Campbell Magazine | Spring 2016

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WHY CAN’T SHE?

Only 13% of our country’s engineers are women.

So why do we continue to hold them back?

SPRING 2016 POPULAR SCIENCE | Susanna Lenz, a senior biology major from Pleasant Garden, works in Professor Liz Blue’s Organic Chemistry II lab. | Photo by Lissa Gotwals

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SPRING 2016 | VOLUME 11 | ISSUE 1 __________________________________ PRESIDENT

J. Bradley Creed VICE PRESIDENT FOR INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT AND ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT

Britt Davis

ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT FOR COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING

Haven Hottel (’00)

__________________________________ DIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONS & MAGAZINE EDITOR

Billy Liggett

DIRECTOR OF VISUAL IDENTITY & MAGAZINE ART DIRECTOR

Jonathan Bronsink (’05) DIRECTOR OF CONTENT STRATEGY & SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Cherry Crayton

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DIRECTOR OF WEB DESIGN

Nikki Zawol

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CONTRIBUTORS

Rachel Davis Gerardo Gonzalez Lissa Gotwals Christian Hornaday Cynthia Johnston Kevin Lee Bennett Scarborough Matthew Sokol Lynsey Trembly ACCOLADES

CASE III Grand Award

Most Improved: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Best Magazine: 2013

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LET THEM STEM

CASE III Award of Excellence Publications Writing: 2014 Illustrations: 2016

Founded in 1887, Campbell University is a private, coeducational institution where faith, learning and service 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 & 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, the School of Engineering 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 2016 edition and named one of the “100 Best College Buys” in the nation by Institutional Research & Evaluation, Inc. EEO/AA/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Protected Veterans www.campbell.edu/employment

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Only 13 percent of the nation’s professional engineers are women, and we continue to hold them back through bias and by other means.

Jenna Carpenter, founding dean of the new Campbell University School of Engineering, has become a national advocate for women in STEM education and STEM fields, and she’s working to make Campbell’s new program the model for diversity in engineering education.

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Campbell welcomed its fifth president, J. Bradley Creed, with a week of celebration leading up to his official installation ceremony on April 8.

Relive the historic day through photos by photographer Lissa Gotwals.

ROCK THE CREEK

Big-name bands and solo acts have come through Buies Creek for over 50 years — from Frankie Valli to Jimmy Buffett (pictured above) and OneRepublic. Lift up your lighters (or cell phones) ... Campbell Magazine is picking the Top 20 concerts from the past half century.

COVER: Mia, Gigi and Chiyenne — students and possible future STEM professionals from Buies Creek Elementary — shared their dreams with Campbell Magazine for our feature on the need for more women in engineering. Photo by Lissa Gotwals

THE NEW FACE OF LEADERSHIP IN NORTH CAROLINA

PHARMACY | MEDICINE | NURSING | PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT PHYSICAL THERAPY | CLINICAL RESEARCH | PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES PUBLIC HEALTH | COMPREHENSIVE UNDERGRADUATE SCIENCE PROGRAMS

Tracey F. Smith Hall of Nursing & Health Sciences will be the future home of the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing

www.campbell.edu Established in 1887, Campbell is a comprehensive university that offers over 100 undergraduate majors and concentrations as well as graduate and professional degree programs. The University is comprised of nine schools: the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Lundy-Fetterman School of Business, Divinity School, School of Education, College of Arts & Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine, Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing and School of Engineering.

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2015-16 Fall/Winter

As the spring semester wraps up, so too does the first full year of clinical rotations for third-year students in Campbell’s School of Osteopathic Medicine charter class. Five students experiencing their first week of rotations were featured in our Fall/Winter edition of Campbell Magazine. Read their stories at campbell.edu/magazine

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When I volunteer at the Campbell University Community Care Center, my grueling schedule and the hours spent packing countless facts into my brain suddenly make sense.

I’m learning how to help patients who need medical care, but I can help them right now, as a student. … Working at the clinic has also reminded me that though medical school is a long trek through hundreds of lectures and dozens of exams, I chose the right path.”

— Second-year medical student Claire Unruh, published recently in the American Osteopathic Association’s regular “Let’s Get Clinical” feature

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We feel like we’ve been in slow motion for so long in the classroom.

We’re still running on adrenaline coming into the rotations.”

— Third-year medical student Maria Campolo in a recent feature article in the Fayetteville Observer

SEND US YOUR LETTERS

Campbell Magazine wants to hear from Campbell alumni, students, faculty, staff and anybody else who bleeds orange and black. Comment on our stories or send us your Campbell experiences by emailing Editor Billy Liggett at liggettb@ campbell.edu. Or send us your letters to Campbell Magazine | PO Box 567 | Buies Creek, NC 27506.

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‘MAJOR MILESTONE’ FOR MED SCHOOL To the Editor: I am writing this letter to commend your recent Campbell Magazine feature, “In the Field,” about the inaugural cohort of medical students at the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine (CUSOM) beginning their rotations.

As a physician and long-time medical educator, I think the article captured the essence of what it is like for a medical student to begin his or her clinical rotations. I thought it was even more poignant as it not only marked the entry of the inaugural class into their third year of medical school, it was a major milestone for Campbell’s medical school as it has grown into the school that Dr. Wallace envisioned.

I have a unique vantage point as I have watched CUSOM develop both externally as well as internally (I served as an associate dean from 2013-2016). I have seen the folks saying that it couldn’t be done juxtaposed to Dr. Wallace’s

‘For Lydia’ Inspires To the Editor: Wow. There are no words adequate to express my sorrow for the tragic loss Gabe Snyder and his family have suffered (“For Lydia,” Winter 2016).

Thank you, Gabe, for being brave and not giving up. God’s light (and Lydia’s) is shining brightly in you and through you, touching lives and healing hearts. What a beautiful tribute to

vision for creating an amazing medical school to serve the public good by training physicians for rural and underserved North Carolina, and now I have seen that dream become a reality as detailed in this article.

I fondly recall a conversation that I had with Dr. Wallace about one of his favorite parables, David and Goliath, and I couldn’t help but thinking of Campbell as the David in the story and how this accomplishment will affect so many. This tree will bear fruit for the benefit of generations to come.

Thanks for this well-written article, and thanks to Campbell University for all that it does to make the world a better place by providing opportunities to so many.

DR. ROBERT HASTY Founding Dean & Chief Academic Officer Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine

your sister and the legacy of love she left behind.

That love lives on in the hearts of all who knew and loved her and now in even more hearts as you continue to share that love with others. You are amazing.

God is good all the time. May we always seek to live peacefully, love freely and forgive faithfully — and know we are never alone. God is always with us.

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A PLACE OF OPPORTUNITIES

CIERRA LIVECCHI “My first time on campus was at freshman orientation. I knew I was in the right spot. I knew this is where I was supposed to be.”

Senior ROTC cadet Cierra Livecchi of Rochester, N.Y., found “A Place of Opportunities” at Campbell and was one of four students featured in a video series leading up to the installation of the University’s fifth president, J. Bradley Creed. Creed has touted the opportunities Campbell offers throughout his first year as president and made it the theme of his speaking tour last fall.

“If you told me at 18 that in six years you’ll graduate from college,” said Livecchi. “Not only that, you’ll commission as an officer in the U.S. Army, I would have told you that you were a liar.

Coming here is the best decision I’ve ever made.”

During her freshman year at Campbell, Livecchi attended a speech and Q&A session on campus with U.S. diplomat Julie Ruterbories, a foreign services officer with 20-plus years in the U.S. State Department. Ruterbories provided inside tips about how to become a foreign services officer, what to expect in the application process, what career paths are available and more.

That encounter still inspires Livecchi, who participated in a mission trip to Haiti last year to not only serve the less fortunate, but gain realworld experience. “I’ve learned that I need to do something more with my life,” she said. “I need to do whatever I can to make this world better.”

ONLINE | See Cierra Livecchi’s testimony, as well as videos featuring PA graduate Raul Singh, Divinity student Jackie Love and piano pedogogy major Danny Allen at campbell.edu/opportunities

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FLYNT ON ‘MOCKINGBIRD’ AND GOD’S PROVIDENCE

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Harper Lee had been working on ‘Go Set a Watchman.’ Her agent tells her the book isn’t very good and wants her to recast it. She’s also sent some stories out to literary magazines, and they had been rejected.

“Besides that, her best friend was Truman Capote. He is a superstar, and she can’t get her work even in a small literary magazine. She was feeling really insecure.

She’s quit her job. She’s frantically working on converting ‘Go Set a Watchman’ to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ She’s typing, typing, typing. She shows it to the editor, and he tells her it’s better.

“But she’s really frustrated. Terribly frustrated. One night, when she was living in New York City, it was snowing, and she goes to her window and throws the manuscript outside. It’s the manuscript for ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’

“She calls her agent and says ‘I’ve quit.

I’m not going to fool with this.’ The agent told her, ‘You’ve got a really good novel in the making. Now calm down, get the manuscript, bring it back up and get to working.’ She goes out in the snow and follows the wind, and one-by-one picks up the pages and brings them back and finishes the novel. Talk about the providence of God.”

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HARPER LEE’S LEGACY

FRIEND OF ‘TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD’ AUTHOR TALKS RACE AND LITERATURE AT TWO INSTALLATION WEEK LECTURES Several years ago when the Library of Congress asked patrons to name the piece of literature that most affected their lives, they overwhelmingly listed two books: the Bible and “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

That did not surprise Dr. Wayne Flynt, a longtime friend of the “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee and one of the world’s most notable scholars on Southern history, religion and literature who took part in two lectures at Campbell during the Installation Week of another friend — University President J. Bradley Creed.

His topic for the first lecture: “What Harper Lee and Southern Small Towns can Teach the World About Race Theology, History, Literature, Race and Community.”

“To Kill a Mockingbird” had an initial press run of only 6,000 copies; but since it was first published 60 years ago, it was has sold more than 40 million copies. A 1960 Pulitzer Prize winner, “To Kill a Mockingbird” still sells more than a million copies a year and is one of the most frequently required books read in schools.

“So frequently did English teachers use the novel in their classes, I’m convinced that if you were you attending schools in America

in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s or 1990s, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is the single most unifying cultural icon in all of American culture,” Flynt said. “There is no other novel, no art, no piece of music, where we could all say ‘Yeah, we could have a conversation about that.’”

But if you want to know what was really on Harper Lee’s mind in 1956, read “Go Set a Watchman.” Though Lee wrote that book several years before “To Kill a Mockingbird,” it was not published and released until July 2015. Flynt called “Watchmen” a book about “generations of self-righteous young people sitting in judgment of their parents who have to live in the reality of their culture, not in the reality of the young person’s culture where they get a different understanding of morality and wisdom.”

“Literature provides our best material for moral reflection,” Flynt said. “Think the Bible, think Proverbs or Job or the Gospels. In ‘Go Set a Watchman,’ we have a moral tale that provides perhaps America’s best reflection of our core values. Particularly in light of Charleston and public policy debates today, what could be more appropriate than a piece of literature that forces us to follow a moral arc of what happens in families, of people, and of nations?”

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CAMPBELL PROGRAMS WILL PLAY CRITICAL ROLE IN REVERSING OPIOID ABUSE TREND

By Cynthia Johnston Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice March turned out to be an interesting month for health care providers who care for patients taking opioids for chronic non-cancer pain conditions. We saw the release of a new practice guideline on opioid prescribing, a new vision for chronic pain management, and revised labeling requirements for opioid analgesics.

The Obama Administration’s call to address prescription drug abuse and heroin use in the United States last October provided a directive for change to decrease opioid-related deaths and to improve the care of individuals with chronic non-cancer pain.

Sadly, the rate of unintended deaths related to use of opioids (prescription or illicit) is much too high. In the U.S., 28,647 people died from an overdose of an opioid. This translates to an age-adjusted death rate of nine deaths per 100,000 persons. In North Carolina, the number of deaths was 1,358 with a rate of 13.8 deaths per 100,000 persons, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Campbell University has programs for many types of health care providers who will play a critical role in reversing this alarming problem.

Programs in the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences and in the School of Osteopathic Medicine include didactic, experiential and

More than 28,000 Americans accidentally overdosed on opioids in 2014, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. About half of those were prescription painkiller overdoses.

interprofessional education on topics related to managing pain safely and effectively using a health care team approach.

CPHS participates in the Generation Rx program through APhA-ASP to promote safe use of medications by children and adults. Fred Brason, director of Project Lazarus — an N.C.based secular, nonprofit group that empowers communities and individuals to prevent drug overdoses and meet the needs of those living with chronic pain — spoke to an interprofessional group of students and faculty at Campbell University in August about the group’s efforts to save the lives of North Carolinians with opioid use disorders. One of the activities of Project Lazarus is distributing naloxone, a drug that reverses the effects of opioids.

This group assembles and distributes lifesaving opioid reversal kits throughout the state.

Anyone who might be a first responder may receive training to administer naloxone. Our faculty continue to work with our students to assure safer and more appropriate use of opioids to manage pain.

@dsdupree Gore Arena a perfect venue for @BigSouthMBB tourney. Kudos to @GoCamels for fantastic job as host. #CreekMadness

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On April 8, J. Bradley Creed was officially installed as just the fifth president in Campbell’s 129-year history. Trustee Chair Benjamin Thompson: “In Christ’s name and by his grace, Campbell University has installed a president on only four previous occasions, a fact that attests to the depth of commitment that each of our leaders has demonstrated. All have been individuals of extraordinary ability, uncommon energy, sure vision and resolute determination.

Today ... [we] add to their company a fifth man of similar qualities.”

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It’s a lucky number for Campbell’s women’s golf program. With their Big South team title in April, the Camels have won 13 conference championships in 25 years under the direction of head coach John Crooks. Five of those titles were in the Big South, and the first eight were in the Atlantic Sun Conference.

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The late Jerry Duncan Taylor taught math at Campbell University for 46 years. In that time he built a reputation as being a tough professor who not only pushed his students, but encouraged them to succeed. In March, Campbell dedicated a sundial in front of the Taylor Bott-Rogers Fine Arts Building in Taylor’s memory — “something physical that we could see, celebrate, and reflect on him and the good man that he is and the way that he has touched many of the people here,” said Provost Mark Hammond.

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The total attendance for the four-day Big South Men’s Basketball Championship, held for the first time at Campbell’s Pope Convocation Center, topped 12,000 fans.

The Thursday night Round 1 match-up between Campbell and Gardner-Webb attracted the sixth largest crowd in Gore Arena history with 2,991 fans. Said Athletic Director Bob Roller: “The preconceived notion of coming here, it was like, ‘Oh my God, we’re coming to Bugtussle. We’re coming to Mayberry.’ But when you walk into this arena and just take it in, it has the feel of an NCAA tournament.”

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AROUND CAMPUS FACT: Over 14 percent of households in the U.S. (17.4 million) were food insecure in 2014, according to Feeding America. Harnett County’s rate is higher than the national average, with 19 percent (nearly 20,000 people) having limited or uncertain access to healthy food. | Graphic by Freepik

FIGHTING FOOD INSECURITY

CAMPUS MINISTRY WINS $5K CAMPUS KITCHEN PROJECT GRANT A fourth of all children in Harnett County live in food insecure homes. Nearly 20,000 people total in the county have limited or uncertain access to healthy food.

ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM WINNERS FOR 2016 The 2016 Wiggins Memorial Library Academic Symposium, held on March 22, showcased the best of undergraduate and graduate student research at Campbell University. The winners were: Oral Presentations | Undergraduate • Kayleigh Dolphin — Exercise Science • Andrew Lim — Physics • Anna Marie Vagnozzi — Mathematics Oral Presentations | Graduate • Shayne Caswell, Luke Ennis and Olusegun Onibonoje — Osteopathic Medicine • Alexandra Gamrod — Public Health • Keir D. Morton-Manley — Law (Pictured)

In an effort to help combat the problem in its community, Campus Ministry’s Community Engagement Office applied for and won a $5,000 grant from the national Campus Kitchens Project to start its own Campus Kitchen. The effort will not only provide an on-campus community kitchen space, it will recover food not used in Campbell’s cafeterias and rely on student volunteers to prepare and deliver healthy meals to the community.

“Campbell University has always been committed to service, and this is another way we can impact the area we live in,” University President J. Bradley Creed said. “People will be surprised to find out the health concerns we have [locally] because of food insecurity. This is a good project for our students and their desire for learning, their desire to serve and desire to make a positive difference in the lives of their closest neighbors.”

A recent Feeding America report said 19 percent of households in Harnett County

are food insecure, but a 2014 report by the nonprofit Voices Into Action said that number could be higher. In addition to food insecurity, many other families receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits but still struggle to put food on the table. And healthier foods cost more, meaning many families settle for fast food or junk food that’s often cheaper than the healthier alternatives.

“Organizations [that feed those in need] come and go, and people who are food insecure lose trust,” said Blake Faircloth, one of the student organizers of Campbell’s grant effort. “They don’t know which way to turn. Campbell can provide that trust, because it’s already an established organization in this community.”

The idea for Campbell’s involvement came from student experiences on a mission trip to Washington, D.C., during spring break in 2015.

Hannah Jonas, one of the students on that trip and a Buies Creek native, said she was inspired to see the impact those universities can have.

“Growing up here and attending these public schools, I’ve seen friends and others who really do struggle with poverty and hunger,” she said.

“And they’re not getting good healthy food.”

Art, Music and Theatre • Caitlyn Branen — Theatre • Ashlie McCrae — Music • Emily Labonte — Art Poster Presentations | Undergraduate • David Creasman — Biology • Miranda Griffin and Sarah Ryals — Biology • Sharidan Hill — Biology • Maisoon Qassem — Biology Poster Presentations | Graduate • Edward Hicks and Mark Luke — Clinical Research • Michael Hong, Jillian Rau and Shannon Rodgers — Osteopathic Medicine • Kylie McCullough — Pharmacy

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THE ORANGE CARPET | Ashley Clark, Lawrence Kipkoech and the women’s golf team were big winners at the fifth annual CAMMYS in April. Matt Parrish, Rebecca Sheinfeld, Michael Kelly and the men’s tennis team also earned top honors on a night that showcases the best in Campbell athletics over the last calendar year in true award-show fashion. | Photo by Bennett Scarborough

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Enrolls charter class of 84 students

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Receives trustee approval to open Michael G. Cogdill & Bruce P. Powers named 1st dean & associate dean

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Offers 1st certification programs in Preschool & Children’s Ministry & Christian Women in Leadership

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Receives full accreditation to offer M.Div. & M.A. in Christian Ministry

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Launches Hispanic Theological Education Program

Receives accreditation approval to add Doctor of Ministry

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Establishes partnership with Charles B. Keesee Educational Fund

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Holds 1st mission immersion trip to Ukraine

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Dedicates Anna Gardner & Robert B. Butler Chapel

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Establishes World Religions & Global Cultures Center

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Holds 1st Pastors Health Summit

Establishes partnership with N.C. Foundation for Christian Ministries

Establishes Gay T. Haskell A. Duncan Chair of Church Music

Alumna Brenda Hafer receives Baptist Women in Ministry’s Addie Davis Preaching Award

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Adds Master of Arts in Christian Ministry

Establishes Geraldine & Andrew Snellings Chair of Christian Evangelism & Missions

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Holds 1st Oasis Church Music Conference

To date, Campbell University Divinity School has conferred 588 Master of Divinity degrees, 30 Master of Arts in Christian Education degrees, 13 Master of Arts in Christian Ministry degrees, and 49 Doctor of Ministry degrees.

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AROUND CAMPUS NIGHT AT THE OPERA | Campbell’s Opera Theatre put on a special concert in April for President J. Bradley Creed’s Installation Week. Students performed selections from “Carmen,” “Figaro” and “The Elixir of Love.” Pictured are (from left) Wade Hodges, Kadeem Breedlove and Jackie Smith. | Photo by Bennett Scarborough

@RyanAFournier Yea I met him up and close. Amazing. #TeamTrump

MUSLIM, NON-MUSLIM STUDENTS TALK TENSIONS, TRUST IN CAMPUS MINISTRY-SPONSORED FORUM

LEAD TRUMPET

Campbell freshman Ryan Fournier made national news in his first year of college as founder of Students for Trump — a grassroots group backing the likely Republican nominee for president in November. Fournier’s Students4Trump Twitter account has more than 25,000 followers and is growing by the day.

“Right now the system’s broken,” Fournier told Newsweek. “I understand he’s not perfect, he’s not going to be able to [fix] it overnight. There’s no perfect candidate. But I look at it as the fact where he’s going to be able to get those people needed to get [the country] back on track.”

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On a day when tensions against the Muslim community in the U.S. again rose sharply following terrorist bombings in Belgium, students at Campbell University met to learn more about and better understand each other’s different faiths.

Our Place at the Table, hosted in March by Campus Ministry, invited Muslim and nonMuslim students and faculty for a discussion on the Islamic faith. The evening included three speakers who provided insight on Muslim culture and religion and a round-table dialogue between students of different faiths.

“The conversations were rich and meaningful, allowing participants to learn from each other and, in particular, learn more about the Islamic experience of our students,” said Dean for Spiritual Life Faithe Beam.

Omnya Shiglawi, a junior studying clinical research, attributed the positive response to having so many in attendance who were eager to see what she and other Muslim Arab-Americans had to say. Despite cultural

differences and current tensions, she said she feels many in the U.S. “seem to really want to make and be the change.”

“This event was very important because of everything that is happening across the world,” she said. “Many innocent people are being killed due to few people who have gone astray from Islam.”

Shiglawi and her group stressed that Islam is a peaceful religion. The root of the misunderstandings between the faiths is ignorance, according to Glenn Jonas, associate dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.

“The more we can dialogue with people who have a different faith than our own, the better we will understand that all humans are very similar to each other,” Jonas said. “The more of these kind of events we have, the better.

And I am very happy that students are taking ownership of this event.”

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WELCOME TO THE NFL

Milhouse, Dillon become first Camels to sign NFL contracts Within two hours of the final pick of the 2016 NFL Draft, two Campbell football players became the first in the program’s short history to sign free agent contracts with NFL teams. Defensive tackle Greg Milhouse was first, agreeing to terms with the New York Giants. Minutes later, special teams ace Danny Dillon signed with the Arizona Cardinals and will enter camp vying for the squad’s deep snapper position.

GREG MILHOUSE | New York Giants

DANNY DILLON | Arizona Cardinals

The Garner native was picked by many to go in the sixth or seventh round of the NFL Draft, which also would have been a first for Campbell’s 8-year-old football program. But any disappointment of not getting his name called was erased when the two-time All-Pioneer Football league lineman received a call from the New York Giants shortly after the seventh and final round.

Danny Dillon knew his chances of getting drafted were slim — only one long snapper went in this year’s draft out of 253 selections.

“I’m just excited. It’s a dream come true,” said Milhouse, who transferred to Campbell from Appalachian State before his junior year. “I’m ready to get to work and prove myself now. I’ve got a big chip on my shoulder [not getting drafted], and I’m just ready to get to work.”

“I had been talking to them for couple of months already,” Dillon told the Fayetteville Observer. “They had even come to Campbell to watch me work out for them. But it was still surreal when the call came. It was just such a big relief because it was such a long wait.”

Milhouse had 49 total tackles and five sacks in his senior season, posting at least one tackle for loss in 10 of 11 games. He was a participant in the 2016 NFLPA Collegiate Bowl in Carson, California, after leading a Camels defense that ranked fifth in the nation in total defense in 2015.

Dillon played 43 career games at Campbell, and in that span, the Camels ranked among the top special teams units in the FCS.

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But Dillon knew he was wanted. The Arizona Cardinals had been heavily scouting the four-year starter from Sanford after the retirement of their longtime snapper Mike Leach.

According to the blog “Raising Arizona,” Dillon has a good chance of making the final roster, competing with one other rookie for the open spot in training camp.

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The family of Christopher Furtick has established a memorial scholarship in his name for Campbell University’s new School of Engineering. Pictured are Christopher’s older brother, Joseph, his father Russell, his mother Brenda and grandparents Joseph and Janet Boone. | Photo by Billy Liggett

A LOT TO GIVE

SCHOLARSHIP HONORS YOUNG MAN TAKEN TOO SOON Christopher Furtick was going to be an engineer. His parents were certain of that.

Growing up, Christopher loved to create things using his hands. Spinning tops. Squirrel cages (that really worked). A bow and arrows. He even took up sewing, and self-taught himself to create his own shirt. “I knew from kindergarten, Christopher was creative. Extremely creative,” said his father, Russell Furtick. “When he turned 15, we’d talked about college and maybe an engineering school.”

On April 28, 2015, Christopher Furtick died three months and a week shy of his 16th birthday. The young man who loved to see how things worked, who excelled in art classes and on the soccer pitch, who was quick with a joke or a prank on his parents or older brother — left behind a lot promise, a lot that he was going to give to the world.

“He was going to go to college. He was going to be an engineer. He didn’t get to do that,” his mother, Brenda Furtick, said. “This is one way we’ve chosen to honor and remember Christopher.”

The Furtick family has established the Christopher Andrew Furtick Memorial Scholarship Fund, the first scholarship for Campbell University’s School of Engineering,

which will begin classes this fall. Christopher’s family has strong ties to Campbell. His grandparents Joseph and Janet Boone of Lillington have been longtime supporters of the University, and his brother Joseph Furtick is a junior in Campbell’s trust and wealth management program.

Brenda Furtick said she hopes the scholarship’s first and future recipients are students who, like Christopher, have a zest for life and a knack for achieving what they set their minds to.

“Christopher would have made a difference in this world, I have no doubt about that,” she said. “I put more on who the person is — their integrity and character — than their grade point average.”

“This is a first for the engineering school. It’s nice to be significant,” said his grandfather, Joseph Boone. “Christopher was a real engineer. A designer, developer, inventor and architect. He had a lot of promise, and this [scholarship] is a nice way to honor a giver gifted young man.”

MEET THE NEW COACH OF THE LADY CAMELS

Ronny Fisher was announced as the new Campbell head women’s basketball coach on April 6, becoming the fourth coach in program history. He succeeds a legend in Wanda Watkins, who won more than 500 games at Campbell in her storied career.

Q: What drew you to Campbell and made you decide to accept the offer to become the new head coach?

[Campbell’s] commitment to athletics, and specifically the women’s basketball program, is unprecedented. Combine that with all the incredible people I’ve met, it has just seemed like a perfect fit and exactly what we have been looking for. I had a great tenure at Presbyterian College, and I really enjoyed my time there. But Campbell is special and I really couldn’t turn down this opportunity.

Q: We know that it’s early, but what can we expect from the Lady Camels next season?

The biggest thing that you will see is maximum effort. I know we can be good defensively next year, and that will be our main focus. I’ve got to learn about this team and develop the game plan around our strengths. However, I can guarantee that we are going to play really hard and play really good defense.

Q: What’s your favorite quote?

“Toughness wins.” It’s a simple quote, but that’s something that my programs have always been about and that’s what we are going to strive for here at Campbell.

SURPRISE RUN | Campbell’s softball team advanced to the Big South Tournament championship game for the first time since 1993 when it knocked off Radford, 6-3, on May 14. It was the team’s first conference championship berth since 2009 when the Camels played in the A-Sun Conference.

Photo by Christopher Downey, Campbell Athletics

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AROUND CAMPUS A recent study found that 62 percent of smartphone users do not password protect their phone and that they are 33 percent more likely to become a victim of identity theft.

FROM OUR FACULTY

OUR PRIVACY IS UNDER ASSAULT FROM TWO DIRECTIONS — APPLE AND THE FBI TEXAS-SIZED REPEAT FOR CAMPBELL LAW For the second consecutive year and third time in the last four years, Campbell Law student advocates collected a national championship title at the prestigious South Texas Mock Trial Challenge in April.

Second-year students Jacob Morse, Dutch Entwistle and Casey Peaden defeated a talented group of student advocates from Stetson Law School to bring the championship hardware back to Raleigh. Morse earned an oustanding advocate award in the preliminary rounds of the competition and was named the Championship Best Advocate for his impressive performance in the championship finals.

Morse, Entwistle and Peaden were coached by 2012 Campbell Law graduate Maria Hawkins of the Triangle Law Group and Campbell Law Assistant Professor and Advocacy Program Director Dan Tilly.

By Kevin Lee Assistant Professor of Law The controversy between Apple and the FBI is symptomatic of the changing nature of privacy in an information society. Today’s phones are extensions of our minds.

concept of privacy has developed in modernity and will continue to develop. The Nazi and Communists regimes of the early 20th century stripped privacy from the people they sought to control, leaving them naked before the tremendous power of the State.

The philosopher, Andy Clark, titled one of his books “Natural Born Cyborgs” to express the idea that we are, by nature, predisposed to use technology to enhance our cognitive ability.

Today, our devices help us remember, search for information, guide us in the world, track our daily activities, and even monitor our bodily functions with increasing sophistication.

In the present case, the FBI seeks access to the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists by compelling Apple to make software that would exploit a vulnerability in the phone’s security to work like a key to open the phone’s cryptographic lock. The most salient issues center on whether compelling Apple to make the key would be unduly burdensome for Apple and its customers.

As technology increasingly blurs the distinction between the person and the device, the ability of Government to invade the device becomes a more and more intrusive assault on the privacy of the person. It is for that very reason that Government seeks access to these devices, because it gives them access to the most intimate details of someone’s private life.

Both Apple and the Government know that there is much more at stake in the litigation than access to the phone of one terrorist. Neither Apple nor the FBI is well suited to be a defender of privacy, since privacy is under assault from two directions: commercial interests consume it and Government commandeers it.

The political philosopher, Hannah Arendt, wrote about the relationship between privacy and totalitarianism in her book, “On the Human Condition.” She argued that the

Our best option may be to demand that the rich and powerful who invade privacy are transparent themselves, as author David Brin has suggested in his book, “The Transparent Society.”

QUOTABLE “Interpretations of the Bible are all around us: in literature, in politics, in church and in the conversations we share with family and friends. I’m convinced our lives will become more purposeful as a result of listening and learning together.”

— Lindsey Trozzo, new assistant professor of New Testament for Campbell’s Department of Christian Studies

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COMPETITIVE MEDICINE | A parachutist entangled in a tree deep in the Virginia forest, an injured hiker in need of a makeshift splint, a scuba diver with a bad case of the bends ... they’re but some of the scenarios third-year med students Launa Clough and Venus Oliva encountered while competing in the recent Mid-Atlantic Medical Wilderness Adventure Race. The duo finished second in the sevenhour race and were featured in April in The DO, the official publication and website of the American Osteopathic Association. | Photo courtesy of Launa Clough

WELL DONE, #CAMPBELL16 | More than 450 students from the College of Arts & Sciences, School of Business and School of Education received their degrees at the May 14 commencement service in a packed Pope Convocation Center. In all, Campbell awarded 950 undergraduate and graduate degrees over five ceremonies in a two-day span. | Photo by Bennett Scarborough

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FOUNDERS WEEK

Campbell University held its second Founders Week in February to celebrate the university and its founding in 1887. Several of this year’s events and activities paid homage to the Scottish heritage of Founding President J.A. Campbell.

@artartefacts Wearing this cap to State today to rep my undergrad because it’s #CampbellDay

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@lisa_sago Proud to be an alumna of such an outstanding University and have my daughter as a current student!

Happy #CampbellDay

@J_byrd4 Even No Excuses University School in Arizona loves @campbelledu #penpals #campbellday

@jason_bennett10 Sporting our orange & black for #CampbellFoundersWeek #CampbellDay

nyrhythm93 But who’s the real J.A. Campbell? Happy #CampbellDay to the little gem that I call home in the Creek.

@LG_Leadership Even a dreary day won’t keep the Ladies of Ladies & Gents from celebrating #CampbellDay #Campbellfoundersweek

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@CUAdm_Michael #CampbellDay #WearOrangeWednesday #HumpDay #GoCamels

brent_dawson2 Campbell is my dream school! After one visit I knew it was for me. #campbellday #ilovecampbell

@ellencoletim I have the pleasure of working with these amazing professionals. Love my job! #CampbellDay

@4EverInBlueJnz My cap and gown hangs in the back of my reading nook. Dreams do come true! #CampbellDay

@CU_Business Happy #CampbellDay from @CU_Business students! We’re so thankful for @campbelledu!

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FROM THE EDITOR

The First Photo

WHY THE CAMELS?

MY QUEST FOR THE TRUE ORIGIN OF ONE THE NATION’S MOST UNIQUE COLLEGE MASCOTS

This spring 1934 group photo of Campbell Junior College’s basketball team marks the first visual proof of the Camel name-change made in January 1934. Until that time, Campbell’s athletic teams went by the Hornets and the Campbellites (a name used to decribe the girls’ teams on occasion). | 1934 Viewbook

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is deep sleep abruptly interrupted by a student at 3:30 a.m. on a cold December night in 1900, J.A. Campbell was soon running toward the flames that lit up the night sky in the distance. Sprinting toward the campus of the little academy he’d worked so hard to build over the previous 23 years, Campbell fell to his knees when he arrived.

His campus was fully engulfed — falling to ashes before his eyes.

“There’s no chance to go on,” Campbell University’s founder and first president would later say.

And that’s where the legend begins.

In the days following, Campbell was distraught and rattled, his eyes red and puffy from the tears.

For a short time, he refused to get out of bed.

Before long, Zachary Taylor Kivett — a selftaught architect and contractor who lived about six miles from Buies Creek Academy — attempted to console his dear friend. According to the late J. Winston Pearce, noted Campbell historian and author of two volumes of “Big Miracle at Little Buies Creek,” Kivett — “strong,

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tall, brusque, with deep and penetrating eyes — strode into the young schoolmaster’s bedroom and grasped his hand in sympathy and friendship.”

“Jim Archie, why are you in bed?” Kivett said.

“Time’s wastin’. I thought Campbells had hump on them.”

The following month, the architect constructed a “shanty” for temporary classrooms until his grand achievement, Kivett Hall, was constructed in 1903. The building became a monument to the “love, loyalty and sacrifices” of the Campbell community, and today, still stands as Campbell’s iconic centerpiece. The phoenix that rose from the ashes. As for Kivett’s words of encouragement — “I thought Campbells had hump on them” — legend has it, this is the origin of the eventual mascot for the school. The Campbell Camels.

What a story. Dramatic, symbolic and downright suitable for a mascot as unique and beloved as ours. It’s also very likely not the reason we’re the Campbell Camels. There. I said it. A bold claim, I know. (Deep breath).

I suppose I should explain.

It doesn’t help me at all that new President J. Bradley Creed — only the fifth president in Campbell’s 129-year history — passionately retold the Kivett story in his Installation Ceremony speech this spring. The story is a pride point for us. We’re the tiny school that nobody gave a chance during Civil War Reconstruction.

W’ere the school that made it to the turn of the century intact, only to crumble to the ground in a matter of hours. That we survived and flourished fits very well with the school motto, Ad Astra Per Aspera, “To the Stars Through Difficulties.”

So who am I to to dispel the legend? Where do I get off trying to rewrite the already well-written history of Campbell?

I was inspired by an unlikely source — Auburn University. In that school’s Winter 2015 alumni magazine, alumnus Jeremy Henderson went out on a much longer limb than mine with his own quest for the truth behind Auburn’s storied “War

Eagle” battle cry.

For nearly a century, Auburn — whose actual mascot is and has always been the Tiger — has explained the origin of “War Eagle” (chanted at every Auburn sporting event) through the story of a wounded eagle rescued from a Civil War battlefield by a Confederate veteran. That eagle, according to the story, triumphantly circled over Auburn’s first football game in 1892, inspiring the crowd and the team to victory.

What a story. And admittedly, it’s better than Campbell’s. But it seemed too good to be true to Henderson, who quoted the 1962 wester, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, to explain the popularity of the legend — “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

Campbell’s mascot legend isn’t entirely legend.

Kivett did approach J.A. Campbell after the fire.

He did encourage him to get up and get to work.

And according to a letter Kivett wrote in 1923 recounting that fateful day, he most certainly did use that key word, “hump.”

The 1934 Monogram Club (pictured above) is the group responsible for the name change from “Hornets” to “Camels” in January of that year. The reason for that change has been shrouded in mystery for over 82 years.

But — and maybe this is the journalist in me — when presented with the idea that a mascot the school created in 1934 was the result of a private conversation 33 years earlier, I began to ask questions. For decades, Campbell was the Hornets, so why did it take so long to change the name? Why did the name change happen so unceremoniously? Why, when Pearce wrote about the Kivett-Campbell talk in his 1976 history book, did he not make the mascot connection?

My quest to answer these questions was frustrating, exhaustive and fascinating all at once. And it started with a thick stack of student newspapers from the 1930s in the dark recesses of the Carrie Rich Hall archive room.

Aside from the year Buies Creek Academy was founded in the late 1800s, 1934 stands as the most historic year in Campbell history.

On Jan. 13, a new dining hall (then called Leslie Campbell Hall, now referred to as Marshbanks) was dedicated — the ceremony marked the final public appearance by J.A. Campbell. On Feb. 14, the Campbell College basketball team won the Junior College Championship. A week later, a new bakery opened on campus. Later that year, the Paul Green Outdoor Theater (named for the Pulitzer Prize winner and 1918 Campbell grad) was dedicated.

On March 18, J.A. Campbell died in Fayetteville

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after a lengthy illness. Stories in the Creek Pebbles — the student newspaper — in the months leading up to his death chronicled his illness and return trips to the hospital. On March 29, his son Leslie was unanimously elected by the Board of Trustees to become J.A.’s successor as president. That September, Campbell enjoyed its largest enrollment, and a new student government association was started.

But before any of that — sometime between the Christmas break to end 1933 and the first week of classes in mid-January — the Campbell Hornets became the Campbell Camels.

We know this because in 1933, the football and basketball teams were going by the Hornets; and in 1934, headlines in the Creek Pebbles and other statewide publications began calling them the Camels. The only evidence that the name didn’t just magically appear came in the form of a small

article on Page 3 of the Jan. 13, 1934, Creek Pebbles — “Camels” Initiate New Members.

The article began, “Eight new men were recently initiated into Campbell’s Monogram Club, which has changed its name from ‘Hornets’ to ‘Camels.’”

And that’s it.

This coming from a paper that often launched into 200-word stories about the northerner who visited campus that day or 500-word columns about Erwin Royal and his propensity to sleep in on exam days couldn’t muster more than 20 words on something as significant as a mascot change. I looked other places as well. The Harnett County News had headlines like “Brother of Lillington woman dies in Florida,” but the school down the road adopting a new mascot never warranted a headline.

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spring — a skinnier alternative to the Pine Burr Yearbook because the school couldn’t afford the large printing costs for a few decades during the Great Depression and into World War II. The book contains the first visual evidence of the new mascot, a team photo of the junior college championship-winning men’s basketball team.

The 12 square-jawed farm boys are sporting dark warm-up sweatshirts with the new camel logo on the front.

The Book of Views was light on words, so again, no explanation for the change. And it would be decades before any Campbell-affiliated publication would bring it up.

the truth behind the Camel legend and can show proof will receive a prize.”

It added, “If The Times cannot get the truth, we will award the prize to the most creative legend.”

How’s this for a creative legend?

D. Rich — you may recognize his name from the building at the centerpiece of the Academic Circle on campus — couldn’t sleep on the night of Sept. 26, 1923. He was in Buies Creek visiting his friend J.A. Campbell, whom he met a few years prior at a Baptist convention.

On Oct. 25, 1977, Creek Pebbles’ editors issued a challenge to their readers to find the truth behind the origin of the Camel (which means the Campbell-Kivett conversation had yet to become part of University lore).

The reason for his insomnia: D. Rich couldn’t stop thinking about what more he could do to help the small school. The next morning, he told Campbell he had a talk with Jesus, who told him “Buies Creek must live.” He told Campbell that if he lived to get back home, he was going to change his will to see that the school survived.

“Many of you probably wonder why a wooly and awkward animal such as the camel could be chosen as our mascot,” one editor wrote. “No one — or no one we’ve interviewed — knows the true answer.”

D. Rich died a year later, leaving an eighth of his estate to Buies Creek Academy — $160,000 in cash. That enabled the construction of Kivett Hall’s neighbor, the D. Rich Memorial Building.

Two weeks after the newspaper’s challenge, it published a front-page story by Ted Patterson with the headline, “Camel’s Origin Is Revealed.” Patterson interviewed the wife of legendary Campbell baseball coach Hargrove “Hoggie” Davis.

“This was her short but delightful story,” Patterson wrote before sharing the tale of Linda Bouldin, the former dean of women who was in charge of setting up floral arrangements for a banquet for Campbell’s female students.

Bouldin’s son designed name plates for the girls and “thought long and hard” on an image to accompany those name plates.

“He derived, from the name Campbell, the word Camel,” the article explained.

The emblem made its way onto other designs and eventually stuck, Patterson wrote.

A delightful story, indeed. But also false — at least as an origin story.

In his article, Patterson dates Davis’ story to 1940 — six years after that secret Monogram Club meeting and the men’s basketball photo.

And this story didn’t appear to satisfy those seeking the truth. On March 26, 1992, The Campbell Times (formerly Creek Pebbles) issued this front-page editor’s note: “Anyone knowing

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In his life, D. Rich contributed more than $400,000 to the school, which included funds for a library in his wife’s name, Carrie Rich Hall.

He made his fortune in the tobacco industry, starting as a cashier and later becoming treasurer for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, which by the 1920s was the top taxpayer in North Carolina and producer of two out of every three cigarettes made in the state.

R.J. Reynolds’ top brand, by a mile, was Camel.

It’s a crazy theory, I know, especially considering J.A. Campbell’s strict policies at his school, which included no profanity, no alcohol and no tobacco use on campus. In “Big Miracle,” Pearce wrote of J.A. Campbell’s father: “On the farm, the Campbells grew corn, wheat, oats, cotton and vegetables; [but] never tobacco, because he hated the ‘weed’ with a vehemence matching that which [J.A.] was to have.”

But consider the era — smoking was more than just socially acceptable behavior in the 20s and 30s … it was the norm. The percentage of young adults who smoked was on a sharp incline at this time and would peak in the 1950s. Camel Cigarette ads in the 30s informed the public that four out of every five doctors preferred their brand because it calmed the nerves or helped throat irritation.

And by 1934, Camel was a big player in the sports world. “They Don’t Get Your Wind” was a popular Camel ad campaign featuring New York Yankees legend Lou Gehrig; and between the 30s and 50s, Camel had other baseball and football players and even Olympic athletes promoting its brand.

Consider a few factors … again, purely speculation on my part. The mascot change came at a time when J.A. Campbell was mostly out of the public eye because of his health. Therefore, he probably wasn’t there to contest it. Remember, also, this was the Great Depression, and schools like Campbell were desparate to survive. Now go back to that 1934 men’s basketball group photo, and you’ll notice the camel on the warmup uniforms is remarkably similar to the R.J. Reynolds’ Camel brand, which was immensely popular at the time. Would a tobacco company target an institution of higher education to market its brand?

I searched Trustee meeting records — some of them written by hand — during the era and found nothing from early 1934 and nothing even mentioning a mascot change. But an Aug. 29, 1940, assets list caught my eye as it showed Campbell College was owner of 3,622 shares of R.J. Reynolds stock, valued at $127,222.75.

The figure made up more than 80 percent of the school’s total inventory value at the time.

If Campbell’s mascot history is tobacco-related, it explains the secrecy of the decision and the mystery surrounding the camel’s origins here.

And even though tobacco and cigarettes are reaching taboo levels in society these days, if my theory is correct, then the camel suddenly has just as much state historical significance as the Tar Heel and Blue Devil mascots. And certainly more than the Wolfpack or the Demon Deacon.

But again … just a theory.

Except for a two-year stint of service during World War II, Burgess Marshbanks Jr. has lived all 93 years of his life in Buies Creek. He attended elementary school and college in Kivett Hall, and the dining hall dedicated during the year of the mascot change is named after his father, the former Campbell College treasurer.

He even remembers J.A. Campbell, who gave him a quarter when Marshbanks was a boy — “the most money I’d ever seen at the time, it being the Great Depression,” he recalls. “I thought I was really well off with a quarter.”

Burgess Marshbanks Jr. is a walking Campbell

encyclopedia, a distinction he carries proudly.

But even his pages are devoid of any history behind the origin of the Campbell Camel.

And during the Great Depression, Campbell and its students “had to go a long time without money.”

“You’ve asked me a question even I’d like to know,” he says after a few minutes of deep thought on the subject. “In fact, I barely remember we were the Hornets.”

Satterwhite’s other explanation came down to simple alliteration. “Camels fit with Campbell,” she said. “They sounded alike.”

I was able to reach out to Catherine Cheek Hall, a student at Campbell from 1934-36. She was the subject of a recent feature story in The Campbell Times, written by her great-great niece, Christian Hornaday. In the piece, Hall recalled working and saving $700 to pay for school, the dorm mother who watched her and her friends like a hawk when they talked to boys, and the pall cast over the school in the months following the death of its founder. She also shared the story of meeting her husband, Cullen Hall, and sharing their first kiss on the steps of the library after graduation.

But she had no recollection of the mascot change during her freshman year 82 years ago. Nor should she have. It didn’t hurt to ask Catherine Cheek Hall died two weeks after she was approached with the camel question. She would have turned 101 this August.

And thus presents the biggest hurdle I’ve had in chasing this legend. Eighty-two years later, there are but a handful of students from that time alive today. Even Marshbanks was only 8, going on 9, in 1934.

Going back to that 1992 announcement in The Campbell Times searching for “the truth” or “the most creative legend,” I failed to mention the article attached to that call-to-action. That year marked a renaissance in the camel’s popularity, both on campus and nationally, thanks to the men’s basketball team’s first and only appearance in the NCAA Tournament. As Campbell faced eventual champion Duke in the first round, several publications were focused more on Campbell’s unique mascot than the team that had no chance of knocking off Duke.

That March, two student writers — Rexanne Hege and Gretchen Orr — asked the question I’m asking and found a goldmine of a source in Gladys Satterwhite.

Satterwhite was a longtime English professor at Campbell, co-founder of its Epsilon Pi Eta honor society in the 20s, and she was Creek Pebbles adviser in the 30s and 40s. Satterwhite was 87 when approached by Hege and Orr, and her memory of the change seemed pretty clear in the article. Camels, she said, represented a symbolic change for the school — hornets stung and had an overall negative connotation. Camels, on the other hand, could go a long time without water.

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It’s an origin supported by another walking Campbell encyclopedia, Dorothea StewartGilbert, a 1946 Campbell graduate and Buies Creek native who was 7 when the camel was born. The current director and curator for the Lundy-Fetterman Museum and Campbell Heritage Room said “Campbell Camels” just sounded better. Many in these parts pronounced the two words the same anyway, so it was a perfect fit. Almost everybody.

“There was a professor here who would pronounce it ‘Camp. Bell. Mmmm,” she says with a disapproving shake of the head. “We told her she had to stop that.”

The harrowing tale of the wounded Civil War eagle flying high above a football stadium and inspiring the Auburn Tigers to victory was 100-percent made-up, it turns out. In his research, Henderson discovered the story’s origin was the result of an old April Fool’s column by a student writer that the school paper actually published in March.

THE FIRST GLADYS Gladys Satterwhite graduated from Buies Creek Academy in 1920 and returned to teach English for 30 years until 1953. She was the subject of a feature story in The Campbell Times in 1992 — the year of Campbell’s first and only appearance in the NCAA Mens’ Basketball Tournament — and in another story, provided what she called the true origin of the Camel mascot in 1934. She’s also the namesake of the short-lived female camel mascot that debuted at 1987’s Homecoming Parade (the outfit made from the old Gaylord suit when he got new duds that year).

The real origin of War Eagle is less dramatic — the star football player in 1912 was Auburn’s quarterback and punter, Rip Major, who had a ritual of yelling “War Eagle!” on the field before and during games. The chant caught on “for reasons we may never know,” Henderson wrote.

The Civil War story may have been debunked, but it’s better than the truth. And I’m sure it will resurface and remain Auburn’s origin story for decades to come.

After my search, that’s the way I feel about the origin of the Campbell Camel.

Whether it’s alliteration, a symbol of the Great Depression or a secret handshake agreement between a struggling school and a rich tobacco company — there is no (pardon the pun) smoking gun out there with a definitive answer.

Despite my best efforts, Kivett’s hump lives on.

So does my search for the truth.

• Billy Liggett is Director of Publications and editor of Campbell Magazine

THE FIRST GAYLORD Gaylord the Camel came into existence in 1984. At the time, two-time Major League Baseball Cy Young Award-winner Gaylord Perry was winding up his pro career and heavily involved in his alma mater. Coincidentally, the star athlete in 1934 — the year Campbell changed its name from Hornets to Camels — and the Vice President of the Monogram Club that made the change official was a young man named William Bruce Gaylord.

Gaylord remained active as a Campbell alumnus for years before his death in — you guessed it — 1984.

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WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO GET MORE WOMEN IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY CAREERS? THE FOUNDING DEAN OF CAMPBELL’S NEWEST SCHOOL HAS AN ANSWER, AND IT STARTS WITH ALL OF US.

LET THEM STEM

“One of the things that I really strongly believe in is that we need to have more girls interested in math, science and engineering. We’ve got half the population that is way underrepresented in those fields and that means that we’ve got a whole bunch of talent … not being encouraged the way they need to.”

— President Barack Obama —

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enna Carpenter tells it like this. If the cure for cancer currently rests in the mind of a 12-year-old girl, the odds are we’ll never find it.

It’s likely, Carpenter says, that this girl will have heard numerous times in her young life — from pre-K through elementary school — that science, engineering and math are for boys. And by junior high, those “confidencezapping stereotypes” will have taken their toll.

Those determined girls who do stay with it will stand out among the crowd, and that’s not a good thing. They’ll be labeled as brainy or nerdy. They’ll be ridiculed rather than encouraged.

“It’s no wonder we lose so many bright, capable young women in junior high,” Carpenter says. “They turn away from math and science at the very time in their lives when opportunities in those areas begin to open up for them.”

Carpenter delivered this cancer-cure hypothetical onstage in a 2013 TED Talk (Technology, Entertainment and Design) as associate dean for administration and strategic

initiatives and professor of mathematics for Louisiana Tech University’s College of Engineering and Science.

Now the founding dean of Campbell University’s School of Engineering (to launch this fall), Carpenter is a national voice for women looking to enter STEM fields and a leading expert on the biases young women face in their STEM education and in the workforce. The vice president of the Mathematical Association of America and chair of the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge Scholars Program, Carpenter was named by Dreambox Learning as one of 10 “Women in STEM who Rock” in 2015, joining celebrities like Chelsea Clinton, actresses Mayim Bialik and Danica McKellar, and Yahoo! CEO Marissa Meyer.

In other words, Carpenter knows her stuff.

And the research and statistics — numbers she’s memorized and eager to share with anyone wanting the truth — are troubling.

Although they make up about half of the working population, women in the U.S. account for only 26 percent of STEM workers, according to a 2011 report by the

SCIENCE + TECHNOLOGY + ENGINEERING + MATHEMATICS WHAT IS STEM?

STEM workers are those employed in science, technology, engineering and mathematics occupations.

This includes computer and math occupations, engineers, engineering technicians, life scientists, physical scientists, social scientists and science technicians, as well as managers, teachers, practitioners, researchers and technicians in the field. The Census Bureau occupation code lists 63 STEM occupations, accounting for 6 percent of the total U.S. civilian workforce.

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JENNA CARPENTER

Founding Dean Campbell School of Engineering Jenna Carpenter credits her father for instilling in her at an early age that she could do whatever she put her mind to, no matter what others told her.

A leading national expert on implicit bias and the need for more women in STEM fields, Carpenter is a firm believer that young girls with this kind of support from their father or another male role model have an instant advantage when they start thinking of education and career paths.

“My theory is that for a girl, her dad’s opinion of her is like a force field. His word is gospel,” says the founding dean of Campbell University’s School of Engineering. “Sure, over my life I’ve experienced implicit bias, and I’ve been stereotyped. But that confidence I developed at an early age, that provided a boost.”

A Texas native, Carpenter earned her bachelor’s degree in math from Louisiana Tech and her master’s and Ph.D. in math from Louisiana State.

She returned to Tech in 1989 as an assistant professor and quickly climbed the ranks to hold critical leadership positions.

Her love for math started very early.

“That and playing with blocks,” she recalls. “I enjoyed building things from scratch.”

As founding dean of Campbell University’s School of Engineering, she has an entire program to build from the ground up.

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DIA HUTH

Freshman Graphic Design Major Dia Huth’s love of graphic design goes way back. A homeschooled student, she remembers her father, a professional photographer, creating a “mini graphic design” course for her one year after recognizing her interest in computers and art.

“Dad let me design everything from photobooks for his clients to banners for church,” says Huth. “He was always encouraging me to try new things and grow. I definitely wouldn’t be where I am without him.”

Where she is today is Campbell, majoring in her passion and volunteering as a page designer for the University’s student newspaper.

Graphic design isn’t the first career many think of when they think STEM, but according to Huth, most of it is tech-driven.

“It depends on what kind of design you’re working on,” she says.

“Everything that I do is around 80 percent technology and 20 percent art, with 100 percent creativity backing it up.

“That’s what’s so great about graphic design — it’s learning to creatively blend artistic principles with tech knowledge to solve problems. Really, we get the best of both worlds.”

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Census Bureau. Only 13 percent of the nation’s engineers are women — and the current percentage of women in computer professions (27 percent) has actually fallen since the 1990s. A recent Scholastic Teachers Magazine article featuring Carpenter reported that only 5 percent of girls between the ages of 8 and 17 expressed an interest in engineering, compared to 24 percent of boys. Nearly three quarters of boys between 13 and 17 found computer science to be a good possible major in college, while only a third of the girls that age agreed.

The statistics don’t end there, and they’re no secret either. Google “women in STEM” and you’ll find no shortage of websites housing these numbers and the potential solutions.

In 2013, President Obama’s White House Council on Women and Girls partnered with the Office of Science and Technology Policy to work toward increasing encouragement and participation of women in STEM fields and supporting efforts to retain women in the workforce.

The last five years have marked the beginnings of an important cultural shift, and if women — who currently make up nearly 60 percent of U.S. college students — are to even the playing field when it comes to engineering, computers, physics or astronomy, society as a whole will need to change.

“We’re the ones — whether on purpose or unintentionally — who are perpetuating those antiquated, inaccurate and, to be perfectly honest, damaging stereotypes that girls can’t do it,” Carpenter said on a stage against a black backdrop for her TED Talk video that’s been viewed more than 34,000 times. “It’s all on us.”

Looking back at the moment she stepped onto the national stage and became more than just an advocate, Carpenter says she led off her 12-minute lecture with the future cure for cancer because she wanted her audience to know why all of this matters. Cancer touches all demographics, and if gender gets in the way of its eventual cure? Shame on us.

“If we want that cure for cancer to be there when we need it, we need to work at getting the message out that not only can our girls excel at engineering and science, but we need them to excel at engineering and science,” Carpenter says. “We need them to dream big to make the world a better place.

“The dreams of that young girl aren’t just the key to building her future. They’re the keys to building our future.”

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OUR ACCIDENTAL BIAS He meant well.

But Heidi Tuszkiewicz’s high school physics teacher was doing her no favors when he suggested that she reconsider taking his notoriously tough course during her junior year.

Tuszkiewicz was a star athlete, college-bound as a gifted long-distance runner. The teacher held a belief that athletes had a more difficult time passing his class, as that commitment means less time studying and regular trips off campus on school days.

Did her gender also play a role in his suggestion? Did this teacher offer this same advice to male athletes who wanted to take his class?

None of that mattered to Tuskiewicz, who instead of folding and settling for easier grades, took her teacher’s doubt as a challenge.

She excelled both in physics and on the track.

Today, she’s a freshman on Campbell’s track and field and cross country teams. In the fall, she’ll be among the first class to declare engineering as a major in Campbell’s new School of Engineering.

“I wanted to prove [my teacher] wrong. I went out of my way to meet with him regularly and catch up when I did have to miss a class,” says the Ontario, Canada native. “He became one of my favorite teachers in the end, but I had to work harder to prove to him that I’m not just an athlete. I’m a student, too.”

Research shows that not every young woman responds to lack of confidence or support from a teacher or somebody in an authoritative role the way Tuskiewicz did. For far too many, that doubt in their abilities is enough to persuade them to choose another goal, area of study or career path.

As an athlete and as a woman, Tuskiewicz was a victim of implicit bias — an attitude or stereotype that affects one’s understanding, actions or decisions in an unconscious manner. Ohio State University’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, which publishes an annual review of the subject, says implicit biases are different from known biases individuals may choose to conceal for political or social correctness.

“The implicit associations we harbor in our subconscious cause us to have feelings and attitudes about other people based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity, age and appearance,” the Institute states in its most recent report. “These associations develop over the course of a lifetime beginning at a

HEIDI TUSZKIEWICZ Freshman Engineering Major

Nobody has told Campbell freshman Heidi Tuszkiewicz she shouldn’t be an engineer because she’s a woman. They have, however, told her engineering and sports don’t mix.

The freshman from Ontario will enter her sophomore year next fall as a member of the first group of engineering majors when Campbell’s School of Engineering launches in August. She’ll also run for Campbell’s cross country team in the fall — balancing athletics with a her engineering course load.

That balance is nothing new to Tuszkiewicz, who experienced bias from teachers in high school because of her “track star” status.

“I had a physics teacher in the 11th grade who told my mom that maybe I shouldn’t be in his class because I’d be missing a lot of school for track,” she recalls. “So I went out of my way to meet with him regularly and catch up when I did miss. He became one of my favorite teachers in the end, but I had to prove that I’m not just an athlete. I’m a student, too.”

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LYDIA GUTIERREZ Junior Overhills High School

Lydia Gutierrez wouldn’t mind another girl on the team, but for now, she’s proud to carry the mantel as the lone female on SUM Robotics Team 6003, the high school FIRST Robotics team sponsored by Campbell University’s new School of Engineering.

The 11-person team — made up of students from Overhills and Harnett Central high schools — is the first program to associate with the school set to launch this fall. Campbell’s new school wants a diverse program, and it would love to see more Lydias interested in robotics and other engineering fields.

“It was a little intimidating at first,” says the Overhills junior. “I have a clearer picture now of how some STEM fields are dominated by males.”

It’s become less intimidating as the days have passed. Gutierrez has become an important part of the team in a program that stresses the importance of teamwork.

“It’s been a great experience,” she says. “We did so well in our first competition, and I’m really happy that I chose to stick with it.”

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“If you asked me to name the greatest discoveries of the past 50 years, alongside things like the internet and the Higgs particle, I would include the discovery of unconscious biases and the extent to which stereotypes about gender, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status and age deprive people of equal opportunity in the workplace and equal justice in society.”

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very early age through exposure to direct and indirect messages.”

Few teachers will admit to others (or even themselves) that they treat boys and girls differently in the classroom. A 2015 study by two professors for the National Bureau of Economic Research in Massachusetts is one of many that prove otherwise. Their study “Short and Long Term Consequences of Teachers’ Stereotypical Biases” shows that while girls often score higher than boys on name-blind math tests, once presented with recognizable names on the same tests, teachers tend to award higher scores to boys. This bias, according to the study, has long-term effects on girls’ ambitions and their occupational choices down the line.

“We’re not aware we’re doing it. That’s what makes it so damaging,” Carpenter says in her TED Talk. “We’re acting in many ways opposite of our intended values.”

Carpenter says by the time many girls reach high school or college, they suffer from an “accumulation of disadvantage,” and she explains this phrase with an analogy. Car A is going just one foot an hour faster than Car B, which in the short term (one hour), doesn’t give Car A much of an advantage. But after 10 hours, that distance starts to grow. After 10 weeks, that distance is considerable. After 10 years ...

“This continual stream of micro-ineptities, or micro-insults … they’re things that by themselves may not seem like a big deal,” Carpenter says. “But collectively, over a career or over a lifetime, they can add up to a lot.”

The implicit bias doesn’t end at high school or college graduation. A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that STEM professors were less likely to hire a fictional candidate named Jennifer for a lab manager position than one named John, even though the applications were identical. They

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Christianne Corbett, co-author of the 2010 report, “Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math,” told The New York Times in 2012 that gender roles in occupations are shaped in childhood as early as age 4. Also around this age, students begin to develop either a “fixed mindset” or a “growth mindset” when it comes to viewing intelligence. In her report, Corbett pulled in research by Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, who found that those with a growth mindset (those who viewed intelligence as something that can be developed through effort) were more likely to persevere in the face of adversity than those with a fixed mindset (those who view intelligence as an inborn, uncontrollable trait).

“When girls and women believe they have a fixed amount of intelligence, they are more likely to believe the stereotype, lose confidence, and disengage from STEM as a potential career when they encounter difficulties in their coursework,” Corbett wrote in her report. “The messages we send girls about the nature of intelligence matter.

The more girls and women believe that they can learn what they need to be successful in STEM fields [as opposed to being “gifted”], the more likely they are to actually be successful in STEM fields.”

Teachers, parents, role models — take heed, says Carpenter. She advises parents, particularly fathers, of young girls, to raise their children to have a growth mindset.

Encourage them to think their problems through and support their interests, even if they don’t fit into a stereotypical gender role.

For teachers, Carpenter suggests keeping track of the number of times they call on boys in the class versus girls and to keep a balance.

Develop phrases such as, “Let’s think about that,” and watch body language when dealing with students.

SHARINA AUSTIN Junior Mathematics Major

In third grade, Sharina Austin and her classmates were handed the results of one of those infamous standardized tests. Austin’s scores confirmed what she knew all along — she was great at math.

By the time she reached high school in the small town of Winterville, she was often the one called on to assist others (even older students) who were struggling with the subject. Along with her love of math grew her love of teaching.

“When I was younger, sometimes I was the only one who got the answer or caught on,” she says. “That boosts your confidence — and for me, it made me want to share my knowledge with others.”

Austin is a junior at Campbell, majoring in mathematics with a teacher licensure. When she graduates, she wants to give back to her hometown and to the low-income high school that provided her with such great teachers and mentors.

“I want to return home and teach,” she says. “I’ll work on getting my master’s, too, but in the meantime, I can think of no better way to start my career than doing it in a place I love.”

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“Maybe women just don’t want to get things wrong.

They don’t want to walk around being a B-minus student in something. They want to find something they can be an A student in. They want something where the professor will pat them on the back and say ‘You’re doing so well!’

“Guys don’t seem to give two damns.”

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Chair, Department of Mathematics/ITS Campbell College of Arts & Sciences If there’s a stigma attached to young girls and math, Meredith Williams never experienced it growing up.

Math was always her favorite subject — it was less “work” and more like a game or a puzzle to her as a young girl growing up in Lynchburg, South Carolina. There’s a right answer and a wrong answer — no in-between — which was part of the appeal for her.

Williams credits the math teachers she had throughout her education for helping her mold her love for math into a desire to teach others and share her passion.

“My fifth-grade math teacher was very outgoing, very vocal and very encouraging,” says the chair of Campbell University’s Department of Mathematics/ITS. “She was the first person who ever told me I should major in math when I reach college.

I felt like having that support early on guided me.”

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“You simply want kids to feel free to be who they are or who they want to be,” Carpenter says. “If you have a girl who’s interested in engineering, she needs to be supported and encouraged. Instilling this in them at a young age, it makes a world of difference.”

“STEMming the Tide: Why Women Leave Engineering” by Nadya Fouad and Romila Singh from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Lack of advancement, low salary, workplace climate, a bad boss, low confidence and, yes, intimidation were among the top reasons women left the field, according to the study.

PATCHING THE PIPELINE

It’s called the “leaky pipeline” — a metaphor to describe the reason women drop out of STEM fields at all stages of their careers. A 2009 study by statistician Berry Vetter claimed that 280 of any 2,000 ninth-grade boys and 210 of any 2,000 ninth-grade girls will have taken enough math to pursue a technical career. About half of those boys and only 45 of the girls will major in science in college. Forty-four of the boys and 20 girls will complete their science degrees. Five of the now men will go on to obtain PhDs in science, and only one woman will do the same.

Originally, three girls signed up for the first Harnett County group of FIRST Robotics competitors late last year. By the time the team — made up of students from Overhills and Harnett Central high schools — received its shipment of robotic parts and the rules for this year’s contest, only one girl on a team of nearly a dozen remained.

She’s Lydia Gutierrez, a shy Overhills junior who was first introduced to engineering and robotics in the eighth grade when she joined a similar team for a much smaller event. That group, she said, used Legos for their creations.

In FIRST Robotics, it’s a lot more “real” — metal, wood, nuts, bolts, heavy machinery, complex tools and a whole lot of design and computer programming.

“It was a little intimidating at first,” says Gutierrez, whose only female counterpart is the team’s director, Campbell assistant professor of engineering Lynn Albers. “Being the only female on the team is interesting and eye opening. I never had a clearer picture of just how much a STEM program like this is dominated by males.”

Research shows that the intimidation Gutierrez felt is one of many factors that keep young women from pursuing STEM fields in high school and college. It’s also a factor for STEM graduates who enter a male-dominated workforce and leave the field within their first 10 years. Twenty percent of all engineering graduates are women, yet only 11 percent are practicing engineers, according to a recent study,

Albers, who joined Campbell’s faculty in January, admits she’s battled the the lure of leaving the pipeline on a few occasions. The MIT graduate who earned her master’s degree in math from Manhattan College was one of 60,000 employees laid off by Nortel Networks — where she was a systems application engineer — in 2001, leaving her at a crossroads in her career. Instead of leaving the field altogether, she went back to school at North Carolina State, where she interned at the N.C. Solar Center. She made a third of what she made at Nortel, but Albers says she reconnected with all the things that made her love science and math in the first place.

“Professionally, it was the happiest I’d ever been,” she says. Soon, she became that “one woman” in Vetter’s research when she earned her Ph.D. from N.C. State in mechanical engineering.

Albers has found a home at Campbell, where she’s helping mold the new school’s curriculum and leading Gutierrez and other high schoolers on the Campbell-sponsored FIRST Robotics team. Albers has experienced what it’s like attend

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Assistant Professor of Chemistry Campbell College of Arts & Sciences She was 6 years old and sitting in a bathtub when the idea first struck. A budding young scientist who loved mixing things to “see what might happen,” Liz Blue was pretty certain — at the time — she was the inventor of the first “shampoo and conditioner in one.”

Pantene beat her to the punch by about a year, it turns out.

She didn’t become a child millionaire, but Blue did decide early on that she loved all things chemistry. As a preteen, she owned chemistry sets. She cooked. She converted her neighbor’s sandbox into a working volcano.

Blue would go on to earn her bachelor’s degree in engineering and her Ph.D. in organometallic chemistry from North Carolina State University.

Her passion for chemistry was in her genes — her father was a chemical engineer, and some of her favorite memories growing up were helping him work on the family car and getting help on an electric motor Blue built for elementary school.

“If somebody told me I couldn’t do something, I saw it as a challenge,” Blue said. “You tell me I can’t, and I’m more inclined to do it. It’s not rebellion — it’s just determination. I want to prove you wrong.”

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KRISTEN POWELL Freshman Engineering Major

Kristen Powell dreams of becoming an orthopedic surgeon, so there was only one obvious choice for a major when she chose Campbell University.

Engineering.

She definitely wouldn’t be the first to go that route — a degree in mechanical engineering can be invaluable for analytics in clinical medicine. For Powell, knowing how machines work will give her a better understanding of how the bones in a human body move and function.

“I never wanted to go the biology route,” says Powell. “I want to enter medical school from a different perspective. Not only will it give me an understanding of the body and motion, but maybe one day I will come up with better ways to replace a shoulder or an elbow. If I can help design something using machines and my engineering education, I can contribute to the medical field.”

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a male-dominated school like MIT (at least it was in the late 1980s) and have your work dismissed by colleagues because of gender. She, Carpenter and the current School of Engineering staff are working to create an inclusive environment, she says, “removing as much bias as possible.”

“The hardest thing for me at MIT was being part of the 20-percent female population,” she says. “All the professors were men, all you saw in the classroom were men. Living arrangements — men. It just wore you down a little bit. At Campbell, we want a supportive environment for women and men.”

Fouad and Singh’s study found that the most satisfied female engineers were those who received support from supervisors and coworkers, received ample opportunities for training and development, and saw clear paths of advancement in their respective companies. The least satisfied, according the study, were those who experienced excessive workloads and whose efforts were undermined by their supervisors or co-workers.

Why are these findings important? Why does it matter that so many are studying and working to lessen the gender gap in certain STEM fields?

The National Science Foundation estimates STEM workers make up just over 4 percent of the U.S. workforce (about 5 million people).

This small group is critical to the U.S. economy.

They’re better paid and have better job security than other fields on the whole. Corbett’s 2010 study “Why So Few?” reported that nine of the 10 fastest-growing occupations in the U.S. require significant scientific or mathematical training.

“Attracting and retaining more women in the STEM workforce will maximize innovation, creativity, and competitiveness,” Corbett wrote.

“Engineers design many of the things we use daily — buildings, bridges, computers, cars, wheelchairs, and X-ray machines. When women are not involved in the design of these products, needs and desires unique to women may be overlooked.”

Diversity is key, Carpenter says, and not just with gender. African-Americans make up less than 5 percent of the nation’s engineers, and Latinos represent just over 7 percent. Schools and companies that recognize the importance of diversity and act accordingly perform better.

“The research is clear,” Carpenter says. “Diversity is your key to innovation and creativity. And in engineering, innovation and creativity is huge. A diverse team trumps a team of ‘experts’ in solving a difficult problem every time. Every time.”

WALK THE WALK Kristen Powell dreams of becoming an orthopedic surgeon, so there was only one obvious choice for a major when she chose Campbell.

Engineering.

She knows that understanding how machines work give her a better understanding of how bones in the human body move and function.

“I want to enter medical school from a different perspective,” says Powell, of Mebane. “Not only will [engineering] give me an understanding of the body and motion, but maybe one day I will come up with better ways to replace a shoulder or an elbow. If I can help design something using machines and my engineering education, I can contribute to the medical field.”

Powell enrolled at Campbell last fall and remained undeclared on her major knowing

“We portray engineers as lonely nerds in white lab coats working on boring theoretical projects in labs.

[But] research shows girls and all millennial students are far more interested in helping and doing good than they are building a bigger, better faster rocket ship. The opportunities for doing good in engineering and science have never been greater.”

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LYNN ALBERS

Assistant Professor Campbell School of Engineering Lynn Albers was really into this project.

As a third-grader tasked with creating a working greenhouse, Albers rolled up her sleeves and washed out her veggie cans and painted them black and built her greenhouse using cardboard and plastic wrap.

And it worked. Albers and her classmates became creators.

“It was such a pivotal point for me, even if I didn’t realize it back then,” says Campbell University’s new assistant professor of engineering. “It’s one of the few things I remember from elementary school — the science of it all, using solar energy to heat our greenhouse and grow plants. And it worked. I was hooked.”

Another seed was planted that year.

Albers would go on to earn degrees from MIT and Manhattan College before earning her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from N.C. State in 2014.

In addition to her third-grade science teacher, she credits her high school guidance counselor for helping clear the path to her career, which included a seven-year stint as project manager and systems application engineer at Nortel Networks.

“He told me I’d be really good at mechanical engineering,” she recalls.

“And for that time [1988], to have a male guidance counselor tell a female to go into engineering, it was pretty extraordinary.”

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The percentage of women in engineering occupations (U.S. Census Bureau, 2011):

13% 20% OVERALL

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS

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17% COMPUTER HARDWARE ENGINEERS

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12% NUCLEAR ENGINEERS

11% AEROSPACE ENGINEERS

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engineering was a year away. That’s putting a lot of trust in a new, unproven program, but Powell says Campbell’s reputation in launching other new programs — most recently the School of Osteopathic Medicine and School of Nursing — was all she needed to know Buies Creek was the right choice.

a chance to meet with professionals from Red Hat, a world-leader in open-source software products, and Fidelity Investments. This event, in addition to the FIRST Robotics competition on campus, are helping Carpenter and the school spread its message of diversity in STEM education.

“I knew they’d do the School of Engineering right,” she says. “I like that it’s going to start small, that there will be a lot of one-on-one interaction with professors. I wanted a handson experience here, and I’m excited about what’s to come.”

Engineering’s success at Campbell will raise the tide for other schools and departments.

Engineering majors will need 15 total hours of calculus in their first two years, and a similar workload in either chemistry or physics, meaning more professors for several programs in the College of Arts & Sciences.

When it enrolls its first students this fall, Campbell will become the second private university in North Carolina with an engineering school. It’s attracting students like Powell by presenting itself as a program with an “innovative hands-on, project-based freshman curriculum and a high degree of student-faculty interaction.”

To begin, the school will offer general engineering degrees, with concentrations in mechanical or chemical engineering. It aims to distinguish itself with a diverse student body.

When your founding dean is a leading national expert on the need for more diversity in STEM fields, this is a necessity for the program’s success.

Carpenter compared Campbell’s accepted students for fall 2016 who have declared engineering and compared the demographics to 2014 data from the National Science Foundation. Currently, the School of Engineering is at or above the national average in every category and subcategory of race, gender and ethnicity for its charter class. In one category, the school is 6.6 percent over the national average.

“It’s just accepted students, so certainly these numbers can shift,” Carpenter says. “But it’s a good snapshot. At least we’re getting attention from a diverse group of students.”

Campbell’s incoming class will come nowhere near the 50/50 male/female split she’d love to see one day, but that takes time. Carpenter says a diverse class does more for Campbell than meeting a goal or a quota. Students learn better in a diverse setting, and employees work better in a diverse setting.”

In mid-March, the School of Engineering partnered with the National Center for Women & Information Technology to host a regional event recognizing 12 young women in high school for their computing achievements. The students traveled to Buies Creek from Durham, Raleigh and other parts of the Triangle and had

“Our program’s excited. I’m definitely excited,” says Meredith Williams, associate professor of math and chair of Campbell’s Department of Mathematics/ITS. “We’ll be teaching more students, and it’s likely these will be stronger math students. We’ll see more enrollment in our upper-level classes like Calculus III and Linear Algebra as well. This is big for our department.”

Like the schools of osteopathic medicine and nursing and the physician assistant and physical therapy programs before it, engineering will get its start in Carrie Rich Hall before its new home — to be built in the Saylor Park area of campus (near the mud volleyball courts) — is ready, possibly as early as fall 2018.

The temporary home will include two large classrooms, tons of “flexible space,” student study areas, whiteboards, a plethora of printers (including 3D), vinyl cutters, and space for metal and woodworking.

“We can make it here for the first two years,” Carpenter says. “But by the time these students become juniors, we’ll need bigger lab spaces, larger machines and a chemical process lab. The whole building may not be done by 2018, but we’re hoping at least pieces are ready.”

The big selling point for incoming students is what will happen when their Campbell experience comes to an end. Job placement for those with degrees in engineering is near 100 percent, Carpenter says. Especially for those students with internship experience (another focus of Campbell’s program).

“We’re in the Research Triangle area, the Silicon Valley of engineering,” she says. “Engineering is more than just planes, trains and automobiles … not that those aren’t awesome. Back in Louisiana, people thought oil and gas when they heard engineering. But it’s much broader than that. We want to help students see the variety in engineering and how their education can help make a difference in the world.”

Gigi, 8 Future Veterinarian I just love figuring things out. How things are made.

How things work.

Chiyenne, 10 Future doctor With science, you can be creative, and you don’t always have to follow the rules.

Ava, 10 Future veterinarian One day I’m going to help animals, and I’m going to help them in a way other people can’t.

Kayleigh, 11 Future pediatrician I want to cure childhood diseases and help kids live their lives like they were meant to.

Destiny, 10 Future doctor I’m going to be a doctor, because I want to help people. I want to cure people who have cancer.

Hayley, 6 Future space engineer I want to train astronauts.

I’m scared of going up, so I just want to stay on Earth and teach them.

Mya, 11 Future biologist I love being hands-on and learning new things. We created an ecosystem in class once, and I loved it.

Mia, 8 Future artist I love experiments. My favorite was exploding a volcano with vinegar and baking soda.

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J. Br adley Creed Campbell University’s Fifth President

Campbell University officially inaugurated Dr. J. Bradley Creed during a ceremony on April 8, at the John W. Pope, Jr. Convocation Center that celebrated Campbell as “A Place of Opportunities.”

“Campbell gives us the opportunity to make a living, to make a life — more importantly to make a difference through service to others,” Creed said in his inaugural address before about 1,300 Campbell students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends and delegates from schools around the nation.

“Service is at the heart of our mission as a Christian university. Your major, your profession, your discipline, your life can contribute to the common good of society.

We have the opportunity to change the world – one course, one program, one project, one student at a time.”

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“We still have work to do — hard work. We are not living in the golden age of higher education.

The challenges facing universities are daunting but let us remember that our burden is not operating as an institution of higher education but of transforming lives.” — J. Bradley Creed

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“In such a time as this, Campbell is right for Dr. Creed, and Dr. Creed is right for Campbell. . . . His faith, his energy, and his passion for education are just what Campbell University needs. With you as our president, we believe the university is in good hands.” — David J. Hailey, Member, Board of Trustees

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“Through Campbell, we all have an opportunity to make a difference.

And we make a difference by following a sense of calling to serve others. All of our university programs yield intellectual resources and professional skills for service to humanity. Through our various programs, we engage some of the most pressing issues of society.

A Campbell education is not a transaction. It is a transformational learning experience that changes lives.” — J. Bradley Creed

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“He’s gotten to know as many names as he can — and that approachability, for a school our size, that’s important. That’s why we’re here today. Dr. Creed’s the perfect fit for Campbell.” — senior Deborah Jodrey

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“Campbell’s learned in 10 months what I’ve known for years. He’s approachable. Personable. A great story-teller. A sharp-wit.

He loves his family. And he has a real strength of purpose. I was moved by today. Brought to tears. Everything Brad has told us about Campbell — we saw firsthand today. I’m very impressed.” — Mike Hawthorne, longtime friend who traveled to the April 8 Installation Ceremony from Birmingham, Alabama, with three other “runnin’ buddies” from Creed’s marathon days at Samford University.

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Andy Grammer was the most recent chart-topping act to play a concert on the campus of Campbell University. But even he failed to crack our Top 20 list of musicians who have played Campbell in the last 50 years. | Photo by Lydia Huth

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CAMELPALOOZA

Campbell University has seen some big names grace its concert stages over the past 50 years. We list the 20 biggest to ever play the Creek.

It wasn’t that long ago when Campbell students weren’t allowed to dance.

“Codes of conduct” from the school’s founding all the way up to the 1950s forbade the act, and even in the ’60s — when society as a whole was literally letting its hair down — we still came off as stuffy to some.

But it was in the ’60s when Campbell’s student government began bringing in some of the country’s hottest music acts to play fall, spring and homecoming concerts. The ’70s included a pretty impressive list of names — from “fifth Beatle” Billy Preston to Frankie Valli and a newcomer known as Jimmy Buffett.

With the Pope Convocation Center providing a first-class concert venue these days, Campbell continues to bring in top-charting acts. This year, the Spring Concert was headlined by Andy Grammer, whose single “Honey, I’m Good” became a hit on both pop and country charts.

Below, we list off the 20 biggest acts to play Campbell College and University in the last 50 years. We know you’ll disagree with some of our choices. Let us know who you’d add or tell us your favorite Campbell concert story on Facebook or by emailing Editor Billy Liggett at liggettb@campbell.edu.

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The 1960s marked the beginning of Campbell’s annual spring concerts, and the little college in Buies Creek attracted some pretty big (albeit “safe”) names. Perhaps the biggest name in those early years was The Platters, a group with 40 charting Billboard 100 singles between 1955 and ’67 (including four No. 1s). The Platters performed for three hours in Carter Gym on Oct. 25, 1967, with songs like “Only You,” “The Great Pretender” and “Unchained Melody.”

It’s heart-warming to think “Put Your Head on My Shoulder” from Paul Anka once echoed through Carter Gymnasium while Campbell students slow-danced on a cool fall night. It happened in 1969 with Anka — who also wrote “Lonely Boy,” “You’re Having My Baby,” Tom Jones’ “She’s a Lady,” Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” and even the theme song for “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson.

Anka was the biggest solo act to come to Campbell in the 60s. He was also a TV and movie star by decade’s end.

Before Kenny Rogers the solo act reached No. 1 with country hits “The Gambler” and “Lucille,” he was the lead for Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. They were more of a psychadelic rock band (with folk and country roots) that hit it big in the late ’60s. At Campbell, they performed their hits “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In),” “But You Know I Love You” and “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town.”

Not to be confused with The Who, The Guess Who were huge in 1972 when they played Carter Gym — bringing with it the loudest riffs and trippiest lyrics the rural college had ever heard. The band was enjoying huge success at the time thanks to the rock classic, “American Woman,” and earlier hits “No Time” and “These Eyes.”

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Bill Silvester The Lettermen, Sonny Turner and the Platters in ’65, Jay & the Americans and my favorite all-time show was the Embers in Turner Auditorium in ’67. They had to pull the plug on the music and turn on the house lights because they were afraid we would start dancing! Of all the bad things I did during my four years in the Creek, I hated to think I would have gotten in trouble for dancing!

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@bendaway [My first concert] was The Guess Who in the fall of 1972 in the gym at Campbell. Some kids I went to junior high with snuck me in for free.

Brian Elwell Just a few years back, OneRepublic put on an amazing show in the convocation center. It’s one of my many favorite Campbell memories.

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One can argue the late Billy Preston is the biggest name to ever play Campbell. Consider this — Preston was a “virtuoso keyboardist” who backed artists like Little Richard, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones. He’s the only musician to be credited on a Beatles record other than the Fab Four — “Get Back” is billed on the album Let it Be as “The Beatles with Billy Preston.” He spent the ’70s touring with George Harrison and Clapton, but in ’73, he went on a solo tour that included a stop in Buies Creek.

Motown was here for Harvest Week, when The Four Tops performed in Carter Gymnasium before another packed crowd. “I Can’t Help Myself,” “Reach Out I’ll Be There,” “Baby I Need Your Loving” and “It’s the Same Old Song” were but a few of the hits heard that night. Interesting note: according to a story in the Creek Pebbles that year about the SGA looking to increase its entertainment budget, the Four Tops played Campbell for $7,600. It’ll run you about $500,000 to book the band these days.

“Big Girls Don’t Cry.” “Walk Like a Man.” “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night).” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.” Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons were huge in the 1960s, their sound a polar opposite of the counterculture sounds that defined the decade. Frankie Valli played Campbell in 1975, and even sat down with Creek Pebbles reporter Michael Ferguson for nearly a half hour after the concert to talk about the state of music, the Beatles and much more.

Jimmy Buffett had a few moderate hits when he played Campbell in 1976. But Buffett was introducing a new song on this Pink Crustacean Tour that year, a little ditty released the following year called “Margaritaville.” That song, of course, would launch him to megastardom, but Buffett never forgot his Campbell experience. At an April 2014 concert in Raleigh, he made a “shout out” to Buies Creek while talking about some of the smaller venues he’d played early in his career.

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The 1970s came to a close at Campbell with a group that made its name in the ’60s. The Temptations — complete with flashy wardrobe and choreography — ran through the hits “My Girl,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “Just My Imagination,” “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” and “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me” in Carter Gym. The group had hit somewhat of a dry spell in the late ‘70s, but made a huge international comeback in the early ‘80s during a reunion tour.

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Surprisingly, the announcement of Kris Kristofferson and his $15,000 price tag in 1983 didn’t sit well with the Campbell student body, which wanted someone who appealed more to their age bracket.

Kristofferson — known more as a songwriter than singer, having penned “Me and Bobby McGee” for Janis Joplin and “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” for Johnny Cash — still performed before a capacity crowd at Campbell.

“Some of the students were afraid that Turner could not accoustically handle a concert of this caliber.

In fact, freshman Debra McDaniel speculated that ‘Turner might fall.’”

Turner Auditorium did not fall, but Eddie Money did do his best to test its foundation on March 21, 1985.

Money, riding high on hits “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Baby, Hold on to Me,” played Campbell on his 36th birthday. He stayed after the show for a small party backstage with his band and members of Campbell’s entertainment committee.

Billy Ocean had just won a Grammy for “Caribbean Queen” when he played the Spring Concert at Campbell in 1986. His album, Suddenly, had peaked at No. 4 in both the U.S. and in the U.K., and his song “Loverboy” had topped out at No. 2 in the U.S. He also performed in Live Aid in 1985, a broadcast viewed by nearly 1.9 billion people across 150 nations.

Turner Auditorium would be much smaller, but memorable.

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Michael W. Miller One of the lighting crew members of Eddie Money’s group was sick. I got to be the one to take his place during the concert. I was coached on the terminology of the cues I was to listen for and execute. Basically, spotlighting certain band members during particular times with the colored light requested. I enjoyed the experience, along with Eddie’s birthday party.

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Stan Cole One of my all-time favorite “College Radio” performers, Tommy Keene, opened for the Gin Blossoms at Turner Auditorium. I really appreciated the music, but Claudia Croom-Cole was expecting [our daughter] at the time, and the baby was kicking up a storm — keeping the beat!

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‘WEIRD’ AL YANKOVIC

It’s believed “Weird” Al Yankovic’s November 1992 performance is the only one at Campbell to feature Mr. Potato Head on backing instruments.

“Addicted to Spuds” joined “Smells Like Nirvana,” “Fat,” “Eat It,” and other parodies. The Campbell Times’ reporter Rebecca Kellams asked Al what the most fun he’d ever had was.

His answer: “It would have to be this interview. I mean, my life has been building up to this. I’m probably the happiest right now that I’ve ever been.”

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The late ’90s marked a country music renaissance on Campbell’s concert calendar. It began with Tracy Lawrence in 1997, followed by Toby Keith, Jo Dee Messina and Diamond Rio soon after. Lawrence was huge in the ’90s, thanks to seven No. 1 hits: “Sticks and Stones,” “Alibis,” “Can’t Break it to My Heart,” “My Second Home,” “If the Good Die Young,” “Texas Tornado” and “Time Marches On.”

The Gin Blossoms didn’t appear to enjoy their time in Buies Creek.

A YouTube video of their 1997 performance shows lead singer Robin Wilson rolling his eyes at the crowd’s less-than-enthusiastic responses in between songs. Alumna Adrienne Burliuk remembers the band being upset with event security, which “wouldn’t let them move around too much” and kicked one guy out for attempting to “mosh.”

“Yeah, things are going great so far, don’t you think?” Wilson said at one point, heavy on the sarcasm.

When Toby Keith took the stage at Turner Auditorium for Homecoming 1998, he was a star. “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” not only went No. 1 on the Billboard country charts, it placed in the Billboard Top 100 as well. It went on to become the most played country song on the radio for the entire decade. His show at Campbell came before the next big point in his career — the post 9/11 hit “The Angry American,” but Keith’s Campbell show was an easy sellout.

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Jo Dee Messina was one of country music’s top female performers in the ’90s. Her breakout hit from ’96 felt right at home in Buies Creek — “Heads Carolina, Tails California.”

Her second album in ’98 spawned three No. 1 hits — “Bye, Bye,” “I’m Alright” and “Stand Beside Me.” Not long after her Campbell performance, Messina received the Country Music Association’s “Best New Artist” award and won Billboard Magazine’s “Most Played Female at Country Radio” honor.

In 2009, David Cook was a household name. Fresh off his 2008 American Idol crown, Cook took his newfound fame on the road for his first tour, which included a stop at Campbell University’s new Pope Convocation Center. Cook’s single “Light On” dominated the AOL Top 40 radio chart for eight consecutive weeks leading up to his Campbell show, and “The Time of My Life” was at the time the biggest selling single in the history of “American Idol.”

OneRepublic represented the social media era at its 2011 concert in the convocation center. The band owed its early success to MySpace and became one of the first music acts to successfully use social media platforms to get “discovered.” When asked before the show what fans at Campbell could expect, lead guitarist Zach Filkins said, “We really try to lay it on the line, not to be cliche. Every show is like playing for the first time; it’s hard to explain.”

Had the Goo Goo Dolls played Campbell 15 years earlier, the results would have been different. The band that provided the soundtrack for many a college experience in the ’90s instead played Buies Creek in 2013, and hits like “Iris,” “Slide” and “Name” might have been lost on a few of the concertgoers who were newborns when the band hit it big in 1995. The Campbell show kicked off the band’s college tour in support of the 2013 album, “Magnetic.”

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Honorable Mentions: The Embers, Karen Duke, Ursula Oppens, Sha Na Na, The Allman Brothers, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Kool and the Gang, Wild Cherry, Widespread Panic, C.C. Winans, Diamond Rio, Sixpence None the Richer, Better Than Ezra, Little Big Town, Switchfoot, Phillip Phillips, Needtobreathe, Lee Brice

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ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT

SARAH SWAIN (’05) WANTS ALUMNI TO SHARE THEIR CAMPBELL SUCCESS STORIES

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arah Swain’s two favorite days at Campbell come at the very beginning and the very end of the academic year.

The 2005 graduate recalls Move-In Day during her freshman year as her favorite memory as a student. “I remember seeing a lot of students upset or even crying that day, and I was just excited,” Swain says. “It was raining, I was moving into Bryan 12-3, and that day marked a lot of firsts for me. I met my roommate, I was left alone for the first time, and I experienced that independence … excited for the adventure. I loved every minute of it.”

Swain came back to Campbell in 2013 after working for the American Cancer Society in eastern North Carolina. During her two-plus years as director of annual giving, she spearheaded efforts to introduce two new Campbell traditions — Founders Week and TAG Day. In January, she became assistant vice president for alumni engagement, becoming the University’s liaison to more than 45,000 alumni around the world.

Which leads to her other favorite Campbell day — graduation. “I don’t know every student on campus, but I share their sense of pride and accomplishment,” she says. “And I know the opportunities that are out there for them, and that’s exciting to me. I enjoy being a part of that experience with them.”

Swain sat down with Campbell Magazine in April to talk about her new role and what alumni can do to become more involved with their alma mater: Q: You’re a Campbell alumna whose primary job is to communicate with, engage and advocate for other Campbell alumni. How does being a former student here better equip you for this job?

I think being a former student helps drive my passion for the University. I am invested here ... I actually sought out Campbell. When my husband Jayson and I were looking to move to the area from eastern North Carolina, Campbell is where I wanted to work, because of the experience I had as a student.

That experience helps me appreciate the Campbell culture. I think it helps me connect with alumni and current students as well. We share the same

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CHARLOTTE METRO CHAPTER Anson, Cabarrus, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Stanley, Union counties and York and Lancaster counties in South Carolina. alumni@campbell.edu CENTRAL VIRGINIA CHAPTER Powhatan, Hopewell, Hanover, Caroline, Colonial Heights, Chester, Petersburg, Louisa, King William, Stafford and Herico counties. anprice23@gmail.com CAPE FEAR CHAPTER Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties. clark@speakslaw.com EASTERN N.C. CHAPTER (NEW!) Pitt, Beaufort, Greene, Lenoir, Martin and Wilson counties. alumni@campbell.edu FOOTHILLS CHAPTER Davie, Forsyth, Stokes, Surry and Yadkin counties. mzangela76@gmail.com GREATER WASHINGTON, D.C. jonathan.lee@therocquegroup.com LEE COUNTY CHAPTER hesterd@campbell.edu TRIANGLE CHAPTER Wake, Durham and Orange counties. epaulgarrison@gmail.com CUMBERLAND COUNTY CHAPTER dtc@beavercourie.com Contact Sarah Swain at (910) 893-1235 or swain@campbell.edu

professors, the same dining experience and the same Campbell traditions, so there’s that immediate connection.

Q: Aside from giving, why is it important that alumni remain active with their school? How does their involvement benefit Campbell, and how does it benefit the alumnus?

I think when you spend four years at a place, and you create relationships and memories, it becomes

instilled in who you are. The University shapes us.

I think many of us owe our successes to Campbell.

It opened doors for me personally and career-wise, through mentors, relationships and experiences. I want to see other students have that opportunity.

And alumni have a role in sharing their Campbell story. Hopefully, their story is beneficial to them, and they want to share that with current high school students or their community and continue to strengthen Campbell through that.

Q: You played key leadership roles in both the recent speaking tour and the installation ceremony for President J. Bradley Creed. How do you feel the alumni community has taken to the new president?

I think having Dr. Creed on board allowed us to do something we hadn’t done before. We had never done a road tour with a president in the past. I think it was welcomed by our alumni to go to their community and to meet them where they are. It showed them today’s Campbell. And they appreciated getting to know Dr. and Mrs. Creed.

They’re looking forward to seeing where Campbell goes in the future.

Q: What’s new in Alumni Engagement, and what can we expect from you in your role as assistant vice president for alumni engagement?

There are about 45,000 alumni, and for us to be able to reach that large of a group, we’re going to be heavily invested in our regional chapters.

We want those to be alumni driven and owned.

We want to be able to take Campbell into the community, and we’ll look to those chapters to help us in sharing today’s Campbell story. I’d love to see a stronger alumni presence on campus, so when our students graduate, they know there’s a bridge into the Alumni Association that offers networking opportunities, community participation, and a community they can continue to stay connected with.

We have alumni that span 70 years in the University’s life, so figuring out how to engage the various groups is part of what we’re working on now. What I hope our alumni team can do is effectively engage everyone where they are — whether that’s through networking events, alumni programming, chapters or various means of communication.

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CLASS NOTES

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Michael Cates (’72 BS), executive vice president of the Memphis Medical Society, received the lifetime achievement award from the American Medical Association. Cates received the award in recognition of his 40 years of service in Tennessee and North Carolina.

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LOVE, WANDA In his 1964 Pine Burr Yearbook, Robert Register (‘64) left a simple, short hand-written note for the distributor, “Please give Wanda my annual.”

It took 52 years, but in May, Campbell University finally fulfilled his request.

Workers renovating Campbell’s D. Rich Building uncovered the book — worn, torn and stained — from inside a wall they were tearing down back in 2004. It sat in a warehouse on campus until this spring, when somebody discovered the book and a card on the inside cover with Register’s name and note. In May, Assistant Vice President for Alumni Engagement Sarah Swain delivered the yearbook a half mile away from campus to the Keith Hills community, where Wanda Matthews Register (’66) has lived for nearly 20 years.

The gift was a warm, if bittersweet, surprise for Wanda, who lost her husband in 2000 to lung cancer after 36 years of marriage and two children. She smiled as she took the book into her hands, then compared it to another ’64 Pine Burr she’d kept all these years not realizing it belonged to one of Robert’s classmates, a man she’d never met named Frank Pleasant.

“Wow, this book has been through a lot,” she said. “What happened to it?”

How a yearbook ended up in a wall is anybody’s guess. That it ended up in the wall of D. Rich does have special meaning to Wanda.

It was there — near one of the columns in the front of the building — where Robert, a business administration student from Dunn, first asked Wanda out on a date. The two had gotten to know each other during walks to class — her family lived in Buies Creek, and Robert’s apartment was nearby. Their first date was a trip

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to the movies in Dunn with another couple.

“I wish I had stories for you,” Wanda said while thumbing the pages. “We didn’t have a car, so a lot of our dates involved sitting in the living room of my [parents’] house and watching television.

We went to baseball games and a few basketball games, but basically, that’s it.”

Wanda was born and raised in Buies Creek — the granddaughter of Neil Archie Matthews, a close friend of Campbell founder J.A. Campbell.

Her father worked maintenance at Campbell, and her mother worked in Kivett Hall’s rec room (at one point, it housed a pool table and ping pong tables). She and Robert didn’t go far from home after their marriage just three months after his graduation. He worked 34 years in the banking industry in Erwin, Dunn and Lillington, while she worked in social services in Lillington until their retirements in the late 1990s.

It’s been 16 years since Robert’s death — and at 71, Wanda now realizes how young he was at the time.

Robert Dixon (’74) was voted by the North Carolina Press Association as an honorary life member. Dixon, who spent over three decades of his life working at six North Carolina newspapers, is now one of only 24 people selected in the 143-year existence of the organization.

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Margaret Currin (’79 JD) was elected to the Wake County Bar Association & Tenth Judicial District Bar Board of Directors.

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John Martin (’85 JD) was named to Business North Carolina’s 2016 Legal Elite, and 2016 North Carolina Super Lawyers.

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“He was 63, and I was 56,” she said. “I’m 71 today, and 63 just seems really young. We lost him too soon.”

Holding the raggedy yearbook — which bears a “Love, Wanda” signature on her sophomore photo on Page 122 — Wanda said she hopes one day she’ll learn how it ended up in a D. Rich wall.

“This book is a treasure,” she said. “It has a story.

Maybe one day, I’ll have a dream about it, and it will tell me how it got there.”

— by Billy Liggett

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Billy Sewell (’88) and Julie Sewell have been blessed in the last two years. Their son Charles was born March 23, 2014, and son James arrived Nov. 9, 2015.

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LeAnne Kennedy (’93 PharmD) was named to the inaugural class of the Fellows of the Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association. Kennedy is also a board certified oncology pharmacist and a clinical pharmacist practitioner.

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Anna Baird Choi (’94 JD) was elected to the Wake County Bar Association & 10th Judicial District Bar Board of Directors.

Robert J. McAfee (’94 JD) was certified by the North Carolina State Bar as a specialist in Federal and State Criminal Law.

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Warren Savage (’96 JD) was named a Wake County Bar Association & 10th Judicial District Bar State Bar Councilor.

Fred Whitfield (’80), the president and COO of the Charlotte Hornets, delivered the keynote address during the Campbell’s Founders Day Celebration in Connections in February to kick off the school’s second annual Founders Week.

He encouraged the students in a packed Turner Auditorium to embody the vision of Founding President J.A. Campbell, who opened what is now Campbell University in 1887 to prepare students for purposeful lives and meaningful service.

Glenn Gerding (’96 JD) was promoted to captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve JAG Corps and was appointed as the N.C. Appellate Defender by the N.C. Indigent Defense Services Commission.

“Regardless of how successful you get, you have the duty to reach back and help the next young person fulfill their dream,” Whitfield said.

“There is always a duty to give back and help the next group.”

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Marshall Wall (’99 JD) was named to 2016 North Carolina Super Lawyers.

Whitfield set the example by announcing he has endowed The Coach Danny and Barbara

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David Willoughby (’00 PharmD) was promoted to director of Pharmacy for Johnston UNC Health Care. He previously served as the pharmacy manager for the Clayton facility. Willoughby and his wife Jennifer have two sons and reside in Clayton.

Sue D. Weaver (’00 BS) completed her PhD in criminal justice in November from Northcentral University. She is currently working as the program coordinator for criminal justice at Emmanuel College in Georgia, where she has the opportunity to integrate faith and scholarship.

Weaver is a member of Alpha Phi Sigma, and she taught criminal justice as an adjunct professor at Campbell from 2004-2008 after completing her master’s degree.

Christy Hawkins (’00 JD) was named to a second term on the N.C. Conference of District Attorney’s Child Abuse Task Force.

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Katherine Frye (’01 JD) was named a Wake County Bar Association and 10th Judicial District Bar State Bar Councilor.

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Roberts Undergraduate Scholarship at Campbell.

The scholarship honors former Campbell head men’s basketball coach Danny Roberts, who coached Whitfield at Campbell, and Roberts’ late wife, Barbara. The scholarship will be awarded annually to deserving current and future undergraduate students at Campbell based on criteria agreed upon by Whitfield and Coach Roberts.

“I’m thrilled to be able to endow this scholarship in honor of my former coach Danny Roberts and his late wife, Barbara,” Whitfield said. “Coach Roberts had a tremendous impact on my life as a player, a student and as a young man. This is a small way that I can show my gratitude toward him and his wife for all that they did for me, and hopefully impact current students at Campbell University.”

Charles Jimerson (’01 BBA) was named in the Jacksonville Business Journal’s inaugural Ultimate Attorneys list. He is a graduate of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics ,and the Campbell University LundyFetterman School of Business. He is a managing partner of Jimerson & Cobb.

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J. Michael Ricci (’02 JD) was named a partner at Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP.

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Chip Campbell (’03 JD) was named to 2016 North Carolina Rising Stars.

Melissa Gott (’03 JD) is one of three founding members of The Law Group in Wilmington.

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CLASS NOTES Meredith Roberts (’05 JD) is one of three founding members of The Law Group in Wilmington.

Andrew (’06 BA, ’11 MDIV) and Lydia Tatum (’07 BA, ’12 MDIV) announced the birth of their daughter, Ava Whit, born Nov. 14.

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Emily Smith Krouskop (’05 BS) and Ryan Krouskop announced the birth of their son, Beckett William, on Feb. 10.

ROTC ALUMNA LEADS ARMY’S NEW ‘PIONEER’ SQUADRON U.S. Army Lt. Col. Lynn Ray (’00) was named the first commander of the newly formed “Pioneer” Regimental Engineer Squadron of the storied 3rd Cavalry Regiment of the First Cavalry Division based at Fort Hood in Texas.

She’s become a key officer in the Pentagon’s effort to include women in previously restricted military occupational specialties.

“I think it’s fantastic we’ve opened up the combat engineer [position] to enlisted women soldiers,” Ray told military.com. “I think the time is right — where our society, our military and the way we think — is more open to it.”

Megan Jack (’03 BA) and Travis Jack joyfully welcomed the birth of their son, Bodie Clifton Jack, on March 21. He weighed 8 pounds and 15 ounces and was 22 inches long.

Stephanie Gaston Poley (’03 JD) was named to 2016 North Carolina Rising Stars.

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Christina Ryan Perkins (’03 MDIV) completed training with Coach Approach Ministries.

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Michael Kepley (’05 JD) is one of three founding members of The Law Group in Wilmington.

Michael S. Rainey (’07 JD) was named to 2016 North Carolina Rising Stars.

Alicia Jurney (’07 JD) was named a partner at Smith Debnam.

Matt Riggsbee (’07, ’11 MDIV) was called as the pastor of Jersey Baptist Church in Lexington.

Eddie Brett Duncan and Crystal Bennett Duncan (both ’05 PharmD) announced the birth of their daughter, Emma Reese Duncan, born on Dec. 13. Emma weighed 7 pounds and 11 ounces and was 20 inches long.

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Of the 760 troops in Ray’s squadron, about 60 now are enlisted women. “They are volunteering to do something, break the mold, go outside of themselves — that tells me they want to be a combat engineer. They weren’t forced into it.

That’s half the battle.”

Suzanne Reece (’03 MDIV) was called as the associate pastor for children and families at Shades Crest Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and was ordained on Jan. 31.

David Broyles (’07 JD) was elected president of the North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys and was named to Business North Carolina’s 2016 Legal Elite.

Jonathan Bronsink (’05 BA), Campbell University’s director of visual identity, and his wife, Brandi, announced the birth of their second daughter Elizabeth Louise Bronsink on April 6, weighing 6 pounds, 6 ounces.

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Kevin Ceglowski (’06 JD) was named to Business North Carolina’s 2016 Legal Elite.

Chad Essick (’06 JD) was named to Business North Carolina’s 2016 Legal Elite.

Michael A. Myers (’06 JD) was named to 2016 North Carolina Rising Stars.

Brandon York (‘08) and Jennifer (Bell) York (‘08) announce the birth of their daughter, Bailey Reese, on born Sept. 22. She weighed 7 pounds and 8 ounces and was 19 inches long. Bailey has a big brother, Houston Todd York.

James Hash (’08 JD) was elected to the Wake County Bar Association and 10th Judicial District Bar Board of Directors.

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Sam Fleder (’09 JD) was elected secretary of the Wake County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division.

Caroline Weeks Woyer (’09 JD) was elected eastern region vice president for the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel.

Christian H. Staples (’09 JD) was named to 2016 North Carolina Rising Stars.

Robert Harding Gilmore (’09 BBA, ’12 JD) and Ashley Marie Unruh were united in marriage on Nov. 21.

Lawrence Powers (’09 BA, ’13 MDIV) was awarded the Young Baptist Leadership Award.

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Alicia Minh Ho (’10 PharmD) and her husband, Thy Heng, announced the birth of their son, Oliver Lee Heng, born Nov. 19.

He weighed 6 pounds and 14 ounces and was 20 inches long.

Megan West Sherron (’10 JD) was appointed to the Board of Directors for Note in the Pocket.

Andrew Hoots (’10 BA, ’14 MDIV) was recently promoted to assistant chaplain at Mars Hill University. He and his wife, Valerie (’10 BS, ’14 MA), announced the birth of their son, Isaac Gabriel Hoots, born March 15, weighing 5 pounds and 11 ounces and 20 inches long.

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Katie Miller (’11 PharmD) and Steven Miller (’13 PharmD) announced the birth of a son, Luke Waters Miller, born on Jan. 12.

Lauren Miller Golden (’11 JD) was elected treasurer of the Wake County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division.

Tiffany A. Lesnik (’11 JD) was named president of the 2016 Wake Women Attorneys Board of Directors.

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AMONG THE STARS It was a “pinch me” moment for Shannon Cullinane (’05).

A fan of the Fox television series “Bones” since it debuted months after her graduation from Campbell in 2005, Cullinane was sitting in the director’s chair on the show’s set watching the cast work and later interviewing them for a feature on Fox News. She’s interviewed the biggest names in Hollywood (Tom Hanks and Julie Andrews to name a few) and chart-topping musicians — but her “Bones” experience topped them all.

“It’s hard not to completely fangirl out,” says Cullinane, “but I know I’m there for work. I know I have a limited window of time to get everything I can out of these celebrities. I have to get that out of the way, and I’m good to go.”

The fast pace of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles is a far cry from her days as a student at Campbell, where Cullinane and her friends often passed the time by making up games to make nights in Buies Creek more interesting. Among their creations were “The Color Game,” “The Thaddeus G. Dankle Trio,” “Real World: Buies Creek” and “Volleybasket Fan Ball.”

But Campbell provided the foundation that’s led to her current role as a freelance entertainment producer for Fox News’ L.A. bureau. Her advisor, communications studies chair Dean Farmer, told Cullinane she needed “to know a

little of everything” to succeed in the career field.

“The reason I’ve been able to get so much work as a producer is because I can do several other things — like editing — and fill a lot of roles,” she says.

“Campbell is where I learned who I was and who I wanted to be. The friendships formed at Campbell stand the test of time and I couldn’t imagine where I’d be today without my Campbell family.”

After Campbell, Cullinane spent eight years in Washington, D.C., during which she worked for The Washington Post, George Washington University, National Geographic and NBCUniversal before relocating to Los Angeles with her husband. In her current role, she’s everything from a news producer to a field producer, conducting red carpet interviews at movie premieres and other behind-the-scenes work for Fox News’ entertainment coverage.

She’s interviewed the cast of “The Hobbit” and “The Hunger Games.” She’s been backstage (and side stage) with her favorite band, No Doubt, and recently she worked covering the final season of American Idol.

“It’s cool when [judges] Keith Urban and Harry Connick Jr. know who I am,” she says.

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John and Katee Harris (both ’11 MDIV) are now serving at Horizon Baptist Fellowship in Summerville, Georgia.

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Mary Beth Mims (’12 PharmD) and Byron Mims announced the birth of their son, Grayson Windsor Mims, on Jan. 3.

LIFE BEGINS ABROAD After graduation, Paige Kelly (’15) did not limit herself to finding a job in her area, or even in her time zone.

Kelly has recently returned to the U.S. from working for two and a half months as an au pair in Ireland and a brief extent in Wales, a long way from her North Carolina home. As Kelly country hopped Europe, she was able to use her experiences at Campbell as preparation for her trip, citing professors, friends and Campbell’s Study Abroad program as encouragement while organizing her busy travel schedule.

Kelly, a graphic design and studio art double major, originally looked for jobs that would utilize her major. But she realized that her passion was travel, and she wanted a career that could fulfill both.

“I never remember a moment when I decided on my major, it just came naturally, and I couldn’t think of another job I wanted to do as much,” she says. “Plus, I’d always wanted to travel.”

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I arrived back from Northern Ireland,” Kelly says, mentioning that she worked at events, “talking with students and just generally being a part of the Study Abroad alumni group.”

At the beginning of this year, Kelly decided she wanted to return to Ireland, and became an au pair for four children, ranging from ages 1-7. “It was high energy almost all the time,” Kelly admits, “but I learned so much and the sweet, personal moments with each kid made it special.”

Although Kelly enjoyed her job, eventually she realized it was time for her to move on. One of the most fun things about studying abroad is being able to say you have friends in different continents, and Kelly credits her best friend for helping her become established in the city.

“My best friend lives in Cardiff and took me in, and we house and job hunted for a while,” Kelly says. “While I was there, I entertained myself and spent a lot of time making sure I really got to know Wales as much as possible.”

She credits Ireland as the first place she’d ever wanted to travel to, ever since the age of 7, but she did not look into Campbell’s Study Abroad program until her sophomore year. She started meeting with Kendra Granger, the program’s director, and she customized her own program with Ulster University. After spending a semester in Ireland, Kelly realized she wanted to become more involved with the program to help create opportunities for students interested in studying abroad in the future.

That doesn’t mean that her time in Wales was unproductive. “During the weeks I also spent time working on my website and freelance work, and applying for jobs back in America, as well as [becoming] involved in a local Welsh church.”

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For students interested in studying abroad, Kelly says, “There’s nothing we can say as study abroad alumni or advisors that really prepares a student for the intensive, life-changing thing that study abroad is. It’s all what you make of it.”

Joshua Albert (’12 JD) joined McGuireWoods Consulting as a vice president.

Nathan Blake (’12 MDIV) and his wife, Brittany, announce the birth of their second child, Elijah Clement Blake, born Feb. 9, weighing 7 pounds and 3 ounces.

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Megan Poston Colbert (’13 PharmD) and Mark Colbert (’12 PharmD) were united in marriage on Oct. 17. The wedding was held at First Baptist Church in Smithfield.

Zach Johnson and Amanda Eason Johnson (’13 BS) announced the birth of their first child, Mary Scott, born on Feb. 15.

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Anna Hedgepeth (’13 JD) was promoted to director of business development at Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP.

Elizabeth Boyette (’14 JD) was named an at-large member of the 2016 Wake Women Attorneys Board of Directors.

C. Trent Womble (’13 JD) joined Hatcher Law Group as a family law attorney.

Amanda M. King (’14 JD) joined Whitley & Jordan, P.A. as an associate attorney.

Hunt Willis (’13 JD) was named to 2016 North Carolina Rising Stars.

Colene Kelly (’14 MDIV) was voted to serve on the City of Chadbourn Town Council.

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Gary Dighe (’14 PharmD, ’14 MSCR) was named the corporate pharmacy revenue integrity manager for OhioHealth. He will begin this role in July upon completion of his MS Health System Pharmacy Administration residency at the Ohio State University OhioHealth Riverside Hospital.

Veronica Martinez-Gallegos (’14 MDIV) was ordained Nov. 14 by Iglesia Bautista La Vox laEsperanza in Charlotte.

Nathan Morton (’14 MDIV) was installed as pastor of Elizabethtown Baptist Church on March 6.

Lisa Grissom (’14 MDIV) was called as the pastor of Evergreen Baptist Church in Rose Hill.

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Rebecca Aikens (’14 MDIV) was ordained on Feb. 28 at The Memorial Baptist Church in Greenville, and is the first female to be ordained to the work of the Gospel Ministry in TMBC’s 188year history.

Butch Farrah (’14 MDIV) was called as the minister of senior adults and administration at First Baptist Church in Hickory, North Carolina.

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Jessica Britt (’15 PharmD) and Robbie Rogers were united in marriage on Oct. 24.

Caitlin Goforth (’15 JD) joined Poyner Spruill LLP as an associate attorney focusing on employment law and litigation.

Allie Moore (’15 JD) was named treasurer of the 2016 Wake Women Attorneys Board of Directors.

Fiona Steer (’15 JD) was named secretary of the 2016 Wake Women Attorneys Board of Directors.

Alec Powers (’15 BA) and Kathryn Hash were united in marriage on December 19, 2015.

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Hannah O. Calfee (’12, ’16 PharmD) and Andrew Ruffin Hill (’12, ’16 PharmD) were married at Highland Baptist Church on May 23.

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FRIENDS WE WILL MISS Jerry Slaunwhite (’53), Nov. 28 Rebecca Clark (’71), Dec. 1 Jesse Waugh (’74), Dec. 12 Leta Rosser (’44), Dec. 16 Melvin Hayden (’72), Dec. 17 Majelle Soles (’92 Law), Dec. 18 Gerald Anderson (’65), Dec. 20 Edward Phillips (’64), Jan. 1 Melody Sigora (’89), Jan. 4 Tiffany Storey (’04), Jan. 9 Eloise Hines (’51), Jan. 16 Warren Humphrey (’64), Jan. 17 William Brantley (’66), Jan. 21 John Morris Jr. (’68), Jan. 21 Howard Singletary Jr. (’55), Jan. 28 Al Black (’49, ’50), Feb. 1 David Guin (’89 Law), Feb. 1 Karen Tate (’81), Feb. 4 Johnny Alford (’50), Feb. 7 Brenda Warwick (’02), Feb. 8 Benjamin Fann (’41), Feb. 12 Earl Brown (’91 Law), Feb. 20 Katherine Harper (’63), Feb. 22 Jon Martin (’68), Feb. 24 Patricia Paschal (’53), Feb. 28 Thomas Falls (’77), March 3 Christopher Stewart (’87), March 3 Alma Nelson (’43), March 4 Allison Anderson (’16), March 10 Daphine Crews (’38), March 10 Elwood Davis (’49), March 10 Samuel Sue Jr. (’50), March 15 William Powell (’64), March 15 Lester Coats Jr. (’50, ’51), March 22

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atherine Cheek Hall (’36) came to Campbell Junior College just months after the school lost its founder, J.A. Campbell. She paid for her education by working as a “twister” at Burlington Industries, a clothing manufacturer, during the Great Depression and saving $700 to pursue a career in teaching. At Campbell, this “little girl from a cotton farm in Alamance County” met a boy from a tobacco farm in Cumberland County.

Named a Distinguished Alumna of the University in 2012 at the age of 97, Hall died on May 3, at the age of 100. It was during that 2012 ceremony where she shared her story about growing up in the Depression and not giving up when it came to furthering her education.

“We were fortunate to have plenty of food, clothing and shelter, but we had no money for college,” she said. “But I did have ambition. And I guess that ambition is what helped me. I didn’t know how I was going to college, but I was going.”

While a student at Campbell, she was active in Delta Kappa Gamma, was president of the Baptist Student Union, sang in the Glee Club, and was recognized as the Most Outstanding Female Student in 1936.

After graduation, Hall continued her education at East Carolina Teachers College.

She then returned home, where she began her teaching career at Saxapahaw Elementary.

In 1943, she married Dr. Joseph Cullen Hall, a physician (the “boy from a tobacco farm”).

The Halls created the J.C. Hall and Mary Catherine Cheek Hall Endowed Scholarship Trust at Campbell, and in 2011, Hall provided funding for the simulation lab for the new School of Osteopathic Medicine.

“Campbell is home to me,” Hall said. “Even though I went on to East Carolina Teachers College, I always felt like Campbell was my true home. It just meant so much to me.”

The Halls had four children — Martha, Patricia, Joseph and William — six grandchildren and four great-grandchild.

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