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Winning
When Cheyenne Woods won the ACC women’s individual golf championship in a dominating fashion as a junior in the spring of 2011, there was only one downside: Nobody toilet-papered the Quad in...
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Ben Sutton Jr., Winston-Salem, N.C.
As the “mic man” who led cheers at home football games in 1978 and 1979, Ben Sutton Jr. (’80, JD ’83, P ’14) was a widely recognized voice in Wake Forest sports. Today he continues to promote Demon...
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Tommie O’Toole (’78): Our man at the Olympics
Tommie O’Toole (’78, P ’07) lives every sports fan’s dream. He’s covered some of the biggest events of the last 30 years, including 18 Final Fours (beginning in 1985, Villanova over Georgetown) and 11...
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Where Are They Now?
Laura Bullins Lough ('07) Founded The Unique Sheep to produce hand-painted yarn for knitting and crocheting. Works full time with The Unique Sheep. “Define success for yourself. It is easy to get...
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Hoop dreams: The 1962 Final Four team
Longtime television basketball analyst and former basketball star Billy Packer (’62) entertained the Half Century Club at its Homecoming luncheon with tales about the late Coach Horace “Bones”...
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Chris Paul returns home to give back
Chris Paul (’07) wasn’t dressed as Santa Claus, but for the children eagerly anticipating his arrival at Toys R Us in Winston-Salem on Thursday, he was as welcome as the real thing. Paul, a former Wake...
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What’s up with Marc Palmieri (’94)?
At Wake Forest Marc Palmieri (’94) majored in communication with a minor in theatre. A star pitcher at Long Island’s Chaminade High School, after graduation he declined a contract with the Toronto Blue...
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Newtown tribute: Marcus Tracy (’08)
For former Wake Forest soccer star Marcus Tracy (’08), the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., last month literally hit close to home. Tracy grew up in Newtown, and his family still lives three miles from Sandy...
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For two generations of Deacons, a journey along parallel paths
At the mention of Commencement, Abbe Brooks’ (’13) eyes became misty — a prelude to the tears one fights back at the prospect of leaving behind someone, or some place, so dear. “I’m scared to think of...
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No. 26 – No. 50
O HERE’S TO WAKE FOREST OK, we admit it. We don’t know all the words to the fight song, especially that slightly creepy second verse about exploring her and patrolling her. But we get the gist of...
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Memories of a simpler time
A program from the 1951 groundbreaking ceremony and a fundraising brochure for the new campus. Invitations to the Magnolia Ball and Homecoming Dances. A 1952 commencement program. A postcard assessing...
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It’s a dog’s life
It’s not that unusual for a communication major to use what she learned in class to communicate with clients as she builds a thriving business. But what if her clients are dogs? Gretchen Hollifield...
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One, two, three … Dream!
Former Wake Forest pitching ace and professional baseball player Danny Borrell (’09) is used to being in the limelight. But it was an entirely different feeling when he walked into Yankee Stadium with...
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Motor mouth: Dentist on wheels
For those of us who dread going to the dentist, help could be coming ’round the corner. If you live in San Francisco, the dentist will come to you. Sara Creighton (’05) hit the streets of San Francisco...
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Connecting boys sole to soul
In 2009 Ashley Brown Armistead (’91) founded Let Me Run, a non-profit based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The program is now located in 15 states and will see 1,200 boys cross the finish line this...
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Cinderella Deacs ’79
Following back-to-back 1-10 seasons, Wake Forest put together an improbable run to the Tangerine Bowl in 1979, Wake’s first bowl appearance since 1949. Behind record-setting quarterback Jay Venuto...
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An off-the-court reunion in Vietnam
Al Koehler (’63), at left, and Butch Hassell (’64) at their impromptu reunion in South Vietnam in 1966. As a history buff and longtime Wake Forest sports fan, I was intrigued when I received a grainy,...
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The father of Wake Forest ROTC
If you graduated from Wake Forest between 1940 and 2000, you probably knew, or at least knew of, Robert Helm (’39). Odds are good that you, or a friend, had Helm for “Meaning and Value,” “Space and...
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