Family, friends and the Demon Deacon celebrate retired professor Herman Preseren’s 100th birthday.

When Dean Toby A. Hale retires this summer, Wake Forest will lose a significant piece of its heart and soul.

Probably no one’s journey to Wake Forest was longer than Somali native Yasin Ali’s, but he had Jordan Adam (’04) pointing the way.

Walter J. Harrelson, who laid the foundation for Wake Forest’s divinity school in the mid-1990s, has died.

They worked well past midnight on that April night in 1968; it was 2 a.m. when the three editors gathered up the copy and layout pages and climbed into the Blue Goose for the drive to the bus station on Marshall Street. The Goose was a ’59 Chevy Biscayne, painted Wise potato chip-blue because Henry [...]

How should I describe Jim Barefield, who has shaped so many of his students into the writers we have become? One has to begin with the voice, I think: his distinctive low warble, with its long, drawn-out vowels. He sounds surprisingly like Winnie the Pooh, if Winnie the Pooh were from Birmingham, Ala. It is [...]

Gail Segal (’74) Listening to Provost (Ed) Wilson (’43) read aloud and unpack the poems of Blake, Yeats and Thomas, I fall in love. I am dizzied and uncertain as to what exactly I’ve fallen prey to. I am just 19. Such is the spell cast by Dr. Wilson (and in spring, no less). I [...]

Psychology professor and former provost Bill Gordon (’68, MA ’70) retires after distinguished career.

Alumni are renewing their black and gold ties through new alumni clubs 7,000 miles from campus.

Jenny Puckett (’71) passes on the Wake Forest story; Ed Wilson (’43) shares his best — and worst — Wake Forest memories with students.