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Alumni
News 2003-2004
(please
sent updates to louden@wfu.edu, Also
love to receive photographs)
Alumni Entries through January 25, 2002 can be found at Alumni
News 2002-2003
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Al Martin, 1937
Brian Nozolino, Reunion 2003
Jordana Sternberg & Brett Berlin
Martha Ann Allen Turnage, 1943
David Zacks, 1963
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Thomas
Allen (2000) and Lindsay Littlefield (2003) Were married June
28th in Fargo North Dakota. Thomas is works as a computer programmer for
Opus Healthcare Solutions in Texas. Lindsay graduated in May and is a Truman
Scholar. An article on newspaper's editorial response (as eulogy) to Sen.
Jesse Helms' retirement, co-authored with Louden, was published in October
2003. |
| Stefan Bauschard (MA) & his wife
Holly were blessed with the birth of Ryan Martin Bauschard August 1st, 2003.
Stefan is the debate coach at Boston College. See baby
pictures |
| Jarrod Atchison (2000, MA '03) is
working on his Ph.D. at the University of Georgia where he is teaching and
coaching debate. |
| Ted
Belch (MA) is leaving Glenbrook North and Debate after this coming
year, and retiring to Las Vegas. Worth a visit we're sure. |
| Adrienne
Brovero (1995, MA 1997) and Judd Kimball (1990) were married
in Chicago June 14, 2003. Most recently Judd and Adri helped engineer another
Northwest NDT victory. |
| Michael
and Jen Bonura were married in Newburgh New York, March 1st.
Michael continues to grow the family restaurant and catering businesses. |
| George
Butts, 1939-40, passed away in Tarzana, California January 20, 2003. |
| Robbie Boone (1995) has
accepted a position with Rep. Howard Coble's (R-NC) office doing his Transportation
& Infrastructure Committee work . He most recently served as an assistant
Vice President and analyst with the U.S. Trust Co. of North Carolina in
Raleigh, NC |
| David Cheshier
('85) has been promoted to Associate Professor at Georgia State University
in Atlanta. He hosted, with the help of GSU Communication Department Chair,
Carol Winkler (MA '83), the NFL Nationals in Atlanta in
June. |
| Cyclone Covey (2000) has completed
Wake Forest Law School, working at the law firm of Griffin Cochrane &
Marshall in Atlanta. He passed the Georgia Bar in October. |
| Joseph
Carlton, 1929 passed away March 14th, 2003. Teamed with R. Paul Caudill
and Wade Bostwick, they defeated William and Mary College in a debate
at Wake Forest College. The were negative on Resolved: That the United
States should cease to protect by armed force capital invested in foreign
lands, excepts after a formal declaration of war.
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| R.
Paul Caudill, 1929 passed away May 28th, 2002. Paul Caudill was a major
debater in Wake history, including having one of his debates published in
a National book on intercollegiate debates. The author of more than 25 books,
Caudill was born in Dockery, N.C., in 1904. He was the fifth generation
in his family to be a Baptist minister enjoying an influential career in
Southern Baptist circles. Dr. Caudill was 97 years old and pastor emeritus
of First Baptist Church of Memphis. He went obtain his Ph.D. from Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. At the First Baptist Church
of Memphis he began a ministry for the deaf in the city and established
a Chinese Baptist Church, which shared facilities with First Baptist Church
until moving to its own buildings. In his retirement years he preached regularly
at the Shelby County Penal Farm and was instrumental in the building of
a chapel on the grounds. He was a trustee of Baptist Memorial Hospital for
30 years. Active within Baptist denominational circles, he served as president
of the Tennessee Baptist Convention, was on the Executive Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention and following World War II was in charge of World Relief
for the Baptist World Alliance. In the summers, he traveled to mission fields
engaging in evangelistic work. He led First Baptist to build nine chapels
in Africa, as well as a hospital in Bangalore, India. |
| Elisia
Cohen, Ph.D. (MA) has defended her Dissertation at the University of
Southern California in April 2003. Elisia will be teaching in the fall at
the University of St. Louis. She and Jeffrey VanCleave (former KU coach)
will be married in Louisville, KY December 27th, 2003 |
| Alan Coverstone ('90) has been name
the Academic Dean at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, where he presently
teaches politics and coaches the nationally successful debate team. He and
his wife Laura (MA '93) have two boys. |
Thomas I. Davis (1940) passed away
July 5th, 2003. Mr. Davis was an After-Dinner-Speaking Champion on the outstanding
1938-40 squads. His photo can be found in the 1939
and 1940
squad pictures. Mr. Davis owned and operated The Johnstonian-Sun,
Selma's weekly newspaper from 1951 until 1992. Active in Democratic Party
politics his entire adult life, he was executive director of the state party
from 1960 to 1964, under Governor Terry Sanford. In 1969 he was named Special
Assistant for Public Information to state schools superintendent Craig Phillips,
a post he held until his retirement from state service in 1985. A U.S. Navy
veteran of World War II, Mr. Davis served for two years in Charleston, S.
C., where he was an officer-in-charge of patrol boats and an operations
officer. In 1943 he attended Naval Mine Warfare School and became commanding
officer of the U.S. Y.M.S. 362 as part of the Atlantic Fleet and engaged
in sweeping for mines in the sea channel in Norfolk, Va. In December 1944,
his ship was assigned to the 3rd fleet in the South Pacific. He was involved
in naval engagements at Iowa Jima, Leyte Gulf, the Philippines, Guam, Saipan,
Pelilu and Okinawa.
A long-time political consultant, Mr. Davis assisted several statewide Democratic
candidates. He was assistant communications director for the 1960 Kennedy-Sanford
campaign and in 1968 managed the North Carolina Hubert Humphrey presidential
campaign. During his tenure with the state Department of Public Instruction,
Mr. Davis was responsible for all publications and public information programs
and was legislative liaison for the department. He was a member of the board
of the National School Public Relations Society for five years and was the
organization's first North Carolina president. |
| Harold Deaton ('32) passed away August
9th, 2003 at 94 years of age. He was a cum laude graduate of Wake Forest
University, where he won numerous awards and medals for debating and was
a charter member of the Order of the Golden Bough. He worked as a teacher
and principal in North Carolina, then went into computer sales and management
with Sperry Rand UNIVAC. |
| Mario DeMarco (2001) is in Medical
School at Wake Forest University. |
| Eric DeRose (2001) is attending Law
School at the University of Pittsburgh. |
| Rebecca Eaton (2003) is working at
Edelman Public Relations in Atlanta. |
| Shannon
(Redmond) Feldman (MA), is the League Communications Officer with the
IMPACT Coalition, New York Urban Debate League, NYC. She again made the
pilgrimage to Winston-Salem to provide her expertise in running the National
Earlybird Tournament in September |
| Brian Flagler ('95) is vice president
and general counsel for Mulnomah Publishers, a Christian book publishing
firm. He and his wife, Amy and son Patrick, live in Sisters, Oregon. They
are expecting a second child. |
| Nate French ('93 ) spent the summer
as Diversity Fellow in the Department of Communication Studies at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln under the rubric of the Ronald McNair Scholars Program.
Camille (Wilkerson) French ('93) is currently an Associate at the
firm of Browne, Flebotte, Wilson and Horne in Durham, NC. Together they
are enjoying their son Cameron who is moving quickly into the "terrible
twos." Nate is finishing his Ph.D. in Communication at UNC-CH. |
| Daveed Gartenstein-Ross (1998)
is an associate at Boies, Schilller & Flexner LLP's Armonk, NY office.
His main practice areas include antitrust actions and international disputes.
Daveed graduated from the New York University School of Law in 2002.
While at NYU, Mr. Gartenstein-Ross was an articles editor for the New York
University Law Review, was designated both a Pomeroy Scholar and a Butler
Scholar, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He then clerked for the
Honorable Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the
D.C. Circuit (2002-2003). He is the author of several articles, including
An Analysis of the Rights-Based Justification for Federal Intervention in
Environmental Regulation, 14 DUKE ENVTL. L. & POL'Y F. (forthcoming
Fall 2003). See Law
Firm link |
| Sue Warner Graham ('78) will be organizing a
Wake Debate reunion for 2004. She and her husband John Graham ('78)
live in Washington DC where John serves as Director of the Federal Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, or OIRA Link to Wake
Forest Magazine article. |
| Mark
('93, MA '95) and Kara Grant (MA) were blessed with their first
child, Samuel Roston Grant, born on April 11, 2003 in Atlanta. Mark is an
intellectual property lawyer and Kara directs the Atlanta Urban Debate League.
See |
| Justin
Green, '98, has been named as the Director of Debate beginning with
the 2003-04 season at Georgetown University. |
| Andy Geppert, 99', has taken a computer
position with a prestigious firm in Chicago. |
| Jason Grimes, '94, is starting the
Masters of Science program at the Ga Tech College of Architecture in Building
Construction and Integrated Facilities Management in the Fall of '03. His
wife,Jen, is supervisor of e-business for Delta Employees Credit Union.
Daughter Carrie will be 2 in September and has started early pre-school.
He is working with WFU Marketing and the Georgia DMV to bring Wake Forest
license plates to Georgia. Georgia alumni can email Jason for info. 94deac@bellsouth.net |
| Kevin Hamrick (MA, 91) is the new
debate coach September, with Lakeland Central School District at Lakeland
and Walter Panus High Schools in suburban Westchester County, New York.
He has spent the past 3 years taking care of his 3 kids Anna (7); Sophie
(4); and Jackson (1) while doing freelance fundraising work for a "host
of bleeding-heart liberal" causes in Chicago. (link to vintage
Hamrick) |
| Aaron Harmon
(MA, 2000) founded the Winston Tutoring Network Winston-Salem, NC. The
service provides a tutoring referral service providing high school and
college instruction, an organized sliding scale SAT seminars for local
high schools and church organizations. He also works managing his wifes
modeling career and is making plans for law school. |
Claibourne Harrison (Rhodes) ('99) has graduated
at Duke Law, where he was the managing editor of the Duke Law Review.
He is joining the Dallas Texas office of Los Angeles firm Gibson, Dunn
& Crutcher, LLP where he will practice corporate law. Check out Gibsondunn.com.
Search for Harrison. Clai writes:
I never intended to apply to law school when I started
debate, even in college. I only realized what everyone else had expected
of me after four more extremely enjoyable years of college debate at
Wake Forest. Without having debated for all four years, I doubt I would
have had the focus or the stamina to have been pleased with, and successful
in, law school.
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| Robert Helm ('39) has retired after
sixty-three years of service to Wake Forest . He was known for being an
engaging philosopher; for his contribution to ancient Greek and neoplatonic
studies; and for his distinguished military service as an officer and as
coordinator of the Wake Forest ROTC for many years. His debate career was
equally legendary. (Link to more Helm
pictures) |
| Hubert
Humphrey a member of the 1947 Pi Kap National Championship Squad (see
picture and link below) passed away March 18, 2003. After Wake Forest he
served as Editor-in-Chief of the North Carolina Law Review and President
of his class. Immediately after Law School, he became Law Clerk to the Honorable
John J. Parker, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the
Fourth Circuit. During the Korean War, he served as an officer in the Army
Judge Advocate General Corps, spending most of his tour of duty at the JAGC
Headquarters at the Pentagon in Washington. For over a year, his duties
involved drafting and presenting Army legislation to Congress. In November
1953, he joined the Greensboro law firm of Brooks, McLendon, Brim &
Holderness. At the time of his death, he was a senior partner in the firm,
which is now named now named Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard.
He was elected to the 1959 North Carolina House of Representatives and was
the youngest member of the General Assembly. He was elected to the 1961
North Carolina Senate and served as Chairman of the Insurance Committee
and Chairman of the Welfare Appropriations Subcommittee. He served for a
number of years as a Trustee of Wake Forest University, and completed two
terms as Chairman of that Board. He was recently elected a Life Trustee.
He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Wake Forest
University Baptist Medical Center, a Trustee of the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, and was Chairman of that Board in 1993-1994. (Link
to 1947 Pi Kap National Championship
Story with Mr. Humphrey on the squad) |
| Khalid Jones (BA, 2000)
has joined the firm of White and Case in New York City. He works with litigation
and intellectual property. He finished law school at Stanford University
last spring. |
| Keith Jones (1993)
and his wife, former UGA debater Monica Mizell, now have a new daughter,
Raea Juno Jones-Mizell. Keith resides in Dunwoody, GA where he is an executive
Underwriter with Zurich North America. |
| Kathy Kellermann ( M.A., 1979) has joined Trial
Behavior Consulting in Los Angeles as a Senior Consultant, specializing
nationally in courtroom persuasion, mock trials, jury selection, witness
preparation, case analysis, community surveys, change of venue studies,
damage assessments, and CLE seminars. She has been a Communication professor
at UC-Santa Barbara . |
| Kevin Knuepper ('02) is topping out
his classes at the University of Texas Law School in Austin. |
| Casey Kelly (MA '03)
is the new assistant debate coach at the University of North Texas in Denton. |
| Gloria Cabada-Leman ('88) and Greg
Leman ('85) have launched a new company specializing in hot sauces,
pasta sauces, grilling sauces, marinades, mustards, and snacks. Carolina
Sause They live in Durham NC |
| Thomas
Loquvam (2001) married Anna Sowle (2001) May 21st in Tucson,
Arizona. Thomas is attending law school at the University of Arizona.
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| Jim
Lyle (MA, 2001) was married to Courtney Morton in Corry, PA.
October 11, 2003. Jim is the Director of Debate at Clairion University in
Pennsylvania |
| James A. Martin, Jr. ('37) has retired after twenty
years as a Wake Forest University Professor. He is recognized for the rigor
and power of his mind, for the intellectual curiosity which marked his attitude
as an academic, and for his commitment to interdisciplinary teaching and
learning. Link to an account of Al
Martin's debate days at Wake. |
| Sandra
McCullough (MA, 2001) will marry Jamie Bowen later this summer in Georgia.
She is teaching at the East Georgia State Univ.. They will make their home
in Raleigh NC |
| Ann Wood Mische ('72) is
a partner in the law firm of Byrd Mische P.C. in Fairfax, VA. She is a major
litigator in the DC area. |
Wiley Mitchell,
1952, recalled in an e-mail the days of traveling with Frank Shirley: "I
remember fondly the trips we took 'out west' in Franklin Shirley's automobile,
including one notable trip in which we stayed in the Alamo Plaza motel in
Little Rock, Arkansas. The rooms were heated with natural gas heaters built
into the wall which had to be manually ignited. None of us had ever seen
such heaters before and, as was common at the time, most of us smoked. We
turned on the gas and while we waited for the heat to come on, two of us
lighted cigarettes. Dr. Shirley came into the room, smelled the gas, saw
the cigarettes, and practically took the door down getting out of the room.
Fortunately, that is the end of what could have been a explosive story.
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Following my graduation from law school Wiley practiced law in Raleigh before
joining the Law Department of the Southern Railway Company in Washington.
He retired from Norfolk Southern as Senior General Counsel in Norfolk two
years ago and is currently with Willcox & Savage, a Norfolk law firm.
During his distinguished career he was vice-mayor of the City of Alexandria
for six years, a member of the city council for 8 years, and a member of
the Virginia Senate for 14 years. He lives with his wife Marsha (also a
Wake Forest graduate) in Norfolk, VA and has two daughters and seven grandchildren.
See: www.wfu.edu/Student-organizations/debate/PhotoGallaries/NDTPictures/1952-3NDTTeamMoorefield&Mauney.htm |
| Brian
Nozolino ('83) lives with his wife Robbie and two children, Halie
is 5 and John is 3, in Augusta, Georgia where he is the Chief Financial
Officer for the Medical College of Georgia Foundation, one of the larger
foundations for higher education. He is responsible for the accounting
cycle from initial gifts o the preparation of financial statements and
reports, as well as information systems, endowment investments, and real
estate properties. Brian reflected on his undergraduate career:
"Twenty five years after graduation, I have found two things .
. .stand out. One is being a Wake Forest graduate. Wake's sterling reputation
positively influences everyone I meet. And the second is the skills
I developed from debating. The ability to speak well in front of groups
only increases your reputation and credibility. The ability to do research,
write and construct arguments is very useful and has made me known as
an unusual accountant." Picture
link
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| Larry
Penley (’71, MA ’72) has been named Colorado State University's
13th president and chancellor of the university system. Penley has been
Dean of the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University since
1991, has been on the faculty of ASU's business school since 1985, when
he was hired as chair of the management department. He named the W. P. Carey
School of Business in January 2003, spurred by the second largest gift ever
given to a U.S. business school -- $50 million from New York City real estate
investment banker Wm. Polk Carey. During his tenure as dean, the W. P. Carey
School emerged as a top-ranked MBA and undergraduate program led by a strong
research faculty and supported with the latest in information technology.
Penley received his doctorate in management from the University of Georgia
and his bachelor's degree in psychology and his master's degree in communication
from Wake Forest University. Link to Pictures of Larry
as a Wake Debater. |
| Amy Powell (2001) is a third year law
student at the New York University School of Law. After she graduates, she
will clerk for Judge Amalya Kearse on the United States Court of Appeals
for the Second Circuit. |
| Brian
Prestes ('97) has announced his engagement to Amy Humowiecki (U. Mich).
Brian is currently an associate with Covington and Burling in Washington
DC, concentrating in general and appellate litigation. While at Chicago,
Brian served as the Executive Editor of The University of Chicago Law Review,
served as a Staff Member of the Chicago Journal of International Law, and
was elected to the Order of the Coif. He also served as a law clerk to the
Honorable Sandra L. Lynch of the United States Court of Appeals for the
First Circuit (2001-2002). (see http://www.cov.com/lawyers/bios/short839.html) |
| Dean
Butler Pruette, 1931, passed away January 14, 2003. Dr. Pruette was
93 and the former superintendent of the High Point City Schools from 1957
to 1975. He held a Doctorate of Education degree from Columbia University
(1954). |
| Judd Renkin
(MA 2001) has been teaching "persuasion theory" and "public
speaking and critical thought" at loyola university in Chicago. His
second master's in philosophy is almost complete and he also completed a
women's studies certification at Depaul Univ. He is aiming to return to
the coaching ranks. |
| Tosh Siao (MA, '88) works and lives
in Charlotte with his wife Lisa (Honeycutt, MA Wake). He works with another
fellow alumnus, Clark Johnson (BA, '86) at
Willis Group, a insurance and risk management firm. |
| Jordana
Sternberg ('95) married Brett Berlin in Hollywood, Florida, May 25,
2003. Jordana is working hard as a lawyer in Atlanta and recently visited
the squad at the 2003 NDT. |
| Jeff Sodko ('93, Law '96) is Associate General
Counsel for the UAW, Internatioanl Union, United Automile, Aerospace and
Agricultural Implement Workers of America in Detroit, MI. |
| Patrick
Speice ('03) is pursuing his law degree at the William and Mary this
fall. |
| Kanke Tomohiro, MA, is the debate coach debate
for Dokkyo University near Tokyo. He also lectures on debate for busness
groups around Japan. He hosted the CIDD International Exchange debates in
Japan in the 2003 summer. Kanke coached team from Dokkyo won one of the
Japan National Championships in 2001. |
| Martha
Ann (Allen) Turnage ('44) has been in touch with the squad. Martha Ann
Allen was the first women to complete in an off-campus tournament representing
Wake Forest University. She is now retired in Willimamsburg, VA. In her
distinguished career she served as Vice Presidents at both George Mason
University and Ohio University. See History
of Women and Wake Debate |
| Mark
Yopp (2001) lives in Costa Mesa, California where he works for Pacificare
Behavioral Health as the lead claims examiner. Mark is planning for law
school next year. |
| Keith Vaughan ('72) was listed in Chambers
USA: American's Leading Business Lawyers for his work in litigatgion
at Womble Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice in Winston. |
| Clint Watson (BA 2000) is attending
Univ. of Michigan Law School. |
| Linda (Hippler) Wastyn ,'84, in addition
to her job at St. Ambrose in Davenport, Iowa, and managing her 1st grader,
Matthew's busy life, has started a Ph. D. program in higher education with
Illinois State University. Ron Wastyn (MA) is department
chair and golf coach at St. Ambrose. |
| David Zacks (’64, JD ’67) travels worldwide
to lead the fight against cancer. He is litigator and partner in the international
firm of Kilpatrick Stockton in Atlanta, is halfway through his one-year
term as chairman of the National Board of Directors of the American Cancer
Society. For the full story Window
on Wake Forest web page. |
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