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Whitehead Named Director of Electronic Communication

Wake Forest University has named Lloyd Whitehead as director of electronic communication. Whitehead, who has been a writer and assistant editor in the University Editor’s Office at Wake Forest since 1995, will be responsible for maintaining Wake Forest’s Web home page and subsidiary pages that […]


Poovey Named to New Position at WFU

Cherin C. Poovey has been named associate university editor for publications and director of public affairs projects at Wake Forest University. She had been associate university editor and director of publications. Poovey joined the Wake Forest staff in 1984 as a writer and editor at […]


Office of University Advancement Wins CASE Awards

Wake Forest University’s Office of University Advancement has won four awards in the 1997 District III awards competition of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Wayne Thompson, a media relations officer in the Wake Forest News Bureau, won Awards of Excellence […]


Stroupe Receives WFU’s Highest Honor

Wake Forest University presented former graduate school dean Henry S. Stroupe with its highest honor, the medallion of merit, during Founders’ Day Convocation on Thursday, Jan. 22. A Wake Forest alumnus, Stroupe led the graduate arts and sciences school at Wake Forest for more than […]


WFU Names Wells Director of Financial Aid

William Thomas Wells has been named director of financial aid at Wake Forest University. Wells, who began the Wake Forest position on Jan. 1, had been assistant director of scholarships and student aid for federal programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill […]


Wilson, Gladding to Assume Provost’s Duties at WFU

Two weeks after Wake Forest University’s provost announced he will devote his full attention to a new Wake Forest-IBM project, the university’s president has arranged for the provost’s responsibilities to be assumed January 1 by English professor and former provost Edwin Graves Wilson and counseling […]


Pearson Named to National Science Foundation Committee

Willie J. Pearson Jr., sociology professor at Wake Forest University, has been appointed to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation. Pearson joined the Wake Forest faculty in 1980. He received a doctorate degree […]


WFU Promotes Mills to Associate Vice President

Wake Forest University has promoted Robert D. Mills of Winston-Salem to associate vice president for university advancement. In his new position, Mills manages the capital support and advancement technologies group for Wake Forest’s university advancement office. The group’s responsibilities include major gift fund raising and […]


Smith Named National Debate Coach of the Year

Ross Smith, debate coach for Wake Forest University, was recently named the 1997 National Debate Coach of the Year. The coaching award was presented to Smith on Sept. 21 at the South Carolina Earlybird Debate Tournament. Smith, a Wake Forest graduate and former debater, has […]


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