Alumni Awards

When Donald Lambeth graduated from High Point University in 1972, he applied for a job as cost accountant at North Carolina Baptist Hospital. Since then, he has held sixteen different positions at the hospital, all of which were offered to him. He eventually worked his way up to the role of the hospital president, but he prides himself on knowing employees of all levels; everyone knows him as “Donny.”

An innovative leader, he worked to get the top administration involved with the employees by spending a minimum of eight hours a week doing rounds on the hospital floors. Donny was also the leader in the campaign that has resulted in a $100 million hospital in Davie County built by Wake Forest Baptist, the largest investment in Davie County history.

This past May, Donny retired from the hospital after forty years and is currently running for the North Carolina House of Representatives. Despite his involvement in the hospital and the election, he is very involved in giving back to the community.

Education is a passion for Donny. He has been reelected every four years as the Chairman of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board since 1994. Under his guidance, Winston-Salem public schools have largely avoided the controversies that have marked other large urban districts. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Hospital Association and is a leader of the United Way campaign.

Donny and his wife Pam, also a High Point alum, are leaders in their church, Hopewell Moravian. They were delighted when their daughter Kristen graduated from HPU in 2010.

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Gary Meyn ’80

Since graduating from High Point University in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education, Gary Meyn has been dedicated to the healthcare field. He volunteered in a New York hospital physical therapy wing, and later in patient care as a Physical Therapy Assistant in the U.S. Army and Air Force Reserves. After earning his Master’s in Health Services Management from Webster University in Texas, Gary began managerial work in the healthcare field, all while continuing nonprofit volunteer work.

Gary’s involvement in volunteer work helped him obtain an election into the Executive Service Corps Board. Gary has also been a member of the prominent South Texas Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives. His dedication to the organization and skill in management led to board positions, invitations to leadership conferences, as well as his Chapter’s highest award in 2009.

Gary has held many positions in healthcare, including president and founder of Medical Assessment Services, Inc. In August Gary accepted the position with Hill County Memorial Hospital as the Director of Physician Services. Prior to this position, he was Business Administrator for the Department of Orthopaedics and the Division of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio for over 8 years. Gary feels that his participation in these worthy organizations has enriched his career and life and is a tribute to High Point University, which provided him with a base of knowledge with which to grow.

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When the Reverend Nancy McLean began attending High Point University’s master’s program, she had a dream. Nancy took notice of homeless high school students in Guilford County and wondered how they found places to study and where they stayed at night. She began working on her plans in classes, developing a business plan for non-profit organizations and writing a term paper on fundraising.

Slowly, with the help and encouragement of High Point professors and fellow classmates, her dream became a reality with Joseph’s House. The only shelter of its kind in the area, Joseph’s House is a faith-based nonprofit organization that relies heavily on the generosity of its partners and donors to continue its mission of mentoring Guilford County’s young men towards productive and self-sufficient lives. In 2005, a year before her graduation, Nancy began Joseph’s House out of her own home. The program is now located on Bessemer Avenue in Greensboro and offers food, shelter, employment training, clothes, and counseling to youths aged 18 to 23 in the Triad. After growing up in Greensboro, Nancy traveled with her husband while he was on active duty in the US Air Force. Along the way, she earned an Associate Degree from Western Oklahoma State College, a Bachelor of Social Work from NC A&T, and finally a Master of Public Administration from High Point University. Nancy’s passion for helping others as well as her devotion to her hometown led her to return here and begin Joseph’s House.

In the past six years, many youth have found help and guidance here. One such young man is Terrance Mosley, who found himself homeless going into his senior year of high school and had to drop out. With the help of Joseph’s House, Terrance was able to not only graduate, but to get a job and earn enough money for his own apartment.

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Despite graduating from High Point University only a decade ago, David Gouge Bain already has an impressive list of accomplishments.

As a student, David double majored in political science and philosophy, yet still found time to participate in the Student Government Association and serve as a resident director and University Ambassador.

In 2005, just three years after his graduation, he earned a commission in the United States Marine Corp. David then attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law before reporting to the Basic School in 2007.

David married in 2008 before deploying in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as a military transition team advisor to the Iraqi Army in Mosul, Iraq. While overseas, he led 45 combat missions and integrated U.S. forces into the Iraqi Army’s Mosu; operations. He received the Navy Commendation Medal and a letter of commendation from Vice Admiral McHaven, US Navy. David returned from Iraq in 2010, just in time for his daughter Lexi’s first birthday and the birth of his second daughter, Catie. David deployed again in 2011 and is currently a Testing and Evaluations Officer at the Marine Corps Systems Command. Because of his continued commitment to his career, the High Point University Alumni Association is please to present this award to David Bain.

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