Thomas Michael Witt Jr. inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at Wofford College

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Thomas Witt Jr. (center) with his parents Thomas and Stasi Witt

SPARTANBURG, SC (04/28/2010)(readMedia)-- Wofford College senior Thomas Michael Witt Jr. was accorded Wofford College's highest academic honor Thursday, April 22, when he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

A biology major, Witt has received the Benjamin Wofford Scholarship; the Dr. and Mrs. George W. Price Jr. Endowed Scholarship for pre-medical study; and the Harry Donald Dobbs Endowed Scholarship for biological study. Witt has been involved with the Wofford College Debate Society, the South Carolina Student Legislature, and the service organization Alpha Phi Omega. He spent one of his interim semesters working in Ahmednagar, India, where he volunteered in a medical dispensary, and spent another interim volunteering at a medical facility in Kathmandu, Nepal. Witt received recognition for his reflections on these experiences in Wofford's Beyond the City's Northern Border writing contest in 2009. In the fall Witt will attend Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University in New York City. Parents: Thomas and Anastasia Witt (Florence, S.C. 29505).

Twenty-nine Wofford College students and recent graduates were initiated as members-in-course during the ceremony that marked the 69th anniversary of Phi Beta Kappa at Wofford.

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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.