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2nd Lts. Meghan and Rob Vendley are currently stationed in Afghanistan.

Deacs in Love: Meghan and Rob Vendley

Deacs in Love: ROTC alumni Meghan and Rob Vendley serving in Afghanistan

Toby Hale has mentored countless students over the last 40 years.

Godspeed, Dean Toby A. Hale

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

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Courage to Change a Campus

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 [...]

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An Original Power Couple

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 [...]

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Deacs in Love

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

A Winning Team

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 [...]

Paul Garber with his children, Sean and Delaney, and his wife, Desiree.

For fathers after 40

“I try to chronicle the big picture and not just the risks,” says Paul Garber (’86), who blogs about older parenting.

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The weight of mercy

“I was lied to, stolen from, screamed at and spit upon,” says Deb Richardson-Moore (’76), minister to the homeless.

Left to right: David Edmiston ('88), Heather Hamby Edmiston ('92), Matt Maguire, Virginia Blake Maguire ('91), Chris Martin ('90) and Margaret Robinson Martin ('92).

Saving Grace

Alumni sponsor fundraiser to support S.O.P.H. sister’s child with mitochondrial disease.

Ashley Swenson Hackshaw: erring on the side of positivity

Ashley Hackshaw’s mantra: ‘Choose Joy’

Entrepreneur, blogger and cancer survivor inspires others to see life differently.