Theater season opens with Kanin’s ‘Goodbye, My Fancy’
September 13, 1999 | Arts & Culture, Events
Fay Kanin’s romantic comedy “Goodbye, My Fancy” will open at Wake Forest University Sept. 24. The University Theater production continues Sept. 25 and 29- 30 and Oct. 1 – 3. The setting of “Goodbye, My Fancy” is the Good Hope College for Women, where […]
Guest trio to present ‘Italian Songbook’
September 10, 1999 | Arts & Culture, Events
Three University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill music professors will present Hugo Wolf’s “Italian Songbook” at 8 p.m. Sept. 16 at Wake Forest University’s Brendle Recital Hall. The program is drawn from the Italian songwriter’s fourth songbook. Wolf chose texts from Paul Heyse’s “Italian […]
WFU Consort presents early English music concert
September 10, 1999 | Arts & Culture, Events
The Wake Forest Consort will present “Pastime with Goode Companie,” a concert of early English music, at 8 p.m. Sept. 21 in Wake Forest University’s Brendle Recital Hall. Composed of Wake Forest music department faculty members, the Wake Forest Consort was formed in 1983. The […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
September 9, 1999 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Community, Events, University Announcement
DNA PIONEER TO SPEAK AT WAKE FOREST James D. Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered the structure of DNA, will deliver Wake Forest’s Opening Convocation address at 11 a.m. on Sept. 16 in Wait Chapel. Watson’s address is part of “Science & Technology: The […]
Church asked not to perform ceremonies
September 8, 1999 | School of Divinity, University Announcement
An ad hoc committee of the Wake Forest University Board of Trustees has asked Wake Forest Baptist Church not to perform same-gender union ceremonies in the university’s facilities. The committee, appointed last March by trustee chairman John G. Medlin Jr., met a number of times […]
WFU cancels opening convocation
September 7, 1999 | University Announcement
Wake Forest University has canceled its Opening Convocation on Sept. 16. A number of participants in the convocation program were not able to attend the event due to difficult travel conditions stemming from Hurricane Floyd. The university will not reschedule the event. However, the […]
WFU announces 1999-2000 Secrest Artists Series
September 7, 1999 | Arts & Culture, Events, University Announcement
Wake Forest University’s Secrest Artists Series will include everything from chamber music to ragtime to West African song and dance in its five-concert 1999-2000 season. The Vienna Chamber Orchestra with conductor and piano soloist Phillipe Entremont will open the series on Oct. 13 as Wake […]
WFU announces 1999-2000 theater season
September 7, 1999 | Arts & Culture, Events
The Wake Forest University Theater season will open Sept. 24 with “Goodbye, My Fancy,” a romantic comedy by Fay Kanin. The setting of “Goodbye, My Fancy” is the Good Hope College for Women, where the play’s heroine, Congresswoman Agatha Reed, had been expelled 20 years […]
Health service distributing antibiotic, student’s condition improving
September 6, 1999 | Media Advisory, University Announcement
Approximately 150 Wake Forest University students have taken a preventive antibiotic in response to a fellow student being diagnosed this week with bacterial meningitis, an infection of the fluid of a person’s spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds the brain. The student, junior Ann […]
Calloway School receives grant from Duke Energy
September 2, 1999 | School of Business, University Announcement
The Duke Energy Corporation awarded Wake Forest University’s Wayne Calloway School of Business and Accountancy a $500,000 grant. The grant was presented in honor of the late Thomas H. Davis, a member of Duke Energy’s board of directors from 1978-1990. The grant was made possible […]
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