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Pro Humanitate Days
May 30, 2012 | Alumni, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories
From Philadelphia to San Diego, 18 alumni clubs and hundreds of Wake Foresters will be participating in volunteer projects nationwide as part of Pro Humanitate Days 4Good. The event will run from June 1-4.
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Preserving memories of the Old Campus
May 25, 2012 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
Though she was in one of the first classes to enroll on the “new” campus, Susan Brinkley (’62) is passionate about sharing the heritage of old Wake Forest. She’ll swap stories with Bill Friday on his “North Carolina People” television program over the weekend.
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Remembering the march for peace
May 25, 2012 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
Wake Forest wasn’t exactly a hotbed for campus unrest and student activism in the turbulent 1960s and early ’70s. But one night 42 years ago, about 600 students marched arm-in-arm up Wake Forest Road to President James Ralph Scales’ home and demanded an end to the Vietnam War and the cancellation of final exams so students could work for peace.
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Message to grads: ‘Never, never stop learning’
May 21, 2012 | Alumni, Commencement, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
Few people were more excited to hear Wake Forest’s commencement address than graduate Alison Moy. That’s because keynote speaker Charlie Ergen, the chairman of satellite broadcaster DISH Network Corporation and EchoStar Communications Corporation, soon will be Moy’s new boss.
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Born to be Demon Deacons
May 18, 2012 | Alumni, Commencement, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
Everyone at Wake Forest shares a special bond, but seniors Curtis Vann and Emily Roach have more in common than most from the Class of 2012. Not only do both come from a long line of Wake Foresters dating back to the old campus, their fathers became best friends and roommates in Taylor Hall more than 30 years ago.
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Career begins at ‘Mother, So Dear’
May 17, 2012 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
This year, 10 seniors have been chosen for the Wake Forest Fellows Program, a highly competitive yearlong position that pairs recent graduates with key administrators.
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WFU’s Kemper qualifies for Olympics
May 15, 2012 | Alumni, Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Top Stories
Former Wake Forest track & field standout and Hall of Famer Hunter Kemper qualified for his fourth consecutive trip to the Olympic Games after finishing fifth in the ITU World Triathlon Championship Series. Kemper earned the automatic bid to the London Olympics as the first American to cross the finish line.
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Off to Africa
May 8, 2012 | Alumni, Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
Seven thousand eight hundred and forty-three miles. That’s how far a cappella singers in Chi Rho will be traveling for their spring mission tour this year. The student-run and directed ensemble has toured nationally and internationally — performing contemporary Christian pop, rock and traditional hymns and releasing 11 albums — since 1993.
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Excellence in Entrepreneurship
May 1, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Entrepreneurship, Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
“You have to be a true visionary. It’s something that has to come from within,” said Deepa Pakianathan (MA ’90, PhD ’93), the 2012 recipient of the Excellence in Entrepreneurship award given at the Center for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship annual awards banquet.
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LinkedIn to the liberal arts
April 9, 2012 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, Personal and Career Development, School of Law, Staff, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together
Students at Wake Forest University learn ways the professional business network LinkedIn can help them prepare for their careers after college.
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