IFC elects officers
The Interfraternity Council elected its new executive officers Tuesday night. Brett Green of Delta Sigma Phi was elected president; Eric Nicola of Pi Kappa Alpha, executive vice president; Paxton Badham of Kappa Alpha Order, vice president of recruitment and pledging; Merrill Roller of Theta Chi, vice president of chapter services; and Will Connolly of Sigma Nu, vice president of community interaction. The officers will serve for the 2003-2004 academic year.
Fuqua hires career director
Dean Douglas Breeden of the Fuqua School of Business has named Jean Eisel director of the school's Career Management Center.
Eisel will lead and manage the career planning, counseling, recruitment and employment of Fuqua's MBA students and alumni, while simultaneously developing programs and activities to maintain and enhance Fuqua's presence as a top-tier business school worldwide. She will start work Feb. 17.
"Jean is one of the most experienced and respected professionals in the field," Breeden said in a statement. "She will be a great asset both to our students and our alumni."
Eisel comes to Fuqua from Carnegie Mellon University where she was employed for nine years as associate dean of admissions and career opportunities. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, Eisel was director of career services at Arizona State University.
NPI gets $500,000 gift
A trustee emeritus and alumnus from Pennsylvania has given $500,000 to support programs in the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership Initiative, President Nan Keohane announced Wednesday.
Morris Williams, Trinity '62, who also earned a master's degree in teaching from Duke in 1963, is a resident of Gladwyne, Pa., and president of Williams & Co. He and his wife Ruth, Trinity '63, have made many gifts to Duke over the years.
The gift will help sustain anti-gang efforts in the West End and Walltown neighborhoods. Those efforts will be aided by neighborhood partners such as Walltown Children's Theater, the Teen Focus program at the Juanita McNeil and Joseph Alston West End Teen Center and the Partners for Youth mentoring/tutoring program.
It will also augment Duke's Holistic Opportunity Plan for Enrichment, an individualized after-school/summer enrichment program in partner community centers, funded by a $2.25 million grant from the Kellogg Foundation.
Lemurs get their own benefit
A Feb. 21 benefit for the Duke University Primate Center will feature talks on the critical importance of preserving endangered lemurs as well as performances by the Duke University Improv troupe.
The event, "An Evening of Comedy and Conservation," begins at 8 p.m. in Baldwin Auditorium, and tickets are $8 for students and $10 for the public. Tickets are available at the Primate Center and at the door.
Also, between 1:30 and 3 p.m., shuttle buses will begin departing every half hour from the West Campus bus stop to the center, for ticket holders who wish to take a free tour.
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