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Taylor Field (’76): Serving the ‘unserved’

Not many of us are so devoted to serving the poor that we’d move our young family right in with them. But that’s just what the Rev. Taylor Field (’76) did.

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Constant & True

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw Though neither of my parents attended college, their belief in this principle fashioned both my infinite thirst for knowledge and the confidence that I could overcome formidable odds [...]

Bobby Higdon conducts a training session in Kosovo on the finer points of plea bargaining.

Alumni rebuild battered Kosovo’s courts

Bobby Higdon (’85, JD ’89) and Frank Bradsher (’82) are helping rebuild Kosovo’s judicial system.

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Ten 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.

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Mary Scott Haynie (’13): A Deacon then and now

Seventeen years after four-year-old Mary Scott Haynie was the Homecoming poster child, she’s entering her senior year at Wake Forest.

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Continuing the legacy

Alumni move their children onto a campus that still evokes happy memories.

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Lynne Flood’s (’82) animal tales

You can learn a lot about life from animals, says veterinarian Lynne M. Flood (’82).

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David Morgan (’80): A new home for a second chance

David Morgan’s (’80) second-chance school is getting its own second chance to reach even more youth.

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Chuck Millsaps (’83) guides a record-breaking run across North Carolina

Chuck Millsaps (’83, P ’13, ’16) guides elite runner Diane Van Deren from North Carolina’s mountains to the sea.

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Judge Frank Whitney (’82) delivers justice in a war zone

The sounds of war were never far away from the makeshift courtrooms of Federal Judge Frank Whitney (’82) in Iraq and Afghanistan.