Stories this week at Wake Forest
August 18, 1998 | Admissions, Campus Life, For Parents, Student
Freshmen Arrive On Campus Toting milk crates, posters and desk lamps, freshmen will move into residence halls Wednesday, Aug. 19, beginning at 8 a.m. Wake Forest faculty and staff will help students carry belongings to their new rooms. Students will move in all day long, […]
WFU Freshmen to Arrive Wednesday
August 17, 1998 | Audiences, Campus Life, Commencement, For Parents, Student
Wake Forest University’s freshmen arrive on campus Wednesday, Aug. 19, as the university prepares for the opening of the fall semester. A total of 1,004 freshmen are expected at Wake Forest. They will move into their residence halls throughout the day Aug. 19 before beginning […]
Fall Semester Marks New Stage in Undergraduate Plan
August 14, 1998 | Campus Life, Student
Two years ago, Wake Forest University freshmen arrived on campus as the first class to receive laptop computers as part of a new campaign to enrich undergraduate learning through new technology, classes, faculty, scholarships and more. This fall, those students — juniors now — […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
August 13, 1998 | Campus Life, Community, For Parents, Student
Freshmen Arrive on Campus Toting milk crates, posters and desk lamps, freshmen will move into residence halls Wednesday, Aug. 20, beginning at 8 a.m. Wake Forest faculty and staff will help students carry belongings to their new rooms. Students will move in all day long, […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
August 6, 1998 | Campus Life, Community, For Parents, Student
Parents and the Emptying Nest When children leave home to begin college, parents need help with transitions, according to Johnne Armentrout, assistant director of the Wake Forest Counseling Center. When they drop their sons and daughters off at their residence halls, full-time parenting ends, adds […]
WFU Students Earn National Ranking on CPA Exam
August 6, 1998 | Recognition, School of Business, Student
Wake Forest University accounting students earned a second place national ranking for their performance on the Certified Public Accountant Exam and placed the highest among North Carolina schools. The most recent rankings for the national CPA exam were released this summer by the National Association […]
Texas Foundation Contributes to Baptist Scholarship
June 30, 1998 | Admissions, For Parents, Student, University Announcement
The Hobby Family Foundation of Houston, Texas, has made its second annual gift of $37,500 to Wake Forest University to support the William Louis Poteat Scholarship program. The scholarships are awarded to students who are active members of Baptist State Convention or General Baptist Convention […]
Bowles Offers Graduates Simple Words to Live By
May 18, 1998 | Campus Life, Commencement, For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Student
White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles shared simple words of advice with the 1998 graduating class from Wake Forest University during Monday morning’s commencement ceremony. Bowles, who received an honorary doctorate of laws degree, addressed a crowd of about 10,000 people. Approximately 825 bachelor’s […]
Bumgarner Named Truman Scholar
April 28, 1998 | Recognition, Student
Wake Forest University junior Jennifer Bumgarner of Hickory is among a distinguished group of undergraduates nationwide who have been elected as 1998 Truman Scholars by the Washington-based Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Bumgarner, a 1995 graduate of Fred T. Foard High School, is one of […]
WFU Students Win National Science Foundation Awards
April 24, 1998 | Recognition, Student
Two Wake Forest University seniors have won $73,500 awards from the National Science Foundation for graduate studies. Andrew Frey, a physics major, and Shannon Poe-Kennedy, an anthropology and politics major, are both from Winston-Salem. They are among 766 students nationwide winning the NSF’s prestigious Graduate […]
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