(By Beverly Whisnant, retired SEBTS library) I was an interested observer in 1991 when Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Vice President Paul Fletcher asked my young friend […]
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A Very Basketball Christmas
Before multi-million dollar contracts, top basketball coaches were rewarded with… kitchen appliances? It was December 1952 and Wake Forest College Basketball Coach Murray Greason had just […]
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Thanksgiving Day Tragedy: Professor W. A. Johnson
Occasionally a museum visitor will mention an adored grandfather (or great-grandfather) and ask which of the Old Campus buildings were here in the 1930s? It’s a […]
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Against All Odds
“Win or lose, Wake brought out the best in people. Its athletes performed better than their best.” That quote from Cameron Yow’s new book on Wake […]
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The Last of the College Restaurants and Radio Station
It was April 1956 and Wake Forest was splitting in two. The town and college were about to break apart, becoming separate entities for the first time […]
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The 1956 Winston Move Left Dr. Cullom Behind
(From an article by Lloyd Preslar, in a 1956 edition of the Old Gold & Black.) When Wake Forest moves to Winston-Salem this spring, the College […]
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