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August 21, 2019

Seaks Never Forgets a Friend

Terry Seaks describes the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine as, “a place where miracles happen.”  He’s felt this way for 25 years, since he and his late wife, Jane, brought their cat, Fluffy, to the NC State Veterinary Hospital, hoping to find a cure for Fluffy’s persistent dermatological problem. He tells how a clinician
July 31, 2019

Endowed Scholarship Support is a Home Run for Vet Student

First, the bad news: Danielle Barnes will never make it as a professional baseball pitcher. The good news is that Barnes is in the process of becoming a practicing veterinarian, which is what she actually wants to do. Reaching that goal will be made easier thanks to the Babe and Yogi Scholarship Endowment established by
June 24, 2019

Summer 2019 The Oath Magazine

We’ve been spending a lot of time outside lately. Maybe it’s because of the longer sunny days and bluer skies we’ve seen lately. But it’s also because it’s always hard to resist hanging out on the farm that also happens to be our backyard. In the latest edition of The Oath, we take a close
Building with rainbow in the background
June 19, 2019

Business ‘Icon’ Wordsworth Passionately Supports NC State CVM

The North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) announced today that it has received a substantial unrestricted cash gift from influential businessman and alumnus Jerry Wordsworth. Wordsworth graduated from NC State in 1966 with an associate’s degree in livestock management and technology. His Labrador retriever, Rover, received care at the NC State Veterinary Hospital in
June 11, 2019

Finding a Better Way for Zora

Dick Johnson can succinctly yet poignantly sum up how he and wife, Donna, feel about the treatment their dog, Zora, received at the NC State Veterinary Hospital: “We got three years instead of six months.” Zora’s intelligent, piercing gaze now looks down upon the waiting room in the hospital’s radiation oncology service. The Portraits of
June 9, 2019

New to the CVM Family: Meet Deidre Bruce

A love of New Orleans music is one of the things that attracted Deidre Bruce from the Albany, N.Y. area where she grew up to the Crescent City. After several years in the corporate world, plus a fulfilling sideline as a volunteer for the Louisiana SPCA, she was transitioning to a job in the non-profit
May 28, 2019

The Heart of the Matter

When Clarke Atkins and Bruce Keene joined the faculty of NC State’s College of Veterinary Medicine three decades ago, they had no way of knowing how intertwined their careers would become. They had already worked together at the University of Wisconsin for five years when two positions became available at NC State. “We came here
May 20, 2019

Extraordinary Care, Extraordinary Appreciation

Mike and Mary Jo Matthies of Aberdeen, N.C., call themselves “just ordinary people.” But their support for the North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine is anything but ordinary. And it’s guided by a deep love of horses. Mary Jo Matthies has enjoyed having horses in her life, and the couple even acquired a horse
May 13, 2019

Helping Families Weather the Storm

Pat and Almira Dallas moved to Oriental, N.C., to live simply, be by the water and go sailing. Dogs have always been a big part of their lives, so when they moved from Winston-Salem in 1988, they made sure that life on the coast would include space for canine companions. Pat sold his custom fireplace
April 23, 2019

For Jack the Cat, Happiness at Last

Jack was cranky the February morning he was brought to the NC State Veterinary Hospital, but that was nothing new. When Kirstin Smith first saw Jack, he was cranky then, too. Smith, who moved to North Carolina in 2013 from New Jersey, found him in her home state. Smith, who ran a rodent rescue in
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