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PC offers $60 million in scholarships to Palmetto Girls State participants
Presbyterian College’s kilt-clad president made a stunning and generous offer Tuesday to each of the 600 Palmetto Girls State delegates. Come to PC and receive a $ 25,000-a-year scholarship. President Dr. Matthew vandenBerg told the group that PC is making a four-year, $60 million commitment to the rising seniors in Palmetto Girls State, the largest…
Read MoreThomas Lumley
Greenwood, South Carolina Thomas Lumley, 91, resident of 201 Olde Puckett’s Ferry Road, widower of Edwina Hardee Lumley, passed away Monday, June 6, 2022, at his home. Born April 18, 1931, in Greenwood, he was a son of the late Harold and Camille Jennings Lumley, Sr. He was a graduate of Greenwood High School and…
Read MorePC announces lacrosse incident conclusions, punishments
Presbyterian College President Matthew vandenBerg announced Thursday that four students have been expelled and a fraternity has been permanently banned from campus following an investigation into an incident that occurred at a women’s lacrosse game this past February. According to the release from PC, an independent investigation conducted by attorney Cindy Crick validated reports that…
Read MoreHenry Burrell “Burl” Patterson
Dateline – Clinton, South Carolina Henry Burrell “Burl” Patterson, 82, husband of Margie Campbell Patterson, of Clinton, SC, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Sunday, May 1, 2022. He was born in Clinton, SC to the late Floyd and Early Gertha Spencer Patterson. Burl loved his family and cherished Sunday dinners. He was…
Read MorePC students, athletes walk for ‘diversity in an environment of unity’
Clinton , S.C. – On the campus of Presbyterian College last week, a group of students from the Multicultural Student Union (MSU) scrambled and brought together almost 250 students, faculty and administrators to show the Clinton community and the PC family that unity, love and diversity can co-exist. The Thursday morning “Unity Walk” was in…
Read MorePC alumnus establishes wrestling scholarship in honor of his father, the late Rev. Robert S. Link ’56
As a Presbyterian minister, the late Rev. Robert S. Link ’56 undoubtedly wrestled with the foes of goodness and decency. As a Presbyterian College student, however, he grappled for the Blue Hose. A member of PC’s first college wrestling team in the late 1940s and early ‘50s, Link is remembered by his son, Robert S.…
Read MoreLoyd Jackson Cain
Dateline – Clinton, South Carolina Sgt. Major Loyd Jackson Cain, US Army, Ret., 85, of Clinton, SC, husband of Katheryn Weems Cain, died Wednesday, February 2, 2022, at Prisma Health Laurens County Hospital. He was born in Rockingham, N.C., to the late Woodrow and Annie Kanipe Cain. Sgt. Major Cain retired from the US Army…
Read MoreFormer state senator to deliver annual Black History Month address at PC
Former S.C. Senator Floyd Nicholson of Greenwood will deliver the 2022 Booker T. Ingram Jr. Convocation and Lecture as Presbyterian College kicks off its celebration of Black History Month. Nicholson, a retired educator and longtime public official, will speak at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 2. A native of Greenwood County, Nicholson served as a member…
Read MoreDavid Sage Veneklasen
Dateline – Clinton, South Carolina David Sage Veneklasen, 77, of Clinton and husband of Rosemary Mathews Veneklasen, passed away at his home, Tuesday, November 2, 2021. Born in Chicago, IL, he was a son of the late Dudley Ralph and Jean Sage Veneklasen, a graduate of Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, FL, and…
Read MoreComplete with kilt, inauguration establishes Dr. Matthew vandenBerg as 19th Top Hose
Clinton, South Carolina – Leading up to Friday morning’s inauguration of Dr. Matt vandenBerg as the 19th president of Presbyterian College, he has repeatedly clarified that in his view an inauguration is not about a particular person as president, but rather it’s about the college’s shared past, it’s present and, in the case of PC,…
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