Mary Scott Haynie (’13): A Deacon then and now
Mary Scott Haynie was 4 years old when she was pictured on the cover of the 1995 Homecoming brochure wearing a Wake Forest cheerleading outfit and striking a toothy grin in front of Wait Chapel....
View ArticleThe unforgettable Jeff Dobbs (’77)
Before there was a costumed Demon Deacon there was Jeff Dobbs (’77), one of the more memorable Deacons of all time, with his famously limber neck and unforgettable entrances into Groves Stadium. A...
View ArticleTen years of hitting the bricks
Lori Piccolo (’87) will be watching from afar as hundreds of students race around Hearn Plaza for the 10th annual Hit the Bricks fundraiser Sept. 27. The eight-hour relay race raises money for cancer...
View ArticleWhere Are They Now?
Laura Bullins Lough ('07) Founded The Unique Sheep to produce hand-painted yarn for knitting and crocheting. Works full time with The Unique Sheep. “Define success for yourself. It is easy to get...
View ArticleKeeping Traditions, Creating New Ones
Students happily maintain those long-lived, cherished traditions. But they also are inventing new ones — about three dozen in the past decade. Students and alumni pack Wait Chapel the first Sunday...
View ArticleAlumnus leads student to ‘Wake’ and ‘Forest’
Probably no one’s journey to Wake Forest covered more miles than Yasin Ali’s – from Somalia to Kenya to England and, once in the United States, from Tennessee to Nebraska and finally Indiana. It was in...
View ArticleHoop dreams: The 1962 Final Four team
Longtime television basketball analyst and former basketball star Billy Packer (’62) entertained the Half Century Club at its Homecoming luncheon with tales about the late Coach Horace “Bones”...
View ArticleAmy White (’90): A reason to give thanks
When 250 families in central North Carolina gather for Thanksgiving dinner this week, they’ll have more to be thankful for because of the efforts of Amy Bannister White (’90) to serve her community....
View ArticleCollege Bowl team wins place in history
For three weeks 50 years ago, four smart, clean-cut Wake Forest students captured the attention of the campus – and a large national following – on the popular CBS General Electric “College Bowl” quiz...
View ArticleIfill to graduates: ‘Care about something’
Wake Forest’s Class of 2013 was reminded that timing is everything at Commencement on May 20. Following a weekend of rain that continued into Monday morning, the precipitation stopped long enough –...
View ArticleMemories of a simpler time
A program from the 1951 groundbreaking ceremony and a fundraising brochure for the new campus. Invitations to the Magnolia Ball and Homecoming Dances. A 1952 commencement program. A postcard assessing...
View ArticleThe familiar and the unfamiliar
James Ivory (’85) stood in disbelief outside Johnson Residence Hall. It was a women’s residence hall when he was a student; today, it’s home for his son, Sebastian. For alumni parents, freshman move-in...
View ArticleNikolai Vitti: Race to the top
Nikolai Vitti (’00, MAEd ’01) is in a hurry. He’s on a mission to transform one of the largest school districts in the country. It’s an unlikely quest for someone who struggled mightily in school...
View ArticleRise of Pro Humanitate in Students’ Lives
Six years ago, when they made their first foray into downtown Winston-Salem to hand out sandwiches to the homeless, Wake Forest students Jordan Jones (’08), Eric Lange (’08) and Richard Roberts (’08)...
View ArticleHow to survive a nuclear war
With Cold War tensions between the United States and Soviet Union escalating in the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy encouraged Americans to construct fallout shelters in case of a nuclear...
View ArticleFinding a piece of history
When librarians discovered a tattered banner rolled up in butcher paper in a storage room in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, they weren’t quite sure what they’d found. The silk banner was clearly old,...
View ArticleOne, two, three … Dream!
Former Wake Forest pitching ace and professional baseball player Danny Borrell (’09) is used to being in the limelight. But it was an entirely different feeling when he walked into Yankee Stadium with...
View Article‘The rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air’
Provost Emeritus Edwin G. Wilson (’43) can still recall the fear he felt as a young ensign aboard a destroyer escort off the coast of Iwo Jima during the bloody World War II battle for the heavily...
View ArticleHarold Hayes: ‘Smiling through the apocalypse’
Watch the movie trailer. Tom Hayes’ (’79) documentary film about his late father, famed Esquire editor Harold T.P. Hayes (’48, L.H.D. ’89) — “Smiling Through the Apocalypse: Esquire in the 60s” —...
View ArticleShahedah Fornah (’12): Fighting Ebola
Shahedah Fornah (’12), at right, and her cousin, Zainab Kamarah, co-founded Pearls of Wata. Shahedah Fornah (’12) is president and co-founder of Pearls of Wata, a nonprofit that raises funds and...
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