I studied abroad in Hong Kong the spring of my junior year at Presbyterian College and got to travel to Thailand during the week before finals. I had always dreamt of being able to get close enough to an elephant to pet it, but this day surpassed my dreams completely! I was introduced to three
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Friendship Makes the World Go Round
Presbyterian College is known for being a small school. Even with the comfort of a small student body, making new friends in college can be a scary thought. I had no idea as a freshman that four years later, I’d still consider the same women my best friends. What’s more impressive than establishing friends is
Embracing the PC family
Every year the PC baseball team participates in a service project at the beginning of the year. This activity parallels PC’s motto “dum vivimus servimus” or “while we live we serve.” This year, we were able to volunteer at a community garden located near PC. At the garden, people are able to take fruits and
I will always be grateful
My journey here at Presbyterian College has been filled with ups and downs yet I feel like this pattern of great success and failures will be something we all face in our lives. My defensive coordinator in high school told me that I will never play tight end in college, which was a dream of
It’s not four years, it’s for life
When people say college is the best four of your life, they aren’t lying. As I wrap up my final weeks as a college student I am filled with emotions. It is a bittersweet moment. PC has given me my best friends, professors that have inspired and encouraged me along the way, and the beginning
PC offers endless opportunities
People often ask me why I chose to come to Presbyterian College when I am from the small town of Clinton, South Carolina. My casual response, “It’s a community that is unique only to be found within a classroom of professors who care about you as an individual, Hoseville at Saturday afternoon football games, fraternity
A Family Devoted
John & Ann W. White Andrew & Cathy White Williams ’76 A family devoted to service and to one another is making a gift to Presbyterian College that will benefit generations to come. Alumna Cathy White Williams ‘76 and her parents, John White and Ann W. White, have established an endowment that will help the
Serving the Community Through Education
Bob ’58 & Jewell Hill Bob Hill’s exemplary career in education and public service is a prime example of the difference just one Presbyterian College graduate can make in the world. A 1958 alumnus of PC and a graduate of the University of Georgia, Hill went on to graduate from the U.S. Army Command and
Leaving a Legacy of Aesthetics
Mary-Locke Simons ’69 A lifetime love of beauty will be remembered posthumously thanks to a gift from a lady who grew up fewer than 20 miles from Presbyterian College. The late Mary-Locke Simons was born in Augusta, Ga., the only child of Elizabeth Anderson Simons and Locke V. Simons. But she grew up in Waterloo,
The Generous Heart of a Presbyterian
Jack & Raenota Merrill Raenota Merrill and her late husband, Jack, are being honored for their devotion to the Presbyterian Church and now to Presbyterian College. Raenota retired in 2010 as a physician’s assistant after a long career in nursing. She and her husband, Jack, a retired electrical engineer with IBM, wished to leave his
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