Alumni News 2004-5

Sven Anderson (MA '84) teaches public speaking at Southeastern Community College in Whiteville, NC and was recently a finalist in the Excellence in Teaching Award for the North Carolina Community College system.

Rachel Avon (1998, MA 2000) was awarded the Ballard Seashore Dissertation Completion Fellowship at Iowa. It was a university wide selection process and she was chosen as one of five. And more importantly has a Baby girl, Felicity, in July 2005. She is teaching at Lake Forest Univ. near Chicago.

Virginia Bannigan and Brian welcomed a new son on March 21st 2005, Christopher Patrick Bannigan. 8 lb, 9.9 oz. 21"

Stefan Bauschard (MA) has accepted a new position as Director of Debate at the Lakeland Schools in New York. He is currently the propritor of the Planet Debate

Andrew Barnes ('05, MA) is the assistant debate coach and lecturer at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA.

Michael Bonera ('02) "Bones" is currently the general manager of Anthony's Pier 9 Catering in New Windsor, NY. He and his wife Jen live in Newburgh.

Stapp Beeton passed away in Texas in April 2004. We fondly remember his first college debate year at Wake in 1991.

Charles Bentley ('58) made a career as a school administrator, has had a second retirement from an 8 years as chair of the Dept of Teach Education at Chowan College and now spends time on the golf course. He sent a delightful account of traveling to a tournament in 1957 that included colleagues Steve Blackwell (partner in law Mars Hill, NC), Joe Grubbs (Minister of First Christian in Minneapolis). Read about their 1957 adventure.

Sandra (McCullough) Bowen (MA, 2001) married Jamie Bowen. She teaches at Wayne Community College and Seymour Johnson AFB in the Raleigh area.

Bob Bowser ('85) works in Greensboro as an accounts manager with ARAMark. He has been married for over a decade to wife Lisa. Their joy of their lives are a daughter, Sierra, 5 in Nov. and son, Joey, 3 in Oct. They live in Sophia, NC at the foot of the Uwharrie Mountains, between Asheboro and High Point.

Adrienne Brovero ('95, MA '97) and Judd Kimball ('90) exciting news is that their first child, Bella Adrienne Kimball was born on April 20, 2005 in Evanston, IL. Adrienne is the Assistant Debate coach at Richmond University beginning in the Fall of 2005.

Drew Brown ('99), a Duke Law graduate, is practicing law in Greensboro with the firm Smith Moore LLP. He represents the ACC in their suit with the Big East over athletic conference expansion. He can be found at all Deacons home and many away games.

Robbie Boone ('95) is working as Legislative Assistant, U.S. Representative Howard Coble (NC-6) in Washington DC

Danielle Brudi, debated with the Wake squad for two years, 2002-4, while at Salem College. Danielle is currently attending the University of Georgia where she participates in the rival debate society of the Demosthenians on campus.

Bobby Burchfield ('76) was listed by the Legal Times as one of the 20 leading trial lawyers in the Washington DC. He also recently moved from Covington & Burling to McDermott Will & Emery with the Trial Department. He heads the department's litigation and jointed as co-partner-in-charge of the Firm's Washington DC, Office. Among other high profile cases Bobby has argued before the US Supreme Court on behalf the Republican National Committee in McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (McCain-Feingold campaign finance law).

Julian Burroughs ('51)has been a painter and sculptor since retiring from Wake in 1994. Several of his works have won awards and appeared in juried shows.

Allen Cates ('89) was marred in Scotland in the summer of 2003 and is attending Manchester Business School outside of London.

Ed Christman ('50) retired WFU Chaplain, was the first recipient of the Wake Forest divinity School Distringuished Service Award, presented at graduation 2005.

Elisia Cohen (MA '99) finished her Ph.D. at the Univ. of Southern California Annenberg School and is now a prof at the Univ. of St. Louis. She and husband, Jeff VanCleave (former KU debater) added pugs Rosie and Daisy to the family.

Chris Cooper ('96) is the Media Relations Director for the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE - www.gracelinks.org) in NYC.

Joe Cooper ('89) lives with his wife Jill and their two sons Grant (6) and Russell (7) in San Antonio, Texas where Joe is the founder of a large company, Digital Defense, which specializes in Bank Security. May be able to hit him up for some Spurs tickets.

Alan Coverstone ('90) had two debate teams at NFL HS Nationals close out policy debate, winning a rare double national championship. He is the academic dean at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, TN. He and his wife Laura (MA '93) have two boy Mason and Mitchell. (Pictured watching WFU Basketball in 2005)

Cyclone Covey ('02) is a lawyer with Griffin Cochrane & Marshall in Atlanta. He married Affie Nezhat in an August Atlanta Wedding..

Rob Croskery ('78) is the senior trial attorney at Croskery Law Offices, an AV rated litigation firm in Mason, Ohio. I am also a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Reserves, serving primarily at US Special Operations Command at Macdill AFB, Florida. He sends his best wishes to all current debaters in a great program.

John Dixon (J.D.) Davis ('47) passed away Aug 29, 2005 at age 82. He was a debaters and orator at Wake Forest and was president of Pi Kappa Deltla the forensics honorary in 1942. His college education was interrupted for several years while he served in the U.S. Navy, in the Pacific Theater, as an officer on the minesweeper YMS 183. He returned to Wake Forest in 1946 to complete his B.A. degree in English. While at Wake Forest, he was involved in the college newspaper, in drama productions, in debate as an orator and in the choir. In the fall of 1947 he entered Duke Divinity School and graduated with a B.D. degree. He later attended Appalachian State, receiving an M.A. in psychology and did post graduate work in sociology. He served as a pastor of churches in Fountain, Crisp, Murfreesboro and as a Baptist Student Chaplain at Appalachian. He retired from Montreat College in 1987, where he taught psychology and sociology for 17 years.

Mario DeMarco ('03) is finishing up his training to be a doctor at Wake's Bowman Gray Medical School.

Eric DeRose ('01) is in his second year of law school at the University of Pittsburgh.

Chris DeVault ('02) is put the last touches on his MA in English at Georgetown and is attending the Univ. of Miami for his Ph.D. . Tough duty . . .Chris also has been working with Tim O'Donnell and the Mary Washington College debate program.

Becca Eaton ('03) and Jarrod Atchison (MA '03, BA '01) were wed May 28, 2005. Becca is working as an event director for the Univ. of Georgia and Jarrod is working on his Ph. D. in Communication at the University of Georgia. Debate Alumni at Eaton/Atchison Wedding

Buck Endemann ('89) lives with his wife in San Diego and is studying at the University of San Diego School of Law.

Liz (Ellis) ('01) and Wes Lotz ('01) were married in Houston in May 2004. Wes is working at a law firm and Liz is managing an office in Houston.

Samson Enzer ('04) graduated cum laude this spring and is attending law school at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bill Evans ('83), a professor of economics at the Univ. of Maryland is on sabbatical last semester cranking out publications at Georgetown. He lives with McLean, Virginia with his wife Eileen and three boys, Conor (14) Brendan (11), and Patrick (7). Conor swims as a frosh in HS; Brendan and Patrick are enjoying the revival of the Steelers.

Margaret Feinberg ('96) (Margaret's Web Page) was marred in Sept 2003 to Leif Oines and is now living in Juneau, Alaska where she is an author and speaker Margaret has written or contributed to more than 20 projects including Twentysomething: Surviving & Thriving in the Real World, Just Married: What Might Surprise You About the First Few Years of Marriage, and Simple Acts of Faith: Heart Warming Stories of One Life Touching Another (a Gold-Medallion Finalist).

Emma Filstrup (2002) has completed her degree at Georgetown University Law.

Shannon (Redmond) Feldman (MA '96) and Jason welcomed their first child, Conor Tobin to their family February 28, 2005. Shannon works for the NY Impact Coalition (Urban Debate League)

Brian Flagler ('92) is Vice President of Administration and General Counsel for Multnomah Publishers in Sister, Oregon. He and his wife are blessed with two boys Patrick 4 and Sam 1 1/2.

Rick Fledderman ('93) is the papa of a new baby girl this spring. He resides in Chicago.

Chad Flick ('01) was married Megan Wickerham in Pittsburgh this last summer.

Nate French ('93), defended his dissertation at UNC-CH in March 2005. He is teaching at Christopher Newport Univ. in Newport News, VA. Nate and Camille (Wilkerson) ('93) had their second child Lashley in July who joined older brother Cameron. Camille is a lawyer in Virginia.

Mitsuhiro Fujimaki (MA, '95) has been teaching at Bunkyo University for five years. It is a small private outside of Tokyo. His position deals with communication studies in international contexts. His research area is collective memory and museums. He has been extensively working on Japanese colonial buildings, which have been rebuilt as either a new museum, rebuilt by a new regime, or mere remains, in order to analyze how new makeup can do for social formations. He and his wife have a 2 1/2 year old son who is "hyper active."

Darren Gamradt ('04) is attending Wake Forest Law School.

Carroll Gardner ('58, JD '60) passed away in Mt Airy January 5, 2004. Mr. Gardner practiced law throughout Surry County for 43 years in the law firm of Gardner, Gardner and Campbell. He was a member of Union Primitive Baptist Church and served as clerk of the Fisher River Primitive Baptist Association for 35 years.

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross ('98) is working as a Senior Terrorism Analyst for the Investigative Project in D.C and has joined the Counter- Terrorism Blog as a Contributing Expert. He is leaving the NY office of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP. He has written on terrorism issues for Commentary, The Weekly Standard, The New York Sun, and The Washington Times and frequently appears as a guest on the Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Fox News Radio, and Radio America.

Andy Geppert ('98) works in Chicago for an international investment consulting firm.

Mark ('93, MA '95) and Kara Grant (MA) and Sam live in Atlanta. Kara is working part time with the Urban Debate League and Mark is now working as in-house council for Earthlink. Sam is approaching two years.

Stacey Gomes ('03) is in her third year of Wake Law School.

Craig Green ('95) is an assistant Professor at Temple Law School where teaches federal courts, administrative law, and civil procedure. In 1999, Craig received his JD from Yale Law School. Following law school, he clerked for Hon. Louis H. Pollak of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and for Hon. Merrick B. Garland of the D.C. Circuit. In 2001, Craig worked in the Office of the Solicitor General as a Bristow Fellow. During his government service, he briefed and argued several cases in the federal courts of appeals, and worked with the Solicitor General's Office in drafting merits briefs for the Supreme Court.

Justin Green ('98) is the new Director of Debate at Kansas State University in Manhattan KS.

Jason Grimes ('94) is completing his masters in building construction at the Georgia Tech. He is a specialist on US Green Building Council issues and operaions contracting for US General Services Office. But much more importantly and life changing he and his wife Jennifer welcomed their second child, daughter Caelyn on March 19th. She joined her sister Carrie who is now 4.

Aaron Harmon (MA, 2000) is attending UNC-CH law school. He spent the summer working at the NC Court of Appeals for Judge James Wynn.

Claibourne Harrison (Rhodes) ('99) is with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Dallas Texas. “Clay” attended Duke Law where he was managing editor of the Duke Law review.

Melanie Henson (MA) has finished her MBA at Duke University. Her work focused on leadership and President Ronald Reagan. She works at Sara Lee in Winston-Salem.

Brian Householder (MA) defended his Ph.D. at the University of Georgia in April. He has a tenure track position teaching social influence at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks.

John Hughes ('96) graduated from the Univ. of Chicago Law School last spring. He clerked for the Honorable J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit last year. This Oct. John has been accepted to clerk for the US Supreme Court (Honorable Clarence Thomas). He and Amy ('96) have even better news as of July 7th. 2004, with the birth of their son John Barnard "Jack" Hughes. (pictured on the Left)

Capt. Marcel Humber ('51) passed away December 30, 2003. A resident of Falls Church, VA, since 1966, Captain Humber, 73, was born in Paris, where his American father practiced international law, and was raised there until the German occupation in June 1940, when the family fled to Greenville, N.C. He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Wake Forest University in 1951 He has 23-year career with the Navy, where he served as aide to Adm. Chester A. Nimitz in San Francisco, had two tours assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and commanded the destroyer Kraus. He also served as U.S. Naval Adviser to the commanding general of the Republic of Vietnam National Defense College in Saigon during the Vietnam War. His commendations included the Meritorious Service Commendation Medal and Bronze Star with combat V. He joined the George Washington Univ. faculty in 1982 and taught finance and economics until retiring in 1999. While at GW, he developed a theory on investment planning and tracking, and his book on the subject, written with Czech economist Pavel Kovanic, is in prepublication.

Kalid Jones ('00) is now an associate and Crowell & Moring in Washington in the Securities and Litigation practice groups. He is also spending time learning Japanese. Kalid earned his law degree at Stanford University.

Kathy Kellermann ( M.A., 1979) is now residing in Marina del Rey, CA where she is a Senior Consultant with Trial Behavior Consulting in Los Angeles.

Casey Kelly (MA '02) after coaching at the Univ of North Texas is working on his Ph.D. at the Univ. of Minnesota.

Kevin Kneupper ('03) finished his program at the U. of Texas-Austin Law School and is currently clerking for Judge James L. Dennis on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals a in New Orleans. In the wake of Katrina he finds himself for the indefinite future it's Lafayette, LA. In law school he was 4th in his class, and was inducted into the Chancellor's Society and given the honorary title of the Keeper of the Peregrinus, a strange bird-head thing they have up in a room in the library.

Brian Lain ('02) is the Director of Debate at Univ. of North Texas. He is now Dr. Lain finishing his Ph. D. from the Univ. of Iowa.

Kristen Langwell is a third year law student at Baylor University. She clerked part time for the Federal Magistrate judge in Waco. She won both the interschool Moot Court competition, the Client Counseling competition and qualified for both traveling teams. As importantly she has a cat named Skittles.

Lindsay Littlefield ('03) will be starting her second year at the University of Texas' LBJ School of Public Affairs (Master's program). Her husband, Thomas Allen ('00) is a Technical Project Manager at Opus Healthcare Solutions (in Austin) and is obtaining an MBA from the McCombs School at UT.

Thomas Loquvam ('01) graduated at the top in his class at the University of Arizona Law School in May. During law school he made law review, where he served as Articles Editor. Thomas and his wife Anna (also a Wake grad) now reside in Phoenix where he has joined a Law Firm.

Kristen McCauliff (MA 2004) worked as an instructor and debate coach at Clarion University this past year. She is now pursing her Ph.D. at Georgia in the fall. And the big news, is engaged to former Wake student Drew Shermeta.

Georgia (Kate) McNemar (’54, ’56 JD) passed away April 16, 2005 in Washington DC where she lived for the past 35 years. After Wake law school, Kate McNemar was elected as the first Republican magistrate in Mecklenburg County in modern times. She returned to Virginia, where she was active in Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. She later worked on the staff of the Republican National Committee. In 1969, she joined the United States Department of Justice as an attorney in the criminal division, where she stayed until her retirement 1992. In addition she was active in amateur dramatics. She appeared in and directed a number of plays produced by theatrical groups throughout the city, including the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and was an officer of the Eastern States Theater Association. She traveled widely to Africa, Thailand, the Galapagos and Europe.

Don Hoyle Lovelace ('59). He was the retired Dean of the Industrial Services and Business Department at A-B Tech in Asheville. He was one of the four original founders of the former "This Week" newspaper, which is now the Forest City Daily Courier and a former owner of radio station WAGY in Forest City and WAGI and WEAC, both in Gaffney, S.C. Dr. Lovelace was also a teacher in Electronics at Maryland College in Spruce Pine, taught at both Isothermal Community College and A-B Tech and was at present a substitute teacher in the Mitchell County Schools and a Community Trainer for people living with Developmental Disabilities.

Michelle (Neidigh) Maslowski ('02) married her husband Christian and live in Indianapolis, IN. She is currently in her first year in law school.

Sam Maurer ('05) is the assistant debate coach at Gonzaga University in Spokane Washington.

Chris Mills finished Duke Law School and then walk the Continental Divide Trail from Canada to Mexico. He is working with Van Ness Feldman in Washington DC where he focuses on energy and environmental matters, with special emphasis on Endangered Species Act and conservation banking issues. Prior to joining Van Ness Feldman, Chris was a legal intern in the General Litigation Section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Frank Mitchell (MA, '81). Frank and Melissa are the proud parents of a new daughter Delia-Maire Mitchell has been accepted into the family by Gonzo (the Pug) and Mojo (the Cat). Frank's law firm, Maloney, Martin & Mitchell continues to thrive and moved into a historic Houston building.

Gordon Mitchell (MA, '91) was married to Kathleen McTigue Nov 20 in Conn. He is a prof at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been Director of Debate there since 1995, and is taking a one-term hiatus during Fall 2004 for a University Center of International Studies Faculty Fellowship, which will support his work as chair of the University of Pittsburgh's Ridgway Center for Security Studies Working Group on Preemptive and Preventive Military Intervention. http://www.ridgway.pitt.edu/home/research/PPM/preemptive.asp

Virgil Moorefield ('53) passed away May 6, 2004, in Scotland, age 72, following a long illness. A lifelong public speaker, Moorefield started as a member of the debate team at Hopkinsville High School. He graduated from Wake Forest College where he was awarded the Top Student Medal. He was a champion debater on the Wake Forest Debating Team and was sent to Great Britain by the English Speaking Union and debated 22 universities there. He was the outstanding Senior at Wake Forest in 1953 and attended the NDT with Joe Mauney at West Point in 1952 and reaching the Octa-Finals in 1953. He was a graduate of Southeastern Seminary and joined the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Union, serving in Italy as a missionary. He was later appointed lecturer and conference director at the Baptist Seminary in Rueschlikon, Switzerland. He later earned his master's from the University of Tennessee and worked at the Institute for Social Ethics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Ed Panetta (MA '85) continues as the Director of Debate and prof at the University of Georgia. His teams continue to be top level competitors. He and wife Patty, a lawyer in Atlanta, adopted their second daughter from Russia a couple years back.

William D. Parrish Sr. ('59) 67, passed away in Winston-Salem March 12, 2004. He was an attorney in general practice in Winston-Salem.

Michael Perry (2002) was a Senior Analyst with Health Care Advisory Board in Washington DC. the last two years. This fall he is attending Stanford Law School.

Joe Peery ('95) is Vice President and stockbroker with Scott & Stringfellow. He lives with his wife Julie and "very cerebral 6 year old, Joseph David and a very active 3 year old Michael. He "battles" the Wake County School Board in his spare time.

Amy Powell ('01) finished law School at or near the top of her class at NYU. She is currently a law clerk for Judge Amalya Kearse on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in NY.

Bingham Powell ('03) is training at the Virginia Theological Seminary. It's an Episcopal Seminary in Alexandria, VA.

Brian Prestes ('97) married Amy Humelwickie in October 2 in Chicago. He is working in the Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, where he is an Attorney-Advisor.

Megan Reif ('96) was a Truman Scholars at Wake Forest. She is now finishing her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Michigan. Last summer she travels to Algeria and Indonesia to teach research/survey design and study election violence in non-Muslim and Muslim societies. After Wake, she spent the year in Pakistan on a Fulbright and studied the Taliban. She and husband Chris spent a month in Afghanistan interviewing the Taliban She worked in DC at the Afghanistan Foundation (trying to push the US to resolve the conflict by supporting the Bonn Loya Jirga process, which involved Hamid Karzai), and then moved to Atlanta from 1999-2001 and directed The Carter Center's health program development efforts (grant writing, negotiation of grant agreements with donors, persuading bilateral and multilateral donors not to get donor fatigue!).

Robin (Flaig) Ridge ('93) gave birth to a son, Benjamin Maxwell Ridge April 14th in Edinburgh, Scotland. Papa, Michael Ridge ('92) is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He just finished a research leave to finish his new book Principled Ethics: Generalism as a Regulative Ideal, forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2006 (with Sean McKeever). (http://www.michaelridge.com/mr/contact/)

Matt Rogers ('95) has established his own law firm, Law Offices of Matthew K. Rogers, PLLC, in Hickory NC. He specialized in international commercial law.

Ken Rufo ('00) finished his Ph.D. at the Univ. of Georgia in Communication and is currently teaching at UGA and Georgia State University. He is expecting his first child soon.

Andy Ryan is a lawyer with Diamond McCarthy, LLP in Dallas, TX. He attended Baylor Law as a Jaworski Scholar.

Michael Seezen ('95) and wife Rebecca welcomed a son Marshall Jackson July 7, 2003. Marshall has a brother (now 3) James. Michael is a lawyer in Columbia, SC

Max Schnurer (MA, '99) is a prof at Humbolt State Univ in California after a successful run at Marist Univ in New York. He received his Ph.D. from Pittsburgh.

Rae Lynn Schwartz (MA '02) is finishing her Ph.D. at Iowa. She has established an organization dedicated to encouraging and mentoring Women's participation in Debate.

Jessica Shaw ('03) is attending Law School at Wake Forest. Jessica married Wake graduate Andy Pile last New Year's Eve. Andy is training to become a Nuclear Propulsion Office with the Navy.

Patrick Speice ('03) is in his last year of law school at William & Mary.

Shane Stafford (MA, 89') is back in the coaching business at Orono HS in Maine. He also works as Director of Project Mainestay at the University of Maine-Orono. Project mainestay trains pre-service and in-service educators who teach English as a second language (ESL) and bilingual students in central and northern Maine. Shane also serves as secretary of the Maine Forensics Association. Shane's wife Sandy Berkowitz (MA '89) teaches communication at the University. Their daughter Hannah is a fourth grader and enjoys horseback riding and drawing random cards in the debate tab rooms for preset rounds.

Raaen Stewart ('03) is flying Apache attack helicopters out of Ft. Bragg, Fayetteville, NC.

Lee Warren Settle, Sr. (1940) passed away in September of 2004. After Wake Forest College Mr.Settle received his Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after he served as a commissioned Naval Officer during WWII. He was at Normandy Beach on the D-Day invasion in 1945. He began his career as attorney at law in Mebane in 1948 and continued to practice law, over 50 years later.

Bill Shanahan (MA '89), wife Kim (a regular summer debate faculty member) are in Ft. Hays Kansas where Bill coaches a very successful debate program. They spend much time with young William as well.

Lyle Scruggs ('90) is a professor at the University of Conn. in political Science. His latest book is Sustaining Abundance: Environmental Performance in Industrial Democracies Cambridge University Press. (2003).

Jeff & Nicole Sodko (' 93) welcomed Benjamin Herschel ("Ben Hur") Sodko into their family May 3rd, 2005. Jeff is council with the United Auto Workers Union in Detroit.

Kanke Tomohiro (MA '03) is a full time lecturer by Tokai University in Kanagawa. He teaches english related subjects and debate. Tokai has an exchange program with Wake Forest. He and Yoshi are also making wedding plans.

Pam (Ware) Victor ('80), 46 of Birmingham, AL. passed away Wednesday, August 18, 2004. Mrs. Victor was a member of Liberty Baptist Church in Alabaster, she was a member of Alfa Kappa Alfa (A.K.A.) sorority, and she was employed by United Healthcare. Pam competed in individual events in 1978.

Patrick Waldinger (05) is the assistant debate coach at Boston College.

Walter Ward ('57) passed away in Winston-Salem, December 3, 2004. He was a pioneer in alternative medical techniques for the Triad. He opened a private practice after working at Bowman Grey Medical Center. He was a renowned speaker on allergy and nutrition and served as president of the American Academy of Otolarygic Allergy.

Chris Wheatly (MA '85) has been with Pace Academy in Atlanta for several years. He an education fellow with the Aspen Institute in Colorado.

Andrea Will ('02) is at the Law School at Marquette University and doing well. She is with the Mediation Clinic working with former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, Jane Geski.

David Williams (Director '83-5) is Assoc. professor at Florida Atlantic University. Among other things that keep him professionally busy, he co-edits the international journal Controversia.

Frank Wood ('64) After 15 years of research, Frank Wood has created a test that does something few tests can do—predict the future. His 15-minute test, which can be administered by classroom teachers in elementary schools, can predict with a high rate of accuracy how well children will do in reading throughout the rest of their public-school education. The Predictive Assessment of Reading test was developed by Wood and others researchers at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. The researchers started out looking at dyslexia in the late 1980s. (Winston-Salem Journal, December 27, 2003)

Mark Yopp (2001) is attending Law School at Emory. He is also completing a joint MA program in Public Health.

David Zacks ('64, JD '67) is in alternative dispute resolution, health care law, and personal injury litigation with Kilpatrick Stockton LLP in Atlanta. He has been recognized as one of "The Best Lawyers in America for2005-06." He received Wake Forest's Distinguished Alumni Award last fall. He has served as volunteer chair of the American
Cancer Society. He and his wife, Barbara, have enjoyed traveling to Africa and the Bahamas.