Campbell Magazine Winter 2013

Winter 2012-13

IT’S ALL ABOUT

TRUST Campbell graduates dominate the nation's Trust and Wealth Management field

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Perry Returns Home Cy Young Award winner Jim Perry returned to Buies Creek this fall to watch his alma mater name its soon-to-be renovated baseball stadium after him. While here, he shared a few of his memories from his days in the big leagues.

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Cover Story The Trust Mafia Few students enter college knowing they want a career in "trust" when they graduate. Enter Jimmy Weatherspoon.

The director of Campbell University's oneof-a-kind Trust & Wealth Management program is known for his knack of plucking students from other majors and other universities and turning them on to the idea of a career in the field. The job placement rate is so high and the program is so unique, it's rare to find an institution with a trust department that doesn't have a Campbell grad (a member of the "Trust Mafia") leading the way.

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The 'Wiry Stranger' From 'Revolution' Eric Mendenhall was a star at Campbell University's theatre department during his time as an undergraduate. Now he's on his way to big things on a national stage thanks to minor roles in big films like 'Lawless,' 'Trouble With the Curve' and '42.' He's most proud of his recent role as the "wiry stranger" in NBC's hit television show, 'Revolution.'

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The Scars That Heal Nineteen years ago a domestic violence incident left Sharon Thompson with more than half of her body burned. Today, as the founder of the Fayetteville-based Integrity Ministries and a student in the Campbell Divinity School, she's using what she has learned about overcoming her trauma to help others overcome theirs.

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Sports: Lacrosse to Take the Field in 2013 Phil Schuman hasn't had much time to put a program together, but he's confident Campbell will field a smart, competitive team when the University's lacrosse program takes the field for its inaugural season in 2013.

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to the Editor to take action. The story of Leah Hutchens Mitchell [“Leah’s Story: Through Tragedy, Hope”] and Marshall Baker hit very close to home.

Summer 2012

My name is Marshall John Goodman Jr. I have chronic kidney disease, as Marshall does, and I am on daily peritoneal dialysis.

I have been searching for a donor for five years. My symptoms are the same as Marshall’s, and I do dialysis four times a day at home.

Essary’s Legacy Law School dean’s six years were marked by positive change

Q&A with the Coach Camel skipper talks about baseball team’s record-breaking season

Leah’s Story

Pharmacy’s top grad inspires others after family tragedy

Pharmacy school cares for its students

I attended Campbell for two years prior to entering the Air Force in 1963. Again, sometimes the actions of others can cause us to take action. If there is someone out there interested in learning about kidney donation, please contact me. I can be reached by mail at 5123 Chesapeake Road in Fayetteville (28311).

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Although my tragedy wasn’t losing a parent, it was losing a grandparent during surgery.

The professors were just as understanding, and I was so grateful. Great story, great institution and great pharmacy school!

I've been meaning to write and attach this photo since the Spring 2012 Campbell Magazine arrived.

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Inspiring others I enjoy reading Campbell Magazine, and the Summer 2012 issue has inspired me to write this letter.

Sometimes, the actions of others cause us

I still keep in touch with some of my Campbell friends after all these years, and one year I am going to make it to Homecoming weekend. I have fond memories of all of my classmates, teachers and staff at Campbell and receiving the Campbell Magazine regularly is something I always look forward to.

Marshall Goodman Jr. Fayetteville, NC

Campbell's pharmacy school is a special place. I received the same treatment [as Leah Hutchens Mitchell when she lost her father] while I was there.

Dr. Leah Allen ’02

the "Bootstrap" program, graduating in December of 1975. My degree from Campbell was instrumental in me obtaining a very rewarding position in the Department of Consumer Protection with the State of Connecticut, where I worked for 37 years and have been retired from for four years now.

Fond memories When I got it and looked at the cover, it brought back a lot of memories. I knew the cover looked very familiar, and I said to myself, "I painted Kivett Hall once upon a time, too."

This was back in 1975 for an art class I took at Campbell. Back then, of course, it was Campbell College.

I don't remember my art teacher's name, but I was in the Air Force stationed at Pope, and attended Campbell under

Mark Giulietti New Britain, CT

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MEMORIES Ashley Stephenson, Class of 2006 I have so many wonderful memories of my time at Campbell, but the one I share the most is the time I met my future husband, David Teeter, on move-in day. I knew my roommate from home, and we moved in late on move-in day. We had not met anyone in our dorm yet and decided to grab a late lunch. We walked into Marshbanks and there, also eating a late lunch, was David. I whispered to my roommate, "Hey, let's sit with that cute guy." One month later, David and I started dating. Four years later, we got married the summer after graduation. The picture is us on our wedding day.

Over the summer, we called on students and alumni to share their favorite memories of Campbell University; and in honor of our 125th year, we have reprinted a few of those memories in this edition of Campbell Magazine.

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To read all of the entries, visit www.campbell.edu/memories

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Volume 7 • Issue 3 President

Jerry Wallace Vice President for Institutional Advancement

Britt Davis Director of University Communications and Publications

Haven Hottel Assistant Director of Publications

Billy Liggett Digital Content Coordinator

Cherry Crayton Graphic and Digital Publication Designer

Jonathan Bronsink Web Design Team

Bob Dry Angie Barker

One more look back OK, so we’re not done reminiscing just yet.

By the time this magazine reaches your hands, Campbell University will be winding down its year-long celebration of its 125th anniversary. We hope you’ve enjoyed the features on the school’s storied past, the vintage photos, the galas and everything else Campbell has produced to honor a history that’s spanned three different centuries and only four university presidents.

Well, we have one more “look back” for you … and we’re pretty proud of this one.

On Page 31 of this edition of Campbell Magazine, you’ll learn how you can order a copy of “Campbell University: 125 Years of Faith, Learning, and Service,” a coffee-table book that looks back at everything from Campbell’s humble beginnings in a cold Buies Creek schoolhouse in 1887 to the recent announcement of North Carolina’s first new medical school in 35 years.

The book will make the perfect Christmas gift for any Campbell alumnus. And we feel it's a fitting way to cap off a year of celebrating our history.

Not that we’re done looking back altogether. We just want 2013 — Year 126 of Campbell University — to be all about looking forward.

The coming year will bring a ton of “new” to Campbell … the biggest event being the opening of the School of Osteopathic Medicine. Next fall, the medical school will welcome 150 students who in four years will be challenged to help heal North Carolina’s drastic physician shortage. It will not only be Campbell’s biggest moment to date of the 21st century, but perhaps one of the boldest ventures for any North Carolina university — public or private — in the past 13 years.

Founded in 1887, Campbell University is a private, coeducational institution where faith and learning excel. Campbell offers programs in the liberal arts, sciences and professions with undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees. The University is comprised of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, the LundyFetterman School of Business, the School of Education, the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences and the Divinity School. Campbell University was ranked among the Best Regional Universities in the South by U.S. News & World Report in its America’s Best Colleges 2012 edition and named one of the “100 Best College Buys” in the nation by Institutional Research & Evaluation, Inc. W W W. C A M P B E L L . E D U / M A G A Z I N E

This edition of Campbell Magazine highlights another bold program, the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business’ Trust & Wealth Management program, the only one like it in the nation.

Our cover story introduces you to some of the students in the program and to the Trust Mafia — alumni stationed in dozens of major U.S. cities who help make sure Campbell graduates have a job. We also meet the Godfather himself, program director Jimmy Witherspoon, who’s helped mold the Campbell Trust & Wealth Management program into what it is today.

Of course, that’s not all you’ll find inside. We have an uplifting story of a burn victim who enrolled in Campbell Divinity so she can better help others, an alumnus whose acting career is taking off thanks to small roles in big budget films, the birth of Campbell’s lacrosse program and a feature on Cy Young winner and baseball stadium namesake Jim Perry.

You can say this edition does a nice job of looking back and looking ahead. Celebrating students past and present. All of them Campbell Proud.

Billy Liggett Assistant Director for Publications

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Minter to coach Fighting Camels Mike Minter knows what it’s like to suffer through a bad season.

Minter played safety for the Carolina Panthers during its worst season in franchise history — a 1-15 campaign that included 15 consecutive losses.

So on the day he was announced as new head football coach for the Campbell Fighting Camels, a team coming off a 1-10 season, Minter spoke from experience. Just two years after going 1-15, the Panthers were in the Super Bowl.

“I understand what you feel,” Minter told his future players who were sitting on the stairs in the packed Hall of Fame lobby area of the John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center on Nov. 27. “We will get it done.

Yes, sir.”

Minter, a member of two national championship teams at Nebraska and the Panthers' 2003 Super Bowl squad, joins the program after serving as an assistant coach at Liberty University in 2012 and Johnson C. Smith University in 2011. He also brings head coaching experience from First Assembly Christian School in Concord, where he guided his teams to 33 victories and two state titles in three seasons.

"I am excited to be the next head football coach at Campbell University," said Minter. "I am grateful for the chance to lead these young men and to help develop them into champions on and off the field."

Photo by Bennett Scarborough Watch the Minter announcment at campbell.edu/minter

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SCHOOL OF LAW

In a move to expand on the social offerings for Campbell’s growing undergraduate population, the University’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved the expansion of Greek Life during its Oct. 30 meeting.

What does that mean? As early as fall 2013, Campbell will introduce up to four fraternities and sororities, with the policies and handbook for those organizations written by a committee of faculty, staff and students.

“Studies have shown that students who join a fraternity or sorority are more pleased with their college experience, are retained at a higher rate than other students on campus, attain higher grades, graduate at a higher rate than other students and are more loyal alumni after graduation," Bazemore said.

“We hope to create a vibrant Greek Life environment for Campbell students to thrive."

Campbell currently has Greek organizations for graduate students in the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences and School of Law. No decisions have been made or considered yet as to which undergradate Greek organizations will seek charters at Campbell next year.

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Countering arguments that Greek Life brings with it controversy (students and alumni had differing opinions about the news on Campbell’s social networks), Vice President of Student Life Dennis Bazemore said the decision was made to add to students’ overall experience at Campbell.

Campbell Law raises the bar (again), posts state's highest exam passage rate Three years at Campbell Law School in Raleigh give you a better chance at passing North Carolina’s bar exam than three years at any other school in the state.

education combined to put them at the top.

The Campbell Law Class of 2012 was my last graduating class as dean, and they have my heartiest congratulations.”

The numbers don’t lie.

The school’s overall record of success on the exam has been unsurpassed for the past 26 years.

The school’s Class of 2012 posted the highest bar passage rate of all state law schools with 94.53 percent of its students getting through.

Campbell led in both first-time bar passage and overall bar passage rates.

It was satisfying news to Professor Melissa Essary, who stepped down as dean after six years at the helm in July. The 2012 class represented the last graduating class under her direction.

“This class was an extraordinarily closelyknit and hard-working class,” Essary said.

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“Campbell Law students do not take a forcredit class in preparation of the bar exam,” said Campbell Law Director of Academic Support and Bar Success Sha HindsGlick. “This score, as well as our consistent success on the North Carolina Bar Exam, is indicative of our culture and practical curriculum, as well as the commitment of our students, faculty and staff.

“This is an accomplishment that everyone associated with Campbell University and Campbell Law can be proud of.”

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Try the Pie, It’s Divine!

He has a Ph.D., has been published in several academic publications and for the past four years, has taught Christian theology in Campbell University’s Divinity School. And in his spare time, Cameron Jorgenson bakes a mean pie.

Nonprofits donate $4M to med school to fund state-of-the art laboratories Campbell University announced two partnerships this fall that resulted in $4 million toward the School of Osteopathic Medicine, the largest foundation gifts in the University’s 125-year history.

Campbell was granted $2 million from both the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust and the Golden LEAF Foundation. The money will be used for the medical school’s stateof-the-art simulation lab, anatomy labs and clinical examination area, all of which will bear the name of both groups.

The University celebrated the announcement with a ceremony and bus tour of the underconstruction 96,500-square-foot facility that will house the medical school beginning in August 2013.

“We’re in a time when our nation is facing a severe physician shortage, and many in North Carolina currently lack access to prenatal care or must drive considerable distances for primary care,” said Dr. John Kauffman,

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founding dean of the medical school. “We’re so thankful for the generosity of our donors … We look forward to multiplying these generous gifts and giving back to the world.”

The medical school will eventually graduate about 150 students a year, many of whom will practice in rural and underserved regions of the state. According to Kauffman, the simulation lab made possible by these grants will include the latest in hi-tech robotics and will help train students to deliver babies and resuscitate sick children and adults in an ICU or ER setting.

“Our decision to make this gift … this is what they call a ‘no-brainer,’” said Karen McNeil-Miller of Kate B. Reynolds. “This is absolutely, without a doubt, one of the best investments we’ve ever made. The real celebration will come when hundreds of osteopathic physicians are spread out across North Carolina, especially in our rural areas, making us a healthier state.”

The professor’s “chai latte pie” was the grand prize winner at the North Carolina State Fair’s 2012 Pillsbury Pet-Ritz Pie Baking Championship in October. Jorgenson took home the blue ribbon in only his second attempt in the annual State Fair contest.

After competing in 2010, he came up with the idea for the chai latte pie and took a year off to refine the recipe.

“It was worth the wait,” said Jorgenson, of Fuquay-Varina. “One of my favorite coffee-shop treats is a chai latte. It’s creamy, warm and full of spices that remind me of autumn. What's not to love? So, I wanted to capture those flavors in a pie. As it turns out, chai tea is the secret ingredient that makes this pie work.”

Jorgenson said he got into baking thanks to his wife, Kelly, the director of admissions for the Divinity School.

She and several other members of the school’s faculty and staff served as guinea pigs leading up to the competition, tasting the pie as he perfected the recipe.

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In Brief Campbell offers first dual public health/PA degree The College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences is launching the first dual physician assistant/public health degree in North Carolina.

The new program, which takes less than three and a half years to complete, will begin next fall, allowing students to graduate with a Master of Physician Assistant Practice degree and a Master of Science in Public Health degree in December 2016. The PA and public health degrees normally last 28 months and two years, respectively.

Tiger's coach visits PGA Management students He has coached PGA stars Justin Rose, Hunter Mahan, Stephen Ames and Sean O’Hair. In 2010, he began coaching the sport’s biggest star, Tiger Woods.

properly hitting a little white ball with a club.

His message to students — nobody has all the answers when it comes to golf. He credits his success to knowing his players and being a calming presence when the pressure becomes overwhelming.

Athletic training program earns 10-year accreditation

But Sean Foley didn’t spend a lot of time talking about Woods or the others during his visit with students in Campbell University’s PGA Golf Management Program on Nov. 5.

Much of the famed instructor’s two-hour talk in the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business’ Lynch Auditorium focused on insulating neural circuits, the power of thought and other psychological factors that go into

Campbell’s Athletic Training Education program earned reaccreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education.

‘Homeland’ now offered as a major

The program, now in its 20th year, was awarded the maximum 10-year accreditation, a sign that the University’s program is going strong, according to program director and instructor Catherine Simonson.

“In the past, our accreditation came in five- or seven-year increments,” said Simonson, who took over the program in 2008. “Getting 10 years is phenomenal, and it was definitely a team effort."

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“Homeland” at Campbell was cool long before Showtime made it television's most talked-about show and actress Claire Danes’ “cry face” (pictured) became a meme.

One of the University’s most popular courses and areas of study in the past few years, Homeland Security will now be offered as a major beginning in 2013, the College of Arts and Sciences announced.

“There are coaches and teachers who make it all about them,” said Foley. “I know my role.

Every guy I’ve coached on the PGA Tour was a star before they met me. I’m not showing them anything they don’t already know how to do. … But coaching is so much more than understanding techniques and mechanics.”

Homeland Security students study to become familiar with domestic and international terrorist organizations, recognize strategies for disaster prevention and examine areas of the world in which international terrorist organizations are formed.

Kids’ stuff, right?

Campbell will be one of the few universities in the country — and the only in North Carolina — to offer the major when the program begins.

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Beloved Hartness Hall gets a facelift As a student at Campbell Junior College in the late 1920s, Blanton Hartness made an impact in Buies Creek.

As an alumnus, he left a legacy.

That legacy was celebrated in September at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly renovated Blanton & Mamie Hartness Lecture Hall in the Science Building.

Representing the couple (Blanton died in 1995 and Mamie in 1975) were three of their children — William Blanton Hartness, Al Hartness and Crystal Leathers — their spouses and Blanton’s 89-year-old brother, John.

“Blanton loved this school,” said Dr. John Hartness, the sole remaining survivor of 11 children. “It was always a tremendous part of his life. Not only the school, but the people, too. He loved the people here.”

Hartness Lecture Hall is considered one of the most versatile and most used classrooms on campus. Its renovations are part of an effort to modernize the entire Science Building, built in 1961.

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“This classroom has met the needs of this University ever since this building was built,” said Jim Roberts, vice president for business and treasurer. “It’s been so well used, we simply had to renovate it.”

Aesthetic and comfort improvements include new (wider) seating, fresh paint on the walls, better heating and air conditioning and new lighting to knock the glare off of student laptop screens. Improved technology includes a revamped control room and high-definition projectors and screens.

Blanton Hartness will forever be a part of Campbell lore for owning the first automobile on campus, a Model A Ford, in 1927. He graduated from Campbell Junior College in 1928 and would go on to own Sanford Milling Company in Sanford and eventually in Henderson after a fire destroyed the facility in Sanford in the mid-1940s.

His family produced the popular Snowflake and Hartness Choice flour brands used in kitchens throughout the state for years.

The company, now in its fourth generation, is still going strong today.

What does Adam English hope people will take away from his book, “The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus”?

That “people will be inspired by a life well lived,” English says. He also hopes that people will bring St. Nicholas into their Christmas traditions.

As the book title suggests, English has written a biography of St. Nicholas, who, yes, really did exist.

“In most books or resources, the story of St. Nicholas is an introduction to the story of Santa Claus,” English said.

“I wanted to reverse the flow of an ordinary pattern of how historians have told the story. I wanted to make St. Nicholas the real story.”

The book made English a national sensation of sorts this December. He was interviewed for WUNC’s The State of Things and by BookExpo America and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

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Four future teachers in Campbell's School of Education — Sara Lisenbee, Courtney Phillips, Samantha Ledbetter and Megan Gralton — traveled with Dr. Mary Ellen Durham to Fort Fisher this fall to work directly with the naturalists and educational specialists assigned to the North Carolina Aquarium.

Future educators enjoy an adventure on the North Carolina Coast The sun beats down on four young women as they thread their way through sand dunes carrying supplies that must last the entire day.

field trip taken by the students enrolled in Campbell University’s Secondary and Middle Grades Science Methods class, SCIED 453.

They stop to watch in silence as a great white egret gracefully unfurls its impressive 50-inch wing span, rising above the marsh grasses.

Upon reaching a pool, these explorers carefully wade through the rising waters of the estuary, netting shrimp and fish.

Four future teachers — Sara Lisenbee, Courtney Phillips, Samantha Ledbetter and Megan Gralton — traveled with course instructor Mary Ellen Durham to Fort Fisher this fall to work directly with the naturalists and educational specialists assigned to the North Carolina Aquarium. The seniors engaged in several educational and scientific investigations designed to expand their

It sounds like scenes from "Survivor," but these are images from a recent professional

science content knowledge and instructional skills.

The future teachers were participating in one of the outdoor explorations designed by the Aquarium staff for middle school students.

Expanding their personal expertise and teaching skills, the young women examined a variety of instructional techniques and piloted lessons designed to promote critical thinking and scientific literacy among adolescent learners.

Single Rainbow Gets Record Likes The convocation center was mighty photogenic this fall. Adjunct Communications Studies professor Pete Kenny snapped this shot of a rainbow arching the facility after an early autumn storm. The photo was by far the most “liked” photo on Campbell’s Facebook page, netting more than 1,100 likes in two days.

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around Campus Q&A WITH BRITTANY Why Campbell:

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I needed to be close to home so I could get to the barn to ride.

I had my college choices down to three. It was UNC-Chapel Hill, Meredith College and here. I toured UNC, and it was too big. At Meredith, I was trying to make myself get a good feeling there. But then I got a scholarship from Campbell, a roommate fell into place, it was close to home, and it felt like the right place for me.

Professor who made a difference in my life:

Brittany Bridges Junior social work major a champion equestrian in her off time

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rittany Bridges, a junior at Campbell University and one of the state’s best equestrian riders, knows that some people think she just sits on a horse as she competes in the equestrian sport of eventing.

Some have told her so.

registered name Derrymor. Every year since then, the two have been named the U.S. Eventing Association’s and the N.C. Dressage and Combined Training Association’s Horse of the Year in whichever division they have competed in.

“But no, that’s not what I do at all; it’s much more than that,” said the Sanford native.

“When people say that, I usually show them a video of what I do or talk about the jumping. Once that happens, they’re usually in awe and eager to see more.”

Bridges competes in an event about once a month during the meat of her season, which is the fall and spring. In early October, she and Hampton finished seventh out of more than 40 competitors at the USEA’s Morven Park Fall Horse Trials in Leesburg, Va., which included riders who had just returned from the London Games.

Bridges started riding when she was 7 after her mother signed her up for a summer camp. “I had never been good at any other sport. But horses, I just got it. It came naturally,” she said. “It’s my thing.”

In 2007, when a sophomore at Lee County High School, Bridges got Hampton, an Irish sport horse who competes under his

She said her long-trm goal is to compete in the Olympics. "And when I say longterm, I mean long, long term. I don’t know if Hampton will take me there. And that would be a whole other thing — building a relationship with a new horse."

Dr. Gary Taylor, chairman of the psychology department. He makes me think about topics I never would have thought about before, and our discussions about those topics give me insight into where I want to go in my life, how I want to get there, and who I want to be.

Where I spend most of my time on campus: I bounce all over the place. I’ve got friends all over campus, and I bounce around to whoever is cooking dinner that night, or I have friends over and I cook them dinner and we play Wii.

My favorite Campbell moment so far: Waiting in line for free T-shirts, particularly for Midnight Breakfast. This is a tradition with my friends. We always go sit in line excessively early, and we just sit there and laugh. We don’t go to eat, just to get the free T-shirt.

Campbell proud: Campbell offers a uniqueness of community that you don’t get at many universities. You can’t go somewhere on campus and not see somebody you know. The professors are so good about knowing you. And the type of friends you make here will be lifelong friends.

The quality of people is fantastic.

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Banks from Boston to San Diego recruit from Campbell's Trust & Story by Billy Liggett Photos by Brooke Wolfe and Bennett Scarborough

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rofessor Jimmy Witherspoon ('80) will be the first to admit it.

The majority of his students in Campbell University’s Trust & Wealth Management program came to Buies Creek wanting to be something else in life. Trust students are often plucked from other departments on campus. Some are here from other schools. Some from other states.

The reason? It’s rare, Witherspoon says, for students to graduate high school and enter college dreaming to one day handle other people’s wealth. Few at that age even know what "trust" is or what a trust professional does for a living.

So to build his program, Witherspoon — or “Spoon,” as he’s affectionately known in student circles — has had to recruit much like a basketball coach. Legend has it, once he has a student's attention, few are able to escape "the sell" without a change in majors.

Spoon has recruited former art majors, psychology majors and students who thought pre-med was a good option early on. He

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recalls one story about how he helped convince an Ivy League student to transfer for his program. “(He) actually sought us out,” recalls Witherspoon, Campbell’s director of Trust & Wealth Management since 1987. “He had heard about Campbell’s trust program, he told me, and he wanted to talk to me about transferring.”

Witherspoon remembers thinking the whole thing was a joke … one of his students trying to pull his leg. But it wasn’t. The two shared a few emails. They talked. They met. The student visited Buies Creek. He transferred.

He then graduated with a degree in trust and went on to law school.

“I’ll never forget what he told me,” says Witherspoon, now in his 30th year on the Campbell faculty. “He wanted to work in trust and wealth management ... and he knew the trust degree from Campbell would get him where he wanted to go.

“And it did.”

The Godfather's Pitch In 1980, Jimmy Witherspoon graduated from Campbell’s trust program last in his class.

Of course, he was just one of two students in the program, and he finished a fraction of a point behind his classmate, Bill Pierce.

While the trust program was established in 1967, it was still in its infancy when Witherspoon was a student.

The program was the brainchild of Campbell’s third president, Norman Adrian Wiggins, who in the 1950s and early '60s was a trust officer at Planter’s National Bank in Rocky Mount and a law professor at Wake Forest University. He was also one of the nation’s leading authorities on trust law.

Two years after being sworn in as Campbell’s president in 1967, Wiggins established the nation’s first undergraduate trust program and initiated the Southeastern Trust School, a program sponsored by the North Carolina Banker’s Association.

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Trust enrollment trudged along during those first 15 to 20 years. One year would see six to 10 graduates; the other only two or three.

Witherspoon recalls his days as a student, getting blank stares from those who asked him what his major was.

“Most students think they know what they want to be after college, whether that’s a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant … but very few are familiar with what trust is all about,” Witherspoon says as he leans back in his second-story corner office of Campbell’s Lundy-Fetterman School of Business. “Students have some vague notion that trust work has something to do with banking. But it’s not really about retail or commercial banking at all… it’s about managing property and about meeting the needs of very wealthy clients.

Trust graduates typically meet the needs of their clients by developing and implementing very sophisticated financial, investment, estate and tax planning strategies. It’s about being a steward in the truest and best sense.”

According to Witherspoon, they almost become like a family member to their clients, in many instances being called on to help with important life events.

“You may be helping a family choose the

best college for their child one day or helping plan a funeral the next. You may be helping a family deal with the nightmare of a child with substance abuse issues or a parent with serious medical issues,” Witherspoon says.

“There’s the property management side of it, but more importantly you’re helping the family when you’re needed most. Trust is in many aspects a calling. If you like helping people, trust is a wonderful and very rewarding profession.”

And even in a rough economy, trust and wealth management is a growing career option. Witherspoon says the next 20 years will see the largest transfer of wealth in American history as the World War II generation and Baby Boomers die and leave their property and estates to the next generations. So it’s no surprise, Witherspoon says, that Campbell’s trust students are in high demand these days.

The same program that saw between two and 10 grads each year in the '70s and '80s now graduates between 45 and 50 students annually. And thanks to the 3/2 program (which tacks on a fifth year), many of those students leave Campbell with an MBA in hand as well. Students are also eligible to sit for Certified Financial Planner certification immediately upon graduation.

“Campbell’s program is truly unique,” Witherspoon says. “Many schools offer majors in financial planning or investment planning, but not trust and wealth management. …

Some of the world’s largest banks are actively seeking our grads and our interns.”

Witherspoon has the numbers to back up these claims. Job placement rates above 90 percent. Intern-placement rates even higher.

Campbell’s reputation in trust and wealth management is such that banks travel to Buies Creek to pluck their interns. They have Witherspoon’s number highlighted in their contacts list when graduation rolls around.

And whether it’s San Diego, Boston, Dallas or close to home in Winston-Salem or Raleigh, it’s rare to enter a bank’s trust office and not be greeted by a Campbell grad.

“The name ‘Trust Mafia’ has stuck,” says Witherspoon, the "godfather" of this particular mafia. “It’s our older alumni who’ve done very well and who are excited about these kids today and what they can do for them. They look after the young grads and take on a mentor-type role.

“The Trust Mafia is that core group of alums who are proud of this program and proud of the growth they’re seeing.”

What is Trust & Wealth Management?

The brainchild of former President Norman A. Wiggins (pictured) and Gilbert T. Stephenson, Campbell University’s Trust & Wealth Management program is the nation’s first and only degree program of its kind. But what is trust and wealth management?

Grads of the program serve the needs of the wealthy by managing their property and by developing and implementing sophisticated tax, financial and estate planning strategies.

And while the focus of a career in trust may appear to be on simply managing and creating wealth, it’s very much a “people” business. Trust grads almost become part of a family in many instances, as clients allow them to help during important times in their lives, such as graduation, retirement and illness.

In the words of student Michelle Brigham, who wants a career in financial or estate planning: “A lot of it involves tax planning. Those who come to you want their children and their family taken care of. It’s my job to put them at ease knowing their goals can be accomplished. Helping a family become financially secure will be the most rewarding part of going into that field.”

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Hit The Ground Running Angier native Rebekah Barker defies the profile of your typical trust major in that she knew from Day 1 of her college career this was her future.

She credits her father, a self-made man who grew up poor, for showing her the way.

Growing up, she learned about the financial industry and the Rule of 72 (the method for estimating an investment’s doubling time) from her father and learned the importance of saving money and watching those savings grow.

“He wanted to raise me and my brother to be financially literate,” she says, “to do research and make our own financial decisions.”

Barker landed a scholarship to Campbell and signed up for trust, admittedly not knowing exactly what that entailed. But as is the case with most of her classmates, the picture became much clearer after a talk with “Spoon.”

“Trust is so much about helping others,” Barker says, reciting the pitch usually delivered

by Spoon. “It’s about making sure they are equipped to do what is necessary to help future generations. That’s what attracted me to it. I’m not really great being around blood or sick people, so doctor was out. I’m not great at other things … but I’m detail-oriented, great with numbers, and most importantly, I love people.”

Barker is in her fifth year of the 3/2 program and is set to graduate in May. Her Campbell experience has included two exciting internships … one in Boston in 2011 and one in Dallas last summer for U.S. Trust. The opportunity to travel and work in some of the nation’s most affluent cities is one of the top selling points for students, according to Witherspoon.

“It’s very important the student is willing to relocate, and that might mean anywhere in the nation,” Witherspoon says. “Once they move, they may relocate another time or two, or they may stay there forever. But coming out of college, it’s important our graduates are open to leaving home. There are a lot of opportunities out there.”

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“Trust is so much about helping others. “It’s about making sure they are equipped to do what is necessary to help future generations. That’s what attracted me to it … I’m not really great being around blood or sick people, so doctor was out.

I’m not great at other things … but I’m detail-oriented, great with numbers, and most importantly, I love people.”

— Rebekah Barker culture shock. As it turned out, she loved everything about the northeast, aside from its severe lack of sweet tea.

“I’d heard things like the people were rude, we’d get lost or that we’d stick out, but it was amazing how comfortable I felt there,” the lifelong North Carolinian says. “We were all pleasantly surprised with everything … it was a big city, but not overwhelming.”

It’s also a rich city, and as an intern, Barker worked in “high net worth,” serving clients with $3 million or more in their accounts.

Barker learned important skills such as how to read a trust document, how to write discretionary requests and how to use the complicated computer systems. She and classmate Ethan Pond spent part of the summer as trust administrative assistants and worked on one account worth $800 million.

“It was intimidating even touching that,” Barker says. “And, of course, I was told the $800 million was a low figure for that account, which had upwards to $1 billion at previous times.”

Helping Barker and the other Campbell interns the entire summer were Campbell alumni. Their mentor was 2008 graduate George Wyatt, whom Barker says took an interest in all of the interns and made sure their questions were answered.

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$1 million to $3 million). Because she was familiar with that area of trust, Barker says she hit the ground running thanks to the guidance of yet another Campbell trust alumnus, Keith Manning ('10).

“I was able to apply everything I learned in Boston, and I’m a super nerd, so on my first day in Dallas, I brought my notebook that was four inches thick with notes from last year,” she says. “They gave me real work my first day, so it was exciting.”

Barkers says the work was more in-depth, too. She opened and closed accounts, worked on grantor-retained annuity trusts, transferred money into IRAs and more. In other words, she became a valuable asset in one of the nation’s wealthiest cities.

“A kid like Rebekah who has had two internships and will graduate with an undergraduate degree and an MBA … they’re going to be productive from Day 1,” Witherspoon says. “Thanks to these internships, [these banks] are courting us as much as we’re courting them. It’s a wonderful situation for our program.”

Barker says her goal after graduation is to deal with philanthropic groups, though like most, she expects to get her start in “personal trust,” where she’ll work more with individuals rather than organizations.

Over four years ago, she came to Buies Creek knowing what she wanted to do, but not really knowing what all it would take

“The moral, ethical and legal issues we explored in the trust program fueled my thirst for a legal education. The rigorous tasks presented to me by my professors left me prepared for law school.”

— Chris Hewitt (’10) Wake Forest School of Law student

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“Campbell is definitely preparing me for [a career in trust]. Everything in my internship was new and valuable for me to learn. There’s a lot I’ll be carrying with me when I graduate.

— Keegan Terry to get there. She said Campbell’s program has prepared her well for a career she thinks she’ll love.

“The courses are unique, and the professors have so much experience,” she says. “You can throw any question, no matter how absurd, at them, and likely they’ve faced something crazier in their careers. And they’ll tell you about it and tell you how to handle it.

“We all love what we do, and we all want to be better,” she adds. “Ultimately, the goal is helping people.”

Sold in 10 Minutes Unlike Barker, senior Keegan Terry had never heard of Campbell’s Trust & Wealth Management program. In fact, the Dallas, Texas, native had never heard of Campbell

or Buies Creek until a recruiting visit for the Camels’ men’s soccer team.

During that visit, he toured the LundyFetterman School of Business and met Jimmy Witherspoon. Within moments, he was hearing “the pitch.”

And he was sold.

“He’s really passionate about this program,” says Terry, a forward on the soccer team and fourth-year 3/2 student. “The talk only took 10 minutes, but everything he told me sounded really interesting.”

Terry admits that it’s hard to hear Witherspoon talk and not be excited and ready to commit to the program, but according to the professor himself, “the pitch” isn’t about the delivery … it’s all about the content.

“In a way, the program sells itself,” he says.

“When the students hear our story, they’re excited about what we can do for them.

They’re excited about how many career options it gives them. There’s the traditional trust route, but there’s also so many other things they can do.”

For example, a trust degree is a great pre-law degree, according to Witherspoon. He says of the 45 to 50 graduates each year, an average of five decide to go to law school. In his 30 years of teaching, Witherspoon can only recall five trust grads who did not get into law school.

“Our students have gone on to law schools at Campbell, UNC, Duke, Virginia, Wake Forest … you name it,” he says. “The topics you study in trust carry over well into law school.”

One selling point for Terry was money. The average starting salary for a trust graduate falls

“Not only did I graduate with all the technical skills necessary to be successful, I had a job lined up months before graduation. The vast amount of information I learned and the opportunities I received at Campbell were priceless.”

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anywhere between $42,000 and $55,000 a year. Witherspoon says some Campbell trust grads have gone on to $250,000-plus salaries in as little as 10 to 12 years after school.

That’s not the norm, he says, but anything is possible.

“When I was seriously considering trust, my mom and I did some research,” Terry says.

“The job placement rate out of college and the starting salaries … these were both very appealing to me.”

Terry completed his first internship this summer and will likely have a second in 2013. He stayed close to home for the first one, working for First Citizens Bank’s trust support services in Garner.

For a young man whose prior work experiences included ice cream shop and movie theater while in high school, that first day on the job was intimidating.

“I had to go to the center in Raleigh for my paperwork, and yes, I was nervous,” Terry recalls. “Everyone was in a suit and tie, everything was much bigger.”

It didn’t take long for Terry to get settled in at Garner. He worked in support services, and to borrow a sports term, his role was that of a utility player. He did a little bit of everything.

“They exposed me to as much as they could, which was awesome,” says Terry. “I was able to work on different projects, fill in for people on vacation, deal with banks in other states. It was a great learning experience.”

Along the way, Terry earned the trust, so to speak, of those above him. One day, he was given the task of settling a bank statement with a branch in New York City, which required him wiring $24 million. It’s a task that needs nothing more than a misplaced decimal or an extra zero to completely mess up.

“I was told horror stories of people who’ve messed up in the past,” he says. “And if the other bank doesn’t get the right amount, they’ll charge interest. With a $24 million transfer, that interest is a hefty amount.”

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“After my internship, I knew I could be useful. I got things done as an intern … I wasn’t just handed side work or things nobody wanted to work on. And seeing all the Campbell alumni helped. I feel like they’ve set a good precedence, and my class wants to continue on that.”

— Michelle Brigham

Wherever he goes, he’s confident he’ll be ready.

Brigham will graduate this spring with a trust degree, but opted not to attempt the 3/2 program and earn an MBA in the fifth year. Going back for an MBA isn’t out of the picture, she says, but for now, she likes the idea of hitting the job market and getting her feet wet.

“Campbell is definitely preparing me for that day,” he says. “Everything in my internship was new and valuable for me to learn.

There’s a lot I’ll be carrying with me when I graduate.

According to Witherspoon, not having the MBA won’t make much of a difference salarywise early on. The MBA is valuable longterm, however, because it opens doors for more positions in management.

Adventure Of The Offer

“Five or 10 years down the road, if they’re trying to move into a managerial-type role, it could certainly help them advance quicker,” he says. “It’s a long-term payoff.”

his next internship takes him somewhere new, and after graduation, he plans to either return to Texas or find work in whichever city calls first.

“The uniqueness of the undergrad degree, coupled with the internship program (further leveraged by the option to graduate with an MBA in five years) make trust a no-brainer for students wanting to excel.”

— Ben Hopf (’11) Associate Director, Legacy Trust Company in Florida

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Fayetteville native Michelle Brigham is one of the “plucked.”

She came to Campbell to study psychology with a career goal of being a guidance counselor. After a year, she started having second thoughts and even considered transferring to another school.

That’s when a friend of hers … a trust major … introduced her to Professor Witherspoon.

Today, Brigham is a little over a semester away from earning a trust degree. “[Witherspoon] knows how to talk to people … he’s a very good salesman,” Brigham says, laughing at the suggestion she was one of many who’ve fallen victim to “the pitch.”

“One of the things that drew me in most was the opportunity to relocate. I’ve lived my whole life in eastern North Carolina, and when I graduate, I’d like to go and see what’s out there.”

Brigham and four other Campbell students interned this summer for BB&T in its home city of Wilson. Like Terry, she worked in several areas of the bank’s trust department, but was drawn to financial planning and estate planning. And while some like Barker are excited about the opportunity to work face-to-face with people, Brigham — who’s admittedly more reserved and enjoys the “analytical approach” to trust — says she prefers to be more “behind the scenes.”

Her internship included investment reviews, where Brigham had to study accounts and make sure everything was “in line.”

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those numbers and make a mistake, so you really have to know what you’re doing.”

If that wasn’t intimidating, Brigham and her fellow interns each had to meet with the head of the Wealth Division at BB&T for reviews.

“It’s the boss’ boss’ boss’ boss,” she jokes.

“His opinion matters a lot.”

Brigham’s review went well, she says, leaving her excited to get through this last year of college and join the real world. She hopes to land a job outside of North and South Carolina … somewhere near a beach.

Florida … California … she’ll take either.

“I’m looking forward to the adventure of the offer,” Brigham says. “It’s nice to know you’re heading into a pretty secure job market, too … it lets you get excited about the adventure and not nervous about whether you’ll find work.”

And thanks to her internship, she’ll enter the workforce confident in her abilities.

“After my internship, I knew I could be useful. I got things done as an intern …

I wasn’t just handed side work or things nobody wanted to work on,” Brigham says.

“And seeing all the Campbell alumni helped.

I feel like they’ve set a good precedence, and my class wants to continue on that.”

Quality Kids Brandon Hudson is a fan of Campbell’s Trust & Wealth Management program.

He likes what it’s done for him so far. He’s excited about his future. He’s proud that it’s the only such undergraduate program in the nation. He’s even into the history of it.

“It’s great that one of our textbooks was written by Dr. Wiggins himself,” says Hudson, a Stedman, N.C., native in his fourth year of the 3/2 program, referring to Wiggins’ book, “Trust, Wills and Estates.”

“It’s been out of print for I don’t know how long, but even today it’s relevant. The only parts out of date are the taxation sections … everything else is just how it’s taught today.”

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“Wells Fargo, Bank of America, U.S. Trust, First Citizens, BB&T … they all wanted us. The head trust center manager from Winston-Salem, the team manager from Las Vegas, a chief officer from San Francisco … they all went out of their way to see what [kind of graduates] Campbell could offer.”

—Brandon Hudson not in school. During the semester, he spends most of his weekends at work.

“Our dad doesn’t want us following in his footsteps,” Hudson says, “because he’ll work 60 to 65 hours a week to make it happen.

It’s rewarding, but it’s hard work. He wanted us to have a better life, and I think the trust major is going to lead to that.”

Since coming to Campbell, Hudson has done more than exceed in class — he’s become active in several other areas of student life.

He’s currently president of the student body and has been involved with the Student Government Association since his sophomore

year. He has served as a mentor for the business school’s BADM-100 class (which helps freshmen and transfer students get acclimated to Campbell); and in 2012, he and Barker received the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business’ two Servant Leadership Awards for their service outside of the classroom.

Those are the type of kids Witherspoon wants in his program. At Campbell, he says, they’re not terribly hard to find.

“The thing about Campbell in my 30 years — heck, even back when I was a student — that hasn’t changed, and I hope never does,

is the type of student this school attracts,” Witherspoon says. “They’re practical. They want a career and a comfortable living. They want to be challenged. They’re very interested in helping others. They’re excited. They’re enthusiastic. They’ve got morals and ethics.

“And quite frankly,” he adds, “while these banks love the technical expertise they get from Campbell grads, one of the things they say is so hard to find from other schools is kids who don’t come in with an entitlement mentality. A Campbell student will come into their bank and work hard, get their foot in the door and have reasonable expectations.

In a typical summer, the Trust & Wealth Management Program has around 50 students interning in cities such as New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Atlanta, San Francisco, Austin, Boston, WinstonSalem, Charlotte and Raleigh.

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They know it takes more than just having lunch with the right person to be a senior vice president. They want to show you what they can do.”

Hudson carried that attitude into his internship this summer for Wells Fargo in Winston-Salem. He worked in philanthropic services and focused mainly on two projects during his tenure. Four other interns joined him during the summer, and all five got a different slice of experience in different departments.

Hudson says he was impressed with the interview process that led to his internship because banks from around the nation came to them … making it feel more like recruitment than anything else.

“Wells Fargo, Bank of America, U.S. Trust, First Citizens, BB&T … they all wanted us,” he says. “The head trust center manager from Winston-Salem, the team manager from Las Vegas, a chief officer from San Francisco … they all went out of their way to see what Campbell could offer.”

He says the interviews were intimidating at first, but mostly became conversational and comforting.

“They’ll ask about your academics and extracurriculars, but mostly they just want to get to know you,” Hudson says. “They already have your bio and information on paper. This was more about getting to know your personality.”

Witherspoon credits the Trust Mafia for getting the word out about Campbell students and making the interviews happen.

Their involvement has led to the creation of the Trust Education Foundation, a nonprofit foundation created by Wiggins comprised of a board of 35 senior trust officers from around the country. Money raised by the foundation goes toward trust scholarships. To date, more than $1 million has been raised.

“Many of our kids — 60 this year — are receiving trust scholarship funds thanks to the efforts of the foundation,” Witherspoon says. “It’s wonderful, but quite frankly the thing that’s even better is what it allows us to do on the job and intern placement side.

Placement isn’t rocket science. It’s about making as many contacts as possible, and this foundation is huge in that.”

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Wiry, Creepy Stranger

Campbell grad’s appearance in ‘Revolution’ highlights year of roles in big-budget films, shows

BY BILLY LIGGETT

The scene: A flashback. Chicago. One week after a blackout wiped out electricity across the world. Outside the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, a young girl named Charlie is bouncing a ball while her mother tends to her brother in a wagon. The ball bounces away from the young girl and stops when a stranger a few feet away puts his foot on it.

“You like basketball?” asks the wiry, creepy stranger. He’s wearing a suit, but his look and demeanor are telling. He’s struggling to survive.

“Yes,” says Charlie, clearly afraid of the man.

“Me? I … I love the Bulls,” says the stranger. “But they probably played their last game, huh?”

Charlie’s mother calls for her daughter to come back, but as the little girl turns toward her, the stranger puts his hands on her shoulder.

“She’s beautiful,” the stranger tells Charlie’s mother. “Such a pretty face.

I’d hate to have to smash it in.

“I’d like your food please. All of it.”

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t was an eery and memorable scene in the second episode of television’s mostwatched new show, NBC’s “Revolution.”

And for the man who showed millions just how much of a struggle life without power and basic necessities can be, the scene was the highlight of what’s become a budding career for the talented young actor.

That creepy stranger was Eric Mendenhall, a 2004 graduate of Campbell University’s theatre and religion departments.

The star of several school productions while at Campbell, Mendenhall has played minor roles in some of Hollywood’s biggest films in 2012. He played a doctor in “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” starring Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez and Elizabeth Banks.

He was a waiter in “Trouble with the Curve,” starring Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams.

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Where You’ve Seen Eric 2009 • Fitz in Ben 10: Alien Swarm • Dwayne in Army Wives • Man No. 1 in I Can Do Bad All by Myself • Doctor in The Bed by the Window 2012 • Wendy’s Doctor in What to Expect When You’re Expecting • Spoons Rivard in Lawless • Frank in Echo at 11 Oak Drive • Waiter No. 2 in Trouble with the Curve • Wiry Stranger in Revolution • Loaded Cop No. 2 in Highway Learn more about Eric at his IMDB page or at his website, ericmendenhall.com.

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He was tarred and feathered playing the role of Spoons Rivard in “Lawless,” with Shia LeBeouf, Tom Hardy and Guy Pearce (that’s Eric in the first image of the film’s trailer).

And he’ll appear as a Dodgers fan who defends the legendary Jackie Robinson against a racist fan in the 2013 film “42,” starring Harrison Ford.

Not bad for a guy who didn’t expect to major in theater when arriving in Buies Creek a decade ago.

“I honestly never saw it as a viable career choice,” said Mendenhall, who lives in Atlanta with his wife, Campbell alumna Bethany Anne Lind ('04), an actress who recently starred in “Mean Girls 2.”

“Even after college, I wasn’t exactly sure what my career would look like. I was kind of flying by the seat of my pants, piecing jobs together. A small part in a movie here.

A commercial or video there. I really didn’t expect this kind of film success living in Atlanta.”

was sorry he had to do that. He said, ‘But this is my profession, and I take it seriously.

Understand, you have a great deal of talent, and you can do something with it. That’s why you have to take it seriously, too.’”

Hardy and Shia LeBeouf and talk about the script. Here I am, doing what I love, talking about a story while sitting in a tiny little country church … drinking tea with these guys. It’s amazing.”

Mendenhall met Lind in Campbell’s theatre program; and after graduation, they moved to Atlanta because of its central location to hot film spots like Wilmington and Nashville, but also because of its abundance of stage jobs.

The film roles have been big for Mendenhall, but he says it’s his three-minute appearance in “Revolution” that serves as the highlight of his young acting career so far. The night it aired, Mendenhall said he received more feedback from friends, family and people he hadn’t heard from in years than for anything he’d done previously.

It turns out, the two were in the right place at the right time for film jobs as well.

Atlanta has become the “Hollywood of the South” in recent years, home to popular TV shows such as “The Walking Dead” and “Vampire Diaries” and recent movies “The Odd Life of Timothy Green,” “The Three Stooges,” “Blind Side” and the remake of “Footloose.”

“This past year has been crazy,” said Mendenhall. “And the more work I do, the more casting directors will get to know me and trust me to do a good job.”

He credits his success in part to former Campbell theatre professor Harold Heno, who’s now the assistant dean of academics for a prep school noted for its performing arts in New York. Heno, Mendenhall said, wasn’t the first to see talent in the young actor, but he was the first to scare some sense into him.

He’s living the dream of many actors, acting alongside men and women considered living legends and A-listers in the world of cinema.

Mendenhall will admit the “nerd” in him gets excited to work with someone like Tom Hardy, who played the villain Bane in the 2012 Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises.”

“I was definitely unprepared for a test one day, and he called me out in front of the class for my lack of preparation,” Mendenhall recalled. “It was the first time something like that had ever happened to me. But he came up to me the next day and said he

“You keep your jaw up, but inside you’re going, ‘Aaaahhh! What am I doing here? How did I get here?” Mendenhall said. “There are moments of utter astonishment. Like the day of rehearsal when I had to sit at a small table with [“Lawless” writer] Nick Cave, Tom

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And while his film and TV roles have included a few “bad guys,” Mendenhall said it was tough to play a character ready to break a little girl’s face.

“The girl [actress Morgan Hinkleman] was a sweetheart … so cute,” he said. “The director introduced me to her and told her what was going to happen, and we shot it 50 different ways. When I got the part, they told me they wanted more desperation, rather than pure evil. I was trying to tap into that depravity … deprived of my health and my faith. If I had to do anything to live, what would I do? What decisions would I make? It’s an interesting concept.”

With “42” expected to hit theaters next year and a few other roles in the works, Mendenhall hopes the minor parts will lead to bigger and better things.

“There’s a reason to be thrilled,” he said. “It’s exciting to be working with people at the top of their game … people whom I have a high level of respect for. I’m very thankful for everything, and I’m excited about the future.”

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Top cadet in our ranks Campbell student is nation’s second-highest ranked ROTC cadet

BY BILLY LIGGETT

J

ohn LeBaube was 18 when the United States was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001.

That was the day he developed a desire “to do something more,” he said. A freshman in college at the time, LeBaube wanted to join the U.S. Army.

“I wasn’t focused … my heart wasn’t in the right place,” said LeBaube, now 29. “I felt like the military was where I needed to be.”

The Browns Summit, N.C., native served his country twice in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2009, and it was after that second deployment when he began thinking about his future.

LeBaube wanted to go back to school.

Eleven years since his decision to follow his heart and leave school, LeBaube is now ranked as one of the top ROTC students in the country. Second, to be exact.

Each year, Cadet Command in Fort Knox, Ky., compiles an order-of-merit list identifying its top 20 percent of ROTC seniors. These future military officers are designated as “Distinguished Military Graduates,” based on their GPA, their performance in the Army Physical Fitness Test and college athletics and their performance in ROTC training.

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Of the more than 5,500 senior cadets in the U.S., LeBaube is ranked second, behind Patrick J. Lupfer of Northeastern University in Boston.

LeBaube said his one advantage is his previous military experience, as many ROTC students are fresh out of high school. He said he thought he had a good chance to be in the top 10 or 20 percent, but the news of being No. 2 in the nation was surprising.

“I don’t know how exactly I reacted, but I was excited and happy about it,” LeBaube said.

The achievement means LeBaube will get to choose his branch after graduation (the Army has 26 branch choices for future second lieutenants) and his station.

According to Cadet Alyssa Kulhanek, Campbell’s cadet public affairs officer who’ll graduate with LeBaube in 2013, LeBaube’s success speaks well for the ROTC program as a whole.

“It shows that what we do here works,” Kulhanek said. “We have a quality program.

Campbell may be a small school compared to other ROTC programs, but we have a higher standard, and we consistently meet that standard to create quality officers.”

The program had a total of eight cadets place

in the top 10 percent nationally, more than any other non-senior military school in the nation (senior military schools include schools like VMI, the Citadel and Texas A&M).

Campbell Professor of Military Science Lt. Col. Michael Mason said those figures, plus Campbell’s performance in recent years, make it “quite possibly the best ROTC program in the nation.”

“It’s a pretty bold statement,” he said. “But certainly for 2012-2013, we can lay claim to the top spot based on our numbers alone.”

LeBaube said his decision to return to school and enroll at Campbell came about from working with three other men at an aid station in Fort Bragg. One of his friends, he said, was working toward his master’s degree.

Another was finishing up his bachelor’s degree at Campbell in hopes of entering med school.

The third joined LeBaube in Campbell’s ROTC program.

“We all motivated each other,” he said. “They were looking to the future, and that got me thinking about what my future would look like.”

That future, LeBaube hopes, will involve work as a pilot in the Aeromedical Evacuation (MEDEVAC) program.

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cause "For a long time, I hid my scars, be t it took me a long time to figure out tha God wanted me to use them."

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“I had scars I had to heal from. It was painful, but it was something I had to go through to get me here,” says Thompson, a Master of Divinity student at Campbell University who founded Integrity Ministries in 2005.

“I am an overcomer.”

I jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire If you grow up with nobody telling you that you can be somebody, you’ll never believe you can be more than your circumstances, Thompson says.

She grew up in a volatile home in Lumberton, where she watched her father regularly beat her mother. Every so often, her mother would move out, but she always came back. Thompson wanted to get out as soon as she could. One way out, she thought, was to find a man.

At 16, she got pregnant and had a son, Brandon, with an older man who had already been through a marriage and a divorce. About a year later, she moved in with him and left her parents to raise Brandon.

She got a job at a Sara Lee Hosiery plant in town. She gave nearly every cent of every paycheck to her older man. He controlled her, bullied her, belittled her. Two years into her job, she met Glenn at the plant. A Vietnam veteran, he seemed full of potential, she says. He worked hard and helped her pay her bills and get her car.

They moved in together, sharing a white trailer home.

That’s when her mother’s life became her life.

“I jumped out of the frying pan into the fire,” Thompson says.

The beatings started. Glenn busted her lip, broke her nose, blackened her eyes. She went to her mother for advice.

“Just pray,” her mother told her. So Thompson, who grew up going to church, prayed.

The beatings continued. She left him. But when she found out she was pregnant with her second child — wanting to raise the child but not on her own — she moved back in. “Learned behavior,” she says.

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few months after her daughter, Trina, was born in January 1993, the beatings started again.

torso, chest, neck. Doctors took skin graphs from her legs. She had to learn to walk again.

“I’m going to watch them throw dirt on your face,” Glenn would tell Thompson, referring to groundkeepers burying her.

One day, during the recovery process, her doctor told her, “You’re going somewhere in life.”

After a particularly bad beating and not wanting to raise her daughter in such an environment, she made a decision: In January 1994, when her tax refund would come and give her a little extra money, she would leave Glenn. For good.

While Thompson was biding her time, when she was 25, on Nov. 18, 1993, Glenn stormed into the trailer’s bathroom, drunk. She was in there, getting ready for bed. He was angry. Over what? She didn’t know.

They argued. He left and returned with a can of flammable liquid. He dowsed her in fluid, struck the lighter and lit her clothes up. He left again.

She was on fire — burning alive. “Lay down and die,” she told herself.

She began to move about, panicky. She passed the bedroom where her daughter, Trina, was sleeping in a crib. “No, live,” Thompson thought.

She rushed out of the back of the trailer as the fire alarms went off. Glenn came around from the front and knocked her to the ground, extinguishing the flames. Large portions of her skin peeled off. A neighbor called the police.

An ambulance arrived. When she got to the hospital, a woman poured a substance on her.

Thompson felt like she was burning again.

Thompson cried out, “Please don’t pour that on me.”

The woman stopped. Hospital staff took off her clothes. Her family was there. Police officers were there. “What happened?” they asked. “I did it,” she said. “You did it?” they said. “Or he did it?”

“No, it was an accident,” she said. “That was no accident,” her father said.

“If I’ve done anything to you, please forgive me,” Thompson told her family. She thought she was dying.

The next thing she remembers was waking up at the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center in Chapel Hill.

She stayed there for two months to recover from second- and third-degree burns that covered more than half of her body: her arms, back,

No one had said anything to her like that before.

It took her a while to believe it.

That's who I was always meant to be Healing is a choice; it is a process; and it is often a long journey, Thompson says.

Her journey began as a victim. For several years after the fire, that’s how Thompson defined herself and all she could see were her scars, but she didn’t want anybody else to see them.

Whenever she went out, no matter the heat, she covered herself, with long sleeves, jackets, high neck lines and other clothing.

About a year after the fire, she attended a reunion for burn survivors that the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center hosts each year. She spotted a woman, Charlene, “parading around” without a jacket or long sleeves; all Thompson saw were her scars.

“Can you believe this woman? How can this woman walk around showing her skin?” she thought. She distanced herself from the burn world for the next four or five years.

During that period, she went around constantly crying. She was bitter and angry. She often drove by the trailer where she was burned and where Glenn still lived (she never pressed charges), and wondered: “How can I kill him?” She had a bad attitude, which nearly cost her her job.

“I wasn’t going to let anybody ever hurt me again,” she says. That led to poor decisions and bad relationships — ones that she knew wouldn’t last, such as one with a married man.

As she worked her line at the plant, though, she often thought, “God wants more for me and my daughter than this."

She started taking courses at Robeson Community College on a part-time basis while working the third shift at the plant. Then the plant laid her off. She got enough of a severance to enroll full time at the college and earn an associate’s degree in office technology systems in

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(right) and Sharon Thompson and her daughter, Trina, in 1993

one year. She began to see herself as a little more than a victim. She became a survivor — she had made it through the worst, the fire no longer consumed her thoughts, and she could get on with living in the now, focusing on taking care of her daughter and her self.

Then, a childhood memory came to her. She was 12 years old and standing in a cornfield near her childhood home. She imagined that the corn stalks were people. She shook their hands, sung to them and preached to them about Jesus.

She felt alive, and it felt like this was the thing she was born to do.

When the memory came back to her more than two decades later, she thought, “That’s who I was always meant to be.”

She re-found her calling: to be a pastor. She told her pastor about it. “Ok, then,” her pastor, Joseph Dunham of Missionary Baptist, told her.

He set a date for her to preach: Nov. 11, 2001.

Her message, centered on Matthew 23:26, was, “What is the motive behind why you do what you do?”

She started preaching; and, as she tells it, God took over. Not entirely planned, she started telling her story — all of it — from childhood to the fire to her healing process. And she took off her coat, for the first time, voluntarily revealing her scars. The feedback that night — and the years to come — was overwhelming and affirming. People began to tell her their stories.

She realized: “We all have scars. Many people have internal scars; my scars happen to be external. When they see my external scars, they may be able to relate and start to talk about their

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internal scars.”

There was Petitlubin and Crumity, for example, as well as Barbara Lotierzo, one of Thompson’s former supervisors. One day, during the seven years they worked together, Lotierzo confided in Thompson the difficulties she was experiencing with a family member. Thompson cried with her, counseled her, prayed for her and gave her a seashell to remind her of God’s promise. Every once in a while, to this day, Lotierzo pulls out the seashell when she needs a reminder that she’s not alone.

“Sharon has been awfully good for me,” Lotierzo says.

When Thompson reached that point where she started sharing her scars to help others heal from theirs, she became more than a survivor, she says. She became an overcomer. She wouldn’t have reached that point, though, if she hadn’t first forgiven those who had hurt her, including Glenn. “If you don’t forgive, you’ll always be a victim,” she says.

Several months before Thompson delivered her first sermon, Glenn called her. She hadn’t spoken to him in years. “I often think about what went down between us,” Glenn said over the phone.

“I want you to forgive me.”

“Glenn,” Thompson said, “I’ve done forgave you. You need to accept Jesus as your savior.”

“I’ll pray about it,” he said. “You have to do more than pray,” she said.

A few weeks later, he died of a heart attack.

I'm just passing on what was given to me Some of the greatest talents end up in the grave, Thompson says, because people don’t reach their potential. And they don’t reach their potential because, often, something bad happened to them. And when something bad happened to them, there was nobody there to help them through it or they never allowed themselves to be helped.

“That’s a heartbreaking fact,” she says.

So, in 2005, she founded Integrity Ministries on the tenets of faith, love and forgiveness, the three disciplines Thompson says she needed to live out to fully heal from her scars.

Why the name Integrity? Because “integra” means to be made whole, and the ministry’s purpose is “to be a place where people could come to be healed and to be made whole,” says Thompson, who earned a second associate’s degree, in theology, in 2006.

In addition to corporate worship and ministerial counseling, Integrity Ministries operates a range of outreach arms. That includes a mentoring program for young men, a modeling program for young women to help them build a healthy self-esteem, tutoring and professional development support, mother-daughter bonding activities and seminars on family leadership for men. Integrity also visits homeless

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communities to deliver food and to listen, helps immigrants navigate paperwork and agencies, and works to promote entrepreneurship in the African American community. They’re even in the planning stages of launching a women’s clothing design line.

Though the 7-year-old Integrity Ministries draws just a couple dozen people regularly to their Sunday services, the organization has reached hundreds and hundreds of people in the Fayetteville area. Among them is a single father raising an infant daughter whose mother died shortly after her birth. During a recent children's dedication ceremony, the father named Integrity his daughter’s God parents. “We’re a small church with a big church mindset,” Crumity says.

On top of this, Thompson is the chaplain for the Cumberland County Ministerial Council; the pastor of Sisters Uplifting Sisters, a membership-based national organization that encourages women to lead greater moral, cultural and social lives; and a SOAR (Survivors Offering Assistance in Recovery) counselor at the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center.

“People ask me all the time how I was able to heal and why I started Integrity. Well, first, it was God,” Thompson says. “And, second, I’m just passing on what was given to me.”

What was given to her, she says, were people who came alongside her during her healing process. When she was in the burn center, for example, there were the doctors and the nurses; Chaplain Shirley Massey, who said prayers of blessings and healing over her; Cynthia Hart, a SOAR volunteer who visited Thompson to listen and wash her hair; and an anonymous donor who paid off her hospital bills.

And over the past two decades, since she left the burn center, there have been a slew of individuals who have helped her realize her calling to be a pastor and to establish Integrity Ministries.

Her former pastor, Thurman Everette of Bryan Swamps Missionary Baptist Church, for example, commissioned her to start her ministry, telling her that “God has a platform for you.”

Among the others, in 2003, when Thompson got laid off at a law firm in Lumberton, there was Crystal Plummer, a former co-worker who asked Thompson to interview for a position at Single Source Real Estate Services in Fayetteville.

There was also the firm’s founder, Linda Lee Allen, who hired Thompson on the day of their interview and who loaned her $2,000 to help her move from Lumberton to Fayetteville and another $3,000 to $4,000 to help cover the rent

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for a chapel at a funeral home for several years.

When the rent became too high for Integrity to continue to meet at the funeral home, in 2009, K.B. Matthews, founding pastor of Well of Living Waters Ministry, invited Thompson to use her church’s facilities. Matthews also mentored Thompson, who shadowed her, learned from her, and peppered her with questions about leadership, ministry and theology.

"There's an eagerness to learn in Sharon," Matthews says. "She's a good student in every aspect of life. She's always seeking to know more."

In 2010, when Thompson completed her bachelor’s in social work from Shaw University, she quit her job at Single Source to turn her full attention to her ministry. She also started looking at divinity schools. She chose Campbell’s because it was diverse; because it was Christ-centered, Bible-based and ministryfocused (the same as Integrity); and because she believed it would best help her help others.

In August 2012, when she sat in her first class at Campbell as a Master of Divinity student, she caught herself getting choked up. She said a silent prayer, which she has said over and over again since that day: “Thank you, Jesus, for giving me this opportunity. Teach me so I can teach others. Equip me so I can help others.

Prepare me for the influx of people who will be coming to our ministry. Let me be mindful and humble to always remember it’s not about me, it’s about you. I’m only the instrument by which you do your work.”

Today, her daughter, Trina, 19, works at a LifeWay Christian Bookstore in Fayetteville

and is in cosmetology school. Her son, Brandon, 27, whom she has worked to repair her relationship with, is a minister in Georgia. Thompson also married Hubert Journigan, whom she met through her daughter, in 2008.

“For a long time I hid my scars because it took me a long time to figure out that God wanted me to use them,” Thompson says. “I had to go through the process of being delivered and being made whole myself.”

You are an overcomer On a Wednesday in early October, nearly 19 years to the day she was burned, Thompson found out she had a fibroid tumor. The doctor ordered a biopsy to see if it was cancerous. The next day Thompson drove from Fayetteville to Buies Creek for divinity classes. In a parking lot, a woman backed into her car, causing minor but inconvenient damage. “God,” Thompson thought, “do I have to experience everything in life in order to be empathetic with everyone?”

She was close to tears when she entered her Hebrew class, which Barry Jones, an associate professor of Old Testament and Hebrew, teaches. She told Jones about the tumor and the fender-bender. She started to cry.

“I just can’t do it today, professor,” she told him.

“I’m sorry. I’ve got to go home.”

“Whatever happens,” Jones responded, “you’ll be fine. You are an overcomer.”

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PA program at full strength As first class enters rotations, a new crop of students climbs aboard

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at Chaney and Sunny Sawyer’s backgrounds couldn’t be any more different. Chaney recently retired from the military and is a 40-year-old Campbell alumnus; Sawyer hails from Sacramento, Calif., and is a 2008 graduate of UC-Davis who entered the field geological surveying right out of college.

The two make up a small part of the 40-member second class of Campbell University’s physician assistant program, which began its grueling 12-month oncampus course load in August. At the same time, the inaugural class began Year 2 by starting its 15-month-long clinical rotations at some of the state’s top hospitals and clinics. That inaugural class will graduate in December 2013.

The physician assistant program is now running on all cylinders, with 74 total students working toward their degree. And if Year 1 was all about laying a foundation, Year 2 has been about building on the program’s early success.

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“I feel we had a strong program in the first year … amazingly strong for a new program,” said Betty Lynne Johnson, associate professor of health professional sciences and a certified physician assistant. “[PA Director Tom] Colletti and [Academic Coordinator David] Coniglio laid the groundwork because of their expertise and experience in developing a program prior to coming to Campbell. That was incredibly beneficial.”

All 34 students who started the program in its first year made it to the rotation phase, which Johnson attributes to that class’ closeness and willingness to work together rather than compete against each other.

As early as orientation, the second-year PA students learned the significance of working together as a team toward a goal. Before classes began in late August, the class chose a line from the classic U2 song “One” as its motto “We get to carry each other.” The choice solidifies the idea that the program won’t become stronger because of individual efforts. “In medical school, there’s a lot of competition to get residence slots. Here,

it’s not like that,” said Laura Gerstner, the program’s clinical coordinator and a certified physician assistant. “Our goal is for all 40 of these students to get through and learn the information they need to treat patients.

Right now, they don’t realize the stress that will come into play later on this year and how that stress can break a class apart. That’s why the team building is important.”

Physician assistants are trained and licensed to practice medicine, but their careers differ from that of a DO or an MD in that they’re required to practice under the supervision of a physician. The demand for PAs is great, and CNN recently ranked “physician assistant” as the second-highest ranked job on its list of “100 Best Jobs in America.” Both Sawyer and Chaney know a lot will be thrown at them in the next two-plus years. But they say they’re up to the challenge. And both are taking the advice of the class before them.

“We’re working together for one goal … one objective,” Chaney said. “That’s where the motto comes in. We get to carry each other.”

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Strong in translation

Spanish students travel to Arizona for intense workshop in interpreting

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earning Spanish is tough enough. Being able to take what’s been learned and perfectly translate the language to those who don’t speak it is far more difficult.

And translating Spanish during times of crisis — such as in an emergency room setting or during a domestic violence investigation — tosses in real-life stress to an already enormously difficult task.

But those who are able to do it and do it well are in high demand. For that reason, Campbell University associate professor of Spanish Ann Ortiz accompanied several students from her Medical Spanish I and II classes to her alma mater, the University of Arizona, for an intense two-day interpretation workshop. Students not only built on their Spanish-speaking skills, but were introduced to world-class standards for professional interpreters and performed their skills in front of their peers and professors.

“Our students really excelled … I was very proud of their performance,” said Ortiz, a nationally accredited interpreter with experience in medical and legal interpretation. “They were not reticent in the least, and I could tell they retained much

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of what we’d studied in our classes.”

Coats sophomore Nick Hammond, a Spanish major and son of College of Arts & Sciences Dean Mark Hammond, said the workshop put him in situations that resembled more real-life events than a classroom could. Fluent in Spanish, Hammond found interpreting to be a challenge. “You have to keep up with the pace of whomever you’re translating,” he said.

“The workshop put me in situations where just knowing the vocabulary isn’t good enough.”

Also a Spanish major, Wilson junior and future teacher Alicia Ellis called the trip “amazing,” adding that the workshop was more hands-on than a typical Spanish class.

“I can speak to you all day long in Spanish,” she said, “but this was a challenge. We met people who made us think more outside of the box … the whole experience was helpful for me.”

Campbell’s Spanish department introduced Medical Spanish in spring 2011 to not only expand its foreign language offerings, but tie in to the University’s growing health sciences programs (the medical school will begin in

2013, and the physician assistant program began in fall 2011).

With so many students studying for a career in medicine, department heads felt it would be beneficial to have a certified professor who can train them to use their Spanish in critical situations. “The courses [Dr. Ortiz] teaches come with that national seal of approval, so to speak," said Tiago Jones, associate professor of Spanish and chairman of the Department of Foreign Languages.

Fuquay-Varina senior Rachelle Fuller said she wants to enter med school or study to be a physician assistant after graduation, and having medical science courses (and the Arizona trip on her resume) will help her get into graduate school. “Those schools look for people who are more diverse,” she said, “or who don’t have minors solely in their field.”

Luke Ennis, a Fayetteville sports science major who works at an eye clinic, said he’s already used his bilingual skills in the field. “This entire course and the Arizona workshop focus solely on clinical terms I need to use on a regular basis. So it’s been very helpful," he said.

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HIT THE GROUND

SPRINTING

The head coach of Campbell's new women's lacrosse program has built a smart, experienced team in less than a year

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hil Schuman’s first 10 months as head coach of Campbell University’s new women’s lacrosse program were a blur.

Six days in, before he had more than a desk in his office, he was getting visits from prospective student-athletes. A few weeks in, he was driving countless miles up and down the East Coast, watching high school games as far north as Boston, all the way down to Orlando, Fla. When he wasn’t living out of his car, Schuman was trying to build a roster, recruiting not only the 2013 squad but the 2014 and 2015 teams as well. Before he knew it, fall practice began in August. Then in late September, his squad of 14 took the field for its first series of exhibition games.

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Schuman’s first 10 months flashed before his eyes.

“I thought, ‘My gosh, I can’t believe we’re doing this,’” the 27-year-old former lacrosse star at Washington College said. “I felt like those 10 months weren’t enough.”

The pre-game nerves quickly turned into excitement and adrenaline as his band of freshmen and junior college transfers performed well against other schools in the state, some of them also starting their programs from scratch this year.

“At times it looked like we’d had a program for three years, and at other times, we looked like a new team,” Schuman said. “The games didn’t mean anything official because we weren’t posting scores, but they meant a whole heck of a lot to us. Before that first

game against Davidson, I told the girls it’ll be a moment they’ll remember for the rest of their lives.

“They’re building a program, and they should be proud of that.”

FROM COLORADO TO DELAWARE Schuman hails from Maryland, a state that loves its lacrosse much like North Carolina loves its college basketball.

“You pretty much come out of the womb carrying a lacrosse stick,” joked Schuman, a goalie during his college days for the 28time Div. III champion Washington College Shoremen. “I was 6 the first time I played organized lacrosse, and from Day 1, I knew it

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athletic Notes was a fit for me. It’s a big part of who I am.”

2011. He said he hit the ground sprinting.

After graduation, he became a volunteer assistant coach for the school’s women’s team, working with their goalies. He decided then that coaching would be his career.

The traveling. The hours and hours spent watching high school games and films.

Schuman was filling out three recruiting classes during the spring 2012 semester, getting letters of intent from high school seniors, juniors and sophomores.

Near the time he obtained his master’s degree, he got a call from Methodist University in North Carolina, a 7-yearold program struggling to recruit and win regularly. In a year there, Schuman revamped the roster and scored a big recruiting class, getting the attention of Coach Lyndsey Boswell at High Point University, which was starting its program in 2011.

In High Point’s first year, the team went 154. Schuman felt like he found a home.

Then Campbell called.

“To be honest, I didn’t know much about Campbell or Buies Creek,” Schuman said.

“But about halfway through my interview, I realized this was where I wanted to be.

The people are what sold it. There was an immediate level of comfort with each administrator I spoke with, as well as a shared vision. It made my decision easy.”

Under Boswell (whom he’ll face regularly in the new Big South lacrosse conference), Schuman learned the blueprint for starting a successful program.

“Lyndsey was 28 when she took the job there,” he said. “I saw that to build a program at the Div. I level, you need to do what we’ve had to do that last 10 months. It takes a lot of energy. It takes someone who doesn’t have a big family and who doesn’t mind being on the road 10 days at a time.”

Schuman started at Campbell on Dec. 1,

“The recruiting scene in Div. I women’s lacrosse is a polarizing topic,” he said. “About five years ago, three or four of the top teams in the country started committing recruits to their schools as sophomores in high school. In order to be competitive, everyone is following suit. It’s not something we are particularly pleased with, but that is the nature of our sport right now.”

Schuman had his 2013-14 freshman class of recruits filled before he finished this season’s squad. Despite the time constraints, he said he wanted to not just fill out a roster, but mold a competitive one.

And he thinks he’s done just that with the help of assistant coach Linsdey McDonald, a former McDaniel College star hired in February. Five of their student-athletes (including his three captains) are from Maryland, and others are from Delaware, Colorado, New York, Florida, Virginia, New Jersey and, of course, North Carolina. Of the 14, 10 are freshmen.

The talent’s there, even if the depth isn’t.

“Sometimes I look back and think, ‘How did we get this thing together?” Schuman said.

“But we did. Recruits have been impressed with our facilities here, our academic support and our vision for the program and university.”

LACROSSE IN A NUTSHELL A game with Native Americans origins, lacrosse is played with a long-handledstick and a rubber ball. Teams of players — 10 for boys, 12 for girls — attempt to throw a ball into the opposing team's net. U.S. Lacrosse describes it as a "combination of basketball, soccer and hockey," rewarding "coordination and agility, not brawn." It can be played outdoors and indoors, with the size of the field and team varying by league type.

The sport has experienced steady growth in North Carolina in recent years, with high schools in Charlotte, the Triad and the Triangle adding it to their program. Charlotte was also awarded a Major League Lacrosse expansion team, the Charlotte Hounds, in 2012.

Duke and UNC have fielded lacrosse programs (men’s and women’s) for years, and the Big South Conference will play its inaugural women’s lacrosse season in 2013 with Campbell, Coastal Carolina, High Point, Liberty, Longwood, Presbyterian College, Winthrop and Davidson.

WHY CAMPBELL? Head coach Phil Schuman says Campbell University has women’s lacrosse not because of Title IX regulations, but because lacrosse brings a lot to the table.

“Lacrosse student-athletes have the second-highest graduation rate of the 19 NCAA-sponsored women’s sports,” he said. “More than 90 percent of lacrosse women graduate in four years. It brings a great academic profile to your school.”

It’s also one of the fastest-growing team sports in the country. The inaugural 14-member squad has girls from eight different states.

Campbell’s lacrosse team will play games at Barker-Lane Stadium beginning next spring.

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS Taelar Errington is one of those three Maryland captains and junior college transfers. The junior from Baltimore County said she fell in love with Buies Creek during her recruiting visit, and is excited to be part of history.

“When I graduate, I’ll be able to look back and say I was a part of the foundation of this program,” said Errington. “The traditions and the winning started with us. I love the culture of lacrosse, and I’m happy we get to introduce it here.”

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She said she got chills when she stepped onto the field for the first time as a Lady Camel for those fall exhibitions. The excitement was contagious, according to Schuman.

“Everyone from the kids to the training staff to the administrators were excited to be there,” he said. “And the games we ‘won’ against other new programs, we did well because our [on-the-field] leadership was better. And we’re proud of that.”

Another Maryland junior college transfer and team captain, goalie Brittany Kincer, said she was surprised at how well the team performed in their six exhibition games over two Saturdays.

“Considering the small numbers we have, I’m very pleased at how it turned out,” she said.

“With the team we have right now, I feel very confident heading into the spring. I think we’ll have high expectations for a strong season … even if it is our first one.”

There’s good reason for optimism. Campbell will be a new program, but so will Coastal Carolina and Winthrop as the Big South Conference becomes one of 13 conferences that will have an automatic bid for the NCAA championship tournament. Other Big South schools in 2013 will include High Point, Liberty, Longwood, Presbyterian College and associate member Davidson.

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athletic Notes THE ROSTER The 2013 Campbell women’s lacrosse team will include nine freshmen, four juniors and a senior. They are: • Taelar Errington (Co-captain; Jr.; Valley Lee, Md.) "My goals for the season are to be a leader on and off the field, be the player other teams fear and improve all stats from last season (at UMBC). I think my greatest contributions to the team will be leadership, experience and a voice."

• Cloey Henchcliffe (Co-captain; Jr.; Hyattsville, Md.) "Having played at the junior college level, I hope to lead by example."

• Brittany Kincer (Co-captain; Jr.; Glen Burnie, Md.) "My goals for the season are to learn the game better and to be able to adjust my game play."

• Kaki Armiger (Fr.; Hockessin, Del.) • Loren Day (Fr.; Bushwood, Md.) • Sierra Fox (Fr., Raleigh) • Lauren Frick (Jr.; Columbia, N.J.) • Erica Hitch (Fr.; Eden, Md.) • Lauren Kuklenski (Sr.; Colorado Springs, Colo.)

• Hannah Lamb (Fr.; Apex) • April Reinhart (Fr.; Vienna, Va.) • Rebecca Sheinfeld (Fr.; Weston, Fla.) • Jordan Spain (Fr.; Winston-Salem) • Jillian Summers (Fr.; Hamburg, N.Y.)

SCHEDULE In other words, Campbell won’t be the only team facing growing pains this spring. And Schuman is looking at 2013 as his chance to show he belongs as a Div. I lacrosse coach.

“I feel like for the first time in my career, this is really an opportunity to prove to people that I have what it takes to be successful at this level,” he said. “It is a brand new program. I’m not cleaning up someone else’s mess. And in five years, if we’re good, that’s on me. If we are bad, that’s on me, too.”

Schuman said there hasn’t been a single decision made from Day 1 that hasn’t had the “big picture” in mind. He said he came to Campbell with a 25-step plan drawn up, and

he hasn’t deviated from it once.

“We will make Campbell a Top 40 program nationally. Period,” he said. “We talk with our players about being good at everything they do. Sit in the first two rows in class, go to study hall, meet with your professors. Be a good ambassador for the program and be active in community service.

“We have lofty expectations for our program, on and off the field.”

PRESEASON Feb. 2: Pfeiffer

1 p.m.

REGULAR SEASON Feb. 23: Kennesaw State TBA Feb. 26: Longwood* 7 p.m.

March 5: St. Joseph’s 7 p.m.

March 8: at Stetson 4 p.m.

March 14: at St. Francis 7 p.m.

March 16: at Detroit Mercy Noon March 20: at Winthrop* 2 p.m.

March 23: at Howard 3 p.m.

April 1: at Liberty* 3 p.m.

April 5: at Davidson* 6 p.m.

April 12: Presbyterian* 6 p.m.

April 15: High Point* 3 p.m.

April 20: Coastal Carolina* 1 p.m.

April 26-28: Big South Tournament May 10: NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Championship *-denotes Big South Conference match

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Men’s Sports

Courtesy of Campbell Athletics

Track & Field

Kelly named head coach of Campbell track program Michael Kelly was named head track & field/ cross country coach at Campbell University in August.

Kelly joined the Campbell athletics staff last January as assistant coach overseeing the distance program and has served as interim head coach since Norbert Elliott accepted a position at Purdue University last summer.

"Michael has done an excellent job as our interim head track coach, and we were very impressed with his enthusiasm and his plan for the entire Campbell track and field program," said Athletic Director Bob Roller.

THURSDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: Campbell quarterback Braden Smith (right) looks for an open receiver during the Camel’s Aug. 30 season opener against Shorter University. The game marked the first night-time kick-off in Campbell football history, as lights were installed at Barker-Lane Stadium just days before the game. The announced crowd for the Thursday game was 5,130 … the third-largest crowd in the stadium’s history. Photo by Will Bratton

"He has already made tremendous strides as the head of our cross country program for the past year, and we look forward to the entire program making itself known in the Big South Conference this year."

Wrestling Golf

Soccer

Golf management students win PGA Jones Cup again

Late Barry Howard to be inducted in N.C. Hall of Fame

Five students in Campbell University’s PGA Golf Management University Program won the PGA Jones Cup by a commanding 17 strokes at the PGA Golf Club’s Wanamaker Course in November.

The late Barry Howard, a former All-South defender who later served on the Campbell men’s soccer coaching staff, will be inducted posthumously into the North Carolina Soccer Hall of Fame in January.

It marked the third time in six years that students in the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business program have won the PGA Jones Cup, which is presented by Golf Pride.

Campbell also won the Jones Cup in 2007 and 2009. Only one other school has won three titles; Mississippi State University did so in 2002, 2003 and 2010.

Howard grew up in Buies Creek, saw his first soccer game when he watched the Campbell University men play and helped to start the first high school soccer team in Harnett County at Buies Creek High School. Upon graduation from high school, he enrolled at Campbell where he was a four-year letter winner.

The five students who represented Campbell were sophomore Robert Bose of Norfolk, Va.; senior Charles Gross of Fayetteville; senior Jared Morrow of Charlotte; senior Ben Pollard of Bloomington, Minn.; and senior Ryan Wolff of Shokan, N.Y.

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He was instrumental in helping to bring youth soccer to numerous communities throughout eastern North Carolina and assisted in the formation of high school programs in many of the communities. He was also an assistant men's coach for seven seasons at Campbell and later served two years as the Camels' head coach (1989-1990).

Two Campbell wrestlers ranked nationally Redshirt junior Nick Rex and redshirt sophomore James Cookare ranked in the Top 35 wrestlers nationally in their respective weight classes by WrestlingReport.com in early November.

Rex was ranked No. 33 in the 157-pound spot nationally and 16th in the Atlantic region. Rex, from Lakeland, Fla., was also named Southern Conference preseason allconference in his weight class.

Also a preseason all-conference selection, Cook was No. 32 nationally and 16th in the Atlantic region among 184-pound wrestlers.

Cook, from Madera, Calif., placed second in the 174-pound division at the SoCon Championship last season.

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Women’s Sports

Courtesy of Campbell Athletics

Swimming

Golf

Soccer

Warne’s record times mark strong fall showing

Team closes out fall with title at Palmetto tourney

Squad earns NSCAA Team Academic Award with 3.28 GPA

Campbell’s swimming team wrapped up fall competition at the UNC-Wilmington Seahawk Invitational in late November with two more wins from Kylie Warne, who has broken a few school records this year.

Campbell’s women’s golf team closed out a successful 2012 — one that included a Big South title in the spring — with a team title at the Palmetto Intercollegiate at Oak Point Golf Club in South Carolina in November.

Kylie Warne won six individual titles in Wilmington, including wins in the 200-yard butterfly, 200 freestyle, 500 freestyle, 200 IM, 200 backstroke and the 100 butterfly.

Maria Jose Benavides, a junior from Lerma, Mexico, won her first individual collegiate title by producing the third-lowest 54-hole total in Campbell women's golf history, shooting a 3-under.

The women's soccer team was honored with the NSCAA Team Academic Award for the academic year. The award is given annually to collegiate soccer teams that post a minimum 3.0 GPA. The Camels earned a 3.28 average GPA least year.

A few weeks earlier, Warne led Campbell to its second straight team title at the Radford Highlander Invitational. The Camels completed the three-day meet with nearly double the total team points as second-place host Radford.

There, Warne broke Campbell records in the 1,650 freestyle and the 200 butterfly, winning both events.

The team will return to action Jan. 12, when it travels to the College of Charleston.

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Benavides became the third Campbell player to win individual tournament honors this fall, joining Brooke Bellomy (Golfweek Program Challenge) and Kaylin Yost (Fighting Camel Fall Classic). The win was the 67th of head coach John Crooks' tenure in charge of the Campbell women's program.

He stands fourth all-time (second among active coaches) in NCAA Division I women's golf tournament coaching victories.

The team has been ranked as high as 17th in the nation in 2012, and they’ll enter the spring ranked 26th. They’ll play Feb. 4-5 at the Miami Hurricane Invitational in Florida.

"We're really proud of our ladies for achieving this award for yet another year," said head coach Todd Clark. "It indicates that not only does our program value on the field performance but also academic achievement."

Clark said it is a true “team award” because every player’s grades are factored into the equation.

Campbell finished the season with a 10-8-1 overall record, 5-6 in the Big South. Five Camels were named to the Big South AllConference team: senior Taylor Brown and sophomore Ashley Clark were tabbed first team, and senior Kirsty Meyer was named to the second team. Goalkeeper Alexis Connors was named to the all-freshman team, and senior Cissy Nitz was honored to the allacademic team.

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Dreaming Big

Cy Young Award winner Jim Perry says his Major League dream became reality thanks to Campbell University

BY BILLY LIGGETT

H

e won the American League Cy Young Award in 1970 as baseball’s best pitcher. Five years earlier, he pitched in a few World Series games … going head-to-head with the legendary Sandy Koufax in one.

He was a three-time Major League Baseball All Star selection, a 1974 inductee into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, a 1984 inductee of Campbell University’s Sports Hall of Fame and a 2011 pick for the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame.

And when Jim Perry looks back on his playing days at then Campbell Junior College, he’ll admit this … he was a heck of a basketball player.

Yes, basketball.

On the day Campbell’s soon-to-be renovated baseball facility was officially named Jim Perry Stadium, Perry talked a lot about his time on the basketball court in the

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late 1950s. At 6-foot-4, Perry played for legendary hoops coach Fred McCall — and averaged a more-than-respectable 22 points per game — just so he would be in shape by the time spring training came around.

Perry played two years of minor league ball and a year in the majors all while going backand-forth to finish high school and junior college in Buies Creek.

“When I started in the minor leagues, I gave myself four years to make it to the majors,” Perry recalled. “If I didn’t make it, I was going to do something else. And I was going to have a good education. That’s why I kept coming back.”

His years in Campbell had a big influence on him. He met his wife Daphne Snell, who played for the women’s basketball team, and the two married shortly after she graduated.

He found mentors in men like McCall and the late professor A.R. Burkot.

And he pitched side-by-side with younger brother, Gaylord Perry, who went on to have a Hall of Fame career as a pitcher, winning the Cy Young for the Cleveland Indians in 1972 (two years after Jim) and in 1978 for the San Diego Padres.

The Perrys came to Buies Creek after winning a state baseball championship for Williamston High School, because the two knew Campbell would attract more scouts than their hometown and thus, provide a better opportunity to make it to the big leagues.

Without a doubt, they made the right decision.

“For as long as I can remember, I dreamed of playing baseball,” Jim Perry said a few hours before the ceremony unveiling the stadium that now bears his name. “This college gave me the opportunity to chase my dreams.”

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The Campbell Years The Raleigh News & Observer followed Perry regularly in 1959 during the tall right-hander’s rookie season with the Cleveland Indians.

A short article titled “Off-Season Student: Jim Fond of Campbell College” reported that Perry “thinks the people at Campbell are just fine and dandy” and that “Campbell College could ask for no better public relations man than Jim Perry.”

Jim Perry arrived in Buies Creek in 1955 as a senior in high school (the Campbell Junior College campus was a high school at that time as well). He played baseball for the junior college under coach Hargrove Davis in ’55 and started his minor league career in North Platte, Neb., the following year. After his stint in Nebraska, Perry spent 1957 pitching in Fargo, N.D. The mid- to late-50s consisted of school in the fall, basketball and school in the winter and baseball in the spring and summer. For a time, Perry lived in a small room in Carter Gymnasium with a handful of other athletes … as close to “roughing it” as he came during his days at Campbell.

What made that time a little less rough was his introduction to Daphne Snell, who in addition to playing women’s basketball, served on the Baptist Student Union, the New House Council, the Touring Choir, Future Business Leaders of America and a few other student organizations.

Said Daphne: “Shortly after we met, the boys and girls teams were riding the bus together to play Chowan, and Dr. Burkot took the trip

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with us. Jim and I were seated together, and at that time, Coach McCall didn’t know me.

So he asked Dr. Burkot, ‘Who is this girl?’ like he didn’t want me there. And I understood, because Jim was his ‘boy.’ He had three daughters, and Jim was like a son to him. He wanted to know who this little girl was messing with his boy.”

Jim and Daphne Perry downplayed Jim’s “celebrity status” at the time, but because he was an athlete (and a very good one), Daphne was often teased by the coaches on campus.

“Coach McCall was teaching a health class, and he called me out in class once saying, ‘Ms. Snell, I saw you with Mr. Perry having breakfast this morning. Did he have halitosis? You know what halitosis is, right?’ Well, halitosis is bad breath, and of course, he did a good job of embarrassing me in class.”

Perry’s reputation as a star athlete was growing in Buies Creek, but his auditions for the big stage were happening hundreds of miles away.

In his first game with North Platte in ’56, he struck out 16 guys. This caught the attention of Hall of Fame pitcher Red Ruffing, who was a scout for the Cleveland Indians at the time.

In ’57 and ’58, Perry pitched in North Dakota and Redding, Pa., winning 16 games for the latter and earning an invitation to spring training with the Indians the following year.

The first person not named Daphne to hear the news of Perry’s invite was his basketball coach.

“Nobody was happier than Coach McCall,” Perry said, smiling. “He was so excited for me.

Then, of course, the first thing he asked was, ‘You’re still coming back, right?’ I told him absolutely.”

The Big Leagues Perry liked what he saw in the Cleveland Indians in 1959.

Not because the Indians had stars in the lineup like Rocky Colavito and Minnie Minoso.

Instead, Perry focused on the aging pitching staff of guys like Mike Garcia and Herb Score.

In other words, he saw an opportunity to make a rotation.

“Thanks to basketball, I arrived in spring training in the best shape,” Perry said. “I wouldn’t say I was a cocky rookie by any means, but I thought I was as good as anyone else.”

Perry gave it everything he had, even during batting practice.

“The coach came up to me and said I was throwing too hard … that I needed to throw it slower in batting practice so the guys could hit,” he said. “I told him I was there to make the team.”

Recognizing Perry’s work ethic, the Indians’ veterans quickly took a liking to the young man. Colavito, Garcia and others even invited him out to dinner on several occasions — a big deal for a rookie — and taught him not only the ins and outs of baseball, but also about life in the majors.

Perry recalled the time Minoso, a nine-time All Star, offered the rookie his car — a new red convertible — for the night so he could go out and have a good time.

“I told him I didn’t have any money, so he pulled out this roll of $100 bills and handed me one,” Perry said. “And that’s how he kept his money. He never went to the bank.”

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Pitching mostly in relief and starting 13 games his rookie season, Perry went 12-10 with a 2.65 ERA. He had eight complete games, two shutouts and four saves that year, earning him a spot on the Indians’ starting rotation in 1960.

That year, he went 18-10, and despite a subpar season in 1961, he earned his first of three spots on the American League All Star team.

Gaylord joined the majors in 1962, pitching in the National League for the San Francisco Giants. Jim said he kept a little black book on every batter he faced in the American League, and Gaylord did the same for the Giants. When a hitter was traded or switched leagues, the brothers would share their information on that player.

“I studied hard,” Jim said. “When I wasn’t pitching, I stayed in the dugout and took notes on the other team. I did anything that would help me get a guy out.”

He was traded to the Minnesota Twins in 1963, and two years later, Perry was pitching in the 1965 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Despite starting 19 games that year for the Twins, Perry pitched in relief during the Fall Classic. He pitched in the deciding Game 7, tossing a scoreless, hitless ninth inning in the Twins 2-0 loss to the legendary Sandy Koufax.

After a few years of time spent in and out of

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the rotation and bullpen, Perry’s break came in 1969. Starting 36 games for the Twins that year, he went 20-6 with a 2.82 ERA. He was 24-12 the following year, earning him the Cy Young Award.

When asked about that two-year span that saw him go 44-18 and pick up two more All Star selections, Perry points to one day in particular as the most memorable moment for him.

July 20, 1969.

It will forever be known as the day Apollo 11 and Americans Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins landed on the moon.

For Jim Perry, it was the day he was asked to pitch the final two innings of an 18-inning game in Seattle against the Pilots (a game that started on the 19th but was postponed in the 17th inning because of curfew), then 15 minutes later, start the next game.

“I remember it well,” Perry said, “Daphne and I were at the top of the Space Needle the day before, and I had my radio with me listening to the game. We got to the stadium in the ninth inning, and (manager) Billy Martin was using every pitcher we had. I told Daphne I knew he was going to make me finish that game the next

day, and he did.”

A career .199 hitter, which is more than respectable for a pitcher, Perry hit a double and scored the winning run in the 18th inning and pitched two innings of shutout ball for the win when the game resumed on July 20.

Then Martin asked him to start the next game, with the promise that the manager would “find someone who can help you” finish it.

Between games, Armstrong stepped foot on the moon. While the Twins and Pilots players watched on whatever TVs were nearby, Perry warmed up in the bullpen.

Martin didn’t need to “find someone” that

night. Perry pitched nine innings of shutout ball (got another hit, too) to become one of the few Major Leaguers to win two games in one day.

Down the highway in San Francisco, Jim’s brother Gaylord also pitched a complete game, beating the Dodgers 7-3. In that game, Gaylord homered … the first home run of his career.

“The joke was there’d be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry ever hit a home run,” Jim said, laughing. “Looks like they got there just in time.”

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Giving Back Jim Perry finished his Major League career with the Oakland Athletics in 1975. In 17 seasons, he compiled 215 wins, 32 shutouts and a career 3.45 ERA. He and Gaylord are still the only brothers to each have won a Cy Young Award, and they trail only Joe and Phil Niekro on the list of combined wins for brothers with 529 between them. The two even faced each other on July 3, 1973, when Gaylord’s Indians faced Jim’s Tigers. The Tigers won, 5-4. Jim had a nodecision in the game, while Gaylord picked up the loss.

on the disabled list. He credits his work ethic and the training he endured at Campbell for his ability to stay healthy.

He credits Campbell for many other things as well.

“If it weren’t for Campbell, we wouldn’t have met,” Perry said, looking over at Daphne.

“Our children, our grandchildren … none of that would have happened if it hadn’t been for Campbell.”

The Perrys have been longtime supporters of Campbell baseball over the years, one of the

many reasons for the stadium announcement.

The couple set up a trust fund for their alma mater years ago and donated that money recently to help fund the stadium construction.

“We’re fortunate that we’re able to do the things we can do for Campbell,” Jim said. “We decided a long time ago to do this. Campbell helped me get to where I am today. Why can’t I turn around and help them now?

“I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time.”

He played with legends like Harmon Killebrew, Colavito, Tony Oliva, Bert Blyleven, Jim Kaat and Rod Carew. And he faced countless legends, one of them Ted Williams, whom Perry shared a story about with guests at the luncheon on Nov. 12 before the stadium announcement.

The story goes: Perry had an 0-2 count on Williams before delivering a perfect pitch, which Williams took. Despite the location, the umpire called the pitch a ball. When Perry approached the ump after the inning about the pitch and asked why it wasn’t called a strike, the umpire replied, “Because Mr. Williams didn’t swing.”

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alumni Class Notes

Gus Stefandis (P2 student), Amber Ollie (P3) and Bobbie Jo Walston (P4) take time for a photo at the 2012 College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences Homecoming tent in October.

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The late Barry Howard (’69 BS) was one of three people to be selected to the North Carolina Soccer Hall of Fame Class of 2013, which will be inducted at the annual Hall of Fame dinner, Jan. 26, 2013, in Greensboro. He passed away on Dec. 5, 2008.

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Mark Gaskins (’84 BA) was hired as pastor of the Smithwood Baptist Church of Knoxville, Tenn. Mark was pastor of Jonesboro Heights Baptist Church from 2005 to 2012.

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Dr. Anthony Harrington (’85/’88 BS/MEd) was named the Harnett County Distinguished Alumni Award winner at the Central Carolina Community College 50th

anniversary gala celebration on June 28 at the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center in Sanford. He received a diploma from CCCC in radio/television broadcasting in 1977 and an AA in 1983.

Donald Marcari (’85 JD) was honored with North Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s 2012 Leaders in the Law award during a reception on Sept.

19. The award recognizes legal professionals who go above and beyond in their career and community. He founded his personal injury law firm Marcari, Russotto, Spencer and Balaban in 2000.

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Caron Stewart (’86 JD) became the 11th Judicial District court judge in 2012.

Caron will hear criminal cases in Johnston County and civil cases in Harnett and Lee counties.

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The North Carolina High School Athletic Association presented the Special Person award to Teresa Coleman (’87 BS), physical education teacher at Bladenboro Middle School.

Coleman has done a tremendous job working with the NCHSAA Student Services program. She has been teaching in Bladen County for over 20 years, including stints at Bladenboro, Plain View, Bladen Lakes and West Bladen high schools.

Asheville attorney David Gantt (’87 Law) was elected to the position of chairman of the Buncombe County Commission. Gantt has served on the commission since 1996.

He has developed a reputation as an advocate for education,

environmental protection and economic development. Gantt is also a 1978 graduate of UNCChapel Hill.

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Joseph Moose (’90 PH) was honored on Oct. 15 with the national title of “2012 NextGeneration Pharmacist” at the third annual Next-Generation Pharmacist awards event presented by Parata Systems and Pharmacy Times in San Diego. Joseph Moose and his brother, Whit Jr., are the fourth generation of Moose family pharmacists, who are still going strong after 130 years.

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Tina Thornhill (’91 PH) was appointed to a second term on commission on certification in Geriatric Pharmacy’s Examination Development Committee

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Russ Named Business School’s Outstanding Alum

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Andy Bowman (’93 PH) was elected to serve a three-year term on the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists’ board of directors.

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Kerry Meadows Germanoski (’00 BBA), her husband Chris and big brother Ryan welcomed Andrew Wade Germanoski to their family on Sept. 17. Andrew weighed 8 pounds, 10 ounces and was 21.5 inches long.

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Kathey Fulton ('94 PH) is serving on NCAP’s Acute Care Forum planning committee and the North Carolina AntiInfective Workshop steering committee

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The award simply added another accolade to his long history of supporting his alma mater. Over the years, he has served as president of Campbell’s National Alumni Association, as a member of John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center and BarkerLane Stadium capital campaign cabinets and as a member of the Alumni Board of Directors, in addition to several other roles.

He has created three endowed scholarships and was instrumental in the creation of the D.P. Russ Jr. and Walter S. Jones Sr. Alumni Awards for Research Excellence and Teacher Excellence.

His two sons are also Campbell graduates.

His career as an entrepreneur made all he has done for Campbell possible. Russ is president of Russ Medical Supplies and was formerly president of Russ Vending and Coffee Company for 22 years. He is also active in several community organizations in Wilmington, where he and his wife Linda live.

Russ credited his success to his experience at Campbell in receiving his award.

“When I began my various business adventures and endeavors, I’d frequently return to Campbell to seek advice from mentors like Dr. [Norman A.] Wiggins, former dean [Thomas] Folwell and others … too many to mention,” Russ said. “And over the years, I’ve continued to seek knowledge and experience. The real learning experience comes after you leave school.”

Paul Clark, senior vice president and senior trust team manager for Wells Fargo, received the school’s Young Alumnus Award.

Clark oversees the delivery and overall execution of the Trust Services in the greater Charlotte market.

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Angela Cassano (’99 PH) was inducted as a 2012 fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists at the ASHP Summer Meeting in Baltimore.

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Joey Williford (’01 PH) and family celebrated 60 years of service at their family-owned Newton Grove Drug on Oct. 19.

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Ronda Cole (’02 BS) married Stacy Gentry on Sept.

23, at Ridgefield’s Country Club in Kingsport, Tenn.

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Melissa Culbreth (’96 MDiv/‘00 BA) was promoted to major and will be the brigade

chaplain of the 449th Theater Aviation Brigade in the North Carolina Army National Guard.

Leigh Foushee (’00 PH) was elected to serve a three-year term on the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists’ board of directors. Foushee also joined the Campbell University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences Department of Pharmacy Practice faculty as clinical associate professor in July. Her principal teaching responsibility is providing advanced pharmacy practice experiences in ambulatory care for P-4 pharmacy students.

She'll continue her work as a clinical pharmacist at Benson Area Medical Center, where she has served patients since 2009.

Keith Little (’02 MDiv) and Johanna welcomed baby Joshua on July 13.

Ray Nance Howell IV (’02 BA) joined the nonprofit organization Carolina Cancer Services in Davidson County, which assists individuals affected by cancer. Howell serves as the director of patient services.

Leslie Wagstaff McKay (’02 PH) and husband Andy, along with big brother Logan, welcomed twins on July 11. Zadie Jane weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces and William James weighed 4 pounds, 6 ounces.

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(Above) Campbell alumnus John Woodard and his daughter Emily at the Campbell-Old Dominion football game in Virginia last September.

(Top Right) Barry Jones ('85), associate professor of Old Testament and Hebrew in the Divinity School, and a team of seven Campbell alumni and friends rode distances ranging from 150 to 200 miles recently to raise over $5,000 for treating and curing multiple sclerosis. Joining Jones were John Turner ('86), Tim Turner ('84), Jeff Easley ('84), Russell Galvan ('09), Richard Newton ('85), Tim McKoy and Tom McClay ('86). (Bottom Right) Gene Rogers and Joe Lawrence tour the campus during the Class of 1962's 50-year reunion gathering during Homecoming Week.

Amy Farmer Fears (’02 PH)

and husband Kenny announced the birth of a daughter Miranda Nicole Fears, born July 15.

She was also welcomed by big brother Ken.

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Jamie Lynn Callicutt (’03 BS) and Lewis Travis Cox were united in marriage on June 23, at Sandy Branch Baptist Church in Bear Creek.

The couple resides in Bonlee.

Laura Johnson (’03 MDiv) is the pastor of Broad Street Christian Church in New Bern.

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Bradley (’04 BA/’08 MDiv) and Sarah Boberg (’04 BA/’08 MDiv) welcomed to their family Scarlet Carolyne Boberg, born on Sept. 18.

’05

Richard Wood (’05 MDiv) and Beth Cockman-Wood (’04

MDiv) welcomed daughter Megan Jane Wood to their family on Sept. 24.

Jason Cain (’03 PH) opened The Bailey House Bed & Breakfast in Elm City.

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Melanie Dunn Cooke (’05 BS) and her husband Stephen welcomed a daughter, Allyson McKinley, born Aug. 21.

Barbara Dail (’05 M.Div/’11 DMin) earned the senior training level certificate from the International Conference of Police Chaplains. This recognition is granted when a chaplain has completed the required hours of professional studies and tenure of service, and provided evidence of significant contribution to law enforcement chaplaincy. Dail is a part-time staff chaplain at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville. She will continue her chaplain work with the Greenville Police Department and North Carolina State Highway Patrol.

___________________ Lauren Deck Crotts (’05 BA) and her husband John welcomed their first child, John David Crotts, on March 21.

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Five Added To List Of ‘Distinguished Alumni’

Campbell University added the title “distinguished” to five alumni during Homecoming 2012 festivities on Oct. 19.

and most recently Hall provided funding for the simulation lab for the new School of Osteopathic Medicine.

The five, whose graduation dates range from 1936 to 2002, were joined by friends, family, Campbell alumni and University administration and honored during a dinner in the Alumni Room of Marshbanks Dining Hall. Each year, Campbell recognizes alumni who have distinguished themselves in their professional careers and in their service to their alma mater.

Cecelia “Seeky” Wilkins Gregory (’70): Gregory is a 1970 graduate of Campbell Senior College, where she received her bachelor of science degree in intermediate education. In 1982, she received her master’s degree in intermediate education with a concentration in math; and in 1986, she returned to Campbell and received her certification in educational administration.

Today, she is the human resources director for the Harnett County School System. In 1985, she was named the county’s Math Teacher of the Year. She has been honored twice as Harnett County Educational Office Personnel Administrator of the Year.

Added to the list of Distinguished Alumni were:

Mary Catherine Cheek Hall (’36): Hall

attended then Campbell Junior College during the Great Depression, saving money as a “twister” in a clothing company in order to afford school. While a student at Campbell, she was active in Delta Kappa Gamma, was president of the Baptist Student Union, sang in the Glee Club and was recognized as the Most Outstanding Female Student in 1936. Hall continued her educational pursuits at the East Carolina Teacher’s College. She then returned home to Saxapahaw, where she began her teaching career at Saxapahaw Elementary School.

She and her late husband created the J.C. Hall and Mary Catherine Cheek Hall Endowed Scholarship Trust at Campbell

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Mikeal C. Parsons (’80): Parsons is a renowned professor of Biblical studies and New Testament and Macon Chairman of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. A 1980 graduate of Campbell, Parsons received his Bachelor of Arts degree in religion and was one of the first Campbell students to participate in an exchange program with the South Wales Baptist College in Cardiff, Wales and spent a year studying there. He joined the Baylor University Department of Religion faculty in 1986 as a professor of New Testament.

Parsons is a world-renowned top research

scholar in the area of Luke and Acts. He and his wife, Dr. Heidi J. Hornik, have collaborated on several books bringing together the worlds of theology and Italian Renaissance and Baroque painting.

William “Bill” Pully (’79 Law): Pully

started his career practicing law in his native Rocky Mount. He soon turned his attention to politics, working for U.S. Rep. Tim Valentine and gubernatorial candidate Lauch Faircloth. In 1984, Pully was offered a position as a lobbyist with the North Carolina Hospital Association and today remains with the organization. In 1999, he became the group’s president, and he and his team have worked diligently to transform health care delivery in North Carolina.

Wesley “Trey” Waters III (’02 Pharmacy): In just 10 years since graduation, Waters has become owner or partner of six pharmacies in North and South Carolina. A 2002 graduate of the Campbell’s then School of Pharmacy, Waters has also completed a fellowship in anti-aging regenerative and functional medicine and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in functional and regenerative medicine. His advanced studies have equipped him to deal not only with pharmaceuticals, but he is helping his patients understand the value of using nutraceuticals and homeopathics as well.

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’06

Phil Hopkins Jr. NASM CPT (’06 PH) competed in June at the Battle at the River Bodybuilding Competition and took second place in his novice class. He also competed at the Flex Lewis Classic Bodybuilding Competition, where he placed second in his junior class and fourth in his masters class.

Greg Robertson (’07 MDiv) is the senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Reidsville.

Darryl Tyler Nabors (’06 JD) and Sarah Kathleen Allen were married on June 16, at Sherrill's Inn in Fairview. Sarah, a graduate of N.C. State, is an account director at Pace Communications in Greensboro.

Darryl is an attorney at Crumley Roberts in Greensboro. They live in Greensboro.

Matt (’06 PH) and Jennifer Robinson (’06 PH) announced the birth of their daughter, Scarlett Rose Robinson, born Feb. 6, 2011. She weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces and was welcomed by big brother Rivers.

James Zboyovski (’06 PH/ MBA) began his new role with

Harris Teeter as pharmacy operations manager.

Phil Hopkins, Jr., NASM CPT (’06 PH) left chain

pharmacy and founded FireHorse Wellness, which provides complete wellness care, including fitness, nutrition and medication/disease state management. Services include business wellness program design, wellness coaching and seminars, personal training and MTM services.

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Chris Dawson (’07 MDiv) is

pastor of First Baptist Church in Monroe.

Kirk Brozy (’07 MSA) and Natalie Brozy (’07 MSA) are working as principals in Person County. Kirk is the principal of Woodland Elementary School, a 2011-12 School of Distinction.

Natalie is the new principal of Roxboro Community Middle School, a 2011-2012 Honor School of Excellence.

Ashley Branham (’08 PH) received the 2012 National Community Pharmacists Association Outstanding Adherence Educator Award. The honor recognizes a pharmacy educator who has made significant contributions to the education of pharmacy students in the area of medication adherence

Ryan Swanson (’08 PH) and Kristina Swanson are proud to announce the adoption of Oksana Havily Swanson.

Oksana was born on May 23, 2011, and arrived home from Russia on Oct. 11, 2012.

Erika Woessner Mathews (’07 PH) and husband Jacob announced the birth of their son Caleb Daniel Mathews, born July 27. He was welcomed by big sister Emma Grace.

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Teresa Bradley (’07 BS) is the 2012-13 Teacher of the Year at Coats Elementary.

Bradley is a first-grade teacher and has been teaching at Coats for six years. She also worked as a teacher assistant at LaFayette Elementary School for six years before becoming a teacher.

’08

Paul Whitaker Howard Jr. (’08 BBA) and Hadley White Godwin were united in a Christian marriage on Oct. 20 at First Christian Church in Greenville. Hadley is a graduate of N.C. State and an ag biotechnology market development planner for BASF. Paul is a financial representative for Northwestern Mutual Financial Network. They live in Raleigh.

Friends We Will Miss Mrs. Ozella B. Adams (’37), May 6 Mr. William A. Stallings (’47), May 17 Mr. W.P. Gurley (’37), May 25 Mrs. Mildred T. Morgan (’42), May 26 Mr. Cecil B. Riley (’66), June 3 Mrs. Mary M. Ennis (’38), June 10 Mr. Herman P. Powell Jr. (’87), June 12 Mrs. Alice G. Johnson (’44), June 13 Dr. Tobie P. Stone Jr. (’65), June 23 Mr. William L. Packer (’39), June 23 Mrs. Madge S. Ayscue (’52), June 24 Mrs. Lila Y. Powell (’43), July 1 Mrs. Amorette J. Creech (’59), July 1 Mr. Thomas R. Florence (’88), July 7 Mrs. Leslie P. James (’31), July 9 Rev. H. A. Dechent (’40), July 11 Mrs. Wilma P. Griffin (’35), July 12 Mr. William E. Gregory (’68), July 13 Dr. Hoover Adams (’93), July 15

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Mr. Harmon D. Hodge (’73), July 15 Mr. Robert J. Trent (’89), July 20 Rev. Donald L. Tatum (’71), July 20 Mr. William D. Lee Jr. (’55), July 25 Mrs. Cleo V. Hood (’63), July 26 Mrs. Lola T. Bailey (’55), July 28 Ms. Sandra Kelly-Ware (’00), July 28 Mr. Julius F. Gregson (’52), July 29 Mrs. Judith S. Dickens (’66), July 30 Mr. James A. Betts Jr. (’03), Aug. 2 Dr. James D. Burrell (’96), Aug. 3 Mr. Walter W. Vatcher (’79), Aug. 4 Mr. Norman E. Smith (’37), Aug. 5 Mr. W R. Waters (’63), Aug. 9 Mrs. Janet S. Bass (’68), Aug. 14 Mr. Gordon R. Baker (’73), Aug. 15 Miss May Marshbanks (’34), Aug. 21 Mr. Roy C. Parker (’46), Aug. 21 Mr. Archie W. Wood Jr. (’57), Aug. 28

Mrs. Hortense B. Eldridge (’67), Sept. 4 Rev. Gene T. Tuten (’64), Sept. 5 Rev. Archibald C. Prevatte (’40), Sept. 5 Mr. William K. Bond (’63), Sept. 11 Dr. James C. Cammack (’70), Sept. 14 Mrs. Annette M. Penland (’58), Sept. 16 Mrs. Dina P. Fann (’92), Sept. 16 Mrs. Estelle W. Burnette (’76), Sept. 16 Mr. Charles Eugene Goodwin (’74), Sept. 18 Mr. Selwyn B. O'Quinn (’43), Sept. 20 Rev. Charles W. Coats (’59), Oct. 5 Mr. Howard L. Hardee (’49), Oct. 6 Ms. Magdalene Ennis (’63), Oct. 20 Mr. Wesley W. Young V (’69), Oct. 24 Mrs. Helen Rowe Scrase (’60), Oct. 26 Mrs. Wanda S. Turner (’49), Nov. 8 Mr. Joshua Curl (student), Nov. 21 Dr. L. Stanford Beard (Biology Professor), Nov. 22

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Wheeler Burns Crawford (’08 PH) married Stephen M. Crawford of Gainesville, Fla., on March 10. The wedding ceremony was at First Baptist Church in Kinston.

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Heather Craven Sykes ('10 PH) and husband Brandon, along with big brother Weston, welcomed Owen William on July 4, 2011.

Rick Smith, Jr. ('10 PH/ MSCR/MBA) is now a captain and pharmacy flight commander for the U.S. Air Force.

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’09

Trent Sessoms (’05 BA/’09 MDiv) is pastor of

Knightdale Baptist Church.

Andy Hale (’10 BA/’10 MDiv) and Jennifer were commissioned as church planters by CBF at the CBF General Assembly in Fort Worth, Texas.

Nathan Rogers (’09 MDiv) was endorsed by the CBF in his position as bereavement coordinator for Providence Hospice in Anchorage, Alaska.

Joel Baucom (’09 MDiv) was promoted to manager of family services at Carolina Donor Services.

Nate Westmoreland (’09 BS) of Wilmington and Beth Latta of Raleigh were united in holy matrimony on July 29, at Cobblestone Hall in Raleigh.

Beth is a graduate of UNCWilmington. They live in Leland.

Doug and Heather Bowers (’09 PH) welcomed Atley Douglas on April 11. Big brothers Aiden and Asher are proud of their new little brother.

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Joshua Breazeale (’10 MDiv) Jessica, son Jacob and grandmother Alta Whitt (’04 MDiv) welcomed Josiah Andrew Breazeale to their family on July 9.

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Jonathan Altman (’11 MDiv) graduated summa cum laude with a Master of Theology in Missiology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts.

Leah Anderson Reed (’11 MDiv) began work in August as the part-time minister of youth at First Baptist Church in Ahoskie. She will also continue to work as the Women’s Program Counselor for the Eastern N.C. Poverty Network in Roanoke Rapids.

Elizabeth Warren Kuhn (’11 JD) and Christopher Robert Hicks were married on Sept. 1, at the Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill. Elizabeth is an associate with the Law Offices of F. Bryan Brice Jr. in Raleigh.

Christopher received his BA from UNC-Chapel Hill and his law degree from St. Louis University. He is an associate with Jesse W. Jones Law in Lillington. They reside in Raleigh.

Kaitlyn Marie Waters (’11 PH) and Steven Rufty Miller were married on Aug. 25, at Yankee Hall Plantation in the Pactolus community of Greenville. Pastor Carnie Hedgepeth officiated the double ring ceremony.

Kaitlyn is a pharmacist for CVS in Kernersville. Steven will graduate from the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences in 2013, and is employed by CVS in Winston-Salem. They reside in Kernersville.

Meredith Buck (’11 PH) and Brad Rawls were united in marriage on July 21,at St. Peter's Episcopal church in Washington, N.C.

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Rob Lalley (’11 PH/’12 MSCR) is completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Campbell's College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences and Novella Clinical in Durham.

Rich Debenedetto (’12 PH/’12 MSCR) passed the American Academy of HIV Medicine (AAHIVM) pharmacist certification examination to become a certified HIV pharmacist.

Amanda K. Hannon (’12 JD) is an associate with the law firm of Murchison, Taylor & Gibson. She concentrates in the areas of wills,

trusts, estate planning, estate administration and business law.

Greg Barnes (’12 MDiv) was named youth minister at Milbournie Freewill Baptist Church in Wilson. Greg will start the ministry at the beginning of the year.

Brianne Rothrock Hauser (’12 BA) and Byron Michael Hauser (’12 BS), both of WinstonSalem, were joined in marriage on Oct. 20. They reside in Mebane. Brianne is a EDI project manager at LabCorp, and Byron is a clinical trials assistant at Duke University Medical Center.

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