Sharing Data in Struct

Dear community,

I have a struct as follows:

struct Person {
    name: String
    age: u32
}

Given a mutable instance of Person, how can I create another immutable instance whose name data is shared with the first one? Example:

// When orig goes out of scope/dropped/etc.,
// an error should be raised if copy is accessed
// OR a copy/clone of the name field be made.
let mut orig = Person{ name: String::from("Adam"), age: 32 }
let copy = Person{ name: orig.name, age: 64} // What to do?
orig.name = String::from("Alice");

assert_eq!(String::from("Alice"), copy.name);

I'm new to Rust and not very familiar with its ownership rules. My only option seems to be RefCell?

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