Click here for photos from the 2024 Legacy Luncheon & Pinning Ceremony
More than 120 Camels joined the annual Legacy Luncheon & Pinning Ceremony on Friday, Aug. 16, the largest Legacy event since the Alumni Association began hosting it in 2016.
A Campbell Legacy is a student whose parent, grandparent, or sibling graduated from Campbell. The Alumni Association holds the luncheon in gratitude of these families who demonstrate an appreciation for their Campbell degree and have instilled the desire for learning and higher education into their families.
The annual pinning ceremony, held about halfway through the luncheon, is a visual and symbolic representation of that passing-of-the-torch. Legacy family members were encouraged to install the legacy pin onto their new Campbell student, officially extending their Campbell family.
The ceremony also recognized winners of the Alumni Association Legacy Scholarship. Seven students were selected by the Alumni Association Board of Directors scholarship committee after an application process that included essays by more than 60 legacy students.
The winners were:
- Freddie Adams, ’27P – College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
- Bryanna Alpizar, ’25 – College of Arts & Sciences
- Caleb Fisher, ’25L – Norman A. Wiggins School of Law
- Kinsleigh Newkirk, ’26 – School of Education & Human Sciences
- Yared Duncan, ’28B – Lundy-Fetterman School of Business
- Angela Steen, ’26 – School of Engineering
- Karie Turley, ’28O – Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine
Yared Duncan was one of the freshman scholarship winners in attendance at the luncheon. A native of Ethiopia, Duncan has followed members of his adopted family to Campbell, where he’ll study Trust and Wealth Management.
“This major excites me a lot as it is the only one of its kind for undergraduate education in the U.S.,” he wrote in his scholarship essay. “Another compelling part of this major is that the knowledge I gain from it will help me in achieving one of my biggest aspirations: to return to Ethiopia and help the people of my hometown of Wuchale.”
Several of the scholarship winners demonstrated through their essays how they “Lead with Purpose” – a core Campbell tenant. Yared stated he has “high ambitions for serving and high regard for academics” and will positively contribute to the Campbell and Buies Creek communities before fulfilling his ultimate goals.
“I hope to provide [Wuchale residents] with basic necessities as well as help build the local economy and infrastructure,” he said. “The financial knowledge I gain from being a Trust student will help me to set up funds for my missions as well as to execute my investment into the community properly.”
Click here to learn more about the Legacy Luncheon and how the Alumni Association celebrates its Campbell legacy families. To make a gift in support of the Legacy Scholarship, go to give.campbell.edu, select “other” in the “please give my gift to” field, and type “Legacy Scholarship” in the designation field.