Annual Meeting Scheduled for Sunday, October 18th
The Wake Forest College Birthplace Society will hold its annual meeting from 2:00-5:00 pm on Sunday, October 18, 2015 at the Wake Forest Historical Museum.
This year’s keynote speaker is Gene Boyce (WFC ‘54, JD ‘56), who earned his undergraduate and law degrees on the old campus and went on to serve as assistant chief counsel to the Watergate Committee. As a lead investigator on the case that eventually revealed President Richard Nixon’s hidden White House taping system, Boyce helped untangle the criminal activities surrounding the president’s 1972 reelection campaign.
Boyce will describe his experiences with the Senate Watergate Committee, working on the team led by Senator Sam J. Ervin, and participating in the 99 days of televised hearings that showed the world a different Nixon and permanently altered the nation’s relationship with both politics and journalism.
With his boundless intelligence and spirit, Gene Boyce is perhaps best remembered from his years at Wake Forest as one of the student leaders who simply did everything.
Pictured here (back row, second from left) with the 1952 Cheering Squad, Boyce was elected Student Body President in 1953.
A longtime member of student council, he was a brother of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and also served as president of the famed Philomathesian Literary Society.
Boyce and his wife Pat are valued friends and supporters of the Birthplace Society.
For more information, please visit the museum website (www.wakeforestmuseum.org) or call Executive Director Ed Morris as 919-556-2911.