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Contact Us
Mailing Address
The Divinity School
Box 90966
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708 |
Phone (919) 660-3456
Fax (919) 660-3405
E-mail crush@div.duke.edu |
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Meet the Staff
Wes Brown
Associate Dean, External Relations
Wes is a United Methodist minister who served parishes in the North Carolina Conference for five years prior to his appointment in 1981 to Duke Divinity School as director of development and alumni programs. He holds degrees from Methodist College (BA and honorary DD) and Duke Divinity School (MDiv). Wes serves on the board of trustees for the Alban Institute in Washington, D.C., and the advisory board for the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life. He is a former member of the Methodist Home for Children board, and he works frequently with committees of the Association of Theological Schools and with the Boy Scouts in Durham. Wes is married to Jane Brown, a registered nurse, and they are the parents of two sons. Wes and Jane are members of Epworth United Methodist Church in Durham. |
Jami graduated from Duke in 1987 with a B.A. in English and German. Before returning to Durham, she served as the director of annual giving at Columbia Theological Seminary for five years. She earned her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999 and taught English at both Wisconsin and Georgia Tech. At Duke she was active in the Wesley Fellowship, where she still volunteers. She is an occasional food writer and an ordained elder the Presbyterian Church (USA), along with her husband, Fred Wise. Fred is an artist and a minister in the PC (USA). They married in December 2006 and enjoy reading and watching the antics of their cats. |
Bebe is a North Carolina native and is ordained to pastoral ministry in American Baptist Churches USA. Prior to her 2008 appointment as director of development at the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life, she served for 15 years at Duke University Medical Center, where she focused on palliative and supportive care program development and clinical research in quality of life for children and adults at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center. Bebe holds degrees from Agnes Scott College (BA) and from Duke Divinity School (MDiv). She and her husband, journalist Ron Landfried, enjoy renovation projects in their 100 year old Durham home and spending time with their four adult children. They are members of Watts Street Baptist Church in Durham. |
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Carol earned a BA from East Carolina University, majoring in music and minoring in French, participating in an exchange program for one semester in Grenoble, France. She spent two years in Thailand as a missionary journeyman. She began working at Duke Divinity School in 1990 and met her husband, Milton, through a Divinity colleague. She has two children, Megan and Thomas, and is a member of the worship arts team at her church, St. Mark’s, in Mebane. |
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