Expansion and Growth: 1939-1992
| "Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God. And without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of irrational emotionalism and social stagnation. And so it is necessary to help time – and to recognize that the time is always right to do what is right." |
| Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. November 13, 1964 at Duke's Page Auditorium |
Engineering, which had been taught since 1903, became a separate school in 1939. In athletics, Duke hosted and competed in the only Rose Bowl game ever played outside of California in Wallace Wade Stadium in 1942. Up until 1963, Duke University was a whites-only school, in both students and faculty. That year, Duke desegregated when five black students, Mary Harris, Gene Kendall, Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, Cassandra Rush, and Nathaniel White, enrolled at the University. The University currently has a scholarship named in their honor. Increased activism on campus during the 1960s sparked Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to speak to the university on the civil rights movement’s progress on November 14, 1964. The overflow audience in Page Auditorium necessitated that organizers put the speech on loudspeakers to an outside crowd.
The former governor of North Carolina, Terry Sanford, was elected president in 1969, propelling the Fuqua School of Business’s opening. Additionally, the William R. Perkins library completion in 1969 doubled the library’s services and increased the collection’s total space by five hundred percent. In 1971, the Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs was founded. The separate Woman's College merged back with Trinity as the liberal arts college for both men and women in 1972 and the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture opened in 1983. Duke University Hospital, containing units for medicine, surgery, pediatrics, and obstetrics/gynecology, was finished in 1980. The Bryan University Center, a student union of sorts, was fully constructed two years later. Duke’s first NCAA championship was captured by the men's soccer team in 1986. This was followed by the men’s basketball team championships in 1991, 1992, and 2001.
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“We are caught up Mr. Perry on a great wave whether we will or no, a great wave of expansion and progress. All these mechanical inventions—telephones, electricity, steel bridges, horseless vehicles—they are all leading somewhere. It’s up to us to be on the inside in the forefront of progress.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)