Monday Monday
Happy Monday, Deac families! It’s an overcast morning, as seen on the Quad Cam. My hopeful Class of ’27 Deac and I took a drive down Reynolda Road this weekend, right near Graylyn and Reynolda Village, to see whether there is any hint of splendor with the fall leaves. It’s a beautiful stretch of road, with the trees growing over the road and forming a kind of canopy. Still too early to have a lot of color, but my hope is that in the coming weeks, it will reveal a rainbow of fall colors.
Several quick hit announcements today:
Students, faculty, and staff received an email today about tests of our emergency alert systems, which will be held October 6 and 7.
For those of you who read The Wall Street Journal, there is an article, During Coronavirus, Every Day Is Take Your Daughter to Work Day, that mentions one of our WFU students and her father. Worth a read if you subscribe.
If you are a P’20 and missed the OPCD webinar about how to support your recent grads, you can watch the recording here or see the list of remaining events here.
There is an upcoming virtual webinar about student-curated Black portraiture that your Deacs (or you!) might be interested in:
In January 2020, 16 students in art history professor Jay Curley’s seminar class started researching and studying Black contemporary art for the spring semester. The research included viewing and discussing works in a collection belonging to Wes and Missy Cochran, a LaGrange, Georgia, couple who has amassed more than 700 works.
The 41 works selected are on exhibit in Wake Forest University’s Hanes Gallery through March 28. Due to pandemic-related restricted access to campus, viewing “Explorations of Self: Black Portraiture from the Cochran Collection” in-person is limited to Wake Forest University students, faculty and staff.
“Representation Matters: Art, Space and Racial Restitution,” a webinar co-sponsored by Hanes Gallery, Wake Forest University’s Slavery, Race and Memory Project and Wake the Arts, will be held Wednesday, Sept. 30 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The panel will be moderated by humanities professor Corey D. B. Walker and feature conversations around the works. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Read the full story here.
On Friday I received a message about the first anniversary of the Office of Civic and Community Engagement. You can see by this graphic that the office has made a tremendous impact – both in our local community and in engaging Wake Forest students. You can click the graphic to read their annual report.
Resident students received a message about spring 2020 stored items and final follow-up taking place with those items.
As we do every Monday, we have a couple of special features for P’24s: this week’s Message for First Year Families is out today, and it is about Grade Expectations. Also, your ’24 students received their Letters So Dear today.