Samuel DuBois Cook Society

13th Annual Samuel DuBois Cook Society Dinner and Award Ceremony
Save the Date February 16, 2010

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2009 Award Winners

Front row: left to right: Flint Wang, Mel Williams, Dr. Sam Cook, Peter Klopfer
Back row: William Fulkerson, Martha Shumate Absher, Dinh Phan

Cook Society Award Recipients By Year

2008 Sammy Winner

Patrick E. Alexander

Andrew Cook

Patrick Elliot Alexander Maureen D. Cullins Andrew Cook

Calvin R. Howell, Ph.D.

Calvin R. Howell, Ph.D.

Robert J. Thompson, Jr., Ph.D.

Robert J. Thompson, Jr., Ph.D.
Special Honoree

Paula McClain

MaryAnn Black

Paula McClain, Ph.D.
MaryAnn Black
Distinguished Service Award

2007 Sammy Winners

Front Row - Left to Right: Reverend Joe Harvard, Distinguished Service Award
LeRoy T. Walker, PhD, Special Honoree
John Cline, Community Betterment Award

Top Row - Left to Right: Luke Stewart, Undergraduate Student Award
Nirmala Chilamkurti, Undergraduate Student Award
Xing Zong, Graduate Student Award

Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook

The Samuel DuBois Cook Society was founded in the spring of 1997 to honor the years of service that Dr. Cook has offered to Duke University, to the cause of African American Advancement, and to the betterment of relations between persons of all backgrounds. The mission of the Society is to recognize, to celebrate, and to affirm the presence of African American students, faculty, and staff at Duke University. Members of the Society commit themselves to the objectives to which Dr. Cook dedicated his professional life:

to nurture a sense of community and belonging for African Americans;

to translate the promise and potential of African Americans at Duke into fulfillment and actuality;

to foster positive and constructive interpersonal and intergroup relations within both Duke University's and Durham's African American communities;

to cultivate positive relations between African Americans and other ethnic, racial and national groups on the basis of an enlightened appreciation and knowledge of our historic interdependence.

Samuel DuBois Cook Society

13th Annual Samuel DuBois Cook Society Dinner and Award Ceremony Save the Date February 16, 2010

Front row: left to right: Flint Wang, Mel Williams, Dr. Sam Cook, Peter Klopfer Back row: William Fulkerson, Martha Shumate Absher, Dinh Phan

Cook Society Award Recipients By Year

13th Annual Samuel DuBois Cook Society Dinner and Award Ceremony
Save the Date February 16, 2010

Front row: left to right: Flint Wang, Mel Williams, Dr. Sam Cook, Peter Klopfer
Back row: William Fulkerson, Martha Shumate Absher, Dinh Phan