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Winter graduates commended for their perseverance in online ceremony | News

December 14, 2020 Unsurprisingly, perseverance was the theme of Campbell University’s Winter Commencement, a virtual ceremony “attended” by more than 1,600 students and their families on Friday.  Dr. David Hailey, for 24 years the pastor of Hayes Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh and Friday’s commencement speaker, told the 466 graduates that the challenges they’ve faced while finishing their degrees during a global pandemic will only prepare them for the challenges they’ll face in the years ahead.  “What can I say? Life is messy,” said Hailey, whose son David John Hailey is a two-time Campbell graduate. “Sometimes the ball doesn’t bounce your way, and sometimes the cookie crumbles. The question is, ‘What do you do then?’ When everything falls apart, when the world tumbles around you, when your carefully scripted plans go rogue … do you just throw up your hands in exasperation and cry out, ‘What’s the use?’ Do you get angry, throw down your cards

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