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• Thomas Hearn, the departing president of Wake Forest University , will be the next leader

  - 2005-03-01

  Thomas Hearn, the departing president of Wake Forest University (N.C.), will be the next leader of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.

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• ACR Honors Maynard and Welch

  - 2004-07-01

  The American College of Radiology ACR honored 2 SNM past presidents, C. Douglas Maynard, MD, and Michael Welch, PhD, on May 9 during the ACR's 81st Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Maynard, chair of radiology at Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC) and SNM president in 1978 and 1979, was awarded...

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• Thomas Hearn, who has been president of Wake Forest University since 1983, will retire in June 2005

  - 2004-06-01

  IN THE NEWS: Thomas Hearn, who has been president of Wake Forest University NC since 1983, will retire in June 2005. Hearn underwent surgery and treatment for a brain tumor earlier this year and acknowledged that his recovery has been difficult. He is noted for a string of accomplishments, including...

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• Winston-Salem, N.C., University President to Retire.

  - 2004-04-20

  By Jane Stancill, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 20--Wake Forest University President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. returned to work Monday after treatment for a brain tumor and announced he will step down permanently next year after...

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• Dr. Walter W. Curl.(becomes president of American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine)(Brief Article)

  - 2000-08-01

  WINSTON-SALEM -- Dr. Walter W. Curl, director of sports medicine at Wake Forest University and a professor of orthopaedic surgery at its medical school, has become president of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. Curl is the physician for Wake Forest sports teams and the...

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• TRANSFORMING THE TRIAD.(Statistical Data Included)

  - 2000-04-01

  High-Tech Heats Up You have designed a new computer-software product that your research shows will sell like gangbusters, but you need capital to get it off the ground. One day, on your way out to lunch, you realize you're sharing the elevator with one...

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• Rivals agree that a cure for Cone is in the jeans.(Statistical Data Included)

  - 2000-01-01

  The battle between management and a Minnesota investment group for Greensboro-based Cone Mills Corp. raises a big question: Why would anyone want to spend millions of dollars on a money-losing textile company? To the group led by investment manager Marc Kozberg, the answer is...

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• FURNITURE BRIEFS.

  - 1999-08-23

  Young Resigns at Lexington Jeff Young resigned as president of Lexington Furniture after 28 years with the company. "Jeff has elected to take some personal time with his family, his outside interests and perhaps pursue an MBA in finance at...

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• Maya Angelou: prime-time poet

  - 1993-04-01

  SHE gingerly walks into the room on legs stiff with arthritis, a condition made worse by the chilly dampness of this rainy North Carolina winter morning. Wincing from the pain, yet refusing to acknowledge it, she eases her six-foot frame onto a pastel green and peach loveseat and gestures to...

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