"At PC, I discovered who and whose I really was and made lifelong friendships with students, faculty, and staff that continue to form and shape who I am becoming and the work I have yet to do."

"I came to PC with a call to full-time church service already on my hands but it was so affirming to me during my freshman year when Dr. Fred James kept following me around trying to get me to major in biology. The PC community, in general, and the professors, in particular, gave me the confidence I needed to believe that I could be and do anything with a call from God and some good hard work to go along with it. I was afforded outstanding academic preparation that was not matched in the four graduate institutions that I attended after PC. I was given opportunities to taste and see other academic disciplines beyond religion-Christian education and my experiences in all aspects of the college community life enabled me to become the pastor, teacher, wife, and mother that God has called me to be today. At PC, I discovered who and whose I really was and made lifelong friendships with students, faculty, and staff that continue to form and shape who I am becoming and the work
I have yet to do."

Dr. Jeri Parris Perkins - Class of 1981

Pastor and Head of Staff
First Presbyterian Church of Hartsville, S.C.