Preface to the “History of Wake Forest University: Volume 5”

“President Scales’ tenure as president was marked by struggle and anxiety… the campus was lively, day by day, with a creative passion that I had not seen before at Wake Forest, and that I have not seen since. I am trying to tell, as thoroughly as I can, the story of the Scales years, and I am trying to recover what I think was the mood, the atmosphere of those years.”

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