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DUKE FORWARD CAMPAIGN REPORT 2013

ENRICHING THE DUKE EXPERIENCE

Expanding horizons to develop our students’ enduring passion

for inquiry and creativity.

Experiential Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Innovation and Entrepreneurship . . . . . . . . . . . 8

The Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Campus Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Athletics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

ACTIVATING DUKE’S POWER FOR THE WORLD

SUSTAINING DUKE’S MOMENTUM

FURTHER FORWARD

Planned Gifts to Duke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

CAMPAIGN GIVING AND PROGRESS

The Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Continuing on our trajectory for success by investing in core

values that define Duke and enable all we do.

Financial Aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Annual Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Blazing new paths in research and education to solve pressing

problems and create programs to shape tomorrow’s leaders.

Interdisciplinary Education and Research . . . 16

Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Global Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

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VESeptember 29, 2012, marked the public launch

of the university’s most significant fundraising

campaign, Duke Forward, two years after

its private phase began. This comprehensive

$3.25 billion effort involves every school at

Duke, as well as Duke Athletics, the Libraries,

and Duke Medicine.

Every dollar donated to any Duke school or

program counts toward the total.

GOAL

$3 .25 BILLION

PROGRESS

$1 .8 BILLION

Dear friends,

The Duke Forward campaign represents an extraordinary opportunity:

the chance to build on the special history and culture of Duke to help our

beloved university—and its students and faculty—reach new heights.

As we approach the midpoint of the Duke Forward campaign, we want

to share how far we have come. Thanks to the generosity of our alumni,

parents, and friends, we are making great progress toward our goals.

Your gifts are investments in the core values that make the university

great, such as faculty excellence, financial aid, and innovative educational

programming. You are building on Duke’s distinctive strengths, including

hands-on learning at every level and a commitment to use knowledge to

help solve the world’s greatest challenges.

And you are giving us your time and attention. Beginning last spring,

we’ve been traveling to cities around the globe for a series of events

celebrating the university’s future. I’ve been delighted to welcome so many

members of our Duke family—more than 3,200 in our first six cities—as

they come to spend an afternoon and evening with us. It is inspiring to see

that our alumni, parents, and friends care so passionately for Duke and are

committed to sustaining a deep connection to the life of the university.

I appreciate your strong demonstration of support. More importantly, so

do the students, faculty, and staff who are benefiting from your generosity.

You are our partners, ensuring that we continue to cultivate great minds

and great ideas, and helping to shape the Duke University of the future.

You’ll see some examples of this partnership on the pages that follow, and

I am confident we will have many more before we reach the finish line on

June 30, 2017.

Thank you for all you do for Duke.

RICHARD H. BRODHEAD

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Because of his great experience in the DukeEngage Charlotte program, senior Zayd Ahmed plans to teach for a year before attending medical school.

ENGAGED IN THE QUEEN CITY

Alumna gives time, money, and energy to DukeEngage Charlotte

All summer, Zayd Ahmed’s students in

the Freedom Schools program acted as

if they couldn’t stand him. But when his

Duke Engage Charlotte assignment ended,

the kids all told him how much they loved

having him as their teacher—he had

connected with them after all. That “aha”

moment inspired Ahmed, a senior neuro-

science major, to make plans to teach for

a year before he applies to medical school.

It’s this type of mind-broadening

experience that excites Sally Robinson ’55

and keeps her involved with supporting

the DukeEngage program—in her home-

town and its many other locations. Robinson

has served on the national board of Duke’s

signature civic engagement program,

helped raise funds for it every year, and

opened the home she shares with her

husband, Russell Robinson ’54, to Charlotte

participants each summer to talk with

them about her life in philanthropy and

their experiences. “Nothing could be

more inspiring to alumni who want to give

back to Duke than to hear the stories of

DukeEngage participants,” Sally says.

“It has been a joy.”

The Robinsons committed a $1 million

charitable remainder unitrust to Duke-

Engage to ensure that Duke students

continue to gain real-world experience

and discover passions like Ahmed did.

“I was able to see a broad array of different

perspectives on social issues,” Ahmed says.

“I’m grateful that DukeEngage is there

to give future leaders and bright minds

the opportunity to have this experience.

It was life-changing.”

DukeEngage giving

Group programs operate

in some 40 domestic and

international locations

each summer, and a roughly

equal number of independent

projects also occur. Increas-

ing the endowment of

DukeEngage by 66 percent

is a goal of the Duke Forward

campaign. Donors have

helped in various ways,

including Hayes ’58 and

Clem Clement ’61, who gave

the program a $100,000

boost in current funds.

You connect the classroom to

Building skills

At Duke, experiential learning means opportunities

to work with people in careers that students desire:

> A $75,000 gift from

the Jean T. and Heyward G.

Pelham Foundation, made

at the direction of Ann

Pelham Cullen ’74, and

a $25,000 gift from Rick

Melcher ’74 will support

a visiting lecturer in the

DeWitt Wallace Center

for Media and Democracy

at the Sanford School of

Public Policy. The visiting

lecturer will assist the

editorial staff of Duke’s

student newspaper, The Chronicle, in implementing

a strategic plan to incorpo-

rate new media.

> Gifts to the Duke

Law School Annual Fund

provide flexible funds to

support the school’s nine

clinics. Fifty percent of

law students participate

in at least one of the

clinics—from appellate

litigation to children’s

law to start-up ventures—

providing 15,000 hours of

pro bono legal aid to North

Carolinians each year. And

the work can change lives:

Four clients of the Wrongful

Convictions Clinic have been

exonerated since 2010.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING The most exciting educational offerings

at Duke are interactive: public policy internships, undergraduate research

in labs of renowned scientists, law students working on real cases,

budding engineers creating potential solutions to world problems, divinity

students serving field education placements, and hundreds of students

each summer helping with civic engagement projects in Durham and

worldwide. Private support will allow us to make these opportunities

available to the growing number of students who seek them as part

of a modern university education.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING 7ENRICHING THE DUKE EXPERIENCE: How Do You Move the World Forward?

Undergraduates participating in faculty-mentored research

49%When you donate to the Annual Fund, your unrestricted gift fuels Duke’s priorities.

100 donors x $50Can support one undergraduate student for a semester-long, faculty-directed research internship, making him or her more competitive for graduate school or the job market.

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Julia Milch is a senior international comparative studies major who participated in Duke in Silicon Valley last summer.


identify markets and find

novel applications for new

technologies. It teaches

them to identify valuable,

practical ideas; get feedback

directly from potential users

or customers; and act to

implement these ideas.

Giving back through the Start-Up Challenge

David Cummings ’02 became

an entrepreneur while a

junior at Duke in 2001, when

he founded Hannon Hill, a

Web content management

company. Duke professor

Frank Borchardt believed

Entrepreneurship and environmentalism, together at last

Ken Hubbard ’65, Scott

Peters ’80 and Lynn Gorguze

’81, and Sally Kleberg ’66,

believe strongly in Jesko von

Windheim’s Environmental

Innovation and Entrepre-

neurship Center. Hubbard,

Peters and Gorguze, along

with Kleberg, each committed

$1 million to support it. The

interdisciplinary certificate

program von Windheim

directs at the Nicholas

School of the Environment

helps students and faculty

PILOTING IMAGINATION

Gift catalyzes a new student program in Silicon Valley

Lisa Blau ’97 was among the earliest supporters of

Duke’s efforts to define and develop its innovation

and entrepreneurship landscape. She was a member

of the task force that helped shape the campus-wide

I&E initiative launched in 2010. Blau also committed

$100,000 to fund an I&E internship pilot program

whose success inspired the creation of Duke in Silicon

Valley (DSV), a four-week, one-credit summer

program crafted for undergraduates with an

interest in entrepreneurship.

The program, which wrapped its first summer

this year, is designed to provide a deep dive into the

Silicon Valley culture of innovation. The 20 inaugural

participants discussed case studies and attended

lectures taught by Matt Christensen B.S.E.’02, CEO

of an investment firm and a member of Duke’s 2001

national championship basketball team. (His father,

disruptive innovation thought leader and New York Times bestselling author Clay Christensen, also

taught two sessions.)

The students visited the sites of some of Silicon

Valley’s biggest successes, including Facebook and

Sequoia Capital. Classes were held at Apple Inc.,

where students met with Eddy Cue ’86, senior vice

president of Internet software and services. “It

was a life-changing experience,” says Michael Marion,

a computer science major from Durham who is

minoring in visual and media studies, and pursuing

a certificate in markets and management.

the tools to put ideas into action.

in Cummings from the

start and invested $20,000.

To honor the memory of

Borchardt, who passed away

in 2007, Cummings gave

$500,000 to endow the

Frank Borchardt Under-

graduate Prize Fund, which

will provide grant money

to undergraduate winners

of the Duke Start-Up Chal-

lenge. The entrepreneurship

competition has a top prize

of $50,000.

INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP Duke is on the cusp

of a new era of innovation that builds on a long tradition of putting

knowledge to work. With your support for our campus-wide

initiative in innovation and entrepreneurship during the campaign,

we are educating budding entrepreneurs and helping the university

community translate great ideas into successful ventures.

How do you create an entrepreneur?

Donors have given generously to help Duke support and

create programs that answer this question, including a

$15 million gift from David Rubenstein ’70, which will

help the I&E initiative establish new programs, enhance

existing ones, and support course development, internships,

research, guest faculty, and administrative operations.

INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP 9ENRICHING THE DUKE EXPERIENCE: How Do You Move the World Forward?

When you donate to the Annual Fund, your unrestricted gift fuels Duke’s priorities.

20 donors x $50Can host a weekend training seminar for 50 graduate students on a hot topic such as “Entrepreneurship for Graduate Students.”

You give innovators

Duke is rare among elite universities with its combination of a first-class arts and sciences education and high-quality dance training for majors and nonmajors.

A deep love for studio arts

Harry H. “Hap” Esbenshade

’79 wanted to honor his

late mother, a former art

teacher and honors

art graduate, by making

sure that Duke always

has an accomplished artist

teaching classic painting

and drawing. His endow ment

funds a professor of the

practice in studio arts

to teach at least five inter-

mediate and advanced

painting and drawing classes

each academic year for

under graduates, and develop

curricula for advanced

studio arts courses.


100 donors x $100Can help the Nasher Museum of Art fund one of its groundbreaking exhibitions of contemporary art.


ARTS IN THE FAMILY

Gift continues vision of furthering the visual arts

Nancy Nasher J.D.’79 shared a passion for art collecting

with her late father, Raymond Nasher ’43, whose gift of

$10 million established Duke’s Nasher Museum of Art. And

they also shared a common vision for the museum that

bears their name: to make it a destination for its diverse

permanent collection curated by top scholars.

Nancy Nasher and her husband, David J. Haemisegger,

committed $5 million to the Nasher Museum to create

two new endowments. A $4 million acquisitions fund

supports the museum’s purchases of works of modern

and contemporary art, while another $1 million creates

a visiting curatorship fund, allowing the museum to bring

in experts to organize special exhibitions and projects.

“Our family’s vision and passion for Duke to have one of

the leading university art museums in the country has

become a reality,” Nancy Nasher says.

Their intention dovetails with the campaign initiative of

expanding opportunities to explore the arts across campus.

It will provide opportunities for students and faculty to

study collections and exhibitions that continue to grow

in importance. It also comes at an exciting time for the

museum, as former senior curator Sarah Schroth takes the

reins as its new director. Schroth has organized numerous

shows that helped put the Nasher on the map, including

the award-winning 2008 exhibition El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III.

You feed the creative spirit in the classroom and out.

display in Smith Warehouse.

Or when political cartoonist

Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher

talked about his work with

public policy majors to

enrich conversations about

the presidential election.

Ritson and Julie Ferguson,

both ’81, established a

$200,000 visiting artist

endowment to help support

opportunities like these

within Trinity College of

Arts & Sciences. Duke’s

Visiting Artist-in-Residence

Program is a priority of

the arts initiative, because

it enables the university

to showcase new works of

cultural importance while

offering students exciting

chances to connect and

collaborate with prominent

working artists.

Sublime giving

Few endeavors evoke passion like the arts. Donors have

stepped forward to fund arts programs from the traditional

to the experimental.

THE ARTS Duke offers more opportunities than ever for creative expression

through the visual and performing arts, but students still want more. As

part of a campus-wide initiative, the university seeks donor support to invest

in arts programming, add faculty mentors, and grow a vital arts ecosystem

that enriches the entire community.

THE ARTS 11ENRICHING THE DUKE EXPERIENCE: How Do You Move the World Forward?

Bringing artists to the students

There was the time when

innovative jazz trio The

Bad Plus recorded new

music written by Duke

student composers while

on campus. Or when cele-

brated Haitian-American

artist Edouard Duval-Carrié

teamed with visual art

students in Duke’s Human-

ities Labs to create Haiti: History Embedded in Amber, a piece on permanent

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Two gifts intended to remember loved ones are supporting

campus institutions in creative ways:

Continuing a family tradition of giving

A gift from Brian and

Harriet Freeman named

the Freeman Center for

Jewish Life in 1999. Their

three children, Danyelle,

Amanda ’98, and Heath ’02,

all support the center

through philanthropy

and volunteer leadership—

in cluding serving on the

Jewish Life at Duke advisory

board. When Danyelle

celebrated her recent

marriage to Josh Resnick,

she suggested guests

donate to the center in lieu

of wedding gifts. Including

donations from her siblings,

the gifts totaling more

than $50,000 were used

to establish the Freeman

Family Program Fund, which

the center will use to support

programs that will change

the lives of students.

Advancing library innovation

As a member of the Library

Advisory Board, Robert

Laughlin ’68 has helped the

campus libraries evolve into

user-oriented, technologi-

cally innovative places. His

outright and planned gifts

to the libraries have pro-

vided $500,000 to benefit

future students. A reading

space in Bostock Library is

named for his parents, and

he recently remembered

his late wife by establishing

a gift annuity to create the

Barbara and Robert Laughlin

Endowment Fund for experi-

mentation and innovation

in library services.

CREATIVE UPHEAVAL

Laying the cornerstone for Duke’s future

Construction fences decorated with panels

of faux Duke stone conceal the profound

changes going on inside one of the univer-

sity’s oldest buildings, the 1928 Perkins

Library and its 1948 addition. A portion

of the building will reopen in 2015 as the

David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manu-

script Library, a cutting-edge research

facility where students, faculty, and visitors

will be able to engage with rare and unique

scholarly materials.

As an undergraduate, David Rubenstein

’70 worked in the library, and he has long

understood the value of historical docu-

ments. The Rubenstein Library holds more

than 20 million items in manuscript and

archival collections, including materials in

the areas of advertising, sales, and market-

ing; Greek manuscripts; jazz; women’s

history and culture; comics; and African

and African American history and culture.

Rubenstein gave Duke $13.6 million to

fund the final phase of the Perkins Library

Renovation Project. This major effort has

been overhauling West Campus libraries to

accommodate the increase in collaborative

projects and the central role that digital

technology has come to play in research.

The Rubenstein Library renovations will

refresh three campus treasures—the Biddle

Rare Book Room, the Gothic Reading Room,

and the Breedlove Room. It will also expand

onsite collection capacity and more than

double classroom and exhibition space.

CAMPUS LIFE Behind the iconic walls of beloved West Campus structures

and elsewhere on campus, sweeping transformations are integrating new

technologies, fostering new collaborations, and creating lively centers

of student engagement and activity. Private support is enabling Duke to

connect students’ intellectual, social, and residential lives in exciting ways

that inspire meaningful interactions.

fosters rich community.

A new nexus of student activity

Career fairs, performances,

banquets, basketball-watch-

ing parties—there are few

limits to the uses for Duke’s

new Penn Pavilion. Bob and

Katherine Penn, both ’74,

committed $10 million in

support of operations at the

25,000-square-foot facility

located next to the Bryan

Center on West Campus.

Construction of the pavilion

was the first step in the reno-

vation of West Union, part of

an $80 million enhancement

of student life on campus

funded by a gift from The

Duke Endowment, which

also includes upgrades to

Page and Baldwin auditori-

ums. Penn Pavilion will

serve as a temporary dining

space until 2016, when the

West Union renovations are

com plete. When it reopens,

West Union will feature

dining facilities and meeting

spaces, while Penn Pavilion

will serve as a premier space

for student gatherings and

university events.

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OUT OF THE BLOCKS

Williams gift gets track team off and running

The Duke track and field team has a rich history of

success, from the almost 40-year career of legendary

coach Al Buehler to recent NCAA champions Juliet

Bottorff in the 10,000-meter run and Curtis Beach in

the indoor heptathlon.

A $5 million gift from Morris Williams ’62, A.M.’63 and

his wife, Ruth ’63, will fund the Blue Devil track and field

program’s activities. The gift comes at an exciting time:

Duke is embarking on its first major facilities upgrade

project in 50 years, including improvements to Wallace

Wade and Cameron Indoor stadiums, a new pavilion and

athletics center, and a pedestrian plaza linking all of those

facilities. In addition, the track will be removed from the

football stadium and a new, world-class track and field

facility constructed and named Morris Williams Stadium.

Once the track and field stadium is complete, the

team will be able to host all of its events in a single place

rather than having competitions spread out over West

and East campuses. Thanks to the Williams’ support, the

new stadium will also remain open around the clock for

use by students, faculty, and local residents.

“Duke University had a very positive impact on my life,”

Williams says. “I am delighted to give back to Duke,

and especially pleased to support the track and field

program. I’m excited about the new stadium, which will

serve both the student athletes and the entire Duke

and Durham community.”

ATHLETICS Nationally ranked athletics programs have been a vital part of

the university for generations. Private support to operational and endow-

ment funds during the campaign are enabling Duke Athletics to remain a

major connecting point for students and alumni, fostering school spirit and

helping to drive Duke’s reputation and future athletics success.

Men’s lacrosse triumphs again

Led by head coach John

Danowski, Duke won its

second men’s lacrosse

national championship in

four seasons. The Blue Devils

rallied from an early 5-0

deficit to defeat Syracuse

16-10. Faceoff specialist

Brendan Fowler was named

the tournament’s most

outstanding player.

Looking beyond the bowl

The Duke football team

capped a successful six-win

season with an appearance

in the Belk Bowl against

Cincinnati. Senior quarter-

back Sean Renfree set Belk

Bowl records for pass com-

pletions, attempts, and

yards, connecting on 37 of

49 passes for 358 yards.

The six wins were the most

for Duke since an 8-4

campaign in 1994.

Duke Athletics has received

generous unrestricted gifts

that will enable the football

program and all of Duke’s

25 other men’s and women’s

athletic teams to pursue

excellence in the highly

competitive arena of

Division I sports. David

Rubenstein ’70 gave an

unrestricted gift of $10

million. Roy Bostock ’62, a

former football and baseball

letterman at Duke, and his

wife, Merilee ’62, pledged

an unrestricted $5 million.

The Bostocks’ campaign

giving also includes $1 million

for the Duke Libraries.

champions on the field and off.

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Even as modern transformations to Duke’s athletics

facilities get under way, donors are stepping up their

support of the athletics program.

ENRICHING THE DUKE EXPERIENCE: How Do You Move the World Forward?

The men’s lacrosse team

and more than 600 Duke

student athletes on Olympic

sports teams will receive

an ex panded weight room

and medical training rooms

when a 35,000-square-foot

pavilion and athletics

center is built. The building

will be named in honor of

Dr. Steven Scott HS ’78 and

his wife, Rebecca A.H.C. ’79,

whose $10 million gift will

provide programmatic

support to Duke athletics.

The center will also house

ticket offices, a team store,

and offices.


You build

BASS CHALLENGE

A major part of the Bass gift

was a $25 million challenge

to encourage other donors

to designate endowments

to the program. For every

two dollars donated, the

Bass Challenge contributes

a dollar. Three families

are among those who have

answered the challenge

by establishing faculty

endowments focusing on

one of the five initial Bass

Connections thematic areas:

Brain and Society; Energy;

Global Health; Education

and Human Development;

and Information, Society,

and Culture.

> In his financial services

work, Michael Rhodes

B.S.E.’87 sees the impact of

big data every day. Under-

standing how this massive

collection of widely varied

and rapidly changing infor-

mation will affect our lives

is a challenge that fits the

multidisciplinary approach

of Bass Connections. Rhodes

and his wife, Maureen,

endowed a $2.5 million pro-

fessorship fund at the Pratt

School of Engineering to be

awarded to a tenured faculty

member with expertise in

data analytics and a prefer-

ence for mentoring, teaching,

and research in the Infor-

mation, Society, and Culture

thematic area.

> Suzanne Bryan Crandall

’95 and her husband, J.T.,

established a $1.5 million

assistant/associate profes-

sorship fund in the Trinity

College of Arts & Sciences.

The first appointment will be

made within the Education

and Human Development

theme. “We believe strongly

that the nature of education

is changing,” says Suzanne

Crandall. “Bass Connections

will be instrumental in put-

ting Duke at the cutting edge

of 21st-century university

education.”

> David and Lori Haley P’16

established the $2.5 million

Haley Family Professorship

Fund in the Trinity College

of Arts & Sciences. The

holder of the professorship

will participate in Bass

Connections with a focus

in the Brain and Society

theme area, which trans-

lates brain research on

cognition, emotions, and

decision-making into new

approaches for addressing

challenges such as addiction

and social inequality. The

Haleys’ professorship was

part of a campaign com-

mitment that also included

$500,000 to the Annual

Fund and $200,000 for

the Duke Catholic Center.

INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION AND RESEARCH At Duke, the

walls separating scholars and students who work in different fields are

low. Building on this rich tradition, Duke Forward supporters are helping

to create programs and support research across the university that

will help researchers and students with different areas of expertise team

up to respond to complex challenges.

You help bring problem-solvers together.

BASS CONNECTIONS

Transforming education to solve global challenges

Jake Reeder came to Duke seeking dual master’s degrees in public

policy and business, but he will soon find himself working in an auto

assembly plant. That’s a good thing—Reeder is a member of a research

team engaged directly with a car maker to quantify the energy effi-

ciency of its manufacturing process. “I’m excited to learn how large

private-sector companies manage their energy needs,” he says.

“I like the idea of working with an interdisciplinary group on a project

that will give me real-world experience.”

Project teams that bring together outside experts with faculty,

undergraduates, and graduate and professional students from differ-

ent departments are one key feature of Bass Connections, a program

that sets up a new problem-based educational path at Duke. Estab-

lished with a $50 million gift from Anne T. and Robert M. Bass P’97

announced last spring, Bass Connections is designed to ensure that

Duke students at all levels and majors have structured opportunities

to learn from other disciplines and work directly on complex problems.

“There are important things that students learn from collaborat-

ing in groups where there are differences in background knowledge,

interests, and expertise,” says Susan Roth, Duke’s vice provost for

interdisciplinary studies.

The program already boasts 36 project teams that include more

than 250 faculty and student participants addressing problems such

as how environmental conditions cause changes in our genes; how

living in economically distressed, rural Appalachia affects education

and human development; and how the resettlement process affects

the mental health and well-being of refugees.

Outside of project teams, students are using Bass Connections to

explore big questions deeply and broadly through a range of new

and existing courses and co-curricular offerings—gateway and cap-

stone courses, civic engagement projects, internships, independent

research, and more.

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Staci Bilbo (facing page) leads a Bass Connections team studying how unhealthy and stressful living conditions in expect-ant mothers affect the brains of their developing children. Her team is made up of three faculty members and four undergraduates, including (from left) Dominic Le, Jessica Bolton, and Tania Hassanzadeh.


MANY DONORS, ONE RESULT

A village raises new marine genetics center

Accomplishing ambitious campaign goals

is not always about finding a single donor

to contribute a large sum. Often, it’s a

combination of support from many differ-

ent sources. Such was the case with the

new Orrin Pilkey Marine Science and

Conservation Genetics Center at the

Duke University Marine Lab, scheduled

to open in early 2014.

A total of 173 donors contributed funds

to support activities in the state-of-the-

art molecular biology research laboratory

and teaching lab, capped by a $1 million

bequest from the late Elizabeth “Boots”

Thrower ’60. Some of that gift will sup-

port research and operations at the Pilkey

Center. The 12,000-square-foot center is

the first new research building constructed

at the Beaufort, North Carolina, marine

lab since the 1970s.

Recent advances in conservation

genetics now enable scientists to address

a host of issues, including management

of commercially important or endangered

species, and understanding of the impacts

of climate change on ocean ecosystems.

The Pilkey Center provides students and

faculty the latest genetic tools needed to

understand how organisms respond to the

environment by researching processes at

the cellular level.

You transform lives and communities

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Redefining relationships

Private giving has enabled Duke to conduct interdisciplin-

ary research that is beginning to shift the paradigms of how

nations and cultures relate to one another. For example, in

2006 James P. Gorter P’81, P’87, GP’15 established the

Duke Islamic Studies Center (DISC), endowed a chair, and

helped fund ongoing operations. DISC’s goal is to improve

understanding and communication between Islam and the

West by teaching under graduates about Islam through both

on- and off-campus experiences. The center focuses on

Islamic society as a whole, is concerned with social issues,

is committed to public scholarship, and features a diverse

group of young faculty members who represent a new gen-

eration of scholarship on Islamic issues. Gorter’s ongoing

operational support includes a $50,000 campaign gift.

Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center for Health Education

MEDICINE Duke Medicine fosters visionary approaches that advance

medical knowledge, encourage team-based learning, and improve

medical practice. Our researchers and clinicians work together to translate

breakthrough discoveries into better methods of disease treatment and

prevention. Philanthropic investments during the campaign are supporting

personalized care and helping us take advantage of new technologies

to meet the growing needs of families in the Durham region.

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NEW THINKING ABOUT BRAINS

Program enables innovative, creative research

David Trice ’70 and his wife, Kathy, each had a parent

who developed Alzheimer’s disease, an experience that

prompted the couple to establish a four-year, $1 million

fund for basic research in brain science and neurological

disease. With seed grants from the Holland-Trice Scholars

program, Duke faculty and graduate students will launch

high-risk, high-reward projects that could ultimately

lead to significant advances in treatment.

“We’ve experienced the downward spiral of Alzheimer’s

disease,” David Trice says. “We know what a horrible

disease it is for patients and their caregivers.”

After discussions with Sally Kornbluth, vice dean for

basic science at the School of Medicine, the Trices chose

to foster basic neurological research, which receives less

federal funding than it once did, yet has the potential

to spur new discoveries. The Holland-Trice program

encourages innovative thinking by giving researchers

a chance to investigate whether novel approaches

have promise.

“Traditional government funding tends to favor a more

conservative approach, where you build on results you

already have,” says Kornbluth. “If what you have in mind

is more creative, more paradigm-shifting, it’s very hard

to find funding for it. But it’s often those risky projects

that have the potential to make big leaps and move the

field forward.”

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Faster, higher, strongerDr. Steven Scott HS ’78 and his wife, Rebecca

A.H.C. ’79, have committed $20 million to

help the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

build the top sports medicine program in

the country. “I truly believe Duke Ortho-

paedics is one of Duke’s signature programs,”

Steven Scott says. The multifaceted program

the couple envisions will integrate clinical

care with research in sports performance,

sports psychology, sports nutrition, and

physical therapy to serve athletes at Duke

and beyond.

Helping kids weather leukemia treatment

Which children with cancer

are most likely to suffer

severe reactions to treat-

ment? That question drives

the research of Marilyn J.

Hockenberry, the Bessie

Baker Professor of Nursing,

who is internationally known

for her work in pediatric

oncology. Hockenberry is

collaborating on an NIH-

funded study of how the

genotypes and phenotypes

of young leukemia patients

correlate with the incidence

of serious side effects. The

predictive models Hocken-

berry and her colleagues

are developing may allow

physicians to tailor treatment

to individuals.

Lefkowitz and former student share Nobel

Dr. Robert J. Lefkowitz

has spent his entire research

career—four decades so far—

at Duke University Medical

Center. With his former

post doctoral fellow Brian K.

Kobilka (now at Stanford),

Lefkowitz made discoveries

about cell receptors that

became the basis for numerous

medications now in wide use,

including antihistamines,

ulcer drugs, and beta blockers.

The drug delivery break-

throughs benefited countless

patients and earned the

pair the 2012 Nobel Prize

in Chemistry.

Transformed medical campus fosters collaboration

The newly opened Mary

Duke Biddle Trent Semans

Center for Health Education

is the School of Medicine’s

first new home since 1930.

Funded almost entirely with

philanthropic contributions,

including $35 million from

The Duke Endowment, it

represents—and facilitates—

a new approach to medical

education. The center gives

medical students access to

state-of-the-art simulation

labor atories that can be set

up as clinical exam rooms,

surgery suites, or emer-

gency rooms. Flexible,

technology-rich classrooms

with movable walls and

chairs accommodate team-

based activities. “The Trent

Semans Center will lead to

many great interactions

among students, residents,

fellows, postdocs, faculty,

and staff that will transform

medical education at Duke,”

says Edward G. Buckley, M.D.,

vice dean for medical educa-

tion. Similarly, when it opens

in 2014, a new 45,000-square-

foot wing of the Christine

Siegler Pearson Building will

give students at the School

of Nursing access to new

learning technologies such

as interactive classrooms,

simulation labs, and an audio

and video recording studio.

Both buildings are adjacent

to Duke University Hospital,

laboratory and research

buildings, medical clinics,

and the newly opened Duke

Cancer Center and Duke

Medicine Pavilion. That

means medical and nursing

students can take new skills

and insights from their cut-

ting-edge training straight

to the clinical setting.

Time magazine lauds Blackwell’s work

Dr. Kimberly Blackwell,

professor of medicine,

clinical oncologist, and one

of the country’s leading

breast cancer researchers,

made Time magazine’s 2013

list of the 100 most influential

people in the world. Blackwell,

who directs the Duke Cancer

Institute’s breast cancer

program, led a pivotal drug

study that resulted in FDA

approval of a new, more

effective treatment for HER-2

positive breast cancer.

and care.

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BREAKTHROUGH SCIENCE

Hospital clinical revenues, once a source of preliminary research

funding, are now virtually nonexistent. Without private support, Duke

physician-scientists can’t do the groundwork needed to qualify for

federal funding. Support for early-stage medical research can lead to

federal grants far greater than the original investment, funding the

groundbreaking discoveries of tomorrow. Many of these researchers

benefited from such philanthropy early in their careers.

through revolutionary medical research

Duke Cancer Center

SUPPLYING POWER

Eads gift electrifies Energy Initiative

Ralph Eads ’81 has spent much of his career in finance

making deals to expand the nation’s energy infrastructure.

So when the university identified energy as a priority

of the Duke Forward campaign, it immediately resonated.

He and his wife, Lisa, committed $4.25 million to the

initiative that is dedicated to his lifelong interest and work.

The gift funds a new Eads Professor of the Practice in

Energy Finance, creates an energy information and analysis

research program, and launches an Energy Fellows program

that teams visiting experts with student and faculty fellows

on energy-related research conferences.

Eads-funded conferences, workshops, and other events

also will connect Duke students and faculty with energy

professionals, including through programs for Bass

Connections (see page 16).

in the public housing and

low-income housing

sector, community-building

and energy efficiency, and

connections between water

and energy efficiency.

Another Bass Connections

team is using the university

itself as a lab to design and

implement a system that

can divide a power signal

(such as the one read by

building utility meters)

into its component parts.

The system would be able

to determine which devices

are consuming power—

re frigerators, computers,

televisions—and even which

rooms they are located in.

The project partners with

Duke’s Facilities Management

Department to acquire data

for developing and testing

the innovative system, and

for analyzing data to identify

new ways to reduce energy

usage and costs.


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energy.Faculty fund seeks dynamic practitioners

Nick and Susan Jane Sutton

P’10, P’13 created a $1 million

energy faculty fund through

the Bass Connections

Challenge. Nick, the CEO of

an energy company, has a

career-long interest in issues

concerned with energy

sources, uses, and efficiencies

in a world with a growing

population dependent on

energy resources to enhance

quality of life. (Their son,

Nick III ’10, earned a degree

in earth and ocean sciences

and is employed in the

energy industry.) The Sutton

fund will help Duke attract and

retain teaching and research

faculty, including visiting or

adjunct professors, engaged

in energy-related work.

A professorship in social science and energy

Through their family founda-

tion, Ned ’82 and Karen

Gilhuly P’13, P’17 endowed a

$2.5 million professorship for

an economics faculty member

specializing in energy issues.

The recipient will be involved

in interdisciplinary research

work that has an impact on

public debate.

You drive smarter decisions about

Brian Southwell (opposite page), Duke adjunct professor and scientist at RTI International, leads a Bass Connections team working with Durham-area nonprofits to determine the best methods for communicating the message of energy efficiency to various communities.

Generating knowledge

Ryan Turner ’06 and Ray

Bartoszek P’15 are among

the donors who have

provided critical operating

support to the Energy

Initiative with commitments

of $25,000 or more. As

the initiative builds out

its programming, funding

to start up and sustain

operations is key. Private

giving supports programs

such as a partnership

between locally based inter-

national research institute

RTI International, nonprofit

Clean Energy Durham,

and faculty from the Fuqua

School of Business and the

psychology and neurosci-

ence department. These

partners, led by RTI’s

Brian Southwell, form a

Bass Connections team

to investigate how improved

communication strategies

can enhance local energy

conservation efforts.

They are working in three

areas: energy education

ENERGY Duke’s Energy Initiative aims to address three major challenges:

meeting growing energy demand to support a competitive and prosperous

economy, reducing the environmental impact of energy, and grappling with

energy security concerns. With donor support during the campaign, we are

shaping innovative, integrated education and research efforts across many

disciplines to develop future leaders and inform better energy decisions.

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GLOBAL HEALTH Duke is playing a pioneering role in the quest

to improve health worldwide. With support for our global health

programs—a campaign initiative—we are strengthening the ability of

our students and faculty to develop solutions that improve the

well-being of people around the globe.


200 donors x $50Can support the development of one new course to meet student demand—like those in the recently launched global health co-major.

ACTING GLOBALLY AND LOCALLY

Private support is giving Duke global health students the

programs and tools they need to research and address

challenges at home and abroad.

North Carolina. Now, a $5.74

million gift from The Duke

Endowment will extend the

work of the initiative. The new

funding also will support the

continued implementation

of Spirited Life, a health pro-

gram for pastors that aims

to decrease the risk factors

for heart disease, diabetes,

and stroke; decrease stress

and depression; and enhance

spiritual vitality.

Learning through community partnerships

A $300,000 expendable

gift from Laura Ellen ’76 and

Robert Muglia P’14 created

the Muglia Family Global

Health Experiential Learning

Program to engage under-

graduate and graduate

students in the development,

implementation, and assess-

ment of community-based

projects. The gift funds

research training, work-

shops, and curricular

develop ment for under-

graduate global health

students; collaborative

graduate research projects

between students at

Duke and partner institu-

tions worldwide; and a

conference show casing

global health students’

field work.

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Caring for the caretakers

Compared to other North

Carolinians, United Methodist

clergy have higher rates of

obesity, diabetes, asthma,

and arthritis. About 10.5

percent of them also exhibit

symptoms of depression—

nearly double the national

average. However, clergy

are unlikely to seek help

because they perceive

themselves to be healthier

than they actually are, and

they often default to caring

for others first. In 2007,

The Duke Endowment funded

the Clergy Health Initiative

through Duke Divinity School,

an effort to study and improve

the health and well being of

United Methodist clergy in

Berhan Hagos (facing page) was the first recipient of an award from the Paul Farmer Health Fund. She studied social attitudes about HIV infection in Ethiopia.


SURVEYING HIV’S STIGMA

Fund puts global health students in the field

Berhan Hagos moved to the United States from Ethiopia when

she was six years old and grew up in California. But she got to

use her native language during a research summer abroad in

the east African nation as the first recipient of the Paul Farmer

Global Health Fund, an endowment created by a gift from

Farmer’s friend Dave Gendell ’83 and supported by a number of

their Kappa Sigma fraternity brothers and other Duke alumni.

Hagos spent the summer surveying children and adults to

gauge their perceptions of the social stigma of HIV infection,

with an eye toward how those attitudes affected educational

programs about the disease and, ultimately, transmission rates.

The award she received honors Paul Farmer ’82, a physician

and anthropologist best known for founding Partners In Health,

an international health care aid organization. Hagos, a senior

majoring in international comparative studies with a certificate

in global health, hopes to pursue a master’s in public health with

a goal of addressing public health threats in refugee camps.

“Clearly, today’s world needs more Paul Farmers, and I hope

that the Paul Farmer Global Health Fund enables more Duke

students to experience fieldwork,” Gendell says, adding that

more gifts to the fund could provide additional opportunities

for students. “It is imperative to continue to invest in the people

who are the next leaders and innovators in the global health field.”

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900 donors x $50Can provide financial aid to fully fund tuition for a deserving undergraduate for one year. Donors can designate gifts to support financial aid at many schools.

You create access to opportunity.

ENDOWING OPPORTUNITY

A $50 million gift to financial aid creates an additional wave of support

When Bruce ’77 and Martha Karsh saw a need for financial

aid at Duke, they pictured it as a lot of individual faces.

Financial aid is an investment in people that can be

a “genuine game changer,” Bruce Karsh says. “It makes

a crucial difference to the individual recipients and enhances

the intellectual and cultural diversity of the university

community.”

Their $50 million campaign gift in 2011, the largest

financial aid gift to Duke by individuals ever, will

certainly make that critical difference to many students.

The Karshes designated $10 million of that gift as a challenge

to inspire other donors to create or expand financial aid

endowments of their own. Nearly 80 donors accepted

the challenge before all matching funds were exhausted.

The Karshes used the $40 million balance of their gift

both to support U.S. students eligible for financial aid and

to strengthen the Karsh International Scholars Program,

doubling the family’s foundational gift to the program.

In addition to having their full financial needs met, Karsh

International Scholars are eligible for summer research

funding. A portion of the funding for U.S. students

was also reserved for graduates of Knowledge Is Power

Program (KIPP) college prep schools in underserved

communities. The endowment provides aid for tuition,

program enrichment, advising, and other support.

“Martha and I believe strongly that motivated, talented

students—whether from underserved communities in the

U.S. or from around the globe—should be able to attend a

great university like Duke, which can nurture their talent

and help them reach their potential,” Bruce Karsh says.

FINANCIAL AID Financial aid is a core commitment and campaign priority

at Duke, which admits U.S. undergraduates without regard to financial

circumstances and meets 100 percent of their demonstrated need. More

than half of Duke’s undergraduates receive financial aid, and the university

also supports virtually all doctoral students and many graduate students.

By raising more than $400 million for endowed scholarships and fellow-

ships, Duke can ensure a premier education for tomorrow’s leaders,

thinkers, and decision-makers.

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SUSTAINING DUKE’S MOMENTUM: How Do You Move the World Forward?

Enabling a Duke education: The endowed scholarships created by the Karsh Family are already having an impact on many individual student lives—like Karsh Family Scholar Delaney Brock (pictured), a sophomore swimmer competing in the freestyle and backstroke. Brock, a neuroscience major, was named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll in 2013. And like junior Laxmi Rajak, a native of Nepal who is researching the

human trafficking of girls from Nepal to India. The international comparative studies major has studied abroad in India and China, and plans to attend law school or graduate school with an eye on a career with the United Nations. And like freshman Maria Perez, who graduated from KIPP Houston High School. She plans to major in biology and aspires to become a physician specializing in juvenile arthritis.

A gift with impact: Karsh Challenge donors expand opportunities

A total of 78 donors used

matching funds from the

Karsh Challenge to create

or add to scholarships of

their own, launching 40 new

endowments and adding to

28 existing. Here are three:

> Stacy Stansell Gardner

B.S.E. ’91 established the

Bennett D. Klein Scholarship

in 2006 in memory of

her young son. She took

advantage of the Karsh

Challenge to add $200,000

and significantly expand

the scholarship for talented

female biomedical engineer-

ing majors.

> Peter Troob ’91 is perhaps

best known for his memoir,

Monkey Business, about

his tribulations as a young

broker at a New York invest-

ment bank in the mid-1990s.

He established the new

Troob Family Scholarship

with $200,000 (after Karsh

matching funds) to benefit

undergraduates in the Trinity

College of Arts & Sciences.

> Joe Payne ’87, M.B.A.’91

and his brother John Payne

’90 endowed the Dee Anderson

Payne Scholarship in 2007

in honor of their mother,

whose hard work and

determination to support

her family as a single parent

is the basis of their success.

They leveraged the Karsh

Challenge to add $200,000

to their fund.


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Vinik challenge nearing goal

Jeffrey N. Vinik B.S.E.’81

and his wife, Penny, longtime

contributors to the Pratt

School of Engineering,

are helping Duke hire and

retain innovative faculty

who work on engineering-

related solutions to complex

societal problems. With

a $10 million gift, they

established a dollar-for-dollar

matching fund to endow up

to 10 professorships, many

within the Pratt School

and some jointly with

Pratt and another school or

institute at Duke. The Viniks

hope to spur interdisciplin-

ary collaboration on such

challenges as energy, global

health, brain sciences,

and the envir onment. So far,

the fund has supported the

creation of eight en dowed

chairs, including the

Kaganov Professorship

earned by Monty Reichert

(pictured) for his work in

biomedical engineering. See

Reichert’s story on page 30.


900 donors x $50Can provide financial aid to fully fund tuition for a deserving undergraduate for one year. Donors can designate gifts to support financial aid at many schools.

You give teachers, mentors,FACULTY Duke’s professors are inspiring teachers,

motivating mentors, and leading scholars and researchers.

Recruiting and retaining renowned faculty is essential

to maintaining our excellence. By supporting

outstanding faculty—a campaign priority—you

are helping to ensure that the university’s

professors are true leaders in their fields

and that our students receive a

top-quality education.

The need for financial support isn’t restricted to

undergraduates. Many generous donors have recognized

this, establishing scholarships that give graduate and

professional students an essential boost.

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GOAL OF $400 MILLION

PROGRESS TOWARDS FINANCIAL AID GOAL

$182 million


Gloria Guan owns six LED lighting patents in China and is passionate about bringing electricity to rural areas in the developing world. She is working toward her M.B.A. at the Fuqua School of Business, aided by its top merit award, the Keller Scholarship, which is supported by the Fuqua Annual Fund. All 10 of Duke’s schools use Annual Fund contributions to help fund fellowships and scholarships.

Scholarship and fellowship endowments created

215

Supporting graduate students

William and Janet Smith Hunt,

both ’84, added $625,000

to an existing fund in their

names that supports fellow-

ships for graduate students.

Bill is the son of a Harvard

history professor, and

Janet‘s family includes

15 people who are Duke

alumni—so their apprecia-

tion of the importance of

a university education and

their passions for Duke are

well established and deep.

Public policy priorities

David Rubenstein ’70

committed $6 million to fund

fellowships for Master of

Public Policy (MPP) candidates

at the Sanford School of

Public Policy who demon-

strate a commitment to public

service through programs

such as Teach for America,

AmeriCorps, and the Peace

Corps. Rubenstein Fellows

will mentor public policy

undergraduates to spur their

interest in public service.

Former dean funds fellowships

After playing football at Duke

and a three-decade career in

the oil business, Rex Adams ’62

served as dean of the Fuqua

School of Business for five

years. His bookend career

at Duke was his impetus for

funding a $1 million fellowship

endowment for M.B.A. students

at Fuqua.


Big data for nonprofits

Douglas ’88 and Ellen Lowey

are passionate about Duke

and about their work with

several nonprofit groups.

The Loweys are also inter-

ested in “big data,” defined

as collections of information

characterized by three things:

massive size, tremendous

variety, and rapid change.

They combined their inter-

ests and endowed a $1.5

million assistant/associate

professorship fund to

support a faculty member

who specializes in using

big data to analyze the

efficiency and effectiveness

of nonprofit organiz ations.

The Lowey gift complements

Duke’s recent formation of

an information initiative that

seeks to harness big data to

find and implement solutions

to global problems.

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Son honors father with law professorship

Just 21 when he graduated

from Duke Law, Robert

Seaks LL.B.’34 was first in

his class and editor of the

law journal. He went on

to a distinguished career

with the Tennessee Valley

Authority, the Federal

Communications Commission,

the U.S. Justice Department,

and the noted Washington,

D.C., firm Wheeler and

Wheeler. With a $1.25

million gift, Terry G. Seaks

Ph.D. ’72 established the

Robert G. Seaks LL.B.’34

Professorship to honor

his father’s memory and

provide future students

the same opportunity that

his father had to learn from

scholars of the highest

order. His gift was the fourth

and last to be matched from

a $5 million challenge fund

Stanley ’61 and Elizabeth

Star set up in 2010 to create

new professorships.

Across all 10 of Duke’s schools, support for faculty is

crucial to teaching and research. And many donors

have stepped up during the campaign to provide that

critical help.


SERVING UP SOLUTIONS

Gift endows Pratt biomedical engineering professorship

Monty Reichert likes to joke that he was a bartender in the

late 1970s before he got his Ph.D. There’s no word on how his

mixology skills have held up, but the biomedical engineering

and chemistry professor still practices the therapy side of

bartending. Reichert is a highly proactive listener when it

comes to working with graduate students at the Pratt School

of Engineering. He also has a good “mix” of research activities

that involve biomaterials that self-heal, molecules that are

capable of identifying rare cells in blood, and technology to

improve implanted sensor performance.

This spring, Reichert was named the first Alan L. Kaganov

Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Kaganov, B.S.M.E. ’60,

and his wife, Carol, established a fund with $2.5 million,

including a match from the Vinik Faculty Challenge Fund.

The couple was inspired to donate to Duke because of Alan’s

rich experience in the fields of health care, drug-delivery

systems and medical devices, and by their desire to support

an accomplished professor in the field that has afforded Alan

a great career. “I know that Duke’s biomedical engineering

department and medical school are among the country’s

best,” he says. “They work together to create an ideal

environment for a biomedical engineering program

to succeed.”

and researchers the tools to succeed.

PROGRESS TOWARDS GOAL OF 100

53 endowed professorships

46%

OF THE CLASS OF 2013 GAVE TO THE ANNUAL FUND

To engage seniors in giving

to pay for costs that are

not covered by tuition, the

Annual Fund asked them

to donate $20.13 or more:

728 seniors donated.Surviving members of the first group of African American undergraduates to matriculate at Duke, from left: Gene Kendall, Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, and Nathaniel “Nat” White Jr.

REUNION GIVING

People change, the university changes, but Duke still

holds enduring value. Thousands of Duke alumni demon-

strate this truth each year when they come back to

campus in the spring for reunions—and when they give

to the Annual Fund as a part of the comprehensive

reunions giving campaigns. More than 50,000 alumni

and friends have given to their class campaign since

the launch of Duke Forward. Their gifts not only honor

the memory and richness of their own Duke experience

but also help to create the same excellence and sense

of community for students on campus today.

ANNUAL FUND Gifts to the Annual Fund fuel all of Duke’s priorities.

These contributions help sustain our faculty, provide support for financial

aid grants, and help underwrite our most innovative curricular and

co-curricular offerings. These flexible operating resources also allow us

to remain nimble. When an opportunity to do something extraordinary

arises—whether it’s recruiting a sought-after professor or seeding a

new idea—the Annual Fund gives us the ability to seize it.

When they were here

The class arrived on campus

just weeks before Septem-

ber 11, 2001, forming tight

bonds within the class

right away. Their senior

year was also President

Richard Brodhead’s first

year at Duke.

When they returned

At its fifth reunion, the

class broke a 13-year-old

Annual Fund reunion giving

participation record when

30 percent of the class

donated funds. Their

contributions to Duke

totaled $147,000.

When they returned

“Their bravery changed

Duke forever,” says their

classmate, Jack Bovender Jr.

’67, M.H.A.’69. In addition

to a $640,000 gift to the

Annual Fund, he and his wife,

Barbara, committed $1 million

to fund the Harris/Kendall/

Reuben-Cooke/Rush/White

Financial Aid Scholarship.

Altogether, the class of 1967

raised $1.2 million from 268

donors for their class gift.

Duke also raised an additional

$1.5 million to commemorate

the 50th anniversary of

integration and to fund

programs that advance

diversity and inclusiveness

at Duke. This milestone was

honored throughout 2013

with events and commemora-

tions across the university.

When they were here

Five members of the class

made Duke history as

the first African American

undergraduates at the

university. Wilhelmina

Reuben-Cooke, Gene

Kendall, Nathaniel “Nat”

White Jr., Mary Mitchell

Harris, and Cassandra

Smith Rush integrated Duke.

When they were here

While this class was on

campus, two buildings

were completed that

continue to provide critical

services for thousands of

people every year—the

main Duke Hospital build-

ing and the Bryan Center.

When they returned

The class raised an all-time

Annual Fund reunion

record of $4.83 million.

Dan Dickinson and Jeff

Ubben led the charge and

spurred a group of SPEs,

Delts, and ATOs in the

class to form a $1 million

challenge. Barbara Janulis

and her husband, Ted,

pledged $250,000 early

in the campaign but then

stepped forward just

before the deadline with

another $250,000 to

ensure that the class would

capture the challenge gift

and set the new all-time

reunion record.

CORNERSTONE SOCIETY MEMBERS

PARENTS FUND GIVING

25,265

$12.7 million

1967 2005

1983

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You gather together to meet the core needs of a great institution.

The Cornerstone Society

recognizes donors who

have made gifts to the

Annual Fund for five or

more consecutive years.

Contributions from Duke parents represent 12 percent of total

Annual Fund campaign giving.

A PASSION FOR CHEMISTRY, TENNIS, AND DUKE

Beloved professor James Bonk leaves an enduring legacy

Longtime Duke chemistry professor

James Bonk (pictured) had such a deep,

abiding love for the university and his

students, it’s fair to say that he didn’t put

his heart and soul into Duke—his heart

and soul was Duke. Bonk, who died in 2013

at age 82, taught at the university for

53 years and became so synonymous with

the subject matter that his 30,000 or so

students over the years called his general

chemistry classes “Bonkistry.” He also

helped build the university’s tennis team and

served as the director for undergraduate

education in his department. “Passion is

contagious and anybody who is teaching

needs it,” he said. He expressed his passion

in his will, in which he bequeathed a total

of $3 million to Duke, including $2 million

for operations and graduate fellowships in

the chemistry department, and $1 million

for men’s tennis scholarships.

Real estate gift benefits engineering

For years, Judy Alstadt’s

late husband, Donald, was

a devoted supporter of the

Pratt School of Engineering.

Judy shared his enjoyment

of helping students, so after

her husband passed away,

she wanted to use some

real estate assets to

create a scholarship at

Pratt. She donated a

home and two vacant lots

to Duke, which sold the

properties and established

the Donald M. and Judith C.

Alstadt Scholarship Fund

with the proceeds.

Duke’s charitable advisers can help you and your financial

advisers develop a gift plan that meets your personal and

financial goals. A planned gift may help you reduce income

and capital gain taxes, as well as gift and estate taxes.

GIFT PLANNING

GIFT PLANNING Smart charitable planning can help our donors do more

than they thought possible to honor the places, memories, and people

they care about most. A goal of 1,200 new planned gifts during the Duke

Forward campaign will help ensure that the priorities that matter most to

you—and most to Duke—will be supported well into the future.

Further Forward

GOAL OF 1,200 NEW PLANNED GIFTS

PROGRESS TOWARDS FURTHER FORWARD GOAL

540

We hope you’ll help us move Duke forward.

We’ve made progress toward our goal

thanks to the support of thousands

of donors and volunteers.

439 Total number of new endowments

Giving by SOURCE (in millions)

GIFTS MADE BY INDIVIDUALS 43% of total

Alumni $543.2

Parents $98.3

Other Individuals $144.4

GIFTS MADE ON BEHALF OF INDIVIDUALS 12% of total

Community Foundations $10.8

Corporate Matching $5.9

Family Foundations $119.6

Trusts $62.3

GIFTS MADE BY GROUPS 45% of total

Foundations $300

Corporations $182.6

Religious Organizations $7.6

TDE and Special Sources $260.6

Other $66.3

Giving by AREA (in millions)

TOTALS $3 .25B $1 .8B 55%

GOAL OF $600M

$534 million

Enriching the Duke Experience

GOAL OF $1.4B

Activating Duke’s Power for the World$652 million $1.8 billion

GOAL OF $3.25B

Total Campaign Goal

GOAL OF $1.25B

Sustaining Duke’s Momentum$611 million

Trinity Coll A&S $435 $233.8 54%

Grad School $20 $4.9 25%

Athletics $250 $161.3 65%

Divinity $80 $56.1 70%

Fuqua $100 $54.2 54%

Law $85 $48.7 57%

Library $45 $35 78%

Pratt $161.5 $92 57%

Nicholas School $55 $39.1 71%

Sanford $75 $39.6 53%

Duke Medicine $1.2B $702.4 59%

School of Medicine $970 $620.6 64%

School of Nursing $43 $29 67%

Other $740.5 $329.9 45%

GOAL RAISED PROGRESS TOWARDS GOAL

Endowment $1B $401 40%

Annual Fund $215 $107 50%

Capital $535 $268 50%

Restricted Expendable* $1.5B $1.022B 68%

Giving by PURPOSE (in millions)

*includes sponsored research

77%of the $3.25 billion campaign goal will support schools and units

Partnering for the future

GOAL RAISED PROGRESS TOWARDS GOAL

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Atlanta February 2

Chicago November 2

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Washington, D .C . June 1 Los Angeles November 23

Miami February 8

FIND OUT WHAT THE BUZZ IS ABOUT

More than 3,200 alumni and friends have joined us so far as we’ve

traveled across the United States and the globe to celebrate the Duke

community—and the university’s future—with a series of extraordinary

events. Visit dukeforward.duke.edu/ontheroad to see what people

are saying about them and learn about events scheduled for spring

2014 and beyond.

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