The News and Observer
Law Students Vary in Age, Experiences
August 31, 1976
BUIES CREEK - Edward L. Huggins clutched a large manila envelop to his side and inched his way down the long registration table. Nodding politely at the woman behind the table and occasionally stopping to tug at his immaculate pin-stripped suit coat, he moved along the line to collect receipts, cafeteria tickets, and parking permits.
Edward Huggins is 56 years old with a long Navy career already behind him. He is married, has raised a family and, in the four years since he left the Navy, has dabbled in real estate. But, after more than 20 years of exciting travel and ordering other men around, Huggins became restless. He found that real estate offered little challenge and that life, at 56, was pretty much at a standstill.
On Monday, Huggins and 97 other men and women of similar persuasion became first-year law students in Campbell College's first law school program. Most of the new students have been away from the academic scene for several years. Most have acquired jobs, wives or husbands, and started a family. Many have assumed the debts and other trappings of the working class.
Only a very few of the students beginning the arduous task of becoming a lawyer are straight from the ranks of undergraduate schools.
Monday's registration was the easy part of a long, three year uphill climb for the men and women who are being trained under Campbell's unique program to become legal general practitioners for the rural South.
Brenda Follmer, Law Students Vary in Age, Experiences, The News and Observer, August 31, 1976.
August 1976 - At the end of student orientation, Senator Robert Morgan addressed the first class of Campbell Law at a banquet in Buies Creek.
"The Campbell tradition is why expectations are so great for the law school here. For in the case of the lawyer, integrity and competence must be combined if we are to have the respect of our neighbors. Honesty and professionalism must, in the attorney life, be as inseparable as the wind that blows and the tree that is blown. We cannot have one without the other."
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