Medical Center
$300,000 from E. Arthur Palumbo T’49 for the Palumbo Achievement Award

Arts and Sciences and Trinity College
$200,000 from Nina Lesavoy T’79 for the I. Lawrence Lesavoy Endowment

$525,267 from Linda W. and Milledge A. Hart III P’85, P’87 for the Hart Leadership Program Fund in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy

$750,000 from William E. Hunt T’84, Janet Smith Hunt T’84, Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Hunt P’84, and the Roy A. Hunt Foundation for the William and Janet Hunt Assistant Professorship Endowment Fund

Athletics
$100,000 from Mark Militello T’84 and Jacqueline White Militello T’86 for the new football building

Divinity
$100,000 from Bruce and Sara Brandaleone W’65 for the Brandaleone Family Scholarship Endowment Fund

$600,000 from Jane and Royce Reynolds for
the Reynolds Program in Christian Leadership

Engineering
$67,000 from Jan L. Mize E’60 for an undergraduate engineering scholarship, to be matched by $33,000 from The Duke Endowment

$33,000 from Marilyn Harrison W’71 and R. Keith Harrison E’70 for an undergraduate engineering scholarship, in addition to $33,000 for a scholarship in arts and sciences, each to be matched with $17,000 from The Duke Endowment

Fuqua
$250,000 from J.B. Fuqua for support of global initiatives

Law
$500,000 from Marcella Poe for the Douglas A. Poe-Mordecai Scholarship

$273,000 from John D. Fite L’61 in additional funds for the John D. Fite-Mordecai Scholarship

Library
$90,000 from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation for an instructional technology library

$206,000 from the estate of Margaret Sprinkle for library collections

Nicholas School of the Environment
$126,500 from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for student support

$50,000 anonymous gift annuity for endowment

Financial Partners Program
Coach Mike Krzyzewski readily acknowledges that the Duke student fans who go crazy in Cameron Indoor are his basketball team’s all-important “sixth man.” The Campaign for Duke has a sixth man, as well—Duke alumni and friends in the top echelons of the financial services industry. The campaign plans to use their enthusiasm for Duke—first in New York, then around the nation—to rally other financiers.

The focus of the effort, which was suggested by Chair J.J. Kiser T ’65 and other members of the Arts & Sciences Campaign Committee, is to build a leadership team to cultivate and encourage junior and mid-level alumni to sponsor different financial aid packages. Special care will be taken to encourage the creation of a positive, personal relationship between donors and the individual students they support.Senior development staff in University Development and Arts & Sciences and Trinity College will coordinate the effort, which will expand throughout Duke and to other financial centers, such as Boston and Chicago. The leadership committee envisions annual events
to generate interest in the program. Gifts may be designated to any school or area. Donors will be encouraged to mentor students, hire student interns, and play various volunteer roles, from helping build the prospect list to actively soliciting gifts.

Student Affairs
Duke attracts academically gifted students from across the nation and around the world. Year after year, those students demonstrate that their thirst is not only for knowledge, but for ballet and basketball, for community service and swing dancing, for leadership roles in fraternities and sororities and student government.

Thus the $24 million student affairs component of the Arts & Sciences and Trinity College campaign.Duke is committed to providing its students with resources outside the classroom and laboratory that mirror the quality of its academic offerings. Students can take advantage of a vibrant and supportive residential life, an exceptional array of clubs and activities, and critical services that support their healthy growth and development. By investing in the lives of its students beyond the classroom, by giving them the opportunity to play hard while they work hard, Duke insures that they grow and change for the better.

A Tale of Two Volunteer Leaders:

James Jacob (J.J.) Kiser III T'65 and Margaret Taylor Smith W'47

At a recent training session for volunteers for the Campaign for Duke, Senior Vice President John J. Piva, Jr., sought confirmation from the audience of a point, and called on J.J. Kiser III. Moments later, volunteers with more than 30 years of fundraising experience were asked to identify themselves, then those with more than 40 years, then those with more than 50. Three volunteers were left standing, one of them Margaret Taylor Smith.

Kiser and Smith are archetypal Duke volunteers—intelligent, committed, tenacious, and creative. Both have strong North Carolina roots. Born in Florence, South Carolina, Kiser was raised in Hickory. Smith, who lives in Birmingham, Michigan, is a native of Roanoke Rapids. Both have extended Duke families. Two of Kiser’s children are Trinity graduates. Smith’s husband, Sidney W. Smith, Jr., went to Trinity and the law school and two of their children are Trinity alumni. Both are active members of the Arts & Sciences Campaign Steering Committee and former chairs of the Trinity College Board of Visitors.

Each has a distinctive way of expressing love for Duke. When Bill Chafe, dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences and dean of Trinity College, was unable to get a flight to an appointment with a prospective donor in New York City, Kiser, the founder and CEO of American Fiber & Finishing, Inc., of Burlington, Massachusetts, picked Chafe up in his company plane and got him to the meeting on time. Having raised a family and then served as chair of the Kresge Foundation, Smith’s approach to retirement was to spearhead a drive that culminated in the creation of the Margaret Taylor Smith Endowed Directorship of Duke’s Women’s Studies Program.

Kiser became a Duke trustee in 1998. Under the Bass Program for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, his philanthropy created the Kiser Family Associate Professorship. A Phi Beta Kappa Woman’s College graduate with a degree in sociology, Smith was a member of the executive committee of Duke’s last campaign and of the board of directors of the Alumni Association. She also serves on two Detroit hospital boards and found time to co-author a book, Mother, I Have Something to Tell You.