HPU Welcomes New Members to Board of Trustees
HIGH POINT, N.C., Oct. 23, 2024 – High Point University recently welcomed two new members to its Board of Trustees. The new trustees are as follows:
North Carolina Rep. Donny Lambeth
Lambeth, the former CEO and president of Wake Forest Baptist Health and HPU’s 2012 Alumnus of the Year, is known for his work as a lawmaker working to improve North Carolina residents’ access to health care.
Lambeth’s first full-time job after graduating from HPU in 1972 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration was in Wake Forest Baptist’s accounting department. He earned his MBA at Wake Forest University and was promoted through the ranks during his 40 years with the hospital, eventually serving as its president and CEO for four years. He currently is CEO of 437 Logistics Inc., a family-based contractor that provides home pickup and delivery services for Fed Ex.
Lambeth has chaired the North Carolina House Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services and served on other committees, including education, commerce, job development and regulatory reform. Lambeth was elected to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board five consecutive times and served as its chair. He also chaired the North Carolina March of Dimes and served on local boards, including the United Way and Chamber of Commerce. Through the years, he received numerous awards and recognitions, including being named one of the region’s most influential leaders by the Triad Business Journal from 2006-13 and as Person of the Year in 2019 by The Kernersville News.
He was married for 50 years to the late Pam Gobble Lambeth, who was also an HPU graduate. The couple has four daughters, Kathryn L. Brann, Karrie L. Tuttle, Carly L. Johnson and Kristen Lambeth, and seven grandchildren.
David S. Congdon
Congdon is executive chairman of Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc., one of the nation’s largest LTL transportation companies. He began his career in 1971 as a dockworker learning and taking on roles with increased responsibilities until leading the company as its president from May 1997 until May 2015 and CEO from 2008 until May 2018. Congdon has been recognized over the years for his many contributions to the freight and logistics industry, his local community and HPU.
The David S. Congdon School of Entrepreneurship became North Carolina’s first private school of entrepreneurship and one of only two schools of entrepreneurship in the state when it opened this fall inside Plato S. Wilson Hall.
“I am confident our investment will be used wisely, and this school will be a tremendous success,” Congdon said. “I’m very honored to have been invited and so proud to be now serving on the university’s Board of Trustees, where I hope to be able to offer my deep knowledge and experience as a business leader to further the successful growth of the university.”
The Congdon family has been longtime HPU supporters. In 2017, the university officially opened Congdon Hall, a 222,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility that houses two academic schools — the Congdon School of Health Sciences and the Fred Wilson School of Pharmacy.
Congdon has been a civic leader for many years, serving on the boards of Communities in Schools of High Point, High Point Partners, Business High Point, Forward High Point and Business High Point Chamber of Commerce. In addition, he has served on the Board of Directors for the North Carolina Trucking Association, American Trucking Association and the Wake Forest Baptist High Point Medical Center.
Congdon has been named among the Triad’s Most Influential People and an Alumni of the Year by UNC Wilmington’s Cameron School of Business in 2008. He earned the 2008 Fleet Truck Innovators Award, and in 2010, he was named the Piedmont Triad’s Business Leader of the Year. He was recognized 23rd on Fortune Magazine’s 2015 Businessperson of the Year list, was named the 2015 Distinguished Citizen of the Year by the High Point Chamber of Commerce and made the Business North Carolina 2019 Power 100 list. Congdon joined others spearheading High Point 365, a program of Business High Point Chamber of Commerce focused on entrepreneurism, the creation of a business incubator, as well as co-working on the Congdon Yards campus in downtown High Point.