Nov. 26, 2007

Presbyterian College welcomed two new members to its Board of Trustees during its Nov. 16 meeting in Clinton.

Robert H. Hopkins of Rock Hill and Richard P. Spencer of Atlanta, Ga., accepted invitations to join the college’s trustees.

Hopkins is a 1964 graduate of PC and the retired district administrator for U.S. Rep. John Spratt. In 1976, he earned a hospital management certificate from Duke University and received his MBA from Winthrop University in 1980.

A member of Oakland Avenue Presbyterian Church in Rock Hill, he has served on PC’s Board of Visitors, and the local boards of the Red Cross, the Two County Speech and Hearing Center, and the Chamber of Commerce. Hopkins and his wife, Cathie, have three children – sons Robert Christopher Hopkins and Jonathan Frederick Hopkins and a daughter, Catherine E. Garside, who graduated from PC in 1996.

Spencer is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Georgia School of Law. He is the president of R.P. Spencer Co. of Atlanta and was an attorney with Finley and Buckley, P.C. He also served as director of operations for Gleneagles Capital Management LLC.

A member of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, he has served on PC’s Board of Visitors and is the son of former PC trustee J. Kyle Spencer. He and his wife, Mary, have three children.

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