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Returning DUBACers were treated to all the typical Homecoming sights and
sounds: fall in Durham, a tailgate party, and a football game. The weekend
began with a career session, in which a panel of African-American alumni
shared with undergraduates the steps they took to achieve their
professional goals. They also shared what they enjoy about their work, a
typical day in their field, the benefits of a Duke degree, and, if given
the chance, what they would have done differently while at Duke. Joe
Richburgh '99 was the panel's moderator.
Five professions were represented by the following panelists:
The weekend was filled with a variety of activities: a golf outing, an
alumni tailgate party at the new Sheffield Tennis Center, the Duke-Carolina
football game, an alumni-student party on Saturday night, and a breakfast
buffet on Sunday morning. Other events included the Step Show in Page
Auditorium, the "Conserve a Legacy" exhibit at the Duke University Museum
of Art, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers concert on Saturday evening. Delta
Sigma Theta sorority celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary with more than
seventy-five sorority members returning.
A memorial service was held on the steps of Duke Chapel Saturday morning
for Charles Hogan Jr. '94, who died last August. Hogan was a member of
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and a band leader in Duke's marching band, which
paid tribute to him during half-time at the Homecoming game.
At DUBAC's general meeting after the game, President Nannerl O. Keohane
addressed approximately 100 alumni, as did M. Laney Funderburk Jr. '60,
director of Alumni Affairs, which has been a major supporter of DUBAC
during its almost fifteen-year history.
DUBAC officers for 2001-02 were announced. They are Melvia Wallace '85,
president; Valerie Barnwell '79, vice president, operations; Rod Dickerson
'77, vice president, development; Janine Dixon '86, treasurer; and Wilt
Alston B.S.E. '81, communications liaison.
Elected to the DUBAC board of directors were Jacquelyn Hatch B.S.E. '85,
Kenneth Lewis '83, Andrea Martin '81, and Angela Williams '90.
DUBAC's mission is to support alumni in maintaining professional ties with
former classmates and financial ties to the university and to mentor and
support current and prospective students. DUBAC also supports Duke in its
efforts to increase sensitivity, respond to the needs of African-American
students, and solicit funds that directly benefit African-American
students. President-elect Wal- lace, in her acceptance address, summed it
up by saying, "In the new millennium, the question is not if we will serve,
the question is how."
Gates joined Microsoft Corporation in 1987 and distinguished herself as a
leader in developing many of the company's multimedia products. Two years
after marrying Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, she retired in 1996 from her
position as general manager of information products. She is co-founder of
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which focuses on global health and
learning. She is a former co-chair of the Washington State Governor's
Commission on Early Learning and currently serves on the board of directors
for drugstore.com. She and her husband have two children.
Ross, who owns and manages Arrangements Special Events Design Management in
Durham, is a member of the Duke Cancer Center's patient support board. As
sitting alumni association president, she serves as a non-voting observer
on the board of trustees. Her father, the late Charles B. Wade Jr. '38, was
a Duke trustee emeritus. She has two sons, including John David Ross Jr.
Wagoner, president, chief operating officer, and chief executive officer of
General Motors Corporation, has chaired the board of visitors for Duke's
Fuqua School of Business since 1997. He also chairs the Society of
Automotive Engineers' Vision 2000 Executive Committee. Wagoner and his
wife, Kathleen Kaylor Wagoner '77, have three sons.
Williams is president of Chiron Technologies and senior vice president of
Corporation, the world's second-largest biotechnology company. He is also
an adjunct professor of medicine and a scientist at the Cardiovascular
Research Institute of the University of California, San Francisco. In 1997,
he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He is a member of Duke
Medical Center's board of visitors and a member of the medical center's
steering committee. He and his wife, Mari, have four daughters, including
Christina J. Williams '99 and Theresa Williams '03.
Duke's charter calls for the election of one third of its trustees by
graduates of the university. Every two years, in odd-numbered years, the
terms of four of the twelve alumni trustees expire. The executive committee
of the alumni association's board of directors serves as the nominating
committee and submits a list of names to the university secretary for
submission to the trustees. Four names are then approved for final
submission to the alumni body, with additional nominations permitted by
petition.
After notice appears in print, alumni may submit a petition signed by
one-half of 1 percent (550) of the alumni body (110,000) within thirty days
to nominate additional persons.
Alumni Affairs Director M. Laney Funderburk Jr. '60, who maintains a
confidential roster of alumni recommended as trustees, says he "welcomes
and encourages recommendations from alumni at any time."
The next election will be for terms that expire in 2003. Please submit
names and biographical information to Funderburk at Alumni House, 614
Chapel Drive, Box 90572, Durham, N.C. 27708-0572.
Brater is dean of the medical school at Indiana University, where he has
chaired its department of medicine since 1990. After completing a residency
and research fellowship in clinical pharmacology at the University of
California, San Francisco, Medical Center, he spent a year on the faculty
before going to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, where
he taught for nine years. In 1986, he joined the Indiana faculty, where he
started a clinical pharmacology program.
He is president of the Association of Professors of Medicine and the U.S.
Pharmcopoeia and chairs the American Board of Clinical Pharmacology. In
presenting the award, Robert C. Murrah Jr. '79, M.D. '83, president of the
Duke Medical Alumni Association, described Brater as an internationally
recognized expert on the effects of drugs on the kidney and cardiovascular
system and on the adverse reactions to diuretics and drugs for rheumatism.
Tan, whom Murrah characterized as "the founder of the field of autoimmune
disease diagnosis including lupus, scleroderma, and many related
degenerative disorders," is a professor and head of the Keck Autoimmune
Disease Center at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.
Tan came to Duke in 1956 for his internship after earning both his
undergraduate and medical degrees at Johns Hopkins University. He completed
his residency at Metropolitan General Hospital at Case Western Reserve
University and research fellowships at Case Western and Rockefeller
University. In 1967, he joined the department of experimental pathology at
Scripps, and later, the institute's division of allergy and immunology in
the clinical research department.
Williams, a molecular cardiologist, was a resident in internal medicine at
Massachusetts General Hospital before returning to Duke as a cardiology
research fellow in 1977. He joined Duke's medical faculty in 1980. After a
decade at Duke, he moved to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center to become chief of cardiology and professor of internal medicine and
molecular biology. He also directs the Ryburn Center for Molecular
Cardiology and is president of the Association of University Cardiologists.
Lifetime achievement award-winner Spach has served Duke for more than a
half-century, and most of that time as chief of pediatric cardiology.
According to Murrah, he has "demonstrated extraordinary leadership as a
pediatric cardiology researcher, clinician, teacher, and mentor." After
completing a pediatrics residency and fellowship at Duke, he joined the
faculty in the departments of pediatrics and physiology. As the first chief
of the pediatric cardiology division, from 1960 to 1983, and again from
1986 to 1991, he developed the division's training program with the help of
his longtime mentor, then-chair of pediatrics Jerome S. Harris. Spach
retired in 1996 but still works full-time in laboratory research.
Service award-winner Kiser, a retired physician, investor, and
philanthropist, says Murrah, "has made tremendous contributions to
children's health care and to the citizens of North Carolina through his
long and distinguished association" with the medical center and the
community. After serving in the Marine Corps and the U.S. Public Health
Service, he returned to Duke for a pediatrics residency. He was among the
first pediatricians to point out the extreme danger of lye and other
poisonous household substances to children. He and others developed the
concept of child-proof containers and helped raise public awareness of
poison safety. He worked briefly at Johns Hopkins before opening a private
practice in Salisbury, North Carolina. He lived in Blowing Rock for
twenty-five years and was president of the Watauga County Medical Society.
Kiser established an endowed professorship in pediatric pharmacology and
toxicology
at Duke named jointly after himself and the late Jay Arena M.D. '32. He and
his wife, Muriel, contributed to new McGovern-Davison Children's Health
Center at Duke; the center's welcome area was named in their honor.
On December 2, when Duke played Temple University, a DAA-sponsored pregame
buffet-featuring Philly cheesesteaks, of course-drew 552 loyal Duke fans to
the Stadium Restaurant in Veteran's Stadium and to the game afterwards,
another Blue Devil victory. Kim Hendrix '92, J.D. '95 is president of the
Duke Club of Philadelphia.
Christmas came early to Duke fans in Portland, Oregon, on December 19 when
another away-game victory came gift-wrapped. A pregame reception attracted
362 alumni and friends. The University of Portland Pilots never got off the
ground. Les Smith '62, president of the Duke Club of Portland, helped
organize the event.
The men's basketball team headed down the coast to play Stanford University
at Oakland on December 21. Five hundred and fifty attended the pregame
buffet and 421 came for the game. Cece Gassner B.S.E. '94 is the president
of the Duke Club of Northern California. Stanford squeaked by in the final
moments, handing Duke its first loss of the season.
More than a hundred Blue Devil supporters in the Sunshine State flocked to
the Duke-Florida State University game and pregame reception on January 4
in Tallahassee. Capital Duke Club president Terry Reisman '65, M.D. '68
helped organize the gathering, which included a busload of alumni and
friends from the Duke Club of Greater Jacksonville. Melody Tope Hainline
'82 oversaw the road-trip details from Jacksonville, where Page Ives Lemel
B.S.E. '84 is the club's president. Classic Duke blue outshone FSU's garish
orange, both on and off the court, in the teams'ACC basketball opener.
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ore than 200 black alumni, members of DUBAC (Duke University Black Alumni
Connection), and their families came back to Duke in November for the
biennial DUBAC Homecoming Reunion. This year's event was hosted by the
Washington D.C./Mid-Atlantic chapter.
our alumni, including a current member, have been nominated to Duke's
board of trustees by the executive committee of the Duke Alumni
Association's board of directors. Trustee Melinda French Gates '86, M.B.A.
'87 is eligible for reelection to fill her first full term. G. Richard
Wagoner Jr. '75 and Lewis T. "Rusty" Williams Ph.D. '77, M.D. '88 will be
new to the board of trustees for six-year terms. Ruth Wade Ross '68,
president of the Duke Alumni Association, will become a voting trustee for
one year through an arrangement by which the DAA immediate past president
automatically serves as a trustee.
hen Blue Devils congregate in large numbers, it often means basketball.
And not just in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Road games attracted thousands this
season, both for pregame events and action on the court.
On November 28, when the Duke men played Illinois during the ACC/Big Ten
Challenge in the Greensboro Coliseum, the Duke Alumni Association and
Duke's athletics department sponsored a night of basketball that began with
a buffet and ended with a losing battle for the "Fighting Illini." The
pregame dinner, attended by 590 alumni and friends, was held in the
Coliseum's West Wing.
he story on Nancy Sanders Goodwin '58 and her gardens at Montrose ["From
Daily Dream to Garden Grown," September-October 2000] incorrectly located
Hillsborough in the Triassic Basin. Hillsborough lies outside the basin,
unlike Durham, which lies within it; that accounts for the quality of
Hillsborough's soil. Also, Goodwin has eighteen varieties of cyclamen
growing at Montrose, rather than six.
The photograph of Charlie Rose that appeared in the November-December 2000
issue should have been credited: © KATE KUNZ 1994. We apologize for the
