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5 unusual facts about Wake Forest


Andreas J. Köstenberger

Andreas J. Köstenberger (born November 2, 1957) is Senior Research Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

Dave Fuller

Fuller attended Wake Forest University in Wake Forest, North Carolina, where he played for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football, Demon Deacons basketball and Demon Deacons baseball teams.

Joe W. Aguillard

Quarles resigned at the end of the school year and has been named professor of New Testament and biblical theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

Joey Calderazzo

Now a resident of Wake Forest, North Carolina, Calderazzo continues to perform as a solo pianist, at the head of a trio, and as a member of the Branford Marsalis Quartet.

Wake Forest

Wake Forest University, a university founded in the above town and now located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina


Christopher Catherwood

He currently teaches students from Connecticut College, Tulane, Villanova, Wake Forest and other American universities in the Cambridge-based INSTEP program, teaching 20th century history and also church history.

Cornell Club of New York

Membership in the Cornell Club is restricted to alumni, faculty, and students of the Ivy League institution Cornell University, as well as alumni of a short list of affiliated schools, such as Brown, Colgate, Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford, Tulane, and Wake Forest.

Riley Skinner

Skinner stepped in for the injured Wake Forest quarterback Ben Mauk after Mauk injured his arm in the first game of the 2006 season against Syracuse.

Taylor Sanford

His teams won a total of five conference championships over his seven years in Ashland, Virginia, before moving to Wake Forest as freshman football coach.

Yogi Ferrell

On November 9, 2011, Ferrell signed a letter of intent to play for Indiana University, turning down offers from Butler, Florida, Virginia, and Wake Forest.


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2010 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team

Following a Scott Blair 43-yard field goal, Georgia Tech found itself at 4th and 5 on Wake Forest's thirty-yard line, where Josh Nesbitt found Embry Peeples for a Touchdown pass.

Trailing 17–6 in the fourth quarter, Georgia Tech bested Wake Forest on the strength a comeback led by Quarterback Joshua Nesbitt, A-back Embry Peeples, and WR Correy Earls to shock the Demon Deacons in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

A Union in Wait

The film includes interviews with Andrew Sullivan, Barney Frank, Robert Knight, Jimmy Creech, Fred Phelps, Candace Gingrich, Wake Forest University students, and local ministers.

Al Hunt

Before graduating from Wake Forest University, Hunt worked for the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Winston-Salem Journal.

Billy Ray Barnes

After the 1955 football season ended, he joined the baseball team at third base where he hit .319, led the league in stolen bases (17) and helped Wake Forest win the 1955 National Baseball Championship.

Chris Relf

As a senior he led Mississippi State to the Music City Bowl where they defeated Wake Forest 23-17, marking the first back to back bowl appearances for the Bulldogs since the 1999-2000 seasons.

Dick Celeste

He started serving as President in 2002, and was replaced in July 2011 by Jill Tiefenthaler, provost and economics professor at Wake Forest University.

Dré Bly

Bly set the ACC record for career interceptions (20), which was later broken by Alphonso Smith of Wake Forest (21).

James Snyder, Jr.

While a student, Snyder played on the Wake Forest basketball team under Coach Bones McKinney.

Josiah Bailey

Born in Warrenton, NC, he grew up in Raleigh and graduated from Wake Forest College (now Wake Forest University).

North Canton, Ohio

Dickie Hemric, held the ACC record for points in NCAA basketball for 51 years and still leads in most rebounds for the conference at Wake Forest.

North Carolina Highway 98

The current NC 98 was formed in 1936 and initially ran from US 1 in Wake Forest to US 64 near Spring Hope, superseding the older NC 561.

Paul Amen

After leaving Wake Forest, Amen retired from sports and begin a career at Wachovia Bank in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he rose to the rank of vice president.

Peahead Walker

One of Walker's longtime friends was Arnold Palmer, who Walker tried to recruit to his football team while Palmer was at Wake Forest.

After quitting Wake Forest, Walker sought a higher paying job and joined longtime friend and former assistant Herman Hickman at Yale University.

Robert H. Edmunds, Jr.

Justice Edmunds won a second term to the North Carolina Supreme Court by defeating Wake Forest University law professor Suzanne Reynolds in the 2008 elections.

WRVA

WTKK, a radio station (100.7 FM) licensed to Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States which formerly used the WRVA-FM callsign.