Wake Forest University

Mr. Helvey III has been a director since 2005. He is the founder and President of Helvey and Associates, LLC, a financial and strategic consulting firm to educational and non-profit entities and also currently serves as Risk Management Officer for CMT Asset Management. From 1985 to 2000, Mr. Helvey was employed by J.P. Morgan & Co., serving in a variety of capacities, including as Vice-Chairman of JP Morgan's Risk Management Committee, Global Head of Derivative Counterparty Risk Management, head of the swap derivative trading business in Asia and managing the firm's short-term interest rate and foreign exchange derivative business in Europe. Mr. Helvey served as Chairman and CEO of Cygnifi Derivatives Services, LLC, an online derivatives services provider, from 2000 to 2002. In 2004, Mr. Helvey was a candidate for the United States Congress in the 5th District of North Carolina. Mr. Helvey graduated magna cum laude with honors in 1981 from Wake Forest University. In 1982, Mr. Helvey was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cologne in Germany, and in 1984 Mr. Helvey received a Masters degree in international finance and banking from Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs. Mr. Helvey is a member of the Wake Forest University Board of Trustees, and he is a member of the Oakwood Country School Board of Trustees in Morgan Hill, California.

Nancy Crouch is Assistant Chief Information Officer in the Information Systems Department at Wake Forest University, where she established the Student Technology Advisors Program. She previously founded and directed the Western Triad Science and Mathematics Alliance after servings as a public school teacher for 12 years.

Dean Stell is assistant director of the Office of Technology Asset Management at Wake Forest University. Dean came to OTAM in 1999. In OTAM's case management approach to technology commercialization, Dean's responsibility in OTAM is the "cradle-to-grave" management of Wake Forest University technologies within his portfolio. These duties include: technology assessment, marketing, negotiation and drafting of license agreements and patent management. Dean has successfully licensed numerous technologies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, software and medical device industries and been involved in the formation of several of WFU's start-up companies. Prior to coming to Wake Forest, he was the recipient of the Charles H. Babcock Scholarship at Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management where he received his MBA with an emphasis in Finance and Marketing. He did his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina, receiving a B.S. in Biology. Dean also has experience working in the clinical laboratory and emergency department at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.

Bruce Scott is a student at Wake Forest University and expects (hopes) to graduate in 2009. He grew up hiking the southern Appalachians around Boone, NC and then explored the Cumberland Plateau while an undergraduate at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN. After college he joined the Coast Guard and (among other things) enforced environmental laws in Alaska and New England. Bruce is a member of the Carolina Mountain Club and the Sierra Club and is in the middle of starting the Environmental Law Society at Wake Forest University.

David Biespiel is widely recognized as one of the leading poets of his generation, a liberal commentator on national politics, & also one of the nation's experts in teaching writing. His teaching experience is innovative & vast: He has taught at every level of education, from a one-room schoolhouse to large university campuses, from public high schools to graduate seminars, from teaching poetics at Stanford University to developing national champions in the Olympic sport of diving, & he has lectured and spoken to audiences throughout the United States. Looking to create an independent writing studio in 1999, David founded the Attic as a haven for writers in Portland's historic Hawthorne district. Among his publications are The Book of Men and Women, Wild Civility, Pilgrims & Beggars, & Shattering Air. He has been honored with a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, a Lannan Fellowship, & a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. David has taught at many colleges, including Stanford, George Washington University, University of Maryland, & Portland State University, & he has been the Richard H. Thornton Writer-in-Residence at Lynchburg College in Virginia. He currently divides his teaching among three universities: in the fall as the Visiting Poet at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in the spring as an Adjunct Professor at Oregon State University, & in the summer on the faculty of the low-residency M.F.A. Program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. A contributor to American Poetry Review, Parnassus, Poetry, Slate, The New York Times, The Washington Post, & The New Republic, David has been, since 2002, the columnist on poetry for The Oregonian. In 2005 he was named editor of Poetry Northwest, resurrecting the esteemed magazine into a national venue for outstanding poems and a lively discourse about poetry and public culture. In 2008, in line with his belief that poets be fully engaged with political and civic life, he became a contributor to Politico's "Arena," a cross-party, cross-discipline daily conversation about politics and policy among more than a hundred current and former members of Congress, governors, mayors, political strategists and scholars.

David W. Dupree became a director on October 17, 2003. He is the Chief Executive Officer and a Managing Director of The Halifax Group, which he co-founded in January 1999. From 1992 to 1999, Mr. Dupree was a Managing Director and Partner with The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm located in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining The Carlyle Group, Mr. Dupree was a Principal in Corporate Finance with Montgomery Securities and prior to that, he was Co-Head of Equity Private Placements at Alex Brown & Sons Incorporated. Mr. Dupree earned a B.S. from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University, where he was past Chairman of the Board of Visitors. Mr. Dupree serves as a Trustee for St. Patrick's Episcopal School in Washington, D.C. where he was past Chairman of the Finance Committee. Mr. Dupree currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Insight Health Services Corp., Whole Foods Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI), EFO Capital Management, and on the Board of Trustees for Wake Forest University. In recent years, Mr. Dupree served on the Boards of Meineke Car Care Centers, Inc., Soil Safe, Inc., National Packaging Solutions Group, and Pharmaceutical Research Associates International, Inc.

Pastor Dean Baughn was born in Franklin NC. He is a graduate of Western Carolina University (BA) and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (Master of Divinity). Dean has continued his learning experience through Continuing Education at Wake Forest University, Furman University and Gardner-Webb University, and others. He has served the Lord as pastor at Antioch Baptist Church in Roxboro, NC and at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in Banner Elk, NC before coming to serve at FBCR. Dean is active in the Hospital Chaplaincy Program of Rutherford Hopsital, is a Wake Forest University Divinity School Liason, and is on the Gardner-Webb University Ministerial Board of Associates. He also is on the NC Baptist Foundation Board of Trustees, is a member of the Rutherfordton Kiwanis Club, and is on the Board of Directors of Building the Community of Rutherford County as well as a member of the Advisroy Board of Rutherford Transit Authority. Pastor Dean is active in hiking, enjoys reading about current events and maps. He enjoys playing tennis and volleyball.

Dr. Felton has established a strong presence and is a recognized leader in strategic planning and marketing throughout the world. He is with the Global Utilities Institute at Samford University and has had extensive experience in management training overseas in both the public and private sectors. He has completed numerous assignments for USAID in management consulting and training, and developed training materials, case studies, and group assignments. As Professor of Management at Samford University, Dr. Felton teaches international marketing and conducts research. A former Dean and Professor at Wake Forest University, Dr. Felton has also taught at he University of Virginia, and Harvard Business School. He has spent years living and working overseas developing management education institutions such as the Asian Institute of management in the Philippines. Dr. Felton has authored three books and over 100 articles and case studies. His consulting clients include Pan American Airways, Citicorp, Digital, The World Bank, Champion, Arthur D. Little, and The Rockefeller Foundation, to list a few. Dr. Felton received his Master's degree and Doctorate from Harvard Business School.

Hailing from Philadelphia, Evan is a self-taught dancer that has been involved with the "physical expression" of dance since the age of 16. At the beginning of his career, he was heavily involved in the creation of numerous dance-related projects in his high school and surrounding area. He is currently immersed in the underground dance scene where he participates in a number of competitions, both domestically and internationally. Though primarily a B-Boy (breakdancer), he possesses an extensive knowledge of the history and technique of many different hip-hop/funk styles. He is currently a student at Wake Forest University where he is majoring in economics with minors in statistics and Chinese. In addition to dance, Evan co-hosts an alternative hip-hop radio show and DJ's a variety of proceedings ranging from school-sponsored events to private parties. Evan's upbeat personality and unique teaching style make him a favorite with all of our dancers!

Evie Shockley teaches at Wake Forest University and has published her poetry in the Beloit Poetry Journal, Blink, The Cafe Review, Blue Mesa Review, Callaloo, and in the anthologies, Bum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam (ed. Tony Medina, Three Rivers), and New Sister Voices: Poetry by American Women of African Descent (Southern Illinois Press). She has been a Cave Canem Fellow and received a scholarship from the Squaw Valley Poetry Program. Her chapbook, The Gorgon Goddess, was published by Carolina Wren Press.

Heiko, a native of Emlichheim, Germany, is finishing up his PhD in Germanic Linguistics at UT Austin. His areas of interest include Low German, dialectology, Dutch, historical linguistics, and teaching both German and Dutch. He is particularly interested in language preservation as he himself is a speaker of a minority language, Plattdeutsch, which is still spoken in the "Grafschaft Bentheim" in Lower Saxony (northern Germany). Heiko enjoys playing the guitar, reading, swimming, and great home-cooked dinners. Beginning in Fall 2005, he will be a lecturer of German at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

Jennifer Gentry is a certified medical illustrator and principal of Gentry Visualization, a studio specializing in the visual presentation of medical, scientific, and technical subjects. Representative clients include Merck, Eli Lilly and Company, Avery Dennison Medical, McGraw-Hill, Quality Medical Publishing, The National Institutes of Health, American College of Rheumatology, and Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Projects include illustration for print and web publication, legal exhibition, device, and product design. Prior to founding Gentry Visualization in 2001, Jennifer was Designer of Prosthetics at Coloplast Corporation. She developed a paradigm for the design of soft tissue customized prosthetics utilizing computer and robotic techniques. She also led the research, design and branding of several breast prosthesis products. Jennifer holds an MA in Medical Illustration from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a BA, with Honors in Art from Wake Forest University. She is a Lecturer in the Department of Art and the Department of Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise at Wake Forest University. Born and raised in Southern California, she presently lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

John H. Wood is a Reynolds Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University. He received his BS at Ohio, his MA from Michigan State and his PhD at Purdue University. He teaches monetary policy and financial markets.

Joshua Ernst is a second year law student at the Wake Forest University . Joshua graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Joshua prepares responses to Office actions and patent applications for various technologies including mechanical, electro-mechanical, electronics, integrated circuits, computer software, digital systems, and business methods. Justin is preparing to take the patent agent exam to become a registered patent agent with the US Patent and Trademark Office. While receiving his undergraduate degrees, Joshua worked for a number of companies.

Kevin Gilbertson is Web & Digital Projects Librarian at Wake Forest University''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''s Z. Smith Reynolds Library. He received his MLIS in 2005 from the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He focuses on web standards and creative solutions to managing complex information environments.

Dr. Case is a graduate of Cornell University and Texas Tech University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in Family Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and then went on to a fellowship in Hospice & Palliative Care. After completing her fellowship at the Hospice and Palliative CareCenter, she accepted a permanent position in 2008. Dr. Case is also an Assistant Professor in the Family Medicine Department at Wake Forest University, where she both sees patients and participates in the teaching of the residents. She is board certified in both Family Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Care. Her special interests include pediatric palliative care and teaching.

Prior to joining Wake Forest University, Dr. Woods held faculty appointments at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia and Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. She has extensively lectured, published research and authored book chapters on sickle cell disease. Dr. Woods has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on a number of National Institutes of Health-supported studies. Dr. Woods received her Bachelor's Degree from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, her medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana and her Master's Degree in Public Health from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. In addition to her new role on the Blue Ribbon Advisory Board, Dr. Woods serves on the board of directors of the Urban League of Winston-Salem.

Lauren Pressley is the Instructional Design Librarian for the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. Her MLIS is from the University of North Carolina - Greensboro. She has presented on Blended Learning and the use of social software in education as well as published the 2008 chapter ?Educating the Millennial User? in Our New Public, A Changing Clientele. Her interests are student demographics, instructional design, and educational technology.

Linda S. Howe is a Professor of Romance Languages at Wake Forest University. She also served as the curator for "Cuban Artists' Books and Prints" which premiered in July 2009 at the Grolier Club in New York City and will travel across the United States through 2011. The exhibition gathers over 120 books, maquettes for unpublished projects, related prints, and printed objects. The books were designed for Ediciones Vigia, a collaborative artists' press founded in 1985 in Matanzas. The only press of its kind in Cuba or perhaps anywhere, it began with a mimeograph machine and a borrowed typewriter. Its limited editions of works by leading Cuban authors as well as Garcia Lorca and Rimbaud are designed and illustrated primarily by Rolando Estevez. Many are collaged with cloth, leaves, or wood scraps, making them unique; some are made as scrolls for hanging.

Dr. Patricia Cunningham is co-creator of Four-Blocks Literacy Framework. She is a Professor of Education at Wake Forest University. She has published numerous research articles and has authored multiple books on the Four-Blocks Framework and other subjects as well. Dr. Cunningham is a member of the International Reading Associations Hall of Fame. She is known and respected both nationally and internationally. Her speaking engagements are an excellent forum to hear from this expert in literacy. She gives you what you need to hear to make your literacy program take off!

Philippe R. Falkenberg, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Wake Forest University, founded the LearntoLearn Course in 1972 and taught the course to nearly 3,000 students. His study skills textbook, 15 Days to Study Power, was written especially for students taking the LearntoLearn Course . The popularity of the text, however, led to its adoption in 1986 by the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction for use in all state high schools. His expertise was sought by both local and state educational systems.

Dr Campbell's 30 years of ophthalmology experience spans a wide spectrum of practice, lectures, academia, research, and editorial. He is currently Director of Refractive Eye Services at Parkwood Eye Center in Elkin, North Carolina and Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Wake Forest University. Before joining Parkwood, he worked at Park Nicollet Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology in Minneapolis for 21 years. Dr Campbell received Board Certification from the American Board of Ophthalmology in 1978. He has written hundreds of research papers and articles and is the founding editor of Refractive Eyecare for Ophthalmologists.

Shawna D. Collins is licensed to practice law in the states of North Carolina and South Carolina. She has lived in the Carolinas since she was very young. She has been an attorney for over 12 years, and has litigated civil and criminal cases for the past 12 years. She is a member of the Estates and Trusts Section and the Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association. She received her undergraduate degree from the College of Charleston and law degree from the University of Florida, after spending her last year of law school at Wake Forest University.

Dr. Stephen P. Messier holds a master?s degree in physical education from the University of Rhode Island and a doctorate in biomechanics from Temple University. He is a Professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science and the J.B. Snow Biomechanics Laboratory at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. Dr. Messier?s research is advancing our understanding of the connection between overweight and osteoarthritis including the effect of weight loss on the incidence and progression of the disease.

Debbie has served as a member of the Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), as Chair of the Auditing Standards Board of the AICPA, as Chair of a COSO task force developing small business implementation guidance for the COSO Internal Control Integrated Framework and as a member of the SEC advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies. Debbie graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree from Wake Forest University in 1978. She is a member of Wake Forest University's Board of Trustees and has chaired its Audit and Compliance Committee, Athletic Committee and Graduate and Professional Schools Committee. Debbie holds leadership positions in numerous professional and service organizations. In addition to being a CPA, Debbie has attained the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation. In 1998,1999 and 2000, Debbie was named to Accounting Today's list of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting. In 2005, she was named to CPA Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential Practitioners. Debbie lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband and son. She enjoys golf and skiing with her family.

Douglas F. Manchester, Director, is Chairman of Manchester Financial Group, one of San Diego's most successful private companies. He is one of the largest private real estate developers in Southern California and has been instrumental in developing San Diego's renowned waterfront, including the Manchester Grand Hyatt and the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina. He is the founder of LaJolla Bank and Trust Company and LaJolla Pacific Savings Bank and is a Director of The Burnham Medical Research Institute, University of San Diego and Wake Forest University.

Henry D. Clarke Jr. has enjoyed an extraordinarily active and successful career in international business and finance-from Pittsburgh to Egypt to China. He has served in leadership positions in a number of business organizations, including the American Business Conference, the World Economic Forum, the International Trade Committee and the International Ice Cream Organization. He has been especially active as a mentor for the next generation of business leaders in such organizations as the Young Presidents Organization.Mr. Clarke has served in numerous volunteer capacities: Running two successful campaigns for the United Way and as executive vice president of the United Way of Greenwich, Connecticut; creating the Henry D. Clarke, Jr. Volunteer of the Year Award; serving as the vice chairman of the Brunswick School and as a member of the Board of Visitors of Wake Forest University; and acting as finance chairman of the Connecticut Republican Party. He has been especially generous with his time and resources in support of Dickinson College. He has contributed directly to Dickinson's Trout Gallery and is and emeritus Trustee of Dickinson's Board. Certainly his most important and enduring contribution to Dickinson College is his personal sponsorship of The Clarke Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Contemporary Issues, he continues to help guide the development of The Clarke Center in his capacity as Chairman of The Clarke Center Board.