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Graduates make impact at local IB school

February 23, 2010

Teachers Jenna Lohwasser (’09 ) and Amy Talley (MAEd ‘06) are two of Wake Forest’s connections to Ashley Elementary School, an International Baccalaureate school in Winston-Salem.

Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning

March Madness: Debate team makes it to national ‘Sweet 16’

February 21, 2010

Wake Forest has received two automatic bids to next month's National Debate Tournament for finishing the debate season among the nation's top 16 teams.

Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements

Community gathers to honor seniors and faculty in annual Founders’ Day program

February 18, 2010

Choosing to attend Wake Forest wasn't taking the easy road in life, senior Kate Miners said in her senior oration at Founders' Day Convocation on Feb. 18.

Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, University Announcements

Father continues a Valentine’s tradition

February 17, 2010

When his daughters were little, Tony Cacich (P ‘13) began a tradition of taking each daughter to dinner every Valentine’s Day. He continued that tradition this week by flying to Winston-Salem to see his daughter, Allison (’13).

Categories: Experiential Learning

‘The Threepenny Opera,’ brings dark characters, quirky music and political issues to the Mainstage Theatre

February 16, 2010

Seniors Claire Vasile as Mrs. Celia Peachum (far left) and Tony DeMartino as Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum. Freshman Candice Dickinson plays their daughter, Polly, in "The Threepenny Opera."

"The Threepenny Opera," written in Germany over 80 years ago, has a lot to say about unscrupulous behavior in any era. This operetta of power and corruption, written by poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, proves the world is only one scoundrel away from the next $65 billion Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme.

Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, University Announcements

Founders’ Day Convocation to celebrate tradition of senior orations

February 14, 2010

Seniors Zahir Rahman (from left) Kate Miners and Monica Giannone will give their senior orations at Founders' Day Convocation on Feb. 18.

When Zahir Rahman addresses the Founders' Day Convocation audience on Feb. 18 his topic will be, appropriately enough, "We are Wake Forest." Rahman is one of three finalists in the 2010 Senior Colloquium who will read their essays at convocation. Provost Emeritus Ed Wilson ('43) will speak on the history of senior orations at the event, which begins at 4 p.m. in Wait Chapel.

Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements

Students gain insights into the lives of others through service trips

February 7, 2010

Wake Forest students with some of the children they helped in Brazil.

In Santarem, one of the poorest regions of Brazil, children go to school for only half the day; the rest of the day, many have no place to go but the streets. Wake Forest students spent two weeks over winter break helping construct a community center to give these children a safe place.

Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, University Announcements

Remembering the Winston-Salem sit-in

February 1, 2010

On Feb. 23, 1960, a group of Wake Forest students walked into the Woolworth's in downtown Winston-Salem and joined students from Winston-Salem State Teachers College to protest segregated lunch counters. Twenty-one students were arrested that day — 10 white students from Wake Forest and 11 black students from Winston-Salem State. The students' non-violent protest, along with other protests in Winston-Salem, led to the desegregation of the city's restaurants and lunch counters on May 23 of that year.

Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning