WFU announces 1999-2000 Secrest Artists Series
April 13, 1999 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Community, Events
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 […]
WFU counselor education program, director receive national awards
April 8, 1999 | Campus Life, Recognition, Thrive / Wellbeing, University Announcement
The Wake Forest University graduate counselor education program was named the 1999 Robert Frank Outstanding Program, a national award of excellence from the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES). ACES also honored Samuel T. Gladding, the program’s director and a nationally-known figure in the […]
WFU’S “Book Mechanic” preserves history
April 8, 1999 | Campus Life, Staff
Craig Fansler is a mechanic, but you won’t find him in a garage. Instead, Fansler is tucked away inside the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University tinkering on books rather than cars. “If a book is falling apart-just like a car-we can […]
WFU ranks third in Yahoo! list of ‘Most Wired Colleges’
April 8, 1999 | Campus Life, University Announcement
Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine ranked Wake Forest University third in its 1999 annual survey of “America’s 100 Most Wired Colleges,” a detailed guide to Internet use in higher education. Appearing in the magazine’s May issue, the guide also ranked Wake Forest first in a […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
April 8, 1999 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Community, Events, Research, Speakers
STUDENTS TAKE AFTERNOON PLUNGE INTO SERVICE WORK More than 100 students from various campus organizations will participate in WILD (Winston-Salem into the Lives of Deacs) today at 3 p.m. The community plunge is in honor of National Youth Service month. Students will volunteer at 12 […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
March 25, 1999 | Campus Life, Community, Events, Speakers
NOW VICE PRESIDENT TO VISIT CAMPUS Kim Gandy, the executive vice president of the National Organization for Women, will speak at Wake Forest at 7 p.m. March 30 in Benson University Center’s Pugh Auditiorium. She will address “The New Face of Civil Rights: The Shift […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
March 4, 1999 | Campus Life, Community, Events, Speakers, Student
STUDENTS TAKE ALTERNATIVE SPRING BREAK While many college students spend Spring Break at the beach or at home enjoying Mom’s cooking, more than 60 Wake Forest students are helping with community service projects across the country. As part of Wake Alternative Break, a program established […]
Wake Forest Music Department Hosts Competitions
February 8, 1999 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Community, Events
Wake Forest University’s 22nd annual Christopher Giles and Lucille S. Harris Competitions in Musical Performance will be held Saturday, Feb. 20, in Brendle Recital Hall. The music competitions, established by Paul and Sara Sinal, honor Christopher Giles, who taught piano at Wake Forest for 37 […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
January 29, 1999 | Campus Life, Events, Recognition, Research
FOUNDERS’ DAY ADDRESS BY ACTIVIST WOLE SOYINKA Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian author and political activist, will deliver the Founders’ Day Convocation address during the 11 a.m. ceremony on Tuesday, Feb. 2, in Wait Chapel. Soyinka, a poet, playwright and novelist, won the Nobel Prize for […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
December 3, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Community, Events
ART IN THE PUBLIC EYE Public art sculptures by students in Wake Forest’s intermediate sculpture class are now scattered around campus. Ranging from an oversized half-buried book in front of the library to a steel, aluminum and copper figure called “Molting” beside Luter Residence Hall, […]
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