No one knows better than Willard “Bud” Budzinski about the need for student aid in the Duke University School of Nursing.

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.

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.