UMO graduation is scheduled for May 7
By From staff reports
Published in News on April 17, 2016 1:45 AM
MOUNT OLIVE -- The University of Mount Olive will graduate approximately 375 students on Saturday, May 7, during a 2 p.m. commencement exercise in the George and Annie Dail Kornegay Arena.
A baccalaureate service will beheld at 10:30 a.m. in the Southern Bank Auditorium with the Rev. Chris Turner as speaker.
UMO alumnus Henry Edmund will be the commencement speaker.
Edmund grew up on a farm in Columbus County and attended Southeastern Community College for two years after graduating from high school.
However, he never completed his degree. Instead he decided to pursue a job in the banking industry. He worked for 27 years before deciding to return to school to complete his degree and climb the corporate ladder.
Edmund graduated cum laude from UMO in 2001 with a degree in business management and organizational development.
Edmund began his banking career working as a loan collector with First Citizens Bank. He worked with the bank in Raleigh, New Bern, Mt. Airy and Whiteville and eventually became senior vice president.
After 33 years of working with First Citizens, he changed jobs and went to work with Security Savings Bank in Southport as a senior vice president and later became the president and CEO of the bank.
Edmund is now retired after completion of a successful merger between NewBridge Bank and Security Savings. He attributes his professional success to the education that he received from UMO.
Edmund is a 2016 recipient of The Order of the Long Leaf Pine.
Turner is a native of Mount Olive and graduated from Southern Wayne High School in 2002.
He graduated from Wake Forest University in 2006 with a bachelor of arts in religion and later graduated from Campbell University Divinity School in 2010 with a master's degree in divinity.
He is currently seeking his doctorate in ministry at Campbell Divinity.