Fidelity Bank makes major gift to Campbell University

     Fidelity Bank recently donated $100,000 toward the construction of Campbell University’s John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center. Kevin Umstead, senior vice president and regional supervisor for Fidelity, and Jeff Easley, Fidelity’s senior vice president and chief credit officer, recently presented a check to Campbell President Jerry M. Wallace.
     Founded in 1909, Fidelity Bank is a full-service $1 billion financial institution headquartered in Fuquay-Varina, N.C. The bank owns and operates 65 branches in 21 counties throughout North Carolina and Virginia.
     “Campbell University is deeply grateful for this generous contribution,” said Wallace. “The John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center will be a wonderful athletic and cultural resource for Harnett County and Eastern North Carolina.”
     The $30 million center will contain 3,000 fixed seats with a seating capacity of up to 5,000 and house an additional practice floor for basketball and volleyball, a wrestling room and an athletics Hall of Fame. It will also contain a 6,000 square-foot fitness center.
     Billy Woodard, chairman and CEO of Fidelity Bank, said Campbell is a boon to Harnett County.
     “Campbell University is the heart of economic activity in Harnett County. The continued expansion of Campbell’s physical facilities will not only assure the university growth, but provide economic stimulus to Harnett County’s economy,” he said.
     Woodard is a member of Campbell’s Presidential Board of Advisors.



Bulletin 0070-11/08/05