A couple of Wake Forest parents sent me a link to this article last week. There’s a lot of good food for thought in here. Might be worth reading – maybe sharing with your Deac too – and talking about over the dinner table, during a […]
It’s the end of a pretty big week here, Deac families. I haven’t seen the final tally on the 52 hours of giving in the Wake Forest Fund Double Down challenge, but I know it was over $500,000 (funded in part by a really nice match from […]
Family Weekend is several months away – it will be held the weekend of October 2-4, 2015. Family Weekend registration, on the other hand, is only about a month away. Registration will open at 10 am (Eastern) on July 15th at the Family Weekend […]
Today is a day I wish that the oft-joked Smell-O-Vision technology worked. If it did, I would have taken video of the Magnolia trees on the Mag Quad (aka Manchester Quad), on the south side of campus. The magnolias are all over the Mag […]
So it’s a pretty big day here for us, our 52 hour campaign to help push us to the finale of our yearly fundraising. We rely on alumni, parents, and friends to support WFU, and your gifts to the Parents’ Campaign of the Wake Forest […]
Back in the office after a fantastic (if brief) trip to Boston for the first New Student Reception of the season. We had a wonderful group of ’19s and P’19s there and it was a terrific evening. Many thanks to the current students in attendance, […]
Happy Black and Gold Friday, Deac families! As you prepare for what I hope will be a good weekend (and I am en route back to Mother So Dear from Boston), I thought I would share some updates from campus. Our president, Nathan O. Hatch, has been […]
The first of our New Student Receptions is tonight in Weston, MA, a Boston suburb. I’ll be there to help staff that event, so am doing a little pre-blogging for the time I’ll be traveling. On the Newstudents.wfu.edu website, we have a section called
Our New Student Reception season is kicking off tomorrow in Weston, MA. These gatherings allow incoming freshmen and their parents/family members to meet each other, build their WFU networks, and hear advice from upperclassmen/women (and sometimes their parents). If you are the parent […]
Yesterday at a large staff meeting I had the opportunity to hear from someone I’ve known a long time, but who is approaching a new role as the Dean of the College effective July 1: Michele Gillespie. She was named Dean of the College […]
