Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Valerie Gillispie, University Archivist at Duke University. Gillispie will be speaking about the earlier history of Duke Football.
Coming to Duke in 2011, she leads the University Archives (UA) in facilitating undergraduate research opportunities, working with campus offices and student groups to collect their records, and incorporating university history into numerous classes and campus events. UA has actively expanded its online holdings, with digitization of the Chronicle student newspaper, student radio broadcasts from the late 1960s, and the entirety of the Chapel Recordings collection, a grant-funded project completed in partnership with the Divinity School. UA is also actively collecting electronic records, including social media and websites. UA is a key resource for next year’s Duke Centennial, and Val and her team, in partnership with student curators, will be installing a yearlong exhibit to celebrate Duke’s 100 years. As the University Archivist, Val is especially interested in understanding Duke’s complex and sometimes painful history, and making sure that all voices are included in the records collected by UA.
Mark Your Calendar
6/7/23 – Scholar-Athlete Awards LUNCHEON
6/21/23 – John LeBar, Author
7/19/23 – Special Guest Speaker
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Dave Odom, Former Head Basketball Coach at Wake Forest, University of South Carolina and others. In 1965, Odom accepted a job as the coach of Goldsboro High School while enrolled at East Carolina University in pursuit of a master’s degree in physical education. Odom coached Goldsboro High School for four seasons between 1965 and 1969, he was also a drivers ed instructor during this time. After graduating from East Carolina in 1969, Odom took a job at Durham High School. He coached at Durham for seven years (1969–1976) where he was voted his league’s coach of the year five times.
The Speaker for our next meeting will be David Shumate, the Director of Broadcasting for the Blue Devil IMG Sports Network. In this role, he serves as the play-by-play voice for Duke football and men’s basketball games.
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Chris Pollard, Head Baseball Coach at Duke. While at Duke, Pollard has coached more than 33 Major League Baseball Draft picks, 16 All-ACC selections, four Freshmen All-Americans and three All-Americans. In addition, he has led the program to two Super Regionals (2018, 2019) and an ACC Baseball Tournament Championship title (2021), each the first in program history. Duke reached three consecutive postseasons (2018, 2019, 2021) for the first time in program history and his first postseason appearance in 2016 broke a 55- year drought. In 2021, Pollard became the first Duke coach to reach 100 career ACC wins, becoming one of six active head coaches to achieve that mark at the time.
Our guest speaker for next meeting will be Professional and UNC Basketball player, Tyler Zeller. As a freshman at UNC he played on the 2009 national championship team, and as a senior was an All-American and the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year. Following college, Zeller was a first-round draft pick of the Dallas Mavericks then traded that same night to the Cleveland Cavaliers. He played 2 seasons with Cleveland, 3 seasons with the Boston Celtics, and had stints with the Milwaukee Bucks, the Atlanta Hawks, the Memphis Grizzlies and the San Antonio Spurs. He was named to the NBA’s All- Rookie team following his first season in Cleveland.
