Dr. Neal B. Prater will be named an honorary alumnus of Presbyterian College by its Alumni Association. The award is designed for a person who did not attend PC, but has always treated it like his alma mater and has brought honor to the College by doing so.

Prater was named the Dana Professor Emeritus of English upon his retirement in 1996 and designed the College’s ceremonial mace.

Prater first joined the College’s faculty in 1960, and served as the longtime chair of the English department. He is a scholar who traveled extensively to places where great literature and great authors were born and lived so that he might give his students a real feel for these authors’ words. He was known as the department’s expert on Shakespeare.

Prater is a member of the Blue Key National Honor Fraternity and earned praise for his contributions to PC. The 1965 “PaC SaC” is dedicated to him, as was the Neal and Marion Prater Book Fund in 1996. In 1968, he earned the Board of Visitors Distinguished Service Award; and in 1969, he earned the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

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