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Zachary Tyler Emory (Forest City, N.C.), who earned a Master of Divinity/Master of Arts in pastoral ministries, offered the invocation. Sydney Grace Davis (Granite Falls, N.C.), who earned a Bachelor of Science in mathematics, and Julia Katelyn Deserio (Pacolet, S.C.), who received a Bachelor of Music, provided the scripture readings. Gardner-Webb's president, Dr. Frank Bonner, presided over his fi nal graduation ceremony before retiring in 2019 and gave the commencement message. He has served the University for more than three decades in total and as president for 13 years. In his address, Bonner refl ected on his time at Gardner-Webb, quoted portions of his 2006 inaugural speech and described how he was experiencing similar feelings as the graduates on their monumental day. "You and I are concluding an important phase in our lives, while anticipating the very important next phase," Bonner said. "I have been where you are, so I know what it is like to refl ect on the college experience—both undergraduate and graduate—and furthermore in a real sense I am accountable for the quality of your experience." He encouraged the graduates to follow what New York Times columnist and Yale professor, David Brooks, calls "The Road to Character." "Brooks quotes Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: 'the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart,'" Bonner shared. "At Gardner-Webb you have been exposed regularly to a sacred purpose and given innumerable opportunities to express it in action and I hope it has taken hold." Bonner continued, "That sacred purpose is found on this seal in front of you, and so that it will stay in front of you, the seal is also found on your well-earned diploma. For God and Humanity. Pro Deo et Humanitate. Serving God by serving humanity. A sacred purpose indeed." 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"They gave it to fi ve of us, and I was the only survivor," said the now-55-year-old Texan, who cites the experience as a reason for running the full marathon benefi ting St. Jude. "Anything I can do to help kids is something I want to do. God saved me for a reason." While Eversull was among the oldest St. Jude survivors running, 8-year-olds Kinlee Johnson and Alexander Bolding are new to their journey. They became best friends a year ago while undergoing treatment for medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumor. "We're so excited to be part of this," Kinlee's mom, Nicole Johnson, said. "St. Jude has been the biggest blessing for me, because they saved my daughter's life." "They're a package deal," Alexander's mom, Jillian Bolding, said. Because they used wheelchairs part of the way on the 5K, the two youngsters were the fi rst participants out on the course. Diagnosed last November, Kinlee underwent 30 rounds of proton therapy at St. Jude, which has the world's only proton therapy center dedicated just to children, and four months of chemo to treat her brain tumor. Like Alexander, she's fi nished treatment but is struggling to get stronger. "I'm bringing her wheelchair, but she's going to walk as much as her little heart will let her," Kinlee's mom said. "She still has a long road ahead of her." Along that road, she'll fi nd Eversull, who came to St. Jude decades earlier and completed his fi fth marathon. Long after his treatment ended, Eversull became one of the fi rst to sign up for the St. Jude LIFE Study, which tracks the health of childhood cancer survivors to help them deal with further problems and provides researchers insight into the late effects of treatment. "It's good to help other kids," he said. Among the record 26,000 runners, nearly 1,000 entrants were St. Jude patients or family members and friends. Many wore an armband—yellow for those in treatment or survivors and purple to honor deceased patients. The involvement of patients and their families is one of the distinguishing components of the annual St. Jude race. Another is the jaunt that runners take through the hospital's 65-acre campus, where staff, caregivers and patients, many of them in wheelchairs, line the course waving pom- poms and signs and ringing cowbells. The race is the largest single-day fund- raiser for St. Jude, generating some $11.2 million. The money helps St. Jude treat children with cancer and other catastrophic childhood diseases for which families never receive a bill for treatment, travel, housing or food, and it supports research that has helped boost survival rates for childhood cancer from 20 percent when St. Jude opened in 1962 to 80 percent today. This year's participants came from 45 states and six countries. Some 6,500 were "St. Jude Heroes," meaning they raised money on their own for the race. • Tom Charlier is a writer for ALSAC, the fund-raising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He previously worked as a journalist in Memphis for more than 25 years. Winning Attitudes by Tom Charlier Nearly 1,000 former patients and family members participating in the 2018 St. Jude Memphis Marathon give other runners a unique, emotional lift across the fi nish line. Email to Email to events@rutherfordweekly.com events@rutherfordweekly.com or or www.rutherfordweekly.com www.rutherfordweekly.com to submit online. to submit online. Have interesting news about your business or organization? Email it to us! Email it to us! 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