Near the end of the year, the Wake Forest College Birthplace Society, the nonprofit organization that owns and operates the Wake Forest Historical Museum, honors its strongest supporters with awards presented at the annual meeting.
The Distinguished Service Award is designed to recognize those valuable volunteers who, over many years, devote their personal time, energy, and resources to advance and assist the museum in its mission to preserve, share, and support the unique history and culture of Wake Forest–College, Town, and University. The Volunteer of the Year Award is presented to someone who has made a difference in the span of just twelve months, either working as a docent, supporting the staff, or responding to requests for special assistance.
The 2018 Volunteer of the Year Award was presented to Randy Bright. Bright has assisted the museum for years with the laying of commemorative bricks. In past years he installed the Davis Chapel altar, worked on the Hometown Teams exhibit and performed other volunteer services. In 2017-18 he began maintaining the U.S. flag on the grounds and removed a large fallen section of a tree.
The 2018 Distinguished Service Award was jointly presented to Wake Forest College Birthplace Society Board members Tom Parrish and Donna Pace.
Parrish is a 1967 graduate of Wake Forest University and has served on the board as both president and treasurer for many years.
Pace is a Wake Forest native, graduate of Wake Forest High School and East Carolina University, who has worked tirelessly as a docent, host and adviser on the museum board in the years since the opening of the new museum facility in 2010.
The museum congratulates all three of this year’s award winners.
