Sep - Oct 2002 Issue

 Through a variety of events that honored the more than 3,000 people, including six alumni, who died in the terrorist attacks, Duke spent September 11 in remembrance.

 Even though it was summer, football was the featured topic at nearby Duke club events when head football coach Carl Franks '83 went on the road in July and August for his annual preseason tour. His first foray was Charlotte at a luncheon for sixty-five people. The president of the Duke Club of Charlotte is Katherine Lambert '95.

 

 An article in an August issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that Duke was paying back nearly $700,000 in grant money it says was misspent by two former employees accused of swindling Kenneth Manton Ph.D. '74, then director of the Center for Demographic Studies, after he was hospitalized for depression.

 

 

 After managing the building of nuclear power plants, high-rise office towers, and an airline terminal, Barry Jordan is now helping to build communities.

 Diane Leslie "Dina" Carter '86, who worked as a librarian and archivist in Israel, was one of the seven people killed in the July 31 bombing at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She worked in the manuscripts department and archives at the Jewish National and University Library (JUNL) on the Edmond J. Safra Campus at Givat Ram.

 Faith Goes to School The Duke Youth Academy, now in its second year, is a Bible-study camp--except that it's not a camp and the director, Fred Edie, is not the peace-sign-flashing, group-hug-giving type.

 Our built environments aren't just our living and working spaces. They're also symbolic statements of what we value.

 Class Work Editors:Compliments on your May-June education issue. "A Charter for Achievement" by Jonas Blank '01 is especially compelling. MATCH [Media and Technology Charter High School] is an example of what can happen when we lift barriers to entry for people with unusual talents and experience--like Michael Goldstein and Ann Sagan.

 

 

  Nordstrom makes me think of Nostradamus. Did the sixteenth-century astrologer prognosticate a consumer-service revolution? And sampling a store named Impostors makes me--well, a little uneasy about my identity. Am I only as authentic as the purchases I make?

When talking about whole-person health care, the terminology itself can be confusing, misleading, and laden with New-Age stigmas. But use a different word--integrative. Integrative medicine combines the best in traditional health care. It seeks to treat illness with medication and/or medical procedures, with non-traditional research- and outcome-based therapies that fall into a category commonly called complementary/alternative medicine, or CAM.

A male grizzly bear, weighing around 1,100 pounds, ambles into the Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska, and catches twenty-three salmon in just an hour and a half. These are tired, spawned-out salmon drifting downstream in late autumn; nevertheless, they weigh a good five or six pounds each. Such feasting is comparable to a 180-pound man eating twenty pounds of food and then serving himself more.

It's 2012, and members of the Class of 2002 are back on campus for their tenth reunion. As they meander through the stone gates of Chapel Drive, down past the gardens and up past the Allen Building, they take in views of looming stone and graceful plantings, at once familiar and evocative. But then they reach the Main Quad, and the sense of the known is touched with a sense of difference--a reorientation of the Duke they remember, a change at whose heart sits Perkins Library.

 

 

 

 The word "diary" may conjure up various images: a small book with a clasp that holds an adolescent's secrets; an elegant hand-bound volume with thick, unlined pages; or, more simply, pieces of paper loosely held together with a ribbon, or even string. Yet, diaries, whatever their form or purpose, have one common characteristic--an author's self-inscription.

 Geoffrey Mock, editor of Duke Dialogue, the university's faculty and staff publication, interviewed a former professor this summer:

 The left side of James S. Floyd's brain is responsible for most of what comes out of his mouth, which, considering that he's the voice of Duke's medical students, is no light function.

   

 Duke received $264,580,049 in charitable gifts this 2001-02 fiscal year, a slight increase over the previous year. The total came from 87,716 donors, including 43,049 alumni, both small decreases from the previous year's record donor numbers. Funds received were about $155,000 more than in 2000-01.

 As the school year began, the university launched eDuke, a free electronic mail service that will supply students, faculty, parents, alumni, and others with links to online information about campus news and events.

 Is a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet both effective and safe?

    Third-year medical student, a leader of the Duke chapter of the North Carolina Student Rural Health Coalition, a Stead Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, and a bass guitarist.Describe yourself in three words:

 

 Kristina Johnson, dean of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, urged America to improve the science and math education of its children, particularly girls and minorities, so the nation will have the intellectual wherewithal to deal with terrorism and other complex issues.

 

 Over the years, alumni have requested that Duke have a physical presence in New York City, a "club," like the Harvard Club or the Yale Club, where members can get together. But the cost was prohibitive. For a while in the early Nineties, the university had an agreement with the Princeton Club for access to its services and amenities, but that relationship no longer exists.

 Four alumni--a divinity school dean, a research scientist, an aspiring teacher, and a recent graduate--have been elected to Duke's board of trustees. Clarence "C.G." Newsome '72, M.Div. '75, Ph.D. '82; Wilton D. Alston B.S.E. '81; Tomalei J. Vess Ph.D. '02; and Sara R. Elrod '02 began their first terms on the thirty-seven-member board.