Duke’s icons are the people everyone knows for their kindness, passion, talent or intellect. The icons on this year’s Chron15 list are beloved by the University community for spreading joy, knowledge and Blue Devil pride.
When Gooch arrived at Trent Hall for his first day of work at Duke, he was handed a bucket, a sponge and a rag and sent to the basement. He spent his whole shift scrubbing walls.
April 21, 1942 –December 25, 2023 Joyce J. Gooch Shollenberger, age 81 passed from this world peacefully at her home in Woodbury, TN on Christmas Day surrounded by her family. She was born to the late Lizzie and Charles Gooch, Dawsonville Georgia. She was the youngest of 9 children and lived most of…