Celebrating Emerging Writers - Methodist University
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Office of <strong>University</strong> Relations<br />
5400 Ramsey Street • Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311-1498<br />
(800) 488-7110 • (910) 630-7043 • FAX (910) 630-7253<br />
www.methodist.edu<br />
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br />
PAM MCEVOY<br />
December 12, 2010 DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLICATIONS<br />
MU HOSTS 39th ANNUAL WINTER COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY<br />
FAYETTEVILLE, NC—<strong>Methodist</strong> <strong>University</strong> will celebrate its 39th Annual Winter<br />
Commencement Ceremony Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, at 2 p.m. in the March F. Riddle Center.<br />
There are currently 225 candidates for graduation.<br />
United States Army R.O.T.C. cadet, John Moore, will be commissioned during the<br />
ceremony.<br />
The day’s events will begin with a baccalaureate service at 10:30 a.m. in Reeves<br />
Auditorium. The Rev. H. Gray Southern, superintendent of the North Carolina Conference<br />
Durham District will deliver the baccalaureate sermon.<br />
Rev. Southern has been selected by the conference delegation to the General and<br />
Southeastern Jurisdictional Conferences as their nominee to be elected a bishop in The United<br />
<strong>Methodist</strong> Church.<br />
Rev. Southern is in his fifth year as the Durham District superintendent where he has<br />
supervisory, mentoring, and coaching responsibilities.<br />
In addition to being a district superintendent, Rev. Southern has served as an associate<br />
pastor at St. Paul in Goldsboro and senior pastor at Oriental, West Nash in Wilson, Trinity in<br />
Durham, and St. James in Greenville. He and his wife, Susan, have two children.<br />
Rev. Southern received his BA in psychology and religion from UNC-Chapel Hill,<br />
divinity degree from Yale Divinity School, and D.Min from Columbia Theological Seminary.<br />
This year’s commencement speaker is Kent C. Nelson, retired chairman and chief<br />
executive officer (CEO) of United Parcel Service (UPS). He held this position from November<br />
1989 to December 1996. He continued to serve on the Board until 2002 when he stepped down<br />
and ended 43 years of service with the company.<br />
Under his tenure as Chairman and CEP, UPS made major investments to broaden its<br />
global position and its leadership role in logistic services. Significant among Mr. Nelson’s<br />
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