WFU Class of 2007 Mini-Reunion

Photo: Monica R. Winter via Facebook

Today, former WFU grad student and Roediger House regular Bradley Phillis married the love of his life, Lauren Wilson. This happy occasion brought to town some of his close friends from his days at Wake Forest, and it made me very happy for the RoHo to be their gathering spot for part of the weekend.

All of them who were around this weekend have been to the house since the renovation and addition work was completed, but in their student days, our gatherings usually took place in the front of the house, in the North Parlour. The kitchen area was where we spent most of our time this weekend, though, except for a bit of basketball time and an evening out drinking at Rec Billiards.

Bradley and Lauren took off for their Shenandoah Valley honeymoon, but WFU social studies alums Julie, Tim, and Trevor were here for dinner tonight. We even did a partial recreation of the Class of 2007 picture we took as they finished up their programs five years ago, on the night of our Dessert & Decaf gathering:

Bradley's brother Ben stood in for Bradley (Ben graduated from Wake Forest's social studies education masters program this past summer).

Meal No. 628: Brendan's Moroccan Bistro Chicken.
Dinner was courtesy of a recipe shared by a student I taught a lot longer ago than this crew: Brendan Shanley, who was a 7th grade student of mine in 1995-1996. It's sort of an invented meal of his and so I gave it an invented name: Brendan's Moroccan Bistro Chicken. It was served over Israeli couscous with pine nuts and parsley, baby lima beans, and huge sweet potatoes.

It was a great night and a lot of fun. And the recycling clean-up the next morning attested to how we greased the skids with some liquid lubrication: