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Durham named tastiest city by Carleigh Stiehm THE CHRONICLE
Durham foodies can take pride in their hometown’s recent win of “The Tastiest Town in the South.” Southern Living magazine placed Durham in their “Top 10 Tastiest Towns in the South” list alongside other notable destinations, such as Miami and New Orleans, in January. After a six-week long national voting process, Durham earned the title of “The Tastiest Town in the South” over Memphis, who was also a close contestant for the win. The honor shows how Durham’s burgeoning food scene has garnered mass attention. “It is an exciting but not unexpected validation of the real growth of the food scene in Durham,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president of public affairs and government relations and chairman of the Durham Chamber of Commerce. “We are certainly proud, but we are not surprised.” Durham’s rise to the number one spot is a testament to how much the people of Durham care about good food, Schoenfeld said. He added that there has been a lot of emphasis on solidifying Durham as a city known for good food in recent years. For example, Bon Appetit magazine named Durham-Chapel Hill America’s Foodiest
Divinity, law student will deliver grad remarks by Emma Baccellieri THE CHRONICLE
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Many Durham eateries contributed to the city’s recent recognition as tastiest city.
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‘A Composer with a capital C’ Robert Ward remembered for significant contributions to music by Thomas Kavanagh THE CHRONICLE
Composer and music professor emeritus Robert Ward, who died last week at the age of 95, created award-winning operas, symphonies and instrumental pieces and enriched the world of music as an avid educator, administrator, jazz band leader, publisher and musician. Ward is perhaps best remembered for his Pulitzer Prize-winning opera “The Crucible,” adapted from the Arthur Miller play dramatizing the Salem Witch Trials as an allegorical critique of American McCarthyism and the anti-communist Red Scare of the 1950’s. Ward’s 1961 opera remains one of the most frequently performed American operas, consistently produced in the U.S. and in international opera houses. “Robert Ward was a significant, vibrant force in American music,” Anthony Kelley, Trinity ’91 and associate professor of the practice of music, wrote in an email Monday.
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Barnhill selected to speak
Ward found his passion for composition at a young age, when he began singing and playing piano. Soon after graduating from high school in Cleveland, he left for New York to study at both the Eastman School of Music and the JuilRobert Ward liard School, with a summer at the Berkshire Music Center in Massachusetts where he studied composition with Aaron Copland. Ward’s playing and writing continued as he enlisted in the Army in 1942, when he attended the Army Music School at Fort Myer in Virginia. Throughout his service he composed several works for the army marching band and jazz band. During the war, Ward met Red Cross worker Mary Benedict, whom he mar-
ried in 1944. She passed away in 2006. His perseverance to his art brought him recognition—Ward has been honored on numerous occasions for his operatic, symphonic and instrumental works. Ward was awarded three separate Guggenheim Fellowships during the ’50s and ’60s to continue composing, and he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1967. He received the Old North State Award for dedication to the arts in North Carolina in 2007 and the Opera Honors from the National Endowment for the Arts— one of the highest national distinctions for operatic composition— in 2011. Ward’s ability to channel the emotion of the time made his work moving. Stephen Jaffe, Mary and James Semans professor of music composition, noted that the success of “The Crucible” was instrumental in reviving faith in the American opera, which struggled to SEE WARD ON PAGE 6
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“...We can show the North Carolinians who support backwards social policies how those policies affect them...” —Dan Pellegrino in “An open invitation to move.” See letter page 11
Although the student commencement speaker is always a graduating student, it is not often a graduate student. This year, however, will be different. On Tuesday, the University announced that Andrew Barnhill, a masters candidate in the Divinity School, will give the student commencement speech. Graduating students are annually given the opportunity to submit speeches to a selection committee, but they are chosen infrequently—Barnhill will be one of fewer than 10 graduate and professional school students to deliver this speech in the past four decades. “It was almost hard to tell from his speech which school he was graduating from,” said selection committee head Sterly Wilder, Trinity ’83 and associate vice president for alumni affairs. “It really appeals to the whole audience.” In his three years at Duke, Barnhill has focused his studies on religion and law. He has served as a graduate resident on Central Campus, a graduate assistant in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and an instructor of a house course on religion and American politics. He will complete a law degree at Duke Law next semester. “One of the things I’ve tried to do in my time at Duke is to bridge the gaps between the undergraduate and graduate communities,” said Barnhill, a native of Wilmington, N.C. who received his undergraduate degree from Furman University. “The speaker is generally an undergraduate senior, which is wonderful… but I’d like to address both the graduate and undergraduate experience.” Barnhill described his speech as discussing two facets of Duke life that often oppose each other, ambition and reflection. “Ambition, drive—that’s something that is very strong in Duke campus culture. But there’s also what we are taught in a liberal arts college—to reflect, to look back. The speech wrestles between the two,” Barnhill said. He noted that it was important to think of his speech being read alongside that of Melinda Gates, Trinity ’86 and Fuqua ’87, who will be delivering the main commencement address. “There’s a desire to have some continuity between the two speeches,” Barnhill said. Of the several dozen speeches submitted, SEE SPEAKER ON PAGE 12
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