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“Duke’s ascension towards the highest echelon of research universities accelerated during my years there: 1953-1966. The wisdom of the founders in locating the campus within a huge forested tract was prescient. In the 1950s -- as I recall it -- TIME ran a complimentary article about Duke, ending with the comment that Duke needed only to grow old. Indeed that has happened overnight!”
- The founding fathers' plans for Duke
- "The Duke experience speaks for itself"
- Wilhelm Röntgen offers liberation from scut work
- A career detour begun at Gulf Oil
Emile Gebel spent 13 years at Duke, receiving his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Trinity College in 1958, medical degree in 1962, and serving on the medicine and ophthalmology house staff from 1962 to 1966. Gebel is a past president of the Duke Medical Alumni Association and the Davison Club. He remains a supporter of Duke through Shagreen Nursery & Arboretum, his nursery business in Shelby, North Carolina. His fund-raising ventures include grafting dawn redwood trees (as represented in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens) and selling the specimens with all proceeds to Duke.
The views expressed within each of these essays are solely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Duke University School of Medicine or Duke University Health System.
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