Duke - Spring 2016 https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/issue/spring-2016 en The Superpredator https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/superpredator <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/252644988&color=0066cc&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" width="100%" height="166"></iframe> When it comes to dangerous animals, it's us or them. Or so some people think. This piece explores the tumultuous relationship between humans and other predatory animals, and the implications of developments for the future. (Poem: A Minor Bird, by Robert Frost)</p><p>Produced for The Short Audio Documentary course taught by John Biewen at the Center for Documentary Studies.</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-03-18T00:00:00-04:00">Friday, March 18, 2016</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/default_images/dukmag-horizontal-placeholder.jpg" width="238" height="140" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/haley-amster" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Haley Amster</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/spring-2016" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Spring 2016</a></li></ul></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue Fri, 18 Mar 2016 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498468 at https://alumni.duke.edu Who is John Danowski? https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/who-john-danowski <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/252652689&color=0066cc&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" width="100%" height="166"></iframe> John Danowski took the helm of the Duke Men’s Lacrosse program in the wake of a national scandal in 2006. Under his tenure, the program won three national championships in five years and has consistently led the ACC in All-Conference Academic honorees. But who is John Danowski? Three of his senior players, attack Case Matheis and midfielders Myles Jones and Greg Rhodes, as well as Danowski himself, tell us in their own words.</p><p>Produced for The Short Audio Documentary course taught by John Biewen at the Center for Documentary Studies.</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-03-18T00:00:00-04:00">Friday, March 18, 2016</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/default_images/dukmag-horizontal-placeholder.jpg" width="238" height="140" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/cassie-calvert" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Cassie Calvert</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/spring-2016" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Spring 2016</a></li></ul></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue Fri, 18 Mar 2016 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498467 at https://alumni.duke.edu Forever Duke Q&A: Danielle Squires '02 https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/forever-duke-qa-danielle-squires-02 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>Why do you volunteer for Duke?</strong></p> <p>I love Duke. I had a really good experience at Duke. I gained a lot of wisdom and insight and knowledge that prepared me for life after Duke. I grew as a person. As a [Reginaldo Howard Memorial] “Reggie” Scholar, I was the recipient of financial aid, and so I have a lot to give back to Duke.</p> <p><strong>What resonates more with you—your time as a student or your experience as an alumna?</strong></p> <p>They’re two completely different worlds. My time as a student: I love reflecting upon it, and I miss it. But that really is a four-year bubble. Since I’ve been out, my world has opened up to the alumni experience and to the alumni themselves. To give back as an alumna is fantastic. As alumni, we didn’t all have the same experience. But there is a way in which you can engage with Duke—to find something that you are passionate about to help you get excited again.</p> <p><strong>As the new president of Duke Black Alumni, what’s your vision?</strong></p> <p>I want to really engage, unite, and be a voice for our black alumni. I want to bring back our collective voice to the university. Our black alumni are a treasure trove of skill sets and learning and experiences that I don’t think Duke historically has done a great job of bringing back to Duke—and that can only be to the betterment of the university and the current students. We are in the early innings of what I think is an awesome, progressive change at Duke, and I’m happy to be part of it.</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-03-15T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, March 15, 2016</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/default_images/dukmag-horizontal-placeholder.jpg" width="238" height="140" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/writers/christina-holder" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Christina Holder</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/spring-2016" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Spring 2016</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/sterly3squires-portrait_0.gif" width="250" height="300" alt="" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Sterly Wilder &#039;83, associate vice president for alumni affairs, has three questions for the new Duke Black Alumni president</div></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Cover Story </h3> <h3 class="field-label"> Homepage </h3> Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498474 at https://alumni.duke.edu https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/forever-duke-qa-danielle-squires-02#comments A new way to network https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/new-way-network <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><span class="dc">A</span>s the executive director of wealth management for the Boston offices of UBS Financial Services, Troy Erickson ’90 hardly needs another meeting on his calendar. Whatever time he has left after managing the 200-person office is usually spent ferrying his three children to school events and practices.</p><p>But when Erickson got an e-mail from a nineteen- year-old intern on UBS’s trading desk last summer, he responded immediately.</p><p>That’s because the intern was from Duke: a student named Alex Loughnane, who had just finished his freshman year. Erickson set up a meeting, during which the two chatted casually about campus life and Loughnane’s interest in a career in finance.</p><p>“I’m always willing to talk with a student or a fellow alum,” says Erickson. “It’s fun, and I want to help in whatever way I can.”</p><p>Such kinship among Dukies can be among the most enduring benefits of a Duke education, opening doors to new contacts, career prospects, and opportunities for students and alumni alike. But for all its eagerness, the alumni network is largely an invisible one, where connections are often discovered by happenstance.</p><p>A new tool developed by the DAA, however, could change that. In February, the association launched an online network that makes profile information for more than 150,000 Duke graduates available exclusively to alumni and students through its new website (<a href="https://alumni.duke.edu/">alumni.duke.edu</a>). The site consolidates previously separate directory, event, and mentoring apps, allowing alumni to search for classmates, sign up for events, follow regional and affinity groups, and update personal information in one place. It also gives students unprecedented access to the alumni network, enabling them to search for alumni, in specific jobs and industries, who can provide mentoring and career guidance.</p><p>“Part of the value of a Duke degree is that we have an amazingly talented community available to us,” says Shep Moyle ’84, DAA president and one of the guiding forces behind the new network. “We want to empower students and alumni to access that community at any time and find people who can help them personally and professionally.”</p><p>At the new site, alumni will find profiles that showcase Duke-centric aspects of their lives, such as student activities, class notes, event registrations, and volunteer roles. They’ll also see a faceted search that allows them to seek out classmates with particular skills or pursuits.</p><p>“It’s really going to be the key to driving those connections among the Duke family,” says Sterly Wilder ’83, associate vice president for alumni affairs. And for students such as Loughnane, the network represents a different kind of key. “When you reach out and find someone who is willing to help you, it’s just amazing,” he says. “It makes all the difference.”</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-03-15T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, March 15, 2016</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/default_images/dukmag-horizontal-placeholder.jpg" width="238" height="140" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/michael-penn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Michael Penn</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/spring-2016" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Spring 2016</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/network-portrait_0.gif" width="250" height="300" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">DAA launches a tool to make it easier to discover connections</div></div></section> Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498473 at https://alumni.duke.edu Forever Duke: #TheDoersProfile https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/forever-duke-thedoersprofile-0 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em>Whether owning retail stores or designing statement necklaces, Duke alumni have cut a swath through the style world. We sought out some and asked a few questions tailored just for them.</em></p><p><strong>Whitney Robinson ’08</strong>, Founder of <a href="http://freshlygiven.com/">Freshly Given</a>, a company that turns scrap leather into purses</p><p><strong>If you had to pick a Duke-related style icon, whom would you pick?</strong> My husband (<strong>E. Charles Robinson III ’08</strong>), because he has such a minimalist style and is pretty much confident in everything he has on.</p><p><strong>What is your most memorable outfit?</strong> Believe it or not, I have a pair of high-waisted gold disco pants that scream the ’70s—definitely one of my favorite decades!</p><p><strong>What fashion item do you own and treasure?</strong> I have a Kelly-green and sage checked suit circa the ’50s, when suits for women were well-constructed. My mother bought it for me years ago from Dolly’s Vintage (located in downtown Durham). I’ve only worn it once, but it’s an inspiring piece and a showstopper.</p><p><strong>Ibtihaj Muhammad ’07</strong>, Founder of a modest clothing company, <a href="http://www.louellashop.com/">Louella </a></p><p><strong>What’s your essential fashion item?</strong> A great bag never goes out of style.</p><p><strong>What is your most memorable outfit?</strong> I love formal events where you get really dressed up. My most memorable outfit would definitely be an ornate lace gown I wore to a White House gala. I felt like a queen!</p><p><strong>If you had to pick a Duke-related style item, what would you pick?</strong> My most treasured piece of Duke clothing is definitely my letterman (varsity) jacket. I love how timeless and versatile it is, and I can easily pair it with a white tee and boyfriend jeans.</p><p><strong>Devika Srimal M.B.A. ’15</strong>, Founder of <a href="http://kanabis.in/">Kanabis</a>, a non-leather shoe company</p><p><strong> If you had to pick a Duke-related style icon, whom would you pick?</strong> Style to me is more about confidence, power, and comfort. By that measure, I would pick <strong>Andrea Hyde ’87</strong>, CEO of Draper James. She is successfully running a fashion-and-lifestyle brand, which is really inspiring for earlystage entrepreneurs like me.</p><p><strong>What fashion item do you own and treasure?</strong> A pair of Kanabis wedges. I started the brand, and to wear something you create feels great. The delicate play of lace and straps on these wedges makes them an elegant day or evening wear, and white is one of my favorites!</p><p><strong>Aslaug Magnusdottir LL.M. ’98</strong>, Cofounder of <a href="https://www.modaoperandi.com/">Moda Operandi</a>, which allows users to preorder designer collections from the runway</p><p><strong>What’s your essential fashion item?</strong> A great handbag is a fast and easy way to elevate any look. You can quickly add some evening glam with a sparkly clutch or edge to your work attire with a well-constructed daytime bag. My favorite bag is a black Birkin that was hand-painted by artist/designer John Brevard.</p><p><strong>What is your most memorable outfit?</strong> My most memorable outfit was the one I wore to the Met Gala in 2013. Moda Operandi was the sponsor of the gala that year, and the theme was punk. I wore a black dress that was customdesigned by my friend Yvan Mispelaere, who at the time was creative director of Diane von Furstenberg and is now on Phoebe Philo’s team at Celine. The dress was hand-embroidered with hundreds of safety pins to fit into the punk theme. Another friend, Bianca Pratt, made my jewelry—most notably a hand bracelet with the word “bullocks” spelled out in black diamonds.</p><p><strong>Shivam Punjya M.S. ’13</strong>, Founder of high-end fashion company <a href="http://behno.com/">Behno</a>, where designers get health care and earn two-and-a-half times the minimum wage in India</p><p><strong>What’s your essential fashion item?</strong> A crisp and clean white poplin shirt. Nothing makes me feel more alive than buttoning it up to my neck.</p><p><strong> Who’s your style icon?</strong> Anyone who doesn’t have a style icon. They’re usually innovators and reactionaries, but embracing fashion on their own terms, in their own way, in their own world. And that’s beautiful.</p><p><strong>What fashion item do you own and treasure?</strong> Fashion’s fleeting, but I treasure a few pieces that my maternal grandfather gave me from his closet— a mohair cardigan, YSL blazer from the ’80s, and his silk and wool-blend scarves. They all have his musky, floral scent woven into them. The scent never escapes, and I feel like he’s always next to me.</p><p><strong>Heidi Zak ’00</strong>, Cofounder of <a href="https://www.thirdlove.com/">ThirdLove</a>, a lingerie company that uses technology for a better fit</p><p><strong>Who’s your style icon?</strong> Kate Middleton. I prefer shopping for investment pieces, high-quality staples that will last—from a Burberry trench coat to the perfect LBD (little black dress).</p><p><strong>What is your most memorable outfit?</strong> When ThirdLove announced our last fundraising round, I did a few live on-air TV segments. That day, I wore a Diane von Furstenberg dress, black tights, and black suede ankle boots, my idea of a power suit. The outfit made me feel comfortable and confident.</p><p><strong>What fashion item do you own and treasure?</strong> I would have to say the diamond earrings my parents gave me, which I will eventually pass on to my own daughter. Besides my engagement ring, they’re the one piece of jewelry I value the most. They’re classic, go with everything and are baby-proof, which means, I can wear them every day of the work week and the weekend.</p><p><strong>Randy Alonso ’06</strong>, Founder of <a href="http://www.lostboydrygoods.com/">Lost Boys Dry Goods</a>, a denim store in Miami</p><p><strong>If you had to pick a Duke-related style icon, whom would you pick?</strong> Umm, probably <strong>Shane Battier ’01</strong>. No one can make a charge more stylish than Shane, and there’s just something about Dukies in Miami Heat jerseys.</p><p><strong>What is your most memorable outfit?</strong> You mean other than every outfit I wore to tailgate? My most memorable outfits are the ones that I cringe at now; that time I wore an Ed Hardy shirt, or the really pointy Italian shoes, or when I thought it was so cool to wear my polo with a popped collar…</p><p><strong>What fashion item do you own and treasure?</strong> Hand-me-downs. As the youngest of four boys, I grew up unwillingly inheriting each of my older brothers’ outfits. At the time, I despised it and only wanted my own, fresh clothing. I eventually matured and realized the character, depth, and individuality that come with a secondhand garment. Now, my most cherished items are from my dad’s closet. Not only are they made with a rare level of quality and cannot be duplicated, but they also add a degree of nostalgia and remembrance that gives what I wear meaning and a story.</p><p><strong>Elizabeth Fortunato ’06</strong>, Founder, with her sister Kathryn Fortunato ’06, of <a href="http://www.lizziefortunato.com/">Lizzie Fortunato</a> jewelry and handbag company</p><p><strong>What’s your essential fashion item?</strong> The perfect tailored blazer. It’s a classic piece that goes with everything. It can be worn with jeans or over a cocktail dress. My favorite is the boyfriend blazer by The Row, but I also love J.Crew and Jenni Kayne for great blazers.</p><p><strong>If you had to pick a Duke-related style icon, whom would you pick?</strong> <strong>Booth Moore ’94</strong>. The former fashion editor of the L.A. Times has interviewed everyone in fashion and appreciates a good accessory. She gravitates toward statement jewelry (which buys my favor) and has what I think to be flawless taste!</p><p><strong>What fashion item do you own and treasure?</strong> A gold bracelet of my mom’s and an incredible horn and sterling-silver bracelet that belonged to my mom’s mom. The former I wear every day—it’s classic and chic and reminds me of my mom. The latter I rarely wear because it’s so special, but it’s really exotic and stunning and totally embodies the woman it belonged to.</p><p>More Fashionable Dukies: <strong>David Lauren ’93</strong>, executive vice president of advertising, marketing, and corporate communications at Ralph Lauren; <strong>Marisa Moss M.B.A. ’03</strong>, founder of <a href="http://www.minefornine.com/">Mine for Nine</a>, a company that rents designer maternity clothes; <strong>Danielle James ’06</strong>, former buyer for Macy’s, founder of <a href="https://www.itsmodelcitizen.com/closet_outward/TheIslanDiva">Model Citizen</a>, a peer-to-peer social platform where women can shop each others’ closets.</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-03-15T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, March 15, 2016</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/doersprofile-regular.gif" width="620" height="265" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/spring-2016" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Spring 2016</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/doersprofile-portrait_copy_0.gif" width="250" height="300" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Fashion</div></div></section> Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498472 at https://alumni.duke.edu Retro: Theodore Roosevelt comes to Trinity https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/retro-theodore-roosevelt-comes-trinity <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><span class="dc">A</span>s you travel past East Campus on Main Street and glance at the train tracks, you may not know that they were the site of a presidential visit 110 years ago, when Theodore Roosevelt brought his private train to Durham to praise Trinity College.</p><p>Roosevelt was first impressed by Trinity College when, in 1903, professor of history John Spencer Bassett wrote an article for the South Atlantic Quarterly, in which he praised leading black educator Booker T. Washington as the greatest man, “save General [Robert E.] Lee, born in the South in a hundred years.” Many members of the public implored the Trinity board of trustees to terminate Bassett. With the support of faculty members and students, the board refused, striking a blow for academic freedom.</p><p>In 1905, Roosevelt toured several Southern states, visiting both Raleigh and Durham. He invited Bassett to join him in Raleigh and to ride in the president’s private train to Durham. Stopping just outside the Trinity College gates, in view of the East and West Duke buildings and across from where today’s Smith Warehouse stands, Roosevelt was greeted by a rapturous crowd of students and townspeople. He marveled, “As I came in, gentlemen, I felt as if I was at a football contest.”</p><p>Roosevelt’s speech praised Trinity for its reputation on academic freedom, and presaged Duke’s later “work hard, play hard” ethos, by commenting, “I believe in play with all my heart. Play when you play, but work when you work, and remember that your having gone through college does not so much confer a special privilege upon you as it does to impose a special obligation upon you.”</p><p>He continued, “Each one of you, if he is worth his salt, wishes when he graduates to pay some portion of his debt to his alma mater. You have received from her during your years of attendance in her halls certain privileges in the way of scholarship, certain privileges in the way of companionship, which make it incumbent upon you to repay what you have been given.</p><p>“Now you can’t repay that to the college itself, save in one way, by the quality of your citizenship, as displayed in the actual affairs of life. You can make it an honor to the college to have sent you forth into the great world. That is the only way in which you can repay to the college what the college has done for you, and I most earnestly hope and believe that you, and those like you in all the colleges of this land, will make it evident to the generation that is rising that you are fit for leadership, that the training has not been wasted, that you are ready to render to the state the kind of service which is invaluable, because it cannot be bought, because there is no price which can be put upon it.”</p><p>Trinity senior John Allen Morgan attended the speech, and wrote in his diary, “I was impressed with the spirit of non-provincialism in the President’s remarks. He was at ease, seemed really to enjoy his stay here.” Fellow senior Mary Reamey Thomas (the future spouse of President William Preston Few) wrote a lengthy letter to her mother about the visit. “Yells for ‘Roosevelt’ and ‘Harvard’ went up from five hundred men, all students of Trinity and the Trinity High School,” she related. “The whole town was decorated with flags and buntings by the yards and every factory, school and place of business suspended. The day reminded me very much of Mr. [Washington] Duke’s funeral except that one was a red, white & blue day. The other one of mourning.” Thomas was impressed by Roosevelt’s physical stature: “R. is the most wholesome, healthy specimen of manhood I ever saw. His pictures are all exactly like him.”</p><p>The following year, Bassett left Trinity for Smith College, but Roosevelt remained fond of the small North Carolina school. He continued to praise Trinity as a place of intelligent and forward-thinking people. And the Trinity students— each of whom received a flag—had a tangible souvenir of when the president came to their alma mater. It was remembered as a testament to the aspirations of a young school and the city it shared.</p><p><em>Gillispie is the university archivist.</em></p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-03-15T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, March 15, 2016</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/retro-regular_0.gif" width="620" height="265" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/valerie-gillispie" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Valerie Gillispie</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/spring-2016" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Spring 2016</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/retro-portrait_0.gif" width="250" height="300" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">In 1905, the president was impressed by the college&#039;s reputation for academic freedom</div></div></section> Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498471 at https://alumni.duke.edu Forever Duke: In Memoriam https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/forever-duke-memoriam-0 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>A forward-looking public scientist</p><p><strong>John Howard “Jack” Gibbons Ph.D. ’54</strong> was a likeable guy. During his 1993 confirmation hearing to become the science adviser to President Bill Clinton, members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation spent two hours telling him how pleased they were he was before them. Two days later the Senate confirmed him unanimously. Afterward, Fredrick Seitz, a physicist who founded the Marshall Institute, a conservative think tank, said Gibbons was “such a nice person you really can’t say anything bad about him.” And <em>Scientific American</em> published a profile about him titled “The Nicest Guy in Washington.”</p><p>That Gibbons, who died on July 18, 2015, at eighty-six from complications of a stroke, earned such a reputation among Washington’s power elite made it more than a character trait. His charming, country-gentleman demeanor was a gift and one much needed in his career as a public scientist during a time when there was great upheaval in the federal science establishment.</p><p>“A compelling argument could be made that my primary role is to illuminate the issues that matter and to build a network to support them,” Gibbons once told <em>The New York Times</em>.</p><p>Among the issues that mattered to the physicist were the testing of nuclear arms, which Gibbons worked to end; in 1996 President Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty to halt the development of new warheads. Through one of his primary initiatives, the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles, he argued for more efficient cars, which led to the development of hybrid vehicles. He helped turn an American plan for an orbiting space station into a global effort that included the Russians and is known as the International Space Station.</p><p>“Science is still the wellspring of new options. How else are we going to face the issues of the twenty-first century on things like the environment, health, security, food, and energy?” he said in a New York Times interview. He was Clinton’s adviser until 1998.</p><p>Gibbons was born in Harrisburg, Virginia. His father was a lawyer and the treasurer of Madison College, the forerunner of James Madison University. His older brother, William Conrad Gibbons, who also recently died, was a historian of the Vietnam War.</p><p>After graduating from Randolph-Macon College and earning a doctorate in physics from Duke, Gibbons worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for fifteen years. There, his scientific interests included studying how stars produce the heavy elements found throughout the universe. In 1973, during the first big energy crisis, he was appointed the first director of the federal Office of Energy Conservation. Before joining the Clinton administration, he directed the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, where his teams of researchers produced reports on acid rain, Alzheimer’s disease, missile defense, and other issues.</p><p>After leaving the government, Gibbons worked with Population Action International, the Virginia Climate Change Commission, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is survived by Mary Hobart Gibbons, his wife of sixty years; two daughters; and eight grandchildren. Another daughter died in 2014. <strong>Rachel Davies ’72, A.M. ’89</strong> is a cousin.</p><p>Securing a place for women's stories</p><p><img alt="" class="media-image" height="300" width="250" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://magazine-dev.oit.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/memoriammaryanne-portrait.gif?itok=sdm2ANvC" />When <strong>Mary Anne Ferguson ’38, A.M. ’40</strong> began teaching a literature course that focused on the representations of women, she had misgivings about the material.</p><p>It was the late 1960s, and much of what she taught cast women in unfavorable light. “Maybe my students would have been much better off not knowing that in the eyes of most male writers, women who were not content to be quiet, ineffectual, silly, were likely to be portrayed as non-feminine, unnatural, destructive,” she wrote in a 1972 essay.</p><p>So Ferguson took action. She put aside the original course material and focused on women’s biographies. And then, in 1973, she published Images of Women in Literature. The textbook, updated and reissued four times, helped solidify Ferguson’s place as a pioneer in the field of women’s studies.</p><p>The lifelong teacher died on April 9, 2015, at ninety-six in Pittsburgh from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.</p><p>She was born Mary Anne Heyward in Charleston, South Carolina, and grew up in Asheville, North Carolina. She earned a bachelor’s degree with a major in literature and a master’s in English with a focus in poetry at Duke before earning her Ph.D. in medieval studies from Ohio State University.</p><p>After teaching in universities in New York, Connecticut, Ohio, and North Carolina, she joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1966 and taught until 1986. She also chaired the English department and was a professor emerita of English and women’s studies. Her husband, Alfred R. Ferguson, was a Ralph Waldo Emerson Scholar at the same university and taught American studies. They’d met in the stacks at the Yale University library and married in 1948. He died in 1974. They had three daughters, two of whom also became English professors. They also share seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.</p><p>Ferguson loved poetry and often recited verses from her favorite poets. One of them was A.E. Housman, who wrote:</p><p><em>Into my heart on air that kills </em></p><p><em>From yon far country blows: </em></p><p><em>What are those blue remembered hills, </em></p><p><em>What spires, what farms are those? </em></p><p><em>That is the land of lost content,</em></p><p><em> I see it shining plain,</em></p><p><em> The happy highways where I went</em></p><p><em> And cannot come again.</em></p><p><strong>Show business was in his blood</strong></p><p><strong><img alt="" class="media-image" height="300" width="250" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://magazine-dev.oit.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/memoriamstevevns-portrait.gif?itok=308LNFf0" />Michael Murrow Stevens ’89</strong> was given that middle name as a tribute to the legendary broadcaster and U.S. Information Agency director Edward R. Murrow, who had once hired Stevens’ father as head of the agency’s film division.</p><p>So, perhaps it was in some ways inevitable that Stevens would be interested in journalism. He worked in that industry in France.</p><p>But it was a brief stint. There was another legacy in Stevens’ life. His family’s show-business roots date to nineteenth-century theater and the silent- film era. His grandfather, George Stevens, received Oscars for directing the movies <em>A Place in the Sun</em> and <em>Giant</em>, both starring Elizabeth Taylor. His father, George Stevens Jr., is the founding director of the American Film Institute and cofounder and producer of <em>The Kennedy Center Honors</em>.</p><p>Which is why, starting in the early 1990s, Stevens began his own performing-arts career. Working with his father, he helped produce AFI lifetime salutes to movie stars and directors. He directed several <em>Christmas in Washington</em> variety-show productions for the TNT cable network. He co-produced and had writing credits for every <em>Kennedy Center Honors</em> show since 2003 and shared five prime-time Emmy Awards for the specials. For HBO, he directed and co-produced an adaptation of his father’s Broadway play <em>Thurgood</em>, about the civil rights lawyer and Supreme Court justice, and shared a daytime Emmy for co-producing <em>We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial</em>.</p><p>Stevens did some film production work, too, including <em>The Thin Red Line</em>, the Oscar-nominated film directed by Terrence Malick. In 2013, he directed, co-produced, and cowrote <em>Herblock: The Black & White</em>, a documentary about the late <em>Washington Post</em> editorial cartoonist Herbert L. Block.</p><p>That the documentary was well-received was pleasing to Stevens. A native of Washington—born November 21, 1966—he met the artist in high school. “I was alone in my liberal thinking at the all-boys prep school I went to outside of Washington,” he said in an interview with <em>The Atlantic</em>, “so Herblock was a private pleasure for me, or an opportunity to point to it and offer to my friends— and Reagan supporter—‘Maybe one day you might see the world like this guy does.’ I doubt I made a dent. But by some time after college, most of my buddies had come around.”</p><p>It wasn’t the only personal connection he made with an acclaimed figure through his work. He also got to know veteran soul-singer Bettye LaVette.</p><p>“I can say that Michael was a consummate producer. He created situations for me to work with,” she says. “He most certainly created the three biggest things that ever happened in my career.”</p><p>Stevens invited LaVette to sing “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJi6maTueSc">Love, Reign O’er Me</a>” for The Who at <em>The Kennedy Center Honors</em>, then put her before her largest audience ever at President Obama’s pre-inaugural concert. He also helped her put together a best-selling album, her “favorite” she says, <em>Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook</em>.</p><p>“For these things, I am eternally grateful,” says LaVette.</p><p>Stevens was forty-eight when he died on October 15, 2015. His survivors include his wife, Alexandra Gifford; two children, John and Lily; his parents; a brother; and a sister.</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-03-15T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, March 15, 2016</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/default_images/dukmag-horizontal-placeholder.jpg" width="238" height="140" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/spring-2016" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Spring 2016</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/memoriam-portrait_0.gif" width="250" height="300" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Farewell to a scientist, a trailblazing professor, and a show-business scion</div></div></section> Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498470 at https://alumni.duke.edu While writing his novel, an alumnus shatters his old self https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/while-writing-his-novel-alumnus-shatters-his-old-self <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><span class="dc">E</span>arly in <em>A Poet of the Invisible World</em>, the recent novel by <strong>Michael Golding ’80</strong>, the young protagonist, Nouri, is shaken awake, swept up in the clattering movement of the busy fictional city Tan-Arzhan in thirteenth-century Persia. Nouri, an orphan, recently has begun lessons with a Sufi master—the benevolent Sheikh Bailiri—whose small order offered him shelter when he was just a foundling.</p><p>Nouri is full of feeling and questions. As they make their tour through a whirl of scents and colors, he asks Sheikh Bailiri if they might enter the mosque, whose dome and minarets he’d glimpsed many times from afar, but had yet to explore.</p><p>In that sanctuary, Nouri’s thoughts “soared like a dove,” writes Golding. But his flight is interrupted when one of the mosque’s polished lamps crashes, shattering on the ground. Nouri freezes, “his hand glued to Sheikh Bailiri, a strange light dazzling in his eyes. He felt as if he could see things as they were. …</p><p>‘That’s it, Nouri!’ whispered Sheikh Bailiri, ‘That’s what you’re after. That’s what you truly are!’</p><p>Nouri did not understand what he meant. But he saw that another world existed, and he was determined to find his way back.”</p><p>It will take Nouri a lifetime.<br /><br /><em>A Poet of the Invisible World</em> occupies dreamy between-worlds territory—part fantasy, part allegory—it’s a fable of sorts that demands a willing suspension of disbelief. Nouri means light in Arabic, and as Golding moves the young apostolate through the stages of his journey and his many selves, that notion of “light” shifts in meaning, from epiphany to awareness to illumination. Nouri winds through a maze of life-altering encounters that force him to grapple with the pull of unexpected desires and the tumult of loss. He comes to understand the nature of his heart, but it means coming to terms with shattering an old self.</p><p>When Golding set pen to paper, he didn’t—or rather, couldn’t—know he was mapping a course in which his and his protagonist’s paths would not just cross but merge. For Golding, the author of two other novels (<em>Simple Prayers</em> and <em>Benjamin’s Gift</em>) and coauthor of a screenplay (2007’s <em>Silk</em>), the process of writing the book didn’t trigger an epiphany; rather, it opened a portal. The inquiry into Nouri’s quest and motivations allowed him to access a part of himself tucked away within the shadows of his psyche: seeing himself squarely as a gay man.</p><p>“It’s been for me a process of unraveling threads and looking at it and understanding what it means—and what it doesn’t mean,” he says. “Understanding it and writing this book has allowed that. And that is a gift.”<br /><br /><em><strong>A “Spiritual Fable”</strong></em> <br /><br />Seven years in the writing, <em>A Poet of the Invisible World</em> had both apparent and enigmatic beginnings. The poetry of the Sufi mystics, Golding explains, primed his subconscious. “I’d immersed in that kind of literature, so that’s a more logical response.” But the narrative itself appeared in a flash. “Often when I’m beginning to look for what the next book is, I’m trying to troll the waters and see what’s there. And at a certain point a book just flashes in my head. And really, it is a vision of a complete, finished book that exists somewhere on a shelf in the future,” he says.</p><p>There was no other way to characterize it. Nouri presented himself, and “I suddenly understood that I wanted to follow the path of someone who ended up having that kind of spiritual wisdom and to explore what could have led to the kind of spiritual wisdom that is in [the work of the poets] Attar, Rumi and Hafez.”</p><p>Language long has occupied a special place inside Golding. You hear it in the way he speaks, the burnished modulation of his sentences. You feel it on the page, in the sweeping lyricism of prose. “I’m a daily writer, and I love writing. One of the most uncomfortable times for me is between projects. I know I need to rest and let the well fill up again. But I don’t like those periods.”</p><p>Between his strict writing ritual and a steady slate of international travel, Golding teaches literature and academic writing part time at Yuba College in the foothills of the California Sierras. Those explorations provide an essential lens: “I’m a great believer that different cultures have their own psychology and that it is good to take yourself out of your own and just immerse yourself in new impressions. It puts you in a new mindset and gives you a different way of looking at life.”</p><p>At Duke, he was an A.B. Duke Scholar who carried a double major, English and drama. His heart was in the theater. “I was in Hoof and Horn and the Duke Players. There were professors who made impressions, Judy Dearlove in English and John Clum in drama among them. And though on paper he might have appeared to have two strong allegiances, “back then,” he admits, “drama really was my world.” After graduation, he moved to New York and fell into the actor’s life. “I did theater and theater and theater. I did a lot of Shakespeare. That was really my love and passion.” Fiction writing would take a backseat for a while. “Everyone’s shocked when I say that I went to Duke while Reynolds Price was there and didn’t study with him. But I didn’t know I was going to be a novelist back then.”</p><p>Roads open, then swerve in unexpected ways. Golding has tried to stay open to that pull. In 1984, he performed in a Joseph Papp/Riverside Shakespeare Company parks tour production of Romeo and Juliet. After thirty-seven performances, “I realized that I didn’t want to be Romeo—I wanted to be Shakespeare.” Soon after, he decamped to Paris, where he sat in cafes and began writing, tapping back into an old self. “After Paris, I moved to Venice, where Simple Prayers and my son were born. Having a child,” he says, “evoked the need to connect what I was doing with earning a livelihood.” He applied to University of California Irvine in the creative writing program for a master’s. He would complete Simple Prayers as his thesis.</p><p>As chance would have it, Hollywood came calling. The manuscript was optioned to be made into a film “and they are still trying to make it into a movie twenty-one years later,” he says. He met the director François Girard (<em>The Red Violin</em> and <em>32 Short Films About Glenn Gould</em>) and they became friends. Girard was looking for someone to help him with a screen adaptation to Alessandro Baricco’s <em>Silk</em>, and the challenge piqued Golding’s interest. “We filmed it in Japan and in Italy. It was a very special experience in that it was both wonderful and frustrating. With screenwriting you have to have a very thick skin, which some people do. I don’t. I have a very thin skin, which I think makes my work better. But in Hollywood it is decision by committee, which is frustrating, I think in part it was feeling that the work in screenwriting was so out of my hands that I needed to get the wheel back, and that is when I started writing <em>A Poet of the Invisible World</em>.”</p><p><em><strong>The World Within</strong> </em><br /><br />Nouri, the poet of the title, struggles with what it truly means to unlock one’s voice—the essence of the soul. His journey across continents puts him face to face with the world’s most open-hearted generosity and the cruelest expressions of fear and selfishness. Yet his toughest battle is the war within himself.</p><p>“One of the things that the book is trying to say is that the body and spirit are together in this journey. You don’t reach a higher level of understanding by ignoring the body or defying the body,” Golding says.</p><p>And the same is true with the spirit.</p><p>“During those seven years I was working on the book, I was given a number of very difficult things to work through personally and that, I wouldn’t say slowed me down, but it made it take longer.</p><p>“Also, simultaneously, I couldn’t finish the book until I took care of certain things—and that took awhile. I was married, and I have a child. I haven’t been married for a while. It’s not something that I haven’t talked about with my former wife, my son, and with everyone who is dear to me. It’s been a process of unraveling threads and looking at it and understanding what it means and what it doesn’t mean. I mean, we all know how to say these things. It’s a very big part of the culture. But the book had to come from somewhere truthful within me. So it took a while. But better seven years than seventy.”</p><p>Golding found that following Nouri's journey on the page evolved into a walk alongside the character. He understands now that following his path meant overcoming obstacles and transforming, suffering and overcoming difficult experiences.</p><p>He is clear about the takeaway: “I wouldn’t say that it was a revelation, I would say it was an integration, which is very different. We are now talking about sexuality—about my sexuality—and I would think that if some of my classmates read this article, they would think: ‘Oh God, we knew that!’ And in a certain way, I did, too; but I wasn’t able to integrate it into my life and understand it; and writing this book has allowed that—and that’s the gift.</p><p>It is, as Sheikh Bailiri counseled young Nouri, seeing things as the really are. The winding journey of this writing, of converging paths and merging those heretofore-invisible selves, helped Golding to clarify: “I didn’t want to live in a narrow stricture. I want to embrace—and know—all the things that are inside of myself.” <br /><br /><strong>EDITOR'S NOTE:</strong> <em>A Poet of the Invisible World</em> has been nominated for both the <a href="http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/">Lambda Literary Award</a> and the <a href="http://www.publishingtriangle.org/awards.asp">Ferro-Grumley Literary Award</a>. </p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-03-15T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, March 15, 2016</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/golding-regular.gif" width="620" height="265" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/lynell-george" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Lynell George</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/spring-2016" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Spring 2016</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/golding-portrait_0.gif" width="250" height="300" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Michael Golding &#039;80 calls &#039;A Poet of the Invisible World&#039; a spiritual fable</div></div></section> Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498469 at https://alumni.duke.edu Q&A: Henry Petroski on roads, bridges, and traffic lights https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/qa-henry-petroski-roads-bridges-and-traffic-lights <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Henry Petroski, Vesic Professor of civil engineering and professor of history, is the author of nineteen books—most recently, <em>The Road Taken: The History and Future of America’s Infrastructure</em>.</p> <p><strong>What’s the biggest surprise from your research on this book? </strong></p> <p>The fact that politics, finance, engineering, and lots of other forces—activism, environmentalism—push and pull infrastructure decisions in so many different directions. We should all be in it together for the common good. Infrastructure is, after all, public works.</p> <p><strong>How does America’s infrastructure compare with the rest of the world?</strong></p> <p>The American Society of Civil Engineers issues an infrastructure report card every four years; we keep getting a mediocre grade at best. That refers not just to roads and bridges but also to water supply, sewage, and so forth. Congress finally passed an infrastructure bill in early December, but it didn’t solve the central problem, the insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund. That fund is supported by the gas tax, but the gas tax has not been raised since 1993—even now that gas prices are very, very low. You can’t have good infrastructure without paying for it. In the early days of this country, you could get tax relief by working on the roads, maybe right in your neighborhood. People had a direct connection to the roads, and they saw that it took effort to put them in order.</p> <p><strong>Is it curious that we still have Roman-built roads to travel on?</strong></p> <p>Of course, the loads that were put on Roman roads didn’t include big semi-tractor-trailers. But we don’t build our roads of stone, and stone lasts a lot longer than asphalt. When you put a road down in asphalt, you’re going to have to replace it in a couple of decades, at most. So we’re not building for centuries.</p> <p><strong>You write admiringly of the Brooklyn Bridge. How common is it to see that kind of convergence of functional and aesthetic values?</strong></p> <p>It was rare even when the Brooklyn Bridge was built. That bridge’s designer, John Roebling, was not just a topnotch engineer; he also studied philosophy. Exceptional engineers back in the late 1800s saw bridges as monumental entrances to cities; they weren’t just utilitarian structures. And so they designed them for the ages.</p> <p><strong>You seem to be fascinated not just by big things, like the Brooklyn Bridge, but also by modest aspects of infrastructure, like centerlines and traffic lights. There are always challenges getting agreement around standards. What color paint do you use on centerlines?</strong></p> <p>Oregon wants one color; New York State wants another color. There have been debates about traffic lights. Should it be red light on top, green light on the bottom, or vice versa? There is one city with a large Irish-American community that didn’t like the red light on top—they wanted green, for Ireland, uppermost. That may be fine from a cultural point of view. But about 10 percent of male drivers are colorblind. They can’t distinguish between red and green light, except by their standardized position.</p> <p><strong>Are we going to see a future with different demands on infrastructure?</strong></p> <p>The technology for self-driving and interconnected vehicles is ready to go. But the public policy isn’t in place. If there is an accident with a driverless car, who’s at fault?</p> <p><strong>What’s your sense of how attentive Duke is to its infrastructure needs?</strong></p> <p>It’s variable. At the end of Science Drive, there’s a circle where buses, trucks, everybody can turn around. The buses ride up on the concrete curb and over time break off chunks of it. If campus planners had thought long term about the issue in the first place, they might have used granite. Now after a few years, they’ll say, “Oh, well, we should redo the curb.” There will likely be a patchwork repair—an incremental response to crumbling concrete—and the concrete won’t match. It’s what we see with the potholes we drive over, and it’s a metaphor for what’s happening with our infrastructure nationally.</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00">Monday, March 14, 2016</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/Q%26Apetroski-regular.gif" width="620" height="265" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/robert-j-bliwise" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Robert J. Bliwise</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/spring-2016" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Spring 2016</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/Q%26Apetroski-portrait_0.gif" width="250" height="300" alt="" /></figure></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> No <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue <h3 class="field-label"> Cover Story </h3> <h3 class="field-label"> Homepage </h3> Mon, 14 Mar 2016 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498479 at https://alumni.duke.edu https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/qa-henry-petroski-roads-bridges-and-traffic-lights#comments The Making of Chad Dickerson https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/making-chad-dickerson <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Chad Dickerson ’93 discovered the Duke Coffeehouse as a freshman, and for the next three years he hardly left. A Southern-born kid with an unconventional streak, he found the DIY café and music venue at the edge of East Campus a welcome alternative to mainstream campus culture. He was enthralled by the “secret society” of grunge rockers, college-radio deejays, Deadheads, and Durham townies—not to mention “just general weirdoes, and I say that in the most positive sense”—who gathered there to play <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrom">carrom</a>, read poetry, and discuss politics. As an English major and lover of words, he’d found his place. Every other part of campus came neatly prepackaged, stamped with a corporate logo. The Coffeehouse was the most handmade thing at Duke.</p> <p>But by the time Dickerson was in his third year, the Coffeehouse was failing as a business. The former managers had left it deeply in debt, and the student government was threatening to withdraw funding. “They were going to end it,” Dickerson recalls. The Coffeehouse had exposed him to indie bands like Sonic Youth and <a href="http://superchunk.com/music/">Superchunk</a>; it had offered him his first taste of hummus. Unable to let it fail completely, he went to the dean of students and made his case. “Let me run it,” he implored. “I’ll figure out a way to pay back the bills.” The dean agreed, giving him one semester to turn it around.</p> <p>As the newly minted manager, Dickerson wanted to expand the venue’s musical offerings. But he realized the place had problems aside from bookkeeping. “The sound system was really faulty, the food was terrible, the coffee was kind of stale,” he recalls. Although the Coffeehouse received funding from the university, its daily operation was left entirely to students. If he wanted things fixed, he’d have to do it himself.</p> <p>He went to work. He replaced the dinky platform for performers with a real stage. The cash-only system was a nuisance for students, so he had a DukeCard reader installed to make transactions easier. He also invested in a state-of-the-art sound system and shiny new barista equipment. Then he rallied the staff to come drink beer and paint the new sound booth, disguising the work as a party. By the end of the year, all the debts were repaid, and the Coffeehouse was in the black.</p> <p>“I felt like the president of a country who inherited the country in a terrible recession and left with low unemployment and a budget surplus, not to mention the coolness of it,” he recalls. The Coffeehouse’s near-death experience had shown him that a business can’t run on cool vibes alone. It needed someone who was organized, responsible, and ambitious enough to get things done, but who also valued free-spirited expression enough to give it room to flourish. “The real magic in creative organizations happens when you can combine that creative spirit with actually running it well,” he says. “You need both to build something that lasts long term.”</p> <p>Now, as the CEO of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/">Etsy</a>, Dickerson has found another DIY place to land. Etsy is an online marketplace that trades in handcrafted and vintage goods, including a <a href="https://www.etsy.com/search?q=taxidermy%20frog%20purse">taxidermy frog purse</a>, a zombie wedding-cake topper, and a pair of antique opera glasses, among millions of other oddities. Because he’s able to keep hold of the guy he always has been, Dickerson is once again managing creatives and protecting the bizarre.</p> <p>Dickerson’s roots run deep in North Carolina tobacco country. Born in Greenville in 1972, he was the second son of a hard-working civil engineer and a homemaker. His early memories include frolicking in the smoky barn on his grandparents’ farm, where they raised hogs and cured tobacco. He played as children do, but he also worked, helping his dad chop firewood in the winter and trimming neighbors’ lawns alongside his brother in the summer. He recalls one year when the house needed a new roof. Instead of hiring a professional roofer, the boys’ father took them down to the hardware store, bought shingles and roof tar, and showed them how to do it themselves. “My dad was crazy serious about work ethic,” says Dickerson. “We were not allowed to be lazy at all.”</p> <p>With the pocket money earned from lawn mowing, he bought every single Beatles album, kindling for his later interest in 1960s counterculture. As a teenager he wrote papers on Woodstock and sneaked into the local college library to read about the students who fought for free speech in Berkeley and the ones who protested against capitalism in Paris. The summer after high-school graduation, he ventured to Raleigh to see the Grateful Dead perform. Under the influence of jam band music and in search of more mind-opening experiences, he drove with his parents to Durham in the fall of 1990.</p> <p>Dickerson’s maternal grandfather couldn’t read or write. His father had returned to a state university for a second degree and worked multiple jobs to afford his son’s hefty tuition. Dickerson also did work-study jobs each year as part of his financial-aid package. Sometimes his upbringing made it feel like he came from a different world than his classmates. Years later, he described one encounter on his blog: “I had taken a summer job working on Duke’s Central Campus, painting student apartments and mowing grass. As I was mowing, I saw an acquaintance from a class the prior semester walk by, and he motioned to me. I turned off my lawn mower and walked over to him. He asked me what I was doing. I said, ‘Working.’ He said, ‘Why?’ I said, ‘Because I need the money.’ He looked seriously puzzled. I had honestly never met people like that until I went to Duke.”</p> <p>There were other instances in which he felt somehow apart. In the rare event that he attended a game at Cameron Stadium, he heard arrogance in the chants, “That’s alright, that’s okay, I’m gonna be your boss one day!” When students started selling popular T-shirts that read, “Duke University: We’re not snobs, we’re just better than you,” Dickerson wrote a letter to <em>The Chronicle</em> in protest. Years later, he would remember that letter and agree with his younger self: Elitism still wasn’t a very clever business platform.</p> <p>When he wasn’t at the Coffeehouse, he was often in English class. He chose the major because he wanted to read good fiction, study Shakespeare, and partake in meaningful conversations. In a freshman seminar called “Beatniks, Bohemians, and the Novel,” he basked in the raw, provocative honesty of Burroughs, Kerouac, and Ginsberg. “I loved that class,” says Dickerson, so much that he still has his term papers. Not only did he learn to write, he also learned about the art of a good story. “Every day I think about how that English major was useful to me.”</p> <p>The respect was mutual. “Chad was kind of an outlier even as a freshman, both intellectually and personally,” says Trent Hill ’85, A.M. ’88, Ph.D. ’93, compared with other students who “could be pretty conformist in outlook and aspiration.” Hill was the then-graduate student who taught the seminar; he’s now a senior lecturer at the University of Washington. “In class, he was reserved, gracious, and a little curmudgeonly. He didn’t speak up a whole lot, but when he did speak, his classmates took him seriously, probably because he was so understated.”</p> <p>“There’s kind of a classic trope that you find in the bohemian and oppositional literature,” Hill continues, that tries “to locate ultimate value in some kind of a fantastic place outside of the economy and outside of capitalism.” But as Hill observed, Dickerson was imaginative without being naive. “I think he was much more interested in finding ways to make capitalism more humane.”</p> <p>Despite the grounded sensibility he presented in class, Dickerson really had no idea what he wanted to do after college. “I would meet people on my freshman hall and...they’d have their whole life planned out,” he says. “I could never think that way, and I still don’t think that way.” After graduating a semester early in the winter of 1993, he got a job delivering pizza. Soon he nabbed a second low-paying gig at <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/"><em>The News &amp; Observer</em></a> in Raleigh. There, it was his job to read both the original print article and the electronic version and make sure the two matched up.</p> <p>The newspaper was pioneering one of the first digital news services. As Dickerson witnessed journalism collide with emerging technology, he started to ask questions about how Web pages were made. His colleagues began giving him small programming tasks, and over the next year or so he taught himself to code. In an era before many people used the Web on a routine basis, Dickerson’s friends and family were perplexed by what he was doing. “Is that the Information Superhighway I’ve been hearing about?” he remembers them asking.</p> <p>From <em>The N&amp;O</em>, Dickerson continued to pursue the confluence of tech and media, holding various positions at <em>CNN/Sports Illustrated</em>, <em>Salon.com</em>, and <em>InfoWorld</em>. “In the early ’90s, there was a lot of cultural concern about people of Chad’s age cohort being slackers,” says Hill, Dickerson’s former teacher. But instead of frittering away their potential, “they sort of wound up inventing the Internet.”</p> <p>At Yahoo, Dickerson launched the first global Hack Day, a twenty-four-hour code-fest where computer programmers gathered to dream up new bits of software. Dickerson made it a festival, arranging for barbecue and a live performance by Beck. It was a hit. In code, he had found a subversive yet creative medium. “If art is making order out of chaos, then software developers are artists at the highest level,” he wrote in an <em>InfoWorld</em> column after the event.</p> <p>In 2008, Dickerson was newly married, working at Yahoo, and happily living in San Francisco when he heard about a unique company called Etsy. Founded three years earlier, Etsy was emerging as a hip alternative to bigbox marketplaces like Amazon and eBay. Despite having no desire to move, Dickerson flew to Brooklyn for an interview. Once there, he found a community-oriented company both brimming with energy and facing organizational dilemmas. “I had this strong sense that I didn’t want to just give the team advice, but I actually wanted to help,” he later told a <em>New York Times</em> reporter. “Coming from Yahoo and these Hack Days, when I looked at Etsy, it looked like it was hacking the world.” Shortly after the interview, he accepted a position as the company’s chief technology officer. He packed up the complete works of Shakespeare and his beat novels, and he and his wife, Nancy, moved across the country.</p> <p>On a muggy afternoon late last summer, Dickerson stands in the glow of an antique chandelier in a brownstone in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park neighborhood. As he gazes around the front room, his eyes light on the original hardwood floors, retro clocks and lamps, and a blue sewing machine by the bay window. Mostly, he admires the ceiling-high shelf of handmade leather and canvas bags.</p> <p>“I’ll ask the question everyone wants to ask,” Dickerson says with a soft grin. “Can we live here?”</p> <p>“Yeah, for a fee. Three percent,” jokes Tielor McBride, who actually does live here. He is the maker of the totes and duffles on display, which he sells through his Etsy shop, <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/TM1985">TM1985</a>. Inspired by his great-great-grandfather, a Danish immigrant who ran a horse tack and boot shop, McBride’s products are hand-dyed, waxed, and sewn to evoke a bygone era of rugged adventure and quality artisanship. He’s one of Etsy’s one-and-a-half million sellers from around the world.</p> <p>Dickerson isn’t here as part of some marketing gimmick. Etsy sponsors these studio visits several times a week so employees can meet the individuals at the other end of the website. Despite his crammed schedule, Dickerson makes time for these field trips because he’s genuinely interested in what Etsians are making and how his company can support their businesses. He is also a bit addicted to collecting Etsy treasures, and McBride’s bags are no exception. He’s brought along his own TM1985 creation, a gray canvas briefcase with black leather handles.</p> <p>Dickerson and six other Etsy employees form a circle and listen as McBride tells the story of how he got started. As much as Dickerson appreciates the detailed workmanship that goes into each bag—at one point he fawns over the interior pocket perfectly tailored to fit an iPhone—he’s also curious about McBride’s approach to the business side, for example his marketing and pricing techniques. “I don’t remember what I paid for mine, but I would’ve paid more,” says Dickerson, who often encourages sellers to place greater value on their work.</p> <p>At one point, Dickerson asks how Etsy could be better. McBride fidgets for a moment, perhaps worried to voice the truth in front of the company’s CEO. “The way you search for quality,” he says eventually. “It is hard to find stuff sometimes.”</p> <p>But Dickerson isn’t upset. In fact, he agrees. “That’s good feedback,” he nods.</p> <p>After he worked for three years as Etsy’s chief technology officer, the board selected him to be CEO in 2011. When he went home to tell Nancy the news, she wasn’t thrilled. “I don’t want to be married to a CEO,” she said. Dickerson thinks she was afraid he’d become the stereotypical male executive: alpha, topdown, rigidly resolute.</p> <p>But Etsy has never strived to be a typical company, and Dickerson isn’t the typical CEO. He prizes advice from sellers like McBride, and he seeks it from people both outside and within the organization. “I think a good leader has to be prepared to change his or her mind when the facts suggest that you should change your mind,” he says.</p> <p>As enterprising and innovative as Etsy sellers are, so, too, are its employees. As CEO, Dickerson has tried to weave that creative spirit into the office culture. One example is <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/etsy-school_n_5668798.html">Etsy School</a>, an internal education program conceived under his watch. “Anyone in the company can propose a class and teach it to others in the company,” he explains. “You’ll see classes ranging from computer programming to fortune- telling to a class about Central Park.”</p> <p>Dickerson also launched the company-wide spring talent show, which in turn sprouted a company bakeoff and gallery-style art show. Expression is inspired on a daily basis as well. He often can hear employees practicing piano on the floor below his office. Awards are given out for the “most spectacular mistake.” Staffers get stipends to decorate their desks.</p> <p>“As a CEO, you have to create a culture where things like that can happen,” he says. “I think what I did was took some of those seeds and really made them grow.”</p> <p>Of course, it’s not all arts and crafts. As CEO, he leads a staff of more than 800 employees stationed in seven countries around the world. He’s also drawn criticism from Etsians upset by changes in company policy, like when Etsy decided it was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/business/media/etsys-success-raises-problems-of-credibility-and-scale.html?_r=0">okay for sellers to use outside manufacturers</a> to help them make their goods. Last April, he led Etsy to its IPO, which had some sellers wondering whether the company had strayed too far from its original anti-corporate mission.</p> <p>“It’s not all like, <em>Namaste</em>,” says Jerry Colonna, Dickerson’s executive coach. For the past four years, Colonna has helped Dickerson navigate the professional and emotional challenges of his job. “There have been hard decisions almost every week. There have been a few times where I’ve gotten phone calls where he’s said, ‘I feel like vomiting.’ ”</p> <p>Dickerson himself admits that the job comes with a certain pressure that doesn’t ever really go away. Seven years into his Etsy tenure, he doesn’t “come in a single day and feel relaxed about what we have to do.” Sometimes, while reading Dr. Seuss to his four-year-old son, a line from <em>Hop on Pop</em> feels all too familiar: “Dad is sad. What a bad day Dad had.”</p> <p>But the bad days and stressors haven’t flattened him into a caricature, which his wife can affirm. He says he occasionally checks in and asks her, “ ‘Are you still okay? Do you feel like you’re married to the CEO you were afraid of?’ She tells me, ‘No, you’ve stayed the same.’ I’ve learned a lot, but I’m still who I am.” It helps that Dickerson genuinely believes in Etsy’s mission to personalize and reimagine commerce. He champions a space for artists to make and share the things they love—a place where they can be themselves. In a way, Etsy is like the Duke Coffeehouse all grown up.</p> <p>After his visit to McBride’s studio, Dickerson heads back to Etsy headquarters in Brooklyn. The vast warehouse space is rather Seuss-like itself, from the towering sculpture of an owl-like mascot that guards the entrance, to the plants blooming from canvas pouches on the walls, to the sleeves of colorful yarn that brighten exposed pipes.</p> <p>By contrast, Dickerson’s office is a simple wood-and-glass-paneled room furnished with a few telling totems: an acoustic guitar, framed photographs of his son, a wooden desk. On a shelf sits a vintage radio, and hanging from one knob is a small banner, a gift from a colleague. It’s embroidered with two words: “STAY WEIRD.”</p> </div></div></div> <h3 class="field-label"> Published </h3> <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00">Monday, March 14, 2016</span><section class="field field-name-field-main-image field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Main image:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/chad-feature.gif" width="1900" height="900" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Writer:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/author/elizabeth-van-brocklin" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Elizabeth Van Brocklin</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Issue:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/issue/spring-2016" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Spring 2016</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-portrait field-type-image field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Portrait:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-none" src="https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-portraits/chad-portrait_0.gif" width="250" height="300" alt="" /></figure></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-photo-credit field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Photo Credit:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/photographers/laura-barisonzi" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Laura Barisonzi</a></li></ul></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Featured article </h3> Yes <h3 class="field-label"> Background color </h3> blue<section class="field field-name-field-sub-header field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Sub-header:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A pragmatist with an outlier spirit, the Etsy CEO has crafted a career celebrating creativity</div></div></section> <h3 class="field-label"> Cover Story </h3> <h3 class="field-label"> Homepage </h3> Mon, 14 Mar 2016 08:00:00 +0000 Joseph Sorensen, JOSEPH E. 18498484 at https://alumni.duke.edu https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/making-chad-dickerson#comments