Campbell Magazine Spring 2014

Spring 2014

SCHOLARS & WARRIORS A close look at the men and women of Campbell ROTC and our rich military history

A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools. — Thucydides 2

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SCHOLARS & WARRIORS « « « « « THE PROGRAM Campbell’s ROTC honors and its recent ‘Military Friendly’ and ‘Best for Vets’ accolades have made it an attractive destination for future officers and veterans from all over the U.S. Its strong reputation with the military wasn’t built in a day.

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THE CADETS A big part of what makes Campbell’s ROTC program a success is the students. Campbell Magazine profiled five of Campbell’s cadets this spring — from young, fresh-out-of-high school students to seasoned war veterans. Their stories are as diverse as the program itself.

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THE LEGACY Keith Finch ('41), now in his 90s, is one of a dwindling number of World War II veterans still around to tell their tales. Finch showed farm boys how to become fighter pilots during the war, and didn't escape without a few brushes with death himself.

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« « « « « Wiki-Tweaks Dr. Robert Hasty is lead author on a research paper questioning the legitimacy of medical information on the most-visited website for medical information — Wikipedia | Page 12

500 Wins & Counting It was a milestone year for womens head basketball coach Wanda Watkins, who shares with us some of her fondest memories from her storied career | Page 50

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A pleasure knowing entire Burkot family Congratulations on a great fall edition. I had the pleasure of knowing several members of the Burkot family when I was at Campbell. I think Dean Burkot knew my name the second time I met him. He was a brilliant man.

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President

Jerry Wallace

I don't think, however, you sufficiently mentioned his wife, Mrs. Velma Burkot, who ran the college laundry, best I remember. Just about every student knew and appreciated Mrs. Burkot and the work she did.

Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Marketing

Britt Davis Director of University Communications and Publications

Haven Hottel Assistant Director for Publications

Billy Liggett Digital Content Coordinator

Cherry Crayton Graphic Designer

Jonathan Bronsink Contributors

Rachel Davis Web Design Team

Bob Dry Carlos Cano

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 Lundy-Fetterman School of Business, the School of Education, the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, the Divinity School and the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine.

Campbell University was ranked among the Best Regional Universities in the South by U.S. News & World Report in its America’s Best Colleges 2012 edition and named one of the “100 Best College Buys” in the nation by Institutional Research & Evaluation, Inc. Campbell University is an equal opportunity employer.

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Remembering Dean A.R. Burkot The Fall 2013 cover story on former professor, dean and provost Alexander Roman Burkot garnered a lot of response from his family, friends and the former students who knew Campbell’s “Renaissance Man” best.

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Getting to know my brother better Words cannot adequately express my gratitude for the wonderful piece you put together in tribute to my brother, Alexander Roman Burkot.

As a result of reading your editorial introduction and “Burkot: Renaissance Man,” my heart just beams with pride.

When a person is gone from this earth for almost 30 years, it is rare that he's even remembered, let alone have such accolades showered upon his memory.

I don't doubt for a minute that Alex was loyal to Campbell and gave his best to the institution and its students and the best of every part of himself, and that your words of praise are very fitting.

My brother was 19 years older than me and was already away from home when I was just a baby.

I knew he was my brother, but I didn't really get to know him — I had about five meaningful conversations with him in my entire life. Your article filled in missing information, and I truly appreciate that.

God bless you.

Sister Doris Burkot Pennsylvania

I knew their children, Jerry and Betty, well during the early 1960s. I am sure they had a lot of pressure with Dean Burkot as the dean and father. It was really good seeing Jerry at the 50th-year reunion in 2013. We all had a lot of fun reminiscing about the “good old days” in the Creek.

Thanks for bringing back really good memories, and thanks for Jerry's comments in the article.

Paul Garrison (’65) President Wake County Alumni Chapter

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Grandfather was a big influence on my life Thank you for the wonderful, touching story honoring my grandfather, Dr. A.R. Burkot.

The mere sight of his trademark black glasses on the first page tugged at my heartstrings. It was a genuine treat to pore over my mother's copy of Campbell Magazine at Christmas. An unexpected gift under the tree, I was so excited that his life was being honored in something tangible — something I could read and hold in my hands and go back over at my heart's content.

Emotions rose in me upon seeing the variety of photos of him, bringing a flood of old memories.

Because of your story, I not only relived many impressions of my grandfather, but I also enjoyed some enlightening details about him of which I was previously unaware. It just reinforced even more that he was an amazing and important figure not only in my life, but in countless lives.

To this day, he is the reason that I hold myself to certain levels of success. He influenced me to be the perfectionist who never settles for mediocrity.

His incredible ear for languages sparked my imagination as a young girl to travel in my mind to those places he spoke from. Ultimately, this cultivated an innate curiosity that drove me to become a traveller. Consequently, I have moved

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to the Editor 54 times and visited 49 U.S. states and 25 countries, and I am not intending on slowing down any time soon.

So, I thank you again for your dedication to crystallizing my grandfather's unique talents and indelible mark made not only on Campbell College, but on the precious community of Buies Creek.

Dr. A.R. Burkot was truly a “giant” by many standards and will remain so, in our memories.

Sharon Kimberly Cravens

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Adding praise to Burkot’s legacy I enjoyed your article on Mr. Burkot and certainly agreed with all that was said of him. I compliment you on your choice of all the articles in the magazine, with special regard for featuring Mr. Burkot.

I was fortunate to have several conversations with Mr. Burkot, personally, as well as academically related. In addition, I took his class (I believe at the time it was called “Root Words”), one of the most enlightening courses of my academic career — not so much owing to the course material, rather to the conduct of the course by Mr. Burkot.

I joined Campbell in 1960, at age 27, after some wonderful professors helped me to clean up my lacking high school academic record. I completed my freshman and sophomore years at Campbell, then transferred to American University in 1963.

After one semester at American, I discovered the living expenses in Washington, D.C. — the cost of the school, plus having to work to pay my way through school and support my family — meant there was not enough time left for academic pursuits. I returned to Campbell a few weeks before registration for the fall semester in 1963. Mr. Tunstall hired me back as student photographer, and life was good.

One day after strolling through the campus, I was sitting in front of one of the buildings, enjoying the beauty of the surroundings, as I am sure most students do from time to time. Mr. Burkot walked by and said, “Hi John, I thought you had left us for American U.”

From Facebook Steve Steinbeck: Dean A.R. Burkot, as we called him from 1965 to 1969, was a great leader and even better professor. I had the honor of taking a fascinating “word study” class under this icon of languages.

Hesta Johnson: Dean Burkot was one of my favorite people when I was a student at Campbell Junior College (1952-54). He had the most fantastic memory of anyone I have ever known and the most gracious smile to all he came in contact with. He was one of a kind. I will never forget him.

I was quite surprised by his memory of his students. I related to him what had happened over the last year and concluded with this statement, “I have learned it does not matter what school a person attends; the responsibility to achieve an education lies within the individual.

And that it is a lifetime endeavor.”

To that statement, Mr. Burkot said, “I could not agree more.”

I was reminded of this conversation when I read the statement by Mr. Burkot in the Pine Burr to the students of 1956 (Page 20 in the magazine).

Thank you for your time spent reading this letter.

My intent is to add my name in praise of Mr. Burkot — a great educator, mentor and friend.

John S. Hutchison Jr. (’66)

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:

Ron Alligood: I had the pleasure to have this great man as my upper level Spanish professor. He was truly a most remarkable man and role model.

Warren Gay: An awesome man whose contributions to Campbell and its students will never be fully known.

A true giant among men and a friend to all who reached out to him. I would like to say “thank you” to him in all the languages he spoke.

Barbara Cotten: I owe him my degree in French. He taught me several classes one-on-one so I could accomplish my goals.

Velma Burkot played an important role, too Your article on Dean Burkot was excellent and brought back a lot of fond memories.

At some point, you may want to print something about his wife Velma. She was in charge of the student laundry during the time I was there, and in those days, all boarding students were “forced” to use this service. I fondly remember how compassionate she was to us guys who did not have a clue about laundering shirts and underwear. She always knew us by name and had a good word when we would pick up our goods.

I also not-so-fondly remember the holes in our undergarments from the large safety pins they used to wash these items. I remember our shirts were starched, ironed and folded on cardboard.

We always had that fresh look.

Woodrow W. Hathaway Jr. Dennison, Ohio

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Greek Life organizations at Campbell this spring in only the second semester since the university approved social fraternities and sororities. The groups are Sigma Alpha Omega and Delta Phi Epsilon sororities and Kappa Sigma and Phi Delta Theta fraternities.

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Awards earned by Campbell Communications at the 2014 Council for Advancement in Secondary Education Region III conference in Orlando, Fla. this year. Campbell Magazine won the Grand Award for “magazine improvement” for the second consecutive year, while the other awards were for publications, writing and social media.

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Students who presented at the Wiggins Memorial Library Annual Academic Symposium in March, making it the largest gathering in the event’s four-year history and nearly doubling the size of the 2013 Symposium.

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The amount of litter on campus, in pounds, picked up by volunteers during the Martin Luther King Jr. Week of Service in January.

Almost half of that litter was recyclable.

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Scholarship dollars awarded to 181 students in the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences this year. Through gifts from donors and the Dean’s Scholarship, 43 percent of the college’s student body received financial assistance this year.

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Stories from the Greatest Generation

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ix years ago, I was a newspaper editor standing in the middle of a hot runway at the small airport in Sanford, waiting for Clay Wilson to arrive for a flight I’d never forget.

Wilson had just turned 91, and on this day, he was set to board a B-17 — a restored bomber that was making its way across the country, stopping at airports and airfields along the way. It was the first time Wilson, a native of Angier, had stepped foot inside a bomber in over 65 years, back when he was a crewmember during World War II. The flight itself was a treat — I crawled down into the ball turret where gunners had a bird’s eye view of the war and imagined what they saw from that same spot. I watched Wilson creep up toward the cockpit to chat with the pilots, telling them about the brave men he served and flew with — memories that brought a smile to his face, some of the few positive memories from such a brutal war.

On the ground, Wilson shared the kind of story you expect to see on the big screen. In February of 1943, he was a crewman on a B-17 flying over Germany, dropping bombs on Nazi soil on their 13th mission in a month.

“The Germans learned that we didn’t have guns at the nose of our plane,” Wilson said. “So they learned they could come in at eye level with us and be protected.”

they were shooting at the parachuters.”

Wilson landed on French soil. Over the next few months, his heroic tale really took shape — hiding in the woods for weeks to avoid German soldiers, involuntarily becoming part of France’s underground “la resistance” movement, staying in a chateau with an American countess, pretending to be a deaf mute on a train full of Germans and finally, ending up in a Spanish prison camp before being rescued.

My time with Wilson, who’s now 96, changed me. I became fascinated with WWII history, taking in every book, article and movie I could to learn more. Eventually, I interviewed more veterans from the “Greatest Generation” … each story unique, yet just as fascinating.

Included in this edition of Campbell Magazine — which highlights one of the top university ROTC programs in the nation and celebrates Campbell’s military history and its designation as a “Military Friendly” school — is an interview with another WWII veteran, Campbell Distinguished Alumnus and former trustee Keith Finch (’41). Finch was a fighter pilot in the war, responsible for training farm boys to become ace pilots in a matter of months.

Like Wilson, Finch is in his mid-90s. While he’s healthy and as sharp as ever, his generation won't be around much longer to share these memories.

Bullets pelted the bomber, one hitting the pilot between the eyes, killing him instantly. As Wilson and the co-pilot went to grab him, the pilot fell onto the controls, sending the plane into a nosedive. Wilson and two others had no choice but to bail. Seven of the 10 men on the plane were killed.

I feel honored to have met him and heard him speak. It’s the lasting memory I will take from this magazine.

“I fell a good 1,000 feet before I opened my chute,” Wilson said. “The (German) pilot flew by and saw me, and I remember he just waved at me. At that time, they were winning the war.

Later on [when they weren’t winning], I learned

Billy Liggett Editor, Campbell Magazine

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“We want to help bring a sense of unity to campus. We want to acknowledge our history and ancestry and learn about the struggles of the past so we don’t repeat the past. We can make correct choices in the present, and we can have a better future.”

— Jordan Armstead, junior, organizer of Campbell’s new African American Studies Club.

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This spring, we asked students and alumni what made them Campbell Proud. The following are some of our favorite responses provided to us via Facebook and Twitter ... … Campbell is home to me, I love the people there and the staff goes out of their way to help always.

— Kayla Roberts @kaylabrook18 … Campbell is where I met my wife, grew in my faith and became equipped for the work I'm doing today.

— Lawrence Powers @lawrencepowers … thanks to great professors, I was well prepared for the real world and getting a job after college. Met lifelong friends and my husband there.

— Jennifer Keaton … my sister, her fiance, his sister and I have been provided the best education from a school that cares about us.

— Shannon Ellis @Shananigan_ … here, the kind of person you are is more important than what you can do.

— Mallory Jones @_callmemal … the education department was progressive, and I became a progressive educator. Now my daughters are obtaining their degrees from Campbell. And if I have my way, future grandchildren will be there too.

— Pamela Price Tadlock

HOT ON FACEBOOK Peter Newby caught this image of Kivett Hall and its mirror image as the ice melted after the second of two snow storms hit the campus in February. Newby, a senior in the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business’ trust and wealth management and MBA 3/2 program, is the executive president of the Student Government Association. His photo garnered hundreds of “likes” and more than 40 shares on Campbell’s Facebook page.

“If you’re an adrenaline junkie, nursing is the best place in the world.”

— Nancy Duffy, director of Campbell’s new nursing program, set to launch in fall 2014

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… there's nothing better than being part of a small, loving, accepting, Christian community. It's more than just a school, it's become part of who I am.

— Richard Williams

“Find your passion and peaceful spot, which will help you get to your other virtues and help make life just a little better.”

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A school record 3,220 fans packed Gore Arena on Feb. 1, for the Campbell University men’s basketball team’s nationally televised Saturday afternoon game against Coastal Carolina. The standing-room-only crowd witnessed a thriller, with Campbell ultimately falling 61-58 after missing a last-second three pointer that would have sent the game into overtime. The game was one of two featuring the Camels on ESPNU. Photo by Bennett Scarborough

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University Launches Online Degree Program Fifteen years after offering its first online courses, Campbell University launched its first set of online degrees in January. In addition to a Master of Education degree, Campbell now offers associate and bachelor degrees in select areas of study (such as homeland security, criminal justice and information technology) with flexible course schedules designed to meet the needs of adult students.

More degrees — such as a Master of Science in clinical research and a Master of Business Administration — could be launched as early as the upcoming academic year, according to John Roberson, Campbell’s dean of extended programs. The program is designed for older non-traditional students or students currently serving in the military.

“The goal is to better serve our students,” Roberson said. “Prior to receiving authorization to offer online degrees, students could earn no more than 49 percent of their degree requirements online. Once active duty military students hit the 49 percent mark, they could no longer continue their studies with us.

Furthermore, many other adults students will benefit from the flexibility of earning a Campbell University undergraduate or graduate degree online.”

Teachers group earns top honor The Campbell chapter of the Student North Carolina Association of Educators received the Gold Ribbon, Outstanding Chapter Award for exceptional achievement for the 2013-14 academic year. The award was presented at the organization’s spring conference in Raleigh April 28-29.

“This was an amazing honor, and I am so glad that we can be recognized for our outstanding effort,” said Ashly Harbach, president of the Campbell SNCAE chapter. “SNCAE is an exceptional organization and makes a significant impact in the lives of future teachers.”

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Nursing joins growing health sciences curriculum The N.C. Board of Nursing granted Campbell University Initial Approval Status in January, allowing the school to start a Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. The College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences is scheduled to enroll its first class of 50 students this fall.

The program will be headed by founding director Nancy Duffy, former associate professor, director of undergraduate programs and associate director of simulation at the Medical University of South Carolina’s College of Nursing. As with the recently launched physician assistant program and Campbell’s new School of Osteopathic Medicine, the nursing program will help address a workforce shortage in Harnett and its surrounding counties, as well as the state, says Duffy.

N.C. Board of Nursing will re-survey Campbell’s nursing program in the spring of 2018, when the first nursing students are expected to graduate.

At that time, the university is a candidate to receive full approval status.

Currently, there are more than 1,000 nursing jobs open in areas near Campbell, including Durham, Raleigh, Goldsboro and Smithfield, Duffy says. The U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics has estimated that the RN workforce needs to grow by 26 percent between 2010 and 2020.

The Initiative on the Future of Nursing — an Institute of Medicine and Robert Wood Foundation project — has called on schools to increase the proportion of nurses with bachelors degrees to 80 percent by 2020.

Duffy says Campbell is looking for nursing students who are not only motivated, but demonstrate success in the real world, too.

“Campbell is about the rural and underserved, and we have focused our clinical experience in counties that are rural and in areas with underserved populations,” she says. “Also, we’re going to focus on interprofessional education, which is critical for health care today. Here at Campbell you have programs in physical therapy, physician assistant, public health, osteopathic medicine, and pharmacy all working together. Our students will be training alongside other health professional students.”

“You have to be able to have science as the foundation to make decisions about what kind of care you provide,” she says. “Demonstrating academic success is important, but we’ll look at individuals, too. What’s unique about them?

What do they bring? Why are they here? What would make us take a chance on someone who barely meets the preferred GPA? The interview allows a different look. To get someone to tell you why nursing is important to them can be eye-opening.”

Campbell’s first nursing students will receive two years of general education followed by clinical rotations beginning in the fall of 2016. The

The nursing program is the fifth new academic program related to the health sciences that Campbell has begun in three years.

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Vice president for institutional advancement Britt Davis has an addition to his title: assistant to the president.

Physician assistant program graduates first class Campbell University’s 34-member charter class of physician assistants earned their Master of Physician Assistant Practice degree in December, 28 months after the program launched in 2011.

The class set the bar high for those who will follow, creating the Wallace Student Society (a PA student organization dedicated to philanthropy and community service) and establishing an annual golf tournament that has raised more than $10,000 for the Make-AWish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina to date. As their final act as students, the class created the Physician Assistant Alumni Endowed Scholarship fund as their gift to the program and university.

Graduation activities began with a white coat ceremony in Butler Chapel, where each student received a long white coat to replace the short white coat they received upon entering the program. In the culture of medical education and practice, short white coats are worn by students training in the profession.

of the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences Ron Maddox told the students during the ceremony. “During those visits, I am constantly complimented on the caliber of student we have at Campbell. I hear things like, ‘The level of professionalism in your students is remarkable’ and ‘we are blown away by how prepared your PA students are when they begin their rotations.’

Thank you for representing us well.”

Commencement was held in a packed Turner Auditorium the following day. Six students were inducted into the Pi Alpha Honor Society, the Physician Assistant Service Award was awarded to Ashley Nordan, and the Excellence in Professionalism Award was awarded to Andrita Stokes.

In addition to his oversight of university advancement operations — which includes development and fundraising, alumni relations and communications, as well as undergraduate admissions — Davis also now represents the Campbell president’s office in different capacities, including serving as a liaison to various university constituencies such as faculty, students, staff, parents and select external organizations.

“Britt Davis has worked closely with me for several years,” said Campbell President Jerry Wallace. “In addition to his experience and knowledge of the Campbell community and higher education issues in North Carolina and nationally, Britt is known as a collaborative and highly-valued colleague by all who have worked with him.”

“As part of the duties in my career, I visit hospitals across the state on a regular basis,” Vice President for Health Programs and Dean

SNOW DAY(S) It had been a few years since significant snow blanketed Campbell University’s main campus, but the white stuff visited in abundance twice in Buies Creek this past winter. The second storm canceled classes for two and a half days. Pictured (left to right) are Krysta Bell, Jessica Beaver and Jordan Tripp enjoying the first few flakes that fell on Feb. 11, in the Academic Circle.

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IN THEIR OWN WORDS Victor Appau: “It has always been my desire to someday bring primary medical care to rural and underserved populations both locally and abroad. Hence, having never been on a medical mission trip, I went on this trip to serve and to learn what medical missions was all about.”

Shaina Paulrag: “Giving up a break in between block was difficult. There are a million things a medical student with one week of freedom wants to do. However, going to Honduras was probably the best decision I made. I learned so much, from conversational Spanish to doing a whole patient encounter solo.”

Erasmo Espino: “I learned that for all of the lack of resources, technology, financial stability, access to health care, and other basic privileges that many Americans take for granted, the underprivileged people of Honduras whom we treated make up [for it] in faith. . . . The overall experience was quite humbling and it was the consensus of the medical team who participated that we gained so much more from the exchange than we could have imagined.”

Liza Kessling: “The people were full of love. I almost cried when the second village used their gas generator to provide us with a light and fan when we were expecting nothing.”

Leslie George: “I was so touched by the joy and smile these children have every day. They are playing with dirty and broken toy pianos and accordions.

But watching them scream at the top of their lungs to make music has left me speechless. They do not complain about the fact that their piano or accordions were broken, but instead they played as if they had the most expensive instruments in their hands. This was a huge selfless experience in which you learn to use the resources you have and accept the fact that you are limited in what you can do.”

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Med school’s first international mission trip takes them to Honduras

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The medical mission team from Campbell University’s Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine was several days into running a health clinic in a remote village in Honduras when a girl, about 10 years old, came in with a fever. A very high fever. She was haggard and helpless. She had to be carried.

The medical team tried to give the girl an IV, but she was too dehydrated. Dengue fever, they suspected. But there were no advanced medical equipment, technologies or medications to diagnose and treat the possible dengue fever and its complications. The girl needed to be in a hospital. Now. Dr. Brian Kessler, professor of family medicine at Campbell and the lead physician on the trip, scooped the girl up in his arms and carried her to the vehicle the group had been using. A translator working alongside Campbell’s team rushed the girl and her family to the nearest hospital.

Given the lack of resources in the village, the girl most likely would have died if not for the Campbell medical team, said Col. William Pickard, Campbell’s chair of clinical research who served as a clinician on the Honduras mission trip.

“God’s providence had us there that day.”

“Us” was the first medical mission team from the School of Osteopathic Medicine to serve abroad. Specifically, eight students and seven faculty and staff members from the medical school spent the week of March 9 — their Spring Break — operating health clinics in

two remote villages near Choluteca, Honduras.

Over five days, they provided health care to at least 219 adults and children.

“There are so many different situations and circumstances I encountered on this trip that I hope will change me for the better in the way that I care for my future patients,” said Leslie George, one of the eight medical students who participated in the missions trip.

From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. over five days, the eight medical students and seven clinicians and physicians who supervised them interviewed patients, performed physical exams, made possible diagnoses and offered possible treatments.

Many of the patients the team saw rarely had seen a doctor in the past, if at all. Most came to the clinics experiencing aches and pains that could be traced to the demanding physical labor characteristic of their agricultural lifestyle. That included a woman who had been experiencing abdominal and back pain for two months. The pain was getting worse each day, she said. She could no longer do her daily household chores.

The medical team examined her and discovered one of her ribs was stuck posteriorly. Kessler, the lead physician, used a joint manipulation technique and popped her rib back in place. The woman’s pain subsided. She breathed a sigh of relief.

“It was incredible to see this pan out right in front of me,” George said. “It was amazing to be able to connect the skills we learned in school with the limited resources we had abroad to treat our patients.”

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Campbell announced a strategic partnership with Harnett Health System in January to transform health care in Harnett County. The partnership will include a residency program to train and keep physicians from the Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine in the area during their third and fourth years of training. “We believe it will enable our students to put down roots and become the next generation of physicians who practice in this community,” Dean Dr. John Kauffman said. “These students will be your pediatricians, your family doctors, your internists, your surgeons, your OBGYNs and your emergency medical physicians.”

Law Climbs in Top Tier Ranking Campbell Law School climbed five spots and remained in the top tier for law schools per the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings released in March. Standing 121st nationally, the ranking bests Campbell Law’s previous benchmark of 126 set a year ago.

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The ranking is included as a part of the publication’s Best Graduate Schools 2015 guidebook, available on newsstands April 8.

Convocation marks official launch of new Physical Therapy program Wise words from Ben Massey Jr., executive director of the North Carolina Board of Physical Therapy: “Physical therapy is no cakewalk.”

Massey spoke to the inaugural class of Campbell University’s new physical therapy program during their convocation ceremony to open the spring semester in January. He told the class about the importance of their role in the health care industry, especially in rural areas like Harnett County and other parts of the state where the population is underserved medically.

The curriculum, he said, will be a challenge.

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“You will study more, read more and sleep less than ever,” Massey said. “But I assure you that you will get goose bumps the first time you help a patient take his first independent steps after a stroke.”

The convocation ceremony is a time honored tradition throughout Campbell’s academic programs and serves as a time of fellowship and celebration to mark the beginning of a new academic year. The Doctor of Physical Therapy program’s academic year runs from January through December unlike that of the other programs, which run from August through May.

“As legal education continues to change, we’ve sought ways to stand out while staying true to our roots and providing a strong, robust education that prepares our graduates for future success in practice and leadership,” said Campbell Law Dean J. Rich Leonard. “Our continued improvement in this ranking is a testament to the work being done on our campus.”

Campbell Law ranked high in several metrics comprising the overall rankings, including student/faculty ratio, 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, and bar passage. Of the seven law schools in North Carolina, Campbell Law stands as one of four institutions ranked inside the top tier.

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Of the Top 10 most-searched medical conditions on Wikipedia, nine contained errors, according to a soon-to-be-published study led by Campbell Medical School’s regional associate dean, Dr. Robert Hasty. His article will be the nation’s first published study on the accuracy of the world’s most-used medical source.

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he question first entered the mind of Dr. Robert Hasty two years ago in a room full of young residents at a teaching hospital in Florida.

The vice chairman of Nova Southeastern University’s Internal Medicine Department and the founding director of Palmetto General Hospital’s residency program at the time, Hasty posed a question to soonto-be physicians and noticed many of them immediately breaking out their smart phones and tablets to find the answer.

from anywhere — a first-year med student or a professional who could stand to gain by promoting one treatment over another. Those are valid concerns.”

Hasty’s question? Just how reliable of a source can Wikipedia be when the information can be written and edited by anybody?

Hasty, now the vice president of medical education and regional associate dean for the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine, is the lead author of the country’s first published study that examines the accuracy of content for common medical conditions on Wikipedia. “Wikipedia in Comparison to Peer-Reviewed Medical Knowledge in the 10 Most Common Medical Conditions” will appear in May in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. In their study, Hasty and 16 co-authors — most of them residents during Hasty’s time in Florida — discovered that of the 10 mostsearched medical conditions, nine of the 10 Wikipedia articles on those conditions contained “statistically significant errors.”

“Wikipedia is a bit like flatulence for clinicians. Everyone does it, but no one wants to admit to it,” Hasty says. “It’s an easy-toaccess source for anybody, but who’s editing it? That’s the scary question. It can come

“The idea behind Wikipedia is that the masses make it a better product over time, but our research says it still has a long way to go,” Hasty says. “That’s not to say there aren’t errors in peer-reviewed literature as well. But there’s

Their online destination? Wikipedia — today considered the “single leading source” of health care information for medical students, professionals and even patients, according to a 2014 study by the IMS Health Institution.

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more cause for concern when the material online doesn’t have the appropriate peervetting process.”

Significant Discordance To get an idea of the behemoth Wikipedia has become in its 13-year history, consider this: on any given day, 15 percent of all internet users visit the site at least once. The online encyclopedia has 1,600 times as many articles as its forefather, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and it is the world’s fifth-most popular website with editions in 287 languages.

If you were to print out Wikipedia — a task groups like Pedia Press and IndieGoGo are ready to undertake — the result would be almost 1.2 million pages long.

A large chunk of those pages would be dedicated to health care. According to the IMS Health Institute, the top 100 English language health care-related pages on Wikipedia were accessed 1.9 million times in 2013. In its recent study, the group reported that information on these pages is subject to

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constant change, often overseen by “informal or formal working groups.”

The lack of formal peer review is what spawned Hasty’s study.

“The slightest change or miswording can change public health fairly significantly,” Hasty says. “[Physicians and students] have developed confidence in using Wikipedia, thinking it’s a well-reviewed peer-referenced publication. For patients, it’s the first thing that pops up on a Google search.”

Hasty and his team took the Top 10 most common conditions in terms of expenditure in the U.S. and found their corresponding Wikipedia articles for their research — coronary artery disease, concussions, lung cancer, depression, arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, diabetes, back pain and hyperlipidemia. In a blinded process, two randomly assigned students reviewed each article and identified all assertions [defined as “a confident statement of fact or belief”] made in the article. They compared those assertions made in Wikipedia with references made in UpToDate, the peer-reviewed medical encyclopedia source purchased by Campbell’s med school and currently used by its students and faculty.

Once each article was reviewed, the findings were tabulated by two different independent reviewers, and the data was sent off to a statistician. The result: Hasty and his coauthors found errors in nine out of the 10 Wikipedia articles, with “concussions” the only entry found to be error-free.

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According to Hasty, most of the errors were “relatively minor.” One example of a significant error was with the diagnosis of hypertension, where Wikipedia stated that traditionally, the diagnosis is required to have “three separate sphygmomanometer measurements at one monthly interval.” The best available evidence and guidelines only require two measurements.

“I think Wikipedia has great potential, and our study shows that more work needs to be done to improve accuracy for a resource used by the majority of clinicians.”

“The extra reading could potentially cause patients to go longer without treatment of their high blood pressure,” Hasty says.

Another error involved coronary artery disease.

Wikipedia’s article states that family history is not an important risk factor in the disease, but according to Hasty’s study, “Multiple studies confirm or support the importance of family

history of CAD in determining a patient’s risk.”

The study’s conclusion: Caution should be used when using Wikipedia to answer questions regarding patient care. But Hasty says that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvements.

“I think Wikipedia has great potential, and our study shows that more work needs to be done to improve accuracy for a resource used by the majority of clinicians,” Hasty says. “Already, there have been interesting reports since we started this. There’s a group of med students at UC-San Francisco working on a project to improve the site.”

Hasty’s study will be published in May, but already doctors around the country are raising the red flag on Wikipedia’s content. UCSF professor of psychiatry Dr. Amin Azzam told NPR in January he believes Wikipedia is a “double-edged sword.”

“Because anyone can edit, we don't necessarily know the expertise of the people doing the editing,” he said. “One the other hand, the reason it's so popular is because everyone can contribute.”

Hasty says he hopes the study leads to changes on the website.

“I hope Wikipedia looks at this and decides to make a more robust peer-review system,” he says. “Some of the errors we found were subtle, but some could change the way a future physician might practice medicine. There’s a reason why there’s a high standard. A slight deviation could seriously harm people.”

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Campbell eyes engineering for 2016 Board of Trustees approves new undergraduate program

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n starting several health science programs in the past five years, Campbell University sought to meet a need in North Carolina, a state where too many counties are without physicians and too many citizens are without local, reliable health care options.

Now Campbell is ready to set its sights on science, technology, engineering and mathematics and the national need for more STEM graduates entering an increasingly global and technology-dominated workforce.

In 2016, the University will offer a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree, with the likelihood that concentrations in the field will grow after the initial launch. Campbell will seek approval from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges prior to starting the program, and accreditation from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology will be sought.

“For decades, through strong science and math programs, Campbell has been addressing with great success and reputation the ‘M’ and ‘S’ components of STEM, but not the ‘T’ or ‘E’ segments,” said Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Mark Hammond.

“Engineering will allow the University to diversify its academic offerings while at the same time attract bright students who are

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certain to enhance our campus community.”

According to a recent study by the Higher Education Research Institution, 38 percent of all college freshmen in the U.S. studied or were planning to study science or engineering in 2010. Eleven percent of those freshmen majored in engineering.

Early projections for Campbell’s program have about 50 students enrolled in engineering in the fall of 2016, with 60 new students the following year and 104 new students by the year 2020. The number of cumulative students by that time should reach 220-plus, figuring in a 65-percent retention rate and approximately 40 students graduating each year starting in May 2020.

According to Hammond, possible concentrations in Campbell’s engineering program will be related to the University’s ever-growing health sciences programs.

“Possible fields include bioprocessing and biomedical engineering, given that outstanding programs related to these concentrations already exist in the College of Arts & Science, the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences and the School of Osteopathic Medicine,” he said.

the University published a 20-page report to pitch the program. Among the benefits of the program, the report listed: • Attracting students with higher-thanaverage math and analytical skills • Providing an academic program that will provide new career opportunities for students • Strengthening existing programs in the College of Arts & Sciences, particularly in math and physics • Attracting more out-of-state students interested in attending a private, faith-based institution • Creating another program that will help fill a need in the nation’s workforce (while 50 to 80 percent of job growth in the U.S. is dependent on scientists and engineers, just 2.7 percent of all engineers in the U.S. live and work in North Carolina.

The report also states that the unemployment rate for engineers was just 2 percent in 2012.

“Engineers are creative thinkers and problem solvers,” Hammond said. “They are an invaluable resource that collectively impact every aspect of our lives.”

In its presentation to the Board of Trustees,

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Campbell’s ROTC honors and its recent ‘Military Friendly’ and ‘Best for Vets’ accolades have made it an attractive destination for future officers and veterans from all over the U.S. Its strong reputation with the military wasn’t built in a day.

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« « « « « Critical Thinking: The deliberate process of thought whose purpose is to discern truth in situations where direct observation is insufficient, impossible or impractical. It involves careful consideration of information, premises, goals and proposed solutions. It has purpose, follows reason and is directed by goals.

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dward Pethan was sent to Germany shortly after his graduation from Campbell University and his commissioning ceremony with the University’s ROTC program in 1989 to learn about the Fulda Gap and how the Russian Army could potentially use it to invade West Berlin. Pethan arrived just months before the first bricks of the Berlin Wall were chipped away, marking the beginning of the end of the 41-year Cold War. Everything he had prepared for as a student and now a newly commissioned U.S. Army second lieutenant was coming down with the wall.

Less than a year later, Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait. Pethan soon found himself wearing a new color of camouflage, fighting in the largest armored battle since World War II. “I can’t say that I predicted back in ’89 that in a year, I’d be fighting an armored tank war in a Middle Eastern desert,” Pethan says. “It wasn’t even on my radar screen.”

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Almost 25 years after graduating, Lt. Col. Pethan finds himself the interim professor of military science for his alma mater’s nationally respected ROTC program. As the PMS, Pethan heads not only Camel Company, but the entire Campbell Battalion, which includes Fayetteville State, Methodist and UNC-Pembroke universities.

And for his most recent final exam essay, Pethan is asking his students where they think their generation — a generation that was in grade school during the Sept. 11, 2001, and has grown up with the war on terrorism — will fight next, and why they think so.

“I asked them this because I want them to learn how to think critically,” says Pethan. “I never thought I’d fight in the desert. I never thought that 10 years later, terrorists would take our commercial airplanes and fly them into buildings. So I’m asking our future officers today, ‘What’s going to be your 9-11? Your Desert Storm?’”

“It’s one thing to be proficient in your weapons and battle drills and to rehearse them over and over again,” he adds. “But we’re in the business of teaching young leaders how to think — not ‘what’ to think.”

It’s been the program’s approach since Jan. 28, 1971, the day the late Campbell President Norman A. Wiggins chartered Campbell ROTC with the belief that having a military presence on campus would provide “drive and inspiration” to all students on campus. Today, Campbell ROTC commissions more officers than any other civilian school in the nation and is considered one of the top programs in the Army.

And the 2013-14 academic year has brought in even more accolades. Campbell University was named to the coveted Military Friendly Schools list by Victory Media, which honors the Top 20 percent of schools in the country that are “doing the most to embrace U.S. military service members, veterans and spouses as

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students and ensure their success on campus.”

The Military Times made Campbell the only private university in North Carolina to make its “Best for Vets 2014” list, which takes into account enrollment numbers, GI Bill tuition and other factors that make it easier for veterans to enroll.

It’s a point of pride for Pethan, who became only the second Campbell graduate to assume the role of PMS at the school. Looking up at his white board of student names and their GPAs, he smiles.

“Hundreds of thousands of students in the United States go to college every day,” he says.

Very few of them go to college to one day raise their right hand and swear an oath to the U.S. Constitution as an officer in the Army. Look at the caliber of students we have [Pethan points to his white board and starts reading off GPAs] 4.0, 3.6, 4.0, 4.0, 3.8, 3.9. These are just my seniors. And they’re phenomenal kids. The best part of this job is the ability to take these 57 seniors and coach them, teach them and mentor them. I wish I could do this forever.”

THE ROTC The idea for the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps began in the second year of the Civil War, 1862. The corps were part of the government’s requirement for new land-grant colleges, which had to focus on teaching agriculture, science, engineering and military science at the time.

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ROTC officers today serve all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, and in 2010, they constituted a third of all active duty officers in the military. ROTC programs are located in both military and civilian universities and colleges and in military junior colleges.

ROTC is voluntary for students in civilian schools and, with few exceptions, required for students in military senior institutions and junior colleges.

“Here, they instill discipline. They expect a lot more from you.

They teach you how to be an officer. You don’t come here to just follow instructions and get by. You don’t just come here to meet certain standards. You come here to think and to learn how to exceed those standards. It’s the real Army here.

It’s not a joke.”

ROTC is one of four ways to receive an appointment as a United States Army Officer. Graduates become second lieutenants upon commissioning and become platoon leaders in their respective fields. According to Lt. Col. Edward Pethan, Campbell’s interim professor of military science, new officers are in charge of anywhere between 10 and 50 soldiers to start.

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“They serve with regards to their job title,” he says. “They may be an infantry platoon leader of an information technology department. Just about every civilian job that is offered in the U.S. is represented in the military as well.”

— CAMPBELL JUNIOR, ROTC STUDENT NATALI JUAREZ

rett McCreight was a fresh-from-highschool college freshman when he joined Campbell’s ROTC program in 1993.

The product of a military family, McCreight grew up near Fort Bragg and chose Campbell because of its proximity and the ROTC program’s reputation.

That reputation was highlighted by the school’s ability to attract experienced soldiers who desired continuing their education or getting commissioned to improve their rank. At 18, McCreight shared classrooms with soldiers in

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their mid-20s … men who’d served in Panama and in Iraq for Operation Desert Storm. Their experience, their stories and their advice were just as important to McCreight’s education as the stuff taught in the classroom.

“Those former soldiers served as peer leaders,” says McCreight, now the secretary of general staff for the commanding general of the Army’s 29th Infantry Division. “Their knowledge is invaluable to me. They set the standard for the department. They were the strength of the program.”

With each promotion and move up in rank, officers assume more responsibility and more soldiers.

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“I was never more challenged — physically or mentally — than I was while a student at Campbell. Not even during active duty,” says McCreight, who helped start the Camel Company Alumni Scholarship Fund in 2011.

“Even then, Campbell had very high standards for performance and professionalism in its ROTC program. I taught ROTC at another university a few years ago, and the standards we had at Campbell for planning, organization and training were higher back in the early 90s than they were at this school. That’s something I hope remains true today at Campbell.”

McCreight wouldn’t be disappointed. In addition to its recent Military Friendly and Best for Vets accolades, Campbell University is annually ranked in the Top 15 percent of the nation’s ROTC programs. In 2012, Campbell had eight cadets place in the Top 10 percent of nationally ranked ROTC seniors, more than any other civilian school in the nation.

Then-senior John LeBaube ranked second individually (out of 5,500 cadets in the U.S.) in the order-of-merit rankings, which combines GPA, fitness test performance and performance in ROTC training. His achievement was only topped by Perera and Yancy Baer, who was the top ROTC graduates in the U.S. (and winner

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He remembers Lt. Col. Robert Griggs, a Panama veteran who exemplified what combat arms leadership was all about. He “walked the walk and talked the talk,” McCreight says, and was just as smart as he was physically accomplished. He also remembers Desert Storm veteran Kevin Perera, the leader of their Ranger Challenge team. Physical, intellectual, charismatic … leadership qualities McCreight remembers vividly 20 years later.

of the Pentagon’s Hughes Trophy) in 1996 and 2001 respectively.

Campbell grads have also won seven of the past 10 Gen. Maxwell D. Thurman Awards, given each year to the state’s top ROTC grad. And the list of accolades doesn’t stop there.

Campbell Battalion has commissioned new lieutenants into the Army’s ranks every year since 1973. Many of those graduates have fought in wars. Some have died serving their country.

Almost as valuable as the training it has provided, Campbell ROTC has created lasting memories for its graduates.

“My wife and I, neither of us remember much about high school except maybe the prom or other events, but we both vividly remember our college experience,” says Glenn Hedrick IV, a 2005 Campbell graduate and former Blackhawk helicopter pilot during the war in Afghanistan. “It was a phenomenal growing experience for me. I made most of the friends

I have today there, and I benefited from the smaller classes and the one-on-one time with my instructors. It was both a great educational and military experience for me.”

For Pethan, taking part in the annual Ranger Challenge — a regional and national competition between ROTC programs that tests knowledge, skill and physical fitness — was his biggest thrill while at Campbell. He says that as much as anything helped shape the kind of person and leader he would become.

“In my high school athletic career — whether it was track, football or wrestling — our teams were always average. At [the Ranger Challenge], we went out and performed at a high level and won a very prestigious competition,” Pethan says, pointing to the large framed photo of him and his Challenge teammates on his office wall. “And it was a big deal. It taught me a lot about myself — what I had to do physically and mentally to succeed in a very demanding competition. Still today, it’s the fondest memory I have of this ROTC.”

MILITARY CAMPUSES Fort Bragg/Pope Field

Since 1976, Campbell has had a home at Fort Bragg, today the largest Army base in the country. The campus serves both the Fort Bragg and Pope Field communities as well as the surrounding civilian population. Fort Bragg is home to the U.S. Army airborne forces and Special Forces, as well as the U.S. Army Forces Command and U.S. Army Reserve Command.

While Campbell’s main campus in Buies Creek houses its ROTC program and is home to many current military servicemen and women and veterans, there are two Campbell campuses located on military bases in North Carolina as well. Both campuses offer eight-week evening and online courses to support Campbell’s accelerated degree options.

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Camp Lejeune The Marine Corps Camp Lejeune campus is located near Jacksonville along the Atlantic coast.

Established in 1987, the original location of this campus site was MCAS New River, but later expanded to the current site aboard MCB Camp Lejeune. Campbell University is one of seven universities with an instructional presence on base and only one of three universities offering undergraduate degree programs.

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« « « « « “The obligations of citizenship are constantly under re-examination. The issues of citizenship and democracy are greatly intensified on our college and university campuses. It is only right that such issues be closely examined and debated here. The ROTC program offers such an opportunity.”

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egend has it Wiggins was driving to Buies Creek on a hot June day in 1967, listening to the radio when a news alert interrupted his music — Egypt and Israel have gone to war. Two days later, a U.S. vessel just outside of Egypt’s waters is attacked by Israeli jets and boats, killing 34 and injuring 171 sailors.

The U.S. was already heavily involved in the Vietnam War, an unpopular war on the homeland that led many universities and colleges to dissolve their ROTC programs out of fear of clashes between civilian students and the military.

Wiggins thought differently, however. He believed Campbell, already close in proximity to one of the nation’s largest Army bases at Fort Bragg, needed a military presence more than ever to inspire a sense of patriotism and drive in all students. He turned to Lt. Col. Richard Meyer, a Vietnam veteran, to launch

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an ROTC program in Buies Creek. And on Jan. 28, 1971, Campbell’s unit was made official under General Order No. 4, Third United States Army. At the time, Campbell was the only college in the Southeast to offer a major in military science.

Two years later, Campbell College commissioned its first officer, Second Lt. Darryl Reardon. It added Methodist College to its battalion in 1976, and in 1977, Campbell’s first woman was commissioned, Second Lt. Diane Fuller.

After his retirement as president, Wiggins became the program’s 1,000th commissioned officer in 2005 [an honorary commission for his “unwavering support”]. Today, Campbell Battalion consists of more than 250 cadets, about 100 of them in Buies Creek.

But Campbell’s military presence goes well beyond its ROTC program. Whether it’s through main campus, online education or one

of Campbell’s three satellite campuses (Fort Bragg/Pope, Camp Lejeune and the Research Triangle Park), more than 700 veterans or current military personnel are enrolled at Campbell University.

Campbell’s Military Friendly and Best for Vets status is attributed to the services the university provides to those in the military wishing to further their education. Each campus has a separate veterans affairs certifying official who acts as the liaison between veteran students and the Deptartment of Veterans Affairs. These officials are tasked with explaining benefits, providing guidance on procedural requirements and helping with registration and enrollment.

Campbell is part of the Yellow Ribbon program, which allows it to help fund tuition and fee expenses for veterans. It also provides tuition assistance and scholarships to active duty, National Guard, Reserve or veterans. That assistance pays up to $250 per credit hour.

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The university is also known in military circles for its willingness to help veterans take previous college credits or even training and transfer that toward a degree at Campbell.

“When they come to Campbell, they’re greeted by friendly faces who want to help them and want to make the process as easy as possible,” says Maj. Chris Psaltis, Campbell’s recruiting operations officer. “I can’t count how many times a soldier came back to me and said, ‘Sir, you were right. They took care of me, and they helped me every step along the way.’ We’ve heard stories of other schools who wouldn’t even return phone calls to get a proper evaluation done. Our faculty and staff seem to bend over backwards to accommodate these soldiers.”

MSgt. Matthew Gooch, a 34-year-old Campbell ROTC junior and Iraq veteran, said he applied to George Washington, Appalachian State, Clemson and other schools a few years back when he decided to pursue a degree in health science. He was already close to a different degree at Western Carolina before opting for a different route, and he found that “it wasn’t even close” when it came to the assistance and credit transfers that Campbell offered.

“The way everyone went out of their way to streamline my credits and apply them toward the degree I wanted — it was a huge help,” Gooch says. “Why is Campbell ‘military friendly?’ It’s the way they make continuing your education so easy.”

Pethan says “military friendly” starts with one person — current Campbell President Jerry Wallace.

“He embraces the relationship this school has with Fort Bragg,” Pethan says. “He understands the importance of the student veteran population of this university and our satellite programs. He understands that if we are a military friendly organization, veterans will flock here. And they do. It all starts with the front office and the senior leadership of this school. Their support and the way they’ve embraced the military has made this program what it is today.”

DISTINGUISHED ROTC GRADS Lt. Gen. Susan Lawrence The Army announced Lt. Gen. Susan S. Lawrence's (’79) appointment as the Army Chief Information Officer/G-6 back in 2011, making her the first woman in Army history to hold the position. She was also the second female three-star general serving on active duty at the time, and the fourth woman to be promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in the Army.

In October 2013, Lawrence retired from the military after 41 years of service. In her farewell message, she wrote, “I am extremely proud to have served with every soldier, civilian and contractor who collectively make up the CIO/G6. I’m equally proud of what we have accomplished and the promise of achievements yet to come.”

Originally from Ida Grove, Iowa, Lawrence enlisted in the Army in 1972, and received her bachelor’s degree and commission as a second lieutenant from Campbell ROTC in June 1979. She also holds a master's degree in information systems management from the University of Georgia.

Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Bannister Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Bannister (’84) has been in high demand in recent years.

In 2013, he was promoted to the rank of major general and deputy chief of staff for the International Security Assistance Force for Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Two years earlier, the then-brigadier general took over the Army’s Central Command in Tampa, Fla. And in 2009, he was promoted to 10th Mountain Division Assistant Division Commander for Operations at Fort Drum, N.Y. Before that, Bannister served in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan and in several battalion and brigade leadership positions within the Army.

“I joined the Army because I had a brother that was in, and I kind of wanted to be a paratrooper like him. I wanted adventure,” Bannister said back in 2009. “I've worked hard, but I've always enjoyed it. And I always said as long as I enjoy it, I'll continue to serve.”

His military career began in Buies Creek, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He went on to earn a masters in national security strategy from the National War College. He was named a distinguished alumnus of Campbell in 2009.

Lt. Col. Scott Rutter It was Lt. Col. Scott E. Rutter’s (’83) unit, which assaulted the Iraqi Special Republican Guard and secured the Baghdad International Airport in Operation Iraqi Freedom. For this daring maneuver, his unit was broadly recognized, and Rutter was decorated with the Silver Star for his brilliant and deadly action.

Rutter retired from the Army after serving over 20 years in Air Assault, Light and Mechanized assignments in the desert, the Pacific and in the U.S. He served several years overseas and has deployed operationally to Saudi Arabia, Korea, Kuwait and Iraq. He has also served as a senior intelligence officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency.

In 2006, Rutter founded the Valor Network, created to attract and retain the highest quality medical and consulting professionals and provide them with dynamic opportunities to work

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A big part of what makes Campbell’s ROTC program a success is the students. Campbell Magazine profiled five cadets this spring — from young, fresh-out-of-high-school students to seasoned war veterans.

Their stories are as diverse as the program itself.

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e’s been a salvage diver. A military freefall instructor. A Ranger. A Sapper. A medical sergeant. He’s been deployed three times to Iraq, the last two as a Green Beret. Today, after 15 years of service, Matthew Gooch has a new role in the U.S. Army.

Student.

At 34, Gooch is one of the older members of Campbell University’s nationally acclaimed ROTC program. The junior is working on a degree in health sciences and hopes to pursue a career in the medical field upon graduation … which won’t come too long before the age Gooch can officially retire. Not that “retirement” is in his plans.

“I won’t have to wonder what I’m going to do after the military,” he says with a smile. “It’s taken me 15 years, but I know what I want now.

And this is the best route.”

This route isn’t uncommon for ROTC students at Campbell University. Because of the school’s proximity to the nation’s largest Army base, Fort Bragg, many Campbell students have prior military experience before joining the program.

That pool of experience is used as a recruiting tool for younger students because of the builtin mentors they’re provided. But few in the program can match Gooch’s military resume,

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which almost made him too qualified for ROTC, he says.

“I became a master sergeant E-8 in 12 years, and getting that rank so quickly almost closed the door for me here,” he says. “I’m too old, have too much rank and spent too much time in the service. Those were three pretty big things stacked against me.”

But Gooch ran the idea up his chain of command, which overrode the “nos” and OK’d his decision to pursue his education on the Army’s time. Now, instead of retiring in about 10 years, Gooch is starting over. And the Campbell ROTC program is getting a seasoned veteran who loves the role of “mentor” for the University’s younger cadets.

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wouldn’t be nearly as comical, he thinks.

“My first year in Iraq, we got rocketed just about every Tuesday and Wednesday night,” he says. “You could set your watch to it. It tore up buildings, blew up trucks … those next mornings, you just go out and see what you had to fix.”

Gooch has shared these experiences with his fellow cadets, many of whom offer him as much respect and hold him in as high esteem as the program’s professors and officers. And Gooch has earned it.

During that first deployment in Iraq, he worked as a salvage diver — going underwater in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to pull out weapons and conduct body searches. “I pulled a lot of soldiers from the water,” he recalls. “I’ve seen a lot of death.”

He calls the story “comical” and even laughs while telling it. Gooch is in Iraq, working out of a little clinic near a series of trailers (“little cities,” he calls them) on his base. He hears an explosion, followed by the on-base alarm for incoming rockets — part of the comedy in his tale, he says. As he hears more incoming and return fire, Gooch darts out of the clinic into an open area and heads for a bunker. The ground shakes with each explosion — and in that moment of despair, Gooch realizes he deserves a “genius award” for leaving a relatively safe clinical building to run across a much less protected open area to reach his bunker.

His second and third visits to Iraq were with the Army’s Special Forces, known widely as the Green Berets, a group tasked with unconventional warfare and counter-terrorism, among other duties. In this role, Gooch helped train Iraqi nationals to fight and took part in several missions, including enemy searches, cache recovery and improving and rebuilding the infrastructure of areas hit hard by the war.

After the rocket attack, he realizes he was in the right place at the right time. Had he been 100 meters away when the rockets struck, this

“Being out of school for 15 years, I benefit on the academics side from these younger students,” he says. “The ROTC program purposely aligns

Gooch embraces the role of mentor and “seasoned vet” in ROTC, but says younger students offer him something in return — advice on how to be a student again.

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upperclassmen with younger students, and the program at Campbell is full of Special Forces veterans, Rangers and others who have a wealth of experience and qualifications. It’s a huge part of what makes this program a success.”

Gooch credits his wife (his role model), a lawyer and William & Mary graduate, for his decision to become a student again and pursue a career after the military. When he graduates, he’ll become a commissioned officer, which includes more responsibility than that of a noncommissioned officer, even one as highly ranked as him. The father of two children — ages 3 and 4 — Gooch’s biggest challenge today is juggling his family life with 18-hour semesters. Despite being a self-proclaimed “average student,” he made the Dean’s List last fall, benefiting from a stringent work ethic he developed over the past 15 years. He says he’s happy with the choices he’s made, and he’s excited about his future.

“My grandfathers and brothers were all in the military, and my initial goal was to just be your average guy who goes for a few years, gets his college money and runs,” he says. “But I fell in love with it. I’ve had so many jobs and so many experiences. I don’t know of any other career where you can have that much diversity.”

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ESCAPE FROM L.A.

NATALI JUAREZ, 27 Junior from Los Angeles, Calif. _____________________________

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outh Central Los Angeles is a long way from Buies Creek. And Natali Juarez has come a long way since growing up there.

The 27-year-old Campbell University junior is well on her way to graduating in 2015 and entering the Army's physician assistant program to pursue a career in the medical field. It's a far cry from where she was 10 year ago — a teen searching for her identity, working full-time in a donut shop to support her family while going to school, and dealing with a brother involved in drugs and gangs while doing everything she could to avoid that lifestyle.

“It's easy to fall into that kind of life,” says Juarez. “The gang my brother was in, I knew they'd take care of me. I had the mentality that no one could touch me as long as they watched over me. But I never liked seeing people get hurt. I couldn't live with watching

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someone have something taken from them from someone with no remorse or no regret.”

Juarez witnessed violence too often. Twice, her brother's car was shot at while she was a passenger (neither were hurt both times). And once, her brother asked if she would drop off a bag full of drugs a few blocks away for $100.

She refused. And not long after, she got serious about finding a way out. That escape came in the form of an after-school work program and a dentist in West Los Angeles who would change Juarez's life.

“I was a very efficient assistant and very eager to learn, and she loved that,” Juarez says. “She says she never had somebody as determined as I was. Other students who worked for her in the past took what they had for granted, but for me ... this was my only way to succeed in life. It was the only thing I had going for me.”

Juarez started out part time and dropped out of high school to work full time to eventually earn her certificate as a dental assistant. Her boss not only taught her to speak fluent English and helped her earn her GED, she also offered to put Juarez through her first year of college.

“That's when reality set in,” she says. “I knew I couldn't focus on work, get good grades in college and support my family at the same time. That's when I began looking at the Army.”

««« Free college. Previous school loans taken care of. Solid health insurance and other benefits.

Job security. A chance to travel the world and, more importantly, get out of Los Angeles.

The Army looked more and more attractive to Juarez after her first meeting with the recruiter. After deciding to join, she told her boss and mentor the news, and the news wasn’t well received.

“She was disappointed … disappointed that I would give dentistry up,” Juarez says. “But I told her she wasn’t seeing everything else I was dealing with at the time — providing for my family, living where I lived, making what I made and trying to find a place to rent in Los Angeles. That life wasn’t going to cut it. So I did it. I joined the Army.”

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her 22nd birthday in South Carolina — a true culture shock for someone who’d spent their life in the rough parts of L.A. But she embraced the new scenery, and above all else, loved meeting other trainees from all over the world.

“Women from New York, Boston, Texas … they were from everywhere,” Juarez says.

“I considered myself somewhat of a ‘thug,’ and they were the opposite. They were more civilized, I guess. And I knew I wanted to be more like them.”

It wasn’t easy at first. Today, Juarez is one of the more quick-witted and energetic members of Campbell’s ROTC program; but just five years ago, she couldn’t fully drop the “attitude” she’d developed growing up.

Physically, she was prepared for basic training.

But mentally … that was a different story.

“I wasn’t suited to follow orders,” she says with a laugh. “I guess I had an attitude problem … a quick mouth and a quick temper. I began to realize I had to control my anger and begin to value everyone. Before the Army, Hispanics and African Americans, to me, were thugs. Then suddenly, I was in a completely different part of the world, and I was meeting Hispanic doctors, African American professors and instructors and so on. It’s sad that it took me 22 years to realize all of this. I know it wasn’t my fault, because of where I was raised. The Army changed the way I viewed others and myself.”

After basic, Juarez was assigned to Fort Bragg as an ammunitions specialist. She leaned on her experience in dentistry and was able to change her MOS (enlisted job) to dental assistant. In 2009, Juarez was deployed for 10 months to Iraq, where she did teeth cleanings for her brigade and Iraqi civilians and soldiers.

She also taught basic hygiene courses and taught several Iraqis the proper way to brush and floss.

After her deployment, Juarez returned to Fort Bragg, where she began taking night classes at Campbell’s campus there. She began her junior year — her first in Buies Creek — last fall. So far, Juarez has fallen in love with a school that represents a complete 180 from the atmosphere she grew up in.

“I love how calm it is here, how quiet and how private it can be,” she says. “I knew I needed to be in a place with few distractions.

And I like that it’s close to Raleigh and other cities, but not right next to it. I like this. It’s perfect for me.”

After Campbell, Juarez wants to apply for the Army’s physician assistant program. As a commissioned second lieutenant, she’ll be able to attend PA school and still be paid as an active duty officer. After that, she’s ready to go wherever the Army takes her.

“I want to retire in the military,” says Juarez, who’s still supporting her family back home with regular checks. “I’ll work until they kick me out. There’s security here. There’s structure. There’s discipline. And most important, it’s a challenge for me. Not long ago, I saw myself working at a donut shop for the rest of my life. Now I can do whatever I want — the Army is giving me the opportunity to challenge myself.”

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THE RIGHT TEAM

TOMI KING, 21 Senior from Fayetteville _____________________________

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rom elementary school through high school, sports were Tomi King’s life.

Football, basketball, soccer, track, baseball … you name a sport, King played it — and was good at it. In fact, sports was the catalyst for his success in academics. His father made it clear that there would be no sports if King’s grades suffered.

His grades didn’t suffer. King excelled in the classroom (the only “C” that was allowed was in math, but even that was rare). And when it came time to look at colleges, he had several to choose from. He also had to decide whether or not sports would play a factor in his decision.

“I was focused on it so much in high school that I never seriously considered what I wanted to do later in life, career-wise,” says King. “I looked at smaller schools where I would have a chance to play, but I started listening to my parents, and their advice was to focus on education. That would give me the best opportunity to grow and be successful.”

Also tossed in for King’s consideration was

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ROTC. His father was in the military for 20 years before retiring, and he told his son that ROTC was a solid way to not only earn a scholarship, but help guide him toward whatever career he wanted.

It didn’t take much to convince King.

“Out of my entire family, my father is the most successful person I know,” he says. “I grew up in a military family, and I always equated the military with success. I didn’t know many other things I could do in life to be as successful as my father. So I’d always considered it, but up until it was time to choose a college, I didn’t know a lot about it.”

The Grays Creek High School graduate considered Wake Forest (his father’s alma mater) and Winston-Salem State, in addition to Campbell, but after his interview with Maj. Chris Psaltis, Campbell’s chief recruiting officer, King was leaning toward Buies Creek.

For someone who’d spent his life as a part of a sports program, King liked the team dynamic of Campbell’s ROTC program.

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“I love being a part of a team, and I’ve learned the Army is the kind of team I was looking for,” King says. “It’s like a tight fraternity — the people I see every day here have become like family to me. Throughout all of our training, air assault school, different camps, all the classes, we’ve become tight. You spend four years living together, eating together, working together and training together, you develop a tight bond. I love that about the military.”

They help you to not take your training for granted. It’s great insight, and it’s humbling to learn from them.”

Like others who joined the program straight out of college, King has forged valuable friendships with other cadets with prior military service, many of whom served overseas in the Middle East before coming to Campbell. New cadets are accepted with open arms, King says, and the experienced soldiers are quick and eager to serve as mentors and talk about their deployments or what it takes to succeed in the military.

This summer, he’ll move to Jacksonville, Fla., where he’ll become an Army Reserves officer.

Army Reserves requires a two-week obligation each year for training and further obligations in time of war or national emergency. While in Jacksonville, King will apply for work in federal law enforcement. His degree, ROTC experience, military background and recent internship for his father (now a contractor who works under Homeland Security in the private sector) make him confident he’ll find work early on.

“They don’t look at this as just the Army. It’s their Army,” King says. “They harp on paying attention to the details. Even the little things can be the difference between life and death.

King is set to graduate in May with a degree in homeland security. The new program — which was just a concentration when King began college — graduated its first students last fall, and King will be among the first to enter the “real world” with such a degree from Campbell in hand.

“My dad once told me he thinks everyone should join the military,” King says. “He

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knows about the opportunities it opens up for you. He knows it gives you structure.

Sometimes, that’s just what people need to succeed.”

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A DIFFERENT ROUTE CIERRA LIVECCHI, 22

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bsolutely not. You guys are insane.” This was Cierra Livecchi’s reaction to her father’s suggestion that she join the military after high school.

The daughter of parents who met in the Air Force, Livecchi has family who served in every branch of the military, spanning generations.

It wasn’t that she completely hated the idea of following in their footsteps, it’s just that she wanted to go a different route in her life, she says. But in the months following her high school graduation (before enrolling into the local community college), Livecchi reconsidered her father’s suggestion.

“I’m a spur-of-the-moment type of person, and after I agreed to talk to an Army recruiter, I thought, ‘What’s it going to hurt if I join?’” she says. “As quick as that, I enlisted and was on my way to basic training in Fort Sill, Okla. I look back now, and I’m not sure why I was ever opposed to it.”

That journey that began in February 2010 eventually led Livecchi to airborne school, where she learned to jump from planes at 1,500 feet and land safely in a combat zone. It led her to Fort Bragg, where she began training as a psychological operations officer, whose duty is to induce or reinforce behavior in other countries favorable to U.S. objectives. The training required her to take a foreign language, so Livecchi was put through a crash course in French.

Before long, she was sent to Germany to become part of a team that oversaw interagency operations with U.S. teams in Africa. In her nine months in Germany, Livecchi found herself working in the same buildings with high-ranking officials from the Departments of Defense and State. The experience sparked something in her, she

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says, and gave her an idea of what she wanted to do for the rest of her life.

“I was so interested in just about everything going on there,” she says. “I was fascinated seeing the way these agencies worked together and watching colonels and lieutenant colonels on a daily basis. I loved my time there, in the sense that I learned a lot.”

After her deployment, which included a short stay in Qatar, Livecchi decided to pursue college and looked into the Army’s Green to Gold program. After an honorable discharge, she looked at colleges with the idea that after graduation, she would re-enlist as an active duty officer or a reserve officer.

She chose Campbell — like many cadets who choose Campbell — because of her back-and-forth with recruiting officer Maj. Chris Psaltis, who told her about the school’s benefits and the ROTC program’s national rankings.

“I loved the small student-to-teacher ratio,” she says. “Once I started back, I’d forgotten how much I love going to school and learning. I’m so thankful I chose to come here.”

Last December, her decision to come to Campbell paid off in another way. Livecchi was among a handful of students who attended a speech and Q&A session from U.S. diplomat Julie Ruterbories, a foreign services officer with 20-plus years in the U.S. State Department. That day, Livecchi sat and listened to Ruterbories talk about her time in Azerbaijan in the mid-90s and her consular tours in London, Macedonia and Kosovo.

Ruterbories provided inside tips about how to become a foreign services officer, what to expect in the application process, what career paths are available and more.

The experiences reminded Livecchi of her short time in Germany and confirmed her career goals of working for the State Department and traveling the world.

“It made me even more excited to achieve those goals,” Livecchi says of that December day. “I know it’s going to be hard to get in, but I’m the kind of person that when I want something, 95 percent of the time I’m going to get it. I know it will be a lot of work, but I fully believe I’m prepared for whatever it takes.”

That attitude is a far cry from the high school senior who thought the idea of joining the Army was insane. Today, her family of veterans and retired military are proud of her decision to join and the person she’s become.

“What parent wouldn’t be proud of their kid for taking on this kind of commitment and on top of that, going to a private university and getting a great education?” Livecchi says.

“I know it, and they see it. Since joining the military, I’ve thrived and grown as a person immensely.”

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CALEB ROWELL, 20 Sophomore from Hope Mills _____________________________

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his is where Caleb Rowell belongs.

The son of a man who served 21 years in the Air Force and grandson of a former Army pilot, Rowell’s lineage includes six generations who have served in the military. Born in Missouri, he’s lived on Air Force bases in California, Florida and Germany. When he was still young, Rowell and his family moved to Hope Mills, N.C., located a stone’s throw from the nation’s largest Army base. And not far from that base sits one of the nation’s top universities for military personnel and veterans.

This is where Caleb Rowell belongs.

“My dream was always West Point, which I received nominations for, but ultimately didn’t get in on my first try,” says Rowell.

“But I looked into Campbell and really liked what its ROTC program had to offer. I saw that it produces more Army officers than any other college with the exception of military academies. I thought I’d come here and maybe try for West Point again the next year, but after two weeks, I said, ‘I’m gonna stay.’”

“I like it here,” he adds. “The cadre knows their stuff. Everything about this place is awesome.”

In an ROTC program that includes its fair share of prior-service military and war veterans, Rowell — a recent high school graduate — is a pup. But he’s spent his whole life learning from men who’ve served in

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times of war, so Rowell says he appreciates the opportunity to learn from those with experience.

A WEEK IN THE LIFE Think a student with 15 hours of classes has it rough? Try taking on 15 hours, formations before the sun rises and a physical training regimen only a football or lacrosse player could appreciate. Sophomore Caleb Rowell shared what a typical week for a Campbell ROTC student looks like with Campbell Magazine:

Physical Training Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, ROTC students participate in strenuous physical training programs to prepare for the twice-a-year physical fitness test. A part of that training is AGRs, or “ability group runs,” which are about two miles in length with fellow students who run close to their same pace. There’s also muscular endurance training, which includes push-ups, situps, arm claps and “burpees,” which are like squat thrusts. Cardio training includes running sprints, running up and downhill and doing lunges. And finally, there’s pool training, which includes swimming laps in Campbell’s aquatics center.

The physical fitness test also includes weight requirements in conjunction with a cadet’s height. “If you fail any event or any part of the test,” says Rowell, “you fail the test.”

Formation Physical training days (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) begin with formation. Cadets are required to be in line at 0550 (5:50 a.m. to you civilians) standing at attention. The cadets then go through a series of stretches and exercises to prepare for the physical training. According to Rowell, MS2s (sophomores) are in charge of two to three MS1s (freshmen), and if their MS1 is late for formation, the MS2 is responsible.

“If my guy is not there, I have to find out why,” says Rowell, currently an MS2. “MS3s, or squad leaders, report to the platoon sergeant, who then reports to an MS4 or an MS3 first sergeant.”

The cadets are in uniform on physical training days and usually remain in uniform for other classes, especially if they don’t have a break in between. The exception is Thursday (lab day), where the uniform is required all day.

ROTC Classes ROTC curriculum is divided into two distinct courses: Basic and Advanced.

The Basic course is comprised of freshmen and sophomores and does not require any military obligation. The courses, taught by Capt. Lauren Shaw, cover topics such as Army organization, military traditions, basic leadership skills, decision making processes, map reading, intro to small unit tactics and basic soldier skills.

Advanced courses are junior- and senior-level classes and require students to commit to a military obligation. Once enrolled, the students participate in academic classes and leadership labs each semester and attend a 30-day Leadership Development Assessment Course in Ft. Lewis, Wash., during the summer of their junior and senior years. Students must carry at least a 2.5 GPA, reach a certain level on the fitness test and successfully pass a Department of Defense Medical Evaluation Review to make it to the Advanced level.

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“You learn from these guys, just like you do from professors. They have the experience, and you don’t,” Rowell says. “There’s medical service guys, infantry guys, law guys … we have a little bit of everything here. But that’s the way the Army is set up, too.”

The icing on the cake for Rowell — the Campbell incentive that really tells him he’s chosen the right school — actually comes from the university’s criminal justice department and not the ROTC program.

In 2010, shortly before Rowell’s arrival in Buies Creek, Campbell launched a new homeland security concentration, and in the fall of 2013 (the start of Rowell’s sophomore year), Campbell became the first university in the state to offer homeland security as an undergraduate degree.

“This degree, on top of becoming a commissioned officer in the Army, will give me a heads up when it comes time to compete for jobs after graduation,” Rowell says. “I want to do something along security lines, and with this degree, I can work for state level or federal level agencies.”

In ROTC, he’s learning from men and women with experience, and homeland security is no different. The program is led by David Gray, a retired Air Force officer who spent a career working for several government agencies — including the CIA — before his career took a dramatic turn on Sept. 11, 2001.

He’s since completed assignments for the departments of Defense, Energy, Security, Justice, State and Homeland Security, and prior to coming to Campbell, Gray taught homeland security and terrorism courses at several schools, including UNC-Chapel Hill.

Rowell will take courses on national and international security, emergency preparedness and response, terrorism, intelligence and more. All of them are subjects that fascinate him.

This is where Caleb Rowell belongs.

“I knew what I wanted to do as soon as I got here, and today, I’m glad I ended up at Campbell University rather than West Point,” he says. “I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”

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Long before Campbell introduced ROTC on its campus, its young men fought and died in several wars. Keith Finch ('41), now in his 90s, is one of a dwindling number of World War II veterans still around to tell their tales. Finch showed farm boys how to become fighter pilots during the war, and didn't escape without a few brushes with death himself.

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“War is Hell.”

— William Tecumseh Sherman, speaking to the graduating class of Michigan Military Academy in June 1879, about 14 years after the end of the Civil War

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ore than 40,000 U.S. fighter pilots and airmen were killed during World War II. Many of them died in combat, while even more were killed in training crashes or operational accidents.

It was more dangerous to learn to fly than to actually fly a mission. Those who flew the required 30 missions had a 71 percent chance of not making it back alive.

posted our new stations, and I was a flight instructor. I about fell over … I just knew I was heading to England to fight. But I shot so well and flew so well, I was picked to be a flight instructor. An advanced flight instructor, actually.”

“The engine quit, and nothing would start up,” Finch recalls. “So I saw a wheat field, had to keep the landing gear up, and flew toward it. The engine caught fire, and that was all around me. I knew this was a problem.”

“Gen. Sherman was right. War is Hell,” says Keith Finch, a 94-year-old WWII pilot and instructor and 1941 graduate of thenCampbell College. “Actually, it’s worse than that,” he adds, his voice trailing off. “It’s much worse.”

Finch thought about bailing from the plane, but he wasn’t much higher in the air than the top of the pine trees, so he stayed in. The impact tore the plane to shreds and shredded Finch’s legs pretty well, too. Otherwise, miraculously, Finch was able to walk away.

You might consider Finch one of the lucky ones. He spent most of the war training the men — many of whom would go from no flight experience to mid-air dogfights with skilled German aces in a matter of months — who had the most dangerous job in the war.

But Finch made his own luck. He was an instructor because he was one of the Army Air Corps’ best. He entered the Air Corps in the summer of 1941 after graduating from Campbell (the Air Force was still six years from existence) and was with his father at the Pinehurst Flight School six months later when he heard about the Japanese attack on the U.S. “My father was with me, and we heard it on the radio,” Finch recalls from his home in Dunn. “He said, ‘Son, where is Pearl Harbor?’

I pointed west and just said, ‘It’s that way.’”

Days later, Finch was preparing for war. He knew heading in he had the flying skills, but he learned early on that he was also a great shot as well.

“I learned from dove hunting with my dad, you always shoot out in front to hit the dove,” Finch says. “I got to gunnery school, and it was the same concept, only the planes are going much faster. On graduation day, they

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He was flying one of those P-40s from an aircraft carrier in Norfolk, Va., to a base in Alabama, when the combat-tested, bulletriddled plane’s engine quit while flying at 10,000 feet near Atlanta. He radioed the nearest tower to tell them he was going down.

Today, it takes over a year, hundreds of hours of flight time and over a thousand hours of ground school to teach a college graduate to fly a fighter plane. In World War II, young men fresh off the farm were put into advanced flying machines and trained to fly them in months. Finch would start with making his students learn every knob, dial and lever in the cockpit of their P-40s. Before they left the ground, they’d have to pass a blindfolded cockpit check.

“I had to convince them the P-40 was safe, whether or not it really was,” Finch says. “I told my men, ‘You might not like to hear this, gentlemen, but I’m going to teach you to kill and not be killed. You have to fly this plane perfectly. You have to shoot these guns perfectly.’ I always thought that was a pretty good line,” he adds with a wink.

Finch’s first brush with death didn’t happen overseas. It happened over Georgia.

He saw action in the war, but war is Hell, and Finch prefers to talk about the men he taught these days. One of them was Hodges … just Hodges. He could fly a plane as well as Finch, and he learned to dogfight by practicing with Finch over U.S. soil. Finch taught him the art of the “tumble,” where a pilot would put the nose straight up into the air, hit a high altitude, then quit flying, letting the plane “flop around, tumble and spin” back down in a spiral dive before cutting the engines back on and flying away — a difficult escape maneuver, to say the least.

“I ran into Hodges a few years later, and I said, ‘What’re you doing here? I heard you were shot down,” Finch says. “Turns out, he was shot and hit, but he did the roll over and drop down, and landed safely in a field. He got out of his plane and walked over toward the Pyrenees.”

Finch heard stories of his pilots flying over marching Germans and “taking off heads, arms and legs.” On D-Day, thousands of fighter planes provided air support for the beach assault in Normandy. Finch says “half of our fighter planes” were destroyed in the Battle of the Bulge.

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“I got gray-headed in one year,” Finch says.

“I couldn’t stand it when one of my boys was killed. Virginia [his late wife] would ask me about it, and I couldn’t talk about it. It’s terrible when you send out 800 B-17s, each with 10-man crews, and only about 30 of them come back.”

The 40s did provide some good memories for Finch, who married the former Virginia Fitchett the October before he went to war [he named his fighter plane “Ginny,” after her]. Finch recalls having to fly planes across country from base to base and once getting to do it over the Grand Canyon. Feeling invincible like any young man in his 20s, Finch flew into the canyon and followed the path of the river — creating a memory that makes him smile to this day. He remembers scaring a friend of his in Lillington by taking his plane from 20,000 feet down to 80 while that friend was on a tractor, minding his work. The fly-by scared the man so much, he jumped from the tractor and took off for the woods.

Word of his stunt reached his father, who raised an eyebrow while picking his son up at Pope Field and told Finch to refrain from doing that again.

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lenn Hedrick IV (’05) looked up to Justin Smith during their time in Campbell University’s ROTC program. Hedrick was 18 and green, Smith was 26 and a veteran who served in the Army’s Special Forces in Iraq.

Both men were at Campbell to get an education and become a commissioned officer in the military. Smith mentored Hedrick and the other younger cadets and eventually became their friend.

Finch was stationed in San Francisco and ready for his orders to fight in the Pacific on the day the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, all but ending the war.

“He was a great friend to us,” Hedrick recalls. “There was a group of five of us, and we hung out all the time. He took us under his wing, and he meant a lot to all of us.”

“They dropped the bomb, and we stayed home,” he says. “That probably saved my life.

Had we kept fighting, we were going to lose a million more men, they told us. It wasn’t looking good.”

Months after Hedrick graduated, Smith was killed while serving in Iraq when a car bomb detonated near his patrol. Smith left behind a wife, an 8-year-old stepson and a 1-year-old son.

After the war, Finch became a successful entrepreneur and businessman with Finch Construction Company and Finch Oil Company. Finch Construction built several dorms at Campbell University, and in 1989, Finch served the first of three non-consecutive terms as a Campbell University trustee. In 1980, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus by the university, and in 2000, he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Campbell.

“He was extremely devoted to his country,” Hedrick says. “One of the most selfless men I ever met. For those of us who knew him and were about to be deployed ourselves, this was the first wakeup call that we could die or our friends could die. But his death motivated us.

His dedication to this country and this military showed us this was something worth fighting and dying for.”

He lost Virginia in 2011. The couple had three children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

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Hedrick would go on to become a helicopter pilot, flying Blackhawks in multiple deployments in Afghanistan, including a stint commanding the only U.S. Army aviation unit in Western Afghanistan. He has also flown security

missions for President George W. Bush.

His first experience was flying several dangerous missions in Kabul, near the Pakistan border. He flew in bombing missions and witnessed a world much different than the one he grew up in in the U.S. “I was 22 at the time, and I saw children with missing limbs, adults screaming for their mother in the back of a helicopter,” Hedrick says. “It was a growth experience for me. I became a man during that first deployment.”

He had a few scares as well. He successfully landed a Blackhawk after an engine fire over Afghanistan once — making it to a safe zone and avoiding having to land it in the middle of enemy territory. The operations center he worked out of was the target of a rocket attack, and avoided being in the middle of it by not being in his room at the time.

“The funny thing about combat is that during it, you’re not as stressed as you probably think you will be,” he says. “It’s surreal, but at the time, you’re moving by the numbers and doing what you’re trained to do. It’s not until you’re done and back at the base when you realize you probably should have been scared.”

Today, Hedrick is no longer in aviation and is currently attending the National Intelligence University in Washington, D.C. His wife, Laura, is a 2007 graduation of Campbell’s College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences.

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enroll that fall in Campbell’s ROTC program as a junior. He collected his money, bought a truck and moved to Buies Creek.

“Campbell’s program, even back then, had a great reputation,” Pethan says. “It was a much more conservative campus back then, but for a guy like me who needed to focus in order to get through the academic part of it, it was a great place to be.”

Pethan was an average student when it came to science, math, English and the basics, but he excelled in the ROTC program. He was an A student in his military courses and a member of the ROTC’s Ranger Challenge team that won the region’s annual competition of skill, physical ability and military knowledge.

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On that 3-by-5 paper, Pethan wrote down all the things he hated about farm life. The son of farmers in a “little bitty cheese town in Wisconsin,” as he describes it, Pethan had worked in the industry as long as he could remember — often in bone-chilling temperatures during those long Wisconsin winters — and while the Army wasn’t necessarily the “ideal” situation for him, he wanted to always remember that it could be worse. He could be shoveling manure or freezing in the fields at 4 a.m.

“When times were tough in the Army, especially during basic, I’d pull out that card and look at it,” Pethan says. “I don’t know what happened to it … but it provided me with a lot of inspiration during those early days away from home.”

Thirty years later, Pethan is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and a veteran of Operation Desert Storm. Last fall, he became only the second Campbell graduate to assume the role of professor of military science at Campbell, the head position for the school’s ROTC program. Pethan, a product of Campbell ROTC, was brought here in an interim role to replace Lt. Col. Michael Mason, and he’ll stay

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with Campbell after this semester to work with the athletic department.

Not that he always saw himself as a military man. While farm life wasn’t his ambition back in Wisconsin, neither was the Army. Pethan’s short-term plan after high school was to save money for community college and eventually transfer to a state school. His father asked him how he would pay for the second part of that plan and suggested the Army as an option.

“I used a couple of expletives,” Pethan recalls.

“And, in short, said ‘No way.’”

His father called the recruiter anyway, and Pethan eventually came around to the idea of having his education paid for by the government in exchange for a few years of service. He was sent off to basic training in Fort Knox, Ky. Surprisingly, he enjoyed it. And he excelled at it, earning the Gauntlet Award as the top member of platoon. He then went on to “jump school” in Fort Benning, Ga., followed by his first assignment with the 82nd Airborne in Fort Bragg. While at Bragg, Pethan watched his roommate buckle down and take night classes at Campbell’s Bragg campus.

Interested in the idea of eventually becoming a commissioned officer, Pethan did the same, riding his bike at night from his apartment to the Bragg campus and back in all kinds of weather. In ’87, he applied for and earned Green to Gold Scholarship, allowing him to

“I’ll admit now that one of the reasons my GPA suffered was the time I put into the challenge,” he says. “I spent every moment I had training for the rope bridge, patrolling night or getting ready for the 10K march. The whole experience taught me a lot about myself and what I can do. It’s the fondest memory I have of this ROTC.” Pethan graduated in ’89, and two years later, he was deployed to Iraq for Operation Desert Storm. He later served in Haiti in ’95 and in Kosovo in 2001. While in Kosovo — a peace enforcement mission that involved intercepting weapons and drug smugglers — Pethan met President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and presented a “fairly extensive briefing” on their mission to them.

Two months later, Pethan received news of commercial airplanes flying into the World Trace Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and into a field in Pennsylvania.

Pethan would serve in the Middle East again in 2007 and 2008 before his retirement. He returned to work for Fayetteville State and Campbell Battalion as assistant PMS before taking over the lead role last fall.

“The basic duty of a PMS is to oversee the program, make sure we’re recruiting quality cadets and make sure the cadre instructors are qualified and competent,” Pethan says.

“Teaching the MS4s (seniors) is the best part of this job. Don’t get me wrong, I love getting out and talking to new prospects or young cadets, but the opportunity to be in the classroom or on [field training exercises] with our seniors to coach, teach and mentor them … if I could do that every single day forever, it’d be my dream.”

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On a cold, wet and windy mid-February day, members of Campbell University’s ROTC battalion went deep into the Buies Creek woods to train on the one-rope bridge. The exercise is part of the annual Ranger Challenge, often called the ‘varsity sport’ of Army ROTC. Photographer Lissa Gotwals documented MSgt. Aaron Light and his crew through photos for Campbell Magazine.

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Harder than it looks

Few have ventured out into the wooded area beyond Campbell University’s soccer and softball fields. If they did, they’d come across a training ground for the school’s ROTC program.

Complete with fox holes and the perfect layout for tactical exercises, the woods also offers a winding and, at some points deep, 15-footwide creek bed perfect for training on the one-rope bridge. The bridge is one of many competitions in the annual Ranger Challenge, where battalions compete for bragging rights of the best-trained ROTC unit. Even preparing for it is an exercise in itself — proper uniforms, rope belts properly knotted, helmets, protective eyewear, “weapons.” It’s a team-building exercise as much as it is physical training.

Though don’t get us wrong — physically, it’s much harder than it looks.

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It takes teamwork

For training purposes, Campbell’s ROTC is crossing a wide but not-very-deep creek bed. With training, however, the unit would be able to cross a river or lake (with a long-enough rope). The exercise begins with the cadets securing one end of the rope to an anchor. In this case, they’re using a tree. One cadet then crosses the body of water and secures the rope on the other end.

Then one-by-one, team members hoist each cadet up to the rope, fasten them via a rope belt and hook, and the cadet crosses the water upside down, pulling themselves horizontally along the rope. The final cadet loosens the rope on his or her end and crosses the body of water like the first cadet, rope in hand.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition — William Shakespeare, “Henry V”

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Road of Ethics In its third year, the NCICU Ethics Bowl has become a tense, highly competitive battle of morals

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The subject of nerves is addressed. Despite being the “home team” — this year’s event is hosted by Campbell’s School of Law in downtown Raleigh — this group is made up of five first-timers, their only experience a few exhibition bowls in the months leading up to this one … the big one. “It’s a brand new experience for many of these students, which makes it exciting,” says Adam English, professor of religion at Campbell and, along with Dr. Ken Vandergriff, Campbell’s Ethics Bowl coach.

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her feet and presenting a case in front of three judges produces the most pre-game butterflies.

For Diamond Leggett, it’s performing in front of her peers.

blue blazers with their school’s emblem embroidered on it.

“If the other team is friendly and mingles beforehand, that helps,” says Leggett, a senior biology major. “But the real [intimidation] factor for me is how they look … what they’re wearing. If they’re all dressed alike, they come off as more unified, prepared and professional.

They’re all gathered in a group, whispering to each other with a serious demeanor, and here I am on the other side of the room eating a brownie.”

At least she’s not eating a brownie.

Soon, Leggett and her teammates are ushered into a classroom to face their first-round opponent, Saint Augustine’s University, another Raleigh school. Their six-person team is huddled, whispering and wearing matching

Designed to “emphasize applied ethics as a hallmark of the student experience,” according to the event’s mission statement, the Ethics Bowl is in its third year in North Carolina. Its birth can be traced to Campbell University Vice

Leggett smiles.

***** Think “high school debate team,” but add smarter, more educated students and a list of judges representing some of the state’s best law firms, biggest industries and most accomplished politicians; and you get the idea behind the NCICU Ethics Bowl.

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President for Institutional Advancement and Admissions Britt Davis, who helped launch a similar competition for the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges in 1999. Former CBS, PBS and History Channel anchorman Roger Mudd was on the VFIC board at the time, and he pitched the idea of building an event around ethics.

major who hopes to work in agriculture as a public relations professional.

Different backgrounds. Different strengths. An all-around strong team, according to English.

in agriculture,” she says. “There’s a lot of controversy, and it’s our job to make the ethical decision. I think this training can be used anywhere.”

Fourteen years later and one state further south, the basic structure and rules are still intact.

Two teams are presented a topic, which is then addressed by four selected team members from each. The theme of the 2014 event is “Ethics in Health Care,” and cases involve everything from health care benefits to whether or not physicians should accept money or gifts from drug manufacturers.

“In addition to preparing your point, you have to prepare for whatever your opponents’ argument is going to be,” says English. “The judges are looking at the clarity in your argument and your counter arguments, and they want to see that you have a feel for what the relevant ethical issues are in each case.” A group of three judges grades each team, and the school with the most points at the end is declared the winner. The process is repeated three more times, and the top two schools after those four rounds advance to the finals. High Point University topped Wake Forest in 2013, and both schools are represented in Raleigh at the 2014 event.

“The thing that excites me most is seeing how sharp these students are,” says Vandergriff. “This is not easy. They’re forced to think very quickly on their feet. It’s an exciting thing to see.” ***** Leggett is a senior biology major who, because of her dream to become a doctor, is thrilled to see “health care” as the overall theme.

D’Ancona is a senior pre-law major from Elverson, Pa. James Demmel and Clayton Harrington are both senior religion majors (Harrington is also studying history). And Marisa Linton is a senior mass communications

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“He knew what it should look like,” Davis recalls. “Then we had the president of the University of Richmond, Bill Cooper, pointing us in the direction of one of his faculty members, Joanne Ciulla, an ethics professor who held these events in her classroom and got faculty members to volunteer as judges.

We took her concept and applied it to fifteen colleges.”

“We look for [students] who are interested in public speaking or can speak well, students who can think well on their feet and students who are passionate about moral issues and interested in ethical dilemmas and working through them,” he says.

The students are “recruited” or volunteer for the Ethics Bowl prior to the fall semester, and they meet as part of an independent study program once a week to go over the ten cases that may appear in the NCICU event (which also includes two never-before-seen cases).

Campbell’s team, even before the competition in Raleigh, says they’ve improved just by being on the team — each picking up skills that will help them in their future endeavors. For D’Ancona, it’s given her the confidence to speak and present arguments in a public setting, an important skill for an aspiring lawyer.

“When I started looking at law school, I thought I didn’t want to be a courtroom attorney, because I wasn’t good at arguing a point in front of a judge, or a jury or an audience,” D’Ancona says. “Ethics Bowl has showed me this is something maybe I can do.”

Linton — who has spent the past semester studying Aristotle’s virtue ethics, which she referenced several times throughout the competition — says ethics training will benefit her career as a communications professional in the farming industry. “Ethics is huge

These life lessons are reasons why English wants to make the Ethics Bowl more than a oncea-year event. Starting next fall, English and Vandegriff will teach a class on ethics, accepting up to 15 students who’ll meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays each week. Future Ethics Bowl teams will be chosen from these classes.

“We will get them started debating cases right away,” English says, “and as we go along, we will fill in the moral theory that they’ll need.” ***** Leggett’s “brownie” comment is her way of easing the nerves leading into Round I. Yes, St. Augustine’s team is wearing matching outfits and whispering to each other, but Campbell’s team is no slouch. After introductions and a “good luck” from the moderator, the case is presented: Is it ethical for physicians is lessdeveloped countries to prescribe thalidomide [a drug infamous for its side effects to babies when taken by pregnant mothers] for patients with leprosy?

As Campbell’s team huddles to discuss their stance, Harrington dons his black-rimmed glasses (perhaps his own intimidation strategy?), and after hearing St. Augustine’s stance, delivers Campbell’s argument.

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that delivers the most compelling argument is deemed the winner. But in this case against St. Augustine’s, the schools disagree. Campbell’s opposition argues the drug should be kept out of the hands of people in developing countries, whereas Campbell delivers the proposition that the benefits of the drug outweigh the risks.

After an hour of debate, the judges choose St. Augustine’s the winner by a slim margin — a surprise to a Campbell team that was confident in its performance. One mistake, the judges say, was Campbell’s assumption that thalidomide was the cheapest option on the market. There were also a few minor contradictions in their argument, another judge says.

The team has approximately five minutes — the time it takes to climb a flight of stairs to the room where Round II is being held — to dwell on the loss. Then their concentration must turn to the next round, against Mars Hill.

The question is whether a community hospital’s administrator should consider allowing his nonprofit community hospital to be bought out by a large corporation that could move some of its services 100 miles away (yet strengthen other services locally). This case is a surprise, the first one of the weekend, and neither team has had a chance to prepare beforehand. Although potentially more difficult, Campbell’s sound argument that a hospital’s primary duty is to its patients is awarded with a win, and Day One ends with smiles and relief.

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careful not to stay out too late congregating with their fellow teammates, however, with the knowledge that day two will begin bright and early the next morning. ***** It’s 8:45 a.m., and all 20 teams have congregated in the same lobby as the day before. Campbell’s team is back at its lounge chairs, heads bent over their notes as they discuss the outcome of yesterday and the two rounds ahead of them today.

“It’s always nerve wracking, you don’t know what the judges are going to say or what they’re looking for,” Harrington says. The other four students are quick to affirm. Minutes later, they’re back in the classroom and shaking hands with Gardner-Webb University, their next opponents. Like the second case of Day One, the case presented this morning is a surprise.

“I kind of like the surprise cases, because everyone is on the same playing field,” Demmel says as the team waits for the moderator to set the clock. He leans back in his chair, and if the nerves from the previous day are still around, they aren’t readily apparent. The students are familiar with the way each round will proceed, and by the time the moderator announces the round has begun, they are eager to start constructing their arguments.

The topic is the morality of physicians accepting gifts or money from drug manufacturers interested in promoting their products.

Demmel’s and his teammates’ confidence is reflected in their performance, a second win in as many tries.

They’ve already come a long way from that first round, Vandergriff says. “Regardless of what the score is, I think it’s been a successful experience, because they’ve learned so much.”

Round 4 is Salem College, another team “dressed alike,” with matching gold scarves and high heels. The topic is ethical principles for a man regarding his decision about his dying mother’s health care.

Salem ultimately wins, but both teams are all smiles in the end. Four tense rounds in two days are complete, and Campbell walks away with a record of 2-2. Wake Forest is the ultimate winner, defeating Gardner Webb (which lost to Campbell in Round 3) in the fifth and final round.

English says he is proud of his team’s effort and lauds the event for bringing out not only the “competitive spirit” in each school, but also for giving the students a chance to get to know their peers from other parts of the state and develop future professional contacts.

“It is such a great experience for the students to meet students from other colleges, and to meet these fascinating judges who give them feedback,” he says. “I’m proud of our team. I think their scores really reflect the work they put into it. They did what they wanted to do.”

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Describe your Campbell experience so far?

Fulfilling. I feel like I am growing as a person, because growth doesn’t come in your comfort zone. With a new culture and a new way of teaching and learning, I’ve grown more as a person. I feel like I’m in the right place at the right time.

Where do you eat most of your meals?

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Once in a while I eat at Chick-Fil-A or Subway, but rice is a staple in Ghana.

So there are times I’ll buy rice from the Chinese place. But usually I eat in my apartment. One of the professors, Dr. Cameron Jorgenson and his wife, Kelly, gave me a rice cooker. I don’t know what words to use to describe them. They are wonderful.

Jackson Adamah

“My praises will never run out in giving thanks to God for bringing me to Campbell, because we need theologians who will not just sit in offices and think about principles and doctrines. We need theologians who will make a difference in the life of the church in a changing world.”

— Jackson Adamah, a first-year Master of Divinity student from Ghana

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Jackson Adamah came to Campbell University last fall as a first-year Master of Divinity student “in faith,” he says. The Accra, Ghana, native had never been to Buies Creek, or to North Carolina, or to the United States. He had never even been on an airplane.

and he immediately called the Divinity School’s admissions director, Kelly Jorgenson, to ask questions about the school. “How she received me on the phone made me feel that whatever was in the video was not a cliché or just marketing,” Adamah says. “It was real.”

But in 2012, as he was working on a Master of Business Administration degree in Ghana, he responded to God’s call to become a seminary professor and to “pastor pastors,” says Adamah, who grew up in the Baptist tradition. His pastor Dr. Charles Yeboah, suggested he look at Baptist seminaries and divinity schools in the U.S.

He applied to the Campbell Divinity School in May 2013 and learned on Aug. 2, 2013, that it had accepted him. A few weeks later, he took his first steps on an airplane and arrived in Buies Creek as a Master of Divinity student. “I don’t know anyone here,” he says. “But I don’t want to say I was coming into the unknown, because there was God whom I was entrusting myself to. I came in faith.”

Adamah found an online listing of such institutions, which led him to watch a promotional video uploaded on YouTube about the Campbell Divinity School. The video mentioned that the Divinity School’s mission is “to provide a Christ-centered, Bible-based, and ministry-focused theological education.”

That mission statement grabbed his attention,

After earning his Master of Divinity from Campbell, Adamah plans to to pursue a Ph.D. in theology or biblical studies, then return to Ghana to teach at a seminary. “I hope that my future students will leave my classroom inspired, transformed, and go effect change in their local assemblies and congregations.”

What professors have made a big impression on you?

The Assistant Dean of the Divinity School and Professor of New Testament Dr. Derek Hogan, I see the gentleness and the meekness of a man who appreciates the fact that the biblical studies course he is teaching can bring up tension and shock waves. But you see a man who is OK with that, and you can see in his face that your questions are welcome. And then there’s Dr. Cameron Jorgenson, assistant professor of Christian theology and ethics. He’s so full of love. I haven’t seen anyone who takes intentional steps to love God and to love people the way he does. He is a great model of the purpose of the study of theology.

Why are you Campbell Proud?

I am very proud of Campbell because in this post-modern era of rapid change, they have dared to hold onto their tried and tested values of training ministers who are Christ-centered, bible based and ministry focused for service in the church and the world. I believe this is the way to have a church that’s Christ-centered and firmly-rooted in the message and mission of Christ in the world. This is a place where life is really injected into you — a Christ life.

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500 … and counting Sure all those wins are nice, but they’ll never be as special as the players, says Campbell women’s basketball Coach Wanda Watkins

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“I’ve been coaching for a long time, and I’ve had to change in this profession, because kids change and generations are different. But my core values haven’t changed.”

Wanda Watkins, who has been the head coach of the Campbell University women’s basketball team since 1981, didn’t know she was nearing 500 career wins until someone asked her about it just before the start of the 2013-14 season.

She didn’t think much of it. But then she got asked about it again, and then again and again.

By the time the season started on Nov. 9 with an 82-56 win over Erskine — her 499th career victory — Watkins had settled on an answer that she’d come to repeat to all who asked her about approaching No. 500: “I hope it comes quickly, so we can get it out of the way and the players aren’t thinking about it.”

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Only three games into the 2013-14 season — Watkins’ 33rd at the helm — it came. On Nov. 16, the Lady Camels defeated Western Carolina 73-60 in Gore Arena to give Watkins her 500th career win. “This is not a Wanda Watkins moment,” Watkins said after the game. “This is definitely a group moment. This is a Campbell women's basketball moment.”

As Watkins stood near center court surrounded by her players, her coaching staff and several university administrators, the Athletics Department celebrated the moment by unveiling a banner marking the milestone. “Wanda Watkins stands for what this school is all about,” Campbell President Jerry Wallace said. “We are so proud of her and grateful for her good life

and her wonderful coaching ability.”

With the win, Watkins became the 27th active coach in NCAA Division I to reach 500 wins.

“She’ll never take credit for any of them,” said Mary Weiss, associate head coach of the Campbell women’s basketball team who played for Watkins from 1983 to 1985 and who has been on her staff for 27 years. “But, of course, she deserves credit.”

In the following as-told-to narrative, Watkins shares how she ended up as a basketball coach and whom she credits for the more than 500 times she has coached Lady Camels teams to victory.

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asketball was in my making. My parents played in high school, and they loved the game and saw the value of sports and the discipline people acquire through them. When I was a kid, we had the best basketball goal and the best lights for the outdoor court at our home. Everybody in the neighborhood would come to our house to play. I played against anybody, even grown men.

We also had a building off our house where we kept our lawn mower, a freezer and other stuff. One day, there was a tremendous fire that broke out in the building and destroyed everything. I remember sitting at the window, looking at the destruction, crying. My mother tried to comfort me and asked me what was wrong. I looked her in the eyes and told her I was so upset because my basketball burned up. Even as a youngster, basketball was heavy on my mind. It was my first love.

Playing then in college was an entirely different world than now. The support wasn’t nearly as good. There weren’t pep bands. Maybe we had cheerleaders; I don’t remember. But it was a good opportunity, and I learned a lot about life, like that a lot of things in life are relationship-oriented, and you can’t get anywhere by yourself. The long bus rides and the relationships I developed with teammates — that’s what I remember. It made me want to coach even more.

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EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Science in physical education, Campbell (1979)

• Add-on certification in counseling, Campbell (1988)

PLAYING EXPERIENCE

• South Johnston High School (1971-75) • Campbell University (1975-79)

COACHING EXPERIENCE

• Graduate assistant, Campbell (1979-80) • Assistant coach, Campbell (1980-81)

• Head coach, Campbell (1981-present) • Overall record: 517-413 (.556)

CONFERENCE WIN/LOSS RECORDS

• Big South (1986-94, 2011-present) / 11547 (.710)

I went on to attend South Johnston High School the first year that the school opened.

It didn’t even have a gym, and I wasn’t old enough to drive. So my mom drove 15 miles four times a day to take me to practice. My parents supported me, and I couldn’t have done it without them.

Even then I knew I wanted to coach; I thought it would be a great way to give back to something that has been so good to me.

I knew I could get that physical education degree at Campbell, though they just offered a partial scholarship. And I liked the atmosphere here. I thought the personalized attention would be good, and I was a smalltown kind of girl. Coming here is a decision I’ve never regretted.

Title: Women’s basketball head coach, Campbell University Hometown: Clayton, N.C.

• Master of Education with emphasis in physical education, Campbell (1981)

We had seventh- and eighth-grade basketball back then. We actually played six-man basketball when I was in the seventh grade, and then the state of North Carolina changed it, and we played five-man basketball in the eighth grade. That’s one of the best things the state has done for girls.

We had some success at South Johnston and won a state title. Some colleges were interested in me. North Carolina State was one. This was before Kay Yow was coaching there. Robert “Peanut” Doak was the coach then, and he offered me a full scholarship. All I had to do was pay for my room key. They had a recreation degree, but they didn’t have a physical education degree.

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• Atlantic Sun (1994-2011) / 157-161 (.494)

• Regular season titles: 1989 (Big South), 1991 (Big South), 2001 (Atlantic Sun) • Tournament titles: 1989 (Big South), 2000 (Atlantic Sun) • NCAA appearance: 2000

I asked my mentor and college coach, Betty Jo Clary, if I could be a graduate assistant after I finished my undergraduate degree. She had already hired her graduate assistant that year. I got the GA spot the next year. Then, in 1981, Coach Clary decided to go back to teaching full time. I was very young, but I went to talk to Wendell Carr, the athletics director. I told him that this might sound crazy, but I wondered if he would consider me for the head coaching position. He said, “Absolutely, I’m behind that.” So at a very young age, Campbell took a chance on me.

Wow. I had a lot of discipline problems that first year as a coach — every kind of discipline problem you can imagine. I was the same age as some of the players and even played

COACHING HIGHLIGHTS

• 27th winningest active coach in the NCAA • 22 winning seasons

• 95 percent graduation rate of players • 10 appearances in conference tournament championship games • 49 players who have won allconference honors

• 157 wins in the Atlantic Sun conference, the most of any coach • 4 Coach of the Year district or conference honors

• Big South Conference Captain for the Women's Basketball Coaches (2013-14)

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what I started and of being a person of my word and of good character. And they stood by me. Even when I made mistakes, I still knew they loved me and supported me. I

alongside some of them, so I guess they thought, “Oh, we’ll give her a little try here.”

It was draining. I remember telling my folks, “I don’t think I can do this.” But I’ve never been one to accept defeat. It challenged me and motivated me to dig deeper.

I did a lot of reading and I talked to a lot of people about how to handle discipline. I pulled a lot from Coach Dean Smith at North Carolina. The biggest thing was I added the buddy system. Each player is paired with someone, and you’re accountable for both you and that other person. If your buddy is late to practice, you both pay the price. It teaches kids to take ownership. Once they take ownership, a lot of the discipline issues take care of themselves. The kids begin to think, “If I do this, this will have an impact on somebody else.” That’s what team sports are all about.

“This university hired me when I was very young. I will always be grateful they took a chance on me. It has been such a dream job.”

I also found that once people know how much you care, they will do anything for you. That goes back to my parents. They were great teachers of the game of life. They instilled in me a good work ethic and taught me the importance of finishing

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My greatest joy is to work with them and to see them grow. It’s a joyful thing to come to work every day. The hardest thing is seeing them hurting and going through painful situations and knowing there’s nothing you can do to fix it. You just have to be there and let them know, even when they do something you don’t like, that you care about them.

always knew I was cared about. I want the same thing for the kids. I’ll never replace their mothers, but they are like daughters to me.

I’ve been coaching for a long time, and I’ve had to change in this profession because kids change and generations are different. But my core values haven’t changed. I still see that my major responsibility is to teach the game of life through basketball, and when the kids leave here, we want them ready for the real world, and we want success for them.

Success, to me, is giving everything I have to be the best I can be on a daily basis. At the end of the day, when I look at myself in the mirror and when I lie down at night and say my prayers, if I feel that I gave it my all, that’s success. That’s what I work toward every day.

Yes, if you coach long enough, the wins

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During more than three decades as head coach of the Campbell women’s basketball team, Wanda Watkins has led her squads in more than 900 games. She talks about the ones that still stand out.

will come. No. 500 was going to happen eventually, and it is a nice milestone. But any kind of milestone is a group effort. So I think about the kids. Nobody wants to win more than I do, but when you look back on it, the kids are what’s special. The wins will never be more special than them. They are what keep me going.

And I think of all the coaches who’ve been here with me. Associate Head Coach Mary Weiss has been on the staff 27 years and played for two years. She has been here for a lot of those wins. Assistant Coach Janice Washington has been here for a lot of them, too. She has been on this staff going on eight years and played four years. And Assistant Coach Megan Hall has been with me for almost 10 years. They work hard behind the scenes. They are my heroes. I get a lot of the glory they deserve.

And I think of Campbell. This university hired me when I was very young. I will always be grateful they took a chance on me.

It has been such a dream job. I don’t know what I would have done with my life all these years if I hadn’t coached. I feel very driven that I’m doing what God put me here to do.

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Feb. 25, 1989: Campbell beats Radford 58-53 to win Big South tournament title “We won a championship, but we went nowhere. We didn’t have automatic berths [for the NCAA tournament] then.

There was something like an NIT, but we didn’t get in. So that was the end of the road. The good part of that is that we went out a winner.”

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March 8, 1991: Late shot lifts Radford 65-64 past Campbell in Big South championship “That was a terrible loss. We were the regular season conference champions [and went 12-0 in the league]. We lost on a last second shot at Radford. I’ll never forget that. I can get sick right now thinking about it.”

Jan. 5, 1998: Campbell upsets nationally-ranked Florida International 69-67 in Buies Creek “After the game, I remember our sports information director at the time said, ‘You should probably watch ESPN tonight. We might make it.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, right.’ I came home that night, and I turned on the news and there it was. It was a huge upset. They come from Miami to downtown Buies Creek, when we still played in Carter Gym. I believe that’s our only win over a nationally-ranked team.”

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March 11, 2000: Campbell advances to NCAAs after downing Georgia State 66-49 in A-Sun final “That was a highlight for us. We went to the NCAA Tournament and played at Duke, where I had a former player on the staff (Shonta Tabourn). It was fun for us.”

March 10, 2001: Georgia State edges Campbell 64-62 in A-Sun final “We had a last-second foul called on a rebound. They went down and made two free throws to beat us. We lose with something like 1.6 or 1.9 seconds left on the clock, and we missed the Big Dance. My heart hurt for those kids.”

March 8, 2013: Campbell erases 24-point deficit to defeat High Point 74-73 in OT in Big South quarterfinals “To come from behind like that, people realized that the kids have a good mentality. We got out of the first round of that tournament and met the eventual champion, Liberty, in the semifinals. We gave Liberty a fit. They got us in the long run. But with that win over High Point, our players got a little taste of [what it's like to contend for a championship]; and I hope that’s what they get as we continue to move this program forward.”

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Enjoy the moment.

“My junior year we won the A-Sun conference tournament and went to the NCAA tournament. But my senior year, we fell to Georgia State in the conference tournament final. When we went to the NCAAs the year before, Georgia State went to the NIT. We thought that was going to happen to us, but we weren’t invited. I don’t know for how long I cried after that. It was hard to accept. That’s the reason we tell our kids, ‘Enjoy the moment, because it’s so short, and when it’s over, it’s over.’” — Assistant Coach Janice Washington, who played at Campbell from 1997-01 and who works with the guards as an assistant

Make relationships the top priority.

“A week doesn’t go by that [Watkins] doesn’t receive a phone call, a note, or a visit from a former player. That’s one of the rewards of coaching: the relationships we build with players.

When we recruit students, we tell them that the education they receive will change their lives, but they are also going to get life lifelong friends — not only with their teammates but with their coaches.” — Associate Head Coach Mary Weiss

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Do the right thing at all costs.

“Some coaches say, ‘Win at all costs,’ but [Watkins] will lose a ball game to teach a life lesson. Last season, she sat the entire starting lineup at the beginning of the game at Liberty. It wasn’t for robbery or stealing or anything like that; it was something simple in life they didn’t do. For her, it’s not win at all costs; it is do what is right at all costs.” — Associate Head Coach Mary Weiss, who played at Campbell from 1983-85 and who has been on the coaching staff since 1986-87

Meet deadlines.

“Make sure you are on time to practices, to meetings, and to classes, and that you turn in all your work on time.” — senior forward Rosalyn Presley

Be you.

“I talk to the point guards a lot because we are working on leadership development, communications and all those things that it takes to be a successful point guard in this program. But I don’t talk to them about my playing days, because I don’t want them to be me. I want them to be the best they can be, and 99 percent of the time, that’s not going to be a copy of me.” — Assistant Coach Janice Washington

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Hold each other accountable.

“The greatest thing we have in place in regards to our discipline is our legacy. Freshmen see what the juniors and seniors are doing. When the new players come in, they see what the other kids are doing. It becomes a team effort and a collective thing. Teammates police each other.” — Assistant Coach Janice Washington

Own up to your mistakes.

Be mindful that someone is always watching.

“Always present and carry yourself in a professional manner because you never know who is watching. The way you carry yourself makes a difference in opportunities that may come your way.” — Tonisha Baker, who played at Campbell from 2009 to 2013 and is currently playing professional basketball overseas

“Since I’ve been here, I’ve learned to hold my tongue.

If you do something you shouldn’t do, face it, own up to it, move on and don’t do it again.” — Junior forward Kiera Gaines

10 THINGS WE LEARNED FROM WANDA WATKINS

Current and former Campbell players share a handful of the lessons they’ve learned from women’s basketball Coach Wanda Watkins during their time with the program and what they hope future players will learn.

Appreciate those who came before.

“We tell our current players it’s not all about them; it’s about the players who have come before and who built the program to get it where it is. Those previous teams didn’t have as much or weren’t as privileged, but we have built from those teams. At the same time, these current players are going to be the pioneers for those who come next and they need to set the example for them.” — Associate Head Coach Mary Weiss W W W. C A M P B E L L . E D U / M A G A Z I N E

Keep your standards high.

“We’ve had our times when we didn’t win. But regardless of whether the players were here during a Big South or A-Sun conference championship, or when they were finishing sixth in the conference, they had a great experience, and this program continues to turn out outstanding young ladies who graduate and do great things. That’s because we’ve set our standards high, and we’ve kept them high. — Assistant Coach Janice Washington CAMPBELL MAGAZINE

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Men’s Sports

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Baseball

Goff picks up 200th win as Camel coach Campbell baseball coach Greg Goff picked up his 200th career win for Campbell in the Camels’ 7-3 win over Big South Conference rival Longwood in March.

Former Camel drafted

by D.C. United in MLS Campbell University standout Travis Golden was selected by DC United in the Major League Soccer supplemental draft this spring.

A native of Austin, Texas, where he played at James Bowie High School and for the Lonestar Aztex USSF Academy team, Golden was the 12th pick in the fourth round of the supplemental draft, the 69th selection overall.

“We are proud of Travis and thrilled for his opportunity to pursue a professional career in Major League Soccer,” said Campbell head coach Steve Armas. “He was a tremendous asset to our program for the past four years and we are confident he will make Campbell University, his teammates, and his family very proud at DC United.”

As a senior in 2013, Golden gained allconference recognition for the third-straight

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year. The center back returned to the lineup in September after missing the pre-season while recovering from a torn ACL he suffered last spring. He played the full 90 minutes 11 times in 15 games (12 starts) during the year, including overtime matches against North Carolina and UNC Wilmington.

Golden played every minute in the final eight matches of the season and was chosen to the Big South all-conference second team.

Golden is the fourth Campbell product chosen in the MLS draft in the last eight years.

Facilities

Website lists Barker-Lane as a top football destination

press box with luxury suites and more — bumped it up in the rankings, but pointed to the fans as a big reason for Campbell’s overall score.

“No matter your opinion about these fans, you cannot deny that they are all very loyal and very loud,” the author wrote. “While I'm not suggesting that Camel fans are of SEC caliber, they share some of the same qualities.”

Barker-Lane has been home to the Camels' football program since its relaunch in 2008.

Campbell welcomed four of its top-10 home crowds in modern history in 2013, including a record 6,044 against Charleston Southern on Sept. 14.

Stadium Journey rated Campbell's Barker-Lane Stadium at No. 13 among 107 Football Championship Subdivision facilities nationwide in an online ranking this spring.

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Soccer

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Goff became only the second Campbell skipper to reach 200 wins. Chip Smith posted 267 career victories for the orange and black in 11 seasons from 1996 to 2006. Goff is currently in his seventh season with Campbell. He won 153 games in four seasons at NCAA Div. II Montavello. Under Goff, Campbell won a school-record 41 games in 2012 and topped that mark with 49 wins in 2013.

Writers from the site visited and reviewed 107 of the country's 126 FCS venues.

The article noted that the stadium’s recent improvements — new seating, a two-story

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Aug. 28 UNC Charlotte Sept. 6 @ Appalachian St. Sept. 13 @ Charleston Southern Sept. 27 Vaparaiso* (FW) Oct. 4 @ Morehead State* Oct. 11 Butler* Oct. 18 Davidson* (HC) Oct. 25 @ Marist* Nov. 1 Stetson* (Mil. App.) Nov. 8 Missouri Baptist Nov. 15 @ Jacksonville* Nov. 22 @ Dayton* * - Denotes conference game

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Senior competes in NCAA Championship

Recruiting class touches nearly every state in Southeast

Eloheim Palma represented Campbell at the NCAA Wrestling Championships in the heavyweight division in Oklahoma City this spring after taking second place in the Southern Conference Championships.

Campbell head coach Mike Minter announced the Camels 19-man 2014 football recruiting class in early Feburary heading into his second season with the program.

Palma, a redshirt senior from Cary, fell in his first two rounds in the championship tournament, finishing his season with a 24-14 overall record. He led the Camels with seven pins on the season and finished with a 5-1 individual record in Southern Conference matches.

“Our coaches did another great job of recruiting with this class,” said Minter. “We touched nearly every state in the Southeast with this group to find the best group possible. Our coaches did a great job filling the needs of this football team with dynamic offensive playmakers, as well as good defensive linemen.”

Palma joined Campbell’s wrestling program this year after a two-year absence from the mat due to injuries. He wrestled for North Carolina State before coming to Campbell as a graduate student with a year of eligibility remaining.

“It’s been a really good experience. It’s been better than that; it’s been an amazing experience,” Palma told gocamels.com before his trip to Oklahoma. “There was a point in my life where I thought I would never wrestle again. But I took things one step at a time … had a few injuries here and there, but was able to overcome that.”

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The list includes 11 from North Carolina, three from South Carolina, two from Tennessee, and one each from Alabama, Georgia and Virginia.

Aaron Blockmon, WR, Sanford; Mitchell Brown, K, Mount Airy; Jerry Cooper, OL, Morehead City; Derek Delaney, DB, Maryville, Tenn.; Andy Eddins, TE, Knoxville, Tenn.; Thomas Ferguson, DE, Sanford; Triston Frye, OL, Charlotte; Pressley Hales, DB, Sanford; Thomas Hartshorn, LB, Apex; Montez Haynes, Alabaster, Ala.; Dalton Helms, QB, Fort Mill, S.C.; Shulter Littleton, OL, York, S.C.; Brandon Long, DT, Matthews; Greg Milhouse, DT, Garner; Christian Pleasant, FB, Greenville; Trey Sanders, Riverdale, Ga.; Jay Schuller, WR, Apex; Tyler Smith, DT, Hopewell, Va.; Eric Westbrook, DB, Rock Hill, S.C.

May schedule May 2 Gardner-Webb* 6 p.m.

May 3 Gardner-Webb* 6 p.m.

May 4 Gardner-Webb* 1 p.m.

May 6 @ UNC-Chapel Hill 6 p.m.

May 9 @ VMI* 7 p.m.

May 10 @ VMI* 7 p.m.

May 11 @ VMI* 2 p.m.

May 13 UNC Wilmington 6 p.m.

May 15 @ Coastal Carolina* Noon May 16 @ Coastal Carolina* Noon May 17 @ Coastal Carolina* Noon May 21-25 Big South Championship TBA Rock Hill, S.C. (Winthrop) * - Denotes conference game

Track & Field May, June schedule May 2 @ Seminole Invite (Fla.) 8 a.m.

May 10 @ UVA Invitational (Va.) 3 p.m.

May 11 @ Aggie Last Chance TBD (Greensboro) May 16 @ GTech Invite (Atlanta) TBD May 17 @ Wolfpack Last Chance TBD (Raleigh, N.C. State) May 17 @ GTech Invite (Atlanta) TBD May 29-31 NCAA East Regional TBD (Jacksonville, Fla.) June 11-14 NCAA Outdoor Championship (Eugene, Ore.) TBD

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Women’s Sports Soccer

Elon assistant named program’s sixth head coach Stuart Horne will be the new head women's soccer coach at Campbell after serving as the associate head coach at Elon. Horne will be the sixth coach at the helm of the CU women's soccer program since it began in 1992.

“Stuart emerged from a large list of candidates as someone who is ready to take over a Division I program,” Roller said. “He has head coaching experience in his background and has been a major part of building a strong program at Elon.”

Horne, a Fayetteville, N.C., native, has been a part of the Elon staff for the past nine years.

He was promoted to associate head coach before the 2011 season after serving as the assistant coach since 2005. Prior to his time at Elon, Horne was the head coach at Chowan College for five years, where he was named NCCAA South Region Coach of the Year in 2004.

“He is known as a great teacher and communicator and fits what we were looking for to lead our soccer team,” Roller continued.

“Stuart understands the need for Campbell to be highly visible in this strong soccer region.”

This past season, Horne helped Elon to its best record in Division I competition at 13-3-6, the runner-up in the Southern Conference regular season and tournament.

Basketball

Lady Camels earn most conference wins since 2001 Campbell’s season may have ended with a loss to top-seeded High Point in the semifinals of the Big South Tournament, but that doesn’t mean the season wasn’t a success.

The Lady Camels finished with a 19-12 overall mark and a 13-7 mark in Big South play, the

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most conference wins in a season in 13 years.

Campbell was 11-5 in its last 16 games, winning two in overtime over Winthrop and Liberty. The win over Liberty was Campbell’s first since 1999. The team led the Big South in assists per game (16.2) and was second in 3-point percentage and assist/turnover ratio.

Kiera Gaines was the conference’s Defensive Player of the Year and was named to the College Sports Madness All-Conference Second Team. Roslyn Presley, Campbell’s leading scorer, was also a Second Team choice.

Golf

Yost named Big South’ Golfer of the Year; 5 earn recognition Five Campbell women golfers earned post-season recognition from the Big South Conference this spring, with senior Kaylin Yost being named Big South women's golfer of the year.

Yost was joined on the all-conference team

by Lisbeth Brooks, Tahnia Ravnjak and Ali Prazak. Louise Latorre was named to the all-freshman team, while Brooks earned allacademic team honors.

“I'm proud of all of our ladies,” said head coach John Crooks, who has guided his team to either a first- or second-place finish 20 times in his 22 years in charge of the program. “This team was special from the first day. They all work hard and have a teachable attitude.”

Ranked No.-53 in the nation, Campbell was the top seed in the Big South Championship in April.

“I'm proud of Kaylin being named player of the year for the second time, to have four on the all-conference team and Louise being recognized on the all-freshman team,” said Coach Crooks. “We've done a lot of really good things this year, but we have to start all over and do it again.”

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Swimming

Team caps off historic season with 7 school records Campbell’s swim team broke 18 of the 23 possible school records in 2014, with seven records in the season’s final event — the the CSCAA Collegiate Classic National Invitational held in March in Rockwall, Texas.

Seniors Cheriesse Campbell and Kylie Warne both set three individual school records in the meet, and combined on a new relay mark.

In her 400 freestyle relay leadoff split, Cheriesse Campbell set a 400 free record with a time of 52.42. The senior then broke the 200 free record when she led off the 800 free relay with a 1:51.87. The Sunrise, Fla. native tallied another school mark with a time of 1:51.87 in the 200 free split leading off the 800 free relay.

Warne also broke two records on splits, posting a 50 fly Campbell-best 26.31 during her 400 IM swim. She also set the 100 butterfly record with a 56.34. Finally, in the 100 IM, Warne posted another record time with a 58.28.

The two then paired up with Meredith Cooper and Sarah Jabusch to set another Campbell record in the 800 free relay, posting a time of 7:32.22.

The Camels finished with an 11-3 record in dual competitions in 2014. The team also achieved Scholar All-American status from the College Swimming Coaches Association of America during the season.

Sixteen Camels recorded an individual GPA of 3.0 or better for the fall 2013 semester, with senior Maggie Pogue leading the way with a perfect 4.0. Nine registered a 3.5 or better GPA. Sixteen Camels recorded an individual GPA of 3.0 or better for the fall 2013 semester, with senior Maggie Pogue leading the way with a perfect 4.0. Nine registered a 3.5 or better GPA.

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Grad learns business lessons through top sports radio show

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aniel Sippy (’13) spent his final semester at Campbell University interning in a world both familiar and foreign to him all at once.

The sports management major and December graduate entered the communications realm this fall to work for North Carolina’s most-listened-to sports radio program, The David Glenn Show.

Sippy’s career goals include working in the front office for a major or minor league baseball team, but this internship had him poring through on-air interviews, clipping segments and posting them online and learning the ins and outs of the radio industry.

While that may not seem like proper training for a more business-centered career, Sippy said he couldn’t have landed a better opportunity.

“I think this actually gave me a clearer view of the business side of sports,” he said. “I was able to learn the odds and ends of the sports industry — from how teams or programs market themselves to how they deal with the media. This internship allowed me to view sports management from the media’s point of view … it’s been a valuable experience.”

The internship was set up through assistant professor Elizabeth Lange, who had a connection with David Glenn and Capital Broadcasting Company. She knew Sippy was “superb at remembering sports information and stats and utilizing social media,” therefore the job, despite the emphasis on communications rather than sports management or exercise science, was a perfect fit. “I teach students the importance of making connections, networking and building professional relationships,” Lange said. “My goal is to empower students to become their best selves. Daniel has certainly represented himself and Campbell in a commendable and professional manner.”

He also worked hard to get Campbell “on the air.” Glenn, whose show is based in Raleigh but is broadcast on several stations throughout the state (including the Charlotte market), had new Campbell football coach Mike Minter on twice during the fall.

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Nancy Hamilton Nye (’57 AA) retired from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after 46 years. She was associate chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the School of Medicine. At retirement, Gov. Pat McCrory presented her with membership in the Order of the Long Leaf Pine at a celebration at the Carolina Inn along with 200 other leaders from the UNC School of Medicine.

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Gary H. Clemmons (’81 JD) was selected for inclusion in 2014 North Carolina Super Lawyers and 2014 Best Lawyers in America for Personal Injury Litigation — Plaintiffs.

Stephen Gaskins (’81) was elected to serve as president of the New Hanover County Community Foundation, a nonprofit created to focus on the needs of other nonprofit organizations, donors and charitable causes.

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Sheila K. McLamb (’83 JD) was appointed to the board of directors for Novant Health Foundation Brunswick Medical Center in January.

McLamb has served on the Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce, the Brunswick Community College Foundation and the advisory boards for United Carolina Bank, National Bank and Branch Banking and Trust. She resides in Brunswick and is engaged in private practice at McLamb Law PLLC. Dr. Gregory Lawson (’83 JD) received a Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, his second post-J.D. Ph.D.

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John Winn (’84 JD) was promoted to professor of business law at the Harry F. Byrd Jr. Business School at Shenandoah University.

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Business North Carolina named John D. Martin (’85 JD) and Rose Stout (’85 JD) to its 2014 Legal Elite list in the area of Litigation and Family Law, respectively.

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Alan “Chip” Hewett (’86 BA/’90 JD) was appointed as chairman of the Johnston Health Board of Hospital Commissioners in October.

Juan Austin (’86) was appointed to the statewide board of directors of the North Carolina Community Foundation. Austin is senior vice president for the Wells Fargo Foundation for North Carolina and South Carolina. He lives in Jamestown.

Elizabeth Freshwater-Smith (’86 JD) received a 2013 Women of Justice Award: Public Service Practitioner Award from North Carolina Lawyers Weekly.

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Sam Hamrick (’88 JD) retired as Clerk of Court in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California and accepted the position of Court Executive Officer for the Superior Court of California in Riverside County.

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George Pender (’91 JD) was named to the U.S. News & World Report 2014 Best Lawyers List in the area of Workers’ Compensation Law — Employers.

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alumni Class Notes Why did you want to be the Wake County DA?

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When I was filling in as acting DA, I had to deal with a high-profile murder case and with an investigation involving the then-sitting N.C. Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green. I thought that was fascinating work and interesting.

It really stimulated me. In private practice you only got to work on cases that came to you. As district attorney, you could work on any case you wanted to, and some very intriguing cases at that.

What has changed during your time as DA?

Colon Willoughby

“I think it’s difficult for people in public office to know when to leave and to allow somebody else to come in. Ideally you want to leave before the public thinks it’s time for you to leave.”

— Colon Willoughby (’79 JD), whose 27-year tenure as Wake County’s district attorney ended in March after he announced he won’t seek re-election

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hen Colon Willoughby began working toward his law degree at Campbell University in the late 1970s, he had planned to end up in corporate law. He thought a law degree would help him advance in the mortgage banking industry, where he began his career as a loan administrator after earning his bachelor’s in business administration at UNC-Chapel Hill and an MBA from East Carolina University.

But when he got to Campbell’s law school, he took a criminal procedure course that required him to visit court to watch trial proceedings and allowed him to prosecute a case in Harnett County District Court. “I really enjoyed going to court,” Willoughby said.

So when he had to decide between two job offers — one in Charlotte at a mortgage banking firm and one in Raleigh with a small law firm — he chose the latter. “I thought doing trial work was very interesting and exciting,” said Willoughby, who completed his J.D. from Campbell in 1979, making him a member of

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the law school’s charter class.

In the summer of 1983, the district attorney for Wake County took a leave of absence for health reasons and former N.C. Governor Jim Hunt appointed Willoughby to fill in as the acting DA for several weeks. “I decided at that time I would like to be the DA,” Willoughby said.

When the position came up for election in 1986, Willoughby ran for office — and won. He was elected to the position six more times, leading him to serve as the district attorney of Wake County for the past 27 years. But he announced in January 2014 that he won’t seek re-election.

This spring, he joined the McGuire Woods law firm and works in its government regulatory and criminal investigations division.

“Ideally you want to leave before the public thinks it’s time for you to leave,” Willoughby said. “I felt like the office was well-staffed and had been well-run, and that this was a good time for a new district attorney to take over with minimal problems to deal with.”

Wake County has grown almost three-fold. When I first started, there were probably 325,000 to 350,000 people; now there are 950,000. As the office has gotten larger, my role has changed from trying so many cases to it becoming more of a management role and managing other lawyers. The role has shifted to one of leadership and trying to inspire other people to be good prosecutors.

What does it take to be a good prosecutor?

You want people who are committed to trying to do the right thing and who have strong values to help them do the right thing. I think trying to find and present the true facts of what happened in a situation drives all prosecutors. If the facts show that someone is innocent, then that’s what the results should be.

Why you're Campbell Proud I think the law school at Campbell has kept alive the strong traditions of law school education even in a modern society. I think the same ideals and goals that Campbell has promoted were what drove good law schools 50 years ago to produce good lawyers.

They’ve kept the school small so it’s not impersonal, and they’ve blended in a proper amount of the practical practice of law with theory to produce the kinds of lawyers we want in the profession.

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Byrd pinned as brigadier general

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Rebecca Britton (’92 JD) received a 2013 Women of Justice Award: Litigation Practitioner Award from North Carolina Lawyers Weekly.

James P. Laurie, III (’92 JD) was named to the National Roster of Neutrals for the Construction Industry for the American Arbitration Association as an arbitrator and mediator.

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Robert E. ‘Whit’ Whitley, Jr. (’95 JD) has announced his candidacy for the North Carolina General Assembly House District 3 seat.

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etween John Byrd (’84) and his father, uncle, grandfather and great-grandfather, there’s over 100 years of combined service in the North Carolina National Guard.

There aren’t many families that can point to such a storied history in the Guard, one that spans from service in the Civil War to Iraq.

Byrd made those generations proud when he was pinned as a brigadier general during a ceremony on Jan. 24, at the Joint Force Headquarters in Raleigh. Brig. Gen. Byrd, who was first commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard in 1984 through Campbell University’s ROTC program, received his new rank in front of a few hundred fellow Guardsmen, friends, family and co-workers in the North Carolina State Crime Laboratory.

In speaking to the gathering following his pinning, Byrd shared the advice he was given by his father and grandfather — advice that has served him well in his career.

“They told me to lead in the front and always do the right thing, no matter how much it hurts,” Byrd said. “Make a decision, whether it’s good, bad or indifferent, and stick to it. Don’t dwell on the bad decisions, and don’t get a big head after the good ones. You’re only setting yourself up for a mistake when you do that. And finally, stay humble and don’t seek out awards or recognition. The only recognition that matters comes when you look in the mirror at night and know you did your best.”

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Born in Mount Airy, Byrd joined the National Guard while a student in 1981. He’s been a senior joint operations analyst at U.S. Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Va., and has served as the 20th commander of the 139th Regiment.

He was deployed to Iraq in 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom as a member of the 139th Rear Operations Center in the XVIII Airborne Corps.

He’s been awarded the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Joint Service Commendation Medal and the Iraq Campaign Medal with two bronze campaign stars, among many others.

He currently works for the state Crime Lab, a division of the N.C. Department of Justice, where he is a forensic scientist manager for the forensic biology section. Byrd is also a Special Agent in Charge, sworn through the N.C. State Bureau of Investigations. He thanked his co-workers for working through adversity during his Guardrelated absences and called the military a “great place for young people” today.

“The military teaches discipline, skill, maturity, confidence and decision making,” Byrd said.

“These are attributes we should strive for not just for our military, but for our civilian population as well.”

Byrd and his wife Lisa have three daughters — Erin, Meredith and Sarah Madison. The family lives in Spring Hope.

’96

Joy Brewer (’96 JD) received a 2013 Women of Justice Award: Business Practitioner Award from North Carolina Lawyers Weekly.

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’97

Ben Holland (’97 BBA/MBA) received his Doctorate of Ministry degree in Christian Leadership from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary on May 17. He serves as senior pastor of Prosperity Avenue Baptist Church in Tulare, Calif.

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Clella Lee (’98 M.Div./Doming) joined the national Woman’s Missionary Union staff as leadership consultant on the adult resource team.

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Jason Wunsch (’99 JD) was elected as a Fuquay-Varina Town Commissioner and sworn in on Dec. 2.

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alumni Class Notes Business North Carolina named F. Marshall Wall (’99 JD) to its 2014 Legal Elite list in the area of Litigation.

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Anna E. Smith (’01 JD) became a member of the National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Trial Lawyers organization.

Carla Martin Cobb (’01 JD) was named to the U.S. News & World Report 2014 Best Lawyers List in the area of Workers’ Compensation Law — Employers.

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Scott Holuby (’03 PH) was selected as Navy Reserve Pharmacist of the Year for 2013.

Charlie Bullock (’03 JD) was named the school board attorney for the Harnett County’s school system.

Zeke Bridges (’03 JD) was accepted into the North Carolina Bar Association Leadership Academy Class of 2014, joined the The Susie Sharp Inn of Court and was appointed to Prevent Child Abuse N.C. Chip Campbell (’03 JD) was selected to participate in the 2014 Emerging Leaders program by the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce.

Julia Hooten (’03 JD) was named to the U.S. News & World Report 2014 Best Lawyers List as the Lawyer of the Year in the area Workers’ Compensation Law — Employers in Asheville.

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Edward S. Schenk, III (’04 JD) was named to the U.S. News & World Report 2014 Best Lawyers List in the area of Workers’ Compensation Law — Employers.

Trinity Kelly (’03 BS/’07 MSA) was chosen as Harnett County's Assistant Principal of the Year for the 2013-14 school year by Harnett County's Principal and Assistant Principal Association.

She is one of Overhills Elementary School’s assistant principals and has worked in Harnett County for 11 years.

Clifton Smith (’04 JD),Chief Assistant District Attorney for Burke, Caldwell and Catawba counties (25th District), was appointed by Gov. Pat McCrory

to serve as District Court Judge in the vacancy created by Judge L. Suzanne “San” Owsley’s retirement. He took the oath of office on Feb. 14, at a ceremony attended by family, friends, judges, lawyers and community members.

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Andrew (’07 MBA/’07 PH) and Laura (’06 PH) Kessell, along with big brother Sam, announced the birth of William Charles Kessell, born July 27.

’05

Jennifer Morris Jones (’05 JD) was named partner at Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog.

Michael A. Myers (’06 JD) was named director at Bell, Davis & Pitt, P.A.

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’06

Drew Phillips (’06 M.Div.) started a new position as associate campus minister at Chowan University.

Erin Collins (’06 JD) received a 2013 Women of Justice Award: Rising Star Award from North Carolina Lawyers Weekly.

Kevin Ceglowski (’06 JD) was named partner at Poyner Spruill LLP.

Robert N. Young (’06 JD) was named director at Carruthers & Roth, P.A.

Dave L. Dixon (’06 PH) was selected for advancement to Associate of the American College of Cardiology (ACC).

The “associate” designation recognizes those who, through advanced education, training and professional development, have dedicated themselves to providing the highest level of cardiovascular care. Dixon was recognized on March 31 at the ACC Annual Meeting: 63rd Annual Scientific Session & Expo in Washington, D.C.

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Christopher S. Morden (’07 MBA/ JD) of Monroe Wallace Law Group was selected for the 2014 North Carolina Rising Star list by North Carolina Super Lawyers Magazine.

Gregory S. Horner (’06 JD) was named partner at Teague Campbell LLP

Friends We Will Miss Clifton House (’75), Oct. 7 Marie Bumgarner (’52), Oct. 11 Stephen Scott (’88), Oct. 11 Jerry Morris (’74), Oct. 23 Harry Heath (’69), Oct. 26 Geraldine Harrison (’59), Oct. 29 John Watkins (’70), Nov. 2 Fay Stewart (’51), Nov. 3 Henry Hockaday (’64), Nov. 9 Anna Jernigan (’63), Nov. 10

Dixie Sutherland (’57), Nov. 12 Hilda Lee Senter (’45), Nov. 18 Robert Wells (’57), Nov. 19 Robert Greeson (’48), Nov. 20 Raymond Oliver (’47), Nov. 21 J. Lauriston Elliott (’67), Nov. 21 Jefferson Upchurch (’54), Nov. 23 Ethel West (’60), Nov. 27 James Blake (’52), Nov. 30 Lenious McLamb (’70), Dec. 3

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Thurman Rogers (’53), Dec. 5 Joseph Kelly (’66), Dec. 11 Billy Mason (’49), Dec. 15 Gildo Tomei (’57), Dec. 15 Rebecca Blackburn (’78), Dec. 15 Bill Cheshire Lee (’70), Dec. 16 Dallas Pounds (’88), Jan. 6 Louise Rollins (’40), Jan. 24 Johnson Draughon (’38), Jan. 27 Dan Umstead (’65), Jan. 27

James Bryan (’41), Jan. 30 Baxter Norton (’55), Jan. 31 Alva Terrell (’59), Feb. 3 Rodney Smith (’71), Feb. 16 Keena Lindsay (’03), Feb. 17 William Tripp (’59), Feb. 18 Robert Huffman (’47), Feb. 20 Martha Turner (’69), Feb. 22

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New Homeland grads have bright futures ahead

Victoria Tillman (’13) has her sights set on working for a federal agency such as the CIA or the FBI, and Joshua Kinney (’13) has a strong desire to help others through law enforcement. That's why they both chose to major in homeland security at Campbell University.

In December, they were among the first students at Campbell — and in North Carolina — to graduate with a four-year Bachelor of Science in the field. “Becoming involved in [the homeland security] program and Campbell was the best thing I ever did,” Kinney said.

Melissa Mangene (’07 BBA) was promoted to associate for Dewberry in the Fairfax, Va., office. As a senior project manager, Mangene is responsible for project management of IT systems implementation, project operations and quality management system initiatives.

Jennifer C. Norris (’07 MBA) and Blake Norris announced the birth of their third child, Emily Caroline Norris, on July 8. Emily weighed 8 pounds and was 19.5 inches long.

Tillman started off as a criminal justice major but switched to homeland security, which was first offered as a degree option at Campbell in 2010 and the first four-year bachelor’s program in North Carolina. “I felt like [homeland security] would give me a greater opportunity to achieve a federal level job,” she said.

Kinney and Tillman said that the rich, relevant backgrounds of their homeland security instructors, including David Gray and Robert Bidwell, enriched their classroom experience.

Both also took advantage of opportunities outside of the classroom. Kinney, for example, interned with the Harnett County Sherriff’s Office. That helped him decide to pursue a career in local law enforcement immediately after graduation, with the goal of eventually working toward joining a federal task force. “The homeland security field is a very dynamic and expanding field, and knowing that each day will be different is a huge plus,” Kinney said.

Tillman took advantage of study abroad opportunities in London, Paris, and Scotland, further preparing her for her planned move to Northern Virginia to pursue graduate studies and a career at a federal agency. “There are so many real work experiences that you will go through during your time here,” she said. “Overall, my time at Campbell was great, and I would choose Campbell all over again.”

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Matthew Tyler Gardner (’10 BBA/ MBA) married his high school and college sweetheart Janeé Elizabeth Richmond (’08 BS) at St. Mark Catholic Church in Huntersville on Dec. 14.

Terri Carriker Stratton (’94 BA/’08 M.Div.) was promoted to senior chaplain of Central Prison on Jan. 1. She is the first female senior chaplain of Central Prison in its 130 years of existence.

Jason (’05 BA/’08 M.Div.) and his wife Lori Duke (’05 PH) announced the birth of their daughter, Adalyn Lee Duke.

Adalyn was born Dec. 13 and is the granddaughter of Irma Duke (’02 MACE).

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Nathan Rogers (’09 M.Div.) became a board certified chaplain through the Association of Professional Chaplains and is serving as a CBF-endorsed chaplain in Alaska.

Billie Hurley Gordon (’04 BA/’07 M.Div.) is the new director of youth ministries at Centenary United Methodist Church in New Bern.

Chad B. Joyce (’07 BBA) and Sarah M. Joyce (’07 BBA) announced the birth of their daughter, Hailey Madison Joyce, born on Oct. 18.

Randall W. Faircloth (’09 BBA/MBA) joined Hutchens Law Firm in Charlotte.

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Edisson Etienne (’10 M.Div.) and his wife Nelcie announced the birth of their son, Edwards William Etienne.

Travis Russell (’10 M.Div.) is now serving as the pastor of First Baptist Church in Graham.

Lt. Heather Rosati (’10 PH) was named the 2013 US Navy's Junior Pharmacist of the Year.

She has been in the Navy for 19 years and was selected for the award for her work while stationed at Naval Hospital Bremerton, Wash. Rosati is currently stationed at Branch Health Clinic Naval Station in Norfolk, Va. Megan Bryant Ellmers (’10 PH) was named the inaugural Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacy specialist for Sentara RMH Medical Center in Harrisonburg, Va.

Master of Science in Public Health Program graduates First Two Students Although the Master of Science in Public Health program at Campbell University’s College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences opened in August 2012, it graduated its first two students in December. Both Rebekah West and Kristina Wolfe took on extra work over the course of a year and half to graduate ahead of schedule. West already has a full-time position lined up.

She accepted a position as an Active Routes to School Project Coordinator under the Community Transformation Grant. She now works with schools in 10 counties in North Carolina to increase the number of children who meet physical activity recommendations.

“I applied to Campbell’s public health program with a desire to serve my community, and I will graduate as a public health professional equipped to go out and make a difference,” West said, adding she is equipped with knowledge that will help her address barriers

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Brian Edmonds (’11 M.Div.) and his wife Casey announced the birth of their second child, Jett Gibson Edmonds, born on Jan. 21.

in access to health care and issues facing rural communities.

“The education I have obtained from Campbell University has fully prepared me to discuss public health in a professional setting and has given me a passion to positively impact health outcomes in rural areas.” — by Leah Whitt

Mary Candace Hedges (’11 BBA) and Brandon W. Immen were united in marriage on Dec. 21, in Robert B. and Anna Gardner Butler Chapel.

Megan West (’10 JD) was elected Wake Women’s Attorneys vice president.

Leslie Jarvis Ivey (’11 BS) and Thomas Sidney Ivey (’11 BBA) were united in marriage on Nov. 9, in Robert B. and Anna Gardner Butler Chapel.

Photos by Bennett Scarborough

’10

Lloyd Blevins (’10 M.Div.) was promoted to captain and appointed as chaplain for the Civil Air Patrol.

___________________ Christy Connolly (’11 BA) and Michael McCormick were married on Nov. 2, in Robert B. and Anna Gardner Butler Chapel.

Christy is currently employed with Campbell University as the student affairs coordinator for the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences. Michael will commission and graduate from Campbell with his BS in May. Paul Burgess (’11 M.Div.) was called as pastor of Benson Baptist Church.

Jeff M. Martin (’11 JD) was elected to serve on the Barbara Stone Foundation Board of Directors.

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’12

David Archer (’12 M.Div.) was called to be minister of music and administration at Immanuel Baptist Church in Greenville.

Joseph Z. Frost (’12 JD) joined Stubbs & Perdue in Raleigh.

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’13

David (’08 BS/’13 M.Div.) and his wife Emily Gaddy (’11 BS) announced the birth of their son, Micah William Gaddy.

Micah was born on Jan. 7.

David Anderson (’13 M.Div.) was ordained by Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh.

Brian Lawler (’13 JD) joined Clawson and Staubes LLC as an associate.

Amanda Brooke Eason (’13 BS) and Zachary Scott Johnson were united in marriage, on Dec. 21, at Robert B. and Anna Gardner Butler Chapel at Campbell University. Amanda is a third grade teacher at Four Oaks Elementary School. Zack is a firefighter for the Town of Garner.

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FROM THE VAULT The Class of 1930 gathers in front of the D. Rich Building (that’s Kivett Hall in the background) for a group photo. You can find professor (and soon to be college president) Leslie Hartwell Campbell, son of school founder J.A. Campbell, on the back row, far left. The younger Campbell taught English and Education in the early 30s and served as the faculty advisor. “Professor Leslie” also had the Pine Burr Yearbook dedicated to him that year.

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