RALEIGH – An annual tradition is the Campbell Business Trust & Wealth Management Program hosting upperclassmen for dinner at 42nd Street Oyster Bar and the hugely popular “A Christmas Carol” at the Duke Energy Center for Performing Arts in Raleigh. This event, made possible due to the generosity of the Trust Education Foundation, Inc., dates back more than a decade and is an annual rite of passage for fifth-year trust majors enrolled in the Campbell Business 4/1 (BBA/MBA) program.
Campbell Business is currently celebrating the 50th year of its Trust & Wealth Management Program, the only such undergraduate program of its kind in the United States.
The chairman of the Department of Financial Planning & Accounting, Jimmy Witherspoon, leads the trust program and is a trust graduate himself.
“The Christmas Carol, the freshmen dinner at Angus Barn, along with the annual junior dinner held at Pinehurst Country Club, and the countless other networking opportunities trust majors are presented with over their years at Campbell are actually some of the reasons for the fierce loyalty of our alumni and our success in placing our graduates,” said Witherspoon. “Our almost 2,000 alumni nationwide know that from literally day one they were made to feel a very special part of the Campbell trust family and that carries over.
“I am so proud of our graduating fifth-year students. After all, years from now they will still be friends, colleagues, the senior managers of some of the nation’s major financial institutions, and will no doubt be hiring and mentoring the Campbell trust majors of tomorrow!”