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Duke in Pics: Music on the Quad

Annual employee appreciation event draws large crowd

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Several thousand employees attended the "Music on the Quad" event to celebrate faculty and staff at Duke on May 18. The Tim Smith Band offered live music, including Caribbean-inspired music for a Zumba demonstration by Erica Dixon (pictured above).

This year the celebration included soft pretzels and funnel cake in addition to the traditional ice cream. Employees could also receive a chair massage, have a caricature drawn, or enjoy the sleight of hand of a magician.

"There seemed to be a lot more things to do this year," said Andrea Bazakas, a clinical trials assistant III in the Department of Dermatology who attended with several of her colleagues. "I didn't know that there would be a chair massage, but it was well worth standing in line for."