Ed Morris breaths life into local museum
Ed Morris, director of the Wake Forest Historical Museum, was recently profiled in the Raleigh News & Observer by Marti Maguire.
“It’s been about 180 years since Wake Forest College was founded on a plot of farmland northeast of Raleigh, giving birth also to the town that still bears its name,” writes Maguire.
“The college, now Wake Forest University, moved to Winston-Salem in 1956. Yet the shared history of town and college is remembered in fond detail at the Wake Forest Historical Museum, where a wreath made from the hair of local residents shares billing with the original Demon Deacon tuxedo. Ed Morris has spent the past eight years breathing new life into the museum. He has helped assemble, in a new building, artifacts collected over more than 50 years to create a coherent tale of both town and college.”
Read the full story here.
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USB renamed Alumni Hall
The former University Services Building has been renamed Alumni Hall.
The building houses several offices: advancement (which includes alumni services), Deacon One card, parking & transportation and residence life & housing. It previously housed human resources, information systems and others.
The new Alumni Hall has its origins in the original Alumni Building on the original campus.
The original Alumni Building was constructed in 1906 with funds raised from the alumni by J.B. Carlyle., according to Ed Morris, the executive director of the Wake Forest Historical Museum & Wake Forest College Birthplace.
An accidental fire damaged the original building badly around 1950. Because the decision to move to Winston-Salem had been made, the administration decided to take the building down rather than try to repair it. The Wake Forest Birthplace Museum has the cornerstone of the building on display.
The original building was primarily a classroom building. One photo that Morris has indicates that it held physics on the first floor, applied math on the second floor, and English on the 3rd floor.
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March 2012 staff milestones
See a list of employment milestones reached by staff in March 2012: Read more
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March 2011 staff milestones
30 Years
Cindy H. Davis, Administrative Coordinator, Biology Department
10 Years
David A. Bare, Greenhouse Manager, Reynolda Gardens
Landon G. Burrow, Service Technician, Facilities and Campus Services
Kevin D. Cook, Lead Groundskeeper, Facilities and Campus Services
Sonya C. Izzard, Accounts Receivable Representative, Financial and Accounting Services Read more
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