Project Pumpkin Offers Halloween Fun to Community Kids
October 16, 1997 | Community, Events
Project Pumpkin, an annual event sponsored by the Wake Forest University Volunteer Service Corps, will bring more than 1,200 disadvantaged children to campus for an afternoon of Halloween fun Thursday, Oct. 30, from 3-6 p.m. Costumed student volunteers will escort each child through residence halls […]
Exhibit Showcases Theatrical Design Talents of Mielziner
October 10, 1997 | Arts & Culture, Events
Set designs, abstract paintings and second-hand clothing each have a place in the three exhibitions opening at Wake Forest University’s Fine Arts Gallery on Tuesday, Oct. 14. An opening reception will be held Friday, Oct. 17. The shows run through Nov. 25. A collection of […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
October 9, 1997 | Arts & Culture, Events
Gandhi’s Grandson Preaches Nonviolence Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, will visit the Wake Forest campus Thursday, Oct. 16, to present “The 21st Century is Coming, But Where are we Going?” Founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in Memphis, Tenn., Gandhi will present […]
WFU Wins Beyond Computing Magazine Award
October 9, 1997 | Campus Life, For Parents, Student, University Announcement
Wake Forest University is featured this month in Beyond Computing magazine as a winner of the magazine’s second annual Partnership Awards. Wake Forest is among 10 winners recognized in the magazine’s October issue as having successfully aligned their information technology operations with their primary missions. […]
WFU to Host Conference on Religion & Higher Education
October 3, 1997 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
Wake Forest University will host the Lilly Endowment’s national Baptist meeting on religion and higher education, uniting representatives of 15 different Southeastern colleges and universities in an examination of the place of religion in their campuses’ academic and cultural lives amid declining denominational loyalty and […]
WFU, Hospital Rename Medical Center in Realignment
October 3, 1997 | School of Medicine, University Announcement
Wake Forest University and the North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc., have renamed the Medical Center “Wake Forest University-Baptist Medical Center” as part of an extensive realignment plan approved today by the university’s Board of Trustees. The hospital’s Board of Trustees had already approved the plan. […]
WFU Student Dies of Leukemia at Age 22
October 2, 1997 | Student
Amanda Lee Edwards, a Wake Forest University senior, died of leukemia on Monday, Sept. 29, at her home in Wayland, Mass. Edwards was 22. Diagnosed with leukemia in March of this year, she was unable to graduate with her class in May, but was awarded […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
October 2, 1997 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
Watching the Promise Keepers As the Promise Keepers’ Oct. 4 “Stand in the Gap” rally approaches, Wake Forest religion professor Stephen Boyd can help put it in context. Author of the 1995 book, “The Men We Long to Be: Beyond Domination to a New Christian […]
Wake Forest Enrolls Three Tandy Scholars
September 29, 1997 | For Parents, Recognition, Student
Three Wake Forest University freshmen are among 100 students across the country named Tandy Technology Scholars. Michele Alesia Johnson of Rutherfordton, N.C.; Sarah Holland Rackley of Charleston, S.C.; and Dan Durand of Shoreham, N.Y., were selected from a pool of 8,000 nominees with outstanding achievements […]
Gandhi’s Grandson to Lecture on Nonviolence at WFU
September 29, 1997 | Speakers
Arun Gandhi, whose grandfather Mahatma Gandhi helped India secure its nationhood through nonviolent resistance to oppression, will lecture on nonviolence Thursday, Oct. 16, at Wake Forest University for its 1997-98 Year of Religion in American Life. Gandhi’s speech, “The 21st Century is Coming, But Where […]
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