Dr. Fay Simpson Sprouse ’84 received the Alumni Distinguished Service Award during Erskine’s Alumni Weekend celebration March 25-26. This year’s event offered a variety of activities, including a meet and greet in the newly renovated Alumni House with Erskine President…
Erskine College, whose literary societies trained championship debaters in the 19th century, will sponsor a competitive speech and debate team beginning in the fall of 2022. Stepping up to coach the new team is Erskine staff member and seminary student…
Psychology major Faith Wright (pictured above), from Columbia, Missouri, was recruited as a tennis player and completed her graduation requirements last month. During her final semester at Erskine in the fall of 2021, when she was searching for an internship,…
The Board of Trustees of Erskine College has announced the appointment of Dr. Steven C. Adamson as 18th president of the institution. Currently provost and executive vice president at Arizona Christian University, where he has served for the last five…
Erskine College received the first annual Palmetto Award for Best Overall Delegation at this year’s fall session of the South Carolina Student Legislature (SCSL). The new Palmetto Award is to be presented annually to the delegation which, in the opinion…
The following reflection by Lee Atkinson ’90 was originally written in May 2020, just prior to the 30th anniversary of the Erskine College Class of 1990. His daughter, Rebecca Delaney Atkinson, graduated magna cum laude in May 2021. Father and…
“When I was here, I hated this place,” Erskine College graduate Jonathan Cook told students during a chapel session in Lesesne Auditorium Nov. 2. Now living in Due West and serving as Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) minister at his alma…
Well-attended chapel gatherings in Lesesne Auditorium are an encouraging feature of Erskine campus life this fall. The auditorium has been upgraded with a new sound system. A grand piano has been reconditioned and is regularly played onstage. As in past…
Retired Erskine staff member William Franklin Mitchell, Jr. died Sept. 25, 2021. A 1970 graduate of Erskine College, he majored in mathematics and went on to earn a master’s degree in Education at Clemson University. He taught physics, math, and…
The Erskine Board of Trustees welcomed new members; heard from the interim president; received key reports; acknowledged the work of administrators, faculty, and staff; and were addressed by Board Chair Mike Whitehurst as well as a local pastor and a…
