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Wallace Receives Yearbook Dedication
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Dr. Jerry Wallace, left, receives Campbell's
yearbook
dedication at the annual Publications
Day. Also
pictured are left to right, Dr. Wallace’s
wife, Betty,
SGA President Jeff Lail, and Anne
Daniecki, yearbook
advisor. Photo by Bennett Scarborough
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Dr. Jerry McLain Wallace, who was recently
inaugurated as the fourth president of Campbell University, received
an additional honor Thursday, April 22, when the 2004 edition of the
Campbell yearbook, the Pine Burr, was dedicated to him.
The honor was presented at the annual Publications Day
event in which staff members of campus publications, including The
Campbell Times, The Lyricist, and the Pine Burr are
recognized for outstanding achievement.
“I’m deeply honored and gratified by this recognition
today,” said Wallace. “Campbell University is our heart and our life and
nothing has described it over the past 117 years better or more clearly
than the record of the Pine Burr. I congratulate those persons on
that staff as well as the others who have been recognized here today for
telling the story of Campbell by way of experience and by way of
chronology. This has been a wonderful year. I want to thank you for all
of the things you have done to make it so, and you can be assured that
we are working hard every day to say the best is yet to be for Campbell
University.”
In his introductory remarks, Dr. Dwaine Greene, vice
president for Academic Affairs and provost, explained that the yearbook
was dedicated to Wallace not because of his position but because of a
34-year history of teaching, mentoring, and distinguished service to the
university.
Wallace joined the Campbell faculty in 1970 as an
adjunct professor; then from 1975 to 1981, he served as chairman of the
Department of Religion and Philosophy and Tyner Professor of Religion.
He was later named dean of the university and director of Graduate
Studies; then appointed vice president of Academic Affairs and provost,
where he served from 1984 to 2001.
After stepping away from the provost position, Wallace
served as a special assistant to President Norman A. Wiggins and as the
James R. Coates Professor of Religion and Society in the Campbell
Divinity School. He was elected president of Campbell University on May
29, 2003.
“Since 1979, when Campbell received university status,
the growth, expansion, influence and broad reach of the university are
probably unparalleled by universities in North Carolina,” Greene said.
“Much of that credit is due to the person to whom the yearbook is
dedicated today.”
Among Wallace’s many accomplishments are creative
leadership of the university’s six schools; developing a highly
successful, department-based recruiting program; shaping a Pastors’
School as an annual retreat for pastors that promotes fellowship, study,
and spiritual renewal; and being a leading figure in the university’s
extended campus and international programs.
A native of Rockingham, NC, Wallace graduated from East
Carolina University with a bachelor’s degree in English and government.
He went on to receive Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Theology
degrees from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition, he
received a master’s degree in sociology and a Doctor of Education from
North Carolina State University.
Founded in 1887, Campbell University is North Carolina’s
second largest private institution of higher education and the second
largest Baptist university in the world. Located in Buies Creek, NC,
just east of the center of the state, Campbell combines academic
excellence and Christian commitment.
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