Wake Forest Athletics
In Memoriam 2018
12/31/2018 11:09:00 AM | General
The Deacs we lost over the past year
Dec. 27, 2017: Joe Celi '74, was a member of the 1970 Wake Forest freshman football team. He spent 32 years working in the Guilford County School System where he pioneered the special needs programs and worked with special needs students.
Dec. 27, 2017: Brent Offenbecher was a member of the 1979 and 1980 Wake Forest football teams as a quarterback. Offenbecher transferred to Ohio State where he was a back-up quarterback to Mike Tomczak in 1982 and 1983.
Dec. 28, 2017: Bonnie Myers Zieters '75, a member of the women's basketball team, graduated from Wake Forest with a degree in physical education. She spent 30 years as a teacher before retiring.
Jan. 5: Herb Appenzeller '48, a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame, was a track and football student-athlete during his undergraduate career at Wake Forest and a member of the 1945 football team that earned a bid to the 1946 Gator Bowl. A 1948 graduate of Wake Forest, he earned his masters degree from Wake Forest in 1951 before embarking on a career at Guilford College in Greensboro. He was inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.
Jan. 7: Ken Hull '63, joined the 1959 football team as an offensive guard after serving in the Marines. Following his graduation from Wake Forest, he was an analyst with the U.S.D.A. and several accounting firms and served as the Director of the Bureau of Management Information Systems for the state of Pennsylvania.
Jan. 9: Dr. Dennis Dolny '78 was a member of the Wake Forest track and cross country teams. In 1975 he qualified for the ACC Outdoor 6-mile run. Dolny was a professor and head of the department of kinesiology and health science at Utah State at the time of his passing. Dolny taught at the University of Idaho from 1985 until moving to Utah State in 2008.
Jan. 16: Lowell "Rockie" Littleton '56, a native of Ashland, N.J., was a two-year starter at tackle for the football team in 1954 and '55. Following his graduation, he returned to New Jersey where he had a long professional career at Campbell Soup.
Jan. 16: Mike Jones '78 was a middle guard on the mid-1970s Deacon football teams and became the first person in his extended family to graduate from college. Known as "Too Small," he was an integral part of the scout team each week.
Jan. 28: Bill Seltzer, a member of the 1969 baseball team, passed away in Hagerstown, Md. Bill played in 33 games during the 1969 season then transferred to Hagerstown Community College. He was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in 1970 and played that season in the Orioles system. Bill was later employed as a UPS driver, serving the same route in the Martinsburg, W.Va. area for 30 years until his retirement in 2002.
Feb. 17: Allan Head '66 was a member of the track and cross country teams where he excelled as a hurdler and served as a co-captain. He was the longtime Executive Director of the North Carolina Bar Association. He received the Pete Moffitt Courage Award in 2016 while battling kidney cancer.
Feb. 20: Will Eschen '50 was a member of Wake Forest's 1949 baseball team that advanced to the College World Series championship game. He spent 21 years as an educator in his hometown of Suffern, N.Y. and coached baseball at Potsdam State University.
Feb. 28: Bobby Emken '85, a member of the Demon Deacon soccer team from 1982-84, died from complications from a brain tumor. Bobby earned a law degree from North Carolina and spent his career as an attorney in Charlotte and Greensboro.
March 2: Jackie Phillips '60 was a member of the Wake Forest baseball team from 1957-59. A career .313 hitter, Phillips hit .388 in 1959 and led the team in home runs. His professional career was dedicated to Reynolds Tobacco Company where he moved up the ranks and became the plant manager for the Brook Cove Processing Facility.
March 7: Woody Durham, a member of Wake Forest's radio broadcast team from 1964-68, passed away in Chapel Hill. Durham joined the Wake Forest radio broadcast team in 1964, teaming with Add Penfield. He was the analyst in 1964 and again in 1965 when he was paired with Pat Williams before taking over play by play duties from 1966-68. Durham would go on to broadcast for the North Carolina network for many years.
March 14: Jesse Haddock '52, a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame, led the Deacons to three national championships and 15 ACC titles in men's golf. Coach Haddock was 91. During his 32-year career as the head coach of Wake Forest men's golf, Coach Haddock put the Demon Deacon golf team on the national map. A 1952 graduate of Wake Forest University, Haddock served as assistant athletic director following graduation and helped head basketball coach Bones McKinney with coaching the golf team in the spring before becoming the head coach from 1960-92.
March 23: Bill Yarborough '54 was a letterman on the 1954 basketball team and also served as the Demon Deacon mascot. The Charlotte native worked for Colgate Palmolive and Stuart/AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals throughout his career.
March 25: Dr. James Frank Gibson '50 was a member of the football team from 1947-49. Dr. Gibson joined the Deacons after serving in World War II. He held Master of Theology and Doctor of Theology degrees from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and served as a pastor in Macon and Warner Robbins, Ga. for many years before retiring in 1990.
March 27: James "Quick" Parker '80, was a member of both the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame. Parker was a standout defensive lineman at Wake Forest and in the CFL. A native of Philadelphia, he spent 12 years in the CFL and set the single season sack record with 26.5, a record that still stands today. He played on four Grey Cup championship teams and was the CFL's Most Outstanding Defensive Player three times. His son, Keynan Parker, is a current member of the B.C. Lions.
April 6: James "Junior" Moore, '73 lettered for the football team from 1970-72 and led the ACC Championship team of 1970 in kickoff return average. He was a manager for Burger Chef and Jeff restaurants.
April 7: Ed Kissell '52 was a member of the Wake Forest football team in 1950 and '51. Ed was Wake Forest's starting quarterback in 1951 and led the team in passing, completing 56 of 120 passes for 593 yards and four touchdowns. He was a 30th round draft choice of the Pittsburgh Steelers and played for the Steelers in 1952 and 1954. Ed served in Korea as a member of the Army and then taught physical education in Manchester, NH for many years.
April 12: Jamie Redfern '87, a linebacker on the 1986 football team, was an entrepreneur who spent time with American Airlines and Mitsubishi.
April 12: Steve Hogan, a member of the 1970 ACC Championship football team, passed away in Greensboro. He earned his degree from Elon in 1973 and from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Ca.
April 19: Lt. Col. George Stamps, USAF '47 was a member of the 1942 football and track teams before joining the Army Air Corps as a pilot in World War II. He returned to Wake Forest following his service, graduating in 1947. He worked for Hogan Labs in New York City in the 1950s where he led a team of engineers that developed and patented what would become the modern fax machine.
April 13: Claude Croston '56 lettered on the 1954 and 1955 Demon Deacon football teams. He served as the principal at Melrose, Mass. High School where the Claude H. Croston Award is given annually to a student who has overcome difficult life circumstances.
April 30: Frank Thompson '59 was a right tackle, team captain and team most valuable player for the Deacons from 1956-58. Thompson was a 26th round draft choice of the Cleveland Browns in 1958. He went on to coach football at Bladenboro and Massey Hill High Schools and girls basketball in Bladenboro. Thompson worked in human resources at Bladenboro Cotton Mill and in sales with Harris Crane Commodities in Charlotte.
May 12: Chuck Knox, an assistant football coach at Wake Forest in 1959 and 1960, died after suffering from dementia. Knox, who assisted the Deacons in 1959 under Paul Amen and in 1960 under Billy Hildebrand, would go on to serve as the long-time head coach of the Seattle Seahawks. He was a three-time NFL Coach of the Year during his 22 years as a head coach. Knox won seven division championships with the Los Angeles Rams, the Buffalo Bills and the Seattle Seahawks.
May 25: Terry Bennett '72, a native of Morgantown, W.Va., was a member of Wake Forest's 1970 ACC Championship football team. A letterman in 1970 and 1971, he was a coal miner and a member of the mine rescue team for 25 years. He had served as the mayor of McDonald, Pa. since 2011.
May 30: Tom Throckmorton, an assistant football coach at Wake Forest from 1987-89, passed away in Saluda, Tenn. He was a 1965 graduate of Randolph-Macon and coached at numerous schools including William & Mary, N.C. State, East Carolina, Richmond, Virginia Tech, VMI and Boston College.
May 30: Ken Cox '57 lettered in basketball from 1955-58. He played in 33 games as a Demon Deacon during his three-year varsity career.
June 20: Jack Stallings was a member of the baseball team and later a longtime college head coach. Stallings was a member of the Wake Forest team that represented the United States in the 1951 Pan American games. His career as a professional player was cut short after a bout with polio. He would serve as head coach of the Deacons from 1960-68 then became the head coach at Florida State where he spent six seasons and led the Seminoles to a second place finish in the 1970 College World Series. Stallings was the head coach for 24 years at Georgia Southern where he took the Eagles to the College World Series in 1990. He won four Trans America Athletic Conference titles and three Southern Conference championships. Stallings was inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame in 1991.
June 25: Rev. Murry DeHart, Jr. '55 was a former wrestler and men's basketball athlete. DeHart attended the Wake Forest Seminary and became a chaplain in the Naval Reserve. He served the United Methodist Conference in more than 10 eastern North Carolina towns during his career.
July 12: Len Chappell '62 was Wake Forest's first consensus All-American in basketball and a two-time ACC Player of the Year. He led the Deacons to a pair of ACC Championships and averaged 24.9 points and 13.9 rebounds per game during his career. A first round pick of the Syracuse Nationals in the 1962 NBA Draft, Chappell played 10 years in professional basketball including nine years in the NBA and a final season in the American Basketball Association. He was inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame in 1980.
July 18: Richard Creecy McDaniel, a member of the 1954 freshman football team, passed away in Virginia Beach. McDaniel left Wake Forest in 1956 when he received an apprenticeship with the Virginia State Harbor Pilot Association. He spent 37 years as a harbor pilot.
July 31: Johnny Glover '73, a member of the Wake Forest baseball and football teams, passed away in Atlanta. A halfback in football and a pitcher in baseball, Glover spent his career in the healthcare industry.
Aug. 27: Francis "Guido" Scarton '52 was a halfback on the football team from 1949-51. Guido served in Korea as a member of the Army before becoming a teacher and coach. He would launch a long career with World Book Encyclopedia where he developed reading programs that helped children fall in love with reading. Scarton was Wake Forest's rushing leader in 1951 with 507 yards. He was inducted into the Washington-Greene County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.
Sept. 1: Bill Sherrill '49 was a member of the 1943 Wake Forest football team. Bill was called to active duty with the Army in 1944 and served as a crew chief for P51 fighter planes. He was the owner of Statesville Insulation company from 1955 until his retirement in 1992.
Sept. 3: Jim Williams '62 was a letterman at left tackle on the football team from 1959-61. Williams would go on to earn his law degree from Wake Forest in 1962 and later become a member of the Wake Forest Board of Trustees and the Law Board of Visitors among his numerous civic activities. He practiced law for 52 years with the firm of Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey and Leonard LLP. In 2014 Wake Forest honored Jim with the Distinguished Alumni Award and in 2016 gave him the Medallion of Merit, Wake Forest's highest award for service.
Sept. 5: Ted Waite '72 was a three-year letterman and starter on the offensive line for Wake Forest from 1969-71. Ted was an avid fan of all Boston teams and was considered a Renaissance Man by his family and friends.
Sept. 6: Ken Wable was an assistant football coach at Wake Forest in 1956-57. He went on to become the head coach at Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio from 1962-85. In his final season at Mount Union, he led the team to its first undefeated season and first NCAA playoff appearance.
Sept. 25: Dr. Robert Moore, M.D. '59 was a member of the Wake Forest men's tennis team in 1957. He would join the Coast Guard/United States Public Health Service and spent time on the USS Escanaba before opening a practice in Vero Beach, Fla. Following his retirement, his sense of adventure led him to Alaska where he entered the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and became its oldest rookie at age 63.
Oct. 6: Mike Helms '82 was a member of the Wake Forest basketball team and a team captain in 1981-82. He led the Deacons in scoring in 1982 with an 11.4 scoring average. During his career, Helms score 1,065 points and averaged 10.5 points per game over his four years. He earned an ACC Player of the Week award in 1980 and was a seventh round pick of the Houston Rockets in 1982.
Oct. 19: Dr. Bill Shendow '63 was an All-ACC guard on the 1961-62 football team. Commissioned into the U.S. Army following his graduation, he earned a Bronze Star in Vietnam before completing a master's degree at Georgetown. He served as vice president of Bell Clothes, president of the Frederick County Chamber of Commerce and director of the John O. Marsh Institute for Government and Public Policy at Shenandoah University.
Oct. 19: Paul "Baldy" Harris '51, was a member of the baseball team from 1947-50. A lifelong resident of Roanoke Rapids, he became a teacher and coach following graduation and later the director of the Roanoke Rapids Recreation Department. Harris served in World War II as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne where he was involved in five major engagements including the invasion of Southern France and the Battle of the Bulge, where he was wounded. As a Deacon, he was the centerfielder on the 1949 team that finished second at the College World Series. Harris hit .318 during the 1949 season and was a career .282 hitter.
Nov. 1: John Graebing '57 came to Wake Forest from Fork Union Military Academy and played football. He joined the Coast Guard in 1955 and spent 25 years with Browning Bearing and Chain in Cleveland, Ohio before retiring to North Carolina.
Nov. 11: Billy Scripture '64 was a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame and a two-time All-American in baseball. He earned first team All-American honors as an outfielder in 1963 and 1964 and was a leader on those teams that enjoyed considerable success. A three-year first team All-ACC selection, Scripture led the Demon Deacons to ACC Championships in both 1962 and 1963. Scripture hit over .300 every year, finishing his career with a .337 average, 26 home runs and 106 RBIs. At the time of his graduation, he held the Wake Forest record for career home runs and was second only to teammate Wayne Martin in career RBIs.
Dec. 1: Dwayne Brown '91, was a football letterman from 1988-90 who recorded 41 career tackles. A contributor on special teams as a freshman, he was poised to become a starter as a junior when he was sidelined by a major knee injury. He recovered and had his best season as a senior, making 23 tackles in 1990. After earning his bachelor's and master's degrees from Wake Forest, he worked in finance before pursuing his dream job to start a sustainable fuel company.
Dec. 27, 2017: Brent Offenbecher was a member of the 1979 and 1980 Wake Forest football teams as a quarterback. Offenbecher transferred to Ohio State where he was a back-up quarterback to Mike Tomczak in 1982 and 1983.
Dec. 28, 2017: Bonnie Myers Zieters '75, a member of the women's basketball team, graduated from Wake Forest with a degree in physical education. She spent 30 years as a teacher before retiring.
Jan. 5: Herb Appenzeller '48, a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame, was a track and football student-athlete during his undergraduate career at Wake Forest and a member of the 1945 football team that earned a bid to the 1946 Gator Bowl. A 1948 graduate of Wake Forest, he earned his masters degree from Wake Forest in 1951 before embarking on a career at Guilford College in Greensboro. He was inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.
Jan. 7: Ken Hull '63, joined the 1959 football team as an offensive guard after serving in the Marines. Following his graduation from Wake Forest, he was an analyst with the U.S.D.A. and several accounting firms and served as the Director of the Bureau of Management Information Systems for the state of Pennsylvania.
Jan. 9: Dr. Dennis Dolny '78 was a member of the Wake Forest track and cross country teams. In 1975 he qualified for the ACC Outdoor 6-mile run. Dolny was a professor and head of the department of kinesiology and health science at Utah State at the time of his passing. Dolny taught at the University of Idaho from 1985 until moving to Utah State in 2008.
Jan. 16: Lowell "Rockie" Littleton '56, a native of Ashland, N.J., was a two-year starter at tackle for the football team in 1954 and '55. Following his graduation, he returned to New Jersey where he had a long professional career at Campbell Soup.
Jan. 16: Mike Jones '78 was a middle guard on the mid-1970s Deacon football teams and became the first person in his extended family to graduate from college. Known as "Too Small," he was an integral part of the scout team each week.
Jan. 28: Bill Seltzer, a member of the 1969 baseball team, passed away in Hagerstown, Md. Bill played in 33 games during the 1969 season then transferred to Hagerstown Community College. He was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in 1970 and played that season in the Orioles system. Bill was later employed as a UPS driver, serving the same route in the Martinsburg, W.Va. area for 30 years until his retirement in 2002.
Feb. 17: Allan Head '66 was a member of the track and cross country teams where he excelled as a hurdler and served as a co-captain. He was the longtime Executive Director of the North Carolina Bar Association. He received the Pete Moffitt Courage Award in 2016 while battling kidney cancer.
Feb. 20: Will Eschen '50 was a member of Wake Forest's 1949 baseball team that advanced to the College World Series championship game. He spent 21 years as an educator in his hometown of Suffern, N.Y. and coached baseball at Potsdam State University.
Feb. 28: Bobby Emken '85, a member of the Demon Deacon soccer team from 1982-84, died from complications from a brain tumor. Bobby earned a law degree from North Carolina and spent his career as an attorney in Charlotte and Greensboro.
March 2: Jackie Phillips '60 was a member of the Wake Forest baseball team from 1957-59. A career .313 hitter, Phillips hit .388 in 1959 and led the team in home runs. His professional career was dedicated to Reynolds Tobacco Company where he moved up the ranks and became the plant manager for the Brook Cove Processing Facility.
March 7: Woody Durham, a member of Wake Forest's radio broadcast team from 1964-68, passed away in Chapel Hill. Durham joined the Wake Forest radio broadcast team in 1964, teaming with Add Penfield. He was the analyst in 1964 and again in 1965 when he was paired with Pat Williams before taking over play by play duties from 1966-68. Durham would go on to broadcast for the North Carolina network for many years.
March 14: Jesse Haddock '52, a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame, led the Deacons to three national championships and 15 ACC titles in men's golf. Coach Haddock was 91. During his 32-year career as the head coach of Wake Forest men's golf, Coach Haddock put the Demon Deacon golf team on the national map. A 1952 graduate of Wake Forest University, Haddock served as assistant athletic director following graduation and helped head basketball coach Bones McKinney with coaching the golf team in the spring before becoming the head coach from 1960-92.
March 23: Bill Yarborough '54 was a letterman on the 1954 basketball team and also served as the Demon Deacon mascot. The Charlotte native worked for Colgate Palmolive and Stuart/AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals throughout his career.
March 25: Dr. James Frank Gibson '50 was a member of the football team from 1947-49. Dr. Gibson joined the Deacons after serving in World War II. He held Master of Theology and Doctor of Theology degrees from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and served as a pastor in Macon and Warner Robbins, Ga. for many years before retiring in 1990.
March 27: James "Quick" Parker '80, was a member of both the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame. Parker was a standout defensive lineman at Wake Forest and in the CFL. A native of Philadelphia, he spent 12 years in the CFL and set the single season sack record with 26.5, a record that still stands today. He played on four Grey Cup championship teams and was the CFL's Most Outstanding Defensive Player three times. His son, Keynan Parker, is a current member of the B.C. Lions.
April 6: James "Junior" Moore, '73 lettered for the football team from 1970-72 and led the ACC Championship team of 1970 in kickoff return average. He was a manager for Burger Chef and Jeff restaurants.
April 7: Ed Kissell '52 was a member of the Wake Forest football team in 1950 and '51. Ed was Wake Forest's starting quarterback in 1951 and led the team in passing, completing 56 of 120 passes for 593 yards and four touchdowns. He was a 30th round draft choice of the Pittsburgh Steelers and played for the Steelers in 1952 and 1954. Ed served in Korea as a member of the Army and then taught physical education in Manchester, NH for many years.
April 12: Jamie Redfern '87, a linebacker on the 1986 football team, was an entrepreneur who spent time with American Airlines and Mitsubishi.
April 12: Steve Hogan, a member of the 1970 ACC Championship football team, passed away in Greensboro. He earned his degree from Elon in 1973 and from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Ca.
April 19: Lt. Col. George Stamps, USAF '47 was a member of the 1942 football and track teams before joining the Army Air Corps as a pilot in World War II. He returned to Wake Forest following his service, graduating in 1947. He worked for Hogan Labs in New York City in the 1950s where he led a team of engineers that developed and patented what would become the modern fax machine.
April 13: Claude Croston '56 lettered on the 1954 and 1955 Demon Deacon football teams. He served as the principal at Melrose, Mass. High School where the Claude H. Croston Award is given annually to a student who has overcome difficult life circumstances.
April 30: Frank Thompson '59 was a right tackle, team captain and team most valuable player for the Deacons from 1956-58. Thompson was a 26th round draft choice of the Cleveland Browns in 1958. He went on to coach football at Bladenboro and Massey Hill High Schools and girls basketball in Bladenboro. Thompson worked in human resources at Bladenboro Cotton Mill and in sales with Harris Crane Commodities in Charlotte.
May 12: Chuck Knox, an assistant football coach at Wake Forest in 1959 and 1960, died after suffering from dementia. Knox, who assisted the Deacons in 1959 under Paul Amen and in 1960 under Billy Hildebrand, would go on to serve as the long-time head coach of the Seattle Seahawks. He was a three-time NFL Coach of the Year during his 22 years as a head coach. Knox won seven division championships with the Los Angeles Rams, the Buffalo Bills and the Seattle Seahawks.
May 25: Terry Bennett '72, a native of Morgantown, W.Va., was a member of Wake Forest's 1970 ACC Championship football team. A letterman in 1970 and 1971, he was a coal miner and a member of the mine rescue team for 25 years. He had served as the mayor of McDonald, Pa. since 2011.
May 30: Tom Throckmorton, an assistant football coach at Wake Forest from 1987-89, passed away in Saluda, Tenn. He was a 1965 graduate of Randolph-Macon and coached at numerous schools including William & Mary, N.C. State, East Carolina, Richmond, Virginia Tech, VMI and Boston College.
May 30: Ken Cox '57 lettered in basketball from 1955-58. He played in 33 games as a Demon Deacon during his three-year varsity career.
June 20: Jack Stallings was a member of the baseball team and later a longtime college head coach. Stallings was a member of the Wake Forest team that represented the United States in the 1951 Pan American games. His career as a professional player was cut short after a bout with polio. He would serve as head coach of the Deacons from 1960-68 then became the head coach at Florida State where he spent six seasons and led the Seminoles to a second place finish in the 1970 College World Series. Stallings was the head coach for 24 years at Georgia Southern where he took the Eagles to the College World Series in 1990. He won four Trans America Athletic Conference titles and three Southern Conference championships. Stallings was inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame in 1991.
June 25: Rev. Murry DeHart, Jr. '55 was a former wrestler and men's basketball athlete. DeHart attended the Wake Forest Seminary and became a chaplain in the Naval Reserve. He served the United Methodist Conference in more than 10 eastern North Carolina towns during his career.
July 12: Len Chappell '62 was Wake Forest's first consensus All-American in basketball and a two-time ACC Player of the Year. He led the Deacons to a pair of ACC Championships and averaged 24.9 points and 13.9 rebounds per game during his career. A first round pick of the Syracuse Nationals in the 1962 NBA Draft, Chappell played 10 years in professional basketball including nine years in the NBA and a final season in the American Basketball Association. He was inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame in 1980.
July 18: Richard Creecy McDaniel, a member of the 1954 freshman football team, passed away in Virginia Beach. McDaniel left Wake Forest in 1956 when he received an apprenticeship with the Virginia State Harbor Pilot Association. He spent 37 years as a harbor pilot.
July 31: Johnny Glover '73, a member of the Wake Forest baseball and football teams, passed away in Atlanta. A halfback in football and a pitcher in baseball, Glover spent his career in the healthcare industry.
Aug. 27: Francis "Guido" Scarton '52 was a halfback on the football team from 1949-51. Guido served in Korea as a member of the Army before becoming a teacher and coach. He would launch a long career with World Book Encyclopedia where he developed reading programs that helped children fall in love with reading. Scarton was Wake Forest's rushing leader in 1951 with 507 yards. He was inducted into the Washington-Greene County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.
Sept. 1: Bill Sherrill '49 was a member of the 1943 Wake Forest football team. Bill was called to active duty with the Army in 1944 and served as a crew chief for P51 fighter planes. He was the owner of Statesville Insulation company from 1955 until his retirement in 1992.
Sept. 3: Jim Williams '62 was a letterman at left tackle on the football team from 1959-61. Williams would go on to earn his law degree from Wake Forest in 1962 and later become a member of the Wake Forest Board of Trustees and the Law Board of Visitors among his numerous civic activities. He practiced law for 52 years with the firm of Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey and Leonard LLP. In 2014 Wake Forest honored Jim with the Distinguished Alumni Award and in 2016 gave him the Medallion of Merit, Wake Forest's highest award for service.
Sept. 5: Ted Waite '72 was a three-year letterman and starter on the offensive line for Wake Forest from 1969-71. Ted was an avid fan of all Boston teams and was considered a Renaissance Man by his family and friends.
Sept. 6: Ken Wable was an assistant football coach at Wake Forest in 1956-57. He went on to become the head coach at Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio from 1962-85. In his final season at Mount Union, he led the team to its first undefeated season and first NCAA playoff appearance.
Sept. 25: Dr. Robert Moore, M.D. '59 was a member of the Wake Forest men's tennis team in 1957. He would join the Coast Guard/United States Public Health Service and spent time on the USS Escanaba before opening a practice in Vero Beach, Fla. Following his retirement, his sense of adventure led him to Alaska where he entered the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and became its oldest rookie at age 63.
Oct. 6: Mike Helms '82 was a member of the Wake Forest basketball team and a team captain in 1981-82. He led the Deacons in scoring in 1982 with an 11.4 scoring average. During his career, Helms score 1,065 points and averaged 10.5 points per game over his four years. He earned an ACC Player of the Week award in 1980 and was a seventh round pick of the Houston Rockets in 1982.
Oct. 19: Dr. Bill Shendow '63 was an All-ACC guard on the 1961-62 football team. Commissioned into the U.S. Army following his graduation, he earned a Bronze Star in Vietnam before completing a master's degree at Georgetown. He served as vice president of Bell Clothes, president of the Frederick County Chamber of Commerce and director of the John O. Marsh Institute for Government and Public Policy at Shenandoah University.
Oct. 19: Paul "Baldy" Harris '51, was a member of the baseball team from 1947-50. A lifelong resident of Roanoke Rapids, he became a teacher and coach following graduation and later the director of the Roanoke Rapids Recreation Department. Harris served in World War II as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne where he was involved in five major engagements including the invasion of Southern France and the Battle of the Bulge, where he was wounded. As a Deacon, he was the centerfielder on the 1949 team that finished second at the College World Series. Harris hit .318 during the 1949 season and was a career .282 hitter.
Nov. 1: John Graebing '57 came to Wake Forest from Fork Union Military Academy and played football. He joined the Coast Guard in 1955 and spent 25 years with Browning Bearing and Chain in Cleveland, Ohio before retiring to North Carolina.
Nov. 11: Billy Scripture '64 was a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame and a two-time All-American in baseball. He earned first team All-American honors as an outfielder in 1963 and 1964 and was a leader on those teams that enjoyed considerable success. A three-year first team All-ACC selection, Scripture led the Demon Deacons to ACC Championships in both 1962 and 1963. Scripture hit over .300 every year, finishing his career with a .337 average, 26 home runs and 106 RBIs. At the time of his graduation, he held the Wake Forest record for career home runs and was second only to teammate Wayne Martin in career RBIs.
Dec. 1: Dwayne Brown '91, was a football letterman from 1988-90 who recorded 41 career tackles. A contributor on special teams as a freshman, he was poised to become a starter as a junior when he was sidelined by a major knee injury. He recovered and had his best season as a senior, making 23 tackles in 1990. After earning his bachelor's and master's degrees from Wake Forest, he worked in finance before pursuing his dream job to start a sustainable fuel company.
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