This week at Wake Forest
September 26, 1996 | Events, Speakers
Gala Premiere of `Since Dawn’ Set Wake Forest’s composer-in-residence Dan Locklair has created the first musical composition based on Maya Angelou’s 1993 presidential inauguration poem. “Since Dawn (A Tone Poem for Narrator, Chorus and Orchestra based on Maya Angelou’s `On the Pulse of Morning’)” will […]
Beverly Sills Optimistic About Future of the Arts
September 24, 1996 | Speakers
Opera legend and arts advocate Beverly Sills told a Wake Forest University audience today that the arts continue to thrive in the United States, despite a lack of support from the government. “We are where we are in the arts not because our government has […]
Teachers Receive $20,000 Awards for Excellence
September 24, 1996 | Community, University Announcement
Wake Forest University recognized two outstanding educators with a $20,000 award that was announced during the university’s opening convocation this morning. Grace Elizabeth Hancock, a first-grade teacher in Raleigh, and Rebecca K. Malenkos, a high school English teacher in Carmel, Ind., were named the 1996 […]
Italian Art Historian Lectures On Tiepolo Works
September 23, 1996 | Arts & Culture, Events
Terisio Pignatti, Reynolds Professor of Art at Wake Forest University, will present a talk on “The Tiepolo Centenary Exhibition in Venice” on Wednesday, Oct. 2. Internationally known as an authority on Venetian art, Pignatti will begin his slide lecture at 7:30 p.m. in Scales Fine […]
WFU, Foundation Create New Scholarships
September 23, 1996 | Admissions, Media Advisory, Student, University Announcement
Wake Forest University and the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation announced today the creation of the North Carolina Leadership Scholarships for as many as 100 students with financial need throughout the state. “I see these scholarships as a way to ensure that young people of modest […]
This Week at Wake Forest
September 19, 1996 | Events, Faculty, Speakers, Staff, Student
Beverly Sills to Speak at Opening Convocation Opera legend Beverly Sills, one of America’s most prominent advocates for the arts, will speak at Wake Forest University’s opening convocation Tuesday, Sept. 24. Sills, chairman of the board of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, will […]
WFU Police Receive State Grant
September 17, 1996 | Campus Life, University Announcement
The Governor’s Crime Commission awarded University Police a two-year grant worth up to $68,202 for upgrading the department’s computer system. The grant will be used to buy a multi-user computer system, including software and six personal computers, said Ken Overholt, assistant University Police chief. The […]
Anthropology Museum Shares Its Treasures
September 16, 1996 | Community, Events, University Announcement
Masks from the Kuba Kingdom of Zaire and Australian bark paintings are among the many never-before exhibited objects included in “Treasures from Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology.” The exhibit, which runs from Sept. 20 through March 1, 1997, includes archeological and ethnographic pieces from […]
WFDD May Return to Full Strength Next Week
September 13, 1996 | University Announcement
Radio station WFDD, which has been operating with a reduced transmitting signal since Hurricane Fran, expects to return to full broadcasting strength early next week. High winds from by the hurricane caused some damage on the station’s antenna in northern Davidson County, said Cleve Callison, […]
This Week at Wake Forest
September 12, 1996 | Speakers, Student, University Announcement
Students Helping Out in the Wake of Hurricane Fran About 15 students from Wake Forest University will head east this weekend to help the university’s birthplace of Wake Forest, N.C., recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Fran. “We will be providing child care, helping cut […]
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