I happened to look at our main wfu.edu website today and saw this terrific story by my friend and colleague Kerry King (’85) of the Wake Forest Magazine. It’s an interview with alumnus and veteran Matt Gallagher (’05), who tells the story of his time in Lviv helping citizens of Ukraine. Here’s a taste:
“U.S. Army veteran and writer Matt Gallagher (’05) spent the first two weeks of March in Lviv, in western Ukraine, training civilians to protect their city of more than 700,000 people against the Russian invasion. CNN broadcast a story on March 15 on Gallagher and two other veterans giving a crash course in combat to Ukrainian volunteers. When CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Gallagher why he was in Lviv, he replied: “I kind of landed on an old line from ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls.’ ‘For what are we born if not to aid one another?’” Read the full article here.
We also have a website with additional resources on understanding the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
In other news, Campus Programs & Services (a department within the Benson University Center) is now hiring student employees for the summer and fall. There are eight different “job stations” to fit a range of interests and skills. If your Deac is looking for a unique way to get involved on campus and build transferable skills, please direct them to: Information on working in Benson and the application for summer and fall 2022.
I also wanted to share some recent photos of campus and nearby Reynolda Village, so you can see some of the splendor that your Deacs are seeing. The tulips and flowering trees are just spectacular right now. There are few things quite as pretty as Wake Forest in the spring. (And a disclaimer – I am still learning our new web interface, which has blog tools that are different than the last 10 years – so thanks for your patience if my intended photo gallery is a bit wonky).
