Help, 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.
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Didn’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.
Read More‘Big Brother’ takes his role seriously
Mentoring matters to Chad Brown (’01, JD ’06), who is North Carolina’s Big Brother of the Year for Big Brothers Big Sisters Services.
Read MoreStrong Is the New Pretty
Former soccer player Kate T. Parker (’98) is a mother and photographer whose new project shows young girls’ strength, power and confidence.
Read MoreFilmmaker Katina Parker (’96) remembers Maya Angelou
A writer of world renown claimed Katina Parker (’96) and ‘watered and seeded’ her soul.
Read MoreMaya Angelou helped us find our voices
Maya Angelou had little patience for anyone who spoke in front of her class with a ‘small voice’ and challenged students to project with confidence, purpose and poise, writes John R. Hilley (’83).
Read MoreA reluctant Wake Forester finds home
“As of June 30, Wake Forest will let me go,” writes Candide Jones (’72, MA ’78), who is retiring. “But I’m not sure I can ever let Wake Forest go.”
Read MoreA tribute to Professor Mary DeShazer
“Through our conversations,” writes Karen Roberts Nabavi (’01), “my own interests developed, and Dr. DeShazer helped me to chart a course to explore them.”
Read MoreBucking the trend
Mark Titus Hoover (’10) takes the road less traveled to the U.S. Embassy in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
Read More‘The rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air’
Provost Emeritus Edwin G. Wilson (’43) can still recall the fear he felt as a young ensign aboard a destroyer escort off Iwo Jima.
Read More‘It’s all for recognizing my mom’
Lauren Plichta ('05) channeled her grief into something positive.
Read MoreFilm critic Iris Barry a ‘Lady in the Dark’
Drawing on letters, memorabilia and historical documentaries, author Bob Sitton (’59) reconstructs the life and work of pioneering film critic Iris Barry.
Read MoreGo Forward, For Humanity
“Pro Humanitate is a way of living that transcends the transactional elements of our existence,” speaker Mary Tribble (’82) tells students at this year’s Senior Dinner.
Read MoreMentoring made the difference
Thomas. West. Sellner. Theologian George Faithful (’01) says his first book would have been ‘impossible’ without guidance from influential professors.
Read MoreOne, two, three … Dream!
Former baseball star Danny Borrell (’09) and a family foundation make children’s sports wishes come true.
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