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JACQUELINE SUTHERLAND | SG PRESIDENT To my fellow members of the class of 2014,
Photo courtesy of Jacqueline Sutherland
“Wake Forest is more than a top-23 university, it is our home.”
Four years ago on a sunny morning in August, we lugged boxes and bags of clothes to South Campus and moved into our freshman residence halls. We arrived on campus with different expectations, goals and aspirations; we hailed from different regions, states and countries. In those first few weeks of the fall 2010 semester, anything and everything was possible. In the semesters to come, we would strive to better ourselves and to leave our mark on campus through discovering our academic passion, contributing to an organization and learning from our friends, professors and mentors. As the class of 2014, we have come together time and time again to celebrate both Wake Forest the institution and Wake Forest the family. From screaming the fight song at the top of our lungs in the student section to cheer on our Deacs at football games, to running laps around the Quad at Hit the Bricks to beat cancer, to sipping coffee and munching on sweet bread by candlelight in Wait Chapel at the Moravian Love Feast, we have seized the opportunity to look past our visible and invisible differences to celebrate our shared identities as members of the Wake Forest community. While these traditions have lifted us up to honor different causes and to tout our Demon Deacon pride, some of the most precious memories of the past four years have been found in those small, day
to day moments frozen in time, such as having that light bulb go off while discussing an academic question at a professor’s office, talking with friends in the dorm room until all hours of the night, and crossing the Quad on a warm, spring day, surrounded by the scent of cherry blossoms and the melody of Wait Chapel’s ringing bells. Collectively, all of the moments of the past four years — the significant and seemingly insignificant ones — both have demonstrated what I have always believed to be true: Wake Forest is more than a top23 university, it is our home. While we may not all share the same memories, have the same academic passions or have pursued the same activities, over the past four years, the class of 2014 has worked, played and lived TOGETHER. For Wake. As we walk across the stage on May 19 and say “goodbye” to Wake Forest and what has been, may we remember that we are also saying “hello” to the rest of our lives and to what can be. We will forever be a part of the Wake Forest family but this is just the beginning. I wish every member of the class of 2014 the best of luck and I want to thank you all for making this place so incredibly special. GO DEACS! Sincerely, Jacqueline Sutherland Jacqueline Sutherland Student Government President 2013-14
RELIVING THE PAST FOUR YEARS
On March 22, 2013, rappers Kendrick Lamar and Macklemore performed the spring concert, WAKEstock, on Davis Field.
New additions to campus over the past four years include Farrell Hall, the home of the School of Business, and Magnolia and Dogwood dormitories.
The men’s basketball team defeated No. 2 Miami 80-65 on Feb. 23, 2013. This victory and football beating Florida State in 2011 are two of the past four years’ memorable athletic moments.
Kappa Alpha Theta’s Zeta Omicron chapter joined the university campus with 155 charter members in the spring of 2013.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, delivered a key note address in Wait Chapel on Nov. 3, 2011. The lecture, called “The Green Gold Rush,” involved the relationship between the environment and economy. Photo story by Nick Weldon/Old Gold & Black
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SETH COLLIE | ACCOUNTANCY
so helpful. They — and all professors here — teach at Wake Forest for a reason. They’re not just teaching — they’re doing research, they’re involved and they know people. If you need Seth Collie, a senior accountancy major in resources for anything, just use your professors the Wake Forest University School of Business, and network through them. They want you, looks forward to completing his undergraduate too. You can’t beat the faculty here,” said Collie. campaign before returning to Winston-Salem When Collie departs from Wake Forest after for a fifth year to receive his Master’s. his fifth year in the spring of 2015 and heads up Collie has also enjoyed pursuing his other the coast to Boston, Mass., to work for Pricewainterests at Wake Forest, such as his love for terhouseCoopers in the auditing branch, there music through his participation in the music deare three aspects he’ll miss the most — and one partment. He also served on the judicial branch of Student Government named the Board of is his favorite study spot. “I love the living room Investigators and Advisors for two and a half [in Farrell Hall], it’s my favorite place to study. years. Before becoming completely immersed In there, you can keep an eye on ESPN and in accountancy, Collie found his interests at study and have the buzz around you a little bit while you study,” said a crossroads between Collie. business and law. In Another part of choosing his major, Hometown: Hickory, N.C. Wake Forest he will Collie often found miss is the comfort himself leaning toExtracurriculars: Board of Investiand safety of Wake wards a political scigations and Advisors, Jazz band and ence major with a that allows for perfuture of law school, sonal growth. Orchestra but Collie found his “Take advantage of passion for accounting Post-Grad Plans: MSA program at the Wake Forest comand has been running munity while you can Wake Forest University with it ever since. — you can grow, make “I came in thinking mistakes, find yourself about being a political and try new things science major. But I just figured I’d give Account- here at Wake and I’ll miss those opportuniing 111 a try and see how it went. I did it, did ties,” said Collie. well in it, and Dr. Jack Wilkerson encouraged Above all, the Hickory, N.C., native will miss me to think about choosing it as my major. I’ve his friends and the people of Wake Forest. been lucky in that I stumbled into it and ended “I’ll miss the friends that I’ve gone through up being good at it,” said Collie. all four years with. Friendships are at a different During his graduate year, Collie plans to conlevel here in college. You change a lot when you centrate on auditing and will double up on transaction services to fulfill his studies during go through college and it’s a time when you see other people change too. I’ll miss the people his post-graduate career in Farrell Hall. When asked which professors at Wake had the here a lot,” said Collie. A true representative of an ideal Wake Forest most influence on him, Collie wasted no time in naming Wilkerson and Dale Martin, both dis- student, Collie will say goodbye to his undertinguished accountancy professors in the School graduate career this May, but will postpone his of Business in whom Collie has found excellent final goodbye as a student at the university for guidance resourcefulness. “Dr. Wilkerson and just one more year while studying at Wake’s Dr. Martin have both been so awesome and fifth year MSA program.
“I just figured I’d give Accounting 111 a try and see how it went.”
PETER ELLIS | ANTHROPOLOGY BY MOLLY DUTMERS Editor-in-Chief dutmmk11@wfu.edu
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“I started taking more classes and really began to like anthropology.”
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trees snapping off and uprooting and all of our equipment, notes, and artifacts blowing away.” To prevent the wind and storm from damaging their artifacts, Ellis sprang into action and started Peter Ellis arrived at the university unsure weighing things down, protecting the site. “All hell was breaking loose, and nothing fazed of what he wanted to study, but after taking Introduction to Archeology with Eric Jones, him; nothing ever does. When he sets out to do assistant professor of archeology, Ellis was drawn a task, he completes it. He never complains. He never makes excuses,” Jones said. “And, he always to the anthropology department. “I didn’t know what I wanted to major in,” goes the extra mile. He is the most professional student I’ve ever worked with.” Ellis said. This fieldwork experience helped Ellis when “Then I took Intro to Archeology first semester he was completing his honor’s thesis, which freshman year with Dr. Jones and I really enjoyed it,” said Ellis. “After taking that class, I still didn’t focused on investigating why Native Americans know a whole lot about anthropology. I started settled where they did in the North Carolina taking more classes — some of the intro classes Piedmont Region. Jones was Ellis’s advisor on the project. and I really began to like [anthropology].” “Writing a thesis Ellis continued for anthropology has taking classes in the been a really good exanthropology deHometown: Pittsburgh, Penn. perience,” Ellis said. partment, including “I learned a lot but I Extracurriculars: Alpha Sigma Phi Native Peoples and also enjoyed it. “ Cultures of North Fraternity, Men’s Club Ultimate FrisAfter graduation, America, Osteology bee Ellis will be working and North America as a contract archePrehistory. Post-Grad Plans: Working as a Conologist in the D.C. As he became and Baltimore area. tract archeologist before going to more involved in the Contract archeolograduate school department and engists are responsible grossed in the field for surveying certain of anthropology, Elareas prior to any conlis even was able to struction begins. conduct fieldwork over the summer at a Na“By law every time you are putting in a new tive American village site in Jonesville, N.C., highway for example, you need a team of archewith Jones. ologist to go through and survey the area to make Jones remarked on Ellis’s professionalism and sure you aren’t going to dig up a foundation of a dedication while conducting the fieldwork. house or cemetery for example,” Ellis said. “It’s Jones said that Ellis’s dedication was particu- a lot of survey, but some excavation as well.” larly evident during one incident while they Ellis plans to work as a contract archeologist were conducting their fieldwork last summer. for one or two years before returning to school “We were excavating a site for ten weeks last to get his graduate degree in archeology. summer, just the two of us, along the Yadkin Jones is looking forward to hearing what Ellis River about 30 miles west of campus,” Jones accomplishes after leaving Wake Forest. said. “All of the sudden, one June day, a violent “Pete has a bright future ahead of him, and storm came through, with 50 mph winds. In I’m excited for those alumni updates in the an instant it went from sunny and breezy to years to come,” Jones said.
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KATIE WINOKUR | ART HISTORY BY ADE ILESANMI Opinion Editor ilesao11@wfu.edu
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“I grew a lot in professional skills and in my ability to analyze art.”
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was a great student in my Renaissance art class, but I was even more impressed with her enthusiasm and hard work in a course on the history of prints that she was just auditing,” Barnes said. Katie Winokur did not always want to come “When a student excels in a course she’s not to Wake. Everyone in her family had attended even getting credit for, I’m pretty impressed!” Vanderbilt, so that’s where she applied there early Now also minoring in communication and decision. It wasn’t until Accepted Students Day entrepreneurship, Winokur’s choice has proven that she decided to become a Deac, intending fruitful, as she gained acceptance to graduate on studying either art history or art business. school and received multiple job offers, all of “Most students don’t go into college wanting which pertain to her major. She has had sevto major in art history,” Winokur joked, “but eral internships at art galleries and museums I have known it’s what I wanted to study for throughout her college career and traveled to most of my life.” Art has been an important Italy for two weeks upon receipt of the Lynne aspect of her life since an early age. Johnson Travel Award to attend the Venice Bi“They’d look at me like I had four heads,” ennale, an annual art exhibition. The opporWinokur said of her parents when she would ask tunity most meaningful to her, however, was them to take her to the Student Union museums as a child. Art Buying Trip over Winokur admits spring break of 2013, Hometown: Marietta, Ga. that she was intimiwhen she led a group Extracurriculars: Golden Key President, PR dated when she first of six other selected entered Wake, constudents to visit galManager for START Gallery Student Advisory cerned that most leries throughout Council, Student Life Committee, Reynolda students were preocNew York City and Student Advocacy Council, Delta Zeta cupied with majors to buy art for Wake. that would lead to “I grew a lot in proPost-Grad Plans: Account Manager for more “practical” job fessional skills and in Surya in Atlanta, Ga. opportunities. She is my ability to analyze grateful for the advice art,” Winokur said. of her freshman year Winokur is still seminar professor great friends with Leigh Hallberg, professor of drawing, sculpture many of the people she spent time with on and studio art fundamentals, who dissuaded the trip, fellow students and professors, alike. her from trying to pursue a double major in One such professor is Jay Curley, professor of art history and political science just for the sake modern and contemporary art, who has taught of practicality and encouraged her to, instead, five of Winokur’s classes and whom she referpursue her passion. ences as her “hands-down favorite professor and “Who has that the first semester of their fresh- a great mentor.” The feeling is definitely mutual. man year, a professor just pulling you aside and “Katie has been a fixture around Scales and telling you you’re talented enough to pursue the START Gallery over the past three years and your passion?” Winokur asked. has always been an excellent and enthusiastic “The deal was sealed,” as she put it, when she student,” Curley said of Winokur. “Even as a took her first art history course with Bernadine sophomore, she had the confidence and some Barnes, professor of Renaissance art. She left an of the intellectual heft of a senior. I will be surindelible impression on her professor, as well. prised if she does not end up as a high-powered “Katie just exudes energy and confidence. She gallerist in Chelsea in a few short years.”
ELISE MADAR | BIOLOGY
she also worked on her honors thesis on neuronal circuits in fruit flies. “Elise is precisely the type of student that all other students at Wake should emulate,” Johnson said. “Remarkably, Elise Madar was born in Baltimore, M.D., she has balanced all of [her] demands and has but has spent most of her life growing up in done so with grace.” northeast Ohio, right outside of Cleveland. She has also gotten close to Pat Lord, associate Coming from a family of engineers, Madar teaching professor in biology, over the years. had a strong background in mathematics and Madar has left quite the impression on her the sciences, eventually fostering an interest in professors and mentors. biology. “I have never once heard her complain about Her college search was focused on schools her course load, her job in the law school or with strong neuroscience programs and in areas anything else. She just gets down to work and with temperate climates, which made Wake an does what she needs to do — and smiles the easy choice. entire time,” Lord said. “I really wanted to get out of the cold weather,” Madar has, indeed, handled the challenges of Madar said. She thoroughly enjoys her major, as balancing her demanding workload with her it has afforded her the academic and social opportunity to build lives. strong relationships “I’ve been working Hometown: Macedonia, O.H. with many of the proin the Law School in fessors in the biology the Office of Career Extracurriculars: Alpha Epsilon department. and Professional Delta, Kappa Beta Gamma, Beta Beta “I really like it beDevelopment since Beta, Red Cross Club cause of the faculty. the beginning of my I’ve gotten to know freshman year about Post-Grad Plans: Enroll in medical them very well,” Ma10-15 hours per dar said. It all started week on average,” school at Penn State during her sophomore Madar said of her year, when she began work-study experidoing research with ence. “I definitely Wayne Silver, a prohad to manage my fessor in the biology department. time to still be able to be involved in extracur“She’s one of the best Wake Forest students riculars and do well in my classes, but I figured I’ve had in class and lab in all the years I’ve been it out pretty quickly.” here,” Silver said. “She is always extremely well Of her time at Wake, Madar says “it is all organized, incredibly hard working, perfectly memorable.” down-to-earth and always seems to be happy. Although, her academic focus has been priShe is an incredible student and has a 4.0 GPA.” marily on her neuroscience minor, Madar inMadar also spent a semester abroad at the tends to enter medical school next year with Flow House in Vienna, Austria with Silver and an open mind. his wife, who described Madar as a “humble Regardless of whichever specialty she chooses, and kind person.” Madar has garnered strong confidence and supSince then, Madar has diversified her under- port from those around her. graduate research experience. She has spent In fact, Lord was certain that “she will be two years doing research with Erik Johnson, very successful in medical school and her future an associate professor in biology with whom patients will love her.”
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MADISON MARVEL | BIOPHYSICS
ics student.” Marvel’s work in Kim-Shapiro’s lab has involved understanding the underlying processes concerning hemolysis-associated platelet activation and reducing unnecessary Although she is from a small town in Indiana, platelet activation and aggregation. Madison Marvel has seen much of the world. This work, for which she has received coHer family currently lives in San Diego, Ca., authorship on a recent publication released by but she has also lived in Illinois and spent the the lab, could help improve the lives of those last few years in Switzerland. with sickle-cell disease. In fact, it was in Switzerland that her cheerleadMarvel has a deep sense of gratitude for Kiming coach, a Wake alumna, recommended that Shapiro’s impact on her time at Wake. she and her older brother visit the university. “He has always been there as a mentor and a Not long after this encounter, her brother support system, even helping me with medical enrolled at Wake and encouraged her to do school applications,” Marvel said. the same. Since entering the Wake community, Kim-Shapiro has high hopes for Marvel. Marvel has thrived and excelled. According to “She has excelled in everything she has done Marvel, having her brother Caleb here at Wake here at Wake forest, and it has been a pleasure has been helpful and knowing her,” he grounding. said. “He’s always making In addition to Hometown: Martinsville, Ind. sure I do what I need to her time spent in do,” Marvel said. the lab, Marvel is Extracurriculars: Kappa Beta GamInitially, she wanted also in Kappa Beta ma sorority, Student Adviser, volunto create her own maGamma, was on the jor, but being masterLeadership Council teer at Speas Elementary School ful in the biological for Student Adviand the physical sciPost-Grad Plans: Southern Illinois sors, worked as a stuences, Marvel fell in dent advisor alongUniversity School of Medicine love with the biophysside Kim-Shapiro ics major. and volunteers at Little did she know Speas Elementary that she would meet School with special one of her most influential mentors at the very needs children. beginning of her very first day of classes her She has managed to balance her time despite freshman year. graduating a year early, at one time taking five Professor of physics Daniel Kim-Shapiro science classes in one semester. taught Marvel’s first physics class, and since “My dad made a deal with me that if I graduthen, he has spent two classes, one lab, and ate a year early, he would pay for a year of med five semesters of research with Marvel. He has school,” Marvel asserted. enjoyed every bit of it. Some of her fondest memories include travel“In August 2011, I went downstairs to set up ing to San Diego for a research conference with for the first lecture for Physics 114 … and there her entire lab and spending twelve hours at was one student sitting outside the classroom. I Wake N’ Shake with her sorority’s pledge class. think it was Madison’s very first class, and she Upon graduating, Marvel will matriculate into was ready,” Kim-Shapiro said. “I was pleased medical school in Illinois, where she hopes to to learn that Madison intended to major in become a developmental and behavioral pediabiophysics. She proved to be an excellent phys- trician. She aims to work in under-served areas.
“[Dr. Kim-Shapiro] has always been here for me as a mentor and support system.”
MAGGIE WAGNER | BEM
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“The variety of class topics has given me the freedom to customize my education.”
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Office of National Drug Consulting Policy through the Wake Washington program. Last summer, however, she interned for the federal practice of Deloitte Consulting, where Coming from the small town of Canfield, she will begin working in strategy and operaOhio, Maggie Wagner was one of the few stu- tions after graduation. dents from her high school to venture out of “I get to experience work that combines my state for college. interest in government and politics with busiWhen she first came to Wake Forest, after ness strategy,” said Wagner. reading about it in a guidebook, Wagner had Wagner’s professors have commended her not a clue what she wanted to declare as her extraordinary strength in leadership and promajor. After taking advantage of the liberal arts fessionalism. curriculum and experimenting with different Sam Beck, director of student professional divisional requirements, she decided on busi- development, said Wagner worked hard last ness and enterprise management with a minor summer at Deloitte to take advantage of the in global trade and commerce, and has since networking opportunities while keeping up had much success in the field. with her work. Wagner has earned “She started gothe Lura Baker Paden ing into the office award for academic at 7 a.m., two hours Hometown: Canfield, Ohio excellence in busibefore the other inness, the Jones-Holdterns were scheduled, Extracurriculars: Kappa Delta, Ofer Business Scholarso she could get her fice of Personal and Career Developship and the John work done and still ment advisory committee, and CoBelk Stevens scholtake advantage of the arship in business. Chair for President’s Ball professional advice She is also a member and connections,” Post-Grad Plans: Strategy and Opof the Beta Gamma said Beck. “This Sigma and Phi Beta maturity, insight erations, Deloitte Consulting Kappa honor sociand professionalism eties, and won the is evident in everyMVP award at the thing she does.” 2014 WFU Marketing Summit Competition. Other professors praise her hard work in the She says that the BEM major’s broad cur- classroom and optimistic personality. riculum and freedom for creativity has greatly “Maggie is more than just prepared for class,” helped her. said Holly Brower, a professor in the school of “I have taken math based classes in finance business. “She thinks about what she has read and quantitative analysis, but I have also taken and comes to class with probing questions for courses in leadership and strategy,” said Wagner. her colleagues and professors. She integrates “I think that the variety of class topics has given concepts in a very insightful way that demonme the freedom to customize my education strates deep reflection and critical thinking. She to what interests me, but has also given me a is a very serious, committed student but also fundamental understanding of core concepts has an engaging smile.” that I will need after graduation.” Wagner is also a member of Kappa Delta For the past two summers, Wagner has in- sorority, on the Office of Personal and Career terned in Washington, D.C. After her sopho- Development advisory committee and was the more year, she interned at the White House marketing co-chair for this year’s President’s Ball.
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ALEC CHRISTIAN | CHEMISTRY BY NICK WELDON Online Managing Editor weldnr11@wfu.edu
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“I’m going to miss my friends the most, that’s definitely the best part.”
chemistry or the sciences were not an option, Christian recalled his interest in economics. His professor for introductory economics, Todd McFall, recognized Christian’s unusual If you passed Alec Christian, dressed casu- ability to “relate to the gray areas of economic ally in a gray hoodie and jeans, on the upper debate.” quad, you would think he was just an average “He stood out because he paid strong attention college student. to the economic intuition,” McFall said. “It’s However, since his arrival at Wake Forest al- rare for a math loving student to focus on the most four years ago, the senior chemistry major reason why the math looks as it did.” has been far from average. “When we discussed government budgets, A native of Salem, Conn., Christian found which is an explosive topic because it relates his way to Winston-Salem after visiting a few to politics, Alec was able to see the debate from colleges in North Carolina. He wanted a small either side. People who can do that sort of thinkschool atmosphere where the professors would ing are patient and highly intelligent because actually remember it requires them to exhis name. plore a side of an issue “I don’t regret with which they might Hometown: Salem, Conn. that decision at all,” not agree.” Christian said. “The As Christian reflects Extracurriculars: Teaching Assissmall class sizes defion his academic career, tant, Lab Assistant, Phi Beta Kappa, nitely helped me out he regrets not taking Club Baseball and President of ACS in the long run.” an economics class Student Affiliates His Wake Forest earlier and wonders career began with if it could have been a Post-Grad Plans: Graduate school a focus on the prepotential minor. med track, but afHe has plenty of time at UC-Berkeley ter taking organic to think about it given chemistry and parthat he’s taking just a ticipating in some single class semester, a research, Christian decided to aim for graduate well-deserved conclusion to an impressive colschool instead. He’ll be attending the University legiate career. of California, Berkeley next year. Christian leaves Wake Forest as the 2014 reOutside of the classroom, Christian has per- cipient of the John W. Nowell Award in Underformed research with professor Paul B. Jones graduate Chemistry, given to the top graduating since 2010, and has twice interned at Pfizer in senior. Berkeley has already recognized him as Connecticut. the top incoming organic chemistry graduate For the 2013-14 academic year, he was Presi- student by giving him the Clayton H. Heathdent of the American Chemical Society Stu- cock Chemistry Award. dent Affiliates after serving as vice president Even with all of his personal and academic the previous year. achievements, the chemistry department will Even with such an intense focus on chemis- not be what Christian misses most about the try, Christian still found the time to be a four university. year member of the club baseball team, which “I’m going to miss my friends the most, that’s he cites as his biggest commitment outside of definitely the best part,” Christian said. “The academics. people you meet here, the relationships you When asked what major he would choose if develop, you can never replace that.”
| COMMUNICATION HILARY BURNSIVY GRESS | CHINESE
BY KRISTOPHER KOLB Production Manager kolbkl11@wfu.edu
investigation of the ideological and economic contexts of the music scene in China,” said assistant professor of Chinese Andrew Rodekohr. “What really makes the project succeed is still Although she hails from Portland, Ore., Ivy her own personal passion for awesome music.” Gress has spent a large part of her life exposed Gress recommends that undergraduates take to the Chinese language. advantages of the opportunities to explore WinIn high school, Gress lived in Beijing with ston-Salem and the surrounding region. Some a host family for a year. Gress had been tak- of her favorite places around town are the record ing French but wanted to study abroad before store Reanimator and Krankies Coffee. college. For students interested in Chinese, she recWhile she hasn’t studied abroad at Wake ommends Introduction to Chinese Film with Forest, she has returned to China, working Rodekohr. Gress enjoyed the course immensely, in Shanghai for an international real estate praising the class for its style, content and relcompany during her evancy. sophomore year. “You get to see Gress wanted the both the origins experience of livof Chinese film as Hometown: Portland, Ore. ing abroad in China well as what’s new while working for a and innovative beExtracurriculars: Kappa Kappa Gamma western company, but ing made today,” ultimately decided that she said. she would rather work Gress is a member Post-Grad Plans: Gap year working in the states while foof Kappa Kappa independently followed by law school in cusing on Chinese inGamma Sorority. the Bay Area ternational business. When asked what Following graduaher favorite part tion, Gress plans on about Wake Forest taking a year off and has been, she cited working independently. the sense of community. Afterward, she plans on attending law school “Both the teachers and the students create a in the Bay Area. welcoming atmosphere,” she said. “I love how Her ultimate goal is for a career that com- all of my teachers, especially in the Chinese bines Chinese and international business and department know me by first name and really the music industry, possibly as an entertain- take an interest in my school work and life ment lawyer. outside the classroom. They’ve helped guide Gress’s love for music has played a significant me in terms of what I will do next year.” role in her academic life at Wake Forest. Assistant professor of East Asian languages She wrote her honors thesis on the indepen- and culture Fengyan Hu praised Gress for her dent rock ‘n’ roll scene in China. achievements over the course of her college “I really like looking into how smaller bands career. get their start and the political side of the gov“I am so delighted that I had Ivy for four ernment intervening when bands get too con- semesters. Those four semesters were unforgettroversial,” she said. table and enjoyable,” Hu said. “What impressed “Ivy’s dedication to her project is really re- me the most about Ivy is her smile. I have never markable. She was able to channel a musical seen her looking upset. Her smile brightens the interest in indie rock into a serious academic entire classroom.”
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“I love how all of my teachers ... really take an interest in my school work and life.”
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GURDEEP SINGH | CLASSICAL STUDIES
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mysterious Etruscans, simply because a passing reference to them caught his attention in intermediate Latin.” Singh also has a major in sociology. This works Gurdeep Singh entered Wake Forest with an well with his classical studies major because he is interest in classical languages and studies, but able to compare and contrast modern times and he was unaware that the university offered a modern social problems with those of ancient major in this topic. Western civilizations. “I did not know the [classical studies] major Singh was also part of the inaugural class of existed when I entered Wake Forest,” Singh Public Engagement Fellows for The Institute said. “When I found out about it and I jumped for Public Engagement. on it right away.” This program is designed to help support stuSingh’s interest in classical studies started at dents who are specifically interested in pursuing a young age. “I’ve had an interest in it since I careers in public service, public policy or public was a kid,” he said. “I read a lot of stories and administration after graduating from the unitexts when I was younger.” versity. “With the office of public engagement Since entering Wake Forest in the fall of 2010, I became more engaged with public policy isSingh has been able to sues that our nation further explore his infaces today,” Singh terests in the classics. said. “It helped me Singh has enjoyed understand many Hometown: St. Petersburg, Fla. several classes offered more issues on in the classical studies both a national and Extracurriculars: Club gymnastics departments, espeinternational level as cially his Greek and well.” Post-Grad Plans: Hoping to begin Roman Comedy class After graduating service in the military, either in the and his Latin Poetry from Wake Forest, Navy or the Marine Corps class. Singh will continue He also had the opto foster his interest portunity to spend a in public service by semester studying arentering the milichitecture, archeology tary. and art in Rome. He is currently applying to the Navy and the Singh says that his studies in the classics have Marine Corps. “I think the major had a lot to also been influenced heavily by John Oksanish, do with [joining the military], especially with assistant professor of classical studies. the idea of citizen soldiers,” Singh said. “I really “He has been a huge influence,” Singh said. just wanted to serve.” “He is one of the best professors I have had Singh is unsure if he will want to go back to at Wake.” his original plan of working in public policy Oksanish also looks back fondly of his time after serving in the military, solely because he working with Singh. does not know how long he will be serving in “Gurdeep has been a true pleasure to work the military. with: he is incisive, perceptive, with wideBut whatever path Singh pursues, his proranging interests and exemplary facility with fessors at Wake Forest know that he will be languages, especially but not only Latin,” said successful. Oksanish. “Early on, I remember talking with “We in Classics know Gurdeep will go far Gurdeep at length in my office about the and wish him the very best,” Oksanish said.
“When I found out about [the classical studies major] I jumped on it right away.”
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“I think being able to communicate in whatever field you end up going into is imperative.”
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can Public Discourse class further developed her ability to write and analyze critically. Additionally, Justin Catanoso’s Advanced Reporting course pushed her to be the reporter she has Hilary Burns came to Wake Forest with a become. passion for writing, but unsure of what she As a sophomore in a class of upperclassmen, wanted to study. it immediately challenged her. She thought that passion would lead her to “Somewhere in the latter part of the semester, an English major. you could see that the distance between her It was not until the fall of her sophomore year skills and the skills of the more experienced when she discovered her future major. Her first students in the class were shrinking.” Catanoso communication class, Relational Communica- said. “She was determined that she was going tion, ignited her love for the area of study. to be good at this. I could just see it, she was “I think being able to communicate in what- writing better story ideas, she was asking betever field you end up going into is imperative” ter questions and her writing was improving.” Burns said. She realized the benefits of the multi“He really taught me the basics of reporting.” faceted major, particularly with her future career. Burns said. “That’s when I learned to not be “I realized it was so afraid to ask the tough broad and there was questions.” a lot of writing and As a senior, Burns Hometown: Cape Cod, Mass. analyzing rhetoric continued to take on and communicating more responsibilities. Extracurriculars: Delta Zeta Sororin other forms” Burns She wrote weekly for said. “I thought that the college page of ity, former Editor-in-chief of the OGB. went really well with USA Today. Post-Grad Plans: Begin career as a journalism.” Her articles varied She continued her from writing on forbusiness reporter for American City pre-college interest mer head basketball Business Journals in Charlotte, N.C. in journalism, by coach Jeff Bzdelik reimmediately joining signing to the app and the Old Gold & Black. campus sensation Yik Burns would rise to Yak, whose founders become Editor-in-Chief, an experience that saw she interviewed. her grow as a person and journalist. Burns was invited and accepted the challenge “I never had a free moment but that’s what of doing an Honors Project in Communication. I loved most about it.” Burns said. “I thought The invitation is extended in the spring to about it the second I woke up.” senior Communication majors who have a GPA As Editor-in-chief, Burns had to deal with of 3.8 or higher. readers critical coverage, corroborate with writBurns wrote a 26 page paper on the flouride ers and editors and most importantly, make conspiracy for her course with Atchison. sure the newspaper was published every week. “It made me understand how conspiracies Burns experience from the Old Gold & Black affect public discourse and communication” and in the classroom has molded her skills as Burns said. a journalist. Following graduation, Burns will continue Cara Pilson’s Media Ethics class forced her to pursuing journalism as a business reporter at look deeply at how society views media, while American City Business Journals in Charlotte, Jarrod Atchison’s Conspiracy Theories in Ameri- N.C.
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JAMIE FLOYD|COMPUTER SCIENCE BY MAX WOHLMUTH Web Editor wohlmj11@wfu.edu
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“I would really love to eventually become a professor of computer science.”
BY MAX WOHLMUTH Web Editor wohlmj11@wfu.edu
course from revolving around digital sound in music. The two then worked on a summer research project together. Floyd’s research involved creating a program After completing a major in mathematics, that would train a person’s ear for perfect pitch Jamie Floyd has spent a lot of hours working or relative pitch by using body motions. Upon on computer science over the past two years. hearing a note, the user would raise their hand “I picked computer science really late during to where they pictured the note. They would my junior year,” Floyd said.“It’s a fun way to then use that relative position to identify other do some classes and it’s still relevant to math, notes as well. so it worked out. I ended up liking the courses Burg truly enjoyed working with Floyd. “He’s a lot more than my math courses. I had a lot very self-directed, independent and conscienof fun in them.” tious. He thought of what he wanted to do But the fun came with a price. He had to himself. He learned a very different programtake multiple computer science courses this past ming language quickly over the summer,” Burg semester, which is not an easy task. said. “It was interesting to see how he wrapped “This past year has been computer science his mind around that all the way. I’m one pretty quickly.” with everything else. Next year, Floyd Now, I’m in three upwill attend to the UniHometown: Lexington, Va. per level computer versity of Virginia to science classes, so it’s Extracurriculars: Marching band, earn a Ph.D. in combeen a tough semesputer science. He’s former president of Kappa Kappa Psi ter, but I’m going to very excited about finish.” the opportunities Post-Grad Plans: Studying to earn Aside from his ahead, but will defiPh.D. in computer science from the growing interest in nitely miss all of those computer science, University of Virginia. who helped make his Jamie came to Wake work with computer with a passion for science memorable. music, ultimately “I’m really excited crediting the music department in influencing his decision to come about what’s coming at Virginia,” Floyd said. here. At Wake, Floyd was a member of various “I think I will honestly miss the computer sciperformance groups such as the wind ensemble ence department because I’ve been so heavily and orchestra in which he played French horn. engaged there in the past year. It’s led to some “When I visited, I met with director Bowen great relationships that I really hope won’t be and he invited me to sit in on the wind en- going away as I continue somewhere else.” After he finishes with his education, Jamie semble,” Floyd remembered. “Everyone was just hopes to contribute back to the subject he has so nice and everyone wanted to talk to me. I sort of got the feeling that Wake had a character come to enjoy. “I would really love to eventually become a for people wanted to be friendly or wanting to professor of computer science.” help you out and engage with you.” Maybe someday Floyd will return to Wake Luckily for Floyd, he was able to combine music and computer science while working with Forest to inspire the future generations of stuJennifer Burg, a professor in the computer sci- dents to also study computer science, just like ence department, who he also took a topics his professors did for him.
CHRISTOPHER EARLE|ECONOMICS
as a whole is what truly led him to become so interested in the subject and the material. “I really fell in love with the department. I never had a less than stellar professor. It was Like all other seniors, Christopher Earle’s time natural to take more and more classes and then, here at Wake Forest is coming to a close. Even eventually, turn it into a major.” though he realizes that fact, he still finds it Outside the classroom, Christopher will miss hard to believe. all of the people he’s met and the friends he’s “To think about not coming to Winston-Sa- made during his time at Wake Forest, as well lem next year and doing another year of college as the professors he’s had in the past. here is kind of mind blowing,” Earle said. “I’ll probably miss the people and that includes But the economics and history double major both faculty and students. I’ve met guys who I has truly made the most of his time here. Inside will be lifelong friends with, and made such great the classroom, many professors noted Earle’s relationships with fellow students,” Earle said. passion for learning. “But also the mentor-mentee relationships. I still Amanda Griffith, professor of economics, was email professors I had freshman year and go get able to work closely with Christopher while he coffee with them.” did research and wrote And yet Earle fell his honors thesis. The in love with Wake thesis analyzed a payeven before he was Hometown: North Attleboro, Mass. for-performance proable to meet any of gram that was impleExtracurriculars: Lambda Chi Alpha the students and mented in Guilford faculty he will miss fraternity, former president of Wake County, N.C. after graduation. Forest Mock Trial, Resident Advisor “Watching him go “I visited Wake through the research with my dad on a Post-Grad Plans: College of William process was a really summer southern fun experience,” said and Mary School of Law college trip,” Earle Griffith. “He’s an exsaid. “I stepped onto tremely hard worker Wake’s campus and and he puts everything knew five minutes he has into the project he’s working on. He’s a great student, a great after being on campus that this is where I thinker and it all comes together very well in wanted to go. I applied early decision and it was pretty easy from there. I’ve definitely found the end.” Likewise, Earle appreciates all the work a home here.” After leaving Wake Forest, Earle will continue Griffith put in while he worked on his honors his education and attend the Marshall-Wythe thesis. “She is far and away the biggest mentor School of Law at the College of William & Mary. I’ve had on campus,” Earle said. “It was the “I’ve always wanted to be a lawyer and go ideal of what the student-professor dynamic to law schools since I started doing mock trial should be at Wake Forest.” Earle also credited others in the economics in high school so it was natural to go right on department he enjoyed having as professors, rather than work for a year,” Earle said. Although, Earle may be venturing away from one of them being John McDonald. “He has the perfect teaching style for me. Very Wake Forest, a place he has considered home laid back, but you learn a lot from his classes.” for the past four years, he will surely find a way Yet, Earle believe the economics department back to his alma mater.
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“I’ll probably miss the people the most, and that includes both faculty and students.”
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KRISTEN YOUNG | EDUCATION
that could be applicable to kids I will have to teach,” said Young. “The class broadened my horizon to different social contexts that I would most likely experience with my students.” For Kristen Young, deciding what to major Her passion for education spanned outside the classroom, where she became involved in in was never a question. Since an early age, she always wanted to go many extracurriculars both on campus as well as in the greater Winston-Salem area. down the education route. She was a member of Students for Education “I have always wanted to be an elementary school teacher,” Young said. “When I was Reform and she also tutored at a local elemenyounger, I would teach my dolls everyday when tary school twice a week and volunteered at a neighborhood center. I got home.” Young is eager to see what lies ahead, but Her desire for teaching led her to major in at the same time she will miss Wake Forest elementary education. and the friendships and relationships she has She decided to come to North Carolina bemade, as well as all the opportunities she has cause she wanted to explore a different part of been provided with during her four years at the country and branch out. the university. It was here, in her “I am going to classes, where she miss going to class forged relationships everyday and being and learned valuHometown: Shrewsbury, Mass. able to learn from able information that someone who has would benefit her after Extracurriculars: Delta Zeta, Stuso much knowledge graduation. and expertise in the dents for Education Reform “All of my educafield [of education professors were tion],” Young said. Post-Grad Plans: Looking for a so great and really “I am also going to teaching position in Massachusetts miss all of Wake’s gave me such a great activities and the foundation so I could football games and make it through stutailgates.” dent teaching,” said Although she is sad that her time at Wake Young. “I now feel that I am ready to be a Forest is coming to a close, Young is excited teacher,” Young said. “I was really satisfied with my experience in for the new experiences that she will encounter after graduation. the education department.” Young hopes to find a teaching job after graduYoung also gained valuable insight from ation in her home state of Massachusetts, where professors in different departments such as she can pursue her lifelong goal of teaching the sociology department, where she picked elementary school students. up a minor. “I am looking forward to having my own When she took the class Social Problems by students,” Young Said. “When you student associate professor Ana-Maria Wahl, Young teach, you kind of feel that they are your own learned about the hardships people faced in but there is always a part when they are not. the world. The class allowed her to prepare for I am excited to just have my own classroom what she might possibly have to face when she and students.” becomes a teacher. With all her hard work at Wake Forest and “She emphasized the problems of our educa- passion for teaching, Kristen Young will certion system and general problems in the world tainly make a great elementary school teacher.
“I am excited to just have my own classroom and students.”
BRENNAN CLAY | ENGLISH BY EMMA SKEELS Life Editor skeeer12@wfu.edu
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“I’ve always been good at [English] and I read a lot as a kid.”
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One of Clay’s most influential professors at Wake Forest was his advisor on his senior thesis, Barry Maine. “The English Department has recognized Dallas, Texas native Brennan Clay has been Brennan as our best major for two years runinterested in English since childhood. ning,” Maine Says. “Brennan has an encyclope“I’ve always been good at it and I read a lot dic mind. He can pull up information about a as a kid.” wide variety of topics as if his mind were wired Brennan is also an economics major. Outside to the Internet.” of academics, Clay has been an active member “He likes to know a lot about a lot of things, of Sigma Pi Fraternity, especially in their charity and he brings this range of knowledge to every organizations. assignment. In several classes in which I have After reading a John Dos Passos novel called taught him, including a summer seminar at Casa 42nd Parallel on his own, Clay decided to write Artom in Venice, he has distinguished himself as his senior thesis on the book. the best writer in the class. His honors thesis on “My thesis is about how the aesthetic tech- American author John Dos Passos is a scholarly niques that Dos Passos employs in the 42nd achievement that few undergraduates anywhere Parallel present hiscould produce.” tory in terms of an Dean Franco, a proevolving Hegelian fessor of English and dialectic between inanother of Brennan’s Hometown: Dallas, Texas dividual and collecinfluential teachers, tive constructions of also values Brennan Extracurriculars: Sigma Pi consciousness,” Clay as an English student. said. “Essentially, “Brennan is very Post-Grad Plans: Law School at history in the novel broadly well-read and University of Oklahoma evolves through the seems to remember reader’s engagement everything he’s read,” with the various persaid Franco. “In class, spectives offered by he makes constant the text’s different comparisons of newly narrative forms.” introduced literature with the encyclopedia of Dos Passos wrote in the early 20th century, a texts stored in his mind. Having him in class time period in literature that Clay is particularly was like having a second-in-command, as his interested in. His favorite book from the Ameri- insights and considerations were often on par can Modernist genre is Ernest Hemingway’s The with some of the best professional scholarship. Sun Also Rises, although he also enjoys Heming- He is intellectually fearless, ready to pit his own way’s earlier short stories, and John Steinbeck’s ideas against his professors’ if they disagree, and East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath. always eager to learn more when he can.” Two books that are important to Brennan Clay has received a scholarship for Law School outside of the American Modernist movement at the University of Oklahoma. He believes that are The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bel- an English degree will be beneficial to his study low and Goodbye to a River by John Graves. The of the law. latter is lesser known “I think [English] helps you form arguments,” “[It] is a very important book to me because Clay said. “It helps your critical thinking skills, it takes place on the Brazos River, where I spent being able to engage with different texts, and a lot of my childhood,” Clay said. good ideas.”
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MATTHEW TELLER | FINANCE BY NICK WELDON Online Managing Editor weldnr11@wfu.edu
Photo courtesy of Ken Bennett
“We educate the whole person, and accept people from all walks of life.”
BY TY KRANIAK Staff Writer krantr11@wfu.edu
program. “So I have a fairly large population from which to draw when I say that Matt Teller is one of those rare students that make teaching a joy. He is always thinking of others, and As a high school student pondering his col- thinking of both the short-term and longer-term legiate future, Matthew Teller had his eyes set consequences of the choices he makes.” on Cornell University’s School of Hotel AdminJack Wilkerson, professor of accountancy, also istration. But then everything changed when recognized Teller’s contributions as a business he visited the Wake Forest campus during his student. junior year. “I thoroughly enjoyed having Matt in my “I was swept off my feet and applied early Accounting 111 class,” Wilkerson said. “He is decision right away,” Teller said. “I knew that bright and intellectually curious, he is highly I wanted a liberal arts education with a pristine motivated, and he is a genuinely good person. business school, and Wake Forest was just that.” I will follow his career trajectory with great Despite his initial interest in the business interest.” school, Teller was not entirely sure which conAs his time at Wake Forest comes to a close, centration appealed to him the most. During the Teller is beginning to look toward his future summer after his freshcareer path. After man year, he spent six working as an inweeks in Peru working tern at Neuberger Hometown: Woodbury, N.Y. with the microfinance Berman, a private bank Caja Los Andes. asset management Extracurriculars: Student Fund, “I greatly enjoyed firm, he spent the Finance Club, Board of Investigators & my experience in summer of 2013 as Peru,” Teller said. “It an investment bankAdvisors, Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity enabled me to interact ing analyst intern Post-Grad Plans: Investment Bankwith farmers, fishers at Barclays in New and shepherds on a York. He will return ing Analyst at Barclays in New York daily basis, while also to Barclays this sumlearning about finanmer as a full-time cial services.” analyst. Teller returned to campus the next fall with Teller firmly believes that his decision to attend the intent to pursue a degree in finance. Since Wake Forest has directly impacted his success as then, he has maintained a committed involve- a student and what he hopes to be a successful ment to the Wake Forest business community. career in financial services. He has served as an active member of the Fi“The Wake Forest community is a special nance Club, and he has also participated in the place, and there is no other place quite like it,” Wake Forest Student Fund as an analyst in the Teller said. “We educate the whole person, and Financial and Alternative Investments group. accept people from all walks of life.” Ever since Teller was accepted into the busiAs he prepares to leave the university he has ness school, several of his professors have noted called home for the past four years, Teller took the impact he has had on others involved in a moment to reflect on his time spent at Wake the program. Forest. “I’ve been teaching business school students “I am grateful for all the friends and memoand engaging in executive education with busi- ries I’ve made at Wake Forest,” Teller said. “I ness professionals since 1989,” said Sherry Jar- will definitely miss my time on the Reynolda rell, a professor of finance and director of the Campus as well as at 1101 Polo Rd.”
PETER SIDEROVSKI | FRENCH
for Wake Forest sports during his time in the marching band. He is excited for the promising future of Wake Forest sports, despite not being able to attend games regularly after graduation. Senior Peter Siderovski has spent the past four He also pointed to the unique bonds formed years dedicating himself to his studies and his with friends, faculty and staff at Wake Forest as extracurricular activities. During his time at being a truly life-changing experience. Wake Forest, Siderovski served as treasurer of “I think Wake Forest does an amazing job Chi Psi Fraternity, business manager of the with its academic atmosphere with not only Old Gold & Black and was a trumpeter in the professors who invest in their students, but also Spirit of the Old Gold & Black, Wake Forest’s students who care about learning,” Siderovski marching band. said. “A lot of my learning took place outside of “The marching band was how I first met the classroom, and the tight knit environment people here at Wake Forest, and I really en- made that possible.” joyed getting involved early,” Siderovski said. Wake Forest’s academic climate is something Siderovksi’s stellar academic record began Siderovski deeply values and will miss when before his arrival in Winston-Salem, but con- he moves on to become a Strategy and Optinued throughout erations Analyst for his college years. Deloitte Consulting The Chapel Hill, in Washington, D.C., Hometown: Chapel Hill, N.C. N.C., native earned in the fall of 2014. a Graylyn scholarship In this position, he Extracurriculars: Marching band, upon acceptance to will be working with Chi Psi Fraternity, Old Gold & Black Wake Forest, which is other team members awarded to extremely at Deloitte to help Post-Grad Plans: Strategy and Ophigh-achieving high government agenerations Analyst at Deloitte in Washschool students with cies control costs and high SAT scores and manage risk. ington, D.C. impressive extracurFor Siderovski, the ricular involvements. job at Deloitte is a Siderovski adjusted dream come true. quickly to college life and boasted a high GPA, Professors who have had the opportunity to which earned him entrance into the highly es- get to know him at Wake Forest are confident teemed Phi Beta Kappa, one of the nation’s that both his personality and his academic premier academic honor societies, while still achievement will serve him well on his future pursuing a double major in French Studies and career path. Mathematical Business. “I have had Peter in a couple classes, and he “Being a French Studies major was an integral has invariably been a first-rate student who part of my education,” Siderovski said. “I really improves the learning atmosphere of any class benefited from the liberal arts atmosphere by where he is present,” said Stephen Murphy, a taking classes in art, sociology, history and lit- professor of French. “He is also a genuinely erature, which has been a big part of my holistic nice guy with a sense of humor, which helps education. I am very happy and fortunate to when you are operating in a foreign language. have had that opportunity.” Peter is obviously set to achieve great things in However, Siderovski’s experience at Wake his professional life, and I am glad that his skill Forest extends far beyond a list of awards and and love of French seem to be something that accomplishments. He has developed a passion will remain with him.”
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“Being a French Studies major was an integral part of my education.”
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COURTNEY FLYNN | GERMAN BY TY KRANIAK Staff Writer krantr11@wfu.edu
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“I learned that I loved the people, the culture, and I knew I wanted to stick with German.”
Through her presence on the rugby team, Flynn has developed important leadership skills that are vital in today’s world in addition to her developments in scholarship and service. For senior Courtney Flynn, German was not Having served as captain of the women’s rugby always in the cards. team, Flynn has not only led other rugby playBut, now it is. ers but also influenced other Wake students to Entering college at Wake Forest, the senior love rugby as much as she does — needless to from New York had no idea she wanted to pursue say, the rugby team will miss Flynn’s presence a degree in German. in the future. “I originally just took German to get the lan“You will never be able to be as close to friends guage requirement out of the way, but the more and professors as they are right now.” I took of it, the more I liked it,” Flynn said. Flynn was also a member of Alpha Phi Omega, “I also wanted to take German so I could is a fraternity based upon community service. study abroad in the Flow House in Vienna. She notes her extensive amount of community On the second day there, I learned that I loved service as being paramount to her Wake Forest the people, the culture and I knew I wanted to experience through living the University’s motto stick with German.” of “Pro Humanitate”. Flynn’s ability to However, Flynn master the German will also miss her Hometown: Staten Island, N.Y. language will cerinteractions with tainly come in handy the German departExtracurriculars: Alphi Phi Omega; next year as she prement. Flynn was a Women’s Rugby Team Captain pares herself for the member of Delta prestigious Fullbright Phi Alpha, which Post-Grad Plans: Flynn will teach Scholarship. recognizes superior English in Germany as part of her As part of the felaccomplishment in lowship, she will be German classes at Fullbright Scholarship teaching English in Wake Forest, and she Germany. had gained a lot from Flynn says she may her interactions with decide to continue her professors in the teaching, as it combines her passion for the German department. German language and culture, which she fell “I will really miss the professors in the Gerin love with in Vienna. man department,” Flynn said. “They are all But if she does not continue teaching, Flynn wonderful.” has other options available with a vesting inFor a girl coming from the North, Flynn noted terest in international relations connected to she was not very excited about coming down Germany. to Wake Forest or to the South before coming To accomplish this, the German scholar to the university. plans to attend graduate school after her time However, through her time at Wake Forest, in Germany. she has found a home in Winston-Salem. Despite all that Flynn has ahead of her, she And no matter where she lives, which lanwill certainly miss her cherished time at Mother guage she speaks, or what job she is currently So Dear. working, she knows that she will forever be “I will definitely miss everything about Wake welcomed back to place she’s called home for Forest, including rugby,” Flynn said. the past four years.
ABIGAIL BAGLIANI | HES BY MORGAN SCHICK Asst. News Editor schimo13@wfu.edu
Patricia Nixon, professor of health and exercise science, got to know Bagliani personally as they drove nine hours to the Meeting of the Minds conference. For senior Abigail Bagliani, education at “Abby is the type of student who makes my Wake Forest is not just about learning inside job as a professor and mentor easy,” said Nixon. the classroom. “Her appreciation for standardized and accurate Bagliani has spent her time on campus getting data collection and management made me conto know her professors and truly taking advan- fident in her ability to collect the data for her tage of what the distinguished faculty members honors research without supervision.” have to offer. These relationships have led to But Bagliani’s accomplishments span outside incredible opportunities she says just aren’t of- the realm of just the health and exercise science fered at bigger schools. department. She is additionally minoring in Bagliani first realized the value of these re- biology and dance. Bagliani has been a memlationships at the end of her freshman year, ber of the Dance Company all four years and when her first year seminar professor found her choreographed the past two productions, but an internship at Wake Forest Baptist Medical has danced since she was only three years old. Center. After shadowShe mostly focuses ing and doing research on ballet. alongside a pediatric “Abby is always Hometown: Roanoke, Va. oncologist, PubMed considerate, kind and Pediatric Blood and thoughtful,” Extracurriculars: Dance Company, and Cancer published said Nina Lucas, diPeer Ministry, Kappa Beta Gamma her work. rector of dance. “She This incredible opis a leader amongst Post-Grad Plans: Bagliani will portunity, Bagliani her peers in the study at Wake Forest’s Physician Assays, is what made dance company as a her want to become Peer Ministry leader sistant School a physician’s assistant and senior member and major in health of the Southwest and exercise science. Virginia Ballet. She “I had always wanted holds a special place to be pre-med, so I was going to major in Biology in my heart and I will miss her.” and Chemistry,” said Bagliani. “But HES comBut although Bagliani is graduating, she will bined everything- nutrition, exercise physiology, continue the next chapter of her life at Wake exercise psychology and human anatomy.” Forest’s Physician Assistant School in Boone. Through her hard work and devotion to the “I won’t be here, per say, but it will still feel department, Bagliani has had much success. like I’m a Wake because I will have the same type She earned the URECA fellowship last summer of professors and curriculum,” said Bagliani. to conduct research about arterial stiffness in “But it’s just going to be different not being young adults born premature, and how physical able to walk into my professors’ offices and activity may lower their likelihood to develop just chill.” cardiovascular disease later on. Bagliani is also a member of Kappa Beta This April, Bagliani presented her research at Gamma, a Greek Recruitment Counselor and the ACC Meeting of the Minds, where distin- was Executive Chair of Decorations for Wake n guished undergraduates from ACC universities Shake. She also volunteers daily at Downtown gather to highlight their research. Health Plaza.
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“HES combined everything — nutrition, exercise physiology, exercise psychology and human anatomy.”
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EMILY ANDERSON | HISTORY BY IAN RUTLEDGE Print Managing Editor rutlig11@wfu.edu
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“History is the study of how the world has changed, and why.”
BY SARAH MORAN News Editor morase12@wfu.edu
extremely rewarding and provided her with many opportunities, including presenting her thesis at the Phi Alpha Theta Biennial conference in Albuquerque, N.M., last January. Emily Anderson had always enjoyed learning “I think our department has some of the greatabout history, but it was the history department, est professors at Wake Forest, and I’ve enjoyed the faculty in particular, that led her to choose the chance to get to know them,” Anderson history as her field of study for her undergradu- said. “Also, I appreciate that the department ate career. has majors develop thesis papers. While they “I really liked [history] in high school,” An- are arduous to write, I think the process of derson said. “In fact, I remember looking at the researching and writing so deeply about a topic course booklet that we received on Campus Day is a rewarding experience.” and marking all of the classes I wanted to take; Beyond the walls of Tribble, Wake Forest was they were mostly history classes. But once I got exactly what Anderson was looking for in a here, it was really the professors who made my university. “When I was applying for schools, decision easy.” I knew I did not want to move somewhere far The Clayton, N.C., resident took classes from home,” Anderson said. with Jake Ruddiman, “I was also atassistant professor of tracted to Wake’s history, and Emily prestige and the Hometown: Clayton, N.C. Wakild, former assisfact that it was a Extracurriculars: President of WFU tant professor of hissmaller school. Of tory, that substanticourse, the campus Amnesty International, President of ated the possibility of is beautiful, so that WFU Phi Alpha Theta, Tutoring at El a major in history. “I was hard to deny. Buen Pastor think their passion and Most importantly, excitement is what atthough, I felt like I Post-Grad Plans: WFU Admissions tracted me to the disciwould be comfortCounselor pline,” Anderson said. able here, and that The study of history has turned out to be is something that Antrue.” derson has come to appreciate even more over Anderson also was involved in a number of the past several years and is something she finds activities outside the classroom including servvital to understanding people and issues of today. ing as President of Wake Forest’s chapter of “It’s not just about memorizing dates, or learn- Amnesty International for two years, serving as ing facts about old famous people,” Anderson President of the history department’s chapter said. “History is the study of how the world of Phi Alpha Theta (the history honors society) has changed, and why.” and tutoring elementary school children at El “The result, after much thought and interpre- Buen Pastor. tation, is a historical narrative whose purpose is Next year, Anderson will begin a two-year role to teach people who they are by explaining what as an admissions counselor in the Wake Forest has come before. For me, that is an incredibly Office of Admissions. Nevertheless, Anderson exciting and important responsibility, and the will still miss her time here as a student. history major is where students learn to create “I will miss all of my friends who are movthose narratives with accuracy and balance.” ing away for their jobs or graduate school,” Her work in the history department, particu- Anderson said. “We’ve had an incredible time larly that relating to her major thesis, has been together, and it will be sad to see them go.”
MAGGIE BERNARD|MATH BUSINESS
In the future, Bernard hopes to combine her skills in math and her passion for traveling into a career. As a native of Pittsburg, Pa., Maggie Ber“I would really like to be on the west coast nard chose to come to Wake for the prestigious or in Europe doing something — some sort of business school and the warm North Carolina job that combines my bath business skills with weather. my want to travel a lot because that is one of “I was looking for a good business school in my passions,” Bernard said. the southeast in warmer weather, away from The close environment and small campus is Pittsburg,” Bernard said. “I also wanted to stay one of the things Bernard will miss most about close to my brother, and he went here.” Wake Forest after graduating. Wake Forest Business School was particularly “I will miss having all of my really close friends appealing to Bernard because of the mathemati- in [close] proximity to me. It is kind of nice to cal business major. see people face-to-face and run into people,” “I have always been really good at math, but Bernard said. “That is definitely not going to I also wanted a practical major, so I chose to happen in the real world.” come here for [the Outside of classes math business] major,” in her own major, Bernard said. Bernard found the Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pa. However, Bernard most useful class she wasn’t always set on has taken during her Extracurriculars: Kappa Delta somath business. time at Wake was rority, Math Club, Beta Gamma Sig“Towards the end of an entrepreneurma honors business fraternity high school, I had to ship class, Design choose between doing thinking and high Post-Grad Plans: Financial services a math type degree or performance teams. an engineering de“It was probably consultant for Ernst & Young gree,” Bernard said. the most beneficial “After looking at a lot class that I could see of different colleges, I using in the future,” thought Wake was the Bernard said. “It best fit, so I chose to come here and the natural teaches you a lot about team work and pushchoice was math business.” ing yourself to be really creative and come up Despite her seriousness in her studies, Bernard with far-fetched products.” has always found time for other activities outside Math business professor, Umit Akinc has of studying to keep her busy. gained admiration for Bernard through her com“I am involved in Kappa Delta,” Bernard said. mitment to her studies as well as her dedication “I am also in a lot of other nerdy clubs like the to the university motto, Pro Humanitate. math club, consulting club and I am in Beta “I think through her intellect, hardworking Gamma Sigma which is the honors business and a concern for the well-being of others, she fraternity.” not only excels in academics but also embodAfter graduating, Bernard will be moving away ies the maxim Pro Humanitate,” said Akinc. from the university and entering the work force. “She has amply exhibited a deep interest in “I am moving to Charlotte and working for the wellbeing of others by volunteering and Ernst & Young doing financial services consult- participating in the events to guide the future ing,” Bernard said. mathematical business majors.”
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“I have always been really good at math, but I also wanted a practical major.”
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ERIK NELSON|MATH ECONOMICS
correct methods and correct answers, which have made him stand out as a student. “Erik has always been a very attentive, hardworking student, and really dedicated as well. Erik Nelson, a native of Ridgefield, Conn., He really knows his stuff,” said Chen. “He’s prepares to graduate from Wake Forest Uni- just bright, energetic and persistent — if there’s versity in a few short weeks as a mathematical something that he doesn’t get, he’s the kind of economics major and psychology minor. Before student to keep trying until he gets it.” Nelson came to Wake Forest, he never imagAlthough he commits insurmountable time ined himself as a graduate of a school in the to the classwork required by his major, Nelson South — he figured he would always attend a thoroughly enjoys his psychology minor because university in the North. of the interpersonal skills and understanding “I honestly never imagined myself in the that flows from the psychology department. South,” Nelson said. “Psychology is more of a person-to-person “I always thought I would go to school in thing. It’s a good balance,” Nelson said. “Psythe North. When I got into [Wake Forest], I chology is great because you meet a lot of great decided I’d give it a shot and came down here. people too — the I’ve loved it ever since.” department is great Nelson attributes and I’ve never had his academic success a bad psychology to his devotion to his teacher. It keeps me Hometown: Ridgefield, Conn. studies throughout his grounded in seeing freshman and sophohow relationships Extracurriculars: Wake Radio more years, when the work, especially in transition from high terms of my dayPost-Grad Plans: Wells Fargo, Secuschool to college is to-day life.” most prevalent and rities and Markets Division Outside of the most effective. classroom, Nelson “There’s a lot to be has spent a multisaid for kicking your tude of his personal own butt freshman time with Wake Rayear,” said Nelson. dio, an experience Nelson calls “a world away “I was fortunate enough to have an older from Wake” and “its own community” because brother who told me to get myself in the liof how much enjoyment he has received from brary during the week.” Nelson enjoys the mathematical aspect of his working with the other members. Above all of his academic and extracurricular mathematical economics major, but truly loves how the technical and conceptual sides of the success, Nelson has a true, unhindered love for the people of Wake Forest that has made his work fuse together. “I really enjoy the math side. The thing I like four years everything he hoped they would be most is that they’re constantly being combined, as he moves on to the next phase of his life, especially in a class like Dr. [Frederick] Chen’s where he’ll be working for Wells Fargo in the Game Theory,” Nelson said. “It was my favorite Securities and Markets division. “The [collection of ] people here is the numclass of the major. It’s really cool how abstract ber one reason I love this school,” said Nelson. concepts flow into Game Theory.” Chen has highly appreciated Nelson’s top- “The people here have been so influential in notch work ethic and his persistence in attaining my experience.”
“The [collection of] people here is the number one reason I love this school.”
YILIN YANG|MATHEMATICS BY LINDSEY GALLINEK Asst. Life Editor galllm12@wfu.edu
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While he does not know what is to come after graduate school, he thinks that he might choose one area in mathematics to study or go into the industry. Since a very young age, Yilin Yang has had a One thing is for certain though, and that is passion for mathematics. how much he will miss Wake Forest. Hailing from China, Yang came to Wake ForWhile he will miss the people and the weather, est to pursue that passion and dive deeper into especially since Michigan will be so cold, it is the field of mathematics. the life experiences that have brought him the “I feel that I have a great curiosity about fondest of memories. the development of some applications using “The thing I will miss the most is the abunmathematics,” Yang said. dance of opportunities that Wake Forest proThis curiosity allowed Yang to do research vided me,” Yang said. with multiple professors. After his freshman “There has been so many opportunities both year, Yang began in class and outside researching the apof class where I can plication of linear develop my interest algebra in differenand get a wider expoHometown: Zhengzhou, China tial equations with sure to pretty much Stephen Robinson. everything.” Extracurriculars: ASIA and Student What began as a Another thing he Fun summer research will miss is the prosponsorship program fessors. Post-Grad Plans: Masters in Mathend up lasting three “They are all really ematics at the University of Michigan years and ended with excellent at guiding the publication of a me to becoming a paper. researcher in math“Yilin is one of the ematics. This expevery best students rience is the most that I have had the good fortune to work with,” valuable at Wake,” Yang said. Robinson said. Yang’s admiration for his professors is a mu“As a freshman he attended a math depart- tual and Yang has strived to learn the most he ment event, even though the intended audience can through out his four years here and that was upperclassmen and graduate students.” has been seen with his excellent work effort. “Within a few days Yilin had made progress One of his professors, Jeremy Rouse, assistant on the problem that I had presented. It has professor of mathematics, said, “We started his been an absolute pleasure to work with him project last summer, and when we started it, and to get to know him.” I asked him if he wanted a problem he could After graduation, Yang is headed to the Uni- work independently on, using the mathematical versity of Michigan to pursue his masters degree knowledge from classes he had already taken.” in mathematics. He said, “I don’t want my limit myself to Even though he has always had a passion problems using mathematical tools that I alfor the subject, he never knew where it would ready know about.’ So I picked a hard problem take him. for us to work on together!” “Before Wake Forest, I did not know that I Yang’s dedication and hard work has brought would go to a graduate school in mathemat- him much success in he field of mathematics ics. I just want to follow the flow,” Yang said. and beyond.
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RYAN WHITTINGTON|MUSIC: LIB. ARTS
Vienna during the spring of his sophomore year, a place he described as “the Mecca of music.” While studying there, he learned more about the famous composer Arnold Schoenberg, who Ryan Whittington had his sights set on Wake had fascinated Whittington since he first heard Forest even in seventh grade. one of Schoenberg’s unusual pieces during an Having grown up in Pilot Mountain, N.C., online college course he took in high school. just a quick thirty minutes away from campus, “His music when I first heard it sounded so he aspired to attend Wake and become a pre-med bizarre and strange that I thought, I have to biology major. A semester of general chemistry, figure this out. It was just so strange that I had however, convinced him that four years of labs to figure out what he was doing with these was not the best plan, and he determined to sounds,” said Whittington. become a psychology major instead. He received a Richter grant to return to Vienna Meanwhile, Whittington’s personal interests for three weeks to conduct research on Schoenled him to develop his berg’s compositional talents in the piano process. Much of this and organ, and later material became the Hometown: Pilot Mountain, N.C. at the carillon. When fodder for his honors the Wait Chapel bells thesis, entitled “ArExtracurriculars: Wake Forest Bapring on Wednesdays nold Schoenberg: An tist Student Union, University Carilat five, Whittington Intelligent Man and loners is the one behind a Terribly Curious the music, and he Man.” Post-Grad Plans: Pursuing a Masoften plays his perWhile in Vienna, ter’s in Musicology at Florida State sonal favorite. “If you Whittington decided hear “Beauty and the he wanted to pursue University Beast” playing, nine musicology at the times out of ten its Ph.D. level, and he me.” has followed through He also enrolled in Music Theory courses and on his plan. In the fall, he will begin studies to chose German to fulfill his language require- receive a Master’s degree in historical musicolment. During his second semester of music ogy from Florida State University. theory, a class taught by Susan Borwick, profes“Historical musicology is the hardest thing to sor of music, he decided that psychology was define,” he said. “Most broadly, it is the study not the right fit for him either. Borwick gave of music, and all the things that that encomhim some invaluable advice that led him to passes: music and history, music and culture, where he is today. music and philosophy. There’s a new wave of “We came to Starbucks and I remember we musicology that involves applying literary critiboth got Frappuccino’s, and we sat in the comfy cisms to music: feminist theory, queer theory, chairs upstairs,” Whittington said. “We were Marxist criticism and looking at music through chatting about things and I explained my crisis these different lenses. In that sense, musicology of major, and she said, ‘haven’t you been taking can be just about anything. It’s like theology music theory and German courses this whole is talking about God — musicology is talking time? Do you like those? Do you think you about music.” should maybe do those?’” After completing his degree at Florida State, The combined focus on music in liberal arts Whittington plans to continue his studies of and German led Whittington to study abroad in musicology at the Ph.D. level.
BY RACHEL WALLEN Asst. News Editor wallrs12@wfu.edu
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“If you hear Beauty and the Beast playing, nine times out of ten it’s me.”
CONGSHAN PAN| MUSIC PERFORMANCE
BY EMMA SKEELS Life Editor skeeer12@wfu.edu
has been an absolute pleasure to work with; she approaches music with no ego of her own, she just wants the music to sound its best. One of the kindest, most straightforward, and openCongshan “Holly” Pan, from Hangzhou, hearted people I know, I will miss her terribly China, is a transfer student who originally at- next year — what a huge empty spot on my tended university in Stony Brook University teaching schedule!” in New York, but transferred to Wake Forest Another of Holly’s favorite teachers was Dan in part because she wanted a warmer climate. Locklair. “It has been my distinct pleasure to She is a double major in chemistry and music have Holly as a student and to get to know her performance. Pan also participates in many ex- as the thoroughly delightful person that she tracurricular activities. “I’m a board member is,” he said. “She is a very diligent worker and of ISAB, did research with Dr. Colyer in the her ever-growing musicianship as a pianist only chemistry department, [and] played in Colle- confirms that. Holly has juggled the rigors of a gium Musicum (an ensemble),” she said. double major at Wake Forest and, in whatever Pan has been playing piano since she was four, area she chooses to pursue as a profession, I am and got especially interested in playing after confident that her music-making as a pianist moving from China will always be at the to attend high school heart of her life.” in Kansas. “The Pan’s favorite comHometown: Hangzhou, China workload in Kansas poser is Nikolai Kawas super easy for me, pustin, a contempoExtracurriculars: Board Member so I joined the band. rary Russian comof ISAB, research in the Chemistry I was a keyboard, and poser. After happendepartment, member of Collegium the band teacher ening upon one of his couraged me to play videos on YouTube, Musicum whatever I wanted. Pan decided to order Nobody was pushhis music. Kaputsin’s Post-Grad Plans: Pharmacy School ing me, and I enjoyed Impromptu Opus what was coming out 66, No. 2, which she of music.” played at her senior Pan enjoys the simirecital, is one of her lar artistic freedom that her piano professor, favorite pieces. “It’s jazzy and classical infused Louis Goldstein, gives her. She labeled him as together, and some of my friends told me they’d one of her most influential teachers. never heard of something like that. They went “He lets you pick your own pieces and gives to my recital and liked it, so I was really glad you background information, so that you know to share that with everyone.” it better. It does help you in conveying the mesAfter graduation, Pan is going to a pharmacy sage from the composer to the audience,” Pan school. She may attend the University of Kensaid. tucky, but is still waiting to hear back from The respect is mutual. “Pan managed to dou- other schools. ble major in Music and Chemistry.” Goldstein Although she doesn’t see a career in piano said, “And she did it in her second language. performance, Pan hopes to keep music present Holly is a wonderful student musician; the solo in her life through joining a band or ensemble Senior Recital she just performed was a great group, or perhaps through tutoring. “I’ll try to model for what that capstone requirement for keep my life engaged in music. It has taught Music Performance majors can be. And Holly me a lot.”
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ROBERT ELMORE | PHILOSOPHY
regular exercise and competition provided by athletics. “I don’t have the best discipline when it comes to going to the gym, so being on a team with the competitive aspect helped me In college, it’s easy to stay within the realm a lot more,” he said. of your major and requirements and take few Elmore has excelled in academics at Wake, courses outside of those subjects. presenting an honors thesis this past fall and Robert Elmore, though, made the most of landing a job as an analyst with a consulting his college experience by following his many firm in Washington, D.C. that he will begin interests and taking courses in a variety of sub- in June. jects, ending up as a philosophy and economics “Consulting’s cool. I didn’t know exactly double major with a minor in political science. what it was, but it’s got a nice ring to it. I As a freshman, Elmore took an Introduction wasn’t very discriminatory in the job applyto Philosophical Ideas course taught by Charles ing department. This one seemed like a good Lewis, professor of philosophy, which began fit — small company, problem-solving skills, his interest in the subject. thinking outside the box a bit,” he said. “About halfway in I realized that this was Regardless of his career path, Elmore will the kind of thing that miss the lifestyle I was really interested provided by colin,” he said. lege, where work “I knew I was gois simply learning ing to be an economand writing about Hometown: Richmond, Va. ics major, but once I interesting topics. took his course and “Given my interExtracurriculars: Club Rugby we started having a est in school and cadiscourse about a vaPost-Grad plans: Analyst for Augur reer ambitions, I’ll riety of things that I be back in school Consulting in Washington, D.C. had always been inat some point for terested in but never something, whethbeen formally taught er it be business or about.” law or something in He chose the two academics,” he said. majors based on personal interest in each subEven if the job he is about to start is not ject as a whole, but enjoys seeing the overlap specifically in the realm of philosophy, Elmore between economics and philosophy, particu- appreciates his background in philosophy and larly with the connecting factor of political the skills he learned in his many classes. science. “Philosophy has given me a pattern of “I could find a passion in a lot of different thought and of discourse, and the ability to things. Becoming proficient at various things be able to argue and analyze arguments. You is why we come to a liberal arts school like can have a greater appreciation for something this,” he said. even if it’s not your belief system or ideology Elmore played soccer and football through- as long as you know the pattern of thought out high school and became involved with the that led to it,” he said. Club Rugby team at Wake during his freshman “I’ve enjoyed being a philosophy major. It’s year, viewing it as almost a blend between the definitely helped me be a better academic, two sports. After being forced to retire due to better student, probably a better writer, but having too many concussions, he misses the more importantly a better arguer.”
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“Becoming proficient at various things is why we come to a liberal arts school.”
MAGGIE PAYNE | PHYSICS
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“Being a physics major is great because you are on the forefront of science.”
generates energy as one stretches it. The experience reinforced her drive to continue research in new technologies. She has also worked for the Southwestern As an underclassmen, Maggie Payne was un- Company, selling books door-to-door, an exsure what major she wanted to declare. With a perience that she says she learned a lot from but gifted mind for science, Payne initially thought doesn’t necessarily want to revisit. Payne is the outgoing president of the Society that she was going to be a chemistry major and of Physics Students and Sigma Pi Sigma, the pursued a curriculum suited to that. However, this all changed when she took an physics honor society. She has also worked as a teaching assistant, electronics class with Oana Jurchescu, assistant running two labs and offering tutorial sessions professor of physics. Payne quickly fell in love with physics and to beginning physics students. “It is really great in a laboratory setting to wanted to work on research, continuing to do so with Jurchescu and graduate student Katelyn connect what you learn in class to what you do Goetz. “I’ve been fortunate to have two incred- with your hands — especially for electronics,” ible female role model for physics in them,” Payne said. Outside of academPayne said. ics, Payne is a member She encourages unof Alpha Delta Pi Soderclassmen to conHometown: Delaware, Oh. rority and is the outsider sticking with going musical direcphysics through the Extracurriculars: President of Society tor of Demon Divas, upper level classes, as of Physics Students, Sigma Pi Sigma, one of the university’s they grant one the opa cappella groups. portunity to explore Alpha Delta Pi Sorority, Demon Divas In addition to her topics in more depth Post-Grad Plans: Ph.D. in Electrical physics major, Payne and allow for greater minors in chemistry practical application Engineering at University of California and math. of the subject. at. Berkeley Following graduaPayne’s research tion, Payne will purfocuses on organic sue a Ph.D. in electrielectronics, which has application in technologies such as flex- cal engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. ible devices. In the future, she hopes to work in research and Even before graduating, Payne has already accomplished several scientific breakthroughs. development at a company that manufactures She created a crystal structure that had not been large scale flexible electronics. Referring to her fellow physics majors as made before and discovered two electrical properties that had never been reported before. “Be- family, Payne expressed sadness about leaving ing a physics major is great because you are the department but she looks forward to the literally on the forefront of science. We find experiences that lie ahead. Her best advice for underclassmen? “Find new things all of the time,” she said. During her summers, Payne has continued her something that makes you forget to schedule research and pursued job opportunities. At N.C. lunch. If you’re so passionate about it that you State, the national science foundation funded forget to schedule breaks, that’s a good sign,” research that allowed her to create a fabric that she said.
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KIMBERLY QUICK | POLITICAL SCIENCE BY AUSTIN COOK News Editor cookar12@wfu.edu
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Native American literature — the variety of material we read.” Franco’s class even helped Quick develop her political science thesis, which focused on liberaPolitics never ran in Kimberly Quick’s family, but tion theologies and specifically how they relate to the lessons her parents and grade school teachers the African American and LGBTQ community. taught her growing up sparked an interest that Her fascination with political expression continhas grown into a likely career path. ued to grow with her experiences abroad. During Quick grew up in Chesterfield, Va., just outside her time at Wake Forest, Quick studied in both of the state’s capitol of Richmond, and as early as Ghana and the U.K, both of which she recalled as middle school she was asking questions about the some of her fondest memories as a Demon Deacon. political process and public policy. After graduation, Quick will have just over a “My parents aren’t politicians or lawyers, but month away from Winston-Salem before she rethey’ve always instilled in me a sense that I should turns to serve as a fellow in the Provost’s office know what’s going on in the world,” Quick said. beginning in July. “I remember I had a seventh grade social studies “Over the past two years, Kimberly seemed to teacher … I asked a whole bunch of questions be involved in every major student-led event on and complained about campus, often in an orgadomestic policy in the nizer’s role,” Kersh said. nice little 12-year-old “Her wide-ranging sense Hometown: Chesterfield, Va. way.” of our community, wonQuick’s natural cuderfully creative approach Extracurriculars: Ambassadorriosity with politics to problem-solving and in-Admissions, Delta Sigma Theta, continued to develop innovative ideas about when she arrived at how best to engage stuPresident’s Aid, Amnesty InternaWake Forest and bedents, faculty, and staff in tional gan taking various pohelping Wake Forest live litical science courses up to our aspirations — all Post-Grad Plans: Fellow in the ofwith professors like these made her a natural fice of the provost Katy Harriger, chair choice as Fellow.” of the department of Quick is considering politics and internaother academic opportutional affairs. nities after her fellowship, such as law school as “When she gets excited talking about constitu- well as the possibility of earning her Ph.D. tional law I think ‘oh, this is really fascinating!’ She thinks that these degrees can provide career I’m just as excited,” Quick said, noting that she’s mobility to allow her to explore different working currently enrolled in her third class with Harriger. environments, such as teaching, consulting and “She’s also really good at challenging you … she researching as well as practicing law. can recognize when it’s not your best work.” “Something that’s becoming more prominent Quick, who is graduating with a double minor with our generation is that people have a couple in English and American ethnic studies, said she of career paths,” she said. “I like the ability to also enjoyed classes like American Ethnic Literature have a few different hats that are all interrelated with Dean Franco, associate professor of English. and all important.” “[It] was very intellectually challenging for me. Quick is also an Ambassador-in-Admissions, The material we read spanned a wide range of social action and political involvement chairs of American ethnicities,” Quick said. “I like that we Delta Sigma Theta, a President’s Aid, and special read Jewish literature, African American literature, events coordinator for Amnesty International.
CAMERON FORD | PSYCHOLOGY
into research and doing my own project has been really cool.” Ford has been involved in additional psychological research in professor of psychology Senior Cameron Ford, from Goldsboro, N.C. Christian Waugh’s lab, doing emotional regulaalways knew he wanted to follow in his father’s tion testing as well as professor of psychlogy E.J. and brother’s footsteps and study psychology Masicampo’s lab, where he created a study on in college; however he never knew how much self-control and motor movements. he would truly enjoy the subject. “Cameron works hard, he excels at what he “The first time I ever loved a psychology class does, and he has fun doing it,” Masicampo said. was when I took social psychology with Dr. “Because of that, he has made some difficult Masicampo,” Ford said. “He would give us a tasks — like designing quality experiments and concept and then show us a study to back it up. analyzing complex data sets — look easy. It has The studies he showed us were so bizarre and been a pleasure to watch.” interesting. It was mind-boggling.” Through his experiences in the psychology Despite his assurance in what he wanted to department, Ford has gained admiration and study, Ford wasn’t always sure that he wanted appreciativeness for the university’s faculty. to study psychology at Wake. “My favorite thing might be cliché and it might “I was torn between be what they tell you here and University on the tours, but it’s of Richmond,” Ford the faculty,” Ford Hometown: Goldsboro, N.C. said. “For a while I said. “They really rewas set on going to spect you as a person Extracurriculars: Alpha Phi Omega, Richmond, but I and as a student.” visited my brother a Outside of studyArts for Life, PREPARE advocate and few times and hung ing psychology, facilitator out with him here. I Ford is involved in decided I this is the other groups and in Post-Grad Plans: Study clinical psyplace I needed to be.” the Winston-Salem chology at West Virginia University Next fall, Ford will community as a PREhead to Morgantown, PARE advocate and W.V. to attend West facilitator, a member Virginia University’s of the service fraterclinical psychology program. nity Alpha Phi Omega and works once a week “I had interviews elsewhere. Everyone always at Arts for Life. tells you to make sure the program is a fit,” Ford “I am a volunteer at Arts for Life,” Ford said. said. “I didn’t really know what that meant until “It is this non-profit that works with the hospital. I went to these other interviews. I guess West They offer visual arts and music to pediatric Virginia is the right fit.” patients who have chronic illness.” However, Ford wasn’t always sure of his future In the future, Ford hopes to eventually return in clinical psychology; but through conducting to the campus. his own research, Ford came to realize he wanted “The plan/goal/dream is professor part time, to pursue a career. clinician part time and researcher part-time— “I was like ‘do I want to take a gap year, do some sort of blend,” Ford said. I want to do something different because I “If I could be on a college campus with all am an entrepreneurship minor or marketing these energetic awesome people, I think I could is that cool?’ I don’t know. Really just getting be pretty happy.”
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DAVID INCZAUSKIS | RELIGION
ary party. After going on various campaign movements, Inczauskis became inspired by these people who were devout Catholics but simultaneously had a vested interest in the political and economic David Inczauskis hadn’t given much thought to liberation of the people. becoming a priest since his childhood, but now Liberation theology is the subject of Inczauskis’ he feels the call more strongly than ever. honors theses in both religion and Spanish, the The Homer Glen, Ill., native began to think latter of which he chose to write in the form of differently about religion’s role in his life upon a play. arriving at Wake Forest. “David Inczauskis is a very thoughtful and “I think to some degree all of us have to deal learned young man,” said Spanish professor Jane with these questions that are very important in Albrecht. “Directing his honors project this year our lives,” Inczauskis said. “Questions like, who is one of the highlights of my career.” am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going? Inczauskis spent his junior year at the University What’s the purpose of my life? What is truth? The of Oxford, where he sought spiritual direction from religion department does a good job of enabling the university’s Jesuit-run chaplaincy. It was then students to treat these questions academically but that he firmly felt the call to enter the priesthood. also provoking the stu“My goal is to help dents to think about souls,” Inczauskis said. them personally.” “I think spirituality, eduInczauskis also becation and social justice came involved in the would be three aspects I’d Hometown: Homer Glen, Ill. Wake Forest Catholic like to focus on as a Jesuit.” Extracurriculars: Peer minister in Community, where he For Inczauskis, this dicontinues to serve as a alectic between spiritual Wake Forest Catholic Community peer minister. and active life coincides “David is one of our Post-Grad Plans: Enter the Jesuit with Wake Forest’s motto most active members of Pro Humanitate. novitiate in St. Paul, Minn. who gets involved in “Many people take Pro most everything we do Humanitate to mean seron campus and with vice or volunteering, but I the Charlotte Cathodon’t think it means that,” lic Diocese,” said Catholic campus minister Fr. Inczauskis said. “I think it means ‘for humanness,’ Charles Jagodzinski. “I will truly miss my talks in the sense that we humans are very unique in with him on Sacred Scripture and Church teaching that we have the ability to think rationally. That’s when he graduates and goes on to study for the what’s distinctive about us — our rational thought Catholic Priesthood.” that elevates us high above the animals and gives Inczauskis also has a double major in Spanish, us the opportunity to go to great lengths to perfect which he decided to pursue after spending the ourselves as a human race constantly.” second semester of his freshman year studying in Inczauskis will enter the Jesuit novitiate in St. Salamanca, Spain. Paul, Minn., in August to begin his formation Backed by the Reynolds Scholarship, Inczauskis for Priesthood, a process that typically takes at conducted a summer research project the summer least 10 years. after his freshman year in Guatemala, where he “I believe he will be a moving force in the Jesuit worked with an organization staffed by several Order and in the Catholic Church wherever he people who were simultaneously campaigning for serves,” Jagodzinski said. “I hope and pray we have UNRG-MAIZ, Guatemala’s socialist revolution- more ‘Davids’ on campus in the future.”
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ERIN HELLMAN | SOCIOLOGY BY IAN RUTLEDGE Print Managing Editor rutlig11@wfu.edu
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system of private tutoring there, which later became the subject of her honors thesis. Although Hellman’s accomplishments within the sociology department are numerous, she was Erin Hellman has always had a passion for also involved in a variety of activities outside community service and addressing issues that the classroom, particularly in the area of service. faced society, but when she first walked onto Her service activities included participating Wake Forest’s campus as a freshman she was as a shift leader for Campus Kitchen, serving as unaware that her passions would lead her to a a leader on multiple Wake Alternative Breaks, major in sociology. participating in an international service trip to “I had never taken a sociology class before Vietnam and founding the “Saturday Acadecollege, so I took a sociology course with Dr. my” tutoring program at Ashley Academy in Simon for my divisional since I’ve always been Winston-Salem. interested in social issues, as well as politics,” “The relationships I’ve built with students and Hellman said. members of the Winston-Salem community, “I had always been particularly drawn to issues through my service work, have been really imsuch as poverty and inequality, so when I took portant to me,” Hellman said. “I have loved the the sociology class it way that I could see really made me realthe way what I studize that these interied in the classroom Hometown: Frankfort, KY ests were something as a sociology major I could pursue further could be applied to Extracurriculars: Campus Kitchen, in a more academic my service work.” way through the Wake Alternative Break leader, KapHellman was also study of sociology.” a member of the pa Delta, College Democrats Through the start Kappa Delta sororof her relationship ity and served as the Post-Grad Plans: Teach for America with Robin Simon, president of College in Phoenix, AZ professor of socioloDemocrats. gy, Hellman began to As her and her felidentify the congrulow classmates time ence of her interests at Wake comes to a with the interests and passions of the depart- close, Hellman looks back fondly upon the ment’s talented faculty. four years she spent her as an undergraduate, “The [sociology] professors and their willing- especially the semester she spent in the Worrell ness to engage and support students, as well as House in London, England. their genuine interest in student success, have “That experience was the highlight [of my given me such a wonderful experience in the Wake experience] just because I was able to major,” Hellman said. learn in a new city and a new place,” Hellman “[These characteristics] have also helped me said. “Also, it was great because I could really developed incredibly close relationships with see what I was learning in action. Studying in so many of my professors and I think that is Europe definitely helped me gain a lot of confireally demonstrated by the three professors I had dence and independence through my traveling.” working closely with me to make my honors Hellman will be working for Teach for America thesis happen.” in Phoenix, Ariz., following graduation. She is Hellman received a Richter scholarship to confident her sociology studies at Wake will aid travel to South Korea and study the hagwon her work in Phoenix and beyond.
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CHRISTINA HOSPODAR | SPANISH BY ERIN PATTERSON Multimedia Editor pattee12@wfu.edu
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“It would be really great to be able to work in an underrepresented area.”
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pilgrimage route through northern Spain. On the trail, she was surprised and fascinated by “how important people’s relationships to each other were on the Camino and how that kind Senior Christina Hospodar has split her time at defrayed physical ailments,” said Hospodar. Wake Forest between her two passions: Spanish The importance of social connection on the and health and exercise science. trail inspired her Honors research work with She has taken Spanish classes since the sixth Dr. Walter Rejeski when she returned to the grade and has always known that she at least university for her senior year. wanted to minor in Spanish. Using Rejeski’s group-based weight loss trial, Once she got to college, however, she enjoyed she examined how the subjects’ relationships her classes so much that she decided to pursue with each other impact how they’re doing in the major. the trial. Hospodar looks forward using to using her In addition to her studies, Hospodar spends Spanish major in her career in the health field, much of her time working for campus recreation where professionals work directly with people. as the assistant coordinator for all of fitness. “There’s such a growing population of Spanish She works with the administrative aspect of the speakers, and I think Miller Fitness Center, it would be really great the personal training to be able to work in programs and the an underrepresented group fitness classes. Hometown: Trumbull, Conn. area,” said Hospodar. “It’s been really Extracurriculars: Assistant Coordi“Also, it always opens cool to get that level up the possibility of of administrative exnator at Campus Recreation going abroad again.” perience, because it’s Hospodar studied not really a student Post-Grad Plans: Graduate school abroad during the position,” said Hoto explore more Health & Exercise fall of her junior year spodar. Science research in Salamanca, Spain “I kind of took it through Wake Forest. haphazardly because She had always the lady who was known that she doing it had to leave wanted to study abroad in Spain to hone her unexpectedly.” Spanish-speaking skills, and the Salamanca proHer experience in this role has inspired her gram seemed like the best option when she to consider a similar coordinator position after began looking at all of the cities and programs graduation before she most likely goes to graduavailable. ate school to expose herself to more aspects of “I have nothing but positive things to say health and exercise research beyond what she about studying broad in Salamanca,” said Ho- has experienced with Rejeski. spodar. “You learn so much, so quickly just from When asked what she will miss the most being immersed so completely in a program about Wake Forest, Hospodar gets the most like that. The Salamanca program is especially sentimental about the people. great because they really focused on language“Wake draws so many people from so many development aspect, and it is a very immersive different areas of the country,” Hospodar said. program.” “The people are what make your experience This past summer, Hospodar returned to what it is. And that includes professors and Spain to hiked The Camino de Santiago, a even the workers in the Pit swiping you in.”
KELSEY ZALIMENI| STUDIO ART
to give myself a chance to be trained in, and I’m glad I did.” During her time at the university, Zallimeni has focused on painting and sculpture. Her honKelsey Zalimeni has been interested in art since ors project, which is titled “#followme” and a young age. “I have been told that even in my serves as a critique of our social media culture, infantile years that I was scrawling things on combines these two concentrations. “The show that just went up of mine in Hanes the walls and painting,” Zalimeni said. However, Zalimeni was not able to fully ex- is a combination of [sculpture and painting],” plore her artistic side until she entered Wake Zalimeni said. “They are actually mobile paintings.” Forest. This honors project, which is on display in “Growing up, [art] was always more of a hobby because sports were my focus,” Zalimeni said. the Hanes Art Gallery until May 4, is one of Zalimeni was a dedicated soccer player in high Zalimeni’s favorite works that she has completed school. She also was a member of the varsity during her tenure at Wake Forest. “I would say that this honors show has really soccer team at Wake Forest for three years. been the first time I’ve been allowed to create “I was a varsity athlete here until I tore my ACL a cohesive body of three times,” Zalimework,” she said. “Evni said. “Basically if erything else that you you tear your ACL make when you’re in Hometown: Mebane, N.C. more than twice, they college is exercise can’t really condone Extracurriculars: Start Gallery Stubased — you’re given to clear you.” a task and then you dent Advisory Committee, Varsity Her time away from have to make it. So Soccer, Reynolda House Student Adthe field allowed her [my honors show] is visory Committee to focus more of her what I’m most proud of so far.” time and effort on Post-Grad Plans: Sotheby’s trainAfter graduation, her art. Zalimeni will conZalimeni commiting program tinue her career as an ted to Wake Forest artist, but she will also on a partial athletic be going to New York scholarship and the soccer coach encouraged her to apply for the to work in the Sotheby’s training program. “It’s a half-year trial. It’s like you work there, Presidential Scholarship for visual arts. but on the condition that if you’re not doing “The coach knew that I was into art, so he told well at any point they can tell you to leave,” me about the Presidential Scholarship, which Zalimeni said. “I have a few options, but my if I got it, would cover the rest,” Zalimeni said. main goal is to use that as a conduit to be hired “In some miraculous way, I put together a port- within that company.” folio and I got the scholarship. So I have a dual Leigh Ann Hallberg, lecturer in art, has served purpose scholarship here.” as a mentor to Zalimeni during her time at Wake After coming to Wake Forest, Zalimeni’s deci- Forest. Hallberg has greatly enjoyed working sion to major in studio art was easy. with Zalimeni during the past four years. “It was sort of one-track thing for me,” she “Kelsey has been one of the most talented, said. “[Art] was just a part of me that I never hard-working and self-driven students I have really got to develop. In high school I never took had the pleasure to work with,” Hallberg said. lessons. I never even took art except for one “She is a willful creature. I expect great things year. It was something that I felt like I needed in the future from this force of nature.”
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CELIA QUILLIAN | THEATRE
let them go. We miss them and hope that we have helped them place a firm foundation under their feet. Celia’s foundation is deep and strong, and I will miss her.” As a proud member of the theatre major and All of her hard work finally paid off when a Presidential Scholar in theatre, Quillian has Quillian took on her biggest project yet this dedicated herself to her field of study. Along with year with graduate student Andrew Newton. performing in a variety of productions rang- The two independently directed, produced, proing from musicals to plays to an experimental moted and performed “The Last Five Years” by interdisciplinary piece that allied theatre with Jason Robert Brown in the Hanes Art Gallery. the chemistry department, she has contributed “We didn’t realize how much work it would much of her time at Wake Forest to the theatre be,” Quillian admitted. “It’s good that we didn’t department, defending every last minute of it. realize everything we would have to do in the “There’s this huge misconception about what beginning, because we would have backed out. it means to make theatre,” Quillian said. “I But we said we were going to do it and we did.” think people’s perceptions of theatre majors The idea started as a joke backstage when the are people who just kind of dance around two starred in “Hairspray” together and eventuand sing showtunes ally flourished into in Scales and don’t rea highly praised, ally have work. It’s so sold-out show. DeHometown: Atlanta, Ga. many more hours than spite the enormous people think it is.” time commitment, Extracurriculars: Athony Aston Not only has Quiland work that the Players, Alpha Delta Pi, Gender lian acted in 20 shows duo took on, the and a total of 76 perEquality Allies, Splash Mob experience was unformances, but she forgettable. Post-Grad Plans: Act in New York also serves as the Pub“It’s something lic Relations Chair on that will always stick City or Los Angeles the Executive Board with me,” Quillian of the Anthony Aston said. “It’s something Players and is a memI’ll always be proud ber of Alpha Delta Pi of.” sorority. She has also been involved in groups After graduation, Quillian plans to move back such as Gender Equality Allies, Experimental home to Atlanta, building up a résumé in theatre College and Splash Mob — a flash mob with and film before heading to New York City or umbrellas — all while pursuing a second major Los Angeles. Celia had originally planned to in communications. work somewhere stable in public relations, but Sharon Andrews, associate professor in the instead has decided to dive right into acting. Department of Theatre and Dance, had the Having achieved so much over the past four privilege to work closely with Quillian during years, Quillian will leave behind a lasting legacy her time at Wake. when she graduates. She hopes that the love she “For four years, Celia, has given her skills, harbors for theatre at Wake Forest persists the time and immense talent to Wake Forest Uni- among students who remain here. versity Theatre, and I have had the privilege of “I hope that people continue to come see shows working with her as teacher, director, mentor and see that we’re really good,” said Quillian. and friend all four of those years,” Andrews “I hope that the passion I have here stays and said. “Students have to leave, and we have to continues to grow.”
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“I hope that the passion I have here stays and continues to grow.”
AMY SHACKELFORD | WGS
to serving the university theatre in a variety of ways. Furthermore, she was a freshman resident advisor for two years and an ambassador for the Office of Personal and Career Development. Orlando, Fla. native Amy Shackelford found Beyond the university, Shackelford works her passion for issues of inequality and injus- part-time for Feminist Apparel with social tice during her sophomore year of college. Out media and brand partnerships. She also works of curiosity, she took an introductory class in part-time for Everyday Feminism, an online women and gender studies taught by Wanda magazine that covers topics in feminism such Balzano and Shannon Gilreath, and became as domestic violence, sexism, what it means to fascinated by the issues covered in the readings be transgender and more. and class discussions. However, of all of her extracurricular activities, That same year, Shackelford was seeking an her involvement in Gender Equality Allies has outlet for her newfound passion in the form impacted her the most. of a feminist group that would address issues “The combination of deciding to study womon campus. When she discovered that no such en and gender studies and combing that with the group existed at the university, she founded activism I do with Gender Equality Allies … it’s Gender Equality Alchanged my career lies with Lindey Camtrajectory entirely,” pagne, Molly Dunn said Shackelford. Hometown: Orlando, Fla. and Simone Barbado. Although she It was just chartered as previously thought Extracurriculars: Gender Equality a student organization that she would go Allies, Anthony Aston Players and started receiving into public relations funding this year. and communicaPost-Grad Plans: Conference in Gender Equality tion, she changed Allies has organized directions after a Munich before helping with Feminist several events over the “horrendously borApparel Kickstarter in Philadelphia past few years that proing” public relamote self-love, gender tions internship last equality and open dissummer. Because of cussion about sexualher involvement in ity. Last year, they brought Brittany Snow to Gender Equality Allies and her major in women campus to discuss her experience with eating and gender studies, her post-graduation plans disorders, and they also organized the Love is have taken an exciting turn. Louder event in library. For the past two years, In June, Shackelford has a full scholarship to they have organized Love Your Body Week, go a conference in Munich, Germany for the which included a huge graffiti wall on the Lower Office of the Provost of Global Affairs. After Quad. traveling through Europe for four more weeks, “I feel like [Gender Equality Allies has] prob- Shackelford will return to the States and move ably defined a lot of my college experience, but to Philadelphia to work for Feminist Apparel I think it has also enriched it,” said Shackelford. full-time and help with their upcoming Kick“The most meaningful thing is when you re- starter campaign in August. alize that your studies and your activism are “It’s risky to go for a startup, but I think my important in the here and now.” personality is one that I’d rather go completely Shackelford is also the president of Anthony crazy over something that I love than settle,” Aston Players, a service organization dedicated said Shackelford.
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“I’d rather go completely crazy over something that I love than settle.”
“The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.” -Maya Angelou, Reynolds Professor of American Studies “Inaugural Poem,” 1993