Radio Station WFDD to Celebrate 50th Anniversary
May 12, 1998 | University Announcement
Fifty years after it was created by students as a small campus radio station, Wake Forest University’s WFDD (88.5) will host its 50th anniversary celebration on Friday, May 22. The 2-6 p.m. event at the station will honor the pioneers who founded the station as […]
Anthropology Museum Offers Summer Camp for Kids
May 4, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
As a cool alternative to the summer heat, elementary school children can participate in “Arctic Adventures” at Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology. Summer camps will be held the weeks of June 8, 15 and 22. Day campers will explore the environmental challenges facing Arctic […]
Anthropology Museum Holds Graduation Sale
May 3, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology will hold its annual graduation shop sale from May 1-18. Community members will receive a 10 percent discount on purchases $5 and higher. Members of the museum friends organization will receive a 20 percent discount. The museum shop carries […]
State Dedicates New ‘Wake Forest Ferry’
May 1, 1998 | University Announcement
North Carolina’s newest ferry, painted in Wake Forest University’s black and gold colors, was dedicated Friday, May 1, at an eastern North Carolina ceremony on the Neuse River at Cherry Branch. Wake Forest president Thomas K. Hearn Jr. joined state and local officials, as well […]
WFDD Raises $140,000 in Spring Campaign
April 29, 1998 | University Announcement
Public radio listeners pledged a record $140,726 to the 1998 spring fundraising campaign for Wake Forest University’s National Public Radio station, WFDD (88.5 FM). The seven-day campaign started with a live “Across the Blue Ridge” show in WFDD’s Studio A on April 18 and ended […]
WFU Announces First Faculty of Divinity School
April 28, 1998 | Faculty, School of Divinity, University Announcement
Wake Forest University has hired the first three faculty members of its new divinity school, scheduled to open in fall 1999. Bill J. Leonard, the school’s dean, said that the professors are renowned Hebrew scholar Phyllis Trible, Baptist theologian Frank Tupper and church history and […]
Bumgarner Named Truman Scholar
April 28, 1998 | Recognition, Student
Wake Forest University junior Jennifer Bumgarner of Hickory is among a distinguished group of undergraduates nationwide who have been elected as 1998 Truman Scholars by the Washington-based Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Bumgarner, a 1995 graduate of Fred T. Foard High School, is one of […]
WFU Students Win National Science Foundation Awards
April 24, 1998 | Recognition, Student
Two Wake Forest University seniors have won $73,500 awards from the National Science Foundation for graduate studies. Andrew Frey, a physics major, and Shannon Poe-Kennedy, an anthropology and politics major, are both from Winston-Salem. They are among 766 students nationwide winning the NSF’s prestigious Graduate […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
April 23, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
Festival of the Arts to Benefit AIDS Care Wake Forest students along with students from the North Carolina School of the Arts and Winston-Salem State University will host the “Festival of the Arts to Benefit AIDS Care” from 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m. on Saturday, April 25, […]
WFU Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band to Perform
April 21, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events
Wake Forest University’s Symphonic Band and the university’s Wind Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m. Monday, April 27, in Scales Fine Arts Center’s Brendle Recital Hall. Under the direction of C. Kevin Bowen, the 40-member symphonic band will perform a variety of music by 20th […]
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