Buies Creek – Campbell University awarded the 2007 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award to Brigadier General Susan Lawrence at the commencement ceremony Monday, May 14, 2007.The award is named in honor of Algernon Sydney Sullivan, a nineteenth century New York lawyer, philanthropist, and mediator who gave selflessly to help his fellow man. In the late 1920’s, the New York Southern Society, of which Sullivan had been the first president, began to award deserving students and outstanding citizens at colleges and universities in the South. Since 1934, the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation has continued to help students and worthy institutions across the South.Brigadier General Susan Lawrence graduated from Campbell University in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, then continued her education at the University of Georgia, the Army War College, and the Army Command and General Staff College.Initially commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1979, following a series of promotions, in 2000, she assumed command of the 7th Signal Brigade in Germany. In her current assignment as Director of Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems at the U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base, General Lawrence is responsible for providing communications and information systems for U.S. forces operating in Afghanistan, Iraq and 25 other countries in the command’s area of operations. She has recently been selected to take over as Commanding General, 5th Signal Command/Deputy of Staff, G-06, United States Army Europe and Seventh Army, Germany.The 2007 student recipient of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award was Robert J. Braxton of New Bern, North Carolina. Braxton graduated summa cum lade with a major in Trust and Investment Management/Pre-Law with a minor in financial planning. He will be entering the University of Florida’s Frederic G. Levin College of Law in Gainesville, Florida.
Brigadier General Lawrence receives Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award at Campbell