Keshia Boyd receives award during Honors Convocation at Wofford College

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Keshia Boyd

SPARTANBURG, SC (05/19/2010)(readMedia)-- Wofford College senior Keshia Boyd received The Outstanding Citizen Award during Honors Convocation at Wofford College.

During her sophomore year, Boyd and two classmates, joined with Spanish professor Dr. Laura Barbas Rhoden to create the Spanish Academy at E.P. Todd Elementary School in Spartanburg. Boyd was responsible for creating each week's lesson designed around the South Carolina education standards for science. She was awarded an Anna Todd Wofford Scholarship and a Milliken Summer Leadership Institute Scholarship to attend Wofford. She is a Spanish major with a minor in business economics and a concentration in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Parents: Charles and Denise Boyd (Moore, S.C., 29369).

The Outstanding Citizen Award is presented to the senior who has shown the greatest concern for, and given the greatest service to, the general improvement of Wofford College.

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Wofford College, established in 1854, is an independent liberal arts college of 1,450 students in Spartanburg, S.C. Wofford ranks 6th nationally in the percentage of undergraduates receiving credit for study aboard. Home to one of the nation's 276 Phi Beta Kappa chapters, Wofford's historic 170-acre campus is recognized as a national arboretum. Affiliated with the United Methodist Church, the college is committed to quintessential undergraduate education within the context of values-based inquiry.