We remember: Philanthropist Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans

with Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans
in In Memoriam
on Saturday, January 28, 2012 * * * * *

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We remember: Philanthropist Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, a member of the family that founded Duke University. She continued the Duke family tradition of contribution to the community, and was devoted to education, civil rights, the arts, women’s rights, and social justice. She was also a trustee at Duke University and of several family foundations, including the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation named for her mother. She died January 25, 2012 at the age of 91, in Durham, North Carolina

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    1. drsteved  01/30/2012 04:26 PM Report

      I met her in Palm Beach ... back in the early 60's. She was a friend of my Aunt's Mother, Luella Daveport and my Aunt, Jane Davenport Dixon. I met her at my Aunt's home. Bless her...and all the wonderful things that she accomplished !!

    2. Bklynsu  01/28/2012 12:22 PM Report

      Hello, I loved the interview with Ms.Semans and I tried to find the book, Uncharted Course. It was not available in my local library-Brooklyn Public Library and was on sale on Amazon for 175.00-any suggestions as to how I could get my hands on it at a reasonable price- I am not a Duke nor a Drexel! Thanks, Susan O'Connor