WFU Announces First Faculty of Divinity School
April 28, 1998 | Faculty, School of Divinity, University Announcement
Wake Forest University has hired the first three faculty members of its new divinity school, scheduled to open in fall 1999. Bill J. Leonard, the school’s dean, said that the professors are renowned Hebrew scholar Phyllis Trible, Baptist theologian Frank Tupper and church history and […]
WFU Trustees Approve New Budget, Elect Members
April 6, 1998 | University Announcement
Wake Forest University’s board of trustees on Friday approved a total operating budget of $504 million for the next fiscal year, beginning July 1. During its April 2-3 meeting on campus, the board also elected 12 trustees and its 1998-99 officers. The new budget includes […]
Flow Gift Adds WFU Study Center in Vienna
April 3, 1998 | University Announcement
Wake Forest University students will soon call a 19th century Vienna villa home. Winston-Salem businessman Victor I. Flow Jr. and his wife, Roddy, are making a major gift to Wake Forest, enabling it to buy the 7,200-square-foot residence in the historic Austrian city considered a […]
WFU Names First Members to New Divinity School Board
March 31, 1998 | School of Divinity, University Announcement
Wake Forest University has appointed 14 men and women to serve on the first board of visitors for its new divinity school, scheduled to open in fall 1999. “We are glad to have people of their caliber on the board providing key leadership as we […]
WFU Rejects Proposal Regarding Study Abroad Tuition
March 26, 1998 | For Parents, University Announcement
Wake Forest University has turned down a proposal calling for the university’s students to pay Wake Forest tuition while studying abroad in non-Wake Forest programs. “In keeping with tradition at Wake Forest, we will continue policies that successfully provide incentives for going abroad to study,” […]
Six to Receive Honorary Degrees During Commencement
March 24, 1998 | Commencement, University Announcement
Wake Forest University will award six honorary degrees during its May 18 commencement ceremony. The ceremony also will include an address by White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles. The honorary degree recipients will be: Erskine Bowles, White House chief of staff, doctor of laws. […]
WFDD Names Brown Program Director
February 13, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Staff, University Announcement
Paul Brown has been named program director at WFDD, the National Public Radio member station at Wake Forest University. Brown has served as news director at WFDD (88.5 FM) since 1994, when he launched the station’s regional news department. He joined the classical music and […]
Hickory Native Endows Lectureship at Divinity School
January 14, 1998 | Community, School of Divinity, University Announcement
Hickory native, Dr. Sanford L. Steelman, has endowed the Margaret A. Steelman Lectureship at Wake Forest University’s new School of Divinity. The lectureship is named in honor of his wife. Steelman said that the lectureship will focus on Judeo-Christian topics. The first lecture of the […]
WFDD to Broadcast “A Prairie Home Companion”
December 19, 1997 | University Announcement
WFDD, Wake Forest University’s National Public Radio member station, will once again air the weekly variety show “A Prairie Home Companion” in January. Beginning Jan. 10, WFDD (88.5 FM) will broadcast the show every Saturday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The weekly shows will […]
Luce Foundation Awards Grant to Divinity School
December 17, 1997 | School of Divinity, University Announcement
The Henry R. Luce Foundation, Inc., has awarded Wake Forest University’s new School of Divinity $150,000 to develop a series of multidisciplinary courses designed to provide students with the broad skills required to meet the needs of America’s changing congregations. Bill J. Leonard, the school’s […]
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