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Public Visits of Doris Duke to the Duke campus and/or Durham

  • 1928 - Commencement Cornerstone laying ceremony, West Campus
  • 1936 April 19-21 - Visited the University and other places in North Carolina that are assisted by the Duke Endowment [Alumni Register, April 1936, p. 90]
  • 1939 - Duke University's Centennial Celebration
  • 1949  October - President Edens' Inauguration. Dedication of the Library's Rare Book Room
  • 1956 December - Founders' Day observance of the Centennial of the birth of James B. Duke and announcement of the James B. Duke Fellowships
  • 1960 - She may have been here for the memorial service for her cousin Mary Duke Biddle.
  • 1961 October 4-7 - Retirement of W. C. Davison, Dean of the Medical School. Symposium on the Commonwealth of Children
  • 1961 November - Duke Endowment Trustees met in Durham at the Home Security Life Insurance Company on Chapel Hill St. [Alumni Register, November 1961, p. 6]

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