andMaggie Brislin, Charlotte: a daughter,Wren Alexandra. 12/6/06Gabrielle Ceruzzi Henrich (’02) andBenjamin Henrich, Mount Pleasant, SC:a son, Jackson Ramsay. 8/18/07Elizabeth Ann Hollan (’02) and BillHollan, Winston-Salem: a daughter,Anna Chitwood. 2/2/07. She joins herbrother, Will (4).Sarah Catherine PearsonHuempfner (’02) and DavidHuempfner, Mount Pleasant, SC:a son, Sullivan Edward. 8/2/07Laura Rose Neelon (’02) andJoshua Brian Neelon, Winston-Salem:a daughter, Alice Ladd. 5/23/07. She joinsher sister, Lucy (3).Brandon A. Van Balen (JD ’02) andJulie Van Balen, Atlanta: a daughter,Aubrey Elizabeth. 7/28/07Gregory Alan Drabik (MBA ’03) andSarah Drabik, High Point, NC: a son,Miles Gregory. 5/31/07. He joins hisbrother, Mason Kenneth (3).Christopher Davies Rolle Jr. (’03)and Jessica Lynn Ryan Rolle (’04),Westminster, MD: a son, ChristopherDavies III, and a daughter, Ryan Grace.9/11/07DeathsRobert W. Crutchfield (’30), Aug. 14,2007, Kannapolis, NC. He taught highschool, earned his master’s in accountingfrom UNC-Chapel Hill, and began workon his PhD at Ohio State Universitybefore World War II. He became a civilianemployee for the defense department.After the war, he worked at Cannon MillsCo. and was a professor of accounting atUNC-Chapel Hill. He returned toCannon Mills in 1950 and retired in 1975as a CPA and assistant controller.Cecil Clarence Bost (’31), June 14,2007, Davidson, NC. He taught andcoached in Mooresville, NC, beforeworking with Alcoa Aluminum in Badin,NC. He retired in 1972.T. Carl Brown (’32), July 8, 2007,Raleigh, NC. He earned his master’s invocational education from UNC-ChapelHill and taught at Statesville High Schoolbefore World War II. He served in theU.S. Army Signal Corps and continued inthe National Guard until his retirementas brigadier general in 1971.Floyd T. Allen (’34), Sept. 22, 2007,Chesapeake,VA. He was retired fromW.R. Grace & Co.David Livingstone Beavers (’37),July 19, 2007, Winston-Salem. He receivedhis DDS from Northwestern University,was a dentist in Winston-Salem for 40years, and on the staff at the Wake ForestUniversity Baptist Medical Center for 25years. He served in the U.S. Army as adental officer during World War II, was aPOW and received the Silver Star andBronze Star. He is survived by his wife,Betty; three sons, David, Philip (’71) andBill; three daughters, Janet (’73), Gail(’80) and Judy; and 14 grandchildren.Haywood Brill Huntley (’37), Sept. 16,2007, Wadesboro, NC. He operatedWadesboro Hardware and Electric Co.with his brother before entering the U.S.Army Air Corps during World War II. Hereturned to Wadesboro Hardware beforeco-founding Huntley-Ashcraft Insurance.He later became a realtor and contractorand opened Huntley Realty Co.72 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Wilbur Morton Jolly (’37, JD ’41),Aug. 18, 2007, Zebulon, NC. He served inthe U.S. Army during World War II andcontinued in the U.S. Army Reservesuntil 1963. He began practicing law in 1945and retired in 2004 as a senior partner ofJolly Williamson & Williamson in Louisburg,NC. He was inducted into the N.C.Bar Association Lawyer’s Hall of Fame in2002 and was dean of the Franklin CountyBar. He represented Franklin County inthe N.C. Senate in 1957, 1959 and 1963and represented the 14th district in theN.C. State House of Representatives in1980.Elton W. Manning (’37), Aug. 30, 2007,Greenville, NC. In 1995, when he was 80years old, he donated $2 million to WakeForest to endow a need- and merit-basedundergraduate scholarship for studentsfrom eastern North Carolina. Eighteenstudents are receiving the ManningScholarship this year. A native ofRobersonville, NC, he served in the U.S.Army during and after World War II, andretired from the Army Reserves as alieutenant colonel. For many years helived in the Washington area where heworked for the federal government as areal estate appraiser. He later had hisown real estate appraisal business inNorthern Virginia, before moving toRaleigh, NC, and later to Greenville.William Oscar Petty Jr. (’37), Aug. 20,2007, Raleigh, NC. He served in the U.S.Navy during World War II and worked atDuke University for 26 years. He servedthe Duke Endowment as a student loanofficer.Joseph Alexander Ross Sr. (’37),Sept. 7, 2007, Barco, NC. He grew up inthe Baptist Children’s Home inThomasville, NC, and was a lieutenantcommander in the U.S. Navy duringWorld War II. He was a teacher andprincipal at Poplar Branch (NC) HighSchool and a retired sales manager for amasonry manufacturing company.Earle W. Strickland (’39), July 19,2007, Williamsburg,VA. He received hisDDS from the Medical College ofVirginia and served in the U.S. NavalDental Corps. In 1946 he opened a dentaloffice in Zuni,VA, and retired in 1985.OBITUARYBILL ANGELL (’41)J. William “Bill” Angell, anordained Baptist ministerwho promoted an ecumenicaloutlook during his 35 yearsteaching in the religiondepartment, died Sept. 10 inWinston-Salem. He was 87.Angell (’41) joined thefaculty in 1955 and retired in1990 as Easley Professor of Religion. In 1968, he helped develop TheEcumenical Institute, a joint venture still operating between Wake Forestand Belmont Abbey College, a Catholic college near Charlotte. At thetime, it was the only institute of its kind to be jointly sponsored byProtestants and Roman Catholics.“He will be remembered as a man who came out of the Baptist traditionto give so much of his energy to developing The Ecumenical Institute thatwas intended to bring Baptists and Catholics together,” said ProvostEmeritus Edwin G. Wilson (’43). “At that time, in the South, at a Baptistcollege, that was groundbreaking.”Angell served as director of The Ecumenical Institute from 1970 until1974 and was later a board member and consultant. In 1973, he receivedthe Papal Medal for Ecumenism from Pope Paul VI in a ceremony at theVatican. In 1986, he received The Ecumenical Institute’s Cuthbert E. AllenAward for contributions to ecumenism.He was among the first faculty members to teach an interdisciplinarycourse, teaming with philosophy professor Bob Helm to teach for manyyears “Meaning and Value in Western Thought.” He was the author, coauthoror editor of nine books and more than 40 articles in various journals.In 1988, he was named the first John Allen Easley Professor ofReligion.“He was a tremendous theological scholar and always a gentleman,”said Rev. Bobby Touchton (’85), a religion major who is now a chaplain atthe federal correctional institution in Ashland, Ky. “The theological andethical topics he broached in his classes were wide and complex, but hewas able to break them down for undergraduates as though they werefrom a simple Sunday school lesson.”A native of Mocksville, NC, Angell attended Mars Hill College beforegraduating from Wake Forest. He received a Master of Theology degreein 1945 from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.; aMaster of Sacred Theology degree in 1946 from Andover NewtonTheological School/Harvard Divinity School in Boston; and a Ph.D. in 1949from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He pastored Baptist churchesin North Carolina, Kentucky, Massachusetts and Florida, served aschaplain of Campbell College, and taught at Stetson University for fouryears before joining the religion faculty at Wake Forest.He is survived by his wife, Marjorie Sutterlin Angell; two sons, JohnWilliam Angell Jr. and George Sutterlin Angell of Baltimore; and fourgrandchildren. Memorials may be made to the Easley Fund in theDepartment of Religion; the Divinity School; Wake Forest Baptist Church;or The Ecumenical Institute of Wake Forest University and Belmont AbbeyCollege.— Kerry M. King (’85)www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 73

OBITUARYNORMAN A. WIGGINS (’50, JD ’52)Norman Adrian Wiggins (’50, JD ’52),a former Wake Forest law professorwho served as president of CampbellUniversity for 36 years, died Aug. 1. Wiggins,who died of complications from lymphoma,was 83. He is survived by his wife, MillieHarmon Wiggins (’50).Wiggins was named president ofCampbell—a small, private, Baptist-affiliatedcollege in Buies Creek, NC—in 1967. Overthe next three decades, he oversaw theschool’s growth into the second largest privateuniversity in North Carolina and thesecond largest Baptist university in theworld. Under his leadership, Campbellestablished professional schools of law, business,education, pharmacy and divinity, anda trust management program consideredone of the best in the nation. Campbellachieved university status in 1979. He wasnamed chancellor after retiring as presidentin 2003.Wiggins was also a former president of theN.C. Baptist State Convention. The BiblicalRecorder once named him one of the “MostInfluential Baptist Leaders of the TwentiethCentury.” He was also a nationally acclaimedlegal scholar who wrote three books on wills,trusts and estates.A native of Burlington, NC, Wigginsserved in the U.S. Marine Corps in WorldWar II. He later earned an associate of artsdegree from what was then Campbell JuniorCollege before graduating from Wake ForestCollege and law school. He received hismaster’s degree and a doctorate in law atColumbia University School of Law. Hejoined the Wake Forest law faculty in 1956and was general counsel from 1964 until1967 when he was named president ofCampbell.Henry Bruce Land Jr. (’41), Oct. 2,2007, Baltimore. He served as a chaplainin the U.S. Navy during World War II andthe Korean War. He served in the U.S.Air Force Reserves until retiring as alieutenant colonel in 1980. He pastoredchurches in North Carolina,Virginia andBaltimore. He taught English as a secondlanguage in Laurel, MD, and traveled onmission trips with his wife, Evelyn, toArgentina, China, Egypt, England, Israel,Japan, Mexico, Scotland and Turkey.Fred D. Welch Sr. (’41), Sept. 30, 2007,Columbia, SC. He was a World War IIand Korean War veteran, receiving theBronze Star for his service on OmahaBeach on D-Day. He was a manufacturer’srepresentative for Lexington Industriesof Lexington, NC, and traveled SouthCarolina for 38 years. He retired in 1992.Charles I. Lahser (’44, MD ’46),Sept. 24, 2007, Gastonia, NC. He servedas a battalion surgeon in the U.S. Armyduring World War II. In 1953, he formedThe Children’s Clinic, a pediatricpartnership. He was on the staff ofGaston Memorial Hospital and formerdirector and co-founder of the MentalHealth Clinic. He retired from activepractice in 1985.Nathan “Nat” Cole Jr. (’47, JD ’49),July 21, 2007, Louisburg, NC. He enlistedin the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1942 andretired from active service as a captainin 1969.William Marcus McGill (’47), Oct. 2,2007, Wilson, NC. He was a debater atWake Forest. He received his MA fromVanderbilt University, was a teachingassistant at the University of Tennesee,and taught at the University of Mississippiand Tennessee Wesleyan College. Hereceived his PhD in philosophy fromBoston University, joined the faculty ofMillsaps College in Jackson, MS, andtaught for 23 years at Atlanta ChristianCollege, now Barton College.Jesse C. Dunevant (’48), Sept. 19,2007, Albemarle, NC.Jean Shelton Norman (’48), Aug. 14,2007, Clemmons, NC. She taught school,worked at Western Electric Co. and was ahomemaker. She is survived by her son,David (’79), a granddaughter, brotherand twin sister, Jo Shelton Edwards(’48).Clarence S. Olive (’48), Aug. 2, 2007,Fayetteville, NC. He received his DDSfrom the University of Maryland. Heserved in the U.S. Navy during WorldWar II and the Air Force during theKorean War. He was a dentist inFayetteville for 43 years.William Clarke Sr. (’49), June 10, 2007,Midlothian,VA. He was retired from theVeterans Hospital as a social worker.He is survived by his wife of 60 years,Marjorie Perry Clarke (’48), and sixchildren.Gordon Bennett Kelley (’50, JD ’51),July 28, 2007, Raleigh, NC. He served inthe National Guard and practiced law inRaleigh. He was honored by the WakeCounty Bar Association in 2002 for 50years of service to the profession.Paul N. Moss (’50, MD ’54), Aug. 17,2007, Lenoir, NC. He served in the U.S.Navy during World War II. He was aretired physician in Hudson, a formercoroner for Caldwell County and anorganizer of the Hospice facility inCaldwell County.Donald Bynum Thompson (’50),Oct. 4, 2007, Gastonia, NC. He served inthe U.S. Naval Air Corps during WorldWar II. He retired from the N.C.Department of Motor Vehicles as aninstructor after 33 years.Robert “Brownie” Wallace Sr. (’50),Sept. 14, 2007, Marion, SC. He served inthe U.S. Coast Guard during World WarII. He was a cotton merchant withThompson & Wallace Cotton Co. forover 44 years and a founder and formerco-owner of McMillan-Small FuneralHome in Myrtle Beach, SC.Earl N. Porter (’51), July 23, 2007,Charlotte, NC. He served in the U.S.Marine Corps during World War II andwas a pastor at Whiting Avenue BaptistChurch for 30 years.74 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Henry Talmadge Pulliam (’51),July 18, 2007, Murfreesboro, NC. Heserved in the U.S. Army and received theGood Conduct,Victory, Asiatic PacificTheatre Campaign and Bronze ServiceStar medals. He taught school in PersonCounty and in Colerain, NC, before hejoined the faculty at Fork Union (VA)Military Academy, where he retired after33 years. His collection of books anditems related to Thomas Wolfe, “ThePulliam Thomas Wolfe Collection,” is inthe rare books section of the Wake ForestZ. Smith Reynolds Library. He is survivedby a sister and a brother, BrucePulliam (’49).David M. Dawson (’52), Aug. 22, 2007,Caswell Beach, NC. He served in the U.S.Army Air Corps. He received hismaster’s from the University of Virginiaand retired from First Union NationalBank in 1987.Jeanne Smith Garrell (’52), July 18,2007, Columbia, SC. She enjoyed tennisand music. She is survived by herhusband, Hubert “Hugh” Garrell(’52), a son, a daughter and ninegrandchildren.Thomas Wade Estes (’54), Oct. 4, 2007,Greensboro, NC. He was a veteran of theU.S. Marines and received the PurpleHeart. He retired as pastor of GuilfordBaptist Church in 1984.H. Howard Hartness (BBA ’54),Sept. 11, 2007, Spring Hill, FL. He servedin the U.S. Army. He worked for the N.C.Revenue Board, Western Electric Co. andAT&T, retiring in 1989.Edward Thomas Roberts Jr. (’54),Aug. 20, 2007, Salisbury, NC. He servedin the U.S. Army and was chaplain andBible teacher at Frederick MilitaryAcademy in Portsmouth,VA. He was aBaptist minister who served churches inApex, Beaufort, Jacksonville, Kernersvilleand Salisbury, NC.Robert Parker Wilson (’55), July 22,2007, Southern Pines, NC. He receivedhis MAEd from Vanderbilt University. Hewas a professor of history at MethodistUniversity in Fayetteville, NC, and afounding member of the Cape FearRegional Theater.Mary Ellen Rountree (MD ’56),Aug. 7, 2007, Highland Beach, FL. Aftergraduating from the University of Miami,she played baseball in the All-AmericanProfessional Baseball League, bestremembered in the movie, “A League ofTheir Own.” Her baseball career helpedfinance her studies at the Bowman GraySchool of Medicine. She had a privatepractice in internal medicine in Floridauntil retiring.Eddie Mac Page (’57), Aug. 12, 2007,Roanoke Rapids, NC. He served in theU.S. Air Force, was a salesman forMetropolitan Insurance Co. and ownedSuper Stop Realty. He helped establishthe Halifax Academy.Worth B. Utley (’57), Aug. 19, 2007,Dunn, NC. He served in the U.S. Armyduring the Korean War. He taught schoolfor 30 years in the Harnett County SchoolSystem.Harvey Carlton Smith (’59), July 29,2007, New Bern, NC. He served in theU.S. Air Force. He was owner/operator ofthe family business, Emmies FlowerShop, for over 40 years.Jack P. Gulley (JD ’63), Aug. 22, 2007,Raleigh, NC. He practiced law in Raleighand Wake County for 33 years, retiring in1996.Donald Carroll Johnson Jr. (’64),Aug. 14, 2007, Statesville, NC. He servedtwo years in the Peace Corps in India. Hewas a customer service representative inthe Elmers Products Division of HuntManufacturing.Nancy Cain Schmitt (’64), Sept. 20,2007, Anchorage, AK. She had a career ofmore than 30 years in journalism andpublic relations. She was with theGastonia (NC) Gazette and the FayettevilleObserver before she moved to Alaska in1978. She was on staff at the AnchorageTimes, Alaska Journal of Commerce andMultiVisions Cable Television. She wasthe spokesperson for the U.S. PostalService in Anchorage, retiring in 2003.Marian “Didi” White Rief (’66),Oct. 7, 2007, Tampa, FL. She was involvedwith The Friends of the Arts at TampaBay Arts Center, the Florida Gulf CoastSymphony Guild, the Tampa JuniorMuseum, the Tampa Museum of Art,the Home Association, St. John’sEpiscopal Day School, TampaPreparatory School, the Guilders, LasDames des Arte, the Golf View GardenClub, the Council of the New EnglandHistoric Genealogical Society, the PoliceChief’s Advisory Council, the Daughtersof the American Revolution, the ColonialDames XVII Century, and the JamestownSociety. She served on the alumnicouncils for Salem Academy and WakeForest University. She is survived by herhusband, Frank “Sandy” Rief (’66),and two daughters, Elizabeth (’94) andKatie (’00). Memorials may be made toSalem Academy, Wake Forest Universityor The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem.Don H. Elkins (JD ’69), Sept. 8, 2007,Hendersonville, NC. He served in theU.S. Air Force, achieving the rank offirst lieutenant. He practiced law inHenderson County for more than 35years, most recently in a partnershipwith his son.Troy Stephen “Steve” Wilson (’71),July 31, 2007, High Point, NC. He playedfootball and was a member of KappaSigma while at Wake Forest. He had a35-year career in the furniture industry.Ann Elizabeth Schultz (’72), Aug. 18,2007, Chicopee, MA. She completed herMBA at Western New England Collegeand was employed for 29 years as aproduction planner, accountant andprogrammer at the former GeneralCable Corp. in Chicopee.www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 75

OBITUARYMORDECAI JAFFEMordecai J. (Mark) Jaffe,retired Charles H. BabcockProfessor of Biology, died Oct. 15in Lansing, NY. He was 74. Jaffe,who specialized in botany, joinedthe faculty in 1980. After heretired in 1998, he and his wife,Amy, moved to New York state tobe near Ithaca, where they hadlived while he attended graduateschool at Cornell University. He became an associate research scientist at theBoyce Thompson Institute for Plant Resources at Cornell after he moved back tothe area.Jaffe was a prolific scholar who published numerous articles throughout hiscareer and after he retired; his last paper was published just a month before hisdeath. “One of the things that I’ll remember is his passion for research,” saidhis daughter, Jennifer Jaffe Lane (’85). “He was always questioning thingsand wanting to learn.““A lot of people have talked about his sense of humor and his jokes. Andmy mother has talked about his innovations and how he taught. He didn’tnecessarily follow the normal rules of teaching.”A native of New York City, Jaffe graduated from the City College of New Yorkand earned his Ph.D. from Cornell. He completed his postdoctoral research andwas a staff biologist and lecturer at Yale. He taught at Ohio University from 1967until joining the faculty at Wake Forest in 1980.He was best known for his research on thigmomorphogenesis—the touchresponse of plants, or how physical forces, such as wind and water flow, affectplant growth and direction. In the early 1980s, he gained attention by workingwith NASA on how gravity would affect plant growth aboard the new spaceshuttle.“He loved being in the lab,” said Professor of Biology Gloria Muday, also aplant biologist, who joined the department in 1991. “He did a wonderful job ofgetting the plant scientists organized and strengthening that area of researchand teaching in the department.”Kenneth Biddle (MA ’85, PhD ‘91) was an undergraduate botany major at OhioUniversity when he was hired by Jaffe to clean his lab, but he soon become a partof his research team and followed him to Wake Forest in 1980. “I remember himdistinctly saying that the goal of a college student should be to learn new skillsand new information even when working a part-time job. He had a great skilland gift for finding new areas of plant physiology or putting new technology toold problems in new and imaginative ways,” he said.Jaffe is survived by his wife, Amy, and daughter Jennifer Lane (’85) and herhusband Carter Lane (’85); and two sons, Sam (’91) and Ben.—Kerry M. King (’85)Photo by Susan MullallySydney Houston “Hugh” High (JD ’81),July 19, 2007, Charlottesville,VA. Hegraduated from Texas Christian University,earned a master’s from UNC-Chapel Hill and a PhD from DukeUniversity. He was a visiting assistantprofessor of economics at Wake Forestfrom 1977 to 1981. He taught economicsand finance at universities overseas,including Boston University (London),the University of the Witwatersrand andthe University of Cape Town. He wasdirector of the Centre for IndependentStudies in Auckland, New Zealand.He is survived by his wife, Jane HobsonHigh (’80), daughter, Sean M.High-Smith, and son, Jeffrey R. High.Gregory “Greg” Alan Braden (MD ’82),Aug. 13, 2007, Winston-Salem. Aftergraduating from the Bowman GraySchool of Medicine, he completed hisinternship and residency in internalmedicine at The University of TexasMedical Branch in Galveston, TX, wherehe was chief resident, and completed hisfellowship in cardiology at VanderbiltUniversity, where he was chief fellow.He returned to Winston-Salem andjoined the staff of Bowman Gray as anassociate professor and director of theCardiac Cath Lab. He was worldrenownedfor his expertise, cardiac trialsand clinical investigations with complexarterial interventions and was highlysought after to train other cardiologistsaround the world. Most recently, he wasdirector of cardiovascular research anddirector of the Cardiac Cath Lab atForsyth Medical Center and head ofCardiology Specialists of North Carolina.He is survived by his wife, Marion;four children, Jenny Rebecca Hobbs(’97), Sarah, Amy and Drew; twostepchildren and three grandchildren.Otie Yutz Kidwell (’82), Aug. 21, 2007,Lexington, KY. She was an avid historian.Andrew Paul Pennino (’87), Aug. 20,2007, Palm Springs, CA. He was amanager with MCI Telecommunicationsin Washington for 12 years.Molly Elizabeth Hall (’91), Sept. 12,2007, Short Hills, NJ. She was owner ofMurray Hall Designs, an interior designbusiness, based in Atlanta and ShortHills.76 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

James Edward Dogan (MBA ’96),Oct. 2, 2007, Clemmons, NC. He wasmost recently vice principal at FirstAssembly Christian School in Winston-Salem.Megan Graham Lambert (MA ’00),Oct. 13, 2007, Chapel Hill, NC. She taughtEnglish at East Chapel Hill High School.Friends,Faculty/StaffSylva Belle Billue, Sept. 20, 2007,Winston-Salem. She was a philanthropistwho supported women’s causes andendowed the Phyllis Trible Lecture Seriesat the Divinity School. A past member ofthe Wake Forest Board of Visitors, shealso supported the University’s Women’sand Gender Studies Program. A native ofOklahoma, she moved to Asheville, NC,in the 1950s to study woodworking andlater settled in Winston-Salem. Shebecame an accomplished woodworkartist and a supporter of variouswomen’s organizations and charities.In 1987, she established the SyvennaFoundation in honor of her mother tocreate a writer’s colony for women writers.She is survived by two sisters, GaynaVeltman and Cathi Billue, and a brother,George Billue. Memorials may be madeto the Women’s and Gender StudiesProgram or The Phyllis Trible LectureSeries, PO Box 7227, Winston-Salem, NC27109.David Dutcher, Oct. 1, 2007, Winston-Salem. He retired from the National ParkService in 1994 and moved to Winston-Salem to establish an Elderhostel programat Old Salem. He was a student inthe MALS graduate program.Ruth Minchew Malone, Aug. 8, 2007,Winston-Salem. She was a nurse in theStudent Health Service from 1966 untilretiring in 1981 as director of nurses.She was also a volunteer in CrisisControl Ministry’s pharmacy. She issurvived by two daughters, Ruth Nuhn(’78) and Malinda Huffstetler, and fourgrandchildren.www.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 77

C O N S T A N T & T R U ENomads No MoreBy David FytenC ONSTANT& T RUEElizabeth Phillips: A venerable career as teacher, mentor and role model.The established communityof Wake Forest faculty womencan credit, for its stabilityand status, the arrival of anitinerant female instructor ofpoetry—Elizabeth Phillips—at a male-dominated pioneeringsettlement a half-century ago.Fifty years ago, Elizabeth Phillipsarrived at Wake Forest College,a nomad in the wilderness forwomen in academe. Having wanderedamong outposts in an inhospitablelandscape for female collegeinstructors, Phillips—in her latethirties, not young by higher educationstandards—at last had beenappointed to a tenure-track positionby a school that was itself an itinerant,barely a year into its boldadventure of westward resettlement.Along with her poetry books,the peripatetic English scholarbrought with her an independentstreak and a tough skin. When theman who hired her, Dean of theCollege William Archie, asked herin her job interview what she couldcontribute to a “good Baptistcollege,” she replied, “Criticism.”Yet Phillips tempered her feistinesswith a certain graciousness andhumility. She had come to a campuswith only five women on its faculty,78 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

two of whom taught physical education.So paltry was its femalefaculty representation that theAmerican Association of UniversityWomen denied it membership. Oneof the women on the faculty—thelate Jeanne Owen, who taughtbusiness law and would becomethe first woman at Wake Forest toachieve the rank of full professor—warned her: “If you’re going to bea woman on this faculty, you’ll haveto be better than the men.” Towhich Phillips replied: “I’ve metthe men in my department, and Idoubt I can be better than them.”Befriended and nurtured by hercolleagues—especially by the malein her department whom she had inmind when responding to Owen,esteemed Romantic poetry professorand academic administrator EdwinG. Wilson (’43)—Phillips flourishedand proceeded to enjoy a long andvenerable career as a poetry teacher,mentor, and role model to youngwomen.It has been eighteen years sinceshe last stood before a class, buther stardom still radiates brightlyin the fermament of the institution’smemory. In May, at a luncheon inthe Rhoda Channing Room in thelibrary that was attended by dozensof friends and former students, theWomen’s and Gender StudiesProgram honored her by presentingthe first of an annual award thatwill be given in her name to thestudent author of the best essay ona topic relevant to gender issues.This year has been particularlyeventful for Phillips, who remainsas sharp as ever in her late eighties.In the late night of April 17, shesuffered an attack of congestiveheart failure at her home on RoyallDrive. Only the swift action of herhousemate, retired lecturer inRomance Languages Eva Rodtwitt,and her neighbors, biology professorWilliam Conner and his wife,Mindy, saved her life. The factthat she could attend an awardceremony only a month later isa testament to her indomitablefortitude. “The luncheon gave mea wonderful boost,” she says.“I hadn’t realized what a celebratoryevent it was to be. I was invigorated.”Born and raised in the smalltown of Spruce Pine nestled by theBlue Ridge Parkway between Booneand Asheville, Phillips was influenceddeeply while growing up byher mother and maternal grandmother.“Both were extremelystrong and independent women,”she says. “My grandmother wantedme to be a lawyer because I arguedwith people so much. I recall onetime when her brother visited us.He was an agnostic, and he and myreligious grandmother would argueabout the existence of God. On thisoccasion, grandmother made meargue both sides of the issue withhim—yes, there is a God; no, thereis no God—while we sat on theporch, just to sharpen my deductivereasoning and argumentationskills.”After high school, Phillips enrolledat the Women’s College of theUniversity of North Carolina (nowUNC-G) in Greensboro becausewomen then weren’t allowed toattend the main campus in ChapelHill until their junior year. She hadoriginally planned to transfer toChapel Hill, but when the timecame she chose to remain atWomen’s College because of thestrong female mentors on campusand the opportunities for leadershipit afforded.Phillips was born with a congenitalcataract in her left eye and lostsight in it when she was very youngafter several unsuccessful operations.Reading has been a lifelongchallenge for her as a result—whichshe thinks might account for whyshe has always favored poetry overprose. But she never lost sight ofher love of reading or her desire toteach.Her first job out of college wasback in Spruce Pine teaching highschool. “I had wanted to be a newspaperwoman,and three days after Ihad started my job at the school inSpruce Pine, The Greensboro Recordcalled and offered me a job,” sheC O N S T A N T & T R U Ewww.wfu.edu/alumni DECEMBER 2007 79

C O N S T A N T & T R U Erecalls. “As much as I wanted totake it, I didn’t think I could leavemy job so soon after committingto it.”Phillips left Spruce Pine after ayear and embarked on her odyssey—back to Women’s College for athree-year stint in its public relationsoffice; then, to the famedWriter’s Workshop at the Universityof Iowa, where she earned a master’sdegree; then, for a brief turn atLees-McRae College back in theBlue Ridge; then, to Butler Universityin Indiana, where she was hiredbecause so many returning servicemenflush with G.I. Bill cash hadenrolled—and with the implicitunderstanding that she would bereplaced by a man once suitablecandidates had time to earn theiradvanced degrees; then, to graduateschool at the University of Minnesota(which she forsook after a yearbecause of the bitter cold); then, toa teaching post at a small women’scollege in Milwaukee; and finally, tothe University of Pennsylvania,where she earned her Ph.D inEnglish before being hired in 1957,along with more than a score ofother new faculty appointees,including a promising young historiannamed Thomas E. Mullen, whowould go on to a distinguishedcareer at the College as a teacher,scholar, and Dean of the College.Although Phillips’ primary teachingspecialty was American poetry,she taught twentieth-century fictionearly in her career, and team-taught,with other faculty legends, coursesin the interdisciplinary HonorsProgram that were revered for theirrigor and originality by generationsof Wake Forest’s brightest students.But it was outside the classroom,with her influence as a mentor androle model for women students at atime when women in this countrywere redefining their roles andidentities, that she made an equallyimportant contribution. Emblematicof her exalted institutional status isthe Medallion of Merit, WakeForest’s highest honor, which wasbestowed on her in 1992.From almost the beginning, whenevera faculty position would open,Phillips would prod the departmentchair in question to hire awoman. But it was not until 1974,seventeen years after her ownarrival, that the College would hirethe next woman who would attaintenure and longevity—DollyMcPherson, also of English. Duringher only term as department chairfrom 1971 to 1975, Phillipsappointed a couple of women tofaculty positions, but none of themlasted.Phillips was forced to retire in1989 at the then-mandatory age ofseventy and was not allowed tocontinue teaching even part-time.She chose to look at the situation asan opportunity to “catch up on allthe reading I couldn’t do while Iwas grading all those student papersover the years.” Today, she livesquietly at the tasteful modernistdwelling she had built in 1969 atthe corner of Royall Drive andTimberlake Lane that resemblesarchitectural styles she acquired ataste for while she was in Korea onacademic leave in the early sixties.Besides exercising and “watchingmy diet” (her prescribed heart therapies),she enjoys the company ofher oldest and dearest friends, Edand Emily Wilson and Tom andRuth Mullen, and of Anne Boyle,Mary DeShazer, Gillian Overing,Sally Barbour, and other womenfaculty members who are gratefulthat scholars of their gender arenomads no more because of trailsblazed by pioneers like Lib Phillipsso long ago.80 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

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