To Autumn
In this Issue:
- John Keats’ “To Autumn” read by Dr. Ed Wilson (’43), Provost Emeritus
- Reminders from the Office of Residence Life and Housing about spring 2024 housing and our residential heating and cooling systems
- Walk with Wente: Meet Keith Robinson, Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Law
This weekend is Homecoming, with special events for alumni in classes ending in 3s and 8s, because we do special things on the 5 and 10 year anniversaries of your graduation. Our local news station, WXII, was on campus to talk about our Homecoming activities. Families might especially like the second video on this page, as it features some of our students.
I’ve been seeing Facebook or Instagram posts of alumni coming back to Mother So Dear and it has made me feel a bit reflective. The first item up today will I hope be a treat for our alumni Daily Deac-ers. There aren’t a lot of certainties in this world, but if you were a student here from the ’60s to the ’90s, I’d bet you my next flat white at the ZSR coffee shop that you have warm feelings for this man we refer to as “Mr. Wake Forest,” Dr. Edwin G. Wilson (’43).
John Keats’ “To Autumn” read by Dr. Ed Wilson (’43), Provost Emeritus
Even if you didn’t go to Wake Forest, if you went to college yourself, you might be familiar with the Legendary Professor. Every college seems to have a faculty member with a very long tenure, beloved by generations of students, who just had a way of connecting with you and making you feel passionate about what they taught, or maybe they just connected with you in a way that you knew they cared about you deeply as a human being.
At Wake Forest, that Legendary Professor is Dr. Ed Wilson (’43). He was a professor in the department of English, specializing in British romantic poetry; later he was our Provost. His classes were hard to get into because everyone loved him so much. You walked into class and there were snippets of a poem on the board, written in his beautiful cursive. During class, he’d read the full poems in his gentlemanly Southern drawl, smiling often.
Eight years ago, he recorded John Keats’ “To Autumn” and the recording was paired with autumn views on campus. I hope you will take a minute to watch this video and pause at the beauty of the words, his voice, and the photos.
So much of what I know about how to be a good Wake Forester, I learned from Ed Wilson’s example.
Reminders from the Office of Residence Life and Housing about spring 2024 housing and our residential heating and cooling systems
The Office of Residence Life and Housing sent messages to resident students and students who are abroad during the fall 2023 semester, about the housing process for spring 2024.
A separate message went out about our residential heating and cooling systems. One key point of note:
“The way your heating and cooling system works this time of year depends on the outside temperature. The illustration below shows how your fan coil unit works.
Please note that these transitions are not immediate and our residential communities can take some time to move between air conditioning and heat.”
Walk with Wente: Meet Keith Robinson, Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Law
I was really pleased that some of you wrote and told you how much you liked the Walk with Wente video I shared a couple weeks ago. In case you missed it, President Wente regularly invites faculty members to share their contributions and insights with the Wake Forest community by joining her on a walk around campus in the “Walk with Wente” video series.
This week, meet Keith Robinson, Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Law.