Tuesday newsday
Today we have a few news items to share. First and foremost, while it is hot in Winston (low 90s), it is nothing like the heat that some of y’all are dealing with – particularly the Pacific Northwest and the DC to Boston corridor. Stay safe and cool, Daily Deacdom!
As we near June 30th and the official date of Dr. Hatch’s retirement, there have been a number of great stories about him. I mentioned the Wake Forest Magazine stories last week (I got my hard copy yesterday). In addition, the Winston-Salem Journal ran a retrospective on Dr. Hatch’s presidency; you can read it here. It is a wonderful look at the many and impressive ways that Dr. Hatch has left his mark on Wake Forest. We also have a thank you video for Dr. Hatch that is really terrific. I hope you enjoy it.
We got some great news yesterday: our students intending to study abroad with Wake Forest-sponsored programs this fall got confirmation that we are planning to move forward with those programs this fall. You can read the details here if you have a Deac scheduled to go abroad with a Wake program.
Did you see the news story that our late professor Dr. Maya Angelou will be one of five women on the US quarter? The story says:
Angelou will make history as the first Black American to be pictured on U.S. currency. She is known for her series of seven autobiographies, most notably “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Born in St. Louis in 1928, Angelou went on to have a multifaceted career, not only as a poet and writer but also as a singer, actress, dancer and composer who became the first female Black director in Hollywood. She was also a civil rights activist who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and served as the Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University. In 2000 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Bill Clinton, at whose 1993 inauguration she recited her poem “On the Pulse of Morning.” In 2010 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S., by President Barack Obama.
Speaking of the news, my colleagues on the news team compile all the best of WFU coverage in local and national media; this includes stories about Wake Forest, or those that place Wake Forest faculty, administrators, or students in the article. You can read Wake Forest in the News here. Feel free to share it with other people who might be interested. It’s really an impressive collection of where Wake Foresters are weighing in on meaningful current events, or conducting great research, etc.
Finally, I want to make you aware that we will be making a change in the technical mechanism of how the Daily Deac sends out each weekday. We’ve had intermittent trouble with its send time (I got yesterday’s blog at 2 am!), so we are moving to a different push service beginning July 1. Important note: no action will be required on your part when we change platforms; we will roll over all our Feedburner (current system) email subscriptions to our new platform. We sent Daily Deac subscribers an email today to notify you about the details of when the change is about to be made. Thanks for your patience, and we hope to have a smoother system as of July 1!