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Wake
Forest native I. Beverly Lake Jr., who
recently retired as chief justice of the
North Carolina Supreme Court, will be
the speaker when the Wake Forest College
Birthplace Society holds its annual
meeting Sunday, Oct. 15.
Also, a Wake Forest
University official will make an
announcement about the university’s
contribution to the
construction/endowment fund for the
planned expansion of the museum annex
the society will build behind the Calvin
Jones House on North Main Street. That
house, the original building for the
college, is overflowing with the
artifacts and memorabilia for the town
of Wake Forest and the college.
University President Nathan O. Hatch has
a conflict and will not be able to
attend the meeting.
Ed Morris, the museum’s
executive director, said the society has
already received $264,000 in pledges,
largely from Wake Forest residents and
board members.
That is apart from the
$110,000 annual matching donation the
Town of Wake Forest has agreed to give
for five years.
The society has an overall
goal of $3 million for the annex
building behind the Calvin Jones House
and to provide an endowment for its
operation and maintenance.
Morris said the efforts to
raise funds from alumni will begin this
coming weekend, Homecoming Weekend, when
he and society board President Susan
Brinkley will be in Winston-Salem,
focusing on the class of 1956, the last
class to graduate in Wake Forest. It is
particularly fitting that this is the 50th
anniversary year of the move from the
original campus.
The Oct. 15 meeting will be
held in the sanctuary of Wake Forest
Baptist Church at 3 p.m. Business
includes the election of six board
members and consideration of three
amendments to the by-laws.
The board seats to be filled
Gene T. Capps of Winston-Salem, the
former executive director who is
stepping down to an advisory position;
Kathaleen S. Chandley of Wake Forest;
Abe Elmore (1955) of Dunn; Don Stroud
(1984) of Wake Forest; Bob White of Wake
Forest; and Barbara Whiteman (1958) of
Raleigh.
Whiteman, who is completing
the term left vacant by the death of
Peggy Allen, is one of the nominees
recommended by the board. The other
nominees are Camille Patterson (1975),
the development officer for the North
Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh; Dr.
Bert Corpening of Youngsville, who
graduated from both Wake Forest College
and the Bowman-Gray Medical School; Ryan
Hutchinson, vice president of
administration at Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary; Harry Mitchell of
Wake Forest, who heads the local office
of the engineering firm Bass Nixon &
Kennedy; and James Warren of Wake
Forest, who graduated from the
university in 1967 and from the law
school in 1969.
The other board members
aside from Brinkley are Jim Adams, a
Wake Forest developer; Jill Bright of
Wake Forest, the secretary; Murray
Greason Jr. (1959), a Winston-Salem
attorney and chairman of the university
board of trustees; Lake (1959, law
school 1960), who now lives in Raleigh
but has said he plans to move to Wake
Forest; Durward Matheny of Wake Forest,
the vice president; Jerry E. Mitchell
(1960) of Wake Forest; Jack Murdock
(1957) of Raleigh; and Beverly Whisnant
of Wake Forest.
The by-law changes include
allowing the Wake Forest Town Board and
board of trustees at Wake Forest
University to appoint an additional
member each to the 16-person board,
setting up a museum advisory board and
establishing a museum foundation board.
Another change the current
board agreed on was to increase the
individual membership to $35 effective
Oct. 1. All other memberships remain at
the same level. |
