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Cover Story: Then, Now & NextThe master plan Jerry Wallace introduced upon his inauguration in 2003 has come to fruition. Campbell Magazine takes a look at how far the school has come in the last 11 years and where it’s heading as the search for a new president begins.Page 18

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The New RealityCampbell University’s launch of a new online degree program comes at a time when almost half of all undergraduate students are older than 22 and juggling work, marriage, family and school. 0

The Nerd Christian hip-hop artist and Campbell alum Ernest “Applejaxx” Owens is proud to be a “nerd,” because a “nerd” to him is a lifelong learner who embraces never-ending research and development. Page 36

Ester & NaomiWhile their brothers fought overseas during World War II, Ester Howard and Naomi Hinson were starting college. Chosen randomly as roommates, the two have remained close friends for over 70 years.Page 42

Emily Elmore, an economics and health care management senior, and second-year pharmacy student Tiffany Vu jump for joy in front of Stonehenge during the Business in London Study Abroad program this summer. | Photo by Jennifer Marks

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Proud to have served with Campbell’s ROTC cadetsTo the Editor:

I just wanted to take a minute and express my sincere appreciation for the superior coverage of Campbell University's Army ROTC program in your spring edition of 2014. Editor Billy Liggett and staff did an excellent job covering both the past and present “Warriors and Scholars” of this award-winning Army ROTC program.

It's no secret that Campbell's Army ROTC program has a great relationship with nearby Ft. Bragg, and the ROTC recruiting efforts headed by Chris Psaltis are clearly among the best. As the most recent former Professor of Military Science at this historic Army ROTC program, I can tell you first hand that Mr. Psaltis goes above and beyond his job description to ensure the best and brightest candidates are recruited and enrolled in the program. Chris and the rest of the Campbell Battalion staff are really the backbone of this very successful program.

It was my honor to serve as the commander of this Army ROTC program. During my tenure as the PMS, I truly enjoyed going to Campbell University every day to coach, mentor and train the future leaders of the

Army. Whether it was in the classroom, at a leadership lab or training in the woods at Ft. Bragg, I clearly had the best job in the Army and the best job of my 26-year career.

I look forward to checking in from time to time on this great Army ROTC program as an alumni and former commander. These cadets are truly among America's most precious resource and I am so very proud to have served with them.

Lt. Col. (Ret) Ed Pethan Class of 1989

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Good advice from a respected manTo the Editor:

(Re: Burkot: The Renaissance Man, Fall 2013)

It was a cold dark night in February of 1957. I was 21 years old and stationed at Pope Air Force Base. I was courting a very pretty coed in her second year at Campbell. It was a Sunday night and she had just finished Chapel.

I was saying goodnight to her near Marshbanks Cafeteria, next to a trash receptacle. A gentleman walked up to me and very clearly told me to be more respectful to his girls by not saying goodnight to her next to a trash receptacle.

It was Dean Burkot. I never forgot that very stern advice 57 years ago.

Peter A. Paoni Fayetteville

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Summer 2014 | Volume 9 | Issue 2

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Founded in 1887, Campbell University is a private, coeducational institution where faith and learning excel. Campbell offers programs in the liberal arts, sciences and professions with undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees. The University is comprised of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business, the School of Education, the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, the Divinity School and the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine. Campbell University was ranked among the Best Regional Universities in the South by U.S. News & World Report in its America’s Best Colleges 2014 edition and named one of the “100 Best College Buys” in the nation by Institutional Research & Evaluation, Inc.

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Sarah Gee @BornRedPrincess: @campbelledu Once again the campus looked beautiful today! My daughter is where she's supposed to be! #CUMom #CamelPride


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5The fall semester will see the beginning of five head coaching careers in Buies Creek — softball coach Todd Bradley, lacrosse coach Dawn Easley, baseball coach Justin Haire, women’s soccer coach Stuart Horner and wrestling coach (and former U.S. Olympian) Cary Kolat.

31The number of ounces in a trenta-sized cup of coffee at Starbucks. Wiggins Memorial Library expects to open the campus’ first full-service Starbucks coffee shop in early October on the first floor where the 24-hour study room once sat (the study area has been moved to the second floor).

85Campbell’s new nursing program won’t be fully operational until 2016, but the first Campbell students on a pre-nursing track — 85 of them — are beginning their college journey this fall. Already, pre-nursing is one of the most popular programs for new students. They will apply for the BSN program during their sophomore year, and the first nursing students will graduate in 2018.

1,185The new 1,185 first-time, full-time undergraduates at Campbell entering the fall semester are the largest entering cohort of students in the university’s history. Eighty-two percent of the new students hail from 83 counties in North Carolina, with 37 other states and 11 other countries also represented among the student body.

593,500The amount in dollars awarded to the 59 incoming first-year pharmacy students who received the prestigious Dean’s Scholarship from the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences. In order to receive the award, students must have a GPA of 3.5 or higher upon entering pharmacy school.

The sweet hum of progress

This has been a big year for me at Campbell University. This spring, I had the opportunity to move out of my

utility-closet-converted-into-an-office (we called it the “cloffice”) across the hall into an office with windows. My daily view now includes lush, green trees and two beautiful old buildings — Pearson Hall and Carrie Rich.

I imagined my first summer would include open windows, warm breezes flowing into my ridiculously cold working space (they keep it arctic in the J.A. Campbell Building) and the sounds of chirping birds and squirrels skittering up and down trees. Campbell’s typically a quiet campus during the summer months, and its natural sounds are relaxing and invigorating all at once.

Instead, my soundtrack for the summer has been a steady beat of jackhammers, the beeping of large vehicles backing up, bulldozers scraping up loose bricks and the loud hum of motors and generators and all other sorts of construction equipment.

It’s not what I expected when I first moved into my new work home. Still, it's something I've gotten used to and grown to appreciate.

It’s the sound of progress, and Campbell University is laying it on thick heading into the schools’ 128th academic year. It’s also a sound that coincides well with the theme of the Summer 2014 edition of Campbell Magazine. Progress.

This summer marks my three-year anniversary as editor of Campbell Magazine and assistant director for publications for the University’s communications department. When I tell people how much Campbell has grown in just those three years — a new medical school, renovated sports stadiums, a physician assistant and nursing program with engineering on the way — the

response I usually receive (especially from alumni and those who’ve worked here much longer) is, “You should have seen this place 10 years ago.”

I can't begin to imagine. The Pope Convocation Center — home to one of the best basketball arenas in the state — in its six years of existence has become not only one of Campbell's most iconic buildings, but its most-used facility as well. The medical school jumps into your view as you drive along U.S. 421 near the main campus was but a pasture three years ago. In a few years from now, the med school will have a neighbor, a new facility housing nursing, physical therapy and whatever other health science programs Campbell adds on in the near future.

“Then, Now & Next” is our attempt at stopping for a moment to appreciate just how far this University has come under the direction of President Jerry Wallace, who’ll be stepping down at the end of this academic year. It’s also a great opportunity to see what’s on the horizon. Our future is somewhat uncertain as we search for Campbell’s fifth president in 128 years, but the seeds this school has planted in the last decade will continue to bear fruit well past Wallace’s retirement.

So I don’t mind the construction site sounds this summer, and I welcome them in the coming summers as well. It’s an exciting time to be a part of Campbell University. And I’m grateful to be one of the people tasked with telling our story.

Billy Liggett Editor, Campbell Magazine

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SHE’S A BEAUTYWell, we've always thought so, and we’re glad others are taking notice. Campbell University was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful Christian College & University Campuses" in the world (that's right ... world) by Christian Universities Online last spring. Our Facebook followers agreed with the ranking, too. The news garnered 375 “likes,” 161 shares and reached an audience of 35,700 people — by far the most popular social media post of the academic year.

ABOUT THE COVERThe cover of the Summer 2014 edition of Campbell Magazine is the work of Daniel Rodgers, an associate professor of art and design in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Rodgers has taught both graphic design and studio art classes for 13 years, 12 of those at Campbell. Prior to teaching, he worked in design communications and advertising for a decade.

The concept for the cover came to Rodgers while thinking about not only Campbell’s rich history and recent growth, but its future as well.

“Campbell has gone through major changes, growth and renovation in the last 10 years,” Rodgers says. “While this has been quite an accomplishment, it is now time to steer our efforts to what the future holds with our head set to the horizon and what might

be next. I wanted to represent Campbell on the cover in a unique way that carried an optimistic yet gritty determination.”

Rodgers’ piece resembles the style of 20th Century American illustrators N.C. Wyeth, Dean Cornwell and Norman Rockwell. “They all told great stories in their work,” he says.

Rodgers is happily married to his lovely wife Cyndi, and they have two wonderful young sons, Levi and Benjamin.

More of his work can be found online at www.danielmrodgers.com.

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We caught up with some incoming freshman at one of the two freshman orientations this summer and asked them why they chose Campbell University and what they hoped to get out of the next four years (in addition to a degree):

THE POWERS OF LOVELawrence Powers (’09, ’13 DIV) met his wife, Heather Jones Powers (’07), in 2006 while the two served at camp counselors at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes camp held on campus that summer. Heather was entering her senior year, and Lawrence was a sophomore transfer student. A friendship developed, and soon a relationship was born. The following year, Lawrence proposed to Heather on campus next to an old oak tree (the one that once stood between Butler Chapel and Taylor Hall), and they were married the following May. The Powers returned to their alma mater this summer for a photo shoot with photographer Dana Buffington and shared their photos on Instagram. The above shot was taken not too far from where Lawrence proposed.

Excited to be

Brenna Bizzell Hometown: Princeton, N.C.; Major: Biology (pre PA)

I graduated in a class of 120 students in my high school, and Campbell reminded me a lot of my hometown. It feels more like a home here than a school. The PA program was another big reason I’m here. But there’s also nursing and pre-med, so there’s still plenty of options.

Jerry Morton Hometown: Burgaw, N.C.; Major: Business Administration

I chose Campbell because of the business school, and I’m impressed that I’ve already had one-on-one time with four of my professors who know my name and what I look like. All I want out of the next four years is to meet new people and get a lot smarter and hopefully wiser.

Andrew Ibeh-Kingsley Hometown: Charlotte, N.C.; Major: Biology (pre-Med)

When I tell people I want to be a cardiac surgeon some day, they’re like, ‘Wow, you’ll be in school a long time.’ I realize that, but it will be worth it in the long run. I feel at home at Campbell. There’s so much spirit and so much orange around here … you really feel like part of a community.

Alexis Massengill Hometown: Four Oaks, N.C.; Major: Political science (pre-Law)

I want to go to law school some day, and I wanted a good foundation to set me on my way. I have no doubt Campbell will give me that. And I’ve always been told the greatest friends you’ll meet in life are the ones you’ll meet in college. I’m excited to find out if that’s true.

“I was flabbergasted.”— Kendall Tart, president of Sigma Alpha Omega

sorority, upon learning that her chapter (in its first year) was chosen to host SAO’s national convention in 2015

“North Carolina’s economy needs more engineers. They are creative thinkers and problems solvers, and they’re an invaluable resource that collectively impacts every aspect of our lives.”

— Campbell President Jerry Wallace, on the University’s decision to launch an engineering program in 2015

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around CampusThe charter class of the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine finished its first year in the spring and welcomed the second class of med students — the Class of 2018 — over the summer. The Leon Levine Hall of Medical Sciences will house more than 320 future doctors this academic year before the charter class begins its medical rotations throughout the state next year. | Photo by Lissa Gotwals

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Adams to succeed Maddox as next dean of pharmacy school

Michael L. Adams, an assistant dean and an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences at Campbell University, will be the second dean of Campbell’s College

of Pharmacy & Health Sciences in the school’s 28-year history.

Adams will succeed founding dean Ronald Maddox effective Jan. 1.

A 1996 Doctor of Pharmacy summa cum laude graduate of Campbell, Adams returned to the pharmacy school as an assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences in 2005. In 2009, he became the school’s director of Science Education Outreach and served in that position through 2012, when he was named assistant dean for graduate and interprofessional education. He has twice been named the college’s Professor of the Year.

“I remember making the decision to apply to Campbell when I was a senior in high school, and I knew that decision would have a significant impact on my life,” said Adams. “Now I have been given the opportunity to give back and make an impact on the future of my alma mater. It’s truly a humbling experience.”

As dean of the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Adams will be responsible for the oversight and administration of Campbell’s pharmacy, physician assistant, Doctor of Physical Therapy, nursing, clinical research, and pharmaceutical sciences programs.

Adams is a lifetime member of the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences Alumni Association, as well as a member of numerous other professional societies and organizations.

He attributes much of his success to his wife, Dina Hall Adams, an alumna of Campbell’s pharmacy school, and their 5-year-old daughter, Halle.

Erasmo "Mo" Espino attended the Pat Tillman Leadership Summit in Chicago in June and spent the remainder of his summer deployed overseas before returning as a second-year student at the Jerry M.

Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine.

A native of Eagle Pass, Texas, Espino is an Army veteran who served as a special forces medic on the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan. He joined the Army after high school in 2000 at the age of 18. Not long into his service, the U.S. was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001.

A member of the charter class of Campbell University’s new med school, Espino was one of 57 students nationwide to receive a Pat Tillman Scholarship this year. The scholarship, given by the foundation named for the former NFL player who cut his career short to join the Army and serve in tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tillman was killed in action in 2004 when his unit was ambushed in eastern Afghanistan. The Pat Tillman Foundation invests in military veterans like Espino through scholarships to “build a diverse community of leaders committed to serving others.”

Espino and 56 other veterans were selected to receive the scholarship this year from more than

7,500 applicants from some of the nation’s top schools. He is the nation’s second student from a school of osteopathic medicine to receive the award.

"I felt very proud to bring Campbell University and Osteopathic Medicine to the Pat Tillman community,” Espino said. “The scholars chosen are definitely in an elite group — this is not a scholarship about grades or what school you got into, it is about your past, your experience, service, potential, willingness to continue to serve and more importantly humility."

For the finale of this year’s summit, 10 scholars, including Espino, walked onto Wrigley Field during a packed Cubs game where they received a standing ovation from the crowd.

"You don't know how extremely humbling this entire experience was, and I hope to see more of our student veterans apply for this amazing opportunity,” Espino said. “It really helped put things in perspective for me. It’s not just about being successful, making money, living well ... there is more to life than that. I was chosen for a reason, so how can I use my experience and the opportunities I have been blessed to have received to impact others? I haven't quite figured that out yet, but am excited to begin on that journey.”

Med student earns prestigious Tillman Scholarship, honored at Wrigley Field


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Campbell Law School has been named to a list of the top 22 private law schools in the country for best value by The National Jurist. In selecting institutions for inclusion, the publication considered a number of academic and financial variables, including price of tuition, student debt accumulation, employment success, bar passage, and cost of living figures.

“The National Jurist is publicly expressing a sentiment that we’ve known for quite some time,” said Campbell Law Dean J. Rich Leonard. “Campbell Law is a special place where our students learn, excel, and are positioned to go out and do great things after walking across the stage at graduation and passing the bar exam. We are excited to be included on this list alongside many other fine institutions."

Campbell Law scored high marks from The National Jurist in both bar passage and

employment. Campbell Law was one of just 22 institutions nationally to receive a grade of “A-” or better in both the bar passage and employment categories in the publication’s ranking of law schools. In September 2013, The National Jurist ranked Campbell Law’s externship program 27th nationally.

The school enrolled 186 new students for the fall 2014 semester, marking the second-largest incoming class in the school’s history.

The students — 168 traditional students and 18 studying as a part of the Campbell Flex program — represent 73 different undergraduate institutions and 43 majors.

The number of incoming students is a sharp increase from last year, which saw 121 new students on the first day of orientation.

Law school makes national ‘best value’ list in National Jurist; enrolls second largest class

Business school unveils new logoThe Lundy-Fetterman School of Business has unveiled a new logo as a part of a strategic rebranding exercise implemented by Dean Keith Faulkner and the faculty. The new logo, designed by Raleigh-based Winnow Creative, “maintains visual continuity and brand recognition” with the school’s previous mark by highlighting an updated rendering of the cupola atop the business building. “Our new logo provides us with a fresh look that pays homage to our deeply-rooted history,” said Faulkner. “This is a time of positive change and growth, for Campbell Business and the university as a whole, and this logo captures those sentiments perfectly.”

At home in Ireland | Paige Kelly, a graphic design major from Fuquay-Varina, spent the past academic year at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Kelly visited Giant’s Causeway, an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.

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The Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Campbell University received approval this summer from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to move forward with the accreditation process and enroll potential nursing students.

This approval enables the faculty and staff of the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences to request “New Applicant Status” from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.

“The approval from SACSCOC was granted without a site visit, which speaks to the professionalism and level of commitment of the faculty, staff and leadership of Campbell,” said Nancy Duffy, director of Campbell’s nursing program. “This process has been a team effort since the beginning.”

The department hosted its first open house in June, allowing potential students to get an inside look at both the program and the profession. The open house was the first in a series of informational sessions planned for students

interested in the new Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. Eighty-five students enrolled in the fall’s pre-nursing seminar. The introductory course is offered to undergraduate students and is a prerequisite to apply to the upper-level division of the nursing program.

Campbell’s first nursing students will receive two years of general education followed by clinical rotations beginning in the fall of 2016. The N.C. Board of Nursing will re-survey Campbell’s nursing program in the spring of 2018, when the first nursing students are expected to graduate. At that time, the university is a candidate to receive full approval status.

Currently, there are more than 1,000 nursing jobs open in areas near Campbell, including Durham, Raleigh, Goldsboro and Smithfield, Duffy said.

“This region of North Carolina is underserved, underinsured and with great need for health care. This is an amazing opportunity to positively impact their outcomes with a nursing workforce that is ready to go in 2018.”

Nursing program clears hurdle with accreditation; draws 85 for seminar

Engineering eyed for 2016 launchIn its first big move since approving a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree program in May, the University hired a consultant in June to help launch the proposed program by 2016.

Campbell secured the services of Paul Kauffmann, professor emeritus of engineering at East Carolina University, to serve as a consultant and help advance its early feasibility study for the engineering degree and provide guidance on program development.

“I see Campbell’s vision for an engineering program as a huge positive for the university and for the state of North Carolina,” Kauffmann said. “The program will help fill a need for more engineers and a more globally-competitive workforce in North Carolina. Engineering will also add to Campbell’s portfolio of excellent science- and mathematics-oriented programs."

Campbell University conferred 1,038 undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees over five graduation ceremonies May 9 and May 10. The College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences (pictured above) celebrated its 25th commencement ceremony at the Pope Convocation Center. | Photo by Bennett Scarborough

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Glenn Jonas and Yu-Mong Hsiao received top faculty honors for 2013-14, receiving Campbell University's second annual D.P. Russ Jr. and Walter S. Jones Sr. Alumni Award for Excellence last spring. Jonas was honored for his research, while Hsiao — who also received the School of Business’ Dean’s Award in 2014 — was recognized for teaching excellence.

Jonas was author of “Nurturing the Vision: First Baptist Church, Raleigh, 1812-2012,” which chronicled the 200-year-old church’s history decade by decade, telling its history as it coincided with the Civil War, World War II and other important eras in U.S. history. Jonas, a professor of religion and chairman of Campbell's Department of Religion and Philosophy, published the book through Mercer Press in 2012 after roughly four years of research.

Jonas said he was honored to receive the alumni award, especially because it recognized research.

“We as professors are deficient if we’re just teaching the same stuff over and over again,” Jonas said. “Research in our fields allows us to keep what we’re teaching in the classroom updated and fresh. To have been recognized for teaching in the past and now research is very fulfilling for me, professionally.”

Hsiao was honored for her willingness to experiment with teaching styles and her meticulous tracking of student learning and performance.

Business school Dean Keith Faulkner said Hsiao has been an important part of the school’s growth over the past 30 years.

“She has risen to the rank of professor, obtained tenure and taught a broad range of courses in accounting, business administration and economics at both the undergraduate and graduate level,” Faulkner said. “Both current students and alumni alike will testify to the demanding nature of Professor Hsiao's instruction style. She is an advocate for setting high expectations and for providing students with the tools to achieve the standard.”

Jonas, Hsiao earn top faculty awards in 2014 Med school receives $300K grant for cancer researchCampbell’s new medical school reached another milestone this summer when it was awarded its first medical research grant from the National Institutes of Health.

The Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine received a $300,000 grant to study the relationship between chemotherapy and chronic heart failure.

“This is a monumental occasion for Campbell University, the School of Medicine and the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences,” said medical school Dean John Kauffman. “Not only is this the first known NIH grant received by the School of Medicine, but a great opportunity for intercollegiate and interprofessional collaboration. We believe this will be the first of many NIH grants to come.”

The project will be led by Dr. Yunbo Li, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology and assistant dean for biomedical research.

Employee Giving Campaign enjoys record year“Campbell Pride” reached a whole new level with Campbell University’s employee giving campaign last spring. In its seventh year, the campaign had 806 donors and reached a record 94-percent participation rate, up from 78 percent in 2013.

“This campaign serves as an opportunity for our employees to invest in Campbell’s future,” said Sarah Swain (’05), director of annual giving. “Our success exemplifies the level of loyalty and commitment we have towards seeing Campbell thrive.”

Campaign contributions supported the Fund for Campbell, Campbell’s annual fund, academic programs and scholarships, athletics and capital campaigns.

Campbell University’s ROTC program commissioned 23 new officers last spring, and for the second year was included in Victory Media’s coveted “Military Friendly Schools List,” which honors the top 20 percent of universities, colleges and trade schools that are “doing the most to embrace U.S. military service members, veterans and spouses as students.”

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A Legacy in Rural Medicine

Katy Brewer will be a part of history when she graduates in the charter class of the Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine in 2017. She’ll also be carrying on a legacy — her great-great uncle really is in the history books as one of Harnett County’s first physicians.

Dr. James H. Withers (1856-1928) spent most of his life in the Leaflet Community between Lillington and Sanford and even served as Harnett’s Clerk of Superior Court from 1901 to 1907. According to Myrtle H. Sykes, former president of the Mount Pisgah Extension Homemakers Club, Dr. Withers was a “conscientious doctor and a friend to all his patients. When a patient was critically ill, Dr. Withers would stay in the home with them until the condition improved. He was one of the good, old-fashioned doctors.”

It’s just the kind of doctor Brewer — a native of Sanford and graduate of Wake Forest University — hopes to one day be.

“It means a lot to me to follow in footsteps like that,” she said. “I want to be the kind of doctor who’s well loved and respected in their community. It made sense to me to choose a school where the goal is to train physicians to serve in rural and underserved areas.”

Nearly 100 years ago, Withers, who was in his early 60s at the time, was one of the few physicians in Harnett County helping fight the flu pandemic of 1918 that wiped out between 3 to 5 percent of the world’s population and killed about 13,600 North Carolinians (and infected nearly half of the state) in a two-year span. In “Harnett County: A History,” author John Hairr wrote that doctors and druggists at the time fought the flu with little jars of a salve-like substance called Vick’s Pneumonia cure. Community members constantly checked on each other — if someone’s chimney wasn’t burning on any given day, neighbors would check on them … often finding bad news.

Much has changed in medicine in the last 100 years, yet many communities in North Carolina lack quality physicians and health care even now. Brewer and her classmates, who are entering Year 2 this fall, are out to change that.

“My intent all along was to stay in North Carolina for my training, and I fell in love with Campbell,” Brewer said. “I love helping people, and I love science and learning why things happen to our mind and our bodies.”

Greek Life at Campbell University is barely a year old, yet the new fraternities and sororities on campus are already being recognized by their respective national headquarters. Campbell University heads into the fall semester with a total of five organizations, with plans for a new "Greek Row" section of fraternity and sorority houses in place along Leslie Campbell Avenue.

Sigma Alpha Omega: Campbell’s Alpha-Xi chapter of Sigma Alpha Omega will host the

sorority’s national convention in 2015. The June 4-7 event will bring sisters from across the country to Buies Creek for four days of workshops, business meetings, worship

and fellowship. The convention’s theme will be “Walk Like an Egyptian,” and will feature Campbell’s mascot, Gaylord. SAO became Campbell’s first full chartered undergraduate Greek organization last November.

Delta Phi Epsilon: Campbell’s newest sorority attended its national convention over the

summer and received two national awards. The Gamma Upsilon chapter was named “Best New Chapter” by the National Governing Board and was honored for “Excellence in

Colony Management” for “going above and

beyond their requirements to charter.”

Kappa Sigma: Members of Campbell University’s first fraternity attended their

national leadership conference in New Orleans over the summer and were recognized in front of more than 1,500 brothers for being a “Top 25 Recruiting Chapter,” placing

eighth out of 315 chapters with 77 new brothers initiated in their first year. The chapter was also honored for being 100 percent ritually proficient at the first level.

Phi Delta Theta: Three brothers from Campbell University attended Phi Delta Theta’s annual Kleberg Emerging Leaders Institute in Oxford, Ohio, over the summer. Phi Delt became Campbell's second social

fraternity in spring 2014.

Kappa Alpha: One of the nation’s largest national fraternities announced it will recruit an interest group at Campbell this fall. Kappa Alpha Order will begin recruiting students in September in an effort to become the

University’s fifth social Greek organization.

Campbell’s Greek chapters receive national recognition in their first year

RJ Mazzatta @RJMazzatta: Just saw a @campbelledu @GoCamels bumper sticker on a car, here in Georgia! Needless to say, I got very excited...haha. #CampbellProud

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Campbell University President Jerry M. Wallace, who has led Campbell to unprecedented growth and

transformed the university into a destination for leading health education and other key programs over the past 11 years, announced during a April 23 meeting of the university Board of Trustees that he will step down as president on June 30, 2015.

After a one-year sabbatical, he will transition to the honorary role and title of university chancellor.

“It is with a heavy heart that the Campbell University Board of Trustees accepts President Wallace’s request to transition to the chancellor’s role beginning July 1, 2016,” Benjamin N. Thompson, chair of the Campbell University Board of Trustees, said following the meeting. “President Wallace’s legacy is beyond measure. His leadership has truly transformed the university’s place and image among North Carolina’s leading colleges and universities.”

The search for Campbell’s fifth president in the school’s 127-year history is currently under way.

Wallace will have served Campbell for 45 years — 12 as president — when his tenure comes to an end. Back when he was introduced as president on May 29, 2003, Wallace said: “Campbell will respond to the existing and developing needs of the region, state and nation by providing new undergraduate, graduate and professional programs that complement and extend Campbell’s mission.”

Since that inauguration speech, Wallace has more than lived up to those words. Notably, Wallace has expanded Campbell’s health programs to complement its pharmacy school and to address the shortage of health professionals in North Carolina, including the establishment of a medical school. When the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine opened in the Leon Levine Hall of Medical Sciences in August 2013 with 160 students, it was North Carolina’s first new medical school in 35 years.

Other health programs launched during Wallace’s presidency include the physician assistant, public health, physical therapy, and proposed nursing programs. The Doctor of Physical Therapy program welcomed

BY CHERRY CRAYTON

‘Legacy Beyond Measure’Jerry Wallace to step down as Campbell president in 2015

#ThanksDrWallaceThroughout the fall and leading up to our spring edition of Campbell Magazine, we invite you to send us your favorite memory or story about Dr. Jerry Wallace … or simply send us your “Thank You” message, and we’ll get it published. Email Campbell Magazine Editor Billy Liggett at [email protected] or tag your message to Dr. Wallace on Facebook or Twitter with #ThanksDrWallace.

Campbell’s search for its next president will begin immediately. Board Chairman Ben Thompson will lead a 13-person search committee, which plans to engage a national executive search firm. The next president is expected to be identified by spring 2015 and assume his or her duties July 1, 2015.

“The search for Campbell’s next president will be a challenging task, but we’re in a fortunate position as President Wallace has outlined an ambitious list of goals for the next five years,” said Thompson, adding there are several major initiatives in the works, including fundraising for new facilities, developing new academic programs and finalizing other projects.

Meet the search committee and learn more at campbell.edu/presidential-search

The Search

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its first class of 40 students in January 2014, and the public health and physician assistant programs began in 2012 and 2011, respectively.

Also, in January 2014, the N.C. Board of Nursing granted Campbell Initial Approval Status to start a Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, which enrolled 85 students for a pre-nursing seminal for the fall.

“During my time as president, my goal has been similar to that of my predecessors—remain true to the university’s founding principles and to meet the education and professional program needs of North Carolina and our students,” Wallace said.

“When I came to Campbell as an adjunct instructor in 1970, I had no idea that one

day I’d be the university’s president,” Wallace said. “It has been my greatest professional honor and personal joy to work at Campbell for 44 years and serve as president for the past 11 years.”

An ordained Baptist minister and a Rockingham native, Wallace first joined Campbell in 1970 as an adjunct sociology professor while serving as a pastor of Elizabethtown Baptist Church. He began teaching full time at Campbell in 1975 and went on to serve the university in a variety of roles, including as chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, director of graduate studies, and vice president for academic affairs and provost.

5 highlights of President Wallace’s presidency (so far)Jerry M. Wallace will leave quite a legacy when he steps down as president of Campbell University in June 2015 and transitions eventually to a new role as university chancellor. Here's a look at just five of the things that have happened at Campbell during his presidency:

School of Osteopathic Medicine opens: Perhaps what will be Wallace’s biggest legacy bears his name. The Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine was his brainchild in 2009, and just four years later, Campbell’s seventh school and the state’s first new medical school in over 35 years became a reality.

Other health programs begin: The School of Osteopathic Medicine was made possible in part because of the launch of a physician assistant program at Campbell in 2011. Under Wallace’s leadership, Campbell’s entire health sciences program has grown dramatically with the additions of a Doctor of Physical Therapy, public health, and proposed nursing programs.

Campus gets upgrades: In only his second year as president, Wallace’s proposed Master Plan to upgrade campus received approval from the Board of Trustees. The biggest addition came in 2009 with the opening of the John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center, a $34-million, 106,000-square-foot facility that houses Gore Arena and several university sports, as well as concerts, commencements and other events.

Law school moves to Raleigh: Seeing a chance for Campbell University to position itself right in the middle of the state’s capital, Wallace led the effort beginning in 2006 to move the Norman A. Wiggins School of Law from main campus to Raleigh. Not three years later, the law school opened the doors to its new home on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, just blocks from state government buildings.

Football returns: In April 2006, Wallace announced the return of football at Campbell during an event in front of more than 1,000 students, faculty, staff and alumni. The Fighting Camels returned to the gridiron in 2008 and posted their first winning record in 2011.

“I’m grateful for the provisions and guidance God has provided in opening doors for me and especially for Campbell University. My hope in the coming year and beyond is that Campbell will continue to produce students who are the salt of the earth and the light of the world while expanding its mission in order to meet the evolving needs of North Carolina.”

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Campbell University has been providing opportunities for Anna Brinkley Hedgepeth (’13 JD) since she was a

child. Today, she is helping Campbell expand opportunities to others.

When she was a Campbell Law School student, she served as president of its Student Bar Association. Her tenure brought about the start of the annual Past Presidents Dinner, which brings together the law school’s past student body presidents; Campbell Law collecting more food donations than any other law school in the state for the N.C. Food Bank’s 2013 North Carolina Feeding Frenzy; and the approval of installing a flagpole on campus as the Class of 2013’s class gift. But what she is most proud of is the Student Bar Association President’s Endowed Scholarship she helped establish and continues to support.

Though she is still paying back her own student loans, Anna made the first gift —

$500 — to the fund. “Law school is expensive, and I didn’t receive any support when I was in school,” she says. “I want to do what I can to lessen the financial burden of others.”

Anna learned about the importance of giving from her mother, Rebecca Stevens ’83JD, who raised her only child to live out verse Luke 12:48: “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded ...”

“We have been blessed with so many opportunities that probably would not have come our way but for our Campbell Law degrees,” Anna says.

After earning a bachelor’s from UNC-Chapel Hill, Anna worked in public relations and marketing for several years. When she decided to pursue a law degree, enrolling at Campbell was a no-brainer. Not only were there the family ties, but also Campbell’s reputation. When she talked to others about Campbell

lawyers, she heard things like: They’re ethical, they uphold Christian values, they work hard, and they come out of law school prepared. “Those are traits similar with what I would love for people to say about me one day,” she says.

While a Campbell Law student, serving as SBA president allowed her to be an advocate for other students. But holding the position was akin to working a full-time job, though she received no stipend or financial support. She wanted to change that, as well as to provide an incentive for other students to pursue SBA leadership positions. The Student Bar Association President’s Endowed Scholarship was born.

“The earlier classes have added a lot of value to our Campbell degrees,” says Anna, today the business development and marketing manager at the law firm Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP in Raleigh. “It’s now my time to add value to our degrees."

A special thanks to Anna and the more than 4,600 donors who supported Campbell students in the 2014 academic year.

Giving back helps future generations

“I want to do what I can to

lessen the financial burden of others.”

— Anna Brinkley Hedgepeth (’13 JD)

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Pictured: Campbell's new nursing department (and its proposed new facility) is but one example of how a program is changing the face of our University and bringing in students who wouldn't otherwise consider coming to Buies Creek.



The master plan Jerry Wallace introduced upon his inauguration as Campbell University president in 2003 has come to fruition [and more]. Campbell

Magazine takes a look at how far the school has come in the last 11 years and where it’s heading as the search for

a new president begins.

THEN, NOW & NEXTHOW THE 2003 MASTER PLAN TRANSFORMED OUR UNIVERSITY

BY BILLY LIGGETT

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Like the moment when Dorothy opened the sepia-toned door of her Kansas farmhouse to reveal the techni-colored dream that is Oz, there’s often something exciting and new about Campbell University awaiting Tom Lanier when he steps onto his front porch.

On this pleasantly cool mid-summer day, it’s emerald green turf grass being planted by workers in orange shirts near the first roundabout that borders his home near the corner of Leslie Campbell Avenue and T.T. Lanier, the street named for his grandfather. Five years earlier, it was the construction of the majestic Butler Chapel across the street, built the same year as the roundabouts that have improved traffic flow on the ever-growing Buies Creek campus.

Looking ahead — still standing on that front door step — Lanier can see the Pope Convocation Center, a $34 million project completed in 2008 that completely revitalized the aesthetics of the once-declining campus. Still within eyeshot is Wiggins Memorial

Library and the bookstore, both of which were built well after Lanier moved into the three-story brick home in 1981.

The Lanier House — built by T.T. Lanier in 1941 — has had a front row seat to Campbell’s impressive physical transformation, which really accelerated over the past decade. And Tom Lanier couldn’t be more proud of that transformation — he even kinda likes the hum of the tractors and the dust that comes with major construction.

“It’s changed all over, hasn’t it?” asks the 1970 Campbell graduate in between stories about old convenience stores and the spot near Kivett Hall where his father “courted” his mother. “And it’s changed for the better, without a doubt. I think Campbell University — and Dr. Wallace in particular — have had a great vision for this school.”

When Jerry Wallace became Campbell’s fourth president in 2003, he came in with an ambitious master plan that included “major

physical changes” to the campus and “bold program expansion and renewals” to ensure the University’s success. To start, landscape architects were employed to help with the plan, sculpt the interior amenities and better define the borders of the campus.

“We learned an incredible amount from our landscape architects,” Wallace says. “They showed us the possibilities and potential for the Campbell campus. Of course, we also knew these projects and grand ideas would cost money; more money than we had available on-hand. It was imperative that we launch a campaign to engage university leaders, alumni and other supporters.”

The “Time is Now” campaign was launched in 2005 to raise at least $57 million over eight years to support the early phases of the master plan. Wallace considered that dollar figure a lofty goal at the time, as the school had never raised that kind of money before.

But he soon discovered the trustees, alumni,

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faculty and staff and friends of the University wanted to see his vision come to life. By 2008, after the completion of the convocation center, the “Time is Now” goal was raised to $84 million for a new football stadium (to go with the new football team), upgraded facilities for baseball and softball and for the one necessity of any growing track & field program — a track. Plans were also in place to move the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law from the main campus to downtown Raleigh, expand campus housing, and renovate several dormitories.

Overall, more than a dozen new major academic, athletic and residence facilities were constructed between 2005 and 2013 in Buies Creek and Raleigh. Additionally, the campus landscape was transformed through new walls to frame the campus, extensive walkways, fountains and other amenities. And as the physical campus grew, so did the schools and programs. In the past three years alone, Campbell has launched North Carolina’s first new medical school since the 1970s; other programs like physical therapy, physician

assistant, clinical research, nursing and homeland security; and has announced the proposed launch of an engineering program by 2016.

“To think about where the campus was, where it is today and where it’s heading … it’s exciting,” says Lanier. “I’ve just been fortunate enough to be able to stand here and watch it develop.”

FROM QUAINT TO COLLEGIATE THE PHYSICAL TRANSFORMATION OF CAMPBELL UNIVERSITYYou could write an entire book chronicling the physical improvements to Campbell’s main campus in Buies Creek from 2003 to today. Or you could sum up the incredible transformation in one sentence — the iconic 109,000-square-foot, $34 million Pope Convocation Center was built where a mobile home park once stood.

Aesthetically and functionally, Campbell’s main campus was behind the times and long overdue for a makeover when Jerry Wallace was sworn in as president. In his inaugural address, Wallace laid the foundation of his master plan: “Campbell will improve the quality of residential life on the campus by providing new and improved academic, residential, student life

and athletic programs and facilities. The aim of becoming an even more inviting and attractive campus will guide the improvement, re-arrangement and addition of facilities, resulting in a more defined, useful, safe and enjoyable campus environment for the university community.”

The ambitious master plan was approved by the Board of Trustees the following year and called for a complete facelift of the campus. Phase One announced the construction of the convocation center, as well as a new pharmacy building, chapel and student apartments. It also planned for the renovation and expansion of other buildings and several landscaping

improvements throughout the campus.

Vice President for Business and Treasurer Jim Roberts can’t hide his smile when he talks about the campus’ transformation in the last decade. The area behind D. Rich — today lush and green with tree-lined brick walkways — was a drab concrete parking lot as early as 2004.

“We took all that out and built Fellowship Commons, adding a nice tree bosque, grass, wonderful plants and a

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THEN, NOW & NEXT | FACILITIESTHEN: Before 2003, Campbell University was stagnant in its capital spending, with just over $9 million going toward projects from 1990-1999. The campus didn’t have a “collegiate” feel, and Campbell was home to some of the worst Division I athletic facilities in the nation. NOW: As a result of Jerry Wallace’s master plan in 2003, Campbell is now home to the iconic, multi-use Pope Convocation Center, a new chapel and pharmacy building, new residence halls and some of the best athletic facilities for a school its size in the nation. NEXT: Expansion of Campbell’s new Health Sciences Campus will begin with the construction of a nursing building in the coming years, and plans are in place for a new admissions building and Greek Life houses. An engineering building and large student center are being discussed as well, with designs for the student center already in hand.


bluestone entry way,” he says, adding that the calming sounds of singing birds and the trickle of the nearby water fountain were drowned out by the hum of an electric pole and three generators. All power lines have since been buried. “It was just a mess.”

Before he was vice president, Roberts was director of physical plant operations when he came to Campbell in 1995 after serving a similar role at Georgetown College in Kentucky. He described the campus then as “rough,” noting the lack of landscaping, a number of sidewalks that didn’t end and numerous buildings that didn’t look like they belonged on a university campus.

“We didn’t have nice entrances and edges,” he says. “You couldn’t tell where the campus began and where it ended. And it wasn’t just the little houses throughout and the mobile home parks — our classroom buildings weren’t uniform and collegiate.”

Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost Mark Hammond arrived at Campbell a few years prior to Roberts as an assistant professor of biology, and he remembers not being very impressed by the campus during his first visit.

“It was a quaint, cute little campus,” he recalls. “I remember thinking, ‘Gosh, it could feel a little more collegiate.’”

Phase One of the master plan was all about

“simply catching up,” according to Roberts. Capital expenditures were stagnant during the ’90s — Campbell averaged about $300,000 a year on capital projects from ’94-’99, spending just $80,000 on projects in 1996 — and Roberts says admissions applications mirrored that stagnation.

“Everything was flat,” he says. “Enrollment was flat, new infrastructure was flat and we were flat.”

Construction spending jumped from $503,000 in 2002 to more than $9.4 million in 2003, $20 million in 2006, and $45 and $44 million in 2009 and 2010 respectively.

The Pope Convocation Center will be one of Wallace’s lasting legacies, second perhaps only to the medical school that bears his name. Until 2009, Campbell was home to one of the oldest, smallest and most obsolete basketball arenas in the nation. Not only did it lack proper air conditioning, Carter Gym was four feet too short by Division I basketball standards.

But the convocation center became more than just a basketball and volleyball arena. The facility came equipped with new locker rooms, administrative offices, weight rooms, classroom and lab space, and a lobby that doubled as Campbell’s Sports Hall of Fame. It also came with a state-of-the-art fitness center and a practice gym that was larger than Carter.

New brick and bluestone walkways and a few brick seating walls mark the recent renovations to Campbell's Academic Circle, considered the symbolic "center" of the campus. | Photo by Bill Parish

<< The Pope Convocation Center not only provided Campbell with a worthy Division I basketball arena, it became the home of graduation ceremonies, galas, award ceremonies, visitation days and much more. | Photo by Bill Parish

A DECADE OF CHANGEMajor construction and renovation projects at Campbell in last decade:• BobBarkerHall(2005)• MaddoxHall–Pharmacy(2007)• Barker-LaneStadium(2008)• JohnW.PopeJr.Convocationand

GilbertCraigGoreArena(2009)• RobertB.&AnnaGardnerButler

Chapel and Dinah Gore Bell Tower (2009)

• NormanAdrianWigginsSchoolofLaw–Raleigh(2009)

• ElizabethWellsFountain(2010)• McLambEnvironmentalScience

Center(2011)• IrwinBelkTrack(2012)• AmandaLittlejohnSoftballStadium

(2012)• LeonLevinHallofMedicalSciences

(2013)• JimPerryBaseballStadium(2013)• PatBarkerHall(2013)• W.IrvinWarrenAthleticCenter(2013)• CarlieC’sIGAPressTower(2013)• Majorfacilityrenovationsacross

campus:CarrieRichBuilding,D.RichBuilding,WigginsLibrary,LeslieCampbellScienceBuilding,McCallHall,MurrayHall,SmallHall

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“We knew we needed it for sports and graduation and event purposes, but we had no idea just how many purposes this building would serve,” Roberts says. “Special award ceremonies, visitation days, galas, dinners … you name it. Every now and then we have to take a break and let our teams practice in there.”

In addition to becoming an iconic image on campus — one that would add a popular bronze camel statue three years later — Pope served another important purpose for Campbell's campus. It was an edge. An entry point. It told people they were entering a college campus.

“Students were finally saying, ‘Wow … this is a university,’” Roberts says. “It’s a thrilling thing to have been a part of.”

The hits just kept coming with Butler Chapel and the Gore Bell Tower and the law school’s move to downtown Raleigh that same year. In 2013, Campbell cut the ribbon on the Leon Levine Hall of Medical Sciences and completely renovated Barker-Lane and Jim Perry stadiums. Between 2008 and 2013, the University spent more than $171.4 million on capital projects, nearly 20 times the amount spent during the entire decade of the ’90s ($9.3 million).

The construction crews have remained busy heading into Wallace’s final academic year as president. The repaving of Main Street and the addition of new sidewalks, curbs and gutters marks another cleaning up of an “edge” to campus, Roberts says. The entrances to D. Rich and Taylor Hall have received a facelift, and the academic circle is in the process of getting new seating walls, brick walkways and landscaping and a bronze university seal surrounded by bluestone granite. McCall Hall was next in line in terms of residence hall improvements, and the Science Building’s facade was completely redone to not only resemble other buildings on campus, but to also make way for new windows for more energy efficiency.

“We’re basically finishing up some of the projects Dr. Wallace wanted to see done before he’s done,” Roberts says. “We’re getting ourselves well positioned as we prepare for a new president.”

The Wallace-led projects will continue beyond his retirement next spring. A building to house

The2013-14athleticseason—thethirdforAthleticDirectorBobRolleratCampbell—wasonetoremember.ItbeganwiththechristeningofthenewlyrenovatedBarker-LaneStadium—nowconsideredoneofthetopFCSfootballstadiumsinthenation—andendedwithtwoprogramswinningaBigSouthConference title and advancing to national NCAAtournamentsforthefirsttimeinthe21st Century. Threestadiumsandarenasbrokesingle-game attendance records, with two ofthosegamesbroadcastonESPN3andESPNU.Thewrestlingprogramintroduced a former Olympian as its head coach. Wanda Watkins won her 500thcareervictoryasheadcoachofthewomen’s basketball program. Rollerattributesthesuccess(whichhesays will only get better and reach more programsinthecomingyears)tothecommitmentPresidentJerryWallaceandCampbell’s administration have made toward improving not only the products onthefield,butthefieldsthemselves.“MychallengeheremirrorsthechallengeIhadasADatSamfordUniversity15yearsago,”Rollersays.“Facilities,conferenceaffiliationandcoachingstaffs…allofthat needed to be looked at and in many cases, upgraded.”Upon his arrival, Campbell had just announceditsreaffiliationaftera17-yearabsencefromtheBigSouthConference,amoveRollersaidbenefitedthe University both athletically and competitively.Heturnedhissightsonthefacilities.ThePopeConvocationCenter—hometobasketball,volleyballandwrestling—wasbuilttwoyearsprior to his arrival in 2011, and 2012

saw the addition of a new track and the completion of renovations to Amanda LittlejohnStadium,hometothesoftballteam.ButBarker-LaneStadium,builtin2008,wasstill“woefullyunfinished”in2012 with a temporary white trailer and portable stands being used on the home sideofthefield.Upgradeswerealsoneeded for the baseball stadium, which wasfieldingateamonthevergeofanationalrankingin2012-13.“Our donors, alums and fans stepped upandgavegenerously,”Rollersaysofthenearly$50millionspentonfacilityupgrades in the last few years. “Today, we have some of the best facilities in ourconference.Nowwe’rebeginningconstruction on a new weight room … and another pending project is new locker roomsandofficesforthebaseballteam.”The new and improved stadiums attracted the national broadcasters, which in turn led to the record crowds. Football had itsbestattendancelastSeptemberwith6,044onhandforahomegameagainstCharlestonSouthern.ThenewlynamedJimPerryStadiumwitnessedacrowdof1,084inagameagainstconferencefoeGardner-WebbtelevisedonESPN3.ButthemomentthatstoodouttoRollerwasthepackedhouse—3,220orange-clad,sign-wavingfansinthe3,095-seatconvocationcenter—thatsawthemen’sbasketball team take on Coastal Carolina inagameshownnationallyonESPNU.“Itwasbeautiful,”hesays.“Itmakesyouwish you had that kind of crowd every night,butIthinkthat’scoming.Withthesize of our arena and the product we’re puttingoutthere,Icansee2,500to3,000 fans on a nightly basis. When that happens,it’sbeautifulandit’sloud.It’sthecomplete collegiate arena feel.”

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Campbell’s new nursing and physical therapy programs will be housed in the second facility on the Health Science Campus, next to the Levine Hall of Medical Sciences. The proposed three-story building will include approximately 22,000 square feet of lecture space, classrooms, nursing labs, labs with high-tech robotic simulators and Objective Structured Clinical Education suites. It will also be designed to “promote seamless interaction” between nursing students and the DO and physician assistant students housed at the med school.

Campbell’s new Greek organizations will have homes with the construction of new fraternity and sorority houses on Leslie Campbell Avenue, across from Bob Barker Hall. Current homes are being restructured to house 12 students each and will include meeting rooms and storage space. Long-term plans include new homes in that area.

A new admissions building is planned near the roundabout across from the convocation center, where the current public safety building sits.

The biggest project on the horizon is a new student center, one that will rival the convocation center in terms of size and popularity, according to Roberts.

While it’s not set in stone, plans have been drawn for the new center, which will provide a much-needed gathering space for students along Leslie Campbell Avenue, between the two roundabouts on the northern edge of the Academic Circle. Described as the campus’ “living room,” the student center will contain dining facilities, a grand ballroom, gaming room, fitness center, large and small study group rooms and spaces for student government, student publications and Greek Life. It will also be home to several

administrative departments, such as the office of the dean of students, Campus Ministries, Career Services, Student Development, Student Success, Residence Life, Student Life, Student Activities, Campus Recreation and Athletics.

“It’s unbelievably needed,” Roberts says. “It’s the one piece we’re missing, according to our students.”

Hammond says Campbell’s campus has finally earned the distinction of “collegiate.”

“We’ve always had great confidence in our academic programs, and this recent era of physical improvements has finally made us look on the outside how great we are academically,” he says. “We’re starting to look like what we are."

“The aim of becoming an even more inviting and attractive campus will guide the improvement,re-arrangementandadditionoffacilities,resultinginamoredefined,useful, safe and enjoyable campus environment for the university community.”

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THEN, NOW & NEXT | PROGRAMSTHEN: Under President Norman Wiggins, Campbell University built a reputation for having solid professional programs with the ambitious launch of a law school and pharmacy school in the ’70s and ’80s. President Jerry Wallace built on success of those schools with new health science programs beginning in 2011, highlighted by the launch of a medical school in 2013.NOW: Campbell is experiencing record enrollment heading into the 2014-15 school year, and much of that can be attributed to the strength of its health science programs. The new nursing program begins this year with 85 students enrolled in the pre-nursing seminar course, making it already the third-most popular major for incoming students. NEXT: The proposed engineering program could bring in a new niche of students starting in 2016, and hopes are that a successful undergraduate program will evolve into a school and a graduate program. Veterinary medicine, dental hygienist and optometry are but a few of the wish-list programs that could get a look in the next decade.

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Last spring, the founding director of Campbell’s new nursing program said she expected about 50 students in the fall looking to become the University’s first Bachelor of Science in Nursing graduates by 2018. When the numbers came in this summer, Nancy Duffy saw 85 names enrolled in the fall’s inaugural pre-nursing seminar course.

The program had arrived.

“I knew the numbers would eventually be substantial, but I did not anticipate this response so soon,” says Duffy, the former associate professor and director of undergraduate programs at the University of South Carolina’s College of Nursing. “I believe the community has been waiting for Campbell to add nursing to its degree programs, and students jumped at the opportunity. My hat is off to the admissions team for a remarkable recruitment effort.”

Nursing is the most recent in a suddenly long line of new health science programs at

Campbell over the last few years. The College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences introduced a Master of Physician Assistant Practice and a Master of Science in Public Health degree in 2011 and a Doctor of Physical Therapy last spring. These bookended the launch of North Carolina’s first medical school in over 35 years — the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine — in 2013.

Excitement has swirled around the nursing program since it was announced in 2013. The initial enrollment numbers prove it. Like the other recent programs — which include non-science majors such as homeland security and, coming in 2016, engineering — nursing was brought in not only to attract students, but to fill a need in the state and the regions. The U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics has estimated that the RN workforce needs to grow by 26 percent between 2010 and 2020. The Institute of Medicine also has the desire for 80 percent of the nursing workforce to be BSN-educated by 2020.

Hammond, who served as dean of the undergraduate College of Arts & Sciences before taking over as vice president of academic affairs and provost in 2013, says the two programs he was consistently asked about as dean by prospective students were nursing and engineering.

“We were asked about those two over and over again, and for a while, we didn’t have the answers they wanted to hear,” Hammond says. “Their response would be, ‘OK,’ and they’d leave. If you don’t have the programs, everything else about your school doesn’t matter.”

In Wallace’s inaugural presidential address — in the paragraph before his statement to revitalize the campus — he alluded to the need for programs like nursing, medicine and engineering: “Campbell will respond to the existing and developing needs of the region, state and nation by providing new undergraduate, graduate and professional programs that complement and extend Campbell’s mission.”

Eighty-five students signed up for Campbell University's first pre-nursing seminar this fall. Of the group, 77 are freshmen or first-year transfer students, making nursing already the third-most popular major for the Class of 2018. | Photo by Bill Parish

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In 2006, Campbell launched a study abroad program that has since offered hundreds of programs in more than 50 countries, offering students summer- and semester-long study, internship and service opportunities. The following year, Campbell’s law school announced it would move to downtown Raleigh, placing the school in the heart of the state’s legal system, allowing for countless opportunities for students.

The Lundy-Fetterman School of Business — home to the nation’s top trust and wealth management program — established the Gore Center for Student Leadership in 2008 to provide internship and service opportunities. The opening of Maddox Hall in 2009 allowed the pharmacy school to expand its course and lab offerings and set the table for the launch of the PA, public health and physical therapy programs.

These programs and initiatives were on Wallace’s mind well before his first day as president, says Vice President for Advancement and Admissions and Assistant to the President Britt Davis.

“Soon after he became president, he authorized feasibility studies for nursing and PA,” Davis says. “So they’ve been in the works for years. But he knew then that the construction of new facilities was the priority. Those had to come first to make room for his ambitious academic goals.”

The year 2009 was pivotal for Campbell, according to Hammond. The nation’s economy was in turmoil and the employment outlook

was dismal. It caused Campbell and other colleges and universities to “respond or evolve,” Hammond says, “or run the risk of perishing.”

“To evolve, you have to look at your academic programs,” he adds. “Dr. Wallace has been a great visionary and a great leader, and he’s very entrepreneurial. We haven’t been adding programs because we suddenly decided we needed a new program. We look at programs that will benefit the student and our school.”

The proposed engineering program, he says, will not only bring in students who wouldn’t have otherwise had Campbell in their Top 5 choices, it will fill a need in a state with a plethora of jobs in the field with the highest average income (engineering grads earn an average of $90,000 a year in North Carolina five years after graduation, according to a recent report).

“We won’t compete early on with giants like N.C. State, who have established engineering programs,” Hammond says. “But N.C. State easily fills its classes, and there are many more students in this state who are interested in engineering than what can be accommodated by the giants. There’s still a very good supply of students who want to be an engineer for a living.”

The undergraduate program will likely become its own school, Hammond says, with its own dean and its own new building. Establishing a solid undergraduate engineering program and earning accreditation comes first.

Campbell’s moves in the last five years alone

RECORD GROWTH FOR CAMPBELL'S HOME COUNTYIt’snocoincidencethatCampbellUniversity’s record incoming studentenrollmentfor2014comesatatimewhenHarnettCounty is leading the nation in growth for “micropolitan areas,” or areas with a smaller urban core of 10,000to50,000people.AccordingtoU.S.Censusdata,Harnett’spopulationgrewbymore than 10,300 people between 2010 and 2013. The county has grownby9percentsince2010.The growth has been attributed to the population boom near the city of Dunn and areas along the Interstate95corridor.ButStateRep.DavidLewis(R-Dunn),a1994graduateofCampbell, says his alma mater has played an important role in the county’s growth, and not just because more students are calling HarnettCountyhome.“Thenewdegreesandfieldsofstudy are helping to meet the needsofHarnettCountyand,morebroadly,NorthCarolina,”Lewis says. “Training health care professionals for service in underserved areas might be the most important educational endeavorofthenextgeneration.AndI’dberemissifIdidnotaddressCampbell’sexcellenceineducating and training members of our Armed Forces. Their proximitytoFortBraggandagrowing area of military families inwesternHarnettCountyallowsCampbell to educate our veterans and improve their quality of life.”Inreturn,hesays,Harnett’sgrowth has helped fuel Campbell’s growth with new hospitals and businesses that are employing Campbell students. “This symbiotic relationship developed rapidly over the past several years and will continue toexpandCampbell’sinfluenceas a leader in education and development while making HarnettCountymorevibrantandsuccessful,” Lewis says.

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The class of new undergraduate students enteringthe2014-15academicyearisnotonlya10-percentincreaseovertheprevious year, it’s the largest entering cohortinCampbell’s127-yearhistory.Theexpected1,185studentshailfrom38states and 12 countries.“I’vebeenatCampbellUniversityformorethan44years,andtheprideandexcitementoncampushasneverbeenhigher as we have opened a medical schoolandexpandedouracademicportfolio across the liberal arts, sciences and professions over the past several years,”saidCampbellPresidentJerryWallace,enteringhisfinalyearaspresident.“Thatprideandexcitementisbubblingover,andit’sreflectedintherecordnumberoffirst-yearundergraduates we have at Campbell.”ItwasthefruitsofWallace’smasterplan—newprograms,astrongerfocusonthehealth sciences and a revitalized campus —thatledtotheincreasedenrollment,accordingtoJasonHall,assistantvicepresident for admissions.“It’stheprograms,firstandforemost,”saysHall,whotookoverAdmissionsin2008.“Nursingwasbigforusthisyearwith85deposits,agreatnumberforaprograminitsfirstyear.Butit’snotjusthealthsciences—homelandsecuritycontinues to grow, and our trust and wealth management program doubled its deposits over the previous year. Campbell itself is becoming more of a household nameinNorthCarolina,andthat’sduein large part to these additions. The med school,thelawschool’smovetoRaleigh,theadditionoffootball—itabsolutelygets our name out there.”Whilethenumberofout-of-statestudentscontinues to grow, Campbell’s bread and butter remains the students from

NorthCarolina.Eighty-twopercentoftheincomingclassarein-statestudents,representing83ofthestate’s100counties. Campbell has become the top private universityorcollegeinNorthCarolinaforitsnumberofin-statestudents,bestingschools like Duke, Wake Forest, Elon and HighPoint.VicePresidentforAcademicAffairsandProvostMarkHammondsayshehasnoticed more interest in Campbell from the local high schools like Triton, where hischildrenattended(allfourbecameCampbell students with the fourth enrollingthisfall).“Campbell is getting more valedictorian and salutatorians from these schools,” Hammondsays.“I’ddirectlyattributethe local interest to the med school and theseothernewprograms.It’sgettingtheattention of students who may not have otherwise looked our way. Our prestige andreputationhavegoneup.I’veheardthem say, ‘Wow, if Campbell is good enough for a medical school, it’s good enough for me.’”The quality of student is getting better, too.TheaveragehighschoolGPAfortheClassof2018is3.86,anincreasefromthepreviousyear’s3.77.TheACTcompositescoreof22topstheNorthCarolina average by about three points.“Our admissions team worked hard to assemble one of the strongest entering cohorts in the university’s history,” says Hall.“We’rehappyabouttherecordenrollment, but we’re even more thrilled with the quality of this group of incoming students.Theyarediverse,well-prepared,and share the university’s vision to be of service to others.”

have also firmly established its reputation as a health sciences school. Hammond says that reputation began in the early ’90s with the creation of the pharmacy school and the early classes’ performance on national board exams. That success paved the way for the medical school, which Wallace called “one of the most important steps ever taken at Campbell University” in 2010 after the Board of Trustees approved the decision to launch it.

Of the Top 10 majors listed by the record-breaking incoming freshmen class in 2014, five are health sciences related, including the top three — pre-pharmacy, biology pre-professional and nursing.

“We have worked hard to differentiate ourselves in the marketplace,” says Davis. “You can get an English degree at 51 different four-year universities in this state, but what do we have that sets us apart? Few others have a medical school, a PA school or a pharmacy school. Few have trust and wealth management, PGA Golf Management or homeland security. Those are just a few examples. Differentiation is the name of the game.”

The future of Campbell is bright, though somewhat uncertain. The search has begun for Wallace’s successor, expected to take office in 2015. Hammond says the University will continue to “stay ahead of the curve” with programs, and he’s already begun a wish-list of programs he hopes get a solid look in the next decade.

“We should be looking at veterinary medicine, a dental school, optometry — they may not be a good fit for us, but they deserve a look,” Hammond says. “They’re all great programs that are needed in North Carolina. We owe it to ourselves to consider them.”

Davis says that while Campbell is keeping its eye on the competition, it’s not striving to be like other schools.

“We’re striving to be who we are,” he says. “I know we’re building a reputation in the health sciences, in law, in business, in divinity and hopefully in engineering in the years to come. But our vision remains to become a first-choice institution for the young people of North Carolina who want to study in the disciplines where we have expertise.”

— Cherry Crayton and Britt Davis contributed to this report

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THE NEW REALITYCampbell University’s launch of a new online degree program comes at a time when almost half of all undergraduate students are older than 22 and juggling work, marriage, family and school.

By Billy Liggett


The stars had surely aligned for Paul Stewart.

It was 2004 — eight years after the Milwaukee Brewers made his dream come true by taking him in the 1996 Major League Baseball draft in the sixth round — and after a steady climb to the Triple-A level, Stewart was returning to the Triangle for a stint with the Durham Bulls. One year prior, he could smell the big leagues, pitching well for the Red Sox’ Triple-A team in Pawtucket, but he was ultimately passed up during the all-important September call-ups.

But Durham would be different. A native of Garner, where he excelled in both baseball and basketball at Garner High School in the mid-’90s, Stewart was coming home at the perfect time. He and his wife were expecting their first child, they were talking about buying a home, and Durham felt like the perfect springboard for the 26-year-old’s debut on the big stage.

This time though, life tossed him the curveball. That spring, Stewart couldn’t find his rhythm. He couldn’t get anybody out. And come the start of the 2004 season, he was cut by the Durham Bulls.

“My pitching coach called me the night before the final cuts and asked, ‘Stew … what do you have planned if baseball doesn’t work out?’” Stewart recalls. “I said, ‘Nothing. I was kinda hoping to do this for a while.’”

Durham didn’t mark the end of Stewart’s dream — he pitched two more seasons of Double-A and Triple-A ball for the Brewers and Pirates before hanging up his cleats at the end of the 2005 season. But his getting cut did mark the beginning of his thinking about life after baseball.

He tried his hand at sales. Tall, good-looking and personable, Stewart thought he could walk into most businesses and come away with a job. He was right about one thing — interviewers did love him. They just weren’t hiring him.

“They’d say, ‘We love you, we love you, but if it comes down to you and the next guy, and the next guy has a college degree, then management won’t fault me if I hire him,’” Stewart says. “If they went with me, it was more of a risk to them. So without that degree, doors were shutting in my face.”

That fall, he enrolled at North Carolina State

University — the same school that heavily recruited him to play baseball out of high school before he opted for the pros — and found himself taking 100-level courses with 18-year-olds … a “humbling experience.” He soon learned about Campbell University’s Research Triangle Park campus and its program that was more suited for working adults. Classes there started at 5:15 p.m. and ended at 10, full semesters lasted eight weeks and many of their classes were offered online.

“It really fit me a whole lot better,” says Stewart, today a 2012 graduate of Campbell University with a degree in business administration. “And I did as much as I possibly could through online classes. We’d had our second child by then, and I remember doing homework on my laptop from the hospital. That was a big part of the lure — I could get my kids in bed, go downstairs and do the work. Or if I was having a slow day at my job, I could knock out an assignment there.”

Not long after Stewart earned his degree, Campbell University announced the launch of its first set of online degrees. Campbell had offered online courses for 15 years up until

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then, but the announcement meant complete degrees could be earned from the comfort of one’s home. Before, students like Stewart could only take up to 49 percent of their courses online.

The new, fully-online degree programs that will be offered through Campbell Online this fall are the Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice, Bachelor of Arts in Religion, Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Security, Bachelor of Science in Information Management, Bachelor of Business Administration, and Master of Science in Clinical Research.

Campbell also started offering online certificate programs. The first concentration is in Christian Studies, with other certificate concentrations expected to include organizational management and accounting in the near future. These certificates are designed to be add-ons for professionals or as entry points for individuals interested in pursuing a college degree.

“The goal is to better serve our students,” says John Roberson, Campbell’s dean of extended programs. “Moving to online education is a strategic decision positioning the

University for growth and the development of new educational opportunities to meet the evolving needs of traditional and nontraditional students.”

Stewart earned his degree at Campbell in five years. Today, he is a virtual sales account manager with Cisco, a Fortune 500 company. The office he works in is located one floor up from one of the businesses that turned him down prior to his degree. Stewart finds comfort in that.

“I knew going in that Campbell would do everything in their power to help me,” he says, talking as he helps his son, the youngest of three children, pour a bowl of Cheerios. “The blended online program was great for me. I’m thrilled they’re going completely online.”

Associate of Art ProgramsCampbell’s associate programs are designedtoassistfirst-timeadultstudents with their educational goals and help with their transition into their careers. To qualify for an associate program, the student must be either active duty military or have been out of high school for a minimum of four semesters.AA Criminal JusticeAA General EducationAA Business ConcentrationAA InformationTechnology

ManagementAA InformationTechnologySecurityAA ReligionAS BehavioralScience

Bachelor ProgramsBBA Business AdministrationBA Criminal JusticeBA ReligionBS PsychologyBS I.T.ManagementBS I.T.Security

Bachelor of Applied Science ProgramsThe bachelor of applied science programs are designed to help students that have already completed their associate of applied science or militaryMOSwithaminimumof10semester hours.BAS Concentration in BusinessBAS Concentration in Clinical

Research(comingsoon)BAS Concentration in Criminal

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Paul Stewart pitching for the Altoona Curve (above) in 2005 and with his daughter in his backyard in 2014 | Top photo courtesy of the Altoona Curve, right photo by Billy Liggett


Kids are in bed, time for schoolIt was life as a military wife that put an extended pause on Stacy Bluhm’s college career.

She was about a year into life as a traditional college student when her boyfriend — now her husband — was in the military and transferred a few states away. In 2009, she returned to school in Pennsylvania to pick up an associate’s degree in business administration, but full-time employment and eventually the birth of the couple’s daughter (born in 2012) kept Bluhm from returning to school to pick up a four-year degree.

“My associate’s degree landed me a job [with Fortune 500 company United Services Automobile Association], but in order to climb in this career or in most cases find something along the same lines, I discovered I really needed to get a bachelor’s degree,” Bluhm says. “That four-year degree sets you apart in this field. It opens up a lot of opportunities.”

USAA offers its employees assistance with higher education, so Bluhm, who now lives in Jacksonville, N.C., didn’t want to let an opportunity pass her by. She considered returning to the “traditional route,” but the more she learned about Campbell — which has a campus at Camp Lejeune just minutes from her house — and its new online degree program, the more that seemed like a better fit.

“I’m the kind of person who likes to get things done at night,” says Bluhm, who started taking classes with Campbell in February. “It’s easier for me to do my work after I’ve worked, cooked dinner and put my daughter to bed. It’s the only time of my day that’s nice and quiet.”

Bluhm shares the same mindset with the nearly 80 new students who are taking part in Campbell’s new online degree program this fall. The average age of those students is 31 (Bluhm is in her late 20s), and they hail from 16 different states. Campbell’s Extended Programs department received a total of 442 inquiries about the program and received nearly 300 applications. Those numbers are expected to climb with each upcoming semester, says Roberson.

“The stereotypical image of the undergraduate student being 18 to 22 years old, living in a residence hall, eating in the cafeteria and attending classes in columned buildings is being challenged by a new reality,” he says. “The

new reality is almost half of all undergraduates are older than 22 years and are nonresidential students. As many nontraditional students are juggling the responsibilities of work, marriage, family and school, they prefer the convenience of online learning. Campbell is embracing this new reality.”

Campbell established its extended program office in 1976 when it opened a campus on Fort Bragg and began offering online classes in 1999. While the number of students in the new degree program is relatively low, hundreds of students take at least one online course at Campbell each semester. Extended Programs enrolls nearly 1,400 students through both its online offerings and its physical campuses at RTP and on the military bases at Camp Lejeune, New River Air Station, Fort Bragg and Pope Army Airfield.

According to Katherine Spradley, director of Campbell University Online, the majority of

online students are male, and many of them are either in the military, are married to somebody in the military or have a military background. In addition to business — both Stewart’s and Bluhm’s major — popular areas of study include criminal justice, homeland security and information technology.

“Many of our online students are active duty or veterans working toward meeting the requirements to gain rank in the military,” Spradley says. “And they tend to have higher GPAs on average. When you’re paying for your own education and relying less on mom and dad to foot the bill, you typically have a more mature and vested student.”

Professor David Wulff teaches criminal justice, homeland security and other courses online, and many of his students are military, which means their schedules can be tricky.

“It’s not uncommon to get an email from a

“The new reality is almost half of all undergraduates are older than 22 years and are nonresidential students. As many nontraditional students are juggling the responsibilities of work, marriage, family and school, they prefer the convenience of online learning. Campbell is embracing this new reality.”

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student in Afghanistan who says they’ll be in the field the next five days, so an assignment may be late,” Wulff says. “Well of course it’s going to be late. I respond back, saying they’re getting shot at and protecting me … sure, they can be late on their work.”

Campbell’s strategy isn’t to become a mega online university that has hundreds of degree programs and enrolls tens of thousands of online students. Roberson says he wants class sizes to be small enough to allow proper professor-to-student communication — the same dynamic universities strive for in the “traditional” classroom. But new programs are on the horizon.

Meeting the growing demand for working adults led the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences’ Department of Clinical Research to move toward a completely online program for its Master of Science in Clinical Research degree. And Roberson says he anticipates Campbell will add an online Master of Business Administration program as early as spring 2015. Other expected degree programs include a Bachelor of Applied Science in Clinical Research and an RN to BSN program, which allows registered nurses to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

As she approaches her fall workload, Bluhm says she “really loves” Campbell’s online set-up. She had her worries that she wouldn’t be challenged or learn as much as she would from a person-to-person classroom setting, but

those doubts have been erased.

“It’s been more challenging, in fact,” she says. “But in a good way. Once you get your routine down, it gets easier. And I like that you can still ‘raise your hand’ and express your opinions like you can in a face-to-face classroom. I still talk with my classmates online. I still get to ask questions … it’s just done in a different way.”

No longer the wild, wild WestTrey Asbury’s students have included a medic in Afghanistan, a social worker in Japan and an occupational therapist in California.

Asbury, who came to Campbell in 2001 as an assistant professor of psychology and developed Campbell’s first online psychology course, moved to Texas in 2007 and has taught Campbell students online ever since.

That’s the beauty of online classes.

“The diversity can make for very interesting and educational conversations or threads on discussion board forums,” says Asbury, who lives in Fort Worth. “While these discussions are not unique to the online environment, I believe students are generally more open as they feel more inconspicuous online.”

Asbury is one of about 65 Campbell

University Online faculty members, all of whom have earned at least a master’s degree, with nearly half holding a doctoral degree. According to Spradley, Campbell’s online faculty members are also gainfully employed in their fields of expertise and design their own courses.

“Adult students want a theorist who can design a class and engage the students by saying, ‘When I was doing this today, here is what transpired,’” Spradley said. “It’s the application and engagement piece each student seeks that our faculty provide.”

They also want an instructor who’s well prepared and understands what it takes to be an effective online professor. Asbury has completed several training programs for online educators and most recently completed an advanced course in Blackboard — the site Campbell uses to deliver its online course offerings — offered via Campbell’s Department of Online Education. He’s also taught online for Kaplan and Texas Christian University, with the Kaplan job requiring an additional 20 hours of training.

“There certainly is a lot more preparation for posting online content,” he says. “Podcasting alone can be very time-consuming.”

Asbury says he spends a ratio of about 60 minutes of prep to 10 minutes of product for a video podcast. This isn’t a problem for courses where the content remains relatively stable, he says, like a history or theories course, as the

“WhenIfirstbeganteachingonlinein2002,itwaslikethewild,wildWest.There were no rules, and I suspect most of us didn’t really know what we were doing. Content requirements have been ramped up over the last few years as we strive to meet standards of accreditation bodies.”

— Campbell Online psychology professor Trey Asbury

Campbell’s DECIDE gets licensedTheDECIDEQualityCertificationRubricusedto guide Campbell University’s development and evaluation of all blended and online courses has been licensed.“DECIDEcertificationsignifiesthatthequalityand rigor of Campbell University Online programs and courses are second to none,” saidKatherineSpradley,directorofCampbellUniversity Online. “The process, which is

included in the university’s Basic Blackboard Training course, ensures consistency across multiple delivery channels including online and blended formats by incorporating a peer review process, mentorship and academic department communication.”FirstdevelopedbyCampbellin2004,theDECIDErubricgrewoutofadevelopmentreview process. That review process included

a checklist of items required by the university and considered to be among best practices in online education. The acronym stands for the Development EvaluationofCourseIntegrityandDesignElements.Campbell University Online is currently discussingtheadoptionofDECIDEwithatleast two other institutions.


video can be recycled to other classes. However, most of the topics he covers deals with dynamic content and research findings.

“When I first began teaching online in 2002, it was like the wild, wild West,” he says. “There were no rules, and I suspect most of us didn’t really know what we were doing. The typical course involved posting exam and, review outlines, and having a few discussion board forums. Content requirements have been ramped up over the last few years as we strive to meet standards of accreditation bodies. While meeting these standards are rigorous, I believe it has made instructors a lot more accountable for the way they design and run their courses, and ultimately a better experience for the students.”

Wulff, who has been teaching online for two years after coming to Campbell in 2010, says the biggest difference between teaching online and in a classroom setting is being available at all hours of the day, all days of the week.

“You must be responsive,” he says. “One of the biggest frustrations for students is not having an instructor who responds in a timely manner. They can have a project due Wednesday and have a question on Monday, but it does them no good if the instructor doesn’t respond until Friday.”

Wulff says he tries to respond to emails the same day, within an hour if possible. He’s used to getting emails at 10 p.m. and later, and often, he’ll send responses well into the night.

“I know they have to appreciate that kind of thing,” he says. “It has to help them feel like they’re not alone out there.”

Testimonies like that are music to the ears of Roberson, who was tasked with launching the new online program when he took over Extended Programs in 2013. He says his faculty and staff have been “amazing” in their driven, dedicated efforts to produce a quality program.

And “produce” is a key word. While online courses have been available at Campbell since the late ’90s, launching a degree program has been as much of a challenge as launching a school.

“For all practical purposes, we are birthing a school,” Roberson says. “We have an admissions system and admissions procedures to construct, financial aid and veteran affairs processes to build, and student and academic support programs to create and launch. It’s a new and exciting opportunity for Campbell.”

— Cherry Crayton contributed to this report

Did you know?• In2011,therewereapproximately21millioncollegestudentsand

about6.7million(32percent)weretakingatleastoneonlinecourse.The growth rate of online enrollment continues to grow, while classroom enrollmentsawitsfirstdeclinein2011afteryearsofsteadygrowth.

• Roughlyone-thirdofonlineundergraduatestudentsareofthetraditionalcollegeage(18-24).

• Accordingtoarecentsurvey,44percentofonlinegraduatesimprovedtheiremploymentstanding(byobtainingafirst-time,full-timeornewjob)and45percentreceivedasalaryincreaseorpromotionwithin12months of their graduation date.

• Thelargestproportionofundergraduatestudentsenrolledinonlinedegreeprogramsoverwhelminglystudybusiness.Socialsciencesandthefieldsofscience,technology,engineeringandmath(STEMcourses)arenext,attractingone-thirdofonlinelearners.Thebreakdown:

36%—Business 17%—SocialSciences 16%—STEM 14%—Health-relatedprofessions 11%—Humanities,liberalarts 5%—Education 2%—OtherSource: “Online College Students 2013: Comprehensive Data on Demands and Preferences,” The Learning House Inc. and Aslanian Market Research

Frequently Asked QuestionsHow do online courses work? Campbell Online courses are hosted throughtheBlackboardLearningManagementSystem,whichallowsfrequent interaction with the professor. Courses are asynchronous, meaning students can participate in the class at the time most convenient for them, as long as they are meeting the deadlines set forth by the professor.

How often do I need to get online? ItisrecommendedthatstudentscheckannouncementsintheircoursedailyandcheckCampbell-issuedemail daily. The Blackboard Mobile Learn app for mobile devices also offersnotificationsforannouncementsandgradepostings,whichcanhelp students stay on top of their course load. On average students shouldexpecttospendbetween10and15hoursperweekperclassincluding reading and online assignments.

Will I get the same information as a traditional course in my online course? Absolutely! Online courses are modeled after traditional courses. The faculty members teaching online courses work to develop the courses with the traditional faculty. The content in the online courses will be just aschallengingandexcitingasatraditionalcourse.Facultymembersalsoreceive regular professional development to ensure that Campbell has the bestfacultyinthefield.

How long does it take to earn my degree? The time it takes to complete a degree is dependent upon how many credit hours students transfer in and the program they choose. Campbell Online accepts transfer credits from accredited community colleges, colleges, universities and themilitary.StudentscanalsoearncreditthroughtheCollegeLevelExaminationProgram,theSubjectExaminationsoftheDefenseActivityforNon-TraditionalEducationSubjects,theexaminationsoftheUnitedStatesArmedForcesInstitute,theAdvancedPlacementexaminationoftheCollegeEntranceExaminationsBoard,InternationalBaccalaureate,or any other standardized test approved and accepted by the American Council on Education and documented in the ACE Guide to the Evaluation ofEducationalExperiencesintheArmedServices).

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The Christian hip-hop artist talks about his campaign to empower youth: NERD.By Cherry Crayton

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It’s OK to call Ernest “Applexjaxx” Owens (’04) a “nerd.” In fact, he’d prefer if you did, because to be a “nerd” means to be a

lifelong learner, or one who embraces “never-ending research and development.”

That’s what Owens has set out to do, he says, and that’s what he hopes to encourage others, especially youth, to do, too.

The myriad of ways in which he’s trying to do that parallels the lifestyle brand company he founded, Fadacy. It’s built on three initiatives – music, education, and faith – each of which are outlets to “inspire others to use their gifts to be positive agents of change,” he says.

MUSIC: Owens is a Christian hip-hop artist who performs under the name “Applejaxx.” One year after graduating from Campbell University with a degree in computer information systems, he released in 2005 his first EP, “805 P.O.P.” His first full album, “Back 2 The Future,” followed in 2009 and a second album, “Organic,” in 2012. Billboard Magazine took notice, calling “Applejaxx” “one of hip-hop’s up and comers.” His third album, “Jesus High 2,” drops this year. An EP sampler he released in 2013 ("NERD Power") is a prelude to another full-length album he’s currently working on called “NERDS.”

EDUCATION: Owens is pursuing graduate degrees in legal studies and religion at Harvard University, where he also works full time at Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice. He helps organize events and promote the institute’s efforts to raise awareness about racial and social justice issues. A few years into working at Harvard, he began thinking about ways to add a youth component to the institute’s work. The result, unveiled during a talk he gave at the Harvard Law School last year, was the launching of the NERD project. Aimed to help get others comfortable with being a “nerd,” the project includes several video series, educational articles, a speaker series, and music.

FAITH: Owens and his wife, Trinidad, serve as youth pastors at the Empowerment Christian Church in Boston, Mass. In addition, even when recording and performing as “Applejaxx,” Owens considers himself a minister, not a musician, first. “I’m inspired by Jesus, and his life is my model,” he says. “The foundation of my music, and my life, is rooted in scripture.”

Owens spoke recently about his music, his NERD project, and how Campbell influenced both. The following is an edited transcript.

Where did the name “Applejaxx” come from?

People always ask me if AppleJacks is my favorite cereal. No, it isn’t. The name was inspired by scripture. Jesus said if you abide by him, you’ll bear good fruit. So that’s for the “apple.” Jaxx is like taking one thing from another. In Mark 1, Jesus called us to put the nets down and become a fisher of men. Put the two together, and you get “Applejaxx.”

How did you get interested in music?My mom said when I was small I would pull the pots out of the cabinets and beat on the pots as if they were drums. I had a drum set when I was younger, too, and played drums in the church. In middle school, I took a keyboard class and learned how to play Mozart and a lot of classical music. But I wanted to be a basketball player. My freshman year at Campbell, I tore my ACL. I’m 5-10 and have a bad knee; I realized then there was no way I’ll be able to play in the pros.

That freshman year, around that same time, there was a talent show. A few of my friends said we should do it. I said, “I don’t have any raps.” But that’s how it began. I started free-styling around campus and performing at open mic nights and at CUW. That ACL injury led me to rapping all over campus about my life.

How did you become a recording artist?I was interested in bringing more hip-hop to Campbell, so I was promoting concerts and bringing smaller shows to the university. One of the artists I brought in flew me out to San Diego to start recording. So a small conservation from a small concert at Campbell led to my first recording and to me actually pursuing music as an artist.

Why did you decide to pursue it?It was the way everything came together. It had to be divine intervention. When I went out to San Diego to record, others said, “You don’t sound like anyone.” They helped me see that I have a gift. I also have this internal desire to communicate stories through music.


What do you hope listeners take-away from your music?

I hope they hear my story. That I’m a rich kid, poor kid. I’m rich in knowledge and love and rich in understanding and grace, but I come from the poorest conditions. I grew up with a landfill behind my house. I didn’t really have new clothes, new Jordans, new phones. I was just a kid trying to live the ACE life. ACE stands for All Christ Everything.

Your most recent EP is “NERD Power.” What do you mean by that phrase?

NERD Power is the power to be in your flow. Flow is your style, your gifts, and the way you dress, the way you act, what you post on Twitter, what you like on Facebook. NERD Power is the power to do those things. It’s the strength to be different and to endure being an outsider in a world that wants you to conform. It’s what you need to be a “NERD.”

What do you mean by “NERD”?“NERD” stands for never-ending research and development. That means we’re always learning and growing and we’re always students. I want people to have a new perspective on the word and on education. In schools, nerds are the kids who are outsiders or the outcasts. Where I come from, you mostly see drug dealers or people doing illegal activity. I want to encourage kids to pursue other opportunities instead of a gang life or a drug life. I want others to see that nerds are the cool kids, and they are the world-changers.

Where did your idea for this “NERD” concept come from?

I work at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at the Harvard Law School. Our job is to essentially bring awareness to race and justice issues and host events and deliver resources so people can have the tools to combat racism and bring justice to all. I wanted to start something at the organization to empower youth. I’m a youth pastor, and I work with youth every week. I have met a vast number of kids who have no direction on education and their future. My desire is to inspire them to want to be great and to pursue their dreams and to make a difference. They just have to have the right education.

So I was sitting down and thinking about ways we could add a youth component to our work, and I was thinking of things that some kids don’t think is cool. One of those things is a nerd. I stuck with that and decided on the acronym. Last year I was able to deliver a speech at Harvard Law School to launch the whole NERD movement.

What does the NERD project entail?The music is the promotion of the whole brand, but the project is multi-faceted. It also entails educational articles, events, speaker series, and video series. There are videos of “Five Things I Never Learned in High School,” for example, in which I talk about everything from student loans to life skills. There is also a video series on the “Confessions of a NERD” in which I make different confessions, like I don’t smoke, I’m not a gangster, I’ve never sold drugs, I love going to the library, I drink Starbucks coffee.

This fall and spring, at the Harvard Law School, we’re bringing in our first speakers as part of a NERD speaker series. Potential speakers are J Cole, a rapper associated with

Jay-Z who graduated magnum cum laude from St. John’s University, and Johnny Cupcakes, a local brand in Boston who is world-renowned and also has shops in California and the UK. We’re looking to bring in successful folks from different arenas to encourage others and to reinforce that being a nerd is cool and that we’re all geniuses. Every person is a genius; you just have to figure out what you’re a genius in.

Whatledyoutowanttohelpothersfindwhat they’re a genius in?

Middle school was a genesis moment for me. I was the class president; and during that time, I realized that if you’re an athlete or a class president, you can inspire people to do things, good or bad. I wanted to inspire others to do good. Since that time, I’ve always wanted to help others work through their faults and their struggles to be what they want to be. Also, I had a nice community of folks who mentored me and helped me see that life is more than just what you can get; it’s about how much you can give.

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Who has inspired you?Inspirations came from a lot of people including my mother and father and my pastors. There was a teacher, too, Ms. Zelenski, who was very instrumental in who I am today. My family moved from North Carolina to Connecticut when I was in middle school. At first, I was kind of a rough kid, and Ms. Zelenski took me in and said, “No, no, you’re not going to do this.” She mentored me and helped me to see that I could be more than just a statistic.

And, there’s the story of Jesus, from his birth to living to being rejected to his legacy. He offers the most inspiring, amazing story.

Has your work at Harvard Law School influencedyourmusic?

Definitely. The cool thing about it is that I’m able to work by day and do music by night. In addition, I’m able to take classes and pursue a master’s degree. I’ve been able to take a lot of diverse classes, from topics on world poverty to intellectual property to social media and marketing; and I’ve been able to connect with a variety of people who can help with my music career. But more than that, being at Harvard has allowed me to organize my life so I can focus on achieving my goals instead of just talking about them.

What are your goals?One, I want to finish the master’s degree I started at Harvard. Second, I have a

company known as Fadacy. It’s a lifestyle brand built on three initiatives: faith, education, and music. All Christ Everything is the faith portion, NERD power is the education portion, and the music is the music, of course. All three initiatives are focused on inspiring people to action. I want to grow this Fadacy brand. On the music side, I want to build on what we’re doing and get to the point where I’m able to tour and deliver music that people can dance to.

What’s keeping you motivated to achieve those goals?

My fuel is the passion to be successful so I can help others be successful. There are things I never knew growing up. I wished I had known more about student loans, for example. So I want to be able to deliver this information to an audience that was like me. They may know certain things about how to be successful, but maybe they need a little more guidance. People say follow your dreams, but following your dreams is too abstract if you don’t know what that looks like. So I not only want to inspire others; I want people to see what they can do and could be doing.

When people hear the name “Applejaxx,” what do you hope they would think of?

That it’s a brand good for the soul. That it’s 100 percent organic with no fats or added sugar. That it’s good music, good encouragement, and good things that encourage others to pursue their dreams.

ERNEST “APPLEJAXX” OWENS ’04THEN: A computer information systems major who was active in the Student Government Association, including serving terms as the junior class president and the senior class president.

NOW: A Christian hip-hop artist, the founder of Fadacy, a graduate student at Harvard University, a youth pastor at Empowerment Christian Church in Boston, and a staff assistant at Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice.

WHY I CHOSE CAMPBELL: My senior year of high school I met an assistant basketball coach at Campbell during an AAU tournament. Campbell didn’t have any more scholarships, but the coach said, “If you come, you can try to walk on.” My hope, honestly, was to try to walk on to the basketball team. That didn’t work out, because I tore my ACL my freshman year, but that’s what led me to Campbell. I always liked the university. I went to a basketball camp there when I was in high school.

WHAT I LEARNED AT CAMPBELL: I learned a lot about relationships and life skills and the things that are necessary to be successful. The biggest thing, though, was that you can’t be upset by the results you didn’t get with the work you didn’t do. You have to be a person that’s going to make it happen to get the results you want.

SOME OF MY FAVORITE CAMPBELL MEMORIES: Marshbanks’ chicken tenders. We always wanted to go lunch for the chicken tenders. Also, being in the Student Government Association was difficult but fun. And I was one of the founding members of CIA, or Christians in Action. Being part of that, the lunches, the classes, and just having my own apartment were memorable.

WHY I’M CAMPBELL PROUD: It’s simple, but just the experiences I had by being at Campbell – of going to classes, the relationships, the rules, Marshbanks, everything. I still talk about my experiences at Campbell all the time in my songs and with my friends. Being able to say that I went there makes me Campbell Proud.


Like Christian hip-hop artist Ernest “Applejaxx” Owens (’04), Campbell University pharmacy student Alexander Flowers (’14 MSCR) wants to change people’s perceptions of “nerds.”

That’s why he and his sister, Latoya, are making a documentary entitled “Nerds” that profiles four African American men who have embraced the label.

“‘Nerd’ usually has a derogatory meaning behind it,” Flowers said. When he was growing up on the South Side of Chicago, being called a “nerd was another way of telling someone, you are trying to act white, proper and better than everyone else,” he added. “We want to change that perception, particularly for African American young men. We can do that by showing other minority young men that it’s OK to be original and to embrace being themselves.”

Among the four men to be featured in “Nerds” are Timothy Jackson, a B.A.M (Becoming A Man) youth program counselor in Chicago; Angelo Townsend, a barber who mentored Flowers in Chicago; and Owens, whose third album, “Jesus High 2,” drops this year and who launched the youth empowerment campaign NERD last year. “They may not be names you hear every day, but they are individuals giving back to the African American community,” said Flowers, a fan of Owens’ music who reached out to the hip-hop artist when he learned of their connection to Campbell. “They are men who are comfortable with whom God created them to be.”

The fourth person to be profiled in “Nerds”? Flowers.

He has always been interested in the sciences, but he doubted whether he was smart enough to pursue a science career, largely because he struggled with standardized tests. “Where I am from, African American boys are geared more toward sports and music careers and not necessarily STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers, except kids who realize their ability and have mentors cultivating their potential,” Flowers said. “You have to have

the right support system and their willingness to show you that you are capable of being successful in STEM courses.”

He had that, he said. His father often took him to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and bought him his first chemistry set. His mother worked in a hospital and helped him prepare for science fair competitions. And an elementary school teacher once said to him: “Don’t you want to be a doctor like Dr. Huxtable on The Cosby Show?”

All of that was encouraged, he said. When he was a biology and chemistry major at Saint Xavier University in Chicago, he completed summer research programs at Northwestern University, Nebraska and the University of Tennessee at Memphis. His hope was to show graduate programs he was capableof advanced STEM studies despite his standarized test scores.

After graduating from Saint Xavier in 2004, he served as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, University of Chicago, and Environmental Protection Agency. He later completed a master’s in biotechnology and chemical science from Roosevelt University before enrolling at Campbell in 2011 to pursue a Master of Science in Clinical Research and a Doctor of Pharmacy.

At Campbell, he’s working with Emily Bloom, the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences’ director of science outreach, and Ronnie Chapman, director of CPHS’ Retention and Recruitment Committee, to develop a summer program called BrainSTEM that introduces minority students in middle and high school to STEM careers through hip-hop music.

He’s also starting a chapter of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS). He co-founded other NSCS chapters at Saint Xavier and Roosevelt, where, through one of the organization’s programs, PACE, he mentored elementary and high school students. “Mentoring is needed to get more African Americans into higher education and STEM fields,” said Flowers, who’s interested in a career

in clinical pharmacogenomics research, and who spent this past summer in Philadelphia working in the research lab of Dr. Carl June, director of translational medicine at the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center. “I want to play a role in showing kids there are other fascinating career opportunities possible for them to achieve too.”

All the while, Flowers has continued to work with his sister on “Nerds.” They interviewed Jackson, the youth program counselor, earlier this year for a short segment for the Storyhunters POV/PBS “American Promise” series that aired during Black Achievement Week last February. Since then, they have filmed segments of Townsend’s story in Chicago and plan to film Owens’ story. Owens was also in Buies Creek this past August to shoot segments for “Nerds,” which will open with his song “NERD Power” when completed.

“We want to show everyone has special talents and unique God-given gifts; you just don’t always recognize it,” Flowers said. “But when you do, that’s when you realize you are a nerd, too.”

THE NERD MOVEMENT, FROM CHICAGO TO BUIES CREEK

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Naomi Hinson (left) and Ester Howard (center) stand in front of Treat Dormitory with their roommate Mary Alice Stevenson in 1942. Photo courtesy of Naomi Hinson


In the same dining hall where they shared many meals as college roommates over 70 years ago, Ester Howard and Naomi

Hinson are talking about boys.

Today it’s Naomi sharing the story of how she met her husband, Edgar, on the Sunday before she went to Campbell and just weeks before he’d ship off to fight in World War II. She was actually dating Edgar’s cousin, but the two became pen pals as he wrote her from a warship in the Pacific.

“And I kept writing him even after I decided his cousin wasn’t the one for me,” she recalls, smiling warmly, not paying much attention to what remains of her salad.

“Well, I didn’t know you knew Edgar in college,” Ester chimes in with a hint of surprise in her voice. “How about that … Naomi was in love, and I didn’t even know it.

“Of course,” she adds, “boys didn’t matter to me too much at the time. I was here to get an education. Not a husband.”

The two friends share a laugh and for a moment, it’s 1942 again. Ester and Naomi are freshmen at Campbell College, a small liberal

arts school surrounded by tobacco and hog farms with an enrollment made up almost entirely of young women — men who aren’t in the ministry are likely in the war. Both have brothers and cousins fighting, and reminders of the war are everywhere, from prayers in daily chapel services to military obstacle courses for civilians and rations on many items from sugar to shoes.

“It was a different time,” Ester says, “but it was a wonderful life. It was the life we knew. We made the best of it, and I made a dear friend.”

A friend who, 72 years later, makes the 88-mile trip from Whiteville to Buies Creek with her granddaughter Shelley to visit, catch up, reminisce and, on occasion, share a lunch in the same spot in Marshbanks Hall where two young girls used to talk about boys.

Memories of TreatAfter a 90-minute lunch (where conversation dominated time spent actually eating), the longtime friends head back to Ester’s home, nestled in the western-most portion of the Keith Hills community. The Deep River flows right up to her backyard and makes for

a picturesque view behind her many gardens, flower beds and lawn statues.

In her living room, overlooking the gardens and the river, Ester sits next to Naomi, who’s clutching four small and faded but otherwise mint-conditioned photos. The first one is barely larger than a wallet-sized photo, and it reveals a much younger duo joined by their third roommate from 1942, Mary Alice Stevenson. Ester stands in the middle upright with a hint of a smile on her face, her arms around Naomi and Mary in front of Treat Dormitory in the area where the Rumley Center and Pat Barker Hall now stand.

The photo brings both smiles and instant memories as Ester and Naomi start talking about the bathrooms at their old dorm.

“All of those girls, and we had only one lavatory. One place to brush our teeth,” Ester says.

“We lived on the third floor and had to go down two flights of stairs to go the bathroom or take a shower,” her friend adds.

“We had to go downstairs,” Ester says laughing. “Oh my, I’d forgotten that. Well,

In 1942, Campbell was basically a woman’s college, with World War II taking away nearly the entire male student population. While their brothers and cousins fought overseas, Ester Howard and Naomi Hinson were transitioning from life on the farm to college life. Chosen

randomly as roommates, the two have remained close friends for over 70 years.

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we didn’t complain. We were just happy to be there.”

A native of Harnett County, Ester chose to attend Campbell College because she wanted to study elementary education and one day become a teacher. Her family wasn’t poor by any means — Ester was raised on a farm, and her father raised hogs and chickens — but she did help pay her own tuition during her two years in Buies Creek by working in the kitchen at Marshbanks.

Naomi’s oldest brother was a Campbell student in the 1930s, and the Green Sea, S.C., native had a high school classmate — the local pastor’s son — who was attending Campbell for the ministry in 1942. She remembers the bus ride to Lillington and having to ship her luggage from South Carolina by mail to get it to campus.

Naomi’s family grew tobacco, so the new roommates had an instant connection on Day 1. They were both farm girls.

“I think the Lord put us together,” Naomi says. “We had similar experiences coming in. Both of us were raised on a farm by Christian parents. Neither of us knew what it was like to stay home from church on a Sunday. My mother and father taught me how to make it when the time came to leave home. I met

Ester’s mother and her brother and sister … their family was raised the same way. The Lord put us together. I really believe that.”

The friends also had the war in common. Ester had four brothers who fought in World War II, as did her first and second husbands. Of her family, one soldier was killed in the war — her cousin Clyde Stewart, who wrote Ester often from overseas and signed his letters, “Sweet Dreams” (two words now

embroidered and hanging in a frame in her home today). Naomi had three brothers in the war — her oldest was eventually called back to the homeland to help the family farm from going under. Ester’s husbands (both of whom she met after the war) both received Purple Hearts, as did Naomi’s middle brother, who was wounded in Germany.

“All I remember during that time is [the war] was just a terrible, terrible thing,” Ester says. “It was a struggle for so many people. Not as much for those of us back home, but still a struggle. Food was rationed … I remember we had to ration our gas, our sugar and tea, and even our shoes. I remember vividly having to find a coupon or a ticket in order to buy shoes.”

While the men fought in Europe, Africa and the Pacific, Campbell’s female population endured their own military training between classes — in case the war ever made its way back to the homefront. All students were required to take part in physically demanding obstacle courses.

Ester takes out the white linen dresses she and her classmates had to wear for that training. Stored in plastic for seven decades, the dress looks much like it did when Ester was 18.

“I thought [the training] was tough, but it was one of those things we had to do,” she says. “We felt like it

was important, especially during that time. Then again, it was a different time … but wonderful. We had a wonderful time at Campbell.”

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There for Each OtherNext to the dress, Ester has a quilted pillow — one that folds out into a blanket-and-pillow combination that feels much more comfortable and durable than the “quillows” you can find on Pinterest. This work of art was a gift from Naomi to Ester years ago, and it’s a gift Ester holds dear to her heart.

“Oh, Naomi has a talent,” Ester boasts, adding that her friend majored in home economics while at Campbell and was a beautiful seamstress. “All this time, and I still haven’t returned that talent to you.”

She takes out a doll — one of her hundreds of dolls that she’s collected since childhood — and shows Naomi the dress.

“I did sew this dress,” she says, handing the doll to Naomi as carefully as if it were a real infant. “I’ve been wanting to show her this for years. See? I wasn’t a total loss!”

That their friendship has lasted this long is impressive considering Ester and Naomi went their separate ways after their two years in Buies Creek.

Shortly after getting her two-year degree in home economics, Naomi learned that her old high school needed a teacher. It worked out well, because with her family all overseas — even her sister was working for the war effort at the time — her parents needed her nearby. Shortly after the war, she and Edgar married and had a child. When Naomi was ready to return to work, she learned she needed a four-year degree to teach full time. So she commuted to UNC-Pembroke and eventually became a teacher.

Ester, meanwhile, went on to Meredith College directly after Campbell and earned a bachelor’s degree in education and eventually a Master of Education in Supervision and Administration from UNC Chapel Hill. She would continue her post-graduate studies at N.C. State, Duke and East Carolina universities. Her career as an educator spanned 43 years, 23 of those years as supervisor of elementary education for Harnett County Schools.

Ester was named a Distinguished Alumna of Campbell, and she received the prestigious Presidential Medallion in 2000. In 2011, at the age of 86, she penned her first novel, “That’s Elizabeth.” She’s recently finished her

second novel, “My Unforgettable Life.”

Over time, the two kept in touch mostly by phone calls and personal hand-written letters. Their families vacationed together on occasion — Ester attended Naomi and Edgar’s 50th wedding anniversary. Naomi recalls an oyster roast on the beach one year.

There were also gaps of time where the two didn’t communicate much. When their husbands died and as both became too old to drive long distances, getting together became more difficult. Shelley volunteered to drive her grandmother to Buies Creek so she can see her friend more regularly. Now, as Ester and Naomi approach 90, they meet, have lunch and reminisce two to three times a year.

“I give her more credit for keeping our friendship alive and strong,” Ester says, reaching over to hold her friend’s hand. “The day I received my Distinguished Alumni award, there she was on the front row, smiling. I’ve loved the friendship we’ve been able to maintain.”

“In all these years,” Naomi adds, “We've never had any big disagreements. There’s never been a cross word between the two of us. I suppose you don’t find friends like that often.”

“It’s wonderful when people are so outward with their love,” Ester says. “It’s more than just saying ‘I love you.’ Naomi has exhibited love and has been a true friend for a long time. I just love her so much for that.”

Campbell & the War

World War II had a tremendous impact on Campbell College. Enrollment in 1942 declined from 700 students to around 400, the vast majority of these remaining were women. Like many other colleges throughout the country, intercollegiate athletic programs such as football, baseball, basketball, track and tennis were temporarily suspended during the war years.

The war also affected food supplies on campus. A mother wrote President Leslie H. Campbell in January 1943 that she worried over her daughter’s welfare: “I don’t feel like she is getting the proper food, she has lost too much weight, and keeps getting thinner every time I see her.”

Students at Campbell during the war years were required to take part in military-like training exercises. Female students trained on obstacle courses led by former military personnel. By 1945, German prisoners of war were sent to Buies Creek to work on roads and other construction projects.

At the end of the war, veterans were eager to return to their studies and the Buies Creek campus. Despite a shortage of dormitory space, classes resumed and the fall curriculum included refresher courses for these individuals. Wrote Campbell: “These are pretty hectic days for us here. We are overcrowded in the dormitories and all the woods around us seem to have students in them.”

Returning male students formed veterans clubs in 1946 and 47. Pictured above is the 1946 club, which doubled in size the following year.

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TICKET PUNCHEDA year after its infamous NCAA Tournament snub and days after dropping the opener of the double-elimination Big South Tournament, Campbell University’s baseball team won five straight games and beat Winthrop 9-1 to advance to the NCAA Regionals for the first time in 24 years. A week later, the team earned its first-ever Regional win, topping Old Dominion 4-1 in a wild 12-inning game in South Carolina. Campbell ended its season 41-21, tying for the program's second-most wins in a single season. The Camels have won 131 games over the last three years, recording the school's first three 40-win seasons over that time. | Photo by Bennett Scarborough

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Campbell University’s women’s golf team was in some pretty impressive company at the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship in Tulsa, Okla., last May.

Southern California, Duke, Alabama, Stanford, Florida and Arizona were among the 24-team field with student enrollments double, triple and even quadruple the undergraduate enrollment as Campbell, which entered as the smallest and lowest-ranked school in the tournament. The Lady Camels, returning to the national championships for the first since since 1997, finished 20th when it was all said and done, tied with Michigan State and besting California, Iowa State and Kansas. On the final day of the four-day tournament, Campbell shot better than 14 other schools, all ranked in the Top 30 in the nation.

“Athletes all over the country, this is their dream,” said head coach John Crooks, whose squads have advanced to regionals 17 times in the past 22 years. "All five of our young ladies are very good and that's why we had a great year. So many good things had to happen for us to win the conference championship and then qualify for the national tournament. To finish up by shooting [a combined 281 on the final day] on this golf course — beating so many great schools in the final round of the NCAA Championship, it's extremely gratifying, and I look forward to doing it again if we're so lucky."

The five-player team Crooks took to Tulsa included two-time Big South Player of the Year Kaylin Yost, three-time All-Conference performer (and 2012 Big South Freshman of the Year) Lisbeth Brooks, two-time all-league honoree (and 2013 Big South Freshman of the Year) Tahnia Ravnjak, plus freshmen Louise Latorre (the 2014 Big South medalist) and Nadine White, who placed among the top-20 individuals three times in her first five collegiate outings.

A native of Pau, France, Latorre matched the school record on the tournament’s final day for lowest round in NCAA Championship play (set three days earlier by Yost). Latorre, Ravnjak, Brooks and White are all expected to return this year, making Campbell an early favorite in the Big South Conference in 2015.

John Crooks Head coach Campbell Women’s Golf

Under the direction of 23-year head coach John Crooks, Campbell won the Big South Conference championship by 30 strokes in April. The Camels then finished eighth in the NCAA East Regional May 8-10 at SouthWood Golf Club in Tallahassee, Fla., to secure the program’s first national tournament berth since 1997. At the NCAA Championships, Campbell finished 20th out of 24 programs.

Inducted into the National Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2006, Crooks’ women’s teams have won 75 tournament titles in his career. He ranks second behind only Dan Brooks of Duke (118) among active Division I women’s coaches in tournament victories. Including 45 wins on the men's side, Crooks has guided his teams to 120 tournament crowns.

• His own words: “I hope that if I’ve done my job as the coach, I hope that each one of my players know in their hearts that they belong where they are. They’re not looking at anybody as their superior. They’re looking at them as fellow competitors, and may the best person win. ”

• What others say: “Coach Crooks has made me a better person, a better golfer, definitely made me mentally tougher on the golf course. Each year my stroke average has gotten better and it’s because of Coach." — Kaylin Yost

Kaylin Yost Senior | Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Two-time Big South Player of the Year

Senior Kaylin Yost is one of only three players in the quarter-century history of the program to earn conference player of the year honors twice in a career. In 2014, Yost led all league golfers in stroke average and ranked 71st nationally in the Golfstat Cup. In addition, only two Campbell women’s golfers have won more tournament titles than Yost, who has finished first four times in her career.

Yost finished as the runner up in 2014 for Big South Female Athlete of the Year. She graduated in 2014 with a degree in communication studies. Her accomplishments are made all the more impressive by the fact that she was born with dislocated hips, and doctors believed she wouldn’t walk. Multiple surgeries and considerable time in a body cast set her legs straight. Shortly after, her family discovered she was hearing impaired.

• Her own words: “What’s so special about [our team] is that we’re all so close. We all hang out and are there for each other. We’re best friends, sisters, whatever you want to call it. We’re close-knit. If we’re down or have a problem, we go to each other."

• What others say: “Kaylin is the most positive person I’ve ever met in my life in the best way possible. She is honestly like a little ball of sunshine.” — Lisbeth Brooks

‘This Is Their Dream’ Golf returns to NCAA Championship tournament for first time since 1997


Lisbeth Brooks Junior | Waunakee, Wisc.

Lisbeth Brooks is a three-time All-Big South Conference performer who has finished in the top-10 at the conference championship in each of her first three seasons. She was named the Big South freshman of the year in 2012 and has been selected to the Big South women's golf all-academic team in 2013 and 2014 in addition to earning all-league honors.

In 2014, she ranked fourth among Big South golfers in stroke average and was rated 195th nationally in the Golfstat Cup. She produced six top-10 individual finishes, including a seventh-place tie at the Big South Championship. She was fifth at the Golfweek Program Challenge and tied for seventh at the UNCG Starmount Fall Classic,where she shot a collegiate low 67 in the second round.

• Her own words: “My parents have always been my biggest fans. They support me in everything I do. My dad taught me how to golf. I'm so grateful beyond words of how supportive they are and they've made it to every single tournament. There's no way I can thank them for what they've done for me.”

• What others say: "Lizzy is extremely talented, and what a great athlete. To say that she's hard-working doesn't do justice to what she does. If there's something that's not right, she needs to spend the time necessary to put in the effort to get better." — John Crooks

Louise Latorre Freshman | Pau, France

One of two freshmen on Campbell’s NCAA-qualifying team, Louise Latorre was the Big South Conference Championship medalist, setting a new league tournament 54-hole record. The freshman was named to the Big South all-conference and all-freshman, as well as all-championship teams. She was ranked ninth among all Big South golfers in stroke average.

Latorre was named Big South Freshman of the Week in late October of 2013 after an 11th-place finish at the Fighting Camel Fall Classic. She tied for 10th at Big South Preview and shot a collegiate-low 68 in the first round of the Big South Championship.

• Her own words: [On her Big South Conference title] “I was not believing it. I don’t know what happened. I’m really glad it did but I’m not sure how it happened. It was the best I ever played in my whole life. The first round was the best score I’d had and that weekend everything was going well.”

• What others say: “Lu Lu is very quiet until you get to know her. Once you get to know her, she’s the funniest person you will ever meet. She laughs at everything. She’s very relaxed; she’s chill, kind of goes with the flow. I think that’s how her golf game is too, she rolls with the punches. Whatever comes her way, she can handle it no matter what. She’s a fighter.” — Lisbeth Brooks

Tahnia Ravnjak Sophomore Cordeaux Heights, Australia

Tahnia Ravnjak was Campbell's top scorer at the NCAA East Regional, where she tied for 18th individually. In 2014, she ranked second among Big South golfers in stroke average and was rated 139th nationally in the Golfstat Cup.

Ravnjak produced four top-10 individual finishes, including a runner-up showing at the Big South Championship in 2014. She earned her first collegiate victory on Sept. 10, 2013, at the Golfweek Program Challenge, where she recorded a collegiate low score of 66 in the final round — the best of any Big South Conference golfer in 2013-14.

The 2013 Big South Freshman of the Year, Ravnjak was an all-conference and All-Big South Championship team member in both 2013 and 2014.

• Her own words: “I haven't been homesick once since I got here [from Australia]. I miss my family, but I've always been independent and as long as you're doing something you love, it doesn't matter where you are. I love it here. I really like the fact that the golfers here have improved over the course of their careers."

• What others say: “I knew her before I came from Australia. She knows what I've been through with the culture difference, so it's been cool having her here.” — fellow Australian Nadine White

Nadine White Freshman | Brisbane Australia

One of two freshmen and one of two Australians on Campbell’s NCAA-qualifying team, Nadine White was 10th-best among Big South golfers in stroke average for the 2013-14 season. She finished among the Top 20 individuals three times in five events after making her debut with a 19th place tie in March at the Miami Hurricane Invitational.

She tied for 15th at the John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate and tied for 13th at the Big South Championship. Since schools carry teams of four into each tournament, Crooks said his decision on whom that fourth golfer would be each week was a difficult one, thanks to solid play from both of his top freshmen.

• Her own words: ““I just aimed to do my best. Coach has a policy that if you make the Top 10 of a tournament, you automatically play in the next one. I definitely had that in mind in my first tournament, trying to do my best so I could keep on the team. But three top-20 finishes, I worked hard and I was happy with my performances.”

• What others say: “I grew up playing junior golf with Nadine. She wouldn’t hurt a fly and is so caring about how you’re feeling. She lifts the mood of the team.” — Tahnia Ravnjak “Nadine brings so much laughter to the team. She’s enthusiastic. With Nadine in the lineup this semester, the mood is just instantly happier.” — Kaylin Yost

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Churchill named Big South Scholar Athlete of the YearFormer Campbell softball player Shaela Churchill was named the 2014 Big South Conference Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year this summer, becoming Campbell's first-ever female athlete to capture the conference's top honor, which recognizes success both on the field and in the classroom.

Churchill, who graduated in May with a degree in mathematics following a four-year career with the Camels, was also the recipient of the Big South's George A. Christenberry Award, the highest academic accolade presented by the conference, after maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA throughout her playing career at Campbell.

The Winterville native was named to the Capital One/CoSIDA All-District 3 Academic Team following her junior and senior seasons and was a three-time NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete. In addition, Churchill was also a three-time Big South Presidential Honor Roll member after earning a spot in each of her last three seasons.

On the field, Churchill made 143 starts in 173 appearances for the Camels from 2011 to 2014. In 343 at-bats, she collected 75 hits (17 doubles, three triples and seven home runs) while driving in 29 runs. The infielder, who saw much of her time at second base, finished her career with a strong .953 fielding percentage while playing a role in 505 put-outs across her four seasons.

Former Campbell right-handed reliever Ryan Thompson was drafted with the first pick of the 23rd round by the Houston Astros in the 2014 Major League Baseball draft.

He became the fifth Camel to be taken in the draft since 2009. Matt Marksberry and Ben McQuown went to the Atlanta Braves and Oakland A’s respectively in 2013, while the Giants took Jake Smith in 2011, and the White Sox picked Ryan Hamme in 2009.

Thompson -- who was also named a third-team Louisville Slugger All-American, Senior CLASS Award second-team All-American, second-team All-Region by the American Baseball Coaches of America and All-America honors from the

National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association -- finished the 2014 campaign with a 1.33 ERA, a 7-2 record and 17 saves. He added 87 strikeouts in 88 innings pitched across 39 appearances. He led the nation with a 0.88 ERA in 2013.

He was named the Big South Conference Tournament's MVP, pitching in all five of Campbell's tournament wins, posting a 1-0 mark and three saves in nine scoreless innings. Thompson was also a first-team All-Big South performer in 2014 after earning Big South Pitcher of the Year honors in 2013. He made his professional debut on June 17 for the Tri-City ValleyCats, Class A Short-Season affiliate of the Houston Astros.

Eric Griffin was known for his dunks during his time in Buies Creek. Now he’s making a name for himself for going above the rim at the highest level. Days after putting down a highlight-reel slam in a Summer League game for the Dallas Mavericks, the Mavs signed Griffin to a one-year deal. Griffin led the squad in the Las Vegas Summer League with 11.4 points per game in five games, shooting an impressive 56.3 percent. After finishing his two-year career at Campbell in 2012, Griffin played with the Los Angeles Lakers summer league team. He then signed a contract with Filieni BPA Jesi in Italy, where he averaged 17.5 points and 7.1 rebounds in 2012-13.

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FootballAug. 28 UNC Charlotte 7 p.m.Sept. 6 @ Appalachian State (ESPN3) 6 p.m.Sept. 11 @ Charleston Southern 7 p.m.Sept. 27 Valparaiso* (Family Week) 6 p.m.Oct. 4 @ Morehead State* 1 p.m.Oct. 11 Butler* NoonOct. 18 Davidson* (Homecoming) 4 p.m.Oct. 25 @ Marist* NoonNov. 1 Stetson* (Military Appreciation) 1 p.m.Nov. 8 Missouri Baptist 1 p.m.Nov. 15 @ Jacksonville* 1 p.m.Nov. 22 @ Dayton* 1 p.m.* - Denotes Pioneer League game

VolleyballSept. 5-6 Long Beach State Mizuno Tournament Sept. 5 vs. Long Beach State 11 a.m.Sept. 5 vs. San Francisco 5 p.m.Sept. 6 vs. Army 5 p.m.Sept. 10 @ UNC Wilmington 7 p.m.Sept. 12-13 Hampton Inn & Suites Holly Inn Invitational (CU) Sept. 12 vs. South Carolina 7 p.m.Sept. 13 vs. North Florida 12:30 p.m.Sept. 13 vs. Elon 7 p.m.Sept. 19-20 Maryland Eastern Shore TournamentSept. 19 vs. Bethune-Cookman 11 a.m.Sept. 19 vs. Rider 5 p.m.Sept. 20 vs. Binghamton 2 p.m.Sept. 20 vs. Maryland Eastern Shore 6 p.m.Sept. 26 High Point* (Family Weekend) 7 p.m.Oct. 3 Charleston Southern* 7 p.m.Oct. 4 Coastal Carolina* 2 p.m.Oct. 10 @ Liberty* 7 p.m.Oct. 11 @ Radford* 4 p.m.Oct. 12 Northeastern 2 p.m.Oct. 17 @ Presbyterian* 7 p.m.Oct. 18 @ Winthrop* 2 p.m.Oct. 21 N.C. A&T 7 p.m.Oct. 24 @ High Point* 7 p.m.Oct. 31 Gardner-Webb* 7 p.m.Nov. 1 UNC-Asheville* 4 p.m.Nov. 7 Radford* 7 p.m.Nov. 8 Liberty* 4 p.m.Nov. 13 @ Coastal Carolina* 6 p.m.Nov. 15 @ Charleston Southern* 2 p.m.Nov. 20 Big South Tourney (Conway, S.C.)

Former national champion and Olympic team member Cary Kolat was named head wrestling coach at Campbell University in April. Kolat joins the Fighting Camel staff after serving since 2010 as associate head coach at

the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Athletic Director Bob Roller called the hiring a “milestone announcement” for the program.

“Nationally and internationally, Cary Kolat is synonymous with wrestling for the past three decades, and I am confident he will build a program for Campbell that will be known throughout NCAA Division I,” Roller said.

During Kolat's tenure at Chapel Hill, he was involved in all phases of the UNC program and helped improve the team's national ranking from 57 to 22. In addition, he was head coach at the Olympic regional training center in Chapel Hill where he trained Olympic level athletes.

Kolat has also served on wrestling staffs at Lehigh, Wisconsin, West Virginia and his alma mater, Lock Haven.

“I'm extremely excited that Bob Roller and Campbell University have given me the opportunity to lead this program,” said Kolat, a native of southwestern Pennsylvania. “But the success of this program is not going to happen overnight. It will be determined by our guys doing the small things right over and over every day, consistently wanting to improve and taking the program to the next level."

A two-time NCAA Division I wrestling champion, Kolat was a four-time All-American who went on to compete in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. A three-time World Cup gold medalist, he also won World silver and bronze medals. His career also includes three U.S. Open championship medals and a pair of Pan-Am Games first-place finishes. Kolat was a member of the U.S. National Team from 1991 to 2002.

Former Olympian Kolat named wrestling coach

A NEW LOOK FOR CAMEL FOOTBALLGone are the black helmets the Camels have worn since football returned to the Creek in 2008. For the first time, Campbell will don a white helmet in 2014 after three variations of a black lid over the program’s first six modern-era seasons. In another pair of firsts, the Campbell helmet will feature the Campbell "Camel head C" logo on the right side, and the player's number on the left. The orange Camel is accompanied by a black “C,” while the opposite number is black with an orange outline.

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Bradley promoted from assistant to head softball coach

Todd Bradley was named head softball coach at Campbell University last spring after helping guide the Lady Camels to a 70-46 record over the

past two seasons as an assistant and associate head coach. He replaces Drew Peterson, who was head coach for 14 seasons from 2001-14.

"Todd is a great fit to lead our softball program," said Athletic Director Bob Roller. "He has an excellent knowledge of the game and an outstanding rapport with our team and incoming recruits. It's not often that you have someone on staff with more than eight years of experience as a head coach on the collegiate level, and we look forward to watching him develop this talented team."

In addition to helping lead the Lady Camels to consecutive berths in the Big South Championship semifinal round in 2013 and 2014, Campbell fashioned a 31-16 league regular season mark over the past two years. The 2013 unit set a school record for conference regular season victories (18-6) en route to a runner-up finish.

While overseeing the team's hitters and assisting in recruiting and the daily operation of the program, Bradley helped the 2013 team compile a .300 batting average, second-highest in school history. Despite battling through injuries to key players, the 2014 squad set a new school record for team fielding percentage (.966).

"I'm thankful, humbled and very excited to have this opportunity to be the head softball coach at Campbell," said Bradley. "Being a head coach at the Division I level has been a goal of mine since the first day of my career 15 years ago. I would like to thank the entire Campbell administration for believing in me to lead this group of student athletes."

After three consecutive seasons with 40-plus wins, a few national rankings, a Big South Tournament title and the program’s first NCAA Regional Tournament win, head baseball coach Greg

Goff was swept up by a larger program at Louisiana Tech following the 2014 season. Campbell University wasted no time in naming Goff’s assistant coach, Justin Haire, as his replacement.

"Naming Justin as our head coach allows a seamless transition for our excellent baseball program," said Athletic Director Bob Roller. "He has been an integral part of our building process and played a major role in our recent success. Campbell baseball is now known nationally, and we realize how important it is to maintain this momentum and continuity. Justin has been a tireless recruiter and excellent teacher as our associate head coach. We both have the shared goals of, not only continuing our successful performance on the diamond, but in improving and playing deeper into June."

Haire had spent the last seven seasons with the Camels as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator, including the last year as the associate head coach.

"I'm looking forward to continuing to work with the players in our program and

I'm excited about our incoming recruits," said Haire. "I expect to compete for a championship again next season with our talent level and competitiveness. That's what our program is about, and I'm excited about continuing the tradition that we've built over the last seven years in our pursuit of taking Campbell Baseball to Omaha."

Haire has helped Campbell total 131 victories over the last three years, including a school-record 49 in 2013 on the way to the Big South's Regular Season Championship and a national ranking.

Over the last seven years, Haire has helped to make the Fighting Camels into one of the most explosive and consistent offenses not only in the conference, but also in the entire country. Campbell has set more than 50 new school individual and team offensive records, practically rewriting the offensive record book with Haire at the helm of both the team's hitting and recruiting efforts.

Shortly after his hiring, Haire announced his own replacement in Chris Marx, the team’s new assistant coach and recruiting coordinator.

Marx comes to Campbell from Arkansas-Little Rock, where he served as an assistant coach for three seasons.

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Mens’ SoccerAug. 29 @ UNC-Greensboro 8 p.m.Sept. 6 Loyola 6 p.m.Sept. 11 @ Stetson 6 p.m.Sept. 16 UNC-Wilmington 6 p.m.Sept. 20 UNC-Charlotte 6 p.m.Sept. 23 @ Jacksonville 6 p.m.Sept. 27 Davidson (Family Weekend) 3:30 p.m.Oct. 4 Coastal Carolina* 6 p.m.Oct. 7 @ UNC Chapel Hill 7 p.m.Oct. 11 @ Radford* 6 p.m.Oct. 15 @ Longwood* 7 p.m.Oct. 18 @ Gardner-Webb* 6 p.m.Oct. 25 Presbyterian* 5 p.m.Oct. 29 High Point* 7 p.m.Nov. 1 Winthrop* 7 p.m.Nov. 5 @ Liberty* 5 p.m.Nov. 8 UNC-Asheville* (Senior Night) 6 p.m.Nov. 11 Big South Tournament * - denotes Big South Conference game

Women’s SoccerAug. 22 Richmond 7 p.m.Aug. 29 UNC-Wilmington 7 p.m.Aug. 31 @ East Tenn. State 1 p.m.Sept. 4 @ Old Dominion 5 p.m.Sept. 13 Western Carolina 7 p.m.Sept. 17 @ South Carolina St. 7 p.m.Sept. 21 @ East Carolina 2 p.m.Sept. 24 @ UNC-Asheville* 5 p.m.Sept. 27 Liberty* (Family Weekend) 1 p.m.Oct. 1 @ Radford* 7 p.m.Oct. 4 @ Gardner-Webb* 7 p.m.Oct. 8 @ Charleston Southern* 3 p.m.Oct. 11 Presbyterian* 7 p.m.Oct. 15 @ Coastal Carolina* 6 p.m.Oct. 18 Winthrop* (Homecoming) 7 p.m.Oct. 22 Longwood* 7 p.m.Oct. 28 High Point* (Senior Night) 7 p.m.Oct. 31 Big South Conference Tournament* - denotes Big South Conference game

Briefs

War hero offers motivational speech to Campbell athletesAn active duty colonel, Purple Heart recipient, West Point graduate, director of the Army's Wounded Warrior Program, actor, motivational speaker and honorary captain of the two-time Super Bowl champion New York Giants — Greg Gadson spoke to Campbell's football team and other athletic personnel over the summer to talk about how teamwork saved his life and how faith, family and determination got him through the loss of both of his legs.

"Am I going to lay back and ask people to feel sorry for me, or am I going to get up and fight?" he told the crowd of players and coaches. Col. Gadson is currently the Army garrison commander at Fort Belvoir, in addition to his leadership role with Wounded Warriors. He served in the Army for more than 20 years as a field artillery officer and served on active duty for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Operation Joint Forge, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He also played football for West Point from 1985 to 1988.

Former UConn star named assistant softball coachJuliAnne Towers was named the assistant softball coach by Coach Todd Bradley and will join the Camels after serving in the same position at Millsaps College for the last two seasons.

"The first thing that I noticed about JuliAnne right away was her energy and her passion for the game," Bradley said. "She's been in the game for several years now. She wants to learn, and she wants to help develop our program to reach the goals that we have planned. From both a knowledge of the game and a passion standpoint, she was a perfect fit for Campbell."

Towers, a decorated infielder who enjoyed a four-year career at the University of Connecticut, will assist primarily with the squad's defensive schemes but will be actively involved in all aspects of the program.

Men’s basketball to play in Buckeye Classic this yearCampbell University’s men’s basketball team will participate in the Buckeye Classic exempt event in November. Jointly hosted by Ohio State and James Madison, the event also includes Colgate and Sacred Heart. The Camels will host Colgate on Nov. 22, marking the first time a Patriot League member has played at Gore Arena. The Camels will travel to Ohio State on Nov. 26 as well as to Sacred Heart (Nov. 30) and James Madison (Dec. 2).

“The Buckeye Classic is a great opportunity for us to play high-level competition, including one of the best teams in the country in Ohio State,” said Coach Kevin McGeehan, who is entering his second year in charge of the Fighting Camels. “Coach Thad Matta has done an amazing job of developing the Buckeyes into a perennial top-10 program. We are honored to go there and compete."

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Courtside... with Stan Cole, celebrating 25 years as Campbell’s Sports Information Director


Courtside... with Stan Cole, celebrating 25 years as Campbell’s Sports Information Director

It was a job he initially didn’t want and, to this day, a job he jokes that he never officially accepted. But 25 years after becoming Campbell University’s sports information director, Stan Cole can’t imagine doing anything else.

Cole was honored for hitting the quarter-century mark on June 11 at the College Sports Information Directors of America convention in Orlando. It’s an honor Cole — who turned 50 this year — has yet to fully appreciate, or fathom, for that matter.

“It doesn’t seem that long ago, but back in 1989, I knew I never wanted to be a daily newspaper journalist, and I knew I never wanted to be in sports information,” said the 1987 Campbell grad. “I thought I’d just be a writer living a Hemingway type of existence, writing when I wanted and what I wanted. But I suppose that doesn’t pay the student loans.”

After graduation, Cole did the daily newspaper rounds, working at the Sun Journal in New Bern as a sports writer covering high school sports, East Carolina University basketball and minor league baseball in Kinston, “covering as much as they’d pay me to write,” he said.

He and his wife, Claudia, moved to Raleigh after her job in New Bern shut down, and Cole was picked up by the Wolfpacker, a North Carolina State Athletics publication, for about $800 a month (which was a considerable raise). Not long into this job, Cole learned that his former boss and mentor at Campbell University — SID David Snipes — was stepping down. Cole was informally asked if he wanted the job.

He said no. He laughs to this day recalling the story.

“[Former Campbell President] Dr. Norman Wiggins called me in for an interview, and just told me I was going to start on June 1,” Cole said. “I didn’t really have a chance to say no. I still have never accepted this position.”

TYPEWRITERS TO iPHONESCole started at Campbell in the summer of ’89 with an electric typewriter, a calculator for stats, a bunch of paper and liquid paper and the new fax machine the athletic department just received. The university lacked a football program, and lacrosse was still years away. The job was a good fit at the time, because it allowed Claudia to finish her degree, and the couple’s plan was to give it two to four years and then move on.

But over the next few years, several things happened to Cole that he didn’t expect. His wife got a good job nearby. Their daughter came soon after. Slowly, Cole came to love

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and appreciate the town and the community he thought were behind him after college. And he fell in love with his job and Campbell University.

“It’s just such a great place to work and raise a family,” he said. “I enjoy my job. There are 350 Division I schools out there, and I’m in charge of publicity for one of those. A lot of people out there would love to do what I do. And with every year that passes, every athlete whose story we get to tell, every parent who clips our stories on their kids and holds on to that memory, I grow to love this job more.”

The job itself has changed quite a bit in 25 years. Game coverage of stat-taking was all done with paper, pencils and typewriters in those early years until 1992, when Cole’s department finally got its first computer. Back then, Cole’s No. 1 priority was getting the newspapers and TV stations in larger markets like Raleigh, Durham, Fayetteville and even Charlotte to notice Campbell University Athletics. Today, the No. 1 outlet is Campbell’s heavily trafficked website, gocamels.com, and its numerous social media branches. Sure, the big media coverage is nice — Campbell’s basketball and baseball programs have been televised on ESPN3 and ESPNU numerous times this year — but it’s no longer the be-all, end-all when it comes to his job.

“Sure, I still go out and have lunch or play golf with writers and other media members to get them to notice Campbell, but we understand that in this media age, we have to provide the information ourselves and get it out there to the masses,” Cole said. “The vast majority of our content is created from within. We have to hire and cultivate very good communicators to get our stories out there.”

One of those recent hires is Chris Hemeyer, the athletic department’s director of broadcasting and digital media. In addition to being the “Voice of the Camels” on the radio and local television, Hemeyer has produced hundreds of videos and short clips promoting Campbell athletics. The department’s YouTube page has generated clips of dunks that have gone viral and promoted the Campbell brand in ways Cole couldn’t have dreamed of in the early ’90s.

“Stan is an incredible resource, he is a walking encyclopedia of Campbell Athletics knowledge,” Hemeyer said. “Campbell has been an enormous part of his life, and he has returned the favor by promoting and informing the community, state and nation

about the Camels. He has also seen an unbelievable transformation in his time here, from fledgling Division I program to where we are now.”

FRIEND AND MENTORAlong the way, Cole has hired hundreds of student interns and part-time employees and has served as mentor just as much as boss to many of them. Joey Beeler (’02) got his start in collegiate sports information 17 years ago by walking into Cole’s former office behind the university’s old gymnasium (a new arena and convocation center went up in 2009) and asked for a work study position.

“Stan threw me into the fire,” said Beeler, “doing a lot of the not-so-fun stuff like clipping newspaper articles and gluing them in a book. After a few years as a student assistant, he hired me as a full-time intern.”

Beeler would return to work for Cole a few years after graduation, and a year later, he moved on to Davidson University as an assistant to the SID.

Today, Beeler is the sports information director at Davidson, running the publicity for a program that rivals Campbell in several sports, most notably football, where the two programs are part of the Pioneer Football League. But while the athletes from the two schools may

not like each other much, Beeler and Cole are very much friends, and Beeler says he leans on his former boss often when he needs advice.

“Stan’s a true professional, and I try to mold my office after his to this day,” Beeler said. “It was always a fun atmosphere at Campbell. In this profession, you work a lot of hours with your co-workers, and if you can’t have fun doing it, you’re not in the right business. I’m forever indebted to Stan. I have no idea where I’d be if he didn’t take a chance on me.”

Cole said he’s humbled by the honor from COSIDA and is happy to have a job that always seems to surprise him and rarely gets dull.

“I think the fun in being involved in athletics — whether it’s the professional, collegiate or prep level — is that there’s always the promise of things getting better,” he said. “Even if the program has a down year, there’s always the excitement of ‘who’s coming in next year’ or ‘who’s getting recruited?’ The job stays fresh.

“And there’s so many people who passionately care about Campbell Athletics,” he added. “Our department is bridging the gap between those who’ve cared for us for a long time and those who are just now discovering us. It’s neat to be a part of that. It’s neat to be a big part of such a great community. It’s all very satisfying.”

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’68 Richard Ross (’68 BS) received the 2014 national

“Skills USA Outstanding Career and Technical Educator” award. The presentation was held at the Skills USA annual conference in Kansas City.

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’75 Patrice Thompson (’75 BS) received the Federation of

Women's Club of North Carolina 2014 Women of Achievement Award, given to 10 to 15 women in North Carolina annually.

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’81 North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall

(’81 JD) received the 2014 Public Policy Leader Award from the Charlotte chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners.

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’85 Shelby Duffy Benton (’85 JD) was elected

president-elect of the North Carolina Bar Association.

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’86 Leslie S. Robinson (’86 JD) was named to

Business North Carolina’s 2014 Legal Elite list.

Judge Paul Ridgeway (’86 JD) was inducted into the Leadership Raleigh Hall of Fame.

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’92 Todd Sellers (’92 BS) was promoted from Probation Officer II

in District 6 to Chief Probation Officer Macon-Clay County in North Carolina’s 30th District. Sellers has been employed with the North Carolina Department of Public Safety/Adult Probation since 1999.

Campbell University trustee, philanthropist and Distinguished Alumnus Edward Mannon “Ed” Gore (’52) died peacefully

in his sleep at the age of 82.

Gore graduated from Waccamaw School in 1950, and graduated from Campbell College and East Carolina State University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1954 to 1958, becoming fluent in Russian while in training at Syracuse University and the Defense Language School in Monterey, Calif., before he was stationed in Japan, monitoring Russian radio transmissions during the Cold War.

After returning to North Carolina in 1958, during a weekend trip to Topsail Island, Gore stepped on a large sand spur and caught the attention of Dinah Eubanks as he hopped around in misery while his then-girlfriend simply looked on. Dinah took the initiative to pull the spur out of his foot and, a week later, he asked her on a date. Their courtship led to a marriage that lasted 55 years.

Gore worked with his father to develop Sunset Beach, initially helping to operate the dredge boats, tug boats, cranes and heavy earth-moving machinery and later assuming full responsibility for the entire operation after Gore and his wife purchased his parents’ interests in 1972. He served on the Sunset Beach Town Council for four decades.

He was a co-founder of Sea Trail Plantation, contributing his development and business know-

how to the group and later to his sons, Edward Jr. and Greg, as they developed Ocean Ridge Plantation, which they sold in 2003. That sale enabled Gore to spend the rest of his life pursuing numerous philanthropic causes.

Gore loved and supported Campbell University. He served as chairman of the Campbell University Foundation and as a member of the University Board of Trustees. He helped lead several major university initiatives over the past decade, including construction of Ed Gore Field at the school’s football stadium, the Gilbert Craig Gore Basketball Arena and, alongside his wife, the Dinah Gore Chapel Bell Tower. He was also involved in the creation and launch of Campbell’s new medical school in 2013.

The Gores are co-founders of a major resource for students and faculty at Campbell, The Gore Center for Servant Leadership, which is dedicated to the development of student leadership skills through projects, internships, course work and other opportunities.

Gore served as chairman of the Campbell University Foundation, in addition to his role as trustee. The Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising and managing private support for the school. In 2006, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus. In 2007, Ed and Dinah Gore received Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees for their civic and professional contributions to Campbell.

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alumni Class Notesalumni Class Notes1979 at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia and culminated as a management and program analyst in the Business Systems branch, directorate of business operations at Womack Army Medical Center and Fort Bragg. She received the Commander's Award for Civilian Service, Certificate of Appreciation and Retirement Certificate.

Angie Osborne Smith ('00 PH) and husband Bryan announced the birth of a son, Isaac Grayson Smith, born Jan. 21, 2014. He joins big brother Luke and big sister Isabella.

Melissa Moore Lelonek (’00 JD) was appointed child support magistrate for the Fourth Judicial District of Tennessee.

Jonathan Stepp (’00 MDiv) is interim director of Youth and Family Ministry at St. James Episcopal Church in Hendersonville.

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’01 Alyson Wooten (’00 MBA, '01 PH) was named as

a 2014 Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star for intellectual property litigation. She is a patent attorney at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP in Atlanta.

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’02 Robin Crabtree ('02 BA) and Aaron Reese were

united in marriage on May 17, 2014, at Olive Branch Baptist Church in Durham. The couple resides in Wilmington, where Robin is the director of a resort ministry through NAMB.

’93 Martha J. Efird (’93 JD) joined Moore & Van

Allen PLLC in the firm’s litigation practice group.

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’95 Bob Sar (’95 JD) was named managing

shareholder of Ogletree Deakins’ Raleigh office and was appointed

Benjamin T. Cochran (’02 JD) was named a 2014 Rising Star by Super Lawyers.

Christy Wilhelm (’02 JD) was appointed to serve as a judge in District 19A by North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory.

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’03 Sheri Ober ('03 PH) and her husband Chris

announced the birth of their son, Jonathan Nicolas Ober. He was born on Jan. 16, 2014, weighing 5 pounds, 8 ounces and was 18 inches long. The Ober family currently resides in St. Paul, Minn.

Matt Anderson (’03 BBA/MBA) joined Park Sterling Bank as the senior vice president and Lake

Norman market executive. He is responsible for commercial business in Mooresville, Denver, Cornelius, Huntersville, Davidson, Statesville and surrounding markets.

Gary Henderson (’01 BS/’03 MBA) is the assistant vice president of the new Carolinas Healthcare

System at its Anson campus. He served as the executive director for two long-term care facilities within the system: the Jesse Helms Nursing Center in Monroe and the Lillie Bennett Nursing Center in Wadesboro.

Ulmer Zack “Zeke” Bridges III (’03 JD) graduated from the North Carolina Bar Association’s Leadership Academy.

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as vice chairman of the North Carolina State Ports Authority Board of Directors by North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory.

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’00 Ann Butts (‘00 BAS) retired on April 2, after 34-

plus years as a federal civilian. Her employment began as a temporary clerk and typist in

Andrew B. (Ben) Snellings knew what it was like to be down to $25 without a roof over his head. That experience early in life spawned decades of profound generosity to those in need.

The former member of Campbell’s Presidential Board of Advisors who created the chair of Christian evangelism and missions at Campbell University Divinity School, Snellings passed away in April at the age of 86.

A native of Virginia who lived in Florida and British Honduras before settling in Raleigh in 1978, Snellings worked primarily in real estate development, beginning as a sales person in the mid-50s and also serving as a broker, investor and owner of warehouses and apartment complexes.

He and his late wife of 44 years, Geraldine Snellings, created scholarships for both Campbell Divinity School and Liberty University. His gentle spirit and kind heart touched a myriad of persons in very quiet ways. He honored many of his closest friends with gifts to humanitarian causes in their honor.

Snellings was a graduate of Wittenburg University, Springfield, Ohio, with a bachelor's degree in American history and government. He was a lifelong student, always reading the daily newspaper with a dictionary and atlas. In addition to his real estate work, he served in the Naval Submarine Corps in World War II, taught high school in Fredericksburg, worked as a flight attendant for American Airlines, worked for a law firm, and served as a civil service investigator.

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Friends We Will Miss

Col. Charles David Baker (’49), Feb. 12Mark Daniel Kennedy (’09), Feb. 18Nicole Sade Enoch (’10), Feb. 19Ruby Wallace Parker (’40), Feb. 22Edward T. Pope (’48), Feb. 27Dr. Jane Templema Lewis (’80), March 15Kim Whittington Holmes (’78), March 24Randolph Dennis Mills (’72), March 24

James O. Prince (’69), April 2James e. Glasgow (’49), April 3Thomas Gerald Edwards (’57), April 7Robert Francis Kelly (’12), April 13Herbert A. McDaniel (’65), April 13Timothy Howell McKinnie (’76), April 16Royce L. Snipes (’50), April 19Louise Baity (’49), April 20

David Borders (’79), May 2James Harold Cannady (’69), May 22Lloyd M. Lance (’84), May 22MSgt. Joseph R. Odom (’67), May 23Jean Austin Sidlo (’06), May 23Miriam G. Gonzalez (’00), May 27Kay Nurney Pope (’68), June 2Yvonne Stafford Slaney (’52), June 4

Nita Johnson Giroux (’67), June 5Daniel A. Linney (’57), June 8Billy Martin Bryant (’60), June 11Richard Aubrey Wheeler (’83), June 11Sara Gaddy Winston (’82), June 14Judith Lynne Cherry Smith (’76), June 21

This summer, Campbell University lost a friend in Travis Autry, who died of cancer at the age of 47.

Autry served as an audio and video technician at Campbell for over 25 years. He was also the longtime general manager (and arguably the most familiar voice on) Campbell’s former radio station, WCCE 90.1 FM, until 2007.

“For much of my adult life, WCCE was my second home,” Autry said back in 2009. “The removal of the tower, transmitter and other equipment

signified the final closing of that chapter of my life and that of WCCE at Campbell University.”

Autry attended nearly every big event at Campbell over the past two decades, often with video camera in hand.

He is survived by wife, Cynthia Autry; son, Ian Spenser Autry; mother, Joyce Autry; brothers, Dale Edward and Lacy Ellis Autry; and several nieces and nephews.

’04 Michelle Lennon Sullivan ('04 PH) and husband

Jeremy announced the birth of Karli Jade Sullivan. Karli was born on Jan. 11, 2014. She weighed 8 pounds and was 19 inches long.

Matthew S. Roberson and Adrienne I. Roberson (’05 JD) welcomed a son, Graham Scott Roberson, on Jan. 26, 2014.

Vance Jennings (’04 JD) was appointed disability advocacy section chair of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice. He was also named a 2014 Rising Star in social security disability by North Carolina Super Lawyers.

William A. Oden, III (’04 MBA/JD) graduated from the North Carolina Bar Association’s Leadership Academy.

D. Martin Warf (’04 JD) joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP as of counsel in the Raleigh office.

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’05 James Adam Bridwell (’05 JD) was named a 2014

Rising Star by Super Lawyers and is a board certified specialist in Workers’ Compensation.

R. Jason Walls (’05 JD) was named a Business North Carolina 2014 Legal Elite Young Gun.

Shiau Yen Chin-Dennis (’05 JD/’07 MBA) is a representative to the 2014 class of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellows by K&L Gates LLP.

Melissa K. Walker (’05 JD) graduated from the North Carolina Bar Association’s Leadership Academy.

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’06 Andy Hale (’06 BA/’10 MDiv) was selected by the

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship to oversee its Church Starts Initiative. Prior to becoming a church starter, Hale served as associate pastor at First Baptist

Church of Clayton. He has also served overseas in Sri Lanka with North Carolina Baptist Men. Hale and his wife, Jennifer, have a daughter, Madison, and are expecting a second child later this year.

Paige Brown ('06 PH) and Wade Brown (’98 BA, '07 PH) announced the birth of their daughter, Lindy Kaellen Brown. Lindy was born on April 19, 2014.

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’07 Chandan Shankar (’07 JD) was named to the Top

100 Trial Lawyers for Criminal Defense in 2014 and Top 40 Under 40 by National Trial Lawyers.

Mark T. Cummings (’07 JD) graduated from the North Carolina Bar Association’s Leadership Academy.

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’08 Dale St. Clair ‘(08 PH) recently hosted Sen. Mark

Warner at Remedi Senior Care in Virginia. During the senator's visit, Dale was able to share information about health care reform and showcase his center's fully automated pharmacy. Dale is currently the vice president of pharmacy operations and the Virginia general manager for Remedi Senior Care.

Steven Saad (’08 JD) joined Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP to serve as co-chair of its criminal defense practice.

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Lisa Stewart The counselor and coach

Lisa Stewart (’07 MEd) is always challenging herself. That’s why she has participated in rodeos, competed at the

Miss North Carolina pageant, played numerous sports, taught middle and high school, and served as a high school counselor. That’s also what drew her to Campbell University to build a nationally-competitive cheerleading squad.

Since she can remember, Stewart wanted to coach and work with children and youth. So after graduating from Meredith College, where she played softball, and after obtaining a teaching certification from East Carolina University, Stewart began teaching health and physical education at Erwin Middle School.

The Buies Creek native coached the volleyball, girls’ basketball and softball teams the first few years she worked there. But when she saw the cheerleading team struggling, she thought that group needed her more. So she gave up coaching the other sports and became the cheerleading coach. She brought in private cheerleading instructors, attended cheerleading camps with the team, and drew on her experiences in dancing and competing at pageants, including at Miss North Carolina, to rebuild the program.

After a few years at Erwin Middle School, she moved on to Triton High School, where she coached the Hawks’ cheerleading team to two state titles. Inspired by the kind of questions and life advice her students asked in classes, she decided to transition to counseling, leading her to complete a Master of Education in counseling from Campbell University. “I love learning and challenging myself,” she said.

Today, she’s a full-time counselor at Harnett Central High School and the cheerleading coach at Campbell. For most of its history, the Camels cheerleading team just cheered at games and was comprised mainly of women. When Stewart arrived seven years ago, she set several goals: make the squad co-ed, participate in national competitions, and improve each year.

In her second year as coach, the team was coed. In her sixth year, the team participated in the program’s first national competition, at Cheer Ltd’s 2013 Open College Championships in Myrtle Beach, S.C., finishing third in the large coed collegiate division. And as far as getting better each year? That has happened, too. Consider this past March, in only its second competition in program history, at the 2014 Open College Championships, Campbell’s cheerleading team placed second in its division.

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Title: Counselor at Harnett Central High School and head coach of cheerleading at Campbell University

Hometown: Buies Creek

Education: Bachelor’s in sociology, Meredith College; teaching certification in health and physical education, East Carolina University; Master of Education in counseling, Campbell University

Career: Taught physical education and health at Erwin Middle School and Triton High School before becoming a counselor at Coats Erwin Middle School and Harnett Central High School

Why I chose Campbell for graduate school: Location. I was working here in Harnett County, and there was no reason not to attend Campbell. It is an excellent school.

My favorite campus landmark: Carter Gym. Growing up, I went to the basketball camps every year at Campbell, and Carter Gym is where basketball camp was held. As a kid, Carter is where we always played pick-up games on Sunday afternoons. And my first year coaching at Campbell, Carter is where we cheered and practiced. That old gym just brings back a lot of memories.

What I hope students and athletes will see in me: Commitment, work ethic, honesty and fairness. I know sometimes they may not think I’m being fair, but as a coach you have to look out for the best interest of the entire team and not for individual team members. I hope they would see those things in me, and also that with hard work and persistence you can accomplish anything if you commit yourself to it.

Why I’m Campbell Proud: I’m local. I grew up in Buies Creek, and I’ve seen how much the university has grown and the improvements that have been made. That makes me not only Campbell Proud but Buies Creek proud.

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Lynne Castles (’14) has served as the sign language interpreter for James Kearney (’14) since he was in the eighth grade. God

put them together, Castles says, so it was fitting they graduated together.

For most college students, graduation is the most anticipated day imaginable. Their work, sweat and tears have finally paid off in the form of a diploma and the recognition in front of their family and friends. But Kearney had to work harder than most. Kearney is deaf and has lived with spina bifida since birth.

He met Castles in 2004 at Terrell Lane Middle School in Louisburg.

“He was in a special education room that was like the catch-all,” Castles said, still upset a decade later about the situation. “There were deaf kids, there were blind kids, anybody who didn’t fit the regular classroom. He was being really disregarded.”

Kearney was a blessing for Castles as well. She had previously worked at Campbell University as a sign language interpreter, but her previous student had graduated. After Kearney’s graduation from high school, Castles had the chance to return to Campbell once more, this time working with Kearney. She accompanied him to class and translated the lectures into sign language for him.

When Kearney enrolled at Campbell five years ago, Castles continued on as his interpreter. As she went from course to course with him, she decided to finish her own college degree requirements. She had been a student at a community college in Orlando, Florida, in 1986, and taken courses here and there over the past 20 years. The two walked the graduation stage together May 10 – he earning an undergraduate degree in education and she in history. Attending Campbell became a dream for Kearney around 10th grade.

“It was a different life than what I expected,” he said. “This place is nothing like high school. It’s been better. I am way more comfortable than I was in high school. Campbell has changed and improved my life.”

Kearney said he plans to continue his studies if he is accepted into Campbell’s School of Education’s graduate program in counseling. If all goes well, he will attend graduate classes at night and work at the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf in Wilson. “I want to help children,” he said. “I want to learn about the world and how to help them get along in the world.”

Castles is looking to serve as an interpreter for another student and will continue to work with Kearney if he attends graduate school.

—- by Rachel Davis

Student And His Interpreter Both Walk The Stage To Earn Degrees

Lynn Brinkley (’08 MDiv) was ordained on May 4 at First Baptist Church in Clinton. Lynn also graduated May 10 from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass., with her Doctor of Ministry degree.

Jessica Piercy Godfrey (’08 BA) was ordained on April 27, 2014, by First Baptist Church Rutherfordton.

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’09 Patricia Greene (’09 BA) accepted the associate pastor/

minister to families position at First Baptist Church in Rockingham. She is working part time this summer and will begin full time in early September.

Darrena McCulloh (‘09 BA) is an owner/operator with Chick-fil-A in Raleigh.

Kelin Bidelspach (’09 BBA) proposed to Kalyn Owen (’12 BBA) on April 25, 2014, and the wedding is planned the summer of 2015. Both Kelin and Kalyn reside in Plano, Texas, and work in the health care industry.

Matthew H. Richardson (’09 JD) has been honored with the Cumberland County 12th Judicial District Bar Young Lawyer Pro Bono Service Award.

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’10 Capt. Laurel Clemence-Schreiner Spalding

(’10 JD) was awarded the Bronze Star Medal during a recent deployment to Afghanistan as an operational law attorney.

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Katherine Serzan Copeland (’10 PH) and husband Mark joyfully announced the birth of their second daughter, Morgan Elizabeth. She was born on March 27, 2014, and has a big sister named Ava.

Brittany North Midyette (‘10 MBA/BBA) and Kyle R. Midyette (‘10 MBA/BBA) were united in marriage on March 1, 2014, at Finch Chapel in Greensboro.

Catherine Campbell (’10 BA, ’13 MDiv) accepted a position

as the associate minister at Hillyer Memorial Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in downtown Raleigh.

Megan G. West (’10 JD) was named a 2014 Women in Business award winner by Triangle Business Journal.

Kelley Smart (’10 MDiv) and Marci Rollins-Smart (’07 MDiv) proudly announced the birth of their daughter, Kelsie Olivia Smart. She was born on Feb. 4, 2014.

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’11 Paul Burgess (’11 MDiv) accepted a new position as

pastor at Benson Baptist Church in Benson.

Michael LeClair (’11 JD) served as a panelist for the “Under the Wire” CLE seminar, discussing recent developments in FCPA enforcement and ethical considerations during global internal investigations alongside U.S. Attorney Thomas Walker (’90 JD).

Kelly Carter Austin (’11 PH) and Jonathan Austin proudly announced the birth of Dillon Charles Austin, born on June 9, 2014.

Ricky Warren (’11 MDiv) is pastor at Robert’s Grove OFWB Church in Dunn.

Jordan McCray Narron (’11 BBA) and Emery Denny Ashley, Jr. (’11 BBA/ MBA) announced their engagement and will be united in marriage at First Baptist Church this August in Smithfield.

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’12 Michael J. Crook (’12 JD) joined Parker Poe Adams

& Berstein LLP.

Jonathan Bridges (’12 BA, ’14 MS) is assistant director of alumni engagement in Campbell’s Alumni Relations department.

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’13 Andrea Henry Murray (’13 PH) and husband

Jamar announced the birth of their son, Andre Jamar Murray, born Jan. 12, 2014. He joins big sister Marja Murray.

Leslie Underwood Marion (’13 JD) joined Smith Debnam in the firm’s Family Law practice area.

Campbell University’s Alumni Association announced the formation of another new group this spring — the Central Virginia Alumni Chapter, based out of Richmond.

The chapter held its first event in May and will be gathering again in Buies Creek on the weekend of Oct. 18 for Homecoming festivities. All area alumni interested in taking part in the Homecoming events hosted by the CVAC can email [email protected] or call (804) 291-6434.

New Central Virginia alumni chapter

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FROM THE VAULTThe most successful football team in Campbell history? The 1946 North Carolina Junior College champions — the first Campbell squad to take the field following a four-year hiatus for World War II — went 6-1 and outscored their opponents 219-31, with five shutouts (including a 65-0 win over Pembroke).

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