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Marriage Proposal Pic Among #DukeTimeOff Highlights

Jaime Carter shares a photo of new fiancé on one knee

Jaime Carter shared this photo as part of the #DukeTimeOff campaign, showing her new fiance proposing to her.
Jaime Carter shared this photo as part of the #DukeTimeOff campaign, showing her new fiance proposing to her.

Over the first two weeks of Working@Duke’s #DukeTimeOff photo campaign, employees have shared dozens of photos from their time away from the office, but Jaime Carter’s submission in particular will be memorable for years to come. 

“My fiancé proposed at the Smithsonian National Zoo in front of the pandas on May 28,” she wrote with her submission. “It was the perfect proposal, I love pandas!” 

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For sharing that photo, Carter was selected to receive a Duke-branded beach chair from Duke Stores, the first of several prizes to be given out during the 11-week campaign that ends Aug. 12.

Carter said she and new fiancé Daniel Armour talked about getting married prior to his proposal, so while it wasn’t a complete surprise, she didn’t know when it was going to happen. Armour had started planning the proposal in February, which included two of Carter’s friends, one of which snapped the photo. 

“He told one of them what he planned on doing, so he gave her a signal so she could take some pictures,” said Carter, a research technician at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute.

The couple will have their wedding next May in downtown Wilmington.

In addition to Carter’s photo, about 40 others have been submitted with the #DukeTimeOff hashtag on Twitter and Instagram, on Working@Duke’s Facebook page and through an online form. Submissions will be accepted through Aug. 12. Full contest details can be found in this story.

In #DukeTimeOff’s early weeks, Working@Duke has received images from New York City, where Megan Houpe visited.

“As promised, a celebratory selfie at the Statue of Liberty for Jessie Ehrisman's birthday,” wrote Houpe, a regulatory coordinator in the Duke Medical Center, when she recently tagged an Instagram post with #DukeTimeOff. 

Employees also chimed in from home. “Enjoying the first day of my Paid Parental Leave,” noted David Bradway, a research scientist in the Biomedical Engineering Department.