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Happy Father’s Day

Father’s Day is this Sunday, and let me offer an early Happy Father’s Day to all our Deac Dads, Stepdads, and Grandads! Found a couple of places online where people had gathered letters that famous people had written to their children.  One was F. Scott […]


Where in the World Are Wake Foresters?

I’m out of the office for a couple of days, so will be pre-posting some content.  We’ve had our first submissions in our call for photos of Wake Foresters sporting their WFU apparel, and am proud to share them below. Here is the P’19 […]


Summer is here

And it is hot on campus – upper 80s and muggy.  Met with a family today from the Northeast and was gently reminded that the weather in NJ was going to be hotter today than in Winston-Salem.  Don’t hear that very often, do you? There […]


Misc Tuesday

Our Diamond Deacs’ run came to an end yesterday. We celebrate their amazing season and look forward to great things to come from this team. Thank you for an exciting ride, guys! Even though I have worked at Wake forever (will be 18 years this […]


Deacs live to fight another day

If you were following the Deacs in the Super Regional this weekend, you saw a rain delay in the 4ish hours timeline, followed by a tying run to send us in to extra innings…only to lose a heartbreaker in the end. And that was just […]


A ringing endorsement

It’s a beautiful end to our week and a Black and Gold Friday on top of that. Who else is with me in wearing their WFU colors today? I was up on the Quad today and for the first time since Commencement took a good […]


Baseball!!!!

I received the email below this morning and would encourage all our local Deac families to consider coming out to send off our team tonight as they head to the Super Regional.  For those who may not have been following, Wake has been in the […]


Feels more like May than June

It is a beautiful day here on campus. The highs were in the upper 70s, which made it feel a lot more like May than June.  The hot temperatures will come soon enough, so we’ll enjoy it while we can. Many thanks to those of […]


Your help needed

Y’all, it’s that time of year when I come to you talking money. You know I try not to do that only once or twice a year, but we are still 364 parent/family donors short of our goal for the Parents’ Campaign of the Wake […]


Very reassuring news

This afternoon I was in a presentation with our Global Programs and Studies (GPS) office, who was showing us a demo of software that Wake uses to track our students studying abroad.  Obviously when there is a situation abroad – be it a natural disaster […]


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