The Board of Trustees of Presbyterian College established the William Plumer Jacobs Society in 1982 to recognize and honor those individuals, churches, foundations, and corporations who provide outstanding support to the College. Named for the founder of the College, the Society celebrates annually with the trustees, faculty and administration. The celebration provides an opportunity for Presbyterian College to express appreciation for the extraordinary generosity of Society members and welcome new and advancing members to the group. Beginning in 1983, the College has saluted distinguished members at the annual meeting of the William Plumer Jacobs Society.

The Society will have a formal dinner on Friday, March 22, 2024 at the Hyatt Regency in Downtown Greenville, SC to recognize and celebrate the new, advancing, and distinguished members of the William Plumer Jacobs Society.

WPJ Society Presbyterian College Clinton SC

The Society of 1880 – $1,000,000+

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The Abney Foundation
Mr. Thomas E. Addison Jr.’77* and Mrs. Sheila K. Addison ’77
The Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Ernest J. Arnold ’36*
Bailey Foundation
Mrs. Ruby Hill Barksdale*
BB&T
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Belk*
Mr.* and Mrs. Warren L. Berry ’55
Mr. and Mrs. Bennett A. Brown ’50*
Mrs. Lillian Brown*
Mary Alice and Bennett Brown Foundation
David Belk Cannon Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Cornelson IV
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Arthur Crocker ’50*
The Crocker Family
Mrs. Homozel Mickel Daniel*
Mr. and Mrs. de Saussure Davis Edmunds ‘25*
Ms. Jennie H. Feagle*
Mrs. Aitie McDonald Foan*
Mr. Thomas E. Free ’91
Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Fuqua*
Ms. Helen S. Gray*
Virginia Smith Hardie, M.D.*
Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Caldwell Harper*
Mr. and Mrs. Hal H. Harris, Jr.*
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hollingsworth*
Mr. Dillard Jacobs*
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Krumrei*
Mr. and Mrs. Campbell B. Lanier III ’72
Lanier Family Foundation
Mr. Elwood Gray Lassiter III ’69 and Mrs. Marianne B. Lassiter ’71
Mr. and Mrs. William D. Loeble, Jr. ’65
Commander Edwin J. Malloy, Jr.*
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Martin*
Mr. John McIntosh, ’61
Mr. and Mrs. John F. McLeod, Sr.*
Mr.* and Mrs. Lonnie S. McMillian, Jr. ’50
Mr. Donald Thomas McNeill ’66*
Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Merry, Jr.*
Mr. and Mrs. Loren T. Palmer*
Patrick Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Patrick, Sr. ’37*
Peachtree Presbyterian Church
Mr. and Mrs. G. Patrick Phillips ’71
Mr. R. Chad ’02 and Mrs. Pam M. ’02 Prashad
Mr.* and Mrs. Carter L. Redd, Jr. ’63
Mr. Jeffrey G. ’79 and Mrs. Rebecca G. Reynolds ’80
The Russell Charitable Trust
Mrs. Alice Green Sawtell*
John I. Smith Charities
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Spradley, Sr.*
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Staton, Sr. ’68
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Thomason*
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin S. Turner*
Mr.* and Mrs. Robert M. Vance, Sr.
Mr. Clifford E. Waddell ’56
Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation
Mr. Bob Williams ’62*

Bell Tower Society – $500,000 to $999,999

Mr. and Mrs. William Akers, Jr.*
Mr. James B. Allison*
Ms. Emily F. Bailey
Mr. William Eugene Barnwell*
Mr.* and Mrs. W. C. Beaty, Jr.
Belk Foundation
Mr. Karl Brawner*
Colonel and Mrs. David M. Buie*
Mr. and Mrs. W. Tobin Cassels*
Mrs. W. Oscar Cate*
Ms. Francis Margaret Chiles*
Mr. Hartwell C. Dew ’75 and Mrs. Susan G. Dew
Robert M. Edens, Ph.D. ’77
First Presbyterian Church, Spartanburg, SC
The Fullerton Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Gallant*
Mr.* and Mrs. William B. Gillam, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack S. Graybill
Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Jefferies, Jr.*
Joanna Foundation
Mr. William T. Johnson, Jr. ’47*
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. King ’43*
Kresge Foundation
Ben MacMillan ’54*
Mr. Thomas H. Milton ’72 and Mrs. Suellen Milton ’73
Mrs. Lola Mims*
Mrs. Mary G. Morgan*
Mr. and Mrs. George Weston Nalley ’86
Mr. Thomas R. Parrish ’81 and Mrs. Brenda C. Parrish ’78
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Pellett, Jr.*
The Presbytery of New Harmony
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander McQueen Quattlebaum*
Mrs. Edmund Adams Ramsaur, Sr.*
The Reverend H. Carson Rhyne, Jr. ’70
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Scott III ’69
Mrs. Annette M. Shearer*
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Shearer, Jr. ’64
Ms. Mary-Locke Simons*
Mr. and Mrs. J. McNeill Singleton ’67
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Slater
Nora Watson and William Smith Foundation
J M Smith Foundation
Mr. Thomas G. Smith, Sr. ’50 and Mrs. Lillis B. Smith*
Mr.* and Mrs. Ross E. Templeton ‘24
Mr.* and Mrs. Thomas L. Thomason
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Todd, Sr. ’48*
Mr. Russell G. Vance
Mr. Rion D. Vassy ’49* and Mrs. Jenell Hottinga
Thomas A. Whitaker, M.D. ’66
Mr. George W. Woodruff*
Mr. J. B. Woodruff*
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Woodward ’60

The President’s Society – $250,000 to $499,999

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Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Allen
Ms. Margaret Barron*
Mrs. Ruby G. Barron*
Mr. and Mrs.Donald W. Beam ’73
Mr. Justin A. Bethel, ‘12
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation
Dorothy P. Brandt, Ph.D.
Ms. Dorothy C. Brown*
Mr. William Bradley Bryant ’75 and Mrs. Kay A. Cook ‘76 Bryant / Charlotte Cook
Mr. and Mrs. G. Edward Campbell ’50*
The Cannon Foundation
Mr. Victor Leon Cannon*
Clinton Mills Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cobb ‘31*
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Walden Cooper, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Cothran*
Charles A. Dana Foundation
Mr.* and Mrs. C. Bailey Dixon
Ms. Irene Dillard Elliott*
Mr. David M. Fields ’92 and Mrs. Dacia Fields
First Presbyterian Church, Greenville, SC
Fourth Presbyterian Church, Greenville, SC
John and Mary Franklin Foundation
Mr. Gene Gabbard
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Gaston ’65
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Gaston III
Mrs. Irma S. Hall*
Dr. Ruth M. Hall*
Inman-Riverdale Foundation
Mr. John S. Inman, Sr. ’87 and Mrs. Patricia V. Inman
Dr. Walter Ennis James ’72 and Mrs. Jean D. James ’73
Mrs. Ruth M. Jones*
Judd Charitable Trusts
Lance Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. L. Thompson Lawson III ’71
Mrs. Hazel S. Mabry*
Dr. and Mrs. Plumer Jacobs Manson*
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Matthews, ‘62
Mr. Robert J. Maxwell, Jr.*
Mrs. Raenota Merrill
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Meisky ’41*
Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Montgomery *
Mr. David F. Parker II ’86 and Mrs. Mary E. Parker ‘87
Alexander M. Patrick, M.D. ’65
Mr. and Mrs. G. Richard Query ’69
Mr. and Mrs. J. Sidney Query*
Dr. H. Stanley Reid ’74 and Mrs. Patricia L. Reid ’76
St. Simons Presbyterian Church
Mr. and Mrs. Albert F. Sloan ’55*
Mr. Wesley Starnes*
Mr. Frank W. Smith*
Mr. Steve M. ’84 and Mrs. Gayla M. ’85 Smith
Mr. and Mrs. John Speer
Mr. and Mrs. J. Kyle Spencer*
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Spradley, Jr.
Mr. Wesley Starnes*
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Stroud ‘76
Mrs. David Alexander Tillinghast*
Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation
Mr. Joseph Walker, Jr.*
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Wannamaker ’51*
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Waters ’66
Dr.* and Mrs. Wilson C. Wearn
Mr. Henry E. White*
John* and Anna W. White
Murray ’63* and Joyce White
Dr. and Mrs. George R. Wilkinson, Jr. ’45*
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Woodward ’60
Mr. Price P. ’84 and Mrs. Tammy D. ’86 Woodward
Mr. and Mrs.* J.W. Yonce, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry L. Yonce ’67
Mr. and Mrs. Roland F. Young III

Members – $100,000 to $249,999

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Mrs. Mildred Abrams*
Mr.* and Mrs. S. Lawson Abrams ‘33
Mr. James F. Adair*
Mr. Oscar Duckett Adair*
Mr.* and Mrs. Thomas E. Addison, Sr.
Dr. and Mrs. John O. Akers ’70
Mr. Robert Boiling Allison ’65*
Ms. Jean Allred
C. W. Anderson Foundation
Mr. Collie William Anderson*
AT&T Foundation
The Balle Foundation
Mrs. P. S. Bailey*
Bank of America
Dr. and Mrs. Andy H. Barnett ’68
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Barnette, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Barnhardt, Jr. ’67
Mrs. David Pinckney Berry, Sr.*
Dr. and Mrs. David P. Berry, Jr. ’68
Ms. Maud Brown*
Mr. Samuel K. Brown*
Fuller E. Callaway Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher L. Cannon
Springs Close Foundation
Dr.* and Mrs. Robert E. Coleman
Dr. James Isaac Copeland ’31*
Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Couch
Dr. Kenneth E.* and Mrs. Barbara T. Creel
Mr. Norman O. Creech ’38*
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Crowe ’73
Mr. John A. D’Andrea ’81 and Mrs. Ellen M. D’Andrea ’83
Daniel-Mickel Foundation of South Carolina
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
Delta Air Lines
Dr. David Earl Dendy*
Mrs. J. K. Dickson*
Mr. C. Bailey Dixon II
Duke Power Company Foundation
Mrs. Nancy S. Dunn*
Eastminster Presbyterian Church, Columbia, SC
Mr.* and Mrs. John Harvey Edwards II ‘65
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Edwards III ‘94
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest William Evans ’37*
Mr. Charles C. Fargo*
Dr. and Mrs. John M. Fewell ’12*
First Presbyterian Church, Anderson, SC
First Presbyterian Church, Clinton, SC
First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, SC
First Presbyterian Church, Columbus, GA
First Presbyterian Church, Florence, SC
First Presbyterian Church, Greenwood, SC
First Presbyterian Church, Myrtle Beach, SC
First Presbyterian Church, Sumter, SC
Mr. and Mrs. Sean P. Foley
Mr. Roger P. ‘99 and Mrs. Meredith B. ‘99 Foltynowicz
Fountain Inn Presbyterian Church, SC
Dr.* and Mrs. Charles E. Fraser ’85
Mr. and Mrs. W. Rutledge Galloway ’65
Mr. and Mrs. David H. Garrett*
Mr. and Mrs. David T. Garrett ‘64
Ms. Mary Gath*
Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun F. Gault ’48
Mr. John Randolph Georgius
Ms. Jean Gettys ’63
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs.* Joseph M. Gettys, Sr.
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Gettys, Jr. ’67
The Gault-Godfrey Family
Mr. Robert G. Glaspey ’83
Mr. Bill ’73 and Mrs. Joan Standridge ’73 Gray
Mr. Roy B. Gresham*
Mr. Paul H. Grier and Mrs. Susan G. Grier
Dr. and Mrs. John V. Griffith
Mr. Lawrence Earle Hall ’40*
Mr. and Mrs. Lyman W. Hamrick ‘73
Ms. Whitney Harrison ’07
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Hartley II ’69
Mr. Greg Hatcher – The Hatcher Agency
Dr. Carlisle Hewitt ‘55
Mr.* and Mrs. Robert M. Hicklin, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mclean Hicklin, Jr. ’71
Mr. Ira Kell Hicklin ’81
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob M. Hiers ‘39*
Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Hill, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hope ’63
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn D. Hudgins, Sr. ’62
Dr. and Mrs. Dugald W. Hudson ’40*
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harvey Hughes, Sr. ‘59*
Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Hughes ’36*
Dr. Walter M. Hughes, Jr. and Dr. Patricia E. Sadler
The Reverend Robert F. Hunt ’52
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Hurt
Mr.* and Mrs. William P. Jacobs III ’40
Mr. L. John ’73 and Mrs. Alison Harris ’73 Jeselnik
Mrs. Martha J. Jones*
Mr. Billy S. Kee ‘40*
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick K. Kelly, Sr., ’62
Mr. Frank C. King, Jr., ‘64
BG (Ret.) H.G. ‘69 and Mrs. Diane A. ‘67 Kirven, Jr.
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. John D. Knox, Jr. ’58
Dr. Henry P. L’heureux, Jr. ’50
Mr. K. David ’83 and Mrs. Nancy Groves ’83 Lake
Dr.* and Mrs. Kemper D. Lake, Sr. ’43
Mr. Steven M. Lamb and Mrs. Jerri Lynne Lamb
Mr. and Mrs. E. Clifton Lancaster*
Mr.* and Mrs. J. Smith Lanier II
Dr. and Mrs. John Haddon Leith*
Mr. Michael LeFever ‘69 and Mrs. Malissa Burnette
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Moore Lindsay III ’72
Chesley G. Magruder Foundation
Mr. J.C. Mauldin ‘00
Mr. William Thomas Maxwell ’56*
Ms. Kathryn W. McCall*
Mr.* and Mrs. Robert Edward McCormick’43
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S McCoy, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas C. McDougald, Jr. ’61
Mr. and Mrs. Terence F. McGuirk
Mr. Ellison Smyth McKissick, Jr. ‘50*
Mr. Foster McKissick
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McLean
Mr. Arthur Harrelson McQueen ’31*
LTC (Ret.)* and Mrs. Lawrence N. Medlin ’55
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Ms. Caprice A. Mellon, ’81
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Meyers ’64
Mrs. Noel McKissick Miles*
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Monk, Jr. ’67
BG (Ret.) Joseph O. Nixon ’62 and Mica B. Nixon ’79
Mrs. Madge S. O’Cain*
Dr. William S Ogden ’61 and Mrs. Lou G. Ogden ’61
Mrs. Mary Ella Osman*
The Palmetto Bank
Mr. Frank McLeod Pearce ’29*
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Patrick Perrin
Mr. and Mrs. Furman Barratt Pinson, Jr. ‘33*
The Pool Depot
Mrs. Elizabeth Perrin Powell*
Mr. James H. and Mrs. Laura Powell, ’68
The Reverend Dr.* and Mrs. Jack R. Presseau
Providence Presbytery
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund A. Ramsaur, Jr. ‘73
Mr. Holbrook ’70 and Mrs. Susan ’21(h) Raynal
Mr. B. Thomas Reiser, Jr. ’98
Mr. and Mrs. H. Graham Reynolds
Mr. H. Smith Richardson*
Mr. and Mrs. David Wallace Robinson, Jr.*
Ms. Ruth Roper
Mr. James D. Rosenberg ‘75 and Mrs. Ann Weathers
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Sanders
Mrs. Emily W. Scott*
D. L. Scurry Foundation
The Self Family Foundation
H.M. Shaw, Sr. Charitable Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Shepherd
Mr. Richard A. Shirley ’76* and Mrs. Rachelle P. Shirley
Mr. William A. L. Sibley, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. Smith ’77
Mr. John I. Smith*
Mr. and Mrs. P.L. Bealy Smith*
The Reverend Dr. Robert E. Smith, Jr. ‘61
Mr.* and Mrs. Wilbur S. Smith
Southern Bell Company
J. P. Stevens & Company
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Stewart*
Mr. Robert B. and Mrs. Betty B. Strock
Mr. and Mrs.* Thomas H. Suitt, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Swetenburg, Jr.
The William K. Thompson, Jr. Trust*
TD Charitable Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Walt Todd ’66
Mrs. Sarah Ellen Tolen*
J. M. Tull Charitable Foundation
Dr. Marvin Stevenson Turner, Jr. ’67*
Mr. Robert M. Vance, Jr.
The Philip L. Van Every Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Verreault, III ‘82
Walgreens
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Walton ’48
Mr. and Mrs. William L. Watkins*
Mr. and Mrs. David Welborn ’66
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin R. Wham ’31*
Mr. and Mrs. John B. White, Jr.
Mrs. Cathy W. Williams, ‘76
Mr. Robert C. Williams ’62
Mr.* and Mrs. Alexander Knox Wyatt, Sr. ’31
Mr. and Mrs. E. Henderson Wyatt ’31*
Dr. and Mrs. Frank J. Wyman
Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Yonce III

2023 Honorees

New Members

John ’81 and Ellen ’83 D’Andrea

Paul and Susan Grier

Greg Hatcher, The Hatcher Agency

Bob Hunt ’52*

Steven and Jerri Lynne Lamb

Henry L’heureux ’50*

Ruth Roper

Richard ’76* and Rachelle Shirley

Walgreens

Advancing Members

Dave 92 and Dacia Fields

Advancing to the President’s Society

John 87 and Tish Inman

Advancing to the President’s Society

Hartwell ’75 and Susan Dew

Advancing to Bell Tower

Jerry Smith ’50

Advancing to Bell Tower

Russell Vance

Advancing to Bell Tower

Tom Free ’91

Advancing to Society of 1880

Jerry Smith ’50

Advancing to Distinguished Member

* denotes deceased

2023 WPJ