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The Right Stuff Poster, 1984-1985
Over the years, basketball has helped define Duke as a top-tier institution for collegiate athletics. Since 1959, Duke has produced basketball team posters to depict the season’s player lineup and defining season motto. Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) assumed the role of head coach in 1980, and Carol "Mickie" Krzyzewski, Coach K’s wife, started the tradition of directing themed posters for each team. -
Toomey's Comics
James Patrick Toomey (P‘83) illustrated comics for The Chronicle, focusing on campus and national political issues from 1981 to 1983. Some of the themes he covered still ring true today! Jim Toomey later created the cartoon strip Sherman’s Lagoon, which has been syndicated in 150 newspapers. -
East Campus Dorm, 1986
When Trinity College moved to Durham from Randolph County in 1892, seeking connection to an urban environment, it landed in what is now known as Duke’s East Campus. After Trinity College became Duke University, East Campus was redesigned by the Horace Trumbauer architectural firm, gaining its signature Georgian-style red brick buildings. In 1930, East Campus became the Woman’s College under Dean Alice M. Baldwin, training women in academic and societal leadership before merging with Duke’s Trinity College of Arts and Sciences in 1972. East Campus began housing first-year undergraduates in 1995, and that tradition continues today. East Campus is also home to multiple academic departments, including Music, History, and Cultural Anthropology. -
West Campus Dorms, 1986
The dorms of Abele Quad were once adorned with colorful benches and plaques demarcating sections of various Greek organizations, non-Greek selective living groups, and independent houses. Though many of these organizations created a strong sense of community, others perpetuated the exclusivity and negative social behaviors often associated with Greek life. Historically, over two-thirds of the student body chose to participate in selective living. In 2021, Duke announced an end to the hundred-year-old practice of selective living with the unveiling of QuadEx, the new Quad-based residential model. -
Random Student Living Group
The dorms of Abele Quad were once adorned with colorful benches and plaques demarcating sections of various Greek organizations, non-Greek selective living groups, and independent houses. Though many of these organizations created a strong sense of community, others perpetuated the exclusivity and negative social behaviors often associated with Greek life. Historically, over two-thirds of the student body chose to participate in selective living. In 2021, Duke announced an end to the hundred-year-old practice of selective living with the unveiling of QuadEx, the new Quad-based residential model. -
Beta Theta Phi, 1986
The dorms of Abele Quad were once adorned with colorful benches and plaques demarcating sections of various Greek organizations, non-Greek selective living groups, and independent houses. Though many of these organizations created a strong sense of community, others perpetuated the exclusivity and negative social behaviors often associated with Greek life. Historically, over two-thirds of the student body chose to participate in selective living. In 2021, Duke announced an end to the hundred-year-old practice of selective living with the unveiling of QuadEx, the new Quad-based residential model. -
Duke Vs. UNC Football Program, November 21, 1981
Under Coach Wallace Wade (1931-1950), the Duke football team was renowned nationwide. During his time as coach, Duke won seven Southern Conferences and made two Rose Bowl appearances, including a four-year period where the “Iron Dukes” ran undefeated. Following Wade's retirement, Duke would win six Atlantic Coast Conference championships between 1953 and 1962. The Athletics department produced various vivid, colorful programs to advertise the games. -
Duke University Marine Laboratory 50th anniversary celebration: a half century dedicated to education, training, research, and service
This book celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Duke University Marine Laboratory and its founding on Pivers Island by Dr. A. S. Pearse in the 1930s. Located in Beaufort, North Carolina, the Marine Lab is a coastal campus dedicated to the disciplines of marine biology and conservation, marine environmental health, and physical oceanography. -
International House Photographs
These photographs show a gathering at the Duke International House, now the Duke International Student Center (DISC). International students have been part of the Duke community since student Charlie Soong enrolled at Trinity College in 1881. DISC advocates for and provides advising, educational programming, and community for international students. Other organizations include the Duke International Association, a student-run social organization for international students. -
Duke Dimensions: A Magazine for Undergraduates
In her editor's note, Kimberly J. Jenkins (T’76, M.E.’77, Ph.D.’80) wrote, "DIMENSIONS is a publication designed to provide important financial information to those who invest in Duke University. Since undergraduate students constitute a large group of 'shareholders,' this publication focuses on issues most directly related to student concerns." Because tuition and university financial decisions determine a large part of the student experience, students often want to know how Duke distributes its money. In the context of Duke’s financial strains in the 1980s, investments in athletics, new building construction, and declining department funding were main concerns for students. -
Hoof'n'Horn 50th anniversary Poster
Hoof ‘n’ Horn is a student musical theater organization founded in 1936 and one of the oldest student organizations at Duke. Hoof ‘n’ Horn produced their first non-student written musical, Anything Goes, in 1952. This program is from their 1986 restaging of Anything Goes, part of Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s fiftieth anniversary, celebrating Duke and Durham’s shared love of musical theater. -
East Dope Shop Renovated
While today Duke is known for its robust dining experience, the student dining experience has varied widely over the last 100 years. East Campus previously had three eateries, including “Downunder,” housed in the basement of then all-women Gilbert-Addoms dorm. These dining areas allowed students to gather in different spaces, facilitating social connections in a way very different from dining today. -
Duke Dining "free fruit" tickets
While today Duke is known for its robust dining experience, the student dining experience has varied widely over the last 100 years. East Campus previously had three eateries, including “Downunder,” housed in the basement of then all-women Gilbert-Addoms dorm. These dining areas allowed students to gather in different spaces, facilitating social connections in a way very different from dining today. -
Fuqua School of Business Brochure, ca. 1980s
This brochure promoting the Duke Masters of Business Administration (MBA) program details specific reasons Duke students chose to pursue an MBA at the Fuqua School of Business. Originally chartered as the Graduate School of Business in 1969, the school was renamed the Fuqua School of Business with a financial gift from J. B. Fuqua in 1980. Fuqua’s motivation for donating such a large gift to the university stemmed from the fact that as a boy he borrowed books from the Duke Libraries through a borrow-by-mail program that the university participated in. It was through these books that Fuqua gleaned much of his education. Fuqua never attended college, but through his determination and intelligence he went on to build Fuqua Industries, a Fortune 500 company. -
Duke University Chorale Record
The Duke University Chorale was founded around 1970, combining the Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs, shortly before the 1972 merger of the Woman’s College and Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. The Chorale continues to be the primary choral group of the department of Music. They perform a variety of secular and sacred pieces at Duke, around North Carolina, and on an annual spring tour. -
Pitchforks Acapella Concert Flyer
Founded in 1979, The Pitchforks is one of the oldest a cappella groups at Duke University. This flyer details a joint concert in 1981 at Baldwin Auditorium with a variety of other collegiate a cappella groups in the United States. With sixteen albums, the Pitchforks Bring it Back (2006) and Disconcert (2008) both won the CARA Award for Best Male Collegiate Album. Other a cappella groups on campus include the Duke Amandla Chorus, Lady Blue, Temptasians, Something Borrowed Something Blue, Rhythm & Blue, Speak of the Devil, Out of the Blue, and Deja Blue. -
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company ADF poster
The American Dance Festival (ADF), founded in 1934, has brought some of the brightest minds in modern dance to Duke's campus every summer since it relocated to Durham in 1978. This poster advertises the 1989 performance of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, one of the most widely known queer activist dance groups. The performance took place just over a year after Zane's death from AIDS. The Company carries on his legacy and still performs with ADF today. -
The Chronicle Op-ed - Robert Satloff
Dr. Robert Satloff (T'83), then an undergraduate, wrote an op-ed in The Chronicle decrying the university's exclusive support of a Christian baccalaureate service. At his baccalaureate ceremony, he led a walk-out of Jewish students and families, leaving the Chapel in favor of a small gathering on East Campus. This was the first Jewish baccalaureate service at Duke, and it laid the foundation for a number of identity-based baccalaureates and graduations that are still celebrated today. Since 2022, Jewish Life at Duke has distributed stoles to graduating students to wear as part of their graduation regalia. -
John Hope Franklin - Race and History, Selected Essays
American historian and educator John Hope Franklin (1915-2009) was James B. Duke Professor of History Emeritus and a professor of legal history at Duke Law School. He is best known for his study From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans written in 1947. While acting as professor of legal history, Franklin wrote Race and History: Selected Essays. As a scholar of African American identity and history, he contributed to the legal brief leading to the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling which outlawed public school segregation in 1954. His impact continues to inspire the Duke and Durham communities through the numerous centers named in his honor as well as the Franklin History Grove in Durham Central Park. -
Posters advertising South African apartheid divestment protests
In the 1980s, students protesting apartheid demanded that Duke divest from companies that did business in South Africa. In 1986, demonstrators constructed shanties and a makeshift “Apartheid Prison” in front of the Chapel. Six Duke students and one alumna were arrested and charged with trespassing. The charges were dropped, and the Board of Trustees eventually agreed to divest. Susan Cook (T’88) defended the protests in a Chronicle op-ed, arguing that her great-grand-uncle Julian Abele, primary designer of Duke’s campus, “was a victim of apartheid in this country.” This brought Abele, a Black man excluded from Duke’s history, into the community’s consciousness.
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