The 'Sammie' Award Winners Get Their Video
Winners of Samuel Dubois Cook Awards meet Friday for breakfast
For a video that will be shown at the annual Samuel DuBois Cook Society dinner Feb. 19, Dinh Phan, a 2009 Duke graduate, talks about the importance of winning a "Sammy" when she was a senior. Phan and fellow student Flint Wang created the Magnolia Tree Project in 2007, a two-week summer program that teaches Durham middle school students how to use the creative arts to perform service projects. Their curriculum was adapted for use at Walltown's Urban Hope Camp.
Phan was at a breakfast meeting of society members Friday where attendees talked about Cook's legacy in championing diversity at Duke and elsewhere, and ways the society could actively continue that work.
Samuel DuBois Cook was the first black professor at Duke University and has the distinction of being the first African American to hold a regular faculty appointment at any predominantly white college or university in the South. He served as a member of the Duke University Board of Trustees from 1981 - 1993.
Photo by Keith Lawrence