[TriLUG] Is anyone anywhere near Wake Forest going to the TriLUG meeting?

[Matt Nash]

Rick DeNatale wrote:
> On 7/11/06, Daniel T. Chen <crimsun at fungus.sh.nu> wrote:
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>> Rick DeNatale wrote:
>> > Since I'm currently not allowed to drive (unless I get a go-ahead from
>> > the surgeon tomorrow which I doubt), I'm looking for a ride to and
>> > from the meeting on Thursday.
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>> I'm about 25 minutes east of Winston-Salem and don't mind swinging by to
>> give you a ride. E-mail off-list, please.
>
> Daniel,
>
> Well that would be nice, but Wake Forest (the town) is about 10 miles
> north of the outer beltline in Raleigh.
>
> The school was here in the 1950s (when Arnold Palmer attended) until
> the Reynolds (tobacco) family bought it and moved it to Winston. It's
> kind of the dual of Duke. In one case the tobacco barons bought a
> school (Trinity College) and renamed it in place, in the other they
> bought it and moved it without renaming it.
>
> Enough folks in these parts seem unaware of this that I decided to
> reply on list.  When I first joined TriLUG, and I said that I lived in
> WF, someone commented that I'd come a long distance.
>
> So endeth the NC geography/history lesson, be prepared for a pop quiz
> at the meeting. <G>
>
Trinity College actually moved in 1892 from its former home in Randolph 
County, "due to the generosity of the Duke family".