Staff retreat
University Advancement (which includes the Alumni Office, development, parent and donor relations, technology and more) is on a staff retreat designed to help us bond as a team and think strategically about how we can help Wake Forest move forward. It has been a wonderful series of meetings. Very enlightening, very helpful.
In so many ways, I wish all of you that read this blog could be here too and see the energy, passion, and love our group has for Wake Forest. We have an amazing team. Great people. Just like during my time at Wake Forest, our team feels like family to me. Which I know sounds cliched and hackneyed, but it’s true. We are friends and colleagues. I have always believed that Wake Forest’s most special quality is its people. We are exceptional. And I feel so fortunate to work here.
In the coming months, we’ll have some exciting things to show you. But not yet. So you will have to be patient.
Enjoy your day!
PS - we also celebrated St. Patty’s day together in a very fun way, replete with green beads, hats, feather boas, and celtic nametags (because the Alumni Office wouldn’t host an event without nametags!) In what could be termed my ultimate act of geekdom, I chose names based on the Dolmen collection of the Rare Books Room in the ZSR library and the WFU Press that specializes in Irish literature. I also threw in an old boyfriend’s name (Paddy McGuigan, how Irish is that?) and 3 fictional characters. I got to be the fictional Molly Bloom from Ulysses, since I did my dissertation on James Joyce. “Yes I said yes I will yes.” is her most famous line.