Women’s Forum Update Maggie Dailey (Associate Director, WHCOE) The Women’s Forum held a lively spring “Meet and Greet” event on Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at the home of Dr. Susan Hutson, Professor of Biochemistry, WFU School of Medicine. Women from the Reynolda and Hawthorne campuses gathered to network with their colleagues and learn about opportunities to serve on task forces during the 20072008 academic year. Highlights of the evening included brief talks by Ellen Kirkman, Ph.D., M.S., Professor of Mathematics, WFU, and Ann Lambros, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Education, Assistant Professor, Public Health Sciences-Social Sciences and Health Policy, about their areas of interest and vision for future Wake Forest projects and activities. The Women’s Forum is an organization of women faculty and key administrators at Wake Forest University, working to: encourage collegiality across all schools of the university; create change in policies and practices at WFU; and promote and sustain a healthy and stimulating working environment in which the contributions and needs of women are fully acknowledged.
elocation (or, exit us) the city is american, so she can map it. train tracks, highways slice through, bleed only to one side. like a half-red sea permanently parted, the middle she’d pass through, like the rest, in a wheeling rush, afraid the divide would not hold and all would drown—city as almighty ambush— beneath the crashing waves of human hell. the city’s infra(red)structure sweats her, a land(e)scape she can’t make, though she knows the way. she’s got great heart, but that gets her where? egypt’s always on her right (it goes where she goes), canaan’s always just a-head, and to her left, land of the bloodless dead.
Evie Shockley a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006)
Women’s and Gender Studies Honors Graduating Minors The WFU Honors and Awards Ceremony for Undergraduates takes place each year in May, on Sunday afternoon prior to graduation exercises on Monday. Since 1995, Women’s and Gender Studies has recognized graduating WGS minors at this event. The Academic Award for Outstanding Senior in WGS is given to the student who has shown initiative and motivation throughout her/his tenure at Wake Forest, who has excelled in a variety of academic disciplines and special projects, and who has maintained a high scholastic average and demonstrated aptitude for further study. The 2007 recipient of this award is Laura Elizabeth Bullins. According to their nominators:
“Laura is an achiever who believes in the hopefulness of human nature and puts other’s needs before hers...Her written work and class discussion convey an exceptional thinker at work.” The Leadership Award for Outstanding Senior in WGS is given to the student who best exemplifies the qualities of leadership, service and professionalism, who has excellent academic records and has made a significant contribution to the betterment of society through community service and/or humanitarian undertakings, and who has promoted the educational value of racial, cultural and gender diversity. This year we have co-recipients: Karissa Chanin Flynn
“Karissa is well-rounded in her pursuits and achievements. Her excellent record of honors comes with a commitment to advanced academic explorations of the law and with a dedication to philanthropy and social work.” and Shannon Michelle Philmon.
“Shannon has passionately and courageously upheld important ideas of feminism and social justice. As Student Government President she established a stronger bond between student government and the rest of the campus community, as well as fighting for women’s issues and increased awareness of issues as troubling as sexual assault and genderbased hate crimes.” Congratulations to each of you.
Anne Firor Scott Receives Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Peggy Smith (Art) at 2007 WFU Graduation Ceremony
Anne Firor Scott is a pioneering scholar of women’s history and a prolific scholar of the South. The essence of the teacher-scholar ideal, she was the W.K. Boyd Professor of History at Duke University from 1962 until 1991. Renowned throughout her profession as “The Godmother of Southern History,” she has served as president of the Southern Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. Her groundbreaking first book, The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, published in 1970, was the first book to be based on the study of women’s personal documents and established the modern study of Southern women’s history.
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