Spring Break is here, and the feeling of spring is here as well. Yesterday it was sunny and reached nearly 70 degrees. If your students had been here, they would have patterned the fields with blankets to sit outside and read, nap, catch some sun, […]
Last but certainly not least, we want to share with you the senior oration of Daniel Stefany. (Editor’s note: I have known the Stefany family for years. His parents are both Wake Forest alumni and they have another son who graduated in 2009. The Stefanys […]
We have two more Senior Orations to feature, and today we are showing the work of Chesleigh Fowler. ——————— Statistics of Success 19th century German anatomist Julian Wolff proposed a theory that a bone once broken will grow back stronger than it was before the […]
Just after Spring Break, Student Union is hosting ‘the most trusted stranger in America,” Frank Warren of Post Secret fame. He will speak on Tuesday, March 19th at 7 pm in Wait Chapel. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Post Secret, here’s a […]
We are coming to the last few Senior Orations, and hope you have enjoyed the very thoughtful and poignant reflections of our senior finalists. Today we are featuring the oration of Andrea Beck. —————————— We Are Not Equals I’d like to share a story about […]
As we continue to feature the top finalists in the Senior Orations, today we hear from Benjamin Magee. ———————- “Trail Blazing” My mother’s mother was a 4-foot, nine-inch woman with a towering personality. Those who met her at the end of her life in […]
Today we are featuring the senior oration of Meenu Krishnan. Enjoy it! —————————— An Education, Or Something Like It I found myself in fairly improbable circumstances the first time I seriously considered the purpose of higher education. Slogging knee-deep in murky waters through Mumbai to […]
There are many people on campus who touch the lives of your students, and we like to feature profiles of our campus community members in a segment we call “Meet a Deac.” Our Intern C (’13) checked in with Dr. Paul Pauca (’94) […]
We continue to feature our top ten submissions in Senior Orations. Today we hear the thoughts of Meredith Browne. ———————– Service Done Right While attending a meeting to prepare for the Volunteer Service Corps trip to Kolkata, India, we discussed our own personal philosophy of […]
Founders’ Day Convocation was held yesterday afternoon, and a feature part of the ceremony is the reading of three senior orations. Seniors were invited to reflect on their Wake Forest experience in the form of an essay. Ten finalists were chosen, and three were read […]
