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Player leads tornado relief drive
April 22, 2011 | Athletics, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
Dennis Godfrey is a rising senior on Wake Forest’s football team, and he is also from Sanford, which had parts of it torn apart by a tornado. So Godfrey organized a relief drive on campus to collect items he plans to drive home. [Video]
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Godfrey leads tornado relief drive
April 21, 2011 | Athletics, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Senior football player Dennis Godfrey, a native of Sanford, N.C., has helped mobilize the campus to collect food and clothing to donate to the state’s tornado victims. Items can be donated at 5 p.m. today in front of Wait Chapel. Godfrey and friends will deliver the items Friday.
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Team wins ‘Student Emmy’ for documentary
April 8, 2011 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, National, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, Student, Top Stories
How do you take a small story and make it big? Two documentary film students started with a story about a man breaking the law by handing out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to homeless people, and created the award-winning film, “Civil Indigent.”
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Providing desks for local students
April 8, 2011 | Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
Several hundred Wake Forest students welcomed about 50 elementary school students to campus Wednesday to paint their very own desk. Wake Forest students started D.E.S.K. (Discovering Education through Student Knowledge) 11 years ago to provide desks to underprivileged children.
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Citizenship: From class to community
April 7, 2011 | Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Life on Campus, Pro Humanitate, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together
Students in Alessandra Beasley Von Burg’s communications class are putting what they’ve learned in the classroom about citizenship into action with a symposium today on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The symposium is free and open to the public.
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Barefoot on the Quad
April 6, 2011 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories
On April 4, more than 250 students walked barefoot on Hearn Plaza and lined the Quad with paper feet to show support for children who face challenges while trying to gain access to education — such as walking to school without shoes.
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Dancing to support the homeless
April 3, 2011 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories
Several Wake Forest staff members, professors and students are putting their dancing shoes on — and their pride on the line — to raise money for the Bethesda Center for the Homeless. Vote for your favorite team now.
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Professor, graduate earn service awards
March 28, 2011 | Community, Faculty, For Alumni, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, School of Divinity, Top Stories
Wake Forest Professor of Church History Bill Leonard and Divinity School graduate Rev. Yvonne Hines (MDiv. ’04) each received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Community Service at The Chronicle’s 26th annual Community Service Awards on March 19.
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Wake ‘n Shake 2011
March 23, 2011 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
More than 800 students danced in Reynolds Gym as part of the sixth annual Wake ‘n Shake Dance Marathon. So far, the event has raised more than $52,000 for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund and the Cancer Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
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Alumna wins leadership award
March 21, 2011 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, Top Stories
Catharine McNally (’06) recently received the Hearne Leadership award, which comes with a $10,000 prize, from the American Association of People with Disabilities. McNally, who is deaf, is both an advocate and entrepreneur, having developed captioned video tours for cellphones.
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