Encouraging and rewarding Duke excellence
Duke Alumni Association celebrates the reputation for excellence and public-spiritedness that Duke University and its graduates have earned throughout the world. We give several annual awards to honor those who exemplify these ideals and to uphold them as examples before the community.
Our alumni have also funded scholarships to cultivate future generations of exemplary Duke graduates, attracting students with high potential for success to the university and enabling many who would not otherwise have attended to become Forever Duke.
2011 Award Winners
Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke '67 honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award
Duke trustee emerita Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke ’67, one of the first five African-American undergraduate students to matriculate at Duke and a professor at the University of the District of Columbia’s (UDC) David A. Clarke School of Law, is this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award. Reuben-Cooke has been involved with her alma mater through service on the Annual Fund Reunion Committee, the DeWitt Wallace Center board of visitors, the Black Alumni Leadership Summit, and as a two-term trustee.
Reuben-Cooke will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award at the annual Founders’ Day ceremonies on September 22.
(Please see a more complete profile in the September-October issue of Duke Magazine)
Anthony Kelley, Professor of Music honored with the ADUTA award
2011 Charles A. Dukes Award winners
Mrs. Artyn Haig Gardner T'73
Mr. Fred J., Jr. T'50 and Mrs. Alice WC'53 Stanback
Dr. Paul S. Teller T'93
Dr. Melvia L. Wallace T'85
2011 Forever Duke Award Winners
| Captain Christopher Anthony Abbate T’92 | Mrs. Catherine Richardson McCarthy T’86 | Mr. Nicholas J. Superina T’03 | ||
| Major Randy J. Garcia T'01 | Dr. William R. Norris B’07 | Mr. Gregg Stuart Tenser T’89 | ||
| Mr. R. H. Eric Goss B’92 | Mr. Luis Ken Ohara T’02 | Mr. Edward Bryan Thomas T’98 | ||
| Mr. Grant Henry Hill T’94 | Mr. Richard Herbert Patterson, Jr. T’80 | Ms. Amy E. Unell T’03 | ||
| Mr. William Asa Lawrence III T’85 | Dr. Michael Joseph Rosen T’84 | Dr. Linda Z. Winikoff T’76 | ||
| Mr. T. Reid Lewis T’84 | Mr. Kenneth Thomas Schiciano E’84 |
Class of 1981 Reunions Leadership - Group Award