DURHAM, NC - Duke University will honor outstanding students, faculty, employees and alumni at its annual Founders' Day Convocation in Duke Chapel at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2.

Honorees at the service, which is open to the public, include distinguished alumni Roy Bostock, John A. Forlines, Jr. and N. Allison Haltom.

The convocation address will be delivered by Craufurd Goodwin, '55, Ph.D. '58, James B. Duke Professor of Economics. President Richard H. Brodhead will preside over the service. The convocation will be held one day before the university's Board of Trustees opens its fall meetings.

Forlines and Haltom have been selected to receive the University Medal for Distinguished Meritorious Service, one of the university's highest awards.

Following his graduation from Duke in 1939, Forlines entered the U.S. Army. During World War II, he served overseas with the Army's finance department. After returning to Durham, he and his brother-in-law ran a hardware and appliance business on Ninth Street. In 1954, Forlines relocated to the western North Carolina town of Granite Falls, where he became head of the Bank of Granite. During his 52 years of leadership at the bank, he helped turn one of the state's smallest banks into one of the nation's best-known and most profitable community banks.

President of the Duke Alumni Association in 1970-71, Forlines received the alumni association's Distinguished Alumni Award, and served as a Duke trustee from 1974 until 1990. He has served on many other boards, including the original board of Duke Management Company (DUMAC), which manages the university's endowment fund. He remains a trustee emeritus of Duke University and DUMAC's Board of Directors. He also has been inducted into the North Carolina Banking Hall of Fame, the North Carolina Business Hall of Fame and has received one of the state's highest honors, the Order of the Long Leaf Pine.

Haltom, '72, came to Duke as a student from Denton, N.C., and, until her retirement last December, never left. Immediately after graduating from the former Woman's College of Duke, she joined the Undergraduate Admissions Office staff. In 1976, she was named assistant director of annual giving and was promoted and later* to director of the Duke Annual Fund, the first woman to hold that position. Haltom became university secretary in 1986 and was named vice president in 2001. In that role, she coordinated the activities of the board of trustees, oversaw university ceremonies, and managed the hiring and review processes for senior university officials.

As a Duke volunteer, Haltom has served on the Duke Alumni Association's board of directors. She contributed in many ways to the discussion of women's issues on campus, including chairing the Committee on Child and Family Issues from 1993-95. Beyond Duke, her many activities included being a founding member of the Association of Board Secretaries.

Bostock, '62, will receive Duke's Distinguished Alumni Award, the highest award given by the Duke Alumni Association. For almost four decades, Bostock worked in the advertising business, including as chairman and chief executive officer of D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, Inc. Bostock then founded and chairs Sealedge Investments, a private equity investment firm. He serves on the board of Morgan Stanley and chairs the boards of the Northwest Airlines Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. He also serves as the pro-bono chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.

As a Duke trustee, Bostock chaired the Business and Finance Committee and was a member of the Executive Committee. He also serves on the Fuqua School of Business Board of Visitors, is a former director of the Duke University Health System and has been a member of the Financial Aid Initiative Development Committee, among other fund-raising initiatives. The five-story Bostock Library at Duke, dedicated in the fall of 2005, is named for him and his wife, Merilee Huser Bostock '62 and their three children, all of whom are Duke alumni.

The Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award will go to Henri P. Gavin, W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Presented each year by the Duke Alumni Association, the award is administered by a panel of undergraduate students who select the recipient based on letters of nomination submitted by members of the student body.

The University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award, given by the Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church, will be presented to Larry B. Crowder, Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology.

Other faculty awards to be recognized include:

-- Christine D. Beaule, Mellon Lecturing Fellow and professor in the University Writing Program: Award for Excellence in Teaching Writing;

-- Mary T. Boatwright, professor of classical studies: Dean's Distinguished Service Award;

-- Krishnendu Chakrabarty, professor of electrical and computer engineering: Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring;

-- Warren M. Grill, professor of biomedical engineering: Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research;

-- Erik Harms, lecturing fellow: Award for Excellence in Teaching Writing;

-- Joseph A. Izatt, professor of biomedical engineering: Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising.

-- Wesley Kort, professor of religion: Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Award for Teaching Excellence;

-- Piotr Marszalek, associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science: Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award;

-- Toril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies and professor of theater studies and English: Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring;

-- Wanda Krassowska Neu, professor of biomedical engineering: Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award at the Pratt School of Engineering;

-- Michael C. Reed, professor of mathematics: David and Janet Brooks Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award;

-- Daniel Rittschof, associate professor of zoology: Robert B. Cox Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award;

-- Priscilla Wald, professor of English and women's studies: Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring;

-- Benjamin Yellen, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science: Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award;

-- Huseyin Yildirim, associate professor of economics: Howard Johnson Distinguished Teaching Award.

Those to be honored during the Founders' Day service include Angier B. Duke Scholars, Benjamin N. Duke Scholars, James B. Duke Graduate Fellows, Reginaldo Howard Scholars, University Scholars, Robertson Scholars, The Duke Endowment Fellows, Baldwin Scholars and many other undergraduate and graduate scholars.

Employees being recognized include recipients of the 2007 Presidential Awards, Diversity Award and Teamwork Award.

Founders' Day celebrates the founding of the university and provides an opportunity each year for the university to reflect on its history and heritage and to recognize major contributions by students, faculty, administrators, employees and alumni.

The occasion will mark the 107th anniversary of the first event honoring the Duke family at this institution. In 1901, when the school was Trinity College, the school held a Benefactors' Day to pay tribute to university namesake Washington Duke.

* Correction: The original article had a wrong date for when Allison Haltom was named director of the Annual Fund.