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Provost Emeritus andProfessor of English EdwinG. Wilson (’43) receivesthe Medallion of Meritfrom President Thomas K.Hearn, Jr. at Founders’Day Convocation onFebruary 19.F OUNDERS’D AY2 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Honoring a legendEd Wilson (’43) receives Medallion ofMerit at Founders’ Day.PROVOST EMERITUS EdwinG. Wilson (’43), regarded bymany as “Mr. Wake Forest”forpersonifying the values and spiritof Wake Forest for more than fiftyyears, received the University’shighest honor, the Medallion ofMerit, during Founders’ DayConvocation on February 19.“Since 1939 when he arrivedat our original campus as a freshman…WakeForest has been centralamong the purposes of hislife,”said Provost and Acting PresidentWilliam C. Gordon (’68, MA’70), who read the citation andnoted Wilson’s “legendary aversion”tosuch honors. (The full textof the citation is on the UniversityWeb site at http://www.wfu.edu/wowf/2004/021904.html.)President Thomas K. Hearn Jr.,who underwent brain surgery inDecember, attended convocationand was greeted with a standingovation from the large crowd inWait Chapel. He presented theaward to Wilson, who also receiveda standing ovation. Wilson joinedthe English department faculty in1951, following service in the Navyand graduate school at Harvard.He served as assistant dean anddean of the College before beingnamed the University’s firstprovost in 1967. After retiring asprovost in 1990, he was namedvice president. He continued toteach his popular course on theRomantic poets until 1999.Author and journalist AnnaQuindlen, who gave the Convocationaddress, spoke on the media’srole in fostering dialogue andcivil discourse, the University’sacademic theme for 2003–04. Aformer reporter and columnistfor The New York Times who won aPulitzer Prize for commentary in1992, Quindlen has written fourbest-selling books. She also writesthe “Last Word”column in Newsweekmagazine.Senior James Woodlee (above, left) presentsAssociate Professor of Business James Cotterwith the Omicron Delta Kappa Award forContribution to Student Life. At right, Schoolof Law Dean Robert Walsh (left) presentsProfessor Michael Green with the JosephBranch Award for Excellence in Teaching.Faculty award winners at Founders’ Day (left to right): Babcock Associate Professorof Marketing Michelle Roehm, a co-winner of the Cowan Faculty ResearchPrize with Michael Lord, associate professor of management (not pictured); AssociateProfessor of Mathematics HughHowards, the Reid-Doyle Prize forExcellence in Teaching; Babcock’s JohnB. McKinnon Professor of ManagementRam Baliga, the Kienzle TeachingAward; and Assistant Professor ofBiology Clifford Zeyl, the Award forExcellence in Research.A R O U N D T H E Q U A DPulitzer Prize-winning author AnnaQuindlen speaks about the role ofmedia in society.www.wfu.edu/wowf MARCH 2004 3

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DHearn continuesto recoverPRESIDENT THOMAS K.HEARN JR. continues torecuperate at home followingbrain surgery in December.In addition to keeping up withcampus activities through hiscommunications with ActingPresident and Provost WilliamC. Gordon (’68, MA ’70), hehas attended several basketballgames. Dr. Hearn and his familyextend to the Wake Forest communitytheir appreciation forthe many encouraging messagesthat they have received duringhis illness.“Recuperation will requiremy full energies and attentionfor some significant time,”Hearnwrote in a letter to the WakeForest community before hissurgery. “I have all confidencein Bill Gordon’s ability to directthe important work of the Universityduring this period. I knowthat you will give him your fullsupport.”Gordon, a former presidentof the University of New Mexico,returned to his alma mater in2002 as provost, the University’schief academic officer. In additionto serving as acting president,he is also overseeing two searchcommittees that will recommendnew deans of the College andthe Babcock Graduate School ofManagement.Rhodes Scholarwith a causeSENIOR JENNIFER HARRIShas been named a RhodesScholar, the eighth Wake Foreststudent to receive the prestigiousscholarship since 1986. Harris, anative of Lawton, Oklahoma, isa political science and economicsmajor. She plans to pursue amaster’s degree in internationalrelations at Oxford Universitynext fall.Harris has traveled extensivelyin Europe and elsewhere—supportedby Wake Forest grants—to research refugee issues. “I’mtrying to convince peoplethat international securityand human rights, specificallyrefugee rights, arenot mutually exclusive,”she said.In Eastern Europe, shehas researched asylumprograms for refugees thatalso protect governmentinterests. In Croatia and Sarajevo,she has examined how to returnrefugees to their homeland in theformer Yugoslavia. In Latvia, shehelped officials develop politicalasylum laws.Harris was one of thirty-twoAmerican students selected forthe Rhodes Scholarship. LastJennifer Harris will study at Oxford.year, she was one of seventy-sixstudents in the country to receivea Truman Scholarship, and shewas also named second team onUSA Today’s All-USA CollegeAcademic Team.4 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DDegrees of difficultyTemperature changes could meandoom for cloud forest plants.MANY SPECIES OF PLANTSin the Amazon cloud forestmay not survive the dramaticclimate changes forecast to occurwithin the next one hundredyears, according to a new studypublished in the February 6 issueof Science by Wake Forest ecologistMiles Silman.Silman, along with collaboratorsMark Bush and DuniaUrrego of the Florida Institute ofTechnology, documented climatechange and changes in forestcomposition occurring during thepast 48,000 years in one of theworld’s biodiversity hot spots. Itis the first continuous record ofAndean climate change.Miles Silman: Climate changes have long-term effects.They took sedimentsamples from a remotelake on the eastern slopeof the Peruvian Andes andanalyzed the fossilizedpollen in each layer todetermine what plantsgrew in the area andin what abundance frombefore the peak of thelast ice age through moderntimes.The data show that thelower mountain forests ofthe Andes have a history ofprofound but not rapid climatechange, suggesting that temperaturechange in these systems wasgradual, perhaps averaging lessthan 1 degree Celsius (approximately2 degrees Fahrenheit) per1,000 years, said Silman, assistantprofessor of biology. “An anticipatedwarming of 1 to 4 degreesCelsius within the next 100 yearsraises concerns for the long-termsurvival of these systems,”hesaid.“For species with narrow elevationranges, the predicted rateof climate change may movethem completely outside of theirclimatic niche space within onlyone or two plant generations,”Silman and his co-authors wrotein the study. “Climate change,coupled with habitat destruction,could cause Andean plant communitiesto experience greatlyincreased extinction rates.”From the data collected,Silman and his fellow researchersdetermined the cloud forest existedat or near the site consistentlyfor the past 48,000 years. Theforests were more stable forlonger periods of time than weexpected, he said.Because plant communitiesform the basis for all other biodiversityin these systems, stabilityis important. “When we loseplant species and substantiallyalter the plant communities inother systems, we get cascadingchanges in the animal communities,and, importantly, changesin plant communities that can,in turn, cause further changes inclimate,”Silman explained.6 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Positive connectionsWhen it comes to juggling work andfamily, extraverts may have the edge.Extraverts may have the edgewhen it comes to balancingwork and family, according to anew study by two Wake Forestprofessors that looks at the roleof personality in the work-familyexperience. The researchersexamined how an individual’spersonality traits contribute toconflict, as well as to positive influencebetween work and family.Extraverts—individuals whoare outgoing, sociable, and talkative—experiencethe most positiveconnections between theirwork and family roles, said JulieHolliday Wayne, adjunct assistantprofessor of business. For example,more extraverted individualsreported that having a good dayon the job makes them bettercompanions when they get home.Extraverts also said that thethings they do on the job makethem more interesting people athome, she said.Wayne, who studies workplaceissues, teamed up withWilliam Fleeson, an associateprofessor of psychology whostudies personality, to conductthe study, which appeared in theFebruary issue of the Journal ofVocational Behavior. The study useda large, diverse national sample.Extraversion was just one of thefive key personality factors theresearchers considered.“We know thatsituational factors,such as hours workedand parental status,influence how muchinterference peopleexperience betweentheir work and familyThose with the neurotic personalitytrait—think Woody Allenor Jerry Seinfeld’s characters—experienced the greatest amountof work-family conflict, Fleesonsaid. “If something goes wrong,they tend to exaggerate the negative,”hesays. “These arethe people who regularlyexperience high levelsof anxiety.”The study’s findingssuggest the need fororganizations to helpemployees achievelives,”Wayne said.“But, in this study,after we eliminatedHolliday Waynework-family balance,and that to do so, theyshould consider thethese factors, we found that anindividual’s personality contributedto the degree of conflictand facilitation they experienced.”Conscientiousness, another ofthe key personality factors, wasrelated to less conflict betweenwork and family, presumablyreflecting efficient time use andorganizational skills, she said.“Conscientious individuals—those who are efficient, organized,and thorough—may be betterable to successfully completework tasks in less time so thatthey are less preoccupied withwork while at home and viceindividual’s personality traits aswell as factors of the work situation.For example, Fleeson suggestedthat Employee AssistancePrograms and other programscould be developed to help neuroticindividuals understand theirtendency to view experiencesnegatively and to coach them onhow to view work-family conflictas less threatening.In addition to shedding lighton the importance of personalityfactors, this is one of a few publishedstudies that shows thatwork and family roles can benefiteach other, Wayne said.versa,”she added.A R O U N D T H E Q U A Dwww.wfu.edu/wowf MARCH 2004 7

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DHistory on recordfor the futurePROFESSOR OF HISTORY EDHENDRICKS recently completeda two-year effort to producean electronic version of theHistory of Wake Forest College bookseries. All four books—whichcover the University’s historyfrom its founding in 1834 throughthe end of the Tribble administrationin 1967—are now on one CD,available for purchase at theCollege Bookstoreand also at the WakeForest College BirthplaceSociety on theold campus.Hendricks saidhe made the CD toensure that futurestudents, alumni,and historians have Hendricksaccess to WakeForest’s history, especially sincethe books themselves are nolonger readily available. “Somany students today come herewithout any knowledge of theUniversity’s history,”saidHendricks, who has taught acourse on the history of WakeForest since the 1970s.The first three books in theseries were written by GeorgeWashington Paschal (1892), aprofessor of Latin and Greek atWake Forest from 1890 to 1940.The most recent one, written byBynum Shaw, professor of journalismfrom 1965 to 1993, coversthe World War II era, the moveto Winston-Salem, and the presidencyof Harold W. Tribble.Provost Emeritus and Professorof English Edwin G. Wilson (’43)is writing the next volume, whichwill cover the administration ofJames Ralph Scales from 1967to 1983.“It’s been a dream of mine tohave a nice one-volume, readablehistory of Wake Forest,”Hendrickssaid. “But it would have to be acondensed history; you couldnot have the amountof detail (as in the fourvolumes). It would betragic to have thatsupersede the encyclopedicversion. When Istarted this in the fall of2001, I realized howimportant and extensivethese volumeswere, and they neededto be available in some format.”Funding to convert the booksinto an electronic format wasprovided by the University’sArchie Fund and Timothy Croak(’76) and Seth (’57) and MaryBrown. After the books werescanned by a Florida companyusing an optical character recognitionprocess, Hendricks enlistedthe help of his wife, Sue (MBA’79), and students to proofreadthe text. Jing Wei, instructionaltechnology specialist for thehistory department, convertedthe text to portable documentformat (PDF), created bookmarks,and helped duplicate the CD.F ACULTYF OCUSADOCUMENTARY DIRECTEDby film lecturer Brett Ingram(right) was named best documentaryat the Slamdance FilmFestival in Park City, Utah, earlierthis year.The ninety-minute film,“Monster Road,”explores thework of Seattle undergroundanimator Bruce Bickford, bestknown for his collaborationswith Frank Zappa in 1970s filmslike “Baby Snakes”and “The DubRoom Special.” The SlamdanceFilm Festival coincides with themore famous Sundance FilmFestival.Ingram, who teaches in thecommunication department, wasnamed one of the “25 New Facesof Indie Film 2003”by Filmmakermagazine for his work in independentfilms. Students in his“Dialogue and Documentary”class last fall produced six documentarieson issues rangingfrom homelessness to the localHispanic community. He is alsodirecting a documentary basedon the University’s 2003-2004theme year, “Fostering Dialogue:Civil Discourse in an AcademicCommunity.”8 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Professor of English BarryMaine (below) has been nameddirector of interdisciplinary honors,succeeding Professor ofHistory James Barefield, who isretiring this spring. The honorsprogram offers seminars, usuallyteam-taught by faculty fromdifferent disciplines, to highlyqualified undergraduates. Mainejoined the faculty in 1981 and waschair of the English departmentfrom 1987 to 1996.A R O U N D T H E Q U A DAnthony Atala, an internationallyrecognized leader in tissueengineering, has joined the facultyof the Wake Forest School ofMedicine. Atala, formerly directorof Tissue Engineering and CellularTherapeutics at Children’sHospital and Harvard MedicalSchool, will lead the medicalschool’s urology department andthe new Regenerative Medicineand Tissue Engineering Institute.He brings a team of physiciansand scientists along withlicenses of several technologieshe has developed. The workfocuses on growing new humantissues and organs to repair thosethat are either defective at birthor destroyed by disease. His startupcompany will relocate to thePiedmont Triad Research Park ina move that could lead to morethan one hundred new jobs inthree years.Medical Center researchersThomas A. Arcury and Sara A.Quandt have received thenational Praxis Award, recognizingexcellence in professionalanthropology, for their work onreducing the impact of greentobacco sickness among migrantand seasonal farm workers inNorth Carolina. Their research ispart of a ten-year program toimprove the health of migrantand seasonal farm workers.Arcury, professor and researchdirector of family and communitymedicine, and Quandt, professorof public health sciences–epidemiology,are both anthropologists.Both are also adjunct professorsin the Department of Anthropologyon the Reynolda Campus.The Praxis Award is given everyother year by the WashingtonAssociation of ProfessionalAnthropologists.www.wfu.edu/wowf MARCH 2004 9

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DBack-to-backchampions!THE WAKE FOREST FIELDHOCKEY TEAM has done itagain, winning a second nationalchampionship and becomingonly the third school to everwin back-to-back field hockeychampionships.The top-ranked Deaconsdefeated second-ranked Duke,3-1, in November in Amherst,Massachusetts, to claim the title.Wake Forest finished the year22-1 and won the ACC Tournamentfor the second straight year,on the way to a fourth consecutiveFinal Four appearance.Coach of the Year Jennifer Averill (right) with Player of the Year Kelly Doton.Head Coach Jennifer Averill(156-84-3 in twelve seasons) wasagain named ACC and NationalCoach of the Year. Senior KellyDoton was named NationalPlayer of the Year. Six playerswere named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team, four receivedAll-American Honors, three werenamed First Team All-Americans,and three were named to JuniorNational Field Hockey Teams.Once parking,soon a parkWITH THE EXPANSION andrenovation of CallowayHall complete, a new park isbeing constructed in the adjacentReynolda Hall parking lot. Thepark, with trees and other landscaping,brick sidewalks, andtables and benches, will expandfrom the renamed CallowayCenter to Kitchin ResidenceHall. Some parking will remainnear Kitchin Hall.The Calloway Center ofBusiness, Mathematics andComputer Science consists ofKirby Hall, completed last fall,and West Hall, the originalpart of the building. Kirby Hallhouses the Calloway School ofBusiness and Accountancy. WestHall, which was renovated lastsemester, houses the math andcomputer science departments.Kirby Hall will be dedicatedApril 1.Fostering yetmore dialogueEVENTS HIGHLIGHTING THEUniversity’s theme year,“Fostering Dialogue: Civil Discoursein an Academic Community,”arecontinuing this semester.Two Irish symposiums willbe held March 15 –19 to coincidewith the annual Wake ForestUniversity Press Irish Festival.The symposiums, “OpposingViews and Common Ground:Examining the Road to Peacein Ireland,”and “Dialoguethrough Poetry”will featureseveral Irish historical and literaryscholars to discuss thepeace process in Ireland.The theme year will end latein the semester with a celebrationon the Quad that will draw onLondon’s tradition of allowingspeakers to express their views ina public forum. The “Hyde ParkSpeakers’ Corner Day”will giveparticipants a chance to climb upon a soapbox and express theirviews about a number of topics.The theme year is sponsoredby a grant from the Lilly Endowment.You can find a full scheduleof theme-year events athttp://themeyear.wfu.edu.10 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Scholarships honorKitty GreenTWO NEW SCHOLARSHIPScommemorate the life ofCatherine E. (Kitty) Green (’74,MBA ’82), who died in November2002. She created one with herhusband, Hobart Jones (’74,MBA ’80), before her death, andBB&T has funded the other.Additional gifts from friendsand former colleagues haveaugmented both funds.The Kitty Green and HobartJones College Scholarship wascreated to assist undergraduatestudents whose annual familyincome is less than the full costof one year’s attendance at WakeForest. Currently, one hundredfifty-six Wake Forest studentsmeet the scholarship’s criteria,about 4 percent of the overallundergraduate enrollment.The scholarship was awardedfor the first time last fall tofreshman John I. Sanders ofBlackstock, South Carolina.The second scholarship,the Kitty Green PresidentialScholarship, will be awarded forthe first time next fall on thebasis of merit, exceptional talent,and leadership as part of thePresidential Scholarship forDistinguished Achievementprogram. The fund was startedby three of Green’s friends inPowell to speak at CommencementSECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL is scheduled toU.S. speak at Commencement on May 17. He is the latestprominent figure to address graduates in recent years:2003 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg2002 Senator and presidential candidate John McCain2001 Former First Lady Barbara Bush2000 Cisco CEO John Chambers1999 Cardinal Francis Arinze1998 White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles1997 IBM CEO Lou Gerstner1996 Senator Sam Nunn1995 CNN News Anchor Judy Woodruff1994 Former Congressman Jack Kemp1993 Notre Dame President Emeritus Theodore Hesburgh1992 Novelist Tom Clancy1991 Virginia Governor Doug Wilder1990 Millard Fuller, founder, Habitat for HumanityGreen (’74, MBA ’82)Winston-Salem: Nigel D. Alston,director of employee/communityrelations at GMAC; J.D. Wilson(’69), CEO of Excalibur Enterprises;and Nancy N.Young (’67),director of corporate affairs atSara Lee. BB&T contributed$50,000 to the scholarship, andanother $20,000 has been givenor pledged by friends and colleaguesof Green.After a long career in business,Green changed careers and wasa fourth and fifth grade teacherin rural Virginia at the time ofher death. She received the JudsonDeRamus Award for service tothe Babcock Graduate School ofManagement in fall 2002.For more information or to make adonation, contact Cameron Meador (’01,MAEd ’02), director of gift stewardship,at (336) 758-4834 or (800) 752-8567,meadorcm@wfu.edu.A R O U N D T H E Q U A Dwww.wfu.edu/wowf MARCH 2004 11

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Can theliberal arts andentrepreneurshipmake successfulpartners?ForWake Forestand theKauffmanFoundation,the conceptis a promisinginvestment.Stories by David FytenPhotos by Ken BennettMARCH 2004 13

Jennifer Woodsmalltwo nations,By nature entrepreneurs are big thinkers,and in brainstorming a program to integrateentrepreneurship into its liberal artscurriculum, Wake Forest is as big as they come. The programis the largest and boldest academic initiative on theReynolda Campus since the Wake Forest UndergraduatePlan of the mid-nineties. It holds promise of closing thephilosophical and programmatic gap between businessand the arts and sciences that is commonplace on liberalarts campuses like Wake Forest while opening newavenues of thinking about the very nature of entrepreneurshipitself.The catalyst for this ambitious undertaking is a $2.16million matching grant from the Ewing Marion KauffmanFoundation of Kansas City. After awarding the Universitya $50,000 planning grant last summer to prepare itsapplication, the foundation announced in Decemberthat it had chosen Wake Forest as one of eight“Kauffman Campuses” nationwide that it will supportin developing programs to promote entrepreneurshipin the liberal arts. (For details of Wake Forest’s program,see page 23.)By the end of the grant period, University officialssay they will be prepared to support any student, fromany discipline, and from freshman year through graduateschool, who wants to learn about and pursue entrepreneurshipin any field of endeavor.“We are excited about seeing the possibilities thatentrepreneurship can create on a liberal arts campus likeWake Forest,” said Carl Schramm, president and CEOof the Kauffman Foundation. “Wake Forest has alreadyproven itself as a community dedicated to supporting14 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

one visionThroughout college, senior Jennifer Woodsmall hasbeen called often to foreign soil, studying forsemesters in Italy and Thailand and summers in Franceand England. But it was during an interlude on one ofthe trips that she discovered a calling and a journeyof a different sort: supporting women entrepreneursin Third World countries with the profits from her ownbusiness.In the spring semester of hersophomore year, while she was inThailand, Woodsmall spent a week inHanoi, Viet Nam, where she made it apoint to meet the people. Women inViet Nam, as in many disadvantagedcountries, run most of the businesses,and she was struck by the skilland dedication to quality of themany craftswomen who makewomen’s handbags in theirown small shops.Woodsmall took some oftheir bags as gifts back toKansas City, her hometown,when she returned, and “thepeople I showed them to lovedthem,” she says. Then the seed of anentrepreneurial notion her Hanoi visithad planted bloomed into flower. “Mydad is an entrepreneur, and I pitchedthe idea of going into business withthese women to my parents,” shesays. “They loved the idea. Mom suggestedgoing into business together,which I thought was great, since she’smy closest friend.”Woodsmall had a larger purposein mind: helping the women entrepreneursshe had met, and others likethem worldwide. “There’s an organizationcalled the InternationalFederation of Women Entrepreneurs,which allocates money to women inThird World countries to help themsustain their ventures,” she notes. “Iwanted to give something back. Momand I felt that we could help.”In August, Woodsmall returned toHanoi with her mother, Linda, andproposed to her craftswomen friendsa design-manufacturing partnershiparrangement. They responded enthusiastically.Back home, “Mom and Istarted creating handbag designs anddoing marketing research around theKansas City area,” she says. “I divedinto learning everything I could aboutimporting requirements, brokers,all the details that gointo a business like this.”The result was J.L. Lane(for Jennifer, Linda, and afamily name), a growingcompany that sells itsfashionable line of handembroideredsilk handbags at storesin the Kansas City area and hasestablished a list of promising contactsin the Southeast. The sloganon its slick marketing brochure reads,“2 nations, 2 generations, 2 women,1 vision.”Having already coped with unforeseenglitches, both of a standardbusiness startup variety (such as theshipment of handbags that wound upin Detroit, with no apparent way ofgetting them to Kansas City) and distinctiveto their situation (the challengesof cross-cultural communication),the Woodsmalls now are facingnew obstacles. “Mom and I are limitedin our design ability,” Woodsmallsays. “We’re looking at hiring adesigner, along with marketing peoplein Dallas and on the West Coast.“Our sales are increasing,” shereports. “We had high upfront costs,and we’re just starting to make aprofit.” When that happens, a percentagewill be given to the womenentrepreneurs’ federation. “We see alot of potential in it,’” she says.“We’re very hopeful for the future.”High on Woodsmall’s list of theattributes of successful entrepreneursis passion. “Entrepreneurshipis a whole new way of thinking, oftaking an idea, no matter how crazyor off the wall, and pursuing it,” shesays. “My passion always has beento improve the lives of others.”Woodsmall is majoring in psychologyand religion because, she says,they help one learn about differentcultures and ways of thinking. Butbusiness is becoming a greater priority.She has taken a couple of businesscourses, and she spent much oflast summer at the London School ofEconomics studying entrepreneurship.“After graduation, I’d like to getmore business experience and eventuallywork with women in ThirdWorld countries,”shesays. “It’sa dream ofmine tobegin anoutreachorganization,butwe’ll seewhat fateholds.”MARCH 2004 15

For those with the soul of the trueentrepreneur, it’s not about money,a company, or even a concept. It’sabout the passion to improve systemsand build a better whatever.It’s a way of life.Consider sophomore Michael Burch.He set up a lemonade stand in hisCincinnati neighborhood when he was sixand sustained it for several summerssimply for the joy of dispensing goodservice and product. Throughout hisyouth, he took apart and reassembledradios and appliances to see how theyworked and might be improved.It’s that inherent curiosity andimpulse to make even good things betterthat fueled Burch’s startup of a successfulInternet service provider (ISP) companywhen he was a high school junior.And it will doubtlessly motivate hiscareer in medicine, Web site building, orwhatever else he might do in the future.Burch, a pre-med student with aneconomics major, is founder of A1 AccessU.S.A., an Internet dialup access company.(Yes, he chose the name for its potentialmarketing edge. “A lot of directoriesare listed alphabetically,” he notes.) Theconcept is simple: he rents phone linesfrom telecommunications giants, thensells Internet dialup access on them toindividual customers. “It’s for peoplewho don’t want the extra garbage [onegets with commercial ISPs],” he says.“My customers just want to get onlineand not have me in the way.”Burch got his start as an independentsalesperson for a leading ISP as a highschool freshman. Over the course of acouple of years he learned the businessand made good money, so when the ISPdecided to terminate its independentsales strategy, he struck out on his own.A1 grew rapidly, amassing some twohundred-twentycustomers at its peak.Its client base today has shrunk due todial-up’s loss of market share to broadbandservices, but Burch still devotesabout ten hours a week to the business,pocketing “more than from a regular job,but not enough to get rich.” Still, he’searned enough from his various endeavorsto pay for his Wake Forest education.Having gained Web design experiencewith Wake Forest’s Knowledge to Workprogram, Burch now is consideringestablishing a new company that wouldspecialize in designing Web sites forpoliticians. “Surprisingly, there would belittle competition in the area,” he notes.“I’m working now with a U.S. House candidateon a volunteer basis to build atrack record.” He remains drawn to medicine,and if he becomes a doctor, “I’llguarantee you my practice will have aWeb site.”Burch lists passion, organization, andflexibility as qualities essential for anysuccessful entrepreneur. “You have tohave fire for what you’re doing or youwon’t stick with it and do what’s required,which inevitably is more than you think itwill be,” he says. “You must have a planand proceed in a systematic way. And somany problems come up that you’d neveranticipated. Someone stole my [Internet]domain, and I had to reroute all of my e-mail addresses for a time. It was a majorhassle, but you do whatever is necessary.”Michael Burchstudents with new venture ideas. We are pleased to beable to support its efforts.”“We believe Wake Forest possesses a unique ability todevelop a model for making entrepreneurship part of thecampus culture at a liberal arts university,” said WilliamC. Gordon (’68, MA ’70), provost and acting president.“This grant will help us provide a strong foundation inentrepreneurship teaching, research, and outreach.”16 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

making good things betterIn a world where the best opportunities are increasinglyentrepreneurial, the implications are profound.“Our economy will prosper only to the extent that weare successful in attracting and developing entrepreneurialenterprises to replace traditional employers that areon the wane,” said Page West, Benson-Pruitt AssociateProfessor of Business who coordinates the CallowaySchool’s entrepreneurship programs and served asprincipal investigator of the grant proposal. “What entrepreneursdo is develop a distinctive world view whichcannot be easily imitated by others. They conceive anidea and then refine it through an idiosyncratic processof seeking information that others don’t see. They foreseeproblems and find ways around them. They are creativeand act in uncertain environments.” What better wayto cultivate these qualities, he and other architects ofthe proposal ask, than through the liberal arts?To be sure, entrepreneurship is not a revolutionaryconcept on campus. Examples abound of successfulstudent ventures. Based on his research, biologygraduate student Nicholai Hristov is developinginnovative 3-D imaging software that offers creativepossibilities for visual artists as well as biologists.Two years ago, a multi-disciplinary team of undergraduatesreceived honorable mention in a businessplan competition for its work on a medical wasterecycling technology venture. Senior Rosita Najmico-founded Project Bokonon, a non-profit corporationthat provides medical services and supplies to Beninin West Africa.MARCH 2004 17

But like many liberal arts institutions, the Universityhistorically has had no formal programs to serve nonbusinessundergraduates who are interested in entrepreneurship.Outside the Calloway School of Business andAccountancy, no undergraduate faculty members teachor conduct research in the field, and no establishedmechanisms or venues are in place to help studentsidentify entrepreneurial opportunities and pursuethem. Small wonder, then, that liberal arts studentsContinued on page 22When Matt Hinson she wants to fix it.simple as that. Never miand attention to detail“broken” a cut above conecessity is the motheris the father of opportualways ahead of the curveMatt Hinson18 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

ees something that’s broken,And if he can, he’ll fix it —nd that his high standardselevate his definition ofnventional benchmarks. Ifof invention, then improvementnity, to his way of thinking.“It’s analytical,” the Wake Forestsenior says of his entrepreneurialimpulse. “You ask, ‘How can this bechanged for the better?’ So you take itapart. Maybe you don’t get it backtogether, but that’s okay—it’s theprocess that counts. The real fun islooking at someone else’s idea andtaking it apart for them.”One summer night in 2001, Hinsonwas waiting tables at a banquet atthe Adams Mark Hotel in downtownWinston-Salem. “I noticed the poorquality of the temporary labor thatwas staffing the banquet,” he recalls.“Later, I asked the manager if he wouldbe interested in a regular source ofgood, dependable temporary help fromWake Forest. He was ecstatic.”Thus was born Wake Works, nowcalled Wake Works Staffing, Inc., awell-structured and profitableprovider of temporary banquet labor,drawn mostly from the Wake Foreststudent body, to hotels, conferencecenters, and caterers. From an initialpool of fewer than a score of studentsin fall 2001, Hinson now can draw,with a touch of his hand-held digitaldevice, from a pool of one hundredforty-fourwell-trained and reliableevent staffers on short notice. Customdatabase technology manages allfacets of the company’s day-to-dayoperations, from online billing toemployee performance evaluationsoftware based on mathematicalanalysis. Wake Works works so wellthat Hinson is negotiating franchisesat Vanderbilt, Princeton, and other universities.From childhood, Hinson has alwaysbeen ahead of the curve. As a boy inWashington, D.C., he parlayed hispaperback book collection into aunique lending library. “I cut numbersout of construction paper, pasted themonto my books, and loaned them toother kids in the neighborhood,” hesays. “I wouldn’t charge for borrowingthe books, but I would assess a latefee if they weren’t returned on time. Iwas making pretty good money untilsome of the parents decided this wasnot a very good idea.”A technological whiz, Hinson inhigh school established and ran acomputer-consulting firm that within ayear was out of the red and employingthree part-time workers. “My fathertaught me that nothing is impossible,”he says.Hinson based the Wake Works concepton his hunch that students wouldgo for the higher pay and flexibility hecould offer them. He was right: by payingmore than the minimum wage andallowing the students to choose whenand how much they work, he’s had littletrouble sustaining a large and stablelabor pool.Each employee must undergo drugand background screening and completea three-hour training course onbasic serving etiquette. An additionaltwo-hour course in wine and advancedserving is required to participate inWake Works Elite, which suppliesclients with servers with greater culinaryexperience and training. Usinghis PDA, Hinson can receive staffingrequests from clients and communicatework opportunities to his studentlabor force anywhere and any time.With a click of a key on their laptops,students can accept or decline eachopportunity, enabling Hinson to fill alabor call in relatively short order.Wake Works derives its incomefrom client fees and a 9 percentassessment of the gross income ineach employee’s paycheck. “The businessmodel is sound,” says Hinson,who tapped into faculty and studenttalent in devising it. “There is very littlecapital investment, and all of ourcosts are covered up front. But theway it was conceptualized and the wayit evolved were very different. If wehadn’t been open to change and advice,it would have failed. You can’t becometoo attached to your baby or you’ll godown with the ship.”Other attributes of a successfulentrepreneur, besides openness andflexibility? “You have to have drive,consistent and constant,” he says.“And you can’t be afraid of failure. Youare walking a tightrope without a netand you have got to like that—evenget a little high off of it.”Hinson, who loves history andmajors in it because “the past predictsthe future,” calls Wake Works “mytoy.” But although he’s incorporated itwith financing from three investors andfinds the thought of letting it go“almost unbearable,” he recognizesthat with graduation approaching thebest strategy will be to spin it off tosome other enterprising student.That, of course, won’t be the closeof his entrepreneurial career. But justhow that will look is a bit up in the airright now. “My father is fond of sayingthat the wisest man is the one whoknows what he doesn’t know,” saysHinson, an honors student with an economicsminor. “I’m intelligent enoughto know my weaknesses.”MARCH 2004 19

No idea is too exotic for the hardcoreentrepreneur. Take ZachKlein’s, for example. As a high schoolstudent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the WakeForest senior parlayed his observationof the limited selection of pets in localstores into one of the East Coast’slargest online exotic animal businesses.But the snakes-and-spiders trade isjust one of Klein’s eclectic phantasm ofWeb-based business concepts. From collegedating to rock-and-roll criticism, hekeeps his creative olfactory to the windfor the scent of some notion that couldsatiate his hunger for innovation. “It’sthe way,” he says, “that I walk, talk, andbreathe.”It’s been his way, as it has for somany entrepreneurs, since boyhood.“Ever since I was little, my parents jokedabout me carrying around a briefcasewith fingerpaints in it,” says Klein, astudio art major interested in photography.“My father was an entrepreneur, andhe depended on me to do his computerwork. I learned a lot from him.”After noticing that “cats and parakeetswere about all our pet stores hadfor sale,” Klein started thinking aboutthe market potential of a Web-basedexotic pet business. He scoured onlinedirectories for retailers with whom hemight partner and found one in Atlantawho got his animals from a Floridabreeder-importer of reptiles, arachnids,and other unconventional pets. It wasn’tlong before he and the storeowner startedReptileShack.com.“It was just an idea I had,” says Klein,who was seventeen when the venturewas launched. “I have no pets of my own,and I don’t know a whole lot about theexotic pet trade. It was just a good exampleof the new Internet economy: a middleman bringing everybody together.”It certainly was. In its first year,sales grew at a rate of between 20and 30 percent a month. Soon, theywere placing ads in magazines aimedat exotic animal fanciers and rentingtrucks to display animals at shows.Over time, they branched out intoselling exotic pet foods like cricketsand worms, along with cages, aquariumtanks, and plants, and otheraccessories. At their height, monthlysales approached four hundred animals.“It’s been ideal,” Klein says of thebusiness, which he has continued tooperate through college but is nowfor sale. “Each week the distributorcalls us to let us know what he has,and I put it up on our Web site. Mypartner handles the calls and I managethe marketing and the site.”Without offering specifics on its profitability,Klein says he’s been able tokeep up with of his college loans,adding: “There’s no way I could havecome to Wake Forest without it.”At Wake Forest, Klein’s social circlehas centered around an audaciouslycreative coterie of student Web entrepreneursled by Ricky Van Veen (’03),who created what remains one of thecountry’s most popular college sites. “Tobe successful as an entrepreneur, youhave to surround yourself with goodpeople,” Klein says. “I wanted to be partof a think tank.” Feeding off the synergyof friends like fellow senior Nick Gray,Klein has ventured into new domains.ZachKleinAmong them is an online social directoryfor college students featuring photosand personal information. Among itsmore than 20,000 registered users is itscreator. “A girl who lived a floor belowme in my dorm found me online,” hesays, smiling.Klein’s greatest passion, though, isrock music. He’s done extensive freelancewriting and photography for the musicindustry, spending this past summerin Denmark and Germany covering rock20 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

a hunger forinnovationconcerts. To help other aspiring youngjournalists get established, he haslaunched Crazewire.com, which publishesrock music reviews and articles by fledglingtalents, many of whom obtain concertpasses from Klein through his contactsin the music industry. “It’s fast-paced,”notes Klein, who was advised in itsformative stage by journalism professorWayne King. “Rock fans are obsessiveand want updates quickly and first-hand.”Crazewire’s popularity is growing fast:it recently opened a European bureauin Germany.For all his many endeavors to date,one gets the sense from Klein that “weain’t seen nothin’ yet.” After graduation,he’ll be taking his sites to San Diegoas a partner in Van Veen’s company,Connected Ventures, which is building aburgeoning conglomerate of Web sitestargeted at college males. From there,who knows? Klein certainly doesn’t: he’skeeping the future open.“[Entrepreneurs are] people whoare genuinely excited about an idea andthink it will make people’s lives better,”says one who never calls himself anentrepreneur. “It can flourish in anynumber of fields. You see everything aschemistry: you want to play with it andsee where it will go. Money, or at leastthe urge to get rich quick, can’t be yourmotivation. Whenever someone asks meif there’s money in their idea, I knowthey’re not an entrepreneur.”MARCH 2004 21

THE EIGHT “KAUFFMAN CAMPUSES”RECEIVING MULTIMILLION DOLLAR GRANTSWake Forest UniversityFlorida International UniversityHoward UniversityUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity of RochesterUniversity of Texas-El PasoWashington University in St. LouisSUCCESS FACTORSHere’s what Wake Forest students and facultyhave to say about the qualities they citeas essential to entrepreneurial success,and the personal barriers thatmust be overcometo achieve it:FEAR OF REJECTION OR FAILURE“[As an entrepreneur] you’re walking on atightrope without a net. You’ve got to likethat—even get a little high off it.”—Matt Hinson (’04)PASSION“In essence, entrepreneurship is acting withpassion for a purpose. This is what WakeForest is all about as an institution, andwhat is central to this whole initiative.”—Page West, Benson-PruittAssociate Professor of Business“It’s a hunger to innovate. You can’t have aget-rich-quick mentality. As soon as somebodyasks me how they can make money[with an Internet venture], I know they’renot an entrepreneur.”—Zach Klein (’04)and undergraduate faculty on the Reynolda Campus, aselsewhere, often fail to connect their disciplinary interestswith entrepreneurship.At least part of this disconnection stems from thestereotypical association of entrepreneurship with business.“The general focus of liberal arts disciplines onknowledge and understanding is often at odds with theperceived focus of business-related curriculum on practicalitiesof wealth and profits as a critical outcome,” saysthe University’s grant proposal. “Liberal arts facultiesexpress concern about diluting their primary focus oneducation and for maintaining the independence of universitiesfrom commercial interests. Moreover, the idealsof liberal learning include developing an appreciationof moral values [and of] using knowledge in the serviceof humanity. Therefore, the distinctions between entrepreneurshipand the liberal arts can only have becomemore pronounced in light of corporate scandals thathave dominated headlines.”But far from being at odds with each other, entrepreneurshipand the liberal arts may in fact be mutually reinforcingconcepts, the proposal suggests. “We believe thatentrepreneurship is consistent with the habits of mindthat are part of the liberal arts philosophy,” it states.“[These are habits] that ask ‘why’, that evaluate evidence,that are open to new ideas, that attempt to understandand appreciate the perspectives of others, that acceptcomplexity and grapple with it, that admit error, and thatpursue truth.”The proposal states that Wake Forest subscribes tothe Kauffman Foundation definition of entrepreneurshipas “a process through which individuals and groups pursueopportunity, leverage resources, and initiate changeto create value.” This definition is important, it notes,because it covers a wide range of possibilities beyondbusiness. “Staging a new theater production or museumevent, developing public policy that encourages neweconomic development, finding novel ways to get citizensmore involved with the democratic process, developingnew educational programs targeting at-risk students”—all of these create value for others.Wake Forest seems distinctively well-positioned forthis initiative. Award-winning entrepreneurship programsat the Calloway School and the Babcock Graduate Schoolof Management are outstanding resources. Babcock’sAngell Center for Entrepreneurship is ranked in the toptier of national programs by Entrepreneur Magazine andhas received international recognition for its case competitions.U.S. News & World Report ranks Calloway’s entrepreneurshipprogram sixteenth in the nation.Through the School of Medicine’s technology transferprogram and the University’s involvement in efforts toestablish a regional research park in downtown Winston-Salem, Wake Forest continues to acquire know-how in newventure dynamics. And cross-departmental collaboration,team-teaching, and interdisciplinary study pervade its liberalarts curriculum—an outside-the-box culture that willhelp instill entrepreneurship’s best habits in students. “The22 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

liberal arts atmosphere is perfect for this kind of initiativebecause it encourages you to look outwardfrom your field,” says William E. Conner, a biologyprofessor and avid backer of the Kauffman program.“I once taught a course on bioacoustics with GeorgeHolzwarth in physics and Teresa Radomski in music.Wake Forest encourages you to do things like that.If I’d tried to teach that course at a straight researchuniversity, they would have laughed at me.”David Finn, an associate professor of art whoserves with Conner on the Kauffman grant advisorycommittee, says he is most enthusiastic about theprogram’s emphasis on creativity and interdisciplinarycollaboration. “The ability to think criticallyand to think and act creatively really is at the core of whatwe’re talking about,” he says. “A lot of interesting opportunitiescan be found in the boundaries between disciplines.One of our graduates, Jennifer Nicole Gentry (’97), has asuccessful practice in the visual communication of complexmedical, scientific, and technical subject matter. Shemajored in art and biology, and based on the connectionsshe made between the fields, went on to study medicalillustration as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins.”Conner says what he likes most about the Kauffmanprogram is its broad mission statement and definition ofentrepreneurship, with its focus upon the adding of valueRosita Najmi (’04), co-founder of Project Bokonon, and Page West discuss enterprises.to society. “A lot of our students have wonderful ideas, butthey don’t know how to bring them into tangible form,”he says. “One of my freshman advisees is a young womannamed Kristen Jackson. At our first meeting of the year,she told me she had a dream to start a summer camp forchildren with incurable illnesses, but didn’t know where tobegin. Now, she can start with an introductory seminar onentrepreneurship, proceed with a program of coursework,practical experience, and plan development, and be readyto go by the time she graduates.“We should be in the business of making dreams likethis happen,” Conner adds. “That’s the real promise of thisprogram—making dreams happen.”IN THE DETAILS…Highlights of the University’s five-year plan for the Kauffman grant program include:Adding dozens of courses in entrepreneurshipand creativity throughout thecurriculum, including three foundationalcourses during the first two years andup to three in-depth, within-disciplinecourses during the last two years, andseminars in creativity and imagination,entrepreneurial business skills, scienceandtechnology-based entrepreneurship,and project developmentAdding four new faculty positions in theliberal arts to provide enhanced teachingresources for entrepreneurship curriculuminitiativesEstablishing a University Center forEntrepreneurship that will function asan incubator providing extracurricularassistance to campus entrepreneurs whoare in the early stage of idea developmentand feasibility assessmentCreating a Wake Forest EntrepreneurshipElectronic Network to facilitate interactionamong students, faculty, and alumniinterested in entrepreneurshipArranging collaborations with and internshipsin medical school commercializationefforts and other local sites that engagein and practice entrepreneurshipEstablishing an extensive program offaculty development in creativity andentrepreneurial thinking, includingseminars developed by faculty fellowsin entrepreneurship instructionRecruiting entrepreneurial “champions”from the liberal arts faculty through education,exposure, and incentivesProviding interdisciplinary, cross-campus,and experiential learning opportunitiesrelated to entrepreneurship, includinginternshipsEstablishing a “Fifth-Year EntrepreneurshipInstitute” that will support, withstipends and housing, up to four recentgraduates pursuing new venturesLaunching a multi-year communicationprogram to create greater awareness andunderstanding of entrepreneurship withinthe liberal arts communityMARCH 2004 23

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gh - wiredBy Tom NugentAs Maryland’s upstart governor,Robert Ehrlich (JD ’82) is the marquee attraction in a political balancing act—and he relishes performing without a net.THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CALLShim “a live wire…an incurable optimist whobrought common sense to the [Maryland] governor’smansion—which is just what this state needed!” Buthis detractors insist that he’s a right-wing ideologue whohas cynically isolated himself from both the news mediaand the legislative branch of his own state government.Fourteen months after Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (JD ’82)stunned the experts with an upset victory that made himthe first Republican governor of Maryland in more thanthirty-six years, the battle lines have been drawn for a politicalshowdown that promises to draw increasing nationalattention to Annapolis during the 2004 election year.Like George Pataki in New York, Mitt Romney inMassachusetts, and Arnold Schwarzenegger in California,the forty-six-year-old Ehrlich finds himself in the extraordinaryposition of trying to run a state government thathas, in recent years, been thoroughly dominated by moderateor liberal-minded Democrats.The feisty and jut-jawed Ehrlich may be the mostinteresting governor in the fifty states. With a better thantwo-to-one Democratic majority working against him, theformer four-term congressman must also contend with thefact that six of the state’s eight U.S. House members, bothits U.S. senators, and the mayor of its largest city (Baltimore)all belong to the Democratic Party…in a state where theword “Republican” has been synonymous with the words“electoral defeat” throughout most of the twentieth century.Hounded daily by the state’s two major newspapers(The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun), and endlesslyharried by urban liberals and academicians who regardhim as nothing less than a fire-breathing, political Beelzebub,Ehrlich is also hemmed in by a growing budgetdeficit and mushrooming social problems (urban crime,traffic gridlock, decaying public schools) that would leavemost governors tearing their hair out.Strangely enough, however, Ehrlich actually seems tobe enjoying his jittery high-wire act.Sit down with him over a cup of coffee at GovernmentHouse in Annapolis, and you’ll find yourself chucklingout loud at the sheer fun this man appears to be havingwhile somehow fending off one political attack after thenext. “Let’s face it, this is a right-of-center administrationdealing with a left-of-center General Assembly [legislature].Getting things done in this state is never going tobe easy for me. But the good news is that I’m tough, andmy staff is tough, and we are going to find a way to getour programs through. Of course, we’ve got some peoplein this state who aren’t happy about our successes,because they want us to fail. But I can assure you thatthis administration will not fail—even if I do get my buttkicked once in a while on some particular issue.”A former standout college linebacker at Princeton wholater paid his way through law school at Wake Forest byworking as an assistant football coach for the Demon Deacons,Bob Ehrlich amazed the political pundits back in early2002 when he announced his long-shot candidacy for governor.First elected to Congress from the Baltimore suburbsduring the 1994 “Republican Revolution” orchestratedby former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Ehrlich hadenjoyed four highly visible terms in office as a moderateconservativeactivist and occasional spokesman for thenew right-of-center congressional majority on Capitol Hill.In spite of Ehrlich’s success in Washington, most Marylandpolitical observers in 2002 couldn’t help wonderingif the congressman harbored a secret career death wish.He would be required, as a gubernatorial candidate, totake on then-Lieutenant Governor Kathleen KennedyMARCH 2004 25

Townsend (a daughter of Robert Kennedy and the niece ofJFK), in a state which has voted overwhelminglyDemocratic since the last days of Teddy Roosevelt.But Ehrlich never flinched. Day after day, he hammeredat his central campaign theme: Maryland had spent thepreceding eight years (under Democratic Governor ParrisN. Glendening, a former university professor) attending anon-stop “cocktail party of excessive spending,” and thestate badly needed to cut back on its $22 billion annualbudget. While blasting Glendening and Kennedy Townsend,the hard-charging Ehrlich vowed that he would notincrease taxes in order to reduce the deficit, but wouldchop away at superfluous programs and work for costsavingsthrough better efficiency in government.Ehrlich attends a memorial service for journalists who gave their lives covering thewar on terrorism.In an era when George W. Bush was slashing taxesand attacking “waste in government,” Ehrlich’s messagebegan to catch on with many of Maryland’s traditionallyDemocratic voters. When the smoke cleared, the 5.4 millionresidents were shocked to discover that the fiscallyconservative but moderate-on-social-issues Republicanhad become the next governor, nailing down an electoralmajority of more than 52 percent.How did Ehrlich pull it off? “I think there were twokey factors at work,” says Dennis Muniak, a political scienceprofessor at Towson University who has written often aboutMaryland politics. “First of all, Ehrlich is a charming politician,a really appealing figure who’s quite good at the publicrelations involved in campaigning. And I think his victoryin Maryland shows how American voters are increasinglyvoting on the basis of personality, rather than on the substantiveissues.“Marylanders voted ‘from the gut’ in this election—they voted viscerally, and Ehrlich capitalized on that. Butit’s also true that this state has changed enormously in thepast few decades. Fifty years ago, 80 percent of Maryland’svoters lived in Baltimore City and they usually votedDemocratic. But those days are long gone; today Baltimoreaccounts for less than a quarter of the state’s total vote.”University of Maryland Political Science Professor TomSchaller adds, “I think Ehrlich is a politically transformativefigure, and his victory in Maryland is part of a changethat’s been occurring all over the U.S. during the past tenor fifteen years. Still, his life as governor is not going to beeasy. If you look at his situation, you realize that Ehrlichis the Republican Party in Maryland right now—he’sgoing to have to build the entire party from scratch,while also serving as governor. He’s going to have to dealday in and day out with a divided government, and Ithink the calculus for his success is pretty tough. If hepulls it off, it will be quite a surprise, given the currentpolitical reality in Maryland.”In spite of these dire predictions, Ehrlich shows no signsof intimidation. “There’s no question that we’re facing someformidable partisan challenges,” he readily admits, whiledescribing the battles he will soon be facing. “And it’s truethat we’ve got some major media challenges to contendwith, as well. But that’s the way it is. We don’t complainabout it; we deal with it. The bottom line is that we’re competitors—andwe have to compete every day here. We facemany challenges, but I do think competitors also tend toview challenges as opportunities.“I’ve always liked that Churchill quote about how politicsis ‘tougher than war,’ because in war you get killedonce, but in politics you get killed many times, day inand day out. But quite frankly, the challenges come withthe job, and if you’re not up for the challenges, youshouldn’t have run for the job!”The son of a lifelong auto salesman from the blue-collarBaltimore suburb of Arbutus, Bob Ehrlich has been meetingchallenges since his days as a youthful all-star footballplayer on the sandlots of his gritty hometown. After growingup in an $11,000 house (his mother Nancy worked asa legal secretary), the one-day governor capitalized on hisathletic skills to win a scholarship to the city’s most prestigiousboys’ private school, Gilman Prep. Later, as a ferociouslinebacker and co-captain of the Princeton Universityfootball team, he sold sandwiches door-to-door at night tosupplement his athletic scholarship.26 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

After landing in Winston-Salem for his first year oflaw school in 1979, Ehrlich quickly signed on for a mostun-lawyer-like job—as an assistant coach for the DemonDeacons football squad. “That was a fabulous experience,”he says. “I loved coaching, and we had a great yearin ’79—we beat Auburn and Georgia and went to theTangerine Bowl. I found that helping coach football wasextremely good preparation for politics, where you getknocked down repeatedly and have to keep picking yourselfup again.”While developing a lifelong friendship with formerfootball coach Al Groh (now head coach at the Universityof Virginia), Ehrlich also fell in love with the intricaciesof the law. “Attending law school at Wake Forest wasabout the smartest move I ever made,” he says. “I learneda great deal about the courtroom and trial work, and thatknowledge has proved invaluable over the years…whichis why I always advise young people to go to law school,if they can. Even if you don’t practice, that kind of educationmakes you far more competitive in the marketplace.”Along with learning about the law, Ehrlich was alsopolishing his “people-skills,” according to longtime lawschool professor Charlie Rose. “Even back then, you couldsee that Bob Ehrlich was good with people,” recalls Rose.“He was very friendly, very outgoing and personable.Looking back, it’s easy to understand how he wound upas a successful politician.”After earning his J.D., Ehrlich rose rapidly through theranks of a blue-chip Baltimore law firm and then launchedhis political career with an eight-year stint as a Marylandstate legislator. By 1994, he was nicely positioned to joinCongress as a maverick reformer whose message aboutthe “tax-and-spend Dems” resonated loudly in Baltimore’smiddle-class suburbs.As to Ehrlich’s prospects in troubled Maryland, hissupporters warn not to bet against him. But will theRepublican outsider be able to assemble an effectivegoverning coalition in 2004? For many of his critics, theanswer is a resounding “no.” They point to a long listof vexing difficulties now facing Maryland, including:• A yearly budget shortfall of $700 million, soon to be$1 billion. Ehrlich’s solution: Legalize slot machines toboost revenues and cut back on services—including, ifnecessary, the state’s ambitious $1.3 billion public schoolimprovement program. One strategy he will not rely on:new taxes. “I will not raise income or sales taxes,” hesays. “Marylanders are already paying 4.3 percent of theirincomes in local and state taxes [the third-highest percentagein the nation], and enough is enough.”• Ugly wrangling between Democratic state officialsand the Republican governor in Annapolis. Increasinglyirked at Ehrlich’s strategy of using “interim appointments”to name agency heads without legislative review (alongwith sub rosa budget cuts applied via obscure administrativeprocedures rather than new legislation), BaltimoreMayor Martin O’Malley recently sued the governor in aneffort to block his interim appointment of a new BaltimoreCity Department of Social Services chief. (The court showdownwill be especially interesting to watch, say observers,because O’Malley is expected to challenge Ehrlich in thegubernatorial election of 2006.)• A series of missteps and gaffes that have bedeviledEhrlich and the First Family at times, during their firstyear in office. Last October, for example, First LadyKendel Sibiski Ehrlich—a lawyer and former publicdefender in Maryland—made national headlines byannouncing that she would like to “shoot” rock starBritney Spears for setting a “bad example” for youth.Although she later apologized, the Ehrlichs are stillgrappling with the fallout. (Observerssay they repaired some of the damagelast October, however, after announcingthe expected arrival of their secondchild this month.)Ask Bob Ehrlich what it’s like to bethe Republican nail that gets whackedby the Democratic hammer seven daysa week, and the former linebacker laughsgleefully. “Listen, I wouldn’t be in thisjob if I couldn’t take it. I know how toroll with the punches, and I know howto draw the line between my professionallife and my private life at the dinner table.“Fortunately, I’ve also been able tohang onto my sense of humor. And Ithink that’s very important. We’re facingsome huge challenges in Maryland right The Ehrlichs in front of theMaryland capitol.now, and the battles up ahead are goingto test us all. I’m just glad that I’ve gota strong, supportive family, and that Ihaven’t lost the ability to laugh at myself.”Tom Nugent is a freelance writer who covers political figuresand issues. He lives in Michigan.MARCH 2004 27

P R O F I L EJusticeforallBy David FytenMargaret Taylor’s voice, advocating the rights of detainees,is consistently heard in the debate over immigration policy.EVEN AS A SMALL CHILD,Margaret Taylor could feelthe invisible wall betweencountries. She remembers comingup hard against it crossing over fromher hometown of El Paso, Texas,into Juarez, Mexico, then nervouslydeclaring to an imposing borderguard on the return trip that she wasindeed a citizen of the United States.As a college student, she learnedthat the wall not only is excluding,but also confining. Her father, ajustice-minded minister, taught herabout the plight of political refugeeswhose requests for sanctuary in theUnited States were met with anofficial policy of large-scale detention.Later, she witnessed their harshtreatment firsthand at an immigrationdetention camp in south Texas.Her formative years eventuallyled Taylor, a professor at WakeForest School of Law, to a distinguishedcareer as an immigrationscholar and teacher. From her outpostin North Carolina, which hasone of the country’s fastest-growingHispanic populations, she hasbecome a leading expert in her field,one whose voice is consistentlyheard in the debate over immigrationpolicy and whose work haslaid a theoretical foundation foradvocates representing detainees.Prolific and indefatigable, Taylorprovides expert analysis to nationalmedia, testifies before Congress ondetention issues, submits commentson proposed regulations, and helpsorganize amicus briefs in cases challengingmandatory and indefinitedetention. She has served on theadvisory board of a project in NewYork City that tested a model ofsupervised release as an alternativeto detention, and she co-founded ane-mail listserv for teachers of immigrationlaw that has become a vitalnetworking conduit for their communityand the venue for much ofthe extensive mentoring she does.Colleagues and students alikepraise not only her teaching acumen,but also her ability to inculcate inher students the will, in her words,“to do good.” In the past two years,she has received the top teachingawards bestowed by both the WakeForest School of Law and the Associationof Immigration Lawyers ofAmerica (AILA)—the Joseph BranchExcellence in Teaching Award in 200228 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

and the Elmer Fried Excellence inTeaching Award in 2003, respectively.All of this has made Taylor, atforty, a respected figure in academicand professional circles, and hervoice an influential one in the impassionedand often-contentious debateover the tightened entry restrictionsand immigrant detention policies thegovernment has implemented inrecent years, especially since 2001,in the name of national security.“Over the past decade, the groundsfor deportation have expanded andthe relief from it has contracted,” saysTaylor, who is in her thirteenth yearat Wake Forest and sixth as a fullprofessor following her appointmentto the highest rank at the relativelyyoung age of thirty-four. “Underimmigration law, non-citizens subjectMARCH 2004 29

approach to teaching is to move eachstudent’s understanding of the materialto a much higher analytical levelthan the student could achieve alone,”says Motomura. “But she works justas hard to make them understandthat all the analysis in the world won’tmatter unless they understand howthings work in the real world. She isadept at constructing exercises thatforce students to think not purelytheoretically, but how theory andpractice are interwoven.”“Margaret knows how to get herstudents interested in ideas thatmatter,” Wright observes. “Over theyears, many students have becomepassionate about immigration lawafter taking her course, and somehave chosen that area of practiceafter leaving law school. Margaretshows her students, inand out of class, the waysthat legal institutionsmatter for real people.She has a refreshing way,in a world too full ofcynicism about law, ofconvincing her studentsthat idealism is an assetto a professional, ratherthan something to hideor ignore.”One of Taylor’s formerstudents is Julie Suh(JD ’01), who serves asa staff attorney for theU.S. Department of Justice’s Boardof Immigration Appeals in suburbanWashington D.C. “It seems to methat Professor Taylor has such genuinepassion for the field becauseimmigration law and policy touchthe lives of the most marginalizedand powerless individuals in oursociety,” Suh says. “When I was astudent in her class, it was that passionthat ignited my interest in thefield. She is plugged into both theimmigration advocacy and academiccommunities not only because she isa dedicated and respected scholar,but also because she is very personableand easy to approach.”The AILA is the national associationof over 8,000 attorneys and lawprofessors who practice and teachimmigration law. Its immediate pastpresident is John L. “Jack” Pinnix(JD ’73), a Raleigh attorney specializingin immigration and nationalityissues who is a founding board memberand national director of the AmericanImmigration Law Foundation,a non-profit educational and servicefoundation which promotes publicunderstanding of immigration lawand policy through education, policyanalysis, and support to litigators.Taylor, with student: ‘Margaret knows how to get her students interestedin ideas that matter.’In accepting the Elmer FriedExcellence in Teaching Award at theassociation’s annual conference inNew Orleans last June, Taylor mused,with tongue only partly in cheek,that immigration law ought to be arequired course in law school.“Although I don’t think my colleagueswho teach other courses will beconvinced, I developed a pretty impressivelist of arguments to support thisradical idea,” she told the crowd.“Some of them center on the knowledgeand skills acquired in the course.Immigration law teaches studentshow to read a complicated statute.It makes administrative law conceptscome to life, and shows studentshow an agency operates. Immigrationlaw also underscores for students theimportance of constitutional rights—not because they see these rightsbeing vindicated, but rather becausestudents in this class see a very scarypicture of what the world looks likewhen constitutional norms are notfully enforced by the courts.”Taylor then listed her two mostimportant reasons. “First, immigrationlaw restores a human face to thestudy of law,” she said. “Students aremoved by the plight of real peoplethey read about in theirimmigration law casebookand, increasingly,in the newspapers—realpeople whose lives arethreatened; real peopleimpacted by an undulyharsh statute; real peoplewho are victims of anabuse of governmentpower, of bureaucraticbungling, of inexcusabledelays. And finally, immigrationlaw shows mystudents the power of alaw degree for doing good.That’s not something we necessarilyteach in law school. And that’s whatimpresses me each year at the AILAconference: the enormous amount ofdedication and hard work that immigrationattorneys do every day tohelp real people and to do good.”P R O F I L EMARCH 2004 33

E S S A YT HE MEANDERING WATERS OF THE L UMBEECONNECT GENERATIONS OF WAKE F OREST FAMILIES.By John Madison Memory (’65, JD ’68)34 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

E S S A YHE MEMORY-JOHNSON-TMCMILLAN FAMILY was inthe first group of recognized distinguishedWake Forest families duringthe 1980s. Today, there are nearly noJohnsons in the family, and theyoungest Memorys are the sixthcousins of the youngest McMillans.You may ask, “Is this really a family?”If it is, I think the most importantreason is shared love for a river.PHOTOS COURTESY OF JOHN MEMORYIn 1807, Daniel and CatharineCampbell White came to Americafrom Scotland, Daniel as a Baptistmissionary. In 1813, they usedCatharine’s dowry to buy two squaremiles on the west side of DrowningCreek in what is now ScotlandCounty in south-central NorthCarolina. (Though now officially theLumber River, Riverton folks andLumbee Indians call it the Lumbee.)While the river meanders througha wide, swampy flood plain, theWhites’ tract had five high-groundriver landings. All of the Wake ForestMemorys, Johnson descendants, andMcMillans are descended from theWhites. The area, known as Rivertonfor more than one hundred years,is the site of about ten year-roundor resort homes of each of the threefamily groups. At least twenty-fiveMemorys and Memory descendants,twenty-five Johnson descendants,and thirty-five McMillans andMcMillan descendants attend theannual Fourth of July picnic atthe most beautiful river landing,Cypress Bend. Having spent lots oftime together all their lives in ornear the river, these cousins knoweach other better than most Americansknow their first cousins.So, what is the connection withWake Forest? Since Daniel Whitewas known as the “Father of NorthCarolina Baptists,” it should be nosurprise that many of his descendantsgravitated to Wake Forest College.Over more than one-hundred fiftyyears, many fine Riverton folkshave attended or were otherwiseconnected with Wake Forest. Thefolks I mention are in rough sequentialorder in relation to the schooland are spread pretty evenly overone-hundred fifty-five years. Thereare other wonderful Wake ForesterRiverton folks. Those I tell about are,as far as I know, the ones who haveespecially loved the Lumbee.Archibald Alexander McMillanattended Wake Forest College beforethe Civil War but transferred to UNCwith several other students as aprotest against some faculty action.After the war he married a Whitedaughter and fathered a large groupof impressive children. I can’t imaginethat this well-educated farmerdid not relish bathing in the cleanand refreshing Lumbee River duringfour or five months of the year.Walter Matthews, who marrieda White granddaughter and livedin Riverton, was, I think, the firstRivertonian to graduate from WakeForest College, possibly in the 1870s.John Charles McNeill, unofficial poetlaureate of North Carolina, describedthe Lumbee River as a “sweetheartstream” and displayed his truly greatlove for it in several of his poems,such as “Sunburnt Boys.”Gerald Johnson (’11), who wasborn in Riverton, wrote with affectionof Riverton and the Lumbeeduring his long and distinguishedcareer as a historian and journalist.Brothers John Arch (1902), Roy, andHudson (’08) McMillan had continuingconnections with Rivertonand the Lumbee. Hud went possumand raccoon hunting in the riverswamp during vacations from Baptistmissionary work. Roy, a RivertonMARCH 2004 35

E S S A YA Memory family reunion at Riverton in the early ’80s. Jasper Livingston Memory (’21) is at left in second row. The photo includes nine WakeForest graduates, two law school alumni, and one medical school graduate.patriarch, could go to the river atnight and engage ten to twenty owlsin simultaneous conversations.After Wake Forest College,Wingate Johnson (1905)completed medical studiesand was instrumental in theestablishment of BowmanGray medical school. Heoften said that “the LumbeeRiver cures all ills.” When hewas in his eighties and vacationingin Riverton, I oftenpaddled him several bends up river,and he would float backto Cypress Bend on his back.Thomas Mervelle Watson (’17),a Tulane medical school graduate,enjoyed Riverton vacations, stayingwith his family in their rustic logcabin cottage. His brother McNeill(’21) once caught thirty-five fishduring one afternoon at CypressBend and served them at a fishfry that evening.Johnson Matthews (’22), as aboy and young man, set Rivertonupstream paddling and underwaterswimming records that still stand.Lois Johnson, long-time dean ofwomen, and her sister, Kate Parham,who endowed the ParhamScholarship fund, participated inall-female Johnson-family skinnydips.Both swam a graceful breaststroke into their nineties.My much-loved uncle, JasperLivingston Memory (’21), fordecades the education departmentchair, had a summer cottage andfarm in Riverton. He often bathedat his landing, Fairley’s Ford, afterworking on his farm, helping arelative with a tough project, orplaying tennis.36 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

After teaching some, Daniel WhiteSmith, Sr. (’31) returned to Rivertonin about 1946 and farmed, living inthe oldest remaining Riverton building,the John and Mary Livingstonhome (c.1830). I remember so happilyDan’s smile and generosity insharing Cypress Bend, which heowned. He and his wife Wrae startedthe tradition of Fourth of July familyreunion picnics in 1961.Polly Blackwell, Gerald and Lois’niece, did not attend Wake Forest,but she was a member of the Boardof Trustees. The incredible canoeingskills of nearly all Rivertonians weredemonstrated in the mid-1980swhen she and her husband, Winfield,both in their seventies, each selecteda canoe which was hard to handle onthe treacherous Lumbee, loaded in ayoung grandchild, and completed athree-hour down-river float withoutdifficulty. (Others were nearby andcould have helped if problems hadarisen.) “Expert” canoeists from elsewherein North Carolina will planfor such a float for weeks and arriveequipped with ropes, knives, first-aidkits, life jackets, expensive shirts andhats, waterproof containers for allplus grandchildren as they swimacross the Lumbee at Cypress Bend.I remember many good conversationson the riverbank with Robert’sbrother Arch (’38).McNeill Watkins, a 6'6" formerNavy frogman, taught the Rivertonboys “scouts out,” a river and swampversion of hide-and-seek. WhenMcNeill had a terminal illness inthe 1990s, he returned to live inhis home in Riverton.Three of the best students inWake Forest history were brothersArchibald (’38), John (’43), andCampbell (’48) McMillan. Arch livedin Riverton for a good while; Johnbuilt a beautiful retirement homethere; and, happily, Campbell andhis family still appear at Fourth ofJuly picnics. Wingate’s son Livingstonwas a physician and built the firstyear-round Riverton home.Some of the Wake Foresters whohave had continuing attachments tothe Lumbee, Riverton, and Rivertonianshave been my twin brotherDavid (’65), Jan Johnson (’74) Smith(Wingate’s granddaughter), AnnJackson (’77) Bullard (also Wingate’sgranddaughter), Robert’s childrenremember. This past June, as Iapproached sixty, I gazed at theflooded river and decided that Ithen had probably my last chanceto canoe to Georgetown. I broke theage and craziness records for longtrips down the river by canoeingabout two-hundred-twenty milesby myself in six days to within sightof Georgetown. I felt that lots ofwonderful Wake Forester-Rivertonianswere with me in spirit.E S S A YJohn Memory (’65, JD ’68) lives inSalisbury, North Carolina.sorts of things, and straps to securetheir glasses. Riverton canoeists don’tneed any of that stuff.Robert McMillan (’43), like hisfather Roy, a Riverton patriarch,holds the record for the number ofcanoeing trips from Cypress Bend toGeorgetown, South Carolina. Now inhis eighties, he is often seen expertlylife-guarding several of his twenty-Duncan (’74), Douglas (’73), Rebecca(’77), and Lewis (’85), and my nephewand niece, Duncan (’95) and Alexa(’97) Memory. The fifth generationof McMillan men to attend WakeForest, Duncan’s son Evan, is a studentthere now.I’ll confess that I have loved theLumbee, so beautiful in every partof every season, as long as I canMARCH 2004 37

S P O R T SWITH THE ADVENT OF SPRINGand baseball season on campus,many of us Wake Forestgrads in the upper tier of seniorcitizenstatus remember the greatteams of the late ’40s, particularly the1949 Deacons and its pipe-cleanerthinfirst baseman who was, alternately,its mascot, cheerleader, andbatting leader.Wiley Warren (’52), who died inOctober 2003 after eight years indeclining health, inspired by just hispresence because he spent his youngyears fighting polio contracted whenhe was two years old. Unable to walkwithout assistance until he was five,some thought he would never walkwithout some form of aid. Still othersfeared he might never walk again.But they didn’t reckon with aspirit and heart to match that would,combined with considerable inherentathletic ability, carry him to a SouthernConference (forerunner of theAtlantic Coast Conference) battingtitle in 1949 as a sophomore, thenlater to team leader and captain ofthe 1951 Deacs. His conferenceleadingaverage was .402, and healso took the Big Four title with aresounding .422 clip.Wiley Warren (‘52) inspired admiration wThe 1949 Deacons went all theway to the NCAA College WorldSeries, losing in the championshipgame to the University of Texas. Ina season in which the team wontwenty consecutive games, they won38 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

S P O R T SBy Leo Derrick (’50)ith his bat, his spirit, and his heart.Wiley Warren and his Diamond Deacon teammates in their senior season:(left to right) Doc Murphrey, Buddy Wrenn, Wiley Warren, and Kent Rogers.the conference title, then sweptKentucky and MississippiState for the district bannerin Charlotte. Warren and theDeacs swept two games fromthe Fighting Irish of Notre Dameto advance to the College WorldSeries in Wichita, Kansas. To getto the final game, the Deacs won a2-1 thriller and eliminated tournamentfavorite Southern California inextra innings.As teammate Gene Hooks (’50)said, “Warren had a sweet bat. Hewas the best example of an overachieverI ever played with.” Hookswas a two-time All-American performerat third base and one of themost sought-after athletes in the statecoming out of high school in RockyMount, North Carolina, in 1944.He was the longtime Director ofAthletics for Wake Forest and nowlives in Lake Wylie, South Carolina.Warren’s hitting prowess is welldocumentedin the at-bat averagesbut little is said of his ability in thefield. Not strong or especially quick,he nevertheless handled 290 consecutivechances at first base without anerror in the banner 1949 season,making him an easy choice for All-State honors.Another teammate and admirer ofWarren’s, Art Hoch (’51) of Raleigh,is a retired teacher at N.C. StateUniversity and former professionalbaseball player and manager. “I neversaw a guy who got more out of whatMARCH 2004 39

S P O R T She had. He also did so much foryouth baseball in Raleigh. He oftengolfed out of town with a group ofus and he always insisted on drivingso he could be sure to be back foryouth baseball practice.”Both Hooks and Hoch creditWarren with starting and maintainingLetterman’s Day, which is an annualand much-anticipated function at theCollege. Hooks said Warren “was theglue that held it all together. He didall the calling and the legwork.”A capstone to his successfulcareer was when his 1951Wake Forest team wasselected by the committeeof the U.S. OlympicGames to represent theUnited States in thefirst Pan Americangames in Buenos Aires,Argentina. Out of 2,000athletes from eighteencountries, Wake Forestfinished second to Cubaand brought home asilver medal.There was no lack ofwork or enthusiasm inhis zeal to keep abreastof things at Wake Forest and intouch with his former teammatesand friends, even after he was diagnosedwith post-polio syndrome in1993. His condition worsened andby 1995 he used a battery-poweredscooter to get around. He developedrespiratory problems in 1998 andwas placed on a ventilator. After sixweeks in the hospital, he was able toreturn home, bedridden and in needof nursing care.And yet those final years werespent calling and staying in touchwith friends and arranging functionssuch as Letterman’s Day. He did sothrough mid-September when the2003 event was held, but he washospitalized and unable to attend.He died on October 3.His devotion to youth activitieswas recognized when he received theRaleigh Hot Stove League’s 1984Amateur Award for his outstandingcontribution to baseball and basketballas coach, administrator, and promoter.His teams won numerous cityand regional championships.Willis “Doc” Murphrey (’52, JD ’57),an intimate and cherished friendfrom their grade school days inRoanoke Rapids, North Carolina,Wiley Warren (above) and his former teammates about forty yearslater (left to right here): Rogers, Warren, Murphrey, and Wrenn.and a teammate at Wake Forest,admitted he “cried so darn muchat Warren’s funeral, I thought I’ddie too.”One of the school’s most colorfuland beloved alumni, Murphrey is aretired attorney living in Roanoke Rapids,and he remembered a game inwhich he played against Warren in asummer league. “I was playing third,and I went over to talk to our pitcherwhen Wiley came to bat with runnerson base. Knowing he was especiallyeffective with runners on, I said, ‘ForGod’s sake don’t throw him anythingoutside.’ But he left a pitch out thereand Wiley blasted it right over my head.The runners scored and that won thegame. He could flat hit and was thecheerleader on the team. If we werebehind, Wiley would say, ‘Are wegoing to let these rinky-dinks beatus?’ He had so much desire. I’d loveto have had him coach my grandson.”Family friend Sonny Lewis (’56),a neighbor and Wake Forest gradafter the Warren years, said he was“an absolute inspiration. If you werefeeling bad, just go visit Wiley and40 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

you’d come away feeling better. Hisattitude was unbelievably positive.Even in his condition in the last fiveyears, he was planning and contactingfriends about Wake Forest events.Revenue, where he was supervisorof auditors and director of the CorporationFranchise Tax and IncomeDivision, in 1988. He is survived byhis wife, Della; three sons: Gregory,PHOTOS COURTESY DELLA WARRENS P O R T SHe loved the school and was lovedin return.”Warren walked away from activeparticipation in 1995, saying, “Afternearly forty years of coaching a lotof fine young men, I retired.” Warrenretired from the N.C. Department ofJeffrey, and Michael; and fourgrandchildren.When the roll is called “UpYonder,” you can believe Wileywill be at the gate to welcome hiscountless friends and admirerswith a smiling “Play ball!”Leo Derrick (’50) is a retired televisionexecutive who lives in Asheboro, NorthCarolina. A walk-on pitcher with the1949 team, he never saw action becausehe broke his ankle the night before theiropening game.MARCH 2004 41

W AKE F OREST A LUMNI A SSOCIATIONPresident’s ColumnIF YOU’RE LIKE ME, YOU LOVE WAKE FOREST FOR MANY REASONS.Chief among them, Wake Forest is a place of great beginnings, where wonderfulthings happen. Sparks seem to fly here, in the classroom and acrossthe campus. In turn, these glimmers become the catalyst for the kind ofpersonal and intellectual development that inspires our students to helpchange the world.A shining example of this is our most recent Rhodes Scholar, seniorJennifer Harris, a double major in politics and economics who plans topursue a master’s degree in international relations while at Oxford University(See related story, page 4.) After arriving in North Carolina from Oklahoma,Jennifer’s studies motivated her to help refugees in Croatia and Bosnia, which in turn ledto an invitation to attend meetings of the United Nations Committee on Human Rights asa representative of the UN High Commission for Refugees.Jennifer is a Graylyn Scholar, which is a need-based scholarship. Without this support,she would not have been able to attend Wake Forest. Her success demonstrates a wonderfullysimple equation: those students who benefit from the generosity of others do notmerely help spread the name of Wake Forest. Even more, they touch the lives of untoldothers in the process.Close to 60 percent of Wake Forest students receive financial aid, and the average awardis over $13,000. The Annual Funds are an important part of providing this aid and help assurethat Wake Forest will continue to be a place of great beginnings—for generations to come.I am pleased to report that over 6,000 Wake Forest alumni, parents, and friends are alreadypart of our effort to reach an historic goal: 10,000 donors for the current fiscal year that endsin June. Every gift, no matter the size, helps us reach that goal. We need even more of you toget on board and help with the final push. Looking back, I am sure that you will be gratifiedto know that you were a part of this remarkable accomplishment.Speaking of accomplishments, at our spring meeting in February,the Alumni Council recognized Wake Forest student-athletes, past andpresent, who bring honor to the University. Only three teams in thehistory of collegiate field hockey have ever won back-to-back championships,and Wake Forest is now included in that elite group. (See relatedstory, page 10). Wake Forest golf legend Curtis Strange (’77) (right) wasalso recognized by the Alumni Council. For his outstanding career—still very much in themaking—and his many contributions to the game of golf, along with his important supportof Wake Forest, it was our pleasure to present him with the Distinguished Alumni Award.The Alumni Council meeting coincided with the second annual meeting of the WakeForest Society, comprised of the hundreds of volunteers who have previously served on aboard or council. Seeing the participants gathered together made clear how fortunate WakeForest is to have such a strong and generous network of alumni, parents, and friends. Pleasestay involved in the life of Wake Forest.Your time and resources are invaluable, whateverform they take. And remember: you are part of what makes Wake Forest great.Alfred Adams (’68, JD ’73)President, Wake Forest Alumni Association42 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

If you have news you would like to share, please send it toCLASSNOTES editor, Wake Forest Magazine, P.O. Box 7205, Winston-Salem,NC 27109-7205. CLASSNOTES can be e-mailed to classnotes@wfu.edu orentered in an online form at www.wfu.edu/alumni/Class-notes-form.html.It is important that you include your class year(s) and degree(s) with eachnote. The person submitting information must provide a telephone numberfor verification and accepts responsibility for the accuracy of the information.The deadline for CLASSNOTES is the 15th day of the month two months priorto the issue date. For example, the deadline for the June issue is April 15.EAGLES (’61, JD ’64) REEVE (’70)1970C L A S S N O T E S1950sSam M. Torrence (’52), a formerpartner of Couch Construction Company,spent more than half his lifebuilding roads in Alabama, Florida,Georgia and Mississippi. He waspresident of the Alabama AsphaltPavement Association, the DothanArea Chamber of Commerce and theNational Asphalt Pavement Association.He was inducted into TheAlabama Road Builders Hall of Fame.Al Birmingham (’55) was inductedinto the Arizona Golf Hall of Fame atthe Camelback Golf Club in ParadiseValley, AZ.Ralph W. Pellecchia (’56) receivedthe 2003 Management Service Awardfor his accomplishments at AXAAdvisors in Red Bank, NJ.Larry Williams (’58) is the retiredpastor of Louisburg Baptist Churchin Louisburg, NC. He leads retreatsfor church leaders, and he and hiswife, Zelma, play with their fourgrandchildren.Tom C. Womble (’58) retired aschief operations officer of the NorthCarolina Baptist State Convention.A.J. Morton Jr. (’59) is on theboard of trustees and finance committeeof the North Carolina JayceesFoundation in Asheboro.1960sSidney S. Eagles (’61, JD ’64)retired as N.C. Court of Appealschief judge and has joined SmithMoore LLP in Raleigh, NC.John Norman (’61) has been namedprofessor emeritus after 34 years atWayne State University in Detroit, MI.He was chair of science education andreceived the outstanding teachingaward from the College of Education.John L. Whitley (’61) received hisMAEd in 1970 from the College ofWilliam and Mary and his EdD in 1981from Virginia Tech. He retired from N.C.state government and is vice presidentof the Triangle Urban League.Jesse J. Croom Jr. (’62) was anA.H. Newman Fellow at the Centerfor Baptist Studies at Mercer Universityin Macon, GA.Robert N. Pulliam (’65), owner andmanaging partner of Pulliam FinancialGroup, is joining Centermark LLC, aCharlotte-based firm, as managingpartner of its Winston-Salem office.Lawson A. Deaton Jr. (’67) completedIBM’s requirements as aneServer certified specialist.Jimmy Clack (’69), winner of threeNFL Super Bowl rings, has beenselected for the North Carolina Hallof Fame.Deborah Hodge Barden receivedher master’s of arts in reading educationfrom UNC-Pembroke and isa licensed K-12 reading specialist.She continues to teach Latin parttimeand is a copy editor at theMontgomery Herald in Troy, NC.John Frederick retired from publicschool administration and is a salesconsultant with Harcourt SchoolPublishers. He and his wife, Deborah(’70), live in Troy, NC.Edgar B. Gregory (JD) is a DistrictCourt Judge for the 23rd JudicialDistrict in Wilkes County, NC. Hewas elected vice president of the N.C.Association of District Court Judges.Jerry Cash Martin (JD ’72) is enjoyingretirement and occasionally servingas an emergency superior courtjudge in North Carolina. He rode hisbicycle solo from Alaska to Mt. Airy,NC, completing 3,700 miles in 38 days.He and his wife, Carolyn, have touredCanada, New Orleans and Texason their motorcyle and have beenblessed with their second grandchild,Olivia Marie, daughter of Mark andCaroline Martin (JD ’98) Bokesch.Bruce Reeve is president of theAmerican Contract Bridge League(ACBL) board of directors for 2004.www.wfu.edu/alumni MARCH 2004 43

C L A S S N O T E SYUTRZENKA (’75) GARDNER (’78, JD ’81) GIBBONS (’78, JD ’81) FEATHERS (’81)1971Mary “Cherry” Duncan Franceis a bankruptcy judge in the MiddleDistrict of Pennsylvania.Deborah Krueger Hipes is a seminarpresenter with the Bureau ofEducation/Research in Carmel, IN.She will be speaking to educators in41 cities on young adult literature.Larry E. Penley (MA ’72) is presidentand chancellor of Colorado StateUniversity. He and his wife,Yolanda,have moved to Fort Collins, CO.Walter W. Pitt Jr. (JD) is in bankruptcylaw with Bell Davis & Pitt inWinston-Salem. He is one of BusinessNorth Carolina’s “Legal Elite.”1972Thom W. Ford is with AppliedResearch Associates Inc. in VirginiaBeach,VA.Robert F. Simms is an adjunct professorat North Greenville Collegein Tigerville, SC, and interim pastorof Daventon Baptist Church inPelzer, SC. He wrote a book, SacredSubversion: How Some Churches DefeatPastors and Destroy Themselves(PublishAmerica, 2004).Michael E. Slinkard retired fromthe U.S. Air Force after 30 years. Heis an F-15 simulator instructor withLockheed Martin at Tyndall Air ForceBase in Panama City, FL.44 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINEBarry D. Smith has a three-yearappointment as director of the Universityof Guam Marine Laboratory. Hecontinues to conduct his research andteach undergraduate classes in naturalhistory of Guam and marine biology.1973Steven E. Stewart, who has servedthe past 28 years in local government,is the Carrboro (NC) town manager.His wife of 21 years, Nita, passedaway in 2002.1974Warren K. Anderson Jr. is with Anderson& Howell PA in Jacksonville, FL.He is the legal chair of the SierraClub of Northeast Florida and aboard member of the PreservationProject of North Florida.Thomas O. Phillips (MA ’78) hasbeen named Director of Wake ForestScholars. He will oversee postgraduatescholarships and fellowships forWake Forest undergraduate students.1975Martha E. Poe is manager of aLifeway Christian Store in El Paso,TX. She has adopted a 7-year-oldgirl named Jazmin.Mark S. Thomas (JD ’78), withMaupin Taylor PA in Raleigh, NC, ischair of the Labor and EmploymentLaw Section of the N.C. Bar Association.He is the lay leader at EdentonStreet United Methodist Church.Nick Ursini (MBA) is campus chairof the undergraduate business programat the University of Phoenix-Cincinnati for its Cincinnati andDayton campuses.Stephen A. Webb and his wife, Paula,have relocated to Asheville, NC.Steve is director of national accountsand reimbursement strategies withChromaVision Medical Systems.They have two sons, Paul andChristopher (’03).Barbara Yutrzenka is professor anddirector of the clinical psychologytraining program and acting dean ofgraduate studies at The University ofSouth Dakota.1976Michael F. Clayton, with MorganLewis & Bockius LLP, was listed bythe Legal Times as one of 15 leadingIP lawyers in Washington, DC. Hewas also listed in the 2003 and 2004International Who’s Who of TrademarkLawyers.Rynn Barrington Olsen retired fromthe U.S. Navy as a captain after 26years of active duty. He is director ofplans and operations at NorthropGrumman Corporation in McLean,VA.Sarah C. Shoaf (PA ’77) won golftournaments in Winston-Salem andPinehurst to advance to the ExecutiveWomen’s Golf Association NationalChampionship in Scottsdale, AZ.1977Robert W. Malburg Jr. (MBA ’82)is vice president of First State Bankin Burlington, NC, and chairman ofthe board of directors of EastPay.

Robert A. Mullinax Sr. (JD) is withMullinax & Williams PLLC in Newton,NC. He is on the board of directorsof Eastern Catawba County ChristianMinistry and is a member of theNewton-Conover Educational Foundation.He recently began serving afour-year term as mayor of Newton.His son, Robert Jr. (’01), is a WakeForest law student.Deborah Epperson Stringer isgeneral manager of two radio stationsin Galax,VA, including WBRF(98.1 FM), the flagship station forWake Forest sports.Susanna K. Gibbons (JD ’81), withPoyner & Spruill LLP in Raleigh, NC,is one of Business North Carolina’s“Legal Elite.”Laura Moore Patterson, a mathteacher at Bryson Middle School inSimpsonville, SC, was named the2003–04 Greenville County Teacherof the Year.1979Cathy Tutan Eller and her husband,Buddy, and two sons, ages 11 and 16,have moved back to Great Falls,VA.Jeanne Preston Whitman (MBA’87), vice president of SouthernMethodist University, has beennamed headmistress of TheHockaday School in Dallas, TX.1980N. Daniel High is a physician assistantin the U.S. Navy. After returningfrom southern Iraq in May, he is nowserving on the USS Harry S. Truman.1981C L A S S N O T E S1978Terri L. Gardner (JD ’81), withPoyner & Spruill LLP in Raleigh, NC,is among Business North Carolina’s“Legal Elite.”Carolina Lehoczky Fernandez publisheda book, Rocket Mom! 7 StrategiesTo Blast You Into Brilliance, and isenjoying a national book tour. Sheand her husband, Ernie, and theirfour children live in Ridgefield, CT.Rick Feathers is associate generalcounsel and director of humanresources for the North CarolinaElectric Membership Corporation.DID YOU KNOW?• Wake Forest does not consider a student’sfinancial status when making the admissiondecision. Wake Forest is one of only twenty-eightneed-blind institutions nationwide that are committedto meeting full need.• Tuition currently supports about 70% of the cost of aWake Forest education. Financial gifts to the Universityhelp make up the difference.• Close to 60% of Wake Forest students receive financialaid, and the average award is over $13,000. The AnnualFunds are an important part of providing this aid.• Donor participation, the percentage of alumni who giveto the University, is an important measure used in theannual U.S. News & World Report rankings.The Annual Funds provide unrestricted support to the University, allowing your gift to be used where the need is greatest,in areas such as student aid, faculty development, and other educational opportunities like the study-abroad program. AllAnnual Fund gifts have an immediate impact! To make your contribution, please call or write:DAVID P. B ARKSDALE (’86) • DIRECTOR OF ANNUAL SUPPORT • BOX 7227 • WINSTON-SALEM, NC 27109-7227 • 336.758.5824Or, make your gift online at www.wfu.edu/alumni/giving/the A NNUAL F UNDSCollege Fund • Calloway Fund • Law Fund • Babcock Fund • Divinity School Fund • Medical Alumni Association Fundwww.wfu.edu/alumni MARCH 2004 45

C L A S S N O T E SRetiring and rewiring By Bruce Buchanan (’93)Authors Rick Miners (’68) and his wife, Jeri Sedlar,have some ideas about life (yes, life) after career.ETIREMENT HAS LONG BEEN SYNONY-RMOUS with lounging by the pool, cooldrink in hand, and not a responsibility insight. But that definition no longer is appealingto millions of Americans who don’t wantthe end of their career to be the end of theiractive, productive lives.Rick Miners and his wife, Jeri Sedlar,have co-authored a book to help people findhappiness and contentment in retirement.Don’t Retire, Rewire! is the couple’s second book and hasbeen featured in Time magazine, the Wall Street Journaland on NBC News.Miners is president of FlexCorp Systems, an employerservices firm that provides payrolling, benefits and humanresource support to companies. FlexCorp employs about500 workers, some of them in their 70s and 80s. Sedlar,the former editor-at-large of Working Woman magazine, ispresident of Sedlar & Miners, an executive search firmthe duo established in 1994.Like many professionals, Miners and Sedlar have agreat deal invested in their careers, but realize they can’twork at the same jobs forever. “We were talking about‘What are we going to do if we retire?’ ” Miners said.The problem, he said, is that most of society’s conventionsabout retirement were created when most jobsrelied on hard, physical labor. By thetime people were in their 60s, theywere worn out and, in most cases, nearthe end of their lives. Today, however,the workplace has changed and 65 isno longer old. Most career-minded professionalsdon’t want to completely stopworking, even if they would like toslow down or change directions.Sedlar said that while many peoplelook forward to getting away from some aspects ofwork—the commutes and the stress, for example—theydon’t realize until they retire that they enjoy or evenneed other parts of the job. “Work is where you get your‘Attaboys’ and ‘Attagirls,’ ” she said. “Know what you aregiving up and if it’s important to you.”“People say, ‘What’s going to keep me busy? What’sgoing to keep me fulfilled?’ ” Miners said. Without thestructure that work provides, retirees can feel bored.In the book, Miners and Sedlar help the reader identifyhis or her “drivers”—those things that motivate us.Sedlar calls them “your personal DNA.”Drivers vary from person to person, and everyonehas multiple drivers. Sample drivers include: making adifference, continuous learning, the desire to be visible,financial independence, and the need to stay up-to-date.Michael Jeske is director of businessgovernance for the intimates,hosiery and direct marketing divisionsof Sara Lee Branded Apparelin Winston-Salem.Jimmy Strickland is vice presidentof franchise operations for KrispyKreme Doughnuts Inc. in Winston-Salem. He has been chosen to participatein Krispy Kreme’s first corporateleadership initiative.1982D. Anderson Carmen (JD) is in constructionlaw with Bell Davis & Pitt inWinston-Salem. He is one of BusinessNorth Carolina’s “Legal Elite.”Elna C. Green (MA ’84) publisheda book, This Business of Relief:Confronting Poverty in a Southern City,1740–1940 (University of GeorgiaPress, 2003).James J.S. Johnson is a lawyer, parttimestate agency trial judge, adjunctprofessor for LeTourneau Universityin Texas and a cruise-ship lecturer.1983Carole Rector Bankhead (MBA ’91)is working from her home inBlacksburg for Virginia Tech’s undergraduateadmissions office. Herhusband, Todd (MBA ’92), is presidentof Bankhead DevelopmentCorporation. They have two sons,Tyler and Harrison.46 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

The authors say understanding these motivations isthe first key to finding happiness when it is time to makea career change. The next step is to figure out which ofthese drivers is fulfilled by work and what would bemissing if work were no longer there. Once a person understandswhat they need and what work provides, he orshe can plan retirement activities that fulfill those drivers.The key to making it all work, Miners and Sedlar say,is planning. Sedlar said that many people get socaught up in their work and home routines thatthey don’t do the necessary legwork for retirement.But any large-scale career changes needthorough investigation, Miners said.Don’t Retire, Rewire! is filled with realstories of pre-retirees as they go through theretirement planning process. For example,Tom is a 58-year-old workaholic salesmanager who feels weighted down bystress and paperwork. He thinks he’s readyto retire, but after going through the fivestepself-evaluation, he decides he still enjoys thecompetitive thrill of sales and would miss the structurework brings to his daily life. Tom loves playing golf, sohe decides to seek a job selling golf equipment. He puttogether a game plan to learn more about the golf equipmentindustry and scheduled some meetings with prospectiveemployers.Carol is a 51-year-old Wall Street broker who neverparticularly cared for her job, even though she made agreat deal of money. Carol knew she would rather dosomething to help animals and after consulting with Minersand Sedlar, she decided to start her own non-profitanimal adoption facility. This project will fulfill her needsto make a difference, stay active and interact with people.Miners and Sedlar co-authored their first book, OnTarget: Enhance Your Life and Ensure Your Success, in 1994.That book focused on how readers could get more out oftheir careers and lives.So how are Miners and Sedlar going to rewire? Byspreading the word of Don’t Retire, Rewire! across thecountry. The husband-wife duo already has done a few“rewiring retreats”—a weekend program forprospective retirees—and plan todo more in the future as they scaleback their office work schedule.“It’s scary, it’s exciting and it’srewarding all at the same time,”Sedlar said.Both maintain strong ties to WakeForest, serving on the Calloway Schoolof Business and Accountancy’s Board ofVisitors. Miners said they keep close tabswith other Wake Forest graduates in theNew York City area, where they live.In fact, Miners suggests that some Wake Forest alumnican rewire by doing volunteer work for the University.When he was a student, he said he found a campuswidesense of generosity and common purpose, so he welcomesany opportunity to give something back to his alma mater.“I didn’t just go to college at Wake Forest,” Minerssaid. “Wake Forest is a part of me and I’m a part ofWake Forest.”Joal Hall Broun (JD ’86) is servinga second term on the Carrboro boardof aldermen. She is with the Centerfor Self-Help in Durham, NC.Mark Hamblin is a city councilmanand mayor pro tempore for the Cityof Washington, NC.Eloise McCain Hassell (JD)received the Alumni Teaching ExcellenceAward from UNC-Greensboro.1985Camarra Cheatwood Kidd teachessocial studies and is departmentchair at Surry Central High School.She received the National BoardCertification of Adolescence andYoung Adulthood in Social Studies/History. She and her husband, Jeff,and children, Kaitlin (8) and Sy (2),live in Dobson, NC.Jamie Yates Reynolds relocated toTexas with her husband, Scott, andhis new job. She is a stay-at-homemom for son, Jay (2 1/2), and daughter,Lyndsey, who is in kindergarten.W. Howard Upchurch Jr. (MBA ’87)has been named chief customer officerof Sara Lee Branded Apparel inWinston-Salem.Lucy O’Donnell Vlahakis is a freelancewriter living in Los Angeleswith her husband, Matt, and twochildren, Niko (5) and Laura (3).www.wfu.edu/alumni MARCH 2004 47

C L A S S N O T E SSTRICKLAND (’81)1986John W. Babcock (JD) is in businesslaw with Bell Davis & Pitt in Winston-Salem. He is one of Business NorthCarolina’s “Legal Elite.”Wayne A. Ritchie has been certifiedas a civil trial specialist through theTennessee Commission on ContinuingLegal Education and Specialization.He is a partner with Ritchie Fels &Dillard PC in Knoxville. He and hiswife, Margaret, have two children,Natalie (9) and Robert (6).Kimberly Stogner (JD ’94), withVaughn Perkinson Ehlinger Moxley &Stogner, is on the Winston-Salem boardof directors for First Citizens Bank.1987RITCHIE (’86)Melissa Conn is director of theVenice office of Save Venice Inc.,an American non-profit that raisesfunds for the restoration of art andarchitecture in Venice, Italy.1988Phil Koch (MBA) is chief commercialofficer with a tag and label supplierbased in Hong Kong. He andhis wife, Lisa, had their third son,Max, in April 2003.Scott Rembold is associate dean fordevelopment and alumni relations atthe Paul H. Nitze School of AdvancedInternational Studies of The JohnsHopkins University.Ashlee Renee Wiest-Laird is pastorof First Baptist Church in JamaicaPlain, MA. She and her husband,Lance, have three children: Naim (3),Aidan (1) and Mycah (10 mos.).1989Lorna Campbell Martin is the 2003-04 Teacher of the Year for PinecrestHigh School in Southern Pines, NC.She teaches English, advises the yearbookstaff and coaches the women’ssoccer team, which made it to thethird round of the state championships.Daniel M. Sroka (JD) is a solopractitioner in Greensboro, NC,representing small businesses andstart-up companies.1990J. Eric Coffman is with Bullock &Coffman LLP in Lexington, KY.Jackie Copeland is the corporatecompliance officer for CrossroadsBehavioral Healthcare in Elkin, NC.Paul Osowski is a partner practicingproduct liability, professional negligence,business litigation, insurancedefense and workers’ compensationwith Nelson Mullins Riley andScarborough LLP in Charlotte, NC.1991Peter J. Hines is director of marketing,public relations and customerservice for Bethesda Softworks, avideo game company.Renee Hughes practices labor andemployment law, general commerciallitigation and criminal defense withMoore & Van Allen PLLC inCharlotte, NC.W. Curt LaFrance Jr. is director ofneuropsychiatry at Rhode IslandHospital and assistant professor(research) at Brown UniversityMedical School. He received a grantto study treatments for patients withnon-epileptic seizures from theNational Institutes of Health forNeurological Disorders and Stroke.Calling all scholars!The newly established Wake Forest Scholars program would like to catalogthe names and experiences of alumni/ae who have served in the Peace Corps,received undergraduate ambassadorial Rotary fellowships, received undergraduateone-year Fulbright scholarships, or received doctoral Fulbrightgrants. “We hope to create an accurate archive of Wake Forest involvementwith these programs,” said Tom Phillips (’74, MA ’78), director of WakeForest Scholars. Those wishing to send information on these or related traveland international scholarship programs should write to Phillips atphillito@wfu.edu.Linda Donelan Langiotti is vicepresident of marketing with MPTotalCare Inc. in Tampa, FL.Thomas C. Pope III is a branchmanager for Crawford ClaimsManagement Services and CrawfordRisk Management Services inMontgomery, AL. He received theAward for Academic Excellence fromthe Insurance Institute of America.48 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Tracy Stickney is teaching chemistryand coaching varsity field hockeyat Governor Dummer Academy inNewbury, MA.Laura Smith Williams is theSoutheast division actuary for LibertyMutual Group in Charlotte, NC.Thomas F. Williams is with PrudentialCarolinas Realty in Charlotte, NC.1992Thomas R. Campbell (JD ’95)specializes in wills, estate planningand plaintiff’s personal injury withCampbell & White PC in Gettysburg,PA. He and his wife, Tamara (’94),have a son, Collin (2).James Coley received his master’sin real estate development fromColumbia University and is directorof design and construction forGoldman Properties in New York.Patrick Day is associate pastor forchildren and youth at First PresbyterianChurch in LaGrange, IL.Self, Community and Christian Faith,was published by Paternoster Press(December 2003).Neil Raiford received the WillieParker Peace History Book Awardfor his book, The 4th North CarolinaCavalry in the Civil War, from theN.C. Society of Historians. His secondbook, Shadow: A Cottontail Bomb Crewin World War II, will be released in thesummer.Kristen Angell Shaw is in the castof ABC’s “Line of Fire,”playing thepart of Janet Malloy.Jeff Wise has a general practicefocusing on criminal defense, familylaw and personal injuries at WiseLaw Firm in Oklahoma City, OK.POTTER (’91)1993HOLMES (JD ’93)John B. Anderson (JD ’96) iswith the employment group ofParker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLPin Charlotte, NC.Jayne Stoll Frazier is a managingmember of Scharf Pera & CompanyPLLC, certified public accountants,in Charlotte, NC.Keith Gibeling is a history instructorat the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis,MD.Fall Weekends 2004PLAN TO JOIN US!C L A S S N O T E SPeyton Ross Dorsett Jr. and KristyFink Dorsett (’94) have moved fromBrussels, Belgium, to Houston, TX.He is a manager in corporate developmentat Solvay America Inc., andKristy is a stay-at-home mom fortheir two boys.Faran Pietrafesa Henwood is apart-time physician assistant inemergency medicine at Metro HealthMedical Center in Cleveland, OH.She and her husband, Treve, have ason, Lanyon.Galen Johnson is assistant professorof theology at John Brown Universityin Siloam Springs, AR. His book,Prisoner of Conscience: John Bunyan onSeptember 18September 25October 9October 23October 30November 13Wake Forest vs. N.C. A&T football gameWake Forest vs. Boston College football gameWake Forest vs. Virginia Tech football gameSchool of Medicine Alumni WeekendWake Forest vs. Florida State football gameHomecoming—College, Calloway School of Business andAccountancy, Babcock School of Management, Divinity School,Law SchoolWake Forest vs. Duke football gameFamily WeekendWake Forest vs. North Carolina football gamePresident’s Weekend (for members of University Gift Clubs)Please visit the alumni Web site at www.wfu.edu/alumni or call the Officeof Alumni Activities at (336) 758-5264 for updates.www.wfu.edu/alumni MARCH 2004 49

C L A S S N O T E SHARRINGTON (’94) STOGNER (’86, JD ’94)Mark Hilpert received his master’sin international affairs from GeorgeWashington University and graduatedfrom Navy Officer Candidate School.He is stationed at Virginia Beach,VA,training as an intelligence officer.Aaron Tabor is founder and CEO ofPhysicians Laboratories Inc., makersof Revival Soy-branded nutritionalfoods, in Kernersville, NC.Blair L. Whitley is a salesperson atNordstrom in Richmond,VA.Bill Wright and his wife, Allison,live in Atlanta. Bill is training atEthica Health & Retirement Corporationfor his license in nursing homeadministration.Chris Y. Berry is in commercial realestate at Transwestern Commercial inCharlotte, NC.Andrew Carpenter is a software engineerII in the Infrastructure ManagementSolutions Department at EnterpriseRent-A-Car in St. Louis, MO.William R. Derasmo (JD) is withTroutman Sanders LLP in Washington,DC, in the energy practice group. Heand his wife, Jennifer, and daughter,Kelly Ann, live in Fairfax Station,VA.Harold D. “Chip” Holmes Jr. (JD) iswith the torts and insurance group ofParker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLPin Charlotte, NC.Heather M. Sager is a partner withCarlton DiSante & FreudenbergerLLP, specializing in managementsidelabor and employment law, inSan Francisco, CA.1994Walter Keith Alexander is a seniorunderwriter in the community developmentgroup of Bank of Americain Charlotte, NC. He and his wife,Gabrielle, own Blimpie Subs &Salads in the Concord CommonsShopping Center in Concord, NC.Todd Barfield is a trader for FairHaven Capital LLC in Red Bank, NJ.Erik Froelich is chief operatingofficer of Cambridge IsenhourHomes, a developer and builder, inWinston-Salem.Sara W. Harrington has moved herdebt relief law practice,The HarringtonLaw Firm PLLC, to a larger, centrallocation in Raleigh, NC.Shannon Hutcherson Hines is legislativedirector for Senator RichardShelby, Alabama.Upon arrival,we upgrade you from “guest”to “lord of the manor.”While Wake Forest alumni are always welcome to spendthe night, also think of us for parties, weddings, and otherspecial events you may be planning. We will also be welcomingpatrons for Saturday evening dining beginning February 21.Winston~Salem, North Carolina800 472 9596 or www.graylyn.com{ 25 unique conference rooms, 30 minutes to an international flight, 55 acres for the mind to wander, 98 guest rooms to relax in, and infinite ways to bring them all together.}50 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Cate S. Hoskins (JD) is in realestate transactions with O’Kelley &Sorohan LLC in Alpharetta, GA. Sheand her husband, Carter, have adaughter, Allison (7).1995TAYLOR (’95) ANDERSON (’93, JD ’96) HERBST (’97)TREBILCOCK (JD ’00)C L A S S N O T E SSteve Bumgarner (MBA ’02) isdirector of marketing for KrispyKreme Doughnuts Inc. in Winston-Salem. He has been chosen to participatein Krispy Kreme’s first corporateleadership initiative.Jennifer Grosse Guimbellot andher husband, David, are programmanagers at Microsoft. They live inBellevue, WA. She can be reached atjenniferguimbellot@hotmail.com.Bruce R. Marsh received his master’sin economics and American foreignpolicy from the Johns HopkinsUniversity School of AdvancedInternational Studies in Washington,DC. He works for the Office ofInternational Postal Affairs, U.S.Postal Service, in Rosslyn,VA.Shannon Moore Martin is a clientservices coordinator for Aging WiselyInc., a geriatric care managementcompany in Florida.Wendell L. Taylor is counsel to U.S.Deputy Attorney General James B.Comey, second in command at theDepartment of Justice in Washington,DC. He is a four-time recipient ofthe Hunton & Williams LLP firm’sE. Randolph Williams Award for outstandingpro bono service and a graduateof the Thomas C. SorensonInstitute for Political Leadership at theUniversity of Virginia. He is on theboard of directors of the Universityof Richmond Law School Associationand Carver Promise, a member of theRichmond Bar Association judiciarycommitee and the John MarshallAmerican Inn of Court, and CEO forthree community-based organizations:the Youth Diversity CoalitionLLC,Tomorrow’s Promise LLC, andAdvanced Youth Connections LLC.Garrick P. Updegraph is director ofhuman resources for Aspen MedicalProducts in Long Beach, CA.1996Scott Bovelsky (MA ’98, MD ’02) isin his second year of OB/GYN residencyat the University of Louisville.His wife, Christina Habib Bovelsky(’96), will graduate from medicalschool this year. They have a son,Zachary Winston (2), whose middlename indicates where they met.Tracey Hillegass Daley is a stay-athomemom in Atlanta. She and herhusband, Kevin, have two children,Caroline Elizabeth (1 1/2) and ColbyChristopher (8 mos.).Catherine E. Davis spent two yearsas a Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascarand is a biologist with theEnvironmental Protection Agency inPhiladelphia. She can be reached atkatiedavis74@yahoo.com.Charlotte Dillon Little is an art directorwith DDB Worldwide in New York.Rachel Sheedy received her master’sin journalism from NorthwesternUniversity’s Medill School of Journalism,interned for Chicago magazineand did a design residency at The Independenton Sunday in London, England.She was an editor for The TuscaloosaNews in Alabama and is now a copyeditor for Kiplinger’s Personal Financemagazine in Arlington,VA.Mark W. Williams (PhD) is insurgery residency at the MedicalUniversity of South Carolina.1997Elizabeth A. Haskell received herMAEd, concentrating on curriculumand instructional technology, fromFramingham State College and ispursuing a CAGS, concentrating onleadership, at Cambridge College.Kenneth C. Herbst is an assistantprofessor of food marketing at theErivan K. Haub School of Business atSt. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia,PA. He has published numerousarticles on consumer psychology andhas been interviewed about his foodresearch and industry expertise bythe New York Times, USA Today, Woman’sDay, the Orlando Sentinel, the RoanokeTimes, the (Hampton,VA) Daily Pressand the Winston-Salem Journal.Attention, alumnaevolleyball players!Wake Forest will hold its first AlumnaeVolleyball Weekend April 16-17. Therewill be a banquet on Friday night and analumni game on Saturday morning inconjunction with the last tournament ofthe spring season. Contact Head CoachValorie Baker (bakervg@wfu.edu) forinformation.www.wfu.edu/alumni MARCH 2004 51

C L A S S N O T E SArt smart By Stephanie R. Stephens (’74)Expect to see the unexpected at the trendy gallery of Mary Leigh Cherry (’97)and her husband, artist Tony de los Reyes.IMPLY GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS of obtaininga Wake Forest education did not appeal to MarySLeigh Cherry. Conversely, as her professors unanimouslyagree, Cherry distinguished herself not only as someonewho made the grades, but also ventured fearlesslybeyond the classroom on to her chosen career path andinto life. She utilized every opportunity provided byWake Forest and instinctively created her own, preparingherself to meet her destiny. As a result, Cherry is, asshe assesses it, “in control of my life. I know there is agreater force guiding me, putting me into different placesand situations where I need to be.”The “where” for Cherry in 2004 is her gallery, cherrydelosreyes,in Los Angeles. She and husband, Tony de losReyes. profess that they’re “committed to hosting innovativeand unexpected exhibitions by regional and nationalartists, and integrating international artwork into theenergetic mix of Los Angeles. The gallery contributes totoday’s art world by embracing a wide range of dialoguesat the critical edge of contemporary culture.” Translatedto plainspeak, the two show some pretty funky stuff—some of which isn’t meant for museums—like a twentyfoot-longair conditioning duct suspended from the ceiling,enhanced by sound and light, a virtual “performancepiece,” says Cherry.She is acknowledged to be smart about art—whetherhammering, hanging, painting or plastering at her gallery—or working part-time as the director of a non-profitfoundation Fellows of Contemporary Art in support ofCalifornia artists.It’s far from hometown Durham, North Carolina, andearly specialization in math and sciences; an internshippost-high school at Duke University changed her, shesays. Then Wake Forest and its faculty showed the waytowards art, both studio and history. The art department,she says, was ideally sized to provide her “direct access”to professors and to targeted extra-curricular activitiesthat mirrored the quickly approaching work world.Cherry hit the academic track at a fast clip, applyingand being accepted to the Casa Artom program inVenice, Italy, usually reserved for juniors or seniors. She“begged” then-Venice faculty director and history professorJames Barefield to select her for his trip when she wasonly a freshman. Her chutzpah worked: Cherry went toVenice in the fall of her sophomore year. Barefield recalledmeeting the determined Cherry. “She had a very considerablesense of purpose, even though she was younger.Something about her just struck me, I suppose, for Iinterviewed a lot of people.”Art was banging on Cherry’s door, and she was answering,never considering her future as an actual artist. Butas she memorized slides for art history, she wanted toknow the why’s and what for’s of paint, wood, plaster,STACEY HALPERKen Lachlan completed his PhD incommunication research at MichiganState University. He is an assistantprofessor of communication atBoston College.Randall T. Little is in softwareservices at Sun Microsystems inNew York and attends New YorkUniversity’s Stern School of Business.1998Lori Carter Connolly is a pharmaceuticalsales representative forAltana Pharma in Charlotte, NC.Amy Eckert was chief of staff for thefinance department of Senator JoeLieberman’s presidential campaign.Karen E. Friedman is a SocialSecurity lawyer with Crumley &Associates PC in High Point, NC.Carmen Vaughn Ganjehsani ispracticing business litigation, corporatelaw and bond finance at NelsonMullins Riley & Scarborough LLP inAtlanta.52 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

clay and inking plates. “I don’t think you choose to bean artist; people think you take some classes, and ‘voila!’you’re a painter,” says Cherry. “An artist doesn’t feel rightif they’re not creating, like my husband. If he’s not in thestudio, he’s not himself. It’s really an innate feeling.”As a student, Cherry had a comfortable way of breakingdown the distinction between student and teacher, askill that benefited both parties. When 1997 was declared“The Year of the Arts,” Cherry chaired the student committeefor studio art professor David Finn, helping redesignthe freshman orientation program. “She’s a super organizer,intense, amazing at getting people to do things,“ hesaid. “She worked on a decidedly professional level andwas a shining example of the entrepreneurial spirit.”Cherry made the WFU Fine Arts Gallery (now Charlotteand Philip Hanes Art Gallery) her lab, volunteeringno-holds-barred for gallery director Victor Faccinto. “Igot to do everything from sitting the gallery and installationto driving a major art critic to the airport,” she says.Faccinto characterizes her as possessing “lots of motivation,interested in being creative within rather than justfollowing along. It is rare to have someone not on facultywho works so hard and adds so much to the mix.”Kathryn McHenry, assistant director and curator of WakeForest Art Collections, added, “Whatever Mary Leighdid, she did very well. She was a multi-tasker, a moverand shaker. It doesn’t surprise me that she’s making it inthe art world.”Professor of Art Harry Titus remembers Cherry’scoordination of an exhibit of prints by Hogarth, ownedby Herb Schiller, MD (’64, MD ’68, MA ’87), of Winston-Salem. “Mary Leigh organized the show, worked with him,selecting examples. She did the research, made the walllabels, supervised the hanging…her first experience withgetting things together. That’s essentially where she separatedherself. She ‘got the taste’ and realized she liked it.”After graduation in the fall of 1997, Cherry returnedto Venice as student assistant to Tom Phillips (’74, MA’78). “She was a great sport who’d roll up her sleeves,”says Phillips, now director of Wake Forest scholars. “Sheset an example with her spirit, her creative self. The studentsworshipped her. “During that trip, Cherry madefriends with artist Mercedes Teixido (’83), who becamea guiding force and later introduced her to Venice Beach,where she relocated in 1998.In that unique town she shared an apartment withWake Forest alums Mike Futia (’97) and WadeSolomon (’96). Cherry worked in an art supply storeand the Santa Monica Museum of Art and decided toconvert half of a garage into her first real gallery. There,initial exhibitions in a tiny space drew respected reviewsin the Los Angeles Times, New Art Examiner and Art Issues.“Now I knew this was more than just a hobby,” she said.Currently at their new joint space—formerly solelyhis—Cherry and de los Reyes collaborate on ninehundredsquare feet of storefront that is highly soughtafterby artists. The couple receives up to five submissionsa week from hopefuls, and the two do studio visits regularlyas part of their commitment to follow artists andtheir careers. It’s a never-ending labor of love that addsup to long days and nights, and weekends on the job.“We feel a great responsibility to artists. We act basicallyas an agent, maybe more like a manager, when weaccept someone. Then we do a lot of nuts-and-boltswork.” That, she says, includes sending out descriptivepackets and finding grants and residencies for her charges.“We don’t represent every artist we show, however.”She adds, “It’s a very hard business. I have such greatrespect for gallerists who’ve been doing this for twentyyears. I have a great life. I’m extremely happy. I’m meantto be here.”Stephanie R. Stephens (’74) is a print and broadcastjournalist based in Laguna Niguel, California. She is theniece of Elizabeth Phillips, professor emerita of English.C L A S S N O T E SSarah Johnston received her doctoratein physical therapy fromNorthwestern University. She worksfor a pediatric clinic in Bedford,VA.Garrett Putman is pursuing anMBA at the Duke University FuquaSchool of Business.1999Colleen M. Bailey lives in EllicottCity, MD, and is a second-year lawstudent at the University ofMaryland School of Law. She isengaged to Brendan Duffy.Kristin Redington Bennett (MAEd)received her doctorate degree fromUNC-Greensboro.Julie Bradley Bridgeforth is a stayat-homemom committed to keepingthe house in order and volunteeringwith the church and local elementaryschool.Terry James McCoy Jr. is vice presidentof public policy and communicationsat the Greater Winston-SalemChamber of Commerce. He alsowww.wfu.edu/alumni MARCH 2004 53

C L A S S N O T E SBUMGARNER (’95 MBA ’02) GREER (JD ’03)works with the Chamber’s boardof advisors and President’s Circleinvestors, and manages economic andcommunity development projects.Jeremy Noel is publications coordinatorat the University of SouthCarolina Sports Information Office.In addition to overseeing productionof some Gamecock media guides andpromotional materials, he is the primarymedia relations contact formen’s golf and men’s soccer.Stacey D. Rubain (JD) is practicingworker’s compensation and insurancedefense with Orbock BowdenRuark & Dillard PC in Winston-Salem.Andrew Shaw is in his final year atVanderbilt Law School in Nashville,TN. After graduation he will join thelitigation department of Bowditch &Dewey in Massachusetts.On the airWAKE Radio, the student voiceof Wake Forest, is gatheringinformation about alumni whowere involved with either WFDDor WAKE Radio. Visit the websitehttp://radio.wfu.edu/ and addyourself to the directory!KELLEY (JD ’03) OAKLEY (JD ’03)2000Chris Aprill is a portfolio managerat Evergreen Investments inCharlotte, NC. He was recentlyawarded his CFA charter.Karen Stephan Borchert is directorand Jessica Jackson (’00) is associatedirector of The Campus KitchensProject, a non-profit headquarteredin St. Louis, MO. They took their passionfor cooking and made “goodwilla full-time mission”with 500 collegecampusvolunteers and food donatedby restauranteurs to create hot mealsfor senior citizens, the homeless andkids in after-school programs.W. Taylor Campbell III (MSA ’01)received his CPA from NorthCarolina, with the certified longtermcare designation.Brian F. Corbett (JD) is with Poyner& Spruill LLP. He and his wife,Morgan Poteat Corbett (’98), andson, Charlie, live in Raleigh, NC.Robert Glenn Jones (MD) completedresidency training and is inhis first year as a GI fellow at theUniversity of Utah. He recentlymarried Lauren Zollinger.Betsy LaFuze spent two years as amissionary teacher in a village highschool in Uganda, East Africa. Shehas returned to Houston for her Aprilwedding and will then move to Florida.Helen Losse (MALS), a book reviewerfor the Winston-Salem Journal, publisheda poetry book, Poets on Peace #5- “Gathering the Broken Pieces” (Foot-Hills Publishing, NY).Amanda Pruitt completed hermaster’s in social work at UNC, completedan internship at El CentroHispano in Durham, NC, and workedat The Alliance of AIDS Services inRaleigh, NC. She is a social worker inthe emergency department at CarolinasMedical Center in Charlotte, NC.Christopher M. Trebilcock (JD),an associate with Miller CanfieldPaddock & Stone PLC in Detroit, MI,has received a fellowship fromMichigan State University’s PoliticalLeadership Program.2001Kimberly F. Armfield Dedmon (JD)is practicing law in Nashville,TN. Shemarried Kenny Dedmon in 2001 andthey had a child, Isabelle, last April.Marcia Eaddy is a pharmaceuticalsales representative for Merck andCompany Inc. She is engaged to bemarried in August.Ashleigh Duncan Ellsworthreceived her MA in religion fromLutheran Theological SouthernSeminary in Columbia, SC. She isthe director of faith formation foryouth and family ministry atShepherd of the Hills LutheranChurch in Flagstaff, AZ.Frank Musolino Jr. received hisJD/MBA from Stetson UniversityCollege of Law in St. Petersburg, FL.54 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Jennifer Nall received her master’sin public health at Tulane University.She is living and working at anorphanage in Malelane, a small townin the Mpumalanga province ofSouth Africa, as a volunteer with theU.S. Peace Corps.Kelly E. Sancilio is pursuing a PhDat the University of Medicine andDentistry of New Jersey.2002Brent Blum is an analyst forAccenture in Cincinnati, OH.Jennifer N. Mason (JD) is in theregulation of business and governmentalrelations department ofParker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLPin Charlotte, NC.William J. “Joe” Parker III is a firstlieutenant and support and transportationplatoon leader in CForward Support Company, 215thFSB, Ft. Hood, TX. He is deployed inBaghdad, Iraq, for 12 months in supportof Operation Iraqi Freedom.Monica R. Guy (JD) is a memberof the Forsyth County and N.C. BarAssociation and is practicing familylaw at Bell Davis & Pitt PAC inWinston-Salem.Amanda E. Kelley (JD) is an associatewith Leitner Williams Dooley &Napolitan PLLC in Chattanooga, TN.Trenna K. Oakley (JD) is practicingfamily wealth planning and corporatelaw in the corporate departmentof Dinsmore & Shohl LLP inCincinnati, OH.Jeffrey M. Saltzman was recognizedas one of the nation’s Junior Fellowsby the American Academy of Politicaland Social Science for his work on therise and demise of the apartheid systemin South Africa.Julie K. Williamson is a licensedclaims representative with GMACInsurance in Winston-Salem.MarriagesDeborah Lynn Epperson Sizer (’77)and John Walter Stringer. 9/13/03.They live in Galax,VA.Stuart Passantino (’88) andJennifer Strong. 9/6/03. They live inMount Pleasant, SC.Douglas Worthington Davis (’89,MA ’99) and Molly Anne Yarbrough.10/25/03 in Winston-Salem.J. Eric Coffman (’90) and HeatherHathaway Marshall. 5/31/03. Theylive in Lexington, KY.Patrick Lemons (’90) and AllisonBuehner. 10/25/03 in Louisville, KY.They live in Charlotte, NC.Katherine McTyeire Lowder (’91)and Eric S. Brown. 4/27/03 on theCaribbean island of St. Kitts. Theylive in Falls Church,VA.C L A S S N O T E SJochen Zaremba (LL.M) is practicinginformation technologies,telecommunications, corporateand international law with LehnerDanekamp Mayer & Knorz inDusseldorf, Germany. He publishedan article,“International ElectronicTransaction Contracts Between U.S.and EU Companies and Customers,”in the Connecticut Journal ofInternational Law (Spring 2003).2003Laura Abernethy Greer (JD) ispracticing commercial litigationwith Kilpatrick Stockton LLP inWinston-Salem.Options to earn an MBA in Charlotte or Winston-SalemSaturday ~ CharlotteTwo-year program that meets42 Saturdays a year, forworking professionals withat least three years experience.Evening ~ CharlotteTwo-year program that meets twoevenings per week, offering workingprofessionals an MBA from one ofthe world’s premier business schools.Fast-Track Executive ~ Winston-Salem17-month accelerated formatthat meets Friday-Saturday onalternate weekends toaccommodate experiencedmanagers and executives.Full-time ~ Winston-SalemEarn your MBA in a personalizedlearning environment, with one of thesmallest core class sizes of anytop program in the nation.Evening ~ Winston-SalemTwo-year program with a generalmanagement focus that meets twoevenings per week, allows you toearn your MBA while working full time.Charlotte 1.888.WAKE.MBA • www.mba.wfu.edu • Winston-Salem 1.866.WAKE.MBAwww.wfu.edu/alumni MARCH 2004 55

C L A S S N O T E SJames N. Coley II (’92) andKatherine Price. 8/9/03 in Asheville,NC. They live in Brooklyn, NY.Kelly Gahan Kilroy (’92) and ScottWilliam Foley. 8/2/03 in Baltimore, MD.Stephen Clarke Dettor (’94)and Gina Goodrum. 10/18/03 inNew Orleans, LA. Alumni in attendanceincluded Rick Connolly (’94),Cal Luthy (’94), Brian Miner (’94),Steve Schumacher (’95), TonySgambati (’94) and John Willis (’96).Lisa Hannah Cort (’95) and JeffreyJames Owen (’97, JD ’00). 6/28/03in Burnsville, NC. The wedding partyincluded Leah Austin (’96, JD ’01),Patricia Lynn Beauchamp (’94),Nancy Stacy Copeland (’95),Carolyn Ray Cort (MD ’70), DavidArthur Cort (MD ’70), HeidiDorothy Cort (’97), Charles B.Q.Davis (JD ’01), Carrie Cort Friesen(MD ’04), Christopher JohnLeonard (’96, JD ’99) and RevillRamsey Mallory (’97).Amy Ragan (’95) and CaryDiCristina. 10/11/03 in Atlanta. Thewedding party included SallyWooten Baker (’95), Diane Burke(’95, JD ’98), Kim Hensley Harris(’95), Sarah Carroll Smith (’97)and Lisa Snodgrass (’95).Charlotte Dillon (’96) and RandallT. Little (’97). 8/16/03 in Pawley’sIsland, SC. They live in New York.The wedding party included LindsayWebb Craven (’96), Liz Hall Dekanich(’96), Tricia Grant Hunt (’96),Jessica Hill Maddox (’97), KirstenMinich (’96), Brandon Saul (’97),Chris Thayer Sherner (’96) andKeith Siegner (’97, MSA ’98).56 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINEJean Ann Grant (’97) and WhitMansfield. 6/21/03. They live inAtlanta.Kimberly Sonja Henney (’97) andWesley Hillman McCluney. 7/19/03 inBryn Mawr, PA. They live in Atlanta.The wedding party included MarciHelm Hatcher (’98), Richard AllenMcCluney (’00) and Ashley AnneRandolph (’98).Ryan R. Klein (’97) and Kelly MarieSimon (’99). 6/9/03 in Santorini,Greece. They live in Raleigh, NC.Todd Andrew Sninski (’97) andDabney Elizabeth Maner (’97).10/11/03Lori A. Carter (’98) and William B.Connolly. 10/11/03 in Asheville, NC.They live in Charlotte. The weddingparty included Amie Fonville Sivon(’98). The wedding directors wereBarbara Mathes Yurkutat (’99)and Lynette Kirk (’00, MSA ’01).Garrett Putman (’98) and HarrietWillimon. 7/19/03 in Durham, NC.The wedding party includedMadison Clark (MD ’95), JohnHage (’98) and Ward Horton (’98).Elisabeth P. Thompson (’98) andDylan S. Baker (’99). 10/18/03 inAlexandria,VA. They live in Washington,DC. The wedding party includedMorgan Poteat Corbett (’98), ClayHall (’98), Will Hayes (’98), WestonLewis (’99), Frank Posillico (’99),and Dylan’s father, Frank Baker (’69),grandfather, William Baker (’42),and uncle, Prentiss Baker (’65).Carmen M. Vaughn (’98) andWarren V. Ganjehsani. 3/1/03 in RockHill, SC. They live in Marietta, GA.Adriane Malanos (’99) and JosephT. Belton (’99). 8/16/03. Attendeesincluded Kara Csensich (’98), SteveGranese (’98), Thomas McKiernan(’00) and Jason Wall (’98).Melissa Ann Michel (’99) andDionisio Rubi. 12/7/02 in Stonewood,WV. They live in Gettysburg, PA. Thewedding party included Kelly SimonKlein (’99). Friends in attendanceincluded Jennifer Bahus (’99),Anne Burnsed (’99), KristyHubbard (’99) and Ryan Klein (’97).Kelly T. Wolff (’99) and Dustin S.Lyman (’99). 6/28/03 in Lake Bluff,IL. They live in Chicago.John Chris Aprill (’00) and KimJohnston. 9/13/03. They live inCharlotte, NC.Beth Beagles (’00) and KevinPierson (’00), Dallas, TX. 12/20/03 inLongwood, FL. They live in Dallas,TX. The wedding party included JeffBottcher (’00), Mora Hanlon (’00),Katie Potts (’01, MAEd ’03) andBetsy Woodruff (’00).Rufus Byron Brown IV (’00) andJennifer Lindsay Bays (’01).10/11/03 in Atlanta. They live inCharlotte, NC. The wedding partyincluded Amy Elizabeth Byars(’01), Catherine Elizabeth Candler(’00), Elise Bentley DeGarmo (’01),Nicole Steele Francis (’01), AlyssaMary Griswold (’01), BenjaminFelder Jackson (’99), JosephNathan Kerr (’00), Jessica DavisMacCallum (’01), Molly AmandaMacNaughton (’01), David StuartRietz (’00), Kevin LawrenceSprouse (’00), Elizabeth NanceWoodall (’01) and Ryan AlvinWilson (’00, MSA ’01).Amanda Beth Epstein (’00) andStephen Musson. 9/20/03 in Atlanta.They live in Alpharetta, GA. Thewedding party included JenniferPittaway Baer (’99), Valerie ParkerMirshak (’99) and Anne Taylor (’00).Father Jude DeAngelo, Wake ForestCatholic campus minister, was one ofthe officiants.

J. Eric Crupi (JD ’01) and ReneeEsfandiary. 11/15/03Caroline D. Gray (’01) and David R.DenHerder. 9/27/03 in Washington,DC. They live in Arlington,VA.Allison L. Hallman (’01) and JeffreyDavid Sapp. 12/6/03. They live inAtlanta. The wedding party includedMissy Bryce (’02, MSA ’02), JayneWalker Grubbs (’01), Anna Kuhn(’02) and Kara Wallace (’01).Michael Del Re (’03), Emily BlakeHinman (’03), Nick AndersonJeffries (’03), Adrienne Ann Myer(’02), Katherine Troy Rigby (’04)and Mason McClung Shelton (’03).Danielle McDougal (’03) and Obi I.Chukwumah (’03). 1/31/04 in WaitChapel. The wedding party includedKellen Brantley (’04), Nick Burney(’03), Iana DeSouza (’03), RonettaDewberry (’99), Alecia W. Hardy(’03), Chrystal Harris (’03), ElliotIvey (’03), Sudie Nallo (’04) andRicky Perez (’03).David G. Lerner (JD ’85) andDeborah A. Lerner, Orlando, FL: ason, Christopher Albert. 9/23/03. Hejoins his brother, J.P.Jill Clayton Moore (’85) and MarkMoore, Greensboro, NC: a son,Garrett Clayton. 4/11/03Kathy Watts Bryant (’86) and PaulBryant, Apex, NC: a son, AlexanderColin. Born 6/20/03, adopted 11/24/03in St. Petersburg, Russia.C L A S S N O T E SDavid James Samuel (’01) andRidgely Sarah Blue (’03). 10/4/03 inHigh Point, NC. They live inRichmond,VA. The wedding partyincluded Eric Bernard Almond(’02), Katherine French Bovard(’04), Anna Louise Curnes (’03),Amy Elizabeth Daniel (’04),Mackenzie Hope Goldstein (’03),Jillian Sahajdack Rainwater (’03),Robert Scott Richards (’01) andBradley Austin Samuel (’99).Births andAdoptionsBill Boggs (’87) and MelanieParham Boggs (’92, MD ’97),Richmond,VA: a son, Peyton Robert.11/7/03Ed T. Bonahue (’87) and TinaSmith (’87), Gainesville, FL: a son,Alexander James Bise. 6/26/03. Hejoins his brother, Edward (7), andsister, Maddie (5).Karen Hollingsworth Miller (’83)and Robert Scott Miller, Charlotte,NC: a son, Walter Scott. 7/28/03. Hejoins his brother, Worth (2 1/2).Kelly Elizabeth Sancilio (’01) andThomas Corcoran. 11/16/03Lee Jamison Schuh (’01) and MaryLyn Anne Marquardt (’03). 10/18/03in Towson, MD. They live in SouthWindsor, CT. The wedding partyincluded Matthew Joseph Davis(’01), Nisrine Libbus (’02),Katherine Joyce Mills (’04) andWilliam Drew Senter (’02).Carolyn Jo Christman (’84) andWilliam Shehee, Mebane, NC: adoptedson, Francisco Christman Shehee.He was born in Guatemala 1/19/03and arrived in the United States12/4/03. The grandparents are EdgarDouglas Christman (’50, JD ’53)and Jean Sholar Christman (’51),and his aunt is Kimberly Christman-Dotson (’85).Melissa Conn (’87) and FabrizioTibolla,Venice, Italy: a son, Lorenzo.8/12/03. He joins his brother,Sebastiano (4).David McClelland (’87) and KellyMcClelland, Sterling,VA: a son, EliHenry. 1/12/04. He joins his brothers,Alexander (5) and Luke (2), and sisters,Caroline (7) and Mary Scott (4).Crystal Ann Bowman (JD ’03) andJeffrey Brian Crews. 9/6/03 in OceanIsle Beach, NC. They live inSummerfield, NC.Elizabeth Ellis Cauble (’03) andBrian Christopher Gross (’03).1/3/04 in Knoxville, TN. The weddingparty included Robert ManningChristopher Jr. (’02), AngeloRick E. Fuller (’84) and CarolFuller, De Pere, WI: a daughter,Madelyn Anita. 6/21/03. She joinsher brothers, Sam (7), Kevin (4) andBen (2). Alumni can reach them at84deacdoc@ameritech.net.John Wayne King (’84) and AngelaBuontempo, Warren, NJ: a son, JohnWalter. 10/18/03Deryl A. Davis (’85) and WhitneyWarren Davis (MAEd ’97),Washington, DC: twins, NathanielAndrew and Eliza Marie. 10/22/03Khalique S. Zahir (’87) and LubnaZahir, McLean,VA: a daughter, RheaAmelia. 1/11/04John F. Bragg III (’88) andCatherine Carlton Bragg (’90),Huntersville, NC: a daughter, AliceFisher. 3/29/03. She joins her brothers,Frank (6) and James (4), and sister,Martha Kate (3).www.wfu.edu/alumni MARCH 2004 57

C L A S S N O T E SMark P. Del Mastro (’88) andMelinda Del Mastro, Charleston, SC:twin daughters, Maria Pilar andCarmen Francesca. 8/25/03. They jointheir sister, Isabel (3).Renee Roy McCoy (’88) andBenjamin McCoy, Charlotte, NC: ason, Benjamin Moore. 11/15/03Neville “Ned” Hedley (’91) andKimberly Reynolds Hedley (’94),Chicago, IL: a son, William Reynolds.6/16/03Peter J. Hines (’91) and ShannonHutcherson Hines (’94), Annandale,VA: a son, Tyler. 7/22/03. He joins hisbrother, Connor (5).Laura Smith Williams (’91)and Thomas F. Williams (’91),Charlotte, NC: a son, James Dallas“J.D.” 7/2/03Van Barnette (’92) and MeredithHart Barnette (’94), Raleigh, NC: adaughter, Margaret Shields. 10/24/03.She joins her brother, Henry (3).Elizabeth “Beth” Weller (JD ’88)and Bill Parkinson, Dallas, TX: a son,William Kyle MingXiao. He was born7/1/00 in China and joined them10/15/03. He joins his sisters, Sarah(9) and Erin (6).Julie Carlisle Albrecht (’89) and J.P.Albrecht, Charlotte, NC: a son, TylerFinn. 12/5/03. He joins his sister,Abigail Grace (3).Margaret “Lou” Brown (’89) andJack C. Knight, St. Louis, MO: a son,Benjamin. 10/2/03Bruce Cabiness (’89) and DonnaCabiness, Archdale, NC: a daughter,Morgan. 10/10/03. She joins herbrothers, Caleb and Parker.Julie Lemoine Lesjak (’89) and BobLesjak,Vienna,VA: a son, Phillip Stefan,and a daughter, Isabel Marie. 7/1/03.They join their brother, Oliver (3).Michelle Sigmon Jones (’91) andW. Craig Jones (’91), Charlotte, NC:a son, Christopher Riley. 9/11/03.He joins his brothers, Craig (6) andAndrew (3).Brooke Fenderson Kingsley (’91)and Stephen Kingsley, Fredericksburg,VA:a daughter, Clare Lovelace.5/6/03Loring Tyler Matthews (’91) andJeffrey Clay Matthews, Landenberg,PA: a daughter, Sydney Anna. 6/6/03.She joins her brother, Tyler (4).Susan Webb Meador (’91) andHenry Meador, Richmond,VA: adaughter, Hannah Dare. 10/6/03Leigh Ann Young Olinger (’91) andWill D. Olinger III (’91), Gainesville,FL: a daughter, Reece Wooddall.10/20/03. She joins her sisters,Brittney (7) and Katie Grace (5).Stephanie Toney Bennett (’92) andWilliam Ross Bennett, Charlotte, NC:a daughter, Abigail Jean. 11/8/03. Shejoins her sister, Olivia (4).Patrick Day (’92) and Katie Day,Naperville, IL: twins, Cora and Quinn.5/20/03.They join their brother, Galvin.Kavita Shah-Mehta (’92) andPrashant Mehta, San Carlos, CA: adaughter, Saiya. 10/16/03Alison Bell Watson (’92) and ScottWatson, Raleigh, NC: a son, DavisGray. 7/8/03. He joins his brother,Mitchell (8).Laurie DiLodovico Cross (’93) andScott C. Cross (’94), Los Angeles,CA: a son, Evan Scott. 11/19/03Elizabeth Jones Edwards (’93) andMark E. Edwards (’94, JD ’97),Nashville, NC: a son, SpencerThomas. 11/29/03Tracy Moss Wharton (’89) andDaniel Barrett Wharton (MBA ’91),Parkersburg, WV: a son, DanielRobert. 2/26/03Jacinda Santon Smith (’91, MBA’94) and Todd A. Smith, Princeton,WV: a daughter, Katherine Anne.10/29/03Josh D. Else (’93) and Anna DeanHarris Else (’97), Bethesda, MD: adaughter, Margaret “Maggie”Kennedy. 10/25/03Michael D. Williams (’89) andAndra Campbell Williams,Statesville, NC: a son, Matthew Ross.4/6/03. He joins his brother, Dawson.Allyson Kurzman Tysinger (’90)and Michael Davis Tysinger,Richmond,VA: a son, Jackson Davis.4/7/03. He joins his sister, Ashley (4).Susan Horsewood Stines (’91,MAEd ’93) and Reid M. Stines(’91), Apex, NC: a son, RyanMcElligott. 7/21/03. He joins his sister,Carly (3).Rosalind L. Tedford (’91, MA ’94)and Patrick C. Morton (MA ’97,MBA ’02), Winston-Salem: a daughter,Erin Nicole. 11/19/03Jeannie Armour Evans (’93) andBarrett Allen Evans, Winston-Salem:a daughter, Katharine Isabel.11/11/03. She joins her brother,Samuel Bradley.58 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Jay Parker (’93) and Ellen FogleParker (’93, MA ’95), Austin, TX: ason, Nolan James. 10/3/03. He joinshis sister, Caroline Grace (2 1/2).Erin Komich Petty (’93) and RobertC. Petty, Stonington, CT: a son,Holden Everett. 6/30/03Diane McKeon Smith (’93) andForrest E. Smith, Apex, NC: a daughter,Jordan Elizabeth. 5/15/03Richard D. Soultanian (JD ’93) andLisa Kennedy Soultanian (JD ’95),Basking Ridge, NJ: daughters, OliviaEloise and Madeleine Isabelle.9/28/03Tamara Nicholson Kaliszewski(’94) and Andrew Kaliszewski,Durham, CT: a daughter, Mary Hope.10/26/03. She joins her sister, JuliaMay (2).Rodney Perdue (’94) and AngelaCollins Perdue (’94), Clemmons,NC: a daughter, Kristina Anne.12/26/03Elizabeth Rees (’94) and HoldenHoofnagle, Alexandria,VA: a daughter,Sophia Patricia. 10/9/03Jule E. Banzet IV (MBA ’96) andSuzanne R.S. Banzet (MBA ’96),Winston-Salem: a son, William “Will”Ross. 10/10/03. He joins his brother, J.Daniel L. Briggs (’96) and LaurieLong Briggs (’97, MSA ’98),Lexington, NC: a daughter, SidneyLeier. 11/14/03Jessica Wadkins Griege (’96) andCharles William Griege, Dallas, TX: adaughter, Amelia Grace. 12/3/03. Shejoins her brother, Charlie (2).C L A S S N O T E SHeidi Cruz Marlowe-Rogers (’95,MD ’99) and Arron A. Marlowe-Rogers (’95, JD ’02), Winston-Salem: a son, Xavier David. 8/30/03Michael Kauffman (’96, JD ’99) andDeanna Kauffman, Fairview Heights,IL: a daughter, Madeline Jennifer.11/29/03Wade Tollison (’93) and StephanieTollison, Woodbury, MN: twin sons,Jackson Browning and SamuelEdward. 10/25/03. They join theirsister, Isabella (1).David M. McConnell II (’95) andDowling Anderson McConnell,Charlotte, NC: a daughter, AmyCarson. 10/19/03John R. Rinker II (’96) and ErikaHille Rinker (’98), St. Louis, MO: adaughter, Clara Anneliese. 11/21/03Walter “Keith” Alexander (’94) andGabrielle Alexander, Charlotte, NC: ason, Grant Keith. 8/12/03Paul E. McIntosh Jr. (’95) andEmily McIntosh, Madison, AL: a son,Alexander Nathan. 10/15/03Karen Rosenberger Robins (’96)and Eric Robins, Arlington,VA: adaughter, Sarah Nicole. 12/22/03. Shejoins her brother, Jackson.Todd Barfield (’94) and AnnaBarfield, Long Branch, NJ: a son,Griffin David. 10/16/03Eric P. Orbock (JD/MBA ’95) andJessica Kahn Orbock (JD ’97),Athens, GA: a daughter, EvaCatherine. 9/02/03Kristopher David Vess (’96) andSarah Floyd Vess, Concord, NC: ason, Colin Michael. 10/31/03Laura Cline Berry (’94) and ChrisY. Berry (’94), Charlotte, NC: a son,Luke. 10/21/03. He joins his brothers,Lance, Cameron and Cooper.Kathy Salisbury Pretzer (’95) andSteve Pretzer, Raleigh, NC: a son,Ryan Craig. 7/22/03Brett G. Weber (’96, JD ’99) andCameron Bader Weber (JD ’01),Charlotte, NC: a daughter, Meredith“Carson.”10/20/03Daniel G. Cahill (JD ’94) and SallieThorpe, Raleigh, NC: twin sons,Daniel Reed and George Thorpe.11/3/03. They join their sister,Kathryn (3).Rick A. Fleming (JD ’94) andMichelle Fleming, Topeka, KS: a son,Eric Alexander. 8/14/03. He joins hisfive sisters.David H. Priest (’95, MD ’99) andTammy Priest, Nashville, TN: adaughter, Olivia Lynne. 10/1/03. Shejoins her brother, Nathan (3).Amy Cook Riter (’95) and Craig S.Riter, Half Moon Bay, CA: a daughter,Finley Kathleen. 10/21/03Angela Denison Silva (’95) andSamuel Eber Machado Silva, Salisbury,NC: a daughter, Esther Gabriela.12/7/03. She joins her sister, Lydia (2).Mark W. Williams (PhD ’96) andCheryle Williams, Mt. Pleasant, SC:a son, Mark W. “Mack”Jr. 10/28/03Bill Bishop (’97) and DeanneBishop, Oklahoma City, OK: a daughter,Kaitlyn Jane. 6/24/03Katherine Spurlock Creech (’97)and Jeremy Dennis Creech (’97),Bartlett, TN: a son, AlexanderThomas. 10/29/03www.wfu.edu/alumni MARCH 2004 59

C L A S S N O T E SAaron Mercer (’97) and Emily BoydMercer (’98), Nashville, TN: a daughter,Ella McClure. 1/3/04Elizabeth Bell Schweppe (’97) andJohn Schweppe, Raleigh, NC: a son,Daniel Thomas. 4/12/03Jennifer Greer Gilley (’98) andMatthew J. Gilley (’98), Asheville,NC: a son, Owen James. 10/4/03Heather Moon Hayes (’98) andRobert C. Hayes Jr., Charlotte, NC: adaughter, Mary Winslow. 7/4/03Diana Puknys Schad (JD ’98) andMatt O. Schad (JD ’98), Arlington,VA: a daughter, Abigail Elizabeth.11/5/03Caroline Amerine Stephens (MBA’98) and Bruce Stephens, Wytheville,VA: a son, Rowdy. 8/27/03Julie Bradley Bridgeforth (’99) andWilliam Bridgeforth, Allen, TX: adaughter, Anna Noel. 5/9/03Tracy Jarrell Carroll (’99) and BenRansom Carroll Jr., Raleigh, NC: ason, Matthew Ransom. 11/4/03Richard Brooks Casey (JD ’00) andJennifer Casey, New Smyrna Beach,FL: a son, Jackson Fisher. 10/21/03. Hejoins his sister, Hannah (4), andbrother, Drew (2).Kirsten L. “Kiki” Dunton (JD ’00)and John R. Hugill, Tallahassee, FL: adaughter, Abigail Elizabeth. 10/8/03James E. Long (JD ’00) and KimLong, Mahomet, IL: a son, RyanJerald. 9/2/03Beth Mabe Gianopulos (JD ’01)and Michael Gianopulos,Kernersville, NC: a son, JacobAlexander. 8/26/0360 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINEDeathsDavid D. Allen Sr. (’31), Nov. 7, 2003.Dennis Wallace Anderson (’31),Oct. 18, 2003.Ernest Corpening Moore (’33),Oct. 23, 2003.William Rufus Hartness Jr. (’36,MD ’36), Dec. 17, 2003. He is survivedby his children, William RufusHartness III (’67) and Freda HartnessWilkins, four grandchildren, a sister,and two brothers.Larry S. Moore (JD ’38),Nov. 28, 2003.Albert Egerton Simms (’38),Dec. 29, 2003.Edwin Marion Speas Sr. (’38),Jan. 4, 2004.Ray McKinley Stroupe (’38),Oct. 24, 2003.Walter P. Gray (’40), Jan. 11, 2004.Frank Hughes Jr. (’40), Jan. 11, 2004.James “Jay” L. Jenkins Jr. (’40),Oct. 30, 2003. He was a retired politicaladviser, newspaper reporter andeditor, and a member of the NCJournalism Hall of Fame. A native ofBoiling Springs, NC, he served in theArmy Air Corps during World War II.He began his journalism career atUnited Press International in 1941and later worked for The Winston-Salem Journal, The Charlotte Observerand the Raleigh News & Observer.Formany years, he worked as a politicaladviser and lobbyist for WilliamFriday, former president of theUniversity of North Carolina system.He helped Friday create the televisionprogram “North Carolina People,”which still airs on public television.He is survived by his wife, Ruth, anda son, James L. Jenkins III.Paul Andrew Stinchcomb (’40),Dec. 23, 2003.Royce “Mert” Meredith Williams(’40), Dec. 15, 2003.Roderick R. Chitty (’41),Dec. 8, 2003.Roscoe Lee Bolton Jr. (’42), Nov. 10,2003.James Jasper Ellis (’42), Dec. 9, 2003.Raymond Albert Koteski (’43),Jan. 1, 2004.Vivian P. Carter Davis (’46),Oct. 24, 2003.E. Reed Gaskin (’47), Oct. 28, 2003.After earning his medical degreefrom Emory University and thenstudying ophthalmology, he foundedthe Gaskin Eye Clinic in Charlotte,NC, where he practiced for morethan 45 years. He was a former memberof the Wake Forest AlumniCouncil. He and his wife, Jean, establisheda scholarship for pre-med studentsat Wake Forest in 1980. In additionto his wife, he is also survived byone son, Lewis (’76), who joined hisfather’s practice in 1984, and twodaughters.William Wiley Simms (’47),Nov. 7, 2003.Martha Tickle Wilkinson (’47),Dec. 20, 2003.Arthur Drayton Barber Jr. (’49),Dec. 11, 2003.James Franklin Frisbie Jr. (’49),Jan. 2, 2004. He was active in alumniactivities, including serving as chairof his class’ 50th reunion and helpingplan the old campus reunions in 1996and 2000. He worked for IBM for 35

years before retiring in 1990. He issurvived by his wife, Peggy (’51), sonJames and daughter Penelope (’73).Memorials may be made to FirstBaptist Church, 99 N. Salisbury St.,Raleigh, NC, 27603 or Wake ForestUniversity, P.O. Box 7227, Winston-Salem, NC, 27109-7227.Mildred A. Kerbaugh (’49),Dec. 30, 2003.William “Bill” Dorsey Beal (’50),Dec. 20, 2003.Charles Edward Bell (’50),Oct. 7, 2003. He is survived by hiswife, Merilou Wall Bell (’54), foursons, and three grandchildren.Stanley James Corne (JD ’50),Nov. 2, 2003. He was a formermember of the Wake Forest LawAlumni Council.Robert Franklin Pate Sr. (’50),Dec. 8, 2003.Avery Millard Powers Jr. (’50),Sept. 11, 2003.Robert Forest “R.F.” Smith Jr.(’53), Oct. 16, 2003. He was a retiredBaptist pastor and former WakeForest trustee. After graduating fromWake Forest and SoutheasternBaptist Theological Seminary, heserved Baptist churches in Durhamand Hickory, NC, before moving toHuntington, WV, where he was seniorpastor at Fifth Avenue BaptistChurch from 1979 until 1999. Hereceived numerous honors duringhis lifetime, including induction intothe Huntington Wall of Fame in 1992and the Governor’s DistinguishedWest Virginian Award in 1993. Hewas named Huntington Citizen ofthe Year in 1997 by the Herald-Dispatchnewspaper. He was also a newspapercolumnist and the author of twobooks; his second book, Sit Down,God…I’m Angry, dealt with the deathof his teenage son in a boating accident,only hours after he had completedhis admissions application toWake Forest. Smith and his wife,Faye Tyndall Smith (’55), laterestablished the Robert Forest SmithScholarship in the divinity school intheir son’s memory.Edgar Earl “Doc” Marlowe Jr. (’56),Oct. 12, 2003.Britton Edward Pierce Jr. (’56),Oct. 17, 2003.Norman Vincent Wallace (’57),Nov. 14, 2003.Carroll Franklin Gardner (’58,JD ’60), Jan. 5, 2004. He was a wellknowncriminal-defense lawyer andpolitical figure for 40 years. He was alongtime chairman of the DemocraticParty for the 5th CongressionalDistrict and ran in the party primaryfor a U.S. House seat in 1994. He issurvived by his wife, Barbara, andsons David (’84) and Matthew.William Franklin “Saigon” McLean(’58), Dec. 22, 2003.Jack Nelson Smith (’58),Aug. 7, 2003.Samuel Patrick Stuart Jr. (’58),Nov. 10, 2003.Alexander “Sandy” Redditt Tuten(’58), Nov. 28, 2003.C L A S S N O T E SFrank Odell Goslen (JD ’51),Nov. 4, 2003.Frank J. White Jr. (’53),Dec. 15, 2003.Theodore Cecil Brown Jr. (JD ’59),Nov. 5, 2003.Betty Hawks Herring (’51),Jan. 8, 2004.Ronald Clark Kelly (’54, MD ’57),Aug. 26, 2003.Jack Eugene Shore (’60),Oct. 25, 2003.Marcel Berthier Humber (’51),Dec. 30, 2003.Ernest William Rollins Jr. (’54),Dec. 3, 2003.James Robert “Bob” Searcy (’63),Nov. 21, 2003.Terry W. Gwinn Jr. (’52),Oct. 13, 2003.Don Hoyle Lovelace (’55),Nov. 15, 2003.Donald Edward Schulz (’64),Oct. 15, 2003.James Herbert Coker (’53),Dec. 23, 2003.Charlotte Bayne Marshall (’55),June 18, 2003.Jean Heckard Sulloway (’64),Dec. 24, 2003.Joseph Ashley Dickens Jr. (’53),Feb. 15, 2003.Keith Vernon Hart (’53),Dec. 1, 2003.Thomas E. Strickland (JD ’55),Nov. 26, 2003. He was a lawyer and afive-term North Carolina legislator.He is survived by his wife, Shirley, ason and a daughter.Robert Mabry Dacus III (MD ’65),Dec. 16, 2003.www.wfu.edu/alumni MARCH 2004 61

C L A S S N O T E SRobert Anderson Huffaker(MD ’65), Jan. 8, 2004.Elizabeth “Libby” JacksonWilliams (’65), Dec. 12, 2003. Sheis survived by her husband, D.M.Williams (’65, JD ’68), two daughters,her mother, and a sister.Greig Leonard (’67), Sept. 13, 2003.William Geoffrey Fraser (’69),Jan 4, 2004. He was the son of professoremeritus of German Ralph Fraser.Gary Wilson (’69), Aug. 12, 2003.Charles Willard Byrd (’71),Oct. 21, 2003.Leonard Neal Duggins (MBA ’73),Dec. 23, 2003.Henry P. “Hank” Braunlich Jr. (’77),Nov. 5, 2003.Constance M. Thruston (’79),Dec. 23, 2003.Kimberly Wally Hampton (PA ’89),Nov. 21, 2003.Shannon Burgess Burns (’99),Nov. 8, 2003.Russell “Russ” Samuel Hester (’02),Nov. 8, 2003. He was a member ofDKE fraternity.Hubert McNeill Poteat III (’02),Dec. 16, 2003. A communicationmajor and member of Kappa Alphafraternity, he was a great-greatgrandson of former Wake Forestpresident William Louis Poteat. He issurvived by his parents, Robert (’68)and Hannah Poteat, and two sisters,Morgan (’98) and Hannah.Faculty, Staff,Friends, StudentsJessie Hauser Anthony, Jan. 11,2004. She retired in 1989 from theZ. Smith Reynolds Library.Barbara J. Beavers, Nov. 10, 2003.After earning a PhD in ClinicalPsychology from Duke University inthe 1950s, she had her own practicein clinical psychology and psychotherapyin Atlanta for nearly 40years before retiring last year. In1996, she and her brother and sisterestablished the James WallaceBeavers Scholarship in memory oftheir father. She is survived by herhusband, J. William Pruett.Robert Allan Emken, Jan. 17, 2004.He was a member of the President’sClub and a retired executive vicepresident of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co.He is survived by his wife, Connie,and children Janice (’82, MA ’86),Robert (’85) and Judith.Margaret “Meg” Elizabeth Hudson,Nov. 2, 2003. A native of Lincolnton,NC, she would have been a junior atWake Forest this year, but was forcedto withdraw when her condition—pulmonary hypertension—worsened.She was salutatorian of her highschool class at Gaston Day School anda member of St. Mark’s EpiscopalChurch. She is survived by her parents,Jim and Beth Hudson.Edward K. Jorgensen, Dec. 23, 2003.William “Bill” Markley McKinney,Oct. 24, 2003. He was a retired professorof neurology at Wake ForestUniversity Baptist Medical Centerand a pioneer in the use of medicalultrasound. A graduate of theUniversity of North Carolina atChapel Hill, he served in the Navyduring the Korean War and thencompleted his residency in neurologyat the University of Virginia School ofMedicine before joining the medicalschool faculty in 1963. He is survivedby his wife, Joan, and three children.Verna Mosher O’Brien, Oct. 15, 2003.In 1997, she and her late husband,Gordon O’Brien (’33), established ascholarship fund for Wake Forestundergraduates.Ione Lane Preseren, Dec. 31, 2003.She was the wife of professor emeritusof education Herman Preseren.Gilbert Leon Smith, Nov. 16, 2003.He was previously a building andgrounds maintenance attendant atWake Forest and Reynolda Village.Flake F. Steele Jr., Oct. 29, 2003. Hewas a former president, treasurer andchairman of the board of Pine HallBrick and Pipe Company in Winston-Salem and an active member in thecommunity.Margaret Mabery Wallace, Dec. 3,2003. She retired in 1990 from thelibrary after 25 years of service.Mary Ferebee Wynne, Nov. 20, 2003.She was the widow of L. WilsonWynne, who attended Wake Forestin 1935–36, and the mother of LeonWynne (’70, JD ’79). She and herhusband established a scholarshipfund at Wake Forest in 1992 forundergraduates from northeasternNorth Carolina. From 1979 to 1998,she served four terms as a trustee ofthe Baptist Children’s Homes ofNorth Carolina. She is also survivedby three grandchildren, includingJennifer Wynne John (’01) andSarah Ann Wynne (’03).62 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

12 the AnnualALUMNI ADMISSIONS FORUMFriday, June 18, 2004“We’ve visited Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt,and UNC-Chapel Hill, and this was thebest overview.”Dale Jenkins (’78)If your child is a rising high school sophomore or junior,mark your calendar to attend the Alumni AdmissionsForum. The Forum is the place to start the collegesearch and admissions process, whether your child isinterested in Wake Forest or another school.thTOPICS COVERED INCLUDEBeginning the College Search ProcessChoosing the “Right” College for YouThe Transition Between High School and College—panel discussion with students and faculty“I found this informationvaluable, and I can definitelysee myself using this information[on how to write winningessays] in applications andessays in the future.”Travis Dove (’04)Financing a College Education (session for parents)Writing Winning Essays—What AdmissionsCounselors Look For (session for students)Reception/Q&A with Admissions staffCost: $75 per family of 3 (includes lunch and Wake ForestUndergraduate bulletin)To register, visit the Alumni web site atwww.wfu.edu/alumni/events/alumadmission.htmlFor more information, contact theOffice of Alumni Activities (336) 758-4845 or(800) 752-8568 or e-mail chapmaea@wfu.eduwww.wfu.edu/alumni MARCH 2004 63

C ONSTANT& T RUESo long, SimosBy Dink Warren (’81, JD ’84)EMORIES OF SIMOS… WhileMI could write a book, I willlimit the response to a few thoughts.The Simos family and theiremployees—the names rattle off inperfect cadence, Paul, Perry, Terry,Gray, Nell, and April—are ourfriends and extended family. Thosewho were “Simos regulars" probablyspent as much time on IndianaAvenue as they did in the Zoo.strange to this product of easternNorth Carolina, but the Simos touchmade the concoction delicious.My first acquaintance with SimosBBQ Inn came though Kappa AlphaOrder. Paul had adopted us andproudly displayed our composite onthe east wall. Paul was notorious forplaying Santa Claus. He would donhis suit, after proper preparationfrom the Christmas “spirit” (nod,nod, wink, wink), and come to theKA Lodge where he would hand outSimos, a hangout for generations of Wake Foresters, closed down December 19, 2003.The familiar salutation of “Norm!”on “Cheers” is paled by comparisonto the overwhelming greeting aregular received at Simos. Who canforget Perry calling for “TALL BUD!”accompanied by that famous frostedmug and a big Greek handshake asyou entered on Friday evening. Thered barbecue and slaw were a littlebeverages to the gathered crowd.In later years, Gray Tatum, theman behind the apron in the servingkitchen, would remember my wifeJan’s special cheeseburger order. Weshare Christmas cards with Grayeach year, and he has taken a specialinterest in our children over the years.There was nothing like holding“office hours” at Simos. There issome truth to the rumor that manyused Simos as a number where wecould be reached in an emergency.I will miss the pork shoulder onthe rotisserie in the corner (whichhas been gone for some time now);the crowding of six in a booth; thecoldest beer in the world; the specialway that Nell and April would callyou “Shug”; the outside bathrooms(which have been inside for quiteawhile); the exterior neon sign withthe chef chasing the pig; the waynewcomers could never figure outwhich one was Terry and which onewas Perry; the way you could sharean entertaining conversation withyour fellow Deacons; the way thecollege boy could share a barstoolcounter with a Reynolds factoryworker and each enjoy the other’scompany; and especially the friendshipof the Simos family.For four generations (if you countLittle Paul, which I do) the Simosfamily has been feeding and entertainingtheir customers and friends.Thank you for the food, drink andfellowship. We hate to see you go,but we will remember you fondly.David M. “Dink” Warren (’81, JD ’84) isan attorney with Poyner and Spruill inRocky Mount, North Carolina.64 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Hang it from the raftersJosh Howard (’03), a 2003 first-round draft pick of the DallasMavericks, was back in Lawrence Joel Veterans MemorialColiseum on January 29 as Wake Forest retired his jersey athalftime of the Maryland game. Howard, a unanimous selectionfor ACC Player of the Year last season, was named NationalPlayer of the Year by Fox Sports, Basketball Digest and CollegeInsider. He was the first Demon Deacon to make the John R.Wooden Award All-America Team since Tim Duncan in 1997.