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Campbell Holds Spring Commencement Exercises
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Wake Forest Provost Emeritus Edwin
Graves Wilson delivers the commencement
address at Campbell University.
photo by Bennett
Scarborough |
A total of 734 graduates received degrees at
Campbell University’s spring commencement exercises held Monday, May
10, but as commencement speaker Edwin Graves Wilson pointed out, it
is their name that will become their most prized possession.
Speaking from a platform in front of Campbell’s historic
D. Rich Memorial Building, the longtime professor of British poetry and
provost emeritus of Wake Forest University called a name the essence of
one’s self.
“You are young and vibrant, but your name is already
peculiarly and irrevocably your own,” he said. “Around your name has
already formed a cluster of opinion and evaluation.”
Wilson added that man could embody truth. “The name that
is yours becomes the living, breathing person that you are so that when
your name is read, it means truth,” he said.
Campbell University also bestowed several other honors
during the graduation ceremony, including two Algernon Sydney Sullivan
awards and three honorary degrees. Harry Womble, the president of
Goldston’s Beach, Inc., near White Lake, NC, received the Algernon
Sydney Sullivan Award for his contributions to his community. Womble, a
Campbell trustee, served on the boards of Bladen County Hospital, the
Town of White Lake, and the North Carolina National Bank.
Biochemistry major Cheryl Lynne Storer also received the
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for outstanding student achievement.
Storer, who maintained an overall grade point average of 3.97,
participated in many extracurricular activities and worked as a resident
assistant and an instructor in the chemistry lab.
Tony Cartledge, editor and president of the state’s
largest Baptist publication, the Biblical Recorder, received an
honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. Cartledge was recognized for his
role in fostering a spirit of growth and unity in the Baptist community.
Cartledge delivered Sunday’s baccalaureate address.
Ronald H. Small, chief of pharmacy at Wake Forest
University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC, received an
honorary Doctor of Science degree. Small also serves as an adjunct
professor for the Campbell University School of Pharmacy and the
University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy. He was the keynote
speaker at the School of Pharmacy hooding service on Sunday.
Commencement speaker Edwin Graves Wilson, who received a
Doctor of Humane Letters, is a longtime friend and colleague of Campbell
President Dr. Jerry Wallace. He spent over 50 years at Wake Forest as an
English professor and an administrator. Prior to being named provost in
1967, Wilson served as assistant dean and dean of Wake Forest, and as
vice president for Special Projects. He recently received the
University’s highest honor, the Medallion of Merit.
Dr. Allen Schuyler, Sr., pastor of Candlewyck Baptist
Church in Charlotte, NC, delivered the invocation at the service, and
the Reverend John Gray Hamilton, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in
Rochelle, IL, delivered the benediction. Schuyler is the father of
graduate Lindsay Schuyler and Hamilton is the father of graduate Stephen
Hamilton.
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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