Two Wake Forest faculty members, recently, traveled with a group of students along the Northern Route of the Cherokee Trail of Tears from Cherokee, N.C., to Oklahoma. The westernmost destination for the summer immersion trip, which ran from June 5-14, was Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, where late Wake Forest President James Ralph Scales served as president before leading Wake Forest from 1967 to 1983. Scales was a member of the Cherokee Nation. A statue of Scales, an OBU graduate, stands on the Shawnee campus.