College faculty retirees, 2020
A guest post from the College
This is the final post in a five-part series honoring College faculty who have retired in 2021 and 2020.
The College honors those who retired at the end of the 2020 academic year. Due to the abbreviated virtual conferring of degrees in 2020, these tremendous teacher-scholars and directors were recognized during this year’s Commencement ceremonies. Enjoy the linked profiles capturing their lasting legacies.
- John E.R. Friedenberg, Professor of Theatre and Dance
- Brian Gorelick, Associate Professor and Director of Choral Ensembles
- Judy Kem, Professor of French Studies
- G.E. “Rick” Matthews, Professor of Physics
- Tom Phillips, Director of the Wake Forest Scholars Program
- Catherine E. Seta, Professor of Psychology
- Kathy B. Smith, Professor of Politics and International Affairs
- Alan Williams, Professor of History
Categories: Faculty News, Guest Post, Inside WFU
Faculty retirements 2020-21
The following Wake Forest University Reynolda Campus faculty members retired in 2020-21 (unless otherwise specified). This year’s retirees were honored during the 2021 Commencement ceremony.
College faculty profiles and citations will be shared in a five-part series in the coming days. Read more
Categories: Faculty News, Inside WFU
Office of the Provost announces faculty retirements
The Office of the Provost has announced the following Reynolda Campus faculty retirements with full retirement dates in July or August of 2020:
School of Business
George Page West, professor
College
John Friedenberg, associate teaching professor
Brian Gorelick, associate professor
Judy Kem, professor
Rick Matthews, professor
Cathy Seta, professor
Alan Williams, history
School of Law
Kate Mewhinney, professor
Suzanne Reynolds, professor
Categories: Faculty News, Inside WFU
Locklair’s chorus performed by WFU Concert Choir in Ireland
Dan Locklair’s “The Cloths of Heaven” was performed by the Wake Forest University Concert Choir on tour in Ireland. Associate Professor of Music Brian Gorelick conducted the a cappella piece.
Performances were held at Galway Cathedral, the city’s Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral, and St. Ann’s Church of Ireland, also in Dublin.
“‘The Cloths of Heaven’ piece was completed in September 2013 and was composed for, and is dedicated to, the Wake Forest University Concert Choir in celebration of the Choir’s 2014 tour of Ireland,” said Locklair. “This approximately three-minute composition is a setting of Irish poet William Butler Yeats’s well-known love poem originally entitled, ‘Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.’ First published in 1899 as a part of his third volume of poetry, Yeats’s expressive and provocative poem reflects through dream and reality his adoration toward the woman he loves.”
The score will be published by Subito Music.
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Secrest events are Thursday
The next performance in the Secrest Artists Series will take place Thursday. The Rose Ensemble will be performing “Cantigas from the Land of Three Faiths: Voices of Ancient Mediterranean Jews, Christians, and Muslims” at 7:30 p.m. in Wait Chapel. Tickets are free to students, staff and faculty at the Benson Ticket Office.
Two other events on Thursday are associated with the Secrest event. At 4 p.m. in the ZSR Library Auditorium, Neal Walls and students will speak about their trip to Israel during the winter break in a Library Lecture called “Communities of Faith: Wake Forest’s Interfaith Pilgrimage to the Holy Land.”
Secrest Signature, a pre-performance talk by Brian Gorelick, choral director, and Imam Khalid Griggs, associate chaplain for Muslim life, will take place at 6:40 p.m. in the Balcony Room of Wait Chapel. (Participants in the talk are guaranteed prime seats in a reserved section of the balcony.)
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