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Constant and True
Niepold (back row, fifth from left) at a celebration with nyanyas and preschoolers in Kenya, July 2011. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that I followed my brother his entire life. Dwight was my only...
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Messing With the Mona Lisa
Although Bill Coore (’68) is a world-renowned golf course architect, he comes across as exceedingly humble. Ask him about playing for the vaunted Wake Forest golf team, for instance, and Coore won’t...
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Bill Gordon bids a second farewell to his alma mater
Four decades after he first bid farewell to his alma mater, William C. “Bill” Gordon is saying goodbye for a second time. After earning his undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology from Wake...
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Susan Brinkley (’62) preserves memories of the Old Campus
The Calvin Jones House near the Old Campus. Susan Powell Brinkley loves old Wake Forest as only an alumnus who walked the magnolia-lined campus with Dr. Billy Poteat or Bull Memory or Skinny Pearson...
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Jack Shearin (’50): Building hope, one ramp at a time
Every Tuesday, Jack Shearin (’50) and his merry band of volunteers spread hope and freedom with treated lumber and plywood. Shearin and a dozen other mostly retired volunteers build wheelchair ramps...
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David Forsythe (’64) explores the ‘dark side’ of war, human rights and U.S....
David Forsythe ('64) was a Fulbright Senior Research Chair in Denmark in 2009. The war on terrorism. The Arab Spring. Turmoil in Egypt. Civil War in Syria. David Forsythe (’64), one of the country’s...
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Summer’s hottest books
There’s still time this summer to head to the beach — or your backyard deck — and spend some time with a good book. We asked some of our alumni professors to recommend a good book or two. Deborah L....
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Hoop dreams: The 1962 Final Four team
Longtime television basketball analyst and former basketball star Billy Packer (’62) entertained the Half Century Club at its Homecoming luncheon with tales about the late Coach Horace “Bones”...
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College Bowl team wins place in history
For three weeks 50 years ago, four smart, clean-cut Wake Forest students captured the attention of the campus – and a large national following – on the popular CBS General Electric “College Bowl” quiz...
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Hale/Orser Fund honors associate deans’ commitment to students
Toby A. Hale (’65, P ’03) and Paul N. Orser (’69, P ’01) touched the lives of thousands of students during their long careers as associate deans. Both mentored and advised students and helped them...
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A trip back in time for the Class of ’64
Sally Harris Marley (’64) and Linda Sutherland Whitmire (’64) looked around the small cinderblock room — nearly empty except for the bunk beds, two desks and two chairs – on the second floor of Johnson...
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Beth Braxton (’66): A call to serve
The Rev. Beth Pirkle Braxton (’66) received an unexpected gift when she was a freshman 50 years ago. It wasn’t a gift in the traditional sense, but it turned out to be one that changed her life. “It...
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‘A dangerous nest of subversives’
Beth Pirkle and Mike Bridges move a stove into their new home on Patterson Avenue in 1966. When five students moved into a ramshackle house in downtown Winston-Salem in the turbulent 1960s, they came...
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Honoring our nation’s veterans
Tommy Norman (front) with some of the veterans and their families helped by Charlotte Bridge Home. U.S. Army helicopter pilot Adam Stead faced a long recovery after he was shot in the head during a...
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An Artful Friendship
In a narrow room over the garage, paint palettes and easels await two Wake Forest fraternity brothers. Some weeks the two fellows never make it up the wooden stairs past the Christmas wreaths stored...
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How to survive a nuclear war
With Cold War tensions between the United States and Soviet Union escalating in the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy encouraged Americans to construct fallout shelters in case of a nuclear...
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Pete Daniel (’61) shapes Southern history
Prominent historian John Boles once described Pete Daniel (’61, MA ’62, P ’90) as a “shaper of Southern history.” Daniel is a retired senior curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American...
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The scourge of poverty
When Durham, N.C., Mayor William Bell recently vowed to wage war on poverty, he praised the good work already being done in the city by the Rev. Tracy Melvin “Mel” Williams (’65). Williams, a retired...
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Didn’t skip a beat
Sue Fulkerson O’Connor (from left), Judy Palmer Newsoroff, Kay Overman Ferrell and Mary Martin Pickard Niepold Let’s put it this way. Every “morning” around 3 p.m. we pushed away from the breakfast...
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Two Ed Wilsons for Homecoming
A surprised Ed Wilson sees his bronzed likeness for the first time, sculpted by Prissy Armfield (’64), at left. Photo by David Rosen. You can forgive members of the Class of ’64 for seeing double....
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