Griffin ('69) delivers pre-game speech that inspires win over UNC
No one was more emotional about Wake’s 73-67 home win over 19th-ranked North Carolina than Julie Griffin, who accepted coach Jeff Bzdelik’s request to deliver a pre-game speech to his players, writes Bret Strelow in the Fayetteville Observer.
“Julie Griffin, a former Wake cheerleader who started working at the university two years after her 1969 graduation and retired from an athletics department position six months ago, entered the locker room with a notecard featuring a long list of Demon Deacon wins over UNC. She went through a game-by-game rundown, finishing with a 2010 road victory that occurred when Wake’s Travis McKie was a high school senior.…Griffin ended her speech by telling the players, ‘I’ll see you in the quad,’ and tossing a roll of toilet paper at them.”
Read the full story: “Emotional win for Wake Forest puts pregame speaker in tears“
Categories: Alumni News
Congratulations to retiring faculty, staff
The following is a message from President Nathan Hatch:
While commencement season always brings about a sense of new beginnings and opportunities, it’s also a time to say thank you and bid farewell to many of our friends, colleagues and mentors who have called Wake Forest University home.
Please join me in congratulating and commemorating a marvelous class of Reynolda Campus faculty and staff retiring from Wake Forest this year. We are grateful for the many contributions from this remarkable group of individuals, who together have more than 800 years of service to the University: Read more
Categories: Hot Topics, University Announcement
September 2010 staff milestones
Athletics staff members Christia Fisher, Dwight Lewis, Sherry Long and Julie Griffin are celebrating anniversaries this month.
40 Years
Toby A. Hale, Associate Dean for Special Academic Projects, Wake Forest College
35 Years
Kenneth A. Zick, Vice President and Dean for Student Affairs
25 Years
Julie D. Griffin, Champs/Life Skills Coordinator, Student-Athlete Services Read more
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