Campbell Magazine - Spring 2013

Spring 2013

GRIDIRON MIKE New head football coach Mike Minter

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A Winner In Mike Minter All eyes will be on Mike Minter as the Campbell Camels enter the 2013 football season this fall. A two-time national champion at Nebraska and a legend on the field with the Carolina Panthers during the last decade, Minter enters his first head coaching job at the collegiate level with not only winning on his mind … but winning big.

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The Man Behind The Camera He’s filmed some of the world’s biggest sporting events and has worked with some of the biggest stars. But the most impressive thing about Campbell alumnus Carl Heinemann is his ability to tell a story. That ability earned him his first national Sports Emmy in 2012.

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Eyes On The Homeland Domestic Counterterrorism. Critical Infrastructure. Catastrophic Threats. Titles of recent Michael Bay movies, or some of the courses in Campbell’s new Homeland Security major? If you guessed the latter, you’re correct. Campbell is now the only university in North Carolina to offer a fouryear undergraduate program in the field.

Kaylin Looks On The Bright Side Since she was an infant, junior Kaylin Yost has faced one hardship after another. But that hasn’t stopped her from becoming one of the top golfers in the Big South conference and one of the key players on a deep Campbell women’s golf team.

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to the Editor Fall / Winter 2012

IT’S ALL ABOUT

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

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Switch to ‘Trust’ changed my life On a spring afternoon in 1997, my life changed forever. I was nearing the end of my freshman year, very pleased with my decision to attend Campbell University, yet a little unsettled about my field of study and anxious about a career path.

A good friend had recently switched his major to something they called “Trust Management” and encouraged me to set up a time to meet with Jimmy Witherspoon. As I sat in his Pearson Hall office for over an hour, Spoon explained several concepts that resonate with me to this day – putting others’ interests above our own, helping families accomplish their financial objectives and managing wealth for future generations.

While I was impressed with the recruiting pitch, the fact that he listened to me and put my interests first closed the deal. "Spoon" showed me what it meant to be a fiduciary that afternoon, and I changed my major immediately.

While I was excited about my decision, I never

My wife and I send your school, particularly the law school, congratulations from Fairbanks, Alaska.

could have imagined how passionate I would become about this industry. In my 13-year career, I have learned firsthand how rewarding it is to always put others’ interests first, the meaning of true stewardship and the impact that our decisions have on the lives of others.

These lessons have helped me immeasurably in my career when dealing with clients, beneficiaries and associates.

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The Lord has used Campbell University, the Trust and Wealth Management Program and Jimmy Witherspoon to impact my family’s life in a powerful way. I am very grateful for Dr. Wiggins’ vision many years ago and Campbell’s ongoing commitment to this amazing program.

125th anniversary book tells a wonderful Campbell story

Thank you for highlighting it in your recent story (“The Trust Mafia,” Winter 2013). The trust program is the perfect fit for anyone who strives to make a difference in the lives of others.

Ryan A. Newkirk (’00 BBA, ’01 MBA) Senior VP, U.S. Trust Greensboro

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Gonzaga basketball fans impressed with Campbell Prior to the Fighting Camels’ men’s basketball team playing Gonzaga on Dec. 19, I was not familiar with Campbell University. We watch a lot of Gonzaga games as my wife is a graduate of the school.

While watching the game, my wife wanted to have more information about Campbell. So I went to your website.

I am a graduate of Colorado Law School (1964), so I was interested in the information about your law school. Your law students’ accomplishments on the North Carolina bar exam are very impressive.

It has been wonderful reading about your university.

Jay Hodges Fairbanks, Alaska

The 125th anniversary book (Campbell University: Celebrating 125 Years of Faith, Learning and Service) is a wonderful book that captures the leadership and the growth of Campbell.

It is easy to read, because there are many photos that tell the story. I enjoyed the feature stories about each president and his wife.

This is a book that definitely illustrates why alumni, students, faculty and friends can say, “We are Campbell Proud!”

Kay Bissette (’79) Editor’s Note: You can order our 125th anniversary book online at campbell. bncollege.com

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Submit A Letter Campbell Magazine wants to hear from you, whether it’s about a story in this edition or anything involving Campbell University.

Send a Letter to the Editor to liggettb@ campbell.edu or by mail to: Campbell Magazine, ℅ Letters to the Editor P.O. Box 567, Buies Creek, NC 27506

Camels on Ice Leah Whitt ('11), currently a student in the LundyFetterman School of Business’ MBA program, took out her iPhone and captured this image of the camel statue in front of the Pope Convocation Center on Feb. 16.

Nearly two inches of snow fell that day, but because of the warmer temperatures the previous days, none of it stuck on the ground. The camel’s bronze facade was cold enough, however, making for a fun, wintry photo opp.

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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

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ossibly the biggest single event at Campbell University over the last three months — in terms of media exposure and overall campus buzz, that is — was the hiring of new head football coach (and Carolina Panther legend) Mike Minter.

We also feature standout Lady Camel golfer Kaylin Yost, born with a condition that led doctors to believe she may never walk and now one of the top golfers in the Big South Conference.

As far as new programs at Campbell go, it was lacrosse that burst onto the scene in February.

And the Lady Camels started out with a bang, winning its first game 21-4 before a large crowd at Barker-Lane Stadium.

There's also an Emmy-winning alum who's one of the most sought-after videographers and directors in his field. Of course, in keeping with this magazine's theme, Carl Heinemann has been behind the camera at some of the biggest sporting events in the world.

Even the viral video created by the LundyFetterman School of Business' PGM program — a video that garnered millions of views online and appearances on news networks across the world — was a golf video.

Sports. Sports. Sports. It wasn't really our intention to do a nearly all-athletic edition of Campbell Magazine ... it just sort of happened this way.

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 2013 edition and named one of the “100 Best College Buys” in the nation by Institutional Research & Evaluation, Inc.

Academics have been and will always be the priority when it comes to this magazine and our efforts to highlight Campbell University, but it doesn't hurt to have the occasional sportsthemed edition ... especially when the sports news is as big as it's been here.

In our cover story, we take a closer look at the man who's been asked to turn around Campbell's football program, which finished 1-10 last season. Mike Minter knows a thing or two about winning — he was a twotime national champion as a player with the University of Nebraska in the mid-90s, and he was an on-the-field leader for the Carolina Panthers during their lone Super Bowl run in the 2003-2004 season.

It's not all athletics. We also introduce you to Campbell's new Homeland Security major and the students who are seeking a career in protecting us from enemies abroad. Another alumna has launched her own online food/travel series.

But just about everything else is sports. And we're OK with that. This summer's Campbell Magazine will almost be entirely focused on the new School of Osteopathic Medicine ... which will more than make up for the academic snub this go-around.

And, as always, you can share your story ideas — sports or not — by emailing me at liggettb@campbell.edu. I can't wait to hear from you.

Billy Liggett Assistant Director for Publications Editor, Campbell Magazine

Shelby Cochrane @shellll_beeee: When an attorney who went to Elon tells you that she's jealous that you're going to Campbell's law program. #unbeatablescores

“If everybody played golf that way, it wouldn’t take you four hours [to play one round].”

— Ellen Degeneres, showing the PGM program’s “9 Putts, 1 Cup" video on The Ellen Degeneres Show

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Campus PGM’s ‘9 Putts’ video hits ‘viral’ status and then some When Nathan Mead became president of the PGA Golf Management Student Association at Campbell University last semester, he introduced a slogan that he hoped would set the tone for the group for the academic year: “Do big things.”

Mission accomplished.

A video that features Mead and eight other seniors in the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business’ PGA Golf Management University Program hitting nine putts into one golf hole, at one time, went viral in February. National news organizations such as CNN and USA Today, sports sites such as Sports Illustrated’s Golf.com and Yahoo Sports, and news stations from around the world — from 23ABC News in Bakersfield, Calif., to Zweites Deutsches Fernseher in Germany — picked up the video and described the trick shot with plenty of superlatives. Among them: “improbable,” “an incredible moment,” “astonishing,” “awesome,” “impossible trick shot,” “tremendous,” “the most impressive shot you’ll ever see” and “the all-time trick shot.”

“I can’t believe it has gotten so much attention,” Mead said during the first week of the video’s virality. “It’s exciting to wake up each morning with new texts from people saying, 'I just saw the video.'”

The roots of the video go back to earlier this winter when Mead was thinking of what he could do to bring together all the freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors in CUPGM, one of only 20 such programs in the country.

The seniors in the video, with putts from 2 feet to 23 feet out, made nine putts into a golf hole after about two dozen attempts.

Though the students removed the actual cup lining to make the hole deeper for all nine balls to fit, they kept the diameter of the hole regulation size (4.25 inches). The students calculated that the likelihood of making the nine putts was less than a half-percent.

“On the PGA Tour the odds of making an eight-footer is about 50/50, so for the students to be able to make all those putts is astronomical,” said Kenneth Jones, director of CUPGM. In addition to the millions who saw the video on various television programs, the original YouTube video had topped one million views by month’s end. — By Cherry Crayton PHOTO: The nine Campbell University students who made the trick shot and the camera operator who recorded it. Top row, from left to right: Patrick Bindel, Ben Polland, Patrick Carter, Mike Turck, Matt Foster (cameraman), Nathan Mead and Jacob Wine.

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magazine top publication at case iii Campbell University’s Campbell Magazine was named the top university publication and most-improved university publication in its division at the 2013 CASE District III awards ceremony, held in Atlanta on Feb. 19.

They were among the five total awards received by the communications department at the annual conference hosted by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

In addition to the magazine’s two grand awards, the University’s 125th anniversary book received an award of excellence, and merit awards went to Campbell’s 2012 Annual Report and campbell.edu’s “Alumni Memories” page.

District III covers colleges, universities and private K-12 schools in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Mississippi.

Campbell Magazine’s Fall 2011, Spring 2012 and Summer 2012 editions were entered for judging in the "Magazine II" division (schools with enrollments between 5,000 and 15,000) in this year’s contest.

The publications were produced by Billy Liggett, assistant director for publications, and designed by senior graphic designer Jonathan Bronsink.

Public health teams with PA students to provide dental clinic for area's children Nearly 100 underserved children from Harnett County received free dental and medical care on Feb. 2 at a clinic organized

by Campbell University’s Public Health and Physician Assistant programs.

The one-day event set up 12 dental chairs in the Harnett County Commons Area in Lillington, providing free exams, cleanings, sealants and fluoride treatments for children who do not have dental insurance or receive Medicaid funding.

The free clinic was held in conjunction with the American Dental Association’s Give Kids a Smile initiative, which addresses the need of dental care for underserved pediatric populations across the country.

“We were the only county in our surrounding area that did not have a Give Kids a Smile type event,” said Tina Tseng, chair of Campbell’s public health program. “As a new program, we were really happy to host this event for the first time, and help meet a huge need in our community.”

In a recent report by the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Dental Campaign, North Carolina was in the bottom five states for school-based dental sealant treatment programs.

The clinic was a collaborative effort with High House Pediatric Dentistry of

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Cary, Dentalworks Pediatric Dentistry of Fayetteville, Central Carolina Community College, the N.C. Oral Health Section, the Harnett County Health Department, and the N.C. Dental Society’s Missions of Mercy. More than 100 students from five universities volunteered, and an estimated value of $60,000 in dental services was provided, including placement of more than 250 sealants.

In addition to dental care, Campbell’s public health and PA students provided medical screenings and educational programs covering nutrition and oral hygiene.

“We had six health education and assessment stations set up,” said Kristina Wolfe, a first-year public health student who helped coordinate the event. “Families were led by a volunteer to each station as well as the dental services station.”

Campbell’s public health and PA programs already have plans to host Give Harnett Kids a Smile again next year. They hope to expand the dental and medical services to provide the community with more access to preventative care.

Photo: Thomas Notto, first-year PA student at Campbell, learns how to apply fluoride varnish during the free dental and medical clinic in Harnett. (by Andrea Pratt)

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around Campus State ethics bowl comes to Campbell Campbell Law School hosted 18 schools in February for the second annual North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Ethics Bowl, a competition that focuses on ethics in leadership, decisionmaking, interpersonal relationships and other issues in today’s society.

James Demmel @jtdemmel: @campbelledu after spending the weekend at this ethics bowl I've come to one conclusion: Campbell has the best professors, hands down.

“Ethics Bowl offers our students an extraordinary opportunity to dialog with other top-notch students from around the state on real-life moral dilemmas,” said Campbell associate professor of theology and philosophy Adam English, who also heads Campbell’s ethics team. “In addition to that, they make invaluable connections with Raleigh business leaders who volunteer their time to serve as judges and moderators.”

Big concerts coming to the creek this spring Buies Creek has seen its fair share of big music acts in the last 40-plus years (who can forget Billy Preston in 1974 or Weird Al Yankovich in ’93?).

This spring, two big names have Campbell University on their spring concert tours.

American Idol winner Phillip Phillips will play Turner Auditorium on April 2, and rockers The Goo Goo Dolls will play the John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center on April 17.

Phillips, the 21-year-old singer/guitarist

Middle Grades Program earns state honor Lorae Roukema describes the teacher preparation program for middle grades she directs in Campbell University’s School of Education as “small but mighty.”

That might has led Campbell’s Middle Grades Program to be honored with the firstever Teacher Preparation Program to Watch Award for North Carolina’s Eastern Region.

Given by the North Carolina Middle School Association and the N.C. Professors of Middle Level Education, the peer-nominated award recognizes excellence of middle grade academic programs and the efforts of faculty and graduates to advance the aims of

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exemplary middle grade education.

“This is an honor,” said Roukema, an associate professor of education at Campbell.

“We were up against a lot of schools in the region that have big education departments, so for us to actually win the award makes it even more special.”

Other universities in the same region as Campbell include East Carolina University, North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

whose debut single “Home” hit the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 list with 278,000 downloads sold, is the second Idol champ to perform in Buies Creek. Season 7 winner David Cook played a sold-out show at Campbell in 2009.

The Goo Goo Dolls, known for hits like "Iris," "Slide" and "Name," hit the bigtime in 1995 with the album "A Boy Named Goo,” which sold more than two million copies. The band hit its peak in 1998 with "Iris," which spent 18 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard charts.

Website Gets Facelift Big changes made to campbell.edu in late January included centeralignment, easier browsing for mobile devices and tablets, improved drop-down menus, quicker access to the school’s social networks, a sports news feed, an improved events calendar and an overall more aesthetically pleasing look, according to Bob Dry, the University’s head web designer and administrator.

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Law School in top tier of national ranking Campbell Law School moved into the top tier for law schools and collected its highest ever ranking as released by U.S. News & World Report in March.

The ranking is included as a part of the publication’s Best Graduate Schools 2014 guidebook, published in April.

“This is a proud day for Campbell Law and Campbell University,” said Campbell Law Interim Dean Keith Faulkner. “This ranking is further proof of the continued upward trajectory of the law school, as well as the strong foundation that has been built over time by countless faculty, staff, students and graduates since our founding in 1976.”

Previously unranked, Campbell is listed as 126th out of the 149 ranked schools.

Campbell Law ranked high in several metrics comprising overall rankings including student/faculty ratio, the school’s bar passage rate, and the number of graduates employed nine months after graduation with a full-time job lasting at least a year for which bar passage was required or a J.D. degree was an advantage.

Of the seven law schools in North Carolina, Campbell Law stands as one of four institutions ranked inside the top tier. The other three include Duke, UNCChapel Hill and Wake Forest.

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Campbell University students loaded an entire dumpster full of debris and dirt at a home in Howards Beach, N.Y., heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Photo courtesy of Faithe Beam.

A spring well spent

Campbell students spend Spring Break helping victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York It had been over four months since Hurricane Sandy slammed the East Coast when a team from Campbell University traveled north for Spring Break to lend a helping hand to those who still needed one.

The trip was an eye-opener for student Redonno Carmon, who was surprised at the condition of not only some of the homes and businesses hit hard by the mammoth storm, but the difficulty of getting one’s life back on track after such a disaster.

“If a tragedy isn't ‘close to home,’ we tend to forget that those people are still putting their lives back together,” said Carmon, a junior. “They are still trying to rebuild as we go on with our lives. God taught me the importance of being active physically or in prayer for those who have been dealt the

difficulty of life, whether it's been days or months.”

Carmon and nearly a dozen other Campbell students joined Campus Minister Faithe Beam in New York in March for a week of work on hurricane-damaged homes with the North Carolina Baptist Men, a group known for its volunteer work following natural disasters. Another group of students spent Spring Break in Honduras building pilas, or sheds used to wash clothes or house bathrooms, for poor families.

Beam, who leads a group to work and minister in East St. Louis each December, said God steered her toward choosing New York as a mission destination this year; and upon seeing the damage in Newport, N.Y., she instantly realized their work was needed.

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around Campus “There are still many without insurance or who simply haven’t had time to rebuild since the storm,” she said. “The family we helped in Howards Beach [near Queens] … the husband was an NYPD officer and the wife was a nurse. They’d spent all this time helping others and not focusing on their own needs.”

Beam and her crew spent an entire day moving dirt from their home, filling an entire large dumpster with dirt and debris from the couple’s back yard. At another home, they spent multiple days doing a complete tear-out, removing walls, sheetrock, ceramic tiles and studs damaged by the flooding and days of standing water.

Hard work. And hardly a typical Spring Break.

“The whole experience taught me I am tougher than I thought,” said junior Courtney West. “I continued to work and press forward even though I was tired and sore.”

It was West’s second mission trip with Campbell. For Carmon, who has volunteered locally with Campus Ministry several times, it was his first week-long mission trip.

“There is an overwhelming peace in getting away from the noise and serving someone who really needs it,” he said. “I found out how much joy and clarity of mind there is in doing that type of service.”

Justin McKoy and Mary Beth Smith perform a scene from “The Fastest Woman Alive,” presented by the Fine Arts Department in February. “Alive” tells the story of Jackie Cochran, the first woman to break the sound barrier and founder of Women Air Force Service Pilots, or WASP. Cochran became a mentor to both Amelia Earhart and Chuck Yeager, and to this day she holds more flight records than any man or woman who ever lived.

Pharmacy school launches mobile app Campbell University’s College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences released a new mobile application for Android and Apple products in February. The free app for smartphones and tablets offers instant access to news, videos and information about the College.

The CPHS app connects prospective students to admissions criteria about the College’s nine academic programs and six dual-degree options.

“As technology changes, apps are becoming a prevalent way to communicate with others,” said Brenda Blackman, director of recruitment and retention at CPHS. “We created our app to help with recruiting efforts, but also as a resource for current students, faculty, staff and alumni because it is a universal way to connect with our audience.”

Environmental sciences professor Michael Larsen (far right) led a group of students through the woods and nature trails surrounding Campbell University in January collecting trash as part of the university's Week of Service, an annual event held in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The clean-up effort lasted throughout the week, often in sub-freezing temperatures.

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Physical Therapy taking applications Campbell began accepting student applications in early February for its new Doctor of Physical Therapy program, anticipated to start spring 2014 (pending accreditation approval).

The program will accept between 32 and 40 students for the first class. Those interested in becoming a part of that first class have until Nov. 1 to submit their applications.

Over the next decade, millions of citizens are expected to gain access to health care services, which include physical therapy, due to changes in healthcare laws and delivery. With this new access to care, physical therapy positions are projected to increase 40 percent by 2020.

Campbell’s new program aims to help fill this need. The 36 month, full-time program at Campbell is dedicated to developing independent, autonomous practitioners who function as part of a comprehensive inter-professional health care team, with an emphasis on care in rural communities.

“Campbell is in a unique position to influence physical therapist retention rates in rural North Carolina by providing necessary health care access to those regions,” said Dr. Greg Dedrick, director of Campbell’s DPT program.

Students will spend the first two years applying classroom knowledge with hands-on training. The final year will focus primarily on clinical training in health care facilities throughout North Carolina, the southeast region and the nation.

Med school announces big partnership Six months before it’ll open its doors to students, Campbell’s School of Osteopathic Medicine announced in February a partnership with Southeastern Health and the Regional Medical Center in Lumberton to offer medical training opportunities for students.

The agreement is one of several academic health center partnerships between the newly formed medical school and major health care institutions in the region.

The partnership with Southeastern Health would involve training opportunities for third- and fourth-year Campbell medical school students, with additional residency programs provided post-graduation.

Students and residents would have the opportunity to train alongside primary care physicians at Southeastern Regional Medical Center as well as primary care physicians and specialists throughout Southeastern Health's network of 40 clinics.

The Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine will open to its first class of 150 students in August. Students will spend the first two years learning on the Harnett County campus in state-of-theart simulation labs before being assigned to training opportunities in regional community hospitals.

Dr. John Kauffman, dean of the School of Osteopathic Medicine, said this model is ideal for training primary care physicians, particularly physicians who will practice in rural and underserved areas.

“By placing our students in community hospitals for their third and fourth years and having residency programs available once they graduate, we believe it will enable our students to put down roots and become the next generation of physicians who practice in this community,” said Kauffman. “These students will be your pediatricians, your family doctors, your internists, your surgeons, your OBGYNs and your emergency medical physicians.”

COMING THIS SUMMER The award-winning Campbell Magazine will pull the curtain back on the University’s School of Osteopathic Medicine, which will open its doors for students this August. Our special edition will focus on the students, the faculty, the curriculum, the building and everything that went into creating North Carolina’s first medical school in 35 years.

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around Campus Q&A WITH THE LUPTONS How did the move to Colombia come about?

Andrew: We both had individually romanticized about doing missions in Latin America and thought that was something we would do as a married couple later. But things lined up in a way that it was clear to us that we needed to go to Latin America now.

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Laura Kate: Our team is working on planting five churches there. One of the biggest challenges they face is not having people who are comfortable leading music. Instead of having worship leaders, they have a glory box. You plug in the number of the hymn, and the box plays a synthesized version. For a lot of people, and definitely for young people, that’s not attractive. One of our team’s visions is to start a music school there.

Andrew & Kate Lupton Discipling the next generation

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Campbell alumni Andrew ('08 MBA) and Laura Kate Lupton ('04) had thought about doing mission work in Latin America as a married couple years down the road. But things lined up in such a way, they say, that they needed to go now.

Andrew met Laura Kate while playing mud volleyball at Campbell University. He was in the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business’ 3/2 program, and she was a piano pedagogy major.

She also was Presbyterian, she loved bluegrass music and she had a heart for Latin America.

“That was right up my alley,” said Andrew, who’s originally from Clyde, N.C. They married in 2005. After Andrew finished his MBA from Campbell in 2008, the couple moved to St. Louis. There, Andrew earned his Master of Divinity from Covenant Theological Seminary, and Laura Kate taught music at an elementary

school for three years. Then they joined Global Youth & Family Ministries, a churchplanting organization, and were based in Cary, where Laura Kate grew up attending Peace Presbyterian Church. In December, the couple and their 1-year-old son, Fox, moved from Cary to Bogotá, Colombia, to begin a four-year commitment with GYFM. They’re working with a church-planting missions team and serve missionary families.

"GYFM’s mission is to serve the global church by engaging the emerging generation with the gospel," Andrew said. "We are the primary resources for the missionary kids we have stationed throughout Latin America. We visit them; disciple them; host them in Colombia; take them on mission trips — things that will happen to 'normal kids' in a church’s youth program in the States, except we’re be pulling that off on an international level."

How has Campbell helped prepare you for these missions?

Andrew: Campbell’s business school gave me a good framework. I learned how institutions work and how to manage people, and it was through that process that I fell in love with pastoring people. I stuck around and got the MBA because I had seen a lot of pastors mismanage resources, both financial and human. I wanted to be someone who could serve the church by being an effective and efficient manager. To learn how to shepherd people, I went to seminary.

Laura Kate: As far as being prepared to teach in a cross-cultural music school, I was given the tools to do that at Campbell. My education in music was fantastic. I saw the importance of one generation pouring into the next generation; and a lot of professors, especially those in the music department, modeled how to do that.

I experienced a lot of patience and gentleness, and I find myself trying to emulate them when I’m teaching music.

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SPIRIT, PASSION AND A WILL TO WIN R

ight away, Mike Minter knew his foot was broken.

With just over a quarter remaining in the biggest football game of his life, and with his Carolina Panthers trailing a New England Patriots team looking to start a dynasty, the Panthers’ safety hit tight end Daniel Graham — who outsized Minter by 5 inches and 60 pounds — with everything he had six yards from the end zone to prevent a score.

The collision was violent. But it was the moment before impact — Minter planting his foot into the artificial turf at Houston’s Reliant Stadium — when the pain hit.

“I felt a pop,” Minter recalls nine years later.

“When you’re playing and the adrenaline is flowing in a game like that, you don’t feel the pain. When the play’s over? Ha … it was throbbing. Go back and watch it again, and you can see me hobbling around after every play.

“It was pretty bad.”

When sharing the legend of Mike Minter — the Carolina Panthers’ all-time leader in tackles, fumble recoveries and defensive

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touchdowns — it’s paramount to mention his performance in Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004. Six of his career-high 18 tackles in that game came after the broken foot, and his performance helped the Panthers nearly pull off one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history (the Patriots won on a last-second field goal).

Minter remembers telling the trainers to simply tie his shoe tighter after the break. He even refused painkillers, relying instead on that adrenaline to get him through.

Passion. Grit. Heart. Leadership. These are but a few of the adjectives used to describe not only his career-defining game, but the entirety of Mike Minter’s nine-year NFL career.

And those words found their way to Buies Creek on Nov. 27, the day Minter was named head coach of Campbell University’s football program.

“Mike’s spirit, passion and will to win were evident to me from our very first conversation,” Campbell Athletic Director Bob Roller beamed before a packed room on

the day of the announcement.

“I am convinced that Campbell University and Camel football is about to experience a transformational change.”

‘RUN THROUGH A WALL FOR THE MAN ...’

It's early February ... almost nine years to the day of his Super Bowl experience — and nearly three months since being tabbed to turn around Campbell’s struggling football program. Minter is still settling into his somewhat bare office that looks out over the under-renovation Barker-Lane Stadium.

It’s the day after Super Bowl XLVII — a nailbiter between the 49ers and Ravens much like the one he played in — and Minter is asked what he remembers most about playing on the ultimate stage. His answer has nothing to do with a broken foot.

“The disappointment that we didn’t get it done,” Minter says, his smile giving way to clenched teeth. “You have fond memories of preparation, all the games that led to it, running out of the tunnel and other things

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Minter “got it done” twice as a safety and linebacker at the University of Nebraska, which won two national championships in the mid-90s during his time there. And he hopes his time at Campbell — his first gig as head coach on the collegiate level — leads to unchartered territory for a program that returned to football only five years ago.

Namely, Minter wants wins. And a Pioneer League title. And a shot at the FCS playoffs.

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Now a starter, Minter’s season is cut short two games into the season when he tears his ACL. Nebraska wins its first national title since 1971.

Minter is named to the First Team All Big 12 squad after recording five interceptions and 51 tackles during his senior year. Nebraska finishes 11-2 and beats Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl.

“The only way to grade my time here will be by wins and losses,” he says. “That’s how I grade myself. I want Campbell in Year 1 to have a winning record and compete for a league title. I don’t want us to be a laughing stock … I want teams to fear us.”

Getting the right coaches and players in will go a long way toward winning, Minter says.

He also wants players who will raise the team GPA and players willing to pitch in and help their community (something else that’s always brought up when people speak of Minter’s time with the Panthers).

He takes over a Campbell program coming off its worst season since returning to football in 2008. A year after its first winning record,

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Minter plays every game as a backup safety for the Big 8 champion Cornhuskers, who lose the Orange Bowl to Florida State. Also that year, Mike is introduced to his future wife, Kim, on a blind date in Lincoln, Neb. They marry soon after.

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As a senior at Lawton High School in Oklahoma, Minter leads the state’s largest classification in rushing with 1,589 yards and 21 touchdowns. He also averages 21 points per game for the school’s basketball team.

Academically, he makes the National Honor Society.

like that. But when I look back, it’s always that field goal at the end of the game that beat us. The first thing that comes to your mind after that is you were so close, and you didn’t get it done.”

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Living in Oklahoma, 9-year-old Minter falls in love with the University of Nebraska while watching the Orange Bowl against Miami.

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Mike Minter is born on Jan. 15 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Minter is picked in the second round (the 56th overall selection) by the Carolina Panthers.

He’s named the starting safety six games into his rookie season.

a 6-5 campaign under coach Dale Steele, the Camels dropped to 1-10 in 2012 and 0-8 in league play.

In three months, Minter has molded a coaching staff and in February announced his first signing class, a class that got the attention of some in the state for Minter’s ability to land big names despite Campbell’s status as a non-scholarship football program.

“We’ve definitely hit the ground running,” says Minter, who left Liberty University as an assistant under Turner Gill to come to Campbell. “I wasn’t coming into this job blindly, by any means. I watched what Coach Gill had to go through at Liberty, and I’ve talked a lot with him about what it takes to

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The third seed in the NFC playoffs, the Panthers earn their first Super Bowl berth in February.

Minter records a career-high 18 tackles in the Panthers’ 32-29 loss to the New England Patriots.

He breaks his foot on the second-to-last play of the third quarter, but remains in the game to record six tackles in the fourth quarter.

The Panthers finish the season 11-5 and win the NFC South.

Minter announces his retirement from the NFL in August. In 10 seasons with the Carolina Panthers, Minter is the franchise’s all-time leading tackler (790) and ranks third all-time in interceptions (15) and first all-time in defensive touchdowns (4) and fumble recoveries (8).

start off right with a program.”

The first thing Minter did with the players left over from that 1-10 squad was sit down with every single one of them … more than 90 students in all. That task took weeks, but Minter calls the meetings “fun,” and says it was necessary to move forward.

“I got to look into their eyes, and they looked back at mine. I hope they saw the kind of coach I’m going to be,” he says. “These guys want direction. They want energy. They want to be taught.”

One thing that surprised Minter about his team was its closeness.

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“Everyone said this football team was a family,” he adds. “It’s a great family atmosphere around here. You don’t normally get that coming off a 1-10 season. You normally see bickering and fighting. So I don’t think I really have to focus on building ‘family’ here … we already have it.”

As Minter stated in his press conference back in November, he knows a thing or two about what it takes to rise to the top after a dreadful season. On his first day on the job, Minter recalled the Panthers’ 1-15 season in 2001, a season when the team lost 15 in a row after an opening day win. The following season, under new head coach John Fox (now head coach of the Denver Broncos), the Panthers

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Minter is inducted into the University of Nebraska Football Hall of Fame.

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Minter declares he is considering a run for the U.S. House of Representatives, but ultimately decides against running. He wins a North Carolina state title as head coach of First Assembly Christian High School near Charlotte.

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The Panthers lose a franchise-record 15 games in a row and finish 1-15.

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Under new head coach John Fox, the Panthers improve to 7-9.

Minter spends one season as an assistant coach at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte.

Minter spends one season as the special teams coach at Liberty University. A few weeks after the season ends, he accepts the job as head football coach at Campbell University.

improved to 7-9; and in 2003 went 11-5 and stormed through the playoffs in January 2004 to earn the franchise’s only Super Bowl berth.

From 1-15 to NFC champs in two seasons … it’s an experience Minter can point to when he’s tasked with proving to a recruit that Campbell can turn its program around and do it quickly.

“At the end of the day, that’s what life is all about … learning from your experiences and sharing those experiences so others can relate,” Minter says. “It’s one thing to come to Campbell and say I’ll help you get from 1-10 to a league championship. It’s another thing to be able to tell them I was in the same boat; and yes, we made it to the Super Bowl.

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the early '90s, says his playing experience means a lot to recruits and their parents.

“It means a lot to them that I’ve been there … that I was on two national championship teams and that I played on Sunday,” Minter says. “More importantly, they see my vision of where this program can go, regardless of where we’re at or where we’ve been. I don’t make any bones about it … I want to coach these kids for the next level. I want guys drafted. I want them striving for the next level. When I took over the head coaching job at [First Assembly Christian Academy in Concord], we went from having no guys recruited to 12. We’re going to get it done.”

‘IN AWE OF THE TREES’ Mike Minter was in the third grade the first time he put on shoulder pads and a helmet.

“I just knew,” he says, recalling the moment.

“It’s not a feeling I can describe, but I knew I was at home. I knew I was going to love this game.”

“I got to look into their eyes, and they looked back at mine. I hope they saw the kind of coach I’m going to be. These guys want direction.

They want energy. They want to be taught.”

You get more credibility when you’ve walked the walk.”

was sold after just his first phone conversation with the coach.

It’s likely that credibility played a big part in Campbell’s 16-man signing class, which included two highly touted quarterbacks — Middle Creek High School’s David Salmon and Brian Hudson, a transfer from Liberty who started two games for the Flames in 2012.

“Just on the phone, he brings an energy that just makes you want to go run through a wall for the man,” says Salmon, whose father was a punter at N.C. State and played professionally for the Minnesota Vikings.

“His fire, energy and love for the game were something I wanted to be a part of. He really wants to turn the program around, and I’m excited to be a part of starting a new era of Campbell football.”

Salmon, who threw for 3,303 passing yards and a school-record 36 touchdowns as a senior for Middle Creek (located in Apex) and was named his conference’s Player of the Year in 2012, said he was considering Campbell even before Minter’s hire; but he

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Minter, who himself was highly recruited coming out of high school in Oklahoma in

By the time he hit high school in Lawton, Okla., Minter’s athletic gifts were apparent.

In football, he twice led Lawton to the second round of the playoffs as a running back; and in his senior year in 1991, he led the state of Oklahoma with 1,589 yards rushing and 21 touchdowns. In basketball, he averaged 21 points per game as a guard.

All that, and he made the National Honor Society.

In 1992, Minter was one of three Oklahoma recruits to sign with the University of Nebraska and legendary head coach Tom Osborne. Despite just about everybody else in the state bleeding Sooner crimson, Minter had eyed Nebraska ever since watching Osborne’s bunch play the classic 1984 Orange Bowl, where the unbeaten Huskers lost to Miami, 31-30. After that game, Minter would spend the next eight years learning all he could about Nebraska and Coach Osborne.

“Coach Osborne is the greatest man I know, hands down,” Minter says. “The thing he had … he had a personal touch with every single player. He genuinely cared for them. And it was more than just football … he cared about their grades, their lives. He just understood

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how to be real with everybody, and those things are what I definitely take from him.”

Minter said Osborne also taught his team to be physical. At 5-10, 190 pounds, Minter was smaller than the prototypical safety/ linebacker for a big-time college football program. But under Osborne, Minter was a fierce hitter and ball hawk who racked up several “player-of-the-week” and allconference awards, especially during his senior year in 1996.

Minter was a sophomore and tore his ACL during Nebraska’s national title run in 1994 and started every game during its repeat title year in 1995. In his senior year, Nebraska went 11-2 and won the Orange Bowl. Those teams saw big names like Heisman Trophy candidate Tommy Frazier and NFL stars Ahman Green, Grant Wistrom, Chris Dishman, Jason Peter, Zach Wiegert and Lawrence Phillips.

“A lot of us went on to play in the NFL,” Minter says. “It was fun. We were just dominant. We walked onto that field, and we knew we were going to beat you. And they knew it, too.”

Minter says he started thinking about the NFL after watching some of the Nebraska upperclassmen get drafted during his freshman and sophomore years … players he thought privately he was better than. Minter’s call to the NFL came in 1997 when he was selected in the second round (56th overall) by the Carolina Panthers, a team that had just come into existence two years prior. The team’s newness, in addition to Minter’s life spent mostly in the midwest, meant he knew very little about the Panthers, the city of Charlotte or the state of North Carolina on draft day.

“I knew Michael Jordan played there and was from there, but that’s about it,” Minter says with a laugh. “But I was anxious to get there and see what it was like. And nervous … very nervous. I had a lot of different feelings heading there.”

Of all the things that could have an early impact on Minter’s NFL career, what he remembers most about North Carolina early on were the trees. And the hills.

Coming from the flatlands of Nebraska and Oklahoma, Minter said he’d never seen so many trees.

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“It was weird, but I was in awe,” Minter says.

“It’s something I’ll always remember. I just couldn’t believe how many there were and how nice it was.”

Apparently, it was a nice thing to focus on.

Just six games into his rookie season, Minter became the Panthers’ starting safety, a title he would hold for the next 10 seasons. He ended his career as the Panthers’ all-time leading tackler (790), and he currently stands third in all-time interceptions with 15 (four of which he returned for touchdowns, which is still a team record). His name is routinely

2013 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE All kickoff times to be announced at a later date

Aug. 31: @ Charlotte Sept. 7: ViRginia-Wise Sept. 14: Charleston Southern Sept. 28: @ Valparaiso Oct. 5: Morehead State (Family Weekend)

Oct. 12: @ Butler Oct. 19: Jacksonville Oct. 26: Mercer (homecoming)

Nov. 2: @ Stetson Nov. 9: Marist Nov. 16: @ Davidson

mentioned when all-time Panther squads are announced, and Minter’s charity work in Charlotte during his playing days has also made him a fan and community favorite over the years.

“One of my goals coming into the league was to play for one football team,” says Minter.

“To play that long in the NFL for one team, you have to be consistent, you have to be a little lucky and you have to be loyal. I fell in love with Charlotte and North Carolina. I had opportunities to play elsewhere, but this was it for me. I knew it all along.”

Retirement in his mid-30s meant a crossroads for Minter, who dabbled with politics and invested in and started a handful of businesses in those first few years post-NFL. One thing was certain … he was not going to become a football coach.

“I just didn’t want to be that guy,” he says. “I was running away from what I knew I was called to do. Politics, nonprofits, businesses, public speaking … those are the routes I chose to go.”

But in 2008, a friend of his who served as athletic director for First Assembly Christian Academy near Charlotte asked Minter if he’d consider becoming the head of football operations. Minter accepted, telling himself it was just as much about business as it was football (plus it had nothing to do with coaching); but soon after his hiring, FACA’s coach resigned. That year, Minter took over as coach.

“I took the job, and of course, I immediately fell in love with it,” he says.

“I knew I would, but at that time, like I said, I didn’t want to be that guy.”

In three years, Minter posted a 35-4 combined record at FACA and took his team to two state championships.

He left the high school level to become special teams coordinator at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte. Again, he left his mark. In 2010, JCSU was ranked 137th in the nation in punt return average, and after one year with Minter, it was ranked fifth nationally.

That one year led to a spot on Coach Gill’s staff as special teams coordinator at Liberty University. At Liberty, Minter coached three athletes to all-Big South special teams selections.

But even before he joined Liberty, Minter was hoping a head coaching job would be in his near future. At Johnson C. Smith, he set a goal of being a head coach in five years. On the day he accepted the job at Campbell, he’d done it in three.

“When I got the call, I was ready,” Minter says. “I remember walking out onto the field with five weeks left at Liberty and knowing in my heart I was ready. Five weeks later, Campbell called.”

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‘I MIGHT HIT SOMEBODY’ Coaching was in the spotlight of this year’s Super Bowl with Jim and John Harbaugh becoming the first brothers to ever face each other as head coaches in the big game.

Watching Jim Harbaugh on the sidelines for the San Francisco 49ers was inspiring for Minter for a different reason. Just nine years ago — months after Minter’s Super Bowl — Harbaugh was named head football coach at the University of San Diego. USD, like Campbell, is a member of the Pioneer Football League. In Harbaugh’s first season at USD, he went 7-4. The following season, the Toreros were 11-1 and Pioneer League champions. They followed up in 2006 with another 11-1 record and another PL title.

TOP PHOTO: Mike Minter addresses the media and fans during the press conference announcing him as Campbell's new head football coach in December. BOTTOM: From left to right, Minter's daughter McKenna, his wife Kim, daughter Brianna and son Isaiah. Not pictured is his oldest son, Mike Jr.

Like Minter, Harbaugh had a successful career in the NFL as a player. Also like Minter, he spent a few seasons as an assistant coach after his retirement before landing at USD. That job led to the top spot at Stanford; and four seasons later, Harbaugh was in the NFL.

the Pioneer League is … but I think it’s a great league. When I tell people about Harbaugh, they get it. His story definitely gives you hope that you can get it done from anywhere.”

“It gets me excited,” Minter says. “You’re watching the guy coach in the Super Bowl, and guess what? He started in the Pioneer League. Not a ton of people know what

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UNC-Charlotte for that football program’s first-ever game. It’s a program that Minter was a big ambassador for and a program that seriously considered Minter for head coach before it instead went with Brad Lambert.

Charlotte will spend its first two seasons in the FCS with Campbell before moving to the FBS with larger programs in 2015.

Minter’s emotions — his first game with

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Campbell against a program he helped launch in the city where he spent his entire NFL career — will be high on that last Saturday of August this year.

“I might hit somebody,” Minter says excitedly, fists tapping the table in front of him. “They may have to get me off the sidelines or give me a helmet. Even put me in the press box. I’m going to be excited … it’ll be a big game for us. It’s going to be a bit surreal for me on the other sideline, but I’m looking forward to it. It’s a day where Campbell can come out against a bigger program and set the tone for things to come. It’s going to be a huge opportunity for us.”

Minter says he’s happy with the way things have turned out, and he can think of no better place to be than Campbell. From the time he was first considered for the job, to the official announcement all the way through Signing Day, Minter says he’s been welcomed to Buies Creek with open arms.

“Campbell pride is just unbelievable,” he says. “Everything I’ve needed since I got here, I’ve had. And if it wasn’t there, they got it for me. The support here is great, and the enthusiasm is even better. Combine all that together, and you have the winning ingredients.”

While his focus will be on football in North Carolina, Minter will keep one eye on Nebraska this year as his son finishes his high school career in Lincoln. Michael Minter Jr., who’s rushed for 2,763 yards and 32 touchdowns in his sophomore and junior seasons, is already a highly touted recruit who, like his dad, hopes to one day play at Nebraska. Younger brother Isaiah Minter will be a junior on the high school football team next year.

Mike Minter says he’s enjoyed going through the recruitment process with his sons, and he’s excited about their futures.

His advice to them?

“Have fun. That’s what’s most important,” he says. “Go where your gut tells you to go. You’ll know … if you go with your gut, you’ll be fine.

“And you never know. Maybe their gut will say Campbell,” he adds with a smile.

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2013 RECRUITS Campbell head football coach Mike Minter announced the Camels' 2013 recruiting class in February. “There are a lot of great football players in this group,” says Minter. “I'm really excited because we got the No. 1 guy that we wanted at every position we targeted. I'm just ecstatic that we were able to get the caliber of guys that we got in here for our first recruiting class.”

Blake Aaron (6-2, 270) Offensive

Lineman, Middle Creek HS (Apex). Named second team all-conference as a senior in 2012. Earned the Middle Creek Trenches Award as a senior.

Chris Beaty (6-0, 180) Defensive Back, North Cabarras HS (Kannapolis).

Posted 28 catches, 418 yards and 5 touchdowns in 2012. Born in Lawton, Okla.

(Mike Minter’s hometown).

Ryan Dowell (6-6, 300) Offensive Line, Middle Creek HS (Apex). Named first team all-conference as a senior in 2012.

Darren Flowers (6-1, 210) Linebacker, Oscar Smith HS (Va.). Lettered four seasons at nationally-ranked Oscar Smith High. Collected all-district, all-region and all-Tidewater accolades. Named Virginia Preps All-State and South District Player of the Year.

Andrew Franklin (6-4, 290)

Offensive Line, Enka HS (Enka, N.C.).

Twice named to the Best of the West N.C. squad. A two-time All-Mountain Athletic Conference performer and 2012 NC/SC Shrine Bowl participant.

Keith Goss (6-0, 215) Running Back, A.C. Flora HS (Columbia, S.C.). Named to the South Carolina North-South All-Star game as a linebacker. Rushed 96 times for 836 yards and 13 touchdowns as a senior and recorded 102 tackles and 5 sacks on defense.

Mark Greico (6-5, 250) Defensive

Line, Gilbert HS (S.C.). Named all-area as a defensive end and collected all-region honorable mention as a senior. Combined for 86 tackles, 3 sacks and an interception returned for a touchdown as a senior.

Brian Hudson (6-3, 220) Quarterback, Brook Point HS (Va.) and Liberty University. Played in 11 games in 2012 for Liberty, making two starts at

quarterback…Passed for 498 yards and four touchdowns, completing 39-of-67 passes with an interception. Threw for 2,200 yards and 23 touchdowns as a high school senior.

Josh Hutto (6-4, 280), Offensive Line, Hanover HS (Va.). Named first team alldistrict and second team all-region as a junior and a senior.

J’Wan Lewis (6-0, 175), Defensive Back, Bunn HS. Posted 65 tackles, 3 interceptions and 11 pass breakups as a senior.

Tony McWhite (5-11, 185), Defensive Back, Keenan HS (S.C.). Named first team all-region in 2011 and 2012.

David Salmon (6-2, 190) Quarterback, Middle Creek HS (Apex).

Passed for 3,303 yards and a school-record 36 touchdowns as a senior, adding 157 yards rushing and six scores on the ground. Passed for 6,194 yards and 61 touchdowns on 433 completions in two varsity seasons.

Trevor Sheets (6-4, 255) Offensive Line, Providence HS (Charlotte). Named Providence High School's 2012 Most Valuable Offensive Lineman.

Bryce Thompson (5-10, 190), Kicker, Providence HS (Charlotte) and Towson. Converted 47-of-50 PATs as a senior and 12-of-17 field goal attempts. Placed 75 percent of kickoffs in the end zone.

Tre Webster (5-11, 175), Defensive Back, Science Hill HS (Tenn.). Voted secondteam all-conference as a senior in his only season of high school football.

Sheldon Williams (6-7, 255) Tight End, First Assembly Christian (Concord).

A North Carolina Shrine Bowl selection.

Named to the Blue Grey National All-Star Classic. Posted 37 receptions for 935 yards and 11 touchdowns as a junior.

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he list of A-list sports stars and celebrities Carl Heinemann (’87) has worked with over the years is so vast and so impressive, listing just a few of them doesn’t do it justice.

But we’ll do it anyway: Kobe Bryant. Tiger Woods. Dan Marino. Brett Favre. Justin Timberlake. Carrie Underwood. Jewel.

When the spotlight is shining on those stars, Heinemann is usually the man making sure that lighting is perfect. For that reason, he's not the kind of "star" you'd instantly recognize on the street.

But for the past 30-plus years, Heinemann has made a name for himself as a producer, videographer and even storyteller for big-time productions like ESPN and NFL Films, to name a few. A winner of two regional Emmy Awards, he picked up his first national Emmy in 2012 for a feature that aired on ESPN2 telling the story of Conner and Cayden Long, Tennessee brothers whose love of sports and dedication to each other touched a nation.

In early February, Heinemann was in New Orleans shooting his fourth Super Bowl for NFL Films. Two days before the big game — while walking along a crowded Canal Street holding a cell phone — Heinemann took time to chat with Campbell Magazine about Super Bowls, celebrities, his Campbell days and getting started in the business.

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Q: You're talking to us from downtown New Orleans just days away from the biggest sporting event on the planet ... tell us why you're there and what you're doing?

For each Super Bowl, NFL Films flies in several photographers like myself for this game. NFL Films, to me, is like the upper echelon of sports television, and it was always a dream of mine to work in sports and work for them. When NFL Films asks you to work for them, you’re honored.

As for what I’m doing, I don’t exactly know yet. I’m a cameraman, a director of photography by trade, and I won’t get my assignments until just before the game. There will be probably 45 cinematographers and cameramen in town for this game, and everyone will have a different assignment. One person’s sole job may be to get the coin toss … another’s will be to simply film the AFC Team or follow a certain aspect of the game.

They even have four guys each at a corner of the field, and their jobs are to get the MVP as he’s coming off the field and film him saying, “I’m going to Disney World!”

By no means am I one of the top guys doing this. But I’m honored to be doing it. When you wear the NFL Films credential at these games, there’s instant respect.

Q: What's your Super Bowl history? How many have you worked?

This is my fourth. A couple of years back in Miami, I remember when [NFL Films founder, the late] Steve Sabol addressed all of us before the game, and he told all of us working the game, “You’ll go out there today, and you might not get anything. But some of you … you’ll get that fog rolling in or the perfect shot of the ball coming through the fog on a long touchdown.

Some of you will get that signifying moment. Just that one moment. That’s all we need from you."

I’ve done what I do for a lot of years now, and I’ve met a lot of celebrities, sports stars and even presidents over the years. I don’t really get awestruck.

But when Steve Sabol spoke to us, I was awestruck.

Q: Have you ever captured that 'signifying moment' in an NFL game?

In 2000, I was covering the AFC Playoffs for ESPN, and I was part of the Tennessee Titans-Buffalo Bills crew for the famous “Music City Miracle” game. [Editor’s Note: The Music City Miracle ended on a wild 80-yard kickoff return after a backwards

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lateral for a touchdown with no time remaining to give the Titans a 22-16 win.]

I was set up in the end zone, and the Bills had just taken the lead with a few seconds left. I had my camera focused on the Titans sideline on the last play, and I was wearing a headset with the game in one ear, and I could hear the crowd noise in my other ear.

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During the kickoff return, I hear, “We’ve got something,” and the crowd starts going nuts. So I turned to the field with my camera just in time to see [Titans kick returner] Kevin Dyson cross the end zone, run right by me and leap into the crowd, which was pretty cool.

That footage got a lot of airtime.

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I was also approached by ESPN [in 2009] when the family of [former Titans quarterback and NFL MVP] Steve McNair allowed me to be the only cameraman at Steve’s funeral. I had developed a relationship with Steve and his family during his time in Tennessee, and because he had a very controversial ending to his life [McNair was killed by his alleged mistress in a murdersuicide in Nashville], everyone wanted to cover his funeral. His wife Michelle said if it was necessary to have someone inside, then I was the only one they wanted. When ESPN approached me, I told them if they wanted certain things, I’d only do it if the family approved. I told them not to get mad, because it was either me or nobody. I felt like it was quite an honor to be asked.

Q: Talk a little about your recent Emmy, the E:60 feature "Together"...

Over the years, I’d received a few regional Emmys, a few of those as a producer.

In 2011, I pitched about eight story ideas to ESPN and ended up shooting seven of them.

Two were up for national Emmys — a long feature and a short one, and the short one I did [with ESPN journalist Tom Rinaldi] won.

The short one was about the brotherly bond between Conner and Cayden Long, two boys who compete in triathlons despite Cayden having cerebral palsy. Their story is amazing, and their dad is an amazing man. He purposely worked the third shift for UPS and during the day helped his boys train and took his kids to school.

I’m a father, and talking to him touched me.

There’d be times in the past when my son would come in and tell me he wants to throw, and maybe I’d be watching TV and would say ‘Maybe later.’ But I learned something from him … you do what you can for your kids.

You be the best father you can be. Get your butt off the couch. This guy’s working third shifts and hardly sleeping.

As for the Emmy, it was a high point in my career. Any time you get recognized by your peers — no matter what you do — it’s an honor. My career is not one where you can have a big ego. You’re not in front of the

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the Bond of Brothers In 2011, Carl Heinemann, Tom Rinaldi and their team produced “Together,” for ESPN’s E:60. The feature tells the story of 8-yearold Conner Long and his 6-year-old brother Cayden, who was born with cerebral palsy.

Team Long Brothers was established in 2011 by Conner, who was determined to include his brother — who’s confined to a wheelchair and cannot walk or speak — in the kid triathlons, two-mile races that include running, swimming and biking.

Conner and Cayden participated in their first triathlon in Nashville and finished 31st out of 32 participants. But their placing mattered to nobody. Conner’s dedication to his brother,

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and Cayden’s smiles and laughter during the races touched everybody who witnessed it and touched Heinemann, who pitched the story as a short feature to ESPN later that year.

The feature landed Heinemann his first Emmy, but more importantly, it shared the brothers’ story with the nation, and gave the family some positive national notoriety. In 2012, the boys were named Sports Illustrated Kids’ “Kids of the Year.”

“The biggest thing I got out of this was meeting this awesome family,” Heinemann said. “Would they have gotten the notoriety without my story? Maybe or maybe not. But I’m glad they did. They deserve to be stars.”

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camera … the best cameramen and directors are generally laid back and don’t get too caught up in the accolades.

My wife did post a picture of the award on Facebook. That was the extent of my bragging, I suppose.

Q: Of the athletes and celebrities you've worked with, who has stuck with you and made the biggest impression on you?

I was a fan of many of the athletes I’ve worked with, so meeting people like Wayne Gretzky and Dan Marino or Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus … it’s pretty darn cool. I lived in Miami for 10 years and went to high school there, so meeting Marino was a big moment.

You can’t make a big deal out of it because you’re a professional, and in the end, we all put our pants on the same, but it’s cool.

A few weeks back, I was in Oxford, Miss., shooting an Ole Miss-Kentucky basketball game to get the footage they use during the telecast like the outside of the arena or perspectives TV cameras don’t get. I was on the court during the shoot-around, and there was a man next to me with a hat on and a ratty coat. He looked at me, nodded at me and we said “hello.” Then it occurred to me … wow, that’s Morgan Freeman. I work with athletes and musicians a lot, but I don’t see a lot of movie stars. I mean, that’s the guy who plays God [in the film “Bruce Almighty"].

Q: Can you tell us about your time at Campbell University and what got you started in the business?

I transferred to Campbell and went there for about three-and-a-half years before graduating in '87. I wasn’t the most studious person, but I got through.

I was in communications studies with [current Campbell Sports Information Director] Stan Cole, and everything in our TV classes came out of a book since we didn’t have a studio or equipment on campus.

Stan and I both played tennis and competed against each other in that and when we both wrote for The Campbell Times.

By the time I was a junior, I did everything I could to get an internship in television.

And luckily, I had a great uncle who for 30-plus years worked in TV in New York City. I called him that year and said, “Hey, we share the same last name, and you’re my dad’s uncle, so can I get an internship?” He got me in touch with someone at NBC, and so I worked in Manhattan for three months in 1986. I worked in the unit production department booking big events, which gave me the opportunity to hang out on the sets with guys like Bob Costas, Marv Albert and David Letterman.

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Here I am, this college kid hanging out with these guys having cocktails at Hurley’s and meeting Tom Hanks and Paul Shaffer.

My career came full circle recently when I was asked to work the NBA playoffs for TNT with Albert, and then I worked for Real Sports on HBO with Costas. Neither remembered me, but I told them both about my summer in New York. So don’t forget … the person you meet tomorrow may be the same person you’re working for 20 years later.

It’s good advice to never burn bridges.

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Campbell University was very good for me. It got me where I needed to go. And I’d be willing to talk with any Campbell student today who’s looking for advice in this profession.

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Upon hearing about the attacks on the United States — three passenger jets hijacked and crashed into New York City’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a fourth jet (bound for the nation’s capital) crashed into a field in Pennsylvania — Scott hurried to his hotel room and like just about every American that day, parked himself in front of a television and, horrified, watched it all unfold.

“I remember sitting there thinking, ‘Well … here we go,’” recalled the Sanford native, who turns 30 this March. Within days, Scott was training with the U.S. Military — which he joined earlier that

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By 2003, he was on the first wave of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. A decade later, Scott is on the first wave again.

This time, he’s among the few dozen students at Campbell University enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences’ new homeland security major. The junior wants a career working for the federal government, and he thinks courses on domestic counterterrorism, protecting critical infrastructure, border security and response to catastrophic events will give him the upper hand, as still a relatively small number of four-year universities in the U.S. offer homeland security as a full degree. In fact, Campbell is the only four-year school in North Carolina to do so.

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He says his experience in the military — seeing the enemy firsthand — provides him a unique perspective on the field.

“I’ve seen it. I’ve reached out and touched it. I’ve been to Iraq, Turkey and other countries where this is all very real,” Scott said. “I want to use my experience in the real world. Campbell is helping me do that.”

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The words “homeland security” were barely in our vocabulary before that day. Just over a year after 9/11, President George W. Bush signed the Homeland Security Act, which created the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the new cabinet-level position of Secretary of Homeland Security. It was the country’s largest federal government reorganization since 1947, just after World War II.

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David Gray was living in Washington, D.C., and working for the government on Sept.

11, 2001. One of his neighbors — a man with a wife and children — was killed when a jet flew into the Pentagon that day. Being near that particular “ground zero” on such a historical day had an impact on Gray, who’d spent his career in the U.S. Air Force and working for several government agencies, including the CIA. “It was a pretty intense time,” said Gray, who recalled driving by the Pentagon while it was still smoking shortly after the attack. “I remember everybody working in government and on the Hill … they were wound up pretty tight. I’ll never forget it.”

Modest when asked about it, Gray doesn’t go into much detail about his career. But his resumé is impressive.

A specialist in international and national security affairs, Gray’s areas of expertise include security and strategic studies (both national and international), security policies, strategic and operational intelligence, political violence and insurgencies and international terrorism … to name just a few.

His work has taken him to the Middle East and around the world, including various parts of Europe, Asia and Africa. He’s worked with governments, businesses, law enforcement agencies and intelligence organizations in several countries.

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Gray has also taught courses in international security studies for the past 30 years at UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Wilmington, the University of Colorado, the University of Denver and Norwich University, a military college in Vermont.

He came to Campbell in the fall of 2011 to help kick-start the University’s new homeland security concentration, a part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ criminal justice degree.

Beginning this fall, “homeland security” at Campbell will be its own degree, and Campbell will be the only school in North Carolina to offer the four-year program.

for homeland security and the Homeland Security and Defense Education Consortium Association.

“The courses we offer aren’t the result of someone just falling out of bed and saying they want to teach a class on terrorism,” Gray joked. “They’re benchmarked on national and homeland security standards.”

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The announcement was good news to Stephen Budd, a Jacksonville junior, who transferred to Campbell during his freshman year as a criminal justice major. Budd said Last year, Gray traveled to he’s enjoyed the criminal justice curriculum, but he wanted something that would give him a better shot for a career in federal David Gray joined communities and had com government. ple ted assignments Campbell University’s for the U.S. Departments of Defense, Energy, faculty in the fall of Homeland Security, Justice “I think it’s a “If I hand and States; as 2011 after a career well as the United Nation good program … my transcript s, Congress and the in the U.S. Air National Intelligence Counc a robust program, to a potential il.

Force and several and we’re still employer, and government agencies, He has also worked in the developing they see the Mi ddle East including the CIA. and has served in a number it,” said Gray. courses I took of overseas assignments in various par “It’s a terrific in homeland ts of Europe, Asia Gray specializes in and Africa; and has worke opportunity for security that d with several international and defense, corporate, law enf national security affairs, and students who dealt with orc em ent, security his expertise and intelligence organizat includes U.S. and internatio are interested terrorism ions and services nal security and worldwide. strategic studies, current in a career in and critical global security issues, U.S. foreign and national the federal infrastructure security policy In addition, Gray has tau formulation and strategic government, protection, I ght graduate and and operational undergraduate courses for intelligence, political violen whether it’s the think that favors mo re tha n a doz en ce and insurgency, universities. He’s also a mu international terrorism and DEA, the ATF me in terms ch-sought-after international spe aker and has published ext weapons proliferation. or the FBI. of landing that ensively on national and international We’re preparing federal job,” said security topics with special emphasis on intern He has extensive experience students for Budd, whose father ational terrorism in the national and strategic intelligence. and international security those jobs, and is a former Marine and intelligence not just on the who works with federal level, federal agencies. “A but the state homeland security and local levels degree will give me a as well.” better opportunity to Jordan to visit the King Abdullah II Special be where I see myself ending up in the long In order for students to earn their bachelor Operations Training Center to discuss run.” of science degree in homeland security, they “strategic security issues” with the center’s must complete seven courses — National and Angier senior Josh Kinney’s story mirrors officers and members of the Jordanian Armed International Security, Homeland Security, Budd’s.

Forces. Talks of a future Study Abroad Emergency Preparedness and Response, program in Jordan even surfaced.

A criminal justice major who landed an Critical Infrastructure Protection, Terrorism, internship with the Harnett County Sheriff’s “It’s important for the students that their Intelligence and National Security, and Office last summer, Kinney said he wants to faculty have experience in the real world,” Interagency Operations — plus an internship begin his career in local law enforcement and Gray said. “A professor with that experience and senior seminar in homeland security, eventually work his way to the federal level. is in better position to help, advise and two courses in their concentration (terrorism counsel them. There’s no doubt the students or intelligence), basic courses and a foreign “Understanding insurgencies and what appreciate real-world experience. No doubt language through the 201 level. motivates terrorists, preparing for a disaster in my mind.” or an attack … it’s all very eye-opening and Gray said it’s important to note the interesting,” Kinney said. “When I started curriculum is based on the national strategy And they’re taught by a man who’s seen it all.

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Homeland security has always interested me … especially since 9/11.”

According to Gray, career options in the homeland security field — whether it’s at the local or state level, national or international level or even the corporate level — continue to grow.

“And I don’t think it’s topped out,” he said. “I think we’ll continue to see growth for years to come.”

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with agencies that help track down terrorists … or something else that “really matters.”

“I started as an exercise science major, and no offense to anybody in that program … I just didn’t feel like I was making a difference by taping up an athlete’s ankle,” Rhyne said.

“My grandfather was in the military for 30 years, and my dad was in law enforcement all his life. This is where I was meant to be.

“I want to be a part of something like this.”

Danielle Smith knew she picked the right career path last March.

Gray on a trip to Washington, D.C. to tour the Capitol, the FBI headquarters and the ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) headquarters, where students had access to areas very few people are allowed to see.

The experience was nothing short of “awesome,” according to Smith, a senior from Pennsylvania.

“To be there and see these professionals doing their jobs firsthand, it was a great trip,” she said. “Not many people get that kind of opportunity.”

Several students who made up the then homeland security concentration joined

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A Family Legacy

Former U.S. Sen. Robert Morgan (far left) of Lillington meets with President Jimmy Carter (right) on Air Force One in 1978,

U.S. Sen. Robert Morgan's grandfather was there when J.A. Campbell started his school in 1887. Today, Morgan honors his family with a scholarship.

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n 1942, Robert Morgan — the man who would go on to become a U.S. senator — wanted to attend his hometown school, Campbell College.

The son of a 1907 Buies Creek Academy graduate, Morgan wound up attending what is now East Carolina, because his family couldn’t afford Campbell. In 2013, at the age of 87, Morgan established a scholarship for future Campbell students so they won’t have to make that same difficult decision in the future.

“I’m very proud of my roots and very proud of Campbell University,” said Morgan, who served as an adjunct professor at Campbell Law School during the late 1970s. “I hope

Building a Legacy at Campbell Creating a named scholarship at Campbell University provides permanent source scholarship support for deserving students. An endowed scholarship can be created for $25,000, which can be funded over a multi-year period and directed toward any academic program.

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my contribution helps future students who want to go to Campbell. I want to support their education.”

Morgan’s grandfather, W.T. Morgan, is listed in University records as one of the 30 “distinguished citizens” in Buies Creek who helped persuade and supported a Baptist preacher named J.A. Campbell to begin Buies Creek Academy in 1887. In 1942, Morgan enrolled at East Carolina for $300 a year (Campbell, he said, was $500 a semester); but while a student at ECU in the fall of 1943, he was drafted and joined the Navy on his 18th birthday. He was a Naval Academy student in Chapel Hill for over a year, and was on his way to fight in Japan when he learned of the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. After the war ended, he was stationed in San Francisco to help welcome and assist soldiers returning home from the Pacific.

“I wasn’t but 19, and here I was an officer helping bring home these old codgers who’d been over there fighting and fighting and fighting for months to years,” Morgan recalled. “I felt like a little boy compared to these men.”

After graduating from East Carolina, Morgan

returned to service in Korea in the early 1950s. His political career began soon after he returned when friends in high places urged him to run for Clerk of Court. He next ran for the North Carolina State Senate and won, becoming the president pro tempore and chairman of several key committees.

He won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in 1974 and beat Republican William Stevens with 63 percent of the vote to earn the seat that fall. He served until 1980 before losing a close race to Republican John East.

He returned to practice law in Lillington the next year and served as director of the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation.

On his walls at Robert Morgan Law Office in downtown Lillington are several photos of the senator with presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter, as well as several high-ranking men from that era. But a point of pride Morgan makes clear is that despite the many places his career has taken him, he’s never lived more than two miles from the farm house in Angier, where he was born in 1925.

“Campbell University … even though I didn’t go there, it’s like my home,” he said.

“It’s very much a part of my family.”

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Sharing the Love

Student-led Campus Worship services are held Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. in Butler Chapel on the campus of Campbell University. For more information, contact Faithe Beam at beam@campbell.edu.

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or Heather Grantham, it’s more about doing something for her fellow students than it is about any personal gain. For Joel Grobbelaar, it’s about building a stronger community of students.

And for Cameron Hunt, it’s a hope that everyone can find their voice when it comes to speaking to God. The new Campus Worship service means something special to each of the students who are making it happen Sunday nights in Butler Chapel. And each say the service’s success will be measured more by the impact it has on those who attend than the number of students who attend.

“We get so caught up in the daily rush of school work and activities, and I hope that Campus Worship will be a time for us students to just be still and listen to God and feel his presence in our lives,” said junior Lauren Gannon, one of the students selected

by Campus Minister Faithe Beam to lead the program. “Even though I am part of the leadership team, I hope to learn and grow and improve my walk with God so that it reflects the Christ-like life I wish to lead.”

The idea behind the creation of Campus Worship, according to Beam, was to create a worshiping community on campus and

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educate students about worshiping … all while avoiding competition with churches and school schedules (hence the Sunday evening start times).

“We know students have a lot going on, but we spent a lot of time asking them what’s important to their college experience. From this, we created Campus Worship,” Beam said. “Students yearn to worship on this campus or in their homes, and it is our hope and prayer that this service will allow them this opportunity.”

The services will be led by students chosen from applications and interviews conducted in the fall. The heavy student involvement is what attracted Hunt, a native of Hamlet, N.C., and led him to sign up.

“We have many opportunities around Campbell to be involved in some form of worship, whether it’s Bible study, Campus Ministry groups or Connections,” Hunt said.

“The thought of having a worship service that really tries to set itself apart and is able to connect with people in a special way … that sounds like an amazing opportunity for outreach on our campus.”

Grobbelaar, of Apex, said he hopes the services result in a “new culture of love.”

“A greater sense of community, a new passion for worshiping God, a better understanding of who Jesus is … These things have been burning in my heart over the past year and a half,”Grobbelaar said. “And now to see them taking on hands and feet and coming to reality? How could I do anything else but jump at the opportunity?”

Beam said the students chosen to run the services are offering a “pretty substantial commitment” to the program, and she hopes it will equate to large gatherings. Students like Grantham, a sophomore majoring in religion, meet weekly to choose the message, who’ll present it, the musicians and more.

The first service on Jan. 20 drew a crowd of approximately 120 students and members of the Buies Creek community.

“When you think about what Christ has done for us, it's easy to want to put time into something that may be what brings others to him and his amazing love,” Grantham said. “For me, it’s not a chore or something that I look at as ‘What can I gain from this?’

It’s more, ‘What can we give to students that is invaluable?’ (We can give) a friend consistency and, most importantly, the love of Christ.”

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Since she was an infant, junior Kaylin Yost has faced one hardship after another. But that hasn’t stopped her from becoming one of the top golfers in the Big South conference.

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She had scored a 75 in the first round on the 72-par Fazio Course at the Red Sky Ranch and Golf Club in Wolcott, Col. So hitting an 81 in a round? Not good.

Her parents couldn’t make the trip to watch her compete at the Golfweek Conference Championship that September, so she called

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them after her second round. For about an hour and a half, she sobbed over the phone to her father, Tom.

collegiate low and helping the Fighting Camels finish fourth in the 18-team tournament.

She told him: “I played poorly.” “I let my team down.” “I let myself down.”

That turnaround, Yost says, is the perfect example of how her parents have taught her how to approach golf and life: “Never give up, because the next day can always be better.”

Her father listened. Then he told her: “You’ve always been a fighter. Keep fighting.”

The next day Yost shot the lowest score of the final round — a 67 — matching her

Her parents have been telling her that since she can remember.

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Yost was born with dislocated hips. Doctors told her parents that she would never be able to walk. As an infant, she underwent two major surgeries and spent the first 16 months of her life in a full-body cast. When she was 2, she lost nearly all of her hearing.

Doctors still don’t know why.

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But, as her parents have told her, miracles do happen. Yost eventually did learn to walk. And today, she’s the reigning 2012 Big South Women’s Golfer of the Year and a key member of a deep Camels squad that has been ranked as high as No. 17 in the nation this season.

“Kaylin has always had to deal with things that other people haven’t had to deal with,” says John Crooks, coach of the men’s and women’s golf programs at Campbell. “And she has been able to succeed in spite of those things.”

Yost took up golf when she was 9, following in the footsteps of her grandfather, father and brother. She liked the challenge of trying to beat them, especially her brother, Alex. “I think that made me competitive,” she says.

When she was in the sixth grade, Yost began playing on the varsity team at Heritage High School in Palm Bay, Fla., putting her in a position to gain experience competing against higher-level players at a young age. But it was only when she was a senior that she realized she might be good enough to play in college. She had hit a round of 65 at a local tournament and beaten competitors for the first time who had routinely beaten her before. “That was the moment when I said, ‘OK, I might be pretty good,’” she says.

It was also her senior year when Crooks spotted her playing in a local tournament in Florida. “At the high-school level, you look for what this person can do that others can’t. Can she hit further? Does she have good fundamentals? Kaylin was a person who fit those criteria,” says Crooks, who has the second most tournament coaching victories among active coaches in NCAA Division 1.

Yost chose to attend Campbell because of Crooks and the solid program he had built. Campbell was also a small Christian school, she says, and she needed to be at a place where she would have smaller classes.

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John Crooks says he has coached a lot of good women’s golf teams at Campbell University.

But he doesn’t think he has ever had as many good players on one team than he does this season. The women’s golf team ended the 2012 fall season ranked No. 26 in the nation – the program’s highest ever ranking at the end of the fall season. The squad had been ranked as high as No. 17 earlier in the year.

Golfer of the Year. No other school in the league has had more than one golfer receive the honor.

“There are nine players, and any one of them has been the best one on the team on any particular day,” says Crooks, who has coached the women’s golf team at Campbell since 1991.

“We have some incredible talent on this team,” Crooks says. “History will tell us just how good this team can be.”

Through mid-February, four different golfers at Campbell had been named the Big South Women’s Golfer of the Week: sophomore Brooke Bellomy, the 2012 Big South Freshman of the Year; junior Maria Jose Benavides; senior Teresa Urquizu; and junior Kaylin Yost, the 2012 Big South Women’s

At one point during the season, six Campbell golfers were also ranked in the Top 200 of Golfstat Cup’s national ratings: Bellomy, Benavides, Urquizu, Yost and sophomore Lisbeth Brooks and freshman Tahnia Ravnjak.

ONLINE ONLY: John Crooks talks about his coaching philosophy, each of the nine players on the team, and the depth of this year’s squad in a Q&A. Kaylin Yost also answers questions about her team, her favorite golf courses and her favorite Campbell memories.

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challenges in the classroom. She doesn’t hear everything, and she writes like she hears, meaning she often leaves out words or misspells them when she’s taking notes or completing assignments.

Yost, who sits on the first row of every class and was named to the Big South All-Academic team last season. “I’ve been wearing hearing aids all my life, and my family looks at them as a huge advantage.”

“Some people will tell me that I have a disability, but my hearing impairment is something that God has given me,” says

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aids. This helps her focus and tune out distractions. “I’ve been doing it for so long that I don’t remember when I started doing it,” she says.

Yost hopes this spring that she can help her team to the NCAA Division 1 Championships, which will be held May 21-24. To do that, they must finish in the Top 8 at the regionals held May 9-11. The program finished 10th at regionals last year.

After she graduates next spring, Yost plans to return to Florida, start playing in small tournaments and try to earn a spot on the Futures Tour — and eventually play her way on to the LPGA Tour. She might even try to land a spot on "The Big Break," Golf Channel’s reality TV show that awards players tour exemptions. If playing at a higher level doesn’t work out, she hopes to stay involved in the game somehow, perhaps working for a golf company. “It wasn’t until I came to Campbell and played for Coach Crooks that I realized how much I enjoy and love the game of golf, and how much I want it to always be part of my life," says

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Yost, a communication studies major. “It is my passion.”

Realizing that wasn’t immediate, though.

During her first semester at Campbell, Yost

“Life isn’t always going to be what you want it to be. But if you work hard and look on the brighter side, things will work out for the better.” thought she and Crooks might not be a good fit for each other as player and coach. Yost says she was “so optimistic” that when she’d hit an 81 in a round as a freshman, she’d shrug it off and say, “It’s OK.” Crooks would tell her, “Look, an 81 isn’t going to cut it.”

Yost spent her winter break her freshman year contemplating leaving Campbell.

Then she and Crooks sat down for a long conversation. Crooks didn’t want Yost to lose her optimism, he told her, but a little realism when it was needed wouldn’t hurt either. They both had the same goal, he said, for Yost to become the best player and the best person that she could be. Sometimes that means admitting “something isn’t working out and figuring out a way to do something better,” Crooks told her.

Yost realized, she says, that Crooks “was not there to go against me but there to help me.”

Her game went on to blossom. She was named to the Atlantic Sun Conference AllFreshman team, and the following season was named the 2012 Big South Conference Player of the Year and Campbell’s Female Athlete of the Year.

“Life isn’t always going to be what you want it to be,” Yost says. “But if you work hard and look on the brighter side, things will work out for the better.”

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Men’s Sports

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Basketball

Track & Field

Baseball

White named Academic All-American

Junior named MVP of Big South Indoor Championships

Felton enters '13 as pre-season All-American

Campbell University senior guard Darren White was named to the Academic AllAmerica Men's Basketball Division I third team by the College Sports Information Directors of America in February.

A native of Danville, Va., White owns a 3.66 grade-point average as an information technology and security major. In 2012 he earned a place on the Big South Conference presidential honor roll as well as a spot on the NABC Honors Court.

White was one of 15 players named to three Academic All-America teams among the 347 Division I schools. He was a first-team preseason all-conference selection by Big South head coaches.

He was also named Big South pre-season player of the year and pre-season Mid-Major All-America.

White owned the seventh-highest scoring average (21.8) in the nation on Jan. 5 when he suffered a season-ending knee injury late in the second half of Campbell's tripleovertime victory against Gardner-Webb.

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Junior Jayshawn Campbell captured both the 200 and 400 meter dash titles on the way to Most Outstanding Track Performer at the Big South Indoor Championships in WinstonSalem in February.

Campbell, a native of Fayetteville, ran a personal best time of 21.85 seconds to win the men's 200-meter dash, and ran a 49.91 to claim the crown in the 400-meter dash. He entered the meet with the conference's sixthfastest time in the 200 and eighth-fastest in the 400.

The men's track team as a whole finished seventh overall, while the women's team took fifth. The teams combined to win gold in four events, silver in four events, and one bronze metal over the two-day event, including three gold medals, three silvers and one bronze medal on Day 2.

Star Campbell second baseman Michael Felton was named a pre-season All-American by three different baseball organizations heading into 2013.

Felton, who hit .424 in 2012 and set Campbell and Big South records for hits (103), was named a first-team Preseason All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and a second-team Preseason All-American by collegebaseballinsider.com and College Sports Madness. He was also named the Big South Conference's Preseason Co-Player of the Year.

Felton and the Camels opened the 2013 season in their newly renovated home, Jim Perry Stadium, with an 8-2 win over Eastern Michigan. They finished their February schedule on a tear, entering March with an 8-1 record. Campbell's biggest February win was a 9-3 triumph over ACC rival Duke in Durham.

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Women’s Sports

Photos by Bennett Scarborough

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Volleyball

New head coach tasked with turning program around Greg Goral has experience with helping turn volleyball programs around as an assistant coach at Morehead State, Auburn, Eastern Washington, Gonzaga and Rhode Island.

Now Goral has been picked to make Campbell University's volleyball program a winner. Goral, who helped lead Morehead State to a 121-42 overall record in five seasons and an appearance in the NCAA Volleyball Tournament in 2011, was named Campbell's new head coach in December.

"Greg has coached, recruited and been a part of four conference championship teams at Morehead State," Campbell Athletic Director Bob Roller said. "I am confident that he will bring this winning attitude to our team."

Prior to the 2012 season at Morehead, Goral was promoted to associate head coach after four seasons as an assistant.

"Campbell provides me with a great opportunity as a head coach to help change this program's identity," said Goral. "There

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is great potential with the Camels and one of my goals is to make this one of the top programs in the Big South Conference on an annual basis."

Soccer

In January, Goral named Ashley Weers and Adrienne Delph as his assistant coaches.

Weers was a four-year standout for Campbell in 2006-09 and was an assistant from 201012, while Delph brings 20 years of experience to the staff.

Former Campbell University women's soccer standout Pirjo Leppikangas was named to the Finland squad that will compete for the European Cyprus Cup this spring. The Cyprus Cup is used by most national teams as the final preparation for the European Championships held in Sweden this July.

Swimming

Warne wins conference title in 1,650 freestyle Kylie Warne claimed the 1,650 free conference title with a school-record time to lead Campbell at the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association Championships at Gabrielsen Natatorium at the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga. Warne, a junior from Lethbridge, Ontario, posted a Campbell record time of 16:51.53 on the meet's final day to claim her first conference championship. Warne also earned all-conference honors in the 400 IM.

Former Campbell standout named to Finland squad

Leppikangas finished her career at Campbell as a first-team Big South Conference selection and was named to the BSC All-Tournament team.

"In my opinion Pirjo is one of the all-time best players that has ever put on a Campbell University shirt," Campbell head soccer coach Todd Clark said. "I am humbled by some of those I have had the pleasure of working with over the last 20-some years, but she is clearly the most dominant. She deserves this honor and opportunity, and our program is rooting for her."

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Escape the Mundane

Alumna launches project highlighting travel, food, good storytelling

BY BILLY LIGGETT

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ith the production of every Escapelicious episode, says an excited Elaine Lee ('06) in the New Year video posted for fans of her latest venture, “I’m getting closer to my dream of travelling the world.”

That dream has taken Lee a long way already.

The Maylasian-born graduate of Campbell University is set to launch online episodes of Escapelicious, a cooking program that’s just as much about storytelling and learning new cultures as it is the food. The brainchild of Lee and fellow Campbell alumnus Wee Wan, Escapelicious sends Lee to the homes and kitchens of some of New York City’s best chefs to not only learn the secrets to their best dishes, but also about their homeland and the stories that brought them to the United States.

“It’s creating an escape from the mundane and an exploration of what life is like outside of our own world,” said Lee, explaining the genesis for the name Escapelicious. “Each episode is a little escape for me. Food plays a big part in every culture. Cooking is just the vehicle to learn about these cultures.”

Lee knows a lot about learning new cultures. She was introduced to life in the U.S. in 2005 when she transferred from Campbell University’s program at Tunku Abdul Rahman College in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to the school’s Buies Creek campus to study communications and broadcasting.

At Campbell, she took several television production courses and became affiliated with the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and its film study program in Los Angeles for a semester.

“Since I was little, I’ve wanted to pursue a career in filmmaking, and I viewed Campbell as my door to explore and pursue my dream,” Lee said.

But in order to stay in the states and work toward her goals, Lee needed a paying job right out of school. Upon graduation, she went to work for a New York-based advertising

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Elaine Lee ('06) has shot episodes of her new online show, "Escapelicious," with chefs from around the world all in the confines of her new home, New York City. Lee will begin airing the episodes this year.

agency focused on the Asian-American market. It was there she met Wan, a Campbell graduate and producer of “Better Body and Soul,” which airs on Asian-American networks in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Wan convinced Lee to stick with advertising but spend her free time pursuing her dream.

“He told me, ‘I know you love the lifestyle here and pursuing the American dream,’” Lee said. “He talked some sense into me and told me to use the skills I have, my filmmaking background and my equipment to get started.

Start small, and with hard work and effort, anything’s possible. That’s the beauty of America.”

Though she comes off as a natural, Lee had never been in front of the camera, but she and Wan agreed she needed to be the face of Escapelicious for it to truly be her project.

Before Lee knew it, she was travelling the world inside the comfy confines of New York City, filming episodes with chefs from Jamaica, Italy and places in between.

“Sometimes the best way to do things is to just do them. Don’t overthink it,” Lee said. “I have a tendency to overthink things, but I know nothing is ever perfect. And if you mess up, you just tweak it on the way.”

With a handful of episodes down and a few more to go, Lee said her site, escapelicious. com, will begin airing the full episodes later this year. Her goal is to launch it all online first then pursue sponsors and any networks that may be interested in picking up the show or her idea.

In five years, Lee, who’s 27, sees herself either doing her own show (think “No Reservations” with Anthony Bourdain) or running her own venture that utilizes her talents and lives up to her lofty goals.

“I have big ideas … some I’m not ready to share just yet,” Lee said with a laugh. “I just want to explore and keep learning. Keep improving myself. More than anything, I want to help others like me and set them on the right path to follow their dreams.”

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alumni Class Notes Calling all alumni!

Send us your photos by email to liggettb@campbell.edu and please include your name, graduation year and other basic information. We'll see you in the next edition!

Joseph Felder (‘11) offers

encouragement to a bomb-sniffing dog, Kandy, during a briefing for an early morning raid in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2009.

Spc. Felder was then a medic with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. He’s currently a PA student at Idaho State.

Photo by Staff Sgt. James Selesnick

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George “Jerry” Oliver (’66 BS), a Smith Moore Leatherwood attorney, was named

by North Carolina Super Lawyers Magazine as a top attorney in 2013 for his work in employment and labor law. Fewer than 5 percent of attorneys in the state are selected to the exclusive list of “Super Lawyers.”

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Celeste Parker Freeman (’74 BS) will retire in May after teaching kindergarten and first grade for 36 years. She lives in Aztec, N.M., with her husband Mark.

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Ashley H. Story (’82 JD) joined the Campbell Law School Board of Visitors.

He is the managing partner of the Raleigh office of Troutman Sanders. His practice focuses on the development, construction, permitting, acquisition and sale of retail, industrial and office property.

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Gerald Franklin Hemphill (’89 BA), president of GPH Insurance Agency in Richmond, Va., was the recipient of the 2012 PIA Outstanding Agent of the Year award at the annual awards ceremonies of the Professional Insurance Agents Association of Virginia and the District of Columbia. He was recognized with the highest honor for a career of insurance industry. He and his wife Lori Hemphill (’88) are in business together. They have two daughters, Ashley and Taylor.

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Debby P. Futrell (’87 BS/’91 PH) was named president and CEO of the North Carolina Area L Health Education Center in Rocky Mount.

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Bill Gentry (’92 PH) was named assistant dean of admissions and student programs at South College School of Pharmacy in Knoxville, Tenn.

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Jennifer Burch (’93 PH) was elected to the Board of International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists.

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Michael Adams (’96 PH) was named assistant dean for graduate and interprofessional education for the Campbell University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences.

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Robert A. Sar (’95 JD) joined the Campbell Law School Board of Visitors. He is a shareholder and trial lawyer with the national labor law firm, Ogletree Deakins.

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Melissa Johnson ('97 PH) earned certification as an HIV pharmacist from the American Academy of HIV Medicine.

White & Allen attorney John C. Bircher (’97 JD) was named to

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marriage on Dec. 9, 2012, in Robert B. and Anna Gardner Butler Chapel on the campus of Campbell University.

FROM BUIES TO BROADWAY

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Amber Bedenbaugh Brantley ('03 PH), and Mark Brantley (’99 BS) announce the arrival of their daughter, Cecily Paige, on Dec. 4, 2012. Cecily weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces and was 20 inches long. Cecily was welcomed by big brother Ian (7) and big sister Trista (3).

Keith Faulkner (‘01MBA/ JD) was elected to serve on the Wake County Bar Association and Tenth Judicial District Bar 2013 Board of Directors. He is one of six newly-elected board members.

It was just five years ago when Brad Gardner (’09), then a student in Campbell University’s music department, was playing Rhapsody in Blue in Scott Auditorium before a crowd that included many of his friends and classmates.

Rob McMahan (’99 MBA/’00 PH) was selected by United Drugs as the company’s new president.

Uknown to Gardner at the time, also watching was the mother of Mary-Mitchell Campbell — a North Carolina native, Juilliard graduate and musical director on Broadway. Campbell's mother enjoyed Gardner’s performance and told her daughter it. In no time, Gardner found himself interning for her production, "The Addams Family," on Broadway. After his graduation in 2009, Gardner made New York City his home and since has worked for and played in several Broadway productions, including "La Cage Aux Folles" and "Silence! The Musical."

Melissa Cain Travis’s (’99 BS) first book, How Do We Know God is Really There?, will be released

by Apologia Press in April. This illustrated children's book is the first in a series designed to

communicate key Christian apologetics topics to elementaryage children.

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Carlyle Hall (’99 BA/’05 MDiv) is the new pastor of Castalia Baptist Church in Castalia.

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Gardner spoke with music and theater students inside that same Scott Auditorium in February to talk about his career and to offer advice to those considering a life in the theater. He was joined by twins Will and Anthony Nunziata, who performed with Gardner in a series of shows across the U.S. this year.

“What I learned at Campbell prepared me for this,” Gardner told the students. “I never realized how much I would use theory or sight singing … or music history. Every single class was important, and I’m using what I learned on a daily basis.”

North Carolina Super Lawyers 2013, a listing of outstanding lawyers around the nation who have a notable degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. He was recognized in the categories of Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights.

This is the second year he has been selected. He practices law in New Bern.

Attorney Anthony Biller (’97 JD) with Coats and Bennett PLLC, an intellectual property law firm, was awarded the 2013 Client Choice Award by Lexology and the International Law Office.

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Jodie Ruth Hurley (’01 BA/’05 MBA) and William Freeman were united in marriage on Oct. 11, 2012, at Carter’s Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Selma.

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Deandra Leigh Stewart (’05 BS) and Eric Scott Tart (’98 BA) were united in

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Robbie Byrd (’03 MDiv/ ’10 DMin) is the center director for the Fayetteville Family Life Center.

’04

Jeff Morris (’00 BS), who has been teaching math and coaching cross country in

Perham, Minn., since 2002, led the cross country program to its first state title and first national championship. In May, Jeff will be honored at NHSCA Celebrity Banquet for Coach of the Year for boys cross country.

NHSCA recognizes the coaches of the year from 22 high school sports and the high school athletes.

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Nancy Pardue (’03 BA) was promoted to co-editor of Cary Magazine by S&A Cherokee Communications Company.

Adam Petty ('04 BBA) and Brittany Sauls Petty ('11 BS) were married at the Grand Marquise Ballroom in Garner on Sept. 23, 2012.

Stacey Shaw Bruton (’04 PH) and husband Jason announced the birth of their son, Noah Paul, on Aug. 8, 2011.

Elizabeth Huff Botner (’04 BS/’08 MA) earned her Doctor of Education in counseling psychology with a minor in counselor education and supervision from Argosy University in August 2012.

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alumni Class Notes Friends We Will Miss before joining the music department to teach piano and music history at Campbell in 1963.

She retired just over 30 years later, yet remained active in musical affairs at Campbell, UNCGreensboro, UNC-Chapel Hill and Meredith College. She was also president of the Raleigh Piano Teachers Association and served in numerous music-related organizations.

Cenieth Catherine Elmore Out of her element, Cenieth Elmore was a quiet, gentle presence at Campbell University for 30-plus years. Behind the keys of a piano, however, she created beautiful sounds, and her music inspired thousands of students during her time in Buies Creek.

Elmore died in July and was buried at Perry’s Chapel Baptist Church in Raleigh. She was 82.

A graduate of Franklinton High School and UNC-Greensboro, Elmore earned two masters degrees and a PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill Rebecca B. Maness (’42), Jan. 24 Dr. Harold B. Wells, Sr. (’00), Jan. 23 Thomas B. Hunt (’02), Jan. 19 Linda Towler (’69), Jan. 17 Betty B. Brock (’59), Jan. 16 Wilsona L. Burke (’66), Jan. 14 Wade M. Stewart (’66), Jan. 14 Glenn B. Coats (’68), Jan. 13 William A. Johnson (’39), Jan. 13 Helen A. Smith (’38), Jan. 13

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Casey Johnson (’05 PH) was named 2012 Community Preceptor of the Year by Campbell University’s PharmD class of 2012. She works at Creech Drug Company in Selma.

Dean Andrew Dellinger (’05 JD) was named a partner at Drew Eckl & Farnham. He practices workers’ compensation law and counsels businesses,

“She was one of the pillars of the music department for years,” said Campbell associate professor of music Richard McKee, who replaced Elmore in 1994. “She was highly respected by our students and a fine musician. I heard her perform a few times … she was very talented.”

Nicole Byrd-Phelps, a 1990 Campbell graduate who went on to a career as a music teacher, said Elmore was dedicated to her profession and never missed a class. She expected that same dedication from her students, Byrd-Phelps said.

“I am thankful for all she did for me and for Campbell University during her many years teaching there,” she said. “That was a very precious time in my life, and she was an important part of it.”

Charles A. Hester (’48), Jan. 10 Dr. John B. Cheatham Sr. (’71), Jan. 6 Elton Edwards (’37), Jan. 5 Janie M. Rogers (’56), Dec. 28 Frank H. Upchurch (’77), Dec. 28 Rev. Willie Shepard Jr. (’59), Dec. 19 Leah E. Avery (’67), Dec. 18 Gertrude P. Johnson (’49), Dec. 18 Robert A. Nery, Jr. (’71), Dec. 12 Dr. Albert C. Lynch (’69), Dec. 8

third-party administrators, insurers and self-insurers throughout Georgia.

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Edna S. Stephens (’66), Nov. 27 Mildred M. Gruver (’52), Nov. 26 Preston M. Avery (’52), Nov. 24 Peggy R. Flora (’67), Nov. 19 Raymond T. Courie (’59), Nov. 16 Jackie L. Sistrunk (’72), Nov. 14 George A. Warrick (’53), Nov. 12 Cenieth C. Elmore, July 9

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Drew Phillips (’06 MDiv), chaplain of the Christian Activity Center in East St. Louis, Ill., is one of CBF’s newly approved field personnel. Drew will be commissioned in June.

Carole CourcouxAllyn (’07 PH) announced the arrival of daughter Chloe, who was born Dec. 6, 2012.

Esther Parker (’07 MDiv) was called as the minister of Christian education and Children at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Raleigh.

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Christa Pace (’08 BA) and husband Brad welcomed a daughter, Michaela Marie Pace, on Jan. 15.

Michaela weighed 9 pounds and was 21.5 inches long.

Benjamin McDonald (’08 BS) achieved certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Ben is a seventh-grade social studies teacher at LeRoy Martin Middle School in Raleigh and is married to Lori (Layman) McDonald (’09).

Monica Sandoval Oxendine (’08 PH) and her husband Chris announced the birth of their daughter, Malia Christine Oxendine, on Dec. 17, 2012.

Malia weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces.

Ryan Swanson (’08 PH) and Kristina Swanson announced the adoption of Oksana Havily Swanson. Oksana was born on May 23, 2011, and arrived home from Russia on Oct. 11, 2012.

Chad Whitley (’08 MDiv) is pastor of Poplar Springs Baptist Church in State Road.

Jacob (’08 BA/’12 MDiv) and Rachel Peterson welcomed Jack Thomas Peterson to their family on Dec. 29, 2012.

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Sharon Ross Jones (’11 PH) and Jeffrey Tingen (’09 MBA/PH) announced their engagement and will be united in marriage on Oct. 19, in Ridge, Md.

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Amanda Nichole Johnson (’09 BA) and Matthew Alan Johnson were united in marriage on Oct. 6, 2012, in Robert B. and Anna Gardner Butler Chapel on the campus of Campbell University.

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Ricky Warren (’11 MDiv) was called to work at the North Carolina Foundation for Christian Ministries.

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Kayla Marie Faircloth (’11 BS) and Matthew Joseph Fahey (’11 BS) were united in marriage on June 9, 2012, in Robert B. and Anna Gardner Butler Chapel on the campus of Campbell University.

Leslie Jarvis (’11 BSPS) and Thomas Ivey (’11 BBA) were engaged on New Year’s Eve. Leslie currently works as a Lab Analyst but will soon be

promoted to analytical chemist at Metrics Inc. in Greenville.

Thomas will enter the Army Officer Candidate School in Fort Benning, Ga., beginning in February.

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Brianne Rothrock Hauser (’12 BA) and Byron Michael Hauser (’12 BS) of WinstonSalem were joined in marriage

on Oct. 20, 2012. They now reside in Mebane. Brianne is an EDI project manager at LabCorp, and Byron is a clinical trials assistant II at Duke

University Medical Center.

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Lt. Sean A. Valdez (’12 PH) with Medical Service Corps was commissioned as an officer into the United States Navy in May 2012. Valdez thanks his Campbell family for helping him achieve his goals.

Abby Whitt (’12 PH) is happy to announce her engagement to David Alan Chaney II. The wedding is scheduled for fall 2013.

Phillip “Hunter” Gillespie (’12 JD) has joined the Auger & Auger firm as an associate personal injury attorney.

Nathan (’12 MDiv) and Tara Tuttle welcomed Charlotte Hope Tuttle to their family on Nov. 20, 2012.

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Campbell University’s official website is located at www.campbell.edu. During the last academic year, the site redesigned its landing page to feature news and profiles across the site’s main banner. Campbell also launched the official website for the School of Osteopathic Medicine, www.campbell.edu/cusom.

The number of followers of Campbell University’s Twitter account has nearly tripled since August 2011. Over the summer, the University hired a new digital content coordinator to manage the account, and Campbell’s Twitter following has grown considerably since.

• Monthly Visitors: 237,745

• Total followers (through March 12, 2013): 2,467

• Monthly Page Views: 545,738

FACEBOOK.COM

TUMBLR

The University ramped up efforts to reach students, parents, faculty and staff and alumni through Facebook in 2011-2012, resulting in more than 2,000 additional followers to its main page, www.facebook.com/ campbelluniversity.

In August 2012, Campbell launched its first official University blog using the popular social network, Tumblr (wearecampbell. tumblr.com). Showcasing and celebrating the people, programs and activities — past and present — that shape Campbell University, the site allows readers and followers to submit their own memories, photos and videos.

• Total “likes” (through March 12, 2013): 9,544 • Followers ages 25 and over: 63%

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WHAT IS THE ANNUAL FUND? At Campbell University, the Annual Fund is made up of thousands of individual gifts from alumni, parents, and friends like you.

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Annual gifts are among the most important and valuable at Campbell because these funds can be used where the need is greatest.

Many employers offer matching gift programs that will double or even triple your gift to the Annual Fund. Check our web-site or contact your benefits office to request a matching gift form

EMPLOYER MATCHING GIFT

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

You will receive an acknowledgement letter containing a receipt for your thoughtful gift. You will also be listed in our Honor Roll of Donors which is published annually.

WHERE DOES MY GIFT “REALLY” GO? WHEN GAS PRICES DOUBLED

WHEN FEDERAL & STATE FUNDING DECREASES

After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, fuel prices skyrocketed.

The cost an average Campbell student pays is 34% less than the actual cost to enroll.

The ANNUAL FUND kept fuel in our tanks so our athletes could compete!

The ANNUAL FUND helps cover the 34% difference.

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This expense wasn’t passed on to the students thanks to the ANNUAL FUND covering the cost.

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