October 2014 faculty and staff milestones
Keith M. Wise, superintendent in Facilities & Campus Services, is celebrating 40 years at Wake Forest.
See the complete list of faculty and staff milestones for October 2014:
Categories: Faculty News, Staff News
WFU pianists to perform in charity concert series
Cook
Two Wake Forest pianists will take part in the “Hungry for Music” concert series, which will run from June 23-27 at Burkhead United Methodist Church, 5250 Silas Creek Parkway, beginning each evening at 7 p.m.
The concerts are free and open to the public. Donations of produce, canned goods and money to support local hunger ministries will be accepted.
Kairoff
On Sunday, June 23, Carter Cook, who works in WFU’s legal office, will share the story of “Piano vs. Poverty,” the nonprofit organization he formed to fight poverty locally and globally. Cook has been playing piano for almost 25 years and recently recorded a CD. Read more about him in the Winston-Salem Journal »
On Thursday, June 27, professor Peter Kairoff will perform. Kairoff has performed around the world and recorded a number of CDs. He also was featured in the Winston-Salem Journal recently »
Categories: Events
Cook, Hicks featured in the Journal
Two Wake Forest employees were featured in the Winston-Salem Journal over the holidays.
Cook
Carter Cook, who works in WFU’s legal office, took almost 25 years of piano playing for pleasure and recorded a CD of 12 hymns, including classics like “The Old Rugged Cross” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
The CD, called “Sundays in Belvedere,” was intended as a gift for his grandparents, but it has become the basis of a nonprofit organization, Piano vs. Poverty, which fights poverty locally and globally.
Read more about Cook in the Journal »
Hicks
Derek Hicks is the Henry Luce Diversity Fellow in the School of Divinity, and his research often finds him studying the role of food in black culture and religious life.
In January, he will teach a course called Culinary Culture in the Black Religious Experience. His gumbo recipe was featured in the paper.
Read more about Hicks in the Journal »
Categories: Faculty News, Staff News
Cook, Smith honored for leadership
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Smith
Wake Forest employees K. Carter Cook (’94, JD/MBA ’98) and Sarah R. Smith were named to the Triad Business Journal’s “40 Leaders Under Forty” list this year. Cook and Smith were recognized at an awards ceremony in Greensboro in February.
Cook is associate counsel in the legal department, and Smith is the director of marketing and communications for the Reynolda House Museum of American Art.
The awards honor 40 remarkable individuals, all under the age of 40, who have distinguished themselves in their careers and community and also hold promise of great things to come.
Taken from the Journal, here are the reasons each was selected:
- Cook: A skilled lawyer and leader at Wake Forest, he is also a skilled pianist. That led him to create Piano vs. Poverty, a faith-based nonprofit designed to fight hunger.
- Smith: She developed the first retail partnership for the museum and has created special events and social media to engage a younger audience. She is a founding member and current chair of Young Leaders United, an arm of the United Way of Forsyth County, and also vice president of the Forsyth County Tourism Alliance.
Read more about the announcement »
Read more about the awards ceremony »
Categories: Staff News
