Unearthing the Past
Anthropologist Ben Steere ('03) collaborates with North Carolina's Eastern Band Cherokee to protect and preserve their heritage.
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A World’s Fair with a Wake Forest Flair
The students' challenge? Plan the 2025 World's Fair.
Read MoreA chaotic convention
Sandy Hutchens ('69) remembers the thrill and chaos of the '68 Democratic convention
Read MoreRemember When?
David Hills' whimsical cartoons captured the feel-good campus vibes of an era.
Read MoreThe Music Man
'Neither of us realized it at the time,' writes a former student, 'but Dr. Mac that semester opened up a real new world for me.'
Read MoreTreasure Hunter
Allen Blevins ('80) works with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln every day as keeper of Bank of America's historical treasures.
Read More‘His words lifted one’s spirit to a new plane …’
Jill Gary Lawlor ('64) remembers Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — both the man and the 1962 speech he made in Wait Chapel.
Read MoreRemember When: Janet’s Bells
Since its dedication in 1978, the Carillon has become a Wake Forest tradition that’s often heard, but seldom seen.
Read MoreThe Little Chicken Coop in the Woods
Jack Wilson ('50) had nowhere to live when he arrived on the Old Campus, so he turned to the Sears Roebuck catalog.
Read MoreThe third Monday in May
Director of Landscaping Jim Coffey keeps up with Commencement's fascinating facts.
Read MoreHearing voices — of viewers
PBS researcher Susan White Frazier ('89) wants to know what you watch, and why.
Read MoreMaking History
Wake Forest Magazine asked these professors to name the event or discovery in their field that most changed the course of history.
Read MoreThe father of Wake Forest ROTC
You probably remember Robert Helm (’39) as a philosophy professor; it’s what you don’t know about him that you might find surprising.
Read MoreThe hitchhiker’s 76th reunion
Fred Williams ('38, JD '40) took the long road to Wake Forest.
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.
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