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Article: The philosopher king. (Wake Forest University president Thomas Hearn)(includes related article)
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- Business North Carolina
- Article date:
- November 1, 1991
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A Baptist college president leads the choir as Winston-Salem strives to become a born-again business center.
John W. Davis III is rarely at a loss for words. But the Winston-Salem stockbroker had to speak to the Presidential Debates Commission, and he didn't know what to say. Until the memo came.
Wake Forest University was trying to grab one of the 1988 campaign debates, and Davis and other civic leaders had been recruited by President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. to make the case.
The idea came from three students with a yen for politics. But it had not escaped Hearn that a broadcast to 75 million viewers would be the kind of PR boost that money couldn't buy. ...