We are saddened to announce that Harold Tedford, professor emeritus of theatre, died Oct. 20, 2021. Professor Tedford joined Wake Forest’s faculty in 1965 and retired in 1998. During his tenure at Wake Forest, Professor Tedford taught, mentored, inspired, amused and uplifted innumerable students and […]
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A message from Wake Forest Communications and External Relations We are saddened to report that Shasta Monroe Bryant, professor emeritus of Romance Languages, died June 10 in Winston-Salem. Dr. Bryant joined the Wake Forest faculty in 1966 and retired as chairman of the Romance Languages […]
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By Kerry King, Wake Forest Magazine Much of J. Edwin Hendricks’ life story can be gleaned from the last four digits of his home telephone number: 1834. It seems fitting that those four numbers – the year of Wake Forest’s founding – belonged to […]
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We are saddened to report that J. Edwin “Ed” Hendricks, professor emeritus of history, died March 27 in Winston-Salem. Dr. Hendricks accepted his first and only faculty appointment as an Early American specialist at Wake Forest College in 1961. He retired in 2009. We […]
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We are saddened to report that Leo Ellison, associate professor emeritus of health and exercise science, died March 21 in Winston-Salem. Professor Ellison joined the Wake Forest faculty in 1957 and retired in 1999. We grieve Professor Ellison’s death and extend our condolences to […]
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Today the Wake Forest community celebrates the life and mourns the passing of parent, Life Trustee, and longtime University benefactor Petro ‘Pete’ Kulynych, who died on Saturday, Jan. 17 at the age of 93 (obituary). Kulynych’s remarkable service to Wake Forest dates back […]
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by Kerry King (’85) Wake Forest Magazine Willard Hamrick, a retired professor and chair of religion well-known for his archaeological fieldwork in the Middle East, died on Jan. 8, 2015, in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 91. He is survived by his wife, Shirley […]
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Dan O. Via, who taught in the religion department from 1956 to 1968, died Oct. 12, 2014, in Charlottesville, Va. He was 85. A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Oct. 18 at Saint Paul’s Memorial Church in Charlottesville. A native of Charlottesville, […]
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By Kerry King (’85), Wake Forest Magazine For decades, the May brothers — identical twins Gaylord and Graham — were synonymous with mathematics at Wake Forest. J. Gaylord May, who retired in 2009 after teaching for 48 years, died on Aug. 30 in […]
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Rev. Bob McGee, Episcopal campus minister at Wake Forest, died in Winston-Salem August 30. Rev. McGee, known to many on campus as Father Bob, served the University community for more than 30 years. A celebration of the life of Rev. McGee will be held at 2 […]
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