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Forever Duke Award: Recognizing alumni for excellent recent volunteer service to Duke, the DAA, and other alumni groups. Kwad Acheampong ’06 | Anne Berry ’06 | Lori Cashman ’94 | Andrew Dillon ’96 | Caroline Gottschalk J.D. ’90 | Matthew Hepburn B.S.E. ’92, M.D.’96 | Lisa Hough ’87 Allyson Kay Duncan J.D. ’75 Duke Law Alumni Association, Dean’s Alumni Achievement Award
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n 2003, Duncan became the first African-American woman to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. This “first” was one of many that highlight her career, including being the first African Courtesy Duke Law School American to serve as the president of the North Carolina Bar Association. In each instance, she has elevated the position for everyone who follows in her footsteps. From her first job in the legal system as a law clerk to her distinguished role of legal counsel for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Duncan has served her country with integrity, honor, and commitment. U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts appointed her to chair the International Relations Committee of the U.S. Judicial Conference in October 2015.
OTHER LAW AWARDEES Charles S. Murphy Award/Service Anthony S. Harrington ’66 | Charles S. Rhyne Award/Professional Achievement Robert C. Weber J.D. ’76 | International Alumni Award Marcella Harshbarger Sampic J.D. ’02 | Young Alumni Award Rodney D. Bullard J.D. ’01
Ralph Alan Cohen A.M. ’69, Ph.D ’73
The Graduate School, Distinguished Alumni Award
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his year’s 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death has passed, but Cohen is still on a mission to ensure the Bard of Avon’s works continue to bring new life to all readers. Making Shakespeare’s works accessible has been a career goal of Cohen, the founding executive director of the American Shakespeare Center in Stauton, Virginia, where a visit to that pastoral town boasts the world’s only replica of Shakespeare’s indoor theater, the Globe. Cohen began his undergraduate study at Dartmouth pursuing a premed track, but thanks to the encouragement of two of his English professors, he traded medical school for a Ph.D. in Duke’s English program. There he discovered his passion for all things Shakespeare. He went on to become a professor at James Madison University and the Gonder Professor of Shakespeare and Performance at Mary Baldwin College, where he founded the graduate program in Shakespeare and Performance. In addition, Cohen received the Shakespeare Globe’s most prestigious award in 2014—the Courtesy Ralph Cohen Sam Wanamaker Award, named after the theater’s founding director of the same name for a “pioneering work in Shakespearean theatre.” “Shakespeare is no stained-glass window,” he writes in his book, Shakesfear and How to Cure It. “There is no single Shakespeare.”
FEW-GLASSON ALUMNI SOCIETY AWARDEES: Martin Dempsey A.M.’84 | Linda George Ph.D.’75 | Yibin Kang Ph.D.’00 66 www.dukemagazine.duke.edu
Tim Jeffries M.B.A. ’03 Fuqua School of Business, Leader of Consequence Award
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n 1981, Jeffries’ older brother Michael was kidnapped, beaten, and murdered in a random act of violence by four men in the Colorado Rockies. Michael was only twenty-two at the time, and his death tormented Jeffries for decades. Nearly thirty years later, one of Michael’s killers wrote a letter to Jeffries asking for forgiveness. “That letter is one of the greatest blessings of my life,” Jeffries recounted to the National Catholic Register. Jeffries forgave his brother’s murderer. After becoming more engaged Courtesy Tim Jeffries with his Catholic faith and in advocacy work for victims of crime, he felt compelled to begin fighting for others who had been changed by acts of violence. Jeffries began advocating for life sentences in first-degree murder cases in Arizona, where he lives. He became the president of the National Organization for Victims’ Assistance, the oldest victim assistance nonprofit in the U.S., and the National Justice Project, an organization advocating for a victims’ rights amendment to the Constitution. He volunteered his time on several nonprofit boards, including Parents of Murdered Children and Arizona Voice for Crime Victims. That drive to infuse the world with more justice and to advocate tirelessly for those who have been marginalized has carried into Jeffries’ career as the director of the Arizona Department of Economic Security. His work allows him to advocate for small-business owners and to foster the goals and values of corporate responsibility in the local business community. OTHER FUQUA AWARDEES Alumni Impact Award Brian Bell M.B.A. ’05 and Amy Katch M.B.A. ’93 | Award for Exemplary Service Jeff Kovick ’01, M.B.A. ’11 and Rubens Passos M.B.A. ’99