Sara Riggs receives award during Honors Convocation at Wofford College

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SPARTANBURG, SC (05/20/2010)(readMedia)-- Wofford College senior Sara Riggs received the "Heart of a Terrier" Leadership Award during Honors Convocation held May 11. Riggs also was revealed as a member of the 2009-10 Senior Order of Gnomes along with classmates Trey Robinson and Kyle Livingston.

Riggs entered Wofford as a Palmetto Fellows Scholar and is a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Parents: Robert and Robin Riggs (Wando, S.C. 29492).

The "Heart of a Terrier" Leadership Awards recognize those students who have made a positive difference on campus and excelled in scholarship, leadership, and campus citizenship and service.

The Senior Order of Gnomes was founded at Wofford in 1915. Members' identities are kept secret throughout their senior year, and are only revealed at Honors Day ceremonies. This year, to symbolize this going from underground out into the open, all three members of the class were presented with a Gnome-in-the-Box. Every year the Gnomes raise money to do a major service project. This group of Gnomes is donating $2000 to the Acumen Fund, whose CEO and founder, Jacqueline Novogratz, was the 2010 recipient of Wofford's Sandor Teszler Award.

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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.