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Mooresville's Leger Named as Alice Azouri Mack Scholar
Erin Ramona Leger of Mooresville has been named an Alice Azouri Mack Scholar at Duke University.
This scholarship, awarded to students from Iredell County based on outstanding academic achievement and personal qualities, covers that student’s full demonstrated financial need while an undergraduate at Duke.
Leger is one of the 1,728 members of Duke’s incoming class of 2009 and one of four current Alice Azouri Mack Scholars at Duke. She is the daughter of Yvette and Gary Leger of Mooresville.
“Receiving the Alice Azouri Mack Scholarship is a dream come true since it enables me to attend Duke without any financial burden,” she said. An honor graduate of Salem Academy in Winston-Salem, Leger said that she has not yet chosen a course of study but is considering “becoming an international business woman.”
The other current Alice Azouri Mack Scholars are sophomore Adam Ronald Lanka, son of Bradley and Anne Marie Lanka of Mooresville; junior Joanna Lake Childers, daughter of James and Elaine Childers of Statesville; and third-year Master of Divinity student Kristopher Michael Norris, son of Keith and Elizabeth Norris of Statesville.
John J. Mack, a Mooresville native, and his wife Christy K. Mack established the Alice Azouri Mack Scholarship in 1996 to honor John Mack’s mother, Alice Azouri Mack, who was a great champion of education, Duke and her home state of North Carolina. To date, 15 students from Mooresville and Statesville have been awarded Alice Azouri Mack Scholarships.
John Mack graduated from Duke in 1968 and is currently the chairman and chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley, Inc. He also serves as chairman of the board of trustees of New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, and as a trustee of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Christy K. Mack, a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is from Greensboro. She is president of the Christy and John Mack Foundation, and is co-founder and director of the Bravewell Collaborative in Minneapolis, a philanthropic organization dedicated to integrative medicine.
For more information, contact Peter Vaughn | (919) 681-0428 | peter.vaughn@duke.edu
November 8 , 2005