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Charlotte Clark Receives Charles A. Dukes Award

Charlotte Reeves Clark T’79, MEM ’83, was presented the 2005 Charles A. Dukes Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service to Duke University by President Richard H. Brodhead at the Volunteer Leadership Conference this fall. The award annually recognizes devoted volunteers who continually strive to promote the Duke tradition of excellence to its students, alumni and the community beyond.

Clark has volunteered and assumed leadership roles on several Duke committees, including the Women’s Athletic Scholarship Committee, the School of the Environment Alumni Council, the Annual Fund Reunion Leadership Committee, and, for five consecutive years, the Duke Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Director of Alumni Admissions Carole LeVine says, “Charlotte is the type of alum that makes you proud to be associated with Duke. She is ‘True Blue’ and is willing to serve Duke in just about any way.”

Following nearly 20 years in the work force after receiving her degree, first conducting air pollution regulatory work for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, then as the director of the Nicholas School’s former Office of Continuing and Executive Education—Clark is once again back in school. She is in her third year as a full-time doctoral candidate in the Nicholas School’s Environmental Sciences and Policy division researching environmental education as it pertains to decision-making by the general public on issues of environmentally related behavior.

Between her volunteer activities, her work and student experience, she has been involved in many facets of the university, particularly regarding outreach and public education.

Her adviser, Norman L. Christensen, professor of ecology and founding dean of the Nicholas School, says, “There is no person I know more committed to Duke and the Nicholas School.”