CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ONE HUNDRED & THIRTY-SECOND SPRING COMMENCEMENT MAY 11, 2018 I 10:00 A.M. NORMAN ADRIAN WIGGINS SCHOOL OF LAW CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ONE HUNDRED & THIRTY-SECOND SPRING COMMENCEMENT & NORMAN ADRIAN WIGGINS SCHOOL OF LAW FORTIETH COMMENCEMENT ERIDAY, MAY 11, 2018 10:00 A.M. MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM DUKE ENERGY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA JESUS, SAVIOR, PILOT ME PSALM 1 J.A. Campbell opened Buies Creek Academy January 5, 1887 in a small room at the local Baptist church. Sixteen students, ranging from ages 6 to 21, showed up for classes, while five older boys helped build a schoolhouse nearby. Campbell was ecstatic. As smdents entered the makeshift classroom, he greeted each one: "Well, well. You've come to school! Now, I wonder if you can spell by heart?" Then he led them in singing one of his favorite \\Ymns, Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me. Afterward, he read aloud Psalm 1. For as long as J.A Campbell lived, the school began each new ABOUT CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY academic year with the singing of stablished in 1887 as an degree. The Doctor of Pharmacy the hymn and the reading of the academy with a charter-class degree was approved in 1985 with passage. Eenrollment of 16 students, the establishment of the School of Campbell University has developed Pharmacy, now called the College of into a major university with more Pharmacy & Health Sciences. ALMA MATER than 6,500 students. Students hail We hail our gracious Alma Mater from throughout North Carolina, The Campbell University Divinity Singing this glad refrain the United States and from around School was established on October We'll honor her with all our the world. 25, 1995, and enrolled the founding might, And cherish every vein. class in August 1996. In 2009, the Established as a liberal arts college, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Chorus which initially awarded associate Law relocated to downtown Raleigh, Come and sing to dear ol' and bachelor degrees, the academic becoming the first law school in the Campbell, Pledge a tribute, too. program of Campbell University was capital city. The Jerry M. Wallace We'll praise her for all her merit, greatly expanded in 1976 when the School of Osteopathic Medicine And honor her with truth. trustees authorized the establishment welcomed its first class in 2013, of graduate programs in education followed by the Catherine W. Wood We yield to her our true allegiance. and business and the awarding of the School of Nursing in 2014 and the Raising her banner high. Master of Education and Master of School of Engineering in the fall of We'll stand with her thru peace Business Administration degrees. 2016. and strife, Her name will never die. Jimmy Elton Tutor '65 Doctoral programs were authorized Because of the University's strategic by the trustees in 1976 with the location, Campbell provides establishment of the Norman additional campus educational Adrian Wiggins School of Law and opportunities at Fort Bragg/Pope, the awarding of the Juris Doctor Camp Lejeune/New River, Raleigh, 2 CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ABOUT THE PRESIDENTS J. BRADLEY CREED (2015-current) An accomplished scholar and historian of religion, he became Campbell University's fifth president on July 1, 2015. Prior to coming to Campbell, he served as the provost at Samford University and associate dean and professor of Christian History at the George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University. A Jacksonville, Texas, native. Dr. Creed received a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Baylor University as well as Master of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Under his leadership, Campbell has continued to thrive, implementing a multi-year strategic plan, which includes strengthening support for student scholarships and the construction of a new student union. JERRY MCLAIN WALLACE (2003-2015) An ordained Baptist minister and longtime Campbell administrator, he oversaw a physical transformation and Online. In keeping with the of main campus and the addition of five new health University's commitment to global programs, including a medical school. education, Campbell students enroll in international programs in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America. NORMAN ADRLAJM WIGGINS (1967-2003) Currently, more than 200 students A 1948 Campbell College graduate and a Wake are enrolled in a Campbell degree Forest Law School graduate, he led efforts to found program at Tunku Abdul Rahman the law, education, pharmacy and divinity schools University College in Kuala Lumpur, and achieve university status. Malaysia. Campbell is committed to the LESLIE HARTWELL CAMPBELL mission of providing its students (1934-1967) with a Christian worldview and a A 1908 Buies Creek Academy graduate, he taught charge to be "the salt of the earth math and served as dean before succeeding his father and the light of the world." Open and leading the school through World War II and its to all qualified students, Campbell's transformation to a four-year college. student-body includes persons from multiple faith traditions. JAMES ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL Campbell has been led by five (1887-1934) presidents: James A. Campbell, A Baptist minister who founded Buies Creek Leslie H. Campbell, Norman Adrian Academy at age 25, he kept the school alive after Wiggins, Jerry M. Wallace and the a fire destroyed nearly all of campus and through current president, J. Bradley Creed. World War I and the Great Depression. SPRING COMMENCEMENT 3 FACULTY THE ACADEMIC PROCESSION MARSHAL The centuries-old pageantry of the academic procession dates from ancient Michael B. Kent traditions rooted in the early universities. Since the first academic ceremonies Associate Professor of Law were predominantly the charge of clergy, they followed the familiar order of the religious procession: the younger and newer groups preceded the older. MACE The highest honor was to be placed at the end of the procession. BEARER This morning's academic procession, in order of appearance, is as follows: Timothy R. Zinnecker • Mace Bearer and Faculty Marshal Professor of Law • Candidates for the Degree of Juris Doctor • Faculty of the Norman A. Wiggins School of Law • Platform Party CLASS OF 2018 The total number of candidates for degrees conferred during the 2017-2018 academic year is 1629. A total of 1258 students (715 undergraduate and 543 graduate and professional) are participating in commencement this graduation season. The candidates for undergraduate degrees include 23 Associate in Arts, 2 Associates in Science, 39 Bachelor of Applied Science, 9 Bachelor of Health Science, 175 Bachelor of Business Administration, 325 Bachelor of Science, 13 Bachelor of Social Work, 85 Bachelor of Arts, and 44 Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Of the graduate and professional candidates, there are 47 Master of Business Administration, 4 Master of Trust and Wealth Management, 8 Master of Education, 7 Master of School Administration, 3 Master of Arts, 3 Master of Arts in Christian Ministry, 18 Master of Divinity, 4 Doctor of Ministry, 66 Master of Science, 112 Doctor of Pharmacy, 1 Doctor of Physical Therapy, 124 Juris Doctor, and 146 Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degrees. The University's program at Tunku Abdul Rahman University College in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia conferred 105 bachelor degrees in October 2017. ABOUT THE LAW SCHOOL Since its founding in 1976, Campbell Law School has developed lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion and professional competence, and who view the law as a calling to serve others. The school has twice received the Gambrell Professionalism Award from the American Bar Association, honoring its First-Year Professionalism Development Series in 2003 and the Connections mentorship program in 2016. The school has also been recognized by the American Academy of Trial Lawyers for having the nation's best Trial Advocacy Program. Campbell Law boasts more than 4,000 alumni, including more than 3,100 who reside and work in North Carolina. In September 2009, Campbell Law relocated to a state-of-the-art building in downtown Raleigh. 4 CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY THE HONORABLE ROD ROSENSTEIN United States Deputy Attorney General he Honorable Rod General's Honors Program in Division, the U.S. Attorney's Offices Rosenstein serves as the 1990, Rosenstein prosecuted public and the Internal Revenue Service. T37th United States Deputy corruption cases as a trial attorney He also oversaw civil litigation and Attorney General in our nation's with the Public Integrity Section served as the acting head of the Tax history. President Donald J. Trump of the Criminal Division. He then Division when the Assistant Attorney nominated Rosenstein in January of served as Counsel to the Deputy General was unavailable, and he last year, and the Senate confirmed Attorney General (1993 - 1994), personally briefed and argued federal his nomination 94-6 the following Special Assistant to the Criminal civil appeals. April. Rosenstein was sworn in later Division's Assistant Attorney General that month by Attorney General Jeff (1994 - 1995), and Associate Rosenstein served as the United Sessions. As the Deputy Attorney Independent Counsel (1995 to States Attorney for the District General, Rosenstein oversees the 1997). of Maryland from 2005 to 2017. day-to-day operations of the U.S. He oversaw federal criminal and Department of Justice. In 1997, Rosenstein became an civil litigation and developed and Assistant U.S. Attorney in Maryland. implemented federal law enforcement Rosenstein graduated from the He prosecuted cases in the U.S. strategies in Maryland. During his Wharton School of the University District Court and briefed and tenure as U.S. Attorney, Rosenstein of Pennsylvania, with a B.S. in argued appeals in the U.S. Court served on the Washington/Baltimore Economics, summa cum laude, of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. High-Intensity Drug Trafficking in 1986. He earned his J.D. cum He also coordinated the credit card Area Task Force and on the Attorney laude in 1989 from Harvard Law fraud and international assistance General's Advisory Committee.