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Duke & Duchesses
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03/01/2007

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Richard H. Brodhead
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President
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Tallman Trask 111
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Executive Vice President
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John F. Burness
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Senior Vice President for Public Affairs
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John F. Burness
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Senior Vice President for Public Affairs
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Peter Lange
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Provost
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Larry Moneta
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Vice President for Student Affairs
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Kemel Dawkins
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Vice President for Campus Services
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Robert S. Shepard
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Vice President for University Development and Alumni Affairs
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Victor Dzau, M.D.
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Chancellor for Health Affairs
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N. Allison Haltom
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Vice President and Secretary
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Richard A. White
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University Marshal
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George McLendon
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Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Robert J. Thompson, Jr.
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Dean of Trinity College
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Lewis Siegel
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Dean, Graduate School and Vice Provost
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L. Gregory Jones
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Dean, Divinity School
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Kristina Johnson
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Dean, Pratt School of Engineering
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William H. Schlesinger
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Dean, Nicholas School of the Environment
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Katherine T. Bartlett
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Dean, School of Law
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Douglas T. Breeden
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Dean, Fuqua School of Business
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R. Sanders Williams, M.D.
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Dean, School of Medicine
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Rev. Canon Samuel Wells
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Dean of the Chapel
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Joe Alleva
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Athletic Director
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Robert Steel
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Chair of the Board of Trustees
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Deborah Jakubs
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University Librarian
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John Pearce Jr.
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University Architect
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Bruce W. Cunningham
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University Registrar
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Sterly Wilder
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Executive Director, Alumni Affairs
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Christoph Guttentag
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Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
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1838
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Brown's Schoolhouse in Randolph County, NC - start of Duke's institutional history!!
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1839
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Brown's Schoolhouse renamed Union Institute
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1852
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Union Institute renamed Normal College.
Chartered for training of teachers
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1856
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Normal College becomes affiliated with METHODIST CHURCH
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1859
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Normal College renamed Trinity College.

New motto: "eruditio et religio", meaning "knowledge and religion"
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1878
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First Women - Mary, Persis, and Theresa Giles, graduate from Trinity College
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1880
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first foreign student - CHARLIE SOONG - is accepted
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1885
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Giles sisters become first women to receive Masters Degrees from Trinity
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1887
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Yale blue is adopted as school color in honor of new president - JOHN F. CROWELL's alma mater
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1892
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Trinity College moves to Durham with aid of Washington Duke and Julian Carr.

moved to East Campus, which was then called Blackwell Park, a racetrack.
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1903
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"BASSET AFFAIR" - Professor John Spencer Basset fights for academic freedom.

Trinity College praised by Pres. Teddy Roosevelt for stance on issue
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1924
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James B. Duke - Duke Endowment - $40 million. Trinity College becomes part of DUKE UNIVERSITY
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1925-1927
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East campus rebuilt in Georgian style by Horacre Trumbauer firm from Philadelphia
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1927-1930
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West Campus built by Horace Trumbauer firm in neo-gothic style. stones from Quarry in Hillsborough
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chief architect
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Julian Abele
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1930
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Duke University Womens College Established on East Campus
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1939
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Sarah P. Duke Gardens dedicated
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1968
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Approx 1500 students and faculty - silent vigil in front of chapel - reaction to assassination of MLK
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1969
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Takeover of the Allen building by African Am students
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1972
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Merger of Women's College and Trinity College into Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. Women can live on West and Men on East
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1982
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Joseph M. Kathleen Price Bryan Center opens
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1983
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Fuqua School of Business dedicated, Women's Studies Program begins, Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture dedicated
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1991
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Men's basketball wins first NCAA title.

School of the Environment opens, incorporating old School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Marine Lab
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1992
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Men's bbal team wins second NCAA title.

Perkins gets 4 millonth volume
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1993
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Nannerl O. Keohane new president, first woman
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1999
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75th anniversity of DUKE!
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2002
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WEL consturcted
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2001
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Men's bball wins 3rd title
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2004
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WEL renamed Keohane Quad
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2005
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Nasher Museum of Art opens to replace Duke University Museum of Art
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2005
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Bostock Library and Von de Heyden Pavilion opened
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Brantley York
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principal of Brown's Schoolhouse and Union Institute 1838-1842
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Braxton Craven
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principal of Union Institute, president of Normal College and Trinity college
1842-1882
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Marqui Lafayette Wood
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only alumnus to be elected president

1883-1884
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John Franklin Crowell
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first non-southerner to be president. reorganized curriculum, introduced football to campus, moved Duke to Durham to be by an urban place
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John Carlisle Kilgo
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raised academic standards

1894-1910
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William Preston Few
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`oversaw transition from Trinity College to Duke Universtiy, established Phi Beta Kappa chapter

1910-1940
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Robert Lee Flowers
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president from 1941-1948
instituted ROTC
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Arthur Hollis Edens
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president from 1949-1960

increased fund-raising efforts
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