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Palmer to Deliver Wake Forest Commencement Address
February 03, 2005
Arnold Palmer, who has had ties to Wake Forest University
since his college days in the late 1940s, will deliver the commencement address at the annual ceremony May 16 on the school's University Plaza at Winston-Salem. Palmer, then a prominent junior golfer in his native Western Pennsylvania, enrolled at Wake Forest in the fall of 1947 when the school was located in its namesake town and established himself as one of the top collegiate golfers in the country. He later became the first and most successful of a long succession of Wake Forest golfers who went on the fine careers on the PGA Tour. After many years of service on the Board of Trustees, he was elected a lifetime trustee in 1997. He established a scholarship there as a memorial to his close college friend and teammate, Marvin (Buddy) Worsham and an athletic dormitory was named in his honor.
Posted by dgiffin at February 3, 2005 12:00 AM