Alumni News 2008

(please sent updates to louden@wfu.edu, Also love to receive photographs)
Earlier Alumni News can be found at Alumni Updates

Gloria Cabada-Leman (’88) is owner/operator of Carolina Sauce Co., an online retailer of specialty foods with a focus on N.C. products. She recently launched “Operation Sauce Drop”
(carolinasauce.stores.yahoo.net/opsadr.html) to deliver a taste of home to U.S. military
personnel stationed abroad. Military personnel with an APO or FPO address can choose from among seven free gift boxes of hot sauces, BBQ sauce and more.

Julian C. Burroughs ('51), the longtime communication professor who led the growth of radio station WFDD into the modern era and introduced film studies into the curriculum 40 years ago, died May 7 in Winston-Salem. He was 80. Julian attended Wake Forest College after enlisting and serving 13 months in the U.S. Army in Korea. He was student manager of WFDD radio station on the old campus from 1950 to 1951 before earning Master' s and Doctorate degrees at the University of Michigan. His dissertation on educational television at Michigan was one of the pioneering studies in what was then an emerging field.
In 1958, he returned to Wake Forest University as an assistant professor of speech communication and manager of WFDD, which he directed until 1981. Julian was among the station representatives who helped to create National Public Radio in the late 1960s, and WFDD became a charter member of NPR in 1971, the first radio station in North Carolina to do so.
In the 60s and early 70' Julian often helped Franlin Shirley out with the debate team, traveling to many tournaments over the years and helping host tournaments and workshops on campus.. Wake Forest University remberance. WFDD audio story

Brad Hall (BA 06, MA '08) has been selected work with Al Gore as a research assistant for his next book about solutions to global warming. His duties will include research, writing, planning summits of experts, travel, and other duties geared toward ending the climate crisis. He will be living in Nashville and traveling the world.

The Rt. Rev. Clarence Hobgood (1936), Episcopal Bishop for the Armed Forces, Retired, 93, of Charlotte, NC, died Friday, February 29, 2008 He was a graduate of Wake Forest College, Yale Divinity School and Command and Staff College, Air University. He also studied at Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, MA and received a Doctorate of Divinity from Episcopal Theological School, Lexington, KY.

He served as Pastor of First Baptist Church, Hertford, NC, Associate Rector of Church of the Good Shepherd and Chaplain, NC State College, Raleigh NC, and Rector of St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Wilson, NC.

He began his military career as a Chaplain in the U.S. Army Air Corp in the China-Burma-India theater during WWII. He served in the Air Force in Thule, Greenland during the Korean Conflict, and in many other assignments including Senior Chaplain, Headquarters Command, Washington D.C. and Senior Chaplain, USAF Europe, in Weisbaden, Germany. He retired from the Air Force as a colonel, having served as National Chaplain for Civil Air Patrol and Command Chaplain for Strategic Air Command. Among his commendations are the Bronze Star, the Four Chaplains Award for Interfaith Relations and two Meritorious Service Medals.

He was elected Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces and consecrated in the National Cathedral in 1971. He oversaw Episcopal chaplains serving in the Armed Services, the Veterans' Administration and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and ministered to Episcopal service personnel and their families worldwide. Following retirement in 1978, he served as visiting Bishop to the Deocese of of North Carolina and Southern Virginia.