Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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m ' p 1 i 1 November 13, 1963— The plaza took on the appearance oj ancient ruins as students observed an hour oj silence, protesting Baptist rejection oj a college proposal jor selecting trustees, effectively delaying university status. A crushing new rejection in 1964 caused President Tribble to pledge a move to the juture one way or another. Two Decades After a dream to make Wake Forest a national university waked up that hamlet near Raleigh, the Board of Trustees made the dream more real hy changing the College ' s name to Wake Forest University. The dream from 1946 to 1966 was unlike Rip Van Winkle ' s. From the moment the decision was made to move the College from its sandy, magnolia-covered campus down East to the red clay Piedmont in search of the Reynolds millions, Wake Forest has been synonymous with progress. To many of her sons and daugh- ters and to the old-timers, changing a name was hardly worth noticing. For years the College has been a university with its medical school, law school, business school, and school of arts and sciences. All it has needed to make it the classical university is a school of theology. It is probable that this school is forthcoming. It takes more than a Board of Trustees meeting to change the his- tory of a College over a century old. What it does take is twenty years of progress, then twenty more. Progress hasn ' t been easy. Progress steps on the toes of those who want to walk slowly, and stepping on toes often hurts feelings as well as feet. Wake Forest ' s transition was a transition of people as well as buildings, and the transition has not yet ceased. Controversies have made the dream toss and turn, yet it has not been forgotten. As one goal is attained, dreaming will be- gin for others. Education is prog- ress and progress is dreaming. Wake Forest is education. 18

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Student Government ' s annual party for underprivileged children brought much Christmas cheer to Wake students, but the happy faces of tots with books, stockings and stuffed inot be outdone.

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January 13, 1967 — After two years of peace with the Baptists, college trustees declared that Wake Forest had become a uni- versity. Student reaction was calm but joyous, and the archi- tect of it all. President Tribble, prepared to retire to a less demanding role. 19