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Meet our 5th President

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Uncovering Campbell’s history

President-Elect J. Bradley Creed will begin his tenure as Campbell University’s fifth president in 128 years this summer. He got to know his future home well during a whirlwind two-day Meet & Greet event held in January.

Two people — one a Campbell alum and current Study Abroad coordinator and the other a student — played big roles in uncovering important pieces of the University’s history this past spring.

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Thank you, Dr. Wallace

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Faith paves the road to recovery

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Jerry Wallace will retire this summer after 45 years at Campbell University — the last 12 as president. We say "good bye” to our friend and leader by thanking him for his many contributions to our school and our community.

Ten months after being shot in the neck during a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, Lt. John Arroyo (’13) returned to Campbell University to share the story about how his brush with death made him a stronger man.

<< ARCH IN BRONZE: The first Founders Week ended with the unveiling of a 7-foot, 500-pound bronze statue of James Archibald “J.A.” Campbell, who founded Buies Creek Academy in 1887 and served as its president until his death in 1934. | Photo by Lissa Gotwals

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From the editor Spring 2015 | Volume 10 | Issue 1 __________________________________ President

Jerry Wallace Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Assistant to the President

Britt Davis Assistant Vice President for Communications & Marketing

Haven Hottel (’00) __________________________________ Director of Publications & Senior Staff Writer

Billy Liggett Director of Visual Identity

Jonathan Bronsink (’05) Director of Digital Media & Senior Staff Writer

Cherry Crayton Contributors

Louis Duke Matthew Sokol Photographers

Lissa Gotwals Bill Parish Bennett Scarborough Web Designer / Developer

Carlos Cano __________________________________ Accolades

2015 CASE III Grand Award Most Improved

2014 CASE III Grand Award Most Improved

2013 CASE III Grand Awards Best Magazine, Most Improved

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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, the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing 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 2014 edition and named one of the “100 Best College Buys” in the nation by Institutional Research & Evaluation, Inc.

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Dignity over tradition

Public opinion of fraternities at an all-time low nationally, but we’re in a position to foster change

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hen several students and alumni voiced their displeasure for Campbell University’s decision to allow social fraternities and sororities back in 2013, their concern stemmed from Greek Life stereotypes such as alcohol abuse, a negative “party culture” and the poor grades that often result. It turns out, these should have been the least of their worries.

Greek Life’s reputation nationally has taken a wallop recently — and rightfully so — thanks to reports of racism, sexism and criminal activity so severe they’ve led to the downfall of some groups and have made our culture question whether fraternities and sororities are even necessary in today’s culture. Members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity were caught on video using racial slurs and glorifying lynchings in a group chant on a charter bus. Penn State’s Kappa Delta Rho fraternity was suspended for a private Facebook page that included nude photos of female students drunk or passed out. Closer to home, North Carolina State’s Pi Kappa Phi fraternity was terminated after a book was left behind in a restaurant, revealing racially and sexually offensive notes written by fraternity members and pledges.

These incidents — all of which have made national headlines in the past few months — have peeled back the scab to reveal a dark culture that’s uncomfortably common in social fraternities (sororities aren’t immune, either) today. It’s left the future of Greek Life on some campuses in doubt.

All of this has made the uphill battle for Greek Life acceptance at Campbell University even steeper. Since 2013, Campbell has seen two fraternities — Kappa Sigma and Phi Delta Theta — receive their charters, as well as two sororities — Sigma Alpha Omega and Delta Phi Epsilon. Kappa Alpha Order is working to become Campbell’s third chartered fraternity.

The tight leash these organizations were on when approved might now be tighter in light of the PR nightmares other universities are going through, cleaning up the messes left by young men and women who made terrible decisions.

And it pains me to say it, but the crossroad we now stand at — deciding whether or not the possible negatives of Greek Life outweigh

the positives — was inevitable. I can speak from a little experience, as I was in a fraternity — a Kappa Sigma at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas in the mid-1990s. I have terrific memories and friends, but I can admit today that our group made its fair share of terrible decisions back then. Thankfully, we didn’t own cell phones that could video record our every move and word. Social media — the genesis of many of today’s controversies — was years away.

College students don’t have that luxury today.

All it takes is one questionable act and WiFi access to take down an organization, ruin young lives and tarnish the reputation of a school.

But for those eager to lob “I-told-you-so” grenades at Campbell University for its recent acceptance of Greek Life, don’t pull the pins just yet. Being new to the party (pardon the pun), Campbell’s sororities and fraternities are in prime position to stand up for Greek culture and lead the way in changing the way these groups are run. In our Fall 2013 edition of Campbell Magazine, our article, “The Creek Goes Greek,” pointed out that Kappa Sigma and Sigma Alpha Epsilon far surpassed their philanthropic goals en route to earning their charter. Phi Delta Theta made waves in March when their national headquarters announced a ban on alcohol in all Phi Delt fraternity houses.

My challenge to Campbell’s growing Greek Life community is this — expand on these gamechanging ideas. Make philanthropy more than a mask to hide the warts (or a way to the means of getting a charter), and make it a purpose.

Be selective in the young men and women you choose to rush, pledge and join (quality over quantity). Most importantly, have a zero tolerance policy against actions that don’t meet your code of conduct. Understand that dignity trumps tradition, and your actions represent not only your organization, but your school and even your family.

If any school can lead the sea change, it’s Campbell University.

Billy Liggett Editor, Campbell Magazine

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The Wise Legacy

Column on Campbell’s first black student stirs memories from alumni Cordell Brought excitement to Campbell in 1970

Editor’s Note: In the Winter 2014-15 edition of Campbell Magazine, editor Billy Liggett’s column, “Forgotten First,” told the story of Campbell University’s first black student, Cordell Wise, a star basketball player for the school from 1969-70. Below are some of the responses from readers. If you’d like to sound off on this story or anything in this current edition, please email liggettb@campbell. edu. Include your name, city and graduation year if you are a Campbell alumnus.

Thank you for the recent piece about former Campbell basketball star Cordell Wise in the Winter 2014-15 edition of Campbell Magazine.

It is a travesty that Cordell wasn’t long ago named to the Campbell University Athletics Hall of Fame.

After Fred McCall left the basketball program to become Campbell’s vice president for institutional development, Wise in his senior year was the acknowledged star of coach Danny Roberts’ very first Campbell hoops squad. In the Winter of 196970, Cordell led the hoopsters to a 24-7 win record — the absolute best recorded at Campbell to that point and the NAIA District 29 Title in the Fayetteville championship game over much favored Elizabeth City State.

Wise was one of the most dynamic athletes I’ve seen in my 66 years and without a doubt the greatest to play on any athletic team for Campbell during my years there, including the NAIA soccer squads.

The roof numerous times was literally blown off the rafters of cozy Carter Gymnasium next to the post office when Wise made astounding moves to the basket never before seen on the Campbell campus. For our raucous sold-out big games, the late official Lou Bello — acknowledged as the most colorful referee in the history of ACC basketball — was often brought in to officiate and maintain control.

It seemed the bigger the game, the better Wise looked, bringing down the house with his skill.

As I sit here looking at my 1970 edition of the Pine Burr yearbook, scanning down the column of basketball scores on page 148, some of the most pleasant memories of my life are rekindled.

I don’t know how it goes today as

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Campbell has grown, but that season we had car caravans following the Camels to High Point, Wilson and Fayetteville. Not only was Wise named MVP in the District 29 Tournament at Cumberland County Auditorium in Fayetteville, his play in large part was responsible for Roberts being named District 29 Coach of the Year in his inaugural season.

Occasionally, I had to miss a game my senior year when I was on duty as a dormitory proctor at Kitchen Hall. Even then, when Wise scored, the huge crescendo of sound emanating from Carter Gym could be heard across the campus.

Cordell Wise should know that he was admired and respected by many Campbell students who didn’t know him personally. He brought to us

some of the greatest excitement I have ever experienced.

In mid-May 1970, when Wise was signed to a pro basketball contract with the Carolina Cougars of the American Basketball Association, it capped off a great year for the Campbell campus and brought us much pride at the recognition we all felt for our school.

It was a very special time for Campbell when he was on the court.

Now he needs to receive his due.

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Story rekindled memories of a different time I was a four-year starter on the baseball team and worked as a student assistant for the basketball team in the late 1960s. I want to congratulate Campbell Magazine for thinking of Cordell Wise and writing this article.

It would have been hard for many of us to put into words as you did

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so well the experiences we all lived through in the late 60s in Buies Creek — especially when it came to Cordell.

A Hall of Famer because of talent and perseverance

For me, arriving in Buies Creek as an 18-year-old from Pennsylvania and never having been exposed to any racial issues, I was quick to learn that Harnett County had the highest registered members of the Ku Klux Klan in the state of North Carolina, and the state had the highest registered members of KKK members in the United States. So it was easy to conclude that the area was pretty much “ground zero” for KKK memberships.

Seeing cross burnings was something I never would have experienced in Pennsylvania.

We learned that first hand when Cordell arrived on campus. Your article was right on all points, including the story of him being refused service at the grocery story, the place where we would go for late night hot dogs and hamburgers.

I was the one you referred to who demanded that Cordell be served.

I have one other interesting story that I personally shared with Cordell that he did not share with you. As was stated, Campbell was a “suitcase school” and only us Northerners were on campus most weekends. One weekend, a fellow by the name of John Bubb, Cordell and myself went to the movies in Dunn. As we approached the outside ticket booth, the young lady asked that we wait a minute while she went into the theater to check something.

Being a naïve Northerner, I had no idea what she was checking. I soon found out. She returned with the manager, and he informed us we could buy tickets, but we would have to sit in the balcony. Again, being naïve, I thought the theater must be full. We entered the theater and followed the manager up to the balcony.

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Words can not express how deeply I agree with the article that appeared in Campbell Magazine — it certainly reminded me that life moves on, but memories last forever.

Cordell Wise was my teammate both in high school and at Campbell, as well as my roommate in college. It is amazing that just today, my wife and I were traveling back to our home in Florida and we were discussing this very subject.

saw about 10 other people in the theater.

There was a divider in the balcony separating the first three rows from the back of the balcony, and the manager escorted us to the top section. It was only then that I realized what was happening. John and I are both white, but because Cordell was with us, we had to sit in the “black” section.

people you could ever meet. This was in addition to him being a great athlete on our freshman basketball team.

On the court, at 6-foot-2, he was a great leaper and rebounder. He was smart, and he knew how the game should be played. He was probably the best passer I’d ever seen. He was going to have a great career at Temple.

I thank you again for doing that article. It reminded me of that story, which I think about often. In spite of recent nationwide issues, we as a nation have come a long way from the 60s in Buies Creek.

I remember our last conversation, although it was 50 years ago. At the end of the semester, Cordell told me he was not returning to Temple.

I didn’t know why. I just knew I was sad and would miss him.

BOB HAGER (’69)

I’m not surprised to read about the impact he had at Campbell and, later, as a teacher and coach. I have fond memories of Cordell Wise the basketball player and even better memories of Cordell Wise the person.

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Memories from Temple I enjoyed reading about Cordell Wise. I knew him when we were both freshmen at Temple University in 1964-65. He was personable, smart and humble; one of the finest

JOEL WEISS

Cordell should be inducted into the Campbell Athletic Hall of Fame, not only because he was a great player at Campbell, but he managed to achieve his success despite very difficult circumstances that most of us could never imagine let alone experience.

When this long overdue induction occurs, please give his friends a heads up, so that we can arrange to be there.

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Cordell played important role I am so very glad that Cordell Wise’s achievements on and off the court will not go unrecognized and unappreciated.

If there is ever a list of those who have played a role in the development of Campbell University over the past 50 years, the name Cordell Wise should appear.

Thank you for bringing attention to this pioneer.

BILL SILVESTER (’69)

By The Numbers

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Early-season winning streak for Campbell’s baseball team, enough to vault the Camels into the national rankings in late March.

The streak — which ran from Feb. 22 to March 15 — included wins over Virginia Tech, East Carolina and a three-game sweep of Bowling Green. The 14 wins were the second-longest stretch in school history, and Campbell’s 17-2 start was the program’s best through 19 games.

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The number of Harnett County children who benefited from the physician assistant and public health programs’ Give Kids a Smile free dental clinic in February for children whose families do not have insurance. The two programs, along with volunteers from the ECU School of Dental Medicine and the Harnett County Department of Health, worked alongside each other to provide free dental examinations, cleanings, sealants, fluoride treatments, general health screenings and information sessions on the importance of oral hygiene.

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The distance in miles the bronze statue of J.A. Campbell traveled from San Diego to its permanent home in front of Kivett Hall in Buies Creek in February. The 7-foot, 500-pound bronze statue was unveiled before a crowd of 500 during Founders Week. Jon Hair, of Concord, sculpted the statue, which was welded together by 25 individual bronze pieces.

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Last fall, Campbell University dedicated the newly renovated portion of campus in the Academic Circle as D. Rich Commons. The centerpiece of the renovations is an 8-foot-across University seal set in blue stone marble. The seal, in addition to the new bronze statue of founder J.A. Campbell, have become popular photo spots for Campbell students. | Photo by Bill Parish

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The estimated economic impact [in dollars] Campbell had on the seven-county region surrounding it in the 2012-13 fiscal year.

That impact includes payroll, operations, the purchase of goods and services, startup companies, and spending generated by students and alumni. Campbell’s total impact is the equivalent of creating 7,055 new jobs. Students who attended Campbell in 2012-13 paid $77.7 million to cover the cost of tuition, fees, books and supplies. In return, they will receive a present value of $555 million increased earning over their working lives.

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around Campus Senior Tanner Johnson (left) portrayed Campbell University founder J.A. Campbell — donning spectacles, a pork pie hat and the mustache "Jim Arch” was known for — during Founders Week in February. Johnson attended a men’s basketball game that week and helped judge a J.A. Campbell look-alike contest at halftime. | Photo by Bennett Scarborough 6

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BigSURS ‘15

Campbell teams shine as both competitor and host in Big South academic symposium

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ampbell University’s first foray into hosting the Big South Undergraduate Research Symposium was an indisputable success with 16 students or teams receiving firstplace honors and one Camel taking home the top honor for best overall presentation.

Megan Lenaghan (pictured), a junior mathematics major from Norwell, Mass., and her oral presentation on the historic chain of events that led to what we know today as modern statistics was named the top overall presentation for the 7th annual BigSURS event, a two-day event showcasing the best and brightest student researchers from the Big South and other regional schools.

Lenaghan, who switched from biochemistry to math her sophomore year because she enjoyed her calculus courses so much, said modern statistics goes all the way back to early Romans, who used methods to collect a census of their citizens. That knowledge was lost during the Dark Ages, and later rediscovered by Europeans in the 1500s.

“It begs the question — we’re working with statistics now in such an innovative way, ways that I’m sure could not have been understood even 50 years ago — what could possibly happen to reshape the field now?” she said.

In their comments, judges liked Lenaghan’s “informative and detailed” presentation, with one commenting it “motivated me to possibly take a course called History of Math.” Her prize for the win was a Nook donated by Campbell’s Barnes & Noble book store.

“I was a little overwhelmed when I heard that I had won,” Lenaghan said, “because it’s such

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an honor. I’m very pleased with getting the recognition, though.”

More than 260 students from 19 schools took part in this year’s symposium, showcasing their work through oral and poster presentations, as well as an intercollegiate juried art exhibit held in the Fine Arts Building during the Friday evening dessert reception. Campbell history professor and BigSURS Undergraduate Research Committee Co-Chairman Salvatore Mercogliano said Campbell’s efforts to host its first large-scale symposium was two years in the making after the 2013 event at High Point University. He said the University’s goal, aside from making it a success, was to promote the “scope and scale of undergraduate research” at Campbell.

“While many departments support their students’ research, there is little visibility outside their own subject areas,” Mercogliano said. “BigSURS promotes an interdisciplinary and intercollegiate approach to promoting undergraduate research.

As we continue to grow and develop, research is an area that we will need to promote and facilitate in the years to come as our graduate programs continue to grow and develop.”

BigSURS was also Campbell’s time to shine for many first-time visitors from rival schools.

Oral sessions were held in both D. Rich and the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business, poster presentations took place in the Pope Convocation Center and Taylor Bott Rogers hosted the art show, forcing guests to see entire campus during their two-day stay. “Overall, the students were very impressed with the setup and loved the campus,” Mercogliano said. “The previous hosts, from Winthrop and High Point, all commented on the good showing that Campbell provided and it is hoped that this conference could serve as a template for future symposiums and conferences.”

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PLAN BEE

Student’s research in declining bee colonies inspires department Over the past 20 years, the world’s honeybees have declined both suddenly and mysteriously.

Their loss, should the trend continue, would be catastrophic — a third of the food we eat relies on pollinating insects, and a world without bees would also mean a world without flowers and honey.

Health sciences junior Paige Phillips joined the fight to save bee-kind years ago when she and her husband raised their own hives containing more than 300,000 bees. Phillips, along with Campbell biology professors Sharon Mason and John Bartlett, are heading Campbell’s BEE (Back it, Educate it, Enrich it) Project and are taking the fight to Buies Creek. In researching honeybees and the effects of pesticides, the trio have secured the purchase of three hives that will find a home on Kivett Road just north of campus.

Phillips presented her research at this year’s BigSURS event. Her oral presentation, “A frightening world without bees; what will we do?” focused on pesticides and how scientists believe they’re leading to the decline in population and pollen production. Her research was born from a lifelong interest in bees, which became a passion when she and her husband purchased a hive and beekeeping equipment from a farmer who had lost all but one of his hives to Colony Collapse Disorder.

"That hive survived and did very well, with many bees to follow,” Phillips said. "That made me very curious about CCD, so my research began from there. If you’ve ever watched bees work, you’d see what amazing creatures they are. They are really fascinating to watch.”

CCD is the most important potential environmental disaster that nobody’s talking about, Phillips said. There has been a 40-percent decline in commercial honeybees in the United States since 2006, according to Greenpeace.

“When the bees start dying, it is clearly an alarm that our environment is not stable,” Phillips said.

“Sure, we can eat food that is not pollinated, but I prefer to have a variety of fruits, vegetables and nuts in my diet, as well as food with color. One day, these may not be available. Or if they are, they may be created in a lab or sold through a window, with some unknown ingredients. No thank you ... not for me and my family."

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Around Campus Ceremony ushers in Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing

Photo by Bennett Scarborough

On March 25, Campbell’s new nursing program became a school, and ground was officially broken for the facility that will house it.

The morning began with the Board of Trustees’ Executive Committee approving the establishment and naming of the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing, Campbell’s eighth school (the med school was No. 7 in 2013, and engineering will be No. 9 in 2016). The school will call the 72,000-square-foot Tracey F. Smith Hall of Nursing & Health Sciences home beginning in fall 2016, and will share the facility with the Doctor of Physical Therapy, occupational therapy and medical research programs.

BREAKING NEW GROUND (AGAIN)

Ceremony serves as motivation for nursing hopefuls With only 50 seats open when Campbell University’s new Bachelor of Science in Nursing program goes into effect in fall of 2016, the stakes are high for the approximately 114 freshmen and sophomores who have declared pre-nursing as their major.

Campbell began a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program last August with 85 students enrolled in its first seminar. Currently there are 114 students enrolled in the pre-nursing tract.

“This is a cause that is needed,” Campbell President Jerry M. Wallace said at the ceremony. “Our philosophy of health sciences at Campbell is that we treat the whole person — body, mind and spirit. . . . Today we extend that mission.”

For the sizeable group of those nursing hopefuls, the March 25 formal dedication of the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing and groundbreaking ceremony for the Tracey F. Smith Hall of Nursing & Health Sciences offered a glimpse of what those students can expect should they make the cut.

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Construction on the $22 million facility is expected to be completed by the spring of 2016. The building will be adjacent to the Leon Levine Hall of Medical Sciences located on Campbell’s Health Sciences Campus off U.S. 421, in Lillington, less than a mile west of the school’s main campus.

The facility will house state-of-the-art labs, clinical skills spaces, open research space, and large classrooms and study areas; and will eventually house more than 320 students. The building will be a major piece in Campbell’s efforts to become a leader in interprofessional health care education.

And undoubtedly, they liked what they saw.

“Campbell already does a great job in helping us build our interprofessional relationships,” said second-year physical therapy student Sara Marsico of Raleigh. A member of the program’s inaugural class, Marsico will have graduated by the time the new facility opens, but she and her classmates will have access to it to study for their board exams after graduation.

“Being here motivates me even more to work harder,” said freshman and pre-nursing major Meghan Brady of Robbins. “I know the competition is tough, and that’s why I’ve gotten as involved as possible. But being out here today, it’s exciting. Hearing the speakers has only confirmed that this is what I want to do. I’m in the right spot.”

Among the speakers at the ceremony — which included Campbell University administration, trustees, health care professionals and elected officials — freshman Emily Grace Harris (pictured) spoke on behalf of the students and said watching her grandmother battle Alzheimer’s and witnessing the care provided by dedicated nurses led her to choose nursing as a profession.

Of the 300-plus on hand for the ceremony under the big white tent on Campbell’s Health Sciences Campus, many were pre-nursing students or first- or second-year students in Campbell’s new Doctor of Physical Therapy program.

“I watched nurses with compassion and concern truly connect with her and make a difference,” Harris said. “I saw how one nurse had the ability to change a bad day into a good one. I believe nursing is more of a calling than a job. And I’m thankful I can pursue this calling at Campbell.”

Campbell began a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program last August with 85 students enrolled in its first seminar. Only 50 students will be admitted into the bachelor program in 2016.

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The Big

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A glance at the four programs that will call the Tracey F. Smith Hall of Nursing & Health Sciences home in 2016

Nursing The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program has been cultivated tirelessly since its approval by the Campbell Board of Trustees in April 2013 through the development of a quality leadership team consisting of Director Nancy Duffy and Assistant Director Sandra Goins.

Through their efforts, the program received approval from the North Carolina Board of Nursing in January 2014 and from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) in August.

“I think that there is a need to change in how nursing students are educated, and we are facilitating that change at Campbell,” Duffy says. “In reality, health care is about quality care for the patient. It is outside the walls of a hospital.

That is why I am so excited about our new building.”

Physical Therapy

Occupational Therapy

Medical Research

Announced in the fall of 2011, the Campbell Board of Trustees voted to bring a Doctor of Physical Therapy program to Buies Creek as another effort to train qualified practitioners to meet anticipated shortages in the health care industry.

The Campbell Board of Trustees approved this past fall starting a Doctor of Occupational Therapy degree program in August 2016.

Last August, about a year after opening, the Campbell University Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine received its first federal grant — $300,000 from the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institutes for a three-year project led by Dr. Yunbo Li that will focus on the relationship between chemotherapy and chronic heart failure.

Two classes are currently matriculating through the program with a third being hand-picked from a competitive pool of more than 175 applicants. Each class of 40 boasts an average cumulative GPA of 3.35 with over half of the students having experience with rural areas. This reinforces Campbell’s dedication to educating quality health care providers to eliminate rural health care disparities. One unique aspect is a month-long clinical rotation between the first and second year of didactic instruction.

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Occupational therapists treat injured, ill or disabled patients through the therapeutic use of everyday activities. They help patients develop, recover and improve the skills needed for daily living and work. About half of occupational therapists work in offices of occupational therapy or in hospitals. Others work in schools, nursing homes, physicians’ offices and home health services.

Over the next 10 years, the job outlook for occupational therapists are projected to jump nearly 30 percent, with the need expected to grow even more as baby boomers continue to age and live longer.

The new facility will be critical in opening up the doors to more collaborative research projects and grants like this one. The building will include 7,000 square feet of open research space, state-of-the-art equipment, and the latest technologies that nurture a robust research program — vital to attracting top faculty members and giving students access to high-level residency programs.

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Around Campus

First Citizens gives $250K toward new learning center Lundy-Fetterman School of Business received a $250,000 gift from First Citizens Bank to support the establishment of a wealth management center that will expand experiential learning and research opportunities for students, faculty, and the community.

The Campbell Board of Trustees’ Executive Committee approved the construction and naming of the First Citizens Wealth Management Center on March 25. First Citizens Bank provided the lead gift for the $1 million project.

The new, state-of-the-art center will serve as a learning lab that simulates an investment firm environment, a trading room and a trust center. It will be equipped with the latest tools, technology and data that business leaders, commercial banks and financial advisors around the world use.

Business School announces new finance major The School of Business will offer an undergraduate major in finance beginning with the 2015-16 academic year. The new major will provide students an opportunity to learn how to analyze and successfully navigate financial markets.

Campbell Business dean Keith Faulkner says students who complete the 124-hour course of study will be positioned to succeed as leaders in financial planning, banks, real estate, insurance, credit and financial analysis, investments and other leading financial fields.

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view from Selma

Campbell senior reflects on his trip to Selma for the 50th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’

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was standing before a bridge. Not just any bridge — the bridge. The bridge that was left stained with the blood that sparked so much 50 years ago.

Hanging on to every word of the epic speeches orated from the stage in front of the bridge, I remember one reflection as though it were just uttered.

Fifty years later, the stage before the bridge is full of faces — the faces of great leaders, the kind whose decisions make the history books and whose names evoke emotion, crowd the stage while speeches that will go on to be quoted fill the air.

“We all have our own Edmund Pettus Bridge to cross.”

As leaders of the free world stand before me and make remarks my children will one day hear as history, I’m dumbfounded.

With the hot Alabama sun burning my pale neck, I’m at a loss for words. Being in Selma feels like a step back in time. Everywhere my eye could see was a piece of history.

Like stepping into the popular motion picture, I was physically surrounded by the sights and scenes the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement would have seen just before putting their life on the line.

My heart weighed heavy with the magnitude of the sacrifices made as I drank in every sight and sound, standing in a sea of tens of thousands who waited for hours simply to remember.

I couldn’t tell you who said it. His name isn’t one for the annals of history. He spoke in the section of the program before presidents were on the stage. He’s just a pastor, like my father.

Yet, his brief message illuminated so much.

Causing me to question my own courage and likelihood that I would have stood up and marched 50 years ago that day, the perspective he offered made the idea that the march continues on so real. The struggle for a more equal and just society never ends because we all have our bridge to cross.

Though my bridge may seem so small, so inadequate, and so insignificant in the shadow of that bridge, this is how the movement lives on. Being on that bridge 50 years later is an honor I’ll never forget. My only hope is that when I’m there, I’ll be able to remember.

“We all have our own Edmund Pettus Bridge to cross.”

Louis Duke is a senior communications studies major

The founding dean

Louisiana Tech’s Jenna P. Carpenter to lead launch of Campbell’s School of Engineering

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enna P. Carpenter, a highly-regarded national figure in STEM education, will be the founding dean of Campbell University’s proposed School of Engineering launching in 2016.

Tech and her master’s and Ph.D. in mathematics from Louisiana State University, where she was an Alumni Federation Fellow. She joined the Louisiana Tech faculty in 1989 and quickly rose to hold critical leadership positions.

Carpenter is a professor, associate dean for undergraduate studies and director of the Office for Women in Science and Engineering at Louisiana Tech University’s College of Engineering and Science. She also holds key leadership positions in several prestigious national engineering organizations, including serving as chair of the National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program. She is a 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Fellow and a national evaluator for the ABET accreditation program.

For 10 years, she was a director in the College of Engineering and Science, which involved serving as department chair for the college’s engineering programs and guiding them through successful re-accreditation. She later led the formulation and implementation of the college’s strategic plan during her five-year tenure as associate dean for administration and strategic initiatives. In her current role as associate dean of undergraduate studies, Carpenter recruits prospective students to the college’s eight engineering, four science and two engineering technology undergraduate degree programs. She also has broad oversight for the undergraduate curriculum, policies and program across all 14 programs.

“I am genuinely excited about joining the Campbell family. I am looking forward to working together to build an outstanding engineering school in the Campbell tradition of excellence,” Carpenter said. “I have been truly impressed by the clear vision, wise leadership and solid planning behind this endeavor. This foundation, along with Campbell’s values, dedicated faculty and staff, and strong students, are really what attracted me to the campus.”

A Corsicana, Texas, native, Carpenter earned her bachelor’s in mathematics from Louisiana

Carpenter’s research focuses on integrated STEM curricula and improving the number and success of women in engineering. Projects supported

by National Science Foundation grants she has worked on as the principal or co-principal investigator include “Creating a Culture of Success for Women in Engineering and Science” and “A Women in Engineering Knowledge Center: Informing Research, Practice, and Institutional Change.”

Education: Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Louisiana Tech University (1983); Master of Science in Mathematics, Louisiana State University (1986); Ph.D. in Mathematics, Louisiana State University (1989) Experience: Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies (2013-present); Professor (2006-present); Associate Dean for Administration and Strategic Initiatives (2008-2013); Director (19982008); Associate Professor (19952006); Coordinator, MathStat Computer Lab (1994-1995); Assistant Professor (1989-1995) -- College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech.

Service: Vice President of Professional Interest Councils and Chair of Professional Interest Council III on the Board of Directors for American Society for Engineering Education; Louisiana-Mississippi Governor for the Mathematical Association of America; Chair of the National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program; President, Director of Professional Development on the WEPAN (Women in Engineering ProActive Network) Board of Directors

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Recent Notable Awards: American Society for Engineering Education Fellow (2013); Women in Engineering ProActive Network Distinguished Service Award (2013); American Society for Engineering Education Mathematics Division Distinguished Educator and Service Award (2006); Wayne and Juanita Spinks Endowed Professorship (2004-present)

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PROUD Adriana & Marcos Rosado Health science siblings Campbell University’s health programs are built on interprofessional education. Students in different health programs learn, study, and prepare for their future careers alongside each other. This mirrors today’s changing health settings, which are becoming increasingly collaborative and patient-centered in order to improve health outcomes.

Adriana (’14) and Marcos (’13) Rosado, of Dunn, epitomize the interprofessional model.

They are sister and brother — one year and 11 days apart in ages — and both are students in health programs at Campbell. She is a first-year Doctor of Physical Therapy student, and he is a second-year medical school student.

They both also received their undergraduate degrees from Campbell — she in athletic training, and he in chemistry with a minor in biology. She plans to eventually be a physical therapist specializing in pediatrics and working in a rural community in North Carolina while continuing to be a certified athletic training, and he is eye-balling a medical career in general surgery or internal medicine.

Though in different programs and with different career goals, they’re “bouncing things off each other .. about a couple times a week,” Adriana says. That’s useful, Marcos adds. “We know different things and come from things with a different perspective. That allows us to help each other out.”

It is also preparing them for today’s health environments. “A lot of the professional programs here are focused on rural communities,” Adriana says. “A lot of communities don’t have the health professionals they need. They have to drive to the cities to get care, and that’s not right in my eyes. I feel like they should have someone here who they should see. Campbell is addressing their needs.”

“Campbell is really blowing up,” her brother adds. “When we were in high school, I remember driving on Highway 421 in Lillington, and there was a big empty field there. Now, there’s a medical school, and I’m going to school there. That’s because Campbell is responding to the health needs of North Carolina. We have a shortage of health professionals in the state; and by setting up the new medical school and the health programs, Campbell has expanded its offerings to better serve the state.”

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Proud Faculty Awards

Mercogliano named Professor of the Year

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ampbell University recognized 17 faculty members for excellence in teaching, research and service and honored more than three-dozen seniors for excellence in academic achievement, leadership and service during the annual Senior & Faculty Awards Banquet held April 22, in Gore Arena.

Among those faculty members recognized was assistant professor of history Sal Mercogliano, who was named Campbell’s Professor of the Year.

Also the recipient of the College of Arts & Sciences’ Excellence in Teaching Award, Mercogliano teaches courses in

U.S. history and western civilization, and is the author of “Sealift: The Evolution of American Military Sea Transportation.”

“This award is a result of the passion Mercogliano has exemplified [time and again],” said Cole Harris, chair of Student Government Association’s academic committee.

University-wide awards for teaching excellence were also presented to Jennifer Dixon Smith, associate professor of pharmacy practice, and Gary Taylor, chair of the pscyhology department.

Awards by school Adult & Online Education: Herman Martin (teaching) College of Arts & Sciences: Sal Mercogliano (teaching) College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences: James A. Boyd (teaching) Divinity School: Bruce Powers (teaching) School of Business: James Harriss (research) School of Law: Sarah H. Lundington (research) School of Education: David Dennis (teaching) School of Osteopathic Medicine: Dr. Yunbo Li (research) Wiggins Memorial Library: LaKeshia Darden (teaching) D.P. Russ Jr. & Walter S. Jones Sr. Alumni Awards • Research Excellence: Jennifer Dixon Smith, Pharmacy Practice • Teaching Excellence: Gary Taylor, Psychology

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Around Campus

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Campbell’s Biggest Fan | Basketball Hall of Famer and current TNT analyst Reggie Miller requested a Camel hoodie while a guest on NBCSports’ Dan Patrick Show in March (Patrick regularly includes Camel gear in the background of his show). After hearing of the request, Campbell’s athletic department was on it. They shipped Miller his very own hoodie, and Miller showed off his new threads on Instagram while in Malibu, California.

Emergency medicine residency approved The Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine will team with Southeastern Health in Lumberton to create the school’s first emergency medicine residency program. The program received full accreditation status from the American Osteopathic Association and will be transitioning to accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education as the two accrediting bodies unify over the next five years.

The program will supply “caring and expert emergency department physicians the state so desperately needs,” according to Dr. Robert Hasty, associate dean of postgraduate affairs at Campbell. “We are thrilled for this approval,” Hasty said, “and I know it is going to make a big difference for the communities who will benefit by having these well-trained physicians.”

Campbell’s medical school has committed to developing residency programs around the state for its graduates, especially in hospitals positioned to meet the needs of rural and underserved communities.

According to the National Rural Health Association, 75 percent of residency graduates from rural programs will practice in rural locations.

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National Champions | South Texas Challenge Campbell Law student advocates collected the national championship at the prestigious South Texas Mock Trial Challenge for the second time in three years on March 29. Third-year students Terry Brown Jr., Lauren Fussell, and Kaitlin Rothecker won every single trial in all seven rounds of the competition, an unprecedented 22 of 23 ballots, on their way to taking home the winning Treece-O’Quinn Championship Trophy.

Spring Break

Campbell students spent their Spring Break serving, learning, competing, relaxing, cheering on Camels and tracking down camels. Three of those students spent their week off to do mission work — ministering and working to help those less fortunate. They share their experiences below:

Andrew Ryan Hall

Sharing the message of Jesus

CUBA Life [in Cuba] might be physically oppressed, but liberation can still occur through letting your spirit free. This is the message that we carried to these Cubans from home to home. Our work in Cuba had never became more important than when we were given the opportunity to share a message of hope to people who no longer had hope.

Our team was given the chance to evangelize to a Cuban family. When we began sharing the prepared scripture with them I saw that the son still had a hard heart. By seeing his obstinacy towards accepting the Word, I became divinely inspired to share my personal experiences of pride and sense of self-righteousness. With this personal connection, he became more open to the spirit.

Kayla Roberts

Katlyn Clark

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HAWAII

Throughout the week I learned to be more aware of the struggles that homeless people are facing, not only in D.C., but also at home. It is so easy to get caught up in our day-to-day lives that we don’t notice the pain others around us are facing. In D.C., the homeless people aren’t even allowed to go to the bathroom in most public places without making a purchase. It is so sad that they are treated as if they don’t matter.

I went to Hawaii with two other students to work with the International Baptist Fellowship group at The University of Hawaii at Manoa. Our first event was a coffee outreach on campus within a dorm that is known for housing international students. I was able to talk to students from Korea, China, Japan, Brazil and others.

I was able to build a bond with a few students by having similar characteristics whether it was going shopping or having a fear of chickens.

Seeing their struggles up close

One of the most meaningful experiences I had was being able to eat lunch with a homeless man at Christ House. He shared with us his story and the struggles that he has been through. It was so amazing to see and hear how God has worked in his life to help him become a better man.

Connecting with new friends

One of my favorite moments was when we did a worship session with just a few of us left one night. I was able to hear a couple of the girls sing a hymnal in their own language. It was heartwarming knowing that we were singing out to God, and it did not matter how we looked on the outside.

Happy to be Here | Campbell’s Accepted Student’s Day on April 18 was a hit with the incoming Class of 2019. Sarah Kilian of Troutman, posted several "selfies” with friends throughout the day on Twitter (@kilian_sarah) — this one with the comment, "Thanks @campbelledu for having a perfect Accepted Students Day! Can’t wait to officially be a Camel!"

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President-Elect J. Bradley Creed shook every hand in Buies Creek during a two-day meet-and-greet event in January

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is tie off, the top button of his shirt relieved, J. Bradley Creed could finally take a load off in the business suite at PNC Arena, site of that night’s Carolina Hurricanes-St. Louis Blues hockey game.

After two straight days of speeches, hand-shaking, small talk, big talk and questions, Creed — chosen three weeks earlier as Campbell University’s fifth president — said watching professional hockey was the closest he’d come to “relaxation” since arriving in Buies Creek for his first official meet-and-greet event on Jan. 29. Asked about the whirlwind trip, his only scheduled public event before he officially takes over on July 1, Creed exhaled and smiled.

“It’s been great. Busy, but great,” he said moments before a Canes goal drowned out the rest of his answer. “It’s going to take a while to put names to all the faces I’ve met, so I just hope everyone will be patient with me. I’ve had a great time both days; I’m energized by the people here. And I’ll sure sleep well tonight.”

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Meet The Creeds

During his 12 years as Samford’s provost, Creed has led multiple transformational initiatives, including the launch of the university’s College of Health Sciences in 2013 and the addition of more than two-dozen new or upgraded undergraduate and graduate programs. He also played a key role in strategic enrollment efforts designed to increase the size, retention and academic quality of the undergraduate student body.

Prior to joining Samford, Creed was professor of Christian history, associate dean and dean at the George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Earlier in his career, he served as pastor of churches in Texas and Louisiana.

A Jacksonville, Texas, native, Creed received a bachelor of arts in religion from Baylor University, graduating cum laude. He earned his Master of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.

Creed’s wife, Kathy, is an educator by training and previously was a public school teacher and administrator in Texas and Louisiana. The Creeds’ family includes son Charles, of Plano, Texas; daughter Carrie Grace, a firstyear student at Samford; and one grandson, James Noble Creed. Their daughter, Caitlin, died in 2007 during her freshman year in college.

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J. Bradley Creed is currently provost, executive vice president, and professor of religion at Samford University, a private Christian university in Birmingham, Ala.

That so many were eager to meet Campbell’s next president — the crowd for his opening speech to faculty and staff overflowed Butler Chapel — can be explained by the rarity of Creed’s election. When he is sworn in, Creed will be only the fifth president in Campbell’s 128-year history. By comparison, UNC-Chapel Hill has had 20 presidents and chancellors in that same timespan, and N.C. State (founded the same year as Campbell) has had 18.

“I had colleagues tell me there was a misprint in my announcement,” Creed said in his introductory speech to faculty and staff. “They said there should be a ‘one’ in front of that ‘five.’ No, I’ll be the fifth president … which alone tells you about the strong, sustained leadership this school is used to.”

Creed himself is an accomplished leader and is no stranger to mission-driven institutions like Campbell. A nationally-recognized historian of religion, Creed will remain as provost and executive vice president at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., through the spring semester. Before Samford, he served as dean of The George W. Truett Seminary at Baylor University in his home state of Texas.

He will be Campbell’s first “outsider” president — founder J.A. Campbell named his son Leslie Campbell as his successor, President No. 3 Norman A. Wiggins was a Campbell graduate and current President Jerry Wallace served as a professor and administrator at Campbell under Wiggins for over 30 years

before taking over in 2003. The search was Campbell’s first national search — headed by a committee of trustees, faculty, staff, alumni and students and managed by an outside agency — yet Creed’s election on Jan. 2 came a full two to three months before the anticipated selection date.

“Just from his resume and our initial investigation of him, it was clear he was a strong candidate before we ever met him,” said Ben Thompson, chairman of the Board of Trustees and director of the search committee.

“We talked to a number of outstanding candidates, but Dr. Creed rose to the top initially. Just in those first five minutes during his first interview, he made everyone feel at ease. I had the sense in my heart, and I think many others on the committee did as well, that God led us to the right candidate.”

Creed and his wife, Kathy, flew to North Carolina for his election on Jan. 2, and that afternoon, he spoke to media and met more of the administration. Their daughter Carrie Grace joined them three weeks later for the two-day event, which also included stops at a few barbecue joints and a quick tour of Raleigh and other neighboring areas.

“The school has been very hospitable and warm from the beginning,” Creed said. “We felt a very strong calling to this place, and we’re very excited about this and looking forward to the days ahead.”

soil and improve upon it. I want to maximize the strengths here.

One of the first questions lobbed at Creed and his wife during a luncheon with student leaders in the Alumni Room at Marshbanks Hall had nothing to do with Creed’s career or his plans for Campbell.

“Obviously, there are some things we need to address right away,” he added. “And I’m going to do that. But I’m also going to spend a lot of time listening.”

One student simply wanted to know the story of how a young J. Bradley met his future wife.

The answer involved two kids from two Texas towns just minutes apart. J. Bradley’s father was Kathy’s dentist since she was 4. Before she attended Baylor University, her dentist suggested she call his son.

She never did, of course, but the two ran into each other at First Baptist Church in Waco.

“I know you. You’re Brad Creed,” she told the young religion major at the time. “Your dad’s my dentist.”

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The students asked him about his thoughts on Greek Life, which is still fairly new with five social fraternities and sororities popping up on campus in the last two years. His answer — it’s important to have groups where a student feels like he or she belongs, whether it’s a fraternity or any other type of club or group on campus.

As for the possibility of a new student center — “I sense that this is a priority,” Creed said.

“But by taking kind of a ‘windshield’ tour of the campus, I can see something like that is missing.

There’s a lot of interest and support for it.”

The questions became a little more thoughtprovoking and forward-thinking as the luncheon went on. When asked about what he’d like to change about Campbell, Creed was careful to avoid sounding like a man ready to come in and shake things up.

“I’m not like a developer who comes in and says he’s going to tear this and this down and start all over,” he told the crowd of about 25 students. “I’m more like a farmer, and I realize there’s already activity in the soil here. I’m here trying to see what will best cooperate with that

Creed mentions Texas a lot when talking about his first impressions of Buies Creek and all of central North Carolina. Jacksonville, Texas, he says, is located in the heart of the Piney Woods region of the state. Like the Piedmont, it’s stocked with thick pine forests and rolling hills, small one-stoplight towns and hole-inthe-wall barbecue places (though the ones in Texas specialize in beef rather than pork).

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“That was in October of that year,” Creed told the students. “We were married the following August.”

“Harnett County looks a whole lot like the county I grew up in,” he said, staring down at the rink during the second intermission of his first NHL game in person. “The few times we’ve been here, it’s just confirmed more about the decision that’s been made. We’re looking forward to July 1. It already feels like home here.”

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“Why didn’t you call me?” was Creed’s response.

things you won’t find on J. Bradley Creed’s resume

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He has run 40 road races, including marathons and half marathons, over the last 10 years in nine states and provinces. In the last four out of five years, he has run more than 1,200 miles per year.

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His previous jobs include working at two funeral homes, a discount store, a plastics manufacturing plant, a bookstore and an electric supply company. He has also sold insulation, hauled hay and driven a school bus.

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He enjoys outdoor activities, including hiking, camping, backpacking, bicycling and kayaking.

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He likes sports and is an enthusiastic supporter of his school’s teams. He is also a NASCAR fan and attends the races at Talladega Superspeedway every year.

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He and his wife, Kathy, enjoy hosting students and other guests in their home. This past semester at Samford University they hosted a weekly student-led Bible study and discussion group sponsored by Samford’s Office of Spiritual Life.

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HISTORY

Study Abroad coordinator moonlights as the go-to person when it comes to researching Campbell’s early history, and her work played a big part in the success of the University’s first-ever Founders Week

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he picturesque setting for a lazy late spring day — college friends running through the fields, listening to music, lying in the shade without a care in the world — Kivett’s Mill was where Kendra Erickson (’06) first decided she wanted to dive in to the history of Campbell University and learn more about the school she called home.

Erickson, an English major who started her college career at 16, decided to make the mill her senior project. Her 40-page report told the story of Hendricks Kivett, son of Kivett Hall architect Z.T. Kivett, and the mill he built in the early 1900s to provide lumber for the evergrowing Buies Creek Academy. Nine years after her project and graduation, Erickson — now coordinator of Campbell’s Study Abroad program and formerly an adjunct history professor — was asked to help plan an event to honor perhaps the most historical of all events in the University’s history — the school’s founding in 1887.

For Campbell’s first Founders Week, Erickson served as historical advisor and led the creation of the history room — a temporary museum of early-day Campbell artifacts including founder J.A. Campbell’s diary, his wife Cornelia Pearson Campbell’s bell used to signal the beginning and end of classes and several rarely seen photos from the late 1800s.

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“I love, love, love researching history,” says Erickson. “I’ve always considered myself a storyteller — I love hearing stories and sharing them. Everyone has a story. That’s the philosophy behind what I do. Those stories are your identity; they’re tied to your history and your culture.”

Founders Week culminated with the unveiling of a new 7-foot-tall bronze statue of J.A. Campbell in front of Campbell’s oldest building, named for Z.T. Kivett, on Feb. 6. Erickson was instrumental in planning a long-overdue first to go along with that special event — she helped gather descendants of the Campbell and Pearson families for a special luncheon the day of the unveiling.

About 45 members of the families attended — including longtime Campbell supporters and students and faculty dating back to second President Leslie Campbell’s tenure in the 40s and 50s. Erickson got to know the Campbell family while doing her paper on Kivett’s Mill and was able to gather everybody’s contact information thanks to a family reunion scheduled the week before Founder’s Week.

“France Lynch Lloyd [granddaughter of J.A. Campbell] walked me through the family tree, shared some ideas with me and [Director of Annual Giving and Founders Week planner]

Sarah Swain over tea and helped us connect the dots,” Erickson says. “The history is here.

It’s just a matter of knowing who to talk to and where to find it.”

Erickson’s dream for Campbell is to see the creation of a university archivist or historian position, someone dedicated to centralizing historical documents, photos and videos for future generations. There is currently a side room with several historical items in the side room of the Lundy-Fetterman Museum (curated by Dorothea Stewart-Gilbert, one of the many Erickson says has been vital in helping her for Founders Week); and Wiggins Memorial Library has digitally archived several documents, including old newspapers dating back to the 40s.

But more can definitely be done, she says.

“Campbell is growing so fast and producing so much material, it should probably be archived in some manner in a central location, like a museum,” Erickson says. “The founding of the medical school, the upcoming engineering program, the law school moving to Raleigh — it’s all so huge. If we’re not careful, we’ll lose an opportunity to create a foundation for future Campbell history.”

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Leaving his own

LEGACY

Student Jordan Terrell has not only made a documentary about the history of African Americans at Campbell University, he’s created the school’s first club dedicated to the study of African-American history

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ordan Terrell, a broadcasting communication studies major at Campbell University, was working the African American Studies Club booth at the Street Fair last August when a young alumnus asked him: “Who was the first African-American student at Campbell?”

Terrell didn’t know. As the founder of Campbell’s African American Studies Club, “I was a little embarrassed I didn’t already know the answer,” he said. But Terrell assured the former student: “I will do everything in my power to find out the answer.”

His pursuit to find out the answer led him to ultimately document his findings — and more — in the 40-minute documentary “Black History at Campbell.” The African American Studies Club premiered the film on campus in February as part of Black History Month. The film not only traces the history of African Americans at Campbell, it incorporates interviews with some of the first African Americans who attended or worked at the university.

“My main focus was to give those who haven’t always had a voice or platform to share their stories,” said Terrell, who will graduate in May and plans to move to California to pursue a career in entertainment. “The oral history is truly important for this documentary to present

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the experiences of African Americans at Campbell.”

Terrell started digging into the research in October. He began by going directly to Campbell’s registrar’s and alumni offices and asking who were the first male and female African Americans to attend Campbell.

Kendra Erickson, an adjunct in Campbell’s history department, also provided tips and guidance on researching information and photos in University Archives.

Their help led Terrell to discover Cordell Wise was the first African American man to attend Campbell, while Patricia Oates Conway and Marquriette Lawrence share the title as the first African American women to attend Campbell.

For his documentary, Terrell interviewed Conway, who left Campbell after only a year but returned recently to pursue a communication studies degree. He also shadowed her as she visited the room in Day Hall she once shared with Lawrence when they were students in 1968. He captured the moment Conway took her first step into her old dorm room after nearly 40 years. She stood inside it for about a minute, Terrell said, before exiting, “her face completely changed.”

It’s such footage and stories Conway and others share in “Black History at Campbell” that Terrell said are important in capturing the

experiences of those who came before him.

“I know I can’t feel the whole impact of their experiences,” he said, “but just to have a little piece and to share their stories is important and helps make something known what was previously unknown.”

In 2013, during Black History Month, Terrell noticed there was no African American presence at the university in terms of student clubs or organizations. So he started the African American Studies Club. It became official in March 2013 and grew to about two-dozen members by February 2014, when it held its first series of campus-wide events during Black History Month.

One of the events was a showing of a short documentary Terrell made: “What Does Black History Mean to Me.” Other events the club has sponsored include a Culture Dinner, where different groups from across campus shared meals that reflected their culture.

The purpose of the club’s activities is similar to what Terrell hopes today’s students, faculty, staff and alumni get out of his documentary “Black History at Campbell”: “I hope others will go beyond their own normal social circles and speak to others and get to know them. That’s one of the things making this documentary reminded me of: We’re all people, and we all have a story to share.”

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Thank you,

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Cover Story

Dr. Wallace Our gratitude for Jerry Wallaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 45 years of service

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THank You

… for bridging the past to the present A former Baptist preacher, Jerry M. Wallace was no stranger to the altar.

But on Feb. 6, he spoke to a different kind of congregation.

Before him, lining the first five rows of red fabric-covered wooden chairs in scenic Butler Chapel, were the grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren of University founder J.A. Campbell, who started Buies Creek Academy in a much less impressive church house in 1887. For the first time in Wallace’s 45-year career at Campbell — a career that began as a professor and eventually administrator and provost before he became the school’s fourth president in 2003 — the Campbell family was gathered in the same place on the same campus that bears their name.

"The Civil War left the South in shambles and defeat, and at the time, there were no public schools left to educate our children,” Wallace said.

"Private academies began springing up, but most perished like wilted grass in the noonday heat. Buies Creek Academy survived the odds.

Its story is a great story of love, loss, sacrifice and victory."

Later that evening — after a day that began with an important accreditation meeting for the medical school that bears his name and an even more important Founders Week event with the Campbell family — Wallace reflected more on J.A. Campbell’s dream for his school.

"Campbell is still an opportunity school and doing the things I think J.A. Campbell would be proud of."

It was an emotional moment for Wallace, who will retire as president this summer at the young age of 80.

In an hour, he was going to unveil a 7-foot-tall statue of the founder in front of century-old Kivett Hall, the oldest building on campus. But for this moment, Wallace wanted to pay homage to the difficulties Campbell’s founders overcame to build a school that today educates more North Carolinians than any other private school in the state.

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"His dream was to have a school that would help people who otherwise couldn’t afford to get an education,” he said. "I do believe we’re living up to that dream today. Our law school has educated lawyers and sent them to areas of North Carolina that previously didn’t have legal services.

The whole premise of the medical school is to educate physicians who’ll locate and serve the underserved parts of our state and nation. And the fact remains that still today, 30 percent of our undergrads are first-generation college students."

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… for envisioning ‘Campbell Proud’ Two years into his term as chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy, the student newspaper asked Wallace what improvement he thought Campbell needed the most. His answer? “Campbell pride.” The pride, he said, would come by putting “forth our best effort to improve the institution.”

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... for carrying the torch

… for the books

“One of greatest joys in my life is to have worked with Dr. Norman Wiggins.

He was a superb leader, in terms of the quality of a human being, the goodness of a human being and the purity of a human being. When it came time for me to be president, I’d already walked a lot of miles with a very good man. I hope I have carried the torch well. I do believe he would have been pleased with my work.” — Wallace on his predecessor, Norman A. Wiggins

Wallace grew up in a household that had only two books: the Bible and a dictionary. But despite that or perhaps because of that, reading has long been part of Wallace’s daily routine. He has no other hobbies like playing golf or fishing.

Other than that Bible or dictionary, the two books that have meant more to Wallace than any others are C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity” and Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends & Influence People.”

He has not only read them many times over; he has given them to others as graduation gifts more than any other items. Why these books? They outline the keys to success, he says. “You need to have vision and work hard. You also need to learn to smile and say thank you, and find something that excites you.”

THank You

… for defending dreams It was freshman orientation, and Erin Overton was lost. Terrified.

Overwhelmed.

And so were her parents.

Having a daughter majoring in English standing among a sea of parents whose children were incoming pharmacy majors might have been somewhat unsettling for Erin’s parents, she recalls.

"They always told me, ever since I announced I wanted to be an English major in my junior year of high school, that they were nervous about my entering a ‘less practical’ field,” she says. "I’m sure they were really feeling it on that particular day."

But it was on this day that President Wallace made a kind gesture that would begin to change her and parents’ perspective forever. Wallace greeted Erin’s father in the lobby before one of the orientation sessions in which he was about to speak.

"Hello, sir. Welcome to Campbell,” Wallace told them with a smile. "I’m President Wallace. What is your student

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majoring in?"

"English,” Erin’s father replied, with a somewhat ashamed look, she was sure.

Erin wasn’t there for this encounter because she was in the student session, but she says she can only imagine how red her father’s face turned.

"English? Wonderful!” Wallce beamed.

"That major has served me well."

And with that, the president went on to greet another parent. Erin is sure her parents were both standing with mouths agape. The president of a college had been an English major?

That was the beginning of a drastic change that took place in Erin’s family toward her decision to follow her dreams and be an English major.

"Although I have never had a personal conversation with President Wallace, I can tell he values the English department,” Overton says. "He must, considering the outstanding education I have received. When I tell my friends at other colleges the trusting relationships I have with my professors, they are

awestruck. When I tell them how I have been on the edge of my seat in nearly every course I’ve taken in the English department, they are even more amazed.”

Set to graduate this spring, Erin says her professors have also done an outstanding job over the past four years convincing her of the marketable skills one can receive from a liberal arts degree. She says she has now reached the point where she can make most critics of her choice of major, or at least have them meet her halfway when they argue whether it is practical or not — thanks to her "fantastic professors."

"President Wallace’s simple comment started it all,” Overton says. "It was a message that this university valued English, even if the whole rest of the world scoffed at it as the most ‘impractical’ major. President Wallace is living proof that it is not impractical. He and Campbell in general, have challenged me to change the world’s negative perception of my beloved major."

And she’s ready to tell the world when she graduates in May.

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… for seeing it through Wallace originally planned to step down as president in spring 2014. But the wheels he set in motion over a decade ago prevented him from doing so.

Campus renovation projects like D. Rich Commons and sidewalks on Main Street still needed to be done. Ground still needed to be broken on the new facility that will house Campbell’s new nursing and other health science programs. And most importantly, the accreditation process during the first two years of the medical school needed oversight from the man whose idea launched the school in the first place.

“I felt like I needed to stay another year to see the med school through its first two years of education,” Wallace said. “I want to be as helpful as I can be to have things ready for these students before they go to their clinical sites. It’s been a very, very busy year for the school.”

Wallace will officially hand over the reins as president on July 1, just over two months after his 80th birthday.

He will have completed 12 years as president and over 45 years as a professor and administrator at Campbell University. After a year off, he plans to return to Campbell in an honorary chancellor role.

“There are some things I personally want to do with the hope the Lord will give me more bonus years to enjoy,” he said. “But more than all of that, the university is at a stage where it needs new and enthusiastic leadership.

“It’s very unlikely the university will select a 68-year-old person to become president again. But I hope we will look back on my years as president and say it was right for the university. It certainly has been right for me.

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... for giving us Betty When he was a student at East Carolina, Wallace couldn’t afford to buy textbooks for his courses. During the first quarter of his second year, he was in a health class one day when the student sitting behind him told him, “You can use my book.” That student was Betty Blanchard.

Like him, Betty loved sports. (She played basketball in high school all four years.) So for their first date, on Oct. 15, 1953, they went to the freshman football game between East Carolina and N.C. State. Because neither had a car, they courted by walking the streets of Greenville and attending the ball games on campus. Every night, when she got off work from the library, he would walk her back to her dorm. “I trusted him, and I knew he had a strong faith,” Betty says. “He was a good person who was dedicated to doing the right thing.”

To this day, anytime he travels somewhere, he always leaves his wife a handwritten note. “He has never failed to not write me a note,” she says. The most recent: “I U!”

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… for your commitment to service Her first year at East Carolina, Betty Blanchard Wallace took courses in the two-year business degree program. When she started signing up for courses to start her second year, Wallace looked over her schedule. “You’re not going to do this,” he told her.

“Why not?” she asked. “That’s what I came here to do.”

“No, we’re going to change this,” he said.

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education student. She told him: “You’re going to wind up being an admissions director.”

After they married and once their youngest daughter, Kelly, reached kindergarten, she returned to school and finished her education degree at Campbell in 1972. She went on to teach elementary school for 14 years before joining Campbell as director of the curriculum center and retiring in the 1990s. “I loved it,” she says.

Wallace also encouraged his three children to consider one of four professions:

teacher, preacher, lawyer, or doctor. “All serving professions,” his daughter, Betty Lynne Johnson, notes. “He challenged us to serve with the gifts that we have been given.”

Today, his son, McLain, is vice president and general counselor of the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center; his youngest daughter, Kelly McLamb, teaches as Triton High School; and Betty Lynne Johnson is an associate professor of health professional studies and assistant dean for interprofessional education at Campbell.

… for your ‘pinnacle achievement’ Wallace had already made up his mind.

There was no way little William Carey University — a Baptist school half the size of Campbell, tucked away in the center of Mississippi — could afford to launch a medical school. Especially in 2009, when the country was still trying to crawl out of the Great Recession.

Yet there Wallace was, part of a team tasked by the Southern Association of College and Schools to review William Carey’s application to launch a school of osteopathic medicine, a term ("osteopathic") Wallace had limited knowledge of.

Four years later in the fall of 2013, Campbell launched its own school of osteopathic medicine — North Carolina’s first new medical school in over 35 years — and greeted a charter class of 160 future doctors from all over the country.

Benjamin Thompson, now chairman of Campbell University’s Board of Trustees, was in his second year with the board the day when Wallace first brought up the idea of establishing a medical school.

He remembered it well.

"We quickly understood that he not only had the vision, but had also thoroughly considered the impact,” said Thompson.

"First and foremost, we knew he had considered the purpose of the medical school would be consistent with the

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longstanding principles of Campbell University."

Second, Thompson said, the board had confidence that Wallace had thoroughly analyzed the costs and the economic impact the school would have. And third …

"Dr. Wallace likes to use the expression, ‘In order to make things happen, you have to be under conviction,’” Thompson added. "He was clearly under conviction that we could raise the funds to make the medical school a reality."

On Aug. 5, 2013, the medical school became official with Dr. Danelisen’s first 8 a.m. lecture on cell proteins in the new 95,500-square-foot Leon Levine Hall of Medical Sciences.

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… for being a family man After Betty gave birth to their oldest child, Betty Lynne, Wallace could hardly believe it. “He didn’t think Betty Lynne was real until she started walking,” his wife, Betty, says.

About eight years after Betty Lynne was born, Betty gave birth to their youngest daughter, Kelly.

It was a complicated birth, and things were touch and go for a while. Wallace never left their side.

Back home, Betty Lynne and her brother and grandmother were on pins and needles worried about the baby.

About a week later, Wallace stepped into the back door of their home. He stood there, “physically unable to get through the door,” because he was so emotionally spent, Betty Lynne says. He said: “It’s a girl, and they’re OK.” He broke down, weeping and sobbing, relieved.

“His love is so intense; it consumes him,” Betty says. “Between the love that he has for me and his children, it’s unreal.”

“It’s the thing about himself that he can’t control,” his daughter Betty Lynne adds. “He can control most every other thing about himself, but his feelings for us he cannot control. . . . The depth of his feeling stems from his compassion and his capacity to love.”

On Oct. 30, the school was dedicated as the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine.

"Dr. Wallace has a rare gift of vision and attention to detail and the ability to direct a project from conception to completion,” said Dr. John Kauffman, founding dean of the school. "The dictionary defines ‘vision’ as ‘the act or power to anticipate that which will or may come to be … an experience in which an event appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although not always present, often under the influence of a divine agency.’ I think that definition fits Dr. Wallace very well.”

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… for deciding on Campbell (finally) Shortly after Wallace began teaching at Campbell, President Norman Wiggins asked him to join the faculty full time.

Wallace initially accepted the position, signed the contract, and put it in the mail.

But overnight, he couldn’t sleep. He told his wife, “Betty, I did the wrong thing.”

He drove to Campbell the next morning and asked Wiggins’ assistant if the mail had come yet. “Yes,” she said. “I want that letter back,” Wallace said. “I’ve changed my mind. I do not want Dr. Wiggins to have that letter.”

A couple years later, still the pastor of Elizabethtown Baptist, Wallace was on vacation with his wife and children at the beach. Wallace told his assistant, Mrs. Barefoot, he did not want to be interrupted unless someone died. Besides, there was no phone at the place they were staying.

Their second day of vacation, that morning, a police car showed up. The officer told Wallace: “Mrs. Barefoot said it was very important. Dr. Wiggins wants you to call him immediately.” Wallace told his wife: “I’m not going to call him. I know what he

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wants me to do.”

Betty told him: “You don’t know what he wants. You better call.” He waited until the late afternoon and went to the pier to call Wiggins. Wiggins told him: “Jerry, I want you here in the morning.”

When Wallace told her what Wiggins said, Betty thought: “Lord knows we don’t have any dress clothes down here. How do we get home and get dressed and get the children home and get to Buies Creek?”

But they managed. The next morning, in Buies Creek, Wiggins told Wallace: “Jerry, I want you to take over the religion department.” Wallace had many opportunities to leave Elizabethtown Baptist before, Betty says, but “one of the big reasons he chose not to was because he didn’t feel it was the right time.”

But this time, to be chair of Campbell’s Department of Religion and Philosophy?

“He left because he felt that’s what he needed to do,” she says. “We came to Campbell because this is where we were supposed to be. The Lord had a purpose.”

… for saying ‘yes’ Wallace was Campbell’s provost for nearly 20 years — 20 very enjoyable years, he says. But 20 years was enough time, both for him and the university, he thought. So, in 2001, he stepped down from the position and joined the Divinity School faculty.

He planned to serve out the remainder of his career there until retiring. Then Norman Wiggins became ill.

Wiggins was in his 37th year of the Campbell presidency. Before him, Leslie Hartwell Campbell was president for 33 years and the founder, J.A. Campbell, for 47. The trustees thought it was best for someone with experience at Campbell to succeed Wiggins as president. They turned to Wallace, then 68 years old. “Jerry had no intentions of becoming president,” says his wife, Betty. “But when Dr. Wiggins died, he thought it was the thing he had to do.”

Wallace accepted the position, with the caveat he serve as president for no more than five years. “I thought five years would be good for me and the university,” Wallace says.

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… getting to ‘the point’ How do you know Wallace is really into your conversation or about to make an important point in a speech?

He’ll raise an eyebrow, lift out his right arm and give you “the point,” or as Vice President for Business and Treasurer Jim Roberts calls it, the “big finger.”

Roberts has been on the receiving end of many of them. “He will often say, ‘Well, Jimmy, now you’ve got to remember,’ and it will carry on from there,” Roberts said. “It’s never a bad thing, but you will always get ‘the point’ that no matter what he is talking about, this is where the emphasis lies.”

Often, the point is accompanied by a smile.

Other times, it appears to make sure you were listening.

“And if you make a statement that is true to the point, you’ll get the big finger,” Roberts said. “If you have never seen it, you have missed a special part of working closely with Dr. Wallace.”

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… for launching a pharmacy school North Carolina didn’t just need more pharmacists in the 1980s; it needed more like the one Norman Wiggins grew up visiting in Burlington. That was a community pharmacist who worked just around the corner from where Wiggins lived and who could address a range of health needs. Wiggins tasked Wallace with making that happen.

As Campbell’s vice president for academic affairs and provost, Wallace oversaw the establishment of the first pharmacy school to open in the U.S. in nearly 40 years. It wasn’t necessarily easy.

When Campbell announced its plans, the news wasn’t welcomed with open arms, particularly by officials at UNC-Chapel Hill, then home to the only pharmacy degree program in North Carolina. They said the state couldn’t support another

pharmacy school at a time when their own school had declining enrollment and trouble finding faculty to fill positions.

But Wallace persisted. He traveled the state speaking with elected officials and pharmaceutical leaders to garner support and flood them with the facts. North Carolina needed more pharmacists, especially in rural areas, he said.

He got the public support of key state officials and organizations such as the N.C. Board of Pharmacy and the American Council of Pharmaceutical Education.

In August 1986, Campbell welcomed its first pharmacy students, 55 of them. "My proudest achievement thus far is having a major part in the establishment of the School of Pharmacy,” Wallace says. “That might surprise some people, but that is what it is because everything grew out of that.”

… for GETTING to know your students If Wallace has to be somewhere across campus, he usually gives himself a five- to 10-minute cushion for the inevitable stops along the way. He has a habit of stopping students to ask them about their day or even their overall Campbell experience.

And students have a habit of stopping him. Wallace’s approachability has been one of his strengths as president. He credits his years as a professor for this gift. “The joy of this place is its students,” he said. “I enjoy teaching and getting to know students. The happiest days of my time at Campbell were spent teaching and interacting with the students."

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… for being a road warrior Expansion of Campbell programs and campus infrastructure during the Wallace presidency have been remarkable. Not only did it take vision to help the university grow, it also took thousands of miles and countless days on the road to secure the funds to construct the many new facilities that have shaped the campus into a world-class university.

The Time is Now campaign was launched in summer 2005 as Campbell’s first-ever comprehensive fundraising campaign with a goal of securing $56 million over the course of eight years for capital projects, scholarships and related programs. Following the early success of the campaign ($30 million from 2005 to 2008 for the John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center), the university administration and board increased the campaign goal to $84 million with an expanded vision for what might be possible, including a new law school facility in Raleigh, a new campus chapel, a football stadium, and other facilities.

“All of these facilities and more, including the Leon Levine Hall of Medical Sciences, find their roots in The Time is Now campaign,” says Britt Davis, vice president for institutional advancement and assistant to the president. “The efforts of Jerry Wallace, Jack Britt, Jerry Wood and many others not only let us meet the $84 million goal, we actually surpassed it by nearly $50 million. The Wallace era is by far the most productive in terms of external fundraising.”

Over the last five years, Wallace and Davis have traveled every corner of North Carolina and have visited alumni and friends up and down the Atlantic coast.

“Our days often start with a sausage biscuit and a cup of coffee at Bojangles or McDonald’s, and they end with results,” Davis says. "Dr. Wallace is a tireless road warrior and a fundraising partner like no other. I wasn’t at Campbell when his journey started, but I’ll be forever grateful that I was here to help him finish strong.”

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… for still being a Baptist preacher at heart It has been 45 years since Wallace has served as the pastor of Elizabethtown Baptist, but he stills get called back every now and then to preach or lead a funeral. “He is a preacher first, always will be,” says his wife, Betty.

“That is the essence of who he is.”

He started his career as a student preacher at a small Baptist church in Morven, North Carolina, before becoming the senior pastor of Elizabethtown Baptist Church in 1960.

Being the pastor of a county-seat Baptist church in the South during the Civil Rights era was a “real challenge,” Wallace says.

But members of the church worked with each other, with community leaders, and with other churches, including African American churches. “The church and I grew together in these painful years,” he says. “We matured together.” The

experience also deepened his belief that how to live and act responsibly is best understood and achieved in a religious community, he says.

He thought about pursuing a doctorate in theology, but given his interests, a mentor suggested he study sociology and ethics. Wallace used his days off at Elizabethtown Baptist to take classes at N.C. State University, where he eventually completed his master’s in sociology and doctorate in education. In 1970, he began teaching sociology courses at Campbell as an adjunct.

“At the heart, I am still a Baptist pastor,” Wallace says. “That means I feel what I do at Campbell is a calling and my primary responsibility at Campbell is to do everything I can to please and honor God.”

… for your friendship When he was a student at East Carolina, Wallace rented out the second floor of a house with eight other boys. One of them was Jim Ellerbe, who grew up with Wallace in Rockingham. Every so often, very early in the morning, Wallace would crawl out his room’s window and sneak into Ellerbe’s room through another window. Wallace would startle him awake. “Jerry was a jokester and a prankster,” Ellerbe says.

Wallace has a little more gray hair than he used to; but “as far as his character and personality and those really important features,” Wallace has changed very little since childhood or college, Ellerbe says. “He’s one of the smartest people I’ve known.”

After retiring as superintendent of the Johnston County Schools, Ellerbe joined the Campbell staff and eventually became the vice president for business. He planned to retire at the same time as President Norman Wiggins. But after being named president, Wallace asked Ellerbe to stay for another year to help during the transition. “I’ll help you out any way I can,” Ellerbe told him.

“When Jerry is your friend,” Ellerbe says, “he is your friend forever.”

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Read our five-part Q&A series with President Wallace at campbell.edu.

… for the ‘evaluator’ When Wallace was teaching and began a class declaring “This is the day of the Lord,” students knew that was his nice way of saying “It’s Judgment Day,” says Grover Blackburn (1978), a former student of Wallace’s and the current pastor of Angier Baptist Church. Judgment Day meant Wallace was giving “the evaluator,” or what he called his pop quizzes.

“The evaluator was an important part of my methodology of teaching,” Wallace says.

Why the “evaluator”?

There are few classroom experiences worse than a prepared teacher standing before an unprepared class. The worst: an unprepared teacher before a prepared class. “That’s unacceptable,” Wallace says.

The best: A prepared class and a prepared teacher.

Wallace gave “the evaluator” to motivate his students and his self to be prepared. “If you were prepared, you were OK,” Blackburn says. “If you were not, you had a price to pay.”

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… for making a sacrifice Growing up the person Wallace most respected was C.B. Deane. Like Wallace, Deane was from Richmond County. A lawyer, he served five successive terms in the U.S. House of representatives from 1946 to 1956, representing North Carolina’s Eighth Congressional District.

Once, when Wallace was a student at Richmond County High School, Deane spoke during chapel service.

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could be like him and do things like him, that’s what I’d like to do.”

So Wallace enrolled at East Carolina, on a football scholarship, with the intention of being a lawyer. When football practice began, the sport took up all his time.

He realized he would probably have an academic major that would not lend itself to being a lawyer. Plus, he met a few other players bigger and better than him. “I saw football was a hard way of life,” he says.

Two weeks into practice, he quit the team. “It was a huge challenge and decision because I was dependent on those resources to provide the money for my education,” says Wallace, who started doing other people’s income taxes to cover tuition.

“It was the hardest thing I had done at that point, but no doubt it was the right thing.”

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… for your master plan On campus infrastructure: "The aim of becoming an even more inviting and attractive campus will guide the improvement, re-arrangement and addition of facilities, resulting in a more defined, useful, safe and enjoyable campus environment for the university community."

On academic programs: "Campbell will respond to the existing and developing needs of the region, state and nation by providing new undergraduate, graduate and professional programs that complement and extend Campbell’s mission."

Both of these statements were made in 2003 during Wallace’s inauguration speech — a historic moment in Campbell’s 128-year history where he laid out the foundation of his ambitious master plan. Those quotes made for nice promises and added excitement to his big day, but Wallace has followed through on his plan in his 12 years as president.

His "Time is Now” fundraising campaign launched in 2005 with a goal of $57 million over eight years to fund a new convocation center, residence halls and a chapel. By 2008, that goal tagged $30 million more for a football stadium and the law school’s move to Raleigh.

Today, with the addition of the new facility that will house Campbell’s nursing and other health science programs, the University has spent nearly $250 million for capital projects under Wallace’s tenure.

Campbell has launched a medical school, physician assistant program, nursing program, physical and occupational therapy programs, and a homeland security major and will start a school of engineering in 2016.

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The president’s box at Barker-Lane Stadium is usually full of people on Saturdays in the fall — friends and guests of President Wallace eating, mingling and keeping one eye on the game.

“You learn to give him some space during intense moments of a game,” said Athletic Director Bob Roller, who learned Wallace was a competitor when he first interviewed for the job in 2011.

Over the years, they’ve learned that for as conversational and approachable as Wallace is on any other day, he’s quite the opposite on Game Day. An intense competitor as a football player in high school, Wallace is just as intense when he’s watching the Camels on the gridiron.

“His duties as a president never end, but I’ve learned that he is really concentrating on the next play on the field or court. The highs and lows of a win or loss do not just follow our teams and coaches — you can tell that Dr. Wallace is right there sharing in those emotions."

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Read our five-part Q&A series with President Wallace at campbell.edu.

… for giving your life to Campbell During a meeting this past March, Wallace challenged the university executive committee to “Keep Campbell in your hearts.”

“A good leader doesn’t ask his folks to do what he won’t do,” says his daughter, Betty Lynne Johnson.

Wallace has often said “Campbell is worth a life,” and it is he who has given his life for Campbell and its mission, which is Christ’s mission, she adds. The university is always on the forefront of his mind and the tip of his tongue. He hasn’t even taken a real vacation in 45 years. “If you would cut him, he would bleed orange,” Johnson says. “He loves this place with all his heart and soul.”

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BY HIS STRIPES,

I AM HEALED

Ten months after being shot in the neck during a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, Lt. John Arroyo (’13) returns to Campbell University to share his story — and his testimony.

BY Billy Liggett Photos by Lissa Gotwals

The sound of two shots fired — even from just a few hundred yards away — gives Lt. John Arroyo a moment’s pause as he gets out of his car at 4 p.m. on April 2, 2014, at Fort Hood Army base in Killeen, Texas.

Arroyo knows he’s been shot, and despite the fact that he’s still (surprisingly) alert and able to breath, fear starts setting in.

The man gets to the building first, and Arroyo hears more gunshots. Then he hears loud voices from behind him.

He stumbles back to his car and collapses next to it. Still clutching his throat, Arroyo’s mind starts racing. “Is this it? Is this how I’m going to die?” He thinks about his wife and his children.

“Are you OK? What happened?”

These are common sounds at any hour of the day for a military base, and on this day, Arroyo is more focused on getting to his battalion headquarters to finish a project (he’s 13 hours into another 15-hour work day) than he is on trying to figure out two quasiirregular gunshots.

Alone, Arroyo starts closing his eyes. A sense of calm comes over him, until he’s jarred awake by a clear, loud voice.

His eyes set on the doors of his building, Arroyo also pays little attention to the car approaching him at a faster-than-normal speed for parking lot traffic. Within moments, Arroyo hears a third shot, and before the echo leaves his ear, he feels a searing pain in the front of his neck and in his right shoulder.

His reflex is to reach for the pain — and the sudden gush of blood — with both hands, but his right arm isn’t responding to instinct.

His eyes water. The wind has been knocked out of him. The car is no longer visible.

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“Get up!”

His eyes flash open. “Did I say that?” he wonders. “Did someone yell at me? Did I hear God?” Arroyo finds the strength to stand up — left hand clutching his throat — and he starts walking toward the building again. He sees a man walking toward him, and in desperation, Arroyo tries to call out to him for help. But he can’t muster even a whisper. He then notices the man in front of him — barely 10 feet away — is holding what could be a weapon and moving erratically.

It’s the man who just shot him. And he doesn’t even notice Arroyo standing there.

The soldiers calling out to Arroyo will later tell him they thought he was wearing a red scarf that was flapping in the wind, his neck so covered in blood that it’s soaking his shirt.

Arroyo, who couldn’t call out to the shooter moments before, answers the soldiers.

“I’ve been shot. There’s a shooter.”

The soldiers load Arroyo into the back of a truck and speed toward the emergency room — only a few miles away. He is surprised he can still breath — his only problem is the soldiers’ hands grabbing his throat to stop the bleeding are actually choking him in the process.

He focuses on that breathing as trees and buildings speed by him from above. He’s handed over to ER medics and rushed inside a chaotic emergency room. Lying on a stretcher, Arroyo, for the first time in a 15-minute span that will change his life forever, feels safe.

He closes his eyes, and finally lets go.

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John Arroyo was a model student in high school — above average grades, member of the computer club and an athlete on the football team. But when the bell rang to end the school day, his life became very different.

Growing up in Southeast Los Angeles, Arroyo’s evenings and nights were spent “running the streets” with his friends, drinking and “doing dumb things.”

get me wrong, but I’d worked hard my whole life. I found my niche in the 82nd Airborne.”

shooting on the base. Details are sketchy.

Thoughts of simply learning a trade and maybe driving a truck one day vanished when Arroyo saw Green Berets — members of the Army’s Special Forces — walking around the base like they owned it. They were the “cool guys,” he thought.

By 4:30, Angel looks out her window and sees a uniformed Army commander parking outside her home. He then begins walking toward her door.

After high school, the dumb things didn’t stop. And the two years that followed graduation were full of dead-end jobs, alcohol and irresponsibility. It took a wake-up call from his older sister, the matriarch of his family at the time, for Arroyo to consider a different path.

“I told myself I could never be one of them. I’m not smart enough and not physical enough,” he says. “But the only one doubting me was me. I’d talked a lot about doing it, and then one day I decided to shut my mouth, stop talking and just go for it.”

“I was going down the wrong road,” he says. “I hit a point in my life where I had to get away from the bad influences surrounding me. My sister told me I needed to get out of California, because my life there was going nowhere fast.”

Arroyo turned to the military — he liked the idea of learning a trade, having a steady job and getting some discipline in his life. And in 1996, there was no immediate threat of being sent off to a war zone, which was his mother’s worst nightmare at the time and the sole reason for her objection to his decision.

He chose the Army over the Marines, because the latter would have sent him to nearby Camp Pendleton, and Arroyo wanted to be far away from L.A. Six months later, the Army sent him about as far away he could get — Fort Bragg, N.C. “The Army asked me if I could be at the right place at the right time, wear a uniform, get my hair cut and do my job. And if I could, they’d promote me,” Arroyo says. “And, we’ll give you health insurance. Sounded easy enough to me. The Army was hard, don’t

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n eight minutes, Army Specialist Ivan A. Lopez fires 35 rounds at his fellow troops at Fort Hood, killing three unarmed soldiers and wounding 16, including Arroyo. The 34-year-old Lopez drives his car to three buildings — including his transportation unit’s headquarters and another office where he worked — shooting in each building. He also fires at soldiers on the street, in passenger cars and in a parking lot. He puts the gun to his head and takes his own life after a short confrontation with a military police officer.

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Within minutes of the shooting, Angel Arroyo receives a phone call from her husband’s commander. “Have you heard from John?” he asks her, but doesn’t mention the shooting. He doesn’t want to frighten her.

It’s just after 4 p.m., and her husband isn’t due home until 6. “Have him give me a call if you hear from him,” he tells her nervously, and he hangs up.

Moments later, a friend of the Arroyo's — who also has a husband stationed at Fort Hood — calls Angel and tells her about a

Another friend calls. “Where’s John?”

Angel sees the man through the storm door as he begins knocking, but she refuses to answer. She’s seen this scene in movies.

She’s just months removed from losing both parents nine weeks apart. She doesn’t want the news he’s there to deliver.

John and Angel met at Fayetteville Technical College in 2002. John was a young E-5 sergeant taking a few courses to get his college career off the ground. They were in an English class together, and one day, John needed to borrow a floppy disk. She happily obliged. A few days later, his car broke down and he needed a ride home from class. “You know, I should ask that girl who let me borrow a disk,” John recalls. “She was nice to me, then. Today, she’s my wife.”

“John’s alive,” the man says through the screen door. “We have to get you to the hospital.”

Upon her arrival, Angel learns about the extent of her husband’s injuries. It’s possible he’ll never speak again. It’s possible he’s partially paralyzed. It’s likely he won’t wake up from his medically induced coma for another three days.

Instead, John wakes up that night.

Surrounded by his wife, family and Army buddies — many of them still in tears — he takes it all in. He grabs his wife’s hand.

“It was at that moment I knew it was all going to be OK.”

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It took two tries for Arroyo to be selected for training in Special Forces. He started his first assessment on Sept. 10, 2001.

One day later, two passenger jets were deliberately flown into the World Trade Center in New York City. Another was flown into the Pentagon. A fourth crashed in a rural field in Pennsylvania.

At first, Arroyo thought the events on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, were part of a test. It wasn’t a test, of course, and sitting in a classroom that morning with other Special Forces hopefuls, Arroyo realized his decision to serve was taking on a whole new meaning.

“They told us if we wanted to be a part of what’s going to happen in the next few years, we’re in the right place at the right time,” Arroyo recalls. “After 9/11, we wanted to go out and fight. We wanted to be released to do what our country called on us to do.

There was a huge sense of duty.”

Arroyo wasn’t selected for Special Forces in 2001, but tried again and made the cut the following year. In June 2004, as a staff sergeant, he was sent to Afghanistan to patrol and help build rapport with the Afghan people, to convince them the U.S. wasn’t there to “take over the country.”

He didn’t see a lot of combat during that first deployment. He did witness real poverty and met rural farmers doing everything it took to make a living, even if it meant becoming part of the drug trade.

He ended his first deployment in November 2004 and returned the following June. He returned to the U.S. in 2006 before leaving for Iraq in 2007.

Twice during his deployments, Arroyo feared his life. The first time came in Afghanistan, when the vehicle he was in rolled over what his team feared was an IED. The second time, in Iraq, his team was caught in the middle of gunfire from multiple directions.

“I remember thinking to myself, ‘I wonder what my wife is doing right now,’” Arroyo says of his

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mindset while trapped in the crossfire. “’I wonder if she’s out shopping or doing something trivial while I’m trapped in a twoway rifle range.’

“I asked her when I got home if she remembered what she was doing at that time,” Arroyo says.

“She didn’t remember. Why would she?”

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octors tell Arroyo the bullet hit his neck at about a 45-degree angle, missing his vocal chords by mere centimeters before ripping through his right shoulder and stopping in his shoulder blade.

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Arroyo’s surgeon tells him that while it’s

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I believe there’s only one thing promised to us, and that’s the breath we’re taking right now. The next breath is never a guaranteed thing. uncertain early on what kind of recovery his voice will make (there is a fear he may not be able to speak again), one thing is certain.

who can serve as his nonmedical attendant during the first few months after his release from Brooke Army Medical Center.

He is going to make a full recovery.

“We weren’t on speaking terms before, and here I was having to rely on him for help. I had to humble myself before him … the man who once was telling him what to do now had to ask him for help,” he says. “Through that, our relationship has been restored. I loved him before, but it was more of an authoritative love. Today, I look at him in a different way.

“That’s all I needed to hear,” he says. “I didn’t care how long it took.”

He undergoes five surgeries on his throat and in September, doctors perform a 12-hour nerve graph surgery on his shoulder.

The scars on his neck, near where the top button on most shirts would sit, will always be there, and the way it has healed prevents him from completely looking up by bending his neck back. His voice has a bit of a raspy quality to it, but it’s nearly where it was before the injury, save for the swallowing or need for water after talking for an extended period.

“The healing has baffled the doctors,” he says.

“It’s defied medical explanation. There are only a few things I can’t do anymore — I drink water instead of coffee. I stay away from spicy foods. But I’m not complaining. I’ll take it.”

And little by little, he’s regaining use of his arm — he can move his fingers and pick up some items, but the arm remains in a sling or by his side for the most part when he is in public.

“When I first started rehab, I didn’t know if I’d ever get movement back,” Arroyo says. “The healing is so unpredictable when a bullet tears through a bundle of nerves like that. There’s no guarantee it will ever be 100 percent, but ever since the 12-hour surgery and with a whole lot of prayer, I’m getting more feeling and more movement. I’m able to do things today the doctors said would take well over a year to even think about doing.”

Arroyo’s physical rehab also helps heal relationships in his family. He’s growing considerably closer to his 21-year-old stepson, Mason, the youngest of his and his wife’s three children and the only family member available

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“If I’ve learned anything from this, it’s that I’ll never sacrifice my family for my career or anything else again. They don’t take a backseat anymore. They are my No. 1 priority.”

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During his deployments, Arroyo was usually the man asked to pray over the vehicles. He was considered one of the more spiritual men among his fellow soldiers, but still, Arroyo considered his relationship with God to be “lukewarm.”

“I took my family to church on post, but I still didn’t know the Word,” he says. “I only turned to God when I needed him.”

By 2009, after his three deployments, Arroyo decided he needed more than the typical counseling that soldiers returning home from war often receive. He needed spiritual counseling. His relationship with God improved, and Arroyo began sharing his testimony with other soldiers.

“I met someone I was on a trip with, and he was missing half of his left arm, wounded during his last deployment,” he says.

“His job was to talk to other wounded soldiers, but on that trip, he told me he was mad at God. I asked God for a word … how do I respond to him? So I

told him he’s affecting more lives through his injury than he ever did through his uniform. Yes, he lost a hand, but how many lives had he touched because of his experience and his sacrifice?”

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uring the tough times of his rehabilitation, Arroyo turns to Isaiah 53:5 to get him through: “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and by his stripes, we are healed.”

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“What would have happened had I never been shot, or had I healed immediately?” he asks. “I would have put my uniform back on the next day, went straight back to working 16 hours and probably not spending enough time thanking God. But today, as I’m going through this, I’m learning patience. I’m learning to make it about God every day, all day. So if God tells me, ‘Hey John, go to the seventh floor of that hospital and tell a gang member I love him,’ or, ‘Find that wounded chopper pilot and tell him I’ve given him a second chance,’ then I do it. No questions asked.”

Arroyo begins working with and speaking for the Wounded Warrior Project, knowing that the mental and spiritual healing a soldier endures after war is just as or more difficult than the physical healing. He starts up the Second Chance Ministry in Seguin, Texas, talking to prisoners to let them know they have a future … that God hasn’t given up on them.

He’s also juggling working at the local hospital on Tuesdays and Thursdays with attending Bible college full time.

And he is spending more time with his wife and children. If the past year has told him anything, it’s to not put his family on the backburner anymore.

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“I walked out of my house on April 2, and I almost never walked back in,” he says. “God may have big plans for me, but he’d never ask me to sacrifice my family. He gave me that family to love and cherish. I make sure they know every day they are my top priority.”

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On May 11, 2013, Arroyo was officially commissioned as a second lieutenant by Campbell University’s renowned ROTC program.

He decided to pursue his degree after getting an opportunity to work with government agencies while in Special Forces, and he saw that many of the jobs he was interested in required a college degree. He began taking classes for Campbell at the Fort Bragg campus and chose history as a major because he felt it would help refine his writing skills.

Campbell would be the stepping stone to an advanced degree, Arroyo hoped, possibly in the medical field. That’s why he chose Fort Hood, Texas, after his commissioning and graduation — its 1st Medical Brigade is the oldest color-bearing medical unit and most diverse medical brigade in the U.S. Army.

“I wanted to be the best possible Army officer I could be,” Arroyo says. “I wanted to give back to an organization that gave me so much — took me off the streets in California and gave me a stable life so I could one day provide for my family.”

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n April 2, 2014, I was shot in the throat with a .45 from 15 yards away …”

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Ten months after the injury and two years after he last stepped foot in North Carolina, Arroyo returns to Campbell University as the guest speaker for the Founders Week Campus Connections, where he shares his testimony to a packed audience of students in Turner Auditorium.

His 16-minute speech details the shooting and his physical and spiritual recovery.

Students, some in tears, sit silently as

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the Green Beret and veteran of three deployments in the Middle East talks about how he almost lost everything in the one place where he should have felt safest.

“I believe there’s only one thing promised to us,” he tells his audience, “and that’s the breath we’re taking right now. The next breath is never a guaranteed thing.”

He talks about the man who shot him and what his family must feel today. He says he hopes to one day reach out to them, to tell them their father, husband or son is forgiven and that he loves them.

Though he’s a California native, Arroyo says his three-day visit to North Carolina feels like coming home. He says Campbell alumni are everywhere in the Army, and there’s usually an instant bond when he meets a fellow Camel.

He says Campbell played an important part in his recovery and helped mold him into the man he is today.

“It took a small Baptist university to help a man who grew up Catholic find himself and build a better relationship with God,” he says. “Coming back to Campbell is like coming back to the place where it all started.

I’ll always be grateful to this place.”

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Nationally recognized An incredible early-season run by Campbellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s baseball team not only produced a 14-game winning streak and a 17-2 mark through 19 games, it also produced two Louisville Slugger National Players of the Week, as voted on by Collegiate Baseball.

In early March, pitcher Heath Bowers, a senior from Lillington, received the honor after striking out a school-record 15 in a complete game 4-2 win over Bowling Green. The Ks broke the record of 14 set by three Campbell pitchers, most recently Aaron Miller in 1997.

Later that month, junior Cole Hallum belted three home runs, hit .474 and drove in 10 runs to extend an 11-game hitting streak to earn his first-ever national POW honor.

The Bakersfield, Calif., native also pitched twice in that week, tossing 2 and â&#x2026;&#x201D; innings without allowing a hit in two road wins.

Campbell is vying for its fourth consecutive 40-game season and its second straight Big South Conference title and NCAA Tournament trip.

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Crema invited to U.S. Women’s National tryout Junior Mary Crema of Loveland, Ohio, was one of 232 athletes from 90 colleges and universities invited to attend tryouts for the U.S. Women’s National team in February in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Crema, who led the Camels with 647 digs and was third with 104 assists in 2014, called the tryouts one of the best experiences of her life.

“This [was] a weekend I will never forget,” she said. "Regardless of the outcome, I was thrilled to have just had the experience and opportunities I was given these four days.”

Gaines earns first-team Honors Senior Kiera Gaines was named to the 201415 University Division All-State First Team by the North Carolina Collegiate Sports Information Association.

Gaines is just the second Lady Camel to earn First Team recognition from the association since it began distributing the awards following the 2004-05 season. The Mechanicsville, Va., native led the Lady Camels with 11.9 points and 8.4 rebounds this season while also ranking second in blocks (27), steals (81) and assists (92).

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MEANT TO BE

A knee injury derailed her Navy aspirations, but Loren Day has found the perfect fit at Campbell

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Campbell University was never meant to be a long-term stop for Loren Day. A star athlete from southern Maryland — the hotbed of high school lacrosse — Day was originally recruited to play for the Naval Academy’s nationally ranked program before a serious knee injury put her collegiate future in doubt. She “settled” for Campbell, a new program willing to take a risk on a talent with a cracked femur.

What Day didn’t expect to find in Buies Creek, North Carolina, was a home. Now three years since her decision to head south, the junior is Campbell’s all-time leading scorer. She set the school record for single-season goals with her 39th goal in March (she had 44 through April 16 with at least four games left to play in the season).

More important than the records, she says, has been the experience of helping start a program from the ground up. Campbell welcomed Division I lacrosse in 2013 and finished with a respectable 6-7 record that first season.

“When I leave here, this will be my legacy,” says Day. “I was part of a team of 12 girls that first year, and we knew we had to set the tone for what the program would become. We knew we had to work hard for the community, the school and other teams to know who we are

and know we’re here to stay. It’s been a tough process [the team has struggled this season, going 3-11 through mid-April], but we knew this wouldn’t happen overnight. It takes time to lay the foundation, to build a program that’s going to last.”

Campbell has been the perfect fit for Day off the field as well. Around the time of her arrival, the College of Arts & Sciences announced that its homeland security concentration would become a major, and Day immediately jumped on board. One of the reasons she wanted to join the Naval Academy was her desire to serve her country and pursue a career in law enforcement.

Led by director David Gray — a retired U.S. Air Force officer and former CIA foreign service officer known globally for his expertise in U.S.

and international security and strategic studies — Campbell’s homeland security program is providing Day an opportunity to seek her dream career with a three-letter government agency.

“I would love work in intelligence, investigations, counter-terrorism, NARCO trafficking, firearms smuggling … I’m very interested in all of it,” Day says. “Any agency that would allow me to reach those aspirations would be the best fit for me.”

“The type of work we’re doing in our classes — dealing with real-world problems and case study scenarios — all of it embodies what a perfect homeland security program should be,” Day says. “We’re using tools the agencies are using.

When I start sending resumes, I can say I’m already using the programs they’re using on a daily basis.”

More proof that Campbell was meant to be for Day — the former teammate and now assistant coach whose single-season scoring record she topped this season grew up in the same town and played high school lacrosse with Day. Taelar Errington scored 36 goals as a senior in 2014 and joined the staff with head coach Dawn Easley this season.

“I view Taelar as a coach, a player and a friend,” Day says. “We have a mutual respect for each other, and we’ve always pushed each other at every level. As for breaking her record, there’s been no hard feelings.”

Lacrosse is in Day’s blood. She picked up her first stick in the second grade and had to play in boys leagues because the girls leagues didn’t start that young. Her older brother by 10 years, Chad Day, was an All-American at Lynchburg College, and her sister Madison Day plays for Penn State.

Campbell’s program isn’t as high profile yet, but Day has no regrets about her decision to come to North Carolina.

“It’s a home away from home,” she says. “There’s something about the people here — it’s just a different level of friendliness. The camaraderie and experiences I’ve had on the academic side are things I’ll take with me for the rest of my life.”

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She calls her career dreams a “calling,” something she’s always wanted to do. Coming to a university with a new, unique program offering her the tools to achieve that dream has been an unexpected surprise.

FIRST LOOK AT THE 2015 CAMELS Football season is months away, but Fighting Camels fans got their first look at the 2015 program during the annual Spring Game at Barker-Lane Stadium in April.

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Campbell finished the 2014 season, the second under head coach Mike Minter, 5-7 overall and 4-4 in Pioneer Football League play, recording the program’s second-most total and conference wins in its seven seasons. A school-record seven Camels, plus eight honorable mentions, were named to the 2014 All-PFL teams, including four first teamers. Eight studentathletes, with six first-team members, were tabbed PFL All-Academic.

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Campbell announced its 2015 schedule in January, featuring six home games, including a Thursday night opener against Pikeville on Sept. 3.

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Doyle joins Big South Hall of Fame David Doyle — Campbell’s first Division I men’s soccer AllAmerican and the second in Big South history in 1986 — will be inducted into the Big South Conference Hall of Fame on May 28 in Hilton Head Island, S.C. Doyle led the nation in scoring as a senior with 34 goals and six assists for 74 points. A two-time Big South All-Conference pick in 1985 and 1986, he was a three-time Big South All-Tournament team member. He ended his

career ranked among the top 25 scorers all-time in NCAA Division I history with 72 goals in 75 games and with 163 points.

He was selected in the first round by the Kansas City Comets in the Major Indoor Soccer League and was named Rookie of the Year in 1987.

He was a 10-time All-Star and MVP of the CISL All-Star Game in 1996 and MVP of the World Indoor Soccer League in 1999. Upon his retirement in 2004 at the conclusion of a 19-season career, Doyle ranked among the top 10 scorers in professional indoor soccer history.

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Hanging up the hat Campbell’s (and the Big South’s) biggest fan Moving on to a career in Sports management

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onathan Boggs will be attending many sporting events when his days at Campbell University come to an end. He’ll just be much harder to find in the crowd.

Stadium adds new strength, conditioning gym The newest addition to Barker-Lane Stadium opened its doors this springs — a new, state-of-the-art strength and conditioning facility to house Campbell’s football and lacrosse programs.

The nearly 6,000-square-foot facility, located in the southeast corner of the stadium, features 900 square feet of sport turf, 12 state-of-the-art custom Hammer Strength combo racks with inlaid Olympic lifting platforms, six glute hamstring developers and four Hammer Strength plate loaded machines.

For the past three years, Boggs has worked in the promotions department for the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, and for the past two summers, he’s worked with the North American Soccer League’s Carolina RailHawks in the team’s marketing department. His career path is taking him from the arena’s student section to the business office.

“I will blend in more,” said the Holly Springs native. “I’m going to hang up the hat and vest.

They have earned it and are ready to be retired.

I wouldn’t tarnish my Campbell get-up at any other sporting event. It’s for Campbell only.”

Boggs’ favorite memory as a Camel Crazy came very recently. On Senior Night, the final men’s

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Boggs — the two-time Big South Conference Fan of the Year and a fixture at Camel sporting events as the guy in the front row wearing a reflective vest and orange soda drinking helmet — will graduate in May with a degree in sports management.

home basketball game this past spring, he was recognized by Campbell’s Athletics program with a framed picture, similar to the ones received by the team’s seniors that night. The gesture brought a tear to his eye.

“It’s meant everything to me to have the support I’ve received from the Campbell community,” he said.

— by Matthew Sokol

“Anytime you’re building a football program, the heart of what you are doing is strength and conditioning. In order to do it right, you have to have the space for it,” said head football coach Mike Minter. “Campbell, its alumni and donors stepped up and gave us a weight room that we can be proud of. It will be the best in the Pioneer Football League. Anytime you can have something like that, it’s a blessing.”

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It also includes two Pit Shark belt squat machines, custom iron grip dumbbells, custom plyometric jumping boxes and a comprehensive nutrition and hydration station. The new center frees up space for the University’s 19 other Division I sports teams to train in the existing John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center weight room.

Jonathan Boggs | @CamelCrazie · Mar 7 | Leaving my last basketball game as a student...

Man it’s hitting hard! Still proud of @GoCamelsMBB & @GoCamelsWBB #GoCamels

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Caton “Fuzzzo” Shermer (’66) placed fourth in his age bracket for the HCA Virginia 8K Marathon. The marathon features a tour of some of Richmond’s most beautiful and historic neighborhoods.

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also general counsel for the University. Dunbar is also a graduate of the Southeastern Trust School and is currently enrolled in the Duke Divinity School.

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Judge Rebecca B. Knight (’82 JD) collected the Public Service Award during North Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s 2014 Women of Justice Awards.

William Kenneth “Ken” Williams (’73 BS) retired after 37 years of full-time pastoral ___________________ ministry. For the past 13 years, he B. Davis Horne, served as pastor Jr. (’84 JD) of the First was selected for Baptist Church of inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Rochester, N.Y., America 2015 for administrative/ and for 25 years regulatory law and government he served as an emergency services relations practice. chaplain for the Brighton (N.Y.) Fire and Police Departments.

Clyde H. Perdue, Jr. (’84 JD) Ken and his spouse, the Rev. Peg has been appointed as the next Nowling Williams, now live in judge of Franklin County Circuit Durham. Ken’s late wife, Brenda Court.

Pridgen Williams (’73), died in ___________________ 2009 after a very noble walk with cancer. In addition to serving Rose H. Stout two congregations in Rochester, (’85 JD) collected Williams served congregations in the Litigation Waukesha, Wisc., and Chicago.

Practitioner Award during North ___________________ Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s 2014 Women of Justice Awards.

Demps Pettway ___________________ (’81 BS), the senior research Virginia Clay chemist from Southern Research (’94) of Oxford Institute, gave a STEM bioenergy was elected to a presentation to third-grade three-year term students at Joe Toler Oak Hill on the Board Elementary School in Oxford of Directors of on Nov. 18. The presentation Tar River Land showcased a new concept video Conservancy, a called Bioconversions and taught Louisburg-based the students the importance of non-profit land renewable fuels and how to create trust. a better world.

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Hank Dunbar (’81 BS/’92 JD) joined First Citizens Bank. He was previously employed at BB&T, where he served as manager of philanthropic services. He was a member of the leadership team at Campbell University and served as the director of alumni activities, director of estate planning and

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Paul Meyer (’97 JD) was named North Carolina League of Municipalities executive director.

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PROUD Dorothea Stewart-Gilbert The GO-To Historian Shortly after Dorothea Stewart-Gilbert (’44, ‘46) was born about a mile from Campbell University’s main campus in 1927, her parents took out an insurance policy to cover tuition so she could eventually attend the school. “It was always a given that I would attend Campbell,” she says. “It never entered my mind to question that.”

Her grandfather, Charlie Stewart, often drove a buggy for the university’s founding president, J.A. Campbell. Her mother attended the school when it was then Buies Creek Academy, a boarding school. She grew up with Catherine Campbell King (’44, ‘46), the daughter of the school’s second president, Leslie Hartwell Campbell. And she attended both high school and junior college at Campbell before earning a bachelor’s in English and a teacher’s license from what is now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Later, after teaching high school English, history, and French classes for 12 years, she returned to her family farm in Buies Creek and joined the faculty at Campbell. She taught college-level English there for the next 32 years. A few years after retiring from teaching in 1992, she returned to the campus to direct the Lundy-Fetterman Museum & Exhibit Hall, bringing her total years of service at Campbell to more than 44 years.

“Campbell has been part of my life and my upbringing,” she said. “I’m glad it was, because it has been good for me. I hope I’ve contributed something to it.”

She certainly has. In addition to her contributions in the classroom and as director of the LundyFetterman Museum, she is a go-to-source for university history. She is one of the few who have known all four university presidents. She also gave Campbell the property where her 40-acre family farm stretched for nearly a century. With her blessing, the university sold the property to a developer who transformed most of the land into the Arbor Crest housing development about a mile from campus. A portion of the sale proceeds went toward establishing three fully-funded endowments that provide student scholarships.

“My grandparents lived in the shadows of Campbell, and I think they would’ve been happy with my giving the university the property,” Stewart-Gilbert said. “My thoughts have always been directed to Campbell.”

— Cherry Crayton

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Lloyd Navarro (’03 JD) was named 2017-18 Rotary International District 7690 (Piedmont Area) district governor.

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Hilton “Hutch” Hutchens (’05 JD) was appointed to the Fayetteville Technical Community College Board of Trustees.

TREMENDOUS STEWARDS

Law SCHOOL dedicates classroom to Una Holder O’Quinn Classroom 413 at Campbell Law School will forever be known as the Una Holder O’ Quinn Classroom. The classroom was dedicated in her honor during a formal ceremony on Jan. 9 at the law school. Campbell Law Dean J. Rich Leonard and Campbell University Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Assistant to the President Britt Davis presided over the ceremony.

“We are honored to dedicate this classroom to someone who embodies everything that Campbell University is about,” said Leonard. “Una Holder O’Quinn is a living testament to hard work, sacrifice, dedication and service. Her story is a powerful one from which our law school students can learn from and strive to duplicate.”

The room was named in honor of Holder O’Quinn, a 1969 Campbell College graduate, following a financial contribution from her daughter, Alisa, and son in law, former North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dennis Wicker, in her honor.

She learned of her family’s stewardship this past Christmas morning. “The Holder O’Quinn and Wicker families wave the Campbell flag proudly,” said Davis. “They are tremendous stewards of our

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Mary Herring Parker (’98 PH) was recognized as a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy at the 2014 ACCP Annual Meeting in Austin.

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Lee Tart Malone (’99 MBA/’04 JD) was elected to the Central Carolina Community College’s Foundation Board.

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university, and I am fortunate to have become dear friends with them through our time together. It is my honor to be a part of this special occasion.”

O’Quinn grew up in Mamers, a rural community in western Harnett County. No one in her family had ever attended college, but through the encouragement of community leaders and support of her loved ones, she enrolled at Campbell College in 1965 to become a teacher.

Her decision to enroll at Campbell was met with many obstacles. At the age of 27, she was the mother of two young children, Eddie and Alisa.

Her husband, Pat, was a tobacco farmer and relied on her to help operate the farm. After four years of hard work and perseverance, she earned a degree in education. She then taught at Boone Trail Elementary School until her retirement.

O’Quinn’s hard work and example inspired others in her family to attend college, including her two children and her grandchildren. Her grandson Jackson D. Wicker graduated from Campbell Law in 2012, the first class of law school students to attend all three years at the Raleigh campus.

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Katherine Frye (’01 JD) was elected to the Wake County Bar Association & 10th Judicial District Bar Board of Directors.

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Parrish Hayes Daughtry (’00 JD) was elected to the Central Carolina Community College’s Foundation Board.

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Dave L. Dixon (’06 PH) received the 2015 New Investigator Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy for the proposal, “Nighttime Administration of Amlodipine Versus Lisinopril in Non-Dipping African Americans.” He will present his research findings at the 2016 AACP Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif.

Bryan Ambrose (’06 BS) and Angela Ambrose (’06 BA) became the parents of Reagan Michelle Ambrose on Jan. 31. Angela is senior financial services officer at State Employees’ Credit Union.

Dave L. Dixon (’06 PH) was elected to the board of directors for the Southeast Lipid Association Chapter of the National Lipid Association. He is serving a threeyear term through 2017.

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Dhedra Lassiter (’02 MSA) was named Principal of the Year for 2014-2015 by the Wake County Public School System. ___________________

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Ulmer Zack “Zeke” Bridges III (’03 JD) was elected to the Wake County Bar Association & 10th Judicial District Bar Board of Directors.

Melissa K. Walker (’05 JD) collected the Litigation Practitioner Award during North Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s 2014 Women of Justice Awards.

Michael A. Myers (’06 JD) earned an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating from MartindaleHubbell Rating Agency.

Shane Lancaster (’06 BA/’10 MDiv) was ordained on Oct. 19, 2014, at Dortches Baptist Church, where he is serving as youth minister in addition to working for the State Employee Credit Union.

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Ryan Bisplinghoff (’07 JD) joined McAngus, Goudelock & Courie in Wilmington, N.C.

Michael S. Rainey (’07 JD) earned an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating from MartindaleHubbell Rating Agency.

Jonathan Altman (’08 BBA/’11 MDiv) accepted a new position as senior pastor of Thunder Swamp Pentecostal Holiness Church in Mount Olive.

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Dinecia Gates (’09 BA) accepted a position as the director of admissions for Urshan College, formerly Gateway College of Evangelism.

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Laura Daughtry Duncan (’07 BS) and Matt Duncan announced the birth of twins on Dec. 19, 2014. Langston Grace Duncan weighed 4 pounds, 9 ounces and John Mattox Duncan weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces.

Sharon Scudder (’07 JD) was elected president of the North Carolina 3B Judicial District Bar, serving Craven, Carteret and Pamlico counties.

Christopher S. Morden (’07 JD/MBA) of Monroe Wallace Law Group was selected for the 2015 North Carolina Rising Star list by North Carolina Super Lawyers Magazine.

Ester Howard (’44), a retired educator, made a recent gift to push the university’s Music Department over the $10,000 mark it needed to meet the Steinway Grant Challenge.

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Chelsea Wilde (’10 BA) and Nicholas Woods (’11 BA) were united in marriage on July 12, 2014, at Dutch Cove Baptist Church in Canton, N.C.

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Rebecca Miller Brady (’08 PH) and Philip Brady announced the birth of their son, Jaxon Nathaniel Brady. Jaxon was born on Nov. 25, 2014, weighing 7 pounds, 4 ounces.

Alumna’s gift helps Music Department meet Steinway Grant Challenge

Maggie McKinley (’10 BS) studied model community-based efforts to preserve Bornean species along the Kinabatangan River in Sabah (East Malaysia) on the island of Borneo in 2014. Maggie, a seventh-grade math and science teacher at East Middle School in Biscoe, took the graduate course in pursuit of her master’s degree from Miami University’s Global Field Program.

Mallory Lidaka (’10 JD) serves as a past president for the 2015 North Carolina Association of Wake Women Attorneys’ Board of Directors.

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Tiffany Lesnik (’11 JD) serves as secretary for the 2015 North Carolina Association of Wake Women Attorneys’ Board of Directors.

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The Clark Charitable Trust of Lincoln, Mass., established the challenge and will match the 46 donations made during the campaign, dollar for dollar, up to a total of $10,000.

The money will be used to purchase Steinway pianos and help the Music Department become an All-Steinway School, a prestigious distinction held by institutions such as the Yale School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the University of Denver, the University of Florida and Wheaton College.

As an All-Steinway School, Campbell’s music students would have access to Steinway pianos in all the university’s practice rooms and concert halls. “Steinway pianos are hand crafted and are considered by most concert pianists to be the best in the world,” said Richard McKee, acting chair of the Fine Arts Department and director of piano studies. “The Steinway name has always been associated with the highest standards of excellence and artistry.”

Campbell’s Music Department offers courses of study leading to degrees in performance, pedagogy, teaching, composition and church music. All courses of study require extensive work with the piano.

“The gifts that friends, alumni and faculty give to the Steinway Fund enable students to practice, rehearse and perform on the best pianos in the world,” McKee said. “The piano is essential to the development of all young musicians, not just piano majors, but also singers and instrumentalists.

The department, which averages 70 music majors a year, began working to become an All-Steinway School in 2006. To complete the $450,000 effort to become an All-Steinway School, the department needs eight additional Steinway Model O grand pianos. Contact McKee at (910) 893-1502 for more information on the All-Steinway School initiative. To make a gift to the project, contact Director of Annual Giving Sarah Swain at swain@ campbell.edu or (910) 893-4923.

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Order of the Long Leaf Pine | President Jerry M. Wallace joined a prestigious list of North Carolinians in April when he was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the highest honor the state can give for those with a proven record of extraordinary service. Wallace was surprised with the announcement during a well-attended meeting of the Wake County Alumni Chapter at the Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mansion in downtown Raleigh. He was presented with the honor by North Carolina Secretary of State and 1981 Campbell Law graduate Elaine Marshall.

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Brandon Weaver (’11 BBA/’14 JD) joined Thorp Law Firm in Raleigh.

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Anitra Brown (’14 JD) serves as vice president for the 2015 North Carolina Association of Wake Women Attorneys’ Board of Directors

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Bethany Starnes Lingle (’11 BS) of Granite Falls announced her marriage to Derrick Lingle of Hudson. They were married on Jan. 3, in Lenoi and traveled to Honolulu, Hawaii, for their honeymoon. The couple will reside in Granite Falls. Bethany is employed as a chemist at the Marlin Company in Lenoir, and her husband is employed by Google in Lenoir.

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Jessica Vickers (’12 JD) joined Manning Fulton & Skinner, P.A. in Raleigh.

Amanda Leister (’13 PH/MS) and husband Charles welcomed their son, Austin Randolf. Austin was born on Nov. 8, 2014, weighing 6 pounds, 4 ounces.

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Anna Hedgepeth (’13 JD) was elected to the Literacy Council of Wake County Board of Directors and was named Member of the Year for the Southeast Chapter of the Legal Marketing Association.

Kenzie Rakes (’13 JD) joined Shanahan Law Group in Raleigh.

Carla Babb (’13 MDiv) was ordained on Oct. 12, 2014, at Trinity Baptist Church in Raleigh.

Amy McPherson (’14 MDiv) was called to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Gastonia as the faith and family minister. She started on Oct. 1, 2014.

Sandy Stillman-Alvin (’14 MDiv) was ordained on Oct. 19, 2014, at Heritage Baptist Church in Wake Forest.

Friends We Will Miss Patricia Cromartie (’73), Sept. 10 Natalie Diamond Krohn (’95), Sept. 10 Dr. Darrell Haymore (’98 Pharm), Sept. 18 Augusta B. Garrison (’45), Sept. 22 Lib Yow Whittington (’55), Sept. 24 Rev. Archie McKay (’73), Sept. 28 Lee Anne Kirn (’90 Ed), Oct. 1 Delaney Ingraham (’42), Oct. 2 Thomas Danner (’70), Oct. 2 James Futrell (’68), Oct. 6 Dottie Thigpen Batten (’69), Oct. 6 Roy Perry (’48), Oct. 13 Tony Tucker (’65), Oct. 14

James Thomas (’46), Oct. 17 William Soule (’72), Oct. 21 H. Kent Crowe (’87 Law), Oct. 21 Michael Hargrove (’77), Oct. 22 Douglas London (’73), Oct. 23 John Wayne Griffin (’60), Oct. 28 Haywood Phthisic (’58), Nov. 8 Helen Carr Bigham (’47), Nov. 9 Richard Hay (’01), Nov. 9 Amanda Harrell Wheless (’42), Nov. 10 Vernon Whitley (’53), Nov. 14 George Kornegay (’57), Nov. 21 Hubert Outland (’66), Nov. 26

Margaret McLeod (’46), Dec. 1 Michael Morton (’77), Dec. 1 Rev. Thomas Wright (’53), Dec. 9 Herbert Harriss (’92), Dec. 9 Donnie Dorman (’66), Dec. 18 Albert Jackson (’79), Dec. 22 Peggy Strickland Boone (’54), Dec. 25 Michael Johnson (’82 Law), Dec. 26 Patrick Brown (’86), Dec. 29 Janice Nell Teague (’70), Jan. 1 Mary Turnage Bond (’77), Jan. 1 Robert McGowan (’71), Jan. 2 Robert Kennedy (’71), Jan. 3

Martha Joyce Baxley (’67), Jan. 8 Alfred Stultz (’69), Jan. 10 William Woodall (’65), Jan. 14 Jerome Sernak (’71), Jan. 20 Dennis Hunt (’61), Jan. 23 Rev. Andrew Hill (’58), Jan. 24 Walter Ed Hight (’49), Jan. 29 Lucy Jefferson Tyson (’55), Jan. 31 Norwood Worley (’50), Feb. 4 James Haney (’80 Law), Feb. 5

ALUMNI EVENTS Visit Campbell’s Alumni Office at alumni.campbell.edu for a complete list of upcoming events in your area. For more information about our regional alumni chapters, contact Jonathan Q. Bridges at (910) 893-1322 or bridgesj@campbell.edu.

Wake County Alumni Chapter (Raleigh, surrounding areas) • June 6: Wake Area Picnic at Bob Barker’s retreat, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

• Aug. 2: New student send-off picnic at Pullen Park in Raleigh Foothills Alumni Chapter (Winston-Salem area) • May 29: Winston-Salem Dash baseball game, 7 p.m.

• August (date TBA): New student send-off event Cape Fear Alumni Chapter (Wilmington area) • June (date TBA): Spring picnic at Hugh MacRae Park • August (date TBA): New student send-off event

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Washington, D.C., Metro Alumni Chapter (and surrounding areas) • May: Community service event and lunch at Christ House Greater Cumberland Alumni Chapter (Fayetteville, surrounding areas) • May or June: Evening networking reception • August (date TBA): New student send-off event Charlotte Metro Alumni Chapter (Charlotte, surrounding areas) • August (date TBA): New student send-off event Lee County Alumni Chapter (Sanford, surrounding areas) • Fall (date TBA): General meeting and reception • August (date TBA): New student send-off event Central Virginia Alumni Chapter • August (date TBA): New student send-off event

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The Campbell College Sonlight Singers pose for a group photo for the Pine Burr Yearbook in the fall of 1974. Led by conductor Ralph Montgomery, the Singers included Yvonne Haskins, Sherrill Deneen, Nancy Clark, Debbie Smallwood, Kathy Butler, Rose Mary Hagwood, Pam Rowe, Kathy Bowen, Summer Edwards, Steve Rogers, David Glass, Martin Williams, Bob Wrenn, Greg Gulley, Steve Booth, Keith Mottley, Dan Greider and Charles Allen. w w w. c a m p b e l l . e d u / m a g a z i n e

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