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James B. Duke endowed the foundation on December 11, 1924, with $40 million. In the Indenture of Trust, Duke specified that he wanted the endowment to support Duke University, Davidson College, Furman University, Johnson C. Smith University; non-profit hospitals and children's homes in the two Carolinas; and rural United Methodist churches in North Carolina, retired pastors, and their ...
Vincent Edward Price [1] is an American communication studies scholar, currently serving as the 10th president of Duke University in North Carolina since July 2017. He previously served as provost of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from 2009 to 2017.
The Franklin Humanities Institute is part of a consortium of interdisciplinary research centers and institutes at Duke University. It was formerly located at the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Duke, and is now located in the historic Smith Warehouse on Duke's East Campus.
Mary Duke Biddle (A.B. 1907), daughter of Benjamin Newton Duke and Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, founder of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation; Lisa Borders (A.B. 1979), chair of The Coca-Cola Foundation; vice president of Global Community Affairs at The Coca-Cola Company [105] Charlotte Bunch (A.B. 1966), author and human rights activist
The J. Deryl Hart House is the official residence for the President of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.Built between 1933 and 1934 for Julian Deryl Hart, the three-story brick and timber Tudor Revival mansion is located on the university's West Campus, near Wallace Wade Stadium, at the crossroads of Duke University Road and Academy Road.
In 1984, President Reagan appointed Ong to the President’s Commission on Industrial Competitiveness, where he served as co-chair of its International Trade Committee. He retired in 1997 as chairman of the board of directors. [1] Ong is a trustee emeritus at Western Reserve Academy where the John D. Ong Library is named in his honor.
He finished his assignment on July 16, 2010. President Obama nominated Larry Palmer as his replacement. However, the Senate did not confirm him and Hugo Chávez refused to accept him as ambassador, leaving the position vacant. [9] Duddy currently serves as a diplomat in residence at Duke University's Center for International Studies. Duddy ...
James Terry Sanford (August 20, 1917 – April 18, 1998) was an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina.A member of the Democratic Party, Sanford served as the 65th Governor of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965, was a two-time U.S. presidential candidate in the 1970s, and served as a U.S. senator from 1986 to 1993.