Some of Myles Owens IV’s fondest memories with his dad are on the family’s boat at Jordan Lake. When his dad passed away in 2015 after a hard-fought battle with prostate cancer, the family spread his ashes at the lake.
On Valentine’s Day 2009, Meg Lindenberger was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Marilyn Pike, T’73, PhD’79, MD’85, hit the jackpot when she opted to work as a research technician after earning her undergraduate degree at Duke.
For Jane Trinh, MD’02, HS’02-’06, and her husband, Peter Grossi, MD’02, HS’02- ’08, Duke University School of Medicine was the place where they met in the middle.
Growing up in a family of physicians, Garheng Kong, MD’01, PhD’00, MBA’03, knew he would continue the family tradition and become a physician like his father, uncles, and cousins.
Ernest Borden, MD’66, had only been at Duke University School of Medicine for a week when he went on a blind date with a School of Nursing senior.
Connie B. Bishop, BSN’75, DNP’12, a clinical assistant professor at North Carolina A&T State University, has always been a Dukie. Her late father, Bob Bossons, was an assistant football coach at Duke on Bill Murray’s staff in the 1950s and on Mike McGee’s staff in the 1970s. Her mom, Virginia, was the executive assistant for the English department at Duke.
No one knows better than Willard “Bud” Budzinski about the need for student aid in the Duke University School of Nursing.
Though K. Becky Zagor, BSN’80, RN, MN, decided very early to become a nurse, she says the decision to attend Duke wasn’t as clear-cut. First, she didn’t think she was strong enough academically to compete. And second, her father had been out of work for six months during a tough 1970s recession, meaning her family couldn’t afford Duke.
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