William Leroy Prosser Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at Wofford College

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Will Prosser (center) with his parents Lee and Mary Elizabeth Prosser

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

Prosser has served as a residence assistant, been involved in Success Initiative, and was honored by being selected as a Junior Marshall at the 2009 commencement. In July 2008, Prosser traveled to Prague for an international conference on the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer as part of his research for Wofford's Community of Scholars program. Prosser has continued his work on Bonhoeffer's writing, and is currently completing an honors thesis for his religion major with a comparison of Bonhoeffer's and Martin Luther King Jr.'s thoughts. A candidate for the B.A. degree in May 2010, Prosser plans to pursue a master of divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in the fall. Parents: Lee and Mary Elizabeth Prosser (Johnsonville, S.C. 29555).

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.