Influential Women in PC’s History: Marion Hill Weersing
In the background, far behind the hoopla of going fully co-educational in 1965, worked a woman who helped Presbyterian College make that transition as seamless as possible.
Marion Hill Weersing left a ministry as director of Christian education at Spartanburg First Presbyterian Church to serve as the college’s dean of women and associate dean of students – just one year prior to PC’s decision to go fully co-educational. A steadying influence on campus, Weersing served as counselor, mentor, surrogate mother, disciplinarian, and friend from 1964 until 1980.
For her many contributions to PC, Weersing earned an honorary doctorate from the college and, in 2004, was named an honorary alumna by the PC Alumni Association.