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Said@Duke: Billye Suber Aaron on Samuel Cook's Legacy

Billye Suber Aaron: We hope these young people will follow in the footsteps of a gentlemen and a scholar.

Billye Suber Aaron was honored, along with her husband Hank Aaron, at an event on April 12 celebrating the naming of an educational enrichment program for middle and high school students in the Durham Public Schools after the Aarons. The naming of the Hank and Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute honors the Aarons’ commitment to education through their philanthropic trust, the Chasing the Dream Foundation. The event was presented by the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity.

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