Deacs in Love: ROTC alumni Meghan and Rob Vendley serving in Afghanistan
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Godspeed, Dean Toby A. Hale
March 4, 2013
When Dean Toby A. Hale retires this summer, Wake Forest will lose a significant piece of its heart and soul.
Courage to Change a Campus
January 31, 2013
In 1970, Linda Carter Brinson interviewed Edward Reynolds for the July issue of Wake Forest Magazine. Reynolds had graduated in 1964 as the first black undergraduate at the College. In June 2012, Brinson and Reynolds met in Santa Barbara, Calif., for another interview for Wake Forest Magazine. At both meetings, the two alumni talked about [...]
An Original Power Couple
January 31, 2013
At the beginning of the 20th century, R.J. and Katharine Reynolds became one of the region’s most influential couples in business and society, creating an estate that would one day be sacred ground to the Wake Forest community. Kahle Family Professor of History Michele Gillespie shares the following excerpt from her new biography, “Katharine and [...]
Deacs in Love
January 31, 2013
You would think that I would have met Bill McGibony (’06) on the Quad or at the WAKE Radio studio, where we each had our own shows. But we met a few years after graduating, through a mutual Wake Forest friend. I often think about how many times I probably walked by him on my [...]
A Winning Team
January 31, 2013
Anyone watching the final, suspenseful moments of the 2012 U.S. Open Championship saw that unmistakable bond. Television cameras in the clubhouse focused on Webb (’08) and Dowd (’07) Simpson, who waited as later scores came in to see if Webb’s two-under-par 68 that day would make him the winner. Yet the couple seemed as relaxed [...]
For fathers after 40
October 16, 2012
“I try to chronicle the big picture and not just the risks,” says Paul Garber (’86), who blogs about older parenting.
The weight of mercy
October 8, 2012
“I was lied to, stolen from, screamed at and spit upon,” says Deb Richardson-Moore (’76), minister to the homeless.
Saving Grace
September 4, 2012
Alumni sponsor fundraiser to support S.O.P.H. sister’s child with mitochondrial disease.
Ashley Hackshaw’s mantra: ‘Choose Joy’
August 28, 2012
Entrepreneur, blogger and cancer survivor inspires others to see life differently.