THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, November 7, 1995 TAG: 9511070287
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B4 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A West Virginia coal miner's son who became a Rhodes scholar and vice president of administration of Mobil Corp. has been named the next dean of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
Rex D. Adams will become Fuqua's fourth dean on June 1, Duke President Nan Keohane said Monday. He will succeed Thomas F. Keller, who is retiring as dean after 22 years. Keller will return to the faculty.
Adams, a 1962 magna cum laude graduate of Duke, was the unanimous selection of a search committee that reviewed more than 200 candidates, Keohane said.
Adams was born in Fayette County, W.Va., and was 9 years old when his father died. His mother, who died in August, took a job as a bookkeeper to support Adams and his sister.
He was educated in public schools in Oak Hill, W.Va., and went to Duke on a football scholarship. He was selected as a Rhodes scholar in 1962 and studied 19th century English history at Merton College, Oxford University.
According to the terms of the Rhodes program at the time, scholars could not be married. When Adams married Ellen Cates, a 1962 Duke graduate, he forfeited his Rhodes stipend. by CNB