Board of Trustees Pens
- Title:
- Board of Trustees Pens
- Description:
- On December 29, 1924, the Trinity College Board of Trustees used these pens to change the name from Trinity College to Duke University. The trustees changed the name to Duke after tobacco and energy industrialist James Buchanan (J. B.) Duke established the Duke Endowment with a gift of $40 million to provide ongoing support for four Southern universities (Duke, Furman, Johnson C. Smith, and Davidson), non-profit hospitals in the Carolinas, child well-being, and rural United Methodist churches. Funds from the Endowment enabled the construction of Duke University, named after Duke’s father, Washington Duke. After J. B. Duke’s death in 1925, he left the Endowment an additional $67 million.
- Date:
- 1924
- Rights:
Some Rights Reserved- Citation:
- Board of Trustees Pens, Artifact and Relics Collection, Box 3, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
