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An internationally renowned scientist. An award-winning journalist. Two brothers with a combined 70 years of service to PC. These are just a few of the 2020 alumni award recipients. Each year, PC bestows awards upon those for outstanding accomplishments in their professions as well as for outstanding service to others and to the College. The

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Brothers Ray and Scott Bunting have combined for nearly 70 years of loyal service to PC. This year, the two have been named honorary alumni for treating the College like their alma mater. Ray, craftsman supervisor, has been making PC feel like home for students for the past 35 years. He has painted and done

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Dee Nichols has long served a key role in the Presbyterian College Department of Athletics. She oversaw various aspects of the internal athletics operations as interim athletic director and now serves as the senior associate athletic director for operations and senior woman administrator. This year, Nichols has been named an honorary alumna for treating the

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Frank King ’64 has been named the 2020 Mike Turner Scotsman Club Service Award recipient. The honor recognizes King for his sustained efforts and devoted leadership as a Scotsman Club member and scholarship patron. The retired educator and avid sportsman served as superintendent of schools for 21 years in Ben Hill County, Tift County, and

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Dr. George Louis Powell became a distinguished scientist, inventor and technologist after graduating from PC in 1963. Because of his accomplishments, he has been named the 2020 Gold P Award recipient. The honor recognizes an alumnus or alumna for outstanding accomplishments in the chosen profession, which reflect honor upon the College. Powell grew up in

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When she was a student, Ann Taylor Morgan ’81 helped re-establish Westminster Fellowship under Tom Stallworth’s guidance. This year, Morgan has been named the recipient of the Thomas Aurelius Stallworth ’55 Alumni Award. “Mr. Stallworth was always a part of my PC experience,” Morgan said. “He was a very kind man who always engaged with

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Harold “BoBo” Beasley remembers the first time he met Mary F. Lehman. Beasley’s freshman year was the first time he’d ever gone to an integrated school. “She said, ‘BoBo, I want you to know that I know this is a different world for you, but you got a friend,'” Beasley said, “and I need to

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Jim Harrison ’80 remembers asking a tour guide in South Africa if she had many American tourists. “She replied, ‘Heavens no!’ Harrison said. “‘I wish that I had more of them. Americans are always punctual.'” Harrison says he’s always appreciated the compliment to American society and that he learned at PC that “the world is

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During Dr. David Taylor’s freshman year, one of his fraternity brothers asked him to mentor an eighth-grader from Joanna named Jackie Williams. The fraternity brother was graduating and wanted Taylor ’81 to serve as a big brother to the son of a single mother. “We found a connection,” Taylor said about mentoring Williams. “I stayed

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For more than a decade, Whitney B. Harrison has pursued her dream of helping people she will never meet. At first blush, this goal may seem strange because we generally think of service as grounded in intimate, one-on-one experiences. But for Harrison, a lawyer practicing in Columbia, SC, this goal provides a more expansive opportunity

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