Author: Betsy Chapman Archive

In this Issue: It’s a new week, and we are getting ever closer to Thanksgiving break, which I know our students are looking forward to with gusto. This will be a short week for me, because my ’27 is about to turn 20 and we […]

In this Issue: we talk about Pitsgiving, our Thanksgiving celebration Pitsgiving (named for our main cafeteria, The Pit) is Wake Forest’s version of Thanksgiving. It happens the week before Thanksgiving, so this year it will be on Thursday, Nov. 21 in the Pit. This is […]

In this Issue: Happy Thursday, Deac families! It’s almost the end of the week. Today I have a variety of bits and bobs to share with you – many of them about logistics and process kinds of news. Dig in! Reminder re Senior Fifth I […]

In this Issue: I am out of the office today, so I am sharing information on two student organizations that are either new or trying to recruit new members for future growth: Club Fishing and Women’s Ice Hockey. Club Fishing Earlier in the semester, I […]

In this Issue: It’s Election Day! Many of our students will be voting in their first presidential election, which is an exciting milestone. I am grateful to every student who is exercising their right to vote and hope they will choose to be an active […]

I am out of the office today, so today’s issue is sharing a message Dr. Wente sent to students today, “Election Week and Beyond” Dear students, The final ballots in this year’s elections will be cast tomorrow, but it may be several weeks before all […]

In this Issue: I have run a couple of posts this week that took up the whole column, so today we are playing a bit of catch up from things that have been queueing up in my Inbox. Also, wanted to let our P’27s know […]

In this Issue: As we approach the last home football game of the year, it’s time to talk about Senior Fifth. I invited Jonah Neville, our new Assistant Director of Wellbeing, Substance Use, for a Q&A to help explain Senior Fifth to parents and families, […]

In this Issue: today we talk about housing considerations forstudents currently abroad, or away (in a program like Wake Washington), likely P’26s We have a good number of current juniors (‘26s) who are studying abroad/away this fall. Our P’26 families may have questions about the […]

In this Issue: The beauty of fall is all around us. Leaves are every shade of red, orange, and yellow right now. It’s that time where all the colors are still in full bloom before everything dulling to brown. You can get a sense of […]