August 30, 2013 | The Alumni Newsletter of WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY |
Photo credit: Ken Bennett Football player Teddy Matthews (’16) helped move freshmen into Johnson | ||
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Move-in Day: New friends for life When Barb Gehlert Lederer ('87) attended Wake Forest, she lived in what was then New Dorm on Fidele hall. On Aug. 22 she moved her daughter, Anne-Levert, into a room just a couple doors down from her old room in the dorm now known as Luter Hall. Hers is a familiar story. Each year teary-eyed and beaming alumni show up with their children to enroll, hoping the next four years will create equally cherished memories. "These are going to be friends she'll know the rest of her life," Lederer said. "When she was accepted, people I haven't seen in 25 years reached out to her." For alumni families, move-in day signified looking back and looking ahead. The Spirit of the Old Gold and Black struck up the fight song on Manchester Plaza, and a new class of Wake Foresters found a home. Read Kerry M. King's ('85) story about alumni families on move-in day, one of our favorite days of the year. Here's to the baby Deacs now in the class of '17 -- 
Maria Henson ('82) | ||
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