In the early weeks of COVID-19, lifelong friends Dr. Dana Ray ’94 (left) and Wendell Jones ’93 took to Facebook Live to educate the community on coronavirus. Ray, an internist with Cypress Internal Medicine Patewood in Greenville, addressed confusion, fears and what people should know about COVID-19. Jones, the pastor of Changing Your Mind Ministries, moderated the event. The interview had more than 1,800 views within 24 hours. “Dana has been a great friend, doctor, frat brother and uncle to my children,” says Jones. (Jones’ daughter Aaliyah Jones graduated from Wofford in 2019.) “He’s been a great source of information during this pandemic as well as a focus of our prayer given that he’s on the front lines.”
Ray has done a number of interviews since the start of the pandemic. “I am definitely passionate about sharing information. … My mission is to provide the best quality care to my patients as well as provide up-todate and accurate information about the coronavirus to as many as I can. Hopefully, by doing so, I can do my part to alleviate fears and to educate the community on ways to decrease the spread of the virus.”
by Dudley Brown and Jo Ann Mitchell Brasington ’89
