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Founders Day 2014: LWC Community celebrates change Over 400 get inside updates from President Luckey, Trustee Jim Fugitte, and inspiring keynote address from LWC graduate Bruce Harris Click on headline for complete story, with photo(s) COLUMBIA, KY - The transformative power of higher education was on display Thursday night, April 24, 2014, at Lindsey Wilson College as the liberal arts college celebrated its annual Founders’ Day Dinner. Trustee James R. Fugitte: Change happens here "Change happens here," Lindsey Wilson trustee James R. Fugitte of Elizabethtown, KY, said in his role as Founders' Day Dinner master of ceremonies. "It happens when young people have the opportunity to study, be inspired, be nurtured and be challenged to change what they see in the world needs changing. They are able to do that because of the contributions each one of you make." In addition to recognizing the college's top donors at the Founders' Day Dinner in Roberta D. Cranmer Dining & Conference Center, academic excellence was recognized at Honors Convocation and the Lindsey Wilson Board of Trustees held its spring meeting. At the Founders' Day Dinner, Fugitte reminded the guests that they were the reason LWC has added more than $50 million of capital projects over the last decade. "It's you that permit these lives to be influenced at Lindsey Wilson in the way that they are," he said. "It's you that has underwritten this college from such a small institution 50-60 years ago to this tremendously thriving and prosperous place that you see in front of you today." President Luckey: Liberal arts college has thrived because it is authentic LWC President William T. Luckey Jr. said another reason the liberal arts college has thrived is because it is authentic. "I don't know of any place that's more authentic than Lindsey Wilson College," said Luckey, who has been the college's eighth president since 1998. "We're not trying to be somebody else. We love our jobs, we love our students, we love our mission, and we love each other. Simply put, we're family." Fugitte said that the Lindsey Wilson mission is another critical ingredient in the college's success. "It's about the mission, touching students every day, and the commitment that faculty and staff ... have to embracing and nurturing young people," he said. Keynoter Bruce Harris: LWC put a little fire in your belly One of those students whose life was changed by the Lindsey Wilson community was alumnus Bruce Harris of Birmingham, AL, who gave this year's Founders' Day Dinner keynote address. Harris said that LWC "put a little fire in your belly." Harris said he learned during his four years as an LWC undergraduate that "whatever was out there could be yours -- your destiny was not determined by circumstance, and you didn't have to be a victim to it." After Harris graduated from LWC in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in biology with minor in chemistry and Christian ministries, he earned a doctorate of pharmacy from Samford (Ala.) University, where he attended its McWhorter School of Pharmacy. Harris urged the Founders' Day Dinner crowd to continue to "invest in the lives of young people." "To invest in an institution that is making a difference in the lives of young people, to invest in an institution that wants to know the story behind the student ... is one of the greatest things you can do," said Harris, who is is a professional affairs specialist with Alabama-based American Pharmacy Cooperative Inc. Harris said that it was at LWC where he discovered the "kindness of God." "It couldn't be more true than it was in my own life, than here at this place, on this campus, on this hill that the kindness of God was made real, that his love and his kingdom were made known to me, and it made all the difference in the world," he said. This story was posted on 2014-04-25 06:52:38
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