Wake Forest University to Inaugurate Nathan Hatch as 13th President Oct. 20.

(From AScribe)

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Two academic symposiums exploring the aims of a university education and the moral challenges of professional life will be among the events marking the Oct. 20 inauguration of Nathan O. Hatch as the 13th president of Wake Forest University.

Hatch, formerly provost at the University of Notre Dame, assumed the Wake Forest presidency July 1. A native of Columbia, S.C., Hatch is one of the most influential scholars in the study of the history of religion in America. A Presbyterian, Hatch spent nearly his entire career as a history professor and administrator at Notre Dame, a Catholic university in South Bend, Ind.

A week of activities will celebrate Hatch's inauguration, beginning Oct. 18 with a community prayer service featuring Maya Angelou, …