Category: Web Exclusives
The hitchhiker’s 76th reunion
Fred Williams ('38, JD '40) took the long road to Wake Forest.
Read MoreFrom cable to classroom: Melissa Harris-Perry (’94) returns to her alma mater
Meet the MHP you don’t see on her cable-news show.
Read MoreThat bold girl from Bristol
Pam Key (’72) stepped up and made history as the Wake Forest marching band’s first female drum major.
Read MoreHarold Hayes: ‘Smiling through the apocalypse’
Tom Hayes (’79) explores the magical world of his father, famed Esquire editor Harold Hayes (’48).
Read MoreOn the ground in Ferguson
Mustafa Abdullah (’10), a program associate with the ACLU of Missouri, was in Ferguson, Missouri, following Michael Brown’s death.
Read MoreEric Hallman (’77) is saving the cows
Eric Hallman, head of The Livestock Conservancy, says maintaining genetic diversity in cows is critical to avoid a crisis akin to the Irish potato famine.
Read MoreThe house the Boodlers built
In 1947 industrious students came up with a solution to the Old Campus housing shortage — they built the Boodle Inn.
Read MoreSpine-tingling tales
Guy T. Montgomery’s (’09) first book is a collection of ghostly stories haunting historic Old Salem.
Read MoreWhat’s in a name
For years, Chaplain Ed Christman (’50, JD ’53) welcomed new students with a simple message: ‘You matter’
Read MoreFood for the soul, from the heart
Handmade pottery by Jane Patton Williams (MAEd ’76) brings food for the soul to campus dining hall.
Read MoreSaving the orangutans
Cassie Freund (’10) uses her biology degree to save wild orangutans in Borneo.
Read MoreHelp, hope for orphaned Asian girls
His family’s vision, says Kevin Shorter (MBA ’06), is to keep orphaned Asian girls off the street and out of the sex trade.
Read MoreDidn’t skip a beat
Four Class of ’63 friends stage a Broadway reunion and answer their own question: What makes Wake Forest special?
Read MoreKaren Beasley’s legacy: save the turtles
Her legacy of love for nature’s vulnerable sea turtles lives on at the Karen Beasley (’84) Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center.
Read MoreMotor mouth: Dentist on wheels
Dentist Sara Creighton (’05) hits the streets of San Francisco in a souped-up mobile dental office.
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