Staff Archive

Keeping the dream alive

January 18, 2011  |   Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Recognition, Staff, Wake Forest College

Junior Fannézha Ford and Wake Forest employee Shayla Herndon-Edmonds have received this year’s WFU/WSSU Martin Luther King Jr. Building the Dream Award. Ford and Herndon-Edmonds were recognized along with two recipients from Winston-Salem State University during a program on Jan. 17 celebrating the birthday of […]

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Students to celebrate Hanukkah

November 30, 2010  |   For Parents, Staff, Student, Top Stories

Jewish students, faculty and staff will celebrate the Jewish Festival of Lights, more commonly known as Hanukkah, from Dec. 1–8. Each night, students and others will gather at the stage on Manchester Plaza to light a six-foot menorah.

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HR director to leave for new role

November 17, 2010  |   For Alumni, For Parents, Staff, Top Stories, University Announcement

Mike Tesh, associate vice president of human resources, has accepted a position in Raleigh and will be leaving Wake Forest in mid-December. Angela Culler, currently director of human resources operations, will lead the department on an interim basis.

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Giving back to the community

October 18, 2010  |   Community, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Staff, Student, Top Stories

More than 100 faculty and staff members and about 75 students have joined forces to help build a house for Habitat for Humanity this fall. Groups have been working on the house in the Smith Farm neighborhood, near Kernersville.

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Building a stronger classroom

September 22, 2010  |   Faculty, Graduate School, Staff, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together

The Teaching and Learning Center, under the direction of Catherine Ross, provides workshops and other resources designed to help Wake Forest faculty keep pace with students and the changing ways they learn.

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A champion record-keeper

September 10, 2010  |   Staff

For decades, the most important person at Wake Forest’s commencement ceremony may have been Margaret Ruthven Perry. The meticulous registrar, who died on Sept. 6, was responsible for making sure that each graduate received the right sheepskin from the president as he or she walked […]

Former registrar Margaret Perry dies

September 7, 2010  |   For Alumni, Staff

Margaret Ruthven Perry (’50), who worked in the Registrar’s Office for 50 years before retiring in 1998, died on Monday. Her funeral will be Saturday at 2 p.m. in Wait Chapel. Mrs. Perry joined the registrar’s office as an assistant registrar in 1947 and was […]

August 2010 Staff News

August 24, 2010  |   Staff, Top Stories

Doug Bland, an associate athletic director, is celebrating 35 years of service this month, while Zella Johnson, an administrative assistant in the biology department, is celebrating 30 years of service. More anniversaries and news in this month’s Staff News.

August 2010 Staff News

August 1, 2010  |   Staff

Doug Bland, an associate athletic director, is celebrating 35 years of service this month, while Zella Johnson, an administrative assistant in the biology department, is celebrating 30 years of service. More anniversaries and news in this month’s Staff News.

July 2010 Staff News

July 1, 2010  |   President, Provost, Staff

Athletics Cook Griffin has retired after 26 years. School of Law Constance Cashin has retired. Undergraduate Admissions Stephanie Brooks has retired. Milestones Staff members who are observing anniversaries of their employment. (Recognition is for one year and for five through 50 years at five-year intervals.) […]