Item Details

coverage

Winston-Salem (N.C.)

creator

Gladding, Samuel T.

Hearn, Laura

date

2022-11-03T17:15:33Z

2022-11-03T17:15:33Z

2008-03-08

2022-11-03 (issued)

description

Laura Hearn received the Pro Humanitate Award along with her husband, former Wake Forest University president Thomas K. Hearn. Hearn was a founding member of the National Cancer Advisory Board for Wake Forest Baptist's Comprehensive Cancer Center. In this interview, Laura Hearn discusses how she came to know Thomas Hearn and their courtship, their children, and Thomas Hearn's mother. Hearn discusses their family's feeling of their marriage, her first impression of WFU and its people, befriending Emily Wilson, and the Winston-Salem Chronicle's publication on Barbara Hearn, Thomas Hearn's first wife. Hearn talked about what she enjoyed most and least about her time as President's wife, the WFU garden, her daily routine, and the Wake Forest President house they lived in.

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application/pdf

interviews

Permalink

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/101536

language

English

relation

Special Collections and Archives

Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Wake Forest University

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subject

Samuel T. Gladding Interviews

Wake Forest University -- History

College presidents--United States

College presidents' spouses

title

Hearn, Laura (Transcript) Dr. Sam T. Gladding Interviews for History of Wake Forest University, Volume 6, 1983-2005

type

Text