Category: Alumni

How alumni are leading though turbulent times in their industries.

Wake Forest is not a single story. It is the sum of every individual experience of those who have passed through this institution.

These four Deacs see big opportunities for Wake Forest and its new president.

The author of a new novel about the Kennedy brothers says they provided a template for leading in the 21st century.

Introducing Board Chair Curt Farmer.

Deacs who ran Student Government have a powerful advantage when they land in the nation’s capital — the leadership lessons they learned at Wake Forest.

Support from Tom Dingledine (MBA '78) and other benefactors has helped Wake Forest’s Program for Leadership and Character become a national model.

We remember the following alumni, staff, faculty, students and friends whose deaths were reported to us since the last issue.

The acclaimed author and alum was shaped by Wake Forest. In August, she was back on campus to help launch her youngest child into her first year.

100+ first-year students are following in their parents’ footsteps.

Anna Anstey (’26) turns end-of-year cast-offs into a business.

"I held the papers up and just stared at (my dad) and he just started crying."

"I hope that in 20 years, I'm meeting many more Wake grads in small towns."

"It wasn't a windfall. It was hard-earned money. But I got it at a different time than I expected to. So, this was math of the heart."

"I have some pretty deep country roots and just sort of a fascination with what the South is, what North Carolina is..."

"I wanted to be helping people, and what better way to help people than to focus on the bedrock of our society, which is family?"

On an overcast June night, Wake Forest hosted some of the world's biggest soccer stars. It was a perfect match.

Forty years later, Karen Richardson Dunn ('86, MDIV '11) felt the presence of then-Provost Ed Wilson ('43, P '91, '93) as she visited W.B. Yeats's grave and other sites in Ireland. She writes about that journey in our summer issue.