Wicker to Showcase Drunk Driving Laws at WFU
November 17, 1997 | Community, Events, Speakers
Lt. Gov. Dennis Wicker will hold a press conference on North Carolina’s new drunk driving laws on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at Wake Forest University. The public is invited to attend the press conference, which will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the first floor main lounge […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
October 30, 1997 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events, Speakers
Spooky Fun for Community Children 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 today from 3-6 p.m. Costumed student volunteers will escort each child […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
September 25, 1997 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Community, Events
Haiti’s Secret Voodoo Societies Wade Davis, author of “The Serpent and the Rainbow” will discuss his experiences with Haitian voodoo culture in a public lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30. Davis, who earned his doctorate in ethnobiology at Harvard, will speak in Benson University […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
September 11, 1997 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
Pine Hall Students Get Surfing Tips Fifth-grade students from Pine Hall Elementary School will be at Wake Forest Friday, Sept. 12, to get tips on navigating the World Wide Web. A number of Wake Forest students well-experienced with Web surfing have volunteered to meet with […]
WFU, Local High Schools Host National Debate Tourney
September 10, 1997 | Community, Events
Wake Forest University, along with North Forsyth and Mount Tabor high schools, will host the National Earlybird Forensics Tournament from Friday, Sept. 12-Sunday, Sept. 14. The Wake Forest debate program, which won the national intercollegiate debating championship in 1997, annually sponsors workshops and tournaments for […]
WFU Awards Teachers $20,000 Each For Excellence
September 9, 1997 | Community, Media Advisory, Personal and Career Development, Teacher-Scholar
Wake Forest University awarded two outstanding teachers with $20,000 each during the university’s Opening Convocation ceremony on Sept. 4. Patricia Ann Killian, a high school French teacher in Gainesville, Fla., and Ellen Carole Stanley, a multi-grade elementary teacher in Newport, Del., were named the 1997 […]
Messick Named Development Director at WFDD
September 8, 1997 | Community, Staff, University Announcement
Chi-Chi Z. Messick has been named director of development at WFDD (88.5 FM), Wake Forest University’s classical music and news radio station. In her new position, Messick is responsible for developing business and corporate underwriting for WFDD, a National Public Radio member station. Messick joined […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
August 28, 1997 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
Rabbi Kicks Off Year of Religion Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of “When Bad Things Happen to Good People,” answers the question, “What’s the Point of Being Religious?” at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 4, in Brendle Recital Hall. The lecture marks the start of Wake Forest […]
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