Ted Gellar-Goad and the Secret of the Sphinx
A scholar transforms his Latin grammar course into a gamer's delight and wins accolades for innovative teaching.
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Homegrown Harmonies
Once a month the allure of a potluck supper and old-time music leads Wake Foresters and friends to gather round for The Unbroken Circle.
Read MoreLeaders By Design
Here's a stylish combination: Wake Forest graduates who have an aptitude for both business and home decor, with connections to North Carolina, the furniture capital of the world.
Read MoreThe Thing He Carried
Fifty-year-old Memories of People and Two Places — Wake Forest and Vietnam — Come Flooding Back
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 MoreAn off-the-court reunion in Vietnam
In 1966, teammates Al Koehler ('63) and Butch Hassell ('64) crossed paths in South Vietnam.
Read MoreOne Clippers family man admires another
Demon Deacon, NBA superstar and self-professed family man Chris Paul (’07) admires his new boss, based on comments he made in an article published in The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26. Steve Ballmer, who retired as Microsoft CEO in February, purchased the Los Angeles Clippers on Aug. 12 for $2 million after a dramatic process […]
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’
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